Chen Zhi looked at the list, "Since Brother Zhou has finished speaking, then the final decision is still up to me!" ”

Seven teams are still too many, and with only a few days to go before the free agent market opens, and after that teams are signing or trading, salary space will be compressed, which is just one factor.

The other most important factor is soul power gathering.

In the afternoon, Chen Zhi entered the ball soul system after finishing his training, but he found that he had overlooked a very important thing, his current popularity in the United States was too low, and he had not absorbed much soul power at all.

In the time of this day in the United States, the soul power value only increased by less than 300 points, which also includes the daily 100 soul power points obtained by completing training tasks.

"Harden is now the Rockets' signature player, and Zhou Qi was also drafted by the Rockets, so we won't go to the Rockets." Chen Zhi crossed out the name of the rocket as he spoke.

Zhou Jian blinked his eyes when he heard this, the meaning of Chen Zhi's words just now was clearly to be a team's signature player! This ambition is a bit big, but Zhou Jian appreciates Chen Zhi's idea, a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier.

"Denver Nuggets?" Chen Zhi hesitated as he spoke, but finally crossed it out, because he didn't have any impression of this team at all, except that Iverson once formed a golden double gun with Anthony here, but it didn't work well.

"New Orleans Pelicans?" Chen Zhi hesitated again.

"Cross out the New Orleans Pelicans, a city that has been plagued by hurricanes and doesn't seem to be very safe, and a lot of residents have moved away. I almost forgot about that. Zhou Jian interjected.

Chen Zhi thought about it, and still excluded the Pelicans, because the New Orleans Pelicans, like the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Memphis Grizzlies, are located in the smallest place in the NBA ball market, and the small population will naturally reduce the amount of soul power collected.

Like the Pelicans, there are also Pacers, which is also a small ball market with a population of about 2 million, and Chen Zhi crossed the Pacers off the list.

These places are too small, the population is too low, and James' Cleveland Cavaliers are also known as a small ball market, but there are still 3.5 million people to support it, which is far larger than the previous teams.

In fact, if you consider the Knicks and Nets in New York purely from the perspective of soul power collection, the Lakers and Clippers in Los Angeles are Chen's first choice.

It's just that Chen's current strength is enough to gain a foothold in the NBA, and the consideration of basketball should be prioritized over soul power collection, but the urban population like the Pelicans has now dropped to less than 400,000, and the population of the entire metropolitan area is only more than one million people.

"Of the rest of the teams, my favorites are the Spurs, the Heat and the Bulls."

The Spurs are also a small-ball city, although the city has a large population, which is larger than Dallas, but there are more satellite cities around Dallas, forming a relatively large metropolitan area, so it is the first-class ball market after New York and Los Angeles.

However, the Spurs have a good reputation in the mouths of Qin Zhou and others, and Chen Zhi naturally has a good impression of this team, and he also has a good impression of the NBA legendary coach Popovich, which made the Spurs one of the trial teams.

The closest is the San Antonio Spurs, which are in Texas with the Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets, known as the top three in Texas, but Chen Zhi doesn't think the Spurs will have their place.

Because the Spurs have the young Tony Parker and a three-point accurate Mills as a backup, both players are trusted by coach Popovich.

As for the two teams of the Heat and the Bulls, Chen Zhi feels that he should have the best chance of the Bulls!

The Heat also have Dragic, with a multi-million-level contract, at least a point guard player above the level, who has played at an All-Star level, and the Heat are in a fierce competition with the Warriors for Durant, obviously Durant is the main target of the Heat this offseason, and they are also facing the task of renewing the contract of Big White White.

And the Bulls are undoubtedly hungry for point guards right now!

Not long ago, the Chicago Bulls and the New York Knicks completed a trade to trade Derrick Rose to New York, and the Bulls sent Rose, Justin Holiday and a second-round pick for next year in exchange for the Knicks' Robin Lopez, Jose Calderon and Jerry Grant.

Because there is a "Ross clause" in the collective bargaining agreement, Chen Zhi is very interested in this star, and has read his materials specifically, and regrets his experience.

Derrick Rose, the top pick in the 2008 NBA Draft! In 2011, he became the youngest MVP winner in history when he completed the peak of the rose bloom in the Windy City, and the NBA named a new clause in his name, the "Rose Clause," which only the best rookie players could trigger and receive a huge contract.

However, after that, Rose suffered injuries in a row, and the 12-13 season was reimbursed throughout the year, and after the major injury, he has long since lost his previous MVP-level state, and Jimmy Butler, who has gradually risen from a role player to a superstar, is not compatible, mainly because Rose's three-point shooting rate is too low, and after losing his super explosiveness, the threat of holding the ball has been greatly reduced, and he will probably never be able to reproduce the state of the peak rose.

After completing the trade with the Knicks, the Bulls sent the main point guard, and among the players who came back, Calderon is a veteran who can only play as a backup point guard for a short time, the main point guard of the Bulls is waiting for a vacant position, and the Chicago Bulls who are in the rebuilding period have plenty of salary space!

It is also the third largest ball market in the United States, after the two megacities of New York and Los Angeles.

It can be said that the Chicago Bulls are the ideal place for Chen to go!

After determining their goals, Chen Zhi and Zhou Jian embarked on a journey early the next morning.

The five-day trial session for three teams took place in San Antonio, then to Miami, to the Chicago Bulls, where Chen had the most important team, and then to fly back to Dallas.

After all, Dallas has a mansion arranged by Chu Hugo, which can be regarded as Chen Zhi's base camp in the United States for the time being.

At the San Antonio Spurs AT&T arena, the silver-haired old man Popovich and the team's general manager, RC Buford, watched the tryout.

After the trial, the old man, who deserves to be the strongest active head coach in the entire NBA, had a solemn face, "The team that gets him will soon rise in the NBA." ”

Old partner R.C. Buford sighed, "If he had appeared a year earlier, the Spurs' next generation core would probably be the combination of him and Leonard, but unfortunately we had already signed Aldridge a year earlier, and the salary space was insufficient, and we lost the opportunity to get him, unless..."

"Hmph, we're almost losing Tim this year, do you still want to pardon Tony, he's still worth that 14 million! If you lose two of your GDP at once, and one of them is pardoned, then all Spurs fans will be looking for you desperately! And I'm not going to do that! The old man rushed away with a cold face and anger.

After completing the Chicago Bulls trial, Bulls general manager Gail Foreman watched Chen Zhi and Zhou Jian leave, and said to head coach Hojberg next to him: "Our opponent should only be Dallas, I will recruit him to you with a contract of no less than 15 million, and the new core point guard of the Bulls has been decided." ”

The fourth is a little late, come with a few tickets, and there will still be at least three more tomorrow...