: 581. Sudden change

NBA headquarters, the office of the president of the league.
"Adam, I did a good job this time." David Stern praised Adam Silva on his mouth, but there was no smile on his face.
"It's nice to get your praise." Adam Silva responded modestly. Adam Silva didn't know whether this work was done to make David Stern happy or unhappy.
"You are busy with your work first, I will find you if there is something." David Stern let Adam Silva leave.
Adam Silva left David Stern's office in a confused mood, thinking about the weird old man while thinking about where he made a mistake this time, but after thinking for a long time, he returned to his office. Yes, but I did n’t expect any mistakes!
The work David Stern had Adam Silva do a few days ago was to help the Hawks increase their attention. Compared with the previous two years, the Hawks' attention in the United States has dropped significantly this year.
As long as it is not a championship, or the Lakers Knicks, other teams, even teams that have consecutively reached the finals, as long as they have not won the championship, or have not won the championship in recent years, they are considered to have reached the finals continuously. And it wo n’t keep the popularity too long. Slowly, people find that this team seems to be at most a runner-up. Over time, there has been aesthetic fatigue.
What's more, the Hawks are not the runner-up, just the semifinals of the playoffs. In addition to the fans in Atlanta and Georgia, most fans in other parts of the United States have an aesthetic fatigue on the Hawks.
Coupled with the rise of the Pacers in the eastern team this year with unexpected expenditures, it makes people seem to see the Eagles two years ago. People like new things. The Eagles here have a little bit of enough to go. Pay attention to the Pacers. The Pacers, like the Hawks two years ago, became the focus of the league.
In addition, the three-headed monster and the four giants in the west have a lot of news. Perhaps Liu Mang ’s distinctive personality and the strength of the top star in the league ’s point guard have given him a good exposure. , But the Hawks ’exposure this year is indeed too low, not as good as last year ’s losing streak.
This made David Stern, who saw that the Hawks were not affected after the introduction of Rashid Wallace and had a very good start, was very anxious. The Hawks were "out of breath". The feeling of exploding popularity on both heads.
Of course, this does not affect the market value of the Eagles or other things. The popularity of the Eagles in China is basically comparable to that of the Rockets, and because the Eagles are stronger, the Eagles fans speak more on the forum than the Rockets fans. Furious, the Hawks 'local tickets sold well, the local live-streaming ratings were high, and the sponsorship fee on the Chinese side was also high. They also took advantage of the league's divided broadcast fee and made more money than last year. The Hawks' market value was loud.
But for the NBA officials, it is not good at all. The Eagles jersey market is not as good as before, the live broadcast ratings are not as good as before, the topic index is not as good as before, and the all-round decline, which makes the league a headache.
Who will the league hold in the east? Pacers? The new Spurs, which had a hot start, but failed to score 83 points in six consecutive games and scored less than 90 points?
Or the Pistons and Nets, these two killers?
The other three teams, Magic, 76ers, and Raptors, which were originally popular superstars, are now split from the penultimate to the penultimate Eastern Conference.
The Hawks were originally the league's favorite team last year, but the Hawks were still too young to reach the finals, which made the league regretful. When the Eagles introduced another sting this year, David Stern felt It ’s all smoking. Fortunately, this year ’s Rashid Wallace ’s unexpected safety. The Hawks are steadily moving forward, but they are
dead
. This makes David Stern a headache, so he is called the supervisor. Commercially operating Adam Silva finds ways to help the Hawks create exposure.
Adam Silva did it quickly, but the method, in David Stern's view, was too radical.
David Stern looked at the online news commentary. Whether it is the media, experts or fans, he questioned this player's strength rankings throughout. Liu Mang played very well, but Garnett and O’Neal obviously Playing better, both are 20 + 10, the team record is not worse than the Hawks, only half a win behind the Hawks.
Adam Silva only wanted to complete the work, to achieve the goal, not to care about the process and the negative situation of this radical work concept, so David Stern began to hesitate, in the end whether to give the position of president This young man.
But the key point is that Adam Silva is highly regarded by the league team bosses, because Adam Silva has been working in the NBA for many years and has brought a lot of income to the league, such as the signing with TV stations in the summer of 2002 The 7-year rebroadcast agreement increased the league's revenue last season by a large amount. In addition, the deepening of cooperation with China, the league's revenue last season increased by a full 10% compared to last season, and the salary cap was also compared. The salary cap forecast for the next few years in 2000 has increased by more than $ 4 million.
The bosses love Adam Silva, but David Stern does n’t like that. Like now, the Hawks ’attention is rising, but most of the attention they get is questioned. This is not David- Stern wanted the result.
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On November 12, the Eagles came to the North Shore Garden Arena to challenge the Celtics with a mouthful of poisonous milk from the league.
Most teams in the East are miserable this year. Except for the top five, no team in the East has a 50% win rate. The sixth Heat are only 3 wins and 4 losses, while the Celtics with 2 wins and 5 losses are ranked in the East. eighth……
This year's Eastern Conference wins were basically snatched up by the top three. Except that the Nets are really struggling for a 50-win season, the top three teams didn't lose much at the start, and most Eastern Conference games are Eastern teams play, no, a lot of teams with 0 wins or 1 win and at most 2 wins, from the seventh in the east to the fifteenth in the east are all three cases.
Among them, the Magic are at the bottom.
The Celtics are also a miserable team this year. They sent Antoine Walker away. They selected the "genius high school student" Kendrick Perkins of this year. They selected themselves but soon after signing. Rookie season reimbursement, a large number of high-quality role players left last season ...
Fortunately, Wen Baker has reached the contract year this year. When Perkins is not starting on top of him, there is a feeling of returning to the light and helping Pierce win two games.
For such an opponent, the Eagles came to the North Shore Garden Arena easily to play.
After the start of the game, the Eagles easily won the first move. Liu Mang and Rashid Wallace, who were very excited today, started the pick-and-roll style.
Rashid Wallace was endlessly upset with the Celtics. Although he was not happy to play in Boston, the fans there mocked him as if he had never read a book, but the Celtics actually refused. To get him, but the two first-round draft picks, which made Rashid Wallace feel his self-esteem hurt.
So this time Rashid Wallace took the initiative to ask Liu Mang and Stockton, Jason Terry three ball-handling cores to help him play the Celtics, Rashid Wallace came up with Liu Mang bombed the Celtics together. In the first quarter, Liu Mang scored 11 points and 4 assists. Rashid Wallace scored 14 points, 3 rebounds and 2 blocks. The two teamed up to win the Hawks team. 25 points in 28 minutes of the festival.
Not only the offensive end, the two who played the first quarter also tried their best on the defensive end, driving teammates to defend the Celtics by 18 points in a single quarter, and the Hawks led by 10 points in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Rashid Wallace continued to play. When Stockton and Boozer played a pick-and-roll attack, he specially passed a lot of to Rashid Wallace. After Stockton rested , Jason Terry, who got the main control, didn't come by himself today. He played for Rashid Wallace, and Rashid Wallace continued his offensive performance.
Today Rashid Wallace played a crazy first half game. After scoring 14 points in the first quarter, he scored a single quarter in the second quarter. 35 points and 7 rebounds in the first half refreshed his career halftime score. recording! 5 blocks in the half, also a new career high!
In this half game, Rashid Wallace tried his best on both ends of the offense and defense, trying to beat the Celtics to death.
The Hawks also led the Celtics by 18 points with 57 to 39!
Everything seemed so smooth for the Hawks. After the intermission, the Hawks sent Stockton and Jason Terry in the backcourt. The two went up to take possession of the ball and took the bench. We fight.
Liu Mang saw that he was only playing a quarter and was about to punch out of work. His heart was sad, and the average score per game climbed to the fifth in the league. Although, it is almost the average score of the stars in the league this year. Both have fallen sharply, and have been sent to the legendary poison milk list by the league, but who does n’t want their data to look good?
It's just that the Celtics obviously didn't have a tendency to struggle in the first half, which made Liu Mang only watch the data of 11 points and 4 assists in silence, which had to pull down the average score per game.
This fate seems to always like to fight against people, you have to accept the reality, it suddenly gives you a "surprise"!
After the start of the second half, Stockton and Jason Terry took Barnes, Boozer and Kwame Brown to play. Mohammed, Willie Green and others were ready to rotate at any time.
The Eagles are all waiting in line to abuse the vegetables, and suddenly the Celtics exploded.
Maybe this year is the year when the player named James is famous. In the 2001 draft, the Celtics backup point guard Mike James, after the second half started, scored a three-pointer and a mid-range shot and a layup. Points, plus Pierce also hit a three-pointer and an empty cut dunk, played together with the Eagles a 12-2!
The points were suddenly chased 41 to 59 by the Celtics. The Hawks' lead was only 8 points, and the time was more than three minutes!
At this time, Stockton waved a big hand, indicating that he didn't need to hurry and hit slowly. He still has a lead on his side.
It is true that Stockton has experience and can overwhelm the scene, so that the Hawks' substitutes are so panicked, and they will continue to open the offensive and defensive steadily ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The score began to continue.
But on the defensive end, the Hawks still played very badly. Pierce dribbled on the perimeter and rubbed, and a throw was thrown out. Without the wingspan of Prince or Raheem, there was no way. Restrictions, can only bet on Pierce's feel is not accurate, and Pierce from the third quarter, feel strangely accurate today!
As for Mike James, it ’s not a question of inaccuracy today, it is completely gone! Scored 19 points in the third quarter!
Even Pierce ’s outbreak was driven by Mike James. At the beginning, the three pointers and empty dunks Pierce made were all opportunities given by Mike James to break the ball. Pierce made two shots. Afterwards, he recovered his confidence in shooting, and the two teamed up to plan a counterattack.
In the last attack of the third quarter, Mike James made a three-pointer from the buzzer and scored the 19th point of the third quarter, which was also the total of 19 points in the game. Strong outbreak!
Who would have thought that in 2001, when the 25-year-old turned old from the Israeli United to return to the United States to participate in the draft, the old draft suddenly broke out in the third quarter!
On the Eagles side, Liu Mang is already talking and laughing with Rashid Wallace, Rahim and others, who knows that the situation is sudden!
During the intermission, they all started to discuss where to go after the game tonight. Boston ’s nightlife is still very good, but while playing, suddenly found that there is something wrong with him. At the beginning, coach Kruger was still sitting on the Diaoyutai because there was Stockton on the field, but Mike James couldn't stand up to beat Stockton with 19 points in a quarter!
At the beginning, Liu Mang felt that the league's MVP list was not so toxic. It may be that the toxic milk powder was effectively treated, but unexpectedly, it was still so toxic!