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Chapter 278 New Season

The debate about Qin Fei's future is still pending, and the outside wind and rain cannot affect the normal forward flight of supersonic speed.

After the training camp, life became more regular, and every day passed with a little progress.

It is not only Qin Fei who has improved, but also these young people who have just come into contact with the professional league.

Before the start of the new season, there is still a wave of preseason games.

This wave of preseason games is relatively small, and the purpose is to let the team shed the confirmed 15-man roster.

Under normal circumstances, at the beginning of a new season, NBA teams will always report a roster of 13 or 14 players. There will be more than [-] players, and it will not be easily full.

In this way, you can come and go freely, and you can add new power midway at any time.

After the Sonics passed the preseason selection, a total of 13 people have been confirmed on this year's roster

Point Guard: Gary Payton, Eric Snow

Shooting guards: Qin Fei, Dale Ellis, Drew Barry

Small forwards: Schrempf, Rashard Lewis

Power forwards: Kemp, Sam Perkins, Aaron Williams

Centers: Geiger, Vladimir Stepania, Gerald McCorney

On the list of 13 people, Drew Barry is the last one.

Barry played with Qin Fei in the summer league before. He was selected by the Supersonics in the same class as Qin Fei, but was later abandoned by the Supersonics and did not sign.

Barry started his wandering journey in the NBA. Last season in the Eagles, he performed pretty well.

I had a py with the Supersonics during the offseason, and returned to the Supersonics under a fully guaranteed basic salary contract.

Overall, the Sonics' lineup is relatively young.

Lewis's position is relatively vague, and it is not known whether it is the third position or the fourth position, but under George Karl's arrangement, the third position should be the main one, so that he at least has a height advantage, otherwise it would be too thin to play the fourth position.

The Sonics lineup has basically been confirmed.

For other teams in the league, if they should recruit, they will spend some money, and if they don't, they will find a way to squeeze the players' wages.

The players lamented that they did not have a good time and lost a lot of money in an instant.

At the same time, the issue of Michael Jordan's future has finally been settled.

Michael Jordan officially announced his retirement before the start of the new season.

With Jordan's retirement, the era of the Bulls dynasty was completely over. The Bulls did not renew the contract with the head coach and traded Pippen to the Rockets. Rodman also left Chicago to become a reporter.

In the blink of an eye, one of the most successful teams in the past ten years has become a thing of the past.

Jordan's retirement this time still touched the basketball world a lot.

Even if the NBA has a buffer for a period of time, it still cannot make up for this part of the loss. The loss of interests is inevitable, so it is good to engage in labor negotiations.

In order for the Rockets to get Pippen, Barkley also took the initiative to cut his salary, and only took a cabbage price of $100 million for the new season.

The Rockets also verbally promised him that they would renew Barkley's contract next year at a price of 1200 million as compensation for his substantial salary cut this year.

The kind-hearted Barkley really believed it, so he planned to happily cut his salary this year to compete for the championship, and happily make a lot of money next year

According to the truth, this kind of contract is already a "yin-yang contract", and it is definitely not allowed by the NBA, but no one knows about it now.

In the evening of July 2.

The NBA regular season officially begins.

Unlike previous years, in this year's opening game, 24 teams were directly arranged to fight against each other.

The Sonics had a wave of home games at the beginning, and the first game was against the Mavericks.

The Mavericks were the team that had a lot of scandals with Qin Fei. Later, they hooked up with the Suns and brought Nash over.

There should have been some Chinese elements, but Wang Zhizhi was not selected in the draft.

At present, the Mavericks still use Michael Finley as the main strategy. In the old Nelson's system, "run" and "boom" also occupy a relatively high proportion.

This game is more concerned by German fans.

The German player Schramf of the Supersonics was the winner of the Supersonics' championship last season, the team's starter, and the All-Star player of the year.

The German player Nowitzki of the Mavericks was selected with the 9th pick in the draft. At the age of 21, he is at the beginning of his career, and the future can be expected.

Its implementation, Ramf is also the player selected with the eighth pick. He belongs to the pioneer of German basketball players before Nowitzki, so Nowitzki has also said that Schramf is his basketball idol.

The dialogue between the two became a serious derby battle.

I don't know if it is a special official arrangement, but it is very thoughtful.

Nowitzki is a handsome blond guy who looks tender. Schramf has a crew cut and is much stronger than Nowitzki. The two high-fived and hugged each other in the training before the game, and then exchanged phone numbers.

"How should I put it, the NBA is like this. The first thing you have to do is adapt, adapt to the rhythm here, and adapt to the game style here."

As a senior, Schramf gave a lot of advice to his juniors, and then talked about tonight's game.

"I don't know what kind of defensive system you have, but when we fight, we must be prepared to run. Our speed is very fast, and we also have the league's top "frame attackers" (Kamp and Qin Fei). Will your coach let you protect the frame?"

"I didn't say it, but it should be okay with Sean (Bradley)?"

This big bamboo pole is useless!

Schramf didn't say anything, but he was still very disdainful in his heart.

Soon, the night is coming.

The key arena ushered in a full-on moment again.

The last time it was so lively was when the Supersonics won the championship half a year ago. Everything seemed like yesterday, and half a year had passed in an instant.

The fans cheered loudly, and under the changing lights, the players walked out of the player tunnel one by one.

Before the start of the first game of the new season, a grand championship ring awarding ceremony will be held.

The team's general manager made some speeches, followed by the team's head player Payton, shouting "We are the champions—" amidst the cheers of the fans.

The banner representing the championship was slowly raised, and the players got their own championship rings one by one.

This made the Mavericks players who came to watch them very envious, and it also made the three rookies who joined the Supersonic feel that the timing was wrong. If you came to the team a year earlier, wouldn't you be able to win the championship ring while lying down?

Subsequently, the retirement ceremony of the veterans who had fought for many years was held.

After taking off his uniform, McMillan in a suit and leather shoes appeared in the eyes of the fans.

There is no fan in Seattle who doesn't know McMillan. This little black fat man has played the same role as Seattle's "locker room leader" for many years. He has played a key role in maintaining the stability of the team and stimulating the morale of the players.

"We will always remember you and thank McMillan for his dedication to the Seattle SuperSonics!"

Some fans held such a sign to express their love.

McMillan, who walked up to the stage amid the applause, saw that his eyes were moist.

He took the microphone and didn't know what to say.

The fans applauded again.

"Wow, this is really an incredible thing."

When McMillan delivered his retirement speech, the camera showed the supersonic players who had just received their rings. Qin Fei's expression was very solemn. He had infinite respect for such a player who dedicated all his youth.

"Playing with this group of guys, it's a really good thing, and I don't want to retire at all, to be honest."

After McMillan finished speaking, Qin Fei, who had a serious face just now, immediately took the lead in booing: "Fight for another year!"

"Yes, another year!"

Everyone reacted and booed one after another.

"Haha, you really are"

McMillan was amused, and after hearing the voice of "playing for another year", he joked wittily: "Is there still time for me to go down and change my jersey?"

Everyone laughed.

"In the past year, we have achieved great achievements." McMillan took out the championship ring in his hand and showed it off: "We won the NBA championship, which is the most exciting season in my career. I am very grateful to the players for their unremitting efforts."

McMillan said something more.

"In short, thank you for everyone's concern and support. Guys, I will leave first." After McMillan finished speaking, everything seemed to be empty. The career of the past years was like a cloud of smoke, which could only exist in memory after all.

The fans all stood up, including Qin Fei and others, including everyone from the Mavericks, applauding non-stop.

He is the only focus of the audience at the moment, which is the glory of a retired veteran.

The applause lasted for several minutes, until after McMillan left the stage, it slowly died down.

After all the ceremonies were over, the fans sat down again, and the players from both sides re-appeared. At this time, the starting list has been released.

Geiger was injured in the previous preseason and missed the first game.

Veteran Sam Perkins replaced the starter and was pushed to the fifth position.

So the Sonics lineup is Payton, Qin Fei, Schramf, Kemp and Sam Perkins.

The starting lineup of the Mavericks from No. 1 to No. 5 is Nash, Finley, ac Green, Nowitzki and Bradley.

Nash, who has been on the bench for two years, finally became the starter, which is really not easy.

Nash and Qin Fei are also old acquaintances. They kept in touch with each other during the draft. However, Nash is four years older than Qin Fei, and he is already 25 years old this year.

After meeting, the two greeted each other with a high five and a hug.

Then the jump ball players from both sides stood in the circle and prepared to jump the ball.

The live shots showed Nowitzki and Schramf, and a news story called German Inheritance was freshly released.

It's Kemp for the Sonics and Bradley for the Mavericks.

Kemp stood next to Bradley, obviously a head shorter. When the two jumped the ball, Bradley stretched his arms and took the lead to reach the basketball.

The fans at the scene yelled "defense", and the DJ roared passionately, and the 1998-1999 shrinking regular season officially kicked off.

Finley and Qin Fei faced each other.

In the past year, Qin Fei has gained a lot of personal honors and team honors.

In contrast, although Finley has reached the peak of his career in terms of personal data—playing 82 games, averaging 21.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, 4.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game, he has not gained any personal honors.

So even in Dallas, he has confirmed the core position of the team's offense, but he is still not satisfied.

Confronting Qin Fei is a good opportunity to prove himself.

From the moment the game started, Finley fully entered his own state, actively running, and pocketing money from the bottom corner to the top.

The off-ball screener for Finley was Dirk Nowitzki, who was a starter from the start.

European players are different from NBA players. When European players enter the NBA, they generally have played in some professional leagues. For example, Nowitzki has already honed in the Bundesliga Bundesliga.

Nowitzki's cover was not good, Qin Fei followed Finley, easily strode and wiped it, and bumped into Nowitzki.

"Pong!"

Nowitzki, who was hit by Qin Fei, deviated from the direction, watching Qin Fei easily keep up with Finley's pace.

Then Finley received the ball and singled out Qin Fei with three threats.

Qin Fei thought that Finley would leave something behind. After all, it was the first game of the new season, what a chance to make a name for himself.

Unexpectedly, Finley held back his words, just took the ball and made a breakthrough with the dribble.

These three threats broke through the first step very quickly, Qin Fei didn't dare to be careless, and immediately retreated to defend.

Finley didn't really make a breakthrough, and he pulled it out with just one move.

When he shot, Qin Fei's big hand almost covered it.

The basketball flew off Qin Fei's fingertips.

"Shh!"

The three-pointer hit the ball!

Good shot!

As rookies, Nowitzki, Lewis and others were dumbfounded. This game is too simple. Is this reasonable?

There are so many reasonable and unreasonable things in the NBA. One-sided pursuit of rationality is a wrong choice. Sometimes, unreasonable is also reasonable, and reasonable is also unreasonable.

Qin Fei was surprised by Finley's quick three-pointer.

"Is this the defending champion?"

After scoring the goal, Finley, who started talking nonsense, was in a state of madness, which surprised Qin Fei.

It is different from last year, the defending champion will face every opponent who goes all out.

The Sonics are 0 to 3 behind the Mavericks.

The opening offense that Payton chose was still a high pick-and-roll. Qin Fei, as a wing player, opened up the space and gave the team's boss a chance to pick and roll.

Kemp is a lot wider, and the quality of the pick-and-roll screen is very high.

However, his explosive power and mobility have declined, and his speed of going down after the screen is not fast enough, and he is easily followed by the Mavericks' Green.

With these three lineups on the Mavericks, when defending, Green and Bradley belong to the inside.

Nowitzki happened to go up against his German predecessor Schramff.

Nowitzki, who has just entered the league, has both speed and agility. Although he is weak in strength, he is still able to defend tall perimeter lines that are not long for breakthroughs.

Green easily followed Kemp, Payton passed to Kemp, and Kemp almost fumbled the ball.

Kemp slammed into AC Green, turned around under the basket, and made a fake shot again.

Green didn't hesitate, instead he took a step forward and got stuck at an important joint. Kemp was in a dilemma.

It turned out that the place so close to the basket was directly forced, even if it didn't go in, it could still be fouled, but now it's embarrassing, it seems like it can't get up!

It looks like the figure is not much different from before, but in fact there are "virtual" and "hard" changes.

At this time, Finley double-teamed and was about to reach out to pat Kemp. Kemp's vision was blocked and he couldn't pass it out.

Of course the basketball failed to make a shot, and the ball went far away. Nowitzki didn't do anything, and when he came in, he picked up a rebound for nothing.

With the first positive data in my career, happiness came too suddenly.

The offensive and defensive speed of the Mavericks was very fast. Nowitzki scored the ball to Nash, and halftime passed in the blink of an eye.

Nash's dribbling is so good that Payton can't stop him from dribbling at all, and he runs like the wind is blowing, with long flowing hair blowing with the wind.

Nash advanced quickly, but the Mavericks' offensive rhythm was not fast, waiting for the inside line to fall into place, and then began to dig positions.

I still play the ball for Finley, but this time I chose the pick-and-roll tactic after the double screen. When Finley received the ball, Qin Fei was stuck in the position by the Mavericks inside.

In fact, Finley was already able to attack, and he also looked for opportunities for pick-and-roll misalignment, and only when he faced Kemp did he look forward to breaking through.

At this time, Qin Fei let go of Nowitzki and went inside to help defend.

Finley passed a pass to Nowitzki, who was ambushing in the bottom corner, and Nowitzki felt agitated. Could it be that the first goal is coming soon?

When Finley passed him, he didn't see any defenders.

He took the ball and raised his hand unhurriedly. When he made a shot, a black shadow had already appeared in front of him.

"So fast?"

His heart trembled, his jaw almost dropped in shock.

The top perimeter defensive player in the NBA, Qin Fei!

Fortunately, Nowitzki's height is not watery, and his wingspan is long enough. Otherwise, if the ball is replaced by an ordinary outside player, he will definitely be blocked.

But even if it wasn't covered, it was seriously disturbed this time.

Dirk felt as if he was pushing a little lighter in the end.

"Shh!"

in?

Nowitzki was overjoyed, who knew that everyone under the basket would run forward

"Huh??? No serve?"

Air Ball!

He ran along for a while before he realized that he was so lost, he just didn't stick to it.

What kind of fairy defense is Qin Fei? He was still on the inside, but Nowitzki flashed in front of him in the blink of an eye. But Dirk Nowitzki has never seen a player with such fast reactions and lateral movements in Germany. Is this still human?Simply

(End of this chapter)