From today on is the king

Chapter 1384 1383. The Warm and Pure Duncan

"700."

Liu Mang posted a picture on his Facebook.

Nothing else to write, just a picture.

But anyone who follows the NBA knows what that means.

No one is surprised to see Liu Mang so direct, this is Liu Mang, he will say what he wants directly, and then do it.

The Spurs were in Atlanta on the morning of their game against the Hawks, and the league was never going to be very friendly to the Spurs, at least not until their popularity improved.

Last night, the Spurs were beaten 85-77 by the Bulls, and today they have to play back-to-back with the Eagles.

In general, the Eagles and Spurs are now facing similar conditions, both in a state of limited physical fitness.

If the Lakers and Celtics both like to come, rob, and offend other teams, no team will be willing to trade with them in the future. Popovich likes to play tricks.

Popovich did not respond positively to Liu Mang's 700-point goal, and he also forbade the team's players to express their views on this matter in interviews, as if they didn't know about it.

But when it came time to play at night, Liu Mang felt the malice from the Spurs.

Artest single-handedly defended, Parker, and Ginobili assisted Liu Mang in defending the middle distance. Duncan squatted inside and guarded Liu Mang to attack the basket.

When Liu Mang has the ball in his hand, there are at least two people in front of him, unlimited double-teaming!
The Spurs are not a team that has much desire for the regular season record. Anyway, they can't win less than 50 wins, can't get the first place in the Western Conference, and can't get the home court advantage in the Western Conference playoffs. Their goal is to have the home court advantage in the first round, and they don't care about losing a disgusting opponent.

Liu Mang made 19 shots as hard as he could. Facing the Spurs' defensive focus on him, Liu Mang made 14 free throws and made 14 of 11 free throws, but only made 19 of 6 shots, including 12 of 4 three-pointers. He scored 27 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds.

Liu Mang was surrounded when he entered the paint. Although he got a lot of free throws, his own touch was exploded, and his shooting percentage would exceed 30.00%.

The key to branding Gui's victory lies in the other two eagles. McGrady scored 23 points on 11 of 31 shots, Jason Terry scored 15 points on 9 of 25 shots, and Kwame Brown and Marion grabbed 29 rebounds together. McGrady and Jason Terry scored a lot of points.

The Spurs' defense against Liu Mang really made it difficult for Liu Mang to take more shots. If you count the 14 offensive opportunities used up by 7 free throws, Liu Mang played 36 minutes and actually took 26 shots.

However, the defense of the Spurs made their rebounds and defense against outside lines except Liu Mang very poor. The Hawks took 95 shots, which was much higher than their average of 83 shots per game this season.

The Hawks easily beat the Spurs 108-91.

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Only got 27 points!
This was beyond Liu Mang's expectation.

Originally, Liu Mang thought that the match against the Spurs was the easiest match for him to score a high score. He felt that the Spurs would definitely try their best to win them. After all, the Spurs definitely wanted to win the championship.

But I didn't expect that the Spurs would stop him from scoring high points regardless of winning or losing!
Liu Mang was replaced in the second minute of the fourth quarter, because the Eagles had already led by 25 points, leading 91 to 66 at the time. When he was replaced, he saw Duncan grinning at him.

From Duncan's warm and innocent smile, Liu Mang felt the "dignity of the background emperor". As the background emperor, of course, he least wanted to be the background, and no one wanted to be the background all the time.

Duncan was the most active one in defending Liu Wei. Liu Wei got 6 free throws on Duncan.

The good news is that the game was won, and the Eagles won a four-game winning streak, briefly starting the winning streak.

But the task suddenly became very difficult!
In the remaining three games, there is still a gap of 127 points, which means that in the remaining three games, an average of 42.4 points per game is required to get 700 points!
After Duncan caused a big problem for Liu Mang's 700-point hit in a single month, he took his teammates back to San Antonio in a cool manner, and played a wave of five consecutive shots, and the Spurs were also exhausted.

The most annoying thing about the Spurs is that they either have four games in 5 days, 8 games in 5 days, and they are consecutive away games or consecutive home games, or they have a long rest period. Now the Spurs with 31 wins and 16 losses have only two games left this month. Back-to-back on the 30th and 31st, but they will have three days off in the next three days...

Popovich would rather not have such a long rest day, and would rather spread out the schedule. They have too many three or four day rest days, but they have 17 back-to-backs throughout the season.

Liu Mang was given a lot of slander by Popovich, so he could only admit it. On the second day after playing against the Spurs, he immediately flew to the icy northern border with the team. Tomorrow will be the 27th. He will play an away game against the Toronto Raptors, led by Darko Milicic, the king of the northern border.

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"Ugh……"

Kwame Brown sighed plaintively, he missed O'Neal so much!

When O'Neal was in the East, Lakers fans would vote for Kwame Brown, and they didn't want O'Neal to start the All-Star.

But when O'Neal left, Kwame Brown became the target of public criticism. Non-Eagle fans never voted for Kwame Brown, but chose to vote for Kwame Brown's opponent.

Competing with Kwame Brown for the Eastern All-Star starting center position is Dwight Howard, whose popularity has soared since O'Neal left the Eastern Conference this year.

Howard's laughable personality, coupled with the support of the league, allowed him to win the 151 East Las Vegas All-Star starting center position with 139 million votes, beating Kwame Brown with 2007 million votes.

The number of consecutive years that Kwame Brown was selected as the All-Star starting center is over.

"It's okay, Kwame, you will definitely be in the All-Star bench." Marion comforted.

"I hope so, but with Sean here, I don't have that great chance of being an All-Star substitute." Kwame Brown complained.

"Then let's go in together!" Marion was in a good mood and confident.

When he grew up like that, he didn't have a distorted personality like the aliens, and Marion's mentality was very tight.

Liu Mang saw someone going to comfort Kwame Brown, so he didn't say anything. He was depressed. He only scored 27 points yesterday. It was too miserable. Tomorrow, he will play against the Raptors...he has a very ominous premonition!
Fortunately, there is a little consolation today, the All-Star starting lineup list was announced today.

With 296 million votes, Liu Mang successfully overtook Kevin Garnett with 257 million votes and won the All-Star vote champion by relying on his recent crazy performance.

With 221 million votes, McGrady won the position of another All-Star starting guard in the East.

Garnett got the second highest number of votes in this year's All-Star and was selected as the Eastern All-Star starting forward. James 218 million votes won another Eastern All-Star starting forward position.

In the West, Yao Ming won 251 million votes, winning the Western Conference All-Star votes and occupying the starting center position of the Western Conference All-Stars for five consecutive years.

As for the forwards in the Western Conference, Duncan continued to be elected as the All-Star starter with 206 million votes, occupying this position since his rookie season.

Gasol was selected to the All-Star for the second time in his career and became the All-Star starter for the first time. With 141 million votes, he beat Carmelo Anthony, who had 130 million votes, and won the All-Star starting forward position.

In terms of guards, Kobe and Iverson were selected as All-Star starters together, with Kobe 233 million votes and Iverson 219 million votes.

Looking at Kobe and Duncan, the two "nail houses" who have occupied the two All-Star starting positions in the Western Conference since 1998, Liu Mang really wanted to blackmail them and kept occupying the positions.

After Liu Mang was pissed off by Duncan yesterday, he felt ashamed and angry.

What surprised Liu Wei the most was that Rondo was the third guard in the Eastern Conference!
Rondo got 69 votes, which is more than Kidd's 65 votes, Wade's 49 votes and Terry's 41 votes!

Carter's side is really cold, and Kidd is cold together. The conflict between the two continues to escalate, which has a great impact on their popularity.

It is a small consolation for Liu Mang that the Maimang team was once again selected as the All-Star starter. In the next three games, they need to score more points.

Toronto is a place of severe cold, it is better to stay in a hotel in winter. The recent schedule is tight, and the rest of the Eagles have no idea of ​​going surfing in the snowdrifts.

They all rested in the hotel.

Liu Mang didn’t watch the video either. Rest is very important. The rest of the Eagles are physically tired. Tracy McGrady, Jason Terry, Kwame Brown and others are in the middle of the season. The fatigue from playing so many games in the past few years has accumulated. At this stage, the first and second-year players played an important role for the first time after Prince and Korver left. Compared with college basketball, adult basketball is not on the same level.

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The announcement of the All-Star debut is a very important event in the NBA, and it has become a hot topic among fans.

Kwame Brown, Howard, Milicic, and Chandler, who is more suitable for the All-Star starting center position, each has his own opinion. Relatively speaking, although many fans voted for Howard, there are more arguments to belittle Howard.

Picking Howard and attacking Howard... The fans are always so pissed.

On the night of the 27th, when the media and fans were arguing about who was worthy of this All-Star starter, a little-known reporter, Wojn Navorski from Google Sports, made a big news!
"Grant Hill, Magic in buyout negotiations"

Then it broke the news that "The Magic open the exchange rights between other teams and Grant Hill".

The news came very suddenly. Although Grant Hill is old and has experienced many injuries since the new century, new fans don’t think he is so good, and feel that his contract has delayed the draft.

Old fans still like Grant Hill very much. It’s already 2007. Grant Hill’s All-Star votes are still ranked fourth among Eastern forwards, higher than Raheem, O’Neal, Bosh and others, which is enough to prove Grant Hill’s popularity.

There are fans who like to watch it, and the media will dig deeper, and then a series of revelations from major media have come.

In general, Grant Hill played well this season, averaging 11 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists per game, and his attendance rate is also good. The Magic have played 48 games and made 39 outings, which is his highest attendance rate since the new century.

But the salary of 1690 million ranked No.10 in the league...Grant Hill's data is too worthless.

With the addition of Raheem, the fifth-highest-paid star in the league with a veteran-designated clause of $1910 million, the Magic has a salary of 8130 million despite only having the sixth record in the Eastern Conference.

Therefore, although losing Grant Hill, their strength will be damaged, but if the agreement is bought out, they will not have to pay Grant Hill's salary for the remaining three months. In addition to paying a large amount of salary, they will also be able to avoid the same amount of luxury tax!

As for the trade...Grant Hill has been reimbursed for the season since the first year he signed the 2000-year maximum salary with the Magic in 7, and then reimbursed every season.

The Magic can only endure, and finally made it to the last year, and the luxury tax has been paid for several years.

According to media calculations, if Grant Hill is waived before the All-Star weekend and the Magic make some small deals before the trade deadline, it is very likely that the salary will drop below the luxury tax threshold for the first time in five years. Therefore, Grant Hill’s application for a buyout is very attractive to the Magic.

Moreover, the Magic also has Turkish forward Hedo Turkoglu, who showed excellent passing ability in the Kings. At the end of the bench, there is Trevor Ariza, who was signed by the Magic for 660 million in two years.

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After talking on the phone with Little Lolita in the afternoon, Liu Mang turned off his cell phone and turned off his computer. He was reading a novel about how a junior high school boy became a villain, and diverted his nervous thoughts. In the evening, the door was knocked loudly.

"Who is it!" Liu Mang opened the door angrily, only to find that it was Stockton.

Liu Mang adjusted his breathing and asked, "What's the matter, John?"

(End of this chapter)