Chapter 498: The chaos of the best lineup in history
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Olajuwon's influence in the United States is very great, there is no doubt about this, as the leader of the four centers, as a figure who once beat Jordan in the draft, this legend almost attracted all the attention of the NBA when he left, even David Stern, who has rarely expressed too much opinion on a player in the media, actually talked about Olajuwon for more than ten minutes when participating in a famous American talk show. Even in the show, the league president's evaluation of Olajuwon is one of the ten greatest players in NBA history, and the president even said that if he was the owner of a team, the best team he would choose would be center: Olajuwon, power forward: Larry Bird, small forward: Carter, scoring guard: Jordan, playmaking guard: Magic Johnson, and the head coach of this team is the Chinese, it is obvious that the president's words came out, The whole league began to talk about Olajuwon in a different direction, and these people also began to talk about the so-called 10 greatest players in NBA history and the so-called favorite lineup in their hearts.
David Stern himself probably didn't expect that his casual words would cause such a sensation in the United States, and even this influence has been affected for more than ten or twenty years, that is, after the president said this, basically all fans are no longer satisfied with the so-called top 50 stars selected by the NBA official, and all began to play the game of the so-called top ten stars and the best team discussion, which also made the NBA fan circle, which was quite calm, began to become more and more gunpowder. After all, there is no standard for such a lineup in the NBA. There is no standard for the so-called ranking, and in this case, the controversy will naturally get bigger and bigger, and in the end, the fans will naturally deteriorate because of these controversies, and the so-called 'sunspots' will also become more and more.
David Stern's speech on the talk show was very lethal, not only in the fan circle, but also in the NBA player circle, as the president of the NBA. It is obviously inappropriate for him to directly say that such a paragraph is basically a player ranking on behalf of the official statement, so the day after the president said this, many active or retired players quit. For example, Barkley, a former NBA passer who has just retired and is now working as a commentator, publicly scolded David Stern.
"It's obvious. It's the usual trick of that guy, and he's always thinking about his so-called commercial value. Undoubtedly, this lineup can bring him a lot of benefits. But this so-called All-Star team is not at all like that in my opinion, Erwin, Michael, Larry, these three people I agree with, as for Hakim I don't want to discuss, I can only say that he is one of the greatest centers, but Vince Carter I definitely disagree, he is very strong, he has won 2 regular season MVPs and a Finals MVP. But he can't stand with these guys right now, David Stern should change his place to me, and the frontcourt of me and Larry is the strongest frontcourt combination in NBA history."
Whether Barkley's words are a bit of a boastful suspicion, but it does speak the hearts of many players, after this Sir Barkley said this. Soon some active players in the NBA such as Malone, Pippen and some retired such as Lakers legendary center Abdul-Jabbar, and even the Celtics' first legendary player Russell was also provoked by David Stern's words, this legendary center is not arguing for himself, he is crying out for his good friend, Chamberlain, who has just died.
"Werther has only been away from us for three years. Now some people are beginning to remember him, and if Werther in heaven hears this sentence from Mr. Stern, he will definitely come down and reason with Mr. Stern"...,
Of course, there is a lot of chaos in the NBA circle now, and no one thought that this was just a matter of a legendary player retiring and suddenly becoming like this, and Jordan, the god who has always liked to join in the fun, once again mixed something into this already boiling water at this time.
"I'm very grateful to Mr. David Stern for his appreciation and I'm very happy to be part of his best team, is there such a squad in my mind? Of course, for sure, if I were the owner of a team I would first pick Coach Z as the head coach, he was the best I've ever seen, and my center would be Duncan, he was great, our forward combination would be Scott and Vince, and then I would partner with the Magic in the backcourt, believe me, this lineup would be the strongest, we can play triangle offense or run and play number five, we can do everything we want to do."
When the words of the great god were misinterpreted by the media, the originally chaotic NBA became chaotic again, and even Larry Bird and Phil Jackson, who have been very silent, couldn't help but stand up, especially Phil Jackson, who has been in a bad mood recently, The coach who brought six championships to the great god is very sour for the god to choose Zhuang Fei instead of him in the head coach position.
In such an environment, Zhuang Fei, who is on vacation with Scarlett in Los Angeles, is naturally impossible to ignore, coupled with the fact that Los Angeles is a gathering place for media in the United States and even the world, which makes Zhuang Fei have no way to have a good vacation here, he is naturally very aware of everything that has happened in the outside world recently, but at this time he knows that he shouldn't say anything outside, because no matter what he says, it is wrong, so when he finds that he is surrounded by the media and has no way to stay here for vacation, Zhuang Fei also went directly to Indianapolis, he doesn't want to be involved in this endless war of words now, and this saliva is caused by David Stern himself, and this year's men's World Basketball Championship will be held in Indianapolis.
Zhuang Fei was also invited by CBS to be the guest commentator of the U.S. team at the World Championships, participating in the commentary of all the games about the U.S. team. Since this year's finals helped ABC to explain the NBA finals and increased the ratings of the finals for a while, as a CBS that is as close as Zhuang Fei, it is naturally impossible to let Zhuang Fei go, plus Zhuang Fei himself currently likes this job, so he did not refuse, in Zhuang Fei's opinion, the work of the commentator can help him better see the situation on the court, and the perspective of the commentator in the basketball game is different for a head coach to watch the game. Zhuang Fei is now studying this different sense of disparity.
Compared with the disturbances of Los Angeles, Indianapolis is really quiet now, when Zhuang Fei is Scarlett came here, basically what he saw was that the city was busy for the upcoming World Championships, and this time it was already early August, and this year's Men's Basketball World Championship was also held in late August, and the time was less than 20 days. Recently, this guy who was fighting with Jordan was so idle, when Zhuang Fei went to find him, he was told that this guy was playing golf on the golf course, Zhuang Fei knew that this year was the year of the Pacers' reconstruction, but he really didn't expect this guy to be so leisurely.
Of course, Larry Bird played golf in the offseason to Zhuang Fei, and what also surprised Zhuang Fei was that he also met the Chinese team led by Stephen Green in Indianapolis, Stephen Green and Yao Ming returned to China more than a month ago, Zhuang Fei had always heard that they were training in Europe, but he didn't expect this group of people to come here so early to adapt to the venue. …,
It was an accident to meet the Chinese team in advance in Indianapolis, although it was an accident, but as the leader of the team, Director Li Yuanwei still hoped that Zhuang Fei, the Chinese Basketball Association' Honorary President' and the vice chairman of the Chinese Olympic Organizing Committee and the image ambassador to help coach this only in Europe to train the results of continuous fiasco, after this month's fiasco, this Director Li is obviously extremely distrustful of Green's coaching ability, if it weren't for the support of Zhuang Fei behind Green, he would have fired this guy a long time ago, but when this Director Li had expectations for Zhuang Fei, he was directly rejected by Zhuang Fei, although Green is his assistant coach, but Zhuang Fei did not intend to directly dictate to the team he coached, which is an unwritten rule in the American coaching worldUnder normal circumstances, no one can dictate the head coach of a team in tactics or team building, although many people do not respect or ignore this rule, but Zhuang Fei does not want to do this, but encourages Glenn, who has been under a lot of pressure recently, and then cut off contact with this group of Chinese team after a few words.
For Zhuang Fei, it is now his vacation, although there is a commentary task in half a month, but he still does not have too much nervousness, in the previous years because he was too busy, so Zhuang Fei has not had time to accompany Scarlett, especially rarely have time to accompany Scarlett to travel around or go on vacation, but this year he did it.
After coming to Indianapolis, Zhuang Fei and Scarlett even learned golf with Larry Bird, and for this very casual sport, Zhuang Fei and Scarlett finally fell in love with it.
At the golf course, Zhuang Fei felt that time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the 2002 World Championships that made the American Dream Team fall off the altar of God also began. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )