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With the Warriors signing Wang Feng, everything seems to make sense.

Why did the Warriors choose to trade the core players of the team?
The reason is simple, to free up salary space.

In 1995, the league's new broadcast contract came into effect, and the salary cap ushered in a big increase, but even so, it only increased from the previous 1596 million to 2300 million.

The Warriors want to offer Wang Feng, a free agent, a contract with an annual salary of 860 million, but the salary cap does not allow it at all, and Wang Feng has no way to sign the bird rights, so he can only free up salary space as much as possible.

蒂姆.哈达威95-96赛季年薪373万美元，唐耶尔.马绍尔年薪273万美元，两人加起来薪金便高达646万美元。

If they don't trade them, the Warriors have no way to sign Wang Feng.

But having said that, everyone still doesn't understand, you signed a forward, why trade the team's core point guard?
Trade Tim Hardaway, who will the Warriors use as point guard next season?

At this time, no one thought that Wang Feng was going to be a point guard.

Although Magic Johnson has not retired for a long time, the league is still not particularly used to this kind of point guard over 2 meters.

No matter what the outside world says, with Wang Feng officially signing the contract with the Warriors, he will play for the Warriors in the NBA for at least the next two years.

Wang Feng's joining the Warriors also officially announced the failure of the Knicks to retain the championship lineup.

The house leak coincided with continuous rain. Two days later, Knicks head coach Pat Riley officially resigned as the team's head coach and turned around to join the Miami Heat as the team's general manager and head coach.

It was only at this time that people realized that Pat Riley was behind the previous transactions of the Heat.

With Tim Hardaway and Alonzo Mourning at the same time, the Heat have jumped into the ranks of the league's strong teams.

Immediately after the news of Riley's departure from the team, Ewing also became fussy.

Ewing, who won the championship for the team and won the FMVP, insisted on a big contract. After some bargaining between his agent and the team, the two sides signed a contract extension of more than 2172 million US dollars, of which the first The salary in the first year was as high as 1872 million US dollars, and in the second year it was only 300 million US dollars.

This contract is exactly the same as in the original history. It seems that the Knicks still miss Jordan and hope to have the opportunity to join the competition for Jordan's ownership after Jordan's contract expires next year.

Ewing's annual salary of 1872 million US dollars instantly crushed Wang Feng's 860 million, becoming the league's first annual salary and the first contract in NBA history with a salary exceeding [-] million.

The league has thus officially entered the era of tens of millions of annual salary.

Wang Feng was snatched away by Ewing shortly after he enjoyed the title of No. [-] annual salary in the league, and then he couldn't even keep the second place.

Although the Rockets lost the championship in the finals, in order to keep the glider Drexler, they still provided the other party with a 3-year contract extension of 2100 million US dollars, of which the salary in the first year was as high as 981 million US dollars , 550 million per year for the next two years.

As a result, Wang Feng's annual salary of 860 million can only rank third in the league, behind Ewing and Drexler.

Although it is not the first year's annual salary, in the era of 95, the annual salary of 860 million is high enough.

Behind Wang Feng are a group of league superstars, including David Robinson, Chris Webber, Shaq O'Neal and others.

As for Jordan, I don't even know where he is ranked. Although he is the god of basketball, Jordan's current annual salary is only 385 million US dollars.

Of course, Jordan will get a 3000 million super high-priced contract next year, and the annual salary is of no real significance to him.

During the opening of the bustling free market, Wang Feng didn't have much to do.

The Chinese restaurant in New York's Chinatown has been renovated and will be ready for soft opening soon. Wang Xu is recruiting and interviewing shop staff, and Wang Feng, a layman, can't help him much.

The same is true for the Warriors. Although Wang Feng can leave for San Francisco now, the team is already on vacation at this time, and he can only see Garnett and other rookies who report to the team when he goes. It's just fun.

A few days ago, Director Zhang and Director Su also set off to return to China. They kindly invited Wang Feng to return to China for a while, and they patted their chests to guarantee that Wang Feng would be warmly welcomed in China. Many TV media wanted to do special interviews with him. , including multiple channels of CCTV.

But Wang Feng still declined.

To be honest, he doesn't really care much about how much his popularity has increased in Huaguo. It's not for such a small thing when he returned to the 90s. Joining Huaguo nationality is just a pure feeling of family and country, and he doesn't want to use Huaguo. The idea of ​​​​getting more benefits from the status of a national player.

So he is not going to return home because of this.

It is worth mentioning that someone from the Basketball Association has already contacted Wang Feng and started discussions on Wang Feng's joining the national team.

Wang Feng gave his own conditions.

Joining the Huaguo men's basketball team is no problem, but he has one condition, that is, he only participates in the Olympics, World Championships and other competitions, and because of the NBA's competition system, he needs to arrange the time to report to the national team for training according to his actual situation

If it were the past, Wang Feng would always welcome anyone who came. No matter what the game was, even the smallest Asian league, the system would have rewards. Although there were few, mosquito meat was considered meat.

But today is different from the past, what Wang Feng will face is the strongest opponent ever, the Bulls dynasty led by Jordan Pippen.

He needs more time and energy to prepare for this powerful opponent, and some smaller events will waste his time.

But like the Atlanta Olympic Games to be held next year, it is definitely worth participating.

The Huaguo men's basketball team in 96 can be said to be the most talented team in the history of the men's basketball team, even better than the Huaguo men's basketball team in 08. After all, the Huaguo men's basketball team in 08 was actually supported by Yao alone. , Whether it is Dazhi, the Arab League or others, they all play around Dayao on the court.

But the men's basketball team in 96 was different. They had more offensive points with the ball and more characteristics, and it was because of this that they were able to lead the team to the Olympic quarterfinals for the first time.

In terms of pure strength, the 08 Huaguo men's basketball team directly confronted the 96 Huaguo men's basketball team, and the high probability of winning was the 08 men's basketball team. Yao at his peak was indeed unstoppable at the basket.

But Wang Feng personally still prefers the Huaguo men's basketball team in 96. If he could fight side by side with them, it would be a good memory.

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Wang Feng, who had nothing to do, finally reported to the San Francisco Warriors ahead of schedule.

The main purpose of reporting in advance is to adapt to the environment of the Warriors first.

Speaking of which, Wang Feng started his career with the Warriors for a year and a half, so he is not too unfamiliar with this place.

It’s just that San Francisco in 2015 and San Francisco in 1995 are separated by a full 20 years. In the 20 years of vicissitudes, except for some iconic buildings on the surface, there is basically no similarity between the two.

Even the Oracle Arena, the home of the Warriors, has been repaired many times during the period. In his impression, just one year later, the Oracle Arena will undergo another renovation and refurbishment. At that time, the Warriors will use San Jose. The stadium served as a temporary home for the entire season of 96-97.

The Oracle Arena during this period was not called this name, but the Oakland Arena.

Of course, these are insignificant, trivial matters.

After Wang Feng arrived in San Francisco, he was immediately warmly welcomed by the Warriors. He met the team's new owner Chris Cohan, general manager Bob and a group of senior management personnel.

For the star signed by the team with the third highest salary in the league, the Warriors have given the greatest respect and attention.

During the conversation, Bob even asked Wang Feng for his opinion on the new head coach.

After Don Nelson resigned, the Warriors were temporarily replaced by an assistant coach, and the Warriors have been considering candidates for the team's new head coach.

In this regard, Wang Feng did not express it directly, but said cheaply that he would respect the team's judgment.

Of course he knew that the Warriors would eventually hire Rick Adelman to coach the Warriors.

Wang Feng also knew that Adelman's tactical style was more in line with his style of play, so he didn't give any substantive suggestions, acting as if he had no desires, no demands, no fights, no grabs.

In fact, Adelman's two years of coaching the Warriors can be regarded as the two years of Waterloo. The worst regular season record of his career was obtained during the Warriors, only 36.6%.

But it can't blame Adelman entirely.

The lineup of the Warriors in this period itself is very wonderful.

Tim Hardaway, Sprewell, Joe Smith, although these main players have good offensive and scoring abilities, none of them are good at defense, or they prefer offense to scoring, and they especially like to fight alone .

With such a bunch of players getting together, how could the Warriors have an outstanding record?

Don Nelson should actually take the blame for this.

The old Nelson's tactical awareness is very advanced. In the 90s, he already had the awareness of allowing the team to play fast-paced running and bombing tactics. The Warriors' good scoring players were also selected by Nelson, who is also the vice president.

But Nelson only paid attention to offense and completely ignored defense. The offense was even crazier than the running and bombing for the Suns. There are no factors for success.

The problems faced by the Warriors have basically been solved half by Wang Feng. With his arrival, Hardaway left the team, and Joe Smith was replaced by Garnett.

Even Garnett, who is only a high school student, averaged 1.1 steals, 1.6 blocks and 10 points and 6 rebounds per game in the case of limited playing time in the rookie season. Wang Feng has every reason to believe that under the key training , Garnett can become the defensive vanguard of the Warriors inside.

With Garnett on the inside and Feng Wang on the outside, although the Warriors' defense can't reach the league's first-class level, at least it's not the Warriors who are leaking everywhere and can easily score whoever comes.

It didn't take long for the Warriors to publicly announce their new coach, former Portland Trail Blazers coach Rick Adelman.

At this time, Adelman, who has coached the Trail Blazers for six seasons, is already a well-known coach in the league. He has achieved a record of 291 wins and 154 losses in the Trail Blazers, with a winning percentage of 65%.

But because he has not been able to help the Blazers gain something in the playoffs, Adelman finally parted ways with the Blazers and took a year off to settle himself.

As the head coach of the Warriors this time, Adelman seemed confident.

"Fortunately, when I was in the Trail Blazers, I had coached Clyde (Drexler), the best forward in the West, and now I am about to coach a forward who is as capable as Clyde, and may even be better. I will maximize Wang Feng's ability on the court and help the Warriors return to the playoffs."

Returning to the playoffs, there is no word more than Adelman's commitment to make the Golden State people feel happy.

Last season, the Warriors were humiliated and ranked third from the bottom in the Western Conference. Although they won the No. [-] pick because of a blessing in disguise, they obviously still hope that their team is a strong team in the league rather than a strong contender for the lottery.

Therefore, once Adelman took office, he was immediately warmly welcomed by the majority of Warriors fans.

At this time, Adelman never dreamed that the core of the team, whom he had never met, would quietly dig a big hole for himself.

Wang Feng, who came to San Francisco early, conducted daily training in the training hall where he was familiar with the Warriors. On the other hand, under the guidance of the Warriors, he participated in some interviews with local media in San Francisco.

This is a very necessary thing. Golden State fans need to understand what kind of player the team's core players will be in the next two years. Wang Feng also needs to further build his reputation here. After all, many Warriors fans actually love Wang Feng is still in the wait-and-see stage.

Wang Feng is indeed very good, but is he really worth giving up Tim Hardaway and replacing the No. [-] pick Joe Smith with good offensive ability with Garnett?
During the interview, the reporter asked a lot of questions, including why Wang Feng chose the Warriors, what kind of responsibilities he will assume in the team, and so on.

Wang Feng, who has been in the league for many years, answered all these questions fluently, looking like a star.

Then, the interviewer asked a very topical question.

"Just a few days ago, the team's new head coach Rick Adelman said that he will help the Warriors return to the playoffs in the new season. What do you think about this? Are you confident to do it?"

"Of course, the Warriors are a very good team. Rick is a coach who has a 65% winning percentage in his coaching career and has led the Trail Blazers to the finals. If we get together and can't even make the playoffs It is a failure." Wang Feng replied decisively.

"Then if the Warriors really enter the playoffs in the new season, what is your goal in the playoffs? Will you lead the team to the conference semifinals?" The reporter immediately asked again.

Then he saw Wang Feng looking at her with crazy eyes.

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