Chapter 555: Marbury's Journey East

"Mr. Zhuang, how did it feel to talk about the NBA All-Star Game for the first time?"

When Zhuang Fei and Larry Bird and Magic Johnson appeared in the press conference room after the game, it immediately caused a lot of commotion, Kobe Bryant and Garnett, who are the protagonists of today's all-star MVP, have just left, and Zhuang Fei and others, who were originally only supporting roles, were arranged by the league to make their finale appearances, but no one felt inappropriate for the league's decision to despise the player. Come on,.!

"Very good, it's a pleasure to work with Larry and Erwin," Zhuang Fei first smiled and looked at his two partners, Bird and Magic, and then smiled again, turned his head to the reporters in the audience, and said: "I hope to have the opportunity to work together again next time."

Today's All-Star Game doesn't have too many highlights, especially for these semi-professional basketball reporters for basketball, for whom the players don't have too much explosiveness in dunks and threes without any defensive pressure on the court, they are not fans, although what fans like is what they have to report, but obviously compared to the players on the court who don't have too many highlights, these three non-professional commentators are full of interest for many people.

"Yes, I hope to have the opportunity to work with Larry and Zhuang again, I think next time we will do better, this time I found that the three of us will not be able to master the rhythm of a few games, and then there will be often cold and embarrassing scenes, next time I dare to swear it will not be"

After Zhuang Fei finished speaking, Magic Johnson on the side also said with a smile, at this time, the Lakers celebrity seemed to be thinking about the things that Zhuang Fei and Larry Bird explained together on the All-Star.

"But I think next time it's probably just me and Elwin. Coach Z will definitely appear in the All-Star coach's bench next year" After Magic Johnson made a vision for the future, Larry Bird was also a little unwilling to be lonely, and after the Pacers head coach finished speaking, the reporters in the audience also laughed, which also made Zhuang Fei a little embarrassed.

This time, Zhuang Fei and Magic Johnson and Larry Bird did a good job as commentators, although this is not the first time that the three of them have served as commentators, but in the past, the three of them would always be equipped with a professional commentary host to adjust the atmosphere, but this time there was nothing, so this is also a big test for these three people. But judging from the outside reaction on the second day, it seems that everyone thinks these three people are good, and even on the second day, some fans actually called for these three to form a commentary combination, and it is obvious that Zhuang Fei and Larry Bird and Magic Johnson's attempts are successful.

The All-Star is over. The West easily defeated the Eastern All-Stars, and on the second day of the All-Star Day, almost all the American media and even the world's media reported on it, and this year's Atlanta All-Star is indeed not as hot as in previous years. This is extremely unreasonable in the eyes of the NBA and David Stern, the NBA league president is now hollowing out his mind to prepare to bring a large number of elements to the NBA to fly to the United States, and it is precisely because of this tactical thinking that the current NBA league is extremely 'foreign-worshipping', and it also has many other international cultural elements, in the eyes of many American fans, the NBA is on the wrong path. In addition, although the stars of each team continued to end the game with dunks, three-pointers and other beautiful offensive methods, it is clear that this less intense exhibition game situation has not been well received by fans and media.

Under these circumstances, the national media on the second day actually began to criticize the just-concluded All-Star Game, and this trend is even becoming more and more popular in the United States. In particular, Zhuang Fei's real play mode adopted by the 2000 All-Star was also replaced by performance today, and the head coach of the Boston Celtics has been shot a lot during this period, of course, most of them are still using Zhuang Fei's words to hit the league and other opponents.

At this time, Zhuang Fei and his Boston Celtics players didn't have much effort to pay attention to these people, and after the All-Star break, the league-wide vacation chapter on February 10, and began on February 11. The Boston Celtics will face a devilish schedule in the absolute sense of the word.

The Boston Celtics have been very strange this year, which is known to many people, although Zhuang Fei does not have much impression of such a schedule, but he also knows that his team's continuous home and continuous away games are also many, and the Boston Celtics on February 11 at home and Jordan's Wizards are also the last home game of the Boston Celtics on their home court in recent times. And after this game, the Boston Celtics will once again go on a long trip to the West.

So after the All-Star end on February 10, Zhuang Fei also returned to Boston. Started to prepare for the Wizards, buried in the current situation, the Boston Celtics do not have many opportunities to make mistakes, especially against the Wizards, who are directly competing with themselves for the first place in the league...... Looks like something isn't going well."

In the Boston Celtics training hall, he looked at the Celtics players who were really training on the court with a serious face, but at this time, his assistant Stephen Green was holding a report in his hand, and at the same time said to Zhuang Fei with a frown.

After Zhuang Fei and the Boston Celtics returned to Boston on February 10. Zhuang Fei also quickly conducted a physical test on these Boston Celtics players, which is a necessary homework for Boston Celtics players now, and after the test, Zhuang Fei also gave these players a half-day vacation, and the training did not start again until three o'clock in the afternoon, but after the training began, these Celtics players were a little not excited enough.

Players like James Posey who didn't participate in the All-Star are okay, these people are doing business as usual, but for the five Boston Celtics players who went to the All-Star with Zhuang Fei, it is a little abnormal.

"Although we have preventive measures, their reaction is now relatively mild, but Gilbert is a bit serious"

Stephen Green looked down at the test report in his hand again, and then said with some concern.

Zhuang Fei has always attached great importance to the matter of All-Star Syndrome, it can be said that from the beginning of the Timberwolves to the current Boston Celtics, his team has always been an All-Star, and even sometimes his team will have seven or eight All-Star players, in this case, Zhuang Fei naturally attaches more importance to such things than the head coaches of other teams in the league, and in the past, Zhuang Fei's team rarely had too big problems, after all, after taking preventive measures, this symptom is not too serious, If it was normal, it would have been adjusted slowly after four or five games.

In the past, as long as the Boston Celtics were given a normal schedule, the Boston Celtics players would still be back to their peak in four or five games. It's just that this year, the league's schedule doesn't give Zhuang Fei this opportunity, because in the next ten days, the Boston Celtics will play seven games, except for the Wizards' home stadium on February 11, the other six games are all away trips to the West, and in this case, there are not many opportunities for the Boston Celtics to rest and adjust.

"Let that kid not exercise a lot first, let him recover for a while" Zhuang Fei finally looked at Arenas on the training ground with a heavy face, and then commanded his assistant lightly, and at this time Steve Green also nodded, this kid participated in the All-Star Game for the first time in his career, but he completely forgot Zhuang Fei's orders, and actually exchanged the whole court with Kobe Bryant in the All-Star Game, and this guy actually took the initiative to ask Jerry West for a longer time, Finally, with the fact that he also participated in the All-Star Rookie Game and various activities, this guy is straight away after returning to the Celtics.

"Coach, I don't think you need to worry too much, didn't the Wizards also have three people in the All-Star Game? They are not much better than us" Seeing that his head coach's face has been not good, Steve Green closed the player report in his hand and said with a little comfort, of course he understands his head coach's mood now, now for the Boston Celtics against the Wizards, the game must not be lost, this is a game directly related to the first ranking of the league, if the Celtics lose this game, then they will directly give up their first position in the league, not only that, if several other competitors win the game, Then the Celtics will fall directly from the first place in the league to the fourth place in the league, and will be overtaken by the Wizards, Grizzlies and Kings.

"Well, maybe," Zhuang Fei replied with a sigh after hearing Green's comfort...... Now that the Boston Celtics are working on a post-All-Star break, it's a happy worry for both the players and the team, at least compared to teams that are completely insulated from the All-Star break.

And just as these all-star players began to find their form, the league quickly broke out a big deal, and the two trade targets were the two East and West lottery teams far away from the All-Star.

The Suns sent their star Marbury to the New York Knicks, from whom they traded for the 2002 No. 4 pick Dunleavy Jr. and the Knicks' second-pick Sprewell, as well as the 2003 New York Knicks first-round pick. (To be continued)

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