Chapter 940: It’s Dawn and the Supersonic Fish Is About to Be Knocked over by the Storm!
As the defending champion Seattle SuperSonics, this offseason is very slow.
It seems that the strengthening of the entire NBA has nothing to do with the Seattle SuperSonics.
The entire NBA has become more sinister, and it has nothing to do with the Seattle SuperSonics.
These players of the Seattle SuperSonics are doing nothing but eating every day, treating themselves like a sidekick who is constantly doing, "Wow, oh, oh".
So if you have not watched the NBA last season, you may wonder whether the champion last season was one of the three teams: the Grizzlies, Lakers and Heat.
As a champion, especially a defending champion who has won two consecutive championships, how can you not give everything to strive for three consecutive championships?
Not only did the Sonics not give everything, but they also took advantage of it in such a way that it made fans dumbfounded and made competitors feel like they wanted to laugh but couldn't.
Everyone wonders if the Seattle SuperSonics have been defeated by two championships and two successes.
After all, these young players from the Sonics do give people that feeling.
Leave aside Ye Si, Durant is crazy about playing street basketball during the offseason. No matter how good he is at street basketball, is it of any use to the NBA? Alston is so good at street basketball, but I haven't seen him use it in the NBA?
You, Kevin Durant, can play worship in street basketball when facing those who are not defending. Can you also play worship in the NBA when facing James, Tracy McGrady, and your most powerful opponents?
And Rondo, how old are you? You are not even 24 years old, so why are you paying attention to your historical status?
Do you want to retire tomorrow?
Isn't it better to pay close attention to your shooting and offense than to pay attention to your historical status and ranking?
It doesn't matter how bad your offense is. Even if you are not 15th or 2nd, they are saying that your scoring may not even be in the top 30 of active point guards.
Playing imaginary all day is no longer grounded at all.
There is also James Harden. Since he entered the NBA, he has been in nightclubs almost every day as long as he is in Seattle. Even if he is not in Seattle, he is in nightclubs in other cities.
Does the nightclub have that much beer?
Moreover, there are reporters who have specially tracked what kind of girls James Harden likes. What makes people complain is that James Harden's aesthetics is really incomprehensible to normal people.
They couldn't understand, but James Harden was having a great time.
All the young players in the United States are gritting their teeth at James Harden and want to give this guy a good beating.
The opportunity to play next to Yes was wasted like this.
If you can still become talented like this, then Yes may not be the God of basketball, but Jesus, the God who created the world.
And Milicic, who won the championship, first toured every city in Serbia, and then moved to towns throughout Serbia. In the end, he actually traveled around the villages in Serbia. Serbia is a small country. There was also a real need to rebuild the country's confidence after the war.
But you are a professional player. Is your sense of national honor too strong?
Returning home in fine clothes is not how you return home in fine clothes?
There is a champion on the left and a champion on the right. They want to travel to every corner of the country and spread their belief in the rise from collapse to every corner, so that their country can rise from collapse to rise again like themselves.
The heart is good.
The effect is also good.
After Milicic's turn, the Serbians felt that it would be great to be like Milicic. The most popular song in Serbia during this offseason was "If Serbia were as lucky as Darko Milicic."
The explicit longing in the lyrics would be great if other countries could lift them up and pull them up like Yes did to Milicic.
If this song is paired with another popular song in Serbia, "If Serbia was as powerful as China," it will be clear who the savior Serbia is craving for now.
Milicic saved because of Yes.
What about them?
Milicic spent the entire offseason, from the second half of June to the beginning of October, half a year in his home country.
This matter has indeed caused great controversy in the United States.
You are good to your country, but to the SuperSonics, you are a professional SuperSonics player. What do you bring to the SuperSonics?
There has been no systematic training for four whole months, and even if you look at it, the belly on your body will tremble.
Milicic toured his homeland for half a year and brought back more than just a bunch of pork belly.
He also brought back a Serbian child who was just like him, with pork belly, white and tender flesh.
Ye Si also heard about it. This child was a horse racing athlete. He was turned away by Milicic and chose to play basketball. Milicic was very moved. Considering that the child was already 14 years old, ordinary systematic training was already very late, so Prepare to take him with you and train him personally.
Milicic is now letting the child learn English for a few months. When the English is improved, he will be sent to Garfield High School for the first grade.
Nikola Jokic and Milicic both asked Toyes to recommend him to Garfield High School.
Milicic now enjoys this role of daddy or master. Jokic has even been taken by him to train at the Seattle SuperSonics training facility.
But other Sonics players are not optimistic about this kid.
They all feel that Milicic lacked love in his heart because he met Larry Brown when he was growing up, and wanted to get the missing love back on his own.
Don't blame Sonics players for having such discussions in private.
At the age of 14, he had no formal basketball training. His speed was slow and he couldn't bounce well. No matter how he looked at it, he was not the material to play in the NBA. He was far different from Milicic.
However, Ye Si and Nelson saw something different in this child. This child's basketball understanding ability is really amazing.
Moreover, don’t think that these people are the most criticized by the media and public opinion.
This offseason, the person who really gets the most criticism from the Seattle SuperSonics is Millsap.
Milicic went back to his hometown in fine clothes. Let’s not talk about whether some of his actions were too much. At least it was indeed a fine homecoming and he earned a lot of face.
But Millsap is different.
As a rare NBA star who came out of Louisiana Tech University, Karl Malone was followed by Millsap.
Originally, Millsap didn't think about fighting for anything when he returned. Senior Malone has always been his idol.
Malone was also very good to him. Malone recommended him to the Jazz when no team wanted him, but in the end he was cut off by the Jays and the SuperSonics.
Therefore, Millsap's return home this time is indeed a major event in the history of Louisiana Tech University. Malone was also very happy and even specially attended to support Millsap.
Everyone was originally happy. It is really not easy for such a small basketball school to produce such a main core player who has won two NBA championships.
Everyone was very excited and the atmosphere was very lively.
Then, things took a turn for the worse in the atmosphere and excitement.
"When I entered the Seattle SuperSonics, I never thought I would win a championship. Then, we won the championship, two championships in three years. When I entered the league, my seniors all said, Hey man, Don't think about the championship, you have to think more about money and other things. Therefore, I really went to the NBA just to make money. The championship is an accident, and two championships are an accident among accidents. Two championships in three years, just It can be said to be magical. I have a very great player. Yes is such a great player. A truly great player does not depend on how long his career is or how long he maintains his peak. It’s how shining he was when he was brilliant. The shining light of Yes not only makes him shine, but his light can also illuminate other people around him. He is a great teammate and a true superstar. Thank you for what he has given me. everything of!"
Millsap is a very humble person, and he has always been a good guy and a troublemaker in the Sonics. He really wanted to thank Ye Si from the bottom of his heart.
Without Ye Si, there would be no glorious present.
In the excitement, excitement and deep emotion, I didn't notice that the face of the senior Karl Malone beside me was getting more and more ugly.
Finally, after being beaten by Karl Malone, Millsap calmed down and thought about what he had just said. He felt that he really deserved the beating.
How can you say such things in front of a senior who is so good to you?
Even if it’s the truth, I can’t tell it!
In the end, Millsap not only did not fight back, but gave himself a hard slap in the mouth.
Even Karl Malone is angry and unable to show off.
Damn it, my junior brother didn't mean it, this is even more uncomfortable.
It's unintentional and not carefully planned. Doesn't that mean that his black spots are natural? In other words, his black spots have reached the point where he just says them casually without thinking about it?
Damn it, I haven’t had a championship in my career, so I’m so humble!
In fact, after Malone beat Millsap and Millsap slapped himself, Malone and Millsap quickly reconciled and went for a drink. Malone was sad, seeing his idol. Millsap also blamed himself for being unintentionally provoked by No Champion. After the two had a big drink, their relationship was reconciled.
But the media and public opinion outside are different.
"Millsap is swollen!"
"You don't want to think about how you won the championship? With Yes, even a dog can win two championships in the past three years!"
"Whether Carl is a real superstar or not is something you, a little guy who is not even an All-Star, can judge, you ungrateful villain!"
"Karl, come back and go to the Lakers. I am a neutral Heat fan. I can't stand Millsap's success. I support you to go to the Lakers. Kobe likes his wife, and you also like his wife. That's what you are." Together!"
The rhythm was very, very chaotic. Not only was Millsap being crazy about the game, Malone and Kobe were also crazy about the rhythm.
If the news that Saint Beasley hadn't beaten Dream Green later suppressed the news that Malone beat Millsap, I'm afraid public opinion would have been hyped until the start of the season.
It is precisely because of the situation of the Seattle SuperSonics in the offseason that as the season approaches, more and more people feel that the SuperSonics are a loser.
When you all swell up like this, no one can really save you.
What's more, the SuperSonics' two championships are different from the Bulls, Celtics, and Lakers' consecutive championships.
There has never been a year when the Sonics were the favorite to win consecutive championships.
The SuperSonics' consecutive championships can be compared to the Rockets in 9495. It's not that the Rockets are strong, but that Olajuwon is strong, and it's Olajuwon's unexpected change of fate.
Therefore, these two SuperSonics championships not only caused Oscar Robertson's historical status to plummet, but Olajuwon's historical status also rose slowly.
So the question is, what is the future fate of the Rockets?
In the 1996 regular season, they finished sixth in the Western Conference and were swept out by the Seattle SuperSonics in the Western Conference semifinals. This was a shame for a team that aspired to a dynasty.
As for the Rockets that got Barkley and Pippen later on, it was even worse. The entire Rockets, whether it was Olajuwon or Pippen, became bastards. The most diligent ones never won a championship. Buckley.
A dynasty mainly relies on a spirit. If you are the strongest, without this spirit, you will collapse, not to mention that you are not the strongest champion.
In public opinion across the United States, the Sonics now have no fighting spirit and have begun to enjoy the championship, completely turning themselves into salty fish.
But in fact, the inside of the Sonics is far less miserable than public opinion reports.
Except for the fact that the reports and exaggerations about James Harden are basically true, the media public opinion has a certain degree of moisture.
Whether it is Rondo, Durant, Millsap, or Milicic, they are still working very hard and have no intention of enjoying the glory brought by the championship.
For example, Rondo is not satisfied with being just a goalkeeper for the top 50 players. He wants to surpass Du Shiwu. He has not yet become the boss of the Sonics!
Durant, Millsap, Milicic and others also have their own goals.
Whether it is Ye Si or the rest of the team, they can feel the mutual desire for victory and the future.
That's why the Sonics are quite calm no matter how public opinion exaggerates it.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Sonics have always been criticized. Compared with before, this is not considered negative, it can only be regarded as a complaint.
In fact, what really caused turmoil within the Seattle SuperSonics was not the criticism of the SuperSonics from outside public opinion.
But after Yeos returned to the team, when the Sonics were training, Nelson requested that the team's key tactical drills no longer focus on Rondo as the core organization.
The core of the Sonics organization finally became Yes!
"This day has finally come!"
Millsap sighs.
Other Sonics players looked at Rondo sympathetically.
Rondo himself was not sure whether it was excitement or struggle, his hands were trembling.
As for the bloodthirsty reporters from all over the United States and even the world next to them, they were excited again.
"NBA triple-double king, All-NBA team, two-time champion, All-Star starter, assist leader Rajon Rondo is counting down to leaving the team!"
The Sonics have been struggling for an entire offseason, and the storm is finally here!
Xianyu doesn't want to stand up, Baofeng wants to help Xianyu stand up!
Its daybreak!
The supersonic sky finally dawned!