The NBA has strict rules on its own timetable, and no team is allowed to interact with players from other teams until July 1 or face heavy penalties from the league.

But this rule can't trap those who really have energy, and just as James blocked Cleveland's calls, texts, and emails, Pat Riley, who was far away in Miami, was secretly happy.

No one in the league today has the same insight into what is going on between James and the Cavaliers, with his eyes and spies everywhere, including his star Wade. Wade has been telling Riley for the past two years that the Heat are more than capable of pulling LeBron James to Miami.

Of course, this alliance is not only Riley alone with energy, but not everyone has their eyes on the little emperor. There are so many stories that can happen in this crazy summer.

On June 14, the New York Times began to tear down the Cavaliers, and Da Saby wrote in the report: From the beginning of this league to the present, no one has ever been able to win the championship on their own, and the two dynastic teams in the 21st century, the OK group, the GDP group, and now the Celtics and Lakers, they have more than one star on the team.

If James wants to win the championship, he must first form his own empire, and he needs a new knight order to protect him to the throne. But if the order can't be formed, he may have to take the initiative to find his other half.

It's a bewilderment that belongs to LeBron, and he needs to wait, wait for a great Royal Knights to be built, for God to give him a few more players like the young Big Z. But the problem is that he doesn't know how long to wait, Jordan waited for Pippen in his fifth season, but what about James?

Jordan only reached the Finals in his 7th season, James reached the Finals in his 4th season, and if you look at it from this point, James has surpassed Jordan.

But Jordan won the championship in his first Finals. James' first Finals was swept away.

The days and months passed, and James was in his seventh year in the blink of an eye, but this time he couldn't even make it to the Finals, and he fell in the same position as the rookie champion of the Knicks. In a sense, James is more like another superstar, O'Neal, who made it to the Finals in his third season. But it took him 10 years to win the title.

Both Jordan and O'Neal are waiting, waiting for their own maturity, waiting for the right group of teammates.

But "waiting" may or may not come, and James may or may not be able to create his own era, perhaps he has to be more proactive.

Pippen told the press on the day he retired that Jordan couldn't have won so many championships without him. Regardless of whether this is true or not, we only know that the current James does not have a teammate like Pippen or Kobe, and he cannot build a dynasty alone. James needed a real helper, but that man wasn't in Cleveland.

Emperor Wu smiled when he saw Da Sabi's report, and then was a little surprised to find that before July 1 came, there were people who couldn't wait to be loyal to the Knicks.

"Street Ball King" Ralph Alston was interviewed after the season and bluntly stated that he was looking forward to joining the New York Knicks.

The Knicks do need a backup point guard next season, and Dujon, who was paid $5 million last season, is under contract this season. The Knicks won't re-sign him, and they don't need a backup point guard with a salary of more than $2 million.

Ralph Alston is ready to take on the role. Alstom, who played alongside Yao Ming with the Houston Rockets, played for the New Jersey Nets and Miami Heat last season, averaging 8.2 points and 3.4 assists per game.

He said in an interview that he hopes to play for his hometown team next season. "I'm a free agent and I want to play for the Knicks," Alston said.

Alstom is from Queens, New York. The streetball legend turns 34 in July, while the Knicks only have five players under contract for next season, so they are really short of players at the playmaking guard position.

The streetball king apparently knew about this, and he suggested himself: "The Knicks need a playmaker, and I'm a New York kid." I hope I can be their choice, and I'll get my agent on the phone with them to see what happens. ”

The salary cap for the NBA2010-2011 season will reach $58 million, and the Knicks now only have Wu Huang, Iguodala, Danny Green, Danilo Gallinari, and Channing Frye under contract, and Eddie Curry has been bought out by the Knicks with a clause, and now the Knicks have about $38 million in salary space, enough to sign two All-Star players. Then, they could also sign a great sixth man with the mid-range, and many are waiting with their necks on their backs to see how the Knicks will function after July 1.

After watching the finals with his boss and exchanging the team's building policy for next season, Wu Huang continued to spend time in boring training and happy flirting, but during this time he also added a temporary program, and he would spare half an hour in the evening to call and tease the free agent this summer.

There are really a lot of big fish this summer, not to mention the big names such as James, Wade, Bosh, and Xiaosi; Nowitzki certainly won't leave the Mavericks; The same goes for Pierce and Ray Allen; Mike Reed and Joe Johnson Knicks are not interested; Rudy Gay is good, but they already have Gallinari; Boozer is good, but not necessarily better than Xiaosi.

In this way, it seems that there are many big-name players, but after filtering, only Tyson Chandler is more suitable for the Knicks.

Wu Huang is optimistic about Tyson Chandler's defensive ability, but he has an injury concern, and his form has declined due to injuries at the Hornets, and he himself prefers to complete the final year of his contract.

The Knicks can now offer Chandler a five-year, $60 million contract at most, but he will definitely not accept it, but now Chandler is worth the price, and no team in the league will offer him a higher contract than this, which is a bit like what David Lee encountered last season.

In addition to paying attention to the big fish in the summer, the upcoming "draft meeting" is also a big cake that everyone is staring at. Many teams are fantasizing that they will be as lucky as the Knicks, signing a rookie like Wu Huang to immediately improve the team's combat effectiveness, including the Knicks themselves are still dreaming of this.

The Knicks only have two second-round picks this year. It's fanciful to still have this kind of thought. However, the annual NBA draft is a time when trades are common, and teams tend to set off a first-round trade wave at this time, and many operations, including draft picks, will appear.

Based on the rumors gathered so far, multiple teams are interested in trading for more draft picks, or trading up for higher picks.

The Knicks, for example, are willing to trade David Lee with two second-round picks for a top-5 pick. And the Mavericks, who are always peddling the Marion + draft picks package. Teams like the Timberwolves and Jazz are looking to move their picks up...... It is believed that there will be a fair number of trades in this draft.

Lee's contract has expired. But just like the Suns, who can't keep Xiao Si, everyone wants to sign first and trade to minimize losses, and players can also increase their wages in the final year of their contracts by signing and trading.

Of course, the Knicks will definitely not pay too much for the Sgts, D'Antoni will lose a second-round pick to the Suns at most, and then let them automatically get a trade exception worth 16 million, which is considered benevolent, otherwise once Stoudemire jumps out of the contract and joins the Knicks as a free agent, the Suns will not even get such a little thing.

There are quite a few teams interested in David Lee at the moment — the Warriors, Rockets, Spurs, Bulls and even the Cavaliers, who are out of touch with James, are also interested in taking a kick. I just don't know if James will choose to join the Heat immediately after hearing the news?

His boss has always said that he wants to help James recruit excellent helpers, but every time he makes a move, he picks what is left, so it's no wonder that James can't bear it.

The Knicks are now mainly negotiating a trade with the Warriors, but they have encountered some problems, not that the Warriors' bid is too low, but that David Lee does not like the current Warriors team, and he wants to go to a team that can play in the playoffs, such as the Spurs.

This is unreasonable. Bastards are still picky!

After Emperor Wu learned the news, he really wanted to call David Lee's girlfriend immediately. He now regrets that he didn't fall in love with that woman in the first place, and now he doesn't know if it's too late?

He regretted it at this time, naturally it was too late, David Lee, who was destined to leave this summer, rarely contacted him again, and the relationship between the two was incompatible with each other since the "robbery of the sister-in-law's door". David Li is always worried about his sister-in-law being snapped by Emperor Wu on weekdays.

It's not an easy task for an NBA team to make a deal. Especially when it comes to a large transaction involving more than 10 million yuan, it must be that the seller has a high price and the buyer gives a low price, and the two sides have repeatedly disputed for countless rounds to have a bit of an eyebrow, and a lot of ruffling and bargaining are inevitable.

Besides. It's even more complicated for the two teams to get their players to agree to the deal, with months of bickering each year only to fall through over a seemingly unimportant detail.

Wu Huang only wanted to know what the team was doing, he didn't have the energy to participate in these troublesome things, there were many things in the operation of the team that he could not participate in, and he just wanted a right to know, and some veto rights on some transactions that he was not happy with.

But this kind of transaction veto, Wu Huang will not use it when it is not necessary, no matter how strong the player is, it is better to keep a low profile, if he wants to make a move, it will definitely be the head coach and general manager get out!

James Dolan once again curry favor with Wu Huang before the draft, and Wu Huang will be on the court with head coach D'Antoni and general manager Downey at the beginning of this year's draft, and Wu Huang will personally select the Knicks' rookie.

This kind of player selection is extremely rare, if not unique, in the NBA.

When D'Antoni and Donnie learned the news, they both had an urge to resign immediately, Dolan was too disrespectful to them, how could it be so humiliating?

Wu Huang also felt inappropriate in his heart, if he was replaced by an ordinary player who was so favored by the boss, it was estimated that his tail would have been raised to the sky, but Wu Huang knew that he couldn't be too loud.

Soon, he found an opportunity to meet with the team manager and coach, and euphemistically said that he was just a player, and he would not be able to do this kind of team management work and would not have the energy to do it, and when the time came, he only had to tell him his name who was chosen at the conference. He's just in charge of handing out notes for the team.

However, during the discussion, they naturally talked about the progress of some team trades, and D'Antoni and Downey were also very satisfied with Wu Huang's overtures, so they naturally told the team about the progress of the trade. What's more, Wu Huang originally had the right to know, and the team also needed him to contact the target of the transaction. And then connect with feelings.

The Knicks' current trade negotiations with the Warriors finally made a breakthrough at this time, David Lee didn't know if he felt the evil thoughts in Wu Huang's heart, and in order to keep his girlfriend from being snapped by others, he finally stopped resisting going to the Warriors.

As long as there are no problems with the players, the next step is a game between the two teams, and in the end, whoever is more looking forward to the deal and who has better bargaining power will be able to take advantage of the deal.

The Warriors are looking forward to David Lee, and they need someone who can open up space for the outside on the offensive end. At the same time, the No. 4 position, which can play singles on the inside and two low posts, must be younger, otherwise it will be embarrassing that when Curry, the core of their internal team, grows up, this No. 4 position will be old.

There are not many power forwards in the league who meet these requirements this year, and Xiao Si is certainly better than David Lee, but fools know that half of their feet have already stepped into New York and can't pull it back at all. And Xiaobawang is also a little older, he is more suitable for the team that is about to produce results.

Bosh is the Warriors' best option at the moment. The Dragons are the most sought-after interior stars this summer, but the problem is that Bosh looks down on the Warriors even more, and he has met with Wade several times, and it is estimated that the Dragons are going to the East Coast.

Finally, there's Boozer, but the anti-bone boy is also not young, and the asking price is too high. David Lee has become the most suitable choice for the Warriors relatively speaking, he is young and has potential, the price is much lower than the above three, and he can be regarded as a playoff test, with good age, combat power and value for money.

The Knicks are in contact with a number of teams at the moment. The Rockets plan to use Scola to trade David Lee alone, and the Knicks are also interested in this deal, but they are more likely to use the Rockets to release news to suppress the price of the Warriors. Secondly, the Jazz also know that they can't keep Boozer, and they are willing to suffer a little loss in exchange for David Lee.

The Jazz's price code makes the Knicks even more excited, Boozer himself does not resist coming to the Knicks, the interior combination of anti-bone boy + Xiaobawang sounds like a good choice, but the former's contract is too high in the eyes of the Knicks, and this year's crazy free market has spawned a lot of big contracts that do not match the value, and Boozer is one of them.

The Knicks can only provide Boozer with a 5-year 70 million contract at most, but the anti-bone boy actually plans to ask for 80 million for 5 years, which is already the highest salary, and the Knicks naturally can't give him such a big contract, so the deal with the Jazz is also a smoke bomb released by the Knicks, and the main purpose is to suppress the price of the Warriors.

The New Yorkers are now not worried about David Lee not being able to trade, but the Warriors have a lot fewer options, and they are more urgent than the Knicks in this deal, so the initiative is in the hands of the Knicks. On the other hand, James, Wade and Bosh appeared almost simultaneously on the eve of the draft, with the former appearing at his Cleveland estate and the latter two embarking on plans to travel around the United States.

After receiving the news, many people hurriedly moved the bench and melon seeds, and the show finally staged, which is the real drama this summer. Whenever a big-name player's contract expires, they take a long walk through the United States.

"Hoop World" reports——

The collective action of Generation 03 is reminiscent of a trip to the United States ten years ago when Duncan and his wife traveled around the United States, when the Stone Buddha finally returned to San Antonio. Perhaps before setting off on the "tour", he had already made up his mind to stay with the Spurs, and even had some kind of tacit understanding with Popovich, so during Duncan's "tour", Popovich did not make the slightest move.

Duncan's salary cap was not a problem at the beginning, and the headache of signing for seven years or three years shows that he is worried about the future of the Spurs. In the end, he chose three years, and it was that decision that led him to three more championships.

The situation of James, Wade and Bosh is much more complicated than that of Duncan.

Let's talk about James first, because the "Orangutan King" occupies a dominant position, he turned the inspection team into an "Olympic bid", and waited for the teams to come on a "pilgrimage", which is ridiculously big!

However, the teams didn't care, and still tried their best to do public relations, and came up with many means to go to Cleveland to meet the "saint".

James did. It can not only avoid the fatigue of traveling, but also compare the sincerity of each team. Later, perhaps it was too much to meet them in their own estate, so they arranged to meet in an office building in the city. Wade and Bosh followed Duncan's example of "traveling around the world".

All three of them may have a choice in their minds, but they must not announce it until it is time to announce it. Because any decision can be changed before it is announced. James, Wade and Bosh can be changed, and each team can also be changed, after all, the contract can only be signed after July 6, and the previous promise has no legal effect, leaving every door open, giving everyone a chance is also giving themselves a chance.

This kind of secret method can keep a little pressure on the team you fancy and keep them working on the transformation in other positions to get a satisfactory squad. The latter reason is more important. What kind of environment James, Wade and Bosh play in the future may depend on their unbiased attitude these days.

For James, the conditions offered by each team are tempting, and they either play the emotional card, like the Cavaliers, or the strength card, like the Bulls and Heat, or play the market card. Like the Nets and the Clippers. But everything changes, and James' future strength has the final say. No matter how good the market is, no matter how deep the feelings, if he doesn't get the championship, everything will be in vain, and he doesn't want to be criticized by the media anymore.

Therefore, although the Cavaliers can give $30 million more than others, they must also start with the prospect of winning the championship first, hoping that the salary vacated after O'Neal's departure can change James to a strongman. In the battle with the knights. The bull seems to have a frame of retreat without a fight, one is desperately trying to win over Wade with local friendship, and the other is going to Cleveland for a "pilgrimage" to prepare for scribbling. Similarly, when meeting with James, the Bulls seemed like a routine. Without any multimedia equipment, how can it be like the Cavaliers and James watching a nostalgic video while chatting with each other? The most critical thing is that Rose did not take the initiative to call James from beginning to end.

After the Cavaliers fired the general manager and head coach, James was very relieved, but in the one-and-a-half-hour meeting, what kind of lineup planning was given was the most appetizing.

If James ends up staying with the Cavaliers, then the "pilgrimage" of other teams will become a visit, but this is more in line with the statement that James will not leave before the end of the regular season. And Wade has no more reasons to join the Bulls than staying in Miami, and the Bulls' choice to bet on Wade seems a little unwise.

In fact, among the three big-name free agents, Wade has the most clear attitude, he needs the new team to give him a stable environment, so he has always questioned the Bulls' frequent trading of players for more than a decade, because the Bulls are one of the teams with the most substitutions in the NBA. On the other hand, he himself is not willing to leave Miami easily, and if Pat Riley is willing to trade Beasley for more space and let Bosh go to Miami with him, the Bulls say that 10,000 times "fellow" will not be able to fulfill his wish.

Bosh is the most crucial element of the three, but also the most "drifting" factor, and he will definitely leave Toronto, but he can use the sign-and-trade to get more benefits: one is a higher salary, and the other is a little return for the Raptors. If he does this, it will inevitably affect the interests of James or Wade, for example, if one of them wants to join the Bulls, then Bosh will make the Bulls lose either Luel Deng or Noah. Therefore, in addition to being inseparable from Wade, Bosh made his own little calculations and "visited here" everywhere, leaving himself multiple choices to prevent Wade or James from turning their faces.

Now more than one team can afford to sign all three big names at the same time, but Wade is far more eager for the trio to join forces than James, otherwise he wouldn't have suddenly posted a tweet in Chicago that "one less person is everywhere".

If Wade can make sure Bosh stays around, then James is willing to stay in the more humane Miami even if he chooses otherwise.

James' overly "high-minded" approach threatens to cut off his and Wade's path to joining forces. In recent years, James has always been swayed by the team's trades, believing that the people he gets in exchange will make him better - first Mo, then O'Neal, and now if the new coach promises to exchange Paul, maybe he will stay in Cleveland.

In that way, except for the Cavaliers and the Heat, everyone is "here for a visit".

On June 24, the 2010 NBA Draft officially kicked off at Madison Square Garden, and the order of the draw had already been determined.

A few days ago, with Bosh and Wade starting their "travel around the world", Stoudemire, Boozer and others have started their own journeys. At the same time, the teams also began to put on an attitude of buying money to recruit talents. Among them, the Heat team has made the biggest move, they are constantly making trades, and they are gradually emptying the team's salary.

This news quickly got into the ears of William Wesley, a powerful figure in the league known as "Universal Wesley", who has always been by James' side in recent years, and can be called one of James's "personal protectors".

Wesley's first reaction was to be deeply moved. Because according to the information he obtained, Pat Riley carefully planned for months to wait for this day to come, so that the Heat could free up huge salary space, bring the new "Big Three" under his command at the same time, and ensure that the trio's annual salary remained around $15 million in the first season. In fact, Wesley had always believed that the Bulls would be James' first choice, but he never considered that Riley would empty his salary and wait for the arrival of the new "Big Three".

Although free agent negotiations didn't officially begin until July 1, Wesley has been learning about the Heat's "Big Three" plan since he learned about it. His analysis of James' potential for the Heat is reduced to one sentence: "It's a certainty." "In addition to Pat Riley's sincerity and the Heat's perfect plan, but also because of the Bulls themselves.

The original James also vacillated between the Bulls and the Heat, but then the Bulls' own mistakes made James make up his mind to choose the Heat.

As head coach, the 65-year-old Riley has won five championships and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008. His basketball career is in its twilight years, and he hopes to use a dynastic era to bring his basketball career to an end. So, Riley relentlessly purged the rest of the team's contract. Until the Heat's salary ledger was left with only Chalmers' name.

The Heat's huge salary space is one of Riley's unique chips. And he seems to be more confident in his own persuasiveness. At the same time, he knows better than others that if you want to get James, the first step is to get Bosh first, and this is the real order.

There's only one thing on James' mind right now, and that's championships! So he didn't want a Bosh, or a Wade. The Heat, with only two stars, may not be guaranteed to win the championship, especially since New York has almost bagged Smalls, the Celtics are getting older and more demonic, and the Heat must ensure that Bosh and Wade are on the team before James will join Miami.

On the day of the 2010 draft. Miami's Pat Riley and Thunder general manager Sam Presti met off the stage, and the two sides quickly agreed that guard Daquin Cook, who played for the Heat last season, would be traded to the Thunder.

Miami has freed up more salary space as they prepare for the arrival of James, Wade and Bosh as they get closer to the new Big Three.

The Knicks also reached an agreement with the Warriors off-stage before the official start of the draft, the Knicks offered David Lee a six-year, 80 million contract, signed and traded him to the Warriors, and then packaged a second-round pick from the Warriors to get Radmanovic, Ronnie Turyaf and this year's first-round pick No. 6.

Ronny Turyaf and Radmanovic both have only one year left on their contracts, and their combined salaries are almost $11 million, but they are both bad contracts, and the strength of the two will be worth a base salary. The most precious chip the Warriors paid was their No. 6 pick, and the Knicks were willing to swallow two bad contracts for this signing.

The Knicks originally wanted the Warriors' '08 lottery pick Anthony Randolph, which was the last controversy between the two teams.

The Warriors didn't want to give up the physical No. 4 spot, and last season the sophomore averaged 11.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in 22 minutes of playing time, only to get injured midway through the season.

This guy who later disappeared is still an insider with full potential in the eyes of experts at the moment, and has great potential in 2K games, and many new players like to bring Anthony Randolph into the team to develop.

Wu Huang made his voice heard in this deal, he has his eye on the two interior players in this rookie, Anthony Randolph is a long player who is suitable for running and shooting, but it is difficult to play on the defensive end, Wu Huang wants to use the Warriors' No. 6 pick to select a rookie, and next season's interior offense will be completely handed over to Stoudemire.

Wu Huang directly decided the deal in this speech, and also revealed his opinion on the draft. His two interior players are DeMarcus Cousins and Greg Monroe, and if the two of them haven't been drafted with the sixth pick, the Knicks will prioritize Cousins over Monroe.

Both men had tried out for the Knicks before the draft, and Wu Huang took the time to take a look, and he was most optimistic about Cousins' ball sense and athleticism, which are the basis of a player's talent. Although this game is a bit casual, Wu Huang can see that he has his own ideas, which shows that Cousins is a player who is willing to use his brains, although in the hearts of Wu Huang and D'Antoni, this is more like abuse in high school and college.

Monroe is the opposite of Cousins, he is more disciplined, and he plays a board in the tryout, which shows that he is a team player. The reason why Wu Huang is optimistic about him is also this, although Monroe's spirituality and athletic talent are not as good as Cousins, but his interior strength is also superior, and his basic skills are very solid, and he has a passable mid-range shot, especially in the high position, his ability to respond is very good, and it is not unreasonable for the outside world to use Weber as his template.

The personalities and talents of these two people determine that Monroe's ceiling may not be as good as Cousins, but his lower limit must be higher than Cousins, so if the Knicks want to choose an interior superstar, they can bet on Cousins, but if they want to choose a practical star like Horford, then they can choose Monroe.

But in the end, it is up to them to decide who to choose, the Knicks have the No. 6 pick in their hands, and if these two are selected by others in the top five, then they can only consider themselves unlucky. (To be continued.) )