Chapter 685: Shake the Alliance's Deal
At the end of the game, the number of championships of the current head coach was rearranged on the big screen.
What made Zen Master Jackson shameless in his heart was that the staff of the Pirate Team directly ranked Richard's name above the Zen Master......
Although both men have led the team to seven championships as head coaches, this is the home of the Buccaneers, and they can line up however they want, and there is no reason for the team owner to be subservient to Zen master Jackson.
Moreover, the most important thing is that Richard is forty years old this year, Jackson is sixty-four, and most of them are in the ground, and it is only a matter of time before Richard surpasses Jackson.
The question of time is likely to be next season, with the current strength of the Pirates, who will be the opponent of the Pirates?!
Richard watched the Lakers leave the court gloomily, and suddenly remembered something in his heart.
The Lakers may have a hard time recreating their all-time glory......
The main reason is that they introduced Big Ben in the first place, because of Big Ben, the Lakers have now lost Bynum, and then they will lose Artest, without these two high-end combat power, the Lakers may not be able to reach the kind of combat power under normal circumstances.
Because of the introduction of Big Ben, the Lakers paid a lot of draft picks, resulting in them not being able to get draft picks in the Grizzlies trade, and they could only use Bynum with good potential to make up the numbers......
And this season, Bynum has performed quite well in the Grizzlies, and has been cultivated by the Grizzlies as an interior core.
How could the Lakers take away the Grizzlies' two interior cores one after another, and if the Lakers could take Bynum from the Grizzlies this time, then Richard should wonder what the relationship between the two teams is......
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Stern was on site tonight with the O'Brien Cup, and the staff at the Pirate Arena had quickly set up a makeshift podium.
The championship awarding process, this is the seventh time Richard has walked, and it is already familiar and can no longer be familiar.
After leading the generals to win the cup, Stern announced the MVP of this year's Finals.
Chris Paul!
The fans cheered Paul's name, and Richard was relieved.
Next, he will trade Paul, and now that Paul has gotten the FMVP, he can be regarded as getting some compensation.
Under normal circumstances, Paul's career is not perfect at all, because there are not many honors at hand.
And now Paul has two championship rings and an FMVP trophy in hand, even if he doesn't get anything later in his career, it's actually much better than normal.
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When he lifted the FMVP trophy, Paul looked at Richard with a puzzled expression.
He's a high-IQ player, and from the Pirates' moves, he knows he's going to be traded.
Because if the Pirates didn't trade their own ideas, they should have talked to themselves about an early contract extension before the playoffs started.
But now the pirates don't have ......
Although Granger entered the league at the same time as himself, the Pirates could not trade Granger without Millsap, so Paul had already guessed that he was likely to be traded by Richard after winning the championship this time.
Paul naturally has reluctance in his heart, but he is also powerless, and the business alliance is so cruel.
Jordan made another presentation for the Pirates, and Jordan looked much more excited than Richard.
The second consecutive championship is in hand, is the third consecutive championship still far away?!
As long as the team can continue to win championships next year, then Jordan will create a myth.
The only insider who established a dynasty as a player and then built a dynasty after retiring is something that even Richard can't catch up with.
Richard didn't say much, just a second consecutive championship, which is not a big deal for Richard, even if he wants to say something, it will have to wait until next year's dynasty is established.
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Tiana, who was sitting on the sidelines, and the three children were all smiling quite happily, especially Libit and Li Jin, whose eyes were burning and shining.
These two children have a lot of love for the NBA, and when Richard led the team to win the championship last season, although they were also there, they were less than two years old at that time, and they were a little ignorant.
They are much more sensible when they win the championship this time, and they generally know the meaning of the championship.
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Beasley, Curry and others also stood up to cheer for Richard, in their opinion, Richard is their spiritual totem!
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After winning the championship, Richard led his team to the championship parade three days later, took a few days to spend time with his family, and then threw himself into work.
There's a lot of work to do in the offseason, and Richard has to hurry up to deal with it, especially the Paul trade, which must be decided before the draft begins.
Before preparing to trade Paul, Richard must also talk to Paul, at least he has to inform Paul about such a big matter, and he will sell Paul without saying a word, then Paul will probably hate the pirate team.
"Coach, I've already guessed it before." Paul's face was a little ugly, and anyone who knew that he was going to be traded by the team after winning the Finals MVP would definitely not be happy.
"I'm sorry, Chris, this is the team's long-term plan for the future, we have to trade ......," Richard said with a sigh.
"Let me guess, coach, is there going to be a lot of quality point guards in this draft?"
"Is the team confident that they can get one of these quality point guards, and that trading me will save room in the salary to prepare for Roy's contract extension?" Paul asked with a wry smile.
Richard was stunned, Paul's IQ was frighteningly high, and he even guessed eight or nine or ten.
In this draft, because of Curry's early participation, the number of high-quality point guards is amazing.
Rose, Westbrook and Curry are all point guards, and all three of them are top point guards.
In addition to these three tops, Dragic and Chanmos are actually good point guards.
It's definitely been a point guard year.
"You're smart, Chris, and I'm sure you'll be able to do even better in the future!" Richard patted Paul on the shoulder and smiled.
"Hopefully......" Paul sighed.
What can be better in the future? Even Paul himself did not believe this......
No matter how good it is, how good can it be now? He entered the league for three years, and then won two championships, both as absolute starters, and also won an FMVP.
How can I have this kind of opportunity in the future!
"By the way, coach, I want you to trade me to the west as much as possible, I don't want to stay in ......the east and be abused by you," Paul said with a wry smile.
He knows much more about the terrifying strength of the pirate team than outsiders, and he knows that if he continues to stay in the east, even if Richard leaves the pirate team this year, the pirate team will still be at the level of the eastern hegemon in the next few years!
If he continues to stay in the east, he will definitely have no chance to hit the finals at all.
As for the West, although the Spurs and Lakers are also strong, at least they are not so strong that they are desperate.
"Okay, I'll trade as much as I can with Western Conference teams."
"Now enjoy this holiday......"
After Richard saw Paul off, he greeted Miles and prepared to start working on Paul's trade.
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Trade Paul, it's a super heavyweight deal!
It was not that Richard had no FMVP players leaving the team before, such as Kobe Bryant......
However, Kobe Bryant is leaving the team on a free basis, which is completely different from the current trade.
Myers reached out directly to various media outlets to reveal that the Buccaneers had put new FMVP Paul on the shelf.
As soon as this news came out, it directly caused a big shock in the alliance, and even Stern called in person......
Of course, I called Jordan and asked if it was true.
Jordan also looked confused, he knew it was true, but he didn't know what the hell Richard was doing.
Trade Paul?! This is the new FMVP......
It's like after Jordan won the championship, the Bulls traded him Jordan.
Jordan wanted to talk to Richard to see if he could dispel Richard's idea of trading Paul, but he thought that Richard's astonishing operations in recent years had made the Pirates have the strength they have today.
If he had influenced Richard, the Pirates would not have been able to win the championship at all......
In desperation, Jordan could only give up this idea and patiently waited for Richard's next move.
There are 29 teams in the league excluding the Buccaneers, and as many as 25 teams have called to ask Miles, the director of the deal.
Even the Spurs and Lakers, although they said that they knew that the hope of getting Paul was close to zero, they didn't want to miss this kind of pie-in-the-sky good thing......
What if Richard got sulfuric acid in his brain and really sold Paul to them?!