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Latest URL: The Western Stars defeated the Eastern Stars, and Michael Jordan, who has been frustrated recently, won the AMVP trophy.

Due to Jordan's recent poor condition, even Benj, who has always liked to compete with him, gave up the competition, and helped the former a lot on the road to AMVP.

Why is Jordan in such a bad condition? Because of Rick Pitino's series of operations.

Pitino's various performances don't look like a professional sports manager. What is he more like? He's like a 2K player.

True, managing teams is not a very serious thing for him. What Pitino didn't realize, however, was that in professional basketball, making a trade meant far more than recruiting a promising high school student in college basketball.

Because for college coaches, recruiting is everything. And the NBA is not. In the NBA, trades are everything. Generally speaking, for a team that is always looking for changes, you can only get the changes you want if you make a trade. But even with education, the changes you get are unpredictable.

Pitino traded with no regard for humanity, obsessed with the power in his hands like a gamer.

Trade off any player he isn't happy with, and if one trade doesn't accomplish his goals, make another trade. For him, no one is untradeable except Jordan.

Last summer, Olajuwon, who had made great contributions to the team, was eager to get a decent pension contract. He is 35 and a half years old, and this will be the last big contract of his career.

After careful consideration, Pitino wisely discovered that giving Olajuwon face will make the team's financial problems difficult in the next few years.

Moreover, they gave Dameng a face, what can Dameng give them?

He is old, slow and lazy. He doesn't know how to give at all, and he doesn't conform to his own coaching philosophy. Is it necessary to make such a big sacrifice and concession for a little face? Moreover, in the past few years at the peak of the dream, he has not won anything in Portland. Can the Portlanders expect that at the age when he is about to usher in a major decline in his competitive ability, he can rejuvenate and lead the team to victory? success?

When you don't want to do something, you can find countless reasons. And when you want to do something, you don't even need a reason.

Pitino decided to make a risky decision-"Considering the team's personnel structure, financial issues and long-term planning, we decided not to renew the contract with Hakeem Olajuwon...Life has dreams, each is wonderful, Hakeem has built a track record in Portland that will retire his jersey and his contributions will never be forgotten as we move forward."

There is nothing wrong with not renewing the contract with Olajuwon, he is indeed overwhelmed.

The question is what got in exchange for sending Olajuwon away.

Pitino's answer was to acquire a player named Amon Gilliam from the Timberwolves.

Gilliam was an added bonus in the Minnesota-Kings trade for Bodi Loga the year before. Just imagine, a player that the Kings don't even want, what can he bring to the Trail Blazers?

Collecting mediocre power forwards is a hobby of Pitino's, so much so that the Portland media dubbed his hobby "Pitino's refill."

The so-called refill means that when people hear that there is a new tasting wine in the bar, they will ask for a refill to try something new. And mediocre power forward is Pitino's new taste, he will never turn down a mediocre power forward. Last season, the Trail Blazers still had an iron triangle headed by Jordan, Kidd, and Olajuwon.

This season, only Jordan and Kidd are left.

Fortunately, one of Jordan and Kidd has a strong ability to cover the bottom line, and the other has a high lower limit for leading the team, so the Blazers' record has no obvious ups and downs.

The bad news is that without Olajuwon in the penalty area, the Blazers' life in the West will become more and more difficult. This is where Jordan's life is unsatisfactory.

The hope of winning the championship is like a flame that will be extinguished at any time, and he no longer sees the possibility of competing for the championship.

In this way, it is understandable for the big guys to work together to help Jordan win the AMVP. After all, this little life is really useless.

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After the weekend, everyone became rivals again. The Lakers showed no mercy to the Blazers.

Returning from vacation for the first game, the Lakers are not out of shape like they were last year. On the contrary, the Blazers seem to be the one who has rested.

Tonight, Barkley didn't know if it was intentional. Before the opening, he deliberately dangled around wearing two championship rings. When he walked up to Jordan, he intentionally or unintentionally complained that the size of the championship ring was inappropriate, which was too difficult for his fat hands.

Jordan glanced over Barkley faintly.

Barkley laughed dryly: "Michael, in fact, the feeling of winning the championship is the same. It's nothing special. You don't know how uncomfortable this ring is to wear. I will throw it away sooner or later..."

Louie witnessed the whole process of Barkley pretending to be aggressive in front of Jordan. This scene is simply ruining the three views!

In the previous life, this fat man would meet eight passers-by who laughed at him for not having a crown when he went out to buy a donut, but now the feng shui has changed. Jordan stared at Barkley and asked only one sentence: "How does it feel to win the championship?"

Barkley originally wanted to make a joke with Jordan, but he didn't expect to really hurt his good brother.

He wanted to show a sympathetic expression, but because he was too proud, he couldn't help laughing happily: "Although the quality of the ring is not very good, the feeling of winning the championship is so **** good! After winning the championship, the world will be clean. People who say you can't make it can't talk that **** anymore, well, I wish Pat was still around, I have so much to say to him..."

Although Barkley made it sound like Riley had passed away, Jordan wasn't in the mood to talk about useless things. In this game, due to poor state, the Blazers lost to the Lakers by 38 points in the away game.

Several of Pitino's gaffes were captured by the media.

Two years ago, Pitino was so glorious when he first took office as the coach/general manager/president of the Trail Blazers, and now the media is so rough when he gets into trouble.

When people asked Pitino what he needed to do to get the team out of trouble, Pitino replied weakly: "When the players can accurately execute my tactical intentions, we can get out of the woods."

"But what if the players have been unable to implement the tactics? Will we still see the Blazers reproduce the glory of 1977?" For some reason, this sentence **** off Pitino.

"I also want to win all the games like the Lakers, but we have a **** luxury tax! I also want to buy the whole world, but we can't do that!" "Everyone, the era of Bill Wharton is very far away. We can only run to the future, but not back to the past! We must look forward! Look forward! Always look forward!"

Is there any more precise proof than this scene that the Jordan-era Trail Blazers' championship luck has been cut off?

Probably not.

Everyone decided to move on, as Pitino wanted.

After all, with the Lakers around, it is superfluous to pay attention to the Blazers.

The former has a 99% chance of winning three consecutive championships this year and establishing a dynasty, while the latter may not have a chance to win another championship in the next ten years.

The Lakers' journey continues.

They have the potential to explode after the All-Star break.

Such things are actually not conducive to a strong team that focuses on the playoffs. Getting up too early is prone to ups and downs.

However, the Lakers are still a team with a lot of ups and downs, because there are too many young people, and once there is a wrong rhythm, it is easy to be led astray.

Moreover, there is another strange phenomenon on the Lakers.

That is, the young people in the team have made great progress in the new season. Logically speaking, their strength should be stronger than last season, and their record should also be stronger than last season, but the result is not like this.

The Lakers lost more games this year after the All-Star break than last season ~www.novelmt.com~.

Although generally speaking, no team can threaten their position, but when the regular season came to an end, it was found that the Lakers lost one more game than last season.

76 wins and 6 losses

The 1998-99 Lakers didn't

Reaching the peak as people imagined, but taking a small step back from last year. For this result, Louis was extremely calm.

"For the fans, the Lakers have become God's team. We won't be tired, we won't be bored, we won't be selfish, we won't have all kinds of problems that mortal teams have, so when we only win this year In the next 76 games of the regular season, they can stand on the moral high ground and accuse us of various negligence, as if we have done something that both people and gods hate." Louis said helplessly, "In fact, not long ago, a nerd hugged A bunch of stats accusing me of working in the offseason that affected my preparations for this season... At that time, I really wanted to punch his glasses."

"I'm not a violent person, though, so you know, his glasses are in good condition."