Zhang Hao felt what Jordan had felt in the past two years.

Jordan is the player with the most news in the league today. Although he can't compete with Zhang Hao, Anthony Hardaway, Duncan, O'Neal, Iverson and others, he still has the most news on the front page of newspaper news, TV news, sports magazines and sports programs, etc., and so on.

Jordan sometimes encounters a very painful situation. No matter how good or miserable he plays, it is difficult to make headlines. Although Jordan can make it on the front page almost every game, in most cases it is still the deputy headlines, and at least it is the first sequence of news below the headlines and deputy headlines, it is really difficult to make headlines unless he plays well, and there are not many headline harvesters that day.

This time, Zhang Hao also encountered a similar situation, but he felt very good...

The 17-game winning streak was ended, which was originally a depressing thing, but Zhang Hao didn't even read the news that night.

When I woke up the next morning, I found that no one discussed the end of their 17-game winning streak by the Cavaliers because an explosive incident happened. The Warriors star Ratriel Spreville locked the throat team coach P-J Carlesimo in the game against the Timberwolves. He grabbed Carlesimo's neck for 50 seconds, and pinched Carlesimo so much that he fainted...

At that time, it seemed that P-J-Calesimo felt like she had been strangled to death. Fortunately, she was breathing after she pulled it away. The Warriors team doctor immediately rescued her and sent her to the hospital.

Since the game had reached 9 minutes and 44 seconds in the fourth quarter, the Timberwolves led the Warriors more than 30 points. After discussion by the referee, the management of the two teams, and the technical station officials, the game was announced to end directly.

Early this morning, the NBA official held an emergency press conference and announced that it had notified the Players Union and the Warriors to suspend Ratrill Spreeville's contract indefinitely. The local police station has intervened and implemented compulsory measures against Spreeville. The NBA official, Players Union, the U.S. Sports Bureau, and the Arbitration Bureau will form a joint investigation team to conduct an investigation.

Spreville is only 27 years old. Before this vicious incident, the future is bright. The current contract expires in 2000, and he is only 30 years old. He can be selected for the first and second defense in the second grade. Some media reported that he was already talking about completing the 7-year contract renewal ahead of schedule... Now, it is still a matter of whether this four-year, $32 million contract with more than two seasons left.

The alliance also needs to investigate the specific situation and mediate...but the media have already revealed the specific reasons this morning.

Carlesimo did a good job in coaching the Trail Blazers last season, reaching the second round, and also training Nash and Rashid Wallace, but the Trail Blazers' financial backer Paul Allen did not like his coaching philosophy and did not renew his contract after the contract ended. After the Warriors fired Adelman, they signed a five-year, $10 million long contract.

Carlesimo is a fanatical admirer of Sloan and likes to play pick-and-roll. When he came to the Warriors, the Warriors introduced Boggs, Tony Delk, and the original Bembo Coles, both point guards with good pick-and-roll ability. Joe Smith also signed back to the big pitcher Donyel Marshall who averaged 12 points per game last season with three years and $13 million. Of course, he had to play pick-and-roll. Spreville's shooting rights have not changed, but he was forced to change his playing style and had constant quarrels with Carlesimo since the training camp.

So far this season, Spreville has played 14 games, and his shooting percentage plummeted to his career lowest 39.7%. He obviously cannot adapt to shooting without the ball. He plays singles at critical moments and is unwilling to adjust his playing style. He is at his peak at the age of 27. He averaged 24.4 points per game with a shooting percentage of 45% last season. He was selected for two defense for a long time...

Finally, in the game against the Timberwolves, the team was more than 30 points behind... The conflict intensified and they took action.

Things are simple, but Spreeville has different brain circuits from other top stars. Other top stars either put pressure on the management, apply for a deal, or be arrogant and ignorant of the coach on the court.

But Spreville never thought about putting pressure on the management. Perhaps it was the agent's problem. He didn't handle it well, and he was reluctant to accept the contract renewal matters he was discussing with the Warriors. The seven-year contract with over 100 million yuan was the key that he was irritable and strong, but he was not the kind of person who would influence his teammates for himself. On the contrary, his playing style has always been a very team and high-quality playing style... Then, this happened.

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The Silver Fox arrived at the stadium early and played back-to-back against the Spurs tonight.

The players were off this morning and came directly to the pre-match meeting in the afternoon, warm up, and play games in the evening, but he still had to come, and there was a meeting with the management in the morning.

When he got out of the car, a cold wind blew. He tightened his scarf and there was a layer of rubber ring inside, protecting his neck well... It was also dangerous to be a head coach!

Although his team is in good condition and as the champion coach, the players respect him very much, he just thinks that someone may be ill-telling to him, and may be the one who looks the most polite.

That guy always cares about his tactical board openly or deliberately or undoubtedly...

During the tactical meeting between the Lakers management and coaching staff, there was no talk about the Madman, which had nothing to do with them. The logo man regretted that they lost in the competition with the Trail Blazers, and the Raptors' high-quality forward and guard pitcher Walter Williams was traded by the Raptors to the Trail Blazers.

The Silver Foxes are a little regretful. They did a great job of signing this offseason. Brent Barry and Rick Fox perfectly integrated into Zhang Hao, Kenny Anderson, O'Neal, Brian Shaw, Jason Williams, and Doug Christie's core 6-man team. The new 8-man core lineup is extremely tacit and powerful. Fisher did a good job as a pushback.

But there are still fewer forward and guard pitchers. The main reason is that other teams target and other teams also need pitchers.

In addition to fighting for the hot shield center in the summer, other championship-winning teams also compete for the striker against the Lakers.

The Lakers used the trick of signing their brother to seduce their younger brother to join, and then they grabbed Brent Barry.

The Lakers have an important signing target during the offseason. The Nuggets' small forward Daller Ellis has a 41% three-point shooting percentage so far in his career. He averaged 2.3 three-pointers per game last season. Although this 84 Golden Generation's master pitcher is already 37 years old, he maintains a very good condition. At the age of 2008, he signed a seven-year, $10 million in total with the Nuggets, which expires in 2000. Even if he scored $2.29 million at the age of 40, it is worth it.

But Supersonics general manager Wall Chock and Nuggets general manager Carney Sovas are college classmates, and the Lakers can't make any good chips. The Nuggets sent Dale Ellis to the Supersonics. This season, Dale Ellis was a substitute, with Payton's pass support, with 52% of his three-point shooting percentage, ranking first in the three-point shooting percentage.

This time, the Lakers wanted to trade Walter Williams with the useless Robert Pike and the draft pick, but were intercepted by the Trail Blazers.

As the defending champion, it is very easy to become a target that other teams don’t want to trade, which is normal.

After becoming the general manager of logo, the Lakers have also helped the Lakers win many championships and got used to it.

Teams that can complete the defending title generally have basically no big deals besides replenishing veterans and signing free agents. The very important reason is that it is difficult for them to trade the players they want, so it is better to come in a stable manner.

Teams that trade blindly after winning the championship can basically not defend their titles.

The logo man was calm and did not move the Doug Christie and Brian Shaw that other teams wanted because they wanted to pitch, so the Lakers could start with 17 consecutive victories.

But there is still a sense of frustration and annoyance to the actions of business partners who usually have good relationships but are asking for prices at this time.

However, just when the logo man was angry, an unexpected thing happened...

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The official announcement of the month that with the approval of the NBA Players' Union and the NBA Rules Committee, the distance between the top arc area and the basket will be extended from 6.7 meters to 7.25 meters, which is to restore the distance from the FIBA's three-point line to the three-point line before 1994.

This news came very suddenly!

During the offseason, some team bosses raised this matter, but the bosses did not care about this rule. It was a change to the basic rules of basketball. The NBA official, the Player Union, and the NBA Rules Committee were responsible for negotiation, mainly NBA President David Stern and former General Manager of the Suns, and current NBA Rules Committee Chairman Jerry Colangelo.

There were rumors during the offseason that this change will occur in the season after the new labor-management agreement was agreed.

After the NBA announced the change of this rule, the media generally believed that this was a rule change that had a huge impact on the current NBA to divert people's attention from the vicious incident of the madman's throat-locking coach.

The official NBA statement was that Mooning slipped and injured while making up for defense and out of the three-point line on December 3, which triggered internal discussions between the league and the Rules Committee.

The league said that the fundamental reason is that there are too many injuries in the league since the 1995-96 season. After adapting to the 1994-95 season, the Knicks, Heats, Cavaliers, Jazz, and Hawks began to fight to the death in the 1995-96 season. Other teams followed the trend and entered the iron-blooded era. There are several waves of injuries in the league every year, early season, mid-season, playoffs...

CNBC, which has officially cooperated with the NBA, revealed that this is to limit some players with distinctive three-point shooting.

There is another saying that this is to limit the teams with iron-blooded playing style.

The extension of the area within the three-point line will theoretically have a huge impact on teams with high-speed rotations from mid to short distances.

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As the three-pointers have been paid more attention to the past three seasons, the three-pointers have been changed from the specifications close to the FIBA ​​to the original specifications. At present, public opinion generally believes that the NBA's three-pointers will suffer another huge blow.

When Zhang Hao saw the statement of CNTV's basketball program, he felt that he was connoted...

But indeed, for certain specific players, such as Zhang, Jordan, McGrady, Grant Hill and others, their three-point shooting will be hit hard.

In fact, he had expected that he had made some preparations during the offseason. Of course, it was not enough, but he was preparing as much as possible. During training, he was trained according to the specification of 7.25 meters, and his level was better than the sidelines on both sides. Of course, the current three-point specifications are already very strong. The three-pointers in the top arc area are close to the top. After the rules are changed, this part of the shooting will definitely be greatly affected. Changes in the mid-range shooting area may also affect the evaluation...

But at the beginning of the new season, the league did not introduce this rule. As the media predicted, it seemed to be planned to launch it next summer.

But he remembered that it should have been launched this season, and the result was that the Madman's throat lock incident led to the occurrence of this incident.

At 3 pm, before the pre-match meeting with the Spurs began, Zhang Hao heard that his teammates were discussing the rules changes, but there was no anxiety or fear.

As Zhang Hao expected, although there have been 9 players in the past three seasons and players have made more than 200 three-pointers in a single season, it is still rare. Three-pointers have begun to receive more attention, but it is not yet time for qualitative changes.

This takes a relatively long process. For example, Curry launched the small ball era in the original time and space. It was not that he shot hard alone, but that other three-pointers in the league evolved directly, but that more than ten years of long evolution. At that stage, Curry triggered a wave of three-pointers. After each team followed up, those new generation players with better three-point skills played one by one.

At the pre-match meeting, Silver Fox also mentioned the extension of the three-point line. The training ground has begun to make adjustments. Another circle was posted outside the original three-point line. The 6.7-meter top arc has remained at the farthest three-point distance, but the new 7.25-meter line has been drawn. Silver Fox announced that the next three-point shooting training will be based on the new three-point line.

But the current style of play has not changed.

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The adjustment of the NBA three-point line is currently being hyped up by the media, with the league behind it, and fans are talking about it lively... But NBA teams don't pay much attention to it.

After all, so far this season, there are only 76 players who averaged at least one three-pointer per game. If there are multiple teams such as the Heat, Hornets, Eagles, Supersonics, Lakers, etc., which average 1+ three-pointers per game, there are more than 20 teams, and the teams are only 2 players who average more than one three-pointer per game.

So far this season, the Hawks averaged 8.1 three-pointers per game to the league first, while the Jazz averaged 3.7 three-pointers per game to the league last. Three-pointers were valued at first, but it was not that important. And it was far from the time of qualitative change, and they were stabbed in the back...
Chapter completed!