Jun 24, 2024
After Jackson selected Tibor Pelaes, the Nets’ draft ended completely tonight. They got three rookies, namely Paul George, the fifth pick, Eric bledsoe, the fifteenth pick and Tibor Pelaes, the 31st pick.
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Chapter six hundred and sixty-six Summer drama (1)
The 21-year draft is over, but this is the real drama in the new season, and it has just begun.
On July 1, the one-year summer drama was finally officially exhibited. At that time, it came to 1: 00 in the morning. The general manager of the Rockets, Morey, held the ipad to meet the first Bosh. Later, most fans of Morey Weibo thought that this was a complete victory for the Rockets in the free agent market.
But Riley never thought he would lose to a guy who graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lived by data analysis. It has always been widely believed that Bosh wanted James or Wade to join forces, but Bosh really wanted James and Wade to join forces at the same time.
On the Raptors’ playing day, Ripoche gradually felt that he was not suitable to be a team leader, so he was willing to be a helper for James and Wade, so Riley Heat became Bosh’s first choice because Miami, Nets, new york, Clippers and Bulls were able to give three huge contracts, but Nets, Knicks, Clippers and Bulls did not have too strong demand for him.
As for James, Riley is equally confident. There are three sources of confidence. On the one hand, he will tell James that when he coached the Lakers in the 1990 s, the players of that team sacrificed their salaries, shooting opportunities and statistics to make an excellent dynasty team. Secondly, the Riley team enjoys Miami’s unique geographical and climatic advantages; Third, Riley thinks that James Wade is close to the other teams.
On the afternoon of July 1st, the Knicks took the lead in going to Cleveland to "see James", which led to the "pilgrimage" of six teams.
It turned out that the Knicks’ "audience" was the one that impressed James the most among the six teams.
During the "pilgrimage", the Knicks’ lobbying was highly targeted and novel, which made the video and explanation mixed. Even when they spoke the lobbying draft, they invited professionals to revise it several times to attract James’ attention at all times if necessary.
They focused on the broad future of the team in the biggest market of the big Apple City Charm League. The Knicks stressed that they can bring James a ball influence and that one day they can make James a billionaire athlete.
The Knicks impressed James objectively because they were the first "pilgrimage" team.
Anyone who knows James well knows that he is often absent-minded about excessively long statements and reports, and James can never sit still if there are people meeting him for a long time in the afternoon. The Knicks know this well, so they try their best to be concise when showing videos, humorous and compressed as much as possible, for fear that James will be distracted and lose interest in the whole interview.
Nets are also a member of the "pilgrimage" army, but unfortunately, Nets, who have panda brother, did not pay attention to it. They and Knicks were on the same day "pilgrimage" and ranked behind Knicks. However, the key points they stated were that Knicks had many similarities, such as explaining the vast world of new york City, such as promising James to bring more and more wealth, and the whole meeting took two hours, and the draft was not revised, and there was a short video.
The "tragedy" was born. It didn’t take long for James to slip away and almost fall asleep. When Jackson and others left Cleveland, James privately told his agent that it was longer and redundant than the Knicks lobbying the Nets for a "pilgrimage."
What makes James most dissatisfied is that the Nets put off the pilgrimage until late. The reason is that they offered a contract worth five years and 60 thousand dollars to Brother Panda in the early hours of the morning, but they didn’t come to see him until late, which made the little emperor feel that he was not valued by the Nets.
Finally, the pilgrimage team is Bulls. This team is very good in all aspects. They have almost won Boozer, but there are still nearly 20 million. Moreover, there are three outstanding players in the team: Ross, Rolden and Noah. If he and Boozer are added, then this team will have no weakness.
But there is one thing that always bothers James, that is, Ross never called him, never sent him a text message, and never made a welcome speech in front of the media.
On the afternoon of July 3rd, the last pilgrimage team, Bulls, entered the office of James lrmr Company. They finally believed that they were the "leaders" in the battle for the emperor. Afterwards, many people attributed the failure of Bulls to their reluctance to hire James’ relatives and friends to hold important positions in the management of the team. Another way of saying this is that Ross played a big card?
The Bulls’ "pilgrimage" team is not strong. The big boss Leinsdorf and the general manager Foreman’s new coach Xibodu are all in the lineup, but James wants to see Derrick Cross for three hours. At that time, the Bulls already had a salary of about 350,000 US dollars and signed two top free agents at the same time.
But there was one thing that bothered James from the beginning to the end of this meeting, that is, Derrick Cross, the star of Bulls, never called him, and the top management of Bulls never directly asked Ross to call James, while young Ross thought that if James really wanted to discuss the possibility of playing together, the emperor should call first.
Ross was wrong. James has never been like this, otherwise he wouldn’t have chosen to stay in Cleveland to "meet" various teams. Ross’s silence also surprised James-it turns out that there are still stars in this league who don’t buy him and are still a third-year player.
If the Nets Ji Guoqiu has this qualification, after all, he has won three consecutive championships and three consecutive finals, and his mvp honor status has surpassed James. But Ross is a sophomore star and has never been to the playoffs. What qualifications does he have?
On the eve of the meeting with James Bull, paxson, President of Bulls and Vice President of Foreman, disappeared and Kobe met. This was the second time they met in 24 hours. The two sides talked for several hours in the office of Kobe’s agent Pelinka.
The Bulls’ strategic thinking is to get rid of Kobe Bryant’s important bargaining chip before going to Cleveland, and at the same time, the Bulls may further increase the team’s salary through a series of actions. Kobe Bryant is flirting with the Bulls because he has no hope for the future of the Lakers. Without Jackson, it is impossible for the Lakers to win the championship again. If he wants to win his fourth championship, he will have to jump off the car and give up the Lakers that have been torn apart.
Kobe Bryant is throwing caution to the wind now. Since James, Wade, Bosh, Ji Guoqiu and others don’t care about salary, what can he not sacrifice as a billionaire with a net worth of more than 200 million? Kobe doesn’t want to die in the Lakers. He doesn’t want to die in vain. If he wants to die, he must die and be valuable.
Bulls have played big enough this summer to get in touch with Kobe Bryant, James and Boozer. What are they doing? Do the Big Four?
Chicagoans are having fun here, and Miami is not idle.
According to the rules of the league, Wade can’t recruit free agents on behalf of the Heat before the end of the season, because he was still carrying Miami to sign an old contract, but at the end of the finals, Wade met James team members twice, once in Ohio and once in Chicago.
Stern did not pursue the matter afterwards, but a senior nba official insisted that the league investigate to see if Riley had "hired a close friend of James" to seduce the emperor.
"Players, friends, and family jobs can’t compete for free agent chips. If this is part of the negotiation, it’s against the rules." An nba executive said that they got an anonymous complaint and sued the Miami Heat for wooing James to arrange positions for his relatives and friends on the team privately, but in the end, this matter still failed.
On July 4th, James had already made a decision in his mind. On the one hand, Wade and Riley were enthusiastic, on the other hand, they were slow to talk. Ross Heng James naturally made his own judgment.
In fact, after seeing Riley on July 2, James became more determined to go to Miami. When James lost to the Big Three of the Green Army in the Eastern Conference Finals one year ago, he was finally eliminated. The unprecedented pressure had already made James suffocated.
James has had enough of being swept by the Clippers again in this year’s finals.
After seven years of natural selection, he needs a strong teammate and a Hall of Fame coach, because he must win the championship. All these things can be given to James by the Heat. Perhaps their heart is not just whether the team can win the championship, but how many championships they can win.
At midnight on July 5, James, Wade and Bosh couldn’t sleep. They were in a three-person meeting.
Wade has now returned to Miami Riley Heat owner Mitch Aresen to meet.