The next day, the league issued a penalty notice for the Grizzlies player Artestou's fight against Bruce Bowen.

The punishment announcement stated that Artest had such a bad stadium fight in a live broadcast across the United States, which seriously affected the NBA brand image.

And he also criticized Artest's violent tendencies.

But what confused the fans was that the entire article published by the league strongly condemned Artest's violence.

But the final penalty decision for Artest was only suspended for seven games, plus a fine of $25,000.

If the stadium fights are taken out separately for comparison, the ban on seven games is indeed considered severe.

But Artest played Bruce Bowen so miserably in the NBA opening game, but only banned seven games. It really makes people wonder why the league suddenly became kind and did not catch this matter and imposed a larger punishment.

Grizzlies fans were obviously relieved about the penalty result of the league's heavy thunder and small rain.

The seven-game suspension is not a big deal for the Grizzlies with a deep roster. After all, looking at Artest's entire career, the seven-game suspension is just a paddle.

However, although the Grizzlies were satisfied with the punishment, Spurs head coach Eddie Jordan protested like a mad dog.

"Ron beat Bruce so miserably on the court. The league only banned him for seven games in such a bad behavior? This result is really hard to convince everyone!"

"Ron's behavior will have to be suspended for at least twenty games to be satisfactory."

"And Ron has a serious violent tendency on the field. I suggest that players like Ron should not enter the league and avoid causing greater harm to the league!"

Eddie Jordan's proposal was naturally not adopted. After all, Eddie Jordan is just an optional ant to the entire league.

Eddie Jordan has not created any profits for the league in recent years, and his presence can be said to be quite low.

However, for Eddie Jordan's proposal that the league should stop violent players from entering the league, it has received many echoes.

The league has been trying to improve the viewing of the game in recent years. Most of the defensive rules that have been changed are to make the game faster and strive to wave goodbye to the era of the 1990s when they fought hard in the inside every offensive round.

At the same time, the league also tried hard to crack down on the battlefield.

Although stadium fights can stimulate fans' desire to watch the game to some extent, if there are large-scale fights in every game, the brand image of the NBA league will be severely impacted.

The request from Eddie Jordan for the violent and mentally ill players who have no choice but to receive support from outside the gate has indeed been received by many people.

However, even if the league really adopts this proposal, it will not be implemented until next season. What's more, Stern, who focuses on talent, will never agree with this proposal.

And if you are not careful, you will be labeled as discriminatory mental disorders by the outside world.

In Luke's view, even if the league really makes adjustments to this matter in the future with the slogan for the health of the players, at most it is the player going to the hospital to issue an additional certificate.

For players like Artest, Eddie Jordan's proposal cannot cause substantial damage at all, but it does make Artest very disgusting.

"This damn guy! I must tear him apart the next time I meet him!"

Seeing Eddie Jordan implying that he had a mental disorder (violent tendency), Artest clenched his fists angrily.

He gritted his teeth and wanted to kill Eddie Jordan to the point of scrapping now.

"Don't worry, Ron, you should now pray that he was not fired by the Spurs management before the next fight."

"If he can really stick to that time, I don't mind making him the second Larry Brown." Assuring Arte, who wanted to take a knife and kill Eddie Jordan, Luke's tolerance for Eddie Jordan also dropped to zero.

During his coaching career, Luke has seen too many guys who overestimate himself and like to act as a clown on jumping a building, but this is the first time that a coach with such a bad mouth as Eddie Jordan has encountered it.

Originally, Luke did not regard Eddie Jordan as his opponent. After all, a guy like Eddie Jordan is not worthy of letting Luke look at him differently.

If you want Luke to look at him differently, at least you should be tougher like Larry Brown, and at least you should like to use some tricks like Popovich.

Luke really doesn't like a guy like Eddie Jordan who only knows how to speak out.

But Eddie Jordan's repeated search for a sense of existence really bore Luke. Although as he continues to succeed in the past two years, Luke's personality is no longer as extreme as when he first entered the league.

But Eddie Jordan still succeeded in arousing Luke's anger, "Since you are so anxious to die, I will give you my help!"

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"Ron will be suspended in the next period of time. Who should we use to replace his starting small forward position?" Assistant coach Jaffa Roni asked tentatively at the coaching meeting.

"Michael and Jason Capono are best not to move. They have been working on the bench for a long time. If they disassemble, they will not only damage the offensive firepower of the substitute lineup, but also may not necessarily make the starting lineup better."

"I think James Jones can temporarily replace Ron's starting small forward. Jones' three-point shooting is excellent, which can open up more room for Chris and Kevin to break through."

"Without breaking up the substitute system, he is more suitable for this position than Grant Hill."

After reaching out and stroking the little white hair left, D'Antoni expressed his own opinion on Luke.

With his fingers rhythmically hitting the tabletop, Luke sat in the main seat and pondered for a moment and said, "Jones did contribute more on the offensive end, but I think Lasol Butler is more suitable for this position."

"Rasol has outstanding defensive ability. Although his three-point shooting is not as reliable as Jones, he also has about 40% efficiency."

"Rasol serves as the starting lineup to help Kevin share the defensive pressure to the greatest extent." Looking up at everyone, Luke pulled the tie down, "In addition, the team no longer has the position of Rasol Butler. His existence overlaps with others, but he does not have any outstanding ability to be reused by the team."

"So I plan to let Rasol take this opportunity to brush up his personal data and try to trade him out early in the season."

As soon as he heard that Luke planned to trade the player, Ranbir next to him became interested in an instant, "Lu, which player did you fall in love with again this time?"

"To be honest, there is no exact trading goal yet, but there are many players who can secretly choose from." Luke slowly picked up the coffee and took a sip. "The trade of Butler is mainly because his position on the team is too overlapping and he can't play much role in the team."

"If you can get more benefits in the transaction, it will naturally be profitable. Even if you only trade in the end, the team will not suffer any losses at all."

"After all, you should know that other teams in the league will appear very cautious when negotiating deals with the team I'm in."

"Except for each team to actively seek trades, if I seem to be a little more proactive, I will think I am planning again." Luke was helpless in spreading his hands. At present, the teams are doing what they are doing to defend themselves like thieves.

Although the ability to recognize gold with a wise eye has brought a lot of benefits to me, as the season gradually deepens, it also brings some trouble to me.

"I think it's OK. The team does not have much room for Rasol Butler to play. If Ron can really take advantage of the time when he is resting, it will become a good bargaining chip at that time." Bill Ranbir, who was standing next to him, agreed first.

As the most respected confidant around Luke, Ranbir not only trains players to fight. On weekdays, Ranbir is definitely the most loyal little brother around Luke.

"The team currently has no shortage of offensive firepower between the defenders and the front line. If possible, I think the trading target should be placed inside."

"Especially, none of these inside players in the team are good at running and jumping. If you want to play perfect running and bomb tactics, mobility inside is definitely an indispensable part."

While several other assistants agreed to Luke's opinion as soon as possible, D'Antoni still put forward his own opinions.

"Mike is the same as I thought, and the league also has several role players who meet the bombardment standards."

"It's just that the Grizzlies' current identity is difficult to make a deal that they have proposed. It seems that I have to find a way to pull other teams and make a multi-party transaction." He stood on the desk with both hands and frowned and pondered. Luke only felt that he was becoming increasingly difficult to move forward in trading.

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In the next two games, the Grizzlies defeated the average Golden State Warriors and the Oklahoma City Thunder respectively.

That's right, the Supersonics officially announced their migration from Seattle to Oklahoma this summer, and the team was renamed the Thunder.

However, the name change did not make this team turn over instantly. This year's Thunder team is still the team at the bottom of the league.

Even though the team has already brought together many young players with potential, including Durant, Westbrook and Jeff Green, the Thunder still have a long way to go to convert this potential into a record.

Although Artest was absent in these two games, the strong Grizzlies still defeated their opponents without any bloodshed.

The Grizzlies' early schedule this season is relatively friendly. Except for the opening game facing the strong rival Spurs, only three opponents in the next ten games are the teams that made the playoffs last season.

Although the easy early schedule will allow the Grizzlies to face more severe challenges in the later stage of the season, for the Grizzlies who need time to get started, the schedule for the new season is just right.

According to the Hornets' management's ideas, how do you say that Lasol? Butler also came from his hands.

Even if Butler has performed well now and wants to trade Butler back, the Grizzlies will not let the Lions speak out and cheat themselves openly?

What's more, except for Lowry, Gerard Wallace, West, Peja and Tyson Chandler, the Hornets really have no other assets to worry about the Grizzlies.

Regardless of whether this "returning shot" deal can be made, at least the Hornets management does not intend to give up this opportunity to strengthen the shooting guard, especially when Lasol Butler played for the Hornets last season.

The Hornet management thought a lot about the Grizzlies' possible lion's words, but what the Hornet management never expected was that the Grizzlies directly waved and refused to apply for the transaction.

It means that except for a few stars who cannot match Rasol Butler's low-priced contracts, the Grizzlies are not interested in it.

The Grizzlies' refusal made the Hornets very unwilling to accept it. Seeing the players who were forced to be sent to the Grizzlies, they actually performed so well. The Hornets' management really wanted to line up and hang themselves.

However, just when the Hornets' management no longer had expectations for this, a turnaround came from the Grizzlies.

According to general manager Chris Wallace, although there are no players on the Hornets who are favored by the Grizzlies, the Hornets can win over other teams that want to participate in strengthening to conduct multi-party trades.

In addition, Chris Wallace also showed Jeff Ball a clear way according to Luke's explanation in advance.

"Nets, Nuggets, Clippers, these teams are thinking about James Percy for a long time. As long as you make a noise, it is not very difficult to make a multi-party deal."
Chapter completed!