On November 29, after a week of continuous negotiations, the Celtics finally reached a final deal with the 76ers, using Tim Thomas, Greg Meiner, Walter McCarty, Dota Jones plus next year's Wizards' first-round pick and next year's Magic's first-round pick, from the 76ers Derrick Coleman, Terry Cummings, Scott Williams, Anthony Parker, next year's 76ers' first-round pick, next year's Pistons' first-round pick, and the 76ers' draft pick. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

Eventually, the deal turned into a multi-person swap for multiple draft picks, as the 76ers kept biting the Celtics' two picks, and the Celtics could only ask for the 76ers' three first-round picks over the next two years.

Of the four players sent away, Dota Jones was a pure addition, and the other three players helped the 76ers strengthen their perimeter. The Celtics, on the other hand, strengthened their otherwise weak interior line through this trade.

And the Celtics still feel that they are losing money on this deal, but that is because they don't know the value of the draft picks sent by the 76ers, the two draft picks for next year, the one from the Pistons, now it seems impossible to become a lottery pick, after all, the Pistons are a team with Grant Hill, Jerry Starkerhouse and Joe Dumas, who would have thought that this team would not make the playoffs in the end? And the 76ers, too, who reformed a new duo, actually failed to make the playoffs in the end.

The two draft picks sent by the Celtics are both lower than the 76ers' two first-round picks. Of course, history has now been changed by Jonny's little butterfly, and everything is still unknown.

Of the Celtics' latest acquisitions, Derrick Coleman is needless to say, the main player in the deal, and the rest, Terry Cummings is a veteran, the 1982 leader, a power forward known for his shooting accuracy and scoring ability, although he is now entering the end of his career. But it's clearly an important reinforcement to Celtic's weak interior line.

There is also Scott Williams, who is a center forward on the field, with a height of 2.11 meters, which is also a good addition to the Celtics' short interior group. And Anthony Parker. The young guard has some potential, can shoot threes defensively, and is a player for the Celtics who can fit into the system.

After completing the deal, the Celtics announced that they had cut John Thomas, a player who had been playing soy sauce, and narrowed the roster to 14 players.

And before this deal is completed. The Celtics have also played a few games in a row, first losing at home to the visiting Lakers, for their third loss of the season, and then at home for the first consecutive loss of the season to the Suns with Antonio McDyce, Jason Kidd and Danny Manning, but the team's backup point guard Steve Nash made Jonny more interested, because the point guard actually played Jonny with a no-look-pass in the third quarter.

After two straight defeats, the Celtics announced the deal on the road, along with a win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, who gave them their first loss of the season, despite a lack of major players. Revenge is done.

After the Celtics announced the deal, it immediately attracted two discussions in the American media, on the one hand, they ridiculed, they felt that Karl's brain was pumped to make such a deal, in their opinion, Derrick Coleman is already a hopeless player. Of course, there are also people who think that Celtic are betting on Bo, but the odds of betting and losing are greater, but once the bet is won, then Celtic will welcome an excellent star player, thus directly forming the twin star combination of Jonny and Derek Coleman. Such a combination has enough strength to challenge for the championship.

Of course, it's too early to say that, after all, it is a question of whether Derrick Coleman will be able to play quietly after the transfer. In the 76ers, veteran coach Larry Brown can only barely suppress Derrick Coleman, and when it comes to the Celtics, who will suppress him? Could it be Rick Pitino? Or Michael Leoncar? Or even ask out a cardinal? Obviously, whoever comes is unreliable.

So, even though there is still a glimmer of hope in this deal for the Celtics, people are still not optimistic about the Celtics. However, most people believe that the Celtics have nothing to lose, and that what they have lost most is two future first-round picks.

Bang bang bang

On December 1, after the team's practice, Jonny stayed in the gym as usual to practice with Chauncey Billups, but now they have two more people in their training team, with Bruce Bowen and Ben Wallace also choosing to stay and practice every night.

At this time, Jonny was 1v1 with Bruce Bowen, as before, Bruce Bowen was still reluctant to make his small moves to Jonny, but Bruce Bowen's sticky strength on the defensive end still made Jonny feel very helpful, but in the evening training, most of the time it was Bruce Bowen and Chauncey Billups bullfighting, after all, the most important thing to improve the offense here is Chaunsi Billups.

And after more than half a month of training, Chauncey Billups has also improved a lot, at least his three-point and pull-up jump shot is a bit like his college days.

On the court, after Jonny made a clean turn past Bruce Bowen and completed the layup, he picked up the basketball from the ground and said to Bruce Bowen: "Okay, Bruce, you go and practice with Chauncey, I have something to do tonight." He packed his things and prepared to leave.

"Boss, is it a matter of new teammates?" When Bruce Bowen heard this, the monkey spirit asked.

Jonny smiled, it was really this thing, on the morning of December 1, the team held a press conference to announce that Derrick Coleman and others officially joined the team, but at that time the rest of the Celtics players were training in the training hall and did not attend the press conference. In the evening, the team arranged a dinner for Jonny to meet his four new teammates.

Jonny heard Bruce Bowen's question and nodded, confirming Bruce Bowen's words.

At this point, the other two gathered around, asking about their new teammates, and Jonny could tell that they were a little apprehensive about the arrival of Derrick Coleman, after all, it was a famous thorn in the league. Especially when he heard the three of them discuss how to play with Derek Coleman on the court in the future, Jonny remembered.

The three who worked with him happened to be the other three starters on the team, Chauncey Billups has been much better recently than at the beginning of the season, and is firmly in the starting point guard; Bruce Bowen is the absolute workhorse of the starting small forward position after Tim Thomas leaves; Not to mention Ben Wallace, who, in the words of the local Boston media, is in charge of offense and Big Ben is in charge of defense, which shows Big Ben's current status with the Celtics.

And Jonny thought of this, so he decided to take these three teammates to meet the new teammates, after all, all three of them are the team's starters, and they can also meet with their new teammates in advance, and two days later it will be the first game after the new teammates join, so that they can deepen their tacit understanding and cooperate when the time comes.

So Jonny told the three of them what he thought, and the three of them cheered, threw away the basketball in their hands, and went to change their clothes.

Arriving at a downtown Boston restaurant, Jonny meets his new teammates, a meaty-faced Derrick Coleman, bald Anthony Parker, and two dark, skinny Terry Cummings and Scott Williams, accompanied by the team's general manager, Carl, head coach Rick Pitino.

Rick Pitino is a little not interested, Derrick Coleman's deal naturally asked his opinion, Rick Pitino is naturally not interested in this deal, but the team does need reinforcements, so there is no objection, but now Rick Pitino has been worried about a problem, how to adjust and coach Derrick Coleman, this problem has been put on the table, and it needs to be solved urgently.

Relatively speaking, although Karl is also nervous about Derrick Coleman's future with the team, at least for now he is very enthusiastic and has a very good attitude towards Derrick Coleman.

And Jonny looked at Derek Coleman, a tall man with a meaty face, smiling innocently, looking harmless to humans and animals, and talking to Carl was very normal. As a result, Jonny didn't have a seizure, and as a result, he took Chauncy Billups and finished the meal with some embarrassment.

The next day, Derrick Coleman joined the team in training and behaved very normally, and the big man with his defensive skills quickly integrated into the Celtics' tactical system.

However, for the Celtics, the biggest event on December 2 was not Derrick Coleman's joining the team's training, but Jonny winning the Player of the Month award in November, which is the first time in several years that the Celtics' player has won the Player of the Month honor again!

The last time was back in the 1985-1986 season, when Larry Bird won the Player of the Month award for two consecutive months in February and March 1986, and 11 years have passed, and in those 11 years, the Celtics have not won this award for the second time, and now, in November 1997, Jonny has won this honor with his dominant performance!

He averaged 36.5 points, 6.8 rebounds, 9.6 assists, 3.6 steals and 1.5 blocks per game in November, leading the Celtics to a 12-4 record in 16 games, which was completely unexpected by everyone. And the Celtics, under the leadership of Jonny, became second in the East and fourth in the league!

Jonny is a well-deserved November best!

A new list of 14 persons is attached:

Point guards: Chauncey Billups, Dana Barros, Teus Edney

Shooting guards: Jonny Lee, Dee Brown, Eric Washington

Small forwards: Bruce Bowen, Anthony Parker

Forwards: Derrick Coleman, Terry Cummings, Pevis Ellison

Centres: Ben Wallace, Mark Blunt, Scott Williams (To be continued.) )xh118