On July 23, the Timberwolves won the game with Mark Murphy. Jackson and Tyrrell. Brandon was involved in a big four-team trade and got Knicks star "Mad Man" Sprewell. With the addition www.biquge.info of Cassel, who was previously traded to the Bucks (at the expense of Joe Smith and Anthony Piller), the Wolves have finally found two star helpers for Garnett.

(Here's a word about Brandon, who was a strong star at his peak as an important supporting character in the novel's first game, and was a two-time All-Star.) In '99, Brandon signed a six-year, $60 million contract with the Wolves, but in 2002 he was ruined by injury and never played again after February 13, '02. After being traded to the Hawks, he was cut in the 03-04 season and then announced his retirement, and he was only 32 years old when he retired.)

Also in this deal, the 76ers acquired "Big Dog" Robinson and Mark Brown. Jackson. Determined to move towards a rebuild, the Knicks paid for Sprewell, the "madman" who is about to turn 33, and got Van Horn from the 76ers.

(This is a typical case of a multi-party transaction, team A is willing to pay A to get B, and team B is willing to sell B but is unwilling to get A, so in order to complete the transaction and achieve a win-win situation, team A and B have to pull in team C or even team D and team E to complete the transaction together)

Next on July 24th, Jason. Kidd signed a six-year contract with the Nets with a maximum salary. On the same day, Brad. Miller moved to the Kings in a three-way deal after signing a seven-year, $68 million contract, and in this deal, the Spurs acquired the Kings' young player, 23-year-old Quentin. Richardson.

On July 31, Andrew. Miller signed a six-year, $51 million contract with the underdogs. On the same day, the Pistons, who failed to recruit Miller, renewed Hamilton's contract with a high salary of 62 million over seven years.

On August 2, a bombshell news came: the Pistons traded European king "White Magic" Dejan on a three-year mid-level contract with a starting salary of 4.9 million. Bodiloga recruited a team (note: the mid-class exception allows teams to sign a number of players despite the salary cap, but their total salary must not exceed the average salary, and each team has only one middle-class exception per season), thus forming a starting five of Big Ben, Milicic, Prince, Hamilton and Bodiloga. The Pistons fired their head coach as soon as they lost the Eastern Conference Finals last season and hired former 76ers decorated coach Larry. Brown. The management has made a series of moves to show their ambition.

(Note: Bodiloga was 30 years old at the time, a tall point guard who reached 205cm in height, and was known as the white version of Magic Johnson in Europe.) He led the team to three Europa League titles, including four MVP titles. He also led the Yugoslav team to the World Championship and is known as the best basketball player outside the NBA. He didn't join the NBA in history, so let's make up for this regret in the novel)

On August 8, another bombshell news came. Arenas, who just got the most improved player a few months ago, was recruited by the championship Spurs on a six-year, 63.7 million contract.

This was a rules bug that caused quite a stir in the league.

Since Arenas was a second-round pick in 2001 and had only played for his old club Warriors for 2 years during this period, there was only the Early Bird Exception (a team with 2 years for its parent team had an Early Bird Exception, which could start at 175% of the previous year's salary or 104.5% of the league's average salary, whichever is greater). There are also some concepts such as transfer succession exceptions, which will not be repeated), according to the regulations, the Warriors can only match the maximum starting salary of $4.9 million, but the Spurs offered him an invitation contract with a starting salary of $8.5 million, resulting in the Warriors being unable to match the contract in terms of rules, and can only watch Arenas go to the Spurs (Arenas joined the Wizards in history, and the other plots are the same).

The Spurs have freed up a lot of salary space due to the retirement of Gen. Robinson. The signing of Arenas is just the first step in their reshaping of a championship team around Duncan. Obviously, in the next few years, the trio of Duncan, Ginobili and Arenas will allow the Spurs to continue to be the best in the league.

The Rockets, on the other hand, don't have the Warriors' worries, because Reed has been with the Rockets for three years and has a Bird exception, and the Rockets can even offer Reed a contract extension with a maximum salary. Far Flying, who signed Reed for three years, was once again a case of foresight (Reed played three straight years for the Rockets and didn't leave as a free agent or be bought out, making him a Bird exception.) The Rockets can extend their contract beyond the salary cap, up to the maximum salary).

On August 3rd, Michael. Reed successfully signed a four-year contract extension with the Rockets with a starting salary of 5 million. Bosh was also quickly signed on a rookie contract.

Compared with the continuous reinforcement of the Spurs, Lakers, Nets, Kings, Wolves and Pistons, the Rockets seem to have made a lot less moves, just signing players who should have belonged to them.

Yuanfei decided to be a good person to the end, took out the skills of the national comedy star Master Benshan, and resolutely fooled the lame boss Alexander. Yali was poured into ecstasy soup by him again, and finally signed a full free agent on the free market under the temptation of money - (do you know this famous star known as "God"?) ）。

So the Rockets roster for minor repairs and minor repairs is as follows:

Player/Position/Age/Salary ($10,000)

McGrady/Shooting Guard/24/1328

Billups/Point Guard/27/550

Reed/Shooting Guard/24/500

Yao Ming/Center/23/414.8

Bosh/Power Forward/19/263.6

Wang Zhizhi/Power Forward/26/209

Olajuwon/Center/41/200

Johnson/Shooting Guard/22/185

Jefferson/Small Forward/23/175.8

Turkoglou/Small Forward/24/143.2

Wallace/Forward/21/122.7

Oku/center/24/110

Parker/Point Guard/21/99.6

Battle / Centre forward / 28/63.7

(Note: Mark. Bryant's contract expired and was not renewed. Monk. Battle and the Rocket's contract is 2 years, with no guarantee for the second year)

In this way, the 14-man roster of the Rockets was completed, and the trio of the Great Wall of China gathered in Houston. The total salary of the Rockets is about 43.65 million, which is just below the salary cap of 43.84 million.

And the heat of the free market has not waned. The Spurs despite getting Arenas and Richardson, but Stephen. Dissatisfied with the lack of possession, Jackson turned around and defected to the Atlanta Hawks.

On August 18, the Mavericks, who have a local tyrant owner, also increased their investment. They made a 5-for-4 trade with the Warriors to get a big deal with Fan. Xcel and Avery . Johnson and other players in exchange for Antoine. Jamison and other players. However, Yuanfei knew that the Mavericks' trade was not successful, but their first-round pick this year, Josh. Howard will grow into a good third-tier player.

So far, five of the top six teams in the West and the top two teams in the East have all had star signings, with the exception of the Rockets. In this crazy summer like never before, the mighty are competing for money and throwing money to reserve their combat power, and only the Houstonians seem to be far away from this arms race.