Chapter 330: A historic 33-game winning streak and a foregone conclusion
The whole new season through January has been the happiest season for Rockets fans.
Because under the leadership of the Big Three, with the full help of other role players, and with the cooperation of all the staff of the Rockets, the Rockets have played a 33-win record this season from the opening game to the present, and they not only broke the 33-game winning streak created by the Lakers in the ancient dynasty in one fell swoop, but also created their own league's longest winning streak in one fell swoop. Goodrich three ancient gods teamed up to achieve the miracle, at that time basketball confrontation fierce, the rules were not perfect, and there was no so-called referee factor, so the score and data and winning streak are easier to get than now, and this era is different, the team wins in addition to the strength of the team, the state of the players, but also depends on the schedule, referees and a series of various objective factors.
If the league supports you, then you can have smooth sailing, but if the league wants to step on you, then no matter how awesome you are, it will be difficult, and now people with a little common sense will not believe that the league will start a new round of god-making plans, because this is not the 90s, the lack of attention of the NBA needs a myth to improve the attention of others to the NBA, but now the NBA has become international, at this time to create a strong team like a bull is undoubtedly to shoot yourself in the foot, No one likes to see the Rockets dominate the league, and how many fans will the NBA lose without the element of fierce confrontation? No matter how influential Totoro is and how appealing the Rockets are, they can't be as good as the 29 teams and stars in other leagues combined.
But even if the league obstructs at all levels, the Rockets still rely on their own strength to achieve 33 consecutive wins, even if the referees obstruct in every way, but as the Rockets get better and better, there are still only a handful of teams in the league that can support three quarters in front of the Rockets........
David Stern now doesn't know how much he regrets why he didn't forcibly block the trade between the Rockets and the Hornets in the first place, of course, in fact, he also got in the way, but the Rockets and Hornets are two teams with their own owners, and there are really few things that the league can do, so this epic deal turned out to be successful, and the landscape of the league has completely changed.
But fortunately, I don't know where the rumors came from, Totoro has decided not to renew his contract with the Rockets after his rookie contract expires, but to switch to an Eastern underdog team to rebuild his career, which can be seen from the scandal with Totoro The Russian tycoon girl Coster won the bid for the sale of the Nets team in the latest round.
The NBA league originally did not allow in-service players to obtain the management of a team in any form, even if they asked relatives and friends to buy it on their behalf, but firstly, Totoro has never announced his actual relationship to the outside world, and the relationship with various girls is also gossip caught by the media, and secondly, Totoro is really too harmful to the league if he is in the Rockets.
There was already a Yao Ming who had no solution in the first three quarters, and then the league's No. 1 PG Paul in the year of play, and finally added the unstoppable Totoro, which was too big a shock to the league, the Celtics' Big Three are all old men who are over 100 years old together, but the Big Three of the Rockets are all in the peak of their playing years, if they don't disintegrate, the league may have to revise the NBA rules for the Rockets, or promote the model of other teams in the league to form giants to make the league competitive again.
But now Totoro is leaving, for Totoro's girlfriend's acquisition of the team, the NBA executives have turned a blind eye, and they still wish that the Rockets would disintegrate themselves, otherwise your family will win the championship every year, so don't let other people's families play happily?
The Rockets' senior management and fans have also heard this rumor, including head coach Adelman, the new boss of the Rockets Wanda, and the senior management of the team, as well as the players have continued to eat in the name of talking to Totoro, Totoro did not hide anything from them, and dragged out all the real plans in his heart.
The Rockets and the boss suddenly found that they didn't have any position to persuade Totoro to give up his ideals.
To say kindness, although Adelman has the grace of knowing Totoro, it is obvious that the old coach and the Rockets owe Totoro more, before Totoro came over, the Rockets fell in the first round of the playoffs every year, from the beginning of the season after leading the Mavericks 2-0 and then being overturned by the Mavericks 4-2, the Rockets seem to have been unlucky, but Totoro, who only held $1 million a year, took the Rockets to win the third championship in team history after 14 years, and Totoro obviously paid more than the Rockets.
When it comes to money, do players of My Neighbor Totoro's level still care about a little bit of the team's dead salary? His main income has long since changed from basketball income to commercial activities, and now Totoro himself has opened many chain companies of his own brand, if he doesn't have a little asset, can he buy the Brooklyn Nets? My Neighbor Totoro's biggest competitor, the Russian tyrant Mikhail Prokhorov's first round of quotation was only 150 million US dollars, but Totoro directly offered a sky-high price of 500 million US dollars to scare the 2.06 meters, not a professional athlete but a local tyrant who loves basketball, Totoro almost directly put 100% of the equity of the Nets and 85% of the shares of the home arena space center, so Totoro is not bad for money, and the advantage of the traverser allows him to invest in almost any project to earn back thousands of times more violently, The simplest example is the e-sports industry, although Totoro said that the original intention was not to make money, but as long as the skin is launched, and then there is any limit, can he still make money without making money?
Speaking of honors, this is what Totoro is fighting for, he is equivalent to taking all the things that other players have struggled for a lifetime in the short rookie three years, then he can waste the remaining decades of his career, instead of waiting until some star players are old to fight for their first championship ring.
Finally, the contract, the Rockets regret that they signed a contract with Totoro that was not a complete guarantee at the beginning, and there is naturally no so-called team option and player option, and when the contract expires, Totoro is going to leave or stay completely on his own will, and the offers made by other teams The Rockets can't even match, which is also a thing that the Rockets' senior management is worried about.