NBA: Back to 97, to be the Jagged Bishop

Chapter 348 Aren't You Bullying People?
In the first half, Pippen played like a wolf like a tiger, but in the second half he was even more brave.

Although the old Thomas has sent Marion to guard against Pippen, but Pippen himself is not an offensive player. After he reduces the frequency of shots, he can help the team win.

The Bobcats won this game very easily. It was so easy that Slee, the big killer, won without using much.

When Pippen stepped up, the Bobcats' lineup immediately changed, and even the intensity of the bench has improved.

Old Thomas has only one thought now, that is to return to court immediately and sue the Bobcats after returning to New York.

It's really that Pippen's performance tonight is too unscientific. An old man who is nearly forty years old, can he play like this on the court? The young man in his early 20s is not as lively as he is.

If Pippen didn't take some high-tech medicine, he wouldn't believe it if he killed old Thomas.

Not to mention the old Thomas, even Jordan and thousands of fans who supervised the game tonight felt that Pippen's state tonight was extremely strange.

Jordan knows Pippen very well. After all, he is an old teammate who has cooperated with him for more than ten years. He does not believe that Pippen, who is almost the same age as him, can score 36 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists, 6 steals and 4 steals under the intensity of the playoffs. Cap data.

If you say that scoring, rebounding and assisting data can be obtained by luck, then how to explain the 6 steals and 4 blocks in the back? Whose old man can win this kind of defensive data against the peak All-Star players in the same year, it is simply unbelievable.

Jordan glanced at Combe again. He suspected that it must be Combu's fault again. Perhaps Pippen, who played poorly in the previous two games, played for so long, just a foreshadowing for Combe?

"Pippen!"

"Pippen!"

"Pippen!"

The fans who booed Pippen in the first two games all turned around at this moment and praised Pippen loudly.

Pippen played amazingly tonight, but it is not so mysterious to say that he alone won the game. Ao Pang scored 35 points, 17 rebounds and 3 blocks tonight, and he was one-on-one with the bus In the matchup, he completely won, and his contribution is not much worse than that of Pippen.

If Ao Pang failed to establish an advantage at the basket, then the Bobcats could not have won so easily.

Ao Pang was very upset when he heard the fans shouting Pippen's name.

Fortunately, the team won and let him see the hope of promotion, so he hid his unhappiness in his heart and didn't show it.

This victory made Bobcats all overjoyed, especially Pippen, who sat in the locker room after the game, and his eyes turned red.

Thinking of the grievances he had suffered in the past few days, the old man Pippen felt like he had been wronged.

He's had a long career with countless great games, but tonight's game will be one he will remember forever.

His mood at the moment is even more agitated than that of the Bull Dynasty.

After Jordan walked to the locker room, he saw Pippen's appearance, sighed, stepped forward and patted his old teammate on the shoulder.

"Thank you, Scottie."

Comb also stepped forward with a smile, "Scottie, we still need to win three games before we can beat the Knicks."

"Going forward, you are still our starter. I believe you can play this kind of performance every night."

Pippen stood up, gave Jordan and Combe a hug, and nodded solemnly.

The joy of the Bobcats did not last long, and Thomas Sr. led the Knicks back to New York overnight.

In the early morning of the next day, he knocked directly on the door of Stern's house.

Immediately afterwards, the league dispatched a drug testing team, which arrived in Charlotte that afternoon.

Knowing that the league was going to give Pippen a drug test at this point in time, Comb was stunned. I'm afraid Stern felt a little strange after watching Pippen's performance.

Now the whole world feels that Pippen is abnormal. If the league doesn't make any moves, it will definitely be poked in the back.

And who is the opponent of the Bobcats?It is Stern's own son Knicks, of course he thinks Knicks can advance smoothly.

If Pippen really had a problem with the inspection, Stern would definitely have to pay a heavy fine. Without Pippen's strength, how could the Bobcats win all the remaining three games.

And if Pippen has no problem, this drug test can also engage in Pippen's mentality.

After Pippen saw the drug testing team, he was really angry.

He has played in the NBA for so many years, and of course he has gone through a few drug tests, but he has never been tested at such a critical moment in the playoffs.

Doesn't this just make it clear that Pippen doesn't trust him?

Every player will definitely not be happy when encountering this kind of thing. When Lillard of later generations scored 71 points in a single game, he was even worse. After the game, he encountered a drug test in the locker room. for a day.

Apart from anger in his heart, Pippen was also a little apprehensive.

He also knew that his state was not normal, it was really like taking drugs.

I can guarantee that I haven't touched it, but what if Kung Bu made a move?Maybe he drugged the water he drank during training?
The more Pippen thought about it, the more he felt it was possible, and he became a little guilty. If he was not guilty, he would probably have held a press conference to scold the league by now.

Kumbu is also a bit guilty, he can guarantee the system's boosting effect on players, and the drug testing team can't detect it, but what if Pippen himself is not clean?
In a disturbed mood, Shanmao waited anxiously for the results of the drug test.

Until the evening, the results came out.

Pippen was very clean, and dozens of test items were all negative.

Kongbu let out a long sigh of relief. It seemed that Pippen was usually quite self-disciplined. If something came out of this test, it would be yellow mud falling off his crotch.

On the other hand, Pippen is excited, he is a clean player, your league doesn't trust me like this?

"I want to ask why the league is targeting me like this?"

"Just because I'm a veteran, just because I played a good game last game? Can't a veteran play a good game? Is a veteran a damn thing?"

"I have played in the league for nearly 20 years, and I have never heard of a team that suffered a drug test in the playoff tiebreaker. I want to ask the league, since you checked me, have you checked the Knicks players?"

"Wang Zhizhi averaged 30 points per game in these four games, have you checked?"

"Payton is not much younger than me. He is still the absolute core of the Knicks' backcourt. Have you tested him for drugs?"

"I'm not such a dazzling player as Jordan, but you can't bully me like this. I need an explanation from the league."

The on-site reporters who Pippen said felt a little bit of indignation in their hearts. This time the league seems to have gone too far.

After all, Pippen is also a five-time crown star and the second in charge of the Bull Dynasty. Even if he is old now, the league does not give any special treatment, but you can't bully him like this, right?

The reporters felt sympathy for Pippen, and the reports they wrote were naturally biased towards Pippen. Then, when the fans saw how the league bullied the veteran, they immediately became unwilling and asked the league to give an explanation.

Stern never thought that taking a drug test could cause such an incident. The fans were very angry. Of course, the league had to give an explanation.

After thinking for a while, Stern asked the vice president Stu Jackson to go out.

Stu Jackson held a press conference and told the old Thomas about Pippen taking banned drugs. If someone reported it, the league would of course investigate. Could it be that nothing happened?In that case, the fans would definitely be even more reluctant.

Stu Jackson left the incident clean, and put all the shit on Old Thomas.

Lao Deng was still waiting for good news in New York. He was 100% sure that Pippen was on drugs, but the good news didn't come, and he was scolded by the fans.

"It's no wonder the Knicks have never been able to win a championship. Seeing that they can't beat their opponents, they will only use this kind of method that is not on the stage."

"Now I know why old Thomas is called the Smiling Assassin. He has such a good relationship with Combe, and when it was time to backstab, he was not soft at all."

"What are the Knicks worried about? They have already led 3:0 before, and there is no team in the entire NBA history that can come back in this situation."

"Others can't make a comeback, but it doesn't mean that Kongbu can't. Has he created fewer miracles?"

"When you say that, I suddenly feel that the Bobcats may really be able to create a miracle this time, provided that Pippen can maintain this state."

There was a lot of discussion from the outside world, and Lao Deng became the target of public criticism.

Kong Bu has been watching the situation quietly. After seeing Lao Deng being scolded, he hurriedly called Lao Deng, wanting to ridicule this old thing, but unfortunately Lao Deng didn't answer Kong Bu's call at all.

Kumbu would not blame Lao Deng for this incident, and he did nothing wrong. Ninety-nine out of [-] people think that Pippen is on drugs. As the team coach and general manager, Lao Deng should do something. What.

If you do nothing, how can you be worthy of your players, bosses and fans.

Before the fifth game of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the NBA's regular season honor awards began.

There is no doubt that Combe won the COY of the year's head coach again. This is the fourth time he has won this honor in his coaching career, and he has already surpassed all the coaches in NBA history.

To this day, the coaches with the most COYs, besides Combe, are Mavericks coach Nelson Sr. and Heat coach Pat Riley.

Both of them are three times.

Now Kumbu has won the award for the fourth time, and he has become the coach with the most COY in history.

The key is that Kumbu is still so young now, who knows how many times he can get COY in the future, he is only 34 years old now, even if he only coaches until he is 60 years old, he still has 26 years of coaching career, get ten times and eight times COY, it's a breeze.

After Kumbu retires, the honor of COY may show a gap. Konbu is the only one with 10+ awards, and the second place is the old Nelson and Riley.

In addition to COY, Comb also won the best manager of the year, which is the first time he has won this award since entering the league.

When he was in Philadelphia before, Comb was the general manager for three years, but he didn't get this award in the past three years, and this time he finally got what he wanted.

At the same time, Comb broke another record. He was the youngest manager of the year in NBA history.

This record has almost no meaning, because very few people can be the general manager of the team at Comb's age.

Jordan looked unhappy when he saw that Combe had won the best manager of the year.

The Bobcats actually did not set up a general manager position this season, claiming that Combe and Jordan are in charge of team operations.

So Jordan could also be the general manager of the Bobcats.

Kumbu won the best manager of the year, and Jordan didn't even have a hair, so he was naturally very upset.

In the next second, Stern announced the award for the best executive of the year. This award has only been launched in recent years, and almost no one pays attention to it.

In the past two years, some teams' financial directors, security managers and other executives won the awards.

It's not difficult to explain why few people pay attention to this award. It seems that there is an award for the best training group of the year every year. Who would pay attention to these things when they are full.

This time it is quite special, because the winner is Jordan.

Jordan became even angrier. Didn't he feel that Stern was disgusting?Executive of the Year?I am the boss of Bobcats!

It's okay not to give it to the best manager of the year, but also to a disgusting person who is the best executive. Jordan is so angry.

The next Rookie of the Year was won by the Cavaliers' No. [-] pick James.

There is little suspense about this award.

Of course Hinrich and Bosh's record is much better than James', but after all the data is not as good as James'.

And even if it wasn't for James, it wouldn't be the Bobcats' turn, because there is Melon Anthony.

Under normal circumstances, James' vote rate for the best rookie is 47%, and Anthony's is 40%, and there is not much difference between the two.

Then Wade's 11%, then Hinrich's 0.38% and Bosh's 0.19%.

Of course, this is just the vote rate under normal circumstances. Right now, Hinrich and Bosh's popularity is still good, and their vote rate is even higher than that of Wade.

In terms of the rookie lineup, both Hinrich and Bosh were selected for a while, and there is no doubt about it.

Then there's the kudos on the defensive end.

As a rookie, Hinrich was directly selected to the defensive second team, which is shocking.

Even Combe applauded Hinrich.

Hinrich cheered loudly. In his opinion, the honor of the defensive second team made him more excited than getting the best rookie.

This represents his defense has been recognized.

As long as the defense is good enough, he can actually gain a foothold in this league, no matter which team he is in, he can make a living.

And if it only has offensive ability, then maybe it's impossible.

Hill was selected for the first round of defense, and the news made Hill laugh from ear to ear.

Under normal circumstances, this year's defensive team is Kobe, Uncle Bao, Artest, Garnett and Ben.

Now Hill has squeezed out Uncle Bao's spot.

One is the evil old Yinbi, and the other is a good old man with a sunny image. Even if Uncle Bao's defensive efficiency is indeed slightly higher than Hill's, he still failed to compete with Hill in the end.

Two defensive lineups were selected, and Combe was quite satisfied.

DPOY was taken down by Big Ben, and no one will object to this. The Pistons can become one of the five kings in the East, and Big Ben's defense is indispensable.

(End of this chapter)