Dominate the basketball world, starting from the skyhook skill

Chapter 314 Catch the pelican and kill him

After losing to the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals, Pelinka and Jeanie Buss made a commitment to Kevin Li.

They will do whatever it takes to strengthen the team this summer, and the team will challenge for the championship next season.

This summer, the Lakers' biggest advantage is that they have the league's leading salary space.

Due to James' early retirement, he also took up $4450 million in the Lakers' salary space in the season that just ended.

Now that the season has ended smoothly, the Lakers have successfully solved the problem.

Coupled with the signing of a new broadcast agreement, the salary caps of each team have increased significantly, which allowed the Lakers to gain nearly 7000 million in salary space at once!

Sufficient salary space, a prosperous football market, and good player configuration give Pelinka ample confidence.

The Lakers directly made bold claims that they will become the biggest winner in the free market this summer!

You know, there are a lot of big fish on the market this summer.

The contracts of Antetokounmpo, Tatum, Klay Thompson and others have all expired. The free market is turbulent, and teams are scrambling for players.

The Lakers, who have a huge amount of money in their hands, are naturally the one that attracts the most attention, but Pelinka and others are dazzled and find that there are not many stars who can adapt to the current Lakers!

Due to his thick eyebrows, Antetokounmpo is definitely not in Pelinka's consideration.

As for Tatum's small forward position, he can just replace Hachimura and form the Big Three with Nong Mei and Li Kaiwen.

But... Green Army manager Stevens would not be able to send Tatum, the core of the team, to the old rival Lakers even if he wanted to take advantage of him.

As for the other big fish, they are either high-paid and low-energy, or they are on the decline, which is different from the Lakers' expectations.

They want to take advantage of the bonus period of Li Kaiwen's rookie contract to get a superstar who can provide super immediate combat ability for at least the next two years.

This keeps their choices narrowing.

Moreover, the owners of other teams are also in the free market, overtly and covertly stumbling upon the Lakers.

Li Kaiwen and thick eyebrows are already so good. If they are given another top star, will other teams be able to play next season?

The situation that blocked Paul from joining the Lakers happened again. Teams pursued him and locked up their respective team's top players with high salaries before the Lakers made a move.

Even if you pay a high luxury tax for it, you won't hesitate.

Therefore, it is always a seller's market for good players, and it does not mean that your buyer can do whatever he wants if he has money.

After the free market opened, the Lakers didn't gain much except for Jeff Green, who came to invest with a minimum salary.

Seeing that her efforts were about to come to nothing, anxious Jenny Buss felt that the male models around her were about to lose their appeal.
A breaking news caught the attention of Lakers executives.

That is the 27-year-old Ingram, a former Lakers player, suddenly submitted a trade request to the Pelicans management!
Everyone knows that Ingram's contract has one year left, and unless Daigo wants to kick him away, other teams have no chance of poaching this young All-Star forward.

After the news of Ingram's breakup with the Pelicans management leaked, the keen Pelinka immediately seized the opportunity and sent a luxury team to negotiate with the Pelicans.

Ingram is a competitive and strong person.

After arriving at the Pelicans in 20, he has been working hard to improve himself, and his scoring average has increased from 18.3 points to 24 points today, which is almost a step up every year.

He has always required himself to be a leader, and he is always among the rats in the training room every summer.

But everything changed after Fat Tiger Zion was selected to the Pelicans as the No. 27 pick.The Pelicans quickly made it clear that the future of their team is Zion. Even though Fat Tiger has been on and off in recent years, the Pelicans management still offered him a job without regrets that will last until [-] years. huge contracts.

After Fat Tiger got a big contract, he has been suffering from injuries caused by his heavy weight in recent years due to lack of self-discipline.

The Pelicans' record has been greatly affected, losing every year and failing to make the playoffs every year.

Losing his status as the boss and staying in a losing environment made Ingram feel very depressed.

In addition, after Ingram took the initiative to participate in the World Cup last summer, but paid an unsightly transcript,
The Pelicans underestimated him even more.

This offseason, Ingram could have signed a maximum salary extension with the Pelicans ahead of schedule.

But according to insiders, the Pelicans gave Ingram’s team a humiliating offer.

This deepened the gap between the two, and Ingram directly gave up the idea of ​​renewing the contract and filed a trade request.

He's fed up with this sad position, he wants money, and he wants to win even more!

After the Lakers contacted the Pelicans for the first time, a multi-party trade farce immediately began to unfold.

Not only the Lakers, many teams are interested in this versatile All-Star small forward.

The Los Angeles fans are also madly showing their love for Yingge.

On the TNT show, O'Neal even publicly helped the Lakers recruit Ingram.

"The Lakers have always had a tradition of helping stars become superstars. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Gasol, me...all of us have had our entire careers elevated by joining the Lakers."

"Ingram is a very good third position with balanced offense and defense. The combination of him, Kevin Li, and thick eyebrows will be the strongest three in the league!"

"Besides, the Lakers are Ingram's hometown. People who are away from home always feel homesick. Now that you have been selected to enter the NBA, your home team, which has been kind to you, needs you. There is nothing to hesitate about!"

Ingram directly left a message in the comments of the show, "Don't fish for O'Neal, it almost made me laugh."

If possible, I want to return to the Lakers arena tonight and fight for Aunt Jenny's honor again!

But he has no decision-making power. He can only quietly let the outside world know. Any team other than the Lakers that acquires him will not get his contract extension commitment.

With Yingge's amazing assist, Pelinka's negotiations are full of confidence.

But the Pelicans are not stupid. If you don’t bleed, I won’t get your wish even if I risk losing Ingram next year!

Negotiations between the two parties lasted for a long time without any results.

Li Kaiwen, like the fans, is waiting for the news of the transaction every day, but there has been no news.

The entire month of August has passed, and the Pelicans management has no intention of letting up.

Their attitude is very simple. Just take the young version of Yingge and add a bunch of scraps in exchange for my thick eyebrows.
Now that Yingge has become a thigh, you want to go back, but you are still unwilling to return your thick eyebrows to us.

This is to capture us pelicans and kill them!

Without making you pay a huge price, this transaction will definitely not be successful!

(End of this chapter)