Chapter 52: The Offseason Begins!

"Is Paul there? I need a specific report from Chris Karman, and what his future injuries might look like, and we need to make specific work plans, such as getting draft picks first or co-opting players, can you talk about your thoughts? Chen Xiyan's whole body exudes the momentum of a strong woman.

"Yes, from the setting of this book, we can see that the future Clippers team will rely entirely on Lin to build, and Wilson Chandler will develop him into a Scottie Pippen-style player, he has excellent physical fitness and defensive potential, and his offensive ability is not weak, and more importantly, he has strong beliefs and high ball quotient, these conditions seem to have great development value, as for Chris, to be honest, if there is no injury, he will give the team a huge help in the low post, But Paul can't guarantee that Chris Carman will always be healthy, knowing that big men are always more susceptible to injury, and once injured, it can be fatal for big players, and Chris is among them. Olshue paused and continued, "Lin will be the only core of our Clippers in the future, his advantage on the offensive end and his positive attitude on the defensive end with a teammate like Chandler will be hugely powerful, but it is also because of the huge threat that Lin brings to other teams on the offensive end, so we need a good passer and a three-pointer, when Lin runs out of the open space, a good passer can pass the ball to Lin as soon as possible, and a good three-pointer can find an opportunity on the outside when Lin is trapped, And Steve Novak is such a three-point shooter, so the Clippers will be a perfect team in the future, and we need not only to win but also to build our own unique style, and the team's defense is essential if they want to win the championship, so the first thing we need to do at the moment is to strengthen the interior line, which is to trade for draft picks, and until then, what we can do is to make the players we want to come, and I and they will work on that, once the offseason starts, We will go all out first and try to improve the squad as soon as possible! But in terms of salary? 'Olshu was a little worried about the salary because Raheem Sterling was too picky when he was the boss.

"I don't think it's a problem at all in terms of salary, it doesn't matter if it's over the salary cap, we need to put in the investment, but I want every investment to be worth it, and I don't want us to be saddled with the title of New York." Chen Xiyan dispelled Olshu's worries with a word, and everyone who used to sign a player with the boss who slammed the door directly refused to shake his head, he deeply knew the power of money.

"That's for sure!" Saying that, Nell Orshu looked around at everyone, smiled and said, "Lin, are you sure you need Ron Artest?" ”

Lin Fei looked at Olshu and stood up, "Yes, although his position has some overlap with Wilson, and his temper will also become a time bomb for the team, but I like his style, whether it is defensive or offensive, he always maintains a huge impact and aggression, I think a successful team should need such a player, his performance on the defensive end has too much to learn from us, and I believe that he is not a player without goals, so I am not worried that his performance will affect the team, He is a professional footballer. ”

"Okay, Mike, do you have any comments about Ron Artest?" Olshu said goodbye and set his sights on head coach Mike Dunleavy, after all, the most important thing is the use of a team's head coach.

Mike Dunleavy groaned for a moment and said: "Ron is the kind of player that any coach would want to have, of course, except for his surname, if I can get Ron, I think I need to put in a lot of effort to communicate with him, but I believe that if I get him, it will be a huge addition to the team, so I don't have much opinion I agree with Lin's idea!" ”

With Dunleavy's agreement, Olshu set his eyes on Chen Xiyan again, seeing Chen Xiyan nodded, Olshu said seriously: "Okay, since everyone has no opinion, then as long as the summer transfer period opens, we will go all out to fight for Ron Artest, this is our first task in the offseason." ”

Then Chen Xiyan directly decided this matter.

"No problem, in addition, the Memphis Grizzlies are our key targets, you know, they have embarked on a rebuild, but Kyle Lowry and Sun Yue are not in their team's building plan, so it will not be too difficult for us to take these two players, but in addition to the two guards, I and the scouting team also appreciate Pau Gasol's younger brother, Mark Gasol, look at the way he plays internationally, he is a good big man, his style of play is tougher than Paul, defense and offense are a huge potential stock, So we're ready to consider him, but it's going to be very difficult, as for Steve Novak of the Houston Rockets, I think this deal is not difficult at all, Novak has no status at all with the Rockets, and it's no surprise that Steve Novak will lose the opportunity to renew his contract at the end of this season, and that's when our opportunity comes, in addition to that, our important work is draft picks, I personally think the most important thing is to buy second-round picks in the draft, and try to trade picks upwards, we can't passively wait for second-round picks, so we need to go and talk to those teams in advance. "Olshu has a point.

"I would also like to add that I don't think we need Barang Davis and Elton Brand, but my idea is that we can sign and trade with Brand, and to be honest, Elton is a little short and I'm skeptical that he will be able to return to his previous peak strength after he recovers from injury, so Nell, you try to see how Elton handles."

"Okay, no problem!" After looking at Chen Xiyan, Nell Orshu nodded and agreed.

The month of May is a big month for any team, whether it's those who are making the playoffs and fighting for the highest honors, or for those who want to make a good draft pick or those who aspire to make it to the league, while the fires of the playoffs are still raging.

In the middle of this season, the Lakers, who robbed the Bear King Pau Gasol, became the most eye-catching team in the West, and sent the Clippers of the same city of the miracle team to the vacation, and then faced the strong Salt Lake City Jazz to win two home games in a row, although after two consecutive away games, the combination of the Lakers' interior twin Tagasol and Baylam began to see power, and the Lakers did not give the Jazz another chance, and kicked the Salt Lake City people out of the playoffs 4:2, And last year's championship team, the San Antonio Spurs, lost two away games in a row, which made people sigh that the Spurs couldn't help but sigh that the Spurs were old, it was at this time that the Spurs won two games in a row, although they lost one more game after that, forcing themselves to no way back, but the experience of the playoffs was fully reflected, the troika dragged the game into the top seven with a perfect performance, and the experienced Spurs in the center of New Orleans did not give the young Hornets another chance, A small 91-82 score guaranteed the Spurs a final victory and successfully advanced to the Western Conference Finals, and the Lakers vs. Spurs undoubtedly became the focus of the battle.

Compared with the West, it seems that the Detroit Pistons, whose strength has dropped significantly, easily solved the Orlando Magic, and the slightly young Warcraft was roared by the heavens without breaking his temper, and the Magic team finally ended the 2007-2008 season with 1:4, unlike the Pistons and the Magic easily, the Cavaliers led by James and the Celtics led by the Big Three fought seven games, and finally the life and death battle Although James handed over a terrifying triple-double, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, The Kevin Garnett Big Three scored 93 points to beat James' triple-double, giving the future Celtics their wish to reach the Eastern Conference Finals.

Just when the East and West entered the finals accordingly, the Clippers began their rookie tryout journey, and countless rookies hoped that they had received the team's trial notice, but many of the players who were selected would be disappointed, and of course, there were players who thought they were the pride of the Son of Heaven who chose to refuse the tryouts of some teams, such as the young and famous OJ Mayo, but fortunately, the Clippers' tryouts were not for these players.

"The Captain Sails Away, Carman Leaves" FOX Sports first broke the news, because the Clippers' tryouts are undoubtedly mostly around interior players, which makes sensitive FOX reporters feel that the former leader of the Clippers, Elton Brand, and Chris Carman, who is recovering from injuries, are getting farther and farther away from the Clippers, and the fact is that Brand's agent has publicly accused the Clippers' uniform team of hurting Brand's loyalty to the Clippers. Chris Carman, on the other hand, chose to avoid the issue, but he himself understood it, but he was not the leader of the team, and he was not as famous as Brand, so he chose to remain silent.

What to use for the draft? It's a joke! In his column, Los Angeles Times columnist Brooks Avinton, who supports the Lakers, unceremoniously slammed the Clippers' tryouts, because in his opinion, the Clippers' large number of trials, especially with so many big men in the first-round lottery, should not delay the draft players to draft without any players worth trading and their own top draft picks. To this, the clipper just smiled faintly and did not respond to anything.

The East and West finals kicked off, but from the total score, it seems that the game is not so intense, but from the specific score and the situation on the court, you can know the fierceness of the game between the two sides, but the ambitious Los Angeles Lakers successfully crossed the corpse of the San Antonio troika under the leadership of the paranoid black mamba to reach the finals, and the Celtics Big Three also got together because of their strong desire for the championship, they were naturally unwilling to lose to the Pistons who were already in the strange road, when the East and West finals ended, David Stern is undoubtedly the happiest, because this Finals will be played by the Los Angeles Lakers vs. Boston Celtics, and will undoubtedly evoke classic memories of the Purple and Gold Dynasty against the Green Shirts in the NBA's 60-year history.

re-interpreted the 1970 total for people, and this finals showdown also made Lin Fei temporarily stop his crazy practice every day, because this game has too much for him to learn, so Lin Fei has been waiting in front of the TV.

The 2008 Purple and Gold vs. Green Shirts Finals can be interpreted as one of the most tortuous legends in NBA history. Since the summer of 2005, Danny Angie has worked hard to hoard a dozen young people born after 1982 and is determined to rebuild, but in the fall of 2006, the cardinal who lit the Green Army's victory cigar died, and then in 2007, the Celtics, who had been glorious, played the worst regular season record in history, which undoubtedly cast a stain on the glorious Green Shirts. And the elegant gentleman gentleman sword thunder. Allen has just experienced an injury season with the SuperSonics, and the 32-year-old team has received an excellent signing; Wolves King Garnett came to the Western Conference Finals after breaking his first round and not smelling the playoffs for three years after 31 years old.

The Purple and Gold Army, a giant team full of honors, fell in the first round for the second year in a row, and the arrogant Kobe Bryant has been pursuing a solo ring. And Paul. Gasol, who was shot to death by Russian Kirilenko in the 2007 European Championship final with an AK47, is questioned by fans every day as a soft egg due to his injury in Memphis.

When these men come together, they form the protagonists of the 2008 finals, and they are all experiencing the biggest turning point in their lives. The Celtics dumped the young men they had been hoarding for years to Seattle and Minnesota for a triumvirate gathering; The Lakers raised Bynum in the third grade, brought Gasol from the Grizzlies, and Kobe Bryant entered his prime years and sent away Lin Fei, a super rookie that the Lakers were proud of. The two former giants rose overnight, the nostalgic retro passage of Celtics vs Lakers was reopened, the toughest team led by the league's defensive player of the year, and the league's most unrestrained offense led by the regular season MVP.

The first game, Pierce's "Return of the King", re-enacted the 1970 finals Willis. Reed's lame return, the 1988 Finals Smiling Assassin fought with an injury, and the classic story of Bird's return to the court after hitting the ground in the fifth game of Bird's fifth game against the Pacers in 1991: At the beginning of the third quarter, Pierce, a man who had been waiting for the Green Army for ten years, fell with an injury at the scoring point and was carried off the court, Boston Garden's mood plummeted, and then Pierce returned with an injury, and the third quarter scored 15 points in a single quarter, and the garden instantly returned to the 80s. The fourth "24-point reversal battle". The Lakers were 35-14 in the first quarter to create the largest single-quarter lead difference in history, and the maximum lead once reached 24 points. Kobe Bryant had seen victory beckoning, but the Celtics began to reverse step by step: at the end of the third quarter, a wave of 21-3 allowed the Celtics to regain the lead. Allen's last-minute layup. The Lakers stepped on the boat for a 2-2 tie with half a foot, and Bryant exploded after the game.

Lin Fei's mind always replays the classic shots of this year's finals, he is like a sponge actively absorbing water, Paul Pierce's tenacity, Ray Allen's key big heart, Kevin Garnett's passion and fighting spirit, Kobe Bryant's venom, thinking of these Lin Fei's more and more diligent, which makes Dennis Johnson, Wilt, Chamberlain and several old guys very happy.

"I don't want to be a spectator at the finals! I want to stand on that stage that belongs to me! I want to get the highest honor with my own hands! This is the strongest and most real call in Lin Fei's heart, and as the finals come to an end, the offseason officially begins, and the most eye-catching is undoubtedly the draft pick draw on June 10.

And the Miami Heat, the most successful team this season, is undoubtedly the favorite to sign the champion, but history tells people that not all teams that have bad luck like the San Antonio Spurs have good luck to draw good luck like Tim Duncan, there are too many teams that have not received a good signing but have been ridiculed, and the last six teams in the regular season this season are: Miami Heat, only won 4 games in the second half of the regular season, 15-67, and their fans played the slogan that we need the champion show early, And their favorite object is the talented striker Michael Beasley.

The Philadelphia 76ers are 20-62, Kevin Durant's poor team record despite his excellent statistics makes him undoubtedly in the competition with Lin Fei's best rookie, and now the SuperSonics have once again got the opportunity to compete for the top pick, it is said that Derrick Rose is their target, and the SuperSonics will also bid farewell to Seattle and move to Oklamaho, Seattle's NBA history is over, and the Seattlemen who once enjoyed the glory of the O'Brien Cup will stay away from the NBA, and the SuperSonics will change their name to the Thunder, There is no doubt that this is a rebuilt youth army.

The Memphis Grizzlies and Minnesota Timberwolves, two teams that have lost their leaders, are tied for third from bottom in the league with the same record of 22-60, and the Grizzlies are fully on the road to rebuilding around Rudy Gay, and their target is said to be a strong interior player. The Timberwolves, who lost the Wolves King and got Al Jefferson, set their sights on the talented guard OJ Mayo, but Luohua was intentionally ruthless, and OJ Mayo openly rejected the Timberwolves' choice in the face of the media.

Closely followed by the Grizzlies and Timberwolves is the New York Knicks, the Knicks' final record is 23-59, and this record can only be cheapened by the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Lakers have decided to observe the guard line and small forwards, and in the middle of the season, they thought they got rid of the bad contract and got the Clippers' high-quality first-round picks, but they turned out to be the most tragic, with the Clippers' victory after victory at the end of the regular season, the New Yorkers' hearts were bleeding, and now the draft picks in their hands fell directly outside the lottery zone, Thomas had to pay for the deal, and he has officially resigned as general manager of the Knicks.

The Milwaukee Bucks, who have a 26-56 record, have their eye on the Chinese boy Joe Alexander, and the Chinese boy's Alexander, who is named after playing in high school leagues in China, has soared in the draft, and the Milwaukee's outstanding physical fitness has made the Milwaukees very obsessed.

These six teams are the favorites to compete for the top picks in the draft.

On June 10, everyone's eyes were on the scene of the draft lottery - New Jersey Bainaohui Grand Theater.

(To be continued)