The 2004 draft came to an end in a hustle, but the end of the draft does not mean that everything has settled, on the contrary, the end of the draft is just a beginning, as for those selected sons, whether they can represent the team that selected them after the start of the new season is still unknown.

On June 26, 2004, the day after the draft, a flurry of big news was revealed, starting with the transfer of Maddy, and the Houston Rockets were sending Steve Francis, Catino Mobley and Kevin Cato in exchange for Tracy McGrady of the Magic, Juwan Howard, Tyrone Lue and Keith Bogans for the Magic. In order to get Maddie, the Rockets gave away a few of their most valuable chips in addition to Yao Ming, and it can be said that after completing this deal, it is basically impossible for the Rockets to continue to do anything in the free market, but being able to get Maddie is already the biggest gain for the Rockets.

On the day that the news of Maddy's joining the Rockets was revealed, Don Nelson, a veteran coach who has coached the Dallas Mavericks for 7 seasons, announced that he would resign as head coach and general manager of the Mavericks due to physical reasons, but according to some insiders, the reason why Nelson Sr. resigned was actually a dispute with team owner Mark Cuban over the idea of building the team. Although the Mavericks lost to the Pacers in the Finals, it was not a disappointing season for the Mavericks to reach the Finals, so the old Nelson wanted to keep the current lineup after the season ended, and in a few seasons, with the current lineup composition of the Mavericks, at least in the next 5 years, it can maintain a high level of competitiveness.

But Mark Cuban, as the owner, doesn't see it that way, the Mavericks, who had the league's first salary last season, failed to win the championship in Mark Cuban's view, it was a complete failure, and Mark Cuban was also very dissatisfied with the performance of some players in the Mavericks in the Finals, thinking that they didn't deserve such a high salary, and wanted to dispose of them this summer to reduce some salary pressure, so the old Nelson could naturally clash with Mark Cuban, Eventually, after failing to convince Mark Cuban, the elder Nelson chose to resign voluntarily and left Dallas.

After Nelson Sr. announced his resignation, the Mavericks officially announced that Nelson Sr.'s assistant coach, Avery Johnson, would temporarily act as the Mavericks' head coach, and the Mavericks also made it clear that they would not renew the contract with Steve Nash, the team's main playmaker. In the regular season last season, Steve Nash was able to contribute 14.5 points and 8.8 assists per game, and was selected as an All-Star as a substitute, but Steve Nash's performance in the Finals was somewhat unsatisfactory, averaging only 9.5 points and 7 assists per game in the 6-game series, and because of Steve Nash's shortcomings on the defensive end, Steve Nash was an important breakthrough point for the Pacers throughout the series. Although Steve Nash's performance in the Finals was not very good, but with Steve Nash's ability and last season's data, no annual salary of 10 million yuan could not be signed, so after weighing it again, the Mavericks gave up their plan to renew the contract with Steve Nash and let him enter the free market, just after the Mavericks announced that they would give up Steve Nash, Nash soon had a home, and the Phoenix Suns gave Steve Nash a 5-year $65 million contract. Compared with the annual salary of tens of millions predicted by some brick families, it is much higher.

"The calf is collapsing?" When Meng Xu saw the news of Steve Nash joining the Suns, he once thought that he had read it wrong, and the calf that Meng Xu was most worried about disintegrated inexplicably? Not only did Nelson Sr. resign, but a golden duo like Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash parted ways before they had time to exert their energy! Meng Xuke knows very well that after experiencing the baptism of the finals and having reached the peak of their respective careers ahead of schedule, next season's combination of Dirk Nowitzki + Steve Nash is far from being comparable to this season's pairing.

However, to Meng Xu's surprise, Steve Nash's departure is only the beginning of the disintegration of this Mavericks, after Steve Nash announced that he will join the Suns, a three-way deal involving the Mavericks, Wizards, and Knicks was officially reached, and the Mavericks sent last season's sixth man, Antoine Jamison, and next season's first-round pick, to get this year's No. 5 pick, Devin Harris, and big forward Keith Van Horn from the New York Knicks. The New York Knicks sent away former All-Star power forward Keith Van Horn and next season's first-round pick to get the Washington Wizards' big man, All-Star guard Steve Marbury. The Washington Wizards, on the other hand, sent away the team's big All-Star guard Steve Marbury, and then got the Mavericks' sixth man, Antoine Jamison, as well as the Knicks and Mavericks' first-round picks next season.

Due to Arenas' outstanding performance in the series with the Pacers, Arenas, who was originally signed to assist Stephen Marbury, quickly rose to the position after the series, and the performance of the Wizards management was also very resolute, in order to correct Arenas, he did not hesitate to send away the team's big man Steve Marbury.

After reaching a three-way deal with the Wizards and the Knicks, the Mavericks' management did not stop there, but continued to seek a trade, and then after some planning and negotiations, the Mavericks became a transfer deal again, the Mavericks used All-Star small forward Antoine Walker, and the Hawks made a one-for-one trade, and Antoine Walker was exchanged for the Hawks' playmaker Jason Terry and a trade exception, it was obvious that the Mavericks wanted to use Jason Terry to make up for the gap after Steve Nash left.

In just two days, the Mavericks completed this dazzling series of trades, first giving up on signing Steve Nash, and then sending away Antoine Walker and Antoine Jamison, not only that, but the Mavericks are rumored to be peddling All-Star forward Michael Finley around, but because Finley has four years and $65 million left on his big contract, he really can't find a pick-up man who dares to make a move.

This series of actions of the Mavericks in the transfer market will definitely suffer in the short term, but after this series of transactions, the Mavericks have completely corrected Dirk Nowitzki, from the original multiple cores to Dirk Nowitzki's one-man team, and at the same time, after sending away three All-Stars, the Mavericks' salary level has also been greatly reduced, if the Mavericks keep their current lineup unchanged, the Mavericks will pay at least $20 million less in luxury tax next season than last season, If the Mavericks can dispose of Michael Finley before the start of the new season, then the Mavericks' salary level will be limited to less than the luxury tax.

Compared to the Mavericks' side of the trade after trade, making a big and lively scene, the Pacers' side has not made much movement, as the defending champions, the Pacers have not signed this year's two rookies, Tony Allen and Chris Duhon, there is no reinforcement at present.

After the end of last season, the Pacers still have contracts with Mutombo, Jeff Foster, Jermaine O'Neal, James Posey NN Hilario, Meng Xu, Tyshawn Prince, and then the Pacers and the two rookies selected this year, Tony Allen and Chris Duhon, signed a 4-year 4.88 million contract, and a 3-year 1.65 million contract with a team option, even so, the Pacers currently have only 9 players under contract. And with the retirement of veterans such as Reggie Miller, strengthening the No. 2 spot has become the biggest task for the Pacers this summer, but the Pacers are currently hitting a wall in the free market.

After the end of this season, there are not many big-name players who become free agents, several good players in the scoring guard position, Jamal Crawford, Quentin Richardson, Manu Ginobili are all restricted free agents, as long as the Pacers offer, there are people who will keep up with the price hike, the Pacers' current total salary of 9 players has exceeded $50 million, and they have to prepare for the renewal of Meng Xu, NN Hilario and Tyshawn Prince next year, So in the face of a contract of more than 10 million, Rick Carlisle had to give up his plan to continue to offer these players.

"Kenyon Martin joins the Denver Nuggets for 90 million in 7 years!"

"Rasheed Wallace's contract extension talks are deadlocked!"

"The Heat are looking to trade Eddie Jones."

Looking at the series of transaction information in the past few days, Meng Xu is also very confused, first in the draft, the Pacers used not very good signings to select Tony Allen and Chris Duhon, who should have been higher, and then Meng Xu's most worried opponent, the Mavericks disintegrated inexplicably, and then several of the Pacers' main opponents in the East, the Nets, the Heat, and the Pistons, all of which had various problems, and the Nets and Kenyon Martin's contract renewal negotiations were good. But all of a sudden, the Denver Nuggets hijacked Kenyon Martin with a bigger contract, although the Nuggets and the Nets finally reached a sign-and-pay agreement, but after losing Kenyon Martin, the Nets' competitiveness in the East plummeted.

After the Nets, the Pistons and the Heat also had problems one after another, first Rasheed Wallace, whose contract expired, wanted a bigger contract, and then Eddie Jones was revealed by the media to have a conflict with Dwyane Wade because of his position on the court.

"I guess it's all the lucky dice at work, right?" There is no way to explain things scientifically, it can only be attributed to character and luck, after Meng Xu used the lucky dice, there was a series of things that had nothing to do with the walkers, but were beneficial to the walkers, so in the face of these unexplainable things, Meng Xu could only think that all this was the effect of the lucky dice.

"By the way, I still have a dynasty point that is useless." After ten hours of training in the system space, Meng Xu, who had nothing to do, suddenly remembered that he still had a triple crown reward that he hadn't used.

"Dynasty points, the host leads the team to get the additional reward of the NBA three consecutive championships, after the dynasty points are used, the host can directly upgrade any energy saving below the S-level to an S-level skill."

opened his attribute panel, and then looked at his own skill list, Meng Xu currently has two S-level skills, and a lot of A-level and B-level skills, including offense, defense, and physical strength, so Meng Xu is also a little hesitant to use this dynasty point now, so he can maximize his ability growth.

"It's you." After watching it over and over again, Meng Xu finally chose the target to use Dynasty Points.

"Confirm the use of Dynasty Points?" Under the prompt of the system, Meng Xu clicked to confirm, and in the large list of skill names that appeared later, he selected the skill he was going to upgrade.

"Dynasty points have been used successfully, congratulations to the host for obtaining the S-level skill Meng Xu-style long-range throwing skill!"

Skill Name: Meng Xu's long-range throwing skill. (King of S-Class Long Pitching)

Skill level: LV7.

Skill effect: The most stable long-range shooting skill, after the skill takes effect, even if the host's main strength is exhausted, it can still ensure that the shooting action is not deformed, and the minimum 27% basic long-range shooting rate. After learning this skill at the same time, it will increase the host's long-range attribute by 10 points, the agility attribute by 10 points, and increase the host's ability to stay in the air by 10%, the ability to fight in the air by 10%, and the basic long-range shooting rate by 10%.

Additional Effect 1: When the host's team falls behind in the score, the host can choose to activate this state, which will increase the host's long-range shooting rate by 57% for a duration of 6 minutes. Status cooldown: 300min (playing time).

Additional Effect 2: Mr. Key, if the host's team is behind within 2 minutes before the end of the game or in overtime, this skill will increase the host's long-range shooting rate by 17%. If the host's team is within 3 points 10 seconds before the end of the game, this skill will directly increase the host's long-range shooting rate by 67%.

Skill Note: This shot is suitable for all outside shooting methods, including pull-out on the spot, pull-up jump shots, back-to-back jump shots, etc., as long as the host passes the midline, this skill can take effect.

"It doesn't look like a big improvement." Looking at Meng Xu's long-range investment after upgrading from A-level skills to S-level energy-saving, Meng Xu suddenly felt that he was losing?

"The gap between skills is sometimes not visible in the data, you just need to try it on the pitch." Seeing Meng Xu's lack of greed, Anna was speechless for a while.