1189. Precursor to upheaval

Liu Mang was unanimously elected MVP, and the explosive strength shown by the Hawks after losing one game has had a huge impact on the league.

This summer, Liu Mang, who finished the fifth season of his career, is 24 years old, with Liu Mang's "able to bend and stretch" style of play, people do not have much doubt about his peak to be maintained until the age of thirty-two or thirteen, not to mention that his three most famous teachers are Jordan and Shuangsha, who are all 40-year-old and can still play as the core of a weak team, and can still win the regular season MVP at the age of 35 or 6. If Liu Mang is still an MVP contender at the age of thirty-five or sixteen, people will not find it strange at all.

Even if Liu Mang is of the yellow race and the continuity of his state is in doubt, he still maintains his MVP-level strength at the age of thirty-two or thirteen, which people still believe in.

Then the problem comes, Liu Mang finished this season, before the Summer World Championships, he was only 24 years old, then there are at least eight years of peak, Liu Mang is an ironman-level player, and in the next eight or nine years, Liu Mang will be one of the best players in the league.

And the young talent and draft vision that the Eagles have can keep a strong lineup for Liu Mang to compete for MVP and championship during the Hawks' captaincy.

For some stars who did not enter the playoffs and have been eliminated in the playoffs, they began to take action after seeing Liu Mang unanimously elected MVP.

Ben Wallace, whose contract expires, has already begun to look for a home, and after Billups was swept in the first round, he requested a trade from Pistons management.

Pistons management was happy to announce that anyone on the team could be used as a bargaining chip except Chris Bosh.

Bosh said it was unfortunate because he was in the same division as Liu Mang and had a championship-level roster, but they were killed by the Hawks in their best year last season.

But he was very lucky compared to the other four of the 03 Five Masters, playing in a team that was in the top three in the division in the first year of his career, and he was the top three teams in the East for three seasons.

After a group of big brothers took him to play for 3 years, Bosh himself has become the strongest player on the Pistons, and the Pistons team just collapsed and is ready to build a team around him.

Bosh needs attention very much, so he wants to be the boss, in the original time and space, he and Carter can have conflicts in Toronto, because he wants the spotlight and joins the Heat, the biggest reason is also because he went to Miami to play with Wade can have more national live broadcasts, and James is the last giant to join the Heat.

For the Pistons management, if the previous roster can't break through the East, then they don't want to spend so much money anymore and simply start rebuilding around Bosh.

Billups and Hamilton and Delfino are all good trade chips, and there are a few players on the bench that can be traded.

If there is a team that wants Ben Wallace and the salary space is not enough, the Pistons can also eat some expired contracts, and use Ben Wallace to sign first and then trade, although it is not allowed to sign players to calculate the amount of the contract before the signing, but the reciprocal transaction is still possible, and it is still very good for the Pistons to eat the expired contract and get draft picks.

Now the draft picks have been inflated by the Hawks.

After the Pacers were eliminated in the first round, the management discussed for a few days, although they were very reluctant to give up on this core three-core lineup that seemed to be at the peak, but there was no way, O'Neal Jr., Stephen Jackson, and Artest were all put on the shelf, and they could only rebuild the mess.

It's not in line with Larry Bird's personality to drag it all the time, and now he has a chance to make the playoffs every year, but there is no 100% chance of going further.

After the SuperSonics were eliminated in the first round, their management began the process of further team share trading, and their boss could no longer drag it out, and the SuperSonics trade rumors were extinguished.

And the Hornets with Paul, the Raptors with Milicic, and the Bulls with a group of quasi-first-class stars are all looking for stars, they have draft picks, and they have the talent they have fiddled with in the past, especially the Bulls, as long as Kobe Bryant is willing to leave, they can even make up a lineup that satisfies the Lakers to exchange Kobe.

There are 10 teams in the league that have not finished the second and first rounds, and half of the remaining 20 teams have started their own actions.

This is a rare time in NBA history that just half a month after the end of the regular season, there are a large number of teams that want to trade, a large number of stars who want to change teams, and it is very urgent.

The reason is the coercion of the Hawks.

A lot of stars can't wait to bring down the Eagles!

There are three ways to bring down a team as talented as the Eagles.

One is to use money, team attraction, to poach their players.

This method is the most direct, but it does not work well for the Hawks, Atlanta is one of the most livable cities in the United States, and the economy is among the top ten cities in the United States, and the Hawks owner has made a lot of money by relying on Liu Mang, and he is willing to spend money, unlike the owner of the Rockets.

It's unlikely that you can only start by giving more opportunities, but it's not easy to get people's rookies, only Prince will expire this season, and the others will have at least one to two years of rookie contracts expiring, and it's easy for the Hawks to keep Prince, and a contract extension won't have much impact on the Hawks' roster flexibility.

The second way, purely depending on God's mood, waiting for the Hawks to fight themselves, like the Pacers, fight, complain to each other, the team's spiritual leader retires, no one can reconcile, and they collapse on their own.

The Pacers are purely a natural disaster, and they have fallen into blood mold, just like Elgin Baylor played 9 games in his last season, and the team started with a wave of consecutive defeats, winning only 4 of 9 games, Baylor felt that he couldn't do it anymore, and the team couldn't do it anymore, so he chose to retire.

As a result, as soon as he retired, his teammates played like chickens, and the Lakers immediately played a wave of 33 consecutive wins, playing a 45-8 halfway season, that is, after Baylor retired, the Lakers played a wave of crazy 41-3 records, including a 33-game winning streak.

Reggie Miller and Elgin Baylor are so rare that expecting this is as illusory as praying to God and worshiping Buddha.

The last simple and rude way is to beat them until they don't want to work together, just like the Pistons, who were beaten by Liu Mang for four consecutive years, and in the fifth year, the Pistons completely collapsed.

If you want to deal with Liu Mang, who is bound to have a long career, what you have to limit is the strength of his teammates and break them down......

This is a very constructive approach, and many teams and stars are already trying, such as Yao Ming to join forces with Kobe.

Maybe there is another way, that is, to take a salary cut to join, other stars get 15 million contracts, and he takes 10 million to join......

Generally speaking, the stars who are likely to do this are the top stars in the league, because only the top stars who are also very popular will be relatively less concerned about salary.

And it's almost impossible to have a superstar who does this, and he still wants face, just like Reggie Miller, in the last year, Pacers fans wanted him to join the Hawks, but he himself just didn't want to, Stockton or Hawks head coach Kruger was rejected twice in a row and Liu Mang's relationship was dug up to suppress the lineup.

Ordinary stars can't afford to join a strong team at a young age for the championship, just fight for a thigh when they are old, and it's too late for them to make more money.

So in the current situation, the league's first-line, top-notch, and supergiants, who are hot stars who want to change teams, have no intention of joining the Eagles, and they are all looking for other possible ways to compete for the championship.

That is, the first choice of superstars and top stars, first-class stars is the third way.

If you can't beat him, find a helper to kill him!

The goals of the players are very clear, for example, Garnett's idea is still traditional, thinking of a helper comparable to Maddie next to Liu Mang, Yao Ming next to Kobe, and O'Neal next to Wade.

In the eyes of superstars at this stage, Liu Mang's main helper is Maddie, and Jordan has other All-Stars and even the best defensive players in addition to Maddie, but in the eyes of the stars at the time, Jordan's helper is Pippen.

Superstars in their prime have a sense of self-confidence that they can make their teammates better.

And those helpers around Liu Mang, except for Maddy, who was relatively successful in leading the team on the Magic team personally, had scoring titles, won a while, and was exchanged for Raheem by the Hawks The top ten players in the league, the other Jason Terry and Rasheed Wallace were all players who were originally depressed or called tumors, and Kwame Brown used to be a parallel import.

Liu Mang's real helper, in the eyes of superstars, is Maddie, and everyone else is just an addition, they believe that even if they change a group of role players and give Liu Mang a year or two, they can still bring it out.

So the first goal of a superstar like Garnett is not to find two ordinary All-Stars, but to find a superstar, and a bunch of change to put together must not be as tempting as a hundred-dollar one.

Just like Garnett and Pierce, you still need a Ray Allen and have to add a lot of people, and Duncan plus guard Robinson, just put together a group of role players, you don't necessarily need a third star, and it will be easier to build a team, although Ray Allen is only a top star, but the salary is the same as Pierce and Garnett, which is bound to have a certain impact on the team, just like the Heat Big Three in the original time and space, except for the giants, there is no money for role players.

Just when the league was messed up by Liu Mang's unanimous MVP, trade rumors and team change rumors were flying, the series tie-break of the second-round opponent that the Eagles had been waiting for began immediately.