Chapter 377: Sweet Trilogy

With most teams only having two preseason games to play in this shrinking season, it's not so much about testing the quality of new signings as it is about giving them more time to make trades, and the championship-aspiring teams in the league will be in a frenzy to bolster them. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tyson Chandler walked around many teams that were interested in strengthening the interior and found that the experience of failing to win the championship last season made his value unable to rush all the way to the top salary ranks, and those teams full of sincerity were all frightened by his lion's big mouth and turned around and ran, only a fool would give a blue-collar interior who has no ability to score more than 12 million annual salary.

In the end, the frustrated boxing champion could only accept the Mavericks' 2-year 24 million contract to stay in Dallas, because this is the maximum number of years and the largest amount of contract that the Mavericks can offer today. If the Mavericks still can't win the championship in the next two seasons, then the Dallas will ditch all their high-paying contracts and enter a rebuilding period for good, or they will be punished by the luxury tax in the new collective bargaining agreement, and the humane Cuban still gave Nowitzki the last two years.

Chandler was unhappy after signing this short-term contract, although there are many teams in the league who are willing to get him, but those teams either have no space or are not willing to pay too much for a trade, which makes his options very limited, and he has to stay in Dallas until next summer, and his contract has a player option for the second year.

The Lakers' neighbors, the Los Angeles Clippers, are also in a lot of motion, they first signed Caron Butler, who left the Mavericks, and then managed to steal the Knicks' headlines after the preseason - the Chris Paul trade was finally successful, and the Queen Bee will officially join the Clippers in the new season.

Clippers fans are overjoyed, but the Hornets fans who lost the core of the team in this deal said: They can already be disbanded!

This season's Hornets are undoubtedly the most pitiful team in the league, the front foot West has just been poached by the New Yorkers wielding a hoe, and now Paul has also run away to Los Angeles, the team that was dismembered by the largest cities in the East and West is simply the most injured existence this summer, a large number of stimulated New Orleans fans said that they will not buy season tickets for the new game, ESPN predicts that the Hornets' average attendance will fall below 6% in the new season.

The Clippers were suddenly promoted to the league's powerhouse from this deal, and the NBA officially confirmed that the Hornets' deal with the Clippers was completed. The Hornets acquired forward Aminu, guard Eric Gordon, center Chris Carman and an unprotected first-round pick from the Clippers; The Clippers acquired Chris Paul and two 2015 second-round picks from the Hornets.

On the Lakers' side, due to the failure to clear the space, although Smalls' contract this season is $500,000 less than Gasol's, his final year's salary is a million more than Gasol's, so they can only send Odom and Shannon Brown to complete the weight loss.

But after cleaning up these two men, the Lakers' salary situation is still unhealthy, and if they can't win the championship in the next three seasons, the subsequent luxury tax price will be too heavy.

With three years left on his contract, the Lakers are destined to avoid the penalty of superimposed luxury tax.

The Heat also had some gains, first they took over Barron Davis, who was **** by the Cavaliers, which was considered another robbery from the Clevelands, and then they also got the value-for-money J.R. Smith.

J.R. Smith missed the short period of free agency this season due to his over-indulgence in low-level copies in the CBA during the shutdown, and by the time he reacted, the NBA regular season was about to start, and the recruitment of various teams was coming to an end, and few teams offered him even a full mid-level contract.

This made the convulsive man who has always had the strength to compete for the best sixth man feel very embarrassed, so the Heat picked up a big bargain before the start of the regular season, and they only used more than 2 million to take it down with a part of the middle class regulations, and this signing also solved the problem of outside firepower and bench firepower that the Heat urgently needed to replenish.

The Knicks could have had a chance to get the bench bandit, but considering that their No. 2 and No. 3 spots are already overcrowded, D'Antoni will already be bothered by the playing time of Gallinari, Tony Allen and Green, and if another J.R. Smith is added, the Knicks are unlikely to be far from infighting.

There has to be some level of intra-team competition within a team, and now the Knicks have Monroe, Space Easy and veteran Collins on the inside to compete for rotation time, and the three are about 35 minutes of rotation time. The competition on the outside is stronger than on the inside, and Gallinari, as the team's sixth man, will not have too little playing time, so Tony Allen will have to compete with Green for limited rotation time.

But even this is within the scope of reasonable competition, but if more outside players are introduced to join the competition, it will easily make the original healthy competition change the flavor, and it will also be very bad for the team's locker room.

D'Antoni naturally didn't understand such a simple truth, so after the start of the regular season to convert Whiteside's contract to a partially guaranteed base salary contract, the Knicks announced the closure of the transfer market, and their new season reinforcements have been completely completed.

Whiteside, a second-year rookie, finally breathed a sigh of relief after getting a partially guaranteed contract, as long as he is not cut by the Knicks before the transfer deadline, his contract will automatically be converted to a fully guaranteed contract at that time.

But it can also be seen that the Knicks' attitude towards him is still very conservative, at this moment even Wu Huang does not think that Whiteside can become a qualified starter in the future, his contract is only partially guaranteed to show the Knicks' attitude towards him, at this moment they have deep doubts about whether Whiteside can become a qualified substitute in the future?

Are there fewer guys in this league who are physically perverted, but can't play in the end? No matter how you look at Whiteside at the moment, he is a difficult guy to achieve.

The NBA's 2011-2012 regular season opener was scheduled early in the morning, with defending champion New York Knicks vs. last season's runner-up Dallas Mavericks. On this day, the Knicks will also award championship rings to the players, and O'Neal and Alstom, who have become part of the coaching staff, will come on the court to receive their own rings. As for the players who are no longer with the Knicks this season, they will receive their rings when they come to play in New York, and players who are no longer playing in the NBA will receive their rings on the opening day through a partnership with Panda Live, and the picture of them receiving their rings will appear on the big screen on the scene.

Panda Video has bought the rights to broadcast all of the Knicks' games this year, which is the first time that the NBA has broadcast it through bullet hell live, which is expected to attract many young fans from traditional TV stations, especially fans in the New York area, who will definitely pay to subscribe to the channel to support their holy masters.

Now the question is: How much do Mavericks players feel when they see Knicks players receiving their championship rings?

The poor Dallas haven't returned empty-handed in the transfer market this year, getting veteran Carter, Emperor Delonti West, and the Lakers outcast Lama, but also losing a number of important players such as Barria, Caron Butler and Sean Stevenson.

Mavericks were originally interested in Space Yi, but the latter naturally chose the Knicks as long as he was not brain-dead.

The Mavericks have strengthened on paper this season, with the addition of Odom largely bolstering the team's interior line, and while Barria's departure has made the Mavericks' offense less routine, they have brought in Carter and Delonte West, which largely offset the loss of Barria.

However, the biggest problem for this team is age, considering that the Mavericks' core players have grown by another year, and it is basically useless to try to make it all the way to the Finals like last season. This year's Thunder, Lakers and Spurs have all strengthened the strong teams in the West, and in addition to the addition of the Clippers and Grizzlies, two new strong teams, the Mavericks can achieve the top four results in the West this season, which is already considered a good performance of these old guys.

The regular season of the new season is about to begin, and the Knicks have added a lot of tactical sessions and 5v5 drills during this time, with a full three tactical sessions and three 5v5 drills in the four days from the end of the preseason to the start of the regular season.

There is a sense of urgency in the mustache's heart, and the patience of the New York fans is only one month at most, and it is a month in which they better not fall out of the top three in the East.

But this task is not a sure thing for the current Knicks, just in the four games in December, they will meet the Mavericks and the Lakers one after another, especially against the Lakers He must not lose, otherwise the pot of the trade will be carried on him, it will be really embarrassing.

The New York media and fans do have high requirements for the record of this month, take a closer look at the Knicks' schedule in the first month, in addition to the two strong teams they will meet in December, the Mavericks and Lakers, the schedule in January next year is actually very easy, especially in the first half of January, almost all of them are Hornets, Nets, Pistons, 76ers This kind of team that has been rotten to the ground, if D'Antoni can't let the Knicks rank in the top three under such a schedule, then he can really pack up his baggage and get out!

Wu Huang told the media he knew well the day before the Mavericks: "I can feel that we are getting more and more tacit every day, and it is a hard but wonderful period. This year, our starting five people changed three at once, and the style of play is destined to change greatly, we need to find a more balanced offensive and defensive strategy suitable for the new lineup from the previous offensive and defensive runs, so it takes more time to run in the lineup and practice new tactics. The shortened season caused by this shutdown has left us with very tight time, and it will be difficult to transform the Knicks team in a short period of time. But luckily, the early schedule is still in our favor, and maybe by next February, you'll see a very different Knicks. ”

The Holy Sect Master's words are not for D'Antoni, he habitually lays a few mines to prepare to smash his own coach, if the Knicks once overturn in his so-called "favorable schedule", then this responsibility will naturally have to be borne by the head coach.

"Yi, you have to keep a triangle position with me at all times, you have to follow my position and keep moving, don't think about anything else after receiving the ball, shoot immediately when you have the opportunity, even if your teammates have a better position, you don't care." Wu Huang was using his funny Mandarin to communicate with Space Yi, "If you really don't have a shooting chance, you turn the basketball to the weak side, and our second point of possession will definitely be there." "Wu Huang will patiently explain his position to Space Yi in practice, don't look at this is a very simple communication, but when the Nets and the Bucks are played, few people will explain his running and standing so patiently with him, let alone tell him not to pass the ball.

If Emperor Wu hadn't treated him as his own, he wouldn't have said it so bluntly.

As soon as Space Yi heard Wu Huang's half-baked and strangely pronounced Mandarin, he felt an urge to laugh in his heart. However, Wu Huang's accent also counteracts his shy personality to a certain extent, after more than a week of training, Wu Huang found that the extremely introverted Space Yi can slowly let go in front of him, although there is still not much communication with other teammates, but at least when talking to him, it will not be a helpless look.

"It's no wonder that this kind of character is not good." Wu Huang and Space Yi got along and understood that this compatriot would definitely be teased by the other party when he was so introverted when he got along with those black players, and the so-called jokes of these black players far exceeded the level of jokes in the eyes of the Chinese. In this way, both sides will soon feel bored, and it is inevitable that the yellow-skinned space will be easily excluded.

Besides, these black players are not gentlemen, they pay the most attention to the law of the jungle, and the NBA is also a cruel circle of survival of the fittest, and Space Yi's humble character will inevitably be bullied as a soft persimmon.

His compatriot is not like Yao Ming, who has a top background and his irreplaceable height advantage. And the little giant's emotional intelligence is extremely high, his eloquence is excellent and he is very humorous, this kind of player black can't eat, but it's a little worse in all aspects, especially the space Yi who is not good at communicating with people is much easier to bully.

Space Yi felt that Wu Huang's Mandarin pronunciation was funny at the moment, but he didn't expect that his English pronunciation also made Wu Huang often very painful, and it also increased the difficulty for him to integrate into the team.

However, the compatriot's athleticism is still very good, and his footwork is certainly not comparable to Garnett's youth, but it is definitely enough, and his speed, agility, and bounce are also at this level, although they are not considered to be at the top of the ranks, but they will definitely not lag behind.

Wu Huang feels that as long as Space Yi can practice a stable mid-to-long-range shot, his upline will at least not be worse than his former substitute, Ryan Anderson, who has already played as a starter in the Magic team at this time, and he is definitely capable of playing a starting position in the middle and lower teams.

Of course, in a team like the Knicks, Space Easy can only strive for more playing time, and the interior line in those strong teams cannot have too big shortcomings, and Space Yi's interior single defense ability is his biggest shortcoming, unless he has Bosh's offensive power and co-defense ability, otherwise this flaw is to limit him from further shackles.

"Our cheerleaders also seem to be sexier than they were last season." When the Holy Sect Master is busy, he will also judge their beautiful cheerleaders with his teammates, and he knows that at least half of the girls in the Knicks' cheerleading team have joined in, and the goal is to **** him, the sect leader, to bed.

However, Emperor Wu was troublesome afterwards and never let these girls get what they wanted.

Emperor Wu knows that these girls are not easy to mess with, they can definitely do something to prick that plastic wrap and then him!

You don't see how many celebrities in the NBA pay heavy financial losses because of illegitimate children every year, even if they take a step back and don't win the bid, there are many examples of being sued for sexual assault afterwards.

This kind of stealing thing, you have to be sneaky and dare not see people, naturally it is easier to be slandered, once something happens, you can't tell it at all, and after a few months of lawsuits, you can only pay the price of infamy and use US dollars to solve the problem, the price of this kind of overnight romance is too great.

Therefore, Wu Huang has always been reluctant to mess with flowers outside, even if it was much safer to steal from David Lee's girlfriend than to pick this kind of wildflower, at least the woman would be more worried about exposure than him.

Originally, he had been given up by the Knicks coaching staff because of his poor performance against the Magic, but the next day he gave the poor sister-in-law and West a defensive hat in the team's training game, which made Wu Huang feel that this second goods was not hopeless, and he could give him some more time to see if he would continue to improve.

One good thing about this guy who is said to have ADHD is that he is not afraid of blows and has a very big heart. It's like a big blow against the Magic team, and it's estimated that it will be slumped if it is replaced by space, but this guy is like he has no memory, he forgot about it after a night, and the next day he still participates in training with a look of excess energy, and he is very familiar, and he looks like an old friend with everyone.

Wu Huang thinks that this guy is the kind of strange person who only lives in his own world, and he also has the attribute of "no heart and no lungs", but it is not Howard's optimism that seems to be pretended, this thing is really a bit innocent, just like the protagonist in one of his comics.

Whiteside used the form and enthusiasm he showed in training to finally win the good news of his devolution to the Development League before the start of the regular season!

The Knicks' 12-man roster was full, and although this thing was lucky to stay, it was still kicked by D'Antoni to the Development League to brush up on experience.

On December 25, the two-month long overdue season finally began, and the Knicks players will receive their long-awaited championship rings today.

Before the game, Wu Huang also specially posted a photo of the special display cabinet for placing the championship ring in his home, and fans can see that he has designed ten exhibition places in it, such a naked ambition has made many black fans climax again, and the comment area is full of vomiting expressions.

NBA officials do not make championship rings for championship teams, but instead grant this power to the team that won the championship that year. The winning team will contact designers, manufacturers, etc., and then pay for a one-of-a-kind championship ring at their own expense.

Typically, an NBA championship ring can cost anywhere from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands of dollars, depending on the generosity of the team.

The Knicks' championship is of great significance, and the New York team, which has always been a local tyrant, naturally spares no expense to make rings, and it is reported that the Knicks' championship ring will cost more than $30,000 this year.

Generally, the winning team will make 25-30 championship rings, because in addition to the players, the coaching staff will also get a ring that belongs to them. But James Dolan, who has always been generous, decided to customize a championship ring for each of the nearly 1,000 Knicks employees, which is a relatively rare situation.

It is understood that nearly 1,000 employees of Madison Square Garden will receive this year's NBA championship ring, of course, in addition to the players and coaching staff rings will be inlaid with sparkling diamonds on the surface, and a valuable sapphire inside, the rest of the rings will not be so extravagant, not only the quality and quantity of the diamonds will be reduced, but the quality of the huge sapphire inside will also be reduced.

The cost of nearly 1,000 "** silk version" championship rings is about 1,000 US dollars each, although the cost is dozens of times lower, but it is not a small amount to make so many in one go. To do this, James Dolan will probably spend more than $2 million, and the Knicks employees who can get the championship ring even include the cleaners at Madison Garden.

It is worth mentioning that each champion team will make a "mother ring" to put in the team's Hall of Fame, this "mother ring" will be more beautifully made, not only set with more and more high-quality gems and diamonds, but also the size of the ring will be twice as large as the player's.

So this mother ring is basically not for wearing, but for exhibition.

The media estimated that the Knicks' "mother ring" would cost more than $1 million, setting a new record for the most expensive championship ring in American sports history. The key is that they didn't just make one, the Knicks' board of directors and James Dolan announced early on that they would make a pair of "mother rings" in order to further envelop Emperor Wu, one of which was naturally given to them as the "Emperor of New York", the "Holy Master" of the Knicks.

Wu Huang secretly said that this mere one million is nothing to him, but it reflects the team's respect for himself, so Wu Huang accepted it with peace of mind, and he became the first player in NBA history to win two rings for a championship.

Due to the Knicks' split after last season's championship, their championship ring ceremony was held more than once, and when the departed players returned to the Knicks' home court, the home team would present them with rings before the game, and in addition to a few players who retired and left the NBA, players like Smalls would have to wait until they came to New York to play before they could receive their championship rings.

Wu Huang didn't seem too jumpy before the game, which has something to do with his good mood, after all, whoever gets such a big ring will not still be calm.

But once the Holy Sect Master doesn't bully people, this makes the hot game atmosphere can't rise, and the Maverick players will certainly not take the initiative to provoke disputes when Emperor Wu doesn't take the initiative to cause trouble, just like the positive characters in movies and TV series never take the initiative to provoke villains, as long as Emperor Wu doesn't take the initiative to provoke trouble, then no one will take the initiative to provoke him.

Speaking at the pre-match press conference, Wu Huang said: "We will have a sweet trilogy after winning the championship - the ceremony of raising the championship flag, visiting the White House and presenting the championship ring, which is fantastic! But then he suddenly smiled a little nervously, "But we have to come out of it and deal with the opponents who come here to challenge." They almost beat us last time out, they're a good team and we don't want to be messed up with the celebration, so be ready. ”

The Holy Sect Master also warned his teammates before the game not to continue to indulge in the joy of winning the championship, that was already in the past. "yes, that moment is behind us, we achieved our goal in June, we raised the championship flag against the Dallas Mavericks, that's a thing of the past. Getting a championship ring is just the icing on the cake, it's a new season and we're going to try to get another ring." ”

The trilogy in Emperor Wu's mouth is actually only the second step today, and they haven't been to the White House yet.

The tradition of NBA champion teams visiting the White House was first born in 1985, and it has become a tradition for NBA championship teams to be received by the president at the White House, basically every year before the championship team visits the Washington Wizards.

The Knicks are scheduled to travel to Washington on January 6 to play against the Wizards, and before that they will complete a visit to the White House.

Obama, who is said to have regarded the Knicks as his second home team, can't wait to meet the Holy Sect leader, and I don't know if the first black president of the United States has joined the Holy Church?

In the pre-match ceremony, Wu Huang as the protagonist after coping with a lot of activities that he was not interested in, and then reading a large speech that was very exciting in the eyes of the fans according to the script, finally received his championship ring bigger than a goose egg, which is what he is really interested in today.

Among the Knicks' several new signings, Gasol, who has just won two championships in the past few years, naturally doesn't have many ideas, but West and Battier's eyes are full of envy and expectation, and they hope that today's celebration will also have their own share!

O'Neal also received the ring with the Knicks players on the spot, and he has a different idea now, how much the big fat man wishes that little black snake was also here!

This fat man now even regrets that he retired this year, and he may be able to get another ring after another year here, saving the risk of being overtaken by that little black snake.

O'Neal thinks Howard's eight achievements will be traded to the Lakers this season, and even if such a trade doesn't happen this season, he is likely to make the same choice as he did next season.

Don't look at him always looking down on Howard, every once in a while he has to mock this guy who is always used by the media as his successor. But he also admitted that with Howard's defensive ability, once paired with Xiao Si, who is full of offensive power, and Kobe, who is still in good shape, the chances of winning the championship in this iron triangle may be higher than the current Knicks. (To be continued.) )