On Monday, the league was suspended to facilitate players participating in the All-Star Game to return to their parent team. Link and Gasol Jr. left Orlando at noon Monday.

Before getting on the plane, Link also received a text message from Rachel, "Don't let me go in summer, I'll wait for your call."

Speaking of which, Link actually didn't expect Rachel to come yesterday. It was already past midnight at that time, and Link was still afraid of disturbing Rachel's rest.

Unexpectedly, when he heard that it was Link, Rachel readily agreed to the invitation. This caused Gasol to complain when he got up today, "Okay, you secretly sent me away and it turned out that he was going to find a female companion myself."

Link was speechless. You were obviously going to talk to European fellow villagers about growing potatoes.

In any case, the All-Star Weekend has ended, and Link has put all his thoughts back into the regular season.

While on the plane, Link has been paying attention to personnel changes before the transaction deadline. However, this year's mid-term transaction is really thunderous.

Before the trading deadline, the media was rumored everywhere that Beasley was going to join the Lakers, and the Nuggets were selling Nene and were preparing to attract a third party to get Cousins. Even Deron and the Lakers were related.

In short, the Lakers are always the protagonist in the mid-term transaction every year. But apart from the last Gasol transaction, there is basically nothing really done.

The same is true this year. The media has all kinds of yys as of the day. What's the result? The Lakers did take action, but they just used Fischer to Sessions. The Nuggets did take action, but they didn't change Cousins, but another center Javier McGee who was not very good at using his brain.

To talk about the most successful deal, Link believed that it was the Spurs. They successfully got rid of Richard Jefferson and exchanged them for the old hero "Martial Saint" Stephen Jackson. This kind of deal seems tepid, but the improvement of the Spurs' strength is obvious.

Richard Jefferson has proved that he does not fit the Spurs' style, and he doesn't like the city of San Antonio, and he plays very unhappy. Jackson, who was Popovich's old subordinate back then, could seamlessly connect to the Spurs' system.

This kind of transaction is the real wise transaction. The Spurs know what they need, so they can always get the most suitable player.

The Warriors' changes were the biggest. They sent Monta Ellis and got Australian No. 1 pick Bogut from the Bucks. The focus of this deal was not to exchange for Bogut, but to mean that the Warriors will officially build the team with Curry as the core! This is a deal that changes the development direction of the entire team.

Therefore, Link believes that this transaction has the biggest change.

Apart from that, there are basically no deals worth talking about. In the middle of the season, most teams are still seeking stability. Without too many loopholes, personnel changes will generally not be made.

After understanding the changes before the transaction deadline, Link looked at the schedule for the next few days. Fortunately, after the All-Star Game, the schedule was relatively mild. The opponents were not very strong and the game density was acceptable, which allowed the Grizzlies players to gradually adapt to the game after the 7-day "Golden Week".

As he looked, Link gradually felt a little heavy in his eyelids. He simply closed his eyes and rested for a while. In the afternoon, he had to start sweating for the regular season with great enthusiasm.

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"Congratulations to Link, the three-point contest champion, good example!"

As soon as he returned to the training hall, Link was congratulated by his teammates. Hollins took the lead in hugging Link, and then Randolph, Conley, Tony Allen

Although I had a great time at the All-Star Game and made many friends, it was not until I returned to Memphis that Link felt like he was "going home".

Only here can he feel the most comfortable and hardworking.

After hugging the coaches and teammates one by one, daily training began step by step. The Grizzlies' goal this year is still the top four in the Western Conference, so don't underestimate this goal. If they really achieve it, it will be the best ranking in the history of the Grizzlies.

In the afternoon's confrontational training, while the careful defense of Jimmy Butler and Tony, Link quickly adapted to the intensity of the regular season and entered the sprint state.

The opponents are still eyeing each other, but they can't be weak in the future.

After the All-Star game, the Grizzlies, who had enough rest, were in an unexpectedly outstanding state.

In the last game in February, the Grizzlies ushered in the defending champion Dallas Mavericks who eliminated them last season's playoffs at home.

Although the Mavericks are the defending champion, their strength has declined but not increased compared to last season due to problems such as summer operations and team aging. Therefore, the Grizzlies easily defeated the Mavericks at home 96-85. Nowitzki scored only 5 points in the whole game, and even he passed the golden period of killing gods.

The Grizzlies got a good start and the regular season officially entered March.

After entering the final sprint time, the Grizzlies continued to make great strides. On March 2, the Grizzlies narrowly defeated the Raptors 102-99 away. The Raptors performed very well today, scoring 6 players in double digits. ::

But when Link scored 23 points and 12 rebounds, Gasol Jr. and Kangli Xiao also scored 21 points respectively. The Grizzlies won a winning streak with a "big three-star" victory!

A day later, on March 3, the Grizzlies killed the Pistons without any effort. On March 7, the Grizzlies challenged the Golden State Warriors away. This time, the Warriors did not have Ellis, while Curry injured their ankle again. Therefore, the Warriors had no resistance.

The last time the two sides fought, Link used a "pass into the net" to defeat the Warriors. But this time, the Grizzlies scored a huge score difference of 110 to 92. If the Grizzlies had not stopped the game in garbage time, the score difference would have been even greater.

At this point, the Grizzlies have won five consecutive victories since the All-Star Game! Their rankings have officially surpassed the Spurs and ranked second in the West.

People say that the Grizzlies will soar this season and they will enter the playoffs with a very high posture. Some even say that the Grizzlies may be the first in the Western Conference!

As a result, this upward momentum was forced to interrupt when the Grizzlies away challenged the Suns on March 10.

There is no big suspense in this game itself, after all, the Suns have lost their original style now. Nash is no longer young, and it is difficult to support the team with his MVP-level performance.

The turn happened in the last 5 minutes of the fourth quarter, when Rudy Guy accidentally hit his shoulder in a breakthrough, which caused his shoulder to be injured for the ninth time.

As we all know, Guy's shoulder had just undergone surgery last year during the offseason, but now there is something wrong, which is really worrying.

Therefore, Hollins did not continue to let Guy appear. At the critical moment when the team took off, Guy was absent again, just like last season!

After Gay was injured, the Suns seized the opportunity and scored an offensive climax, finally ending the game 98-95.

Link originally wanted to chat with his idol Grant Hill today, but in the end he lost the ball, Link was really in a bad mood. As soon as the game ended, he turned around and returned to the locker room.

That night, the Grizzlies officially released a heart-stirring news: Rudy Guy's comeback time is unknown.

The next day, an espn news caused great heated discussion. The title of the news was very simple and clear, "All the hopes of Memphis are pressing on the No. 0 striker."

The news point is simple, "This season, when Randolph's state declines and Rudy Guy is injured again, sophomore Link must take over and carry the Grizzlies' banner. He has no one to rely on, he can only take over and serve as the absolute core and face the real test! What level of player is Link? We will get the answer in the remaining half of the season."

Link didn't know if Guy was traded by the Grizzlies in the original history because of the shoulder injury for two consecutive seasons.

But he knew how far he could take the Grizzlies, which became the team's biggest suspense this season.
Chapter completed!