The games against the Wizards and Pacers allowed fans to see a different side of Liu Mang.

Facing a historical figure, although he seemed arrogant and arrogant, he did not lack respect. He roared lively before the game, but after the game, no matter whether he won or lost, he never showed any disrespect to his opponent, but was full of respect.

The shameless second-year guy has changed many people's impressions of him. Of course, some people will still criticize him for being shameless. Calling Liu Mang shameless has become a part of the NBA landscape. Even his fans regard him as "shameless".

Shameless", "gangster" and other adjectives are used to describe him.

This makes Liu Mang not know whether to laugh or curse every time he reads online posts.

Liu Mang is packing his clothes at home. This time he will play five consecutive away games, then come back to play a home game, and then two consecutive away games.

After playing the Pacers, we only have one day to rest. The team took care of the players who just played the game yesterday and let them sleep a little longer. They arranged a flight to Toronto at 3pm. Tomorrow is the 18th, the last back-to-back of the month.

The day of the beginning.

As of January 16th, when they played the Pacers, the Eagles' easy start to the schedule was over. Their record was a bit dismal, with 15 wins and 19 losses. That is to say, they had to improve their winning rate to 50% before the end of January. The next 14 games

Play 8 games a day and win at least 6 games.

With such a tight schedule, the Hawks' transition from a romantic and sweet schedule to a devilish mid-season happened so suddenly. In fact, this was also the most difficult part for the Rockets during Yao Ming's peak period. The Rockets often played well at the beginning, but by the end of the New Year

It reached its peak at that time. Immediately after playing a difficult schedule, a wave of injuries struck due to fatigue. The core truce and the record collapsed. They came back before the playoffs and were ranked only fifth in the end. Not once or twice. The Rockets experienced several times.

This is the case.

For example, in the 2007-08 season, there were 22 consecutive victories and 22 games. From January 30 to March 17, 22 games were played. A total of 48 days were played. In other words, roughly speaking, there was a game the next day.

And we can’t make a rough calculation. There is also an eight or nine-day All-Star Weekend in February, which is the middle of the Rockets’ 22-game winning streak. They played 22 games in 40 days. During that time, the Rockets showed their championship potential.

But in the end that year, China had just celebrated the Spring Festival and it was early spring, but the Rockets' winning streak collapsed not long after it ended.

The most unlucky thing about Yao Ming is that he has not waited until the Chinese market he has driven has entered its peak period and there is no need to arrange stacks of schedules for his team during the New Year. He sees himself 29,30

He was at his peak when he was young, and when he could enjoy his prime years with a relaxed schedule, he had already retired due to injury.

The league is already warming up for China's Spring Festival. The Eagles' devilish schedule starts from January 18th to March 31st, 72 days and 38 games, with the All-Star Weekend taking seven days in between.

That’s 38 games in 65 days.

Capitalists always focus on profit. David Stern's concern for Liu Mang is indeed care, but in a profitable situation, as for Liu Mang's future...

Will the league take care of the fact that there are so many players in the NBA who were the league's signatures or highly praised stars during their peak years, but have become miserable after retiring?

Liu Mang's current Eagles team is lucky. Raheem has not lost his enthusiasm for the game and is active in training. He is still the same iron man who has never missed a game due to injury in the past six years, not to mention Jason Terry and Muhammad.

, they are all evergreens who don’t play until they can’t play anymore and will never retire. Except for Ratliff who has a history of injuries, the Eagles’ core lineup has done a good job in preventing injuries, and Ratliff because of Liu

With the emergence of Rang, the Hawks played with a small lineup most of the time, the emergence of Boozer and the return of Kevin Wesley, Ratliff started the season at a low point in December, and his average playing time dropped to more than 23 minutes per game.

Less than 24 minutes, he played very healthy, and played very little time, so he was very efficient.

It would have been strange if we had entered this kind of schedule last season when the team had just gained cohesion but had such a poor record and such a poor second team.

Fortunately, this year's core lineup of the Hawks has been working together for a season, and the bench lineup includes Prince and Boozer, as well as Kevin Wesley, a three-member general who can use his anti-aircraft gun ability on the court.

Danny Ferry... averaged 2.6 points in 5 minutes per game, which is close to 1 three-pointer per game. He is also a threat. The Hawks have more options both inside and outside, unlike when the Rockets had superstars.

The substitute lineup is so miserable, so this schedule is still acceptable.

Liu Mang packed a box full of clothes and asked Prince to help bring shoes.

Speaking of which, NBA players prefer to "bully" rookies who seem to be arrogant. As long as he is with the team, he is the one who gets used the most. But he is also happy because the overall atmosphere of the Hawks is very good. Every time he is used,

When he goes shopping, he also pays great attention to whether this second-round rookie has money, and every time he gives an extra ten or eight yuan, in a round number, and he doesn't have to look for the extra money.

Boozer, on the other hand, has become the target of frequent calls from veterans because of his appearance.

Liu Mang is good at "bullying" and likes to ask the honest and arrogant Prince to work. The main reason is that Prince's sense of presence is too low and no one can help him. He himself also feels that he is isolated. Three

While the rookies were chatting, they happened to be overheard by Liu Mang, who had arrived at the arena earlier, so he put the matter of calling Boozer on Prince.

Sometimes some people are really mean, and if they are given extra work without overtime pay, Prince becomes more active...

It's cold in Toronto and Milwaukee, so you must bring more clothes. This back-to-back group has the powerful Carter, and the Bucks have once again burst out with arrogance and ambition after acquiring Payton. These two games are the most difficult for the Hawks in the last eight games in January.

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This chapter is not over yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading! After packing his things and looking at the familiar room and objects, Liu Mang sighed a little. After these two away games, he will probably be back on the 1st of next month.

moved.

Following the beautiful landlord to the newly bought villa, I felt a little excited, and I was going to live a luxurious capitalist life.

There were not many opportunities to eat at this home. Fortunately, the team's scheduled flight was at three o'clock in the afternoon, so Liu Mang planned to have lunch and drive directly to the airport.

Now as the second-highest NBA sneaker endorser, Liu Mang is already a rich man. Driving a sports car will not become news like it did at the beginning of last season. Although Liu Mang does not say that he dislikes those laces, he always finds it strange.

, now I’m driving a beautiful landlady’s car, and I have money to refuel. How great.

As for buying a car?

Just kidding, Levia has so many cars that are idle...

Liu Mang found a perfect excuse for himself to eat, drink and drive.

Liu Mang came to the sixth floor. Alexia was preparing lunch. Liu Mang looked at the time. It was 11:55 Eastern Time. There were still 5 minutes left. The votes for another round of All-Star Weekend voting were about to come out.

After this vote is counted, the next announcement will be when the All-Star candidates are determined.

Liu Mang saw that Dinah was helping Alexia, and Levia was actually watching TV, which was quite enough.

But what he was watching was sports news, so Liu Mang also sat down and watched the news.

The NBA's official press conference has begun, announcing some of the league's penalties before announcing the new vote statistics.

There are so many penalties.

Rasheed Wallace of the Trail Blazers received his fifteenth technical foul of the season in the last game and was fined 2,500 yuan.

Before 1998, there were still many players who were still receiving cheap salaries. After the Jordan Rules and before 1998, the fines for technical fouls were very small and could be ignored.

The rule after 1998 is that players will be fined $1,000 for the first two technical fouls in a season, $1,500 for two more times, and $2,500 for the next two times. Liu Mang helped the big brother Rasheed Wallace forget it.

Now, a total of...32,500 have been fined!

This does not include the fine for being ejected twice for technical fouls. The first ejection is an additional $1,000. Each subsequent ejection is subject to a penalty of $1,000 multiplied by the number of ejections.

Liu Mang saw the number of technical fouls on Rasheed Wallace. Think about it, the Blazers have played 40 games at most, right? This guy will get a technical foul once in three games at most, which is no one else.

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As for fines, Liu Mang thinks that the only advantage of fines is the pre-tax fines on salary, so it won't happen that the players pay the tax fine once and the league's income is fined again. It can be directly deducted from the next salary. Now

Players will not be fined if half a month's salary is not enough... except for ten-day short contracts. There are provisions in ten-day short contracts that the team can subsidize fines within a certain number of times. After all, some players who signed 10-day contracts

I really can't come up with the money to pay the fine.

Fortunately, the penalty clause for technical fouls does not include the cumulative number of suspensions. Otherwise, in the season when Rasheed Wallace received 41 technical fouls, he would have received fewer technical fouls, because he would have been suspended for at least a dozen games...

The second penalty was that Kobe Bryant had an argument with Gary Payton during the game. The two exchanged elbows and both received technical fouls. Kobe was fined $1,500 and Gary Payton was fined $2,500.

The third punishment is...

fourth……

As for the last penalty, Ace Liu was given an additional warning and fined US$5,000 for his indecent actions during the game against the Pacers on January 16, 2003.

The league also announced some new rules regarding technical fouls, and chokeholds, whether they are chokeholds of others or your own, are included in the scope of technical fouls that must be called.

There are also some other actions and gestures, such as indecent actions such as holding an egg, gangster gestures, some provocative actions, etc., which are incidentally included in the list of prohibited actions that require technical fouls.

Liu Mang felt like he was being targeted!

Liu Mang complained that he had been "targeted", and then he was a little confused. Didn't he promise that the alliance would not punish him for those gestures?

"Ding... Please believe that the host was not punished for provoking Reggie Miller."

Due to Liu Mang's words after the game and Reggie Miller's words that seemed to approve of Liu Mang, public opinion did not accuse Liu Mang of doing such an action eight times in the game, but instead regarded it as a joke.

Nice talk.

But the alliance is really afraid that Liu Mang will cause trouble every three days. They didn't start a fight this time. What about next time?

Now the league has regretted arranging such a tight schedule for the Hawks. Who knew that they played the worst when their schedule was the best?

It is already a very difficult situation to enter the playoffs. If the Eagles continue to cause fights due to some of Liu Mang's provocative actions and cause some players to be suspended, the hope of this year's playoffs will really be lost.

Liu Mang analyzed it himself and found that he still had to thank the league for the fine?

Damn it! I am willing to provoke my opponent when I have nothing to do! I am a good citizen!

And, $5,000!

Damn it, it’s more than 2,600 after tax. Liu Mang’s heart is bleeding. He can fill up the car many times...

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At 12 noon sharp, the votes were announced for the second to last time during the All-Star Weekend.

In the West, Kobe continues to dominate. Kobe's popularity this year is indeed unrivaled. With Carter not playing for half the season and O'Neal repeatedly injured, Kobe led his teammates who now look old and slow, and they were stunned.

It held on, did not fall out of the top five in the Western Conference, and entered a period of rising popularity. With 1.23 million votes, only four of them were leaders among the millions.

Francis ranked second among Western Conference guards with 720,000 votes.
To be continued...