activa-t Chapter 372 What should come will always come
Chapter 372 What should come will always come
Chapter 372 What should come will always come
The wheels of NBA history rolled over in the summer of 2005. The 22-year-old Zhao Ke had the cheek to relive the lush memories of his college days in Memphis.
The successful case of the rookie Charlotte Bobcats "Black Eight" winning the championship has greatly stimulated the ambitions of other teams in the league. It turns out:
Winning the championship is not just about having money. Look at the New York Knicks, they are the most expensive team in the league, but they won the No. [-] pick.
It is not enough to have a big star to win the championship. Look at the Miami Heat. They have the best combination of inside and outside in the league, but they were blacked out.
Winning the championship is not enough to have the tradition of the great powers. Look at the San Antonio Spurs. As the defending champions, they have no power to fight back against the Bobcats.
What kind of prince will Xiangning?
The monk can touch it, but I can't?
Maybe we can win the championship with a little effort!
This summer has suddenly become lively, not only the big powers, but most teams have joined this vigorous arms race.
What should come will always come, and Zhao Ke's little wings have not caused much change.
Sure enough, Phil Jackson was lured back by the Bass family with a beauty trick. With a three-year coaching contract worth $3 million, the "Zen Master" continued to train Kobe Bryant, who he despised before, and with "Ann Pig" and Kwame Brown inside, the Lakers can return to the playoffs this season!
The Houston Rockets broke through the first round and reached the semifinals of the Western Conference. They lost six games against the Phoenix Suns, which had the best record in the regular season. Yao Bi, who performed well, became a favorite.
Sitting at the tail end of this big center era, the Houston Rockets know how hot a powerful center who can average 20+10 per game in the playoffs is.
To act first, the Houston Rockets renewed their contract with Yao Bi ahead of schedule and signed a five-year $5 million contract. In this way, Yao Bi surpassed Wang Zhizhi and became the most valuable player in China.
For the same reason, the "Little Overlord" who helped the Suns reach the Western Conference Finals, Yao Bi's "enemy of life" Amare Stoudemire also received a contract extension from the Phoenix Suns, worth $5 million in five years.
Other teams have become stronger, can the Miami Heat, who have been nailed to the pillar of shame, still sit still?
How could the "magic fortune teller" Pat Riley sit still?
Complete a small goal first, and use $[-] million to renew the contract with "Shark" O'Neal.
Then, Patley used his three-inch tongue to convince the Memphis Grizzlies, Boston Celtics, Utah Jazz, New Orleans Hornets and the Miami Heat to complete an explosive deal involving 13 players. It surpassed the four-team 2000-man deal about Patrick Ewing in 12 and became the largest deal in NBA history.
The Heat acquired the Celtics' All-Star power forward Antoine Walker, the Grizzlies' All-Star point guard Jason Williams, and the Grizzlies' starting small forward James Posey through trades, and the price they paid was only the aging Eddie Jones!
This is a looting deal completed by the Miami people for two consecutive summers. Pat Riley didn't send any decent chips at all, and the other teams just nodded in agreement as if they were lowered.
A year ago, they got O'Neal from the Lakers, and now they got Antoine Walker, Jason Williams and James Posh, plus Dwyane Wade, they made up a set of All-Star starters, and vowed to beat the whole league!
And Larry Brown, he's still in trouble with the Motown.
The team has been unable to dominate for a long time. Although every part of the team looks like Larry Brown's ideal, the team lacks a soul dancer who can make a difference at a critical moment.
Every year, they are rubbed on the floor by the Indiana Pacers, and the players have gradually begun not to buy Larry Brown's account. This makes Larry Brown, who knows how to avoid bad luck and avoid bad luck, feel happy.
So before the end of the season, Larry Brown flirted with Cleveland Cavaliers executive Dan Ferry and New York Knicks Isaiah Thomas, and had too close contacts, which even affected the team's preparations.
Pistons owner Bill Davidson's Detroit Shock won the WNBA championship in 2003, and the Tampa Bay Lightning won the NHL championship in 2004. Now only the Detroit Pistons have not achieved anything in recent years.At this juncture, Larry Brown's appearance towards Qin Muchu successfully angered the 86th richest man in the United States. He said that he "has never seen such a vile head coach"!
So much so that when the Pistons celebrated their 50th anniversary, Larry Brown, the head coach of the team, was not even invited to the scene.
After the season, Bill Davidson found a random reason to fire Larry Brown, and his successor was Philip Sanders, who was dismissed from the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Then, Larry Brown gave up on himself and went to the New York Knicks!
Everyone can't understand why Larry Brown, who has already been selected into the Hall of Fame, took the risk of not being guaranteed at the end of the season, and took the initiative to jump into the muddy pond of the New York Knicks?
In fact, the main reason is that Isaiah Thomas' five-year fat contract of 5000 million is too attractive. This is the largest coaching contract in NBA history, bigger than the contract Phil Jackson signed with the Lakers.
Larry Brown is simply here for money this time, otherwise why wouldn't he also throw an olive branch, the Cleveland Cavaliers of LeBron James, who has unlimited talent?
But unfortunately, Larry Brown, who has not yet taken office, fell out with the absolute core of the Knicks, this summer's standard king Stephen Marbury!
During the preparations for the 2004 Athens Olympics, Stephen Marbury believed that Larry Brown's coaching was too stubborn and rigid. He believed that the team should play its own style and the players should have more room to play.
These words finally reached the ears of Larry Brown, and he ordered Stephen Marbury to leave immediately: "I want him to leave the team! I want Stephen Marbury to leave the team! Now, send him on the plane and send him home! Right now!"
Popovich, who was the assistant coach at the time, came out to make a mess, and wanted Stephen Marbury to declare a knee injury and use this as a reason to leave the US team.
However, it is impossible for the rebellious Stephen Marbury to compromise. He told Popovich forcefully: "If Larry wants me to go, let him say it himself, don't let you wipe his ass for him!"
As a result, Larry Brown chose to deal with it coldly, Stephen Marbury did not leave, everyone else was used up, and the US team also lost Waterloo.
Life is so miraculous, two people who vowed not to see each other until death, but they came together for the beauty of the knife.
Oh yes, they are still from New York!
(End of this chapter)