The Cavaliers' trade with the Suns was made on the day of the draft, and the 2009 NBA Draft was also recognized as the most successful draft in the future.

This draft saw two regular season MVPs and six All-Stars.

This is especially the seventh-best Stephen. Curry is the most outstanding player, with two regular season MVPs and four NBA championships in the future, and is the most successful active star in the league outside of James.

It's a pity that this year's draft has nothing to do with the Magic.

Not to mention the first-round pick, the Magic even traded out the second-round pick in '09 early.

And even if the Magic team has a draft pick, because of the first regular season record this season and the championship in the playoffs, they can only get a first-round pick and the 30th pick, which is basically useless.

Therefore, in this draft meeting, the Magic team can only watch others play.

Of course, the Magic didn't do nothing, and it was very common to trade players or other chips for draft picks during the draft.

The management of the Magic team asked Wang Chao before the draft if he had any good suggestions and ideas for the team's current lineup.

The reason why the management asked Wang Chao is because Wang Chao's position in the Magic team is becoming more and more important, and leading the team to win the championship and FMVP have made Wang Chao's influence rise.

On the other hand, last year, Wang Chao made some suggestions for the Magic team, out of respect for Wang Chao, and also considering that the Magic team does lack the type of players mentioned by Wang Chao, the Magic team signed Dragic and Afflalo, and then in the 08-09 season, both showed a good level on the bench, and the potential is visible to the naked eye, especially Dragic, in the more than 20 games that Nelson was unable to play due to injury, Dragic started the game, and his performance was remarkable.

Wang Chao's unique vision surprised the management and even the general manager of the Magic team, so they also wanted to listen to Wang Chao's advice from various aspects.

The management was not ashamed to ask, and Wang Chao was naturally happy to provide advice.

As a time-traveler, there is no one in this world who is better suited to the job of reinforcements than him, and he knows all the stars who can play in the future, and even knows when they will break out.

Like Curry, the strongest player in 09, the first few years of his career were actually not very good, limited by injuries and the impact of the NBA game, although Curry's rookie contract during the performance was not bad, but it has never been taken seriously, and even the Warriors have had the idea of trading Curry many times, and after the rookie contract period ended, the Warriors only provided Curry with a 4-year 44 million contract.

You must know that it was already 2013, and Griffin, the champion of the same year as Curry, signed a five-year contract extension of $95 million, and Harden, who switched from the Thunder to the Rockets, also signed a five-year $78.5 million contract.

This is mainly due to Curry's injury problems at the beginning of his career, which led to him being unfavored by all teams, and in 11 years, the Warriors wanted to trade Curry, but the Bucks decisively refused.

"What are you kidding? With a thin sick seedling, you want to exchange our champion? Want to trade your best players for it! We want Monta. Ellis ......"

Many years later, when the Bucks management thought about this deal, it was not clear whether they would regret it and cry bitterly, but in the next four years, it is an objective fact that Curry is not favored and not valued by the Warriors.

Now in a hurry to let the Magic team trade Curry, in Wang Chao's opinion, it is not the most cost-effective choice, and Curry is not a high-quality instant combat power, so let Curry hone his skills in the Warriors for a few years before making other considerations.

Wang Chao himself is very happy to play with Curry, and as a teammate, Curry is definitely the most perfect and ideal type.

Humble and gentle, not fighting or grabbing, as a point guard but mainly playing without the ball, let Green as a ball handler, even in the face of Durant's struggle for power will not be in a hurry, more importantly, Curry has a three-point firepower that is not weaker than Wang Chao, if the two join forces, it is a strengthened version of the Splash Brothers, and the outside firepower is terrifying.

Of course, this is all an afterthought, at least in the past two or three years, Wang Chao will not consider Curry.

Correspondingly, the rookie players in '09 are actually not suitable for the Magic at this stage.

The Magic team, which has already won the championship in the 08-09 season, is naturally aiming to continue to defend the title, and they need a strong enough instant combat force, not a potential player who needs time to develop.

Wang Chao and Howard are 26 years old and 24 years old, and there is still a long period of growth and peak in the future, so there is no need to consider age at all.

To sum up, Wang Chao's final reply to the management was that it would be good to watch the changes during the draft.

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The arrival of Wang Chao led to the triggering of many butterfly effects.

But to his surprise, the '09 draft picks, or some key picks, didn't seem to be affected.

However, this is not particularly strange, after all, his arrival has changed more of the pattern of strong teams, and those weak teams that are already at the bottom will not change much because of this, and even become worse because of it.

The Clippers, who finished second to last in the league, were the No. 1 pick, followed by the Kings, the Grizzlies, who tied for second to last with the Clippers, and then the Thunder.

The Thunder, who originally held the No. 3 pick in the first round, although the draft pick dropped by one place, they still selected Harden, who is also a two-way guard, and the Kings are more optimistic about the physically strong Tyreck. Evans, the Grizzlies prefer to pick an interior player, so they chose Hashim, the top star they regretted for years. Thabit.

Curry was still drafted by the Warriors with the seventh pick, ahead of Rubio, Jonny. After Flynn and other point guards, and before the draft, the Warriors almost used this No. 7 pick to reach a trade agreement with the Suns, and the Suns wanted to use Stoudemire to trade with the Warriors, and the selection of Curry's No. 7 pick was in the trade content, and there were some other trade chips that matched Stoudemire's value, not to mention.

The Warriors were tempted at the time, but after some trade-offs, they rejected the deal in the final minute because the Warriors still had some skepticism about Stoudemire's health.

A trade that could change the course of the league in the future was rejected, and the rest of the draft results didn't matter.

The draft is over, and for NBA teams, it's just the beginning.

With the opening of free agency, all teams are starting to work on reinforcements such as trade signings.

The first problem the Magic team faces is the contract extension of the main player Tekoglu.

As they expected, winning the championship with the Magic team and playing the best performance of his career in the past two years made Tegklu's value skyrocket, and his agent directly offered the Magic a four-year contract of 52 million.

It's really a lion's mouth.

Turkoglu has never been selected as an All-Star or on the All-NBA team, but he wants a contract with an average annual salary of $13 million.

The Magic management doesn't think Turkoglu is worth the price, but they also want to keep Turkoglou, after all, the other party is indeed one of the main players of the Magic team to win the championship, averaging 15.2 points, 5.3 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game in the regular season, and also has 15.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists during the playoffs, which is the third scoring point and ball handling point in the Magic team.

Regarding Turkoglou's contract extension, the Magic team finally offered Turkoglu a five-year, 50 million offer contract.

With an annual salary of 10 million, this is already the maximum offer that the Magic team can afford.

This offer Wang Chao is not very recognized, Tekoglou, who was born in 1979, is now over thirty years old, and Wang Chao, who knows his entire career, knows very well that in the next 09-10 season, Tekoglou's competitive state will begin to decline.

In the original history, because the Magic team refused to provide a contract that satisfied Tekoglu, the latter finally chose to join the Toronto Raptors with a total contract amount of 53 million over five years.

However, Turkoglou, who joined the Raptors, has always been out of step with the team's tactical system, averaging 11.3 points, 4.7 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game.

In just one season, Turkoglu was traded to the Suns.

But the Suns had an equally unsatisfactory time for Turkoglou, so after playing 25 games for the Suns, Turkoglu was traded again, and this time back to the Magic.

Returning to the team he knew best, there was still no way to bring Tekoglu back to the feeling of his prime, and the famous Turkish Magic gradually disappeared from the league.

Even if you don't take into account the season when Turkoglu joined the Raptors and couldn't fit into the team's tactical system, Turkoglou's peak was still only stuck in the 07-08 and 08-09 seasons.

Leaving Turkoglu with an annual salary of 10 million for 5 years does not really help the strength of the Magic team, if you can leave Turkoglu with a middle-class or even an annual salary of seven or eight million, it is still a little cost-effective, and exceeding this price will only cause a drag on the team.

In the face of the 5-year 50 million offer provided by the Magic team, Turkoglu did not hesitate to choose to refuse.

After winning the championship, Turkoglou's value is much higher than at the same time in his original history, and many teams are very interested in this all-round power forward.

In just three days after the free market opened, more than three teams had already made offers for Turkoglou.

They are the Toronto Raptors, the Los Angeles Clippers and the Charlotte Bobcats.

The three teams have the highest offer from the Raptors, with 60 million over five years and an average of 12 million per year.

Seeing the Raptors' offer, the Magic team management panicked for a while.

They still hope that Turkoglou, a champion of championships, can stay with the team, even if it is to defend the Magic's title next season.

The Magic began holding an emergency meeting to discuss whether to match the Raptors' offer.

Head Coach Stan. Van Gundy, the team's core Wang Chao and Howard all attended the meeting, and the management wanted to hear their thoughts.

Van Gundy's position is naturally to hope that the team can keep Turkoglou, after all, there are not too many high-quality players who can replace Turkoglu in the current free market, as for the question of whether to spend money or not, it is a matter for the team management and the owner to consider, even if the Magic team needs to pay more than 10 million luxury taxes next year, as long as they can defend the championship, it will be a success for him as a head coach.

Howard didn't say anything, whether Tekoglu could stay or not, he didn't care at all, anyway, the really important core of the Magic team was him and Wang Chao, except for the two of them, no one was irreplaceable, at this time he was thinking about going to that nightclub tonight, and he wanted to spend a good night with a few beautiful sisters.

And Wang Chao is directly expressed.

"Even though we're teammates, I have to show that signing Tekoglou with an annual salary of 12 million or more is definitely a bad extension, and if it's that price, I think it's better to give him up and split the 12 million into two mid-level contracts and sign two good players in free agency."

After Wang Chao's words were finished, the conference room fell into a brief silence, and even Howard, who was wandering in the world, couldn't help but look at Wang Chao.

"Ahem......"

The general manager of the Magic team coughed lightly. "Wang, in that case, what would you like to play with those players next season?"

Wang Chao thought for a while and said, "The big forward of the Trailblazers, Qian Ning. Frye's contract expires and the Trail Blazers have no idea of renewing his contract, a player with excellent three-point shooting ability, 2.11 meters tall, which is very suitable for the Magic's current one-star tactical system, and he is now very cheap, about two million to three million annual salary can be taken. ”

QIAN Ning. Fry?

Almost everyone present listened to Wang Chao's words, and they all had question marks in their heads.

Of course, they know about the player who was drafted with the eighth pick in the first round in '05, but the four years of Frye's rookie contract are not very good, and Frye's best season performance came in his rookie season, averaging 12.3 points and 5.8 rebounds per game.

But in the following years, Frye's performance was like Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and every year was not as good as the year, especially this season, with only 4.2 points and 2.2 rebounds per game in the Trail Blazers, which can also be called excellent?

Of course, Wang Chao, as a player, suggested that it was just a reference, as he said, Qian Ning. Frye can get it with two or three million, it doesn't matter to the team at all, if Wang Chao likes Frye, even if the other party's strength is average, what if he is signed to play with the prince?

After adjusting his mood, the general manager of the Magic team said the most important thing.

"Everyone should have heard that the New Jersey Nets want to tear down the rebuild, so they want to trade Vince. Carter, and in order to get rid of Carter's big contract, they asked for very few chips. ”

The general manager's words made the eyes of many people present light up.

Could it be that they have a chance to get Vince. Carter?

(End of chapter)