Chapter 287: Exciting News! Wang Chao is leaving the rocket!

(10,000 words, long wait.) ๏ผ‰

"The Rockets defeated the Cavaliers 4-2 to win the O'Brien Cup for the third consecutive year, becoming the fifth team in NBA history to achieve three consecutive championships and create a dynasty, and the four teams that can achieve this achievement are the Celtics, Bulls, Lakers and Magic, which is also the second dynasty team after the Magic's three-in-a-row dynasty."

"Beyond the Legend! In the finals, he averaged 32.4 points, 11 rebounds and 10.5 assists per game, Wang Chao was unanimously elected FMVP, seven crowns, six FMVP and five MVPs, Wang Chao surpassed Jordan in top honors and became the strongest in the history of the league! What's even more terrifying is that Jordan was 35 years old when he won the sixth championship in his career, and Wang Chao was only 32 years old when he reached the seventh championship, he still has about 3 years of peak and can maintain excellent competitive condition in 5 years, does Wang Chao have a chance to hit Bill Russell's NBA record of 11 crowns? โ€

"Can the three-time champion dynasty Rockets continue to shine? At the end of the season, team leader Da Yao and veteran Lei Yao. Allen officially announced his retirement and the contracts of several players on the team expired, can the Rockets management keep the championship team in the summer offseason to continue to attack the championship? โ€

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The ripple effects of the Rockets' championship were many.

In fact, during the Finals, the referee's whistle and the voting opinion of major websites and TV stations showed that the Cavaliers could break the Rockets' monopoly on the championship.

When the free agency market opens in July, the league's teams with salary space will do whatever it takes to poach all of the Rockets' players whose contracts expire and completely dismember the dynasty.

Of course, the Rockets management is aware of this, and their most important task in the near future is to finalize the contract extension of the player, and prioritize the renewal according to the strength and potential of the player.

Wang Chao, who has just surpassed Jordan with 7 crowns to become the first person in the history of the league, is undoubtedly the team's primary goal for contract renewal.

Although Wang Chao's contract should not officially expire until 2016, in the summer of 2015, Wang Chao had a player option and could choose to jump out of the contract and re-sign a bigger contract at any time.

Previously, the general manager of the Rockets had tested Wang Chao's agent, Bill. Duffy's attitude, but he failed to get some effective information from the other party.

Under Wang Chao, it is the team's two main forces this season. Leonard and Jimmy. Butler.

Both of them were first-round picks in 2011, and after the four-year rookie season contract ended, they officially became free agents, although they are restricted free agents, the Rockets have the right to match the contracts offered by any team for the two and forcibly leave the two, but if you want to do that, you must provide the two with a maximum salary contract, and the two people add together, and the annual salary will start at 30 million.

The management of the Rockets is inclined to keep Leonard and Butler at all costs, the current strength and potential of the two are at the top level, and they are definitely the right-hand men of Wang Chao, as long as these three stay with the Rockets, the team will still be the biggest favorites to win the championship in the next few years.

Just leaving three people is enough to make the Rockets' salary space explode, after all, Wang Chao's annual salary is close to 25 million, Leonard and Butler have a total of 30 million, and these three alone occupy 55 million salary space.

In the 2015-16 season, the NBA salary cap is about to skyrocket, but it will only rise from 63 million to 70 million this season.

The contract extensions of Wang Chao, Leonard and Butler alone will occupy nearly 80% of the salary space of the Rockets!

And even so, the Rockets are not sure that they will be able to keep both Leonard and Butler at the same time.

This is also the reason why the number of dynasty teams in the NBA league is so scarce, if you want to ensure the competitiveness of winning the championship, you must have a luxurious enough team, there is almost no single-core team in the history of the NBA, even if it is the Dallas Mavericks in the 10-11 season, it seems that Nowitzki won the championship with a single core, but in fact, the Mavericks have a very luxurious team of role players, but they are not famous, with a total salary of 85.41 million in the championship season, ranking third in the league.

Under Leonard and Butler, there are two players whose contracts are expiring, namely 12-year rookie Chris. Middleton with 10-year rookie Hassan. Whiteside.

Although these two players are not as strong and potential as Leonard and Butler, they are also eye-catching players.

Middleton in Chandler. After Parsons left the team, he was promoted to the starting position by Wang Chao from the bench, although the positioning on the court is completely a fixed-point shooter, receiving the ball and shooting, but Middleton's three-point shooting rate can reach 40% stably, plus the height of the 2.01 meter standard small forward, he also has the potential to become an All-Star player.

As for Whiteside's performance this season, it is even more impressive.

With the blessing of Wang Chao's sparring potion, Huaishen has made rapid progress in the past two years, and has reached the level of the peak of his career, although limited by playing time, averaging only 8 points and 8 rebounds per game, but his defensive ability in the restricted area is enough to make many teams feel excited.

The above four players, the Rockets management estimates that they can all get tens of millions of contracts, and it is definitely impossible to keep all of them, so Middleton and Whiteside can only be set within the third priority of contract extensions.

"Hoo โ€”โ€”!"

Rubbing his eyebrows, the general manager of Team Rocket breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

It's a really hard job.

In the past few years, he has been the general manager in name only, because the power is all concentrated on Wang Chao, whether it is player changes, contract renewal issues or draft drafts, Wang Chao has to make decisions, he is just a tool responsible for signing and authorizing the implementation.

He was temporarily promoted to the position of general manager, and he was not dissatisfied with this, and even became complacent because he won two best manager awards.

But now he understands what it means to fight the country and defend the country.

"Jingle Bell ......"

Just then, the phone in the office rang.

The general manager of the rocket picked up the phone, and the expression on his face changed the next moment, and the whole person jumped up from his seat.

"What do you say? Wang Chao announced that he would jump out of the contract and publicly declared in front of the media that he would not sign with the Rockets? Are you kidding? โ€

He's stupid, what's going on?

The general manager of the rocket hurriedly turned on the computer in front of his desk and searched for relevant keywords.

Then he saw a video of a few minutes interview with Wang Chao.

At the front of the video, the reporter asked Wang Chao how he felt after winning the championship and whether he thought he had surpassed Jordan to become the first person in NBA history.

Wang Chao's answer to these questions is irrelevant, and the general manager accelerates the video fast forward.

"Now that the Rockets have won three consecutive championships, you will continue to lead the Rockets to the championship. Will Russell's eight-game and eleven-in winning a row be challenged? With the Rockets having multiple players out of contract this summer, who do you think the Rockets should prioritize to keep to keep the team more competitive? โ€

When asked this question, Wang Chao obviously hesitated slightly, as if he was thinking about something, but finally said: "My career with the Rockets is coming to an end, and after the end of this season, I will choose to jump out of the team and join another team, and I will not choose to continue to renew my contract with the Rockets." โ€

When Wang Chao said this, his expression was understated, as if he was discussing common things.

The beautiful reporter in charge of the interview didn't react for a while, and when she realized what a powerful news Wang Chao had just said, even the hand holding the microphone trembled a little.

"Mr. Wang Chao, what did you just say? Jumping out of his contract this summer and not renewing his contract with the Rockets? Why? Do you have a conflict with the team? โ€

A series of questions came out of the mouth of the beautiful reporter like a cannon.

Wang Chao had expected this reaction, his expression was still calm, and he shook his head and said. "I remember saying a long time ago that I joined the Rockets simply to win the NBA championship with Da Yao."

"Now, the Rockets have reached a three-peat, and Da Yao is about to retire, my goals have been accomplished, and the point of continuing to stay here no longer exists."

"But the Rockets have the most reasonable and luxurious team, even if Da Yao retires, as long as he can renew his contract and retain most of the players whose contracts expire, the team is still the biggest favorite to win the championship!"

The beautiful reporter said puzzled.

Wang Chao smiled, he shook his head slightly and said: "You must make it clear that it is not that the Rockets are a dynasty team, but because I came here, it became a dynasty team." โ€

Beautiful Reporter: "......"

Although Wang Chao's words were extremely pretended, it was an indisputable fact.

If Wang Chao does not join, the Rockets will not be able to win the championship or even three consecutive championships, but the Western Conference will be out of reach for them.

And before Wang Chao came to the Rockets, he was already the founder of a three-time championship dynasty.

Therefore, Wang Chao said that the Rockets' three consecutive championships are entirely due to him, and there is nothing wrong with it.

In the four years of the Rockets, Wang Chao won three MVPs, three championships, and three FMVPs, officially surpassing Jordan to become the first person in league history, and he is fully qualified to say this.

But even so, Wang Chao's motive for leaving the Rocket Team still doesn't understand, after all, as long as he stays in the Rocket Team, he can further accumulate honors and make his position as the first person in history more stable.

After all, even with 7 crowns in hand, Wang Chao, who is the first person in history, still has many fans who do not recognize.

After all, sunspots don't care so much, as long as they don't recognize you, white can be said to be black.

Now many people's arguments have become the water problem of Wang Chao's two consecutive championships, because Wang Chao's two dynasties were obtained by partnering with the league's No. 1 center, the Magic team had Howard, and the Rockets also had Da Yao, which is very similar to the Lakers OK combination during the three consecutive championships.

In contrast, Jordan won two triple championships in the 90s, when the interior center was supreme, and there was only one Pippen who was also an outside player, which was far more valuable than Wang Chao's three consecutive championships.

After all, in this league where the inside line wins the world, Wang Chao's strength is the top level of the league whether it is in the Magic or the Rockets.

Fans who are a little more sober and rational know that Howard and Da Yao are really the league's No. 1 centers?

Let's talk about Howard first, after leaving Wang Chao, how he performed in the Lakers and Spurs is obvious to everyone, in fact, even during the Magic's three-game championship, Howard's positioning is only a super blue-collar, and the team's tactics are not around him at all.

As for Da Yao, when Wang Chao joined the Rockets, Da Yao was already past his prime, although he had a dominance comparable to O'Neal in the league's withering center, but injuries and physical problems led to his limited output, which was not a key factor in the team's victory.

Heizi will not calmly analyze these things, anyway, the gold content of Ling Wang Chao's two triple championships is not as high as Danzi, and if he wants to surpass Jordan by relying on two legging dynasties and a soy sauce champion, there is no door.

But if Wang Chao can continue to win the championship after Da Yao retires, winning the eighth crown, the ninth crown or even ten championships, no matter how dark it is, it will be meaningless.

Therefore, the beautiful reporter couldn't figure it out, isn't it good to put the basic game of the Rockets to win the championship and continue to compete for the championship? Why did Wang Chao choose to leave the Rockets?

Then she heard such an answer from Wang Chao's mouth.

"To continue to prove that wherever I go, which team can win the championship." Wang Chao said calmly, his tone was full of confidence in his own strength.

"The Rockets are so strong now that winning is no longer challenging for me, it's actually quite boring, so I want to make it a little more difficult for myself, and then I'm going to join a team that has never won a championship in history, help them win the first championship in team history, and after winning the championship I'm going to leave that team and join another team that hasn't won the championship, and so on and so ......forth."

"I'm still curious to see how many teams I can bring NBA championships when I retire from the league."

In front of the TV, the general manager of Team Rocket's mouth has opened into an "O" shape.

Wang Chao, what is this guy talking about?

That's too TM arrogant, isn't it!!

This was so dramatic that at this moment, he couldn't tell whether Wang Chao was joking or serious.

But at this time, judging from various news on the Internet, there is a chance that this thing is true!

"Jingle Bell Bell ......"

The phone rang again, and the general manager of the rocket answered the phone.

"Hey, boss...... Well, I know, I'm talking to Wang Chao and his agent Bill right now. Duffy contacted him and kept him as long as he could. โ€

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Wang Chao wants to jump out of the contract and leave the Rockets, this news is like a virus, and in a very short period of time, it quickly covers the news that the Rockets have won three consecutive championships and created a dynasty, becoming the hottest news in the league.

When it was announced that Wang Chao was leaving, almost all teams breathed a sigh of relief, especially those favorites to win the championship.

After all, without Wang Chao's Rockets, even if they can keep all the other players who have won the championship, it is not a championship-level team, which means that many teams, including the Cavaliers and Warriors, will have the opportunity to win the championship next year.

As for Wang Chao's words about wanting to join a weak team and help it win the first championship in team history, in the eyes of most people, it is just Wang Chao's wild words after winning the championship.

Wang Chao is very strong, especially in the past three seasons, the performance of the average triple-double per game is unprecedented, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to come later.

But even so, Wang Chao is not really invincible.

He was able to win the championship with the Magic, and he had a double-team and DPOY partner Howard, and during the Rockets' three-game winning streak, he helped more Yao, Garnett, Leonard, Butler, and even Middleton, Thomas Jr., Chandler. Role players like Parsons are very strong players.

Suppose Wang Chao really joins a weak team at the bottom of the league, maybe he can turn it into a strong team in the league, but wants to compete for the championship...... That's impossible.

In this year's playoffs, it is not that no team uses the trap tactics against Wang Chao, even if it is Wang Chao in the face of the pack, he can only choose to pass, and at this time, the Rockets have a second point of possession to help Wang Chao share the pressure, whether it is Leonard or Butler, they can do this job and do it very well.

But if you change teams, can someone like the Rockets help Wang Chao share the pressure?

When the strong teams competing for the championship are rejoicing, the weak teams in the league who have never had a championship are all excited.

This is Wang Chao! The first person in the history of the league, Wang Chao, who only celebrated his 32nd birthday in November this year, still has a few years of peak, during which no matter which team gets him, he can be like a grass chicken flying on the branches, instantly turning into a phoenix!

As for whether Wang Chao can bring a championship to his own team, does it still matter?

The free market has not yet opened, and there are already many teams trying to find ways to talk to Wang Chao's agent, Bill. Duffy got in touch to negotiate the terms of the franchise, and even if such behavior was violated, they were willing to take the risk of being punished by the alliance.

Cleveland Cavaliers, general manager David Murphy. Griffin receives a call from James.

"David, you should have seen the news too." James said on the phone: "Do you think we have a way to clear the team's salary space and sign Wang Chao?" โ€

David. Griffin: "......"

"I'm afraid it's hard." Griffin sighed and said helplessly: "Although Wang Chao is not short of money, he will not make any regressions in terms of salary, one of the joining conditions he announced to all teams must be renewed with a maximum salary, and our salary space is not able to give him a contract with a maximum salary of more than 20 million." โ€

"If we want to free up salary space, we need to trade away a number of key players this year, including Gasol, Pierce, and the likes of Tristan. Thompson and Iman. Champot's contract renewal could not be carried out. โ€

"And even if we can free up enough salary space, we are not sure that Wang Chao will join the Cavaliers......"

And half a sentence, David. Griffin didn't say it, he held it in his heart.

The reason why Wang Chao did not renew his contract with the Rockets was that the Rockets lineup was too strong, and winning the championship in the Rockets could not reflect his strength and value, so wouldn't it be the same for him to join the Cavaliers? Two regular season MVPs at their peak have joined forces, even if they win the championship, what is the gold content at all?

David. Griffin didn't know that without his knowledge, he had PUA to the future Warriors.

"Even if the chances are slim, we're going to give it a try, aren't we?"

James said on the other end of the phone.

"Okay, LeBron, I'll arrange to make an offer to Wang Chao's agent." David. Griffin sighed in his heart and said helplessly: "As long as the other party agrees, we will find a way to trade Gasol and other players away from the team to free up enough salary space to sign Wang Chao." โ€

The same thing played out in the offices of the general managers of several teams in the league.

Wang Chao's agent Bill. Duffy has become the busiest person in the world these days, and his phone rings non-stop every day.

In the busy intervals, he scolded his employer Wang Chao in his heart.

"This guy is really a moth, and the good Rocket Team doesn't wait, he has to run around, what good is it for him?"

Bill. Duffy doesn't understand Wang Chao's brain circuit at all, there is a shortcut not to take, so he has to take a detour?

He really wanted to ask Wang Chao what he really thought in person, but unfortunately Wang Chao was attending Da Yao's retirement press conference at this time.

As a legend of the Rockets, Da Yao, who brought three championships to the team, may be second only to Da Meng Olajuwon in the Rockets, and the pomp and circumstance of retirement is naturally very large, and the Rockets directly use the Toyota Center Arena, the home stadium, as the stage for Da Yao's retirement speech, and a large number of reporters and fans of the Rockets came to the scene.

Sitting in the front row are the stars who came to support Da Yao's retirement speech, including Wang Chao, Leonard, Butler and other current teammates, Yao Mai's partner Tracy. McGrady, the boss of Da Yao's early career, Steve Brown. Francis.

The Rockets' famous group Dream Olajuwon, Glider Drexler, Kenny. Smith and the others were all there.

Then some of Da Yao's friends in the league, such as Kobe Bryant, O'Neal and other well-known stars were also present.

The pomp and circumstance of Da Yao's retirement in this time and space is much bigger than in the original history, but this is also normal.

Da Yao has extended his career here for several years, and his resume in the honor book is even richer, the original five-time All-Star team has become nine times here, and he has three consecutive dynasty championships, if it weren't for the fact that Da Yao has never won the regular season MVP and Finals FMVP in his career, his place in the history of the Rockets is even higher than Olajuwon.

And now, Rockets fans put Da Yao in the third place in the history of the Rockets, behind Wang Chao and Olajuwon, which is also a very high honor.

Not surprisingly, the Rockets will soon retire Da Yao's jersey and carve a jersey statue for Da Yao like Olajuwon.

Wang Chao, who was sitting on the sidelines, smiled and applauded Da Yao, who was speaking on the stage.

This should be the pomp and circumstance that the first star in the history of China should have.

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The retirement speech was over, and Da Yao and Wang Chao found a place to sit together.

"What's next after you retire?"

Wang Chao asked.

"What can you do? Relax, enjoy retirement, and then go to college, manage the Shanghai sharks, and then study and do business. โ€

Da Yao said very chic salted fish, but Wang Chao knew very well that this guy would not only become the chairman of the Basketball Association in the future, but also eat a 400-pound fat man.

"Then I wish you a happy retirement."

Wang Chao raised the wine glass in front of him and raised it to Da Yao.

Da Yao also picked up the wine glass and drank it all after clinking glasses with Wang Chao, then put down the wine glass and shook his head and said: "Wang Chao, I really can't figure it out, why did you choose to leave the Rockets, I thought you would be like me, playing in the Rockets until you retire, and retire successfully, with your strength, you will definitely become the totem and symbol of the Houston Rockets when you retire." โ€

"As I said, staying with the Rockets is no longer challenging for me, I don't have any goals to chase or surpass now, I'm not short of money, and there's no point in continuing to play in the NBA if I don't set myself a challenging goal."

Wang Chao shook the wine glass in his hand and said.

"Okay." Da Yao smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Your thoughts are different from ordinary people, maybe that's why you can achieve what you have achieved in the NBA, in that case, have you already figured out which team to join?" โ€

"I haven't thought about it yet, there are a lot of teams to choose from, just pick slowly."

Wang Chao said.

This is the big truth, he really didn't choose a good team, because it happened suddenly, and Wang Chao himself was not prepared.

That's right, what I said above is actually only a half-truth.

It is true that it is not challenging to continue to stay with the Rockets to win the championship, but the reason why Wang Chao will join other weak teams and prove his ability to win the championship for a team that has never won the championship is mainly inspired by the system tasks after winning the championship.

When the finals series began, Wang Chao received the task that the system had not seen for a long time, defeating the Cavaliers to win three consecutive championships.

At that time, the system described that after completing the mission, the optional career mode - Champion Rescuer would be activated.

Wang Chao thought it was a new mission function reward at first, but after Team Rocket defeated the Cavaliers 4:2, the mission was completed, and the so-called optional career mode was opened, and Wang Chao realized that this was originally a copy of the system's mission mode.

As the name suggests, a championship savior is a championship that wins a championship for a team that has not yet won a championship in the history of other teams.

According to the system's explanation, this so-called career model is regarded as a system evaluation mode for Wang Chao's career, which will continue until Wang Chao officially retires, and the total score of Wang Chao's career will be assessed according to the number of championships Wang Chao has brought to the uncrowned team, and then the final mystery award will be awarded according to the score.

The higher the rating, the greater the reward, and vice versa.

The flexibility of this model is very large, it completely depends on Wang Chao's own wishes, you can choose to challenge, or you can choose not to ignore it, it has no impact on Wang Chao himself or even the system, but there is one thing to say, Wang Chao is still a little interested in the so-called final mystery award of the system.

The production of the system must be a high-quality product, not to mention that this is still a reward that will be announced when Wang Chao officially retires, and in a sense, it can be regarded as the ultimate prize of the system.

It just so happened that after the Rockets won three consecutive championships, Wang Chao did not have a particularly strong desire to continue to stay in the Rockets and monopolize the championship with Leonard, Butler and others.

The 7 crown honors have been able to ensure that Wang Chao surpasses the basketball god Jordan to sit firmly in the first place in history, and the number of next championships is just a prop to ensure the stability of Wang Chao's status in the rivers and lakes.

In contrast, it is indeed more interesting to challenge the team to lead the team to win the championship on the underdog.

The career module appears directly in the consciousness space after Wang Chao completes the task, and is divided separately from the data panel, talent tree, and store module.

There are several display boards in the career module area, which display the honors that Wang Chao has won, including 7 championship trophies, 5 regular season MVP trophies, 6 finals FMVP trophies, and all the substantive honors won by Wang Chao, including All-Star MVP, Best Team, Best Defensive Team, Scoring King, Rebounding King, Assist King, Steal King and so on.

All the trophies were neatly arranged, almost identical to a showroom specially built in Wang's surreal mansion.

The only difference is that not far from the display case, there are several flagpoles, and at this time there are two flagpoles with flags hanging on them, although there is no wind in the consciousness space, but they are still constantly fluttering.

These two flags are the logos of the Phoenix Suns and Orlando Magic, respectively.

Looking at the flags representing these two teams, Wang Chao probably understood what it meant.

"The team that won the championship before is counted as long as there is no championship in team history."

Wang Chao won the championship for the first time with the Suns in the 06-07 season, and then partnered with Howard on the Magic team to win three consecutive championships in 08-11.

Both teams are non-championship teams in league history, so they are also counted in the Championship Savers count by the Career module.

And Wang Chao's three consecutive championships with the Rockets were not counted, because the Rockets had two championships before, that is, the two consecutive championships won by the team led by Dameng Olajuwon in 94 and 95.

There are still many empty flagpoles, Wang Chao is very curious about what kind of scene will be if he really fills all these flagpoles, and what kind of ultimate mystery prize will the system give when he officially retires?

As for what kind of sensation and chain reaction his temporary decision caused in the alliance, it was not within Wang Chao's consideration.

The only pity is that his layout on Team Rocket is all in vain.

Originally, after the end of this season, although the Rockets would be frantically poached and dismembered by various teams in the league with various premium contracts, Wang Chao was not afraid at all.

Among the four main restricted free agents Leonard, Butler, Middleton, and Whiteside, the Rockets only need to match the contracts of two of them, and Wang Chao personally prefers to keep Butler and Middleton, after all, Leonard has had a back-and-forth behavior in the Spurs in the future, and as the tide of strength rises, it is inevitable that there will be some moths.

And in this year's draft, Wang Chao will also use the first-round pick he got from the Timberwolves to draft Devin. Booker.

Because Love did not leave the team, the Timberwolves' record this season is not the bottom of the league, but the twelfth in the West, which is a more embarrassing position, not only a certain distance from the playoffs, but also far from the league's bottom of the top pick.

As a result, the Timberwolves' draft pick was drawn with the tenth pick in the lottery ceremony, and with Wang Chao's wishes, the original thirteenth pick was selected with this pick. Booker doesn't have any difficulty.

At that time, the main lineup of the Rockets will be Wang Chao, Booker, Middleton, Butler and Jokic, as long as the strength of Booker and Jokic grows slightly, it will still be an exaggerated lineup that completely crushes the league.

Now that Wang Chao is destined to leave the Rockets, he will naturally not care about the Rockets' recruitment work, and their contract extensions, drafts and signing deals this summer are no longer things that Wang Chao needs to worry about.

"After the team is selected later, we have to find a way to get Jokic in order, otherwise it will be too wasteful."

Although Jokic is only a second-round pick, he is the winner of two consecutive regular season MVPs after Antetokounmpo, this honor is not a joke, you must know that in the history of the NBA, there are very few players who can get more than two MVPs, and it is even rarer for two consecutive years, counting Brother Alphabet and Jokic, there are only 12 people in total.

For that alone, Jokic is definitely the strongest second-round pick in NBA history, not one of them.

Of course, the premise of this title is that Wang Chao is not counted in it.

Although Wang Chao attaches great importance to Jokic, he did not give him much playing time and opportunities this season, after all, Jokic was seriously overweight when he first entered the league, and he was not able to play in the NBA at all, and played in Europe for another year, and after losing weight successfully, he returned to the NBA league in the 15-16 season, and the first season of his career was also decent, averaging only 10 points and 7 rebounds per game.

Since his second season, the 16-17 season, Jokic has shown good individual ability, averaging 16.7 points, 9.8 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game.

The Rockets themselves have focused on small-ball tactics in recent seasons, and there is also a big Yao on the inside, plus Huaishen and Gobert sitting on the bench, so it is not Jokic's turn to play at all, neither the Rockets coaching staff nor the management have noticed this fat man who is not good-looking.

First of all, he must operate before announcing that he will join the team, arrange for the team to trade Jokic first, and then announce his official joining, otherwise once the Rockets learn that Wang Chao wants Jokic, it is absolutely impossible to let him go, after all, the Rockets' big wins in the draft in the past few years have fully proved that Wang Chao's vision is vicious, and the players he can see are definitely All-Star stars.

The only question now is which team to join.

There are 11 teams in the league that have never won a championship, and the six teams in the West are: Utah Jazz, Denver Nuggets, Memphis Grizzlies, Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Dallas Mavericks and New Orleans Pelicans.

The five teams in the East are Charlotte Hornets, Brooklyn Nets, Indiana Pacers, Toronto Raptors, and Cleveland Cavaliers.

Wang Chao has been in this world for several years, and he has unknowingly changed a lot of the history of the alliance.

For example, bringing the Suns and Magic the first championship in team history, and also crushing the 10-11 season championship that originally belonged to the Mavericks.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that there are several teams in the league that won championships too long, such as the Thunder, the Wizards, and the Kings, all won the championship a long, long time ago, and they were not called their current names at that time, but no matter how old they are, they still have championships, and the championship trophy is also displayed in the team honor room, so it is not counted.

Among these 11 teams, Wang Chao was the first to exclude the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Wang Chao already learned about the Cavaliers' offer from Bill Duffy.

But he is ready to target poverty alleviation, not to win the championship.

Therefore, on the premise of determining the non-championship team, Wang Chao also needs to screen out teams that have the ability to win the championship, such as the Cavaliers, and teams such as the Los Angeles Clippers, who have always been regular visitors to the playoffs and have good strength.

Of course, the above two strong teams themselves do not have enough space to provide Wang Chao with a maximum salary offer, and if they want to be competitive, they must need the support of stars, and the total salary of these two teams is currently more than the salary cap.

As for several other teams, Wang Chao also has to screen it, some mud can't support the wall, and the team that doesn't have any development potential is not considered, Wang Chao wants to win as many championships as possible before retiring, even if there is a traverser foresight advantage and potential rookies, it will take at least one or two years or even longer to establish a championship-winning team.

Teams that are too small in the ball market are not considered for the time being, and the poor ones are not interesting.

After sifting through the above information one by one, Wang Chao's eyes were locked on the black and white team logo of the Brooklyn Nets.

The Brooklyn Nets, formerly the New Jersey Nets, moved to Brooklyn, New York, because they were interested in the Knicks' dividends in New York City.

But just like the Lakers are the only big clubs in Los Angeles, New York has always been a team that belongs to the Knicks.

In recent years, in order to gain popularity, the Nets have spared no expense to form a five-big lineup, and the salary space has exploded directly, even if because of the butterfly effect, Garnett ran away in advance to join the Rockets, resulting in the Nets failing to form a five-big combination, but the total salary of the Nets in the 13-14 season still broke through the 100 million mark, ranking first in the league, and the luxury tax alone has to pay more than $50 million.

The Mitre capitalism is really not soft at all when it picks up the wool of the Russian rich people.

After paying the exaggerated and high luxury tax, the Nets went home early to fish after only one second-round in the playoffs, let alone the championship, and even the shadow of the Eastern Conference finals was not seen.

This season, the Nets have begun to clean up the team's exaggerated salaries and trade away a group of people, but even so, the Nets still have a total salary of nearly 90 million. Johnson $23.18 million, Delon. Williams $19.75 million, Brooke. Lรณpez $15.72 million.

Among the above players this summer, there is no exception for Brooke. Aside from the option of jumping out of his contract and re-signing to a big contract, none of the other players are in contract years.

Therefore, even if Wang Chao wants to join the Nets, the first problem to be solved is the problem of salary space for the Nets, after all, he will never accept a non-maximum salary contract.

(End of chapter)