Chapter Ninety-Six: A Crazy Off-Season

The 2016 offseason was destined to be insane, involving more than 200 player trades, transfers, and contract extensions, unprecedented in NBA history, and probably the second, with some of the biggest fans and media in the spotlight. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

As Wang Zhuo expected, after meeting with several potential next management, Durant finally chose to join the Golden State Warriors, and joined forces with Curry, Thompson, and Green to form the sensational Golden State Four Musketeers in the league, referring to the O'Brien Cup.

Howard fell out with the Rockets and jumped out of his contract to join his hometown team, the Atlanta Hawks, Al Horford joined the Boston Celtics, and Harrison Barnes settled in the Dallas Mavericks.

The most surprising thing for Wang Zhuo is that Wade left the Heat and settled in the Bulls, you must know that the Heat is Wade's parent team that has played for 13 years and won three championship rings, which also further confirms the nature of the NBA's business league, and the human touch is always behind the interests.

The Knicks are a team that has made a big deal this offseason, not only trading to Rose, but also signing Noah, and more importantly, successfully persuading Ray Allen to come out of the mountain and bring back Jeff Van Gundy as a defensive coach.

"It was a difficult decision, but after careful communication with my family and agent, I decided to return to the court and play under Wang, and the Knicks will be the fifth and last team of my career."

When Ray Allen faced the media announcing that he would join the Knicks, almost no one believed the fact that the retirement of Kobe, Duncan and Garnett took away the youth of too many fans, and the return of Ray Allen slightly made up for the regret in their hearts, all thanks to Wang Zhuo, which also made other teams that wanted to compete for Ray Allen completely dead at the same time, hated Wang Zhuo.

The Knicks won the Summer League championship with a record of six wins in six games under the leadership of Jeff Van Gundy, Jerry Grant won the MVP of the Summer League Finals, and Van Gundy also proved to fans around the world that he is not old.

Ray Allen tried his hand at the summer league with accurate three-point shooting, and more importantly, his unique personality made him a model and role model for young players, and he himself became the undisputed leader of the Knicks' locker room, and of course, Allen was willing to share his shooting experience and court experience with his teammates.

Wang Zhuo opened the offseason trade summary, after the great changes, the league is generally polarized, the strong teams are getting stronger and stronger, and the weak teams are not improving.

The Spurs, Clippers and Mavericks are in the second echelon, the Grizzlies, Trail Blazers and Rockets are in the third echelon, and the rest of the teams are either under-strengthened or too young, in short, lacking enough competitiveness.

After Duncan's retirement, the Spurs successfully signed Pau Gasol, who was a free agent, to maintain the strong strength of the team.

In the East, the two heroes are competing for supremacy, the demons are dancing, the Cavaliers and Knicks are at the top of the pyramid, the Raptors, Hawks, Bulls, Celtics, Wizards, etc. are close behind, and the rest are obviously not competitive.

It is worth mentioning that the Bulls, after losing Rose, Noah and Gasol, the system created by the Thibodeau era completely collapsed, but with Butler as the core, they signed Wade and Rondo to create a new team system, which is comparable to any super strong team in terms of strength on paper, but the real strength still needs to be verified by the practice of the game.

It is worth mentioning that several players from China, Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin joined the Houston Rockets and Memphis Grizzlies respectively through the draft, and Yi Jianlian was favored by the Lakers through his good performance in the Olympics, returned to the NBA, and settled in Los Angeles.

The competition in the NBA is cruel to the extreme, Wang Zhuo hopes that Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin can be down-to-earth, hone their physical fitness and ball skills step by step, and fully grasp the opportunity when it comes, and strive to win a place in the NBA.

When the off-season trade earthquake gradually subsided, the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro officially started in Brazil, and the old K led the U.S. team all the way, winning all the way in the group stage and the knockout stage, Anthony won another Olympic gold medal, and also showed his leadership style.

In comparison, the performance of the Chinese team was miserable, winning the last place in the group stage in five games, and finally failed to qualify, and there was a lot of scolding in China, and the men's basketball coach Gong Luming was also questioned, and the voice calling for his class was endless.

In the offseason, Wang Zhuo handed over the tea restaurant to Jiao Qiming and Qin's sister-in-law, temporarily closed the Tai Chi health center, and took Lin Yao back to China.

Wang Zhuo returned to China in secret, and did not arrange business activities such as the so-called China trip, he just wanted to accompany Lin Yao to enjoy a quiet and tranquil vacation time.

SH Pudong International Airport, Wang Zhuo and Lin Yao just walked out of the cabin, they saw a thrilling picture, enthusiastic domestic fans pulled a long banner, shouting Wang Zhuo's name under the scorching sun, when Wang Zhuo appeared, the scene suddenly fell into a riot, not only that, but a large number of sports media reporters came to hear the news, carrying long guns and short cannons ready to track Wang Zhuo at any time.

Wang Zhuo didn't expect his influence in the country to be so great, and while he was shocked, he secretly regretted that he didn't invite a few bodyguards, judging from the current situation, I'm afraid he can't even get out of the airport gate.

In desperation, Wang Zhuo asked for help from the airport security personnel, with the help of their escort, left the airport safely, for the warm welcome of domestic fans, Wang Zhuo was deeply grateful, before leaving, he bowed deeply to the fans at the scene, and stopped for a moment, leaving enough time for fans and media to take pictures.

"Mr. Wang, can you take a group photo? My son is completely obsessed with the Knicks because of you, and he will be overjoyed if he can get his hands on your picture! ”

Just as Wang Zhuo was about to take a taxi to leave, a middle-aged security officer at the airport suddenly walked up, held Wang Zhuo's hand, and said excitedly.