nba championship predators

Chapter 210

This season, the Suns are still the underdogs in the Western Conference, just a bit better than the Golden State Warriors. They are currently ranked ninth in the Western Conference and are still fighting for playoff tickets.

However, their starting lineup is still very interesting:

Point guard: Stephon Marbury
Shooting Guard: Joe Johnson

Small Forward: Shawn Marion
Power Forward: Amare Stoudemire
Center: Scott Williams

The first four will become famous in the future: Political Commissar Ma, Eagle King, Hacker, and Little Overlord.

The last one sounds unknown, but he already holds three championship rings. He was the toughest backup center in the Bulls Dynasty.

Who is to blame for such a powerful lineup that can reach the ninth place in the Western Conference?

Hacker is already recognized as the best swing defender in the league. The Hawk King has just got rid of his rookie status, and his statistics are changing with each passing day.

Then, apart from the "tumor" Marbury, no one can afford this big scapegoat.

Since falling out with the Timberwolves, Marbury has embarked on a "cancerous road". When he joined, the team's performance was very average. When he left, the team immediately changed the gun:
Leaving the Timberwolves, the Timberwolves made it to the Western Conference Finals.

Leaving the Nets, the Nets reached the finals.

Leaving the Suns, the Suns made it to the Western Conference Finals...

Later, he joined the New York Knicks. Because his family is in New York, his old father often went to watch the game.

On December 2007, 12, during the game between the Knicks and the Suns, the old father suffered a heart attack while cheering and was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment.

But the cold-blooded Knicks uniform team concealed Marbury and let him continue to play.And when Marbury heard the news after the game and rushed to the hospital desperately, he didn't even see his old father for the last time.

An angry Marbury threw a sentence to reporters in New York: "I can't trust these villains, they only think about their own interests."

Since then, he has completely broken with the NBA, disheartened, and abandoned himself...

It wasn't until he went to Huaxia that he was reborn like a phoenix and gained his glory and dignity in the CBA. He was called the "horse political commissar".

Later, he got Huaxia's permanent residence permit and became the teacher of the High School Attached to Normal University.

At that time, Marbury was also a supernova with the same reputation as Iverson, one of the best point guards in the league, but God did not bless him, and Uncle Ma finally redeemed his soul.

The turning point of his life appeared in the summer of 1998.

Marbury has a close friend who met on the roster of basketball training camp in 1990 --

Kevin Garnett.

From 1990, the two people who had never met each other talked on the phone for three years and became friends who talked about everything.

In the 1995 draft, Garnett was selected by the Timberwolves with the fifth overall pick in the first round, and quickly became the hope of the team's rise.

In the 1996 draft, the Timberwolves made a deal, using Ray Allen, who was selected fifth in the first round, to trade for Marbury, who was ranked fourth.At that time, Garnett and Marbury had a good relationship like brothers, not only on the court, but also off the court, they were inseparable.

Everyone agrees that this duo will make the Timberwolves one of the best teams in the league for more than a decade.

But in the summer of 1998, the Timberwolves and Garnett signed a six-year super contract worth $6 million.Throughout the negotiation process, Garnett did not disclose any news to his good brother Marbury.

At the beginning of the new season, Marbury, who had one year left on his contract, was told that due to limited salary space, they could only provide Marbury with a contract with a total price of no more than 7800 million US dollars.

This made Marbury very upset. He thought that his contribution to the team was not weaker than Garnett, but he was looked at differently.And the former good brothers not only kept silent during the negotiations, but also openly regarded themselves as the boss of the team in the new season, believing that the value of the contract is equivalent to the status of the team.

Garnett's contract is a fait accompli. In order to put pressure on Marbury, the team management, together with the head coach and all the players, endorsed Garnett and wanted to force Marbury to accept "the fact that Garnett is ten times better than him."

桀骜不驯的马布里拒绝接受，他开始在赛场上为自己正名，连续刷出了40分12助攻、23分15助攻、25分16助攻的超级数据。

What a blessing it is for any team to have such a powerful point guard!

But the Timberwolves don't feel happy. On the offensive end, Garnett actually plays more of a point forward. He needs the ball in his hands and averages five assists per game.

Even the iconic iron-blooded big jumper has to dribble the ball twice, turn around and shoot again.

Marbury was able to score and get assists again, but Garnett's possession of the ball was squeezed out, and his scoring and assist data in those few games have declined.

So the Timberwolves, from the head coach to the teammates, began to spray Marbury with the same caliber, saying that he was already jealous of Garnett's big contract to the point of madness, and he used some useless statistics like a lunatic on the court, like a "lone wolf"!
An average of 29 points per game is useless data, and an average of 14 assists per game is "independent", not to mention that Marbury's true shooting percentage in those games ranked first in the team!
In this shrinking season, Marbury averaged 17.7 points and 9.3 assists per game, but he was burdened with infamy and grievances that should not have belonged to him.

The coach doesn't like him, his teammates run on him, and even his best friend stands on the moral high ground, advising him to "accept the reality, don't be too selfish, and think about the future of the team!"

Marbury felt that he must be crazy to treat someone as a lifelong friend and actively ask for a trade.

On March 1999, 3, the Timberwolves completed a three-way deal. Marbury returned to his hometown of New York and became a member of the New Jersey Nets, starting his turbulent NBA career.

And Garnett led the Timberwolves to move forward, and entered the playoffs for 6 consecutive seasons. In the 2003-2004 season, they had the best record of 58 wins and 24 losses in team history, and reached the Western Conference Finals that year. It was also the most glorious season in the history of the Timberwolves.

Garnett won the regular season MVP that year, then moved to the Celtics and won the championship trophy.

He has always been beloved by fans and has been one of the best players of the past 20 years.

Even after many years, Garnett is still full of superiority when talking about Marbury's departure: "Marbury has been jealous since day one. Since he left the Timberwolves, I have made the playoffs every year. People know that he left because he was jealous of Kevin Garnett, which is too funny. At this point, he behaves like a girl!"

Is it really because of jealousy?

If Garnett, who has won a contract of [-] million yuan, can stand on his brother's side in the shrinking season, help him check the data, or even not check the data, just to be fair, don't belittle and insult him for the Timberwolves' management, maybe Marbury's story will be different.

In front of the beautiful knife, talking about feelings hurts money, the so-called plastic sisters, glass brotherhood!
　PS: I saw this story when I checked the information at the time, and I really don’t deserve it for the political commissar of Ma. I wrote it to share with you, but it’s a waste of a chapter. KG fans probably will scold me again =. =
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　　Thank you for not knowing where to go, past smoke and cloud 111, dragon, the one who came to make peanut oil, the heart of the pool and the moon, the three thousand drunk stars, a fallen leaf, a small voice to restart,...,

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