On January 7, 2014, in Salt Lake City, the Seattle SuperSonics won their 36th consecutive game of the season.

160 to 92!

After a 42-point night for David Lee in a home game against the Boston Celtics, the Seattle SuperSonics restarted their 58th journey.

Although the strength of the Jazz is average compared to the Seattle SuperSonics, this team is called the Jazz, and the Jazz play at home in Salt Lake City, and for this game, coach Jerry Sloan came to the scene in person.

Because this game is Jerry Sloan's jersey retirement ceremony, the Utah Jazz specially chose this game with the Seattle SuperSonics to hold this grand ceremony for Jerry Sloan in the hope that they can let them witness it under the witness of the world.

The old coach can proudly raise his special jersey.

In today's NBA, no team has the traffic of the Seattle SuperSonics.

Therefore, during the halftime of the home game against the SuperSonics, the Utah Jazz held a jersey retirement ceremony for meritorious coach Jerry Sloan. At the same time, the Jazz raised a shirt with "1117" printed on it for Sloan.

The flag marks Sloan's 1,117th victory in his 20 years coaching the Jazz.

As this game was an away game for the Seattle SuperSonics, everyone from Nelson on down stayed at the scene to applaud Jerry Sloan's grand ceremony, which was quite a face-saving gesture.

Nelson is the head coach with the most wins in NBA history, with more than 1,500 regular season wins in his career, while Jerry Sloan ranks fourth in the NBA.

This is a very great achievement. After all, it was achieved in Salt Lake City, not in Boston, not Los Angeles, and certainly not in Seattle.

So everyone in Seattle still respects Jerry Sloan very much.

Moreover, the Seattle SuperSonics players did not just talk about their respect for Jerry Sloan in this game. The Seattle SuperSonics also took practical actions to express their respect for Jerry Sloan's strength.

In the game against the Jazz, the Seattle SuperSonics won by 20 points in the first quarter, 11 points in the second quarter, and 17 points in the second half. In total, they defeated the Jazz by 58 points in this game as a tribute.

Jerry Sloan. (Historically, Jerry Sloan won 1,223 games in 23 years, 23, 12, 23, ahem, everyone does the math.)

"It's really like what they say, 'It's not the fifteenth, it's the second'. There really is always the 'eight thoughts' in the dark. The five-eighth are really omnipresent in this world. Is this possible?!"

The Seattle SuperSonics played a 58 in tribute to Sloan in the game against the Jazz, which really shocked everyone.

Even Jerry Sloan himself kept smiling bitterly and shaking his head with mixed emotions in the stands.

To be honest, in all his years in the NBA, he has never seen such magical numbers.

Fifty-eight, this number was outplayed by the Seattle SuperSonics.

Even he himself had never thought that the most important numbers in his career were also the same as 58.

Of course, at the end of the game, Jerry Sloan still expressed his gratitude to the players of the two teams present.

Thanks to the Jazz players for their efforts in this game. Although the strength gap is too big, Gordon Hayward really wants to use his own efforts to give Sloan an excellent jersey retirement ceremony gift.

Also thank you to the Seattle SuperSonics for this special tribute gift for this game.

"Mr. Sloan, you retired too hastily before and did not have the opportunity to express respect to you. Now, I hope you can accept this respect."

Looking at the two SuperSonics No. 9 and No. 14 jerseys in his hand, which were neatly written with the names of everyone in the SuperSonics, from coaches and management to players, Jerry Sloan was stunned for a moment, then looked at Ye Si with a full expression.

Grateful.

"Thank you, yes."

Jerry Sloan must have felt very uncomfortable when he left the Jazz.

But now, he is definitely in a good mood.

Not only was he treated with such courtesy by the strongest team in history, but Deron came back to personally apologize to him last summer after many years of trouble in leaving the Jazz.

And this is why he held a jersey retirement ceremony so many years after his retirement.

He had been holding a breath in his heart. After this breath disappeared due to Deron's apology, he could say goodbye to his NBA and basketball career completely.

After the Jazz won their 36th victory of the season, the Seattle SuperSonics will continue their road trip on January 9th and will challenge the Denver Nuggets away from home.

Because of Deron's apology, Jerry Sloan's suffocation finally dissipated.

But Bradley’s suffocation towards Leonard has not gone away!

It would be difficult for Bradley to get rid of this anger before he tortured Leonard properly on the court.

Regarding Bradley's status in the Nuggets, it would be easy for him to have better statistics than Leonard, but it would be too difficult to abuse Leonard...

In the game between the SuperSonics and the Lakers, Kobe was so powerful that he could only defeat Leonard, not kill him, let alone Bradley?

Bradley is good at both offense and defense and can do everything. He is known as the "little Yes" who is the most yes. Now he wants to find the "touch" and "effort" he lost in Leonard. Yes stopped him before, stopped him

If you can't help it, you will have no choice but to follow these two boys in the end.

To be honest, although Ye Si doesn't like the relationship between Bradley and Leonard being so tense, deep down in his heart, he still hopes that Bradley and Leonard can have some such bond.

.

After all, Bradley has been giving up on himself since he left Seattle and came to the Nuggets.

Although the Nuggets are better than Cleveland, the good ones are also very limited.

In such a place, he really felt that his life was extremely dark and his career was bleak.

Therefore, I have been very depressed and self-defeating these years.

I don’t know what I want in life.

At the very least, he doesn't know what he should do in the past nine years before his nine-year contract with the Nuggets ends.

And now, with Leonard as his goal, he can also reorganize his own goals and pursuits.

He doesn't want to treat the Nuggets the way James did, so he will have to stay in the Nuggets for 459 years, which is a long and boring time.

Bradley needs someone to 'company' during this time.

Thinking of this, Ye Si had some enlightenment.

Perhaps, Bradley doesn't actually have that much resentment towards Leonard. He just artificially fills himself with resentment towards Leonard and lets this resentment stay with him along with Leonard.

I'm afraid Leonard himself knows this too.

So there was never any explanation. No matter how much Bradley misunderstood or how much he shouted, he always responded with silence.

"What a kind and smart kid."

And the bond between these two children really moved Ye Si.

After thinking about all this, Ye Si completely let go of Leonard and Bradley's affairs, and let the two of them "love and kill each other" during this period of time.

159 to 101!

After the Seattle SuperSonics gave the Nuggets a 58 in Denver, the team's winning streak this season reached 37 games.

After the game against the Nuggets, the Seattle SuperSonics once again returned to their home court and defeated the Bucks 143-85 at home.

In this game, the Bucks' third overall pick, Antetokounmpo, has completely no playing time, and he has no playing time even in garbage time.

Compared with Antetokounmpo Jr., who is currently at the height of his popularity with the SuperSonics, Antetokounmpo Antetokounmpo, now in the Bucks, is really miserable.

Therefore, in this game, Antetokounmpo Jr., who avenged his brother, played very fiercely. Middleton, who replaced Antetokounmpo in the starting position, was wildly targeted by Antetokounmpo Jr. on the defensive end in this game.

Already.

In this game, he only scored 8 points and 8 rebounds on 3-of-14 shooting. Of course, this data is poor compared to his other games, but it is already better than most of Antetokounmpo's games.

Therefore, Antetokounmpo Jr.'s behavior of seemingly avenging his brother may be telling the Bucks that Middleton may be more worthy of focusing on training. Facing the defense of such a strong defensive player, he can still almost have a double-double.

This is good and promising.

Maybe after this game, Antetokounmpo's situation in the Bucks will become even more miserable.

Of course, little Antetokounmpo naturally doesn’t know about this. Why would he think so much about avenging his brother?

After playing the Bucks at home, the Seattle SuperSonics embarked on a consecutive road trip just a few days after returning to Seattle.

On January 14th, the Seattle SuperSonics challenged the Grizzlies away from home. This game received a lot of attention because the first meeting between the two teams was very exciting. The Grizzlies even had a matchup between the starting players and the Grizzlies in the first three quarters.

The Seattle SuperSonics' starting players were indistinguishable, just because the bench lineup was so overwhelmed by the Sonics' bench lineup, and in the fourth quarter the Grizzlies veterans were exhausted and were pressed by the Seattle SuperSonics.

I got a score of 58.

In this game with the SuperSonics, the Grizzlies were more fully prepared. Even in order to be accurate for this game, the Grizzlies' veterans such as Tracy McGrady and Carter and Gasol Battier did not play in the last game with the Hawks.

After playing the Suns on the 10th, the Grizzlies veterans have had four days of rest.

Obviously, these veterans want to put all their efforts into this game. Not to mention winning, at least they cannot be defeated!

In this game, the Grizzlies will become the fourth team in the NBA this season not to be beaten by the 58-year-old, and the second team after the Lakers to actively reject the 58-year-old!

The other two teams that are not 58 or 8 are like the Celtics, who paid homage to the SuperSonics, and the Rockets, who feel that they are not even worthy of the 58 or 8.

However, the Grizzlies were getting ready, but after the game started, the Grizzlies could still clearly feel how huge the gap between themselves and the Seattle SuperSonics was.

In fact, it was also because they were afraid of the Grizzlies that at the beginning of the first quarter of the game, the SuperSonics directly stepped up their intensity against the Grizzlies' starting veterans.

Although it's not a close press, the intensity of the press is very high.

Because they had enough rest time, the Grizzlies veterans still locked horns with the SuperSonics starters in the first half. The two teams fell behind by 15 points at halftime just because of the difference in rotation players.

But in the second half, when the strength of the Grizzlies veterans began to decline, the situation quickly took a turn for the worse.

After the SuperSonics started the second half, they did not press on the court at the beginning. Instead, they played half of the game and exhausted the energy of the Grizzlies veterans before directly pressing on the court in the second half of the third quarter.

After that, the Grizzlies simply collapsed.
To be continued...