Chapter 214: The Great Event (Part II)
The second part is about Bosh:
Anyone watching the stream should have the impression that about 7-8 minutes before the end of the game, a desperate James showed an emotional breakdown at the end of the bench, when Haslem kept reassuring him to no avail, after all, the chance of a three-in-a-row may only be once in his career.
But according to the media's recent **, when he entered the Heat locker room after the game, the players did not show the expected sluggish sadness, some were joking lightly, and even felt complacent about being part of the team to reach the finals three times in a row. Although the inside information does not directly say who it is, except for the big 3 who have been in the team for 4 years, it is Spo, Team Ha, Chalmers and Jones. Excluding the iron-blooded Wade and the Harry team, as well as LeBron's loyal dogleg James Jones, then Spo, Chalmers and? One or more of the Boshs, LeBron, who was gloomy in the corner at this moment, must have written down the names of these people in his notebook.
Here's a look at James' 3 pieces of news about Bosh before and after his July decision:
July 2 ESPN: Wade and Bosh don't know what James is thinking?
July 12 Spoogh: After James left, Bosh was the first to call us back
July 14th? Bosh: Be ready to take responsibility and lead the team
Bosh knew that James wanted to mess with himself, but he was somewhat unconvinced, so he simply pretended to be stupid, anyway, he could afford to wait for the spare tire of the rocket, he didn't think about the rocket from beginning to end, and as for almost leaving the Heat or something, it was just a gesture.
Bosh calculated that Anthony would not consider the Heat even if there was room for him after James left, because if the chances of winning the championship were also not high, it would be better to get the highest salary in his hometown and not have to bear the blame from the New York media. As soon as James made his decision, Bosh called Riley and Spo as soon as possible, because he knew that he had already taken the lead at this time, and the Heat could only keep him by offering at least the same chips as the Rockets. After that, he was a 5-year contract, and he became the team's top boss and won the reputation of "loyalty".
Although it seems to be a conspiracy theory, few people can truly understand why James chose to leave the Heat when the outside media blames James for not being able to face failure.
In addition to James' decision 2 and Bosh's five-year $118 million contract extension with the Heat, the league broke out a series of trades on the same day. The first is the Kings, who sent the growing Isaiah Thomas to the Suns in order to save salary space, and the price offered by the Suns was just a $720 trade exception.
Then the Rockets sent Jeremy Lin to the Lakers, and along with Jeremy Lin, he was sent to the Lakers with a 2015 draft pick, and the Lakers only paid for the signing rights of an overseas rookie and some cash in addition to taking over Jeremy Lin's poison contract.
Subsequently, the old Flying Man Carter announced that he had signed a three-year 1200 contract with the Grizzlies, which should also be Carter's last non-veteran contract, Carter chose the Grizzlies, which made Ye Xuan a little disappointed, originally he thought that the Pacers had a chance to sign Carter with a base salary, after all, Carter is now very eager for a championship ring.
These deals and signings are just what happened on July 12th. In the following period, the league had a number of transactions and signings, which completely changed the landscape of the league.
On July 13, the Bulls agreed to a multi-year contract with full free agent Pau Gasol, and then the Spanish Tower announced through his personal Twitter that his next stop would be Chicago, after Gasol had rejected two contract extensions offered by the Lakers (2 years 23 million and 3 years 29 million dollars). Eventually, Gasol signed a three-year, 2200 contract with the Bulls.
The Jazz have since officially notified the Hornets that they have decided to match restricted free agent Gordon Hayward to a four-year, $63 million offer to keep Hayward in Utah. And New York is not willing to be lonely, and directly offered Anthony a super-large contract extension, a five-year sky-high contract of 124 million plus a transaction veto, which allows Anthony to sit back and relax in New York.
But these have nothing to do with Ye Xuan, after going to watch the World Cup finals with Shen Wei, Ye Xuan returned to Indiana and began to train some skills or something. Originally, Ye Xuan went to the Chinese national team to report, but because the Chinese team did not qualify for this year's Men's Basketball World Cup (formerly known as the World Championships), Ye Xuan did not return to China to train with the national team.
On the contrary, it is Pickled Pepper, after getting the call of the national team, it seems very excited, although it has won the championship, but it is still very hard, the same as Ye Xuan, Pickled Pepper took his girlfriend out for a trip after celebrating the finals, and soon returned to Indiana, and then began to resume training.
It just so happened that Ye Xuan was also back at this time, so Pickle Pepper grabbed Ye Xuan and started training in the past two days, and Ye Xuan was also happy to have someone to accompany him to practice some new moves, especially the layup that Ye Xuan drawn, it was not easy to practice at all when no one was defending, so the two got together and immediately trained again.
The outside media found out that the two main players of this year's championship were still training, and they immediately sighed again, saying that the Pacers have both talent and hard work, and the combination of the two swords can dominate the league for at least 4 or 5 years. But at this time, suddenly there was not very good news.
On July 16, the Hornets officially announced that they had launched an offer to Lance Stephenson for a three-year, $27.5 million contract, and the Pacers were not ready to renew Stephenson's contract, because after all, there was still a certain contradiction between Lance and Coach Frank, so the Pacers did not choose to match this contract.
In this way, the Pacers lost their outside defense gate last year, but fortunately, in terms of the performance of the Finals, the Pacers defense is also very good without Stephenson, and Solomon Hill is gradually growing, it is estimated that he will be promoted as a starter next season. And last season, the Pacers' outside line was already well-staffed, so after Stephenson left, there would be no big mistakes on the Pacers' outside line.