nba: unlock the body of the gods at the beginning

Chapter 61 The Free Market for Immortals to Fight! The biggest winner of the free market in 1996 was…!!

June 30 at 8 p.m.

Orlando.

O’Neill and his agent, Perry Rogers, talk at a luxury villa in Orlando.

“So, Shaq, where exactly do you want to go?”

Rogers looked at O’Neill and asked seriously.

O’Neill didn’t speak, because he didn’t know where he was supposed to go now.

Orlando can’t stay anyway.

Now his contradiction with Penny Hardaway has been put on the surface.

In the second half of the regular season this year, Pence and O’Neal were already at odds.

O’Neal wants to put up good numbers and then sign a big contract this offseason.

Pennies, on the other hand, believe that O’Neill’s good stats will inevitably take away the ball in his hands.

Pence naturally wouldn’t have agreed to O’Neill’s request.

As a result, there has been such a conflict between the two people this season.

And later Kobe, the contradiction between O’Neill is very similar.

Speaking of low, it’s still for the ball!

After being eliminated by the Bulls, O’Neal’s agent has said that if Orlando can’t show enough sincerity, then O’Neal will definitely leave Orlando.

At this time, Pence Hardaway’s agent also spoke.

He said that if Orlando were to give O’Neill the top salary, then Pence would naturally need the same top salary as O’Neill.

In fact, magic has the ability to come up with the top salary.

But, the boss of the magic knocks on the door…

He didn’t want to take that much money.

Therefore, he was left with only one choice, and that was to choose one of the two.

Who to choose?

The magic boss is also very entangled, penny, and thinks O’Neill is too pity.

After all, O’Neal is the youngest of his four Da centers!

When the other three centers are old, O’Neal will officially usher in his dominance.

In fact, even now, when O’Neal meets the other three centers, he can draw with them.

Even O’Neill can sometimes blow them up slightly.

However, if you choose O’Neill, you can’t keep the penny!

The penny is also very powerful, and his popularity is high.

The 1996 All-Star ticket winner was not Michael Jordan, who played a 72-10 record!

It’s the magic penny Hardaway!

This speaks volumes about Hardaway’s popularity.

This is a man who can snatch the All-Star ticket king under the hands of Jordan at the peak!

From now on, the future of Hardaway must be very glorious.

Hardaway is expected to become the second Jordan inside!

So, the boss of Magic has been hesitating.

O’Neal and agent Rogers also gave Magic management a deadline.

If the Magic management can’t give a correct answer before the free market officially opens, then O’Neill will test the free market directly!

If Magic management can agree to O’Neill’s top salary requirement before free agency opens, then O’Neill will stay with the Magic!

Now, there are only 4 hours left before the free market opens.

The call from the Magic management still hasn’t arrived!

O’Neill and Rogers looked at each other, and they both seemed to be able to see the answer in each other’s eyes.

It seems that the Magic still chose the Hardaway of the outside player!

Hardaway’s style of play is indeed gorgeous, and the outside players will be at their peak longer.

Just as both of them were thinking so, a call from the Magic management suddenly came.

“Hello?”

Rogers answered the phone and made a silencing gesture to O’Neill.

O’Neill listened quietly.

He had thought that the Magic management had chosen to keep him.

However, the call was connected for only five seconds and ended.

Rogers hung up the phone, looked at O’Neill, and said, “They refused!” ”

O’Neill’s face suddenly turned blue.

He said hatefully: “If you don’t keep me, it’s a loss of magic!” ”

“Do I still ask them to keep me?”

“I can still make the playoffs in other cities! I will prove one thing to everyone! ”

“Without me, Pence Hardaway wouldn’t have made the playoffs!!”

Then he looked at Rogers.

“How do we choose the team?”

Rogers rubbed his forehead and said with a bit of a headache: “It’s not sure yet.” ”

“New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Miami.”

“That’s all there is for big markets, these cities have stars, there is no core team, and there is no space to take you.”

New York has Ewing, Chicago has Jordan, Houston has Big Dreams, and Miami has Morning.

San Francisco is not a star though.

But now that the Warriors have Mullin, Hardaway, and Sprewell the Madman, there’s not enough room to sign O’Neal.

Before the draft begins, the Los Angeles Lakers are the best place for O’Neal to go.

However, after the draft was over, after the Lakers chose Anmu, O’Neal had nowhere to go.

“Madea!”

O’Neill patted the table helplessly.

He Shaq O’Neill, a four-star center, can’t find a big ball market?

O’Neill was sad because he couldn’t find a place.

But Jordan, not at all sad.

Hours before the free market began, Jordan was still spending money at a casino in Las Vegas.

Winning the championship this year, it is natural to indulge well.

Free market?

That’s not something he’s supposed to worry about, because his agent, David Falke, will do everything for him.

All he has to do is sign his name on the contract extension.

At this time, Jordan’s agent David Falke was also very leisurely.

Because he didn’t need to contact any team for Jordan at all.

After Jordan led the team to a 72-10 record, the former league’s giants will come to Jordan.

All you have to do is sift through the offers each team has given Jordan.

Then according to the bag, select the team with the strongest team and the team with the highest offer, just fine~

On the other side, Los Angeles.

Lakers general manager’s office.

It’s still brightly lit, and Lakers management has all chosen to work overtime today because they have to carry out various operations.

Now, the list of players who can still play for the Lakers is as follows.

Center: An Mu.

Power forwards: Eldon Campbell, Kerry Braunt.

Small forward: Cedric Seballos.

Shooting guard, Eddie Jones, Kobe Bryant.

Point guards, Nick Van Exel, Fisher.

Large list of 15 people, only 8 people.

In other words, the Lakers are still missing 7 people.

The vacancy of 7 people is also a big challenge for West.

The Lakers’ starting lineup is not bad.

Ammu, Kanbening, Seballos, Eddie Jones, Van Exel.

Cambenin has mid-range shooting and averaged 14+7 rebounds per game last season.

Seballos averaged 21 points per game last season.

Players who scored more than 20 points in the 90s were already very powerful.

Eddie Jones averaged 13+3+3 per game last season and shot % from three-point range.

This starting lineup is not bad for the whole league.

However, the substitute lineup has a bit of a headache.

Because the Lakers have been swinging all the time last season.

So for the substitute lineup, West did not lay the groundwork.

In fact, it is very, very rare that West can bury the foreshadowing of the Lakers’ current starting lineup in a bad situation!

Free market is the only chance for the Lakers to make up for the shortcomings of all the team’s rosters.

West is very important to this opportunity…….

And at the same time, the Clippers’ president’s office.

Baylor is also carrying out all kinds of secret plans.

On the day the draft ended, Baylor vowed to let the entire league see his operational talent!

Now, there are 4 hours left!

Myself, I will laugh at the whole league!!!

He has convinced Sterling to give him full support!

Now, the Lakers will definitely not rise for a while, and this is a good time for the Clippers to turn over serfs and sing them!

In such a big city as Los Angeles, if the Clippers can make a score, then the Clippers will definitely make money!

As long as you are willing to spend money, get super giant! Then anything is possible!

Sterling, the miser, under Baylor’s soft and hard bubble, agreed to Baylor’s request.

In Elgin Baylor’s free-market signing notebook, these names are written.

O’Neill, Gary Payton, Reggie Michael Caleb.

These three people are the top priority of this year’s Clippers!

If one of these can be checked, the Clippers playoffs have hope.

If you can check in two of them, then the division finals are inevitable! If you sign in three~~~

It seems that the championship is not far from him~

As for Michael Jordan, the biggest big fish in the free market in 1996?

Baylor couldn’t even think about it, because the Clippers simply didn’t have the ability to attract Jordan.

Now, the most competitive for Jordan is the New York Knicks!

In order for the Knicks to successfully sign Jordan, Ewing has renewed his contract with the Knicks in advance.

Last season, he earned an annual salary of 18 million, and this season’s annual salary is only 3 million!

This is Ewing’s sincerity, and the Knicks’ sincerity to Jordan! Time is getting closer and closer to the opening of the free market.

Orlando, O’Neill and Rogers were helpless and anxious.

Chicago, Jordan is laid-back, and Falke is laid-back.

Los Angeles, West is planning everything.

And Elgin Baylor is working on his own Clippers rise plan! Finally, the bell struck twelve o’clock in the morning on July 1st!

The NBA announces the official opening of the free market!

All the general managers of the team rang the calls of various agents at this moment.

Rogers received a phone call.

From the Milwaukee Bucks.

O’Neill directly asked Rogers to hang up the phone.

Milwaukee?

That’s not a place to hold sharks!

Then, the call came in as a team similar to the Milwaukee Bucks, Vancouver Grizzlies, and Toronto Raptors.

All of them are small ball city teams, and some are still foreign! Sharks can’t stand this!

Rogers and O’Neill looked at each other, and they were both very helpless.

If you want to go to a big city and become a core player, where is it so easy! At this time, a phone rang.

“From Los Angeles… Clippers…”

Rogers glanced up at O’Neill.

At this time, there was a light in his eyes!

No way! Just now, he and O’Neal thought of Los Angeles, thinking about the Los Angeles Lakers!

As a result, the Los Angeles Clippers forgot!

Doesn’t the Los Angeles Clippers fit it all? O’Neal frowned, “But the strength of the Clippers…”

The Clippers are a 10,000-year-old rotten team, and if they don’t get up or down, it really makes O’Neal a little reluctant.

“We have a consensus with Gary Payton!”

At this time, Baylor on the other end of the phone suddenly said something.

This made both O’Neill and Rogers widen their eyes at the same time.

Gary Payton?

That is, when O’Neal leaves the Magic, he can team up with a top point guard again?

This is O’Neill’s favorite situation!

On the other side, after Baylor said Peyton’s name, he picked the corners of his mouth.

Did he and Payton reach a consensus?

Actually, no, he is now completely empty.

After talking to Rogers for a while, Baylor hung up.

He then dialed Payton’s agent, and then, after what he had just said to Rogers, repeated it with Payton’s agent.

This year’s finals are Supersonics vs Bulls.

That said, Payton is now the runner-up point guard.

He wants to win the championship, but the supersonics are not strong enough.

The ball market is not big and does not attract good players.

The other and Payton’s Sean Kemp are also excellent.

But can he be as good as O’Neill?

At this moment, like O’Neill, Payton was moved! Baylor’s empty glove White Wolf plan, temporarily successful.

In fact, even if his plan is punctured after this, there is no problem.

Because both of them are moved and want to form an alliance.

Even though they knew that Baylor was deceiving them, Baylor gave them a beautiful blueprint.

The NBA is a league of interests, and there may be human feelings, but more interests!

The Clippers are in Los Angeles, a big city, with big contracts, awesome teammates, and a bright future!

So why not?

Lord Belle, initially reached an agreement with the two players…

At this moment, Elgin Baylor felt that he had reached the peak of his life!

“Since I didn’t win the championship as a player, I will use the squad I built during the general manager!”

“Winning the!!!”

And in Chicago, David Falke received a crazy pursuit from the New York Knicks.

The general manager of the Knicks gave a big price!

Due to the contract, Jordan’s salary last season was only 3.85 million, and Jordan earned a total of 28 million in the first 11 years of his career.

On average, it only earns about 2.8 million per year.

The Knicks directly offered Jordan a 4-year, $80 million contract! Twenty million a year!

Ewing opted for a pay cut to $3 million this season, giving the space entirely to Jordan.

Of course, his $3 million salary is just for next season.

By the 1997-1998 season, Ewing’s salary would return

20 million.

The Knicks aren’t short of money, and Ewing is just showing sincerity.

See! I lowered my salary to 3 million, and after you signed with the Knicks, your salary was 20 million!

At that time, you were the most expensive player in the Knicks!

Come to Knicks! Let’s team up for the two of us to win the championship!! On the other side, West is also making some signings.

The big fish of the free market, he doesn’t have to think about it.

Jordan, Stockton, Michael, O’Neal, Payton.

These five people will not come to the Lakers for various reasons.

What he’s going to do is sign free agents and make some trades.

From July 1 to July 10, this is the period when the NBA has the most signed transactions in the free market.

During this period, O’Neal and Payton, under Baylor’s matchmaking, could not resist the temptation of Los Angeles and the two to form a team.

Finally, on July 8, O’Neal and Payton jointly announced that they had signed with the Los Angeles Clippers!

O’Neill eventually traveled west to Los Angeles.

However, the shark did not become a ‘laker’, but boarded a ‘clipper’! And “Glove” Gary Payton became the helmsman of the Clippers!

O’Neal signed a 6-year, $100 million contract with the Clippers.

Payton signed a seven-year, $85 million contract with the Clippers.

Baylor made a big deal of nearly 200 million! When the news came out, the whole league was shocked!

No one expected that the Clippers turned into a phoenix overnight!

The original small broken ship seems to have become a luxury cruise ship!!

In addition to O’Neal and Payton, the Clippers still have a decent power forward in place.

Roy Water, a spatial power forward, averaged 14 points per game last season while shooting 50 percent from the field.

Be able to fully open up offensive space for O’Neill!

O’Neal signed with the Clippers, the first major player change signing on the free agency.

Everyone thinks the Clippers are the biggest winners this offseason!

At this time, the Knicks couldn’t help it, and directly chased Jordan’s offer to 100 million in 4 years!

25 million contracts per year!

This is now the top salary in the league!

After Jordan learned of the Knicks’ offer, he called David Falke.

Let Falk go to the bull owner.

Falk and the Bulls owner showed their strengths in the negotiations.

At the beginning, the company also added a quote of 100 million for 4 years from the Knicks.

However, David Falke step by step put the bull owner into passivity, and in the end, the bull owner Jerry Raines gritted his teeth and reported a high salary of 30 million!

And, because the NBA’s top signing specification right now is 25 million.

Therefore, Jerry Raines also has to confirm with the NBA.

In the end, Stern decided on Jerry Raines’ request to make the Bulls make an exception of 3,000 moons a year Jordan.

As a result, Jordan felt that the contract years were too much, and he also heard that Bulls general manager Jerry Krause was going to trade Pippen for Anmu in this year’s draft!

Is this specifically about breaking up my bull dynasty?

Jordan, who was originally dissatisfied with Klaus, was even more dissatisfied.

So I decided, I will sign once a year!

As long as you break up my dynasty lineup, I will leave, I will not play with you!”

In the end, the Bulls owner pinched his nose so that Jordan could continue to earn money for himself, and Jordan signed a contract of 30 million a year!

This offseason, three of the five “big fish” have already decided to go home.

Only Reggimic and Stockton remained.

Unfortunately, after Jordan’s signing was completed, both of them chose to complete the renewal with the parent team.

They don’t have any other team left any chances.

At a time when the city team Clippers signed O’Neal and Payton on a high profile, West was developing on the sidelines.

He made some minor tinkerings to the squad.

The contracts of Anmu, Kobe and Fisher have been signed.

Anmu’s contract is a 3-year, 10 million contract.

Kobe’s 13th pick contract is very different from An Mutian, which is only 3.5 million in 3 years.

As for Fisher, who was selected with the 24th pick, there are even less.

Just 2 million after 3 years.

In terms of jersey selection, An Muhe chose No. 0.

According to him, he hopes that the opponent will always get 0 points under his own defense.

In fact, An Mu decided to continue wearing No. 0 after awakening the system mall.

Why?

Learn from Comrade Westbrook!

Bryant also chose No. 8, as in history.

As for whether he will choose No. 24 in his life, it will be necessary to see if he can slay the dragon again for 81 points~

Fisher chose No. 2.

After signing the contract, West continued to tinker with the team’s roster.

However, on July 10, a word reached his ears.

This made West, who originally had a headache, smile!

Who said there will be no big fish this year except on the free market?

And An Mu also welcomed a guest from the Celestial Empire at home – Zhang Ping!