Time entered December, and the Pistons announced a rather heavy news.

To be precise, it's quite positive news for the teams in the league.

They are ready to put the team's leading backup center, Oku, on the shelf......

When the news came out, the league's teams that lacked an inside line went crazy, and in this era, it was too difficult to find a reliable insider.

Many teams are still using veterans who entered the league in the 80s of the last century, such as teams such as the Philadelphia 76ers.

Now the Pistons are willing to sell their lead backup center, and he is a very good, and fairly young center, which is enough to make the teams red.

The first person to contact Richard was the Philadelphia 76ers, and their interior line is a little too old at the moment.

It can't be helped, the interior line is too expensive in the playing year, and they don't have that much salary space to bring in reinforcements.

And Oku, who is still in the rookie contract, basically does not occupy any salary space, which is simply the treasure that the Philadelphia 76ers dream of!

It's a pity that the Philadelphia 76ers don't have any leverage that Richard can look up to......

Dazhi's words, Richard is willing to change, but the key is that the salaries of the two sides do not match, if you want to match the salary, with Dazhi's current salary, Richard may have to send at least five or more players to match the salaries of both sides.

But five players, go to change Dazhi......

How do you look at this and how to suffer, you must know that the current lineup of the Pistons has been carefully selected by Richard, and the value of many people alone is not inferior to Dazhi.

If five for one, Richard's pants will be gone.

If the 76ers have chips in their hands, then Richard will definitely give priority to this brother team, but at the moment, the Philadelphia 76ers really don't have any decent chips in their hands.

The team doesn't have quality players on rookie contracts, and they're looking for draft picks in exchange.

But the Philadelphia 76ers' draft picks are not high-value chips, after all, their record is there, and they must be the bottom pick in the first round, which is really not valuable.

In the end, Richard could only regretfully reject the offer of the Philadelphia 76ers.

There's no way, some things in the business alliance still have to look at interests, and the brothers still have to settle accounts.

In addition to the Philadelphia 76ers, a number of other teams have submitted trade offers to Richard.

In these offers, it is not that Richard is not satisfied, and there are still teams that are quite sincere.

After all, Oku's value is there, and if he doesn't spend some money, Richard won't be so stupid to let people go.

But Richard had his own plans.

He had his eye on Joe Johnson of the Suns......

At the moment, singles Joe has not yet emerged, and it is the best time to absorb into the team!

In addition to that, Richard could also get a draft pick from the Suns.

……

As Richard expected, the Suns did make an offer.

However, this offer is very different from what Richard thought......

They want to trade Penny Hardaway plus a first-round pick for Oku.

I have to say that the abacus of the sun is a jingle of the sun.

The penny is no longer at its peak, and it is already at the end of its career, and if it is only in the late stage of its career, it is nothing.

The main thing is that he still has a super maximum salary contract, 7 years and 87 million US dollars!

The contract signed in '99 has three years to go after this season......

The contract value for the next three years is close to 45 million!

With an average of 15 million dollars a year, Hardaway only averages about 11 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists per game.

Obviously it's a pretty bad contract......

When Richard saw this contract, he was really angry.

This is simply Chiguoguo's slaughter, not to mention this salary matching, Hardaway's contract alone is a big hole.

Without the slightest hesitation, Richard rejected the Suns' trade offer without saying a word.

Anyway, there is no hurry now, Oku's 3+1 rookie contract signed with the Pistons at the beginning was guaranteed for the first three years, and the final year was a team option.

This also shows how much value Oku's deal is.

After buying Oku, it was almost free for two and a half years, but this kind of good thing was nowhere to be found with a lantern.

Richard is not in a hurry, there is still some time before the door of the trade market closes this season.

It's just a good time to take advantage of this time to see if we can continue to increase the value of Oku......

……

It's getting closer and closer to the game against the Rockets.

Now the Rockets management and their coach Tang Shuai are extremely anxious.

It's not that they're afraid of losing to the Pistons, the Rockets are completely at the level of the West at the moment, and losing is completely commonplace for them.

What really made them anxious was the player who was Xiao Si......

At the beginning, Richard recommended Tang Shuai to choose Xiao Si in the draft, and they did listen to Richard's words and selected Xiao Si with the scouting sign in their hands.

Not only that, Xiao Si's performance can be said to be completely worthy of the value of the Tanhua Lottery.

Tang Shuai is still quite grateful to Richard for this......

But now the problem is, this Xiao Si is a character who is not stingy, his strength is really strong, but his personality is quite a headache.

This is a terrible thing......

As soon as he joined the team, he had a quarrel with Francis, the core of the team's backcourt.

There is no other reason than the ball problem.

Francis is the backcourt core of the Rockets, the team's main point of control, and he is responsible for distributing the ball in the backcourt.

What made Xiao Si unhappy was that Francis did not give him more passing opportunities because of his identity as a scout......

This has led to a big gap between Xiao Si's current data and Yao Ming!

At present, Xiao Si can average about 14 points, 7 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game in the Rockets, in fact, this data is basically similar to his normal situation.

But under normal circumstances, Smalls is on the Suns.

The Suns have countless ball-eating bigwigs, and the Rockets don't have so many ball-eating bigwigs, and there's just one Francis.

It stands to reason that Xiao Si's data should be much higher than under normal circumstances.

With Xiao Si's current ability to play in the frame, not to mention reaching the level of 20 points per game, but giving him enough possession and averaging 18 or 9 points per game, there is no problem at all.

Even in Xiao Si's opinion, if he had Yao Ming's treatment, his score would definitely not be less than Yao Ming......

Young people are always full of blind confidence in their own strength.

Xiao Si was even more confident and overdone.

He wants to prove that he is more qualified to be the champion than Yao Ming, but if he wants to prove this, he must at least have data comparable to Yao Ming.

Now Yao Ming's data is almost twice as much as Xiao Si's......

Under such circumstances, Xiao Si is now full of dissatisfaction with Francis, and has been spraying with Francis on the training ground more than once.

If it's just a conflict within the team, then Tang Shuai doesn't care much.

In his opinion, it is normal for young people to have tempers, and after he slowly adjusts himself, it won't take too long to run in these two internal and external cores, and the future of the rocket will be quite happy at that time.

The biggest problem now is that Xiao Si has provoked someone who shouldn't be messed with.

Richard!

Tang Shuai really has a shadow on villains like Richard......

If anyone has been beaten out of their brains on the court, I'm afraid they will also stay away from the villain players.

Although Richard is not a player, in Tang Shuai's opinion, this guy is even more ruthless than a villain player!

Now Tang Shuai is afraid of Xiao Si's violent temper, and when the time comes, he will cause some conflict on the court and be killed by Richard.

The closer the game against the Pistons becomes, the more worried Tang Shuai becomes.

In the end, I couldn't help it, so I called Xiao Si to my office and prepared to have a good chat with Xiao Si.

"Man, it's getting closer and closer to the Pistons game, what are your plans?" Tang Shuai's personality is relatively gentle, and at this moment he looks at Xiao Si kindly.

For the coach Tang Shuai, Xiao Si is also quite respectful, and his attitude is quite respectful.

"Coach, I hope you can give me more opportunities to perform in that game!"

"I only have one plan now, which is to win Yao Ming in a head-to-head duel, and then hate to make Richard ugly!"

"I firmly believe that my future will definitely not be worse than Yao Ming!"

Xiao Si said to Tang Shuai with confidence.

Tang Shuai sighed secretly in his heart, the young man in front of him was really a little too unbelievable.

Xiao Si's strength is indeed quite good, which Tang Shuai recognizes very much.

But to say better than Yao Ming? Even if Xiao Si is his own player, Tang Shuai does not dare to agree with this point of view.

Xiao Si's strength, speaking of which, is definitely the number one in the draft in recent years.

Even in Tang Shuai's view, Xiao Si is not at all inferior to Pau Gasol, the current big boss of the Grizzlies.

But compared to Yao Ming?

It can be said that Xiao Si is the number one rookie inside line in the past two years, and Yao Ming is the number one rookie inside line in the entire NBA history!

What are you kidding, you must know that Yao Ming is averaging close to 25 points, 12.5 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game, looking at the entire history of the NBA, Tang Shuai feels that this is already comparable to those few super centers.

O'Neal averaged 23 points, 14 rebounds and 3.5 blocks per game in his rookie season, basically on the same level as Yao Ming, not much better than Yao Ming.

Even O'Neal, known as the most dominant interior player in history, is not much better than Yao Ming, what does Xiao Si compare with Yao Ming......

So Tang Shuai definitely wouldn't think that Xiao Si was stronger than Yao Ming.

But even so, he felt that it was impossible for him to discourage Xiao Si's enthusiasm, and it didn't hurt to do it anyway.

"Okay, I'll have a good talk with Francis then."

'Trying to get you more of the ball in that game, I'm sure Francis will know what to do.'

Tang Shuai said with a smile.

These words made Xiao Si completely relieved, as long as Tang Shuai got the Francis level, then he would have absolute confidence that in the next game against the Pistons, Richard and Yao Ming would look good!

"But I also have a request......

"Can you control your temper then?"

"You should know what kind of person Richard is, his nickname of the devil bishop was not given by himself, but given to him by outsiders."

"He's really a devil, I hope you can control your temper and don't have any conflicts on the field when the time comes."

"If there is a conflict, young man, remember to protect yourself, especially your head......"

Tang Shuai frowned, sighed, and said to Xiao Si.

With Tang Shuai's understanding of Richard, I'm afraid that the next game will definitely not be so peaceful......

At the moment, he has only one wish, that is, Xiao Si can control his temper well and not suffer on the court at that time.

"Don't worry, Coach."

"I'll keep my temper under control."

Xiao Si didn't think about it so much, so he promised to come down first......

He waited for this day for a long time, and when he thought of the showdown with the Pistons in a few days, the whole person trembled with excitement, and he couldn't wait for this game to start immediately!

Where can I still listen to Tang Shuai's advice at this moment.