Chapter 159: Gossip

This kind of important trade is certainly not that easy to pull off, but the Hawks are not in a hurry, although they have other offer options if they can't get along with the Bulls and Celtics, and the Hawks are not the only one.

However, the Hawks want to trade Al away. Harrington is already an open secret, from the top of the team to the average fan, even Harrington himself knows that the Hawks will have to trade him sooner or later, and he is not in the Hawks' long-term plans, but this is the true nature of the NBA: a large commercial market that no one can resist.

On December 15, the Orlando Sentinel reported that the Atlanta Hawks and Orlando Magic were in discussions about the exchange of El Murphy. Harrington and Francis swapped owners in a deal.

However, this news was quickly concluded as fake news by NBA experts for a simple reason: the Hawks already had Sun Yue and Joe in the backcourt. With a golden partner like Johnson and Sun Yue's star player potential, the Hawks will not trade Francis to affect the team's good chemistry, not to mention that Francis and Sun Yue are still in conflict.

Sabi, the patent editor of Hoop World. Simmons made it clear that the Hawks want more than Francis should be the Magic's small forward, the Turk Sido. Turkoglou, Francis are just smoke bombs from the Eagles.

Sabi. Simmons is the leading editor of "Hoop World", and his analysis is considered by many to be the most accurate basketball analysis due to his well-informed presence on NBA teams.

The Eagles' top brass is interested in Sabi. Simmons hated itchy, their purpose was broken by Sabi, the Hawks are indeed interested in Turkoglou, Turkoglu is two meters and eight meters tall, can shoot well, and has a pretty good ball handling ability and excellent passing ability, when he was with the Kings, Adelman even let him play the point guard position.

If the Hawks get Turkoglou, they will form Sun Yue, Joe. Johnson and Turkoglou have three tridents that can break through, shoot and pass the ball. With Smith and Pachuria, the Eagles will form one of the best starting lineups in the league.

And the Magic team for Al. Harrington is also quite interested, and the Magic team has already seen the "Warcraft" Dwight who has the potential of a top center for the first time. Howard, in order to let Howard play his maximum power, the management of the Magic team wants to add outside artillery to Howard, and the long-range accurate Al . Harrington came into the sights of the Magic's management.

And in order to get Al. Harrington, the Magic didn't want to pay the price of Turkoglou, who was not only a reliable outside shooter, but also the best player on the Magic team who gave Howard the ball. Francis and Nelson are both point guards who tend to be offensive, so the Magic have most of their games with Turkoglu to organize the offense.

And Francis became a bargaining chip for the Magic to get Harrington, and backup guard Nelson performed better than Francis in the playmaking guard position, and as the transfer rumors about Francis began to spread in Orlando for a long time, Nelson completely replaced Francis in the final quarter of the game against the Timberwolves.

Since then, Francis has completely lost his enthusiasm for the game, averaging just 11.5 points per game and 9.3 shots in the next six games. Before that, he was averaging 17.9 points per game. In a game against the SuperSonics this season, the Magic trailed 87-103 with 3:22 left before the break, and Francis refused head coach Hill's request to return to the court, and the two cursed all the way from the court to the lounge.

The incident ended with Francis apologizing and receiving a three-game suspension, with the Magic promising not to trade him.

The Magic's assurances are just a delaying tactic, just to appease Francis to play well in the game so that the team can sell for a better price, and the management has been secretly asking the teams for a price.

But the Hawks didn't want Francis either, they only had their eye on Turkoglou, and Francis was just a smoke bomb from the Hawks to confuse the Magic.

With Sabi. Simmons's report, the management of the Magic team suddenly realized that what the Hawks wanted was Turkoglou, and the Magic team immediately unilaterally suspended the trade negotiations with the Hawks, and also revealed to the media: Turkoglu is not for sale by the Magic.

For Sabi, who spoiled his own good deeds, the Eagles were also angry, but there was no other way, but it was okay. There are still quite a few teams that Harrington are interested in, and the Hawks are not worried about not having a home.

Regarding the trade rumors that his team has recently fallen into, Sun Yue is also starting to get confused, wondering if the Hawks want an outside shooter like Turkoglu and a responder, or Al. An inside scorer like Jefferson is still Rohr. Deng is a small forward who integrates offense and defense, or just to put Al . Harrington traded, but it doesn't matter to Sun Yue, the new players will never be worse than Harrington.

David. Falke's advice to Sun Yue is also to wait and see, this kind of professional things are still left to professional people to do, Sun Yue, as a newcomer to the team, if too much interference in the team's transaction affairs will not only attract the vigilance of the management, but also make the fans have a lower sense of identity with themselves.

Sun Yue was watching the play, and suddenly he was passively involved in another whirlpool of public opinion.

The star of the Washington Wizards, known as "Agent Zero", Gilbert Murphy. Arenas spoke to The Washington Post when asked if he had more All-Star votes for Sun than him.

Arenas replied: "I watched his footage, and it was true that he was doing well, but I don't think he should be an All-Star, maybe he could be an All-Star in the next few years, but not this season, and not even me." ”

In fact, Arenas's words to Sun Yue have been shown to Sun Yue in Arenas' own opinion, after all, both of them are players under Adidas, you must know that Arenas, who was born in the second round of the show, has always been known for being straightforward and daring to say and do.

In Arenas's heart, it's good that he didn't directly say things like "Sun Yue doesn't deserve to be an All-Star player", and what Arenas dislikes the most is a player like Sun Yue.

Arenas's words set off a wave in the media circle, and the media added fuel to Arenas's words, and for a while Arenas looked down on Sun Yue and thought that the latter was not eligible to be selected as an All-Star.

In particular, the Hawks and Wizards are about to meet in the next game, and the focus of this game will undoubtedly be on the matchup between Sun Yue and Arenas.