"The Spurs really chose Duncan, do they want to form the Twin Towers?" ”

Zhang Yu watched the first round of the draft in front of the TV, in fact, he also watched the top fifteen, and the latter didn't care too much, those stars produced in the low pick are very few after all, and there are almost no superstars in the low pick, of course he won't pay attention to those people.

In fact, it is uncertain whether Duncan can play at an All-Star level in the future.

Kidd was a year ahead of him, and his performance in his rookie season was eye-catching, and he was optimistic about his prospects at the beginning, but now he is still his little brother?

So there are many rookies like Duncan, who are favored by most people, and they don't play in the end.

In short, everything is full of unknowns right now, which is one of the reasons why fans are interested in the draft.

In addition to being optimistic about the champion Duncan and Van Horn this year, Zhang Wei has little attention to Billups of the Flower Show, and he is not optimistic that this ugly guy can play.

He thinks that Ron Mercer, who is physically strong, deserves more of a scout position, or Bobby Jackson, who is all-round and good at attacking, is also good, but in addition, he really doesn't see how many seedlings of star potential there are, and each one is more than good-looking.

This draft is naturally a proper year in his eyes, and in the end, only Duncan and Van Horne can play, but if either of these two can't play, then this year will be too stupid, fortunately, the Lakers didn't mess up this year, it's really not worth it!

There weren't any heavyweight trades on draft night, and the atmosphere was a little off the ground off this summer, with the league further strengthening the summer market by quickly bolstering the Spurs and 76ers with the draft.

At this moment, the seemingly calm water is already turbulent, many teams are preparing for big moves in private, and many teams are looking for opportunities to take advantage of it.

And then there are the free agents, of course, they all want to take advantage of the opportunity to sell themselves for a good price, and the more teams that are looking for talent right now, the more likely they are to take the opportunity to get a big contract.

This is the primary goal of most players, honor or something is secondary, only a small amount of money is the most important.

Of course, for those who are already young, the accolades are even more important, especially for players who have yet to win a championship.

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July 1 is the day of the league's official signing, the day when teams can negotiate contract extensions with players whose contracts have expired. Before the No. 4, these full free agents and restricted free agents could only negotiate contract extensions with their own teams, and only after the No. 4 could contact other teams, which is a kind of protection for the league's parent team.

The Lakers don't have free agents this year, not even restricted free agents, unless they voluntarily terminate Zhang's rookie contract and choose not to execute the final year of his contract.

Of course, Old Bass wanted to do this, and he wanted to make Zhang Zhu embarrassed to rebel now, so he also sent his daughter Jenny Bass and his right-hand man Jerry West to negotiate a new contract with Zhang Mao.

"New egg!"

Zhang Qian won't renew the contract now, is he short of the eighteen million? This money wants to block his way to rebellion, and the old thing is too naïve.

Moreover, this old Bass actually sent two two-five boys to negotiate with him, so it would be strange to be able to negotiate.

Jenny Bass would not have demolished her father's stage, but this is to blame for the death of Old Bass, especially after Old Bus's health began to deteriorate last season, the idea of patriarchy was inevitably born.

This kind of thinking has nothing to do with the country and culture, and the fact is that no matter how capable Jenny is, once she marries in the future, it will also fulfill others, so most of the family property must of course be left to her son.

Little Bas has always been a gentleman, he has no ability at anything, and even pickled girls can only rely on money to throw them, which can be said to be useless.

But no matter how incapable he is, it's always his own son.

Therefore, the elder Bass is ready to personally support his successor, and last season he actually put Bass Jr. in the personnel department, and recently there is the idea of letting him take over the commercial operations department, which is equivalent to setting up Jeanie Buss, and once these two important departments are controlled by Buss Jr. in the future, she can also leave the Lakers.

To be honest, now in the Bass family, except for the old Bass who wants to raise his son, most people feel that the baton should be handed over to Jeanie Bath, do you think the latter can be balanced?

Jenny Bass isn't a fuel-efficient person, and since you're not going to pass the baton to me, I'm going to fight for it myself, and I'll just kill my brainless brother.

As for Jerry West and the Magician will defect, one is that they also don't like the second ancestor of Bass Jr., and feel that the Lakers handed him the jujube pill. The second is that the dragon descendant company behind Zhang Qi is too powerful, if this team doesn't know how to stand, then they will live so old in vain.

Old Buss was still trying to let his right-hand man take his son, but he didn't expect that the three most trusted people around him had secretly defected, and he was now waiting for an opportunity to snatch the Lakers from him.

The most important thing is that Zhang Qian and others are not worried about the problem of funding, let alone that the alliance will come forward to stop it.

Zhang Wei is confident that as long as they finish the first half of the part, find a way to make old Buss get into trouble and create public opinion, David Stern will immediately help them take the last step - force old Buss to sell the Lakers, and then do something casually at the auction, and the traditional giants of this league will change hands.

What, you have to ask how to get old Bass in trouble?

This is too simple, and it is so easy to plant and blame this kind of thing in the case of internal cooperation.

Zhang Zhu had already instigated Jenny to install a bugging device at home, and even the phones of the big and small basses were tapped, once they found an opportunity to do some racial discrimination, or say something that would make public opinion denounce them, ICQ would immediately bombard them with pop-ups all over the world, and the two of them would be ruined!

At this time, David Stern can follow the will of the people and make the decision to let Buss Sr. sell the team, and the Dragons can help him buy the Lakers. Money is the least problematic here, is it still a matter for them to be big capitalists?

Jenny Buss, Jerry West, and the Magic can also get a corresponding stake in it, knowing that the future Lakers are worth billions of dollars, such a high rate of return is certainly worth their betrayal.

Zhang Mao has long been imperative for the Lakers, and now as long as he wins another championship, his momentum in Los Angeles will be the same for a while, and the team changes hands is naturally nothing, and the new president is still a member of the Buss family, but the shares are much less.

The Lakers here feel that this year is a draft year, and even if they are not qualified to participate, it is not a big deal, anyway, there will be a lot of veterans coming to hug their thighs soon.

The Spurs, however, found that they may not be able to keep their veteran because Wilkins wants to leave the Spurs.

Popovich doesn't care about Wilkins, there were some conflicts between the two last season, one is not satisfied with the other party is almost forty years old and can only fight alone, what do you want? The other thinks that a small role like Popovich, where is he qualified to coach himself?

So, Wilkins didn't agree to stay with the Spurs for another year, and he wanted to touch the floor of the division finals before retiring, preferably to win a championship.

"If you don't want to stay, then I want it!"

Zhang Wei is quite optimistic about Wilkins, although the 37-year-old "human movie essence" can no longer dance, and the shooting rate has dropped sharply last season, but when he comes to the Lakers to play a dozen seventh people, the eighth person is still enough to be competent, the key is that he only needs a veteran contract, which is worth it!

Popovich didn't want Wilkins, in addition to the fact that his form had declined and the overall situation was still very good for so many years, he was more worried that he would rely on the old and sell the old in the team, which would affect Duncan and his own position.

David Robinson is different, this is a peaceful personality and a big heart, if Duncan really has the ability to be superior, the "general" will not contradict him, and the two can coexist.

Therefore, Wilkins' presence is not good for the Spurs, and it is best for him to be willing to go, saving him from being an ugly person. You know, now San Antonio has a lot of Wilkins fans, and he is not the Zhuge Go that everyone loved in the holy city later.

On July 2, Zhang Wei directly liked Wilkins' ICQ log, and now everyone knows what the Lakers mean, and they want to compete with the Spurs for this former superstar forward.

David Stern naturally turned a blind eye to this kind of opportunistic behavior, anyway, the Lakers didn't directly contact the players, can't people praise it? Speaking of which, a few days ago, he liked the photo in Zhang Fu's space, what is this!

The next day, Barkley's mood became very conflicted, because after Zhang Qi finished teasing Wilkins, he ran to his space log and liked it, and left a message, this is too much!

Barkley hesitated for a while, of course he knew what Zhang Qian meant, but he really couldn't pull it off on his face!

At this time, other teams are also a little unable to sit still, if Wilkins, who has suffered a serious decline in efficiency, is not a threat, but Barkley, who performed well in the playoffs last season, is different. Last year's Rockets were the only team to beat the Lakers, and it was Barkley who was able to beat the Lakers in that game.

Barkley is also about to turn 35 and can be expected to decline in the new season, but this bastard is still capable of playing a lot of 25+10 games in the playoffs. Especially when playing with the Lakers, if Zhang Yu is in front, his pressure will undoubtedly be much less, and the efficiency may not drop too much in the playoffs.

Many people are panicking, if the Lakers really form a lineup like Zhang Zhu, Mutombo, Kidd, Barkley, Mason, Wilkins, Finley, and Starks, then other teams will not be opponents no matter how strong they are!

These teams can't sit still for a while, the Lakers are strong enough in front of them, they must not cheat anymore, if Barkley really goes to Los Angeles, how can others play?

David Stern was also a little embarrassed, and he also felt that Barkley's departure to the Lakers would be too unbalanced, which would be very detrimental to his layout for the new season. But he suddenly found that now he didn't dare to weaken the Lakers, because behind Zhang Qiu stood the two predators of Dragonborn and Microsoft.

In fact, not to mention Microsoft and Dragonborn, the current NBA doesn't even dare to offend Nike, Old Bass is his friend again, Nike has obviously put Zhang Fu on the throne, and if he wants to cut the Lakers at the moment, he is really not easy to start, the energy behind it is too strong!

There are concerns that the Lakers will upset the balance of the game once they seduce Barkley.

Thankfully, Barkley's cheekiness helped the men with their concerns.

Sir Charles also struggled at home for two days, and finally gave himself two mouths, but he still couldn't pull his face to hug Zhang Mao's thighs.

But don't be happy with the Rockets, because Barkley has long been dead set on the Rockets, and it's no wonder that he can win the championship if he plays with two guys who don't work hard like him in the new season!

Barkley is not afraid to say it generously, he can't work as hard as Jordan and Zhang Wei in his life, so he will never be able to win the championship by his own strength, especially at this age, it is even more impossible for him to win the championship on his own, and there is only one way left - hugging his thighs!

However, you can't hug your thighs casually, the reason why he abandoned the Lakers and chose the Rockets last season was because hugging Zhang Mao's thighs was too bad for face.

In fact, there is no complicated reason for this, that is, Zhang Qi is too young, which makes him worry that even if he wins the championship in the Lakers in the future, if he is ridiculed for "holding a 20-year-old" rookie to win the championship, it is really not good to say!

Now Olajuwon and Drexler have no motivation to continue to work hard, he knows that there is no hope of staying with the Rockets, since it is too faceless to join the Lakers, he simply retreats again and chooses the Bulls, who were also unwilling to join last season because of face.

He and Jordan are friends and rivals, but the Bulls of the year before last happened to stage the scene of the return of the king, and he would be ridiculed when he hugged his thighs.

But when he joined the Rockets, the Houston who had just failed to defend his title had his place, and if he joined a team that had just failed, if he really won the championship, he would not only not be ridiculed and hugged his thighs, but would also be praised because he made up for his shortcomings, which became very face-saving.

"TMD, I feel like I'm going to lose face!"

After Barkley chose to join the Bulls in the early morning of the 4th, such a thought immediately rose in his heart, but he could only choose this way, and there would be all kinds of helplessness in life.

"Charles joins the Bulls, let's move forward together!"

—Chicago Post

"Ross Barkley: I joined the Bulls to win, and now I just want to chase the championship."

—Chicago Tribune.

This is the Chicago media report on July 4, in fact, it is not yet the official signing date, but all teams can negotiate with free agents, but judging from the tone of the Chicago media, the deal has been finalized.

The Rockets said "I don't want to talk right now," but they know the news is true because Barkley has been semi-out of touch with the team since the playoffs.

Barkley's attitude is the same now, as early as after being eliminated by the Lakers, he didn't want to say another word to the Rockets.

If I had to say it, it would be goods bye!

There is another inside story here, which Barkley has not revealed for the time being, that is, he will leave the Rockets so resolutely, in addition to not seeing the hope of winning the championship, he also finds himself fooled by the Rockets.

The Rockets traded half of their starting lineup for Barkley last season and promised to give him a multi-million contract this year.

But in fact, the Rockets' calculation in their hearts is: if the Big Three succeed in winning the championship, they can naturally give Barkley a one-year contract of about 10 million; But if it fails, then rebuild completely. Anyway, the chips they used to trade Barkley in the first place did not meet the expectations of the rebuild, and they could still fight in exchange for Barkley, so why not?

At the beginning, some people said that the Rockets traded Barkley for half of the starters to make a loss-making deal, but they didn't know that if the Rockets didn't do that business in the first place, would they expect a Cassel and Horry to help the Rockets win the championship?

In fact, that kind of state of not being able to go up or down is the most hopeless road.

Now, the gamble has failed, the Rockets still failed to win the championship, and the three elders are also a year older, and the Rockets certainly choose to regret it.

This year, they will not spend any more money to maintain the Big Three, so they only plan to give Barkley a contract of 2 million in the new season, or a short contract for a period of one year, love it or not!

Barkley knew he had been completely fooled, but what he didn't know was that if he had chosen the Lakers in the first place, it would have ended up the same way.

These two teams want to see if they can win the championship after trading to Barkley, and if they can, they can naturally continue for another year, and if they can't, they will just turn their faces and deny people. As for the promise of that kind of thing, as long as it is not signed, it is no different from the paper in the toilet, who believes who is stupid!

Bulls general manager Klaus revealed on the 5th that the deal has indeed been done, and the contract is signed in just two days, which will make Barkley even look for a house in Chicago.

He said that Barkley had other options, but he ultimately chose the Bulls, "Charles could have had the option to sign with several other teams, but his current mentality, goals, focus and desire to win made him decide to join the Bulls. We are confident that Charles will fit well into the team and we look forward to his contribution to the Bulls." ”

"Hmph, he's just going to make this stupid choice, no wonder he can't win the championship!"

Zhang Wei was very unhappy, not that he couldn't grab Barkley's big loss, but that he was rejected twice for his overtures, and this loss of face was not small.

The koala baby is not big-eyed, and Barkley's two refusals are tantamount to two slaps in the face, and when we meet in the future, we must overturn him and the team he joined.

The Lakers are not unhappy at all, they have too many options, a 34-year-old Barkley can come if he can, and there is nothing to lose if he doesn't come.

Harris was not involved in the operation, but when he heard the news while on vacation, he was relieved. Because he really thinks that the current Barkley is not as good as Mason, and that guy is really here to be a problem, Mason will definitely have an opinion, and they don't need to ruin the team's chemistry for an old ass.

Besides, the Lakers' first offshore player tryout is about to begin, so they might as well go and see if there are any good seedlings in it.