Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Chapter 274: Arms race, reinforcements from all sides!A new era of multiple giants!
"If no one steps forward to stop the trade between the Chicago Bulls and the Minnesota Timberwolves, then Kevin Garnett will definitely hug Dunn tightly, and the Chicago Bulls will be unstoppable!"

"Shocking deal! If the deal is completed, Duane and Kevin Garnett will definitely become the strongest duo in the NBA in the new season!"

"The Los Angeles Lakers intend to team up with a third party to make a deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves. 'Where is Kevin Garnett going?' is still an unsolved mystery!"

"How to create a dynasty in the NBA? Trade for Duane! If the dynasty ends? Trade Duane to other teams!"

"Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge said: We will not give up our pursuit of Kevin Garnett. Our goal next season is a championship!"

"Unprecedented super free market! The Chicago Bulls trade two All-Stars for Kevin Garnett, which may usher in a new era in the NBA!"

After the Bulls made an offer to the Timberwolves, the media across the United States became busy.

However, trading Garnett is not an easy task. In just a few days, the Timberwolves did not cut the knot quickly and complete the deal with the Bulls.

On the one hand, the Celtics and Bulls are direct competitors in the Eastern Conference, and the Celtics have not given up their pursuit of Garnett yet.

Therefore, it is normal for McHale to give Danny Ainge some time to introduce a third party, or even a fourth party, and loan one or two All-Stars.

On the other hand, the Bulls gave two All-Star players right away, and they were both All-Star starters last season.

This has forced the Timberwolves management to doubt life and give them some illusions - is it possible that Garnett is really so popular?
The price offered by the Bulls far exceeded the expectations of the Timberwolves management, which actually made them look forward to being double-teamed by other teams to see if they could wait for the price and shop around.

It has to be said that after the Bulls proposed a trade plan for two All-Stars, other teams were forced to follow suit and made brand-new offers.

The Lakers, who had just lost to the Bulls in the Finals, roped in the Trail Blazers and came up with two plans: Hinrich + Randolph and Odom + Randolph.

The Trail Blazers have drafted Roy and Aldridge in the past two years. The team is in a rebuilding period, and there is no need to keep a data brush like Randolph.

In order to avoid the championship, the Lakers' direct competitor, the Bulls, has further strengthened, and they also want to get Garnett as much as possible.

However, judging from the Lakers' offer alone, it is obvious that it is not as sincere as the Bulls' offer.

Even if the Lakers add some draft picks, it won't be enough to impress the Timberwolves management.

The Bulls not only provided two All-Star players in their prime.

Baron Davis, one of the trading chips, has clearly been the boss of other teams.

In addition, Big Beard's technical style and playing style are still relatively popular, which is undoubtedly more able to meet the needs of the Timberwolves' team management during the rebuilding period.

To a certain extent, it can be used to make up for the loss in ticket sales after Garnett, the "big box office", left Minnesota.

By the way, after the Lakers provided a new offer, which further ignited the enthusiasm of the outside media and fans, the Celtics also attracted the Kings.

The Kings are also interested in rebuilding, and Artest in the team is restless and needs to be dealt with urgently.

As for Brad Miller, who was renewed with a maximum salary in the past few years, his contract has become larger and larger in recent years and has become a maximum salary contract. The Kings are in ruins and rebuilding, and there is no need for Brad Miller at all, so there is no need for him. Need to trade.

The Celtics borrowed money and wanted to trade someone else's star for Garnett.

However, this bargaining chip is too shabby!It's more than one level behind the Bulls and Lakers.

Because of this, it’s not that McHale doesn’t want to help his old club, but it’s also impossible for him to lose his job just to help his old club.

The general manager of the Timberwolves wants money, money, and power!
If it were other people, they would also be able to distinguish between what should be done and what should not be done.As the general manager of the team, you should conduct transactions normally and put the interests of the team first!

In other words, after the Bulls, Lakers, and Celtics made offers one after another, Garnett's ownership finally became clear.

Although the deal has not yet been finalized, the Garnetts have already gone to Chicago to view the house in advance.

After Dunn learned the news from John Paxson, as the team boss, he immediately called Garnett to show respect.

During the phone call, Dunn also took the initiative to invite the Garnetts to his home.

Garnett is not afraid of strangers. After receiving Duen's call, he said that he would bring his family to visit Duen tomorrow.

Obviously, Garnett also has a lot to say to Dunn about the upcoming season and the cooperation between the two.

After Dunn received Garnett's reply, he took a plane overnight and flew back to Chicago from Las Vegas.

Coincidentally, Garnett had just arrived at Duen's villa, and after praising Duen so much, he had already subdued himself and corrected his mentality. He acted like Duen was taking the lead. At this time, Garnett's cell phone Suddenly it rang.

When Garnett looked at the caller ID, he also laughed, and then confessed to Duan: "It was Kobe who called me!

Duane, you may not know that before you make an offer, the team I want to join is the Los Angeles Lakers.

I never thought in advance that you would pursue me and give me such a generous bargaining chip.

Hahahaha, maybe this is fate!
In order to join forces with Kobe, I called the guy Kobe several times, but he didn't answer at all.

It really pissed me off at the time!
Haha, now the roles have been reversed, and it’s Kobe who begs me.

But I'm ready to retaliate against that Kobe guy in the same way! "

In order to show his loyalty to Du En, Garnett showed the attitude of a loyal minister who would not marry two masters, and a loyal daughter who would not marry another husband, and distanced herself from Kobe.

However, after Du En learned about this, he wanted to cause trouble.

"It doesn't matter, you've accepted it, just pretend I don't exist. No, okay, actually I also want to know what Kobe will say to you..."

Du En looked like he was currently guilty. When Garnett heard this, he also raised his head and laughed.

"In that case, I'll take it!"

Garnett answered the phone in front of Du En.

"KG, you finally answered the phone! KG, let's join forces! We can win that damn championship together!"

On the other end of the phone came Kobe's anxious and even angry voice.

"Kobe, wait a minute, you should have known that I was in Chicago before you called me, right?
Business is business!I'm going to be traded to Chicago and it's all a business!
I am a player and I respect the team's choice. "

A star like Garnett, one of the best in the league, naturally has the power to veto trades.

But now Du En is by Garnett's side. Garnett made it clear that he and Du En would play tricks on Kobe, so he said this deliberately.

"Hey KG, don't kid yourself, if you didn't want to join the Chicago Bulls, you wouldn't have gone to Chicago!

I know that you are very eager for that championship that belongs to you.

You have been fighting in the league for so many years and have made such a big name in the league, why not continue to persevere?
Are you worried about not having help?What do you think of me?Let's join forces and fight together!
Come buy a house in Los Angeles!You can become a part of the Purple and Gold Army!we need you! "

Kobe was moved with emotion and reason, hoping that Garnett would change his mind.

If the team that Garnett joined was not the team that Duan was in, then Kobe would not have called Garnett in such a hurry.

However, after watching Du En be traded to the Bulls, he won championships one after another.

Especially when Duan defeated him head-on more than a month ago, and he witnessed it with his own eyes and won the championship and the coveted FMVP trophy, Kobe had to make an exception.

"The Chicago Bulls need me too! You know, no one would refuse to play with Duane, and I am no exception."

Hearing what Garnett said, Du En almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

After all, Kobe on the other end of the phone was an exception.

"I know, I know...but..." At this time, Kobe obviously didn't know what to say.

After all, the answer to the current NBA version is Duane!
No matter who wants to receive a championship ring, playing with Du En is undoubtedly the safest option before the correct answer is announced.

"You know what? Kobe. Before I joined the NBA, I was playing in Chicago. Now I'm back in Chicago, where my dream started.

Fantastic!I will get the most important honor of my career here!This is exactly what I want to play for! "

Before Kobe could find a way to convince Garnett, Garnett talked about his connection with Chicago.

Garnett entered the NBA as a high school student, and the high school he attended was Farragut High School in Chicago.

Because of this relationship, Garnett did not resist playing for the Chicago Bulls, but was actually quite happy.

A second hometown, a big city, and the No. 1 player in the league as teammates. I have always been thinking about the championship that I have never been able to achieve, and I am sure to win it again!

Putting these factors together, it's no wonder that Garnett didn't want to answer Kobe's call for fear that Duan would misunderstand.

After hearing what Garnett said, Kobe could only persuade Garnett to change his mind in other ways.

"The Chicago Bulls are a championship team, and joining a team like this will ruin your reputation and make you a coward.

Besides, you should also think about your family, right?Your contract is about to expire, and the Chicago Bulls have some new guys who need to sign extensions.

At that time, you can either choose to take a salary cut and renew the contract, or exercise the player option to play for another year and then leave Chicago..."

Kobe can come up with tricks to double-team players in contract years and encourage infighting among his opponents, so he can naturally figure out Garnett's psychological concerns.

The current situation of Garnett is similar to that of O'Neal in 04, 31 now and 32 next year. If the player option is implemented, it will be 33. When the maximum salary contract ends, there is a high probability that he will only receive a maximum salary or a middle-class pension contract.

If he renews his contract in advance and gets another multi-year contract with an annual salary of more than 1000 million, there is still hope.

The Bulls boss is notorious for being stingy.

In addition, in the past few years, the entire league has been targeting the Bulls. In order to prevent the Bulls from winning the championship again, they have constantly used poisonous contracts to poach people.

If the Bulls want to continue to remain competitive for the championship, there will definitely be considerable salary pressure in the next few years.

I have to say that originally Garnett grinned widely and winked at Duan, as if he wanted to laugh at Kobe together.

But as soon as Kobe's words of wisdom came out, Garnett was silenced.

The championship is very important to Garnett, and money is also important to Garnett!

For other teams, when it comes to winning the championship, big contract renewal is inevitable.

However, the Bulls have even traded two-time champions such as Baron Davis and Tyson Chandler for him. How can Garnett dare to hope that after winning the championship for the Bulls, the Bulls will renew his contract with him? ?
However, even if he realizes this, he still cannot stop Garnett from joining the Bulls.

"If I play with Du En, I would be willing to accept even a salary cut!"

Garnett is a smart man. Since he and Du En are under the same roof, he must take a stand.

No matter where he plays in the future, he must win a championship next season.

And the only person in the league who can help him realize his dream is Du En who has this ability.

Because if he joins another team, Duen will definitely be on the opposite side of him.

In any case, the Bulls now have a lot of chips to trade.

Even if Garnett cannot be traded, other capable stars can still be traded.

By then, the Bulls will still be able to reach the finals!
Garnett saw Jordan, who won three consecutive championships in the NBA, and O'Neal, who won three consecutive championships in the past few years.

Garnett doesn't want to become a backdrop again, so naturally he can only join the team if he can't beat him.

However, he was actively pursued by the Chicago Bulls with two All-Star players.Strictly speaking, they are not prisoners who join just because they cannot be defeated.

Kobe knew Garnett's attitude and didn't bother with it too much.

The Bulls can trade Garnett, and the Lakers can also sign other stars!At worst, we’ll have a fight in the finals!

As Kobe hung up the phone, the room where Duan and Garnett were sitting also fell silent.

For a while, Du En couldn't find anything to talk about.

Help Garnett solve his worries and say that he will help him get a relatively large pension contract?
It's impossible for Du En to do this!The aftermath of winning a championship often starts with giving big contracts to meritorious veterans.

For the sake of a big contract and for their own interests, let alone friends, maybe they don’t even have to be colleagues, but just give them a punch and send their teammates off the team!

Although the Bulls will only begin to pay the luxury tax starting next season, the storm is coming, and Doan is already feeling the salary pressure in the next few years.

However, what happens in the next few years will be discussed in the future.In the next two years, Duan will still have no pressure to continue to win championships and establish his own Bulls dynasty.

Time flies to July 7th, and the annual drama "Where's Garnett Going?" finally reaches its finale!

The Bulls kept their original plan unchanged and brought out Baron Davis and Tyson Chandler, while the Timberwolves only gave Garnett.

Generally speaking, the Bulls will definitely lose a little bit, but the off-season traffic has already made a lot of money.

Wait until the new season, as long as the Bulls' performance does not show symptoms of decline.

So with the support of Garnett's popularity, the price of Bulls regular season tickets will definitely rise to a higher level.

In this way, for the Bulls boss, it means that you can make money with your blood, and I will never lose.

In other words, after the Bulls acquired Garnett, their overall strength did not improve much, but their reputation was too high, which triggered panic throughout the league.

If other teams do not continue to recruit players, the new season will be a one-super-multiple-power structure, and no one will be able to compete with the Bulls. The Bulls will securely win the ninth championship and once again establish a new dynasty.

As competitors, the Lakers and Celtics are determined to compete for the championship in the new season, and naturally they are not willing to fall behind.

On July 7, the Lakers took the lead in completing the signing, using Odom and draft picks to acquire O'Neal Jr. from the Pacers.

On August 8, the Celtics also traded O'Neal from the Heat.

No one expected that the Green Army would actually have the opportunity to acquire O'Neal, the former boss of the Purple and Gold Army!

But for the Heat, O'Neal has been messing around with his big contract in the past two years, making the Heat unable to improve.

At this time, the Celtics were in a hurry and sought medical treatment, and were stunned by the Bulls and Lakers' generosity.

There are really not many inside players who can play these days. After the Celtics have Pierce and Ray Allen, they are missing an inside backbone.

Knowing that the Celtics were paying attention to O'Neal, the magician Riley said nothing and immediately expressed his stance to Anji: "It's a deal, double happiness!"

As the Celtics have also built a championship lineup for the new season, other teams in the league that dream of competing for the championship are directly sitting on the wax.

The two established giants, the Lakers and Celtics, are at worst the Big Three, and the Bulls, an emerging giant, are the defending champions led by super giants and superstars!
Although the Suns are also a Big Three team, they have always been a regular season team and failed to prove that they can succeed in the playoffs.

Single-core teams like the Spurs and Mavericks obviously cannot keep up with other multi-giant teams.

To this end, the Mavericks hurriedly traded Kidd from the Nets to continue their attack on the championship goal.

"Richie, why is this happening this summer? When will our team be reinforced?"

"Maybe in two or three years?"

"Ah, Doon is about to win three consecutive championships, and I'm going to be beaten for another three years?"

"If you can become Du En's teammate, you can also enjoy success with him. However, no matter how soon, you have to wait four years!"

(End of this chapter)