dognovel Chapter 266 The transfer of the basketball god! The mighty Knicks!
Chapter 266 The transfer of the basketball god! The mighty Knicks!
The August of 1998 quickly became a thing of the past. With the arrival of September, the summer is gradually saying goodbye. The days when the training camps for each team will start is getting closer and closer.
Today, Lin Long is instructing two children to train on the basketball court in the villa.
13-year-old James and 10-year-old Curry sweated profusely, and they both strengthened their determination to play in the NBA.
"LeBron! How many times I said, pay attention to your posture, your posture should be beautiful! Your shooting posture will affect your shooting rate!
"Stephen, I told you that waist and leg strength is very important to dunk! Ten more squats! 35
Lin Long sat in the chair and felt the joy of being a coach, when suddenly the phone rang, it was Auerbach calling.
"Lin, it's done, although it's a little difficult, but everything is as expected, wait for the news with peace of mind. 35
Lin Long hung up the phone, looked at the two children who were training hard on the field, and laughed with relief.
On the level of team building and negotiation, Auerbach's "Three Six Three" is indeed the best and best person in this league. Perhaps only Jerry West of Los Angeles and Pat Riley of the Heat can be reluctant to make peace with each other. He compares.
The next day, Auerbach's operation was finally officially announced, and the announcement was the news that shocked the league.
First, Auerbach gave the biggest contract of the offseason so far.
6 years and 90 million poached from the Portland Trail Blazers "Roaring God" Rasheed Wallace!
This is a huge contract close to 100 million.
At the same time, the average annual salary of 15 million and the starting salary of 10.8 million happened to be stuck with the highest standard of the new labor-management agreement!
Rasheed Wallace becomes the first player to receive the highest salary under the new policy!
The Portland Trail Blazers gave Wallace to the Celtics without any hesitation after learning of Auerbach's offer.
They won't offer such a super max salary for a power forward who averages only 14+6 per game!
When this signing came out, most of the league was shocked.
No one thinks Rasheed Wallace is worth the price, and while he's talented, he can score, he can defend, he can pass the ball, but it's not at the top level.
Rashid is the kind of guy who can do everything, but is not a top-level guy. He may just keep his entire career in such a rut, or he may suddenly wake up one day and become a top-level monster, but this kind of thing, No one dared to bet $90 million on Rasheed Wallace.
This level of maximum salary should be provided to Duncan, Weber, Garnett, and Malone.
Not to mention that Wallace is not very obedient, his private life is chaotic, and even according to legend, he is inextricably linked with the gang.
To give such a person 90 million, most of the league thinks Auerbach is confused.
After taking Rasheed Wallace, the league broke another Celtics trade.
They signed with the sharpshooter Nada Barros, who made great contributions to the team last season, Kevin Willis, who has been determined to retire, and Tremaine Folks, who was selected with the 55th overall pick in the second round of this year. The rights, along with two future second-round picks, were packaged in exchange for the Warriors' Latrell Sprewell.
This deal, if you only look at the strength of the players on both sides, can be called a big deal for the Celtics.
"Madman" Sprewell has been selected to the league's first team, second defensive team and multiple All-Stars, and can easily average 20 points per game.
Among the Celtics' chips, the three second-round draft picks are destined to be at the back of the table, and it is difficult to have any chance to really touch the prize. Willis has decided to retire, which means that Barrows is one of them. Qualified starter and top scorer.
But it's still far from Sprewell.
However, with such a transaction, no one is optimistic about the Celtics. Who is Sprewell? He is definitely the number one thorn in the league!
During the training, the coach clashed and almost killed the coach, almost became a madman of a murderer!
Putting the title of madman on him, he is somewhat unworthy of him, and it is more suitable to call him a lunatic or a lunatic.
Not to mention that he was suspended for a whole season by the team and the league, and no one knows if he has kept training and can still play.
That's why almost no one is bullish on the deal.
Sprewell will definitely destroy the chemistry of a team because of his maverick and arrogant character. No matter how talented he is, he is the poison that all teams can't avoid.
Auerbach actually got him into the team.
If you add Rasheed Wallace, who has a gang background, the Celtics have become the bad boy gathering place of the league and the problem children's army for a time.
Although the two men were brought in, the Celtics' lineup became extremely luxurious, Charles Barkley, Rasheed Wallace, Lin Long, Latrell Sprewell, Chauncey Bee loops.
This lineup is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most luxurious five-person team in the entire league!
In addition, they have Curry, Big Ben, and Bowen on the bench who are recognized for their strength, and Lewis, who shines in the creation camp, how to look at this lineup, how luxurious, how to look, How is the prototype of a dynasty team.
However, most people in the league are still not optimistic about them. …
Whether the two troubled teenagers can integrate into the team is a trivial matter, and more people worry about whether these two people can play well in the team!
Rashid and Barkley are both standard No. 4s. Who will start? Who will come off the bench?
Lin Long's debut is also No. 4. Should he split the time of No. 4?
Both Sprewell and Rashid need the ball in their hands.
Barkley, Lin Long and Billups also need, is one basketball enough?
Can the new coach Bird become a qualified coach? Can he shock everyone on the team? Will the young and successful Lin Long stop improving because he is too smooth?
Can the rest of the team stay hungry and motivated after winning a championship and continue to fight for the championship?
As the defending champion, everyone wants to see them roll over and make jokes!
All teams will also do their best to deal with them, study them, can they maintain the strength of last season?
When these questions are thrown and discussed, the Celtics have become the most concerned and discussed team in the league in the short term. They have too many possibilities and too many uncertainties.
However, the popularity of the Celtics lasted for a few days before being replaced by other news.
Michael Jordan has signed with the New York Knicks on a three-year, $45 million deal!
The Knicks used a new 'extra max salary' clause, the first in the entire league to use this clause! This allowed them to sign Jordan at a salary risk, but it also meant that Jordan's contract had to be paid every year Double the luxury tax!
In these 3 years, they have to pay the league and Jordan $135 million!
In order to get Jordan, they have to spend a terrifying $45 million a year!
3.3 This has exceeded the salary of 36 million US dollars this year. Jordan's value alone exceeds a team again!
This has to make everyone feel that Dolan has a lot of money.
But this time, no one protested, but more people secretly secretly rejoiced!
They are all small team owners and managers.
Because according to Dolan's proposal, the extra 30 million luxury tax every year can be distributed to all unprofitable teams!
If the 12 teams lost money last season, Dolan asked them to send each team $2.5 million per year for this signing, or $7.5 million in three years!
This makes many small teams start to look forward to whether there is a second or third team that can use up the signing places that give them money!
After signing Jordan, Dolan was also in high spirits and won the league's number one star, the ruler of the past 10 years, which made the Knicks an unbreakable galaxy battleship in one fell swoop!