I'm the owner of the Lakers

"Now announcing a trade, the Los Angeles Lakers trade Divac to the Charlotte Hornets for Kobe Bryant." Stern was on stage and on-camera to announce the trade applications that the two teams had just submitted like the league.

"The Lakers are crazy, All-Star center go for a high school student..."

"The Hornets make a lot of money, pay a lotto end pick and get an All-Star..."

"The Lakers just changed the boss and came to this out, and it's the boss's blind operation..."

“......"

The reporter seats in the audience suddenly exploded, and a group of reporters were talking to each other about the transaction that had just happened.

"Hey, this is Jerry West." In the Lakers office at this time, West picked up the phone, "Want to change Kobe?" West covered the microphone, raised his head and smiled at Xiao Yang: "Angie called." "

Xiao Yang shrugged and motioned for West to deal with it himself. "Haha, sorry, Danny, Kobe is now a non-sale item for the Lakers. Our new boss loves Kobe. "Uh-huh, I'm sorry, let's talk again next time we have a chance." That's it. West laughed and hung up the phone.

"The old bishop was anxious, but he didn't expect the Lakers to cut off his beard." West was so proud in his heart. It's not always possible to see a cardinal so impatient.

"I'm counting on Kobe to sell me tickets for 20 years." Xiao Yang spread his hands, but he clearly knows the commercial value of Kobe, the ball style is gorgeous, the face is handsome, or the shooting guard, even the height is the same as Jordan, it is simply the perfect Jordan successor. If it weren't for that file in '04, Kobe would have been the face of the NBA for 20 years. Thinking of this, Xiao Yang secretly reminded himself that in 04, he could not let Kobe Bryant capsize in the gutter again.

The next draft is no different from history, and the Lakers still used their draft picks to select the fish, Derrick Fisher, with the 24th pick. Originally, Xiao Yang was going to select Ben Wallace, but considering that in the original history, Big Ben was originally undrafted, and then signed him.

Fisher is also a good player, physically strong, steady ball, and good shooting ability, but also a rare big heart, good at shooting key balls, the future blessing of the Lakers, with Kobe Bryant won 5 championships. The disadvantage is that the speed is too slow, and it is easy to be provoked by fast players.

I remember that the finals were broken into a sieve by Iverson, but in the face of a bug like Iverson, no one can make it. Xiao Yang thought for a moment, but still let West sign Xiaoyu with the 24th pick.

"The draft is over, and in the coming days, we're going to focus on free agent signings." Xiao Yang turned his head and said to West.

"Well, there are quite a few big fish in the free agency market this year, Jordan, Sharks, Mourning, Mutombo, Juwan Howard, Alan Houston, etc." West is absolutely professional in his approach to work, clearly stating the names of a series of big names from his mouth.

"There are also a lot of teams with salary space, but for the big players, in addition to salary, they value the market value of the city where the team is located." "Luckily, Los Angeles is a big ball city and there is space, unfortunately, New York is bigger than Los Angeles, and there is space just as much. "

"You mean the Knicks also want to sign the Sharks? Don't they have Ewing anymore? Shaw raised his eyebrows and shook, and this matter, he really didn't know these things before, he knew that the Lakers signed the Sharks in '96.

"Sharks, only 25-year-old super center, who doesn't want ah, Patrick is one of the four big centers, but after all, he is old, but as far as I know, New York wants to sign Jordan more, they want to form a super inside and outside combination of Jordan and Ewing." West has been in the Alliance for so long, and still has his own intelligence network.

"So sharks are New York's second choice?" Xiao Yang only let go of his heart, he knew that with the heart of a shark, he would definitely not let himself become the second choice, even if it was a flying man in front of him.

"So we just have to give the shark enough respect and trust him to make the right choice." West had a confident expression.

In the days after the draft, the Lakers were prepared for everything to win the big shark when the free agent market opened, and yes, even Jordan was not in Xiao Yang and West's plan, and their plan A from start to finish was O'Neal.

On July 1, the free agent market opens, with all teams with salary space and those with cheques wielding big names.

The first signing to be revealed was Alonzo Monin, a tough guy who was O'Neill's contemporaries and an extremely good No. 5. As soon as the market opened, Mourning chose to extend his contract to the Miami Heat for a seven-year, $105 million contract.

Mourning's contract shocked the whole league, hundreds of millions of contracts, this is only 1996, in addition to Rally John News once signed the Hornets in 1991 with a 12-year, $110 million contract, the second billion-dollar contract that appeared in the NBA after five years.

However, when everyone was still shocked by Mo Ning's contract, the second 100 million yuan contract burst out. Juwan Howard, who had just finished playing in his third year as a rookie, was announced by the Baltimore Bullets to extend his contract for a seven-year, $105 million contract.

After Mo Ning found out, he couldn't wait to spurt out a mouthful of old blood, specially, it was early to sign. And West was even more stunned at this time, blown up by the crazy free agent market, what is the situation, has the dollar depreciated? Even Juwan Howard and Mo Ning have won 100 million yuan contracts, and for Mo Ning's contemporaries and stronger than Mo Ning's Sharks, it is clear that his price can only be higher than Mo Ning.

West obviously didn't expect the market to be hyped to this extent, and the Lakers could only make a 7-year offer of 98 million after sending Divac away, which is obviously difficult to get into the shark's eye.

WEST'S MOOD AT THE MOMENT IS LIKE BUYING AN IPHONE WITH THE MONEY HE HAS HARD TO SCRAPE TOGETHER, ONLY TO FIND THAT THE IPHONES ON THE MARKET HAVE BEEN SPECULATED BY SCALPERS. It's just forcing the dog.

What he can do now is to either give up, or hurry home and smash pots and sell iron to make up the money, so as not to be late, not to mention the high-priced iPhone, even second-hand can not be bought.

Xiao Yang can see it, he doesn't know how West operates, anyway, he knows that the result is that the Lakers finally signed the Sharks. Knowing the result, he was in the mood to enlighten West, lest the old man be depressed and his body.

Only after getting along for a long time do I know that the old man is a treasure, he is not like Xiao Yang who traveled back, completely relying on his own experience and ability to hang most of the alliance management, and I don't know how the Bass family in the future is willing to let the old man go.

Anyway, Xiao Yang decided that as long as the old man was willing, he would let him work with the Lakers until retirement.

If it were in the past, a big-name player like the Sharks might have decided which team to sign, but fortunately, this year's Sharks participated in the Dream Three team and had no time to worry about it for the time being, which invisibly bought time for the Lakers.

And while teams like the Hawks have plenty of salary space, everyone knows that the Sharks either stay in Orlando or sign for big cities, so teams in smaller cities don't go to O'Neal at all, so as not to make fun of themselves.

The Lakers are desperately trying to trade space, the Knicks are trying to sign Jordan first, and O'Neal is just their second choice. The Magic's attitude is intriguing, they have space to give O'Neal a big contract, but they are worried that after giving O'Neal a big contract, the penny Hardaway on the team will not be happy, so they decided to wait first to see the offers of other teams, and then go to match, maybe save some money.

At the moment, O'Neill's heart is broken, a player who should have been the most sought-after player in the free agent market this year, but now no one cares.

And the magic trick at this moment stabbed the sad O'Neill in the heart, and they did a poll in the local Orlando newspaper. Whether O'Neill is worth a billion yuan contract, more than ninety percent of respondents said it was not worth it.

This completely O'Neill, who was bursting with self-esteem, and he was still training in the dream three team, and immediately said that as long as there was a reasonable offer, as long as it was reasonable, he would sign it immediately.

At this time, the Lakers' situation is a little embarrassing, they still have not freed up 100 million yuan space, at this time, as long as the Knicks open a 100 million yuan contract, O'Neal is estimated to immediately sign a contract in New York.

Xiao Yang can't sit still at the moment, what the hell, it won't be me who influenced the course of history. I didn't do anything. Don't really sign New York.

The Knicks can't hold back at this time, lying in the groove, the offer can get the shark, Jordan is not yet shadowed, should he eat it to his mouth first.

Just when Xiao Yang was thinking about whether he had affected the course of history, the wheel of history proved that his pace of progress could not be influenced by a small traverser.

Jordan assisted the Lakers at this time. It turned out that the previous contract renewal negotiations between the Flyers and the Bulls went to the rhythm of collapse, and the Flyers now not only want to be a player, but also want to intervene in management's affairs, and the Bulls management only wants Jordan to play well, not BB management's business.

Jordan signaled agents to reach out to New York, like a bull pressuring. New York was about to offer O'Neill when the goddess offered him. This was repaid, and he immediately withdrew the offer he was going to give the sharks and continued to talk to Jordan.

West couldn't sit still at all, gritted his back teeth, and in order to make room, he traded the Lakers' best sixth man, Anthony Piller, for Lynch Hunt for salary space. The Lakers made an offer to O'Neal as soon as they made space.

7 years 121 million, a contract with great sincerity in front of O'Neill. The ecstatic O'Neill immediately signed the biggest contract ever, without saying a word.

Los Angeles Lakers, the sharks are coming!!