In December, the all-star poll begins.

On the Grizzlies' side, Billups, Mike Bibby, Manuginobili, Sean Marion, Raheem and Patrick Ewing were all in the vote, but their chances of being selected as the starters were not high.

This season, because of Qiao Hai's tactical concept of average ball possession, coupled with Maddy's injury, the Grizzlies' several main scorers are not much different, Billups, Mike Bibie, Ginobili, Sean Marion and Raheem have scored around 15 points, and Patrick Ewing has scored more than 10 points.

On the bench, he averaged roughly 6.7 points per game, Michael Reed averaged 6.3 points per game, and other players such as Steve Cole, Stephen Jackson, Rassione Estrovic and other players also played a lot of time and scored less than 5 points.

Without outstanding strengths, in the All-Star vote, the Grizzlies' several starting main players naturally have little hope.

However, the injured Maddie also participated in the All-Star vote, because before the All-Star Game in mid-February, Maddie had a chance to return from injury, and the focus of the Grizzlies' canvassing campaign was also on Maddie, hoping that Maddie could give a little more and the Grizzlies could produce an All-Star starter.

In addition to the start of the All-Star vote, the news that the Grizzlies were listed for sale was also revealed, Michael Haesley and Robert Johnson competed, and both consortiums wanted to take the Grizzlies, but because of last season's championship and the good momentum of the Grizzlies this season, the Grizzlies' asking price is not low.

"The league's upstart asking price is 500 million, or a new record for the league to sell teams!"

ESPN's headlines directly exposed inside information, Grizzlies owner John McCaw asked for $500 million, and the two bidding consortiums, the Hayesley consortium has reached $350 million, and Robert Johnson is slightly lower, but it has also reached $300 million.

The last time there was a team sale in the league, let's talk about the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban bought the Mavericks for 285 million.

Further back, James Dolan spent $1.1 billion to buy the Knicks, but this has to be taken into account the city where the Knicks are located, a team in New York, the price is naturally much higher.

In addition to the Knicks, we have to count the Heat, Spurs and Magic, the sale price of these teams is not high, even less than 100 million, the Heat is 68 million, the Spurs are 75 million, and the Magic is 85 million.

Obviously, starting with the Knicks, the sale price of NBA teams has been raised a notch, but if you remove the influence of big cities, the approximate price should be similar to that of the Mavericks - around 300 million, and the offers of Michael Hasley and Robert Johnson also illustrate this.

But the Grizzlies and the Mavericks are different, the Grizzlies have an excellent record and are now the top strong team in the league, which is an intangible asset, so it is no wonder that John Webb dared to open his mouth and shout a high price of 500 million.

Since December, the Grizzlies' bidding has begun, and for the Grizzlies, the turbulent period is indeed coming, after all, the Grizzlies are sold, which means that all the staff, players and coaches are going to change to a new owner, what is the personality of the new owner, is it a pick-and-search, or is it generous? What do you think of the team's star players? And what do you think of the team's coach?

These are all questions.

So, as soon as the news of John McCaw's sale of the team was exposed, before the start of the day's training, Qiao Hai gathered all the players and coaches and said: "The team may be going to be sold, but this has nothing to do with all of you, now, all you have to do is ignore this and put all your energy into the regular season!" ”

A very simple warning, Qiao Hai believes that the players are all adults, and it is impossible not to even understand this truth.

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In the first game in December, the Grizzlies faced the Pacers.

Losing to the Suns in the last game, this game said that he couldn't lose again, and Qiao Hai didn't want to lose in a row.

In this game, Qiao Hai adjusted the starter.

After thinking about it, Qiao Hai still felt that Ginobili was suitable for the bench, so Qiao Hai chose to let Billups start, the point guard was still Mike Bibby, the Grizzlies continued to play double control, the small forward was Sean Marion, the power forward Raheem, and the center Patrick Ewing.

Billups has been in a consistent state, and sometimes even if he doesn't shoot well, his role can be reflected on both the offensive and defensive ends of the team, he can control the tempo on the offensive end, and his single defense on the defensive end is quite good.

Therefore, Billups' starter can be regarded as a stable insurance for the starters.

In this game, Billups was in average form, and Mike Bibby was also in average form, so he played five or six minutes in the starter, and the Grizzlies were unable to open up the gap and establish an advantage.

Until Qiao Hai replaced Ginobili, Ginobili was in good shape, came off the bench, scored 8 points in a row, and brought 2 assists, and the Grizzlies opened up the point difference and established an advantage.

After getting the advantage, the Grizzlies' handling is very sophisticated, after all, since the beginning of last season, they have maintained a record of never being overturned after taking the lead, so to speak, there is Qiao Hai here, there is Qiao Hai in this figure plug-in, the opponent is together, Qiao Hai will make adjustments in time to curb the opponent's momentum.

This season has added an Hawkeye feature that can be used once per game.

At the critical moment of each game, he used it directly one step in advance to restrain the opponent's killing moves, and he tried and tested.

In this game, after the Grizzlies got the advantage, they immediately controlled the rhythm and locked up the Pacers' individual offense with more and more mature defense, and finally, in the end, the Grizzlies won the game 98:79 and refused to lose in a row!

Manuginobili was in a two-game slump, with 26 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists on 11-of-16 shooting in this game, while Mike Bibi and Billups were in average form, both of them scored 15 points, but Mike Bibi had 4 assists and Billups had 7.

December got off to a good start, and the big news of the Grizzlies sale didn't seem to affect the Grizzlies' form either.

After beating the Pacers, the Grizzlies rested for two days.

Two days later, the Grizzlies played the Spurs at home.

So far this season, the Grizzlies have only lost 2 games, one to the Suns due to poor form, and one to the Spurs.

However, there was a reason for the Grizzlies' loss in that game, the day before that game, the Grizzlies had just gone through a back-to-back battle and were not in good shape, and in this case, the loss was understandable.

In this game in December, the two teams met for the second time this season, and the Grizzlies rested for two days and played at home.

Therefore, in this game, the Grizzlies naturally have no reason to lose again.

However, considering that the Grizzlies were almost killed by the Spurs four times last season, and the Grizzlies lacked Maddy this season, relying only on the outside three, Qiao Hai really has little confidence in winning this game.