NBA backer king

Chapter 476 Draft + Pippen and McGrady Swap

Next, the Knicks notified Alan Houston that he had been traded to the Bulls, and also notified John Starks that the team would sign and trade him first.

The two had been mentally prepared for a long time, but they were still very uncomfortable when they heard the news.

Especially Alan Houston, who defected from Detroit to New York, did not expect to be given up after only one season, and felt very uncomfortable.

But neither he nor John Starks had any choice but to accept this ending.

After the Houston duo is settled, two first-round picks need to be traded, and they are unprotected. The management immediately began to look for trading teams.

This year's pick has been determined. They contacted all the teams with suitable picks one by one, and finally traded John Starks from the Heat for their No. 25 pick in the first round of this year, and then used their 97 first-round pick + Chris Childs.

Both the Heat and the Supersonics have good regular season records. These two picks are very low, but they also meet the Bulls' requirements, which can be regarded as the chips needed to trade Jordan.

Now the Knicks need to clean up a batch of contracts, buy them out directly, or trade them out to make room for Jordan's virtual space.

Phil Jackson has come to New York, signed the head coach contract with the Knicks, and then, together with Jordan, began to discuss lineup issues with the management.

Basically, according to Jordan's vision, the main lineup is roughly determined, with center O'Neal, power forward Oakley, small forward undecided, shooting guard Jordan, and point guard undecided.

Phil Jackson agreed with Jordan's suggestion to get Kidd, but now Alan Houston is gone, and he doesn't have any good bargaining chips to trade with the Suns, which is a bit embarrassing.

The general manager Layden tried to contact Colangelo Jr. After the phone call, he exchanged some pleasantries, and then said, "Mr. Colangelo, I am willing to trade Kidd with the unprotected first-round pick of the Knicks in 99 + Walter McCarty, the No. 96 pick in the first round of 19. What do you think?"

Little Colangelo was disgusted when he heard that the Knicks wanted to trade Kidd. Do you think I am a fool? Leaving aside the chips, how could I send Kidd to New York?
"No, Mr. Layden, you should be aware of the competitive relationship between our two teams." He immediately and firmly rejected the deal.

"I'm afraid there is no way to get Kidd. We either use Charlie Ward or find another point guard."

Hearing Colangelo hung up the phone, Layden said helplessly to Jordan and Phil Jackson.

The two have no choice. Indeed, the Suns are not stupid. How could they send Kidd to the Knicks?

On the 27th, in Los Angeles, Lao Wang shot an advertisement all morning, and had lunch with Dameng at noon.

"Old K, I won't be polite when I meet you next season. You have to be careful. It's not that easy to defend the title. Our Lakers will be very strong." Dameng said triumphantly.

"Don't say that, if you dare to threaten me, I will come to the Lakers, and you will go to the Suns instead." Old Wang joked.

"Get out!" Dameng said angrily.

In the afternoon, Lao Wang went to the studio to shoot a commercial for half a day. In the evening, he came to the premiere theater of "Face Changing".

What Hawksman arranged for him was a silver open Rolls-Royce. With his physique, it was not very easy to arrange a car.

As the new NBA championship and FMVP winner, Lao Wang is also one of the hottest sports superstars in the United States. His appearance immediately attracted the attention of the media.

"Hey, old K."

When Nicolas Cage saw Lao Wang appearing, he rushed to meet him.

"Hey, Nicholas, I wish your movie a big hit. It will be the box office champion of last week in one fell swoop, and it won't come down for a month..."

When Pharaoh met, he just said a bunch of nice words, which made Cage laugh until his face rotted.

"Old K, I'm glad you can come."

"Mr. Alan Birds, as it should be."

The film was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The president, Frank Alan Birds, also attended the premiere. He is also a VIP customer of the K martial arts gym and often attends martial arts parties. At this time, he came up and hugged Lao Wang with a very warm attitude.

Then Alan Birds introduced other people to Lao Wang, such as another leading actor John Travolta, director Wu Yusen and so on.

Travolta was also a VIP customer of the martial arts gym, Lao Wang greeted him very familiarly, and then specially chatted with Wu Yusen for a few words.

Wu Yusen came to Hollywood to develop in 93, and he has been in it for some years. The first film he directed was the ultimate target, with a box office of 3000 million U.S. dollars. This movie opened his way to Hollywood. Last year, Broken Arrow was filmed, and the box office was 7000 million. The development is very smooth. This year, the investment of this face-changing movie is hundreds of millions. It is a typical big production. He has high expectations for this movie.

He is now considered a cutting-edge director in Hollywood. From the perspective of development, he is even better than Cheng Long. In the film industry, he should be the one with the best development in Hollywood among the Chinese.

However, although he developed well, he didn't have any arrogance in front of the old king. Leaving aside any superstars in the NBA, K Martial Arts' connections in Hollywood alone made him daunting.

So when we greet each other, there is a smile on his face, which is very kind.

After chatting outside for a while, some stars came to join in the show one after another. Old Wang was basically familiar with them. Eight out of ten were VIP customers of the martial arts gym. Everyone entered the venue together and walked into the theater.

When it was almost eight o'clock, Nicolas Cage and a group of face-changing creators also came in.

On Lao Wang's right is Wu Yusen, and Paramount deliberately arranged for two Chinese to sit together, and beyond that is Cage.

After Cage came in, he didn't sit down, but walked up to Lao Wang and said with a serious face: "Old K, you lied to me last time."

"What did I lie to you?" Old Wang asked in a daze.

Cage said: "You said I was a dragon. I went to Chinatown to get a dragon tattoo, but the tattoo artist told me that I was a rabbit. He suggested that I get a Bugs Bunny tattoo. I found it difficult to accept a Bugs Bunny tattoo on my body, so I refused."

"Ha ha……"

Old Wang burst out laughing, people around looked sideways, and Wu Yusen next to him also fell down laughing.

On the evening of June 6, the 28 NBA Draft was held as scheduled at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Lao Wang didn't go to New York, so he watched the talent show in a hotel in Los Angeles.

At eight o'clock, the draft officially began. After Stern delivered a speech, Lakers general manager Jerry West, who held the No. [-] pick, handed over the Lakers' envelope.

After receiving the envelope from the staff, Stern took out the letter paper and glanced at it, then said with a smile: "The Los Angeles Lakers have selected Tim Duncan from Wake Forest at the No. [-] spot in the first round."

"No accidents, no suspense!"

Lao Wang muttered, and then thought about the Lakers lineup. Center Dameng is 34 years old, power forward Tim Duncan is 21 years old, shooting guard Eddie Jones is 26 years old, and point guard Nick Van Exel is 26 years old. The average age of these four main players is less than 27 years old.

Moreover, both Jones and Van Exel are still on rookie contracts, and Duncan's salary is not high. This lineup is also very stable, and there will be no major changes in at least three years. It is very stable.

"If Duncan plays a first-class offensive and defensive level, the Lakers will be very strong next season and will be very troublesome."

He feels that this Lakers team should be much stronger than the Jazz. If Duncan and Dameng both play first-class levels, it will definitely be a super strong team at the championship level. His Suns don't have much confidence in handling this Lakers team.

Especially now that the team has left so many people, even Kidd has to leave, it is really troublesome!
But fortunately, Chris Mullin has been dealt with, and finally there is one more helper, plus Kobe, the troll, and then traded with Kidd for a good point guard, it should not be weaker than the Lakers.

The next pick is the Spurs.

Popovich has been wanting to die these days. David Robinson has been refusing to contact him. He had to contact his agent Austin, hoping to keep Robinson, but the other party kept refusing, which gradually made him give up.

With the second pick in his hand now, he can only choose an insider to replace David Robinson.

He chose Van Horn. Although he is a bamboo pole, his skills are not bad anyway, and this young year is considered a good choice.

Then it was the Celtics' turn, and the general manager was Danny Ainge, who had just taken office for a few days.

David West, the main point guard who played for the Green Team for three years, has refused to renew his contract and entered the free market. He wanted to choose a point guard, but he chose Billups.

The draft continued, and the Raptors selected McGrady with the ninth pick.

In the end, the Suns selected a forward named Stewart at the end of the first round.

The first round is over, and the second round begins.

As big as the ninth place in the second round, he was selected by the king.

Lao Wang then called. Although he was happy, he was worried that he would not get the king's contract. He comforted him: "Don't worry, if David Frank doesn't have this ability, I won't let you sign him."

When he said that, he felt relieved.

Next, in the second round, the Suns used the Cavaliers sign from the previous trade to select a high school student named Stephen Jackson (the future martial artist did not get a guarantee contract from the Suns), and finally used his second round.

However, Lao Wang doesn't know whether these players can stay in the team. Even if it is the last pick in the first round who can get a guarantee contract, it might be traded as a tie.

At the end of the draft, at this moment, a news suddenly announced that the Bulls traded Pippen and the Raptors to get Tracy McGrady, the ninth pick in the first round.

"..."

Chicago, when the draft saw this, Pippen was about to change the channel. He was shocked by the news and was completely stunned.

He is also looking forward to renewing his contract with the Bulls in advance, at least signing a big contract worth tens of millions, but he did not expect to become a bargaining chip and be thrown to Canada. How embarrassing is this for him?
"Klaus the dog, why didn't Michael Jordan kill you and leave you to harm me?" After reacting, he roared very sadly and angrily.

"The Raptors traded Pi Er, is this for him to help sell tickets? Haha!" Old Wang laughed.

After the draft, the NBA's trading window officially opens, but there is still a month-long freeze period until the league calculates the operating income and expenses of last season and announces the salary cap for next season.

However, during the freeze period, each team can conduct trade negotiations and contact players.

Lao Wang still stays in Los Angeles, the business activities have not been completed, and he still has to wait for his two sisters to return to China together.The time to return to China has already been made, so I will leave on the [-]nd.

Starting from the 29th, the free market opened, and many players were put on the shelves at the same time, and many related trading news were also exposed one after another.

For example, when Kidd was put on the shelves, it caused media speculation. Is the Suns going to collapse because of a new boss?So is it possible for Old K to be traded?As a result, Lao Wang's phone calls were blown up by reporters and general managers of some teams.

At 9 o'clock this morning, a revelation shocked the league that David Robinson would swap teams with Olajuwon.

This news is very certain, because the Spurs general manager and head coach Popovich personally disclosed to the media. He publicly accused David Robinson's agent Austin for helping the Lakers poach the Spurs, but did not attack David Robinson.

This made David Robinson and the Lakers very passive. They sent a trade offer to the Spurs after the draft last night. I didn't expect Popovich to come up with such a move today.

"what?"

Just as Dameng got up from the bed, the phone rang. It was Dan Feigen, the agent, who told him a shocking news. He couldn't believe it.

"I confirmed to the Lakers that it was David Robinson who offered a trade to the Lakers. He wanted to replace you in the Lakers. Hakeem, he is too bad!"

"David Robinson, you, you, you..." Da Meng's lungs were about to explode, his face was flushed red with blood, and he almost had a cerebral infarction.

He was still dreaming of winning the championship with Duncan last night. As long as he wins the championship again, his historical status will definitely enter the top ten, but now?

"Admiral, I curse you that you will never win the championship in this life." After recovering from his nerves, he roared in great grief and indignation.

"Hakeem, sorry, I can't help you. The Lakers think that David Robinson is two years younger than you and has a smaller contract, which is more beneficial to the Lakers." Dan Fegan said.

"Forget it, Dan, I want to be quiet." Dameng hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

But as soon as the phone hung up, it rang again.

"Who?"

He picked up the microphone and roared very bluntly.

"Hakim, you are angry, so you already know the news about your transaction?" Lao Wang's voice sounded through the microphone.

"I saw it."

Dameng is depressed to death. The bastard Lakers let him play badly in the Lakers for a season. As a result, Tim Duncan was just selected and he was about to be traded. Does this mean that he is not as good as David Robinson?

"Hakim, who initiated this transaction?" Old Wang asked.

"Dan Feigen told me just now that it was initiated by David Robinson, and the Lakers agreed. This bastard, he wants to come to the Lakers to win the championship, but he actually uses me as a bargaining chip." Dameng said dissatisfied.

"Then what are you going to do?" Old Wang asked.

"What can I do? Retire? After finally getting this big contract, I can't retire." Dameng said very depressed.

"Okay then, I wish you a happy stay at the Spurs." Old Wang said.

After finishing the phone call, he couldn't help sighing: "Take the big dream for David Robinson, who is two years younger, the NBA, what a deal! There is no one who cannot be traded."

(End of this chapter)