The reason why Lee Wei made Hornacek the team's starting point guard is not because of his good playmaking skills, but because the coaching staff thinks his defense is better than Kerr and Boykins.

Last season, the Nuggets had high hopes for Billups, because Billups was originally a Denver native, a star in high school and college, and he was very popular in the local area.

Unfortunately, Billups gave back to the team with an iron game, and the Nuggets only won 14 last season, only slightly better than the league's newcomers Grizzlies and the Clippers, who never wanted to win, and ranked third from the bottom in the West.

To make matters worse, the Nuggets sent a first-round pick to the Raptors in order to get Billups. After a rotten season, it was finally a wedding dress for others, and in the draft, the Raptors used the Nuggets' draft picks to select Jonathan Bender, a talented high school student known as Garnett's second generation.

This season, the Nuggets couldn't bear it anymore, they gave McDeyes a contract with a maximum salary, traded Ron Mercer and other powerful players, and at the same time there were talented scouts Reeve Lafrenz and others on the team, who had to produce results, not sacrifice the whole team, and give Billups a level that can't see the future!

The Nuggets put Billups on the shelf, but all teams know what level this guy who was blown through the sky in the draft is at what level, after the Celtics pit the Raptors, after the Pit Raptors pit Nuggets, even if the management of the Nuggets blows him into the sky, the heads of each team still hang up the phone as soon as possible!

The Knicks arrived at the Nuggets' home court, and the Nuggets president, general manager, and head coach Dan Isel immediately approached Li Wei and Dennis Johnson to pitch Billups.

"Chauncy is a 97-year-old Tanhua show, full of talent, and definitely a future superstar, but our Nuggets' system is not suitable for him, so he didn't play at his price. Your Knicks team is currently lacking in defense at the point guard position, and with Billups' physical fitness, a good adjustment can definitely become a big gate.

In addition, although his shooting is very poor, his three-point shooting percentage can still reach the average, and with a little more practice, he can definitely become an excellent three-point shooter, which is the most suitable for the Knicks......"

Dennis Johnson said: "Okay, we all know what kind of goods Billups is, his offense and defense are terrible, and he can't organize, so we know that if you shoot three points outside, a parallel goods, you don't want to delay our time!" ”

Li Weidao: "Let's talk about the price, if it's cheap, we don't necessarily want it." ”

Billups really failed to realize his talent, but fortunately, in the past two years, the Celtics, Raptors, and Nuggets have been sparing no effort to cultivate him, even if he is a piece of garbage, given so much playing time and experience, he can become a talent, although he does not have the strength to become the team's starter, it is enough to be a substitute.

Dan Isel said: "It's still Coach Lee who has the vision and knows the value of Billups. Well, if you're willing to give Maddie or Nowitzki, we can not only give Billups, but we can also give you another pick! ”

Li Wei said: "Ahem, Maddie or Nowitzki? Come on, you might as well keep it for yourselves! ”

Dan Isel said: "Don't don't, it's really not good, Rashad Lewis can too, but Lewis, you have to give us a first-round pick, after all, Billups's talent and ceiling can be seen by everyone, he is a flower scout, with unlimited potential, and Lewis is just a guy at the end of the first round!" ”

Li Wei waved his hand and said: "Kerr or Curry, you can pick whatever you want, and Lewis and the others will forget it." ”

"Aren't you kidding?" Dan Isel frowned.

The Nuggets are a rebuilding team that wants to get young players with potential and slowly develop them so that the team can get better and better year after year. Kerr and Curry are both people waiting to retire, their condition can only get worse year by year, and they can still play in a championship-level team, and when they get to the Nuggets, they can only guard the locker room, and there is no other use, they can't pay a chip like Billups for this kind of person.

Although Billups is rotten, it may not be useless to continue training for two years, but Kerr and Curry will really be useless in a few years!

Li Wei also knows that the Nuggets will not accept such a bargaining chip, but it is simply unrealistic for him to pay a large price to get Billups, whose contract is about to expire.

Lewis is a 98-year rookie contract and is a restricted player when it expires, while Billups is a 97-year rookie contract that will become a free agent directly after expiration.

The deal between the two teams fell through, and it wasn't long before the game officially began.

Due to Nash's truce, Li Wei appeared in the second half of the first quarter today, when the score on the court was 15:10, and the Knicks led by 5 points.

Billups was injured in the preseason and is now recovering from an injury and is not playing, and the Nuggets' starting point guard is Nick Van Exel.

Van Exel is the Lakers point guard who was selected as an All-Star with Kobe, O'Neal, and Eddie Jones, known as Fan Maniac, he is 1.85 meters tall, weighs 77 kilograms, is fast, has strong breakthrough ability, has a strong scoring ability, advances with the ball, throws and shoots between the marches are quite fast, and it is very difficult to defend.

In addition, Fan's change of direction is extraordinarily large and flexible, like a left-handed version of Tim Hardaway.

Dan Issel is not only the Nuggets' president, general manager, head coach, but also a legend for the team, his No. 44 jersey was retired by the Nuggets, and he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in '93.

In the 93-94 season, the Nuggets created the first Black Eight Miracle in NBA history, and in the first round, they eliminated the superSonics led by George Karl, the No. 1 record in the league, and the head coach of the Nuggets at that time was Dan Issel!

Now that the Nuggets are in ruins, people hope that Dan Isel can do another miracle and bring a bright future to the Nuggets!

Today, facing the defending champion Knicks, Dan Isel thinks about the same as other famous coaches, when Li Wei plays, he puts his own All-Star point guard Van Exel on the court, hoping that Fan Maniac will blow up Li Wei!

In addition, on the defensive end, Dan Isel did not choose the strategy of changing defenses after blocking and dismantling, because his assistant coaching team felt that Li Wei's passing awareness was too good, and the change of defense would always be small and big, so they let Van Exel defend alone, and they believed that Van Exel's speed could limit Li Wei!

Li Wei saw that the Nuggets did not change their defenses, so he let Van Exel go around the cover, and the first round was to "swoop" out of a long shot!

"Huh!"

The goal is in, 3 points!

At 18:10, the Knicks led by eight points.

Van Exel snorted coldly.

The reason why he is called a "madman" is because of his rather wild personality. In the fifth game of the Western Conference semifinals in '97, the Jazz and the Lakers were tied, and the Lakers had a chance to kill.

After thinking about it carefully, coach Harris decided to hand over the lore to Kobe Bryant, because Kobe is the future of the Lakers!

Seeing this, Van Exel slammed his fist on the tactical board and scolded the coach: "Are you hot in the head? Actually arranged a rookie to perform a lore? ”

Because the game was broadcast live in the United States, the quarrel between Van Exel and Harris quickly attracted the attention of countless reporters!

Next, in Harris's trusting gaze, Kobe Bryant cast a three-no-stick!

The Lakers failed to win the game and had to play overtime. Harris continued to trust Kobe Bryant and arranged for him to be the main offense in overtime, and then Kobe Bryant hit two more three-and-threes in overtime, and the Lakers were out.

Van Exel feels that through this game, the head coach and management of the Lakers should be able to see the reality, Kobe Bryant is not worth developing, he is the future of the team. But he never expected that the final result was that the Lakers sold him, and he still kept the unsuccessful high school student.

Even Kobe Bryant was not convinced, of course Van Exel would not accept Li Wei, and when he turned around, he immediately returned a three-point return!

Due to the steal being too aggressive, Li Wei lost his defensive position, and Van Exel hit it easily!