The Whip of the God of Basketball

　　 Carroll got the news that he became the head coach of the Eastern Conference of the All-Star Game. After the game with the Kings, they lost to the Kings with a 91:111, 20-point gap at home. After the interview, everyone was bored in the locker room, and the atmosphere inside was a little depressed. At this time, Boston Herald reporter Steve Babbitt knocked on the door and walked into the locker room. He is an old journalist who has a very close relationship with the Celtics. Not only did he interview the Celtics at home, but he was also close. He will also go with the team in the away game. The Celtics' dressing room is more accessible to him than his own kitchen, so he can often explode some Celtic insider information.

　　Because the previous interview has ended, he is obviously not here to interview the players but to convey some news. He walked up to Carol and said to him: "You have become the head coach of the East Division of the All-Star Game."

　　 At the time, Carroll was sorting out the game data and was preparing to write a summary assessment. He did not expect Babbitt to come up to him and tell him that he became the head coach of the All-Star Game. Carol was stunned for about three seconds, and there was a dazed expression on his face, because he really couldn't figure out how could he go to the All-Stars if he had just transitioned from assistant coach to assistant coach for less than half a year How about being the coach of the East team?

Babbitt did not sell off, and then said: "Just now Byron Scott announced that he would give up being the head coach of the All-Star Game because of family and physical reasons. Now, Stern has assigned you to be the leader of the All-Star Game East. Coach."

Babbitt’s words made the atmosphere in the locker room a little more active. Everyone began to congratulate Carol on becoming the coach of the All-Star Game. Although this is not a great honor, it is also an affirmation of a coach’s coaching career. . Although the reason why Byron Scott gave up the All-Star coach is still unclear, it may not only be due to simple family and physical reasons, but now that he has announced the result, then everything cannot be changed, because it is now It's February 6th, only a few days before the All-Star Weekend.

　　 Carol frowned, still looking incredible. The Celtics have gone from the tail of the crane at the beginning of the season to the third place in the East. The Nets are naturally a strong rise, invincible in the Eastern Conference, the Bucks and Philadelphia are still strong in the first half, but the Celtics and Pistons have come from behind, especially the Celtics, with a young lineup and weak insiders, relying on the Gemini stars. The strong performance of the team and the reform of the team's tactics have caused a green whirlwind on the East Coast since January, and all teams in the East have been swept wildly.

It’s just that once they face the top Western teams, the Celtics still have no resistance, so that on the night when Carroll became the All-Star Eastern Conference coach, they were accompanied by a tragic defeat. The powerful Sacramento Kings were on the North Shore. The garden tore them to pieces, and the large internal gap in strength made the Celtics' fast offense a mess.

"I still think...somewhat incredible, why did Scott give up this opportunity? Going to the All-Star Game will not hurt anyone...and, and I think there are more people who can take this position." Obviously. Carroll was completely unprepared to become the head coach of the Eastern Conference All-Star, and he couldn't understand why Scott gave up such an entertaining task.

"It is said that it has something to do with the Nets' desire to acquire Mourning. The New Jerseys are very ambitious this season. They are unwilling to be No. 1 in the Eastern Conference. They want to trade inside players who can compete with the Western Conference. However, Stern seems to have blocked this possibility. I don’t know what the purpose of the transaction was. It seems that because of this incident, Scott decided not to participate in the All-Stars, which is also the meaning of the Nets boss, just like O’Neill back then." Babbitt’s news is still quite informed. After working as a reporter for many years, he can smell some clues in the news. He said that, like O'Neal, it refers to the 1997 All-Star. The league investigated the details of the Lakers' signing of O'Neal. Jerry West was so angry that O'Neal refused to participate in the 1997 Top 50 Superstars ceremony.

　　 New Jersey and New York, as sibling cities, have been unable to compete with New York for many years. However, entering the 21st century, the Knicks are still on a long journey, but New Jersey is ready to rejuvenate through a clever deal. It's just that when they were fighting against the powerful West, their insides were still a little weak, so they tried to introduce a strong center to further improve the team's lineup and enable the team to enter the ranks of the championship with the strong teams in the West.

However, it seems that Stern doesn’t want New Jersey to go so fast that New Yorkers can’t see them. As the president of the league, he has 10,000 ways to make a deal before it even starts. Going to miscarriage.

Of course, all this is just speculation by the media. After all, the Nets and Heat's trade ended in rumors. It seems that the Nets did not have enough high-quality chips to exchange for fifth center Alonzo Mourning. As for Pat Riley, the old fox Why would Mourning's idea be sent away, only God knows what he knows.

The result of these speculations is that John Carroll, who was not favored by everyone at the beginning of the season, temporarily replaced O'Brien as the head coach of the Celtics, and once again became the head coach of the All-Star Game. , So this season's Carroll can also be called the No. 1 high-quality spare tire.

"It should also be noted that the All-Star Game also has assistant coaches, and the All-Star assistant coaches are generally the assistant coaches of the head coach under the mother team. Therefore, Fox, and Mr. Hart, congratulations, you have also become The assistant coach of the All-Star Game." Babbitt left Carol, who was still frowning, and said to Leon and Hart instead.

　　 Contrary to Carol, their expressions were surprisingly calm. Old Hart just spread his hands and said, "I won’t let my old bone rest after the All-Star Game."

　　 Leon nodded his head with no expression. It seems that he is not interested in the All-Star Game. As a Celtics scout last season, he was eligible to watch the All-Star game that year, but he gave up that opportunity and chose to go fishing with Khomeinis to Lake Michigan. This time he originally planned to go to Rhode Island with Khomeinis for a vacation, but now it looks like his plan is going to be ruined, lest Khomeinis have to complain.

So he wasn’t happy at all. The Celtics had the least assistant coaches in the league. Leon did twice as much work as the average assistant coach. Leon had already suggested to Danny Anjiti that he should be the best. Fortunately, in the summer, one or two competent assistant coaches will be recruited to share his pressure. Even if his brain turns faster than others, he only has one head and two hands, twenty-four hours a day.

Seeing Leon’s cheeky expression, Babbitt was also a little embarrassed. In the Celtics, this assistant coach is not easy to deal with. During the interview, his mouth was tighter than anyone, but his brain was faster than anyone. But this guy has a lot of sources of information that he doesn't know where he got. Babbitt was convinced that Leon had his own basketball circle news network, and that the center of this network should be in New York, which made the old Boston reporter quite unhappy. New York and Boston have been rivals in the East since the 1960s. Because the war of words that broke out between the two basketball cities is no less inferior than on the court, now the team’s nominal future successor is not close to the media in their own city, but close. New Yorkers naturally made Boston's media people quite remarks.

　　 But Auerbach never cares. I don’t know what the archbishop is thinking about. It seems that he didn’t want Leon to take over his media resources in Boston.

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After receiving this important news, the first half of the Celtics season is over. Leon was packing up and leaving the locker room to go home, thinking about the team's progress in the past half of the season. Harvest. From the end of the Eastern Crane at the beginning of the season, they reached the third place in the Eastern Conference. The second fast break tactics he designed proved to be really suitable for the team~www.NovelMTL.com~ They started to explode in January. The players' training began to get more and more vigorous. Instead of the sullenness at the beginning of the season, more and more people arrived early and late every day. The young people began to compete with each other, and the veterans were equally energetic.

Leon certainly does not owe all this to himself, Carol’s tolerance and humility, Dick Hart’s sternness and strictness, Danny Ainge’s personal affairs, Chris Wallace’s full support, and Auerbach’s work behind the scenes, coupled with Leon’s day and night and dedication to work, allowed the Celtics to finally get rid of the mud, and their future began to appear bright and clear.

On the way back, the night in Boston was illuminated by the lights of streets, buildings, rivers, and vehicles. Leon can’t remember the last time he went home before the sun went down. He would work regardless of whether there was a race or not. Until dark. The advantage of going home late is that there will be fewer cars on the road, so you don't have to endure the suffering of traffic jams. Boston is not a city with wide roads.

　　 Because of this, Leon can drive his four-handed Chevrolet relaxedly in the driver's seat, and his tight nerves and face slowly relax. At this time, instead, a smile appeared on his face, as if the joy of becoming an All-Star assistant coach had just been conveyed to his brain. Yes, Leon is actually quite happy in his heart, not because he likes the All-Stars, but because he finally has the opportunity to face those superstars.

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