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Chapter 271 The Postman Doesn't Work Today

At noon on the day of return to Salt Lake City.

The major media and fans across the United States are enthusiastically discussing the epic battles and super-large-scale team battles that occurred the day before, and because of the constant discussions from the outside world, this game has become a typical opportunity for the league officials to grasp. In fact, Stern likes to see the current situation of the Jazz very much. It can even be said that it was a timely rain that saved the dire Western Conference.

Adhering to the rules of the game of weakening the strong and supplementing the weak, coupled with Stern's dissatisfaction with the current court atmosphere in the league, he encountered a major incident involving more than a dozen people and four consecutive conflicts. The Knicks were the first to bear the brunt and were labeled as a negative teaching material , because in the final analysis...Charles Oakley's criminal Stockton was the original cause.

For this reason, Oakley was suspended for 15 games, and even Rivers was banned for 5 games for being beaten and not doing anything.

15 tickets are really quite rare, which shows the league's "sincerity" of killing chickens and monkeys. The only thing that makes New Yorkers gratified is... Knicks player Ewing escaped this disaster and was not affected, and even if Oakley was suspended It doesn't hurt to play 15 games, after all, the meaning of his existence is to be punished in many cases.

Unlike the Knicks, the Jazz have had too much influence.

Maybe it was too much limelight, even if the Knicks provoked first, but the league did not punish lightly, and the original unspoken rules of stars being punished for fighting and playing soy sauce are gone. Malone, Crotty, Ben Nott was suspended for all games, and the players who participated in the conflict after that were probably small fish and shrimps in the eyes of the league, and they were all pardoned.

Therefore, Ma Long, who was the first to attack, had 12 games.

Crotty, who was badly injured, received a sympathy card and was suspended for 5 games.

As for Benoit... Stopping the three of them and punching Rivers, objectively speaking, prevented the escalation of the conflict, so he was suspended for 3 games.

Including the injured Stockton, the Jazz really achieved five main players in the starting lineup, three bans and one injury, and only Li Shengli led the team alone, and this also made the Jazz fans very dissatisfied, cursing Stern's voice for a while Blow up the entire state of Utah.

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There is no doubt that this wave of suspensions has hit the Jazz too hard, and what is even worse and called bad news is the player injury reports released by the two teams.

First up is the Knicks.

Although Oakley beat Crotty to shame, Malone also gave him a severe beating. It's just that Oakley, who has more experience in fighting than playing, did not cause him to rest The hard hit of the game.

Back to Jazz.

Stockton's rotator cuff was seriously injured, and the rotator cuff mainly controls the rotation of the shoulder and maintains the stability of the shoulder joint. Ordinary people may be able to move freely in three or two months, but as a basketball player... High-intensity exercise, Gauss Tocton is also a point guard who holds the ball for a long time, and his impact on dribbling, passing, and shooting is immeasurable. After all, basketball is still a sport of hands.

Although the probability of rotator cuff injury is much smaller than that of knee injury, compared with knee injury, rotator cuff injury is more fatal. According to the doctor's estimate, it will take less than half a year for Stockton to be conservative if he wants to rematch.

Half a year?

Hearing this news, Li Shengli and Ma Long's faces were terribly dark, regretting that they played too lightly against the Knicks, you know...it's the end of November, counted in 11 months, so Stockton estimated the rematch time It will be at the end of May.

But the first round of the playoffs is usually at the end of April!

This means that Stockton is basically reimbursed for the season. Even if he returns from the rematch at the end of May, he has almost played in the Western Conference Finals at that time. Can he still come up to the finals? !

This is just an estimated time for the rematch. If the recovery is not good, Stockton may have to wait until the day lily is cold this season. As for letting him come back early?

Even if Stockton himself agrees, no one in the entire Jazz will agree, because now Lee Mars has become the Jazz's humerus, which is the guarantee of the championship, and no one can tolerate any damage. If Stockton comes back and aggravates the injury , the result no one can bear.

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What a mess!

Really a mess.

Li Shengli had to clean up. If he couldn't wait for Stockton, he had to wait for Malone. Just when he was ambitious and self-sacrificing, Malone and Stockton took the lead.

Needless to say, Stockton needed to recover. With a wry smile, he told Li Shengli to wait for him. He could miss the regular season, but he didn't want to miss the playoffs and reach the top with his teammates again.

As for Ma Long...he said that he has not had a holiday for a long time. The 12-game suspension is his holiday. Although generally suspended players are required to watch the game, but Malone wants to have a holiday, no one will say anything. Even Mr. Sloan won't say it, because Malone's full attendance is terrible, and the Jazz owes him a lot of vacation.

In this way, in a short period of time, there will be only one boss left in the entire Jazz.

When Li Masi was all around, Li Shengli's feelings were not too obvious, but when he was the only seedling, almost everyone became his own supporter. He was thoughtful in training, hugged before and after get off work, and was suspended. Crotty, who was not on vacation, was also rewarded, enjoying the treatment of a main player for the first time.

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Back to the schedule at the beginning of the season.

The game against the Knicks is on the 22nd, and the 24th game of the regular season on the 11th is the home of the Jazz, and the opponent is really dumbfounding...Chicago Bulls? !

Since the failure to defend the title last season, the entire Bulls have regarded the Jazz as their imaginary opponent. The Bulls Iron Triangle led by Jordan has been looking forward to a game against the Jazz all the time to wash away the shame of the previous defeat, and now this situation is quite embarrassing...

A semi-disabled Jazz is obviously not the target of the Bulls' revenge.

Even if they beat the Jazz by [-] points or [-] points in this game, it won't help, because everyone knows that the Jazz with the Lee Mars Big Three defeated the Bulls, not the half-disabled Jazz.

So even if the game has not yet started, the outside media believes that there is not much suspense about winning or losing the game, or that the Jazz has a small chance of winning, and even the Jazz's new starting players are desperate.

Being timid before a fight is not a good sign.

It seems that this result was expected. Li Shengli clearly remembered Ma Long's parting words before the holiday...Anyone can be coaxed, but we, the boss, cannot be coaxed. After you gnawed it, our teammates were willing to believe that it was soft bread, bursting out with the combat power it should have.

At that time, Li Shengli scolded Malone for being pretentious, but now it really confirms Malone's words... The bull in front of him is tough, and the Jazz's starting teammate is a bit timid.

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On the night of the 24th, Utah Jazz VS Chicago Bulls at the Jazz Triangle Center.

When the game started and warmed up, all the Bulls looked extremely relaxed, and Jordan, who was in a complicated mood, walked over to Li Shengli, who was on the Jazz's side, together with the playful Pippen.

"Yo, Li, your postman didn't go to work today. How can you go to New York to deliver a letter once, and when you come back, there will be no one? Oh, is it because the Knicks are not hospitable and not enthusiastic enough?" Pippen half-jokingly said to Li Shengli: "Boy, you have no help today, just wait for me to kick your ass!"

No help?

I don't just have no helpers anymore, I almost don't even have a starter!

Li Shengli gave Pippen a blank look. Although he wasn't too close to him, he wasn't too bad to be in the same situation. Hearing Pippen's ridicule really made him want to beat this listless guy.

"Okay, don't talk to Pippen!" Jordan smiled and said to Li Shengli, and Pippen was choked uncomfortably, and complained that his boss turned his elbow outward.

"Today's game will be a bit boring. Your lineup is really weak and pitiful!" Jordan, who experienced the pain of losing his father, seemed more stable than last season, and what happened to the Jazz was also the cause of his complicated mood. The Jazz is the opponent he wants.

"Brother, don't say that we seem to have lost!" Li Shengli gave Jordan a white look.

"Why, do you have any other ideas? I advise you to recognize the reality and wait patiently for the rematch between Stockton and Malone, otherwise the Jazz will have no hope at all."

"You look down on me!"

"No, it's not the same, I simply look down on the current Jazz, and it has nothing to do with you!" Speaking of which, Jordan is also a big pretender, and what he said is so arrogant, it seems that he will eat the semi-crippled Jazz.

"Why don't you call and see first?"

"Okay, let me teach you a lesson first, let your kid steal my ring! Let's go, Pippen, you can kick his ass in a while!" Jordan cursed with a smile, and took a step first, while Pippen pointed to his ass , extremely arrogant, followed by Jordan.

(End of this chapter)