Chapter 859: The Door to Trading Opens

After West, the group ran frantically towards the locker room.

Warriors tradition, huge pieces of champagne have been shelved in the locker room, just waiting for the players to open and spray people.

Chamberlain looked at the production date, and Richard, who followed behind, laughed: "It was all just produced last year, yes, I bought this batch of champagne on the day the season just opened." I prayed to God at that time, please let us use it quickly, God heard my prayer that day. ”

Marbury smiled and said, "Boss, you need to buy another batch of champagne, and we will use it next season." ”

Richardson said confidently: "I placed an order last night, you know, our champagne is specific!" ”

Chamberlain, who was next to him, reached out and touched Marbury's head, Iverson, Jackson, Evans and other veterans came one after another, Marbury's head became brighter and brighter, he hurriedly pulled a championship hat and hid his bare head.

There are not many opportunities for Marbury and Morrow to play in the Finals, but it is not impossible, such as Marbury, who played in the last four minutes of the previous battle, and made a three-pointer at the beginning.

Chamberlain handed the championship trophy to Marbury, who had a red eye, he held up the trophy and sighed: "You may not believe it, when I entered the NBA in 1996, I thought I could get this trophy very quickly, yes, I was so confident and arrogant." ”

Iverson laughed, "It's normal, that's what I thought at the time, and I was adamant that I would get this trophy sooner than you." ”

Marbury smiled and said with some sadness: "I used to like to watch Magic Johnson's games the most, in fact, time is the real magician, time is really fast, in the blink of an eye, I am about to leave the league, but fortunately, I finally got a trophy." ”

Hill and Billups came up to hug the two, these veterans are all old guys who are about to retire.

The moment the Finals are over, the season is over, and the Warriors have the next championship parade, but for other teams, all they have to do is prepare for trades and reinforcements, and then accumulate power to win next season's championship.

Of course, there are some teams that are destined to not win a championship in three or even five years, such as the Rockets, such as the 76ers, such as the Timberwolves, and these teams are now important to tear down the team and rebuild.

There are also some teams that are destined to never win the championship in their lifetime, such as the Bobcats, which is nothing, they can easily eat, drink, prostitute and gamble.

Los Angeles, California, which is the same as Oakland, was in the Staples Center arena the day after the finals.

When a spotlight was on the center of the field, "Magic" Johnson said in a slightly trembling voice: "This is the best team in the world, they have the best coach in the world, Phil Jackson; And," Magic pauses slightly, his eyes clearly moistened in the camera, "and they also have the best player in the world right now, the guard player, Kobe Bryant." ”

Kobe Bryant's partnership with Zen Master was once considered one of the best player-head coach partners in the league in the past four or five seasons, ahead of them only Popovich and GDP, Nelson Sr. and Chamberlain.

Although Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant used to be so tense and-for-tat with each other, this did not prevent them from returning to the top of the world together after reconquering each other.

Maybe Phil Jackson isn't the all-time best coach in many people's minds; Maybe Kobe Bryant will never be the greatest player in many people's minds. But the fact that they were able to help each other break through again and again was enough, and together these two were able to take the Lakers to the top.

But today, the Lakers told the world through the mouth of the historical meritorious magician: "This admirable pair is about to be dismantled, and here, as a good friend of the new president of the Lakers, Jim Buss, I regret to inform Lakers fans that Phil Jackson will not be able to serve as the head coach of the Lakers next season due to physical reasons." ”

"I've already told him and I hope he will come back and fight with us again." Kobe Bryant said expressionlessly in an interview afterwards, "We have a chance to win the championship, and we will definitely succeed next season!" ”

The Zen master declined to be interviewed and was believed to be the victim of a rivalry between the siblings, Jenny Bass and Jim Bass.

Jim Bass couldn't afford Zen Master Jackson because his family heritage rival, Jenny Buss, was none other than Zen Master's girlfriend – a very strange pairing.

Getting rid of Zen Master Jackson was something Jim Bass had to do, and the other thing he had to do was to keep Kobe Bryant.

Zen master Jackson and Kobe Bryant are the two highest-ranking Lakers now, one has brought this team the only three-time championship in the new century, and the other is the king of Los Angeles basketball.

Jim Bass's hand to drive out Zen Master Jackson was very strong, and Kobe Bryant spoke for the Zen Master several times, but Jim Bass refused.

However, Jim Bass didn't want to offend Kobe, and he even promised that he would help buy anyone Kobe wanted except for the Zen master, as long as the deal was operational.

Then "Grandstand Sports" sent a message that former Rockets player Maddy is eager to join the Lakers this summer, and he and Kobe Bryant have already discussed that they will report to the Lakers team when the door to the trade market opens.

Maddie will become a free agent this summer, and his whereabouts have been rarely reported, but sources have recently revealed that Maddy has been in contact with the Lakers' top brass through his agent.

As a two-time NBA scoring champion, Maddie's form has declined significantly since minimally invasive surgery, and in the season just ended, Maddy was traded to the Knicks, and despite being tenacious in his debut, Maddie was still plagued by injuries in the subsequent games, and his table plummeted, and finally announced that he would miss the rest of the game due to injury.

In his career, Maddy has traveled to Toronto, Orlando and Houston, but has never personally made it through the first round of the playoffs with the team, and when the Rockets broke through the first round of the playoffs last year, Maddy was injured and missed the game.

It is reported that Maddie is now actively training for a recuperation, and he still hopes to regain his form, and has hired former Jordan trainer Tim Colwill.

Now Maddie is hoping to find a championship-worthy team on the free market, and if he joins the Lakers, he will have to start off the bench and could well become another Odom role.

There's no denying that if the Lakers could add Maddie to their bench, their bench depth would be terrifying.

Also the day after the Finals, according to the Associated Press, Cavaliers general manager Danny Ferry has resigned as general manager.

Ferry, who has been with the Cavaliers for five seasons and whose contract officially expires this month, said, "I think the most important thing for the team right now is that everything is transparent, and everything should be forward-looking. Ferry said in an interview with the Associated Press.

Assistant General Manager Chris Grant, who has been with the Cavaliers for 10 years, will take over Ferry's role. During his time with the Spurs, Ferry and Brown worked together, and it stands to reason that the two should have a good relationship.

However, the first time Ferry resigned, Grant also fired Mike Brown.

Grant's explanation was: "Now is the time for the team to move on, our team is ready to make a big move, so there are some contracts that are not suitable and we have to deal with some of them, which is a very natural transition process for the team, and as general manager I need to be responsible for the team." ”

During Ferry's five years as the Cavaliers' general manager, the team was in a glorious phase, reaching the Finals twice in five years.

In the Eastern Conference Finals last year, they lost to the Magic, so they brought in O'Neal to assist the little emperor last summer, maybe one O'Neal can't fulfill James's championship dream, and they brought in Jamison, James said, "Danny did a good job, he brought a lot of good players." ”

'Ferry has worked very hard and he has built a very strong foundation for the team and I thank him for his contribution to the team over the past five seasons. Gilbert made a brief statement on behalf of the team.

However, Ferry still left the Cavaliers in disgrace, coming with great fanfare and leaving quietly.

Successively taking the general manager and head coach, the purpose of the Cavaliers' uniform team is clear, that is, to keep James.

But whether the departure of the general manager and head coach of the Cavaliers will affect James's whereabouts, it is really uncertain now, if the departure of former head coach Brown is a matter of course - his ability is completely exposed in this Finals, making Cavaliers fans unbearable.

Then the reason for the departure of the general manager is obviously not as simple as he said, maybe the departure of the general manager of the knight will be an early warning before the storm.

Which team will the Little Emperor join? Will he stay with the Cavaliers?

Now it seems that the Cavaliers are determined to keep James, and you don't like the coaching staff? Okay, I'll replace it for you; You don't trust this general manager? Okay, I'll change to a more capable one; You don't trust this boss? Okay - I bought a watch last year: Gilbert, the Rider Boss.

As we all know, now the little emperor either does not change teams, or joins a competitive team that is a big city.

It's his privilege, or join the Knicks, the New Yorker's stupid money and loyal love for James. Or join the Bulls and help the Bulls continue their previous glory. Or join the Clippers, because there's Hollywood there.

The incident even implicated US President Barack Obama, who said on Larry King's talk show: "First of all, LeBron is a very nice young man, and I met him once. I think if LeBron says I'm going to stay with the Cavaliers, I think that's going to be great. He's from Ohio, which is his hometown, and he's had a really tough time here. For him, if he said, 'I'm going to stay here,' you know, I think it's going to be wonderful. ”

Obama's speech relieved the Cavaliers uniform team, look, the emperor has opened the golden mouth, this is like an ancient royal marriage, the emperor let you stay in your hometown, James, you will follow us.

As if to stabilize the Cavaliers' uniform team, James was interviewed by CNN's famous host Larry King, and when asked by the host if the Cavaliers had an advantage in the fight for him, James replied cheerfully, "Of course." You know, the city, the fans here, have given me a lot in these 7 years; For me, it makes me comfortable. I have a lot of memories here, so -- the Cavaliers do have an advantage. ”

However, one thing that the Cavaliers uniform team forgot was that this is the United States, not the Qing Dynasty, and Obama is the president, not the Kangxi dwarf. Also, don't take James' promises too seriously.

Just when the Cavaliers breathed a sigh of relief, the Knicks came out, they first sent out an invitation to Zen master Jackson with great fanfare, inviting him to coach in New York, and then started various transactions, the first time the market trading door opened, first contacted Amare Stoudemire, and put on a 'I want to build the NBA Galaxy Fleet' posture.

This posture is very tempting for James now.