"You trade Rudy, I don't want to ask why, I don't want to ask why it's so rewarded, but why is the Spurs the target of the trade? They only need a strong forward and center to complete the system, why send Rudy there? You tell me why ......" Sun Ce roared wildly towards the phone.

At 5 p.m. on June 19, 2011, Google Sports reporter Wojkina Wowski broke the news that the Spurs and Grizzlies had made a deal.

The initial details of the trade that came to light are that the Spurs used the Mavericks' first-round pick 26th pick this year from the Rockets, the Spurs' own two non-guaranteed first-round picks for the year, Alonzo Key, who is on a non-guaranteed contract next season, and Gary Neal, a 10-year draft pick with two years left on his partially guaranteed contract, gave the Spurs space to get Rudy Gay from the Grizzlies.

This deal, in the eyes of fans, is comparable to the Lakers using Kwame Brown to rob Big Gasol from their Grizzlies, not a question of trade value, the three first-round picks are still eye-catching, but the effect of Gay on the Spurs!

After Sun Ce's roar was finished, Chris Wallace on the other end of the phone said: "Rudy wants to go to the Spurs, he wants to give up the starting position to Paul, he is worried that he hasn't played for a year and can't fit into our current system like Paul." ”

"He's going to give the starter to Paul, how good is it for you to trade him to the Timberwolves, Pistons, and Bobcats......," Sun Ce continued to spray.

"We respect his ideas and hope he has a good future, and we're a championship team because it's not ......appropriate to send him to a weak team for a draft pick because he hasn't played for a year," Chris Wallace on the other end of the phone said weakly.

Indeed, after such an operation, he himself felt quite mentally retarded.

But...... They've always been like that, and if he had to do it again, he'd probably do it anyway.

Moreover, the management unanimously felt that Paul George was more suitable to partner with Sun Ce than the overly casual Guy mentality, and had already begun to plan to correct Paul George, and Guy had been included in the trade, which can be said to be entirely due to Guy's shoulder injury reimbursement for a year, and he always felt a little sorry for Guy.

Three first-round picks aren't bad, but if the Grizzlies are given a full offseason and talk slowly, giving the Spurs plenty of time to figure out how to merge future draft picks to trade one or two possible lottery picks, but with the shutdown just a dozen days away, who would be stupid to trade them at this time?

If they pull in other teams, when they know that the Grizzlies are going to trade Gay to the Spurs, it would be nice for them to make the Grizzlies less rewarded.

It's not a game, if you want people to contribute high picks, people will give it, why?

Just like the Cavaliers, just this past season, their first-round pick was with the Grizzlies, and they didn't mess up like they did in the original plane, but desperately won the game, and they didn't want the Grizzlies to get the top three picks either back.

When Sun Ce heard this, he stopped roaring, what did he want him to say?

He himself was so sorry for what he was thinking, he actually thought that such management was very good, and he was happy that Guy had gone to a good place...... However, from the perspective of "business", it is a good loss, and it is an enemy.

After gasping for a while, Sun Ce said, "Okay, I see. ”

Sun Ce was about to hang up the phone, and the other end of the phone quickly said: "Noah, you wait, we still have a ...... deal"

Sun Ce didn't wait for the other side to finish speaking, and directly joked: "Are you ready to send warmth again?" ”

"Send warmth...... That's an adjective. ”

"Tell me, who are you going to send?"

"We agreed the other day that the Mavericks were in contact with our players, and Mike and the Mavericks reached an intention to join forces."

This time, Sun Ce heard Chris Wallace's words, and he didn't care about whether to send warmth or not, he remembered that the Grizzlies took the initiative to send them to win the championship, Conley wanted to go to the Jazz, and Guy wanted to partner with Cousins, and it seemed that they were almost sent in vain, as long as the star is no longer in the Grizzlies management's future plan, they will choose to try their best to meet the requirements of these former stars.

This Sun Ce has calmed down now, he can only choose to accept this situation, saying that sending Guy to the Timberwolves is just angry talk, and Guy going to the Spurs is so suitable for his team, Sun Ce also feels good.

But what does it mean to have the Mavericks in contact with their own players? And it's "us", not "someone"!

Sun Ce asked in confusion: "Chris, is our team going to be disbanded?" ”

"Here's the thing," Chris Wallace explained, "because we had an agreement with the Mavericks, we promised them, and after the season, we had a team with you, Mark, Paul, Otterspace, Zach, and Shaun, who had an expiring contract, they could choose one of our team's players to trade, and in the end Carlisle chose Mike, and Mike also wanted to go to the Mavericks, he wanted to have more opportunities to perform, and the Mavericks agreed to trade Kidd to us." ”

Conley for Kidd?

Hearing this deal, Sun Ce felt very strange, he didn't care about what the agreement was, he didn't lose money this time, compared to next year, there should be some improvement, although the progress is not large, but there must be progress, Conley's potential crisis of contention and Conley's contract renewal is definitely not cheap, about seven or eight million starts, and the contract will get bigger and bigger in the future...... Kidd is indeed a better fit for their Grizzlies.

Sun Ce has a lot of attention to Conley, or relying on the 150 million contract, he deliberately checked it in the original time and space, after Conley's rookie contract was completed, it was more than 6 million US dollars in starting salary to renew the contract for 5 years, and when the contract expired in 2016, it was more than 9 million US dollars in salary, and they all thought that he would get a 5-year 70 million at most 5 years and 90 million similar to the future Hassan Whiteside contract, who knew that he would get 150 million all of a sudden......

Conley in this time and space has playoff experience, the characteristics of the big heart have been shown, and it may be a little more expensive, probably the contract extension will be similar to the current Kidd, and the transaction is okay, and Kidd is really more suitable for the Grizzlies than Conley in today's situation, at least he doesn't have to occupy a starting position, and he has more experience, the key is that Kidd is still stronger.

Sun Ce was not surprised that the Mavericks began to trade veterans after winning the championship, in his opinion, the Mavericks had no other non-sale products except Nowitzki and Yao Ming, and Yao Ming's non-sale was just for commercial reasons.

It's just that......

Sun Ce said: "I don't like to be paired with Kidd. ”

Chris Wallace on the other end of the phone thought that Sun Ce would continue to spray, but who knew that it was actually this sentence that came out!

"Noah, Kidd is a good fit for us, he can do your role in leading the rotation in the second lineup, better suited than Mike, with a bench like this, you can play easier, although it's a bit too much for Mike, but we feel that Kidd is coming, our point guard line will be stronger." Chris Wallace explained.

"I know, I'm saying that I don't like to be paired with Kidd...... If I had to find a suitable player to lead the second team, I thought of a guy who I could try to fool him...... No, it's to get him to agree to come to us, you don't rush to complete the deal first, let them wait a few days, you give me some time. Sun Ce suddenly thought of the guy who was not in good old age......

"Yes, that's fine, who do you want?"

"Help me borrow the boss's plane and arrange a route to Phoenix."

"Watts?"

……

……

"Brother, brother, Phoenix is much more prosperous than I imagined! It's not worse than Los Angeles! I thought the United States, with the exception of New York and Los Angeles, was all small villages. ”

"Arizona is weird, they used all the statewide money to build this city, and my brother I used to live here for a year."

"Just like us in Beijing?"

"That's pretty much it."

"I see, brother, where are we going now?"

"Find Nash and abduct him to our Meng Village!"

At noon on June 20, Sun Ce and Zu Ge arrived in Phoenix on the team owner's private jet.

Zu Goose is already on summer vacation, Sun Ce naturally has to bring it, even if she doesn't have a holiday, she has to ask for leave, at least she looks happy in her heart, so as not to think of the wise operation of her own team.

Although the human touch is full, from last night to now, Sun Ce has seen the comments of the media and fans, and they are laughing at their team.

It's not just Sun Ce who can see how strong the Spurs will be after Guy joins the Spurs, everyone can see it, and in people's eyes, it is really the same effect as sending Gasol to the Lakers.

And the timing is different, at that time the Grizzlies were messing with the draft picks, and now the Grizzlies are second in the West, and the Spurs are first in the West!

Although Guy's departure didn't affect the strength of the Grizzlies' recently concluded season, it made the already strong Spurs stronger.

And Sun Ce is even more self-contained, Leonard's defense is not to talk about it first, Leonard almost arrived in the 15-16 season before he had the strength to average 20 points per game, and he has been training for four years! It's still the kind of Spurs who would rather let Leonard use his clumsy singles year after year, and of course, Leonard was selected as the second defense in the third year and won the best defensive player in the fourth year, and the defensive end performance is much better than Gay's early years.

It's just that Guy's physical condition and talent for playing, when it comes to Popovich, it is impossible to be better than Leonard, but it will certainly not be bad, Sun Ce's rookie season, the team can win, Guy is serious about defense, single defense, and assistance defense are very good.

This almost directly contributed to the improvement of the Spurs' system, and it was also the core of the forward line that the troika got an offensive strengthened version and a defensive version to be improved when they were younger.

Therefore, Sun Ce still looked at the ancestral goose more and looked at the beautiful little sister in order to calm down the emotions of wanting to beat people.

……

Sun Ce had already contacted Nash last night, and Sun Ce took a taxi to Nash's house, and Nash was already waiting.

When he entered the living room, there was nothing to greet, and Nash asked directly: "I don't think it's a good thing that you came to me at this time." ”

"We're going to trade Conley for Kidd." Sun Ce said very directly, the other party is Nash, so there is no need to take so many detours.

"The Mavericks traded Kidd for Conley? Are they crazy or are you crazy? But it's a win-win deal from a roster perspective, they have an equally solid core of future point guards, and you have a better veteran bench. Nash analyzed, but was confused, Sun Ce said what is this for.

"Steve, you haven't exercised your player option yet, have you? I remember you had your first player option this year. Sun Ce said.

He remembers that Nash's contract is similar to the 4+1+1 contract of James, Wade, and Bosh, and he can jump out of the contract after the first year of the contract.

"That's right, you want me to go to Memphis? If you change to Kidd, you won't be short of people on the point guard! Nash asked, confused.

"No, I don't want to partner with Kidd, he just won the championship, it feels like we hugged his thighs, I want to win the championship with you, dare you play together?" Sun Ce's tone was very provocative.

Nash didn't answer, but began to analyze: "The Spurs got Gay, the forward reinforcement was successful, they only need to find a center to help lose weight Duncan carry the center, Duncan will return to the power forward position The Spurs team defense will come back, they are definitely the favorites to win the championship next season;

The Mavericks traded Kidd for Conley, avoiding the risk of Kidd's possible degradation, with Yao and Terry, Conley's organizational and offensive ability is enough, and Nowitzki, who is in such good shape, may be the first favorite to win the championship;

And you, sent Guy away for nothing, and now you don't want Kidd, why do I think you can win the championship? The Lakers wanted me, the Heat wanted me, Kobe and James reached out to me, but I turned them down. ”

This is reasonable, and after analysis, their Grizzlies are indeed not Nash's good subordinates, but Sun Ce can be rude: "They can't give you the salary we can give, and we have a 11 million trade exception when we trade Guy......

And what's the point of going to the Lakers and the Heat? Like I don't want to be paired with Kidd, it's more fun for you to come to us, how about it, do you want to have fun? ”

Sun Ce didn't answer the question according to the routine, and Nash asked again without the routine: "Do you think I am more suitable for you than Kidd?" ”

Sun Ce responded: "No, Kidd is more suitable, but I don't like him,

Steve, think about it, how wonderful it is for us to recreate the glory of the company together......

By the way, we don't need you to defend like Kidd, we have Tony, Paul, Sean plus me, our perimeter defense is good enough, we have a rotation time to play and run, and your shooting ability can lead us as a team, and I can continue to learn from you. ”

This talked and talked, and I don't know how to get on the right track.

Sun Ce simply and directly said the Grizzlies' role arrangement for Nash, and Nash nodded: "This is very convincing." ”

Seeing Sun Ce looking at him like that, Nash and Sun Ce looked at each other for a while, and finally lost the battle, and said with a smile: "Let a last season's assist king play as a substitute for you, our team is really extravagant." ”

Hearing Nash's words, Sun Ce knew that it was okay!

Sun Ce also laughed and said: "If you want to play as a starter, I can try to get another best sixth man......"

"Coming off the bench to win the regular season MVP? Hahaha, I'll play with you this time! ”

Nash was joking when he asked Sun Ce to play as a substitute, but he felt very special right now.

He has a feeling of returning to the youthful frivolity of his youth, and it is the youthful frivolity that a young man should have in his mind, he was not frivolous back then, and when he was young, he almost couldn't hit the ball.

Facing Sun Ce, Nash had the feeling of being young and frivolous that he had fantasized about but didn't dare to do!

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On June 22, 2011, the Grizzlies, who had been being ridiculed for a while and had their heads in the water again, broke out again!

. T reporter Zach Lowe broke the news that the Grizzlies, Mavericks, Suns, and Hornets reached a four-way deal!

The Suns sent Steve Nash to the Hornets' 2014 first-round pick, the Mavericks' 2015 first-round pick, the Mavericks' second-round pick this year, and the Grizzlies' $11 million trade exception.

The Hornets sent away a 2014 first-round lottery pick and a 2014 second-round pick, getting Jason Kidd from the Mavericks and Darrell Arthur from the Grizzlies.

The Mavericks sent Jason Kidd, a 2015 first-round pick, this year's second-round pick, and a four-year, $36 million $1 pick in a trade for Mike Conley.

The Grizzlies sent Mike Conley, Darrell Arthur, $11 million trade exceptions from the Spurs, Steve Nash from the Suns, and a 2014 second-round pick from the Hornets.

Seeing that the Grizzlies have another trade, fans feel that there is something to ridicule again, and the labor negotiation side makes fans worried, and fans who don't have some fun are even more uncomfortable.

However, the deal ...... The Grizzlies didn't suffer!

It's not just that he didn't suffer, Conley traded for Nash...... Robbery, ah, this is! Conley is a restricted free agent, and he actually traded Nash back like this?

is not as good as Kidd, who is no longer the core strength, Nash has just ended his season as the assist king! With Nash's ability to maintain his condition, it is estimated that he will still be the favorite to assist next season, and the Grizzlies used a Conley to exchange Nash back?

What are the Suns pictured?

And Conley didn't go to the Suns, but to the Mavericks, who traded Kidd for Conley...... It's also incredible.

If Kidd is sent out for someone else, maybe the Mavericks will be sprayed, but it is Conley who is replaced, and it will be blood for the Mavericks.

In fact, fans feel that Conley and Kidd are swapped, and the two teams can be said to be a perfect deal, and the win-win situation could not be better.

For other teams, Kidd may be too old, and for other teams, Conley is not suitable to be the core.

But if these two are swapped, then there is no problem at all.

Who knew Kidd was actually sent to the Wasps!

The Grizzlies traded a Conley for Nash and Darrell Arthur for a second-round pick.

Fans on the Internet shouted hell, the Grizzlies can actually rob!

However, seeing the inside story of the follow-up exposure later, the fans understood.

The information revealed by the Suns in an interview was that Nash took the initiative to apply for a trade with the Suns and wanted to go to the Grizzlies, the Suns did not resist such a thing, and Nash said that if he did not trade, he might choose to jump out of the contract, and the Suns would not refuse.

Originally, the Suns had plans to rebuild, but with Nash here, their record will not be much worse.

But they won't take the initiative to abandon Nash, it's just time, they can afford to wait for two or three years.

When Nash got his next home, the Suns didn't refuse.

Nash didn't go directly to the Grizzlies, but still wanted to leave something for the Suns, and chose to trade after exercising the player option.

Nash is going to the Grizzlies, which fans can understand, but how did the Mavericks and Hornets come out?

The two teams have also benefited, and the Mavericks' biggest concern next season is that Kidd may age, and now that he is replaced by Conley, there is no need to worry about these problems.

On the Hornets side, they got the champion sign, and some media broke the news that this champion sign was deliberately given by the league, because the Hornets are finally going to sell, no matter how the champion sign came about, they will definitely choose Irving, with Kidd to play, in the right place, a lotto protection first round is not so easy to get Kidd, even if it is Kidd at this age.

So, it's a rare win-win-all deal.

But it still makes the fans scratch their heads, give Conley to the Suns, the Suns can't say no, can't be the core, it's okay to be a qualified main point guard, why help the Mavericks and the Hornets?

The media and fans have been searching for a few days, and the Hornets and Suns don't know why it developed like this in the end, and it was the Grizzlies who brought it up.

The Grizzlies, for their part, refused to answer such questions, and the Mavericks kept silent......

At this time, some media pointed out that if there was no special case of trading Guy's 11 million deal, there would be no way to trade Nash, and in terms of strength, compared with the lineup of the Grizzlies who just reached the Western Conference finals, the Grizzlies' strength has risen instead of falling, and Nash has expressed his willingness to accept the change of role...... The Grizzlies don't have to force a two-point guard starting lineup yet, and the rotation could be better.

But there are also people who refute that the Grizzlies can directly trade Nash with Gay, and if Nash's initiative to apply for a trade is true, then the Suns will not be able to refuse Gay, a first-class small forward who is not yet 25 years old, and it will not benefit the Mavericks and Spurs.

The mysterious hype about the Grizzlies, starting with the trading of Guy and the trading of Conley to the robbery of Nash and a future second-round pick, there are too many things that the media and fans can't understand, and the media is constantly trying to find out more and fans want to get the inside scoop.

Until the draft is about to start, the inside story has not been explored...... Just like when Big Gasol was traded, there were rumors that Jerry West assisted his old club, but in fact, Jerry West left the Grizzlies in July 07, and Big Gasol was sent to the Lakers was a matter of the month, when the general manager of the Grizzlies had changed from Jerry West to Chris Wallace, although Jerry West and Chris Wallace have a so-called mentoring relationship, but this kind of transaction must be agreed by the owner, if it is traded casually...... McHale sent Garnett to the Celtics, and it wasn't long before he was forced to leave.

This transaction, like that one, no one came out to explain why it was traded, and it became another unanswered, but controversial thing.

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