With three days to go before the start of the draft, the Heat are already eager to peddle O'Neal.

O'Neal has already completely broken with the Heat management, and with the Heat's poor record last season, the Heat has now made selling O'Neal the team's top priority.

As the saying goes, the seed is as cheap as a dog, and the suspect is ugly.

At the beginning, the Heat wanted to ask O'Neal, it was really low-sounding, and now that they have won the championship, O'Neal is no longer good, and the Heat will immediately start to catch people.

Richard doesn't like Pat Riley very much, and I have to admit that Pat Riley has strong management skills, but this person is a bit too impersonal, everything is in the interests of the team, and he has done a lot of cold-blooded things for this.

Because of Pat Riley's existence, the Heat have also become a team with little human touch.

It's not just the players who don't like Pat Riley, but even their peers don't really like Pat Riley, and there's a saying in the league that if you make a deal with Pat Riley, you have to be prepared to be fired by the team.

……

It's not that easy to sell O'Neill's work.

O'Neal's current contract is not small, and now that he is free, the team in the rebuilding period is not interested in him, and he can't use O'Neal at this age as a cornerstone to rebuild.

The team that doesn't slip through the game either doesn't have the salary space or just doesn't want O'Neal......

The top teams want O'Neal, not all teams have a top interior line, O'Neal still has a lot of gas in the tank, for example, the Suns are more interested in O'Neal.

But even if they are interested, in the face of the Heat's Lions opening their mouths, the Suns are not interested in making a trade for the time being.

The Heat now want to sell O'Neal for a good price......

They had an initial talk with the Suns, but the talks broke down directly, and they talked to the Trail Blazers about trading O'Neal.

What happened to the Trailblazers, Richard naturally knew it as soon as possible.

The Heat wanted this No. 1 pick in the hands of the Trail Blazers, and by the way, let the Trail Blazers take out Zach Randolph.

The Trail Blazers naturally refused without saying a word, and if they wanted such a big chip, Pat Riley simply took an O'Neal to find Richard and trade the entire Pirates team......

Not to mention, after the Trail Blazers were deflated, Pat Riley really contacted Richard.

The pioneers also counted on this champion lottery to help them turn over, and naturally it was impossible to mess with this champion lot.

After Pat Riley felt that the deal was out of play, he came back to Richard's idea.

Richard was indeed interested in O'Neal, so he patiently chatted with Pat Riley for a while.

Other team management is afraid of Pat Riley, but Richard is not afraid, anyway, if Pat Riley wants to pit people, he will definitely not be able to pit his head.

Still the lion opened his mouth, and Pat Riley came up to ask for the Pirates' top pick and Milicic.

Richard just laughed hard and didn't give Pat Riley an answer at all.

"Lee, what do you keep laughing at?" Pat Riley's scalp tingled at Richard's laughter.

"Riley, I'm laughing at you for playing stupid, you don't really think the current Shaq is worth the price, do you?"

"Don't take others for fools, Shaq's current strength is okay, but you touch your conscience and ask yourself, can he really change to a new FMVP?"

"Not to mention adding a list of eye signs." Richard said with a sneer.

When Pat Riley heard Richard's words, he was not angry, and asked, "Then what kind of chips are you going to come up with?" ”

The Pirates have plenty of salary space and can easily swallow O'Neal's contract, which is why Pat Riley has his eye on the Pirates.

"How about giving you Vallejo plus a Chuck Hayes?" Richard asked with a smile.

"Impossible! When pigs fly! ”

"Shaq is worth so much more than that, and even if I say yes, the salary of this deal will not be matched!" Pat Riley shouted.

"You don't have to worry about salary leveling, it's a big deal that I signed Mo Ning for $15 million for one year to match the salary and let Mo Ning return to the Heat." Richard said with a smile.

In trading, salary parity is never the biggest issue, the problem is that the chips can satisfy both parties.

"I could have made a concession and given you an extra second-round pick, our Buccaneers' own second-round pick ...... 29," Richard said in a half-joking tone.

He knows very well that the current Heat will never agree to his offer, and he is just trying to test Pat Riley's bottom line first.

"Lee, I'm sorry, there's no way we're going to agree to such a lossy deal."

"Since you don't want to show the list of signs, then the subject of the deal must be Milicic, and at the very least, Iguodala."

"Iguodala can sign and trade, just right for Shaq's contract, and then add a Valejo, plus one of your first-round picks, that's our bottom line." Pat Riley spoke.

Richard sneered again, he could see Patrari's idea.

The real purpose of this guy is not Milicic, but Iguodala.

It's a good idea, to exchange O'Neal for Iguodala and Vallejo, two newcomers, and the Heat don't need any time to rebuild, and they can rise directly.

Wade at back, Iguodala at front, Vallejo on the inside, and then patching up, this is already a good lineup.

"Okay, Riley, then good luck with the heat and try to get Shaq for a good price."

"I hope Shaq doesn't rot in your hands, if I were you, I would definitely seek a home for Shaq as quickly as possible, after all, no one knows if Shaq can survive this season, in case of reimbursement, hehe......"

Richard sneered, if Shaq starts the game and is reimbursed, then the Heat will be really cool, they have to swallow this contract of hundreds of millions, at least the next few years will be dark.

Pat Riley was a little frightened by what Richard said, Richard "cursed" many people, and as a result, he cursed a quasi-child!

He also began to worry that O'Neill's health was not very good last season, and he only played half a season.

If it is true that there is a serious injury this season, then the Heat are really finished......

He wanted to continue the conversation with Richard, but Richard hung up the phone.

……

Richard wanted O'Neill, naturally with his own purpose.

In the next draft, Richard will choose two rookie insiders, with O'Neal, an old oilman, who can help cultivate these two rookies.

Oden, in particular, is known to have O'Neill's body, and under O'Neill's guidance, he can definitely accelerate his growth.

Auden was seen by Richard as the future of the Pirates, and he was willing to spend his blood to train the future emperor.

In addition to the purpose of cultivating Oden, O'Neal's current combat power is also a point that Richard values.

After the Suns took O'Neal, their record fell, and that was because the tactical system was not suitable for O'Neal.

And Richard's half-court offense is O'Neal's best system, even if O'Neal is now old, he can show amazing destructiveness on the field.

As for O'Neill's hidden injury problems, Richard doesn't have to care about it at all, even if he is a sun doctor, there is no comparison with Richard in this regard.

……

Therefore, O'Neill is still a little tempting for Richard.

It's just that now is not a good time to trade with the Heat, and Richard must hang the Heat's patience and try to get Shaq at a better price.

As for the problem that O'Neal's contract is too big and will take up the Pirates' salary space, this Richard is a big deal to sell O'Neal when the time comes, and the Suns do it normally anyway.

……

In addition to the Heat, there are a number of other teams that have submitted trade offers to the Pirates, but they are concerned about Millsap, Vallejo and others.

Vallejo is at this point, Richard is ready to trade out, and there will be a lot of inside players to join the Pirates in the future, and Vallejo is no longer worth staying.

Rather than delay Valejo's future, it is better to sell it sooner.

But the time is too rushed, and Richard is ready to wait until the draft is over, anyway, his draft picks this year are enough, and there is no need to trade draft picks.

Richard currently has a first-round pick, a 29th pick in the first round, a 29th pick in the second round, and a 15th pick in the second round from the Philadelphia 76ers.

Among them, the 29th pick in the second round is basically useless, and this pick Richard can't get any reliable players.

If Ramon Sessions, who was the 26th pick in this round, can slip to the 29th pick in the second round, then Richard can be selected.

Because this draft pick is so weak, if it is traded, there are teams willing to pay a million dollars in exchange for draft picks, then it must not be considered.

Richard didn't care about the million-dollar dollar and simply stayed in case Ramon Sessions really slipped down the ranks.

……

The roster pick was naturally used to select Oden, the 15th pick in the second round of the Philadelphia 76ers, and Richard was ready to use it to select Marc Gasol.

As for Sun Yue......

What makes Richard hurt is that Sun Yue's draft pick is too high, and he turned out to be the tenth pick in the second round......

Richard doesn't have such a high draft pick in his hands, and may use his first-round 29th pick to select Sun Yue at that time.

What Sun Yue didn't know was that because of Richard, he jumped directly from a second-round pick to a first-round show.

……

Richard chose Sun Yue, on the one hand, he wanted to cultivate this domestic outside line, after all, the domestic outside line is really a bit weak, if Sun Yue grows up, he can also help the men's basketball team to stand up to the outside line.

On the other hand, in fact, it is also the second round, and there is nothing good to choose from the outside.

A good interior line in the second round, Marc Gasol must be counted as one, and big forward Divine Bird Landry can also be counted as one.

However, after Richard has Oden and Xiaojia, and then counts Milicic and O'Neal, who may join, in fact, there is no need for interior players at all.

Vallejo and Hayes will be traded, and there is really no energy to cultivate another Landry.

It is worth mentioning that Landry is actually born at Purdue University under normal circumstances.

But because Richard didn't have him on his list, Purdue didn't invite Landry to join, and he is currently playing for the University of Maryland.

……

Everything is ready, now is just waiting for the draft to begin.

Once the draft is over, Richard can start working on a trade and start preparing for next season's draft.

The '07 draft was a quasi-big year, and the quality of the stars was good, but there weren't many of them.

And '08 is a big year, a lot and a lot, and Richard is ready to accumulate some more '08 draft picks through trades this offseason.