After the All-Star weekend, the Bucks' originally neat roster suffered injuries instead.

Anthony Mason sprained his thigh in his first game back from vacation and will need to be out for 2-4 weeks.

Originally, no one cared about the hole in the fourth position, because Mason, who was forced to be good, was already doing something that was not very eye-catching.

The inside line is the biggest weakness of the Bucks, usually with Mason, as long as you don't encounter a star inside, the overall is okay. Mason was suddenly gone, Gazuric in the center position was nothing but athleticism, and there was no one to replace Mason at the power forward position.

When the Bucks were killed by the Mavericks, and then by the Pacers' Jermaine O'Neal, who slashed 40 points and 12 rebounds to eat their first losing streak of the season, George Carr pushed rookie Lonnie Banisk out.

As a result, Banness, who had no sturdy body, simply didn't have the ability to start a playoff powerhouse, and he was dropped after two consecutive games.

Karl gritted his teeth and began to fly hard, attacking with X throughout the whole process, and then complained that his general manager didn't do anything with the money: "I've been emphasizing that we have problems on the inside, but we don't have any reinforcements. ”

"Are we going to expect Anthony Mason to guard every inside line? That's impossible! ”

Before the trade deadline, the Bucks have a chance to strengthen themselves.

Determined to see through the mess to the end, the Cleveland Cavaliers released a disgruntled veteran from prison.

The veteran's name is Tyrone Hill PF, and his resume is nothing spectacular, having entered the league in 1990 and being named an All-Star in the 1994-95 season.

He's the kind of guy who has the strength but is quickly forgotten as soon as he retires.

Now, the 35-year-old is at the end of his career, and he doesn't want to wait for a new star to arrive at the Cavaliers, so he has made it clear to the team that he wants to leave.

The knight agreed.

For a while, Tyrone Hill became the object of competition for a strong team.

The team that needs him the most is naturally the Milwaukee Bucks, who want to strengthen the interior and want to go crazy.

General Manager Larry Harris gave a lot of sincerity.

He promised Hill that he would get at least 20 minutes of playing time and, if he wanted, he could play in Milwaukee until he retired. At the same time, the Bucks are willing to offer a job after he retires.

The Bucks, who are ranked No. 1 in the East, have struggled to recruit a veteran with plenty of fuel to spare.

As a result, Tyrone Hill made a puzzling request to Harris: "I can go to Milwaukee, but only if Frye Yu promises me." ”

Harris wondered, what was Frye going to promise?

Hill said directly: "When I played in the NBA, Frye was still wearing open crotch pants, I heard his story, I played against him, and he needed to promise me that if I went to Milwaukee, he would respect me. ”

Harris's expression was extremely exciting, he didn't expect Yu Fei to become an obstacle to recruitment.

But think about it carefully, since Yu Fei and Jordan had a bad relationship, the latter's media friends have constantly conveyed a message to the outside world: Yu Fei is a bastard, he doesn't respect veterans, and he likes to bully veterans

Over time, people believed.

No matter how Yu Fei's team refutes, the case of Yu Fei punching Jordan and kicking O'Neal is there.

He is still like this to Jordan and O'Neal, will other veterans who have no status in the rivers and lakes really be treated as human beings in front of him?

However, if Yu Fei was really that kind of person, the bucks would never have today's record.

"I assure you, Frye is not the kind of person he is rumored."

Hill struggled for a few days, and finally chose the Bucks between the 76ers and the Bucks.

Without him, the Bucks are currently 43-13, ranking first in the East and second in the league (1 win behind the Mavericks, but because they were killed by the Mavericks, they need to win 2 more games to overtake).

The arrival of Tyrone Hill gives the Bucks a second veteran with experience and instant power at the No. 4 position.

That way, even if Mason has an injury, there won't be no one available.

After that, Mason returned, and the well-staffed Bucks were eager to make the playoffs with the league's No. 1 record.

In March, the Bucks' first opponent was the Los Angeles Lakers, with whom they had a lot of grudges.

In terms of history, the feud between the Bucks and the Lakers dates back to the 70s, and as for the new century, there is basically no chance for the two sides to settle a grudge.

Their only grudge is between Fei and O'Neill.

As representatives of their respective teams, Yu Fei and O'Neal have grievances, which can basically be equated with the Bucks and Lakers.

Since O'Neill's racist attacks on Yao Shu were easily exposed, Yu Fei's opinion of him has become even greater.

O'Neill was also extremely dissatisfied with Fei's behavior of "fanning the flames" in that incident.

This can be seen from the pre-match interview between the two.

An ABC frontline reporter asked Yu Fei, "Do you think Shaquille O'Neill will be a problem for you?" ”

"The strength of the Lakers has nothing to do with him." "If Kobe hadn't averaged 40 points per game last month, the Lakers might not have been in the playoffs by now," Yu said. ”

(1) In February 2003, Bryant averaged 29 goals per game, scored 40 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, leading the team to 11-3 losses in a single month but missed the best of the month (the best of the month in the West was Garnett, who averaged 28 points, 14 rebounds and 7 assists per game).

The ABC reporter became a messenger and brought Fei's evaluation to O'Neill as it was.

O'Neal is like a defender of NBA tradition: "I'm not surprised, really, I know that guy would say that, if he doesn't even respect MJ, then he doesn't respect anyone." I will let him know that speaking in the NBA is about strength, and he doesn't have the strength to say whatever he wants. ”

Bradley Center

It's one of O'Neill's most hated away games, old and dilapidated, and it's even more unthinkable if it's winter to play here. Today, where state-of-the-art heating systems are used in arenas across the league, the Bradley Center still uses a type of cold coal that is no longer produced in most areas for heating.

Well, don't think about it, it's always bad.

Today, Lakers coach Phil Jackson missed the game due to kidney stones, so the coaching task fell to the assistant coach.

Frank Humblelen, who was the interim coach, did not ask for details of the game, saying only to Bryant: "You can't make more than 30 shots tonight anyway." ”

Bryant enjoyed the privilege of even the coach just asking for it, not ordering him to control the number of shots.

In fact, due to O'Neal's clever postponement of toe surgery until before the start of the season, Kobe Bryant got a lot of possession at the beginning of the season, and although he didn't play well at the time, the ball possession had inertia. If Bryant averaged 25 shots per game at the start of the season, then as the season progressed, his shots would only increase, not decrease.

As a result, everyone can see that Kobe Bryant averaged 40 points on 29 shots per game in a single month.

Suffice it to say, Kobe Bryant is now the boss of the Lakers.

But he still needs to prove that the Lakers have only one standard for the boss, and that is to win the championship.

Only by winning the championship will Kobe's position be justified.

"Let's go say hello." Bryant looked at No. 44 not far away.

O'Neal stayed in the backcourt, he was not interested in greeting Yu Fei, let alone standing next to Kobe, acting as if he was really a second child.

In the end, only Kobe Bryant came to the midcourt to see Yu Fei and Ray Allen.

"How's it going?"

"It's fine."

Yu Fei and Kobe Bryant simply greeted each other, but Ray Allen looked more distant, shook hands and left.

Back at his own position, George Carr told Yu Fei: "I know that you and Shaq have a grudge, but you must control your emotions." ”

Yu Fei nodded and said, "I can control my emotions, but it's not necessary." ”

One of the things that Carl is most helpless about flying is that when this young man wants to make a mess, he can't control it at all.

"If you go too far and get fouled, we risk losing to the Lakers, do you want to lose?" Karl spoke out about the stakes.

Yu Fei thought he had misunderstood himself.

Who says you're going to be sent off if you play with emotion? He's not Rashid Wallace. Even Rashid Wallace will improve, for example, two years ago he slashed 41 T's in a season, and now that the season is more than halfway through, his T's have not accumulated to 20, which is a significant improvement!

In the opening jump shot, Gazuric won the ball for the Bucks.

Yu Fei dribbled the ball and fed one to Sprewell next to him.

Sprewell catches the ball and throws it.

didn't score, but O'Neal didn't get stuck at all, and actually let Gazuric grab an offensive rebound in front of him and score a dunk.

2 to 0

Then, the Lakers demonstrated one of their most iconic images of the season.

O'Neal stuck in the low post, but his teammates didn't give it at the first time.

Fisher returns the ball to Bryant.

Kobe Bryant glanced at O'Neal and felt that he had a better grasp of pulling three points against Ray Allen's defense than giving the ball to O'Neal.

Those who play the inside line can't see this, but it's better that Fei doesn't play the inside line now.

In this round, the Bucks were controlled by Sprewell, and Yu Fei pulled away on the left side, and he wanted to take the ball to name O'Neal, but it was not time yet.

Sprewell passes the ball to Ray Allen.

Ray Allen shot in an uncomfortable position under Kobe's tight defense.

That kind of ball is very difficult to score, but O'Neill doesn't know whether he is deliberately passive or lazy, and he is not stuck.

That allowed Dan Gazuric to grab a second offensive rebound.

At the moment when Gazuric grabbed the rebound, Yu Fei cut in from the weak side.

Gazuric, who got the offensive rebound, was difficult to attack due to his bad position, but he saw Yu Fei running in at full speed, and didn't think much about it, and threw the ball over directly.

Yu Fei caught the ball, jumped, didn't waste any time, came like lightning, and the speed was so fast that O'Neill didn't react at all.

In just a blink of an eye, Yu Fei topped his right leg and smashed O'Neal's body to complete the dunk fiercely.

Bradley Center was full of joy, and people couldn't remember who the last player on the Bucks played so spectacularly.

O'Neill growled at the referee, "Didn't you see him on his feet?" ”

"Shut up!" Yu Fei stood on the commanding heights of absolute justice and said to O'Neill, "You racist bastard has no right to complain!" ”

(End of chapter)