The first day of the new year in 2006 was not destined to be a quiet day.

Not only China, but also the United States is looking forward to seeing the Lakers recover and take out the Hawks.

Except for Liu Mang and the Eagles fans, no one else wants to see the Eagles win three consecutive championships for many reasons, but the things expected are the same.

But before the game began, an unexpected news detonated the New Year's frenzy in advance.

In the early hours of the morning after the New Year's bell rang in the United States, a deal that was not a big deal, but it detonated the first battle of the new year, happened!

The Lakers and Warriors made a deal, and the Lakers sent Smash Parker, Stanislav Medvedenko, Brian Cook, and 3 million cash compensation to the Warriors' Derrick Fisher!

Before six o'clock in the morning, Liu Mang was woken up by Xiao Lori finding the hotel, and then knowing the news, he squirted out a sentence of "" to Xiao Lori.

Because it was a holiday, little Lori's biological clock made her wake up naturally at five o'clock, only to find that she was not at home when she woke up, and she couldn't sleep, so she turned on the computer to watch the news, and was the first to know about the transaction between the Lakers and the Warriors, and then pulled her bodyguard Christine Wagner to find Liu Mang.

Fortunately, Liu Mang's family is considered a celebrity, Liu Mang's mother's breakfast restaurant is now also an "Internet celebrity restaurant", Xiao Loli Many people know her, the front desk gave her a key card, and found Liu Mang directly.

Liu Mang picked up the little Lori, came to the small living room of the suite, opened the notebook that the little Lori gave him, and connected to the Internet to open the NBA official website.

Just below the hotline news of the New Year's game between the Hawks and the Lakers, the headline on the second page is the situation of the trade between the Warriors and the Lakers, and there are also posts that columnists rushed out overnight and so on.

Really deal!

Liu Mang looked at the details of the transaction and various surrounding gossip news, and learned the reason why the transaction happened suddenly.

From the beginning of the Zen master's return, the Lakers have privately contacted the Warriors to seek a trade.

The Lakers have a characteristic that the deals that are exposed are basically fake, and their transactions often come coldly.

It has been rumored that the Lakers are interested in Jason Kidd, and they are ready to use Odom as a bargaining chip, as well as Mike Bibby, Peja and others of the Kings, but in the end, it was Fisher who got the deal.

Fisher requested a trade early on the grounds that he was recuperating in Los Angeles to take care of his daughter, who was recuperating due to illness, but this season, Fisher's performance of 13.5 points and 4 assists per game for the Sixth Man is important for the Warriors, and they have become the best sixth man favorites, competing with Jason Terry, Mike Miller, Leonard Barbossa and others.

And the chips given by the Lakers at the beginning, the Warriors were not satisfied, although their management was very sympathetic to Fisher's experience, Fisher's daughter suffered from eye cancer, and the Warriors executives were also discussing whether to terminate the existing contract with Fisher, but Fisher's contract was still long, and the 4-year full middle class signed that year was only the second year, and the Warriors were not willing to lose so much money, and although the Lakers gave a 4 million expired contract, the contract given was Medvidenko, Medvidenko can't even play with a 4 million contract ball, which is still a loss-making business for the Warriors.

Of course, Fisher will not give up the salary of the biggest contract of his career, even if it is to treat his daughter, he will not give up, his career is probably such a middle class, less money, let alone accompany his daughter, the money for treatment is very tight, although he is the chairman of the players' union, but his eight years with the Lakers, the first three years of the rookie contract add up to 2.1 million, the last five years add up to 15 million, the beginning of the century, Los Angeles' various taxes add up, Fisher's tax rate for a high-income group has reached 48 percent, nearly half, and with the players' association's commission, Fisher has almost no spare money, and both sides of this money refuse to give up.

Finally, the Warriors agreed to the deal after the Lakers ramped up their chips, adding Brian Cook, a space-forward who averaged 0.7 three-pointers per game and shooting 40 percent from three-point range, and compensated Medvedenko with more than 70 percent of his salary in cash.

Smush Parker for Fisher!

Liu Mang feels that the Lakers have made a lot of money!

The Lakers point guard has not known how many times he has been beaten, at least three of the 10 games the Lakers have lost because the point guard has been blown up by the opposing role player, and this year's No. 1 Filton career high of 29 points was obtained by playing the Lakers.

Although Fisher is old and is beaten every day, his shooting ability at critical moments, the mentality of not sticking to the ball, not fighting or grabbing, is very suitable for helping Kobe dribble, and it is much better than Smush Parker who often rushes to attack and does not pass to Kobe and Yao Ming!

The Zen master is using Odom to advance with the ball, just because the point guard is too sticky to the ball, and Kobe Bryant just shoots too much.

Watching the alliance pass the trade application like lightning, Liu Mang felt the deep malice from David Stern!

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At half past eight in the morning, Liu Mang took Xiao Lori to the away team training ground in the Toyota Center Training Hall.

The Toyota Center's main role is to serve as a training hall for the Lakers, but it is also a medium-sized indoor arena with more than 8,000 seats, and is the home of the Los Angeles Defenders, a team in the Lakers' development league.

So to play the Lakers, the Hawks don't need to rent a private training gym for them like the Clippers, which is a lot more convenient.

Liu Mang came to the Toyota Center, changed his clothes, and prepared to let Xiao Lori and the bodyguard pick up the ball, and he began to practice shooting.

The Lakers trade is already a fact, as long as the medical report is submitted to the league this morning, the game can be played in the evening, and the league has the green light for the deal.

However, as soon as Liu Mang came out of his training clothes, he saw the coaching staff enter the training ground with black circles under their eyes and were greeting Xiao Lori.

"Ace, you're here so early, come, study the Lakers' tactical changes with us, Dinah, you and Christine play by themselves first, this, my card, let Christine take you to buy whatever you want." Coach Kruger saw Liu Mang come out and sent Xiao Lori away, and today's game was even more troublesome than originally expected.

The main thing is that there are emergencies!

The Lakers' sudden personnel changes disrupted the tactical plan that the Hawks coaching staff had prepared.

Unlike the Hawks, who sleep like dead pigs, coaches are nervous during the season, ready to take calls from owners and scouts at any time, especially as we enter the new year and reach the mid-season trade rush.

In the early morning, Coach Kruger received a call from his boss Price, he summoned the coaching staff to his suite overnight, held a coaching staff meeting, didn't sleep all night, and went to find Liu Mang in the morning, but Liu Mang had already left with little Lori.

Liu Mang was going to look for Maddie, but Maddie, a night owl, didn't know what time to go to bed, the phone was taken away when he called the room, the mobile phone was turned off, and he didn't wake up when he knocked on the door.

Fisher will return to the Lakers one day, sooner or later, anyway, he has to face Kobe Bryant with Fisher, Liu Mang is not in a hurry, and he comes to the Toyota Center to train by himself, because it is not the kind of stadium rented by the Clippers that only provides training on the day of the game, the Hawks staff took the team's jerseys, training uniforms and other things to the Toyota Center yesterday and put them, and yesterday's training at the Staples Center was just for the media to watch.

Little Lori got the card, immediately forgot about Liu Mang, and took Christine Wattner to Los Angeles.

Liu Mang followed the coaching staff to the conference room.

"Ace, what kind of impact do you think Fisher will have when he joins the Lakers?" Coach Kruger asked directly.

"Fisher is a very calm killer, with him, he dares to shoot shots that others dare not shoot, and will not destroy the tactical discipline of the Lakers like Parker, Uncle KFC also prefers a point guard like Fisher, Kobe and Fisher have been partners for seven years, and their tacit understanding ......is very good" Liu Mang said what he knew Fisher's return to the Lakers to help the Lakers, and finally concluded: "...... And although Fisher's defense is not as good as before, Fisher is much stronger than Parker, and Fisher's scoring ability at critical moments is better than expected. ”

Liu Mang thought of his first time playing against Fisher, Fisher's performance of scoring continuously at critical moments, the older he gets, the more demonic characteristics are vividly shown in Fisher, and Liu Mang's memory of the third game of the 2010 finals, when the Lakers lost their home court advantage, Fisher scored eight points in the last two minutes of the third game to help the Lakers reverse the Celtics to regain home court advantage, and Fisher was 36 at that time.

This season, Fisher is 31 years old, he can't run fast, and he can't jump as well as Iverson before, but he averages a career high of 13.5 points per game, and opponents are often cold and he scores more than 10 points.

"Ace, you're the same as we thought, Fisher doesn't stick to the ball, and he has a 40 percent shooting percentage from three-point range, which will make the Lakers' space better." Coach Kruger agrees with Liu Mang's statement.

"Yes, we will encounter a lot of challenges on the defensive end, we can't let go of any of the three outside members of the Lakers, and there is BIG-YAO on the other side...... "Mike Woodson thought of 2001, the Lakers' three outside starters, Fisher and Fox were both 40 percent shooting three-point shooters, and Kobe Bryant broke through the singles as if he was in no man's land.

Liu Mang heard that the coaching staff had changed suddenly one after another in the Lakers, and now he felt that his head was a little big!

The return of Fisher actually completely activated the Lakers' triangle offense!