Chapter 883: The Clipper Changed Hands, the First Year of the Emperor
Clippers players such as Er Niu and Paul hugged and greeted the Heat players one by one after the game.
After a round of greetings between CP3 and LBJ, it was finally Erniu's turn to say goodbye to the uncrowned king who had won five overall runners-up in the 13-14 season.
"You really don't think about coming to the Clippers?" Erniu covered his mouth with his arm and whispered again.
James struggled to squeeze out a smile and patted Erniu on the back, but did not answer Erniu directly.
Defecting to the brute means that James completely admits defeat.
But just like that, from Jordan's successor to the contemporary Pippen, James still can't let go of that inner pride for the time being.
D. Wade has deteriorated significantly due to injuries, Bosh has struggled in the system, and James has indeed reached the point where he needs to rethink his future.
Time is running out for James.
If he wants to prove his worth with a championship, James will have to take the initiative to make changes.
In other words, since there is "decision one", why can't there be "decision two"?
After the award ceremony there was nothing special, the difference was that previously the championship was announced by David Stern, and now this work belongs to Adam Shaw.
At least half of the fans walked in the American Airlines arena in Miami, and no one wanted to watch their opponents lift the O'Brien Cup.
Of course, according to the usual practice, the session of booing the NBA chairman still has to be carried out.
Truth be told, Heat fans really shouldn't be booing Xiao Hua this year.
G4, and even G2's blowing bias can be seen all over the world, and it is really the Heat itself that is not competitive, otherwise it will never be directly swept in the Finals.
As for FMVP, there is no suspense, as the most stable and No. 1 offensive and defensive hub in the Clippers, Ruan Erniu naturally won the FMVP trophy for the sixth time in his career.
Both in terms of the number of championships and the number of FMVPs, he managed to catch up with Michael Jordan.
Bill Russell couldn't help but joke: "Otherwise, I won't come next time, just mail the FMVP trophy to your house!"
"Good-idea!" Erniu smiled and accepted the trophy, completing another milestone in his career.
In fact, what Russell was thinking at this time, "The Celestial Empire will not directly lead the team to break the Celtics' 8-game winning record, right?"
As soon as this idea arose, it was extinguished by Russell himself, just kidding, times are different, even in the past two or three seasons, the league will change dramatically, and the possibility of completing a championship is too small!
The Clippers completed their dynasty, but that doesn't mean they can just let it go.
The second bull and the third cannon are all guys who are paranoid about honor, and when the situation is good, they should seize every opportunity to try to hit the next championship trophy.
Of course, all of the above must be done with the stability of the team.
It's time for Donald Sterling's farce to come to an end!
In fact, even onlookers are tired of the boring stories of the Clippers owner.
Jumping up and down, the Magic, who wanted to be the owner of the Clippers, basically withdrew from the battle for ownership of the Clippers around May.
As the war of words continues to escalate, people are also starting to get tired of the magician's performance, he is no longer the omnipotent MAGIC on the field, as a representative of the consortium, the magician is now a businessman who is full of lies and wants to pick peaches under the pretext of racial discrimination.
Just kidding, since they are all capitalists, they naturally have to rely on strength to speak.
In addition to the Guggenheim consortium represented by the magicians, there are actually many capital owners who are ready to go it alone or form groups to share the Clippers, including movie tycoon David Geffen, talk show queen Oprah, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and others.
But when it comes to the decisive part of the bidding, there are only two people who can really stand up - Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, and Johnny Han, the CEO of Hengyi Group, the helmsman of Erniu's business empire.
Why did two IT strongmen stand up in the end?
Quite simply, because they are the richest.
Interestingly, Donald Sterling did not want to admit the legitimacy of the auction at all, and at the beginning of the auction, he made a move!
He first certified through the hospital that he had Alzheimer's disease (Alzheimer's disease), and all the sales of the Clippers were left to his wife, Sherry Sterling.
In fact, this was simply to stall for time, and when the sale was almost underway, Sterling played tricks again.
Sterling, the madman's choice, was to sue his wife, saying that Shelly was not qualified to represent the entire family or sell the Clippers.
Okay, he's all talking and talking by himself!
In fact, during the hearing half a month ago, Sterling was extremely unstable at the time, answering questions almost always in high decibels, and he also swore that he would spend the rest of his life fighting a lawsuit with the NBA.
It is worth noting that during the trial, Sterling also returned his wife Shelly "to a pig!"
In fact, the couple's relationship has long been broken, and they are playing their own games in private.
Raheem Sterling wants to own an equity stake in the Clippers through his wife, but Sheri Sterling has already changed her mind and decided to cash out the team.
The Clippers' completion of three consecutive championships will definitely further increase the value of the team, and Shelly, a woman, is also not an ordinary person, the reason why she did not let go at the beginning was to wait for the benefits to be maximized.
Sure enough, the long-delayed battle for the Clippers was finally decided two days after the Clippers won the championship.
Internet upstart Han Lei finally won the ownership of the Clippers with 2.5 billion meters, beating Steve Ballmer's 2 billion meters bid.
Ballmer's goods have also been going wrong in recent years, and they are a bit unlucky.
The result of the acquisition of Nokia to impact the mobile phone market can be imagined, only one day after being swept away by Microsoft's board of directors, Microsoft's stock price rose sharply, and finally wanted to devote its energy to sports, but was killed halfway by Johnny Han, a capital upstart, and cut off Hu.
And then the court also made a final verdict, and the result of the lawsuit filed by Clippers owner Donald Sterling against his wife Shelly Sterling was that Sterling lost the case!
In this way, Han Lei successfully bid for the Los Angeles Clippers and became the owner of this team that had just established a dynasty, although the official formalities of the league could not be completed until the beginning of July, but in a legal sense, the Clippers already belonged to Han Lei.
In Johnny's hands, it is equivalent to being in the hands of Erniu.
With the relationship between Johnny Han and Kraft Nguyen, the power of life and death in the Clippers is actually in the hands of the Celestial Empire.
This is also the confidence of Erniu to dare to "hook up" with James again and again, of course, there are some words that cannot be said too clearly until the last moment.
Once you have stabilized the rear, you will naturally start preparing for next season.
But before the team meeting, Erniu, the team's leader and head coach, found out that he had to recruit an assistant coach first, because the team's second assistant coach, Steve Kerr, resigned midway through the playoffs, and in short, he was recruited.
The team that recruited him officially wanted to suppress the Golden State Warriors, and not only that, but Kerr also kidnapped backup guard Sean Livingston, who had a good performance in the Finals, after the end of the season.
Livingston alone wasn't enough, and then Steve Kerr, as the head coach of the Warriors, submitted to the Clippers about the possibility of trading Dream Chase Green.
Ruan Erniu coldly sent him two words on the phone: "NO-AY!"
Speaking of which, first assistant coach Tom Thibodeau has also received a lot of invitations, but for the time being, the team has not given him the contract he wants, which makes Thibodeau very disappointed, so he simply stayed with the Clippers and would rather be a phoenix tail than a chicken head.
The candidate to add to the Clippers' assistant coaching roster was finally determined to be Luke Wharton, who is a legend of a generation - "Big Red Jellyfish" Bill Wharton.
What's more, the old Wharton and Erniu are UCLA alumni, and interpersonal relationships have always been a resource that is difficult to ignore.
Just got the vacancy of Steve Kerr here, and Tyronn Lue was poached by the Cavaliers, from the third assistant coach to the first assistant coach, a lot of progress At the same time, Lue also received the highest annual salary in the assistant coaching circle, after all, he is one of the assistant coaches of the Clippers dynasty, and he is indeed worth the price.
Nell O'Hill was unhappy this time, Tyronn Lue just walked on the front foot, and he found a replacement on the back foot, and Heat's assistant coach David Fitzdale was recruited to the dynasty team.
This guy has a great sense of humor, and when he first arrived with the Clippers, he said that if he becomes the head coach of the team one day, he must change to a cool pair of glasses.
So according to some two-dimensional theories, are glasses his ontology?
The assistant coach team has completed the reincarnation of the old and the new, and the team has quickly entered the reinforcement stage.
When Ruan Erniu held an intra-team meeting, he first analyzed the current situation of the team.
In addition to Shaun Livingston, who was poached by the Warriors, there are two guys who are ready to retire, they are Antoine Jamison and Sean Battier.
Jamison originally came to hug his thigh to get the ring, and naturally he had no regrets when the ring arrived.
Battier is out of contract and is not ready to renew it.
The Batmans played a major role in the Clippers' championship in the 11-12 season, and the Thunder were powerless with their three-point shots, but as he got older, it was time for Battier to retire.
However, there are also guys who are not convinced of old age and say that they want to do it for another year, such as Ray Allen.
It's clear that Junzijian, who played well in the finals, is already imagining a future where he will retire after winning three rings at the end of his career.
With such thick thighs, how can you not hold on to them?
Bidding farewell to the veteran, the team naturally has to replenish.
At the No. 3 position, the Clippers don't have much to worry about, because they already have veterans in the free market who have taken the initiative to hug their thighs, and last year, like Hildo Turkoglou, who came to the Clippers, applied again.
The Turkish forward is also a long-established figure, and he still sincerely wants to hug his thigh again and again, and the Clippers naturally have no reason to continue to refuse.
With someone at the No. 3 position, the projection interior line naturally needs to be strengthened, Green and Whiteside have both grown up, and the Birdman is old, but he still has the ability to top a few minutes, so the Clippers don't need flashy guys.
In the end, the Clippers chose Spencer Hawes, this guy is a dedicated interior player who joined the NBA in the same class as Erniu, and after many years, being able to play with the Clippers is also an opportunity to improve his value.
Although with the defending champion's current configuration, he is more likely to be in charge of delivering water and towels most of the time.
The Clippers haven't changed much in the general framework for the new season, and the team is changing hands at a critical time, so they don't seem to care about the '14 draft.
Selling the second-round pick directly is the best proof of this, and on the first-round pick option, Erniu gave O'Hill this instruction: "Try to find a reliable center candidate, we have to prepare for next season." ”
O'Hill didn't react for a while, and Erniu took the initiative to explain: "Don't forget, Kehuai's contract with DJ is about to expire, do you think it's possible for us to keep these two people at the same time?"
O'Hill said in his heart: "This means clearly, it is to give priority to renewing Leonard's contract!"
The 2014 NBA Draft in Brooklyn, New York, was a highly anticipated draft, and many experts believe that it was the most anticipated draft after '03.
The Cleveland Cavaliers, who won the No. 1 pick in four years and three times, were undoubtedly the biggest winners, and they used the first-round pick to get Andrew Wiggins, who would not have thought at this time that the starting point of his career was not in Cleveland.
The Milwaukee Bucks picked Jabari Parker in the pick.
Then came the highlight of this draft, where the Philadelphia 76ers selected a new generation of great man Joel Embiid.
The NBA entered the era of the Emperor, and the 14th year also became the first year of the Emperor.
Of course, at this time, the emperor was still mainly relying on Twitter to send holy decrees, and after being drafted by the 76ers, Embiid immediately began to recruit superstars for the team, and he first targeted the biggest fish in the free market - LeBron James.
But James didn't reply to him, and then the Emperor decisively blocked LeBron.
That's not all, the Emperor tried to blunt the celebrity Kim Kardashian on Twitter.
But then he found out that the other party was married, and quickly issued an apology statement.
Well, the emperor is still very careful about the influence!
But given that the 76ers first brought in Andrew Bynum, and then Joel Embiid.
Will the inside line that has been baptized by the Washing, Scissor, and Twitter Emperor become ...... in the new season
Wait, the Great is reimbursed due to injury, and he will almost certainly not play in the 14-15 season?
Well, well, since they are all called emperors, such a thing as injuries is also predictable.
The draft continued, and outstanding players such as Aaron Gordon, Marcus Smart, Julius Randle, Zach LaVine, and Nurkic were also selected.
The Clippers' favored Clint Capela was unsuccessful, and he was intercepted by the Rockets with the 25th pick.
In the 29th pick, the Spurs selected the "Time and Space Lord - King Sledgehammer".
Oh, and that's Kyle Anderson.
The Clippers then selected Nikola Jokic with the 30th pick, the last pick in the first round.
The Serbs will definitely not be in the NBA this season, and it is uncertain when they will land, but the Clippers, who are not short of people in the new season, are still willing to take a little risk for this.