The rest is just noise

The negotiations between the Lakers and Garnett can be said to have had twists and turns. In the early stages of the negotiations, Jerry West was leading the negotiations on the Lakers' side.

West is a good player in the draft, and he is also excellent in long-term planning and transactions, but contract extension negotiation is what he is not good at.

He is not the kind of person who likes to play roundabout tactics, just like his trading.

Either don't do it, or do it absolutely.

Therefore, the contract renewal led by West did not progress smoothly. After Zhao Yuanzheng took over as a consultant, the situation began to change.

Bargaining is still the main purpose of the management, and Garnett's camp first initiated off-court relations to leak the inside story of the negotiations.

They tried to use this method to influence the morale of the Lakers. The Lakers were indeed affected, but the one who performed poorly was Garnett.

The direct impact of Garnett's poor performance was to give Duncan and Bodilloga more opportunities to perform. During this period, the Lakers did not lose.

It can be said that the strategy of Garnett's camp failed. Afterwards, they changed their style of play and chose more aggressive verbal threats.

They threatened to let Garnett test the waters of free agency this summer.

This sentence can scare ordinary management, such as the Minnesota Timberwolves, which lacks the foundation and fan market, because it urgently needs a super star with ticket effect to stay in the team. They will do whatever it takes to meet the needs of the other party, just like

The obsessed licking dog has completely forgotten what it means to start from reality.

The Lakers have many superstars in their history, and they are so experienced.

Zhao Yuanzheng was smiling, and his response shocked Garnett's agent Eric Fleischer.

"If you decide to do this, we can only send our best wishes. Rest assured, even if you lose Kevin, the Lakers will still be an overwhelmingly strong team. Tim Duncan is here for this, hungry on the bench

Charles Barkley has long been impatient." Zhao Yuanzheng said playfully, "You may get a super contract as you wish, but

It will also lose the largest fan market and the world's business center. I believe this will not be a problem."

Garnett's team used every trick they could to destabilize the Lakers management.

Buss Jr. has been anxious a few times, but Zhao Yuanzheng has remained motionless. Following Louis for so many years, he is very familiar with the twists and turns. In the early years, there was no luxury tax, and the team could still make concessions on money. Now

It's different. Even if the Lakers are a wealthy team, they can't spend money randomly.

The factor that determines who takes the lead in contract renewal is who needs the other player more. Generally speaking, it is the team that needs the players more, so it is natural to meet all the needs of the players.

But this kind of thing doesn't hold true for the Lakers.

Because their frontcourt lineup is too luxurious, Garnett is not irreplaceable.

And Garnett himself absolutely does not want to leave the Lakers.

Winning, there is a big market, and there are immeasurable business prospects.

The benefits of playing well for one year in Minnesota and playing well for one year in Los Angeles are completely different.

Garnett wants to stay, which is why the Lakers dare to pull out a machete and slash the price again and again.

Negotiations continued until early February, with the two sides reaching a verbal agreement.

On the surface, the Lakers and Garnett have reached a six-year, $100 million contract extension.

In fact, only $80 million of this is guaranteed. The remaining $20 million depends on whether Garnett can be selected for the All-NBA Team and MVP within the next six years.

If he is selected for the All-NBA Team (the first-team, second-team, and third-team guaranteed amounts are different), he can get $90 million.

If he is elected as MVP, he will get a full salary of 100 million U.S. dollars. Louis was surprised and delighted by this result. He thought that Zhao Yuanzheng could negotiate for 100 million U.S. dollars in 6 years and it would be over. Unexpectedly, he actually negotiated a 6-year contract with terms.

100 million per year.

If Garnett is on a weak team, it will not be difficult to be selected for the All-NBA Team in the next few years. The third team is easy for him, and the second team is not difficult. The first team requires hard work.mv

If p, it depends on the individual's struggle and the operation of the management.

In other words, on a weak team, Garnett can at least meet the conditions of the best team.

But in the Lakers, because there are too many strong players, the data will inevitably be divided and it will not be easy to be selected for the best team.

There is no need to think about mvp.

So Garnett's six-year, $100 million offer looks like a face-saving contract, but what he actually gets is only $85 million.

This not only sets an indicator for the Lakers to renew other top players in the future, but also greatly reduces the team's financial pressure.

It can be said that Zhao Yuanzheng established his position in the Lakers with this contract renewal negotiation.

Garnett's contract extension is reassuring, and then comes the roster for this year's All-Star Weekend.

A total of five players on the Lakers were selected to the All-Stars.

They are Duncan, Wilson, Garnett, Barkley, and Bodilloga.

In his second year, Kobe Bryant was not selected for the All-Star Game. This is a small piece of history that was changed by Louis. However, this is normal.

Although Kobe has made significant progress, he is not eye-catching enough compared to Bodilloga and Duncan. Moreover, sending five people to the All-Stars at the same time is already the limit for Lakers fans.

In early February, the Lakers defeated the Nuggets and Jazz in a row, bringing the team's record to 45 wins and 2 losses.

When will they lose again, and who can make the Lakers suffer a third defeat, has become an issue for the outside world.

The arrival of the All-Star Weekend has suppressed related discussions. The Lakers, with five players selected for the All-Star Game, are incomparable glory.

Louis, who led the team to the first record in the league, declined the invitation to be the coach of the Western Conference All-Stars. The honor was deferred to the head coach of the Spurs, ranked second in the Western Conference, Povich.

The NBA has entered a short vacation.

It was also at this time that "USA Today" chose the best players in the history of the four major leagues without any trouble.

The best selection in the history of the NFL in the first league caused huge controversy. They chose Jim Brown (Jiro) instead of Triple Crown winner and hot San Francisco god Jerry Rice (Jerryre).

There is basically no dispute that MLB is the best in history, and the curse of "Holy Child" Babe Ruth still echoes in Boston to this day.

There is no suspense in the NHL. Wayne Gretzky's achievements, from an NBA perspective, are Chamberlain's statistics and Bird's peak dominance.

The NBA's goat candidates are interesting. So far, Bird Bird has been recognized as the loser. Benj, the first heir to the throne, has also been ignored. The author went out of his way to select Patrick Ewing as the best.

His comment to Ewing was: "How Bill Russell plays in the modern era."

This incident disgusted both Bird and Wilson fans and made USA Today the target of public criticism.

A war of words is about to break out.

Louis, as usual, had no comment.

In fact, he really wanted to talk about the author of this article, Pi Faqi.

Who would you choose? You have to choose Ewing as the dog. Can he be the dog? Ask Sampson if he agrees?

Letting this orangutan serve as the goalkeeper of Mount President is already a compliment to him. He is still a dog. It's disgusting! It's disgusting! It's disgusting!

However, Louis would not publicly express his views on his place in history.

He has no opinion at all.

Does the historical status between players serve him any purpose? Instead of bringing extra attention to those idle people who have nothing to do, he should pay more attention to the people around him.

For example, a wife who is smug about being out of the country for a minute in "Titanic", or an old mother who likes to comment on her body, or a daughter who is increasingly prone to puppy love, or a son who is obsessed with basketball.

With so many specific people around us, who should we care about? Why should we care about whether orangutans deserve the privilege of being dogs?

Say one more thing, he doesn't deserve it.

ps: Am I insinuating something? I can only say that I didn’t have this intention when typing the keyboard, but after writing it, looking back, it feels a bit...

It has been a long time since I wrote this book. When I saw the word "gorilla", all that came to mind was Ewing's face. It is said that the nickname "gorilla" originally belonged to Ewing. This is the return of the name to its original owner.