From today on is the king

Chapter 582.
NBA Headquarters, Office of the League Commissioner.

"Adam, you did a good job this time." David Stern praised Adam Silva, but there seemed to be no smile on his face.

"I'm very glad to get your compliment." Adam Silva responded modestly. Adam Silva didn't know whether the job was completed this time to make David Stern happy or unhappy.

"Go and get busy with your work first, and I'll come to you if there's anything else to do." David Stern asked Adam Silva to leave.

Adam Silva left David Stern's office in a daze, thinking about the weird old man and thinking about where he made a mistake this time, but after thinking for a long time, he returned to his office, but he didn't expect that he made a mistake!

The work that David Stern asked Adam Silva to do a few days ago is to help the Eagles increase their attention. Compared with the previous two years, the attention of the Eagles in the United States has dropped significantly this year.

As long as it is not the championship, or the Lakers Knicks, other teams, even if it is a team that has reached the finals consecutively, as long as they have not won the championship, or even if they have not won the championship in recent years, even if they have entered the finals consecutively, they will not maintain their popularity for too long. Slowly, people find that this team seems to be at most a runner-up.

What's more, the Eagles are not the runner-up, but only the top four in the playoffs. Except for the local fans in Atlanta and Georgia, most fans in other parts of the United States are tired of the Eagles.

Coupled with the unexpected rise of the Pacers in the Eastern Conference this year, people seem to have seen the Eagles two years ago. People like new things. People on the Eagles have seen enough and paid attention to the Pacers. The Pacers have become the focus of the league just like the Eagles two years ago.

In addition, the three-headed monster and the Big Four in the west have a lot of news. Perhaps Liu Mang's distinctive personality and the strength of the top star in the league's point guards have allowed him to have a good exposure rate. However, the exposure rate of the Eagles this year is indeed too low, not as good as during the losing streak last year.

This made David Stern, who was not affected by the introduction of Rasheed Wallace after the Eagles had a good start, very anxious.

Of course, this does not affect the market value of the Eagles or other things. The popularity of the Eagles in China is basically the same as that of the Rockets, and because the Eagles are stronger, the fans of the Eagles are more stubborn than the fans of the Rockets.

But it is not good for NBA officials at all. The sales of the Eagles jersey market are not as good as before, the ratings of live broadcasts are not as good as before, and the topic index is not as good as before.

Who will the league support in the East?Pacers?The new version of the Spurs that got off to a hot start, but failed to score 83 points against opponents in six consecutive games and scored less than 90 points themselves?

Or the ratings killers of the Pistons and Nets?
And the other magic, 76ers, and Raptors that originally had super-popular superstars, the three teams are now ranked third to fifth from the bottom in the Eastern Conference.

The Eagles were the league's favorite team last year, but the Eagles were still too young to make it to the finals, which made the league regretful. This year, when the Eagles introduced another thorn, David Stern's heart was twitching. Fortunately, this year's Rasheed Wallace was unexpectedly safe. The Eagles made steady progress, but they were "out of date". .

Adam Silva did it very quickly, but the method, in David Stern's view, was too radical.

David Stern looked at the news comments on the Internet. Whether it was the media, experts or fans, they all questioned the player strength rankings this time. Liu Mang played very well, but Garnett and O'Neal obviously played better. Both of them were 20+10.

Adam Silva's radical work philosophy of only thinking about completing the work and achieving the goal, and not caring about the process and the negative situations produced, made David Stern hesitate again whether to hand over the position of president to this young man.

But the key point is that Adam Silva is highly respected by league team owners, because Adam Silva has been working in the NBA for many years and has brought a lot of income to the league. For example, in the summer of 2002, he signed a 7-year broadcast agreement with TV stations, which greatly increased the league’s revenue last season.

The bosses love Adam Silva very much, but David Stern doesn't like it that much. Just like now, the Eagles are getting more attention, but most of the attention they get is questioning. This is not what David Stern wants.

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On November 11, the Eagles came to the North Shore Garden Arena to challenge the Celtics away with a sip of poisonous milk poured down by the league.

Most teams in the Eastern Conference are miserable this year. Except for the top five, no team in the Eastern Conference has a winning percentage of 3%. The Sixth Heat has only 4 wins and 2 losses. The Celtics, with 5 wins and [-] losses, are ranked eighth in the Eastern Conference...

This year's Eastern Conference wins are basically taken away by the top three. Except for the Nets who are really fighting for 50 wins in the season, the top three have not lost much at the beginning, and the Eastern teams play most of their games against Eastern teams. No, there are a lot of teams with 0 wins or 1 win at most 2 wins, from seventh in the Eastern Conference to No. 15 in the Eastern Conference.

Among them, the Magic are at the bottom, 0 wins and 7 losses are as miserable as they are.

The Celtics are also a miserable team this year. They sent Antoine Walker away, and the "genius high school student" Kendrick Perkins they selected this year, they selected themselves, but they were reimbursed for their rookie season shortly after signing. A large number of high-quality role players left last season...

Fortunately, Vin Baker is in the contract year again this year. When Perkins was not starting on top of him, he felt a flashback and helped Pierce win two games.

For such an opponent, it is very easy for the Eagles to come to the North Shore Garden Arena to play.

After the start of the game, the Eagles easily won the right to attack first. Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace, who was very excited today, started a pick-and-roll style of play.

Rasheed Wallace was endlessly unhappy with the Celtics. Although he was not happy to play in Boston, where fans laughed at him for looking like he had never read a book, the Celtics refused to get him. Instead, they wanted two first-round picks at the end, which made Rasheed Wallace feel that his self-esteem was hurt.

So this time Rasheed Wallace took the initiative to ask Liu Mang, Stockton and Jason Terry to help him play the Celtics. Rasheed Wallace and Liu Mang bombarded the Celtics together. In the first quarter, Liu Mang scored 11 points and 4 assists, and Rasheed Wallace scored 14 points, 3 rebounds and 2 blocks.

Not only on the offensive end, the two who played the first quarter also tried their best on the defensive end, leading their teammates to defend the Celtics by 18 points in a single quarter, and the Eagles led by 10 points in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Rasheed Wallace continued to play. When Stockton and Boozer played pick-and-roll offense, they specially passed a lot of balls to Rasheed Wallace.

Today Rasheed Wallace played a crazy first half of the game. After scoring 14 points in the first quarter, he scored 21 points in a single quarter in the second quarter. He broke his career halftime scoring record with 35 points and 7 rebounds in the half!5 blocked shots in the half, which is also a career high!

In this half of the game, Rasheed Wallace tried his best on both ends of the offense and defense, trying to beat the Celtics to death.

The Eagles also led the Celtics by 57 points 39 to 18 after halftime!
Everything seemed to be going well for the Eagles. After the intermission, the Eagles sent Stockton and Jason Terry in the backcourt. The two went up to take turns to control the ball and play with the substitutes.

Liu Mang saw that he was about to clock in and leave work after only one quarter, and felt very sad. Finally, his scoring average climbed to fifth in the league. Although, this year, the average scoring average of the stars in the league almost dropped sharply, and he was also sent to the legendary poisoned milk list by the league.
It's just that the Celtics obviously had no tendency to struggle in the first half, so Liu Mang could only watch his stats of 11 points and 4 assists in silence, which again had to pull down his scoring average.

This destiny seems to always like to be against people, you have to accept the reality, and it will suddenly give you a "surprise"!
After the start of the second half, Stockton and Jason Terry took Barnes, Boozer, and Kwame Brown up to play, and Mohamed, Willie Green and others were also ready to rotate at any time.

The Eagles are all waiting in line to go up and abuse the food, and suddenly there is an explosion on the Celtics' side.

Perhaps this year is the year when a player named James became famous. Undrafted in 2001, Celtics backup point guard Mike James scored a three-pointer, a mid-range shot and a layup after the start of the second half.

The point difference was suddenly chased by the Celtics to 51 to 59. The Eagles' lead was only 8 points, and the time only passed more than three minutes!

At this time, Stockton waved his hand, saying that there is no need to rush, and he will play slowly, and he still has the lead on his side.

It is true that Stockton has experience and can hold the scene, so that the Hawks' substitutes did not panic. They continued to open up the offense and defense steadily, and continued to score.

But on the defensive end, the Eagles still played very badly. Pierce dribbled the ball from the outside, dawdling, and threw a bump shot. Without Prince or Raheem's wingspan, there was no way to limit it. We can only bet on Pierce's touch. Pierce, who came up in the third quarter, felt amazing today!
As for Mike James, today is not a question of whether to be accurate or not, he completely went berserk!Scored 19 points in the third quarter!
Even Pierce's outburst was driven by Mike James. At the beginning, Pierce's three-pointer and air-cut dunk were opportunities given by Mike James to break through the ball. After Pierce made these two shots, he regained his confidence in shooting.

On the final attack of the third quarter, Mike James hit a three-pointer at the buzzer and scored the 19th point of the third quarter, which was also the total 19 points of the game. He had no points in the first half, and he broke out strongly in the third quarter!
Who would have thought that in 2001, when he was 25 years old and ran back to the United States from the Israeli league to participate in the draft, he suddenly broke out after the third quarter!

On the Hawks side, Liu Mang was already talking and laughing with Rasheed Wallace, Raheem and others, who knew the situation would change suddenly!
During the intermission, they had already started discussing where to go after tonight's game. Boston's nightlife is still very good, but they suddenly realized that there seemed to be a problem on their side. In the beginning, Coach Kruger was still sitting on the Diaoyutai because Stockton was on the court, but Mike James couldn't help it. He blew Stockton with 19 points in a single quarter!
At first, Liu Mang thought that the league's MVP list this time was not that poisonous, maybe the poisonous milk powder had been effectively dealt with, but he didn't expect that it was still so poisonous!
(End of this chapter)