"Did you read the newspaper this morning? Our team's six-way deal with New York, the Kings, the Rockets, the Magic and the Cavaliers, it was horrible, it was the biggest deal in the history of the Lakers, Coach Z was really courageous, I swear, when I woke up in the morning and read the newspaper, I almost choked."

"Well, me too, this deal is crazy, Shaq is gone, Nick is gone, but we got Webb and Hill and Hardaway, if only those three could be five years younger, now we don't have trade chips on the team, right? So what about the center of our team? Is it by draft? Howard and Okafor are not the people who can be selected by the No. 3 pick, I am really worried about this team, if it weren't for Coach Z, I think I would definitely oppose this deal, and now trading Shaq for Weber Hill and Hardaway is not a loss, but it is not a wise choice"

"I don't think so, since Coach Z dares to trade for Weber Hill and Hardaway, then have confidence in them, according to the latest news, Hill's injury is likely to heal this year, how terrible a recovered Hill is, I don't think I need to say it, Webber missed most of the last season but was very healthy in the playoffs, and Hardaway was very stable throughout last season, and it is clear that he has gotten rid of injuries, if he has half the strength of his peak now, we will earn this deal, besides, Didn't you notice that this is a purely offensive lineup? Even if you don't have a center, it's good to score, you forgot Coach Z's famous words when he was with the Timberwolves, 'As long as you can score 150 points, even if you drop 149 points per game, the final winner is still us', and I can't wait to see how we play in the new season, Webb, Hill, Hardaway. Will Kobe, Szzebiak, Coach Z replicate Wake Forest's show-team and Magic's show-time? It's really exciting."

"That's true, but don't you know that defending in the NBA is what makes a championship?"

"What age is this, still playing the Boston Celtics back then? What bullshit defense won the championship, and in the original Magician show-time era, which of our championships was won by defense? We Lakers have always been an offensive team. Which of Coach Z's four championships was won by defense? I still agree with Coach Z's words, 'Basketball is a game of scoring', there is never a difference between offense and defense, as long as no team can stop us from scoring, then we can win the championship."

"Are you saying our team can win the championship this year? It's unlikely, right? After all, this is only the first year of Coach Z, and Phil Jackson didn't do it when he came."

"Coach Z is not comparable to Phil Jackson, last year Phil Jackson won the runner-up, and this year Coach Z doesn't win the championship, will he give up?"

29 June 2004. On the streets of Los Angeles, or in the newsstands, in the offices, almost everyone is talking about the earth-shattering news that came out this morning, the Los Angeles Lakers are done and the Kings. New York, Rockets, Cavaliers, Magic six-way big deal. Sent away the team's main player O'Neal and sign-and-trade guard Van Exel, and got three former NBA superstars Webb, Hill and Hardaway and two first-round picks. Although since Zhuang Fei took office, the media revealed that O'Neal was unwilling to follow Zhuang Fei's arrangement to return to Los Angeles to report, basically everyone knew that the team's boss was leaving, and now when this transaction happened, it was still extremely surprising to these Lakers fans.

After all, these people in exchange for O'Neal are not ordinary players, nor are they ordinary potential rookies, they are all former popular superstars and powerful superstars, not cats and dogs, and in fact, as far as the names of Webb, Hill and Hardaway are concerned, even the star-studded Los Angeles Lakers in history are also characters who can tremble, of course, this is only from the reputation of these players, this is a transaction that can cause huge public opinion, and if you consider it from the actual role, O'Neal, a player who is almost the cornerstone of the Lakers, to change the three players with unknown futures can also cause great controversy, after all, the uncertainty of these three people is too great In this case, this simply makes a large number of Lakers fans crazy, for example, what should I do if these three people are injured after coming to the Lakers, it can be said that in this case, the saliva frenzy caused by this trade in Los Angeles is unimaginable, and this saliva frenzy Although they dare not spray Zhuang Fei because of Zhuang Fei's qualifications, However, it is also a general expectation and a concern at the same time.

"It's a great deal, I mean it's a great deal, but if it happened five years ago, no, if it was three years ago I would have thought it was a great deal, Webber is one of the best all-around power forwards in NBA history, he's not inferior to Duncan and Garnett on the offensive end, he's also the most gorgeous of the big four forwards in the league, and the other three, whether it's Garnett Duncan or Nowitzki, is not as good as him, He's going to give us beautiful basketball, and maybe still is, and Grant Hill, he's just recovered from injury, he didn't play almost all of last season, and we still know about him in 2000, when he was in the Pistons, he was able to average 26 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists per game, and in the four years he came to the Magic, he didn't play a season of 82 games combined, and it's doubtful how much he has now, but maybe he can still be trusted, and Hardaway, when he was in the Suns, When Kidd was injured, he could lead that team to force the Lakers into a five-game tiebreaker, and his ability can only be expressed in amazement, but after he left the Suns, he was injured again in the Cavaliers the year before last, and now he is no longer the Hardaway of the Suns, and he is far from even the Hardaway of the Magic."

"Of course, we're not against this deal, for the current Lakers, they brought in Coach Z, and the last thing that Coach Z can doubt is his ability to see people, he has never failed in the eyes of the players, since he can trust these three players, I think we should also trust them, and more importantly, we do have the ability to change, we now have four first-round picks, and a high No. 3 pick, we can trade up the Nuggets' No. 2 pick. Now the Nuggets are short of people, maybe they will accept it, as long as we can get one of Howard or Okafor, we can be very strong, our offense can be beautiful, and we have a good chance of playing a game that will please everyone, of course, all this needs to be operated by Coach Z and Kupchak, we just need to keep our cool now, we should believe in Coach Z's ability and vision at all times. Because he never failed, I don't think his Waterloo would be in Los Angeles, I think so, his Waterloo would not be in Los Angeles."

This is the front page headline report of the Los Angeles Post, it can be said that the media hesitated on this report, the expectation of the Lakers mixed with extremely difficult to understand, and the trust in Zhuang Fei with a trace of skepticism is now the whole mentality of the Los Angeles people towards the big deal operated by Zhuang Fei, and now the Los Angeles people are very contradictory to discuss this big deal.

In the present, so to speak. Even the media in Los Angeles are worried about the big deal for their team, which can also be seen that in the outside world, in other public opinion in the United States, Zhuang Fei's deal has not received much recognition, except for Zhuang Fei's cronies.

"What does Coach Z want to do? I don't know, I don't know at all, it's a gamble to get one O'Neal for three former superstars who are completely uncertain. It's a gamble that can only be played by Coach Z, and I don't think anyone would do that, and as far as I know, the Mavericks are interested in trading their team's leading players, Nowitzki and White Chocolate, for O'Neal. This is the most ready-made combination, and it is also an all-star combination, and Nowitzki, who is also one of the four big forwards in the league, has an advantage over Webber, and they can also get a first-line point guard in the league, which is the best deal for the Lakers, but obviously, Coach Z refused, and they played something that surprised everyone, well, many people have said in the past that Coach Z is like a god who can see the ceiling and floor of all players, and he really hasn't missed, but this time, I think he will fail, this is not a curse, I don't have any hatred with him, this is a fact, because whether it is Webb, Hill or Hardaway, their ceiling does not need Coach Z to see, we all know that their ceiling is great, but now these three people need to see the lower limit, what kind of lower limit record will these three people refresh? What would Coach Z look like when he found out that the player he traded for O'Neal was not as good as the player he traded for Payton? I think this must be very exciting, let's wait and see, okay, you guessed it right, I think Jackson is much better than the current Hill and Hardaway, so Hill and Penny fans don't doubt, you can spray me, time will tell you I'm right, of course, Webb fans don't need to rejoice, because Webb is better than Jackson, I can't say, so I don't comment"

This is the comment of Boston's famous media Boston Globe, it can be said that this media close to Adelson is extremely sarcastic about Zhuang Fei and Zhuang Fei's players in this trade at this time, and the fact is just like this media said, they may not really be in the black Zhuang Fei and these players who were traded by Zhuang Fei, because now almost all the media in the United States are commenting on this transaction in such a tone, it can be said that the whole United States is now launching a public opinion attack on Zhuang Fei and the Lakers, After all, for Zhuang Fei, who just won the championship not long ago, just a week after winning the championship, Zhuang Fei gave the media the opportunity to criticize him. Among these media, New York is the most prominent.

In the eyes of the outside world, this deal is a loss for the Lakers, while the other five teams are more or less earned, for example, although the Magic lost Hill, they changed their draft pick from No. 7 to No. 5, don't look at the changes in only two positions, in a draft year like this year, there are not many excellent players, the gap between the top five and the top seven is huge, and the rebuilding goals that this team has now established are Bosh and Caron Butler, for a Hill who has only played less than 80 games in four years, Far inferior to Alan Houston, who was able to average 19 points per game in New York last season, it can be said that the Magic not only made but also made a lot of money, as for the Cavaliers, although Hardaway went but came to Bibby, Hardaway and Bibby are now incomparable, even if the middle Cavaliers lost a draft pick, not to mention that at this time the Cavaliers also gained high-quality interior Coatt Thomas. Last season, Cott Thomas almost had a double-double, which is also a big profit like the Magic, not to mention the New York Knicks, getting O'Neal can make them pay any price, as for the Rockets and Kings, although they can't say that they make a lot of money, they also get the players they want. In this regard, only the Los Angeles Lakers are losing money.

"I think the reason why Coach Z launched this deal must be to let the New York Knicks swallow Van Exel's 3-year 50 million big contract, Coach Z chose to give Van Exel this big contract must be to disgust the New York Knicks and make the New York Knicks' salary space rise again, but it doesn't matter, because our New York is not bad for money, not to mention that the price of getting Shaq is to swallow Van Exel's 3-year 50 million contract, even if it is 3-year 60 million, what about 70 million? That's the quality of our team, I swear. At this time, the Chinese must have regretted it, he regretted his child-like behavior, and a season later, when the New York Knicks stand in the NBA championship position, what will happen to this Chinese? Is Coach Z who encountered Waterloo such a person? I really can't imagine this picture now. Because I'm afraid I'll be excited and can't sleep this year, dear New York Knicks fans, remember, next year you will be able to watch the most embarrassing moment of that idiot Chinese. So get the cameras ready, it's a picture that you will treasure for a lifetime, and the players of the New York Knicks. You're going to be the king of the NBA next season, and Shaq, you're going to prove that you're the best player in the NBA, and you're going to beat that damn Carter, Duncan, and Zhuang Fei to the ground."

This is the New York Times's report on the transaction in the position of its own front page headlines, it can be said that the euphoria and arrogance are all out, completely forgetting that in fact, he is still a big newspaper in the world, although the basketball version has been broken by Zhuang Fei but the other pages are still good, but this time, the New York Times handed over all the pages of the entire newspaper to basketball and the New York Knicks on June 29, maybe this media will have problems in the future, but no matter what will happen in the future, Now it is different from the expectations and worries of the fans in Los Angeles, at this time the fans of the New York Knicks have gone completely crazy, after all, their team will once again have a top ten or even top five and top three players in the league, such a thing is simply unimaginable for them, because there is no such player in their history, after all, although Ewing was a big four center back then, but there was no one. After all, the last time their team had a legitimate regular season MVP was back in 1970 when Willis Reed was in 1970, and coincidentally, both O'Neal and Willis Reed were from Louisiana and both went to college in Louisiana.

Of course, it is natural that there are only fans in New York who are excited in New York at this time, and Phil Jackson in the head coach's office of the Knicks in New York is excited at this time, because he got O'Neal, Alan Houston without paying any price? This player was originally the object of his cleaning, he and Marbury had a lot of fun last season, the two had to go one, it is better to keep Marbury than to keep Alan Houston, as for Camby, what is Canby doing with O'Neal, and Cott Thomas, he was originally an inside substitute, although he is outstanding, but with O'Neal is also slightly redundant, in this case, such a deal is the best choice for this Lakers head coach, and it can even be said that the Lakers gave O'Neal white to him, This also made him extremely puzzled while being happy, because this was completely Zhuang Fei's increase in strength without damage, and this Chinese was not such a person.

"Is it really a head pumping to stump this Chinese, or is it really to the disgusting New York Knicks to ask the New York Knicks to pay more luxury tax?" So after calming down, Phil Jackson also thought with some doubts, but anyway, Phil Jackson, who regained O'Neill, could almost ignore everything at this time.

Of course, he doesn't ignore everything, he doesn't know about the bet between Zhuang Fei and Adelson, and Zhuang Fei gave Van Exel 50 million for 3 years is not to make the New York Knicks pay more luxury tax, but to be able to get Hill, Webb and Hardaway at the same time, otherwise the salary of the Los Angeles Lakers cannot be equal.

Of course, no matter what Phil Jackson thinks of Zhuang Fei or how the outside media criticizes Zhuang Fei, it doesn't matter, because at this time, Zhuang Fei also flew directly from Cleveland to New York, and he and Kupchak will participate in the 2004 NBA draft in New York. (To be continued.) )