Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 530 - 176. Just watch if I dare to keep bluffing! (10,000 words updated in a single day, please subscribe and vote for monthly tickets!)
In the following games, Andrew Bynum did not play.
Because after returning to the locker room for an examination, Bynum was preliminarily diagnosed by the team doctor as having at least three broken ribs.
"He definitely did it on purpose, who breaks through like that?" Bynum yelled in the locker room, "He’s absolutely jealous of my talent, he wants to ruin me!"
At this moment, even the Grizzlies’ team doctor was somewhat annoyed with Bynum’s nonsense.
After all, with Qin Yue’s unparalleled physical talent, why would he need to be jealous of anyone?
The FedEx Forum, with Bynum carried off the field, didn’t affect the quality of the upcoming game at all.
This young, vibrant team actually united completely after losing Bynum.
Conley quietly controlled the pace for the Grizzlies.
Even Nash commended Conley during a timeout, saying, "His control over the game has surpassed most guards in this league."
The entire game, Barnes was ravaged by Guy’s pull-up jumpers and said, "At some moment, Rudy unconsciously reminded me of ’T-Mac’."
However, compared to other Grizzlies players, the most dazzling young player this night was Ibaka.
Although Ibaka still needs time to accumulate defensive experience and his athletic talent is yet to be fully tapped, being able to keep up with Qin Yue from the perimeter, Ibaka, under the influence of "Qin Yue’s Law," allowed Qin Yue to find joy on the court after a long time.
"Serge is like a young Kevin Garnett," Qin Yue praised Ibaka post-game, "I really enjoy facing him, he will definitely become a star forward."
The Warriors eventually beat the Grizzlies 119 to 107 away.
Even with Qin Yue’s strong recognition, Ibaka was not complacent after the game, but told the media, "When I was playing in Spain, I idolized the Messiah, you saw it too, I couldn’t defend him at all in this game.
His offensive skills, along with that unparalleled physicality, made me feel like I was competing against an Alien."
The talent and spirit Ibaka demonstrated in this game convinced the Grizzlies management to continue investing resources in him.
As for Bynum, who has aroused team-wide resentment, apart from his alluring talent, he has nothing else?
Sorry...
The reason the Grizzlies kept this "Little Shark" was simply because the team’s general manager Chris Wallace was still looking for that fool on the trade market willing to gamble on Bynum’s talent.
Always thinking he was the absolute core of the Grizzlies, Bynum apparently didn’t realize that the Grizzlies management had already exhausted their patience with him over the past two years.
Or rather, with Bynum’s historically idiotic level, he has never seen his true self.
Having defeated the Grizzlies, the Warriors returned home to face the New Orleans Hornets a day later.
As a team that made it to the playoffs last season, the Hornets with Rajon Rondo, David West, and Brook Lopez are currently ranked eleventh in the West with a 7-11 record.
While the media generally believes that the Hornets’ poor record this new season is difficult to reconcile with the conflict between head coach Byron Scott and core guard Rondo,
the off-court influences are also a major reason the Hornets can’t seem to form unity on the court.
As with Qin Yue’s memory, because the Hornets’ owner George Shinn could no longer manage the team, the Hornets were close to being taken over by the league, it was only a matter of time.
Why is the Hornets becoming league-managed?
If the team owner can’t run it, why not just let him sell the team?
Indeed, in most cases, even if an NBA team has a small market, someone would be willing to take over.
But the Hornets were a very special team at this moment.
Their peculiarity lies in the fact that the league doesn’t allow any potential Hornets’ new owner to relocate this team away from New Orleans.
Because to this day, New Orleans has still not fully recovered from the hurricane’s impact.
Thus, for the sake of so-called political correctness, the league must ensure that the Hornets remain in New Orleans after a change in ownership.
This immediately discouraged Oklahoma businessman Klay Bennett, who originally planned to purchase the Hornets for nearly 300 million US Dollars.
As during the hurricane in New Orleans, when the Hornets temporarily relocated their home games to Oklahoma, it caused quite a stir in Oklahoma...
Therefore, Bennett initially intended to move this unfortunate team to Oklahoma after taking over the Hornets.
But the relocation ban from the league made Bennett have to give up the idea of acquiring this team. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
Yes, for political correctness, to prove to the world that the NBA will always stand by New Orleans disaster victims, the league executives are the main culprits causing the Hornets to become the first NBA team taken over by the league in history.
And influenced by external factors, feeling no future within the Hornets, the Hornets players naturally were unwilling to fight hard for the team anymore.
The Warriors easily won the game against the Hornets.
On the court, the Warriors players were more interested in the scene of Rondo competing for the tactical board with Scott whenever the Hornets called for a timeout than the course of the game.
This master-apprentice relationship, difficult to sum up in a few words, almost every night ended up arguing over team tactical choices.
