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The Magic are now in the driver's seat, and they can easily match the Clippers' offers and easily follow up on other teams' increases, but that's not enough to prove that they really value O'Neal, and "enough" means to give a contract that surpasses Mourning's, and a real central position.

The Lakers, on the other hand, didn't think about O'Neal at all, and after a series of clearance sales, Jerry West suddenly found that they still had as much as $7 million in space after signing Mutombo.

It's not hard to understand that Lynch and Malik are not vegetables, they just don't fit the Lakers, and the team doesn't give them a chance to perform, but there are many teams that are willing to accept this kind of role players who are less than the best but more than the bottom, and West easily threw them out.

On the other hand, the Lakers have not signed new contracts with players whose contracts have expired such as Campbell, just as the Magic have not renewed their contracts with O'Neal, and these players whose contracts expire can leave at any time. But they are now waiting to see if any team offers a bigger contract than the original team, and second, to see if the original team still has its own place after the trade, or whether the strength is still worth their joining.

Jerry West has made up 7 million in space, but he still has no fate with a superstar like O'Neal, and this year the money is only enough to bring in an average All-Star.

This seems to underscore Van Exel's value, and if Van Axel is a free agent this year, he won't be able to get him for less than $5 million.

The price of the NBA skyrocketed overnight, in addition to making the teams feel unbearable, but also made the fans feel excited, but also gave rise to another problem - that is, the current NBA salary cap can no longer keep up with the soaring price rise, just like your salary can not keep up with the speed of price increases, the next labor negotiation will definitely be discussed.

Most teams don't have enough room to operate right now, which means they can't raise the salaries of role players, and the salary cap of more than 20 million has long been unable to keep up with the salary increase of players, and the league has to increase the salary cap to at least 30 million, but there are a bunch of conflicts of interest involved, which I believe is enough to make league officials, players' unions, and even the management head like a fight.

On July 8, Zhang Qian came to Kuala Lumpur, and the United States became more and more lively.

The American Dream Team returned to Disneyland in Orlando after a warm-up game against Greece today, where there is a brand new training facility. This time, things started to turn around as the Magic were still not very keen on making a higher offer, and the local media began to turn the finger at O'Neal.

The whole thing goes like this, and the Orlando Sentinel suddenly had a poll on its website: Do you think Shaquille O'Neal is worth 115 million?

The vote was embarrassing for O'Neal, as 90 percent of the people voted "no." At the same time, O'Neal's teammates on Team USA also saw all this in Orlando, which made the fat man even more embarrassed.

O'Neal quickly publicly expressed his displeasure with the Magic's move, telling reporters that the Magic had privately offered him 110 million, and they were still negotiating the offer yesterday, but in the evening the newspaper published a different number than he knew. In other words, the two sides did not agree on the price of 110 million yesterday, so the Magic told the media their bottom-line offer first, instead of telling O'Neal, and did not even discuss it with him, which made O'Neal feel insulted.

Some media also can't understand the operation of magic, and have expressed their puzzlement about this brain-dead behavior, what does magic mean?

If your bottom line is 115 million, then wouldn't it be over for O'Neal? Why do you want to expose yourself to the media first? Is it to tear your face? Or is it naïve to use public opinion to put pressure on O'Neill?

The Magic don't know what the hell they're up to, so let's get back to the West Coast......

O'Neal's stupidity was irritated by the stupidity of the Magic's management and the incessant criticism from local fans, so the fat man's agent directly promised the Clippers and other teams that there would still be hope of competing for him as long as someone could surpass Mourning's 105 million.

At this point, the Clippers certainly have the most advantage, because the other teams gave up too soon.

Those teams can't be blamed for this, who would have thought that the Magic team would be stupid, and who would have thought that Orlando fans would look down on O'Neal so much?

It stands to reason that O'Neal has the best chance of staying in Orlando, and only Lord Belle, who is about to be fired, has to follow up with O'Neal, but even he himself didn't expect things to take such a dramatic turn.

On July 10, the Chicago Bulls offered Michael Jordan a one-year, $30.4 million contract, and were the first to announce that they would miss O'Neal.

Jordan signed the largest one-year contract in NBA history this time, and the news shocked the entire NBA as soon as it was released, and it also made players on the free market even crazier, including O'Neal.

This year's summer market is really crazy, Mutombo is too upright, and he is still using the prices of previous years to measure his value, so he feels that 50 million is already a lot, how much Jordan takes, people should be content!

Even those who are still waiting to be sold may not have imagined that anyone will be able to get a terrible salary of 30 million a year.

O'Neal immediately felt that even 150 million was nothing, and that the next contract was the peak of his career, and he had to sell himself for a good price.

Now a lot of free agents are thinking like this, including Barkley is also starting to think about money, and the big contracts of Jordan and others have deeply stimulated these people.

At this time, we have to look at Pippen's cabbage price contract again, the second brother is also sad and indignant, and for a while Jing has the urge to go to Jordan's house to rob it, it is said that the horse face after hearing the "30 million" number, immediately unable to stand on his legs, almost fainted on the spot.

Poor Pippen will continue to be stimulated in the next few days, when on July 12, the Miami Heat announced the signing of Alonzo Mourning for seven years and 105 million, the NBA has its first player worth more than 100 million.

This contract has long been exposed, but when a real contract of 100 million yuan came out, even Jordan, who had just received 30 million, was a little calm.

Before Jordan got 30 million, his contract was only 3 or 4 million a year, and most stars were at this price. But overnight, this price is difficult to buy even a quasi-all-star like Van Exel, do you say the world is crazy?

Of course, Pippen is still among the worst, and he will only be paid more than $2 million a year for the next two seasons.

For example, Grant Hill is going to sign a new contract next year, and eighty percent of it is a big contract of nearly 100 million yuan.

So, we can imagine what kind of stimulation the second brother is suffering from in his heart.

Players in the NBA, like him and Fan Maniac, who have signed long-term contracts early on, have been stimulated by others in the past few seasons and will continue to endure in the future.

Back in the transfer market, the Lakers began to focus on negotiating with the Suns after getting Mutombo.

But compared to the very talkative Uncle Geng Zhimu, Barkley was a little uncertain, and his heart was stimulated by these big contracts.

The Suns are also currently on the verge of selling for the price, the Rockets are the Lakers' most dangerous opponents, and the Houstonians are equally sincere, with Olajuwon and Drexler personally lobbying Barkley and teaming up to paint an equally delicious pie for him.

Barkley is now most concerned about this matter, except for entanglement.

After all, the Rockets won two consecutive championships in 94 and 95, and although the Lakers seem to have unlimited potential, but with him in the next two years, will they be able to beat the Bulls?

This question is also common to the Rockets, but Barkley prefers the experienced Rockets two veterans, and he feels that after these two people add him, the team's combat power will be a little higher than if he joined the Lakers.

Barkley's thoughts are understandable, the Rockets' two-time championship bonus is too high, and as a veteran who has been in the league for many years, he knows very well that this kind of championship experience is difficult for Zhang to catch up with in a season or two. If Barkley is a few years younger, then he will definitely choose to go to the Lakers and wait for Zhang to grow up. But the problem is that his peak is about to pass, and what he needs is to win the championship next season, and he can't wait for Zhang Yu for a few more seasons.

Neither Zhang nor the Lakers know that there is another reason why Barkley is leaning towards the Rockets now, last season he saw the Lakers' weakness against the SuperSonics, and the SuperSonics later faced the Bulls in the same situation, which made Barkley no longer optimistic about the Lakers.

In Barkley's eyes, although the Lakers team has unlimited potential, they are too young, and the Lakers are not just beating the SuperSonics, they still have to win the Finals, but the Bulls are too strong, even if he can help the Lakers reach the Finals, there may still be little hope in the face of the Bulls.

But going to the Rockets is different, the Houstonians already have two giants, plus he is the Big Three, Barkley feels that only this kind of Big Three team can beat this powerful Bulls.

Of course, there is also a key factor, which is that the Suns are more satisfied with the Rockets' chips, and the Lakers are a lot more stingy, which makes the Lakers' prospects of getting Barkley more dangerous than the Magic getting O'Neal.

Some Lakers fans may think, wouldn't it be nice for Barkley to jump out of his contract?

But you know, he is not a complete free agent now, and in order to protect his interests, he will definitely choose to sign and trade, or directly transfer to another team through a trade, and wait until next season to sign a big contract.

Jerry West doesn't expect him to jump out of the contract and join the Lakers, because after signing Mutombo, they can't give Barkley a big contract of the same level, and 7 million can't meet Barkley after jumping out of the contract.

Therefore, they can only sign and trade, or trade directly, but they can't pay too much for it, and this contradiction makes the prospects of this deal very unoptimistic.

However, West is still firmly seated in the Diaoyutai Fishing Terrace, he has long expected that Barkley will not be so easy to get it, and he has never put all his eggs in the same basket.

The summer of 1996 was hailed as the strongest offseason in history, with the largest number of goods on the market in history, in addition to the record-breaking contracts that came out one after another. In contrast to the fact that it is difficult to find a replacement for Mutombo at the center position, the Lakers have a lot of options at the No. 4 position, so they are not willing to pay too much for a trade to come to Barkley.

Even if he really can't dig Barkley, West doesn't care at all, he still has a lot of backup plans, and the title of "Legendary Manager" is not just talking.

The Clippers also have a general manager who is not a vegetable, and Lord Baylor quickly raised the original offer to 120 million, which is the highest offer the Clippers can make, if Sterling hadn't seen the huge benefits generated by the Bulls after winning the championship, and the NBA's rising income in recent years, he would never have invested so much.

Businessmen, even if they are stingy, as long as they have money to make, they will not really be ineffective. When Sterling bought land, he was not small.

The Magic's response was a final offer of $115 million, and since Florida doesn't have to pay in-state personal income tax, O'Neal ended up earning more from his sleep than the Clippers.

O'Neal hesitated again, he wanted to talk again, but this time the owner of the Magic team was completely tired of being at O'Neal's mercy, so he told the Orlando Sentinel: "If he still wants another 1 million, they can go to the Clippers and ask for that money." ”

Of course, if the Clippers could answer, they would definitely say "no problem."

Finally, Lord Belle didn't have to be laid off, the opportunity he had been waiting for came.

O'Neal has always had a bad relationship with the Magic boss, which can be seen from the fact that the Magic first revealed the bottom line to the media and put pressure on O'Neal through the hands of fans.

Now that the Magic boss can't stand O'Neal's greed, he overturned the table first, and O'Neal naturally won't stay in Magic anymore.

On July 13, Baylor traveled to Atlanta with the Clippers' attorneys to await O'Neal's final answer.

In the evening, the group took a taxi to a hotel in the center of the city, in a luxurious suite, and the final negotiations were about to begin.

This kind of wait is the hardest, and Belle said that success or failure is a matter of success, and if O'Neill replies with a "no," he will jump directly from the hotel window and become another victim of room 1408.

Fortunately, for Baylor and the Clippers, O'Neal's answer was "yes."

The next day, the ecstatic Clippers announced the news at the Olympic Center, and for a moment the league shook again!

Baylor was ecstatic at the press conference, but the Magic got bad news, which means they didn't even get a sign-and-trade, and there will only be one Hardaway next season.

The Magic owner was completely furious, he was annoyed that O'Neal signed directly with the Clippers, and in a fit of anger, not only exposed O'Neal's series of negative sabotage behaviors in the team, as well as a lot of insider information, but also until the beginning of next season, the unwilling Magic still did not give up, and they asked a lawyer in Cleveland to investigate the deal because they suspected that the Clippers had bribed O'Neal.

That's it, in less than a month, the Clippers got O'Neal and Kobe. Although Kobe Bryant was not in people's eyes at this time, and the Clippers' strength on paper was far inferior to last season's Magic, as long as O'Neal was there, the Clippers were at least a playoff powerhouse.

The Los Angeles press is even more excited because next season's Los Angeles derby is going to be good!

Everyone knows that the grudge between Zhang Qi and O'Neill is not far from "not sharing the sky", O'Neill was first almost broken by Zhang Fu's vitality, and then he has been complained about by the handsome man. Not long ago, the scene when O'Neal lost 300,000 will often appear in the after-dinner conversations of fans.

"As I said, he can be so arrogant because I'm in the east. Now, I'm here, hoping that he will wash his ass sooner and wait for Uncle Shaquille's pampering! ”

This is what O'Neal said at the press conference, and he will definitely not be able to run away if he is fined afterwards, but for the big shark who has just signed the largest contract in history, tens of thousands of dollars are really a sprinkle of water.

On July 14, the Houston Rockets renewed the contract with Hakim Olajuwon for five years and $60 million.

ESPN spoke highly of the extension, and as one of the greatest players in NBA history, Olajuwon signed the biggest and final contract of his career despite the decline in the 1996 playoffs, which was a win-win situation for both the Rockets and the Dream.

On the same day, the Miami Heat signed Juwan Howard for seven years and $98 million, and the league gave birth to a big order of nearly 100 million yuan, which is really crazy this summer!

This time, ESPN only gave the signing a B-, and Howard was only a third-year player who had only been selected as an All-Star once in his career, and no one in their right mind would have predicted this contract. Although the partnership of Howard and Mourning is considered a super terrible frontcourt combination, looking at Mutombo's contract and Howard's lack of excellent defense, he is obviously not worth 100 million, and it can only be said that this guy has caught up with the craziest season of the NBA's skyrocketing wages.

But there's a problem, the Heat's contract is quite controversial, they just gave Mourning a huge contract, and then they want to sign PJ Brown and Juwan Howard at the same time, and then sign Tim Hardaway with birding. But Riley couldn't have reached a deal with Hardaway first. As a result, he had to add some sweetness to Hardaway's contract.

There are a lot of problems here, and Riley's failure to list all of the performance bonuses for Brown and Hardaway in particular in the documents sent to the league gives Washingtonians an excuse to have a seizure......

On July 15, the Portland Trail Blazers signed Kenny Anderson for seven years and 50 million; Orlando Magic to re-sign Hores Grant to five-year, $50 million; The Atlanta Hawks have signed Steve Smith to a seven-year, $50.4 million extension.

Although no 100 million yuan contracts were born on this day, the league gave birth to three big contracts that were enough to cause a sensation in the whole league in previous years. But under the stimulation of the previous three contracts of 100 million yuan, the number of "50 million" can no longer shock the fans.

Mutombo finally understood at this time why Falke told him not to rush to sign a contract with the Lakers, and he really had less feelings. If even that Grant can get a 50 million contract, it shouldn't be too much for him to get a 60 million contract, right?

Jerry West was secretly lucky, and although he guessed that this summer would be crazy, he didn't expect so many super contracts to be born all at once.

It's only been a few days, and at this time of year, the big names are still waiting, but this year has produced a series of game-shaking deals that will shake the league, involving one future Hall of Famer and the team's leading players.

Now it seems that if Mutombo really drags on with the Lakers for half a month, and finally does not give him a contract of 60 million, he really can't sign the former best defensive player.

On July 16, the Seattle SuperSonics signed Gary Payton to a seven-year, 85 million extension.

Mr. "The Glove" is obviously much smarter, and he listened to an offer from Miami Pat Riley before renewing his contract with Seattle.

The Heat adopted a two-pronged strategy at the time, negotiating with Howard on the one hand and Peyton on the other, and the calculation was that whoever agreed first between the two would quickly get the contract.

Payton is smart, but he still has a deep affection for Seattle, and he's the heart of the team here, the big man on the team. Once he goes to the Heat, Mo Ning is the boss. Besides, the SuperSonics reached the finals last season, and being able to win two games in a row after falling behind 0:3 also proves their strength. The Heat's Mourning is no better than Kemp, so when the SuperSonics offered an 85 million contract extension, he still chose to stay in Seattle.

On July 17, the Miami Heat re-signed Tim Hardaway for four years and 17.7 million, and the Lakers are actually bidding for the "bugs", and it is a higher four-year 18.6 million. Unfortunately, their offer was too low-key, and Hardaway felt that the Lakers already had Van Exel, and it was unlikely that he would be given a main position, so he finally chose to stay with the Heat to assist Mourning and Howard.

Jerry West secretly sighed that he would make this offer because the Bullets wanted to trade Rashid Wallace + next year's second-round pick for Van Exel.

The Lakers' negotiations with the Suns are now at an impasse, and West is ready to start his Plan B, Plan C...... Rasheed Wallace is one of his candidates, and the sophomore has the right style of play for Mutombo, but if they want to trade Van Exel, they will have to find a replacement for Van Axel.

In West's eyes, Fisher is not yet able to assume the position of the Lakers' main control, but "Little Fish" Tim Hardaway is a good fit for the Lakers, but now that he has renewed his contract with the Heat, the Lakers cannot easily trade with the Bullets.

The Washingtonians have been very positive, and both Mark Price and Brent Price did not perform well as point guards last season, so they wanted to trade Rasheed Wallace, who looked a little redundant, for the cost-effective Van Exel. (The Bullets already have Chris Webb and the most improved player George Muresan on the inside, and Wallace is indeed redundant now)

Teams in the NBA are looking for ways to cast a net in the free market after July to strengthen themselves. Dragonborn also had a big move on the 18th - they acquired Westwood, a game software company that was about to burp. Studios.

The company launched Dune Castle in 1993, the first real-time strategy game on a computer and would have a profound influence on the genre, establishing it as an important place in the history of gaming.

However, Westwood Studios didn't know that many of the backbones who were supposed to be involved in the production of Red Alert, the long list of names that should have appeared on the production list, half of which made it to the Dragonborn Company in the midst of countless forks in history.

These people who changed the original trajectory also indirectly changed the production process of "Red Alert......

The game that Westwood Studios worked so hard to develop was supposed to be released in October this year, but now it has not even completed half of the progress, and after the studio has invested a huge amount of money, it has reaped one after another difficult troubles, and the development progress is very unsmooth.

What's worse is that the "Frost Studios" of the Dragonborn Company are also said to be developing a real-time strategy game called "Green Alert". This made many investors quickly lose confidence in the problematic Westwood Studio after hearing the news, and they withdrew their funds one after another.

Westwood Studio had no source of funds in April, and barely survived until July, and even the salaries of its employees could not be paid.

Now, they don't have anything but that half-finished game.

Dragonborn's newly established "Frost Studios" is mainly responsible for developing strategy games, but they don't have a strategy game similar to "Red Alert", and "Green Alert" certainly doesn't exist. The studio's two directors, Jeff Goodman and Bruce Shelley, decided that instead of starting from scratch, Frost Studios would find a way to acquire Westwood Studios, which specializes in the field.

So, after learning that the situation of Westwood Studio was not good, the Dragonborn Company began to release a steady stream of fake news, and even fake "Green Alert" promotional materials were exposed, and the means can be described as very vicious!

Jeff Goodman has worked on Blizzard's Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft franchises, so it's easy for him to get his hands on something that doesn't look like it.

But in fact, "Frost Studios" is mainly developing an engine specifically for the development of strategy games at this stage, and the specific project is still in the research stage.

Now that they have succeeded in getting the Westwood Studios, the "project" is naturally there, relying on the strong technical research and development capabilities of the Dragonborn Company and sufficient funding, the development of "Red Alert" will be much smoother than before, and there will be no problem at all when it is released at the end of the year.

Zhang has already made it to Tokyo, which is a stop he has decided on the fly, and Canon wants him to join Japanese idol stars Noriko Sakai and Yuki Uchida at their new product launch.

In this era, it is impossible for Zhang to refuse endorsements from Japanese and Korean companies, because Chinese companies will not be able to pay him millions of dollars in endorsement fees. Even Hong Kong and Taiwanese companies can't afford it, after all, signing such an expensive spokesperson must be a product for the world. Except for the top 500 giants, most of the company's products do not have such an impact.

But Zhang Zhu has never given much face to Japanese companies, although Little Japan is most willing to spend money on him, Zhang Zhu still seems very reluctant to even go to Japan, in a word - the wrist is big!

This time, if it weren't for the fact that there were two Japanese girls with a pop rate of more than 50% on the system, they would accompany her to attend the event, plus Miss Naomi had worked in Japan for a while, and Sister Kobayashi wanted to go shopping in Tokyo, so he wouldn't have added a Japanese station temporarily.

But even if he was seduced by beauty, he was tired of this kind of business trip after half a month of travel, and now he just wanted to return to the United States as soon as possible to start his summer training.

On the U.S. side, as the Olympics approach, players in the free agency market are starting to want to find their place as soon as possible, and the signing news is increasing every day.

The Lakers also mixed in the middle, quietly signing Jeromy Corsey, who couldn't find a place with the Warriors last season, with a base salary of $260,000.

Jeromy Corsi was a two-way forward in the league three years ago, finishing runner-up in the slam dunk contest that year, behind Michael Jordan.

Lakers fans still have a deep impression of him, Jeromy's peak was spent with the Trail Blazers, in 1990 and 1992, the Trail Blazers reached the Finals twice in three years, and Jeromy's performance in the playoffs was always better than the regular season, becoming a well-deserved Mr. Trail Blazers playoffs.

However, as Robinson matured and his own injuries affected, Jeromy's starting position was gradually replaced, and his playing time was gradually shrinking. Last season, Jeromy's position on the team was in jeopardy, and he was eventually traded to the Warriors as the Trail Blazers hoarded many forward players and the atmosphere on the team became increasingly discordant.

However, Jeromy couldn't find a place with the Warriors and was swept away again this year and is currently unemployed.

The Lakers are very fond of this kind of player with Finals experience, and Jeromy's better performance in the playoffs also proves that he is a big-stage player, and it is more than enough to serve as Zhang Zhu's backup, and it is a very good deal to sign such a veteran for $260,000.

At the same time, the Suns still did not let go, insisting on Van Exel + Ceballos + Campbell to exchange for Barkley + Nash, and none of these three could be missing.

Jerry West thinks that those guys are not in a hurry at all, maybe they want the Lakers and Rockets to form a vicious competition so that they can profit from it.

This abacus played so well that West said "Lao Tzu doesn't play anymore".

There's no way the Lakers would accept such a trade, trading three of last season's mainstays for a point guard who doesn't know how long he can last and a point guard who is hard to play.

That's right, the Lakers don't look down on Nash at all.

Isn't it a joke that a white Canadian rookie with no defensive ability can be the main point guard of a team that aspires to win a championship?

If Zhang Qian knew that the Lakers let Nash be the team's main point guard, he would definitely be so angry that he would fly back directly from Asia, he would not be able to accept this kind of trade, and West would not be so brain-dead.

Time is running out now, the Lakers can no longer be entangled with the Suns, it's time to adopt Plan B, Plan C, or even Plan D, otherwise when the players in these plans are robbed by other teams, the Lakers can only continue to use Campbell.

Jerry West found the team's head coach Harris on the night of the 16th, and the two had to discuss carefully, what kind of interior player do the Lakers need now?

First of all, Plan B -

The Knicks, for their part, put Anthony Mason Jr. on the shelf, or rather, Van Gundy, who had just been promoted from interim head coach to head coach of the New York Knicks, no longer saw Anthony Jr. as the one who willingly fit into the Patrick Ewing-centric strategy.

Anthony Mason Jr. is a very versatile power forward, who had enough of rolling eyes in training camp and traveled around the world before meeting "Bole" Riley, becoming one of the Knicks' fighters with his kung fu and becoming the league's best sixth man.

Don't look at Mason's appearance of five big and three thick, he is actually one of the most comprehensive power forwards in the NBA, he can defend Olajuwon on the defensive end, and he also surpasses Campbell's strength on the offensive end, coupled with his high-level organizational ability, he definitely has star potential.

But in the Knicks, Anthony Jr. can only play by Ewing's side and play the sixth man, which makes Anthony Jr., who has already shown his strength, no longer willing to be a green leaf for Ewing.

But his contract has not expired, so he can only apply to the team to trade him.

The Knicks are well aware that the Lakers must have secretly reached out to Anthony Jr. because this guy wants to go to the Lakers.

The Lakers could easily seduce Anthony Jr., and although they had Zhang Zhu as a cornerstone, there was only one Mutombo on the inside, and this was a defensive center.

Anthony Jr. is an all-round interior player who can attack, defend and respond, although he has not reached the extreme of any of the three, but with Zhang Yu at the front, he can do better than last season's Magic.

Yes, the Lakers promised him the positioning of last season's Magic, the two are very similar in size and technical style (referring to last year's Magic), but his athleticism is much better than the old Magic, so Anthony Jr. has the confidence to serve as the Lakers' interior core and is confident to do better than the Magic.

That's what Anthony Jr. thinks in his heart, last season the Lakers relied on the old Magic and Camp to play the interior to reach the Western Conference finals, and now he is partnered with Mutombo, the strength of the Lakers' interior line is not the same as last season, and this year is definitely qualified to compete with the Bulls.

And his partnership with Mutombo is completely different from that with Ewing. In the Lakers, he can fully unleash his all-around, and he doesn't have to wipe Ewing's ass like he did in the Knicks, and Mutombo will make up for him instead, which is really beautiful to think about!

Both Harris and West feel that Anthony Jr. is more comfortable with the Lakers than Barkley, but the problem is that he needs to mess with the Knicks on his own. Who told him that he still has two years on his contract, and if the Knicks don't release him, then the Lakers can't do anything.

Plan C –

The Washington Bullets are still peddling Rasheed Wallace to their excess, and they've been thinking about the Lakers' Van Exel.

Harris believes that Rashid Wallace is a player similar to Garnett, of course, a little less athletic, but more technically mature, and can be regarded as an all-round enhanced version of Campbell, and the potential is much higher.

The deal could be done at any time with West's nod, as Wallace is redundant to the Bullets, while Van Exel can make up for the Bullets' flaws.

But the question is, where do the Lakers go to find a replacement after trading Van Exel?

Jerry West selected Fisher because there was a part of the idea of replacing Van Exel, but Fisher's talent was too mediocre and it was difficult to be the main point guard of the championship team.

So, if they go with Plan C, they will lose a qualified point guard while getting a qualified No. 4 position, which is a bit more than worth the loss.

Plan D –

The Charlotte Hornets also put Larry Johnson on the shelf, and "Big Mom's" 12-year, $84 million contract was the reason why Charlotte had to trade Mourning to Miami the previous fall. This time the Hornets are sending Larry Johnson away because his performance has been severely slumped in the previous season.

Larry Johnson still had 20+8+4 stats last season, but the Hornets saw that he was about to finish, so they took advantage of the fact that Larry Johnson's stats were still tempting last season and hurriedly sent him away.

This is the same as the Lakers also saw that Sebaros was about to decline, and the Lakers also wanted to take advantage of the fact that Sebaros's data was still good, and to fool a wave of grievances. However, Jerry West is not easy to deceive, and he also has doubts about Larry Johnson, so he only lists him in Plan D, otherwise "Big Mom" is too suitable for the current Lakers.

In addition, Jerry West has another additional plan, but this requires Zhang Mao's help......

Well, this additional plan is not a secret, Jason Kidd, who is participating in the Olympics in Atlanta, has shown favor to the Lakers more than once in the past two months, and is full of praise for Zhang Fu, so he was nicknamed "Koala Baby" by some media The "little fan brother", and he also took out the extremely shy face he was when he watched Zhang Zhu's dunk in the dunk contest, and the gay expression in gay sarcastically mocked him for having tendencies.

The Mavericks have put Kidd on the shelves in the summer, and the reason is, of course, that Kidd now has a very serious tumor attribute.

Kidd has always been unhappy with the way the Mavericks management handled the 3J issue last year, and the team's record is getting worse and worse, the local media began to throw the pot at him, and fans also criticized his cheating father's offensive ability, so Kidd himself wanted to leave Dallas and play in a different place.

In this kind of situation, one side does not want to stay, and the other side wants to leave, the Lakers do not need to pay too much for a comeback, and only need to use a Van Exel, or Cebaros, which is enough to trade Kidd, who is in Los Angeles at the moment.

These two players of the Lakers are certainly not as good as Kidd, but their contracts are very good value for money, and although the Mavericks are losing money, it is better than leaving a cancer behind.

What's more, Kidd's contract will expire next year, and if he leaves by then, the calves won't even get hair, so how to choose still need to be considered.