I was determined to be bad, but I went straight to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Chapter 39
In July and August, the NBA's long offseason continued.Although it is a vacation, most players are not idle. For professional athletes who eat their youth, earning money is likely to be just a few years of effort. A little waste will affect their jobs for a lifetime.

Star players hold various training camps across the United States to maintain their state and improve their skills. Many fringe players also show their faces through these training camps, hoping to attract the attention of scouts and get a job offer.

Most of these training camps are held in Los Angeles, which has been a gathering place for vacation stars since the 1980s.

The warm climate, well-developed tertiary industry, complete training facilities, and many related practitioners make this a basketball paradise.

If there are players, there are naturally scouts. They fly from all over the United States and even the world to inspect the players on the spot, establish contacts with some young players who have potential but have no jobs for the time being, and serve as the team's future player human resource reserves.

Of course, the uniforms of each team will not be idle, the players can rest and concentrate on training. For the uniforms, summer is the time when they really want to fight.

Starting from July, the free market for NBA players has officially opened. Although this year's free market is not destined to be as full of expectations as next year, it does not mean that there will be no big fish this year.

According to the different needs and positioning of their teams, different teams have started recruiting and buying horses to prepare for the next season.

The Bulls guard Ben Gordon's contract expired. In the 2009 playoffs, they played a thrilling first round with the Celtics. Overtime after another, Ben Gordon played the best of his career playoff performance.

But the Bulls who already had Derrick Rose no longer needed this slightly shorter shooting guard and let him test the free market directly. The rebuilding Detroit Pistons signed him with a five-year 5 million contract, starting the summer The first shot of the free market.

Subsequently, the Boston Celtics, the powerful Eastern Conference, also took action. They signed Rasheed Wallace for 2 million in two years to serve as Kevin Garnett's backup.

The Celtics with a neat lineup were invincible in the 09 season. As a result, Kevin Garnett was injured and reimbursed near the playoffs, which greatly weakened the strength of the Celtics. Otherwise, Kyle must be the one who will face the Lakers in this year's finals. special people.

The old rival Celtics strengthened, and the defending champion Lakers certainly would not do nothing. They followed up with an important signing, winning All-Star forward Ron Artest, and using him to get Paul Pierce.

Artest just played against the Lakers on behalf of the Rockets in the 09 playoffs. During the game, he clashed with Kobe many times, but his contract expired in the summer. He is not in the Rockets' rebuilding plan. He is eager for a championship as a free agent. , So "If I can't beat me, I will join" and came to Los Angeles to join forces with Kobe.

And Trevor Ariza, who was an important contributor to the Lakers' championship before, swapped clubs with Artest and joined the Houston Rockets. To train Ariza as the new core of the team, they gave Ariza the No. 5 jersey of McGrady.

Perhaps it is hope that Ariza can become the second McGrady. McGrady also started as a defensive striker in the Raptors. After coming to the Magic, he soared to the sky and became one of the most terrifying scorers in the league. The Rockets can be regarded as whimsical and very thoughtful. up.

In addition to these few signings on the day the free market opened, the teams continued to make big and small moves afterwards.

The Mavericks and the Raptors reached a deal about Marion, because the salary did not match, and the Grizzlies and Magic formed a four-team deal.

The Raptors will get the Magic's Turkoglu through a sign-and-trade, and give the Magic a trade exception, while getting the Mavericks' Devin George and Anthony Wright.

The Mavericks will get the Raptors' Marion, Marion won a 5-year contract of 4000 million US dollars, and the Raptors sent Humphries will also join the Mavericks.

The Grizzlies get Stackhouse from the Mavericks and a future second-round pick from the Raptors, but the Grizzlies are not prepared to keep Stackhouse. Chris Wallace will soon take Stackhouse Sri Lanka cut.

This time, the Magic was purely playing tricks, sending away the general Turkoglu who helped the team enter the finals, and only exchanged two sums of cash. The reason for this self-harming transaction is also very simple: 1. They gave Can't afford the big contract Turkoglu wants, doesn't want to pay taxes;
2. In the trade in June, they got Vince Carter from the Nets. The management believes that there are substitutes and the Turks are no longer needed.

A team that reached the finals last season just dismantled and reorganized their core lineup... But considering that it was the Orlando Magic management that did this kind of thing, it's not surprising.

In addition to these large-scale signings and multi-party big deals, there are also various small signings and small deals.

The Magic signed Brandon Bass to strengthen the striker, the Suns signed Channing Frye to enhance the inside three-point shooting firepower, and the Mavericks signed Tim Thomas to continue targeting Spurs Duncan.

The Memphis Grizzlies even signed the once super popular star Allen Iverson, hoping that he can cooperate with Blake Griffin to explode the basketball market in Memphis and attract more fans to watch the game at home.

In short, each management team has its own special skills, according to their own needs, reinforcement, reinforcement, saving money, rebuilding, regardless of which one is happy, which one is sad, and which one is scolded after the start of the next season. Whoever praises, always do something.

Even if the team has been rotten for many years, and the operation has been messed up every year, as long as you sit in this car, you can’t drive this car, you have to shake it up and down, pretending that the car is moving forward, and you can give an explanation to the fans .

But from July to August and then to September, a summer is about to pass. The big fish, small fish, and even shrimps in the free market are almost being scooped up by various teams, but the Los Angeles Clippers have no movement.

Throughout the summer, Olshey was about to fart, and he didn't make a deal or sign a contract!

Although the salary has increased by 20.00%, the workload has decreased by 50.00%, which is a good thing for him.

But how long can such a good working state last?If this continues, the team will have no hope of rising! (It seems that there is hope for the operation every year before.)
With the new season just around the corner, Olshey couldn't bear it anymore, and submitted several signing application reports to Min Congda, but all of them were rejected.

Olshey felt that his career was facing an unprecedented crisis. On September 9th, he did not believe in evil and submitted a signing application and scouting report again. The free market was really almost empty.

The Clippers still have vacancies on the front line. Olshey selected the former Lakers small forward Karim Rush. This player had a miraculous performance in the 2004 playoffs. He made 7 of 6 three-pointers and helped the Lakers Defeat the Timberwolves to reach the finals.

This kind of player with a small flash point, especially after going through the playoffs, is worth trying.

But 5 minutes later, Olshey received a call from Ada, telling him: "Sorry Mr. Olshey, Mr. Smart rejected your signing application. Then he said, don't submit any more signing applications." ..."

"But the preseason is about to start. Before the start of the regular season, we have to submit a roster of 15 players. Now there is only one player left. What if I don't sign a contract?"

"This...sorry Mr. Olshey, Mr. Smart said he would take care of it."

Olshey has completely lost his temper, come on, you deal with it, you deal with it slowly, this team will be yellow sooner or later!
Before hanging up the phone, he asked again: "Ada, what is Mr. Smart doing in the office? Recently, he locks himself in the office every day after work, and doesn't care about anything except the meeting. What the hell is he doing?"

Ada faltered for a while, and replied truthfully: "Uh...Mr. Smart...Mr. Smart is playing games in the office."

"Playing games? What games are you playing?"

"2k10..."

"Snapped!"

Olsheh hung up the phone heavily, he couldn't take it anymore, this Smart actually plays games every day in the office?
Although he is playing a basketball game.

But what is the use of this?Is it necessary to rely on 2K games to trade and sign people?

It's over, the Clippers, it's over.

(End of this chapter)