From today on is the king

Chapter 681 680. The So-Called Loyalty (Seeking a Monthly Ticket)
"Ding... Black Mamba's Enemy quest completion times +1, award mid-level superstar worth 1 lottery draw."

"Ding... Kobe's hostility to the mission completion (7/8), Kobe Bryant's hostility towards the host reaches the highest point, and the next time the host fights Kobe Bryant, Kobe Bryant's desire to defeat the host reaches the highest point, and will continue until every fight with the host throughout his career."

"Ding... Black Mamba's road to counter-war suppression task completion (03/04 of the 1-2 season has been completed.)"

"Ding... the host is regarded by the fans as the most popular MVP of the regular season this season, the attention has skyrocketed, and the rogue value has entered a peak period of growth."

"Ding... the regular rewards of the game, winning the game and data rewards total 3125 superstar points..."

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Looking at a bunch of quest progress and quest reward reminders, Liu Mang felt that it was best to play the little blacksmith. Although he was a little tired, the rewards were really many!

After the All-Star Weekend and defeating Kobe and Garnett in two games, Liu Mang's rogue value has reached 6312 million points, which is one step closer to [-] million.

As the most popular MVP, the United States, as the center of world basketball, has naturally caused a sensation. The influence of American football teams may be the strongest among the four major leagues in the United States, but the influence of stars, NBA superstars have the highest influence among all American sports. The most intuitive example is the number of Twitter fans in the future. James will have nearly 2000 million Twitter fans, which is the highest among American athletes.

After Liu Mang became the most popular MVP, the attention in the United States has also increased. Sports competitions, after all, are based on strength and on-court performance. In the past two summers, many fans have said that Liu Mang has reached his limit every year, but next season Liu Mang will perform even better. Now that he has become the MVP favorite, the fans have really convinced Liu Mang!
Of course, those who should hate Liu Mang are still hated, and those who should be hated are still hated, but even the fans who hate and hate Liu Mang have already regarded Liu Mang as a real top ten player in the league!

During the All-Star Weekend, Liu Mang first defeated the inside player with the best performance this season, and then the outside player with the strongest overall offensive and defensive performance this season. Liu Mang's current limelight is second to none in the league!
In terms of personal strength, obviously not many people think that Liu Mang is the strongest player, including Eagles fans, but this does not affect that Liu Mang is now recognized as the best player this season!

If we really want to talk about the ranking of strength, Liu Mang has proved that he is worthy. At the beginning of the season, the major media ranked him tenth in the league. His performance this year is worthy of such a ranking.

However, just like the future Derrick Rose only ranked No. 7 in the strength rankings in the second season after winning the MVP, being seventh in strength does not mean that he cannot be the best player.

Liu Mang is now similar to Rose in the future, one step at a time a year, making steady progress. In the third season, the team formed a lineup that almost perfectly fit him around him, allowing him to perform like an MVP.

After defeating Garnett, the strongest insider, and Kobe Bryant, the strongest outsider, Liu Mang's call for MVP is even higher!
In addition to the rogue value getting closer to the super mark of 1 million, the accumulation of superstar points is also progressing steadily. When it comes to the playoffs, it may need to consume a lot of superstar points. This year's goal is only the championship, so Liu Mang wants to save superstar points as much as possible, and now has 23117 points.

There are also two mid-level superstar reward draws after defeating Kobe, and everything is progressing steadily as Liu Mang thought.

It's just that Liu Mang felt that the little blacksmith with a bad face had already been defeated seven times and only won once.

After despising the little blacksmith [-] times in his heart, Liu Mang took a bath and went to bed. The brutal Liu Lianke had just finished the first round, and he was still tired after that.

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The Eagles defeated the Lakers, and defeated the Lakers with a crushing attitude, which surprised the fans!
Unsurprisingly, Liu Mang, who got 46+10, became the focus of discussion.

In addition, the defensive strategy used by the Eagles to deal with O'Neal has made other teams shine. It seems that there is a way to defend the strongest team in the Western Conference this year!
But the coaching staff of other teams studied it and found that it was not the case!

The Eagles' defensive strategy against the Lakers seems irreproducible!
It is true that many teams can use O'Neal's move, but there is Kobe on the outside and Malone at the power forward!
Not all teams have the perimeter defense ability of the Hawks to limit Kobe. The fans, coaching staff and players of other teams found that even if the Hawks gave a strategy to deal with the Lakers, they had no way to learn from it.

As for the Eagles, on the second day after playing against the Lakers, the Eagles departed from Los Angeles in the afternoon and came to Portland, the city of roses. After a night's rest, the next day they came to the Rose Garden Arena ready to challenge the Trail Blazers away.

Returning to Portland, the most excited is Rasheed Wallace who "returned to his hometown".

Last summer, Rasheed Wallace was abandoned by the Blazers, and he was almost given away for nothing. The Antoine Walker he got this year only averaged 14 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists per game.

Without Rasheed Wallace, the Blazers can't even touch the playoffs this year. The West will enter the playoffs this year and win at least 45 wins, and only the Nuggets can challenge this goal, but the Blazers are now only 22 wins and 30 losses.

Originally, after getting Antoine Walker, the first All-Star player of the 96 golden generation, the Trail Blazers fans were very excited. They felt that Randolph’s offensive end was no worse than Rasheed Wallace, and there was one more Antoine Walker, which was much better than the old Pippen. Adams, almost an "all-star lineup", made Trail Blazers fans feel full of hope.

However, when the season started, except for Zach Randolph, who relied on his super personal offensive ability to average 20+10 rebounds per game, which met the Blazers fans' desire for 20+10 stars, Rasheed Wallace hadn't played such data in the Trail Blazers for so many years, but everyone else's performance was far below expectations.

Without the accommodation of "little brother" Pierce, Antoine Walker came to the purgatory team environment of the Trail Blazers, and there were not so many opportunities for wild shots. Zach Randolph and Damon Stoudemire would not accommodate Antoine Walker.

Trail Blazers fans sprayed Rasheed Wallace for more than half a year after Rasheed Wallace left and even cut his salary and renewed his contract with the Eagles early, but now they find out that without Rasheed Wallace, they can't even make the playoffs!
When Rasheed Wallace came to Portland to play away games, many fans found that there was no motivation to boo Rasheed Wallace!The main reason is that he doesn't have that face boo!

In this game, Liu Mang took the initiative to play for Rasheed Wallace. The two played unskilled pick-and-roll cooperation. Rasheed Wallace showed a fierce desire to attack from the very beginning of the game.

As for defense... don't look at the Blazers with 20+10 Zach Randolph, Flying Squirrel, Antoine Walker, and Derek Anderson are all players who average 14 points per game, but the Blazers' entire team only averages 89 points per game. Sid Wallace and Kwame Brown's starting inside combination, the defensive end only needs to grab rebounds.

Rasheed Wallace released his gorgeous offensive performance in this game, which was second only to Webber in the West. After receiving the ball, he used various methods to send the ball to the basket in the Blazers' terrific defense. Liu Mang's assists skyrocketed today. He only needed to pick and roll with Rasheed Wallace once. Rasheed Wallace scored 17 points in the half, and the two joined hands to lead the Eagles to a score of 11 to 6 in the half.

In the third quarter, Liu Mang, Jason Terry, and Rasheed Wallace all started to go crazy, shooting when they had the opportunity. The Blazers' defense was really paper, and they were almost defenseless. Everyone wanted to use data to get big contracts.

Liu Mang played a full third quarter and scored 9 points and 5 assists. Jason Terry scored 12 points in a single quarter and Rasheed Wallace scored 13 points in a single quarter. The Hawks scored 37-22 in the third quarter.

20 points, 12 assists and 2 rebounds in three quarters. Liu Mang clocked out after three quarters. Rasheed Wallace scored a season-high 35 points in three quarters. When he left the field, the audience finally booed.

I don't know if the fans are booing Rasheed Wallace or the Blazers management, probably both...

In the fourth quarter, the Eagles finally sent Stockton, the old man who loves to collect statistics, to collect statistics with Boozer. There was no defense, and the scores of both teams skyrocketed.

In the end, the Eagles beat the Blazers 129 to 100 by 29 points and won four consecutive victories!
Once again, Liu Mang, who got 20+10, happily got more than 2700 superstar points and accepted the victory of the game.

With 45 wins and 8 losses, the Eagles are only 50 games away from winning 5!

There are just 5 games left in this month, four consecutive away games in six consecutive away games and another match against James on February 2. If these five games are won, the Eagles will become the first team to win 29 wins in February since the 1995-1996 season!

only……

Jazz, Pistons, 76ers, Kings...

The Jazz and the 76ers are okay, the Pistons and the Kings...

It's really difficult!

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Salt Lake City, the place where the dream of Shuangsha began.

"What's the matter, John, why do I feel like you're going to cry? Wow, I didn't expect John to be so attached to this city!"

On the bus from the Salt Lake City airport to the hotel where he was staying, Liu Mang looked at Stockton who was looking out the window with tears in his eyes, and couldn't help joking.

Stockton put away his memories, smiled at Liu Mang and said, "Yeah, I never thought that I would leave here to play in other cities... One day you may understand my feelings."

Stockton pointed out that the current NBA is no longer the NBA of the past. Players are more willing to think for themselves. This is understandable. When the NBA did not make money in the past, almost except for the Lakers, Knicks, and Clippers.

But now more team owners want to make money. Since the Magic Birds in the 80s and Jordan brought up the NBA's income in the 90s, the NBA has changed a bit to some extent.

Loyalty is not such an important thing anymore. Both the players and the team no longer put loyalty in the first place. Even Olajuwon, the No. 1 star in team history, will be traded in his later years.

One of Stockton and Malone survived until the age of 40, and the other survived until the age of 41 without being traded, which is already very rare in the NBA.

Liu Mang didn't pay much attention to Stockton's emotional words, and responded casually: "Probably..."

Regarding the matter of NBA loyalty, Liu Wei feels that it is mutual. He took a big contract, performed worthy of the contract, and did not violate his conscience to make due contributions during the contract period. This is loyalty. The team gave full support during this period, which is also loyalty.

It's not that the players have to stick to it, and the team will give the players big contracts regardless of whether they play well or not. That's not what is called loyalty.

True loyalty is mutual, never a personal affair.

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When they arrived outside the hotel, the Eagles players suddenly found that outside the hotel where they were staying, there were actually fans holding various signs of cheering for Stockton on the side of the road!
February in Salt Lake City was not too warm, even very cold. After all, this is where the Winter Olympics will be held. The fans are braving the cold wind. It is estimated that they have been waiting for a long time. Eagles players have seen some fans wiping their noses.

Even Stockton didn't expect that when he was young, the fans didn't do this, and he didn't expect that after he became a player of other teams, the fans would support him like this.

Stockton, who had been sadly missed before, did not continue to miss, but took the initiative to wave to the fans...

Liu Mang watched this scene without saying a word, he actually felt a little envious...

(End of this chapter)