NBA: Start with 2 billion, buy the Knicks

Chapter 223: Curry, Harden, Turk, Drew Okur, Yao Ming, what kind of family is this!

"Rockets, you traded away Yao, an injured player, and started rebuilding for the sake of record."

"Yao, join the Knicks and help the Chinese boss attack the Eastern powers!"

This is the reason why espn predicted this transaction, and if this transaction is completed, the rating will be S, which means everyone gets what he needs.

Now ESPN will not treat Jiang Chao and Sean Marks as fools. They know very well that Jiang Chao's team will not do anything to lose money. After so many transactions, the other party may make a small profit, but Jiang Chao will never lose money, okay?

So directly rate it as s!

Netizens enthusiastically gave what choices Dolan would make:

"One of David Lee, Gallinelli, Curry or Harden."

"The previous boss's style would definitely produce players like this. This is what the Rockets have always wanted."

"Hahaha, don't worry, Jiang Chao has kept them until now, there is absolutely no way they will come out!"

Maybe those players who have little interaction with Jiang Chao will be worried, but David Lee and Gallinelli are not panic at all now.

They escaped the draft without being traded, and it is impossible to be traded now. In addition, Jiang Chao has talked with them about many things. Gallinelli will be the successor of Turk Drew in the future, David Lee will become the blue-collar ace, and Xiao

Being the best rebounder, etc., that was their agreement with Jiang Chao.

Sean Marks and Morey have been frantically exchanging greetings with each other these days, trying to come up with a satisfactory result.

I have to say that Dayao helped Sean a lot. Max insisted that Dayao only wanted to come to the Knicks. As a result, other teams that wanted Dayao retreated because they were afraid that Yao was in the Cao camp and his heart was in the Han Dynasty.

You must know that if you trade Yao now, you can use it in the next season at most, but what about after next season?

If Yao, whose contract expires, directly joins the Knicks as a free agent, they will have no choice at all.

So these teams either offer extremely low prices, or they don't think the Rockets are asking too much. What the Rockets want are future draft picks or expired veteran contracts. These other teams are also valuable...

No team claims that they can lead Yao to the championship after having Yao for one season. The purpose of them wanting Yao is to improve their record, but strong teams do not have the maximum salary space, and mid-range teams are afraid of Yao.

After working for a year, he ran away.

Looking back and forth, the Rockets only feel the sincerity of the Knicks!

At first, Morey did offer his favorite star Curry, but he was rejected immediately by Sean Marks.

The most outrageous thing is that Morey is still working tirelessly, saying that he is willing to send Tracy McGrady, that is, Yao McGrady to the Knicks.

Sean Marks could only lament that time is not forgiving. If this deal had been made five years ago, even if the entire Knicks team had been dismantled, it would have been fine. Unfortunately, time is a butcher's knife, and now he has reached the point of despising Tracy McGrady.

Because McGrady's style of play is really inconsistent with the Knicks, even if he comes here, he will not be able to play the role of leading the new players, and he is destined not to accompany the team very far.

Dayao, on the other hand, is plug-and-play, with a body size of 2.26 meters.

So he still rejected Tracy McGrady's proposal, saying that yao will return to yao, t-mac will return to t-mac, and we can discuss the situation after clarifying the situation.

At this time, Morey also tried to bring in a third party, such as Jerry Sloan. The Jazz management is still very good. They now decisively feel that they still need Okur. Without Okur, they are now seventh in the Western Conference.

Eight wanders.

The exaggeration of being the first and second best team in the Western Conference means that reaching the playoffs is only a matter of one round.

So they wanted to sign back Okur, who still had one year on his contract, during the offseason, so they roped in the Rockets for a trade.

"We only want it now."

Sean Marks was stunned for a moment when he was interfered with like this, but then he said that Okur's matter will be discussed later. Even if you can bring Okur back at a price that is hard to refuse in the off-season, this has nothing to do with me wanting Yao now.

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It would be terrible if everyone found out that Yao's training status during the off-season was off the charts.

Because Jiang Chao reminded Sean Marks that there will be a men's basketball world championship in this off-season. If the Chinese national team forces Dayao to participate, then once Dayao's dominance appears, the Knicks will never be able to be as relaxed as they are now.

He had the upper hand and negotiated with the Rockets.

There is also the Suns. Since Stoudemire and Nash can't cooperate well and Stoudemire's off-season contract expires, they urgently need Stoudemire and Yao to try a s

Downey Sr. thinks that since the Suns don't have D'Antoni, they might as well try to play the position well and replace it with an All-Star insider. Wouldn't the effect be better?

Coupled with the feud with the Knicks, Old Downey immediately jumped on Yao when he saw this big fish, and he directly cast out the little bully Stedemeyer who has a lot of fans.

You must know that Little Overlord is definitely not for sale in the eyes of many Japanese secretaries and the previous management.

However, this proposal was rejected by the Rockets.

It's not because of the Knicks, but because the Bully is only suitable for Nash. Can Rockets guards provide good assists to the Bully?

So they just failed. They just didn't like Stoudemire, and they were planning to train another insider to start from scratch. What they wanted more was an outside player.

Old Downey was immediately furious, and he directly attributed the reason to Jiang Chao.

He couldn't figure out why Jiang Chao and Sean, with their free-spirited personalities, would make Team Rocket so desperate.

Old Downey Jr. also has a bunch of staff here. They can't figure out what New York is talking about??

What can they do?

Everyone in the industry knows that Jiang Chao will never have any draft picks.

Is it better to have an All-Star insider like Stoudemire in his prime?

I really can’t figure it out!

So he was embarrassed and called his son, who was working in the Knicks, to ask his son what the situation was like in New York.

Downey Jr. couldn't say much. He just said that maybe the Rockets don't want Stoudemire.

But Downey Sr. didn't believe it, so Downey Jr. naturally said, "I don't know either. The two sides started negotiations after the All-Star Weekend. It must have been a private agreement between the boss and Morey."

This is the only reason.

Otherwise, in Downey Jr.'s view, Jiang Chao is just like the God of Trading. He is obviously taking his sister to watch the All-Stars. Later, after the end, the Knicks may have a second All-Star??

Now the rumors on the Internet, including in the circle, are that the Rockets are only talking to the Knicks. What is going on? Morey was given ecstasy soup? Or is Reebok buying hot searches?

When Yao goes to New York, the biggest beneficiary may be Reebok Sports.

The deepest reason was only known to the top management. In the end, Old Downey had no choice but to find the reason on his own. In order to make Yao Ming and his hometown boss cooperate with the hometown power forward, Morey only traded with the Knicks.

Little did they know that Jiang Chao was holding the Rockets' throats in terms of both the media and the team Yao wanted to go to.

The dragnet surrounding Morey has led to the situation where it seems like the Knicks are negotiating with the Rockets so easily.

In the end, the result of the two parties staying up all night to negotiate came out:

The Rockets produce Yao Hilton-Armstrong.

The Knicks sent out Eddie Curry (contract year) and Larry Hughes (contract year) to balance the salary with 1.2 million in cash compensation.

This 1.2 million cash compensation was originally because the Rockets wanted a second-round pick. Sean Marks followed what Jiang Chao did at the time and directly said that he would give you 1.2 million and buy the second-round pick yourself. There will always be teams who will sell it.

Anyway, don’t ask us to buy it, we’ll save it for our second-round pick.

Everyone was obviously happy with this deal. Sean Marks really wanted Hilton Armstrong, whom he and Jiang Chao both liked. Sure enough, the Rockets let go of the 2.11-meter forward after he expressed that he wanted to go home.

, almost effortlessly.

Morey was even happier with this deal, and he had already depressingly signaled to Sean Marks to quickly get the relevant personnel to sign and agree.

He was secretly happy, already waiting for Alexander to praise him.

Because he didn’t expect the Knicks to be so generous and directly offer two contract years. What does this mean???

This means that the 20 million will be freed up after the season. Coupled with the 17 million released after Dayao left, the Rockets will directly have 37 million in salary space in the off-season!!!

Not to mention not having to pay luxury tax to make the boss happy, this gives their managers a lot of room for maneuver!

You must know that everyone knows that there will be big fish this summer, and fans say that the Rockets are bad.

Yes.

If I plan to be a lottery pick or even a top-5 pick this season, I won’t necessarily do poorly next season!

In the off-season, if you draft a great rookie and get James or Bosh at the same time, what else can you do after Anthony?

They can completely eat two giant stars in this space. In this case, the rocket will take off again, okay?

As long as James comes here, won't his ability to attract money be stronger than that of Yao?

With salary space, you can still get a lottery pick. This reconstruction model can be completed in half a year. How can you not be happy?

And the two players from the Knicks are not bad. Eddy Curry is a little shark, which can make up for the shortcomings of not having a heavy tank inside after Yao left. Larry Hughes can completely replace Tracy McGrady, except that his shooting is not very good.

In addition to being stable, his defense and impact are still at the level of a starting defender.

Although it seems that a fringe All-Star rotation forward is exchanged for 1.2 million in cash for two starters, the Rockets know Yao's current ability best, and he also knows best. What kind of All-Star is an All-Star who can only average 10 minutes per game?

So while he was praising the Knicks for being really powerful and completely creating a youth storm, he also hoped that they would not regret it and sign the contract quickly!!

Yao was the first to sign. He didn't expect that the Knicks would bleed so much. It's a big deal to balance two contract-year players. Whether it's to renew or throw away, the Rockets have their own space in the off-season.

The Knicks are actually at a disadvantage because Dayao does not need to renew his contract in advance. He still has one year of maximum salary, which occupies the Knicks' 17.68 million US dollars of space next season. As a result, the Knicks still have less than 20 million US dollars of space in the off-season, which is quite good.

Awkward.

Super giants won't be able to come to this space, and there aren't enough ordinary stars. It seems a bit crowded.

All I can say is thank you.

The Knicks did bleed for themselves.

Otherwise, it would be the Knicks who have so much space.

According to Jiang Chao's character, he will never renew his contract with these two players.

As for Morey's eccentric expression of hoping that if you go to the Knicks, there will be no conflicts or anything like that, Dayao can only say that he is overthinking. One thing that the players all know is that as long as they keep winning, the team will not have conflicts.

Alexander and Zhang Mingqi also made it very clear that when this contract ends, no matter Yao finally renews his contract with the Knicks or is about to retire, the Rockets will always keep the final retirement contract given to Yao Ming.

That is to say, I hope Yao retires with the Rockets.

Dayao naturally agreed, and Jiang Chao could not stop him, although anyone with a discerning eye knew that the Rockets wanted to make one last wave of money.

But let them make this wave of money. The Rockets are where Yao Yao's dream started. Although he no longer trusts Morey and Alexander, he still has a lot of affection for his colleagues here, his teammates who have fought together, and the Space City.

Deep.

The same goes for fans like Jiang Chao. Who doesn’t follow the NBA and the Rockets because Yao Yao entered the NBA?

All I can say is that Mo Gou Sha Bi will be the end of it. If there is a chance to get rid of him in the future, Tu Yao will have a perfect ending in the Rockets.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chao also signed the fax to agree.

The Rockets had already agreed, and Sean Marks signed on the spot.

After inspection by the NBA, it will be stamped at the office in Houston.

o**k!

Cool!

Invincible!

Awesome!

Explode!

When the final trade contract appeared in Jiang Chao's hands, he was furious with all kinds of beautiful Chinese.

Liu Yan was stunned:

"Hey hey hey...is this really crazy..."

Although she also jumped up happily, she was not as crazy as Jiang Chao.

Next to him, deputy general manager D'Antoni was as crazy as Jiang Chao, because his old Suns colleagues told him that Stoudemire was going to be swapped with Yao, which was more impressive than the Knicks' group of players who were negative assets for the Knicks.

How about more?

But in fact, she didn't know what Jiang Chao had planned for this transaction, but D'Antoni knew.

It’s cool to let the sun not succeed!

He also didn't expect that Jiang Chao would behave like a little fox when there was a trading opportunity. He, who had seen Cardinal, West and other old foxes operate, felt that he was not as good as him!

This situation has been going on for too long.

You must know that the Rockets have been asking the Knicks if they have any thoughts about Yao since the 2009 off-season. At that time, Jiang Chao pretended not to hear.

Now that the Rockets are in civil strife, this shot is really cool!

…

One hour later.

The league officially sent a statement of approval, and the biggest transaction in the season was completed!

The dust has settled!

take off!

Jiang Chao signaled D'Antoni to inform various departments of the good news. The next second he closed the blinds, pressed the long-legged senior sister down on the ground and crawled under his desk, increasing his strength.

These long legs are exposed outside the table like a fox's tail, which is particularly tempting.

Yao Yi combined!

I will create the final glory of Dayao's career!!

The Knicks’ golden beam is here!!!

…

That night.

Breaking news!

nba official website:

"The Rockets acquire Hilton-Armstrong from the Knicks and receive 1.2 million cash compensation for Eddie Curry and Larry Hughes."

"The biggest trade of the season, Rockets veteran Yao was traded to the Big Apple!"

"The Great Wall Lands in New York!"

"Eddy Curry, Larry Hughes leave the Knicks!! There are not many people left in Dolan..."

All sports newspapers sold a few more points because of this headline NBA news.

Because there are too few transactions involving All-Star players during the season, and most of them are small-scale transactions. Once there is such a transaction involving star swaps, it will attract attention.

"It is said that the Rockets only trade with the Knicks! Is Jiang Chao so awesome!"

Due to the cumbersome procedures, it took more than half a month for Yao Ming to pass the clarification period.

But no one cares about this.

Because in the eyes of many American fans:

"The Knicks want to eat shit from a star who has been injured and hasn't played for a year! Is that right for Eddy Curry and Larry Hughes who are working hard to contribute to the team?"

As a result, Larry Hughes posted a long message thanking the Knicks for taking care of him, and directly expressed that he was very happy to come to the Rockets...

The same goes for Eddy Curry. He doesn't think the Knicks have done anything wrong at all. Everyone gets what they want. Sean Marks has already told him in advance that he is guaranteed to get more opportunities if he goes to the Rockets. The Knicks play small

The lineup doesn't suit him.

But in fact, he didn't realize it. Then Yao Ming came and moved as slowly as him. It can only be said that he is not strong enough.

Therefore, the Knicks and these two players also broke up amicably. Larry Hughes actually knew during the offseason that he no longer belonged to the Knicks. He had been waiting for this day since Duhon was easily traded as an addition.

Now he can only say that he feels a little regretful, because it is still very comfortable to play with the Knicks. They are young and energetic, which is better than the lifeless situation last season.

"Curry, keep working hard!! You will probably be the starter after I leave, rush!!!!"

Larry Hughes, who received the news at the time, was preparing to rest in the away hotel. The roommate on the other bed happened to be his substitute Stephen Curry. He told him sincerely that there was still a long way to go and he should keep working hard.

"I'm here with you. I've taught you everything I can. Boss Jiang is a good man. Don't blame him for me being traded. You guys will make up for the shortcomings of the insiders when you have Yao~"

As Larry Hughes packed his bags that night, Curry stood beside him feeling sad, but as an NBA player, it is inevitable to experience such moments, and he can only learn to adapt.

Then make yourself stronger!!!

The big boy Eddy Curry is also hugging former teammates David Lee and Big Q, Tim Thomas, Gallinelli...

These four old players are the only ones left in the post-Dolan era.

"You may also be traded, be prepared..." Eddy Curry was still a little unwilling.

But I didn’t expect them to be completely indifferent:

"The NBA is just a business place...it's okay..."

In fact, what I’m saying is:

"You foul superman, go away quickly... We want Dayao!"

Compared to the mild-mannered Larry Hughes, Eddy Curry may be the biggest locker room bomb after the Four Men. Once he leaves, the Knicks locker room will be peaceful...

At this point, the Knicks’ oldest player is actually David Lee.

Brother Li is still so calm and relaxed. As I said before, playing is a hobby for him. It doesn’t matter where he plays if he doesn’t need money. He just said to Gallinelli and Tim Thomas:

"Let's just play ball. Now that Yao is here, let's try to see what sparks we can create next season!"

Other rookies are so excited that they can't sleep at night.

Curry, Hardent, Drew Okur, Yao Ming, what kind of family is this!

For the first time, the Knicks' lineup looks so rich on paper!

Brother Chao, you really can’t bully me!!

Beverley is already thinking about his championship celebration in advance, okay?

…

Orlando.

When a certain "Spark" saw this news, his chicken wings instantly lost their flavor.

Oh my gosh.

Oriental Great Wall joined the Knicks, and he also noticed that it was written that the Knicks would also have a salary of 20 million in the off-season...

The Warcraft agent told Howard directly:

"To be honest, if I can't win the championship with the Magic this season, I can really go to the Knicks next season!!!"

"Ask your heart, are you really happy playing for the Magic?"