Basketball: Dayao Reopened

June 30.

Yao Ming specifically called Karl Malone: ​​"Man, are you thinking about it? Let's work with me for another year!"

At the end of this season, Yao Ming asked Karl Malone if he could still play. At that time, Karl Malone meant to think about it, so he didn't immediately agree.

This is not looking at the time for a month, Yao Ming felt that the consideration should be about the same, so he immediately called Karl Malone.

"No matter what, let's break the history's first scoring record before retiring!"

The original Karl Malone retired after the 2003~04 season. He scored 36,928 points in 19 seasons in the NBA, which is about 1,000 points away from the historical scoring leader Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. However, that is the original. Now Karl Malone has played for another season, and his regular season total score has reached 28,160, which is only 127 points away from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...

Even if Carl Malone, who played off the bench for the Trail Blazers last season, averaged only 7.4 points per game, it only takes about 18 games to surpass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and become the player with the most points in NBA history!

It's not too difficult...

However, Karl Malone’s focus does not seem to be on this matter. He was silent for a moment: "Man, I may not be able to provide you with more help. Moreover, for the Blazers in the new season, I am not unreasonable. The missing guy..."

These days Karl Malone has actually been thinking about whether he should continue playing for another season.

Originally, his idea of ​​going to Space City was to win a championship and retire after winning the championship!

Unexpectedly, Yao Ming suddenly left the team and went to the Trail Blazers. Considering that the Trail Blazers had just sent out most of the members of the "Prison Team" at the time, he was worried that Yao Ming did not have enough help for the new team. He chose Fight for another year.

But in this year, great changes have taken place in the Trail Blazers. Vince Carter is here, Yao Ming has a strong enough helper, and the rookie has gone through a year of experience and gained more experience. In addition, this year's Trail Blazers got the Rockets' "boost", and they picked a very good rookie Chris Paul.

Seeing that the Trail Blazers have already built their core lineup, and there are so many very useful role players. They are well-organized and run-in. They can become a championship-level team. Even the new season may not be impossible. !

Under such circumstances, Karl Malone felt that he was not a very important help for Yao Ming, and he had the idea of ​​officially retiring.

Moreover, in his opinion, Yao Ming was just asking casually.

Unexpectedly, Yao Ming actually called him again.

This made him feel Yao Ming's sincerity. After a moment of silence, he joked: "Okay, man, then I will hug my thigh again and win a championship!"

"Then it's settled! Then you go to the arena to sign the contract tomorrow!"

Hearing Karl Malone promised to fight for another year, Yao Ming immediately said his words to death!

Yao Ming doesn’t know what Karl Malone is thinking. From his point of view, this buddy accompanied him to pacify Portland last season. It may not be possible to say how much credit, but there must be hard work. I, Yao, is not a brother. People who don't get anything done!

Of course, there is nothing Yao Ming can give, just a championship trophy... Talk about your heart, talk about your heart!

However, in this way, Yao Ming feels a bit sorry for Vince Carter, after all, if Karl Malone promises to play for another year, then his NBA career will reach as many as 21 seasons.

The future Vince Carter can no longer be the first man in history!

Fortunately, Vince Carter's three 10-year records can still be enjoyed exclusively...

And maybe, Vince Carter can play a longer career this time!

You know, so far, he has only been paddled by Bowen twice. Originally, he has been paddled by Bowen three times after the end of the 04~05 season.

Moreover, the injury this time was not as serious as the second time.

The original Bruce Bowen cushioned Vince Carter three times, causing him to be seriously injured again and again, and the last time the cushioning was completed, he completely tossed his originally not good traverse ability...

Vince Carter, who was not injured so badly this time, might be able to play 22 seasons!

Even in this life, he is likely to win the championship early.

But in fact, the reason that supports Vince Carter to continue playing is not to win the championship, but that he really loves the basketball court!

It is also embarrassing to say that Vince Carter, who originally debuted far better than the other three "Big Four Shooting Guards", ended up surpassing those three, and only one played longer...

——Man, get a contract for Karl Malone, this should be his last season!

After Yao Ming finished the call here, he immediately sent a message to Steve Patterson. He did not say how much money to sign Karl Malone, but he said everything he should say. He believed that with Steve Patterson. Texen’s emotional intelligence will accomplish this very well.

After doing this, Yao Ming quietly waited for the official arrival of July 1.

The day the free market officially opened, the Trail Blazers quickly completed the signing, first successfully signing Lagarber with the originally stated three-year 24.8 million.

As soon as the deal was reported, the entire league’s media were shocked.

No one thought that the Trail Blazers had just made some gains in the draft, they immediately signed such a big fish in the free trading market.

After experiencing the madness of the free market last season, the number of big fish on the free market this off-season is still obviously insufficient, and the likes of Lagabe are already "top grade".

As a result, it was such a "top grade". It was already signed without waiting for the general manager of other teams to start.

It's really fast to start!

"This is Yao's charm. When I knew that Lagabere was coming, he was already here!" Steve Patterson used "nonsense literature" to succinctly describe the whole process of signing Lagabere. .

It can be seen that he gave all the credit to Yao Ming.

Look at this "Emotional Intelligence" that Dawson will never learn in his life!

Yao Ming then boasted and went back: "The cooperation with President Steve is very easy. This is a great guy. I am very happy to help him with these things!"

On EQ, it’s not about trumpeting. Our "Chairman Yao" is really "emotional quotient", it is not a cover!

Looking at this harmonious and warm picture, Dawson was a little stunned. Is this the Yao Ming who forced him to a dead end? ? He actually has a time to praise people!

As for the other general managers of the alliance, they are completely sour!

Give me a Yao name!

I also want to sign so easily!

Subsequently, Steve Patterson signed contracts with the three new recruits won in the 2005 NBA Draft. As mentioned before the two rounds, they are both four-year contracts of 3.86 million. Chris Paul's share is slightly more expensive. , No way, who is the second place, 4 years 15 million, his first year's salary is already the salary that Louis Williams can receive through the entire contract.

Immediately afterwards, Steve Patterson and Zaza signed the previously agreed contract of no less than 15 million yuan. In fact, like Chris Paul’s, it is a long-term contract of "3 plus 1" nature. In the end, One-year team option.

Zaza happily signed.

Until the deal was signed, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The stone in my heart finally fell to the ground.

In the end, Steve Patterson gave Karl Malone a short contract of 6 million a year. As far as Karl Malone is 42 years old, this contract is actually a bit high.

And Karl Malone has only been with the Trail Blazers for one year, so it’s perfectly fine if they don’t give this "old age" contract.

But since Yao Ming has spoken, of course Steve Patterson has to do it!

Furthermore, that sentence...not bad for money!

That's it, Steve Patterson quickly signed a 6-point contract as soon as the door to the free trading market opened.

After signing the 6-point contract, the current lineup of the Blazers for the new season has become:

Position 1: Chris Paul, Gary Payton;

Second position: Lagabere, Pietrus, Louis Williams;

Position 3: Vince Carter, Outlaw, Ariza, Matt Barnes;

4th position: Kwame Brown, Karl Malone;

Position 5: Yao Ming, Zaza, Gortat, Hesheng Town;

A total of 15 roster.

There are newcomers, and naturally there are going away, like "Fan Madman" and the likes of Adonaal Foyle who was traded in Ratliff’s deal, the contracts have expired and have not been renewed. make an appointment.

It's not that Yao Ming doesn't want them to stay, but this is the NBA. It is normal for people to come and go if they want to reinforce it!

And like "Fan Crazy", it was not Yao Ming who asked him to leave. He still wanted to keep this guy, but there was no way. His asking price was too high. The starting salary was not less than 5 million, Steve Patterson. Feeling too expensive and not wanting, after discussing with Yao Ming, he decided not to renew the contract.

After Chris Paul and Louis Williams joined, the position of "Fan Madman" in the Trail Blazers was dispensable. At most, it played a role in the chaos, just for a certain reason. At these moments of chaos, I spent 5 million to stay, which was a shame.

Although the money is not famous by Yao Ming, he also knows that the province should be saved. Don’t spend the wrong money that shouldn’t be spent, even if his boss doesn’t know how to pronounce the word “saving money”...

Moreover, even if the "Fan Madman" is not signed, Steve Patterson spent nearly 70 million on the first day the free trading market opened.

In the summer of 2005, spending so much money was so proud!

Especially when no other team has much movement...

Of course, this is certainly not the ideal lineup that Yao Ming thinks. According to his requirements, the current lineup of the Trail Blazers still needs a reliable substitute player on the front line. Outlaw can attack or defend, and the other two people. , Can defend but not attack, um... well, to be blunt, Yao Ming still wants James Posey or Sean Battier to join the Trail Blazers.

So, in terms of the quality of the new season's Trail Blazers, it's really a bit scary.

But it’s not easy to get these two guys. Although Shane Battier’s rookie contract expires this summer, the Rockets don’t see his good gloom. It is estimated that as long as the Blazers have the possibility of getting him, He will match the contract immediately. It would rather be bad in his hand than it is absolutely impossible to give him to the Trail Blazers; James Posey is still on the contract. I don’t see the shrewdness of rabbits and eagles, I don’t see the bargaining chips that make his heart beat, and I am sure that he cannot be traded easily...

It can be said to be difficult to operate.

Yao Ming can only hope for the operation of Steve Patterson and John Nash...

Temporarily finalizing the team roster, Yao Ming took a day off, and directly reunited with Zhang Mingji and Xu Jinnan. The date of the "Peak High School All-Star Game" has been set-July 12.

He has to know the specific situation in advance.

"At present, it has been determined that only one senior high school graduate named Jordan Farmar who will participate in our Peak High School All-Star Game is relatively famous. His predicted pick in the 2006 draft is about 30 in the first round. As for The other high school seniors are not as famous as him, and other more famous seniors have refused to participate in this high school All-Star game..."

"We can only invite the more famous guys who just graduated from the third year of high school. The good news is that although the more talented seniors like Kevin Durant and Greg Oden refused our invitation, we invited Bran. Den Wright and Thaddeus Young, they are relatively talented rookies among the 2007 rookies..."

The specific list of participating players has been printed out by Zhang Mingji. When Yao Ming looked at it, he was afraid that Yao Ming didn't know which players were more famous, so he explained it to Yao Ming.

In fact, if you really want to say, he doesn't necessarily have Yao Ming to understand these guys. After all, Yao Ming has opened the "eye of the sky". He knows exactly who among these guys is the last to become famous!

Like Zhang Mingji said Jordan Farmar, or Brandon Wright and Thaddeus Young, it can only be said that they have gained a firm foothold in the NBA and have been a major player...

Although this is not bad, but in this list, Yao Ming also saw a few far better than them, for example, Yao Ming saw Russell Westbrook's name in this list!

In addition, he saw McGee's name...

However, there is indeed a big gap between the reputations of these two guys compared to those mentioned by Zhang Mingji!

This also makes Yao Ming know that the quality of the list of players to participate in this "Peak High School All-Star Game" is actually good, but he knows it is of no use, just considering the reputation of the current list, it does seem a little bit. The "star" taste is insufficient.

Of course, this is also normal. After all, Peak is the first time to engage in such an event. With Peak's influence, even if it is endorsed by Yao Ming, it is difficult to attract those talented high school students...

Well, this is probably the so-called "Everything is difficult at the beginning"!

For the first time, Yao Ming felt that just knowing the future was useless!

Zhang Mingji still feels a little regretful, and said: "Portland itself has limited influence. If you can go to big cities like Los Angeles or New York and cooperate with the TV stations in these cities, I think we will invite it to go smoothly. ..."

Yao Ming listened to his thoughts, and some thought flashed in his eyes, he was considering what Zhang Mingji said.

The quality of the invitational tournament must be improved.

It is meaningful to hold the invitational tournament in this way. Only the Chinese high school students who perform on this stage can be noticed by more eyes, which is conducive to their selection by NCAA schools...

Los Angeles……

New York……

Yao Ming thought for a long time, and finally sighed: "Let's do this first, and look at the follow-up impact. There is really no impact, then consider these things!"

He added another sentence in his heart: a long way to go!

However, he also knows that if these things are not difficult, how can it be that no one has solved the problem yet!

Come step by step, one bite is not fat!

It is another week of preparations.

The "Peak All-Star High School Invitational" is officially here. With Yao Ming's face, Portland's local media are all present, but apart from Portland's media, there are few other media.

Of course, this is also normal. Yao Ming's energy is not large enough to allow the giants of the alliance to report on the "invitational tournament" held by the brands he endorses.

This kind of influence is only available to Jordan.

And he is backed by the big tree of Nike, and he has this kind of influence through mutual accomplishment!

Peak can be said to have no influence in the world. It is really difficult to attract enough media to cover this matter by relying on Yao name alone.

"If you can go to big cities like Los Angeles or New York and cooperate with the TV stations where these cities are located..."

Yao Ming couldn't help but think of Zhang Mingji's words again.

Slightly frowned, he didn't think about it anymore.

"Yao, I am your fan, can you sign me?"

One thought after another flashed in Yao Ming's mind, McGee ran over timidly, looking at Yao Ming with a look of "mysterious brother", and wanted Yao Ming to sign him.

Yao Ming looked at McGee, who was only now in the third year of high school, and he was already five-and-three rough, and he couldn't help but mutter in his heart: It is indeed a good seed!

It's a pity that you can't concentrate, otherwise, let alone anything else, it's absolutely no problem to become the second little Jordan!

In addition to McGee, Yao Ming also saw Westbrook, but when he saw the latter, Yao Ming was stunned. He did not expect that the famous "muscle man" in the league in the future would be so "slim" now... …

Even Yao Ming wanted to describe him as "skinny".

No wonder there is not much fame now...

Yao Ming said something in his heart.

Westbrook also noticed Yao Ming's gaze, but it was almost a pair of eyes, and he immediately turned his head over. It is hard to imagine that this will be the player who celebrates the most publicly on the court in the future!

However, it's normal to think about it. Only confidence can have confidence. At this moment, Westbrook's reputation is not obvious, and the future is not clear. How can you be confident?

Yao Ming just looked at him from a distance, and didn't step forward to greet him.

Even if he is the future "king of the sewer", but he can't come, Yao Ming doesn't need to run over to pretend to be enthusiastic with him.

The style of play doesn't match, it's not necessary!

As long as it is Stephen Curry, or James Harden, Yao Ming may come forward to say hello and add some bricks and tiles to his basketball dream...

Thinking of this, Yao Ming had a thought in his heart: Maybe he could invite Stephen Curry, the sons of famous people, to participate in the invitational tournament. It is also a "star second generation" at any rate!

Especially these basketball roads are not smooth "Star II"...

Although this also means that the attention received by these "star two generations" will not be very high, but what if several such "star two generations" are combined together?

Yao Ming thought for a while, since Westbrook is already in his third year of high school at this time, Stephen Curry should also be in his third year of high school...it was the time when he was short of **** during the holidays!

He called Zhang Mingji over and asked Stephen Curry and his "Star II" to be added in the next "International Invitational".

Zhang Mingji understood Yao Ming's meaning as soon as he heard it, and immediately went to make arrangements.

This "Peak All-Star Player Invitational" started soon. Although Westbrook and McGee have played longer in the NBA afterwards, and they have achieved greater success, they shined in this "invitational." These guys in high school, Jordan Farmar and Wright are the two most shining "stars" in this game.

In the end, Jordan Farmar became the MVP of the first "Peak Invitational"!

After the game, Portland's media reported this "invitational" wildly, but it was a pity that only these media made a lot of reports, and the other media present only briefly reported.

Well, it is true that Jordan Farmar is not the best batch of newcomers in the 2006 session...The traffic he can bring is naturally limited.

It can be said that although the first "Peak High School All-Star Invitational" was successfully held, it hardly formed any good follow-up influence.

In this regard, it is estimated that it will be difficult to invite high-quality newcomers to participate next year...

Yao Ming was a little melancholy... Such an "invitational tournament" hardly did anything to attract the attention of Chinese high school students to the NCAA school!

See what kind of waves the "International Invitational Tournament" can make when you see it...

"Peak High School All-Star Game" finally failed, Yao Ming can only hope for the next "International Invitational"!

While Yao Ming and his team focused on facilitating various events, the league's trading continued.

Reggie Miller officially issued a retirement statement during this period: "I don't have any regrets anymore, and then it's time to open a new charter that belongs to my life!"

Although this was expected by most media, including the Indiana media, when this day comes, many Indiana media still feel unwilling.

Many Pacers fans even use the parade to bid farewell to the heroes of Indiana.

In other words, Americans really love parades. Basically, they will express their attitude through parades...

Many players and experts in the league also blessed this veteran who is about to retire through media channels.

This includes Yao Ming.

You have to respect the people in your own circle. If you don’t respect yourself, how can others respect your circle?

Although Yao Ming has never been a teammate with Reggie Miller and even had beef in the finals, there is no doubt that he is great enough as a player.

"As a player, he is successful. His spirit has inspired too many latecomers. Although he has retired from this league, I believe that he will return to this league in another way. We can still see him. That would make us think of stories about him, and this feeling might also be very good! At least in my opinion..."

This passage was posted by Yao Ming on Facebook.

Soon, he received Reggie Miller's reply: Thank you brother, you know me!

Nonsense, can I not understand!

Buddies are the ones who reopened!

Upon seeing his reply, Yao Ming said something in his heart, of course he only said something like that in his heart.

He knew very well that Reggie Miller became an interpreter after retiring, which is naturally a different way to return to the league.

It's just that... the dressing room of the Pacers in the new season is not flat!

Yao Ming bet that in less than a month and a half, O'Neill and Artest will definitely have a passionate "man 1v1" hand-to-hand battle in the dressing room!

The horrible "defensive team" of the Pacers is about to collapse on its own!

good very good!

Yao Ming was very happy, but... he hadn't been happy for two days, the new news of Reggie Miller made him suddenly unhappy.

This guy did return to the league in another way, but he was not the commentator Yao Ming knew, but... the Pacers' chief assistant!

This is so... the wings of the "butterfly" are inciting again, right?

Yao Ming was speechless.

Because he knew very well that O'Neill and Artest would not be able to make a fuss anymore!

"So why did you suddenly hire Reggie Miller as a teaching assistant? Originally, I didn't remember such news!"

Yao Ming didn't understand.

But after a second thought, he also understood that the original Pacers disintegrated on their own during the "Auburn Hills Palace" time. Reggie Miller also regretted retiring after that season. The Pacers officially pushed to rebuild. As far as the team is concerned, there is no need to ask Reggie Miller to join the assistant team.

His presence or absence has no influence at all.

But now it's different. The Pacers just won the championship and Reggie Miller's retirement is influential. The biggest impact is that the team's locker room is missing a guy from the town!

Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to understand that "Big Bird" Bird, as the general manager, invites Reggie Miller back again.

This is something this guy can consider!

No way, this is also a human spirit!

In this way, the Pacers will still be a championship-level team in the new season!

Reggie Miller's retirement did not affect the core strength of this team.

He returned as an assistant to maintain the stability of the team atmosphere.

Yao Ming did not expect that the first "blocking tiger" he wanted to win in the new season would appear so soon...

This made him more eager for James Posey and Battier.

But from the latest feedback from Steve Patterson, Battier should be hopeless. They just handed Battier a maximum salary contract that he can get, but the Rockets immediately Matched this contract.

Obviously, as Yao Ming expected, the Rockets will not be able to fulfill him.

This made Yao Ming couldn't help but think of the original summer of 2005. It was not how much he missed that summer, but that summer, he considered from many aspects, and finally completed an early contract extension with the Rockets, which gave Alexander Saved about 10 million or so-although he still got the maximum salary, the starting salary of the player's maximum salary was based on the salary cap of the league at the time. When Yao Ming renewed his contract in 2005, the salary cap of the league was only 4,300. In 2006, the salary cap of the league had reached 49.35 million yuan, which was nearly 6 million yuan higher. The starting salary is different, and the annual salary after the increase is naturally different...

Originally, Yao Ming considered the possibility of injury and wanted to give the team more salary space to reinforce him, so he chose to renew his contract in advance, but the result is that he saved money, but the team’s The reinforcement method is to pick up the junk goods that others don’t want to "scratch the lottery ticket"...

What he got in exchange was just a few useless "thank you" from Alexander!

And now, looking at Alexander, who has already made so much money on his own, but didn't make him more money, in order to prevent Shane Battier from joining the Trail Blazers, he is stupefied to match Shane Battier's new contract.

He even felt that he was too stupid.

You should go to the Lakers!

Fortunately, now, he has left Houston, and, although Shane Battier is unlikely to come, but in this way to help Shane get a kind of maximum salary, especially the kind of maximum salary given by Alexander. , It's a good deal!

You know, this is a four-year contract of 42 million yuan!

If converted into every year, it is about 10.5 million yuan.

It was a contract that was significantly higher than Shane Battier's ability...

It can be seen that Steve Patterson is also fighting to get Sean Battier...Of course it is also because the Trail Blazers have too many rookies, most of which are still "rookie contracts", so he dare to give it this way. Out of the contract.

You may not believe it. Even if Sean Battier is here, the Blazers salary contract has just exceeded the luxury tax and is less than 10 million... Can the luxury tax of about 8 million be called money? ?

Anyway, compared with the Trail Blazers in previous years, this luxury tax is really not extravagant at all!

It's a pity that Alexander really just matched it. He really has enough "man"!

This method can't fix Shane Battier, and Yao Ming naturally can't blame Steve Otterson, he is indeed desperate enough.

"Next will be James Posey, I will work harder..." In the words, Steve Patterson was unconfident.

There is only one way to deal with guys like logo guys if you want to trade quickly, and that is to have a good bargaining chip, he will not do anything to add to the cake!

Especially when you know which chip you are very interested in, there is even the possibility of a price increase...

It's really hard to deal with!

Yao Ming can only comfort him: "You can do your best!" He also understands the urinary nature of the logo man~www.novelmt.com~ Trailblazers' role players, he may not be able to appreciate it.

The Trail Blazers for the first round of the 2006 draft have also been sent out.

There is really nothing left to catch on!

You can't always overdraw the future, right?

Besides, with regard to the current lineup of the Trail Blazers and their rising momentum, even if they sign up for the 2007 draft pick, the logo man may not necessarily want...

It's hard, it's so hard!

Yao Ming is ready to not get James Posey.

If it doesn't work, let's give Ariza a little bit of encouragement. At any rate, he has been in the league for a year, so he should have improved a little!