Chapter 55: The Problem of Renewing the Contract

"Another dunk! Jonny Lee puts on a slam dunk show again! It's a glider, but in my opinion, Jonny's dunk is better than a glider! Maybe his dunk is more like another player! ”

"Who is it?"

"Vince Carter of the University of North Carolina!"

On January 3, 1998, the Celtics defeated the Timberwolves at home and then challenged the Bucks on the road. In the last game, Jonny showed off his dunk, and the fans at the Celtics' home court of various windmill dunks, tomahawk dunks, and hanging arm dunk shows shouted hoarsely! Even at the end of that game, Mike Brin couldn't help but shout: "This is the best game in the NBA in the past decade!" Because we enjoyed a steady stream of Jonny Lee's dunk performances! ”

And his partner Mav Albert couldn't stop saying: "The most beautiful dunk in history, Jonny Lee's dunk!" ”

However, for Jonny, there was also a regret in the last game, the regret is that he didn't get a death dunk, even a dunk, and the Timberwolves' white center Chekilo Parks, who guards the interior, will always dodge when he sees Jonny. And then it was replaced by Kevin Garnett, which was even more irritating, and every time Jonny rushed up, Hardy would pull Jonny down.

As a result, Garnett was directly sent out of the game, which also caused Jonny to not complete even one dunk from the other!

And the commentators of this game, Kevin Harlan and Craig Sager, also did not hesitate to praise Jonny's dunk, what is the strongest dunk in history, the most elegant dunk in history were placed on Jonny's body.

During this time, Jonny studied dunks and dunks, those dunks that are famous in history. There is basically a representative dunk performance, and the most representative of Jonny's dunk is his free throw line jump dunk and crotch-down hand change plus 360-degree turn dunk, but now it seems that many dunks can be played by these two dunks, and the dunk that can really prove your strength is still the dunk.

For example, Michael Jordan dunked Patrick Ewing, Julius Owen dunked Michael Cooper, Clyde Drexler dunked Bill Carter White

Jonny wants a slap in the buckle. So on the second day of the game against the Bucks, Jonny started his dunk show again, but perhaps the interval between the previous game and this game was too small, Jonny dunked the first quarter, and the second quarter was out of energy.

Continuous battles, but also continuous dunks, the physical consumption would have been very serious, and now it is naturally even more serious, but fortunately, the Bucks are not a difficult opponent to deal with. Jonny broke out in two quarters and didn't get a dunk, and finally the game ended, and the Celtics still won, but Jonny was still not very happy, and the dunk still didn't.

Buckles are hard to come by, Jonny thought about it. Don't force it, the next game Celtics' opponent is the Bulls. It's a very important game, and Jonny can't play as casually as these two games, so in the next game, Jonny has to stop.

In the first two games of the 1998 new year, the Celtics won two in a row, and the Celtics also directly surpassed the Pacers with these two victories. The Pacers played 1 game in the New Year and lost. So the Celtics became the first in the East, but the pursuers behind were still fierce, and the Pacers were a chaser. There is also the Celtics' next opponent, the Bulls, and the Bulls only need to win the Celtics in the next game. The Celtics' first spot will be snatched away by the Bulls in an instant.

In addition, the Heat and Hornets are also members of the chasing group, and this season because of the poor state of the Bulls, the competition for the top five in the East has become extremely fierce.

After the game against the Bucks, the Celtics had three days of rest, and three days of rest were very precious for Jonny, he was tired in the first two games, of course, these three days of rest were enough for Jonny to raise his energy to the fullest.

On January 4, the day after the end of the previous game, the Celtics training gym, the players arrived one after another, and Jonny also stepped on the time, during which time Vicpitino gave Jonny the task of recuperating his batteries.

When Jonny arrived at the stadium, his teammates who had arrived at the stadium earlier had already started training, including Derek Coleman, and Derek Coleman's attitude was much better during this time, not only in the game, but also in training.

From the last time they played against the Lakers to the defeat of the Bucks, the Celtics have won 4 in a row, and in these four games, Derrick Coleman averaged 21.5 points and 11.5 rebounds per game, which is a luxury, and the power forward in the entire NBA who can get this data or even better than this data is only five fingers. Carl Malone counts one, Chris Webber counts one, plus Tim Duncan, that's just a few, and even Charles Barkley can't get 20+10 now.

Of course, Derrick Coleman's stats are only averages for the last four games, and if it is a season average, it is much lower. However, according to Derrick Coleman's current form, the Celtics have indeed made a profit, and now the media has begun to praise the Celtics deal, which can be said to have turned the Celtics from the original playoff fringe team into a playoff powerhouse in an instant.

And the media also began to praise Derek Coleman, saying that he had changed his mind, that he had changed his face, and that it was all praise anyway. And Derek Coleman may also want to take advantage of this shareholder wind to mix a super contract next year, and he has become more and more active recently, and even some of the tips of being lazy in previous training, such as going to the physiotherapy room to be lazy at the end of training, this similar lazy skill is not used by him.

However, the Celtics know Derrick Coleman's current situation, maybe this year is the peak of Derrick Coleman's last year, and next year any team gives Derrick Coleman a big contract, and Derrick Coleman can quietly mix with a big contract.

So now the Celtics are also a little entangled, is it to renew the contract with Derrick Coleman? Or not to renew the contract? If the contract is renewed, the probability of Derrick Coleman messing around is as high as 99%, and it can be said that the Celtics are wasting money. But if the contract is not renewed, the Celtics will feel unwilling, after all, this is a player who averages 20+10 per game, and it is obviously a pity to give up like this.

For the Celtics, renewing Derrick Coleman is a very tangled thing, and renewing Jonny is obviously not entangled at all, and they are already preparing to give Jonny a long-term contract after the end of this season to keep this star forever. (To be continued......)