NBA: Start by torturing Jordan and add points to upgrade

After understanding the team's entire lineup and status for the new season, what else is important?

Lin Tian thought for a long time, then suddenly slapped his thigh and jumped up from the bed.

The season gift pack after the end of last season has not been opened yet!
Because the Knicks only won about 50 games last season and ultimately failed to win the championship or even make it to the finals, the level of this season's gift package is quite low. It is true that his personal data, highlights and team status got an S+, but the final record was only an A-, which can be said to be the lowest value since Lin Tian entered the industry.

The gift package that Lin Tian finally received was of A+ level.

Anyway, Lin Tian didn't have any games in the summer, and after the season ended he was having fun and forgot about this matter.

Now that the new season has begun, it’s time to open this A+ gift pack and see if there are any goodies!
"The gift package has been opened for the host."

"The host gains 8000 experience points."

"The host obtains the rune: the recovery rune."

"Recovery Rune: After the host suffers any damage caused by external forces or the body's own diseases, as long as he is not dead, his positive recovery ability will increase by 20%!"

Gone.

The A+ gift package only gave out two items, which was really a bit too little.

But after reading the introduction of this rune, Lin Tian couldn't help but sigh.

It’s not excessive for this thing to appear in the S+ gift pack, right?

This time, I was definitely extremely lucky.

Of course, this thing is of little use on the basketball court. After all, no matter what injury you have, even if your recovery speed is increased by 20%, you still can't return to the game, right?
The maximum time it takes for an injury to recover is three months, but you can return to the court in two and a half months.

But it’s not very useful on the basketball court, but it plays a big role in life!
Even Lin Tian felt that, with the addition of the Evergreen Rune, he was definitely now a walking simplified version of the elixir of life.

Delay aging, speed up self-healing...

All he needs to become Wolverine is a few bone knives.

In addition, after obtaining 8000 experience points from the system, Lin Tian now has more than experience points. However, this time Lin Tian studied it a little and decided to save it and not upgrade it this time!

After all, Lin Tian doesn’t have many skills that can be upgraded now, and his physical fitness and offensive skills have reached the top. As for defense, improving defense in a team that doesn’t care about defense at all is really just a waste of time!

Lin Tian looked through all his skills and found that only "Peak Moment" could be used in the current Knicks team.

But Peak Moment now requires nearly 3 experience points to upgrade to LV5, which is the maximum level, so Lin Tian decided to wait.

Maybe when this skill reaches the maximum level, it can give you some extra surprises?
Anyway, the difference is only 6-7000 points. If we are lucky, we can beat Jordan and the Bobcats twice more and make up the difference in half a season.

Lin Tian still remembers the game last season when he led his team to beat the Bobcats, and how much experience Jordan gave him!

That's such a wonderful feeling!

What does it mean to be consistent and to fleece a sheep to death?
That's it! From the first chapter when he entered the league until Lin Tian dominated the league, he still didn't let Jordan go!

In fact, it’s not Lin Tian’s fault. Who made Jordan lose experience so generously, a lot, quickly and easily?

there's no way!

After Lin Tian opened the season gift package, all pre-match preparations for this season were completed.

All that remains is to wait for the preseason to start and the regular season afterwards.

This season's league is actually not much different from last season.

Although there are many small trades, there are not many trades that are enough to shake and change the league.

There are a few worth mentioning. The first is that the Nets finally disintegrated after years of continuous failure.

This year's offseason, they are faced with the dilemma of Yao Ming and Gasol's contracts expiring at the same time. Both of them undoubtedly deserve maximum salaries, but after the team already has Kidd and Carter, the Nets really cannot pay the high salaries of Yao Ming and Gasol at the same time.

If a team has four maximum salary players, then you have to go to the Knicks next door. We, the Nets, are a real country team at this time.

The fact that the Nets neither renewed the contracts of these two players in advance nor traded them actually speaks volumes about the team's thinking.

They are just betting on the last year. If there is a breakthrough, they will all stay. If not, they will talk about it later.

The Nets, who lost in the Eastern Conference semifinals last season, obviously cannot be considered a breakthrough, so the team must make a decision during the offseason.

Well, this decision is not difficult to make.

The Nets used the maximum salary for five years to keep Yao Ming, who has a bigger market and the entire Chinese market behind him and can help the Nets make a lot of money.

As for Gasol, after fully communicating with Gasol and understanding his personal ideas, the Nets signed and traded Gasol to Memphis.

As for the reason for going to Memphis, it was because the head coach there, Hubie Brown, had a good relationship with Gasol, was willing to build the team with him as the absolute core, and gave Gasol a maximum salary.

As for what the Nets got, all they got was a future Grizzlies draft pick and a trade exception.

Gasol is willing to sign first and then trade, leaving the team with a first-round draft pick, even if he is nostalgic enough. Otherwise, he can just run away from the team without any plan.

The Nets did not make any reinforcements after Gasol left. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that although they will most likely still be in the top four in the Eastern Conference next season, this is the Nets' ceiling.

The top half of the Eastern Conference plus the second round of the playoffs.

Another breakthrough?
They're going to play the Pistons, Celtics and Knicks?
In addition, after the Pacers experienced a terrible season last season, the new team leader Webber, who also performed poorly, had an unpleasant relationship with Carlisle and Bird after Lin Tian left.

Although the team used him as the absolute core last season and let him play his favorite position of power forward and his favorite passing and cutting system, Webber still averaged only 18 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists per game, and his shooting percentage was only 46%. As an inside player, Webber's efficiency is really mediocre.

But even so, Webber was still not satisfied. He felt that Miller occupied his inside space. He felt that too many of Ginobili's passes were too casual and out of tune, leading to too many mistakes for the team. He also felt that Parker was always thinking about playing pick-and-roll and did not regard him as the team leader at all.

In short, one year after Lin Tian left, all the problems of the Pacers surfaced, and the harmony and solidarity that Lin Tian had when he was in the team completely disappeared.

After half a summer of tug-of-war and mutual torture, Bird could no longer withstand Webber's repeated trade requests, and finally decided to send away the hero who had helped the team win five consecutive championships.

After some communication and inquiries, Bird continued his usual humane style and sent Webber to the big city of Philadelphia where he wanted to go!

Even though the offer from Philadelphia is not the best, it is still in the same Eastern Conference as the Pacers.

But Webber wanted to go, so Bird agreed anyway, just to give honor to the meritorious service.

At this point, the only player on the Pacers who has won more than 5 championships with Lin Tian is Doug Christie. Judging from his personality and temper, the size of his contract, his current age and condition, this guy who started playing as a substitute last season will most likely retire in Indiana.

If you are lucky, you may even be able to get the honor of having a retired jersey.

But that was only his own honor. The invincible Pacers team eventually fell apart!
The Pacers, who are rebuilding with Parker, Ginobili, Howard and others as the core, are destined to have difficulty making the playoffs and will have to linger in the lottery zone for a while.

They have to wait for a true big brother to lead them before they can rise again.

But the good news is that the rookie Granger selected by the team this year seems to be very capable. He is mature, calm, and has good skills. Bird even sees a bit of himself in him.

I just don't know how much Granger will grow in the end.

In addition, the Spurs have also made moves. As James gets older, his muscles are becoming more and more obvious and stronger. He is no longer the skinny guy who could only play the No. 1 position in the past two years.

He has fully grown up.

This means that James can play the 2-3 position and form the league's top forward-guard swingman combination with McGrady, but in this way, the team's number one position will be vacant.

The Spurs' approach is to continue to strengthen!

They once again overdrew their last two remaining first-round draft picks and all the rotation players the team could give away, sending these people to Sacramento in exchange for the Kings' point guard who was still in his prime.

'White Devil' Mike Bibby.

Bibby has both good offensive and organizational abilities, and his strong body allows him to perform quite well on the defensive end. Popovich believes that he can work with James and McGrady to completely support the team's offense!
It's the third year, Spurs, it's time to show results!

When the last top talent joined the team, they made it to the finals the following year!

In addition, the Cavaliers used a five-year, $5 million contract to add Larry Hughes, who averaged 5500+20+5+5 per game for the Wizards last year and was selected to the All-Defensive Team of the Year, to the team to continue to strengthen the team.

After experiencing a nightmare playoff journey last season, Hughes' price in the free market has been greatly reduced. Several teams that originally wanted to acquire him have begun to wait and see. At the same time, those teams willing to offer him a contract mostly offer contracts between 4 years and 3800 million to 5 years and 4500 million.

No one offered him an annual salary of tens of millions!
The Cavaliers were the only team willing to give him 5 million for five years, but even so, Hughes did not want to go to that small place of Cleveland. He would rather go to the Bay Area or places like Orlando with a comfortable climate, even if those places offered less money.

In the end, it was the general manager of Cleveland who made the final decision and made additional investments, raising the offer to 5 million for 5500 years. Only then did Hughes finally agree. For the sake of an extra 100 million US dollars a year, he chose the small city of Cleveland.

Cleveland thus formed a backcourt duo of Wade and Hughes and an inside twin tower lineup of Big Z and Gooden.

As for the value of this lineup and what the final result will be, only God knows.

Anyway, this lineup looks like that.

In addition to the above-mentioned star-level or quasi-star-level trades and transfers, several of the league's top championship-contending teams have maintained their original lineups and systems. They all want to continue their push for another year!
The Pistons are aiming to defend their title, the Celtics are ambitious, the Mavericks and Suns are eager to break out of the West, the Timberwolves want to return to the finals, and the Knicks are also ready to go!
In addition, the Lakers, who represented the Western Conference and made it to the finals last season, fell into chaos after losing the finals again. Jackson, Kobe, O'Neal and others were extremely depressed during this offseason.

Owner Buss, general manager Kupchak, special adviser West and others held meeting after meeting.

They must consider whether the OK combination of Kobe + O'Neal can bring the team a championship, and whether they should break up the team and rebuild it.

For a time, the news that the Lakers wanted to rebuild spread throughout the league. More than half of the teams in the league came to inquire about Kobe or O'Neal. Of course, many teams, after failing to inquire about the prices of these two people, asked the Lakers whether they were ready to sell Kirilenko and Prince, the two top role players.

Of course, sometimes their goal is not to really trade, but simply to test the Lakers' attitude so that they can be ready for a trade at any time.

Even if I can't get one of Kobe and O'Neal by then, I will still have a chance to get some benefits, right?

What is worth everyone's pondering is that Kupchak did not directly reject those trade requests, but asked quite ambiguously: What's your offer!

Although 100% of the offers fell on deaf ears without any response or news, everyone felt the difference in the Lakers' state.

After all, before this, no matter who asked about the price of Kobe and O'Neal, the Lakers' response was always a swear word.

This time, he is willing to listen to the price, which is a signal!
The Lakers, maybe things are really going to change.

So throughout the offseason, half of the sports reporters in the United States were paying attention to where OK would go. They came up with one trade plan and speculation after another, and broke out one reliable or unreliable trade rumor after another.

In short, the Lakers almost single-handedly muddied the waters of the entire league!
Why almost?
Because one week before the start of training camp, Kupchak suddenly said in an interview: "The team will not make any trades. We believe that the OK combination can bring the team a championship! We have been one of the best teams in the league in the past few years!"

"We didn't win the championship, all we lacked was a little luck!"

“This year, I believe it’s our turn!”

Pukucek's bold words clearly reflect the Lakers' attitude.

They did call off all transactions in the end, although this caused countless management and fans to curse, saying that you made a lot of noise but in the end there was not even a dark cloud, which was indeed suspected of fraud.

But everyone also received another secret message that was said to be leaked by a Lakers insider.

This is the last year!

If the OK combination fails to win the championship in their 10th year of cooperation, the team will make trades and break up.

The opportunity for OK only lasts for the last year!

After receiving the news and confirming its authenticity, the alliance's surface waves were indeed gone, but the undercurrents beneath the sea level became more and more ferocious.

Many teams that are confident of getting Kobe or O'Neal have begun to find ways to accumulate chips, while those who think they cannot get these two people have set their sights on Kirilenko or Prince. The ones who are a little worse are waiting to make a "trading fortune" and are prepared to act as middlemen to earn the difference.

Especially when no one knows whether the Lakers will sell one of the two players or both, everyone is looking forward to it.

If you in Los Angeles want to disband your team, we must help you, the Lakers!
In short, everyone is ready to watch the show!

The Lakers winning the championship has unknowingly become something that more than half of the teams in the league do not want to happen.

You won the championship, but no one among us would buy it!

Collapse! Must collapse!
This is the biggest expectation of the entire league for the Lakers right now.

The Lakers themselves will inevitably face greater pressure and countless troubles in this season, which may very well be their 'last season'.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Mr. Lin.

Now, he should prepare for the preseason! (End of this chapter)