Chapter 236: Drawing the sword ten thousand times, Kwame

Blake Griffin himself probably didn't expect such a result.

He originally thought his pulling the rug out from under them would win him the other party's begging for mercy, as well as the team's double attention.

He was like a child threatening to run away from home; he and his agent team both thought that the parents would definitely run out to find him in a hurry, or even pull up a group of police uncles.

However, the reality is that he messed up.

Although he staged an internal strife in front of the whole world, although he made Mike Brown unable to step down, although he made the entire team fall into a public opinion storm.

However, the inside of the team remained as steady as a mountain.

He is no longer the hope of the Clippers' revival; he is like a chicken rib, no longer so indispensable.

Moreover, he didn't establish an intimate relationship with any players; his departure didn't even find a hint of strangeness in the locker room, just like ice melting in water, silently, without waves.

General Manager Dunleavy's handling method made Griffin and his agent stunned; Dunleavy directly agreed to his trade request, but before the trade was completed, it was an indefinite suspension.

And it was an unpaid suspension.

Old Dunleavy didn't leave any face for Griffin and his team; doing so only proves one thing: Griffin is no longer the core interest of the team.

Moreover, Old Dunleavy doesn't intend to tolerate any privileged behavior of Griffin anymore, nor does he spoil his bad habits.

Griffin's team might have wanted to act like a spoiled child and get some benefits; now Dunleavy has directly removed the stool, making him unable to come down to the ground.

Griffin went from a proud son of heaven to a discarded child of the team.

This will greatly affect his future.

He will be described as a grumpy player, a locker room troublemaker, a thorn who goes against the head coach.

This is a heavy blow to his personal image, and his commercial value will suffer great trauma.

Before the Madison Square Garden fight, Carmelo Anthony's commercial value was very high, but that suspension destroyed his image, his commercial value plummeted, and he was also classified as a problem superstar.

In the NBA, there are many unwritten rules. Players of the same strength, if this person is humble and polite, the probability of him getting an premium contract is extremely high, such as Rashard Lewis, who actually got a multi-billion contract. And if you are defined as a thorn, a locker room trouble, then the probability of you getting a normal contract is extremely low. Such as Artest, such as Bonzi Wells.

Now, Griffin's agent has seen this trend.

Moreover, as a top pick, once sold by the mother team, it is difficult for him to get better treatment in any subsequent team. NBA super rookies at least don't seek to be traded during their rookie period.

Will Griffin be the first?

Will his bright future be completely ruined because of this?

Mike Brown and Old Mike Dunleavy finished the call, and the matter actually had a conclusion.

At the same time, Griffin was completely panicked, and he and his agent team were like falling into an ice cellar.

They all realized they messed up.

Griffin was willful, quarreled with the head coach in front of the whole world, his agent team played extreme pressure, and as a result, people directly removed the ladder...

"The only way now is for the Clippers to keep losing, keep losing after lacking you. Losing can reflect your importance, and losing can make your anger toward Mike Brown justified." Griffin's agent said to Griffin.

He asked Griffin: "Do you think the Clippers' strength will plummet without you?"

Uh...

Griffin fell into silence seriously; he thought for a long time, and he really had no answer. Because he was really not familiar with the Clippers today; he felt very strange; he just found that his status had declined seriously, and it was not the situation where he was favored by everyone last season at all.

So, he was willful and wild, never thinking that he would die after having a good time.

……

"The general manager said he would trade Griffin if there is a suitable chip."

Mike Brown met Fan Xi at the door of the locker room and said to him.

His attitude toward Fan Xi was completely different from his attitude toward Griffin. As a top head coach, he knew very well who was the big king and who was the small king.

He would report important things to Fan Xi. As for Griffin, he didn't put him in his eyes at all.

If you are loyal to everyone on the team, that is not absolute loyalty, and not absolute loyalty is absolute disloyalty.

This is Mike Brown's head coach way.

Fan Xi raised his eyebrows slightly.

Trade Griffin?

Fan Xi raised his eyebrows, and those who knew him knew that his brain, like a precision computer, started to turn.

"This matter must be operated well; you can't act on impulse."

Fan Xi said to Mike Brown.

Mike Brown didn't quite understand, but he nodded obediently. He knew that it was not important to understand the leader's mind, but it was important to follow the leader.

…

Beep!

The second half of the game started quickly.

The Chicago Bulls obviously had a shot of chicken blood in the locker room; Thibodeau is a head coach with great momentum, and he must have delivered a speech with a very high content of scolding.

So much so that Derek Rose went straight to the paint on the first ball; he broke through Fan Xi's defense with amazing lethality; Fan Xi did go all out to defend, he followed Rose's first two steps, but Rose's final jump step still threw him off by half a body position.

Rose is too hard to defend.

Deserving to be a physical monster at the point guard position.

After Rose jumped into the paint, he dunked violently against Leonard... Leonard collided with him in the air, Leonard fell into a disadvantage, but Rose couldn't smash the basketball in, but threw it in.

When landing, Rose staggered, and Fan Xi reached out to support him again.

He couldn't help but say to Rose: "Derek, I can't reach out to support you every time. You can completely restrain yourself a little; the effect is the same. Being too rigid is easy to break."

Fan Xi treated Rose as a sincere friend, so he reminded him like this.

Rose just smiled shyly.

He of course knew that Fan Xi was well-intentioned, but for so many years, his style of play had almost been fixed.

He likes this tough style of play; he likes to dunk violently when finishing at the end, without doing any feints. Every move of his is thorough; he doesn't care about his ankle's bearing capacity, nor does he calculate how much torque his knees will receive.

He is just like this: accelerate, accelerate again.

No deceleration when changing direction.

No grabbing the rim when dunking.

No pulling the rod when encountering defense.

His basketball philosophy is to go forward without looking back.

This is probably why he is so loved by the media and fans.

Changing sides to fight again, Fan Xi showed a completely different handling method from Rose.

Fan Xi, like Rose, also broke into the paint fiercely and quickly, but he paused for a moment, suddenly looked back at the moon and made a passing action toward the outside line to Dunleavy; Joakim Noah's defense was taken away, he took the opportunity to turn half his body, hooked with his left hand, and the basketball entered the basket.

Also 2 points.

It is no different from Rose's high-difficulty collision scoring in terms of points.

Even more elegant than Rose in terms of aesthetics and skills.

Rose obviously didn't have any realization; he turned back and continued to do his own thing; he and Joakim Noah screened and killed into the paint, passed the ball to Noah, Noah high-post coordinated, passed to Luol Deng in the corner, and Luol Deng hit a 3-pointer.

The Bulls' offensive is like a tide.

However, turning back, the Clippers responded easily.

Even Fan Xi didn't participate in the offense; he passed the basketball to Hamilton, Hamilton feinted, passed to Dunleavy, and Dunleavy hit a jump shot.

Although the Clippers don't have a real offensive system now, their players are experienced and can play good offense according to muscle memory.

The two teams are still in a stalemate.

Although ESPN has been blowing that the Bulls will blow out the Clippers, and the Clippers losing Griffin is like a locust losing its thigh.

But the fact is that the Clippers changed generals, Grant Hill, Vince Carter, Rasheed Wallace, and others took turns, without affecting the progress of the game at all.

They have always been able to hold the Bulls.

And they performed extremely well on the defensive end.

The fans at the scene were very happy; they realized that exciting things were happening; the Clippers' massacre of the Lakers was not a fluke, and their strength had truly improved.

They can compete with the Eastern Conference regular season champion last year; at least in the first three quarters, the two teams continued to reach a tie.

87:87.

After the third quarter, the two sides were still evenly matched.

This made the ESPN commentators who sang down the Clippers during the halftime break very uncomfortable and aggrieved.

They didn't know what would happen next, but their mouths were still saying that the Clippers were vulnerable, the Bulls would find their state soon, they would let the Clippers know what the league's number one defense is, and it is impossible for the Clippers to resist the Bulls legion with such scattered soldiers.

God knows why they had to say so many remarks that they didn't even believe in themselves.

Probably because their butts were crooked.

The Bulls' bench was not so heroic; Thibodeau was furious on the bench; he originally thought that the third quarter could solve this new army that had just been formed; he had never underestimated Fan Xi, but he didn't expect that the first official game of this brand-new Clippers could force the Bulls to this extent, and they even let go of a Griffin.

He thought this was a shame, so he scolded the Bulls players, demanding that these guys must win the game tonight, otherwise, when they return to Chicago, they will let them feel the joy of training.

The joy in Thibodeau's mouth made everyone super unhappy.

They glared with anger, swearing to fight the Clippers to the death.

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"I feel like after the game, I'd better call Jack Fan; only he can help me now. I believe I can help him, and he can also feel this."

After watching the third quarter, Griffin called his agent; he was ready to admit defeat.

But he was not admitting defeat to Mike Brown; he was admitting defeat to Fan Xi.

He felt that in the current situation, only Fan Xi could save him.

If Fan Xi was willing to cover him, he believed that all the bad things now would have a perfect result.

Just...

His agent had two worries: "Can Jack change the management's mind and make Mike Brown let go of the past? Also, do you really intend to become the Robin by his side, instead of becoming Batman yourself?"

Griffin sighed, he recognized the reality, and he said: "Yes, I have no other choice. The Clippers' situation this year won't be bad; maybe if I follow him, I can become an All-Star starter; as long as I get two consecutive All-Star starters, I can activate the Fan Xi Rule."

Griffin said longingly: "In fact, I don't have any essential conflict with him. It's nothing more than adjusting my psychological position."

Griffin was instantly open-minded.

His agent was silent for a long time, and could only do so.

…

The fourth quarter started.

After Thibodeau's scolding, the Bulls players' state improved violently.

At the beginning, Luol Deng used a crazy defense to lock Vince Carter in the corner; the poor half-man, half-god jumped up but didn't pass the basketball out, and was slapped out of the court by Luol Deng.

Re-serving the ball, Leonard hung the basketball into the paint, Kwame Brown received the basketball, and just as he was about to layup, he was directly hugged from behind by Joakim Noah; Kwame Brown's brute force hadn't been exerted yet and it vanished.

He was furious.

It wasn't easy to have no butter hands, and it wasn't easy to receive a high-difficulty pass, but it was destroyed like this.

After the referee blew the foul whistle, he smashed the basketball heavily on the ground, hugged a jump step into the basket with both hands, and jumped up violently... but in the end, he didn't smash the basketball into the basket... this is going to eat a T.

Kwame Brown is not smart, but his thinking is still clear.

At this time, Fan Xi's eyes lit up.

He saw Kwame Brown holding the ball and smashing the ground, jumping steps suddenly... just like a brown bear beating its chest heavily, and there was infinite explosive power bursting out in his muscles.

Drawing the sword ten thousand times!

This is Kwame Brown's advantage.

If he practices this move well, with his physique, his athletic ability, and his strength... not many people can defend him.

He only needs one ultimate move under the basket, and he can stand firm in the current withered inside.

Fan Xi outlined Kwame Brown's offensive posture in his mind.

Bang!

Bang!

Both free throws missed.

Kwame Brown sighed annoyedly.

Fan Xi said to him: "You will soon become an elite player, Kwame, you are great."

Fan Xi's praise made Kwame Brown confused.

But he was very useful, and his running speed was faster.

He rushed to the front court quickly and stationed himself under the basket.

At this time, Derek Rose launched an impact; he cut into the paint like lightning, and after a jump step, he jumped up violently; Kwame Brown predicted Rose's jump step landing point; he moved horizontally in advance; when Rose jumped violently again, Kwame Brown had already jumped to suppress him.

Fan Xi saw this scene, and there was only one exclamation in his mind: talent.

This time, he was sighing about Kwame Brown.

However, Rose, who was full of talent, had already exceeded Kwame Brown in height in the air; he smashed it heavily toward the basket, across Kwame Brown's body.

Kwame Brown failed to stop Rose from smashing the basketball into the basket.

But his strong body pushed Rose away.

Rose habitually didn't grab the rim.

So, his body fell backward like a kite with a broken string.

Fan Xi hurried to reach out.

But Rose's left foot finally landed first; his ankle and knee hit hard...

But immediately, Fan Xi reached out to support Rose, not letting all his gravity and inertia concentrate on pressing his knees and ankles.

Fan Xi's hands bore great force; unlike Rose, he would unload the force.

He hugged Rose and fell to the ground.

… ===== CHAPTER 237 =====