Chapter 699: Three Flowers
It was a turbulent offseason, and the league was already in a turmoil as Duncan decided to join the free market.
Now, Duncan has been in Boston for three years and is qualified to activate the Bird clause. If he chooses to stay in Boston, he can get more money, but accordingly, with Boston's current situation, it is difficult to make trouble in the east with the Pistons and Knicks.
“So far, there is no conclusion, I may stay.”
Finally, a reporter found Duncan. The answer he gave was vague enough to make Boston fans restless because they knew very well that once Duncan left, they would turn from a powerful group in the East to a bully.
Several teams made extremely aggressive offers to Duncan, led by the Philadelphia 76ers and the Indiana Pacers.
The same characteristic of these two teams is that they can give Duncan a maximum salary, and at the same time, they are quite competitive in the East.
Although they are not a wealthy family like the Celtics, even if they are named as a wealthy family, the current Celtics will not see any hope. If they continue to stay here, they may not even be able to win the Knicks. How can they shake the throne of the Pistons?
In early August, Mo Mengchen's mouthpiece, Henry Hasman, who has become famous in recent years, released news: "Tim Duncan is increasingly inclined to leave Boston!"
Boston was completely in panic. In desperation, Pitino gave Duncan a shark-level super maximum salary of 120 million yuan for 7 years.
In other teams, Duncan cannot make so much money like him, with a superstar with scarce commercial value. Every big contract is very important, but for Duncan, money is not the first priority.
He cares about the outcome, and he doesn't want to be a loser anymore, so he has no idea about the Celtics' super maximum salary, just letting it be there for people to watch.
If he could refuse such a salary, then the money would not be a problem for him.
Duncan's attitude is extremely clear. He is just looking for a strong team with the same game philosophy as his. This team must not only be strong enough, but also his coach's team building ideas must be recognized by him.
The 76ers and the Pacers are in the lead, while other wealthy families can only be seen from afar.
The Lakers have O'Neal, so naturally they don't care about Duncan; the Knicks have no space and can't swallow Duncan's contract; the Celtics themselves are all treated as Kay, so there is nothing to say; as for other teams, even if they can pay for the money, the team is not competitive, and Shifo doesn't look down on it.
Therefore, either Duncan chooses money or chooses one of the 76ers and Pacers.
76ers coach Larry Brown has been coveting Duncan for a long time. With such a good opportunity, he must stand up and do his best to bring back the league's best power forward for the team.
On August 3, Duncan met with Brown.
Just when the outside world thought that the Pacers would also send Larry Bird to meet with Duncan and use Big Bird's three-inch tongue to trick Duncan into getting it, Big Bird chose to resign.
He coached the Pacers for three years. Although he did not lead the team to the finals, the Pacers have always been a tenacious iron army under his command. Moreover, it was his Pacers who provided the world with a plan to sniper pistons.
Long before the rise of the Pistons, in the 1998 Eastern Conference Semi-Finals, they used muscle battles and the Pistons to fight six games to tell the world how to deal with running and bombardment. Due to the strong rise of the Pistons, the teams could only accumulate muscle men and play meat grinder-style games with them when they could not slow them down.
Bird introduced this method, which the Knicks and the Heat have promoted. Now all teams in the league are ready to use this method to deal with the Pistons.
The potential crisis casts a chilling shadow on the Pistons' three consecutive championships.
As a result, Bird, who had the opportunity to become a famous coach, chose to leave after coaching the Pacers for three years and retired.
People in the world are puzzled by this, only Mo Mengchen knows what this is.
This is what Bird calls the three-year law.
Big Bird has always been a very independent person. This is exactly the case when he was a player. He can use superb words to make his opponents feel ashamed and can also wisely deal with the Cardinal's difficulties. Now that he is middle-aged, he also has his own understanding of coaching.
Bird is practicing his understanding of coaches, which is what he calls the three-year law.
"The NBA head coach shouldn't be coaching on a team for more than three years, because players will feel numb to the long-term only one voice in the locker room."
This statement is very one-sided, because all the coaches we are familiar with have taught on the same team for a long time.
The greatest coaches in American sports history, John Wooden, Cardinal, Popovich, Jerry Sloan, Pat Riley and Phil Jackson, all coached for more than three years and all achieved great success.
Although Mo Mengchen didn't quite agree with Bird's three-year law, he was like many brainless fans. When he saw him doing this resolutely, he would only give him a sentence: "The big bird is insightful."
The big bird's departure had a huge impact on Pacers' recruitment of Duncan.
No one knows how Duncan reacts, but one thing is certain that when Bird chooses to leave, the balance in Duncan's heart has tilted towards Philadelphia.
A week later, another operation of the Pacers completely cut off the chance to get Duncan.
Isaiah Thomas was appointed as the Pacers' new head coach. Although the Smiling Assassin has no conflict with Duncan, his coaching ability is a huge difference compared to Brown.
Going to the Pacers is equivalent to going to the second Celtics. Thomas' coaching experience and his team building philosophy are completely unrecognizable to Duncan. This matter suddenly lost its suspense. The world is waiting for Shi Buddha's decision. Except for the Indiana, almost everyone believes that the Pacers have been eliminated.
Mo Mengchen kept an eye on this matter because Duncan's choice would determine the pattern of the east.
Whether it is the 76ers or the Pacers, they are all traditional Eastern strong teams, and Duncan can seamlessly connect their system and make them the overlords of the Eastern Conference.
No matter who Duncan joins, it will give the East an extra super team that can compete with the Pistons and the Knicks.
It is said that after Jordan retires, the league structure will change from strong east and weak west to strong west and weak east. Why does Mo Mengchen feel that the East is getting stronger and stronger?
To put it bluntly, it is the butterfly effect brought by some restless time traveler.
In mid-August, Momchen got his wish and Ephraim was pregnant.
This shows that his "hard work" over the past two months has not been in vain. On the day of his pregnancy, Mo Mengchen took Ephraim to the hospital for a B-ultrasound.
The results show that they are twins.
Ephraim was so excited that his face turned red, but Mo Mengchen was surprisingly calm. He kept staring at B Super.
Although Mo Mengchen is her husband, he is also a doctor and a clever doctor. His expression doesn't look happy.
"Is there any problem?" Ephraim asked worriedly.
"Do you know," Mo Mengchen suddenly smiled, "There is a 30% chance that it may be triplets..."
(ps: I compiled the data myself)
Ephraim stared at her eyes, and Adrian beside her opened her mouth wide: "Tripplets? Sister, I heard that the mother who gave birth to two children in Russia is called a hero mother, so what about the three children? Superman mother?"
The gynecologists did not deny Mo Mengchen's judgment, but they still couldn't see it because there were only two fetuses on the b-ultrasound.
"Generally speaking, if there is really a third fetus, he should be hiding behind the two fetuses and not seeing them until he is six months old," the nurse explained.
Mo Mengchen did not explain much. He did have magical eyes and saw more detailed things than others.
The little bit of unclear black shadows and those little bit of outlines will not be wrong, they are triplets.
Damn Grant Hill, next time I meet, I will...
The triplets made Mo Mengchen proud of Ephraim, but he was not excited about himself hitting three rings. What really excited him was that he could laugh and show off in front of Hill that he dared to use his children as a bragging capital.
What a fucking regret, why did this guy play in the Olympics on behalf of the Dream Team?
It was mid-August, and the Sydney Olympics were in full swing. Hill, Garnett, Carter, Ray Allen, O'Neal Jr., Kidd and others jointly created the last dream team that they wanted.
Why is it the last team? Because in the next six years, the Dream Team will suffer shocking defeats in succession.
Unfortunately, that guy was selling blood for the evil capitalism, and Mo Mengchen had to wait until the preseason training camp began to mock him again.
"Doctor Mo, what's wrong with you?" Adrian saw Mo Mengchen's smile. This smile was ugly and frightening.
Although Mo Mengchen and Ephraim were married, there was no such title as "brother-in-law" abroad, and Adrian was used to calling him "Doctor Mo", so he never changed his words.
How could Mo Mengchen let the 14-year-old boy know his evil intentions?
He smiled and said, "I'm just proud of your sister. You're right, she's a superhuman mom."
Ephraim said shyly: "You are also a superhuman father."
"You are all Superman, then what am I?" Adrian asked.
"You are also Superman, Little Superman."
News of Ephraim's pregnancy soon spread, and countless people congratulated Mo Mengchen in various ways.
Hill, far away in Sydney, called and wanted to spy on military information before the two met again.
How could Mo Mengchen let him know the truth? When Tai Chi fights, all kinds of vague words are spoken. The poor Devil Mountain is so confused that it is so circumcised that he finally said: "You have said so much, why don't you just tell me the boy or girl I am pregnant?"
"Volume! Are boys and girls that important? It's the 21st century. Can you ask your old ideas to advance with the times?"
Devil Mountain:???
Chapter completed!