From today on is the king

Chapter 395 393. King of the Preseason (Ask for a monthly ticket ~ not far from 2000 tickets!)
The cool breeze is blowing, and the autumn leaves are all over the sky.

The National Day Golden Week in China has just passed, and autumn is already here in Atlanta. Although it is in the southeastern region of the United States, the climate in Atlanta is humid, and late autumn is coming.

On October 10th, the Eagles ushered in the first game of the preseason and played against Charlotte at home... Now they are called New Orleans Hornets, and they will be called Waterbirds in the future.

As a person who doesn't understand the map of the country, Liu Mang didn't know that although New Orleans is said to be in the west, it is actually a city on the south coast. It is only 400 nautical miles away from Miami by sea, and it is only about 600 kilometers away from Orlando and Atlanta, and both Atlanta and Orlando are 650 kilometers away.

It’s just that Liu Mang, who is blind on maps, first flew from Los Angeles to Louisiana, where New Orleans is located, then from Louisiana to North Carolina, and finally from North Carolina to Atlanta. He knew that Florida was next to Georgia, but he didn’t notice that Louisiana was also next to Georgia.

So in the preseason, the first game of the Eagles was actually against the "Western team" Hornets who had just moved.

In the past ten days, apart from the Glenn Robinson mutual injury incident that shocked the entire United States at the beginning and made Eagles fans quite worried, everything after that seemed to be a good thing.

According to the reporter's description and interviews with Eagles players, they all praised Glenn Robinson's training attitude after returning to the team.

After the Big Dog came to the Eagles, it seemed that he really had a new look, and the training became harder. You must know that when he was in the Bucks, the Big Dog was the bankrupt version of O'Neal among the guards.

After that, Jason Terry signed a three-year, $3 million endorsement contract with a Chinese sports brand called Li-Ning, becoming the second Hawks star to have an official sneaker endorsement.

Then Liu Mang shocked the Americans, and the most outrageous 7-year endorsement contract of 9000 million and 1 US dollars since Jordan was presented by Nike.

On October 10, after Nike executives sent people to Atlanta to hold a press conference, the contract stunned the Americans!

In the past two days, the news has been frenzied about the signing of Liu Mang and Nike. Nike has already started designing the boots for Liu Mang's Christmas game. The Eagles have finally become a part of the Christmas game. The opponent... the Houston Rockets!

David Stern has been waiting for this day since Liu Mang just played last year. Now, he has been looking forward to it for nearly a year. The Chinese Derby is finally coming!

Liu Mang has already received more than 10 pairs of his customized sneakers from Nike, ranging from Jordan Nike era sneakers to Air Jordan, and some non-star endorsed sneakers. In short, Liu Mang has to wear Nike boots from the first preseason game of the new season.

The enthusiasm brought about by Liu Mang's signing didn't gradually dissipate until the start of the preseason.

For Eagles fans, this is all a good thing. Fans are the part with the strongest sense of substitution for their own team stars and their favorite stars. If their favorite stars and teams are good, their work is more satisfactory, and they even eat delicious food.

Before the start of the preseason game against the Hornets, I don't know if it was intentional or not. The reporter from Sports Illustrated found Big Dog for a pre-match interview.

Sports Illustrated has never liked Liu Mang, mainly because he has a bad relationship with the Lakers. Popular teams always have a live broadcast of their preseason games. The Hawks are also one of the most popular teams this year. The number of live broadcast games is more than three times that of last year. This season, there are 16 national live broadcast games, second only to the Lakers with 19 games and the 17ers with 76 games, one more than the Magic and Raptors.

Mr. Joe can’t drive the Wizards’ ratings this season. There are only 9 live broadcasts in the United States, and he is in the middle and lower reaches of the league. Since the second half of last season, fans don’t want to watch Jordan play. They don’t want to see such a struggling Jordan.

On the Chinese side, the Wizards had the most live broadcasts, more than the Rockets and Eagles. The Wizards, Rockets, Eagles, and Lakers were the four teams with the most live broadcasts in China.

Today's preseason game is not included in the number of regular season broadcasts in the United States. Time Warner Cable will conduct a national live broadcast, so the interview before the game is Time Warner's Sports Illustrated.

It seemed to be quiet for a few days, and the impetuous temper finally couldn't hold back. The big dog said in an interview: "Now is a beginning. I will bring a new helper and win the first place in the regular season until I win the championship and prove myself!"

Liu Mang heard Dagou's interview during shooting practice and couldn't tell what it felt like.

It has been 10 days since Glenn Robinson returned to the team. The relationship between the rest of the Eagles and this newly joined All-Star player is not lukewarm. Glenn Robinson mainly wants to improve the relationship with Ratliff and Raheem, the two oldest players on the team besides him. Others, including Liu Mang, Glenn Robinson has not had much contact. low key.

Except for the command and communication of running positions during training, Liu Mang and Glenn Robinson haven't spoken once in private, so they really don't know this teammate.

And Rahim was not enthusiastic at first, even the only time he was drunk with Liu Mang, he didn't talk much, just silently watched Liu Mang bragging.

Ratliff is very mediocre, he greets everyone with a smile, and never involves himself in any disputes, because he doesn't need to stand in a team or other things. A defensive pillar center like him, even if he goes to partner with Duncan, must be the starting center who occupies the basket.

And Jason Terry is very disgusted with his new teammates who took away his shooting guard position. He doesn't like to play point guard, he likes to shoot.

So Glenn Robinson was very depressed after coming to the Eagles, and he deliberately kept a low profile in the training camp.

But when the game was about to start, the restless heart finally couldn't hold back!

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There are not many tricks in the preseason, and there are few pre-match activities. After all, the attention is just like that, and there is no need to invest too much money.

Although the salary of the Eagles is still very good this year, except for Raheem’s salary of 1200 million, Glenn Robinson’s, Ratliff’s salary of 980 million and 930 million, the other highest salary is Muhammad’s 470 million, and then Newbell, who renewed his contract for 400 million. The team implements team options. Others Jason Terry 6 million, Dean Grove 700 million, Chris Crawford 257 million; Boozer and Prince both have rookie contracts of about 225 million, and Liu Mang and Barnes are both more than 266 dollars a year.

It seems that the Eagles have introduced three rookies and an All-Star player with a lot of money. In fact, the salary is 300 million lower than last season, only a total salary of more than 4900 million US dollars.

It’s just that this is the last season in which the Eagles can still enjoy the rookie bonus. The Eagles’ management is actively negotiating with the agents of Jason Terry and Liu Mang about an early contract extension. On Liu Mang’s side, Schwartz’s attitude is very tough, and he can extend his contract for one year at most with a priority renewal clause.

If the two have not renewed their contracts until the end of the new season, other teams will definitely snatch up poisonous offers, which will cause headaches for the Eagles management.

Therefore, with the personality of Steven Price, the stingy owner of the Eagles, he started to save as much as he could, and waited for the event that neither of them renewed their contracts in advance, and they had to match as many contracts as others gave them.

Of course, it was Jason Terry. On Liu Mang’s side, the Eagles knew that Liu Mang only wanted to renew his contract for one year and wanted to get the bird rights. Rest assured, he really couldn’t renew his long-term contract. He could sign a contract with a 1+1 player option and a priority renewal clause.

Soon, the game began. The Eagles sent a lineup of Dean Grove, Glenn Robinson, Raheem, Muhammad, and Ratliff in the first preseason game.

The Hornets sent David Wesley, Jamal Mashburn, George Lynch, PJ Brown, and Jamal Magloire.

The bearded Baron Davis will miss at least two months of the new season from the start of the preseason due to an injury. It is said that his thigh muscle was torn during training.

And Jamal Mashburn, who was reimbursed for half of last season, is back, and he seems to be in good physical condition, but he just moved to a seaside city. He just moved there, and he came out to play away games before he bought a new house. Mashburn feels that it feels weird to play this year.

It is said that Jack is the starting killer, and from time to time he sacrifices the starting teammates who are on his head and then becomes the starting player himself. In fact, Mash has a similar function.

This year is the tenth season of Mashburn's career. Before that, there have been 4 seasons where he was reimbursed halfway through the season, and each time after the season was reimbursed, an All-Star teammate was injured at the beginning of the second season, and then Mashburn was almost full attendance in the new season...

After the game started, Liu Mang looked at Jason Terry, who was sitting next to him, and asked strangely, "I said Jason, why are you playing on the bench? There are no three-pointers in the starting lineup." "You are allowed to play casually on the bench, and I am not allowed to try? Don't you give me a chance in the preseason?" Jason Terry said with a ferocious expression.

"Okay, okay, wait until next season, next season I will switch with you, you can play the sixth man!" Liu Wei said helplessly
"Why next season?" Jason Terry was puzzled.

"I want to win two sixth men of the year! Breaking all NBA historical records is my dream!" Liu Mang had a Martin Luther King-style expression of the same dream.

"..."

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After the start of the game, Ratliff of the Eagles won the jump ball first. After the Big Dog started the game, he was as irritable as he could be. He was very active and shot from inside and outside. He scored 22 points in the first quarter and the Hornets didn't want to play.

Seeing that Glenn Robinson played so well, coach Kruger asked him to continue playing on the court with Barnes, Prince, Boozer, and Newbell in the second quarter, replacing all other main players.

For the original Eagles players except for the four new players, Coach Kruger has already known them well through one season. You only need to look at the training status to know that they are in better shape in the new season than last season, so the focus is to see how the new players are.

The Hawks took a 34-17 lead in the first quarter. After the start of the second quarter, Glenn Robinson continued to attack with the ball. On the defensive end, Barnes, Prince, and Newbell all defended desperately. The first two were rookie substitutes who wanted to show their strengths in the preseason to gain playing time in the regular season. , the pressure is a bit high.

And Boozer's defense is poor, but his weight is there, and he is very good at grabbing rebounds. In the case that the Hornets really have no fighting spirit today, Glenn Robinson played crazy!

Liu Mang and Jason Terry didn't get a chance to play today. Jason Terry was very sad. It's rare to play as a substitute. Can you give him a chance to perform!
"Ace, why do you think the Hornets are all starters and still play so poorly?" Jason Terry asked puzzled.

"Uh...Jason, I think they are probably worried about whether Charlotte's house will be sold." Liu Mang complained.

"It makes sense." Jason Terry really thinks it makes sense. "The players of the Hornets are too pitiful. The whole team moved. They may have thought of being traded to another city, but they didn't expect the entire team to be traded to another city! There are at least five or six people in a team who have villas. Selling so many villas together is estimated to be a loss."

"Huh? I didn't expect Jason to have a good head! You can analyze it so thoroughly!" Liu Mang exclaimed.

"Hmph, of course..." Jason Terry suddenly reacted because he was being praised: "Damn! Ace! How stupid I am in your eyes!"

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The Hawks played a bit crazy in the preseason. The first 50+ in the new season actually appeared in the preseason. Glenn Robinson joined the Hawks in the first game. He scored 53 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists in the preseason against the Hornets, leading the Hawks to kill the Hornets 122 to 89.

Not only that, Glenn Robinson played crazy in the next 7 preseason games. In the second and third games against the Orlando Magic, the sleepy McGrady looked at Glenn Robinson who had gone crazy throughout the preseason.

Glenn Robinson scored 35+ in two consecutive games against the Magic, leading the Eagles to three consecutive victories in the preseason.

Liu Mang and Jason Terry, two guards who are both defenders, didn't get any opportunities to perform. They didn't have the ball in their hands when they went up. They played well, so they couldn't grab the ball hard. It was good luck to occasionally catch the ball and shoot a three-pointer.

In the next two games against the Heat, and then against the Hornets, and the last two games against the Wizards, Glenn Robinson's performance surpassed the sky!
Glenn Robinson played like crazy in eight games!When it came time to play the Hornets and Wizards in the next three games, the Hornets and Mr. Joe's team did not resist. After playing for a while, seeing how active Glenn Robinson was, they simply sent a substitute lineup to play against rookies.

Ever since, not only the fans were stunned, but the Eagles players were stunned. In the performance, Glenn Robinson averaged 39 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists per game, leading the Eagles to eight consecutive victories in the preseason!
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Glenn Robinson's preseason madness made the Hawks headlines every day.

Originally, many Eagles fans were worried about the new season because of the big dog's troubles before the official training camp time set by the league.

However, after wearing the hat, Glenn Robinson seems to have broken through the mediocre impression he once gave people, and he really used his experience and strength to lead the Eagles to victory just like the rhetoric he put down!
Seeing Glenn Robinson's crazy performance of nearly 40 points per game in eight games, the Eagles have become the focus of discussion among fans almost every day, and the media have begun to tout the Eagles' five-star lineup again.

Especially Glenn Robinson played so well after changing teams. A lot of media said that Glenn Robinson's eight years in the Bucks were delayed by the Bucks. Give him a group of good teammates, and he can surpass the sky!
The fans have the same opinion. When a controversial player plays well, he is naturally boasting.

In addition, there is another very important point, that is, the Lakers have ruled the league for three years, which is too long, just like the six years of Jordan's rule. What most fans in the league wanted to see was not Jordan's consecutive championships, but whether any team dared to stand up and kill the Bulls.

After the Eagles finished last season, people expected them to go further in the new season and go to the finals to attack the Lakers. Of course, the players of the Eagles are still young, and they should go further in the new season. Now that the west is strong and the east is weak, except for the Nets with Kidd, no other team seems to be able to stop the Eagles.

It's just that Glenn Robinson's sudden joining gave the Eagles a little uncertainty. After all, Glenn Robinson was a ticking time bomb before.

But now, people feel that the Eagles seem to have a tendency to be invincible!

Glenn Robinson was also dubbed the title: King of the preseason!
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