From today on is the king

Chapter 857. Chapter 856.

How unlucky can a person be?

After the game, Liu Mang drove San Niu home, but the road broke down.

Rushing with his teammate's car, McGrady's car forgot to refuel... McGrady didn't have the habit of keeping spare oil... In the end, he took a taxi home, and the two cars were parked on the road waiting for the towing company to tow away...

The party was pretty normal, Liu Mang sat down and drank some wine very honestly, watching the little Lolita play with a group of friends.

It is the same at home and abroad. This kind of birthday party or something, the protagonist of the party seems to be the birthday star. In fact, except for the congratulations and cake cutting at the beginning, everyone else is playing by themselves. Little Lolita also took Stockton’s son and daughter, Rasheed Wallace’s where, etc. to play games and watch movies.

The party ended happily. I didn't drink too much tonight. During the season, the boss and the coaching staff were all there. After a day off, there will be the next game soon, so I got a little drunk.

Liu Mang called the car rental company to send someone to take the teammates home. Don't worry about the messy party scene, tomorrow there will be cleaning to watch.

Liu Mang went back to his room to take a bath and sleep, but the water heater for bathing in winter was broken and the water was cold.

Liu Mang wiped his body with cold water, and prepared to light a fireplace to get rid of the dampness. Who knew that the smokeless firewood left in the warehouse last winter was damp and filled the room with thick smoke, and the fire alarm went off. The fire police from the Regal Villa area came very quickly. I don’t know who gave the order. When they saw the smoke, they immediately opened fire to put out the fire...

The three girls are all fine, but Liu Mang was drowned...

The three girls were so scared that they didn't dare to approach Liu Mang...

The God of Plague is possessed!
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Liu Mang’s unlucky things didn’t stop there. The next morning when he arrived at the arena, the air conditioner in the training ground was broken, so Liu Mang had to train in the cold. His teammates said, hey, the air conditioner will be fine soon.

After training in the morning, I went to take a shower, but the bathroom light was broken, so Liu Mang had to block the door and take a shower... As a result, after taking a shower, when Liu Mang kicked the door on the wall with a bang, the light turned on, and colleagues from the engineering department came to check it.

There are countless similar unlucky times. When we went shopping at the mall next to the arena at noon, Liu Mang was alone in the elevator. In the end, Liu Mang was overloaded directly when he went up, and he was not overloaded when he got down.

Teammates accompanied Liu Mang to walk up the escalator, but a child hit the emergency brake...

As long as things related to Liu Mang were unlucky, even though they were trivial things, Liu Mang didn't suffer any harm, but he was too unlucky... The sudden bad luck scared his teammates.

Just one and a half days of preparation day, from the team's tactical training in the morning on the 20th to the preparation time before the game on the 21st, Kevin Willis, who returned to the team to discuss trade matters with the team, had nothing to do. When Liu Mang and them were in the same space, Liu Mang's unlucky situation occurred a total of 33 times, an average of once every half an hour...

In the evening, Liu Mang called and asked Levia to drive Dinah, Alexia and bodyguard Christine Wagner to watch the game.

The three girls in the family all said on the phone that Liu Mang's suggestion is very good, so as not to break down when they go out...

Liu Mang took McGrady to make an appointment for tea with Gasol, Battier and Mike Miller.

McGrady and Mike Miller have a very good relationship, so Liu Mang and Gasol called them up, and they haven't seen each other for a long time.

"Ace, have you met a black cat?" McGrady and Liu Mang separated each other, as if Liu Mang was the cause of an infectious disease.

"Yes, I met a black cat, I met at your door, and I didn't treat you to breakfast after that." Liu Mang gave Maddie a white look.

It's only the second day, five more days!

"What's the matter, Tracy, has Ace been unlucky recently? Didn't he just score 61 points? The average points per game almost surpassed Jordan!" Gasol asked curiously.

After Liu Mang scored 61 points in defeating the Knicks, his scoring average increased to 36.7 points per game, which was 37.1 points away from the 0.4 points created by Jordan.

It's easy to say, but now every time Liu Mang wants to increase by 0.1 points, he has to get three points more than 37 points. That is to say, he needs to score at least 40 points per game to increase his scoring average.

It is not easy to keep averaging 36.7 points per game, let alone 40 points per game, and the more games are played, the more points are needed to improve the scoring average.

"Oh, Paul, you don't know how unlucky Ace has been these two days..." McGrady began to complain to Gasol.

Liu Mang scolded "the eighth woman" in his heart, picked up the coffee and took a small sip, carefully felt the stimulation of the taste, and then carefully swallowed it.

Now I am really afraid of choking to death when I drink water!
Tonight’s opponent is the Grizzlies. The Grizzlies’ progress this year has not been as great as expected, and they have declined. The main reason is that the old coach Hubie Brown is not in good health. He didn’t finish the first game because of liver function problems.

Hubie Brown was the most important mentor who made Gasol a top power forward in the league. The old coach announced his retirement and would never return, and the momentum of the Grizzlies' continuous improvement was curbed.

However, because the defensive foundation left by the old coach is still there, the Grizzlies are still one of the best defensive teams in the league this season, with an average of only 90.3 points per game.

Now that the old coach is retired and the defensive foundation is still there, the Grizzlies are still relying on defense to barely compete with the Rockets, Lakers, Nuggets, and Kings for the fifth to eighth positions in the West.

The Grizzlies were just beaten by Kobe for 51 points yesterday, and my sister-in-law has already begun to enjoy the "bullying" of the little blacksmith.

Today is the back-to-back game of the Grizzlies. Gasol arrived in Atlanta in the morning, took a nap, took the president and made an appointment with Liu Mang for post-sleep tea, and then returned to the Phillips Arena to warm up for the evening game.

Seeing Mai Mama and Jiasao gossip about his bad luck, Liu Mang was so desperate, there are still more than five more days like this...

The good thing is that when it's time for the game, the unlucky event will be temporarily suspended. This unlucky event is purely unlucky and will not affect the game, otherwise Liu Mang should cry.

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At seven o'clock in the evening, the Eagles ushered in their first game of the season against the Grizzlies.

Liu Mang himself didn't know when he became a "social butterfly", and he had so many friends in the NBA. Of course, he felt that there were probably more people who hated him and those who dared not speak out.

Anyway, every time Gasol comes to Atlanta, he can be cheered.

When the Grizzlies players came out, others came out, and there was no movement at the scene, except for Gasol who received cheers when he came out.

The people of Memphis want to poach Liu Mang, and the people of Atlanta also want to poach Gasol. Although Gasol has renewed his contract before the start of the season, the fans just like Gasol. His personality is too good. Good image is the symbol of European players in the NBA.

Nowitzki is stronger, a lot stronger. After all, he is a favorite with MVP, but Nowitzki is too low-key. Gasol is the most profitable European player. He has more than 30 endorsement contracts, ranking first among European players.

At the beginning of the preseason, Gasol and the Grizzlies signed a six-year contract totaling $8600 million, the largest contract among the 2001 players. It came into effect in the summer of 2005. It was nearly $800 million more than Liu Mang's contract, but the starting salary was $200 million less than Liu Mang's. It was not the maximum salary. The six-year contract was only $6 million more than Liu Mang's five-year contract. Unlike the high-value rookies who can't keep their contracts without the maximum salary, the current contracts are relatively rational.

When the Hawks' home team players came out, everyone else was normal. Rasheed Wallace came out first, followed by Prince. When Kwame Brown came out, everyone on the scene started chanting "No. [-] center in the Eastern Conference".

"This damn parallel importer, don't pass the ball to him!" Liu Mang was very upset when he saw Kwame Brown cheering louder than himself.

"But this guy is getting better and better at rebounding, and today he met a sister-in-law who is easy to overthrow..." Liu Mang was even more upset!
In the game the day before yesterday, Kwame Brown scored a double 21 with 20 points and 20 rebounds. At that time, Liu Mang’s 61 points covered all the light. McGrady’s triple-double and Kwame Brown’s double 20 were both covered by Liu Reck’s light.

This "favorable" evidence was immediately publicized by the Atlanta media. Fans also love to watch the excitement, mainly basketball fans who are not Eagles fans or O'Neal fans.

Kwame Brown is now slowly, truly believing that he is the No. [-] center in the Eastern Conference. He probably ignored the fact that the No. [-] center in the Eastern Conference is the No. [-] center in the NBA. Anyway, he is sure that he is the No. [-] center in the Eastern Conference.

Kwame Brown deceived himself, maybe only himself, but for Kwame Brown, Liu Mang thought it was a good thing.

Because Kwame Brown is more active now, more energetic in training, and he is still young, only 23 years old. In theory, there is still room for improvement. What I am afraid of is that this guy used to be a parallel importer.

Now that Kwame Brown is self-hypnotizing, he has set a higher goal for himself. This is even beyond Liu Mang's expectations, but it is not bad, and it is always a good thing.

Speaking of which, Liu Mang thinks that Kwame Brown may not have the opportunity to truly experience the taste of the No. 25 center in the East. Compared with Stoudemire and Yao Ming in the West, Kwame Brown may not be as good...Basically, it is impossible. , will be ranked in the center position.

But Liu Mang thinks that Kwame Brown really has a chance to try the No. [-] center. For example, try to improve faster than Howard. Before O'Neal and Ben Wallace get old and Howard has not fully grown up, Kwame Brown may take advantage of the Eastern Conference.
It is always good to have a goal, whether it can be achieved or not, if Kwame Brown has the opportunity to become the number one center in the Eastern Conference in a short time, Liu Mang is also happy for this guy.

It's just... Kwame Brown is stealing Liu Mang's limelight now, and Liu Mang is very upset.

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The game against the Grizzlies wasn't too much of a problem. The Hawks' lineup consisted of Liu Mang, Tracy McGrady, Prince, Rasheed Wallace, and Kwame Brown.

The lineup sent by the Grizzlies is Jason Williams, Mike Miller, Sean Battier, Gasol, Lorenzen White.

The Grizzlies used the same style of play as the Eagles in the previous three years, with triangle offense on the offensive end plus Princeton, collective defense on the defensive end, and the lineup... Except for Gasol, who is similar to the offensive version of Rasheed Wallace, other positions are all weakened versions of the Eagles.

The Grizzlies were completely restrained by the Eagles. The Grizzlies played very hard. Gasol scored 29 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists in the first three quarters. The three-quarter triple-double helped the Grizzlies score 67 points in the three quarters, only 71 points behind the Eagles 79 to 8.

Liu Mang played 28 minutes in the first three quarters and scored 24 points, a few points less than Pau Gasol.

The main reason is that McGrady started the team's offense, mainly for the sake of the team, and also for the sake of Liu Mang, so as not to let other teammates feel that they have no sense of participation, and wiped out the fighting spirit of the teammates who were fully activated after playing small balls.

Mai Mama's heart is full of children!
At the end of the quarter, Gasol started to run out of energy in the fourth quarter after playing the first three quarters and getting good data and playing a key role.

In the system left by Hubie Brown, Gasol should play 31-36 minutes, which is the effective time to maintain his best form. Last season, Gasol was able to play so well because Hubie Brown played well. But today, he has played [-] minutes in the first three quarters.

Jason Williams has now become an ordinary point guard. Even good point guards can be counted. He averaged 6.4 assists and 1.6 turnovers per game, a perfect assist-to-turnover ratio.

In the 8th minute of the final quarter, the Eagles had already led 106 to 86 by 20 points. With 4 minutes left, the gap was 20 points. Although Gasol scored 2 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists in the final quarter, he made 4 of 0 shots. Except for two free throws, he basically couldn't score.

With 31 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists, Pau Gasol put up good numbers, but he was unable to make up for the strength gap between the two teams. With the Hawks playing normally, Pau Gasol's outburst couldn't make up for it.

The game entered garbage time, and the Grizzlies' interim head coach Lionel Hollins replaced the main force and announced his surrender.

刘莽末节拿到10分3篮板，全场34分7板3助攻，麦迪再次拿到两双，13分5板12助攻，夸梅-布朗拿到14分14板，贾森-特里21分5助攻，老鹰队最终以112比94，18分的分差大胜灰熊队，拿到7连胜！

22 wins and 4 losses!
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After the Eagles won seven consecutive victories, they regained the top spot in the league!

Because the Suns' 10-game winning streak in the west was ended!

After the game between the Eagles and the Grizzlies, the Suns got a rare national live broadcast and played against the Spurs, a veteran team in the West. As a result, the Suns were hammered by the Spurs.

Stoudemire played the title of the most violent center in the league this season. Many fans and the media felt that Duncan, who played steadily, would be beaten.

As a result, Duncan played more violently than Stoudemire. Several times in the game, Stoudemire was directly smashed into the basket and dunked directly...

马刺队115比94屠杀太阳队，邓肯面对三年级的斯塔德迈尔狂飙37分17板5盖帽，把斯塔德迈尔防得只拿到16分7板。

It was only then that people remembered that Duncan's previous nickname was Flying Devil...

After Liu Mang finished his physical therapy, he saw the post-game report between the Suns and the Spurs, and he could only say that Duncan was too strong!

The current Suns are still a little bit worse, mainly because they are too young. If Stoudemire, who was developed by CIC two years later, it would not be so difficult to deal with Duncan. Now Stoudemire can only run towards the basket, and it is too easy for Duncan to deal with him.

In 2007, when Nash was still at his peak and Stoudemire was at his peak, and the Suns had a better lineup, Liu Mang felt that that season was the strongest for the Suns.

As far as Liu Mang remembers, the Suns have been tough enough to play against the Spurs or the Mavericks in the past two years. The biggest problem is that there are no real singles players who can break the defense of the two teams.

Nash is the strength of the Suns. At his peak, as long as the lineup is suitable for the Suns, he can guarantee about 60 wins, and Stoudemire is the one who raises the upper limit.

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With 22 wins and 4 losses, the Eagles and the Suns with 23 wins and 5 losses are tied for the first place in the league. Because of the relationship between playing two games less, the Eagles rank ahead of the Suns.

After beating the Grizzlies, the Eagles continued their tight schedule.

The Eagles only have 14 games this month, which is very easy, but very close, because back-to-back has not met once so far, only the last two games at the end of the month are back-to-back, and the previous games have rest time.

Such a schedule is relaxed, but also tight.

After the Grizzlies, the Eagles set off for Denver the next morning, with the Nuggets on the 23rd.

Just before the Eagles head to Denver, the trade the Eagles have been waiting for for a long time is finally here!

(End of this chapter)