This news shocked Tang Tian.

He almost forgot about this master.

David West jumped out of a 12.6 million contract in his previous life, turned around and signed a base salary of 1.4 million with the Spurs, which became a good story in the NBA.

You must know that it is more than 10 million dollars of real money!

It's the only one in the history of the NBA.

And now the Nets are short of a backup power forward, which is a match made in heaven.

Tang Tian had already started preparing to sell shares of the Warriors with Tyler Swift, but he was afraid that Jones would not be able to handle it, so he temporarily decided to fly to Indiana by himself.

David West has been in Indiana for 4 years, his wife and daughter live in Indiana, and he chose to jump out of his contract this time, in addition to the financial sacrifice, there is also the stability of life, which shows the price he has paid and the desire for a championship.

The two met at a local café in Indiana.

"You want me to play for the Nets?" West was still a little surprised by Tang Tian's visit, after all, he said before that he wanted to go to the team that wanted to win the championship, a team like the Warriors, Thunder, and Spurs, and the Nets, although they reached the Eastern Conference finals in the playoffs last year, had a lot to do with their opponents, and their strength was not enough to win the championship.

"Yes, you're going to get the same chance to compete for the championship, you're going to get a lot of playing time, and of course you don't care, but you're going to get paid more than the other teams." Tang Tian said directly.

"But I'm in talks with the Warriors and the Spurs, and they're closer to what I need." West spoke.

"You want to go west?"

"Yes, they're both in the West, but they have a better chance of winning the championship." West nodded.

"Don't you want revenge on LeBron?" Tang Tian said something inconsequential.

West glanced at Tang Tian in surprise, he didn't seem to expect Tang Tian to say this.

"You were beaten by LeBron, and you don't want to beat him openly and win the championship, but you want to run to the West?"

West didn't speak, and Tang Tian's words obviously hit his soft underbelly.

"The Warriors' rotation is basically fixed now, they won't risk adjusting when they win the championship, and as for the Spurs, the GDP is older, they were eliminated in the first round last year, and the probability of them rushing out of the West is really greater than that of the Nets rushing out of the East?" Tang Tian continued to ask.

West didn't speak, and he was obviously aware of that.

"You may not know that the Nets have made up a lot more than last season, we drafted Devin Booker, we signed Jimmy Butler, and Eric Gordon, and Jokic is more mature than last year, do you think this lineup has no impact on the Cavaliers?"

"You signed Eric?" West looked a little surprised.

Because Gordon had only just reached a verbal agreement, and West was busy with his own signing, it wasn't too strange that the news was lagging behind.

Tang Tian nodded.

"I'd like to go to Brooklyn." What made Tang Tian not react was that West actually agreed directly at this time!

He wasted so much saliva before and it didn't work, and this sentence became it?

"Eric is an Indiana native and I trained with him in the previous summer and we have a good personal relationship." West continued.

Tang Tian smiled after hearing this.

The personal relationship is good, and it is estimated that it is average, otherwise he must have known about Gordon's joining, but after training together, West should know Gordon's strength, this sentence is more like a recognition of the strength of the Nets.

Tang Tian smiled and nodded: "Welcome to New York." ”

With West out of the way, the Nets' new roster has basically been finalized, and all that's missing is a backup third center.

signed Oden at the end of last season's salary, because there were not many opportunities to play, Tang Tian did not use the system, and now there are many centers on the free market, and Oden is once again classified as a B or even C plan.

It was also at this time that Tang Tian remembered his Plan A, Yao Ming.

Last season was the last year of Yao Ming's contract year, and because of injuries, he and Kobe Bryant did not play as expected, and now they are in Houston, and they don't know what their future plans are.

He flew to Houston again.

Yao Ming's manor is still there, and it is still Ye Li who picks him up, and the scene of déjà vu seems to have returned to 6 years ago, where he recruited Yao Ming to Cleveland 6 years ago.

"I want you to go to Brooklyn."

However, this time, when Tang Tian made a request, Yao Ming did not respond immediately.

"I'm ready to retire, coach." After a period of silence, Yao Ming spoke.

"Retirement? With such an ending? Tang Tian wanted to get Yao Ming because injuries in the past few years had worn down his fighting spirit.

"You can go to Brooklyn and win your last championship and retire so your career is complete, and you can also help me develop Jokic, and he's going to improve faster with you." He continued.

"I can help train Jokic in the offseason, but I'm really ready to retire, championships aren't so important to me anymore, I'm ready to buy the CBA Shanghai team, I'm ready to make my own contribution to Chinese basketball, coach, I'm ready to start another life." Yao Ming said sincerely.

Indeed, Yao Ming now has 5 rings in his hand and 4 MVP trophies, and championships and honors are indeed not so important to him.

After listening to Yao Ming's words, Tang Tian also knew that he had a final decision, and he didn't force it anymore.

"Coach, I know about your basketball school and camp, and we'll see each other more often in the future." Yao Ming was also a little apologetic for refusing Tang Tian, and continued.

"Yes, another life." Tang Tian said with a smile and Yao Ming.

Plan A didn't come to fruition, and Tang Tian then asked Jones to go to the market to find a new third backup center.

Antich of the Hawks, Muhammad of the Bulls, Bernard James and Greg Smith of the Mavericks, Quincy Essie of the Knicks, Cole Aldridge of the Clippers......

These are relatively cheap inside lines in the market, and basically a basic salary or a contract of about 2 million can be won.

Looking at the list that Jones brought up, Tang Tian didn't have any interest, because it didn't make much sense to sign these people.

Although it is only the third center, it must at least have development value, and Pralim's rookie contract expires next year, and the salary cap skyrockets in the summer of '16, and the contract extension may not be able to be done at that time, and the third center will definitely be the best at that time.

After thinking about it, Tang Tian finally asked Jones to go to Oden and negotiate a new contract with his economic team.

3rd year salary, 3rd year is a team option.

Oden is basically no longer part of the league, and the Nets' offer is the only package, even if it is an unguaranteed contract, he has to sign.

Theoretically, this was the case, but Tang Tian waited for a while, but Jones's reply made his head hurt.

Because of Oden, he is also ready to retire!

[I'm not feeling well, so I've been slowing down the update these days]