NBA big yellow bird

Chapter 107 If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight
The original Oakley did not retire this season, but went to the Rockets to serve as Yao Ming's bodyguard. At that time, Yao Ming, who was in the second grade at the end of the summer, returned to the training hall and was shocked when he saw Oakley and asked the staff. Only after he was his teammate did he feel relieved.

Yao Ming only played two games against Oakley in his entire career, and he has such palpitations towards this guy. From this, it can be seen that Oakley is rough on the court.

He wasn't running to play at all.

It's really just a fight and a ball.

Originally, the Warriors invited him to be Yao Ming's bodyguard this summer, just like the original Rockets, but after Auerbach also offered a basic salary contract, he chose Boston without hesitation.

Not because of the face of the "cardinal", but because he wanted to be teammates with Zhu Wan.

Juwan deliberately drove to the airport to pick up Oakley.

"Dude, I have to trouble you to rent a house with me!"

Oakley is 40 years old this year, and the new season will be his last if nothing goes wrong. He originally planned to retire this summer, but he didn't expect two other teams to offer him contracts.

Then hang around for another year!

But he also knows that although two teams have offered him contracts, they both want him to do the same thing, that is, to be a "bodyguard", probably only for this year.

Therefore, he does not intend to buy a house in Boston, and rent it for a year to make do with it.

In this way, it will not be so much trouble to leave when the time comes.

Zhu Wan glanced at him through the rearview mirror, and said with a smile, "What are you looking for, just stay with me. I just bought a house, and there are plenty of empty rooms in it!"

From last summer to this summer, he has troubled Oakley a lot.This should be paid back to Oakley.

Oakley was still a little embarrassed, but Zhu Wan drove the car directly to his own parking garage. When Oakley saw a cleaner cleaning another room, he understood that Zhu Wan had already done this. Gu, he is not a coy person, Zhu Wan has already taken 99 steps toward him, he must take that step.

It’s not that Zhu Wan is Pinduoduo, the difference is 0.5 yuan, and he can’t finish it with more than a dozen knives...

Jimmy Butler had been waiting at the door, and when he saw Oakley, he ran over like a fly and gave him a bear hug.

The atmosphere of one old and one young became anxious all of a sudden.

Oakley lived in Juwan's villa.

In the next two days, Zhu Wan took Oakley around Boston, and it was considered as a landlord's friendship before he went to the North Shore Garden Arena to sign the contract.

Two days later, he took Oakley and went to the arena with Wade.

Oakley was going to sign the contract, while the two of them started training directly.

Although there are still a few days before September 9th, Zhu Wan feels that as a leader, he needs to practice more in advance to "roll to death" other Celtic teammates.

But at the elevator entrance, Zhu Wan and the others met Angie, who took Oakley to the general manager's office to sign, came out halfway, and smiled at them: "Don't worry, I will take you to familiarize yourself with the locker room first. You probably haven’t been there yet, and the jerseys for the two of you have already been made, so I’ll show them to you first.”

Zhu Wan just followed Angie to the locker room.

Because the Boston Bruins use this arena, there are four locker rooms in the North Shore Garden, two belonging to the Boston Celtics and two belonging to the Bruins. Therefore, the changing rooms of the Celtics Rooms are a little harder to find than other teams.

After turning around two or three corners, Angie led Juwan and Wade to the locker room of the home team.

"These two outer wardrobes are yours!"

There are also many unspoken rules in the NBA locker room.

For example, the wardrobe as the absolute core is larger than that of ordinary players, and its position is relatively outside, which is also convenient for players to enter and media interviews.

Just outside is Juwan's closet, which was originally used by Paul Pierce and now belongs to him.

Wade's closet is across from him.

This also shows that Wade's status in the team is also at the core level.

The jerseys belonging to both of them hang in front of their closets.

Zhu Wan looked at the No. 13 Celtics jersey with Zhu Wang printed on it, and couldn't help taking it off and rubbing it twice.

To a large extent, the jersey is a player's identity card.

From now on, we can be regarded as people with ID cards, and we can drive!

It's just that Zhu Wan felt slightly regretful that he still didn't escape from this damn green...

Juwan glanced again at the cabinet next to him, which belonged to Oakley.

Hmm... This can be regarded as one of the rules of the locker room. The wardrobe that relies on the core is generally not the third leader or main force of the team, but the younger brother who has a good relationship with him, or the bodyguard.

Oakley naturally falls into the latter category.

After changing clothes and passing the elevator, I happened to see Oakley who had signed the contract.

"I won't be here to accompany you anymore, go back and find Jimmy to play 2K!"

Zhu Wan is not surprised either. Oakley's contract is equivalent to a pension, and it is impossible to fight like young people like them.

Wade was reminded by him, but he remembered something, and looked at Zhu Wan with envy: "Dude, you are really exaggerating, you have become the cover of 2K game before you even entered the NBA..."

At the end of August, 8k just released the latest 2k2 game disk. As one of the most popular NBA games nowadays, countless basketball fans are looking forward to their latest release.

It's just that no one thought that 2k company changed their cover this year. In the past three years, their cover used Allen Iverson, but this year they used Juwan!
This caused a huge discussion.

It also made NBA players like Wade who like this game and dream of being the cover of this game envy Ju Wan.

Although Zhu Wan was happy, when he thought that 2k had bought the copyright of portraits of all NBA players from the NBA, including those of newcomers, it was equivalent to saying that although he became the cover of the 2k game this time, he didn't pay a penny. He couldn't get it, and he was "free for nothing" and had to sell CDs for 2K company, which made him heartbroken.

"White prostitution monster" was "free prostitution", can he not feel sad?

The two officially started training, and the time passed day by day.In the past few days, other Celtics have also reported to the arena one after another.

No one is later than September 9th.

This may be one of the few benefits of the new team.

Everyone wants to make a good impression on the head coach.

And don't want Juwan to think he wants to fight him.

So there will be no lazy lateness.

This also relieved Zhu Wan from having to deal with the thorns.

The current Celtics simply put it in one sentence: a lot of waste is waiting to be done, and they are waiting for the new king to lead the rise!

The Jim O'Brien training camp did not arrange too many trainings a few days ago, but let everyone focus on their own training, but they watched it seriously from the sidelines, and discussed with the assistant coaches from time to time, it should be for each player Have a general understanding.

After the first week of training camp, he just started to arrange team running tactics.

These are some basic tactics.

During this period, he communicated with Zhu Wan a lot more.

As I said before, Jim O'Brien's resume as an NBA head coach is not brilliant, and it is not as impressive as his years as an ESPN commentator.

It belongs to the head coach position that is purely based on qualifications.

You can't expect such a head coach to think clearly.

But it is not without advantages.

Such a head coach tends to pay more attention to the opinions of core players.

This allows Juwan to build the existing lineup according to his ideas.

In fact, players with very high basketball IQs like Juwan and Larry Bird, including Bill Russell, are very suitable as head coaches and general managers.

Bill Russell was on the court for a while as a head coach.

Larry Bird as the head coach and general manager has proved that his coaching and team building ability are at the top level in the league.

If it weren't for the "Palace of Auburn Hills" incident, the Pacers would have even won the championship...

Including the later Rajon Rondo, it can be said that the general managers of the entire league are waiting for him to retire and ask him to be the head coach.

Compared with them, Zhu Wan lacks some experience, but his advantage is that he has "eyes of the sky", knows the general advantages of these players in the team, and even knows their career trajectory.

This allows him to know better than O'Brien how the Celtics should configure the lineup.

Finally, after another week of negotiations, the Celtics' starting lineup is tentatively determined to be Chucky Atkins at No. [-], Dwyane Wade at No. [-], Juwan at No. [-], Chris Anderson at No. [-], Tyson Chandler at number five.

With the finalization of the starting lineup and the fixed rotation lineup, the Celtics' daily training programs are gradually fixed.

While the players have become more tacit on the court, everyone has gradually become familiar with them off the court.

This traditional entertainment show that bullies rookies begins.

The Celtics have quite a few rookies this year. In addition to Zhu Wan and Wade, there are also Perkins and Dengtai Jones, the one who became famous in front of Yao Ming and is well-known by domestic fans.He really became famous when he went to the Nuggets and won a contract worth tens of millions by relying on his honed defensive ability. In the eyes of young scouts, he has a very good immediate combat ability. The "Cardinal" used the No.20 fifth pick in the first round of the trade with Memphis last year to select him into the team.

A total of 4!
However, the main targets of this group of veterans were Perkins and Duntay Jones. Dwyane Wade was only carrying a small pink schoolbag, and Ju Wan was not teased at all.

Some people wanted to play tricks on Zhu Wan, such as Chris Anderson, who came to the NBA and made a lot of money, but he gave up the idea decisively after Oakley showed his elbow and wanted to go out with him.

Zhuwan also lamented Auerbach's "magic plan" at the moment, and it was indeed necessary to get Oakley to the Celtics.

"Zhu Wan, lend me the car, I'll go buy donuts for everyone~"

No, just after training, Perkins was called to buy donuts again, and came to borrow a car from Zhu Wan.

Many people don't know that Perkins is also one of the NBA players that high school students participate in the draft. Also participating in the draft as a high school student.

High school students usually gamble on their potential. To be selected in the first round of the draft year, it can be seen that Perkins' potential is not bad.

It's just that the scouts probably didn't expect that the skinny Perkins will eventually become a fat "soybean oil barrel" in the future, becoming one of the representatives of the league's "meat shield".

Of course, as far as his pick is concerned, it's not water.

Although he is not as strong now as he was later, but Perkins's appearance is simple and simple, and his tone of voice makes people feel very friendly. Zhu Wan also readily borrowed the car.

Soon Perkins went back and forth with donuts, and gave Zhu Wan a copy. Zhu Wan didn't refuse, and when he got home later, he gave it to the community security, maybe he could move the latter into something look.

This arena is full of sophistication and sophistication.

It's just that when Zhu Wan got into the car, he saw the "surprise surprise" on the co-pilot - a golden crown!
This made Zhu Wan feel a little funny.

Well, these guys really don't intend to let him go.

Still have to do things for him!

Now, am I going to become "King" too?
"Dude, don't you want to revive the rich family?" Oakley was not surprised, he should have known it for a long time, and said, "If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight!"

"This is destined to be a difficult road!"

Although he said it as a cup, Oakley also had sincerity in his words. After all, since 1986, the Celtics have never won a championship. For 17 years, how many talented players have been placed with high hopes. In the end, they failed to lead the Green Army back to the top of the league. One can imagine how difficult this road is!

But the Lakers, their rivals, just completed another "three consecutive championships" and caught up with a wave of championship trophies, which made Boston fans more eager. In addition to this gamble, the Celtics For the bargaining chips paid, Zhu Wan has to bear more expectations than others before. His phrase "recasting the glory of the Celtics, we are obliged to wait" was loud and resonated with Boston fans. , don't forget, once he fails to lead the team to revive, the consequences of being backlashed can be described as unimaginable.

He shoulders, to a certain extent, more than LeBron James. No matter how you look at it, the price the Cavaliers get LeBron James is just a year of bad performance, plus a few phone calls... …Even if LeBron James is really angry, there is no way Cleveland fans will spray him to death.

Zhu Wan is different, Zhu Wan may even receive "death threats"...

Oakley's phrase "If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight" is actually very suitable for Juwan at the moment.

The road ahead is full of thorns!

Of course, this is from the perspective of Oakley and the others. For Zhu Wan who came to "Sky Eye", the Celtics' configuration in the first year is already very good. With Dwyane Wade by his side, he is very confident to lead the Celtics Restoration of the Walters!

He really wasn't afraid to wear this crown on his head.

Not only does he have to wear it on his head, he also has to take a look in the rearview mirror.

Oakley, who was sitting in the back row, looked at his way of filling the cup, and couldn't help muttering in his heart: I shouldn't worry about him.

This guy is heartless, how does he know how to write the word nervous!
Soon the news that the teammates gave Juwan the crown was disclosed by the media, which naturally caused a huge commotion in the outside world. Goodman went directly to LeBron James and said angrily: "See? This guy is It's targeting you! Who doesn't know that you are the future King of the alliance!"

LeBron James was very helpless: "The nickname is King, I'm not the first! Also, man, the new season is about to start, I need to train well, don't bother me with these messy gossips anymore!" The performance of the summer league was not as good as expected, which put a lot of pressure on LeBron James, so he has been practicing extra during this time.

When Goodman saw that LeBron James didn't care, he immediately became even more angry. The kid didn't know that swallowing his anger would bring him such a big economic loss!

"King" has to be domineering to respond!

If this were Goodman, he would definitely yell at the media: "There can only be one King in this alliance, and that is me, King of the Holy Village!"

This kid is too soft!
I will teach him well in the future!
Fortunately, LeBron James didn't hear this, otherwise, I'm afraid I will hate it even more!
With the end of the training camp, the Boston Celtics also officially ushered in the preseason of the new season.

They played a total of 6 games and ended up with 5 wins and 1 loss.

The record looks really dazzling.

It's a little bit inconsistent with their rebuilding team identity.

But they have achieved this record, which is actually normal, because the Celtics have played their best in these 6 games, and their playing time and team rotation are scheduled according to the regular season.

When other teams are basically playing half of the game, or even not playing at all, if the record is not good, then the Celtics should stop playing, disband as soon as possible, go home and pick up the children!

朱万在这6场比赛场均出场30.2分钟，场均可以拿到18.5分7篮板5助攻1抢断1盖帽3犯规2失误，投篮命中率分别为50%、84.4%以及38%。

This performance directly made Boston fans full of expectations.

Domestic fans are even more fanatical.

Even if they only maintain this level in the regular season, they are already very satisfied with Juwan's rookie season.

Paul Pierce's rookie season was 16.5 plus 6 plus 4.

Zhu Wan himself is not very satisfied. He can clearly feel that there is a big difference between NBA-level games and NCAA-level games. Whether it is rhythm or confrontation, NBA, as the highest-level basketball game, is indeed more difficult. big!
He has also been adapting in these 6 games, and his performance was really flawed.

德怀恩韦德在这6场比赛场均出场31.4分，场均可以拿到15.5分4篮板4助攻2抢断1盖帽4犯规4失误，投篮命中率分别为43.4%、79.8%以及23.5%。

Except that the shooting is still unstable, there is no other problem.

As the No. 9 pick in the first round, his performance in these games also satisfied Boston fans.

The Boston media continued to shout "Boston's New Gemini"!
他们也确实有理由这么保持乐观，03年状元季前赛就认真打了一场，32.4分钟拿到19分5篮板4助攻，出现了3次失误，投篮命中率堪堪达到40%；卡梅隆安东尼场均20.5分6.5篮板尚可，其他数据包括投篮命中率都不如朱万；五号秀克里斯波什场均得分12.3分7篮板更是差了他们两个一截。

In short, looking at the entire "03 Golden Generation", the performance of these two rookies in Boston is among the top.

What kind of bicycle do you need?

Of course, the Boston media are very satisfied with the performance of the "new twin stars". They are very satisfied. The outside world is not very optimistic about the Boston Celtics' performance in the new season.

After the preseason, ESPN ranked their respective teams for the new season based on their paper strength.

The Lakers and the Spurs top the list.

Swipe down all the way until you get No.20 to see the name of the Boston Celtics.

In other words, in ESPN's view, this year's Celtics are still a strong contender for the "lottery" of next year's draft.

Seeing this ranking, the Bulls' management was ecstatic. The Celtics' first-round pick for next year has already come to them, which means they will have a lottery pick for next year!

You know, although the quality of next year's draft will not be as good as in 03, it can still be regarded as a big draft year, and there are still many young talents waiting to be fed!

Thinking of choosing "Maxima" again next year.

The Bulls management immediately felt that the revival of the "Chicago Dynasty" was not far away!
Zhu Wan was also very happy. The "poisonous milk master" ESPN finally started to "poison milk" him again, which made him feel that the new season has a lot to do!

On October 10th, the curtain of the NBA regular season kicked off, and the 30-03 season officially started!

Although the Boston Celtics did not play on the first day of the NBA, Zhu Wan and the others are not idle. They are going to Milwaukee to challenge the Bucks!

Yes, in the first game of Juwan's NBA career, David Stern got involved and prepared an "appetizer". Dwyane Wade will meet Antoine Walker!
　There are a total of 2 words, and there is really nothing left!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)