Chapter 368: The Star Graveyard

As the Runners embark on a string of road trips, the NBA's Best of the Best Picks for the last week of October are also being released.

The Eastern Conference Player of the Week was won by James Hart of the Washington Wizards, who averaged 26.4 points, 9.7 assists and 8.4 rebounds per game in the previous week.

On the West side, there was a big controversy in the selection of the Player of the Week, the league awarded the best player of the week in the West to Turgun of the Runners, but many people in the West questioned Turgon's performance last week, because statistically, Turgon's statistics last week were 20.5 points, 13.2 assists, and an average of 2.4 steals and 4.5 turnovers per game.

Indeed, as many have questioned, although Turgun is in the lead in the assist charts, his scoring and average of up to four turnovers per game are indeed a bit unimpressive, which is no wonder that many teams in the West are dissatisfied.

However, the league has also put a lot of effort into promoting the Runners, especially the multi-billion population market in the East, claiming that the reason why last week's Western Conference Player of the Year was awarded to Turgun was because Turgun was more important to the team.

Although Turgun himself doesn't care about these accolades, he has to explain to his teammates, after all, he is not the boss of the team now, the real boss is Blair, and Turgun can't let the team boss have an opinion because he only won the state award once.

But Blair doesn't really care about this, compared to the weekly best of the week, Blair cares more about the MVP, he played in the NBA for ten years, but only two All-Star Game MVPs, which is undoubtedly a great irony for Blair.

The Runners continue their road journey with three more games to play, all against the league's best-performing teams.

The next two away games in the East are the New York Knicks and Washington Wizards, while the last one is a trip to Oklahoma City to take on the rising Thunder.

Of the three opponents, only the Knicks are relatively easy to deal with, after all, it is now a famous "star graveyard".

Since "Big Mouth" Richard signed a series of garbage contracts in the months of Knicks coaching, this famous city team with a glorious history has been mired in the quagmire, and what worries New York fans even more is that the successor of "Big Mouth" Richard and later team managers are more or less brainless, so this has led to the Knicks hoarding a large number of star players, but the team is in a mess.

This eventually made the Knicks known as the "Star Graveyard", although the Knicks' results can be seen in the East, but every star who arrives here will basically decline to various degrees.

For example, Johnny Joe, the best rookie of the 14-15 season, a young man with a quarter of Chinese ancestry, played an amazing performance in his first professional contract, and when his four-year rookie contract expired, he joined the Knicks as a free agent, signed a five-year, five-fifty-million contract with the Knicks, and then this outstanding young player who could still average 20 plus 10 per game in the previous season can now only average single-digit points and no more than five rebounds per game.

There is also the league's current famous "prodigal son" Robert Naldo, the excellent quarterback who has won the title of sixth man of the season four times played for six teams in the first eight years of his career, last season he was impressed by the Knicks' 10 million contract, and signed a three-year contract with the Knicks, which is the longest contract he has signed in recent years, but after coming to the Knicks, Robert Naldo quickly disappeared from people's sight, and he didn't even get consistent playing time here.

There are many other examples where the entire Knicks pay the league's highest luxury tax, but only get the results of the playoffs, which has to send chills to New York fans, and many stars after that have turned away from New York.

No amount of exposure is as good as winning a championship, which is a truth that everyone in the league knows.

So for the Runners, they are still very sure of a win in New York, but the next two opponents will not be so easy to deal with.

The Washington Wizards are on the rise, and with the addition of John Larson, the team has built the cornerstone for its rise, and as long as there is no chaos in the team, there will basically be one more team in the East contending for a championship.

The Oklahoma City Thunder, on the other hand, are very similar to the Runners, who changed hands last season, and the Thunder have also undergone massive turnover since the change of ownership, and their head coach is also an Oriental.

That's right, the head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder is actually Gao Ming, the "data" man who was "tricked" by Wang Lei into staying in the Yangtze River women's volleyball team for a year.

Gao Ming came to North America after leaving Jinling, and then served as an assistant coach for the Thunder through his previous connections, and after the team changed hands, Gao Ming gained the trust of the new owner and became the new head coach of the Thunder.

For Gao Ming, Wang Lei feels a little guilty in his heart, after all, he "cheated" people for a year, and now Gao Ming has become the head coach of the Thunder team, which makes Wang Lei feel a little relieved but also a little worried, after all, Gao Ming is a person who knows his details, and an opponent who is familiar with his style and style of play is indeed not so easy for Wang Lei to deal with.

However, there must be a way before the car reaches the mountain, although the Thunder team has shown rapid growth in the previous season, but Wang Lei knows that as long as Gao Ming does not jump out of the shackles, then he will never be able to become a top head coach, this person attaches too much importance to the role of data, and ignores the emotions of the players themselves, no matter how idealistic this emotion is, but this is a real fact, a united team is more effective than a team without emotion, probably no one will deny this.

Playing the Knicks, Wang Lei put on a more regular lineup at Madison Garden, and he believes that as long as the players don't have major accidents, then this game can be won.

However, not long after the game began, reality gave Wang Lei a blow to the head, Blair fell to the ground in a scramble, and then he clutched his knees and shouted in pain, and the runners lost the core of the general before they began to enter the combat state.