Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 432 - 143: Loyalty That Is Not Absolute Is Absolutely Disloyal (5K, Pleading for Subscriptions and Monthly Tickets)_3
Chapter 432: Chapter 143: Loyalty That Is Not Absolute Is Absolutely Disloyal (5K, Pleading for Subscriptions and Monthly Tickets)_3
It’s just...
The negotiation hadn’t even started when an accident brought it to a halt.
After the holidays, Baron Davis, as strong as a bull, collapsed on the ground after colliding with teammate Jack during the first training session upon returning to the team.
This was a contact as normal as can be.
So much so that when Davis fell to the ground covering his face, everyone thought he wasn’t seriously injured.
However...
After a preliminary examination, the Warriors’ beautiful team doctor, Chelsea Lane, quickly walked to the head coach Mike Malone and said with a grave expression: "You’d better be prepared to lose Baron completely for the new season."
"Which part of his body is injured, so seriously?"
"Left knee cruciate ligament... suspected rupture."
Hearing this, Malone immediately gasped in shock.
According to Lane’s analysis, Davis’s left knee cruciate ligament rupture this time should be related to the Warriors having played too many games in the past two years.
In this regard, Malone said with a depressed face: "But in the past two seasons, Baron would miss at least two months due to injuries. Logically, he should be the player in our team with the best physical condition."
Lane shook her head and said: "It’s not like that, Mike. Have you thought that, before joining the Warriors, Baron had never participated in such high-intensity playoffs for two consecutive years?"
Malone was speechless and said: "According to what you say, shouldn’t Messiah be lying in a hospital bed right now?"
Having already examined Qin Yue, Lane blushed and said: "Mike, you can’t generalize people’s physical constitutions.
However, Messiah is indeed the player in the Warriors with the highest risk of injury. You know, in the past two years, he played from start to finish and even participated in the World Championship in the summer of 06."
The next day.
The MRI results for Davis were officially released.
The judgment by the beautiful team doctor Lane was accurate.
Due to a left knee cruciate ligament rupture, Davis will miss the next six to ten months of games.
This sudden injury not only interrupted Davis’s good upward momentum but also cast a shadow over the Warriors’ pursuit of another three-peat.
Additionally...
For Davis himself, whether he can still sign that decent retirement contract with the Warriors has become an unknown.
On the day Davis’s examination results were released, Qin Yue, along with a group of teammates, went to the hospital to visit this original Mr. Big Beard.
After the others left, Davis suddenly held Qin Yue’s hand and said: "Brother, stop fighting for that retirement contract for me. I’m very grateful for everything you’ve done for me.
My agent has told me everything. You know, when I learned that you were willing to challenge the team owner for me, I felt that all my efforts for this team were worth it.
You might not believe it, but I’m a man who clings to face. I don’t know if I can regain my former state after this ligament rupture, so...
If you really consider me a brother, don’t try to fight for anything for me. I’m a championship player; I love Oakland, and I love this Warriors team and you, so I’ll only take the salary I deserve."
"Baron, no matter how long you need, this team will always have a place for you." With eyes full of tears, Qin Yue said, "No matter how long it takes, your locker room cabinet will be reserved for you."
Hearing this and recalling the first day of meeting Qin Yue in his rookie season with that fierce look on his face, Davis could no longer hold back and pushed Qin Yue away, saying: "Get out, let me cry here alone, damn it."
...
Although I had thought beforehand that the three-peat wouldn’t be easy to achieve, the Warriors’ collapsing start to the 07/08 season was beyond Qin Yue’s expectations.
Qin Yue found that the Warriors had basically stepped on all the landmines that potential dynasty teams could step on.
And on the day he came back from visiting Davis in the hospital, Qin Yue received another piece of bad news.
That is, Artest, who was supposed to recover in one or two months after off-season surgery, because he deliberately delayed treatment...
Now, he would have to wait at least until February next year to recover.
This forced the Warriors, who originally planned to trade him, to wait a while longer.
Because after learning that Artest was injured due to his own actions, the teams that were originally willing to trade with the Warriors all withdrew, saying:
"Unless Ron can prove his health, we won’t take the risk of completing a trade with the Warriors."
Before Artest underwent surgery, Qin Yue took Brown to visit him in the hospital for the last time.
And until then...
Artest, still stuck in his own head, did not realize where he had gone wrong.
So before leaving, Brown said to Artest: "Ron, you know, your biggest mistake was not trusting Messiah enough.
For you and Baron, Messiah was even willing to challenge the team owner directly. But you? You chose a way to solve the problem like someone with no sense."
After a pause, Brown added: "Ron, in this world, if loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely not loyal!"
A few days later, the Warriors held their annual media day at Oracle Arena.
During the photo session for core character shots, without Artest and Davis standing beside him, Qin Yue seemed a bit uncomfortable.
Head coach Malone was bombarded with questions by the ers during the interview session.
Whether it was about why Artest acted out this summer or the surprise paid leave of Warriors’ president Lowell, these news-hungry ers wanted to get firsthand information.
Online, there were already at least twenty-four versions circulating about the reasons Artest acted out that summer.
Among them, the most outrageous reason for Artest’s actions was...
He had a spat with Biedrins over a failed attempt to pick up soap, fell and got injured, then refused treatment out of embarrassment.
Qin Yue knew that these rumors would only get more and more outlandish.
However, out of the last bit of respect for Artest...
Qin Yue still left the opportunity to explain the truth to the public to this former comrade who once fought alongside him.
Perhaps Artest would thus explain from a perspective more favorable to himself.
But in Qin Yue’s view, this was better than having him, like Pippen back then, being the target of everyone’s criticism.
This was Qin Yue’s last kindness towards Artest as a former teammate.
And now...
He would lead the incomplete Warriors into the new season.
...
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①: Historically, in order to manage early-career Jordan, then Bulls GM Krause first traded away Rod Higgins, who had the best relationship with Jordan in the Bulls at the time, and after Higgins returned, traded him away again. Krause himself claimed he did this only to stimulate Jordan. (Above information is sourced from various biographies)
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