The moment Zhang lifted the trophy, the 1997-1998 NBA season was even drawn.

The two golden championship trophies, for the Lakers and Zhang Fu, are two full pages turned, which record 72 wins, 74 wins, and 39 consecutive wins, which are two pages of perfect chapters.

What's next for Zhang Mao? What is the "next page" in the minds of Harris, Kidd, and Mutombo? Three in a row, of course. But what about Zhang Fu's "next page"? He didn't say it because his ambitions were bigger than people thought, so big that he didn't even plan to say it now.

He did this more than once, and when the Lakers won 20 in a row, Zhang didn't say what he really wanted to do, because he wanted to break the Lakers' 33-game winning streak.

It's the same now, his ambition is to win 5 consecutive championships, 8 consecutive championships, and 10 consecutive championships.

Such ambitions were not yet announced, and he had to at least create a real dynasty of his own.

After the Lakers championship, many Zhang Zhu's fans were hooked to the Olympics, but the Sydney Olympics are still very early, and they will have to wait another two years to see Tamriel's flag appear in Sydney.

Lakers fans are more looking forward to the changes that will occur in the summer, in the past three years, the Lakers have been strictly a single-core team, Mutombo can be called the core at most on the defensive end, Kidd can only act as a playmaking core, and the Lakers' real all-round core is only Zhang Mao.

This may be suspected of not wanting Bilian, but this configuration was top-notch last year, and this year it has been unable to show alone, the Jazz and the Bulls have posed a real threat to the Lakers in the playoffs, especially why the Bulls were overturned when they got 3 match points first, and the players of both teams said after the game that they didn't know, maybe it was really Barkley who was destined to have no championship fate, right?

But given some of the Lakers' flaws on the offensive end of the Finals, many Lakers fans feel that this team is on the eve of change, but whether it gets better or worse will be one of the biggest topics of conversation this summer and next season.

But no matter how the Lakers change, the Purple and Gold will still be the favorites to win the championship next season.

In the history of the NBA, the only teams that have won three consecutive championships are the Lakers, Bulls and Celtics. But the Green Army took too big a step and won the "eight consecutive championships". With the current level of competition in the NBA, "8" may be a number that will never be reached, let alone surpassed.

At the moment, Lakers fans only hope that the Lakers will win another three-in-a-row championship, and they haven't thought about the future, preparing to get "3" first, and then talk about it later. In the current NBA, "3" is the perfect number, it represents a dynasty, it also represents a fixed fan base, and it is also a source of business opportunities that spans several years.

At the moment, the Lakers are one step away from this "3", and this expectation is the most fascinating, and the charm of competitive sports lies in this, and every reincarnation can produce too many things to look forward to.

The next day, the Los Angeles Times reported two pieces of bad news.

The first bad news is that last night Los Angeles fans took to the streets to celebrate the Lakers' victory, and the celebration was too crazy, and there were dozens of vicious incidents of burning public facilities, shops and street cars on this night, at least dozens of people were injured as a result, and even rioters took the opportunity to loot stores, especially the two Xing invasions made Zhang Mao also very dissatisfied, these scum deserved to be destroyed humanely.

The second piece of bad news is that the city of Los Angeles is struggling with the million-dollar cost of arranging a parade for the Lakers to win the championship for the Lakers two years in a row.

In the past two years, the global economy has been in recession, and economic crises have occurred everywhere, and in order to avoid budget deficits, all parts of the United States have pursued the principle of saving as much as possible. As a result, some City Hall figures felt that it was inappropriate to hold a celebration parade that cost more than a million dollars. There were also many city councilors who opposed the march saying why the Lakers or the NBA couldn't pay for the championship parade.

Of course, Zhang Wei will not be strong at this time, although he will pay this money EZPZ, but once this kind of money that should not be paid is out, he will wait to be treated as a wronged leader in the future. Besides, the landlord's family has no surplus food, but he has to pay back Jordan 50 million, and that Tamriel plans to trick people again, and the two fathers and sons can't do it without paying a penny. This will make him even plan to lose the interest he just promised Jordan, and even whether the 50 million will be changed in two years, he is very entangled!

This summer, Zhang Fu is still preparing to get rid of the two father and son Buss, once successful, it is not a small amount to buy the Lakers, he even has to unite his godfather Ballmer and Gates to have this money, unless he sells all the Apple stocks, he can't raise so much cash.

Zhang Mo originally wanted his father to help him buy the Lakers, but Zhang Mo has used too much money recently, and he doesn't plan to buy an NBA team with more than a billion dollars, which is enough to start Tamriel's first five-year plan.

A few days later, the Los Angeles city government paid for the march, with one official saying, "We don't have any other choice, it doesn't happen every year, we're suffering and we're happy." ”

The Lakers were finally able to hold a victory parade for the second time in a row, which was one of the few times the media photographed Zhang in public before the start of the new season, and since then the man has always disappeared as if he had crossed over.

Of course, Zhang Qi will not disappear, and when the new game "The Sims" of Dragonborn Games was released, he also went to the scene.

After the NBA entered the offseason, in addition to normal training, Zhang Fu has been secretly hugging his young lady at home to plan his plan to usurp the throne codenamed "Wang Mang", while waiting for the arrival of the draft.

The NBA's offseason is very long, generally starting at the end of May and ending at the end of October, these five months are the most tormenting period for NBA fans, and everyone can only pay attention to some scandals and anecdotes of the stars.

However, the draft held in June was an exception, and it was a big deal that all NBA fans were watching.

But before the draft, there was an earthquake in Chicago.

The 36-year-old Jordan left freely with a wave of his sleeves at a simple farewell party, he was not ready to give Hill and Barkley another year of redemption, this time he really officially retired, although with some regrets and unwillingness.

Since then, the Bulls have left the vast back of a generation of dynasties, and the trees have fallen apart in an instant, and Longley, Kerr, Kukoc and others have entered the transfer market, plus Pippen and Rodman, who have changed into other people's clothes, the former Bulls dynasty has officially collapsed.

Zhang Yu also sighed at this time, after all, the Bulls were his favorite team in his childhood, but at this moment, he could only wipe his tears and sighed: "Actually, I understand very well that the world is changing fast."

At the same time, signs of an NBA shutdown are starting to show.

As early as March this year, labor and management began to negotiate, and the result was that it was pulled and pulled until the draft meeting on June 9, and there was no reason.

The reason for this labor and management wrestling is the same as the previous three times, and there is only one reason: money.

It is said that from the first negotiations, the players were very dissatisfied with the management represented by Stern, who believed that the management used intimidation, threats and other means to force the players' union to sign an unequal collective bargaining agreement, and the attitude of the bosses was basically: "You want to shut down? Great, so I don't have to pay your salary.

David Stern is also extremely tough, and solemnly warned the labor side when he attended the draft: If you can't pull out the results on July 1, the new season will be officially suspended, just ask if you are afraid!

Of course, the draft meeting still has to go on as usual, but the teams can't sign contracts immediately after they are selected, and they must wait for the labor negotiations to be completed before starting to sign.

The Lakers' draft picks have always been made by Zhang Qi, and at first it was just a simple purchase from the core, anyway, the Lakers' draft picks are either the first to the last or the second-to-last, there is really no value in picking, just a few blind picks.

But three years later, many people were shocked to find that these low-ranking rookies selected by Zhang Mao basically played beyond their own ranks, and his blind picks were much more powerful than many teams opening their eyes to choose.

This year, the Lakers have two draft picks, one is the 29th in the first round, and the other is the 29th in the second round.

This is also a very interesting thing, Zhang Zhu's blind choice is in the eyes of others, it is really a blind choice, because the initiative is not here, even if he really has the ability to discern people, then others have to have no eyes!

This time, Zhang Zhu used the No. 29 pick in the first round to select Catino Mobley, a guard from the University of Rhode Island, who is a senior player with a height of 193cm, is one of the top ten players in the Atlantic region this year, and is also the best defensive player in the region, but unfortunately he is not from a prestigious school, and his four-year NCAA career results are also mediocre, and his athleticism is more than a typical example of being less than the top and bottom, and playing the second position, then this height will become very embarrassing when he goes to the NBA, and the best prospect is just an excellent outside cold shooter, so there was no team to pick him in the first round, and there are too many such player development leagues, Europe, and the NCAA.

In the second round, Zhang Zhu selected a high school player Rashad Lewis at the 29th pick, this is a projection type No. 4 position with a height of 208cm, tall and thin, but he runs briskly and dexterously, and can shoot three points, it is estimated that this is the reason why Zhang Zhu chose him, of course, the main reason is that in addition to this guy, the Lakers really have no one to choose.

The Lakers chose a guard this time, a No. 4 position, and those who are interested can already guess that the rumor should not be groundless.

It seems that the Lakers really plan to trade Jones and O'Neal Jr. for Webber, otherwise they will not choose a senior guard and a young No. 4 position this time, which is obviously ready to fill the vacancy of the two departures.

But unfortunately, this speculation was suppressed by the president's "shutdown", and everyone can only continue to guess for the time being.

On June 24, after another unpleasant end of negotiations, David Stern solemnly announced: Stop!

This sentence makes the NBA free market and transfer doors officially closed, and will only be lifted after the collective bargaining agreement is released, and everyone can stay where they want to go now.

The majority of fans felt a chill in their hearts, it seems that the attitude of the labor and management sides is very tough this time, can the Mo non-regular game really not be started on time?

Of course, it's still too early to tell, and the two gangs still have three months to fight each other, and the fans will have to wait for the results.

The Lakers were very happy, facing the lion mouth of head coach Harris, the old Buss was so angry that his liver hurt, and the little Bass tore up the 2-year 8 million contract extension for Harris in a fit of anger.

Harris' coaching contract expires this summer, and as the best coach + championship coach for two consecutive years, Harris opened his mouth with a three-year, $25 million super contract when he negotiated a contract extension.

Now in 1998, the Zen master's contract is only four or five million dollars, but he is a star coach who has created a dynasty, and this is already the highest contract in the NBA.

As soon as Harris opened his mouth, the annual salary is 8 million, of course Bass Jr. is angry, this asking price is nearly twice as much as that of the Zen master in the Clippers, everyone knows that the Lakers' two consecutive championships rely on Zhang Fu, why do you have a puppet coach Why does the lion open his mouth, I really don't know what his surname is?

However, Zhang Yu said openly and secretly after Harris's contract expired that he must advance and retreat with Harris, so when he learned that Harris might be leaving, Koala Baby also had a showdown with the Lakers with a sad face: "I'm sure that losing Del means a lot of things, and if he leaves, I'm inclined to leave," and this long story is short to say "Harris is gone, I don't believe in love anymore, I want to go together."

Zhang Zhu's threat is more effective than anything else, and the old Bass came forward to say in the condemnation of fans the next day: You can still talk about it.

However, Zhang Wei didn't want to talk about it, Harris was just an introduction he used to do things, and Jenny Buss, the big traitor, not only did not announce Harris's lion mouth to the outside world, but also turned his arms outward in the face of the interview.

Jenny Buss misled, Lakers fans didn't know that Harris was opening his bloody mouth, and they thought that Harris was asking for a higher price, but it was normal for a two-time championship coach to ask for a high price.

Buss Jr. saw that public opinion unanimously condemned him, of course he was wronged, but there was a Jenny Buss who acted as a-stirring stick in the middle, and Buss Jr., who was not very high in business, would not be able to do public relations, and the first step of the "Wang Mang" plan of the rebel five-man group had achieved very significant results, and now Lakers fans are very dissatisfied with Buss Jr.

The first step of the plan was implemented smoothly, and the second step of the rebel five's plan was soon to come-

Three days later, when a gossip media exposed two recordings of a conversation between Buss and Sons, Clippers owner Sterling, this ordinary coach salary issue immediately began to make a 180-degree sharp turn towards Akinayama.

The gossip media exposed a very sensitive incident of racial discrimination on July 2, and two recordings instantly made headlines in the United States.

The first is a recording of Sterling's racist remarks. In the recording, Sterling hopes that his girlfriend will not bring black people to the Clippers arena, "especially not to bring that gay 'magic' Johnson", and because she posted a photo with "Magic" Johnson in the ICQ space, she lost her temper, and shot sensitive words such as aizi and peers in the conversation, which immediately attracted criticism from various groups, including feminist groups and groups.

The second recording, which made more fans feel like they were in the air, was a recording of Raheem Sterling and Buss a few months ago. In the recording, Bas Jr. clearly has a grudge against the koala baby, and in the conversation with Sterling, not only did he have a lot of insults against Zhang Mao, but also the racial discrimination against Chinese Americans was even worse, and the whole recording appeared no less than five times in chink alone. On the other hand, the elder Bass did not stop this inappropriate remark, he just told his son to be careful when talking outside, so as not to be caught by the handle, and the implication was that he agreed with this remark.

As soon as these two recordings were exposed, they were immediately criticized by all sides, and even alarmed Clinton in the White House, and even the president, who was in a commotion himself, denounced the remarks as "ignorant people saying ignorant things."

And after learning about this, the "magician" and "koala baby" who were mentioned were naturally very angry!

The Magic immediately said that as long as Sterling was the owner of the Clippers for one day, he would not go to any Clippers games; Zhang Yi used humor to express his dissatisfaction, jokingly: The Buss family should want to declare war on Tamriel, don't they know that half of the players on the Lakers team are about to become honorary citizens of Tamriel?

Well, with the demonstrations of black groups and Chinese groups, Sterling and Bass Jr. suddenly became street rats that everyone shouted and beaten, even the old Bass was not spared.

At first, Lakers fans didn't point the finger at the old Buss, but Jerry West jumped out and stabbed his boss as soon as the incident happened, and the legendary manager of the Lakers stood up and said: Big and Little Buss' remarks will put the Lakers in a difficult situation, and it's time to wake up, they are no longer qualified to have this team.

Old Buss never imagined that West, who has always been loyal, would jump out and stab himself as soon as possible, coupled with the Magic and Lakers players who were ready to boycott and protest, this rhythm was instantly brought to Mars.

At this time, not only NBA fans and players are denouncing them, but even the melon-eating masses who don't watch the game are also following the overwhelming condemnation, and they suddenly stand on the moral high ground.

The rebel five are even more refreshed now, and the rhythm in front of them is much larger than they predicted, and it is not in vain for their half-year deployment.

Why did Sterling curse the magician?

Of course, it was the magician who really hooked up with someone else's girlfriend, and his illness made Sterling angry to say such things.

Why is little Bas so angry in the recording?

Of course, it was Zhang Fu who took the young model he just met to the hotel, and it was also under the annoyance and anger that he took some medicine at the time to say that kind of inappropriate words.

But the recording does not tell people the cause and effect, and at this moment, under the explosion of public opinion, this condemnation quickly spread to the world.

Two days later, Los Angeles Clippers players Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant both came out and said they would not play for Sterling again; The Lakers will also speak out against the Buss family, saying that "if the Buss family still controls the Lakers next season, they will choose to boycott the game"; Earl Lloyd, the first black player in NBA history, stood up and blasted Sterling as "idiots" and accused the two father and son of being "hypocrites"; Even Michael Jordan, who had just retired and was collecting debts from Zhang Zhu, also issued a statement under Zhang Zhu's threat: "As a former NBA player who wants to become an NBA owner, I certainly despise someone in the boss team for holding such a disgusting and offensive view. I trust David Stern to investigate this thoroughly and swiftly impose appropriate penalties. ”

On July 5, as the racist remarks about Raheem Sterling and Bass continued to ferment, NBA commissioner David Stern finally publicly stated that he would "quickly" collect and investigate the facts. 'We plan to get to the bottom of it quickly because from my personal point of view it's unfair to both coaches and players.

The rebel quintee almost raised a glass to celebrate, and the president's words made it clear that they wanted to take the opportunity to kill these two bosses who had been against them, Sterling and Old Bass, this one with a red face and a black face, had not been a little blocked by him in the past two years, and this time it was just to get rid of these two bastards who had been fighting against him for more than ten years.

On July 6, entrusted by Patrick Ewing, president of the players' union, former NBA legend Earl Lloyd stepped forward to deal with the recording gate incident. He said the players demanded that the NBA ban Raheem Sterling and Bass from next season's NBA games and impose the maximum punishment on him under league rules and the U.S. Constitution.

Well, the labor and management sides who are struggling to break their heads have reached a surprising agreement, which has doomed Sterling and Big Bass to be kicked out of the NBA.

On July 15, David Stern announced his decision to impose a lifetime ban on Clippers owner Sterling, Lakers owner Jerry Buss, and Lakers vice president Jim Buss, with fines of $2.5 million, $2 million, and $500,000. The decision was also supported by NBA owners, with several television stations broadcasting the press conference live.

The broad masses of people who are accustomed to eating also understand that this public trial basically decided the fate of the two teams.

Raheem Sterling is undoubtedly one of the worst, he must now sell the team, and the league now has an excuse to force him into submission.

The Buss family is okay, the league just let the old Buss transfer the team shares to his daughter, so strictly speaking, this Lakers are still owned by the Buss family.

But the problem is that the Buss family now has basically no other property except for the Lakers, and if a total of 77% of the Lakers shares in his hands are transferred to his two daughters, what will happen to his two sons in the future?

Therefore, the elder Bass can only choose to sell most of the team's shares, so that his children will have enough wealth to inherit in the future.

As a result, Jenny Bass does not get the most benefit, and she gets up to 10% of the shares.

Of course, Zhang Mao will not let Jeanne Bass be so miserable, even if it is just to keep his mouth shut, he will have to give Jeanne Bass some shares in return in the future.

Jerry West will also get a 3% stake and vice president position promised by Zhang Yu afterwards, which is the reward of the legendary manager of the Lakers for stabbing in the back at a critical moment.

As for Harris, he was really tricked, because when the dust settled, Harris would find that his salary would never be 8 million a year.

After the "Recordinggate" incident that shocked the world, the league and the management began a long-term dispute with the players' union, and how to divide the two big cakes of the Lakers and Clippers has to be considered in the long run.

Zhang Wei must let his people cut most of the cake away, Ballmer and Gates took a fancy to the Clippers, his two godfathers didn't want others to get involved, but the godson was so filial, it was also necessary to take out 10% of the share reward after the acquisition, because of the league regulations, they temporarily handed over the shares to Zhang Mo; Comrade Jianguo also wanted to cut the Lakers, and Zhang Yu wanted to help for his daughter's sake; Jordan called him and told him that he didn't want the 50 million, and he would give Zhang Wei another 50 million, as long as he could exchange it for Lakers shares; Zhang Mo is also ready to help his son get about 10% of the shares, otherwise it is not good if there is no sound at all; The magician, on the other hand, wants to double his stake.

In this way, the Clippers are now worth about five or six billion, and they are about to be divided between his two godfathers, and he can also have a small shareholder to play with.

The Lakers have more people in this cake, and of course the value is also a little bigger, 77% of the shares in the hands of the Bass family are now worth about 1 billion yuan, and Comrade Jianguo will eat at most 20%. Jordan gave him another 50 million, which would be about the same as Magic's shares, and both of them would probably have about 7% of the Lakers' shares, which would be considered a minority shareholder. Zhang Mo is unwilling to contribute too much money, and only plans to take 10% of the Lakers' shares and barely become a major shareholder. Jenny Bass and her sister will get about 20 percent of the shares.

In this way, there are about 15% of the shares that no one has taken over, Zhang Qi doesn't want outsiders to get the fruits of their victory, and he thinks about simply letting his little sisters become retail investors, counting so many people, in fact, it is not easy to divide, even if the clipper shares he got from his godfather are also distributed to the young lady, it is estimated that it is still not enough!

The only problem now is that David Stern doesn't have time to help his godfather share the spoils for the time being, and he has to get rid of those hateful mud legs before he can find time to help Zhang Fu get all of this.

In early July, the president announced the cancellation of summer league in order to continue to put pressure on the players, which also meant that the rookies lost an opportunity to adapt to the league early.

At the end of July, the president issued another ultimatum that if the negotiations could not be progressed, the preseason would also be cancelled!

At this stage, the owners want to adjust the league's salary cap system and the salary cap of the players, but the players' union is firmly opposed to the owners' plan, and contrary to the owners' thinking, the players' union believes that the players already make very little hard-earned money, and they want to increase the salary level of those players with a base salary, and should not set a ceiling.

Of course, Zhang Yu knows the intention of the players' union, and increasing the salary of players with a base salary is just a pretense, what they really want is to get the maximum salary without restrictions, and oppose setting their own salary caps for each player, preferably with hundreds of millions of dollars in the first contract.

But owners believe there should be a limit to the maximum salary a player can get, that the standardized contract of rookie players must be improved to prevent rookies from becoming a full free agent after three years, and that the "Larry Bird exception" must be eliminated.

In early August, labor and management reopened negotiations between labor and management, this time with the players' union proposing a number of new terms, including NBA team benefit-sharing, and President David Stern left the table in anger before he listened.

At the end of August, David Stern announced that 24 preseason games had been cancelled and training camp had been postponed indefinitely.

In the summer, after he found that the shutdown was inevitable, he finally agreed to Warner Bros. to shoot "Slam Dunk 2", which had been revised several times, with an unprecedented salary of $50 million + 20% of the global box office share, both of which set a Hollywood salary record.

This is not a bad job, because during the shutdown, the team was forbidden to trade players, try out players, and meet with players, Zhang Qian could only stay at home to train, but there was still a lot of time outside of training, and he couldn't just mess with the young lady, which would hurt his kidneys.

In fact, he also turned his way to a critical blow to the players' union, if it really stops, all NBA players will lose their source of income, but Zhang Zhu can continue to make a lot of money outside, just the salary of this movie is already ninety percent of the players can't earn in their entire careers. If "Space Slam Dunk 2" has a global box office of more than one billion, then Zhang Zhu's income from this movie alone is higher than the income of any NBA player's entire career, including Jordan, who has not made so much money in more than ten years.

Labor and management also held negotiations in October and November, but it was still difficult to reach an agreement, and the regular season in October and November of the new season was also canceled, which was the first time in NBA history that a regular season game was canceled due to labor disputes.

But what the players' union protested was that on October 20, arbitrator John Frick ruled that the owners were not required to pay the salaries of players with guaranteed contracts during the lockout, and Flick's arbitration tipped the balance of collective bargaining in favor of management. To the delight of the owners, even if the game could not be played, the league's previous TV contracts were still valid, and the owners could get most of the revenue from the TV contracts, while the players lost their source of income altogether.

This continued until 1999, when the Kingdom of Tamrel was officially recognized by the United Nations, and with the Olympic Committee voting in March, one could expect the Royal Tamriel Athletics to compete in Sydney a year and a half later.

What, you say against?

Of course, that doesn't exist, the five big hooligans of the United States, Russia, China, Britain, and France have recognized the legitimacy of the Kingdom of Tamriel, and the White House has already called Zhang Zhu "prince", who dares to disagree?

In view of this, David Stern has completely lost patience, and even the famous inkblot United Nations is finished, what kind of face will he have to say hello to people if he continues to tear it up?

On January 1, 1999, the president gave an ultimatum this time, saying that it would be pure if he couldn't figure it out this time, and the 98-99 season would be canceled, and then the league and the bosses would have to make a little less, but the players and agents couldn't make a penny, and see who was worse than whom?

At this time, various agents played tricks, and high-paid players led by Patrick Ewinge, the president of the players' union, "cheated", and the two sides finally reached an agreement on January 6 to keep 50 regular season games for the 98-99 season.

Zhang Wei has already finished filming "Slam Dunk 2", and the days of not playing for half a year have already made him bored, and when he heard that he could finally play a game, he immediately threw the golf and baseball into the utility room! Hmph, he doesn't want to play bullshit golf with Magic and Jordan anymore, jerking off is better than playing golf.