After the game against the Nets, the Celtics also successfully completed their revenge, and Jonny's god-like performance made the Celtics have more expectations for this season, and Carl began to speed up the pace of trades. Reading Book Artifact.yankuai.

When Jonny slashed 59 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists in the game against the Nets, Karl felt that as long as he found a good helper for Jonny at this time, the Celtics could attack the championship. Teams like the Knicks and Rockets who didn't start the season well can express their interest in the championship, and the Celtics' current record of only two losses is even more acceptable.

The Celtics have accelerated the progress of negotiating a trade with the 76ers Derrick Coleman, in fact, the 76ers are also very anxious, they also want to complete the deal as soon as possible, let the team settle down, and then attack the playoffs, until now, the 76ers still think they can enter the playoffs, and Larry Brown was brought in at the beginning of the season to impact the playoffs.

When a team has two star-caliber players, Allen Iverson and Jerry Starkerhouse, a great shooter like Jim Jackson, and a short, powerful center like Clarence Witherspoon, they can certainly look forward to the playoffs. Also this season, the 76ers have a record of 3 wins and 7 losses, and in the eyes of the 76ers' top management, excluding the factor of Derrick Coleman's infighting, the 76ers can make the playoffs.

However, the two teams have not reached a final agreement on the trade discussions, with the 76ers believing that the chips offered by the Celtics are not sincere, while the Celtics feel that the 76ers are a bit of a lion opening their mouths.

Jonny also learned about the process of the deal from Karl's mouth, the trade chip that the Celtics are willing to take out is actually a first-round pick from the Wizards, plus Greg Meiner and Walter McCarty, from the 76ers in exchange for Chris Coleman, obviously this is also a bit of a cabbage, Greg Meiner has not been reused in more than a dozen games at the beginning of the season, basically a soy sauce role, and Walter McCarty lost his place after Bruce Bowen was reused, Although the data is a big improvement from last season. But judging by his performance, he is just a good functional role player. Coupled with the Wizards' potential pick, the 76ers will naturally feel that the Celtics' offer is a cabbage price.

But the Celtics also have their own ideas, and everyone in the league knows what kind of virtue Derrick Coleman is now. Such a thorn can be said that no one is going to trade with the 76ers, and such a player will become a free agent after the end of this season, it can be said that the 76ers will not trade anything, and there will be a little left after the trade. So Celtic feel like they just need to send some players and make up for it a little bit.

And such a different idea. It actually brought the deal to an impasse.

But someone always comes out to break the deadlock, and after the Celtics narrowly beat the Pistons by 4 points at home, the 76ers announced a three-way trade with the Pistons and the SuperSonics, sending Eric Montrose and Jerry Starkhouse, Cialatleaf and Aaron McGee from the Pistons, and Eric Snow from the SuperSonics. Then the 76ers seemed to be really a bit of a headache by the infighting, and perhaps they also wanted to use this deal to put pressure on the Celtics, and they made a second trade in a row, using Clarence Witherspoon and Jim Jackson to trade the Warriors for the 95-year-old champion Joe Smith and Brian Shaw. Went straight to Derek Coleman's starting position.

And Joe Smith, who averaged 17 points and 7 boards per game before the transfer, also gave the 76ers confidence again, and changed their asking price to the Celtics, before these two transactions, the 76ers' asking price was Ben Wallace plus the future Magic pick owned by the Celtics plus the draft pick of the future Wizards, such an asking price is of course unacceptable to the Celtics, after all, Ben Wallace is the person Jonny asks, and the performance is really good.

And now the 76ers' latest asking price is to get rid of Ben Wallace, after all, they have a block maniac like Theolatliff, and they really don't need Ben Wallace. Removed Ben Wallace. Tim Thomas was added, in fact, such an offer, the Celtics still can't accept, such an offer is equivalent to asking the Celtics to send two future lottery tickets plus a promising small forward.

That's it. The trade between the two teams is still delayed, and the Celtics are not in a hurry, they know that Derrick Coleman is not interested in other teams except for the Celtics, so there will be no situation where he will be cut off by his team.

But the 76ers couldn't wait, after Joe Smith arrived in Philadelphia. He played his first game with the team and performed well, while Derrick Coleman was overwhelmed on the bench by Joe Smith, and the even more dissatisfied Derrick Coleman actually made a big fuss in the locker room at halftime! The atmosphere on the 76ers team was already not good, and after a few players in a row, the atmosphere in the team was even less good, and after Derrick Coleman made a big mess in the locker room, the 76ers' sluggish momentum caused them to lose another game.

The general manager of the 76ers began to feel that a trade for Derrick Coleman was imminent, and Larry Brown, who had been hiding behind the scenes, also appeared at the negotiation table between the two teams, wanting to finalize the deal as soon as possible.

For the 76ers, they have directly formed a new roster for the team through the last two trades, Allen Iverson and Joe Smith have formed a new duo, and the top team in '95 and '96 looks like a promising pair. And Allen Iversant officially changed to a point guard, the new Aaron McGee and Eriksno and Brian Shaw shared the playing time of the point guard position, and the center position used Theolatliff, the whole lineup is young and experienced, from the perspective of strength, only one small forward is missing, if you can get Tim Thomas from the Celtics, the 76ers do have the strength to impact the playoffs on paper.

So in the next negotiation, the 76ers finally took a step back, and they offered to trade Derrick Coleman and Anthony Parker for the Celtics' Tim Thomas and two first-round picks. For the Celtics, Anthony Parker is just a soy sauce man, and it makes no difference whether he wants it or not, but this step of the 76ers is obviously going backwards.

So the Celtics immediately made a further offer, using Tim Thomas plus Greg Meiner plus Walt McAtiga first-round picks from the Wizards and the Magic's first-round picks the following year, from the 76ers to get Derrick Coleman plus Anthony Parker and Scott Williams, as well as a first-round pick from the 76ers next year and a first-round pick from the Pistons next year.

As soon as the offer was made, it was initially agreed by the 76ers, and the two teams quickly began to discuss the details and decided to reach a final deal as soon as possible. (To be continued.) )xh118