As the so-called iron-clad battalion soldiers, although Ron Artest is the protagonist of the Auburn palace incident, the DPOY he got is full of gold.

In an era when the league needs 3-and-D players the most, Artest's defense up front will be a much-needed energy for any team and a nightmare for any opponent.

Lin Fei + Atai's forward and defensive combination will be a terrifying existence that no team in the league wants to encounter.

It just so happened that this season the New York Knicks ended a lot of garbage contracts left over from history, so they used an annual salary of 8 million US dollars to get Artay, and they didn't even have to touch the luxury tax.

Of course, James Dolan is not a bad man, and as long as Lin Fei needs it, the Knicks can sign another star player.

However, with Artest, the Knicks' starting five in the new season are expected to be: Marbury, Lin Fei, Artest, Randolph and Eddie Curry.

In Lin Fei's opinion, this set of five tiger lineups is enough to cause a bigger storm in the east and west in the new season.

In fact, after the opening of free agency this year, Artest is not just the Knicks, but dozens of teams pursuing Artest.

After the Auburn Hills palace incident gradually passed, Artest's ability was gradually recognized by fans and team management again, and improved.

In this year's Finals between the Timberwolves and the Knicks, although Artest was suspended for 3 games, his personal performance in the 4 games he played was very stable and strong, averaging 15 points, 9 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 block per game, and his performance on the defensive end and rebounds was very eye-catching.

Although in this championship-winning Timberwolves team, Ray Allen is the nominal second leader of the team, both seniority and performance are enough to be recognized.

But the problem is that during the entire finals, Ray Allen was against Lin Fei, and his personal performance was inevitably greatly reduced, with an average score of only about 13 points per game, and his performance could not be compared with the wolf king.

Not even as good as Artest, Gerard Wallace and Wally Szebiak.

Therefore, the Timberwolves won the championship this year, and Artest's contribution is definitely among the top three in the team.

In terms of personal plus/minus, Artest even ranks first on the team, higher than Kevin Garnett.

These data and intrinsic value will naturally not be lost to the teams in the NBA league, so when the trade talks between Artest and the Timberwolves collapsed and finally tested the free market,

The league, including the Knicks, Cavaliers, Lakers, Rockets, Spurs and many other teams, has thrown an olive branch to Artay.

Especially for the Los Angeles Lakers, who lack small forwards, general manager Mitch Kupchak even gave a 2-year contract of 19 million US dollars, with an annual salary of nearly 10 million US dollars.

At the same time, there are two other teams, which also offer Artest an annual salary of 10 million yuan.

But in the end, attracted by the big city of New York and Lin Fei's personal charm, Artest still chose to sign with the Knicks for 3 years and 24.9 million US dollars, determined to assist Lin Fei to impact the championship.

On his personal social media, Artest also expressed his feelings after signing with the Knicks for the first time:

"Hometown, I'm back, I'm looking forward to fighting side by side with the first person in the alliance!"

Under Artest's tweet, fans quickly received more than 10,000 comments, and many people hated Atay, but they were also looking forward to Atay's arrival.

"Haha, has Ron already begun to make overtures to the new boss? Shouldn't his actions have caused Kevin Garnett's jealousy? ”

"As a Knicks fan, I really welcome Artest, and the Knicks will win the championship in the new season!"

"Although Atai has played fans and has a bad record on the court, his strength is beyond doubt, if it weren't for the impact of the fight, Atai would have been selected as an All-Star more times!"

"Coming to the Knicks in the new season and playing next to Lin, will Artai still worry that he won't have a chance to be selected as a second All-Star? You must know that Lin Ke is the first-class core of his teammates! ”

"I have a hunch that at least four of the New York Knicks will be selected as All-Stars in the new season!"

"Are Artest and Randolph going to play on the same team? Haha, that's fine, the two thorns restrain each other, but the team's locker room atmosphere can be more harmonious! ”

"The starting five Tigers are worth looking forward to, but I feel that the bench still needs to be strengthened a little, after all, the team has not touched the luxury tax for the first time this year, can James Dolan endure it?"

The Los Angeles Lakers failed to get Ron Artest, which made Kobe Bryant feel very helpless, and this time Lin Fei stole the limelight again.

The Lakers improved significantly last season, with Kobe, Da Yao and Al Jefferson having very good chemistry together, and the prospects for the new season are also favored by most of the league's pundits and commentators.

But the Lakers' biggest hidden danger is at the small forward position, so pursuing Artest in the offseason is the most important thing for team management and Kobe Bryant himself.

But in the end, the second largest city in the United States still failed to compete for the first city.

In addition to wanting to return to his hometown, Artest

Between Kobe and Lin Fei, the two strongest quarterbacks in the league, Lin Fei was chosen.

Although there is no way to sign Artest, the Lakers still have other ways to strengthen themselves, after all, in the NBA free market in '07, there are still a lot of big-name stars and 3-and-D players.

The rookie contracts of the 03 Platinum generation have expired, but Wade, Anthony and Chris Bosh have all agreed to contract extensions with the team in advance.

Only 03 champion LeBron James has not completed the signing with the Cavaliers for a long time, and has decided to test the free market.

But because the Cavaliers have the right of first refusal to sign LeBron James, and there is a high probability that they will not let go of the little emperor, it is basically impossible for other teams to take James away with the highest salary.

Moreover, James is the third superstar in the league to blow the penalty clause benefits after the "Lin Wei Clause" was issued, in addition to Lin Fei and Wade.

Therefore, LeBron James's contract extension with his parent team, the Cavaliers, is obviously more than the amount he will get by signing with a new team.

But for superstars who are already famous and eager to prove themselves, LeBron James doesn't care too much about the difference in salary.

Even though James is a free agent restricted by his parent team, there are still 13 teams in the league that have offered James free salary cap contracts.

This is enough to prove the huge influence of the "Little Emperor", who is undoubtedly one of the biggest free agents in the league in the last 10 or even 20 years.

Among the teams pursuing LeBron James is the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Los Angeles Lakers now have Kobe Bryant and Da Yao, two top-paid players, but the salaries of the other main players of the team are relatively low, and they signed James with a maximum salary while paying a certain luxury tax.

Not impossible.

Moreover, Los Angeles is also the second largest ball market in the whole meter after New York, and the attraction for James is naturally very huge.

All of a sudden, the news of Kobe Bryant teaming up with James spread far and wide, causing a huge sensation in the whole meter and even around the world.

"What's the situation? James is going to join the Lakers and join Kobe Bryant, isn't he kidding? ”

"Kobe Bryant and James are both ball-eating cores, the two of them are together, can this one ball be divided?"

"I feel that the Lakers will definitely not be able to sign James, and the Cleveland Cavaliers are not stupid, it is impossible to let James go easily!"

"I heard that James's public relations team and the Cavaliers management and boss Gilbert are very stiff, and the Cavaliers may not give James this face!"

"All this has to be the credit of our Feige, the Eastern Conference semifinals finished beating LeBron James in 35 seconds and 16 minutes, which is sour, and it directly allows the Cavaliers to see James's ceiling and future!"

"As long as Lin Fei is here, if James doesn't team up with another superstar-level teammate, it will be impossible to get past the Knicks!"

"I already have inside information here, saying that James's agent team is already discussing with the Cavaliers management about signing and then trading, this guy, it seems that things are really going to get bigger!"

"This offseason this year is really better than the playoffs, isn't the Green Army's 'Paul Three' not enough to go against the sky? Are the Lakers going to form the Big Three of Kobe Bryant, Big Yao and James? ”

"It looks like the league is really going to change completely this summer, and the NBA has come to a new era!"

Before LeBron James' new contract was finalized, there were several other trades in the league that caused some ripples between the teams.

Among them, the trades of the Denver Nuggets and Detroit Pistons are the most interesting for fans.

Allen Iverson and Chauncey Billups were called in the deal, Iverson came to Motor City, and Mr. Key Billups joined Denver to join Anthony "Melon" in the deal.

In the original world, the Iverson and Billups trade didn't happen until after the start of the '08-09 season, but in today's parallel world, the deal is more than a season ahead of schedule.

Lin Fei, as a traverser, naturally understands the importance of this deal to the Denver Nuggets, and in the first season when Billups was traded to the Nuggets, the team went all the way to the Western Conference Finals and started a life-and-death battle with Kobe's Lakers.

However, Iverson's state plummeted after joining the Pistons, refusing to serve as a substitute, and there were many contradictions with the management, and his personal peak also fell rapidly, falling like a bright meteor, and had to withdraw from the historical stage early.

Billups has proven to be a point guard who is more suitable for a championship-contending team than Iverson, but Iverson's fans and box office appeal are far from being comparable to Billups.

However, in Lin Fei's view, this deal is one season earlier than the original world, and perhaps more different trends and results will occur because of this.

After all, Iverson in the 07-08 season is still at his peak, much better than the 08-09 season.

Alan Iverson was so annoyed by the frequent transactions that he even smashed his phone to the ground in his home.

Iverson thought of his unruly recklessness when he first entered the league ten years ago, and thought of his god-like goal that shook Jordan.

It's all like yesterday, how can ten years go by so quickly?

But then, the intact screen of the Nokia mobile phone that was thrown to the ground suddenly lit up, and it was a short message sent by Lin Fei.

Iverson squatted down to check, and a sense of firmness and warmth suddenly surged in his restless heart.

"Aaron, be yourself!"

In the first-class cabin of the passenger plane to New Orleans, the young Kevin Durant and his mother were rushing to report to the new team.

Durant was puzzled by his quick trade to New Orleans after being drafted by the Green Army, but after all, he is only a rookie, and all this is not up to him.

Durant thinks that when he plays like Kobe and Lin Fei, he can dominate his own trade and destiny, and he firmly believes that he can achieve such a goal.

On the whole, Durant is still not too exclusive to the South Coast city of New Orleans, and the Huang Feng team also has a good lineup.

Although he lost Chris Paul, he also had David West, who averaged 18 points per game, Peja, a three-point shooter who recovered from injury, and Tyson Chandler, who was a center.

And Durant has been promised by Huang Feng's management and head coach Byron Scott, and the reason why the team traded him is to rebuild the team around him.

In addition, Durant has signed a 7-year $69 million sneaker contract with Nike Group, and has received more than $2.6 million in commercial compensation in the first quarter.

Kevin Durant, who grew up in the slums, has now truly achieved his dream of getting ahead, and the first thing he did when he took his mother to New Orleans was to buy a million-dollar mansion for himself and his mother.

The time entered August, and Lin Fei also returned to China to participate in a series of fan meetings, which set off a national craze in China.

In the context of the successive transactions of NBA teams, there was a big event in the league on the change of team owners.

As the chairman of Microsoft Group, the richest man in the world, and worth 56 billion US dollars, Bill Gates officially acquired the shares of Seattle SuperSonics from Bennett's agency at a sky-high price of 450 million US dollars, becoming the fifth boss in the 41-year history of the Supersonics.

The change of team owners is not very new in the NBA, but Bill Gates is the richest man in the world after all, and his investment tentacles have suddenly extended to the NBA, which still surprises and looks forward to many fans.

As a true Seattle local, the low-key Bill Gates also made a rare public statement in front of the media that he will try to help the SuperSonics win the championship again and win back the Seattle market in five years, otherwise he will sell the team.

At the same time, Bill Gates will also personally contribute 130 million US dollars to completely renovate the dilapidated key arena.

As the so-called three fires of new officials take office, less than three days after the world's richest man became the new boss of the supersonic, another seismic transaction came from the NBA.

On August 29, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Seattle SuperSonics, James' agent team, and NBA officials all announced major trade news at the same time.

LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers have officially reached a sign-and-trade deal to land on the West Coast and will wear the Seattle SuperSonics jersey for the new season. (End of chapter)