"The white guys at the top of the league who were raised by dogs* just had to sit in the office and watch us black men play hard and do nothing, and they could earn more than us. We players are the victims of their exploitation! ”

A black player with yellow teeth in front of the camera made a big fuss, and his words not only shocked the reporters in front of him, but even the cameraman trembled.

"OK, Rashid, I see what you mean, okay, that's all for this interview, thank you very much."

The black female reporter put away the recorder and left the interview area with a smile on her face.

"We've dug up the big news, Jack go quickly, haha, we're definitely headlines this time!"

At 10 p.m. that night, Paul Allen, who was about to rest, received a call from Stern.

"I'm sorry to bother you Alan at this time, but I guess you should see what Rashid just said?"

Paul Allen frowned, he wasn't very concerned about the team's operations, and listening to the tone of Stern's voice on the other end of the phone, he could hear the anger that had been suppressed under his gentle words.

"Okay, I'll pay attention."

After a few more pleasantries, Allen hung up the phone, and then another phone call went to the team's general manager, John Nash.

"I wonder what Rashid said about the stupidity before, David (Stern) had already called me just now."

John Nash on the other end of the line sighed, repeated Rashid's remarks, and then fell silent.

Paul Allen was silent for more than ten seconds before slamming the cup in front of him to the ground.

"Didn't he want to leave before, okay, before the trade deadline, trade him, no matter who he gets in exchange."

John Nash was also silent for a few seconds.

"Give me a moment, Alan, and I'll give you a satisfactory explanation."

On Feb. 10, Raheem was complacent about winning the game against the Mavericks with 27+10 stats.

A trade request was handed to Stern's desk, and Stern immediately approved the deal in a rare show of efficiency.

Thus, a five-man trade was born - the Hawks traded Raheem, Ratliff and Dandy Cow from the Trail Blazers in exchange for Rashid and Bosen.

Excluding the filler and trim weights, the main body of the transaction is Rashid for Rahim and Ratliff.

In the Hawks, Raheem and Ratliff have proven that they can't substitute the team for the playoffs.

The days of not being able to make a happy mess without results are extremely tormenting for the Hawks management, and it is even more torturous to think that Raheem and Ratliff still have a big contract of 60 million dollars to execute in the future.

Rashid's contract expires this year, and the Hawks, who want to get rid of the big one, have happily accepted the deal.

But the day after the Hawks closed the deal, Larry Brown's phone call reached his former protégé, now Knight, the Hawks' general manager.

"If you want to pursue the champion, why don't you put it to the end?"

Another 10 days later, Rashid, who had just finished a game with the Hawks, learned that he had been traded, and on the day of the trade deadline, the Pistons, Celtics, and Hawks completed another three-way trade.

The Pistons traded a first-round pick from the Bucks to guard Bob Sula, and Milicic · · Fellow Raybrak sent Lynch Hunter, Atkins and his first-round pick for next year to the Celtics, and got the Celtics' McJames and the Hawks' Rasheed Wallace.

This three-way big deal for the Celtics is just a bridge, because the Pistons' first-team blue-collar or base-salary contracts really can't match Rashid's big contract of 13 million without moving the starter Milicic.

On the surface, the Hawks traded Rashid, an All-Star power forward, for a high-paid and low-energy Sula, a retired Mills who still has a 600-year salary, and a first-round pick from the Bucks next year who is on the verge of the playoffs.

But considering that the season is over with more than two dozen games to go and that Rashid can enter free agency when his contract expires in the summer, the deal is understandable.

Only a few championship contenders frowned upon seeing the deal.

The Pistons' wave was an epic reinforcement, trading a bunch of scraps and two future draft picks for a usable All-Star insider.

It not only makes up for the last shortcoming of the Pistons' interior defense, but also makes up for the Pistons' lack of stable offensive ability.

Rashid was spotted by Larry Brown because of his "tough" style on the defensive end. But on the offensive end, he's a serious shot-based space-based power forward.

He has a wide range of shots, shooting from beyond the 3-point line to mid-range, and inside offense only accounts for 20% of his total shots. (Well, that's tough.) But there's no denying that his signature shooting move, the "straight-arm shot," is hard to interfere with, and that consistent scoring ability is something the Pistons are missing right now.

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Like a commodity, Rashid Wallace, who has changed teams three times in half a month, has finally recognized his identity.

What multi-millionaires, what all-star players, are just the president's toys.

The only thing that makes him happy is that the Pistons treat him with respect.

Larry Brown looked forward to the stars and the moon for half a year, and finally gave Rashid a hope.

Stern is still thinking about how the deal will affect the NBA landscape this year, or that he doesn't want Rashid to go to a strong team.

It's not a good idea for the image of the NBA to let a person like Rashid who is irascible and irritable and yell at the referee at every turn, spray the top brass and talk about racial issues, and who was portrayed by the media as a villain bastard a few years ago to go to the high-rated playoffs, so he pressed the table first and did not approve the deal.

(Rashid also threw the towel on Saberis because of the loss in the playoffs, which indirectly led to Sabernis's retirement)

The main thing is to let the Pistons understand the president's mind - labor and management don't like this player, and you want to use him to manage him.

But whoever wanted Larry Brown couldn't wait to take Rashid from Atalanta, and even didn't play a few team practice games before Rachid was promoted to the starter, and directly made him the main player in the game against his old 76.

The president is stupid, what's the matter with your piston, I haven't approved the transaction yet, why did you use it?

Do you understand respect!?

The angry Stern directly slapped a 200,000 knife ticket to the Pistons, which is also the largest fine in the NBA this year.

Dumas was also numb, and he had to pay an additional 200,000 for a game that was won (the 76ers' game against Iverson's injury), and he turned back to Brown to theorize, and the old man also told him that he was only responsible for leading the team to win, regardless of the team's commercial operations.

As for Mo Wen, Bob Sula was sent away, and Sura's playing time was transferred to Mo Wen.

Coupled with the bench work in the No. 3 position for a while, Mo Wen's average time per game has doubled, and he can reach an average of 17 minutes per game, and Collis has also been stained, and the playing time that he was originally divided by Mo Wen has come back a lot.

Although Larry Brown felt that it was a bit unreliable to give a rookie that much playing time, he had no choice, and Sula left the Pistons without even a serious bench.

The rest of the team who can play the No. 2 position in the training match are all crushed by Mo Wen, and if Mo Wen is not used, he will likely be accused of racial discrimination.

As for Milicic, it doesn't matter, Larry Brown is white himself, and he doesn't let Milicic play because he's protecting his own family.

The Los Angeles Times also wrote a joke a few weeks ago:

Milicic: I had to come from Europe to the US because I needed a coach like Larry Brown to help me grow.

Brown: You're right, don't worry, I'm going to be here for three or four years, maybe three or four weeks, whatever, you're going to get a chance to play.

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Rasheed Wallace, who had just arrived at the Pistons, wanted to offer his loyalty to Larry Brown.

After all, he and Brown are both from North Carolina, Brown has expressed his appreciation for him many times in the past, and he can still be so trusted by Brown after he was abandoned and traded, and let him start the game when he comes up, plus Brown is also very good to him on the team, all of which have deepened his respect for this unsmiling white coach.

But after staying in the piston for a long time, he realized that things didn't seem to be so simple.

The list that was rumored to be in the water by the outside world can no longer be watered, and now his actual ability is probably no worse than when he was in the first and second grades, just because of the poor defense, and now he can't even get a stable playing time, and he is scolded by Brown every day because of some small mistakes.

There is also an Asian rookie who doesn't like Larry Brown very much, and his skills are mature like an old monster, and the team's trainer says that his body is still growing, but the overall strength he has shown so far is definitely not lost to his starting teammates at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions in the Trail Blazers.

But it was also because the Pistons had no one available after the trade and only recently stepped up to the bench as a rotation with less than 20 minutes of playing time.

Looking back, even Oku, who was pushed down by him as a starter, didn't necessarily shoot much worse than he is now.

Rashid originally thought that hugging Larry Brown's thigh on the team would quickly integrate into the team, but privately few Pistons players liked Larry Brown.

In the end, Big Ben, who was a teammate with him in the Trail Blazers, revealed some things to him.

"Larry's most important thing is defense, and he only values defense, if there is anything else, it is to emphasize concentration and confrontation when defending, and most of the offense is some... Uncomplicated tactics, his only requirement is to hope that everyone will go to the basket as much as possible, and get as close to the basket as possible, but... Well, nothing, but. ”

"People don't like Larry very much because he's usually too strict, although I don't think there's anything wrong with it, and there's really a lot of humanity in the team, and everyone rarely communicates in training because Larry thinks it's too noisy."

"I don't know what he did to offend the coach, he's actually a lot better than before, but it's not that strange, and after a long time you know that our coach prefers to use experienced players."

"Oh, by the way, in fact, the people in our team are not difficult to get along with, the only thing you may have to pay attention to is to try to control your emotions when facing Mo Wen, that guy is very strong, and the range is not only applicable to the kind on the court."

After a little understanding, Rashid finally got a little bit of an understanding of the Pistons' anomaly.

The only player he couldn't understand was the Asian rookie Mo Wen.

Listening to what Big Ben said before, Mo Wen seems to be very capable of fighting or being very difficult to mess with, but after a few days of contact, he feels that this Mo Wen is no different from the Asians he comes into contact with in his daily life.

I feel that Mo Wen is the same as him, and he has a good temper.

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"I'll fire your uncle's Bowen, your shoes are scripted, right, and you start locking your feet again?"

"Labor and management originally wanted to play a good copy today, a regular season, I put up with you three times, I put up with your uncle!"

"You like to lock your feet, right, I have to pout your legs, you can lie on the bed and watch your feet for the rest of your life!"

"Don't stop me, whoever stops me, I'll even beat him together."

Ginobili wanted to come up and hug Mo Wen, and was directly knocked to the ground by an elbow. After hesitating for a moment, he rushed over, and was punched to the ground by Mo Wen, and his body bowed into the shape of a shrimp.

The others didn't dare to come, Popovich rushed over, and before he could get to Mo Wen's approach, he was knocked to the ground by Mo Wen's big mouth.

The dumbfounded security guards and referees finally reacted, and Mo Wen slashed Bowen on the ankle before the referee blew him for ejection.

The referee blew the whistle, and Mo Wen's figure returned to the starting point of all copies - the locker room.

This is a mechanism in the quest space, if the host is whistled for six fouls or technical fouls to leave, the quest will judge the factory match as negative and automatically enter the next match.

Looking at his teammates as if nothing had happened, Mo Wen's mood gradually calmed down.

Fortunately, the first three games were won, otherwise, tonight's dungeon would have been in vain.

[Normal Dungeon] With his current nearly 1,500 game experience, he can already maintain a winning rate of three and a half percent. He even inflated the challenge of [Difficult Dungeon] 3 times, and decently said, he paid the tuition 3 more times.

It stands to reason that there should also be abuse in the first two rounds of the playoffs, but he just didn't meet it, or he has always been on the side that has been abused. As always, there are no loopholes in this dungeon space.

Mo Wen felt that he had fallen into a very embarrassing situation, he had invested all the potential gems he had obtained into his physical attributes, and his physical potential could not be realized in a short period of time.

And the potential of his offensive and defensive skills has basically been fully tapped - nearly 1,500 games of experience, although there is no daily training after the game like ordinary players, but no matter how much training is usually not faster than practicing skills on the court.

His game experience has grown, but the actual growth of his strength has stalled.

Do you really have to wait until you slowly get up to work?

【Physical Attributes】

Upper limb strength: 65 ↑ (75); Lower limb strength: 64↑ (75); Coordinated: 79 (86)

Explosive power: 67↑ (80); Linear speed: 67 (69); Lateral Agility: 71 (75)

Stamina: 70↑ (80); Recovery: 70 (72); Injury Resistance: 70 (76)

He is now 38 points away from increasing all the potential of his physical attributes to 80 (the upper limit of mid-level potential primogems), and according to his current win rate, it will take about 95 days to obtain enough potential primogems.

But if he puts some of his potential gems on his offensive or defensive attributes, his win rate in [Normal Dungeon] may still be able to run around the Internet, and he can also experience the feeling of strength improvement.

But in that case, the growth of his physical attributes will be slowed down a lot.

Although he is not in a hurry, there should be no pressure on the Pistons who have successfully strengthened to win the championship this season, and the Pistons can be 4:1 Lakers without him, and it is impossible to add him to be the starting core of the weak team and an experienced player who can't retreat.

But you can't let those dungeon matches give you the opportunity to practice your skills and waste it.

There is no technological progress at all, so it's not short-sighted to farm dungeons just for the sake of potential primogems and badge fragments.

Mo Wen is not an indecisive twister, he weighed it and decided to give 30% of the potential rough stones to the technical attributes.

Mo Wen, who thought he had made a wise decision, was even more determined after hearing a piece of news from the team the next day, and was even considering whether to give a little more share of potential rough stones to the technical attributes.

"Prince won't be here today, he slipped and twisted his ankle in the bathroom yesterday, and it's quite serious, and the doctor said he won't be able to play for at least the next four weeks." Billups was very depressed and told Mo Wen the news.

He patted Mo Wen's shoulder heavily, and the meaning was obvious.

Prince is injured, and the Pistons' No. 3 position can only be topped by him.