unfinished glory

Chapter 290 The season of nothing
Both the players and the coaches were so turbulent that the league was turned upside down, and the bosses, not to be outdone, came out to join in the fun.

After the former Grizzlies owner Heisley suffered a stroke, he used his "money ability" to continue his life for a long time, and finally passed away due to illness.Li Chongxiao posted a message through the media, praising him as the best boss he has ever met.

The Eagles changed a boss for $8.5 million.

Then came the main event.Los Angeles is indeed a city of entertainment, where the biggest news happens.Clippers owner Sterling was tricked by his girlfriend, who revealed a secretly recorded conversation involving Sterling's discrimination against blacks.

Now the powder keg has been lit. It is okay to discriminate against any race in the United States, but you cannot be black.Especially in a sports league like the NBA, which is dominated by black athletes.

Not only the Clippers players protested, but players from other teams in the league also appealed.On behalf of the Players Association, Paul submitted a report to the league demanding that Sterling be punished.

This incident quickly spread from the league to the entire United States, from the sports world to the entire society.

The media fueled the flames, and the people who eat melons talked a lot.

Xiao Hua's nose was almost crooked, he finally took the position, and was about to do a big job, but this kind of scandal broke out in the end, which made him how to build the harmonious alliance in his mind.

Before things could continue to ferment, Xiao Hua held a press conference and announced the penalty decision on behalf of the league: the Clippers owner Sterling was sentenced to a lifetime ban and a fine of $250 million.At the same time, the league forced the Clippers to host and sell them.

Sterling was excluded from his own team, and the league decided to sell the Clippers to whom, as long as it was fair, Sterling had no objection.

All of a sudden, the interested rich people took action one after another.The old father Li Guoqiang also began to prepare.He regretted not buying the Grizzlies last time due to other considerations.If the current boss is him, who would dare to show embarrassment to his son.

Now is the time.Moreover, the Clippers are in Los Angeles, with greater value and more promising investment.

Even the Atlanta Hawks can sell for $8.5 million, and the Clippers will only be higher.But this did not cause any trouble to Li Guoqiang.Just the shares of Under Armor are already worth 70 billion US dollars.

Also participating in the competition is Ballmer, who has retired for several years.He has long been coveted by NBA teams, and has bid for the acquisition of the Grizzlies and Warriors.

These two are the biggest favorites for the next owner of the Clippers.After the quotations from the two parties, after careful consideration by the alliance, Li Guoqiang bid 15 billion US dollars and was out.Silver declared Ballmer's $14.1 billion more "reasonable" and sold the Clippers to him.

Li Guoqiang was very unconvinced and questioned the league, but the answer he got was "basketball reasons".

Sterling was very distressed, but there was nothing he could do. The extra 9000 million US dollars was more than 1250 times more than the 6 million he bought the Clippers.As for why he didn't sell it to Li Guoqiang, he was very clear about the real situation inside, so he sarcastically said: "It turns out that discrimination against Chinese is not discrimination."

But in any case, the dust fell, and the new owner of the Clippers is Ballmer.

After buying the Clippers, he had always had conflicts with Ellison, and privately ridiculed that Ellison bought a country team.

This made Ellison so angry that he personally told Mike Brown that if he saw the Clippers once in the new season, he would beat him up once.

Although Li Chongxiao didn't like Ellison's behavior very much, he had to express his anger for his father when dealing with Ballmer.

So the Grizzlies swept the Clippers 3:0, and even Li Chongxiao dunked Griffin, Jordan and Pierce in these three games.

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After Green joined the Grizzlies, he did not allow the team to make a qualitative leap.He performed well in the Warriors because the Warriors could give him the ball.But the Grizzlies obviously can't let him dominate the team's offense and let Li Chongxiao run.

In this case, he played mediocre and seemed a little unacceptable, which dragged down the team.

But he was hand-picked by the boss, and Mike Brown had to find a way to make good use of it.At this time, even Li Chongxiao's scoring had dropped, not to mention that other players had to sacrifice.

Conley reduced the possession of the ball, played a little at a loss, and seemed to be getting more and more sluggish.

Drummond was encroached on the inside space, his statistics have dropped, and even his free throw percentage has dropped again.And when Mike Brown imitated the Warriors to play five small lineups, Drummond didn't even have a chance to play.

Jabari Parker finally recovered from his injury, trained with Duke's seniors, changed his rigid style of play, and enhanced his shooting.As a result, there is now a start, but there is no start, and Butler has to fight for playing time.

Butler just took over, but in order to match Green's tactical status, he had to sit on the bench again.This made him very dissatisfied with his pride.

Green has a big mouth and likes to chatter, and everyone in the Warriors doesn't care about him.When it came to the Grizzlies, except for Li Chongxiao, who dared not say anything, the other players were sprayed by him many times.Butler couldn't bear it later, and had several conflicts with him.

Later, Green claimed that he replaced Thompson, and Butler had a chance to take the position.And Butler laughed at Green as a player the Warriors didn't want, but ran to the Grizzlies to make fun of him.

For the team's internal conflicts, Mike Brown couldn't suppress it at all, and only Li Chongxiao had the ability to come forward.But he didn't show up unless there was a situation that would greatly affect the team's record.And even if he came forward, he only used force to suppress it, and didn't bother to mediate at all.

Almost everyone can see the conflict between Li Chongxiao and the team.Ellison's ambiguous attitude last offseason made Li Chongxiao almost traded and left the team.

If it weren't for the fact that the child was still young, he would have left long ago.This season, Ellison, who changed his mind, wanted him to renew his contract, but Li Chongxiao refused.

His separation was basically clear. If it wasn't for the fear of switching out midway through the season and causing the team's record to decline, he would have been traded away during the All-Star Game.

People who are about to leave, naturally don't have the mind to care about others, it's futile to be annoying.

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Li Chongxiao's season average is 37.8 points, and he has only achieved one achievement, which is to surpass Chamberlain's 31419 points and rise to the fifth place in the NBA's historical scoring list.His total score is 31429 points, ahead of him, only Jordan, Kobe, Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Not surprisingly, next season will definitely surpass Jordan. As for Kobe's 36281 points, it will take two seasons.In the long run, it is basically certain that he can surpass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and the achievement of [-] points is not a problem.

Li Chongxiao's personal data can only support the team's record, which is obviously not enough for the championship.

The contradictions within the team, coupled with Mike Brown's frequent changes in tactics in order to please Ellison, made the Grizzlies' record not very good.Only got 55 wins and 27 losses, ranking third in the West, creating the lowest winning percentage after Li Chongxiao arrived.

In the playoffs, after sweeping the Lakers 4:0, they met the Thunder in the semifinals and were eliminated 4:1.

(End of this chapter)