216: A silent goodbye, the free market is a mess
As soon as Shay's car arrived at the door, he saw Barkley sitting on the stairs of the doorway.
In his hand, he also holds a bronze trophy.
The regular season MVP trophy for the 93-94 season.
Seeing Shay get out of the car, Barkley stood up, then glanced at the AI beside Shay:
"Don't say it, you two really don't have a father and son at all."
Shay ignored Barkley and opened the door.
Fliggy went straight to the refrigerator as if it were entering its own home, but when it opened the refrigerator door, it shook its head in disappointment:
"When Bellucci goes back to Europe, you have milk eggs in the refrigerator except for milk.
Why don't you even have a fruit bowl?
Really, people like Ling who can't take care of themselves in life, whoever lives with you are unlucky.
Whoever is a teammate with you is unlucky. ”
Shay sat down on the couch and took off his watch, not paying much attention to Barkley's yin and yang aura.
After all, he's been a whole season of Barkley's yin and yang:
"Okay Charles, if you have a fart, let it go."
Barkley slammed the refrigerator door shut, and then put the MVP trophy in his hand on the living room coffee table with a "bang":
"Give it back to you, Lao Tzu is not rare! It's okay! ”
Barkley finished speaking, and was about to walk to the door, but Shay stopped him:
"I just heard Jerry say that you're not going to renew your contract? What the are you trying to do? Think your career has been too successful? ”
"yes, that's a success.
My old pig was busy with the team's two-consecutive championships, but the honor was taken away by one person.
It's not just honor, but also the money is not as much as others! ”
As soon as he mentioned this, Barkley was angry, in fact, although he had an unpleasant relationship with Shay last season, Barkley felt that for the sake of the championship, it was not unbearable.
But the price of the Lakers' contract extension with itself made Fliggy completely angry.
Before the end of the season, the Lakers repeatedly approached Barkley to discuss an early contract extension.
But the price of the two sides has not been negotiated.
The Lakers are willing to rise from 8 million last season to 10 million a year.
But other teams have made offers to Barkley between 1500-1800!
Because of the rise in the salary cap, the annual salary of the NBA will officially enter the era of tens of millions.
The Lakers have Barkley's bird rights, which means that the Lakers can renew Barkley's contract without any rules restrictions.
Although the team lost in the Western Conference last season, it has won two consecutive championships. So in Barkley's opinion, he is still very valuable.
Fliggy's request is that as much as other families pay, your Bass family must also pay as much.
Logo said that he would consider it, but after thinking about it for a long time, his offer was still 10 million when he called today.
Not a penny went up!
This completely annoyed Barkley.
He asked Logo at the time: "Do you only give Shay 10 million?" ”
Logo was silent for a long time, and slowly replied: "You know Charles, we can't make Shay unhappy."
If I had to choose one or the other, the logo would of course be the younger Shay.
Unless there is some special fetish, it is a man's instinctive choice to choose a younger one.
Fliggy almost didn't break all the hemorrhoids at that time, so he told Logo that he would not renew the contract!
In Barkley's view, his team status is not said to be better than Shay's, but at least it is equal.
As a result, after the two sides had a bad falling out last season, the team favored Shay.
With a contract extension this summer, Shay is also a priority above Barkley.
In addition, it failed to win MVP and FMVP for two consecutive years.
All of these factors add up to the fact that the Lakers are Shay's team.
No matter how much others have done for this team, no matter how many championships they have won, they are just Shay's deputies.
Have you ever seen Pippen and Jordan compete for MVP?
Flying Pig is not Pippen, and he is not willing to be someone else's second-in-command.
In the original history, the one who did not have a championship was willing to be someone else's deputy, and even willing to take the initiative to reduce his salary.
But now, this two-time champion of Fliggy will definitely not be willing to whisper for the championship.
As the saying goes, good food is full of silver desires, and people's desires will always grow in steps.
Therefore, when Shay talked about the contract renewal, Barkley was even more angry:
"your Shay, you don't sarcastically mock me.
You wouldn't have been so successful in your career without me!
When Lao Tzu was famous, you weren't even a fart!
Yes, Lao Tzu just won't renew the contract.
How? Panicked?
Now know that I matter?
It's late!
Without you, I can still win the championship and MVP!
And when we're all retired, Shay, I promise.
I must have more championship rings than you! ”
With that, Flying Pig slammed the door and exited.
Shay sat on the couch with clenched fists, staring at the MVP trophy that Barkley had brought home.
Then he suddenly stood up and smashed the trophy to the ground. The small bronze man on the trophy and the base of the trophy were smashed away.
Iverson watched the old couple quarrel and stood awkwardly awkwardly.
I.
Isn't it at the wrong time?
After that, I don't know if Barkley's agent deliberately let out the news.
Logo and Fliggy only had a conversation in the morning, and in the afternoon sports news on TV began to frequently report that Barkley would not renew his contract with the Lakers.
Barkley's move is equivalent to a lonely young woman texting netizens: Husband is on a business trip, come quickly!
Fliggy is telling the world that Lao Tzu is now a free body.
If you have an idea, hurry up and quote, your hand is slow!
And before Barkley left, the madman had already left.
The madman, who is not satisfied with being a role player with the Lakers, has confirmed that he will sign a four-year contract worth 32 million with the Warriors.
The Warriors are very determined to take the madmen this summer, and they are very willing to make a bid.
No way, who let the champion they traded only play for a year and then run away? The team is in dire need of a new arrowhead.
The Warriors paid a huge price to trade for Webb, and the elder Nelson also liked a big man like Webber who could pass suddenly.
When the contract was signed, the Warriors gave Webb a player option the following year.
But this player option, the Warriors pondered just to make Webb happy.
How could Webb have jumped out of his contract the following year?
Then, Webb showed the Warriors that anything is possible.
Because of his poor relationship with his coach and management, Webb threatened to use his player option in the second year of his career.
In the end, in order not to lose Webb for nothing, the Warriors had to trade him to the Bullets.
This also led to the fall of the warriors who had finally made a difference.
So right now, the devastated Warriors are recruiting everywhere.
After Nelson Sr. stepped down and Adelman coached the Warriors, the Warriors were no longer superstitious about the so-called playmaker.
Adelman, his favorite thing is an all-round forward who can attack and defend.
Sprewell was to his liking.
Adelman is convinced that the Madman is only because his role with the Lakers is not important enough that the stats are not so good.
But in reality, the madman undoubtedly has superstar-level strength.
A sophomore who can play three formations and two defenses, it's not too much to use him as a core, right?
None of the slippers were selected for the best team and defensive team at the same time, how strong is he compared to the madman!
Huazi thought that after he finally won the Lakers with the team last season, the status of the league would be improved a little, but who knew that the league position was becoming more and more stable.
In the past, he was compared with Jordan and Shaybi.
It's good now, it's not as good as a madman!
The madman and the Warriors have basically reached an agreement, and as soon as the transfer market officially opens, the contract will be signed.
As the No. 3 man on the Lakers, as people call "Little Pippen", the departure of the madman is undoubtedly a major blow to the Lakers.
Los Angeles fans are extremely nervous, and if Fliggy is really gone at this time, the team will probably not have the strength to compete for the championship!
In the days that followed, news of Barkley's transfer was in full swing.
Basically all the teams that still have salary space have scandals with Barkley.
For probably the first time ever, Barkley was hotter in the summer than Shay.
And during this period, on June 28, Shay also ushered in the 1995 draft.
There are still quite a lot of changes in this year's draft, and the first and second picks are still Joe. Smith and Antonio. McDyce.
But the third in line has become the sun that continues to rot.
Although the Suns got Grant last season. Hill, although Hill averaged 19.9 points, 6.4 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 1.8 steals per game in his rookie season.
Although Hill, like Shay, became an All-Star starter in the first year of his career, he easily entered the top five in the league in jersey sales in his first year, and looked like a superstar.
But in the Wild West, the Suns still couldn't make the playoffs.
Not only did he fail to squeeze into the playoffs, but he also won the lottery with a very low probability!
Back then, after the Magic team got O'Neal, they were able to win the top pick for two consecutive years with a probability of less than 2%.
Now, the Suns, who are on the verge of the playoffs, can draw a flower again.
If you want to say that the league didn't make a crooked deal in the draft lottery, Shay really doesn't believe it.
O'Neal and Hill are both supernovas, and if their team has a poor record and too little exposure, it will naturally affect their commercial value.
Perhaps it is based on this consideration that the Magic and Suns will have a very low probability of drawing a high draft pick.
And the Suns did not hesitate to choose another Jordan successor with the third pick, Jerry, Jordan's junior from North Carolina. Stark House.
Suns fans cheered at the draft, and they firmly believed that gathering two Jordan successors would be equivalent to getting the real Jordan!
However, not long after the Suns fans were happy, Starkerhouse was traded!
The Suns used the team's meritorious veteran, Kevin who had a lot of fight with Shay back then. Johnson, along with freshly baked Starker House, packed up for the Washington bullets.
Deal to get Chris. Weber!
Webb, who was the No. 1 pick in '93, had just spent two years in his career and was traded twice!
The first time he was traded by the Warriors, it was Webb himself who forced the palace team to go.
And this time being traded by the Bullets, the Bullets really didn't appreciate Webb's style of play.
As a power forward, Webb likes to play on the rim after the bells and whistles, and he especially likes to shoot three-pointers.
This is undoubtedly an outlier in this era.
Moreover, Webb's year with the Bullets was not peaceful.
Although Webb had terrible stats of 20.1 points, 9.6 rebounds, 4.7 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.6 blocks in his sophomore year.
The performance on the field was outstanding.
But off the court, Webb was speeding and arresting and carrying Dama.
This led to a repeated decline in Weber's public image and commercial value.
So after using Webb for a year, the Bullets decided to divorce.
In this way, the young 93-year-old champion was traded for the second time in his career.
Suns fans are a little unresponsive, but
It seems not bad to use a Jordan successor who doesn't know if he can play and replace him with a supernova power forward who has begun to realize his potential!
Grant. Hill + Webb + Eddie. Jones's combination has given Phoenix fans countless reveries about the future.
The Suns became the third pick and selected Stackhouse, so the Philadelphia 76ers won the hardest basketball sport in basketball history, the basketball push-up championship, and Michael Brown with the fourth pick. Jackson's space dance step pro-disciple - Kevin. Hard. Garnett!
This year's draft is really a surprise.
Shay glanced at the AI beside him, and with Garnett's ability, it was not a big problem to lead the team to win the championship.
If the 76ers do win the No. 1 pick again next year, then
The NBA in this time and space is really getting more and more interesting.
The rest of the draft was inconsequential, until the 19th pick, when Shay saw the Lakers finally make a move.
Jerry. West used the Lakers' own first-round pick + second-round pick, plus Campbell, a blue-collar center who has worked hard with the Lakers over the years, to package and send to Detroit.
In exchange for the Pistons' 19th draft pick.
Then with that pick, the University of Wisconsin's senior guard was chosen.
A guy who is only 22 years old but looks like a 52-year-old. Another Jordan successor after Stackhouse, another Michael - Michael Finley!
Finley was famous in Illinois during his high school years, so he was very famous in Chicago.
So when he was 18 years old, Finley played 1 against Jordan, and Jordan also spoke very highly of this junior.
However, because of the limited growth during the four years of college, Michael. Finley fell out of the lotto.
But for Logo, it doesn't matter if Finley can be Jordan or not.
All he needs is a replacement for a madman, a tool man who can defend aggressively and can give Shay some help on the offensive end.
Logo has been detailed in detail, although Finley became famous at a young age, he has a very good personality, is honest, has no bad habits, and is not even astringent.
As a college star player, Finley chooses a female companion in college, which is similar to an ancient emperor picking a concubine.
But he has only had a fixed girlfriend over the years, and he hasn't had a bunch of children early.
On the basketball court, although he has excellent ability, he listens to his coach very much.
The coach told him to defend without shooting for the whole quarter, and he was able to defend without shooting for the whole quarter.
People say he's a white guy with a black skin.
With such a character, it is perfect for Shay to be an assistant.
But Lakers fans are still not at ease, Finley is good, but how can a mere rookie help the team get back to the top of the world?
Logo is also in this mentality, although he successfully picked the person he wanted in the draft, but he does not have a trace of victory now.
Barkley doesn't renew his contract with the team for a day, and Logo doesn't feel at ease for a day.
And the day after the end of the draft, Logo deeply realized what it means to have a house leak that happened to rain overnight.
A news suddenly broke in the middle of the New York media - the Knicks are willing to sign Shay for 18 million to 20 million!
20 million, which is nothing less than an astronomical amount for the current NBA.
After all, last season, which just ended, the total salary cap of an NBA team was only more than 15 million.
The admiral, who ranks first in salary, is only 7.3 million a year.
And the Knicks were actually revealed to be willing to fire Shay 20 million!
That's pretty much all the salary space left for the Knicks right now!
Because the current collective bargaining agreement still does not have the concept of a maximum salary, the Knicks can give all the remaining salary space to Shay!
Why did Gao Qiqiang, a well-known aquatic and real estate amphibious entrepreneur, achieve a class jump? Because after he was familiar with Sun Tzu's Art of War, he made his enemies into friends!
Since you can't beat it, try to get it!
The Knicks also want to turn enemies into friends, but they have been waiting for the Lakers to make mistakes! Just wait for the relationship between Shay and the Lakers to loosen.
This summer, they finally found an opportunity to take advantage of it!
Seeing that the Lakers were about to be dismantled, the Knicks immediately continued to press.
The 20 million annual salary incident was deliberately revealed by the Knicks to reporters and then exposed.
There was Madonna who asked Shay for 20 million to ask for a child.
Today, the Knicks are looking for Shay for 20 million.
Shay, Mr. 20 Million!
This earth-shattering high salary made Shay also involved in the wonderful story of the transfer market.
Although Logo has not yet received a notice that Shay wants to leave, even he admits that 20 million is too tempting.
How many players can't earn 20 million in their lifetime!
Logo is really afraid that he will be busy around Shay to rebuild the team, and in the end he will be stolen by others!
Moreover, seeing that Shay was actually worth 20 million, Barkley felt that the Lakers' offer of 10 million was an insult to himself.
Co-authoring a pig is only equal to half Yi?
How is this possible!
Pippen, who has an annual salary of 2 million, looked at the astronomical numbers on the news and wanted to cry without tears.
Why is it that even 20 million has come out? The world is crazy!
Be content!
I'm special. One Yi equals ten skins!?
Old Bass was also so frightened that the fruit plate fell to the ground, and he expected the offer to Shay to be 18 million, plus more than 10 million on the basis of last season's highest salary, which is full of sincerity.
As a result, at this time, the Knicks suddenly came with 20 million.
This is deliberately unable to get along with Lao Tzu!
The Knicks have quoted 20 million, 18 million, how can you let me say it!?
The entire transfer market has become a mess at the moment.
Sure enough, just as Falck had anticipated years ago. The summer of 1995 was a crazy summer!
Finally, in July, the offseason free agent market officially opened.
And on the first day of opening, there was a super exciting news immediately.
Charles. Barkley officially left the Lakers and signed a free contract with the Phoenix Suns with a super scary increase of 68 million in 4 years!
Because the Suns cleaned up almost all of their main forces in the past few years, leaving only a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled, the team now has the exception of Webber and Grant. Hill, there is no one with an annual salary of more than 2 million!
So they also directly filled the remaining salary space and signed Barkley, and the rest was settled through cap-on extensions and trades!
Calculated that Barkley's average annual salary will be as high as 17 million!
In the last season David. Robinson added a full 10 million on the basis!
Originally, the combination of Suns Hill + Webb + Jones has already made people reverie, making Phoenix fans look forward to the future.
And now, they don't have to look forward to the future.
They can get the moment right away!
That's it, after three years of working together and winning two championships together.
Charles. The historic combination of Barkley and Shay has really become history!
Shay looked at the news of Barkley's joining the Suns in the newspaper and put the newspaper down with a blank face.
Barkley didn't even tell Shay in advance.
To be precise, since the last time they came to deliver the MVP trophy, the two have been like strangers, they haven't said a word again, and they haven't crossed paths again.
Iverson watched Shay sit on the couch, staring at a huge framed photograph in the living room.
In the photo, under the gaze of reporters, Barkley shuttles through the players' tunnel with Shay on his back, and both men have smiles on their faces.
It was Game 4 of the 1993 Finals, and the Lakers, who were down 2-1, couldn't afford to lose again.
The Lakers ended up fighting the Bulls for three overtimes, and Shay made history by playing 62 minutes.
Thanks to the efforts of Shay and Fliggy, the Lakers finally leveled the series to 2-2.
After the game, an exhausted Shay couldn't even walk back to the locker room.
Barkley squatted down, pouted, and hooked his fingers: "Come, I'll carry you back!" ”
On the other side, Barkley held a note in his fingers.
It wasn't a check from the Suns, but a small piece of paper full of crumplors.
There was nothing special about the note, except that it was a small paragraph: "It's our MVP, Charles." ”
Barkley smiled and crumpled the note.
Shay looked at the huge photo and sighed, "AI, help me take that ugly picture down." ”
"Take it off, and then what?"
"Throw it outside!"
Buckley crumpled the note and walked over to the trash can.
But after a moment's pause, he walked into the room and put it back in the box he had used to store his small items.
Iverson was about to open the door and go out with the painting, but was stopped by Shay:
"Forget it! Let's put it in the utility room. ”
In the summer of 1995, the two silently said goodbye to each other.
In the summer of 1995, the disputes of the 90s also entered the most intense stage
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