In the icy and snowy Toronto, there are completely two worlds inside and outside the room, wearing short sleeves in the room, eating Häagen-Dazs, and the snow plow outside the room is dispatched regularly every hour.

Alonzo Mourning is talking to his agent David Falck about the future, for Mourning, there is still a long way to go in life, but the future of the NBA, can already see the tail.

"Alonzo, Pat Riley and Steven Price have all reached out to me, they are the best team for you and the most willing to put up the chips." David Falcao said to Mourning.

Since Mourning's return, the Raptors have been open to trading Mourning, allowing other teams to contact Mourning's agent, such as obtaining authoritative materials such as medical reports.

Experienced kidney disease, relapse, misdiagnosis, confirmed viral renal failure, kidney exchange...... After four consecutive years of illness and pain, Mo Ning finally recovered, but his beard was also white, and he will only turn 35 years old in February next year.

But he has recovered, and in the 8 games after his comeback, Mourning averaged 10 points, 7 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game in 23 minutes of playing time per game, which was quite eye-catching and received the attention of many teams, but not many were really willing to take over the contract.

Mourning asked, "David, do you think it's better for me to go to the Heat or the Hawks?" ”

"Probably, the Hawks have a better chance of winning the championship, and they have two players who can win the MVP." David Falck replied.

"Wow, David, I remember that kid refused to meet with you, weren't you so angry that you dropped your phone?" Mourning exclaimed, apparently surprised by David Falke's answer.

"Alonzo, you're not an agent, you don't know what business is, that kid knows better than you." David Falck seems completely unconcerned about Liu Mang's refusal to meet with him two years ago.

In the final analysis, this is all business, and now Liu Mang's agency is thriving, with nearly twenty NBA players under his hands, and it is almost catching up with David Falck's agency.

At that time, David Falke had more than 100 players under his hands, and the NBA was almost an "internal league" situation of David Falke's own agency, but since Jordan's cooperation with William Wesley broke David Falke's monopoly, David Falke's influence in the NBA began to collapse, and by the 90s, it was no longer a monopoly.

David Falke is now helping Sprewell and Eddie Curry find big contracts, and there are not many teams to give face, and Juwan Howard's 100 million yuan contract back then was too impressive.

Having a good relationship with Liu Mang is a good thing for David Falck, who was a vampire in the NBA for 20 years and is now disgusted by many management.

"Fortunately, I don't understand, if I thought I knew everything and insisted on staying at the Wasp, I wouldn't have a salary of 100 million to make me have money to get a doctor after I get sick." Mourning laughed.

"So that's what I like most about Alonzo, you don't meddle in things you don't understand." David Falke also smiled and continued: "In addition to the high probability of winning the championship, there are other factors in the selection of the Hawks, the Hawks are not short of money, they are willing to accept the option of trading, Steven Price does not need us to give up the remaining four months of salary, Pat Riley asked me to negotiate a buyout with the Raptors." ”

"Pat Riley has always been like that, he's not going to spend a penny more." Mourning had already guessed the price if he chose to go to the Heat.

"And Alonzo, would you rather go to the Hawks or the Heat?" David Falck asked.

"I don't want to play as a substitute for O'Neal, anyone can do it, a 19-year-old can do it, O'Neill can't." Mo Ning replied decisively.

"Okay, I'll call Steven Price...... Wait, I'll take a call. "David Falck had just taken his phone out and it rang.

David Falck went to the bathroom to make a phone call, and Mourning was reading a book in the living room, and after a while, Mourning saw David Falck walk out with a regretful face.

"What's wrong, David, what's wrong?" Mo Ning asked curiously.

"Oh, Alonzo, it looks like I'm going to change my advice, let's go to the Heat!" David Falke is a rare player to think about.

"Why?" Mourning was even more strange, "The Eagles don't want to trade me anymore?" ”

"No," David Falck took out his laptop from his briefcase, opened the mailbox, clicked on it after receiving the email, turned the screen to Mourning, and said: "The Eagles are too young and unstable, you look at this." ”

Mo Ning curiously looked at the news screenshot in the email, and couldn't help laughing: "Kwame Brown? That parallel import? No, no, no, he's already the No. 1 center in the East, hahahahaha...... David, let's go to the Hawks, and the Raptors buy out the remaining months of salary, hahahaha......"

"Huh?" David Falke didn't expect Mourning to react like this......

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At noon on November 19, 2004, an interview with ESPN was broadcast.

"I'm supposed to be the starting center for this All-Star because I'm strong, very strong!"

"O'Neill, you say? Oh my God, I won him 4-1 in the finals! You all saw that without Kobe Bryant passing the ball to him, without Kobe Bryant deliberately shooting the ball to the basket and bouncing it into his hand, he couldn't do anything. ”

"Ben Wallace? How did I sweep him in the playoffs last year, didn't you see? ”

"I score more points than Ben Wallace, have more rebounds than O'Neal, have a better record than all centers in the East, and there is no center with better stats than me, my shooting percentage is 67 percent, the first in the league, this is a shooting percentage that O'Neal and Ben Wallace will never get, I am the first center in the East, and the All-Star starter should be me!"

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Kwame Brown made a big deal of nonsense in an interview with Liu Mang, mainly targeting O'Neal and Ben Wallace, two centers who are regarded as the first and second in the East, Ratliffe's performance this year is also good, averaging 26 minutes per game and getting 7 points, 5 rebounds and 2.7 blocks, not much different from last season, but the attendance rate has become lower, there are no major injuries, but small injuries continue, the Nets have played 25 games, 7 injuries have been suspended, mainly leaving Liu Mang, Ratliff's popularity has declined significantly, and there is no competitive threat.

Liu Mang's answer to Kwame Brown's interview was not only Kwame Brown's claim that he was the No. 1 center in the East, but also pulled Kobe fans along with him, which was completely unreasonable to rub Kobe's popularity.

On the 19th, the noon news of ESPN Sports broadcast an interview with Kwame Brown, the newspaper in the afternoon also published this interview, and ESPN officials also released the video and text report of this interview, Kwame Brown became popular instantly!

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"Kwame! Tell me what you think? ”

"Ace made me do this ......"

"Ace? Are you the same as Ace? How did you learn to mess around like this with Ace? Do you really think you're the No. 1 center in the East? You%#%¥%¥%...... Don't fight tonight! Go and call Nazel and Ace."

When Coach Kruger saw the news, he immediately called Kwame Brown to the office and scolded him.

Kwame Brown now feels like Liu Mang's evil!

He didn't know how he said those words to the reporter at that time, in fact, when he finished the interview and the reporter left, he thought of the words he said according to the script given by Liu Mang, and his legs went limp.

Now I regret it even more - the boss cheated me again!

Just when Kwame-Brown was about to cry, the office door was pushed open.

Coach Kruger looked at the door angrily, and found that it was the boss, so he could only put away his anger and asked, "Boss, what's the matter, you also want to teach Kwame a lesson?" ”

"Lesson Kwame? No, no, no," Price laughed: "Lang, Mourning is willing to take the initiative to buy out the contract with the Raptors and join us with a base salary." ”

"Huh? Why? Boss, aren't you saying that Falk is reluctant to buy out? Coach Kruger immediately put the Kwame Brown matter aside and asked curiously.

Price pointed at Kwame Brown and said, "Falke said that Mourning wanted to come and teach Kwame to play, and he admired Kwame. ”

"......" Coach Kruger glanced at poor Kwame Brown and didn't know what to say.

The scene was very embarrassing for a while, and after dozens of seconds, Coach Kruger said to Kwame Brown: "Kwamei, you go and prepare for the evening game, you don't need to call Nazr, call Ace to come over, I have something to discuss with the boss." ”

"Uh...... Ok ......"

Kwame Brown didn't expect the peak to turn! He thought he was going to be pressed on the bench by the coach, although Muhammad did not have the peak performance of the 01-02 season with an average of two doubles per game, but he was at the peak of 28 years old, in the case of Liu Mang's "protection" without minor injuries, he was given enough playing time, an average of 10 rebounds per game was still okay, and there were many teams offering Muhammad every season, and Muhammad was only 29 years old after his current contract ended in 06, and it was easy to get a big contract, and it was no problem to use Mohammed to play blue-collar starting center.

But it seems that Coach Kruger didn't interrupt and pressed him to the bench again, and Kwame Brown didn't know what to say.

Walking out of the head coach's office, Kwame Brown jumped up with joy!

That's Monin!

Although Ratliff is powerful, compared to Mourning, it is not enough to watch, before Mourning got sick, he was a superstar who won a team, a defense, the best defensive player, and a block king in a single season!

"The boss is amazing! Did he expect all this? Expected that if I fired at O'Neill like that, it would be appreciated by Mourning? Kwame Brown couldn't stop the thought of "It's great to follow the boss!" ”

Kwame Brown galloped to the training ground: Dear boss, your most loyal little brother is here......

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Drove away Kwame Brown, who looked more basic than Iguodala, nicknamed "I am a", Liu Mang came to Coach Kruger's office and learned that Mourning was willing to take the initiative to buy out the contract to join, Liu Mang himself did not expect it!

He remembered that Mourning should have preferred the Heat.

But after thinking about it carefully, Liu Mang felt that Mo Ning seemed to be able to only join the Heat.

Thinking about it carefully, Liu Mang can judge that the relationship between Mo Ning and O'Neill is not very good.

Originally, Mourning would go to play as a substitute for O'Neal, first, because of the impact of injury, second, because he had a house in Miami, and third, because the Heat were in the first place in the East in the original 04-05 season, almost from the beginning of the season, and the Pistons led by Larry Brown did not fully play the strength of four All-Stars plus a god-level single defense master.

But the relationship between Mourning and O'Neal can't be very good, O'Neal and Mourning are rookies in the same class, a champion and a leader, Mourning lost to O'Neal at the beginning, and then selected the four major centers, O'Neal was selected as the only center to enter the NBA in the 90s, and Mourning lost again.

Being defeated by the same person in a row, or being defeated at a very important point in his career, and being defeated in the kind of things that cannot be changed, Liu Mang does not think that Mo Ning, who is a representative of tough guy players in the 90s, will be willing to become O'Neal's replacement.

If it weren't for kidney disease, Mo Ning, who just won the best defensive player in Lianzhuang in the 99-00 season, had just turned 30 years old and should be at his peak, but the 00-01 season began to be reimbursed, and he became a role player directly from the peak, wasting the golden years from 31 to 34 years old that still seemed to be the peak, otherwise he would not have finally hugged O'Neal's thigh for the championship, and took the initiative to give up most of the salary agreement to buy out.

Buyout and being cut by the team are two different concepts, the cutout is the full payment of the contract salary, and the buyout is to negotiate how much money is given for the rest of the contract, and often the buyout will be a part of the salary of the player.

After discussing with the boss Price and Coach Kruger for a while, Liu Mang suggested: "Boss, coach, I think, it's better to trade." ”

"Why? We can wait for Mourning's side to buy out with the Raptors and sign Mourning directly! Price asked, confused.

"We have too many outside lines, we can take advantage of this transaction to strengthen the inside line and clean up the outside line, haven't you always wanted to make the outside line less bloated?" Liu Mang wants to collect draft picks again......

Coach Kruger agreed, Liu Mang said that he was in his heart, there are too many outsiders, and most of them are talented but obviously flawed first- and second-year players, and the three players outside the 12-man squad should be veterans, but the Hawks are all rookies and sophomores.

"Ace, who do you think is better to trade? If we add a rookie, we might also get a last-round first-round pick or a good second-round pick. Coach Krueger asked.

"Aaron or Ariza." Liu Mang's answer was very simple.

"Why?" Price asked curiously.

"I don't know them as well as Keller or José......"

It's such a simple reason, which can be seen from the difference in the surnames or first names used by Liu Mang when addressing the four people.

The players who are mixed in at the bottom, going to stay, is just a sentence from the core of the team......