Chapter 529: The Hot Trading Market Begins

(Ask for a commuter pass)

"Danny, how's it going? Did you find out?"

In the office of the chairman of the Boston Celtics, Zhuang Fei, the head coach of the Boston Celtics, looked at Danny Anji, who walked into the office with a calm face, with an expectant look on his face. ,!

After yesterday's game, Zhuang Fei is very concerned about how to mix more than 3,000 away fans at his home stadium, although there is no restriction on selling tickets to away team fans for any NBA team, not all teams in the NBA can be 100% sold at home, in this case, as a commercial league NBA, it is naturally impossible to make such a violation of the spirit of business, although all teams are not limited to who buys tickets, but some teams have other restrictions, For example, the Boston Celtics have 20,000 tickets for each home game, in addition to package tickets and season tickets, as well as tickets reserved for VIPs and players and coaches, less than 5,000 tickets are actually sold to the public, and 4,000 of these 5,000 are sold for home team fans, which means that there are less than 1,000 tickets that real away team fans or tourists can buy, which is also because the Boston Celtics have been particularly hot recently.

In this case, Knicks fans can still buy more than 3,000 tickets, which makes Zhuang Fei feel incredible, so Zhuang Fei asked Danny Anji to investigate the reason after yesterday's game, but Zhuang Fei Judging from the demeanor of Danny Anji after coming in now, the results of this investigation seem to be unsatisfactory.

In fact, it was just like Zhuang Fei guessed. He received Zhuang Fei's order to investigate all night and the results were also a little difficult for him to speak, the Boston Celtics are the No. 1 team in the NBA. It is also one of the biggest clubs, although the team's results in the last decade or so have been simply abysmal. But the composition of a big team like this is still complicated, at least the complexity of the club's current team relationship is not comparable to that of a new team like the Timberwolves.

This time it was a very hard-related staff member of the Boston Celtics who sold tickets to a large number of home team fans to Xiao Dolan after accepting a bribe from Dolan Jr., and the club's ticket staff sold tickets to Doran Jr., originally Danny Angie wanted to deal with the matter before Zhuang Fei asked, but what he didn't expect was that he was just about to fire the staff member who scalped the ticket to Dolan Jr. last night, and then he received a call from Russell, the absolute legend of the team, early this morning. I hope that Danny Angie will look at his face and open up the Internet, and hear Russell say that the scalping staff is a relative of the cardinal, and now the cardinal is not in good health, and no one will alarm him because of such a thing. But if Danny Angie did fire that staffer, who knows if he would bother the cardinal. This matter is really troublesome for him, and Danny Anji also has a headache when he thinks about the environment within the team.

When Zhuang Fei saw Danny Angie's expression of wanting to say goodbye, he finally sighed, at this time he also guessed eight or nine, the reason why the Boston Celtics have been so miserable in the past ten years, in addition to their management or senior management is too conservative, and they often make mistakes in decision-making, that is, the team has been corrupted to a certain extent, Zhuang Fei entered the team last year and has fired several trainers who have come into the team by relationships. Although Zhuang Fei is almost transformed for the team's training system, he doesn't have much ability to transform the team's other systems. There are too many things involved, although he is the chairman and general manager of the team, he can't do too much, unless he can win the championship and establish the supreme prestige of the team, so that he can really untie all the shackles and do what he wants, whether it is reform or other can be as he wants.

"That's the end of this matter, but Danny, the supervision of the team's ticketing system needs you to be more careful" Zhuang Fei also frowned and said when he thought of this, and after hearing Zhuang Fei's instructions, Danny Anji also breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that Zhuang Fei would continue to be entangled in this matter. But now it seems that the Chinese in front of him is not only powerful on the court, but also not bad off the court, at least much stronger than Pitino at the beginning.

Many people now say that Pitino was forced away by Danny Angie and Carl, the Boston veterans, but it was he who really forced him away, and the fierce coach basically offended the Boston Celtics in the past few years, and finally couldn't carry out his work at all.

Looking at the back of Danny Anji's departure, Zhuang Fei also shook his head at this time, and then sighed again.

"Now it seems that a lot of things need to be executed by champions."

On December 3, 2002, the Boston Celtics visited Philadelphia to challenge the 76ers, before this game, the Boston Celtics had won 16 consecutive games, and are currently ranked first in the league, and the current Philadelphia 76ers are 7-10 in the Eastern Lotto area, it can be said that the 76ers are not the opponent of the Boston Celtics at all, and the difference between the two teams in terms of record is too great.

It's just that if this game was held a week ago, maybe this argument is not wrong, the 76ers and the Boston Celtics are indeed very different now, but now, the gap is not so big, although Maddy can participate in the Boston Celtics game after the ban is lifted, but for the team that is currently the first team in the league, there are still James Posey, Xiao Ao and Jackson three main players who cannot play. It can be said that it is difficult for the two sides to clearly distinguish the winner in terms of strength, especially since this game is still an away game for the Boston Celtics, and in this case, this game is definitely a big test for the Boston Celtics.

Zhuang Fei in this game is the same as the last game against the Knicks, except that Maddy replaces Prince's position, and the Boston Celtics in this game are Yao Ming, Kirilenko, Maddy, Arenas and veteran Anderson, while the 76ers in this game are lined up with Iverson, Snow, Ragabel and Van Horn and Derrick Coleman.

In fact, when Zhuang Fei saw the lineup of the 76ers on the court, Zhuang Fei understood what Larry Brown wanted to do. This is almost the same tactical idea as the Knicks played the Celtics in the last game, except that Derrick Coleman is more inside than Odom in that it is a little different from the Knicks. Although the former champion in 1990 is only 2.08 meters, the defense of the inside line is not comparable to Odom. Even if he is 34 years old this year, except for this, the other four positions are absolutely copying the Knicks.

Obviously, Larry Brown was well prepared for this game, and at the same time watched the last game between the Celtics and the Knicks, although the final winner of the last game was the Celtics, but the Knicks' tactical thinking was correct. In this game, Larry Brown just tinkered with that Knicks tactic and used it.

Zhuang Fei is also a little helpless about Larry Brown's approach, although the team's boss Maddy is back, which somewhat reduces the outside pressure on the Celtics, but. Even if the pressure is liberated a lot, in the face of a No. 1 position like Iverson, the Boston Celtics couldn't get Iverson when James Posey was there, although James Posey has always had problems defending such a small guard, but there is no doubt that even if there is a problem, James Posey is currently the best defensive player in the Boston Celtics No. 1 position, and in this case, the Boston Celtics played very embarrassed in this game.

In particular, the team's boss Maddy came back with a very poor shooting percentage, and this was the second of the small forward's last five games. The small forward has been suspended for a total of three games in these five games, and with this being back-to-back battles, the small forward's shooting percentage is not high.

If the Boston Celtics relied on Yao Ming's firepower to maintain the team's offense in the last game and dragged on until overtime and finally narrowly won, then the Boston Celtics lost the game after the end of the fourth quarter, and the final score was 96-103, and finally the Boston Celtics lost by seven points away, Iverson scored 42 points alone in this game, and Maddie only scored 14 points, 8 assists and 8 rebounds under the focus of Ragabel's key care. And Arenas didn't do a good job either. It can be seen that he needs to change his role after Maddy's comeback and also needs to adapt to Maddy, and Yao Ming is still the best among the Celtics' interior duo in this game, scoring 24 points in this game, although he did not play the Knicks in the last game, but he is also the only player in the team who performed normally in this game, as for the other interior Kirilenko was beaten by Iverson with six fouls left in the fourth quarter with 3 minutes left, The player, who has always been known for his excellent help defense, did not do a very good job of Iverson's help defense in this game, or a lot of fouls that were not blown before, and this game was blown, starting with the Knicks, the NBA referees' whistle on the Boston Celtics became harsh.

The Boston Celtics lost to the 76ers on the road, which also marked the team's 16-game winning streak at the beginning of the season, which broke in Game 17, which also made the Boston Celtics' record 16-1, but to Zhuang Fei and the Celtics, although the game was lost, the team did not lose the first place in the league and the first place in the East, because on the same day, the Wizards, who ranked second in the league and second in the East, were thrown to death by the Pistons when they challenged the Pistons away, Even the way of death is very close to the Celtics, the Celtics were played to death by Iverson, and the Wizards were played to death by the flying squirrel Stoudemire, and the loss of this game made the Wizards' record to 17-2, losing the best chance to reach the top.

On December 4, Orlando, the Boston Celtics challenged the Magic team back-to-back away, the boss of the Magic in this game, Grant Hill continued to be absent, from 2000-2001 to the Magic for the three seasons so far, plus this season, the former NBA superstar only played a total of 20 games for the Magic, which can be said to be basically equivalent to the Magic in the past three years without a leading player, fortunately, this season's rookie Caron Butler is still competitive, the small forward has performed well this season, Jay Williams, who is currently averaging 16 points per game and is arguably the No. 2 rookie this year after the Bulls, has even recently been rumored that the Magic are ready to correct Butler and then send away Grant Hill in anticipation of trading for a player with All-Star potential or an All-Star player to partner with Butler.

Of course, no matter what happens to the Magic in the future, but for now, this Magic, which is almost at the bottom of the league, does not have much chance of winning even if it plays the Celtics, who have been banned from the three main players, although the Boston Celtics are back-to-back away games, but the loss in the last game also made these Celtics players hold back the fire, especially the Maddie who performed extremely badly in the last game and was very depressed by Ragabel. The Boston Celtics star scored 44 points in this game, beating Butler, who was opposite him, although Maddie scored a lot in this game, but the shooting percentage was still not very good, and the echo with the rest of the team was not very good, it was obvious that Maddy's style of play was not a collective tactic of the Boston Celtics. But even so, the Boston Celtics took advantage of this game to get on the right track.

When the Boston Celtics returned to their home court on December 6, the team's three-game ban James Posey also returned from the suspension, and with the return of James Posey, the Boston Celtics re-established their position in the No. 1 position, especially in this home game against the Hornets.

After beating the Hornets 110-95 at home, the Boston Celtics once again ushered in a two-game winning streak, and the record also became 18-1, with this record The Boston Celtics continue to hold the first place in the league, and after this game, the league's trade market is active. All sorts of trade rumors began to revolve around several teams.

The most important reason for the revival of the league trading market is the North Shore Garden Brawl. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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