532. Kupchak who resigned himself to his fate

"Holy! The Lakers' painting style is starting to be funny again, who will accept this group of people! ”

"What are you doing in a fright, have I had fewer teases in the past two years?"

"Shock! Boss bluntly said that he wanted to steal Kobe's position as the boss, and there was a contradiction within the Lakers! ”

"Lakers infighting! Kobe Bryant left in training! ”

"The Lakers are on a clear line! Everyone ignores the boss, and the boss says he's hurt......"

"It's really hard to be idle! You see that the Lakers always have to do something every time they have a long break, the last time they hurt each other with the Clippers, before that they lost to the 76ers in a row, and before that they lost to the Spurs...... The alliance should arrange more rest time for them! It's so much fun! ”

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After the Lakers' official Twitter uploaded the recording video of Liu Ren after winning the MVP to the Internet, it immediately became popular. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

Some fans are curious, is it true that the strongest teams in the league are made up of comics?

When I think about Bosh during the time of the Heat's Big Three, he always likes to grab the camera everywhere after the game against the popular team, as well as the Spurs, a good group of bands and singers to play in the NBA, which is simply not a serious job.

The regular season MVP was announced, followed by the All-Defensive All-Team and All-Defensive Team.

On May 20, the sixth game between the Cavaliers and the Knicks was played in Cleveland, and James had no choice but to turn into a full-strength Zhan again, slashing a big triple-double of 44 points, 12 rebounds and 14 assists, defeating Anthony, who scored 51 points, and dragging the series into a tiebreaker.

On the same day, the NBA officially announced the All-NBA Team of the Season and All-Defensive Team.

The All-Star team was led by Liu Ren and Curry, who received all 100 first-place votes, embarrassing the other position of forward and guard, and both received 500 unanimous votes, which means that the media voted for the other favorite other candidate very evenly.

Neither James nor Anthony scored more than 400 votes, and in the end, James beat Anthony and was selected as the first team of the All-Round Team with a rare score of 367.

James Harden was named to the All-NBA First Team with 356 points.

Anthony Davis, a young star who has been praised by the league, was put in the center position to avoid embarrassment, and he was named to the All-Star Team with 409 points, beating out Mark Gasol to be named to the All-Star First Team.

The second team of the All-Round Team is led by Chris Paul, and the other four are Westbrook, Aldridge, Griffin, and Marc Gasol.

The third team of the best team made many fans cry.

Irving, Kobe, Pau Gasol, Green, Duncan.

Bryant Bryant was named to the All-Star team along with Duncan and Gasol, if all three went back to five years ago...... Many fans began to think about what kind of sparks would have been if the three of them were coached by Popovich or Zen masters at the same time.

Popovich has said that the most challenging project is coaching Kobe, and the Zen master has also said that Duncan is the strongest power forward he has ever seen.

This time, the Lakers have four people selected for the best team, and the media are also helpless, the Lakers' record is too good, and it seems that other teams are too inferior this year to choose a few more people to enter the best team, and Whiteside is only 7 points worse than Duncan, if Duncan is put on the forward, he will not be able to enter the best team, and it is either Jordan Jr. or Whiteside who replaces.

The Lakers had four players on the All-Star team, and the players were naturally overjoyed.

Liu Ren signed two treats, Kobe Bryant and Gasol also owed a promise to invite them to a party at the seaside manor, and Green, who only has a salary of 920,000 this year, also promised to have a treat.

However, Green's three-year rookie contract expires at the end of this season, and he gets the best defensive player and is selected to the All-NBA team, and the Lakers will definitely give him a big contract, and he will be rich from next season.

Then the best defensive team was also announced, Green and Leonard led the best defensive team, and Green was frantically put in the center position by the league! The reason is that his position in defense is that of a center forward!

Let's see if Green is put in the forward position, who is unlucky?

That's right, it's Liu Ren, Liu Ren has the second most votes at the forward, and if Green is put in the forward position, Liu Ren can only fall to the second team of the best defensive lineup.

The five players named to the All-Defensive First Team are Paul, Avery Bradley, Liu Ren, Leonard, and Green.

The five players in the second team of the All-Defensive Team are John Wall, Tony Allen, Anthony Davis, Jimmy Butler, and Whiteside.

The Lakers made three selections to the All-Defensive Team, and the league and the media also took great pains to bring this group of young people who have just risen to the forefront in their second year.

If the Lakers win the championship this year, the Lakers will naturally be happy, and the league will also launch another super strong team, and then create the topic of challenging the Lakers.

If the Lakers don't win the championship, it can be said that there is a team that has the first winning rate in history, and the fighting spirit is moving...... Anyway, the alliance is earned, and what they want is the topic.

The All-Defensive Team vote was cast after the first round, and Avery Bradley's selection to the All-NBA First Team obviously had his bonus to James' all-out defense, and the others were selected normally, except for the league's frenzied putting Green on the center to push Liu Ren to the All-Defensive Team First Team.

Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing this year, there is not a single double-team player.

The Lakers players are happy, the fans are excited, and the league is building momentum for this strongest team, and it stands to reason that Lakers management should be happy, but now they can't be happy at all.

Kupchak was looking at Jeanie Bass with a look on his face that God was against him.

"I said Jenny, our future salary situation is very bad! Even if there is a salary cap of at least 85 million in 2016, but Liu has already won the MVP, his next contract must account for at least 30 percent, and I estimate that it will be difficult to talk about it without 25 million at that time, Green was selected to the best team this year, let alone 15 million to stay, and Whiteside and Antetokounmpo, plus Gasol and McCollum, our salary has exceeded the salary cap. "Kupchak is completely overly happy now, he never thought that the squad was so good that there would be a time when he couldn't support happiness.

Kupchak's plan is to trade some young players with only one year left on their contracts this summer and next summer for draft picks and power role players, avoid using too large contract extensions, and reduce future wages a bit, but Jeanie Buss apparently didn't agree.

To ask why Kupchak is asking Jenny Bass and not Jim Buss, of course, is because Kupchak is already in line.

"It's okay, they didn't renew their contracts at the same time, Green renewed his contract this year, Liu's contract expired in 2016, Whiteside, McCollum, and Antetokounmpo all expired in 2017, and Gasol's contract will be considered mid-class at that time, don't worry." Jenny Bass clearly doesn't care that much.

"I know we have a Bird clause to keep them all, but then our salaries are too high! The board of directors will not agree either. Kupchak's fear of the board is much higher than that of Jeanie Buss, who has the most equity in the team, and he Kupchak is just a part-time worker, "and once that's the case, we don't have room to strengthen, not even the middle class, and we can't win with just a few cores." ”

"You don't have to worry about this, as long as we can guarantee such a combination, someone will naturally help us pay for it." Jeanie Buss said proudly that she was most proud of the ridiculously high broadcast fee she got from Time Warner, which indirectly drove the broadcast fee of the entire NBA, if it weren't for the fact that she got an average annual broadcast fee of more than 200 million from Time Warner, the NBA official would not know that the NBA live broadcast has been so profitable now, so she would not jump out of the contract with the broadcaster and agree to sign a sky-high broadcast agreement this summer, which will increase the NBA's revenue by one-half!

"But even then, if we renew these young contracts, the future salary space is blocked, and we don't have the money to sign role players." That's what Kupchak fears the most.

"We can trade with some resources, but also keep the core of the roster, there's always going to be a way, isn't it? There are always people who are not satisfied with playing on the bench and we have too many young players and there will be overlapping positions, but the first thing we have to do is make sure that our plan can go ahead so that we can really take control of this team. Jenny Bass laughed.

Hearing this, Kupchak hesitated again, he didn't know what the result would be after doing so.

But when Kupchak thinks about LaVine and McCollum growing up in the future, Green is already one of the best players in the league, plus starters like Liu Ren and Whiteside......

Kupchak still couldn't resist the temptation of the supergiants, and after settling down, he asked: "What to do?" ”

Jenny Bass was very pleased with Kupchak's performance and said: "Mitch, let me ask you, what was my dear brother going to do when he renewed his contract with Liu? ”

"Jim? He's ready to trade Liu for the first round. ”

Kupchak did not deny this, 2013 was originally a draft year, in the 2012-2013 season, Liu Ren played a certain value, at that time Liu Ren was a restricted free agent of the Lakers, the Lakers had the power to match the offers of other teams, Jim Buss had little expectations for Liu Ren after seeing Jeremy Lin play badly after he arrived at the Rockets, and wanted to trade Liu Ren while his value was still there, the Hawks, Spurs, and Raptors have even made offers, used a low-pick draft pick to sign with the Lakers and then trade for Liu Ren, but Liu Ren wanted to stay in Los Angeles, and the trade didn't go through.

"My brother has a good eye, it seems that my brother didn't agree to trade Green and Antetokounmpo and McCollum, right?"

"That's right, Jim had a good relationship with our former head assistant Dan D'Antoni, they wanted to trade for Jeff Green, and in the end I chose to trust Liu's vision, and Hassan surprised us too much." Kupchak is really a bit thrilling when he thinks about it now, he almost traded Liu Ren at the beginning, and almost didn't listen to Liu Ren's words to sign Whiteside and trade Green and others.

Thanks to Kupchak is the general manager with decision-making power, otherwise Jim Buss really insists on going his own way, and now the Lakers are estimated to be finished, and at that time, the Lakers will really be as bad as Liu Ren remembers.

Of course, Kupchak didn't say any of these things to Liu Ren, and it was definitely impossible for the management to tell him about this kind of thing that made the core of the team and the team have a gap.

"Mitch, don't you think it's child's fun for us to make my brother, who has such a brilliant vision, the CEO? I'm sure the people on the board know that we had such a perfect core that was almost traded for a Jeff Green, and they're going to think it's time to change that position! "Jenny Bass said what she wanted to say the most.

Kupchak could only smile bitterly when he heard this, the big boss of the family was ready for everything, just waiting for himself to say this in person, and give his current boss Jim Bass a fatal blow!

If the board did know about the insiders, Jenny Bass would have been able to use her removal powers, and the other directors would not have been able to say anything.

You must know that the Lakers board has a characteristic, they are all surnamed Buss, and the main industry is only the Lakers, and the rise and fall of the Lakers is related to their wallets.

Take a look at what Jim Buss has wanted to do and done in recent years, first the failed Big Four, and then he wants to send this year's MVP away before he has yet to play......

Needless to say, those old guys and dumb guys would want Jim Buss out of office more than Jenny Buss.

"Okay, I see, Jenny will be the CEO?" Kupchak also resigned himself to his fate.

"No, no, no, I'm not as good as you guys in this regard, maybe even my dear brother, you know women are sensual, maybe I'll keep all the players and then our finances will collapse." Jenny Bass was clearly in a very good mood after receiving the reply, and even made a joke.

"Jenny, I believe that with your means, you will not let the finances collapse, even if the NBA finances collapse, you will still make money." Kupček has always recognized Jenny Basla's ability to sponsor, and can even be described as respectful, "But we have to have an CEO!" ”

"Of course, I already have a candidate."

"Who?"

"Like you, it's a name for our team."

"Come on, what kind of celebrity am I, is it Jerry (West), well, I'd love to work with him, I think the unpleasantness between us will disappear under such a perfect asset." Kupchak is a little helpless, the Lakers can be called famous in the history of the Lakers, and he is qualified to be the president of a team, the first choice is, of course, the godfather of the Lakers and the NBA logo man Jerry West.

"No, Jerry is great, but he's not fit to come back to the Lakers, he doesn't want to, I don't want you to leave, you have the best relationship with our boss on the team." Jenny Bass rejected the option that made Kupchak a little uneasy.

Kupchak breathed a sigh of relief, if it was really Jerry West who came back, then his life would be really difficult.

However, Kupchak also has his own advantages, that is, he is happy to listen to Liu Ren's advice, so that Liu Ren very much agrees with his general manager position, which is very important in an NBA team, just like James can decide whether the general manager of the Cavaliers will stay at any time.

"And who is that 'celebrity'? Elgin? Kupchak laughed.

Elgin Baylor, the NBA's famous eight-game Yabel master, is an unlucky guy who has lost to the Finals for eight consecutive years.

After retiring, Baylor also served as the team's general manager, but he was the general manager of the Clippers, which made the Clippers go through a hellish 20 years, and the NBA's first famous parallel champion Olowo Kandi was selected by Baylor for the Clippers.

Speaking of which, Baylor was really unlucky from beginning to end, when he played, he reached the Finals for eight consecutive years without winning the championship, and after playing nine games in the last season, he announced his retirement due to injury, and then the Lakers won the championship that year.

But Baylor only played nine games that year, and if he played ten games under the rules of the year, he would have received a championship ring, just like Vallejo was traded from the Cavaliers to the Warriors in half of the 2015-2016 season, and finally the Cavaliers won the championship, and Vallejo still got the Cavaliers championship ring as a Warriors player.

And Lord Belle was so unlucky, he just didn't fight one less.

After that, he became a head coach and coached the Jazz for three years, and for three consecutive years the Jazz players suffered a wide range of injuries, but he was really good, and the Jazz who kept signing new players with injuries and injuries played to the point where he was on the verge of the playoffs, and then the Jazz management felt that he was too unlucky and fired him.

Later, in 1986, he returned to Los Angeles to become the general manager of the Clippers, and the Clippers began an embarrassing journey of not making the playoffs for 15 consecutive years, and got two first-round picks in 1988 and 1998.

Later, in 1998, Baylor did it again and used the champion to sign "Another Big Dream" Olovo Candi...... This African "genius" who has only played basketball for six years.

In 2006, Baylor, who had worked for the Clippers for 20 years, finally got a great team to make the playoffs and was named Manager of the Year.

Just when Lord Belle thought he was going to turn over, his boss discriminated against him.

Yes, this owner is Mr. Sterling, who was "diagnosed" to lose his autonomy last year and ruined last year's season in the history of the Clippers that was most likely to reach the Western Conference Finals.

Lord Belle wanted to raise his salary at that time and went to Sterling, but that day Sterling didn't know if his brain was pumped or what, and he said that if you give you a, you can only give so much money, and then he was sued by Lord Belle in court.

Because there was no recording, Belle was not only not compensated, but was also fired by Sterling......

It can be said that Lord Belle's life is very tragic......

"Haha, Mitch, Elgin is great, but we still won't invite him back for the time being, this time I'm going to invite someone you'll be very happy to meet."

"Who?"

"Mitch, do you still remember the showtime when you played?"