"Uncle Uncle, Carter is going to the Nets!"

"Oh."

"Uncle, aren't you worried about the Nets getting stronger?"

"Uh...... Your uncle will continue to blow them up next time. ”

"yes, Carter and Kidd aren't as good as Uncle."

"Of course."

……

"Uncle, are we going on vacation to Los Angeles for All-Star Weekend?"

"No money, don't go!"

"Uncle is stingy!"

"I remember Dinah, you saved a lot of pocket money, why don't you treat you this time?"

"Uncle! You've gone too far! Even the money of children wants to cheat! ”

"Your teacher is a poor ghost, your mother is an iron rooster, your uncle and I have become a poor ghost after investing, and the richest person in our family is Dinah!"

“……”

Liu Mang and Dinah leaned together to keep warm, watching the trading news on TV, and there was not a word of nagging in Dinah's endless contempt.

On January 3, the day after Liu Mang was suspended, tonight was the day when the Hawks hosted the Bucks.

Because Liu Mang was banned for two games, the next game with the Bucks and the next two games at home of the Magic team could not be played, and the court could not enter, and because he could not play, the tactics of these two teams would inevitably change, so he could only practice by himself in training, and simply stayed at home to practice shooting.

Liu Mang got up at 3:50 in the morning and practiced for a few hours, made breakfast only to find out that today was Sunday, and then watched TV with Dina to rest.

In the new year, the situation in the league has almost stabilized, but some teams are not satisfied with the status quo, or the team's results are not up to expectations, and the trade market is starting to come alive.

Liu Mang's appearance, the first two years were fine, and it did not have a particularly big impact, but this year, the impact has become greater.

Of course, Liu Mang's influence is definitely limited, like some teams have been planning for many years to build a team, or some general trends that have been developed for many years will definitely not change.

Liu Mang's appearance is more to promote the development of some things, such as the contradictions of some teams were caused by Liu Mang to break out in advance, and some teams were forced to speed up the reconstruction process, etc., of course, speeding up will not necessarily succeed, but because they are forced to speed up, the failure will be more tragic.

Liu Mang saw two transactions that shocked the league from the news, mainly the one that happened last night, and it was precisely because of this transaction that the negative impact of Liu Mang's ban was covered up, and the 2004 transaction curtain was officially opened, in which the transaction that snatched all the attention was the big deal for the Nets!

For the first time, after Liu Mang was "stealing the limelight" by others, he felt so grateful to the other party.

Last night, the Nets, who had just played the Hawks, reached a big deal with the Nuggets and Raptors to design up to 10 players or draft picks.

Kidd and Kenyon Martin broke out into a big conflict, once when Byron Scott was there, Kenyon Martin was a player with the most cooperation with Kidd, but after Byron Scott left, Richard Jefferson became Kidd's most willing partner, in the past month or so, Kenyon Martin has had a lot of conflicts with Kidd, in the game with the Hawks, Kidd shot only 6 of 18 in the first half, others dare not complain to Kidd, but Kenyon Martin is already a first-class power forward in the league, There are many teams who have revealed that they want to give him a salary cap in the summer, and the most positive of them is the Denver Nuggets, who have a huge salary space and are short of personnel due to Nene knee injuries.

At halftime between the Hawks and Nets, Kenyon Martin was upset with Kidd because the Nets were trailing by 30 points, and the two had a violent argument.

After the game, Kidd, who led the team to the Finals for two consecutive years by himself, was obviously inflated, and after first driving away head coach Byron Scott, who had brought him to the peak of his career, he pressed the Nets management to either trade him or trade Kenyon Martin.

Trading Kidd is obviously impossible, so Nets management can only take Kenyon Martin.

There is also a very important point, Kenyon Martin and Kidd have such a bad relationship, at the end of the season, other teams will give a maximum salary, Kenyon Martin will definitely accept it, the Nets management is not willing to give another maximum salary, they don't have that much money to pay the luxury tax, so it will definitely not match.

In order to avoid losing Kenyon Martin for nothing, the Nuggets were contacted, and the Nuggets originally planned to have a sign-and-trade in the summer, which could keep Kenyon Martin's bird rights and give Kenyon Martin a bigger contract so that Kenyon Martin was willing to go to the Denver Plateau.

Kenyon Martin faced Duncan in the finals last year with an average of 14 points, 10 rebounds and 3 blocks per game, which made many teams covet him, and this year with Anthony and Andre Miller, the Nuggets, who rose from the league's penultimate to the eighth in the West, have a higher pursuit, trying to form a super interior defensive combination of Kenyon Martin and Camby, and have long made an offer to the Nets, but the Nets have not agreed, wanting to use Kenyon Martin cheaply for another year.

Now that Kidd is pressing, the Nets have to make an early trade.

The Raptors, who got the information, stepped in at this time and gave the Nets an irresistible temptation, giving Kenyon Martin a big contract they were unwilling, but if they ate this player's big contract, the Nets would be willing to add a few million!

In the early morning of January 2, 2004, a big three-team trade that shocked the league suddenly happened!

The Nets sent Kenyon Martin, Alonzo Mourning, Robert Pike, and Mickey Moore to get the Nuggets' 2005 first-round pick and the Raptors' Vince Carter!

The Nuggets sent three first-round picks in 2004, 2005, and 2007 and a second-round pick in 2004, as well as a 1985 pick named Rav Zaitsev who was drafted by the Nuggets with the 131st pick, and took Kenyon Martin from the Nets with space.

The Raptors sent Vince Carter to get 2004 and 2007 first-round picks from the Nuggets, Alonzo Mourning, Robert Peck, Mickey Moore from the Nets!

Liu Mang was taken aback when he saw this transaction, the Raptors were really willing!

Kidd, Carter, Richard Jefferson's trident is formed!

But...... It doesn't seem to be amazing!

Moreover, when Liu Mang saw that the Nuggets actually got the signing rights of players who could be selected in the 80s draft until they vomited, and they may have already been in their forties, he felt that this deal was quite interesting.

This is last night's news, and when Liu Mang saw the news, the TV had already begun to analyze the pros and cons of the Nets' trade.

The main argument, of course, is that Kidd and Carter have teamed up to replicate the glory of the Bulls' Jordan and Pippen.

The mainstream public opinion is that the Nets chose a big trade in order to deal with the Hawks.

Because the core combination of Jordan and Pippen, the two outside players, has won two triple championships, the media is very optimistic about the combination of the Nets' new flyers and the league's best point guard.

Kidd plus Carter's super outside combination, plus Kittels and Richard Jefferson, the media who originally lost three games in a row to the Hawks in the Nets and got worse than one game have already sentenced the Nets to death, and now they suddenly start blowing the Nets into the sky again, thinking that after Kidd has a superstar as a helper, it will not be a problem to deal with the Hawks!

The combination of Kidd, Carter and Richard Jefferson, who averaged 20+6+4 per game this year, was blown up by the media for a while!

And Liu Mang saw the commentators on TV who advocated that the Nets get Carter's trade, and his originally shocked mood became much calmer.

It doesn't seem like a big deal, than the outside stars? Liu Mang feels that his current self, plus the peak Prince and the defensive Raheem, plus Barnes on the bench, can defend the Nets' four outside lines to vomit!

And the Nets now have four starters and even superstar-level outside players, and some of them have things that give them headaches.

The most important thing is that in Liu Mang's memory, the "Big Three" of Kidd, Carter and Richard Jefferson are okay in the regular season, and the playoffs are food delivery, which is really not very good.

Therefore, when Liu Mang received a call from his teammates, he replied very calmly, giving his teammates great confidence.

Liu Mang doesn't know when he has become the pillar of the team, but Liu Mang feels very good.

The Nets' trade shocked the league, and even the limelight for another big trade was suppressed.

After the Nets' three-way deal was reached, other trades in the league became a foil.

The Suns started too badly, and now they are 9-23 in the penultimate in the West, completely without the feeling of unlimited potential last season, Marbury is drunk driving and luring minors to unspeakable things A variety of off-court negative situations, resulting in the Suns, who almost made the playoffs last season, are about to compete with the Clippers for the penultimate place in the West, that is, Kobe Bryant's movement is too big, Marbury's incident has not been widely reported, and Marbury's influence is too far from the little blacksmith.

After the Nets kicked off the trade, the Suns and Knicks were on the move, and the Knicks had already sent Keith Vanhorn to the Bucks last month just to wait for the Suns to let go.

The Suns sent Marbury, Penny Hardaway, Cheseli Tebanski, and got the Knicks' Howard Easley, Charlie Ward, Antonio McDyce, March Lampe, Miros Vujanic.

With the Nets' trade so aggressive, the Isaiah Thomas trade, which was apparently a robbery, didn't make much of an impact.

Compared with the "Big Three" composed of the Nets, Liu Mang feels that the transaction between the Suns and the Knicks is a real win-win situation!

The Knicks are expected to make the playoffs this year, Marbury's return to the Knicks must be like a prodigal son, even if it is pretending, and Penny Hardaway has been doing very well in the Suns, and he has been working full in the past two years, and it should be okay to go to the Knicks for a year or two, and the hope of the Knicks making the playoffs this year has greatly increased.

And the Suns sent Marbury away with little reciprocation and got several expiring contracts, although the Suns may be rotten to the end this year, lacking an organizational core, but after sending away Marbury and Anfernee Hardaway, their salaries are already below the salary cap, and after the salary space of up to 17 million freed up by four expiring contracts in the summer, plus a high draft pick, the Suns have a very good opportunity to operate in the summer.

Liu Mang saw this trade as if he saw Nash flying towards the Suns, thinking that it was possible to play against the Runbang team next season, Liu Mang felt a little excited.

Maybe the Suns weren't a championship team in the D'Antoni era, and the best 06-07 season was when the Suns became a championship team in the 09-10 season, when head coach Alvin Gentry became the first assistant coach and added defense to the Suns' style of play, the Suns were really competitive in the playoffs.

However, although the Suns in 05 and 06 were not championship contenders, Liu Mang still felt very excited.

When he was a fan back then, Liu Mang's biggest regret was that the real pure offensive Suns in the 04-05 and 05-06 seasons failed to win the championship.

That kind of desperate offense, in the eyes of many fans who liked the Suns at that time, is a kind of faith!

After these two big deals, there was nothing exciting about it, Liu Mang began to trick Lori into paying for All-Star Weekend to play, but Liu Mang found that the iron rooster would be inherited! Little Lori didn't agree to live or die......