Chapter 120 Snow trades Billups, Bowen and Pierce
Washington's home stadium, in the pre-game warm-up session, Lin Yu sat on the sidelines and chatted with Zen master Jackson.
The Zen master is not the kind of person who talks a lot, and he and Lin Yu don't have any common language, so the two of them sat together a little coldly.
It didn't take long for a group of reporters to pour into the stadium to do pre-game interviews, and Lin Yu saw acquaintances in it at a glance.
Zhang Weiping!
What shocked Lin Yu even more was that the person who led Zhang Weiping into the venue turned out to be David Stern!
Lin Yu knew that Stern attached great importance to this live broadcast, but he didn't expect him to come to Washington in person.
In the middle of the court, Zhang Weiping began to interview David Stern in front of the camera.
Lao Zhang had the reputation of "Magic under the basket" when he was young, playing the power forward position, and was the No. 1 forward in Asia at that time, and his achievements were much higher than Ma Jianke.
In the late 80s, he came to the United States to study, spoke English, and knew enough about the NBA, and now he is working in the A-League, responsible for the promotion and publicity of the league.
This time the Christmas war was broadcast live, and he was selected as a reporter from the front side, because there was no more suitable person than him.
With a smile on his face, Stern spoke eloquently in front of the camera, while Zhang Weiping acted as an interpreter.
Looking at Stern's expression, I'm afraid no one can believe that he is a dictatorial tyrant in the eyes of NBA players, and those who don't know him think that he is the kind of kind-hearted old man next door.
A few minutes later, Stern beckoned to Lin Yu again and called Lin Yu over.
"Hello Mr. Zhang." Lin Yu politely greeted Zhang Weiping.
Zhang Weiping was overjoyed, this teacher shouted that he felt comfortable, he didn't know Lin Yu, looking at Lin Yu's style of acting, he thought that Lin Yu was a difficult prickly head to deal with, after all, he knew everything about Pat Riley and Larry Brown.
However, after taking the face, Lin Yu behaved very humbly and gently, which greatly increased Zhang Weiping's favor.
"Coach Lin, the Washington Wizards, a team with a long history, under your leadership, has become the hottest team in the league today."
"Almost everybody thinks you're going to win this year's championship."
"Coach Lin himself has also broken countless coach-related records in the NBA, such as the youngest coach, such as the fastest 50-win coach and so on."
"It can be said that Coach Lin is definitely a rare genius coach in a century!"
Zhang Weiping praised Lin Yu fiercely, and praised Lin Yu so blushing, it was really ashamed, what a rare occurrence in a hundred years, it has been less than a hundred years since basketball was invented.
As for Zhang Weiping's breaking of various coaching records, this thing has almost no gold content, according to him, there are too many records broken by Lin Yu.
The most winning coach at the age of 26, the most winning coach before the age of 27, the 28 years old, the 29 years old, can count until the age of fifty or sixty.
"It's over, Mr. Zhang, I'm not as good as you say." Lin Yu said with a smile.
Zhang Weiping continued to say to the camera: "I haven't won the award at all, Director Lin, now that the bus has become a superstar, do you think there are any other players in our country who have such potential as the bus?" ”
Lin Yu pondered for a moment and replied: "Of course there is, I believe that more and more domestic players will land in the NBA and become superstars like Dabus." ”
This is actually a polite remark, Lin Yu doesn't have "Washing the Muscles and Cutting the Marrow" in his hands now, and the only one who expects his own strength to enter the NBA and still be able to play is only Yao Ming.
It's only Christmas in '97, and it's still a few years before Yao Ming can enter the NBA.
After chatting with Lin Yu for a while, Zhang Weiping went to the interview bus, Lin Yu breathed a sigh of relief, I don't know why when he faced the interview with the old American media, he was at ease, and he could say whatever he wanted, and in the face of Zhang Weiping, he was naturally restrained, and he changed from a reckless man to a good boy.
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When the game was about to start, Stern found Lin Yu again, and told Lin Yu not to make a fuss tonight, this is a live broadcast in the United States, and more importantly, it is the first live broadcast in China.
Lin Yu laughed, it seems that Stern still does not understand the situation enough, it is a good thing to fight, nothing can make the Chinese applaud more than seeing a group of American billionaires fighting to the flesh.
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At the beginning of the game on the court, the Bulls still missed Pippen and Rodman, and Jordan led the team alone.
On the other hand, on the Wizards' side, at present, only Big Ben is absent, the absolute strength of the soldiers, as the saying goes, two fists are hard to beat four hands, even if Jordan has monstrous skills, he cannot parry the strength of the Wizards' lineup.
Stern supervised the battle on the spot, and during the game, he kept giving Lin Yu a look.
Lin Yu also knew what Stern meant, which was nothing more than wanting to make the game more enjoyable, after all, this was the first live broadcast in China.
During the intermission, Stern chatted with Zen master Jackson for a while before finding Lin Yu again.
"Lin, let's play tacit ball in the second half, reduce the defensive intensity of the inside line, and create more dunk scenes."
"Phil has agreed."
Since the Zen masters agreed, Lin Yu could only nod and agree, anyway, no matter how he fought, the chances of the wizards would be much higher than that of the bulls.
In fact, the Zen master had to agree, because they had fallen behind by twelve points in the first half, which was still the advantage of the Wizards' outside players who had a bad hand and only relied on the big bus to play inside.
If the perimeter players have an explosive hand, the Bulls may lose more.
It's also good to play tacit ball, Christmas Eve is about the same as China's Chinese New Year's Eve for them, and no one wants to be abused by people for the New Year.
At the end of the intermission, Lin Yu told the Wizards about playing tacit ball.
When the game restarted, it was really much more enjoyable, Jordan rushed to the basket and dunked violently, while everyone on the Wizards' side blossomed, even a pure shooter player like Peja rushed to the basket and dunked two.
Especially Kobe Bryant and Webb, all kinds of difficult dunks caused the fans to scream.
After the game, the Wizards sat at home with a score of 128:119 and won the Bulls by nine points.
The Zen master's face is a little unsightly, this is already the Wizards' three kills of the Bulls this season.
Jordan is even more aggrieved, since the breakup of the Bad Boys Army, he has never been as flustered as this season.
In the handshake session after the game, the Zen master shook hands with Lin Yu and said slowly: "Lin, congratulations, you won our bull again." ”
"It's just luck." Lin Yu smiled and waved his hand, looking at his expression, obviously no one believed that he really thought it was luck to win the bull.
When it came time to shake hands with Jordan, Jordan said coldly.
"Lin, what do you think of our bull?"
Lin Yu asked, and after a long time, he said in a daze: "Tilt your head to look? The badge of the bull, is it a robot through the crab? ”
Jordan was also stupid, tilted his head to look at the Bulls emblem on the bench on the sidelines, and after a moment, he was speechless, really!
The bull's crest, if you look at it the other way around, is really a robot doing something embarrassing with a crab.
"Uh, you ......"
"Observant enough, I played in the bulls for more than ten years, and I found out for the first time."
Jordan was sure in his heart that Lin Yu was definitely not a normal person, who would be a normal person to study the emblems of other teams in turn?
After Lin Yu left, Jordan tilted his head and glanced at the Bulls emblem a few more times, and couldn't help laughing, completely forgetting the trouble of being killed by the Wizards.
In tonight's game, Snow was the starter, and his performance was perfect, scoring 11 points and 21 assists, and many of Kobe Bryant's and Webb's violent dunks were all passed by him.
Because Nash has not yet entered his prime, Lin Yu has always let Snow start, and has also given him plenty of playing time.
After joining the Wizards, Snow's average data per game came to 8.8 points, 13.5 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 2.5 steals, and his performance was really a bit like Kidd.
With so many assists, it's not that Snow really has such terrifying organizational skills, but that his teammates are too strong.
Peja, Kobe, Webb and Jalen Rose, as well as the bus under the basket, these four often receive Snow's pass and shoot immediately, and Snow's assists are impossible.
According to Lin Yu's plan, after Nash is officially at his peak, Snow will have to play as a substitute, although Nash's defense is far inferior to Snow, but his offensive ability and organizational ability are much stronger than Snow.
Grant Hill once said that if Nash wasn't so selfless, he had every chance of competing for the scoring title.
That's a bit of an exaggeration, but it's true that Nash can improve his scoring average by at least five points per game if he wants to score.
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On Christmas night, Lin Yu had the courage to make an appointment with Xia Yunshi, the two were sure that their relationship had been around for some time, and there was a better time to cook raw rice than tonight?
Lin Yu's innocent body in this life was given to Xia Yunshi that night, and the two did not leave the hotel until the afternoon of the next day.
"Why do you feel so experienced? Didn't you tell me that you were ...... too" Xia Yunshi asked with a red face, her cheeks still showing the tiredness after the war.
"Well, I'm indeed a virgin, so it's like a fake."
"Maybe I've watched too many movies from Japanese, Korean, European and American teachers, so I'm a little quicker?" Lin Yu grinned, there was not the slightest tiredness on his face, there was only excitement.
After crossing over, good things happened one after another, and he successfully became the big boss of the Washington Wizards, and then he returned with a beauty, and really walked to the peak of his life.
"Phew, shameless." Xia Yunshi took a sip, and her face turned even redder.
"You can't get pregnant, do you?" She asked worriedly.
Lin Yu laughed evilly, "I was born when I was pregnant, are you still afraid that I won't be able to raise it?" ”
"When we get married, let's keep having babies, the more we have, the better, if we have good physical fitness, we will become players, and if we have poor physical fitness, we will become coaches."
"Phew, who's going to have so many children with you."
"What if it's a girl in her life?" Xia Yunshi asked shyly.
"Girls? Then be the boss, I will buy a team for them alone, what Bass family, what Dolan family has to lean back, or it depends on our Da Linzi family. ”
He suddenly regretted that he chose the 10 million dollars in the first place, instead of choosing to get pregnant after having a relationship, if he could be shot, he would be considered to have incense in this world.
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After Christmas, it was the New Year, and Lin Yu couldn't help but be busy with Xia Yunshi all night.
On the morning of January 2, Lin Yu returned to the office, and they were going to start their away trip again.
Knowing the taste of marrow, Lin Yu is really a little reluctant to leave Xia Yunshi now, but unfortunately the work still has to be done.
Not long after sitting down, the phone on the desk rang, and after Lin Yu connected, it was Pitino, the coach of Green Kai, who called.
"Good morning, Mr. Pitino." After Lin Yu was nourished by love, his temper improved a lot.
"Lin, you are now the big boss of the NBA team, just call me by name."
"I called you this time to ask if you are interested in Chauncey, the Philadelphia 76ers are looking for me to trade, and I want to hear your offer first."
After Lin Yu heard this, his face was first dull, and then the corners of his mouth twitched, how stupid he was in Pitino's mind, he was unwilling to bother to think of a more reasonable reason.
Philadelphia 76ers want Billups? They have Iverson on the team, do you want to be drier than Loops? They just sent Stackhouse away in exchange for a guard with a lower shooting percentage than Stackhouse?
Isn't this obviously taking Lin Yu as the main wrong?
Since you are unkind, then don't blame me for being unjust, Lin Yu has already decided to pit Lu Kai.
"Oh? They want Chauncey? What offer was given? Lin Yu pretended to be curious and asked.
"They're going to trade Coleman plus draft picks for Chauncey, you know, we've got Walker on the team, so there's not much interest in Coleman," Pitino laughed. ”
"Lin, is your Eric Snow interested in making a move? How about we exchange Chaunsi for a single exchange? ”
Lin Yu knew in his heart that he dared to love this old Deng who came to Snow.
If Snow only played a four-double in his debut, then he is a legend, and not many teams recognize his quality.
However, Snow has been starting the Wizards recently, and the combat effectiveness he has shown is quite good, the defense is definitely the top existence of the No. 1 position, and the organizational ability is definitely above the level, at least better than the offensive point guards such as the flying car, even if it is offensive ability, Snow is not saying that there is no at all, he is just not a high shooting rate, if he really lets him vacant, he can also cut points.
Such a point guard is definitely a sweet spot for those teams that already have more shooting points, and Green Kai has a lot of shooting points in the team, the fat head Towalker and Mosser, the offensive firepower is not bad, if you catch a Snow, at least Pitino feels that Green Kai will definitely be able to support it.
"What do you think? Rick, Snow are my starting point guards, and the Wizards are in contention for a championship this season. ”
"Do you think I'm going to swap my starting point guard at this point in time and replace him with Billups, who everyone thinks is a parallel trader?"
Lin Yu said with a sneer.
"And what about two more players? Walter McCarty and Bruce Bowen, how's that? Pitino said repeatedly, and it was obvious that he really wanted Snow.
As a top coach in the NCAA, he came to coach in the NBA, and he was actually under a lot of pressure, and what he was most worried about was being fired by Green Kai, and then he could only return to the NCAA in disgrace.
"Who? I haven't heard of these two, but McCarty has a bit of an impression, it was the first-round pick in '96? ”
Lin Yu began to pretend to be stupid, he really didn't have any impression of McCarty, he only knew that he was a rookie in 96, and Bruce Bowen, then Lin Yu was too familiar, Uncle Bao, who could not know.
Lin Yu was shocked that Bowen turned out to be a player of Green Kai, and he had never seen Bowen when he played against Green Kai before.
If you want to talk about the ranking of dirty players, Uncle Bao can definitely rank among the top three levels in history, which is almost on par with Stockton or Ranbir.
But dirty is dirty, even if Bowen doesn't use shady tricks, his defensive strength is extremely strong, and he has played a total of 13 years in his career, and he has been selected to the All-Defensive Team for eight years.
Everyone in the world knows that Bowen is a fierce player of Spurs Popovich, and some unsightly things are done by Bowen, and he feels that Bowen was trained by Popovich.
In fact, Bowen was selected for the best defensive team the year before joining the Spurs, and the person who really cultivated Bowen was Pat Riley, who played under Riley before joining the Spurs.
Considering Riley's consistent style of developing players, it makes sense that Bowen is so dirty.
Tangerine Sheng Huainan is Tangerine, with different head coaches, players will definitely have different styles, such as Kobe, who is playing very selfless now, and Lin Yu is also confident that Bowen will become less dirty.
Lin Yu is ready to take Bowen down, this is a super strong forward defender, and he will definitely come in handy at critical moments.
"That's right, the 19th pick in '96, only one pick lower than Jermaine O'Neal in your hand, a 208-centimeter-tall power forward, with outstanding athleticism, he will be the next Webber!" Pitino began to talk nonsense with his eyes open.
Even if this McCarty has a 10% hope of becoming the next Webber, he will definitely not be willing to sell it.
"Not interested, I already have Webb."
"Well, McCarty, keep him, and develop him into Webb, I want Chauncey, Bruce Bowen and one of your first-round picks this year."
"Anyway, after you get Snow, there is a chance that you will make the playoffs, and the value of this first-round pick is not high."
Lin Yu didn't bother to talk nonsense with Pitino, and said his favorite offer.
Pitino is not only the head coach of Green Kai, but also the general manager of Green Kai, and he has the right to make direct trades.
After thinking for a while, Pitino felt that Lin Yu was right, they did have a good chance of making the playoffs after getting Snow, so the value of this first-round pick was roughly the same as McCarty.
"Okay, deal!"
"Deal, happy cooperation, if 76 people want to trade with you again in the future, please contact me as soon as possible."
Lin Yu didn't forget to tease Pitino in the end.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Yu's face was ecstatic, this wave of transactions simply earned his grandmother's house!
Snow was traded by himself with Childs before, and Childs was added by Lin Yu when he traded Antonio Davis to Maddie with the Nets, which is equivalent to saying that Snow is also an addition.
And now an addition can exchange Lin Yu for an FMVP Chauncey Billups, an eight-year defensive lineup Bruce Bowen, plus a first-round pick from Green Kai.
There is a reason for this first-round pick, because under normal circumstances, Green Kai used this first-round pick No. 10 to select Paul Pierce!
Even if Snow joins Green Kai, Lin Yu doesn't think Snow can bring qualitative changes to Green Kai, mainly because the fat head Towalker is not a boss who can lead the team to win.
In other words, there is a high probability that Green Kai will still not be able to enter the playoffs, and when the lottery is held, there will be a total of thirteen lotto picks, and Green Kai has a great chance of picking before the 10th pick, and Lin Yu can even take Pierce down.
Even if you're unlucky enough to pick up the No. 10 pick or a previous draft pick, a lottery pick could help Lin pick a potential All-Star caliber player, like Ricky Davis or Al Harrington.
Anyway, it's blood to earn!
In this series of transactions, Lin Yu exchanged an addition for flounder, truth and heavenly feet, and Buffett has to be called an expert when he comes.