In the 76ers' general manager's office, Brown looked gloomily at Billy King sitting in the boss's chair, who had an innocent smile on his face. The reason for the boss's bad mood is simple, and when he made it clear that he wanted the team to start negotiations with the Hawks on Mutombo first, King did not hesitate to refuse.

In fact, it can't be regarded as a refusal, King still attaches great importance to Brown's opinion, but he didn't put the trade Mutombo in the first order, and his target is Maddie. If Chang Wei knew his thoughts, he would definitely sigh at the inertia of history, in his previous life, Kim almost traded Hughes for Maddie, who was still playing as a substitute for Carter in the Raptors, and finally the deal ran aground because the Raptors regretted it. Unexpectedly, Kim is still infatuated with Maddie, this Nima is simply in love!

Although King promised to open talks about trading Mutombo as soon as possible, Brown was still upset, and he blew his beard and glared, "Then tell me, if the Raptors and Hawks want the same player, what do you do?" ”

Jin was stunned for a moment and thought: That must be the priority trade for Maddie! But he thought so in his heart, but he didn't dare to say so, the old handsome's face still had to be considered. Jin pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "I'll communicate with the general managers of the Raptors and Hawks respectively to see what price they offer, and then discuss it with you, do you think this is okay?" ”

Brown sighed, he could see that Kim had made up his mind to get Maddie, it seemed that this was already his bottom line. He nodded casually and said, "That's it, then I'll wait for your news." After saying that, Brown left in a huff, looking at his departing back, Kim smiled helplessly, picked up the microphone, and dialed a number.

"Hello Isaiah, I'm Billy, I think you have a player on your team who would be a good fit for us, so I wanted to ask if we can make a deal between the two teams...... Well, I want Tracy ......"

Before Kim could continue, Isaiah Thomas, the general manager of the Raptors on the other end of the phone, interrupted him: "I'm sorry, Tracy is not for sale, do you think our budding team will sell core players?" ”

Kim frowned, "But don't you still have Vince?" I think he can be your cornerstone too. ”

"No, no, Billy, if you say you want Vince, I can think about it a little bit and make you an offer, but if you want Tracy, then I can only say I'm sorry, we won't trade him."

For the next half hour or so, King's dry mouth didn't make Thomas relax. In the previous life, the two teams almost reached a deal on the premise that Maddy was not too used in the Raptors, playing his cousin Carter off the bench, and the statistics were about the same as Hughes. But now that Maddie has been trained by Chang Wei, he has the momentum of the league's new generation of small forwards, and the Raptors will naturally not let go, let alone Hughes, even if the 76ers take out Iverson, they need to think about it.

Of course, in his previous life, Maddie joined the Magic to get a higher status and salary, and secondly, his rookie contract had expired, so he was directly poached. But now because of the appearance of Chang Wei, Maddie has stubbornly postponed joining the NBA for a year, and now he is still under his rookie contract, and any team that wants him to pass the Raptors management level.

After hanging up, Kim rubbed his face tiredly, he knew that Thomas had said it to death, which also meant that Maddie had no fate with the 76ers. He took a sip to moisten his throat, then picked up the microphone and dialed again, this time to the eagle. In fact, Kim didn't have much hope, Mutombo is still the Hawks' interior barrier, he doesn't believe the other side will let go, and is likely to position him as a non-sale for the team like the Raptors.

But Kim soon found out that he was wrong, and the Hawks wanted to reshuffle the cards, and they were open to trading Mutombo. In fact, they can't do anything if they don't shuffle, the Hawks only had a poor 28-54 record last season, and only one of the team's 19.3 points per game Ryder can make a move, so it is better to start rebuilding with young players such as Terry.

After some verbal debate, the two sides initially reached a framework for the deal, the 76ers took out Ratlleaf, Kukoc, Mohammed and Sanchez, and the Hawks took out Mutombo and Michaeld.

Kim immediately called Brown and told him the news. Brown was also surprised, he didn't expect the two sides to hit it off, and such a price was acceptable to him. However, Brown suddenly decided to listen to Chang Wei's opinion first, after all, Mutombo was his proposed candidate, and he also needed to know the progress of the deal.

Thinking of this, Brown said directly to Kim on the phone: "I don't have any opinions on my side in principle, but I plan to discuss it with my team again to see if we can further reduce our costs." Jin Manchu promised that any professional manager must have a sense of taking advantage, and if he can get the highest return at the lowest cost, it would be great.

After receiving Brown's notice, Chang Wei hurried to the office. Brown casually placed a note in front of him and motioned for him to take a good look at it. The content of the note was simple, it was the content of the initial trade between the 76ers and the Hawks, and Chang Wei had no problem with this, but he still said: "Do you want the other party to get another second-round pick or a 2003 first-round pick?" If we can get the first round in 2003, we can pay for the No. 20 pick this year. ”

Brown asked, confused, "Why did you specify a 2003 first-round pick?" ”

Chang Wei smiled and said: "I still know a little about high school players, and 2003 will be a big year for drafts. So if the Eagles had a 2003 first-round pick, I think we could get it early. ”

Chang Wei's reason was not very sufficient, but Brown didn't ask much, he directly picked up the phone and conveyed his opinion to Kim, who called the Eagles again. Unfortunately, the Hawks were not willing to give up the 2003 first-rounder, to be precise, they wanted to hold on to the first-round pick in the past few years, and instead gave a 40th pick in the second round this year.

Once both sides have confirmed, the deal will be settled, and it will only be necessary to wait until the doors of the transfer market open to submit the deal to the league. Although there is a possibility that the alliance will meddle in major transactions, in Chang Wei's opinion, you didn't interfere in your previous life, and now you won't be crooked about this transaction, right?