Chapter 133: December is the best
Luo Wei took precautions and bought a large cart of baby supplies, and Li Wei was also helpless, so he could only ask the bodyguards to send him home.
On the first day of the new year in 1998, Li Wei came to the headquarters of Weiwei Fund and met with a guest from Asia.
In the second half of '97, the Asian financial crisis further expanded, and the ten countries of South Korea and ten countries of Japan were affected. At this time, although Thirty Stars is a world-renowned company, it still cannot be compared with many star companies in the United States and Japan. In a grim form, they had a shortage of funds, and Li Wei's shareholding was a timely rain for them.
"Mr. Li, thank you so much for reaching out!"
"You're welcome, everyone's surname is Li, and they are all yellow, so it's right to help each other." Li Weidao.
After bidding farewell to the guests from Asia, the manager of the foundation asked, "Mr. Li, what is our next work plan?" β
Li Weidao: "In February, I will snipe Yin Shini again, and I will talk about the specific situation at the meeting." β
After the meeting on Wall Street, Li Weicai returned to the team's training hall. At this time, the various awards in December were also selected, and they were still not divided into eastern and western regions, and only one person was selected for each award.
The best teams this month are the Bulls and SuperSonics, both 11-3, followed by the Pacers with 11-4.
Player of the Month, of course, for the best team of the best players, so the Player of the Month for December is Michael Jordan!
This season the Bulls are not peaceful, Pippen thinks that his salary is low, he has been making trouble, and he does not have surgery in the offseason after the injury, but he only entered the operating room at the beginning of the season and has not played a game so far!
In Pippen's absence, the aging Jordan led the team to play the best record and won the Player of the Month award!
The aging No. 23 is still the well-deserved first person in the alliance!
The winner of the Coach of the Month award is George Carr, the head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics.
Phil Jackson is very aggrieved, he still played the best record of the month without Pippen, but the best coach of the month belongs to someone else!
Who let him have Jordan under his command!
Even more aggrieved than Phil Jackson is Larry Bird.
If it weren't for the inexplicable loss to the Knicks in that game, the Pacers would have been the team with the best record this month, and he Bird would have been the coach of the month!
But now, the prize goes to George Carr!
The Rookie of the Month of December is still Tim Duncan of the Spurs.
Entering December, Duncan, who is gradually adapting to the league, has played better, averaging 19.3 points, 11.8 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game!
"Coach Lee, what do you think of Tim Duncan winning Player of the Month again?" A reporter asked.
Li Weidao: "We all know that the two best rookies in this year's draft are me and Duncan, in terms of ball skills, I am a little taller, but he has a little more playing time than me, so he won the award, I deeply regret it!" β
"Hahaha!" The reporter burst into laughter.
Someone asked Li Wei what he thought of Jordan and Carl winning the award, and Li Wei complimented him a few words and didn't make any more jokes.
At the end of the interview, Chuck Daley greeted Li Wei and said: "David, the team's recent momentum is good, we have to find a way to continue the winning streak, what do you say?" β
Li Wei smiled bitterly.
Now that the Knicks have shaken off those bad teams and continue to win on a winning streak, they are completely out of touch with Nowitzki.
However, he has already promised a winning streak, and the team's chemistry is getting better and better, and at this time, there is no way to mess up again.
Let's just work hard and see how long our winning streak lasts!
Thinking of this, Li Wei said loudly: "That's right, we will win 21 in a row!" β
On January 2, the Knicks faced the Nets on the road.
The current Nets are still in New Jersey and have not moved to New York, so they are called the New Jersey Nets.
However, New Jersey is so close to New York that it is separated by only one river. New Yorkers only need to step on the gas pedal, cross the bridge, and head to the Continental Airlines Arena to watch the Nets' home game.
It is precisely because it is too close that the Nets are more tragic when they play the Knicks at home. There are more away fans in the arena than at home, and everyone is cheering for the Knicks, so it's no wonder that the Nets aren't sad.
The coach of the Nets is NCAA coach John Calipari, a protΓ©gΓ© of Larry Brown.
In his previous life, he was the only coach in the history of the NCAA who led different teams to the final four, and he was also one of the only four coaches who could lead two different teams to the NCAA knockout tournament as the top seed in the United States.
The Nets haven't made the playoffs for three years since Chuck Daley's departure, and the arrival of Calipari hasn't changed that. But this summer, they were lucky!
The 76ers who drew the list of names actually sold their spots!
The Nets took advantage of the fire, and only used their main center Montrose last season, the main scoring guard Jim Jackson, plus the No. 7 pick in the first round and the No. 21 pick in the first round, and they changed the list of signs!
Then, they chose Bird's successor, Keith Van Horne, with the list of eyes!
Super newcomer Van Horn arrived at the Nets, and the team's results immediately improved, and they now have a 17-13 record, 13th in the league and 7th in the Eastern Conference.
Van Horn himself averaged 21 points and 6.8 rebounds per game last month, losing to Duncan in the Rookie of the Month award. If he were to be judged now as the East and West would be like in the future, he would definitely be the best rookie in the East.
Today's starting lineup for the Nets is Sam Cassel, Corey Kittels, Kendall Gill, Keith Van Horn, Jason Williams.
Sam Cassel is a very capable point guard, who helped the Rockets win two championships when he was with the Rockets, and after going to the Bucks to form three musketeers in his previous life, he led the Bucks to the Eastern Conference finals, and then joined the Timberwolves to help the Timberwolves in the first round every year to reach the Western Conference finals in one fell swoop!
The biggest drawback of Kassel is that people are too ugly, and this shortcoming cannot be corrected.
Corey Kittels, the No. 8 pick in the '96 Golden Generation, averaged 16.4 points per game in his rookie season, and played even better this season than last season. In his previous life, he gradually faded out of the front line due to injuries, but during the Nets' two finals, he was still a reliable defensive gate on the outside.
Kendall Gill, a powerful swingman who averaged 21.8 points per game last year, is also a defensive stalwart.
Keith Van Horne, Bird's successor.
Jason Williams is not the white chocolate Jason Williams of the future, but the eponymous insider. He averaged second rebounds per game in the league last season and is a terrifying frontcourt rebounding maniac.
As for why it's not the first, ahem, there's a guy named Rodman, and no one can be the first.