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55. Eddie Gottlieb

Samar seemed to have evaporated from the world. Chamberlain's last understanding of him was that after leaving Old Nelson's home, he took a flight to Alaska at San Francisco International Airport, and then there was no news again.

Chamberlain wanted to chase after Alaska, but he bought an afternoon flight ticket, but was told that a blizzard suddenly occurred in Alaska, and all American flights about Alaska were suspended within three days.

In this way, the connection between Chamberlain and Samar was cut off. The blizzard happened strangely. It was after the flight where Samar was arrived at Alaska Snow Mountain Airport. It lasted for a long time, intermittently for a full week.

But this is nothing strange. It is mid-November now, and Alaska has already entered the ice age. It is too normal to snow, and the next blizzard is too normal.

But Chamberlain knew that this blizzard was actually very abnormal, but who should he tell? Even if he told others, who would believe it? The most important thing is that he is now too busy to take care of himself, and now media websites and magazines are in trouble for him.

The Warriors' defeat against the Celtics shocked all fans. The peak battle in their minds turned out to be a one-sided massacre, which was really unacceptable. What they couldn't accept was that the powerful rookie Chamberlain was widely favored by them turned into soft tofu.

The media was originally a group of guys who were afraid of the world. Chamberlain's embarrassed performance in the face of Garnett made them find opportunities. Even local sports websites, magazines and newspapers in San Francisco were ridiculed and mocked Chamberlain.

Better ones, such as the San Francisco Sports Morning Post, just say that Chamberlain encountered a rookie wall. The article praised Garnett, saying that he is worthy of being the top insider in the league, and then vaguely stated that Chamberlain still has a lot of room for growth, and in all aspects, especially fighting spirit and mentality, need to learn from Garnett.

Other newspapers are not so easy to talk about, especially those sports newspapers in Utah, who do their best to mock Chamberlain from all aspects:

"Real gold is not afraid of fire refining. There is no doubt that the Celtics are the hottest fire in the NBA now. It burns all the clowns out of their original form. This newspaper does not understand why a rookie who just took advantage of the opponent's inattention to plunder several rebounds is regarded as a potential star in the entire league? Kevin Garnett is an excellent alchemist. He found out that Chamberlain's falsehood is very good."

"Chamberlain clause? Is there any clause in the NBA that is funny? It's incredible that the great and wise David Stern will issue a clause specifically for a small person like Chamberlain. Does he think that players who can't even enter the draft will grow into stars? Unless God is blind, it's impossible!"

"The Golden State Warriors are the stupidest team in the world, Chris Kohan is the stupidest team owner in the world, and the 1+3 weird contract signed by the Warriors and Chamberlain is the stupidest contract in the world. What is a poison contract? Just look at this contract, the Warriors actually spent 8 million US dollars to sign a rookie. Is there any contract in the world that is more stupid than this?"

"What does it mean to have no lower limit on IQ? What does it mean to be blind? Looking at the Golden State Warriors, I think readers will understand. It is really hard to imagine that a player who only scored 4 points in one game, 2 rebounds and 5 turnovers actually got a contract of 8 million US dollars. Is it just because he is seven feet tall? Or he has Chinese blood? Perhaps it is the reason behind that Houston Yao's success seems to have caused the whole league to fall into a pathological throbbing. The bosses all think that as long as they sign a yellow man, they can plunder the wealth of the yellow man. In fact, the yellow man is not that stupid..."

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These reports are only a small part of them, and there are more that cannot be listed. Chamberlain casually glances at street newsstands and can see at least fifty headlines in magazines and newspapers related to himself. Even if he does not tell about his performance on the court, he is introducing the newly born "Chamberlain Terms".

To be honest, Chamberlain is indeed sorry for the "Chamberlain clause" that Stern specifically prepared for him. His performance was too clumsy in the face of the Celtics. Look at other terms in NBA history, such as the "Larry Bird clause", the "Gary Payton clause", and the "Gilbert Arenas clause". Who is anyone who needs a clause specially prepared for the NBA, is not a successful superstar?

Overnight, because of his poor performance when facing Garnett and because of the Chamberlain terms, a large number of fans, players and media reporters stood opposite Chamberlain. Of course, the reason for this was due to his jealousy of him. Is it still reasonable for a person with such poor performance to get a big contract of eight million?

Jazz power forward Boozer said in an interview with reporters: "Chamberlain clause? That's a joke. I bet that thing will become the NBA's warning clock. Tell the uniforms to be careful when signing with players in the future, otherwise it will easily become a joke."

Lakers' potential center Bynum also smiled against the California Times in Los Angeles: "Everyone can play a great game on the court. Believe it or not, I can score 40 points and 20 rebounds in a game at any time. But not every team will be so idiotic and will sign a big contract with a guy who is not worthy of his name."

"In the next game, I will tell the Oaklanders what an idiotic mistake they made, I can score 5 points and 5 rebounds with one hand, how many points did Chamberlain score? Two or four points? Anyway, he is just an unknown child. If he meets me, he will be in trouble because I have never been a rude guy."

In this way, Chamberlain seemed to have encountered strife from sports media around the world, but soon, these mockery voices disappeared because the authoritative American newspaper USA-TODAY quoted a sentence in its sports section as the title: "Chamberlain will become the savior of the Golden State Warriors, and he will definitely become the new king of the league." The person who said this sentence was named Eddie Gotrib.

If an ordinary person said such a sentence at this time, he would definitely be ridiculed by the media in the sports circles across the United States, but the person who said this sentence was Eddie Gottrib, so no one dared to make a joke.

Eddie Gotrib, the first boss of the Warriors, the first general manager and the first head coach, at that time, the team was not called the Golden State Warriors, but the Philadelphia Warriors. At that time, the team had the first superstar of the league, Joe Fulks, the only player who scored hundreds of points in a single game, Wilt Chamberlain, one of the best free throwers and scorers, Rick Barry, and Sarunas Marciulionis, the first outstanding player of the former Soviet Union.

The Warriors have won three championships in history, the first championship was won by Gottrib as the team's head coach, the general manager and boss. For the Warriors, Gottrib is a veritable godfather. Even if he is no longer the team's boss, he still has an extremely important influence on this team.

In the NBA, every team has its own historical representatives. The representatives of the Warriors are not Wilt Chamberlain, nor superstars such as Rick Barry or Thurmond, but Gottrib. The three championships in this team's history were obtained when Gottrib was the boss. Until 1976, Gottrib had to sell the Warriors because of family business, and since then, the team began to sink.

Before 1976, the Warriors had Wilt Chamberlain, Joe Falkers, Paul Alikin, Rick Barry, and Nate Thurmond. At that time, this team had always been the top team in the league. Even if they were strong like the Celtics and the Capital Noble Lakers, they dared not underestimate him. At that time, in the BAA, the predecessor of the NBA, these three teams were competing for the Three Kingdoms.

But after 1976, the Warriors were finished, and there were no superstars again. They have been rebuilding and falling into depravity. In the American basketball world, the Warriors are a very strange existence. The die-hard fans of this team are all older people over 50 years old, because only they have experienced the most glorious time of the Warriors.

Since leaving the Warriors, Gotrib rarely appears in the public eye and rarely talks about the Warriors. Fans know that the reason for this is that Gotrib feels guilty about the Warriors. If it weren't for the poor family business, he wouldn't have sold the Warriors. In his heart, the team's demise is so related to him.

Now Gotrib makes his voice rare, who dares to take the blame to fight him?

Also, every fan knows that every NBA season has a rookie who will win the Best Rookie Award, and the full name of this award is the Eddie Gotrib Award!

Since the launch of this special topic, the newspapers and websites have quickly lost much less doubts about Chamberlain, and more people choose to wait and see. It can be imagined that if Chamberlain continues to perform poorly, more people will come out to mock him, and they will also mock Eddie Gotrib who was misunderstood.

In this situation, the Warriors ushered in their seventh game of the season, heading to Milwaukee to challenge the Bucks away.

For Chinese people, this is another battle to gather attention, because the Bucks won the Asian No. 1 power forward Yi Jianlian, who is said to be more talented than Yao Ming at this year's draft. Chamberlain is also a Chinese and happens to play as a power forward. This game became a Chinese inside derby, which is naturally very attractive.

Of course, for those who pay attention to Chamberlain's terms, this game is also a focus battle. As long as Chamberlain's performance problems occur, some of them will say it.

On November 16, 2007, Chamberlain and his teammates arrived at the beautiful snow-collar world of Milwaukee, preparing to challenge the sharpening of the Bucks.
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