Chapter 1245

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Some fans with more curiosity calculated that if Lamar retires, he will earn at least 70 million less every year, and he will not make a good 70 million US dollars, isn't it stupid!

While fans began to organize spontaneously, they made up all sorts of reasons to convince Lamar that he could continue to stay in the NBA and create miracles.

Lamar may be really tired this time, and he changed his previous style of doing things, and actually directly explained the reason for his choice on his blog.

For Lamar's insistence, Knicks fans can only express their wishes a little against their hearts while helpless, but they still haven't given up in their hearts, hoping that Lamar can change his mind in the remaining season.

While Lamar and his family are living a cosy rural life on a super-large estate in New Zealand, the NBA's collective bargaining is still at an impasse and seems to be intensifying.

At this time, David Stern, the former chairman of the Alliance, has retired, and now Adam Shaw, who is in the Alliance, is a typical wall-rider, wall-to-wall, and speculator.

In the process of labor and management negotiations, this guy played the role of a good man, not offending both sides, and even took the opportunity to fish in troubled waters to expand his influence.

At this moment, something happened that no one expected.

Superstar Kevin Garnett, who has always held a pivotal position in the labor side, and Derek Fisher, the chairman of the union, suddenly stood up to speak for the management. And some of the team owners who had already colluded with them before also began to loosen up a little bit by the steps.

For a while, the dawn of negotiations reappeared!

At this time, Lamar, who has been a bystander, also took the initiative to make his voice heard in the media, hoping that both sides can step back and reach an agreement, so as not to affect the upcoming new season.

Everyone knows how influential Lamar is among the fans. Although non-New York fans will boo Lamar during the game because of the geographical relationship, Lamar is undoubtedly an icon of the United States outside of the game.

So when Lamar stepped forward as a peacemaker, both labor and management had to give him face. The collective negotiations then entered the final stage, with both sides backing down, and finally on September 12, 2016, the two sides reached a consensus.

Seeing that all obstacles had been cleared, Adam Xiaohua immediately announced that the preseason and regular season of the 2016-2017 season would be carried out normally.

The final championship of this season still belongs to the Knicks, when Lamar led the Knicks to the sixth victory over the Phoenix Suns led by LeBron James, the Knicks finally achieved an unprecedented 9 consecutive championships, surpassing the Green Shirts to become the greatest team in the history of the league, and becoming a veritable basketball hegemon.

Lamar is nearly 38 years old this year, but his performance still has the strength of an All-Star. Although Lamar is older, his speed is slower, his physical confrontation is no longer good, and his jump height has decreased, he is still one of the best players on the inside, and no one can beat the god of basketball.

At the moment of lifting the O'Brien Cup, Lamar has no regrets. He was still able to stand on the stage of the finals at a young age, and he once again created a myth.

Although Damport is only 35 years old, he can continue to stay with the Knicks to play his spare time, but the Haitians chose to retire without hesitation after knowing that Lamar had made up his mind to retire.

In the words of this guy, the help of Lamar is crucial to the fact that he has achieved the results he has today. Without Lamar by his side, he was afraid that those guys who had been bullied by him would seek revenge on him, and besides, those old brothers had almost retired one by one, and there was no point in him staying.

In addition, Sean Battier and Jason Capono also chose to retire one after another after their contracts expired.

Hassan Whiteside replaced Dampot as the Knicks' interior barrier.

Brazilian Hilario finally became the starting power forward of the Knicks after 15 years as a substitute, but with his age, I believe that he will choose to retire in less than three years.

Biyombo and Haslem are looking for new challenges from other teams after their contracts expire.

As a result, after Lamar chose to retire, only Dwyane Wade, Nene Hilario, John Salmons, Paul George, Stephen Curry, and Hassan Whiteside are still in the Knicks.

Lamar's retirement is regrettable, but it can't overshadow the success of his career.

With 15 championship rings, there's no one in the league greater than Lamar.

Although James Dolan communicated with Lamar many times during the season, and the master and apprentice kept this Knicks' anchor, Lamar refused very firmly.

Lamar could feel that he was a little overwhelmed, after all, he was getting older, and his body was not as good as before.

In the past two seasons, Lamar's small problems accumulated in his youth began to become ferocious, although Lamar took care of his body very carefully, but the decline in physical function still made him suffer from injuries all the time.

After the start of the new season, Maddison really didn't have Lamar on the court, and as time passed, the Knicks seemed to gradually forget Lamar.

Now the Knicks' lineup is not bad, with Hassan Whiteside, Interior & amp; amp; amp; amp; & amp; amp; amp; amp; Nehilario and Antonio Davis (who just joined the Knicks this summer) and other giants, and the outside line has three All-Stars such as Dwyane Wade, Stephen Curry, and Paul George.

Lamar doesn't seem to matter anymore to the strong Knicks!

The most important thing is that James Dolan's successor, Charles Dolan, does not want Lamar to stay with the Knicks, because Lamar's prestige in the Knicks is too high. As long as Lamar is still on the Knicks, not only will he not be able to make drastic changes to the Knicks, but even the achievements will be attributed to Lamar and others.

And Lamar's retirement can also free up salary space for the Knicks, otherwise the Knicks' management would not have been able to take Antonio Davis this summer.

The 2017-2018 season was anything but a success for the New York Knicks, the league's perennial winners.

After losing Lamar, although the Knicks can still dominate the regular season, they also stumble along the way.

When it came time for the playoffs, the Knicks were in a huge predicament. Wade, Curry and Davis have been injured successively (Wade is because of his age, while Curry and Davis are a bit of a glass man), the three main players cannot play, and the Knicks seem to have lost their backbone.

In the Eastern Conference semifinals, although Paul George and Hassan Whiteside took the rest of the Knicks to fight back, they were still beaten by the Miami Heat for 2 consecutive games, making the score 2:2, and the two sides returned to the same running line again.

Seeing the players' morale low and the team in trouble, Charles Dolan, who had been complacent because of his regular season record, finally began to sit still and began to seek the help of Coach K and Morey, trying to get them to come out and persuade Lamar to come forward to stabilize the morale of the players.

Coach K and Morey refused without hesitation.

They have a good understanding of what happened this summer, and in fact, through so many lobbying by Dolan Sr., Lamar's idea of retiring has been loosened. But just when Lamar was in a state of hesitation, Dolan Jr.'s thank-you speech to Lamar in front of the media made Lamar firm in his idea of retiring again.

Both Coach K and General Manager Morey were angry about this.

Coupled with the contradiction with Little Dolan in terms of the team's management philosophy, the two don't have much affection for the arrogant and opinionated Little Dolan.

Especially in the middle of the regular season, when Dolan Jr. insisted on trading Salmons and other Knicks' exploits out of the team in exchange for a pile of garbage that could not be played, the contradiction between the three can be said to have been sharpened.

You must know that at that time, not only Coach K and Morey opposed this deal, but even those NBA celebrities were scratching their heads, and even Lamalla, who had not appeared in public for a long time, was kind to persuade him.

It's a pity that Charles Dolan insists on going his own way, believing that the existence of those veterans not only locks up the Knicks' salary space, but also hinders the performance of the main core players.

After the trade, the Knicks' main players did get more opportunities to perform, and the playing time of Zeng Jia also made their stats better, and the five Knicks starters were selected for the main game during the All-Star Game. But such a move also lays a landmine for the playoffs.

When the trade happened, Coach K and Morey had to compromise for the sake of the team's stability. In order to maintain the competitiveness of the Knicks as much as possible, Coach K had to change the tactics that the Knicks insisted on both offense and defense for more than a dozen seasons, and could only base themselves on offense, establishing the core position of Stephen Curry, Paul George, and Antonio Davis. And based on this, supplemented by Hassan Whiteside's defensive ability and Wade's experience, the Knicks were rebuilt.

Although Coach K consciously let the main players start to rotate and rest early, due to the needs of tactics and the reduction of hole cards in his hand, sometimes the main players have to overload the game.

Sure enough, in the Eastern Conference semifinals, the 35-year-old Wade couldn't hold it out first and fell in the first game. Then it was time for the second game, and the glass men Antonio Davis and Stephen Curry also fell one after another.

Just when the outside world was worried about the future of the Knicks, Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals had begun.

In the face of the menacing Miami Heat, who want to completely end the myth of the Knicks' undefeated, the Knicks, who are missing the three main forces, have obviously encountered the biggest crisis in recent years.

But fortunately, thanks to Paul George's three-pointer at the final moment (Paul George cut 38 points, 11 rebounds, 7 assists, 5 steals, and 2 blocks in the game), the Knicks led the Heat by 1 point with 0.5 seconds left in the game. 2k reading web