Chapter 125: The Deal Begins Again

Last season's Black Eight Miracle was genuine in the hearts of all fans, no one thought it was the Warriors' luck, and of course, no one thought that it was indeed the Warriors' strength that surpassed the Mavericks. Everyone understands that the reason why the Warriors can blacken the Mavericks is because of the old Nelson's chess move.

The series played six games, and the Warriors won four, and there was no Chamberlain at that time, so if you want to say which strong team in the league the old Nelson is least afraid of, it is definitely the Mavericks.

After Chamberlain was substituted, there were repeated shouts of 'SUPER-Z' in the Oracle Center, and fans were waiting for him to play. Since Chamberlain's strong landing in the NBA, the Warriors have relied on his pillar of optimism on the interior to get to where they are today.

So for many fans, once Oxlade-Chamberlain is off the field, they start to panic in their hearts.

But veteran Warriors fans don't see it that way, and they didn't beat the Mavericks without Chamberlain last season? Besides, Chamberlain has always been known for his physical strength, and he will definitely take a short break and play.

But today's game surprised them, Chamberlain has not appeared since the second quarter, but has been sitting on the bench to watch the game.

To their surprise, the Warriors lost the game and ended up losing by seven points at 94-101. The score actually went to its worst until two minutes to go, when the Warriors were still trailing the Mavericks by just two points.

However, at the last moment, Nowitzki finally stepped up, and he hit the box repeatedly, whether it was Evans, Harrington, Petrus or even rookie O'Briant, he was no match for him. Nowitzki became the MVP of the game and was the hero of the Mavericks' victory, and the last two minutes became his stage, and he scored eight points with free throws to lead the Mavericks to the most reckoning victory.

In fact, as long as Nelson Sr. replaced Chamberlain, he could have avoided all this, but he did not do this, but looked at the court with soft eyes, without the slightest hint of his usual irritability. If you sit next to Nelson Sr., you'll find that he's just two people staring, Nowitzki and Byron Davis.

In his heart, these two people are two typical people, both of whom were once extremely proud of his disciples, one inside and one outside. The disciple on the inside once laid him a piece of the Mavericks as his No. 1 general, and the disciple on the outside helped him create a miracle to reverse the opponent and destroy the Mavericks' championship hopes, and avenged the humiliation he suffered in Dallas.

Two people, two good memories of the past.

After the game, the elder Nelson calmly shook hands with the junior general Johnson, and he smiled: "Congratulations, you have completed your revenge." ā€

Johnson smiled bitterly, he was looking forward to this revenge, but was this a revenge battle? The enemy did not resist at all, deliberately exposed his chest for him to pierce, what is there to be proud of in such revenge?

He had also been with old Nelson for a long time, and what the old man had done today made him deeply uneasy, and he felt that this strange old man must be planning some conspiracy, otherwise it would never have been possible for him to take victory away from here. Even without Chamberlain, Nelson Sr. can still command the current lineup to defeat the Mavericks, and the young general is convinced of this!

But on the contrary, the Warriors lost, and the stubborn old man old Nelson admitted defeat!

What's going on?

On December 27, everyone understood the reason, and early the morning after the end of the game with the Mavericks, there was another thunderous bang in the league's trade market, and a news came through Charlie Rosen's mouth: the Pistons made a three-way trade with the Warriors, Celtics, and the SuperSonics, and this trade involved two of the league's top playmaking point guards, Byron Davis and Chauncey Billups!

Charlie Rosen is the columnist godfather of Fox Sports News and has a good relationship with Phil Jackson, who wrote part of the latter's autobiography, and he is well-connected in the league, often breaking some strong news, and is very credible.

According to Rosen's narrative, the Warriors sent Byron Davis and potential outside Marco Belinelli, the Pistons sent Chauncy Billups and Tyshawn Prince, the Pistons, who were star stars and the Pistons' five leading brothers, while the SuperSonics sent Jeff Green and Szczebiak and some cash and a second-round pick from the 2008 draft.

According to the results of previous discussions, the Warriors received Chauncey Billups and the SuperSonics second-round picks, the Pistons accepted Byron Davis, Jeff Green and Szczebiak, and the SuperSonics received Belinelli and Prince and some cash.

But just after the news appeared, fans found that there was no transaction at all.

The deal came and ended so abruptly and quickly, almost as soon as a veteran reporter got the information about the deal, and then the deal was over, and the general managers of the three teams came forward to rebuke Lawson for talking nonsense, and they had no intention of trading at all.

But after the reporters' excavation, they finally dug up the inside story of this deal, in fact, this deal really happened, and it almost took shape, and the reason why the deal failed in the end was that the supersonic changed the price code very shamelessly at the last moment, and he changed the content of the transaction and asked to bring Delonte West to trade together.

None of the three teams wanted Delonte West, the SuperSonics were hell-bent on getting him out of the way, and neither the Pistons nor the Warriors accepted him, so the trade stalled.

Who is Dronte West? Can this hinder the suspension of a three-way transaction?

In fact, this guy was a basketball prodigy, and in high school, he attended the Eleanor Roosevelt School in Greenbelt, Maryland, and it was under his leadership that Eleanor Roosevelt's basketball team, the Commandos, made it to the All-State Championship for the first time, and eventually made it to the Maryland Championship Game in one fell swoop. Although the Raiders ultimately lost 58-70 in that game, West himself scored 22 points and 8 rebounds, and the opponent was powerless to fight back.

And in that year, he ended up averaging 20 per game. 2 points 6. 5 rebounds 3. 9 assists and 3. One steal was named the Washington Post's Player of the Year for the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Region that year. In his final season of high school, he scored in double figures in all but one game, and then he entered St. Joseph's University.

West spent a total of three seasons at St. Joseph's University, averaging 25 per game in 89 appearances. 1 point, 4. 2 rebounds and 3 assists. In his junior year, he was named to the All-American First Team by the Basketball Times, was named to the All-American Player of the Year Award by the Associated Press, and was named to the All-America First Team of the Division, helping the team to a 30-2 record, including 27 consecutive wins in the regular season, the team topped the national rankings, and became the top seed in the NCAA rematch for the first time ever.

His collegiate career was flawless and sharp, and he was a nimble two-way guard who was both a point guard and a shooting guard, a trait that allowed him to play both on the ball and off the ball. At the same time, he also has the ability to make three-pointers and pass passes, and what he is best at is scoring mid-range jumpers in key moments, which almost never misses, and he has repeatedly changed opponents in college.

Not only is his skill brilliant, but West's physicality is also impressive, he's a half-breed, of African-Indian-American ancestry, fast, well-bouncing, and punchy, and he deserves to be in the little green room in the lottery at the time of the draft, no matter where you look at it.

But in fact, when he was drafted in West in 2004, he didn't get drafted by the Celtics until the 24th pick. And the Celtics froze him off the bench after using him for a while, and later threw him to the SuperSonics when they traded for Ray Allen.

Originally, the supersonic team thought they had picked up a piece of treasure, but when they got it, they realized that the piece they originally thought was stainless steel was just a piece of shit iron, and the reason for all this was his eccentric personality.

West is very withdrawn in life, throwing punches directly at teammates if they disagree, and there have been repeated scandals of gun ownership, drug possession, and fights outside the court. The SuperSonics are a rebuilding team, and of course they will not allow such a player to exist, but if they buy him out, the team is reluctant to spend so much money.

So they put the idea on this trade, the SuperSonics are not interested in getting anyone, they just want to send West out of the city, but whether it is the Warriors or the Pistons, the uniform team is shrewd, how can they not know that West is notorious? How is it possible to wipe the ass of the hapless superSonics?

All of a sudden, the trade spread across the league, but Chamberlain, the heart of the Warriors and the key figure in the team's decision to trade Davis, didn't pay attention to him because something more serious was happening around him.

On the morning of the second day after the Mavericks game, Chamberlain woke up to find Doug Sudmons sitting in the living room, wearing a silver suit that was extremely formal.

Seeing this scene, Chamberlain was stunned, he wiped his eyes, and said with a smile: "Hey, brother, didn't you wake up?" Or are you sleepwalking? What are you working on? Are you going to a wedding or a funeral today? ā€

In the past, if Chamberlain was joking, Sudmons would definitely be involved, but not today, he calmly looked at Chamberlain and smiled, and waited until the latter noticed that something was wrong and closed his mouth before he sighed and said, "Z, I'm going to Iraq." ā€

Chamberlain was stunned by this headless sentence, and he pointed in the direction of the Middle East and asked in astonishment: "You said Iraq, you said you were going to Iraq?" ā€

Sudmons smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Yes, Iraq, I'm going to Iraq." In fact it's not just me going, we're N. G…… Everyone in the O organization is going to Iraq, and the anti-war movement should not stop at demonstrations, but also where we should go to help the children who have been devastated by the war. ā€

Chamberlain couldn't react for a moment, he grabbed Sudmons by the shoulder, and yelled, "What does that have to do with you? No, sorry, I don't mean what you think...... Damn it, bro, listen to me, Iraq is not fun, there are terrorists everywhere...... Shit, you listen to me, brother, if you're going to help the Iraqis, take us and we can donate to them......"

Sudmons had been smiling calmly, his eyes clear and calm, smiling at Chamberlain.

An unprecedented sense of powerlessness suddenly came over Chamberlain's body, he knew Sudmons too well, and when the latter showed this expression, it meant that his decision could not be changed, and that was the expression on his face when Sudmons risked a broken leg to join the NBDL just a year after the car accident.

It's useless to persuade anyone!