Chapter 386: Trade, 1997 Spurs Draft Pick!

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In the NBA, the completion of a transaction is never a simple matter, not that several players seem to be able to exchange equally, especially the transaction of superstar-level players, and the issues that need to be considered are more than all aspects, so in the history of the NBA, it can be said that there are countless transactions every year, but in these transactions, superstar-level transactions are quite limited, the most famous is Chamberlain to the Lakers, Abdul-Jabbar to the Lakers, and Moses Malone to the 76ers, These three king-level transactions can be said to be the most famous superstar transactions in NBA history, and in addition to these three major transactions, the recent Drexler to the Rockets and Barkley to the Suns, of course, Lin Han came to the Lakers, after all, although Lin Han was a rookie, he is also recognized as a superstar player. ⊥ top novel,

Why are there so many trades in NBA history, but this kind of superstar trade is rare, and not even a single one in years or even decades? Of course, every superstar player is the treasure of their respective teams, except as a last resort, no team will trade their team's superstar, if Chamberlain didn't feel that he had no possibility of improvement in Philadelphia, and would never win the championship, and resolutely wanted to leave, Philadelphia would be replaced? Of course not, if it weren't for Abdul-Jabbar's 6 years with the Bucks, he won the MVP but the championship was slim. The self-esteemed super center thinks the Bucks are no longer worthy of him and wants to escape. Will the Bucks trade? Of course not, again, Moses Malone. If it weren't for the Rockets' repeated losses in the Finals, the No. 1 center of the year would have felt that he might need to hold a stronger team to win the championship and choose to travel east, would the Rockets trade him? Of course not!

These three king-level players are like this, and the other three superstars Barkley, Drexler and Lin Han are all like this, some of these three were traded in their prime, some were traded in their twilight, and some were traded in their debut, whether they were in their prime, twilight or youth, their teams had no intention of trading them. Whether it was Barkley or Drexler or Linhan, if it weren't for their insistence on leaving, none of the teams they were on would have thought of trading them.

So, in the NBA, the value of a superstar player is definitely worth affirming, and for a team, if they can keep their team's superstar, they would rather replace their team's head coach and general manager!

Superstar trades aren't common in the NBA, except for the team's reluctance to let go. There is another reason that is equally important, and that is the selection of superstar players, what is the selection of superstar players? That is, if the team is really forced to do so. In the case that the team's superstar must leave, almost all teams will have a lot of respect for the selection of the superstar in the team, and the Jazz have a lot of respect for Linham. Let Lin Han choose the team he wants to go to, and the Suns also respected Barkley's choice very much. Even the Trail Blazers had a lot of respect for Drexler's choice, as did Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. With the prestige of these two people, there are many teams that can afford the price, and there are many teams that want these two, why did they go to the Lakers? And why did their team let them go to the Lakers, wasn't it because of their own choice? Even Moses Malone, who was signed first and then traded, ended up joining the 76ers when he left the Rockets, who defeated their sworn enemy 76ers in the Eastern Conference finals that year, why did the Rockets release the 76ers, the sworn enemy of the year? Isn't it because the 76ers are strong that Moses Malone wants to go?

In the history of the NBA, however, this sentence is invalid for all superstar trades, and most of the superstar players will be better off than their last home, because most superstars are able to choose their own destiny, and of course they will choose a new club that is most beneficial to them!

The NBA is a commercial league, and in theory, everything in this league, including players, is a commodity and a commodity, but when the level of this player reaches a certain level, then the players can still control their own destiny, at least much better than those role players and ordinary All-Star players.

And the reason why Barkley's deal has dragged on until now is also like this, there are many teams that want Barkley, just like when Abdul-Jabbar was leaving the Bucks and the Suns were leaving the 76ers, there were too many teams that wanted to get them, and even the Lakers wanted to get Barkley, not to mention other teams, and there are many teams that can pay chips for this player, and it can even be said that there are a lot, after all, when trading Barkley, the Suns did not think about trading Jordan, Olajuwon or a player of the level of David Robinson and Lin Han, since they know that they can't trade for this kind of equivalent superstar, and even some star players who don't have an urgent need for trade may not be able to trade, for example, Sprewell is also an All-Star player, although the Warriors also want Barkley, but they won't trade Sprewell, the same is true for the Kings, they won't trade Richmond for Barkley, in this case, if you have a choice, the Suns can't trade the Lin Han they want, Of course they don't want to trade Barkley, of course, even if Barkley can't bring them a championship, but the players they trade for can't bring them a championship either, so why bother in this situation? It's just that because of Jerry Buss's troubles, Barkley no longer wants to stay with the Suns, so he has to trade.

And this is one of the reasons why many teams are willing to give their superstar players the freedom to choose their next home, because it is impossible to trade an equivalent superstar back, and there is almost no such thing as two superstars swapping owners in the history of the NBA, in this case, the superstar trade is a loss. Or maybe most of the teams have more or less the same chips, since most of the teams have more or less the same chips. As long as everyone is not too hateful and resentful, the team will certainly not throw their team's superstar into a garbage team for others to criticize and say that it is a small belly. This will affect the team's reputation for signing free agents in the future, so slowly everyone will become conventional, and the superstar trade will become interesting.

Because of the addition of a superstar player's own choice, there should be a lot of teams that want it, and there are many teams that can afford to put up chips, and the team on one side of the trade generally doesn't have high requirements, so the reason why such a deal is unusually slow.

In the case of the Barkley trade, Barkley wants to go to the Rockets. This is something that Barkley said at the beginning, although the Bulls also want him, but Barkley feels that the Bulls are unreliable, because this year's West is clearly the Rockets' dominance, and in the case of the Jazz team dismantling, it is not very difficult for the Rockets to enter the Finals even without him, and with him, it is almost a sure thing for the Rockets to enter the Finals, when the Rockets enter the Finals. Who can match this team in the East? Bull? No kidding, Jordan has been scared of Olajuwon in the regular season in recent years, although the results of the playoffs are unknown, but with the addition of Barkley. The Rockets can't lose to the Bulls no matter how they look at it, and in Barkley's opinion, the Rockets are a better option than the Bulls. And the other thing is that although he and Jordan are very good friends. But Jordan is too controlling, comparatively. Olajuwon is much easier to get along with, he goes to the Bulls and is an ironclad second or even third leader, but when he goes to the Rockets, everyone may really be on an equal footing, so he won't lose points.

It can be said that when Barkley wants to leave the Suns, the Rockets are the first or even the only choice, if he doesn't go to the Rockets, it is better to stay in the Suns, plus the Rockets are very interested in him whether it is the team's boss Olajuwon or Drexler or the team's head coach Tomjanovich, in this situation, everyone can also be together, but it is obvious that although Barkley wants to go to the Rockets, the Rockets are willing to want Barkley, and even the Suns don't mind sending Barkley to the Rockets, but, The key for Team Rocket is that they don't have enough chips! The Rockets are not without people, in fact, the Suns are not picky now, they have all been rebuilt anyway, it doesn't matter if the players who are traded are All-Stars in the year, the key is to be young and have potential, and it is better to have some good draft picks, does the Rockets have such players? Of course there is, Cassel, Robert Hawley, aren't they all such people? It's just that the Rockets are reluctant to let these people go, Robert Holly is good to say, playing power forward now in the Rockets, of course Barkley will not have his place when he comes, the key is Kassel, this is a player that the Rockets are absolutely unwilling to give up, although he is a young man, but the value of the Rockets is extremely high, and he is the most stable possession point outside of Drexler, which is used to prevent a team from forcing Drexler to death like Linham in the playoffs last season.

It is precisely because of this that in the end the deal fell into a great impasse, if the Rockets were willing to send their first-round picks, as well as Cassel, Hawley, this deal may have been completed long ago, but it is because of a Kassel, in the end this deal has been delayed until now, the Suns and the Rockets have used a lot of permutations and combinations, but they can't find the possibility of multi-party transactions, not that no team is willing to trade multi-party, but a little embarrassing is that this deal is clearly extremely beneficial to the Rockets, The strong teams in the West are fools to help the Rockets and Suns complete this deal, and even the strong teams in the East don't want to see this deal completed!

In this era of separation, what kind of scene the Rockets will be like after they have Barkley, everyone can't imagine, so many NBA team general managers gather in Phoenix, do you think it's really to trade Barkley? Of course, people definitely want to get Barkley into their team, but what if they can't? Troublemaking, of course! Jerry West: They're just going to make trouble! As long as Jerry West and Klaus, the general manager of the Bulls, are standing there, which team is going to help the Rockets and Suns complete this deal will still need to weigh whether their own team is qualified.

Of course Lin Han didn't know about this kind of thing, it was too dark, if it wasn't for Lin Han asking why Jerry West stayed in Phoenix for so long when he asked Ming Ming that the Lakers were out of play, this was still the inside story of Kupchak telling him, but Kupchak and Bulls general manager Klaus were purely troublemakers. Jerry West also wanted to make trouble, but who made Jerry Bass do this kind of thing. Jerebus was fine, patted his ass and left. But Jerry West can't, Colangelo, the general manager of the Suns, has a lot of energy in the NBA, if Jerry West also pats his ass and leaves, it will not be good if the general manager of the Suns targets his anger and hatred for Jerry Buss at the Lakers, of course Jerry West knows the reason for the sedan chair to carry people, simply put, Jerry West owes the Suns a favor on behalf of the Lakers, stay there to calm Cranglo's anger, and return the favor by the way. Therefore, even if many people want to prevent the completion of this deal, but everyone's goal is still different, the Bulls are pure troublemakers and belong to the chaotic evil camp, while the Lakers are also trying to help the Suns get better chips while making trouble, which belongs to chaos and kindness, as for the Spurs ** Vicky and the like stay there to see if they can make a profit from this deal if they can't make trouble, this belongs to the chaotic neutral camp.

When there is so much mess in one transaction. It's understandable why the deal has been so slow, especially because of anger and unhappiness, and Colangelo didn't use his connections to help the Rockets and Barkley complete the deal when the Rockets now have connections in the league. How can it be possible to beat so many big guys? And most teams trade superstars, although the superstars are allowed to choose their own teams, but no team is really generous enough to help with chips. Even when Lin Han was traded, the chips that the Lakers traded for Lin Han were all made by themselves. The Jazz only provide the list, as for help? I'm sorry. That's absolutely nothing.

In this case, how can the Rockets compare to the Lakers, and even after getting these insider information from Kupchak, Lin Han will even wonder if this deal will die at the trade deadline, and this possibility actually seems not small at all.

Although Lin Han predicted more than once whether the deal might die in the end, in the end, the deal was completed, although the process was quite bumpy, but in the end, the deal was completed.

The Phoenix Suns sent away the team's superstar Ross Barkley, as well as the swingman who signed the franchise last season, Ceballos, and the team's 1996 second-round pick

The Rockets sent the team's point guards Sam Cassel and Robert Hawley and Mr. Thirty in the Quarter, Maxwell and Carl Herrera, as well as a 1995 first-round pick and a 1997 first-round pick

The Spurs, for their part, sent the team's backup point guard, former All-Star point guard Doug Greaves, as well as guard Vinnie DeNagro, who averaged 15+4 per game this season, and small forward Willie Anderson, whose contract is expiring, and the team's 1997 first-round pick

The Lakers, for their part, sent away the 1995 draft pick they received from the Spurs this summer and their own team's 1996 first-round pick

In the end, the Phoenix Suns got Sam Kassel and Robert Hawley from the Rockets, Willie Anderson and Carl Herrera from the Spurs, and of course the 1995 and 1997 first-round picks from the Rockets, as well as the Spurs' 1995 draft pick and the Lakers' own 1996 first-round pick from the Lakers

The Rockets, on the other hand, got Barkley from the Suns and guards Doug Reaves and Vinid Nagro from the Spurs

The Spurs got two would-be All-Star-caliber swingmen Ceballos and Maxwell that their team was desperately short of

As for the Lakers, they acquired the Spurs' 1997 draft pick and the Suns' 1996 second-round pick

It's clear from this deal that the Suns have acquired a bunch of potential young players and players whose contracts are expiring and are ready to rebuild, especially those four first-round picks.

As for the Rockets, sending away Maxwell, who is unwilling to play as a substitute on his own team, is considered to have reduced a tipping point for the team, as for Kassel and Hawley, there is no way, the Suns named the people they wanted, they didn't give it, but fortunately, in the end, they got two ball-handling guards Doughreaves and De Nagro from the Spurs, and it didn't seem to be a loss, after all, they got Barkley, the player with the biggest head in the deal.

As for the Spurs, it was even more of a loss, sending away a backup point guard who couldn't play and a two-way guard who didn't defend well, De Nagro, in exchange for the all-round swingman Ceballos, who can average 20 points per game, and Maxwell, the league's most powerful nerve knife, this deal is a bargain no matter how you look at it. As for the 1997 first-round pick? With the strength of the Spurs, the 1995, 1996 and 1997 draft picks were basically in the second half. 1995 has been given to the Lakers, plus it can't send the first round for two consecutive years. So I can only send 1997, and compared with 1995, the value of 1997 is much lower, you know, these years are a big year for the draft, from O'Neal in 1992 to Lin Han in 1993 to Hill and others this year, in recent years, American basketball talent has exploded, and the draft year not only looks at the high picks in front of them, but also pays more attention to the players in the middle and late stages of the first round. For the Spurs, 1995 and 1997 are both the second half, obviously 1995 is more valuable, even 1995 was sent, not to mention the 1997 first round for Ceballos, a player with All-Star level strength, in the Spurs' opinion, this is definitely earned.

Of course, the Suns feel that they have not lost, and the Rockets and Spurs feel that they have earned, so it is obvious that the only ones who have lost are of course the Lakers.

Because of the big hole that Jerebus dug. Jerry West returned the favor and gave away a more valuable draft pick in 1995 and got the Spurs' 1997 draft pick, which was already a loss, plus he traded his 1996 first-round pick for the Suns' 1996 second-round pick. This is also a loss, you know, if 1997 is a draft year. The second-half first-round pick is about the same value as the second-round pick, but from another point of view. If 1996 was also a draft year, then the Lakers did not lose much by trading the first round for the Suns in the second round. Judging from the recent blowout of American basketball talents like the 84 generation, I am afraid that it will be a draft year for a long time after 1996.

However, who made Jerry Buss make things too big, the Suns would not have traded their own leading players to rebuild, it was because of the old Bass that the Suns made the current miserable situation, if Jerry West does not appease Colangelo's anger, I am afraid that something big will really happen, and for the Lakers, after having a core like Lin Han, in fact, they do not have much requirements for the draft, especially these drafts destined to be in the second half of the draft, there are no requirements, and the most important thing for the Lakers is the free market! And the free market is also the stage where the Lakers can maximize their energy, so it is not impossible to use draft picks to appease the anger of the Suns, and if it weren't for the fact that this person is Jerry West, Colangelo may not have sold face to accept the Lakers' apology.

When the Barkley deal was completed, Lin Han was extremely emotional when he read the news in the newspaper at home.

This is not because after Barkley went to the Rockets, the strength of the Rockets has become the biggest favorite to win the championship, but as a superstar, an MVP player who has a huge deal compared to Lin Han at that time, he will be so humble when he trades.

In Lin Han's opinion, the transaction of a player like Barkley must at least come to five parties and six parties, and no matter how bad the number of people to join the transaction is, it must not be less, but it is a pity that Lin Han is a little regretful that this transaction only involves less than ten people, which is much worse than Lin Han's transaction.

Obviously, in Lin Han's opinion, if a player of their level were to be traded, it would be earth-shattering.

If you let Jerry West know Lin Han's thoughts at this time, I'm afraid he will die of laughter directly, in the history of the NBA, transactions like Barkley are already a number of big transactions, after all, there are not a few superstar transactions in the history of the NBA, and even if there are, most superstar transactions are not as greedy as the Suns and Jazz, in fact, the Jazz trading Lin Han and the Suns trading Barkley are extremely greedy among all the superstar transactions in history.

Of course, no matter what, the deal was finally done, and whether it seemed to Lin Han or not, Barkley ended up with the Rockets.

And at this time, looking at the reports in his hand that were all touting the Rockets, Lin Han was also a little speechless for a while, although now the Rockets are indeed the strongest team in the NBA, one team has three superstars, and such a lineup is bigger than last year's Jazz team.

As USA Today said, the biggest enemy of this team is no longer the opponent, but themselves, and now it depends on whether the Rockets can do their best to build the team's tactical system, if they can grind the team into shape, this team will be invincible in recent seasons, even the Bulls have to avoid its edge.

So, after the deal was completed, the Houston Chronicle even wrote directly on the front page of its own newspaper that it had "The Houston Dynasty is Coming"

When Lin Han saw this title, he was really shocked, Houston Dynasty, if you want a team to be called a dynasty, you have to win at least several championships, right? According to the most standard algorithm, three consecutive championships is the foundation, and it is obvious that at this time, the Rockets are already thinking about three consecutive championships.

And after the Houston Chronicle played such a headline, almost no one in the major media in the United States objected, this Nima, such a lineup is scary here, Olajuwon, Barkley, Drexler, if it was placed two years ago, this is the combination of the No. 1 center in the West plus the No. 1 forward in the West plus the No. 1 scoring guard in the West, this Nima is going against the rhythm of the sky, even now, Drexler may not be as strong as two years ago, but it is not much worse, Even in terms of style of play, Drexler has gone one step further, and with Balley and Olajuwon still at their peak, there is no problem at all that these three can continue to perform at a high level for three years.

Not to mention that the American media has no doubts about the title Houston, and when Lin Han returns to the team, after returning to the team's training hall, even the Lakers have a feeling that the rain is about to come at this time.

Although the Lakers have never shouted the slogan of winning the championship, or the whole team has shouted Lin Han, everyone knows very well that Lin Han did not come to the Lakers for money, of course, for the championship and honor.

In fact, for Lin Han, the Lakers also have a lot of trust, especially the Lakers players, who now almost have a blind sense of trust in Lin Han, believing that as long as the ball is given to Lin Han's hands, Lin Han can lead them to win.

And now, even if he is not a Lakers player now, Wang Zhizhi can feel the pressure faced by Lakers players at this time!

Not only the pressure faced by the Lakers players, but also the Lakers' coaching staff, at least the Lakers training ground, which has a very good atmosphere because of the winning streak in recent times, has a very depressing feeling today!

And Lin Han knows that when Barkley's deal is completed, this feeling of depression is definitely not only for the Lakers, but also for teams such as the Bulls, Magic, and the SuperSonics!

"It's all our boss's big mouth"

After everyone from the Lakers came to the training hall, the atmosphere of the team was a little different, but after Eddie Jones's complaint, the Lakers practice court soon burst into laughter, and the atmosphere was also relaxed.

And looking at the Lakers players who have become funny at this time, Carell and Magic on the side are only left with a wry smile.

I have to say that Eddie Jones is really right, and the depression and pressure felt by so many strong teams in the league now are really brought by Old Bass.

If this Nima let old Buss know about his masterpiece, will the Lakers owner be happy? (To be continued......)