Legendary Basketball Tycoon

Although Bruce hasn't taken much care of the New York Hans in the past three years, except for the annual draft, the team has basically spent it smoothly. Even during the annual transfer transaction period, the New York Hans are still very stable and do not make any transactions. It’s not that no other team in the league came to trade for the New York Hans. It was, and there were a lot of them, but they were all blocked by the team’s general manager Mitch Kupchak, no matter what other teams offered. Such an offer is useless, because any player that the team currently trades must have Bruce's hand, so Mitch Kupchak is not right.

Of course, it does not mean that the New York Hans will not trade. The team still has to trade, or how to get the players they want. The New York Hans trades players in a weird way, that is, after the draft is over to the routine. During the time when the game started, the team was completely indifferent, such as winter transfers, transfers before Christmas.

So in the past three years, the New York Hans are the team with the least number of transactions in the league. Also, since the establishment of the New York Hans, there have been very few trades, but when they appeared, it was definitely a big deal that shocked the nation. kind.

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Back in time three years ago, the 1997-98 season was definitely the most brilliant and thrilling season.

In the 1997-98 season, a big man who always seemed to have a poker face landed on the NBA arena-he was Tim Duncan. In the previous year, because David Robinson suffered a serious injury in the tenth game at the beginning of the season, the season was reimbursed. The hopeless San Antonio Spurs also tried their best. They only won 20 wins that season, but fortunately, they got a first pick in 1997 due to a blessing in disguise. They did not hesitate to pick out Tim Duncan. This year alone, this twin tower combination helped the Spurs win 36 more games than last season. They had a good chemistry in the game, and after the end of the season, their numbers were surprisingly similar: Robinson Averaged 21.6 points and 10.6 rebounds per game, while Duncan averaged 21.1 points and 11.9 rebounds. Tim Duncan appeared on multiple lineup nominations such as the All-Star team, the best team, and the best defensive team in his first season in the NBA. However, they were not the opponents of the peak Utah Jazz, and Duncan's first playoff journey stopped in the Western Conference semifinals that year.

In the East, Jordan announced before the start of the season that he would retire after the end of the season. Of course, he hopes that his career can be a perfect end to a championship, but the atmosphere in the Bulls team was not very good at that time. Pippen was in the whole The season has been constantly requesting salary increases to the management, and there was a lot of noise for a while. However, Jordan has stabilized the situation well. He led the Bulls to another 60+ wins this season. In this year's finals, these two old rivals met again in a narrow way.

This finals is an epic masterpiece that can be recorded in NBA history. In the first five games, the Bulls led the Jazz with a 3-2 score. In the sixth game, Jordan's career, the highest light, a desperate moment was born. Let us return to that exciting moment: 40 seconds before the end of the game, the Bulls still trailed slightly with a score of 83-86. Jordan made a quick break layup in the subsequent offense, and then in the next defense. The ball that Karl Malone was holding in his arms was taken out in the round. At this time, the Chicago team was still one point behind, and only the last 10 seconds were left. Jordan advanced from the backcourt to the frontcourt. Russell of the Jazz did not dare to neglect and quickly stepped forward to defend. After being transported to the top of the free throw line, Jordan pretended to break to the right, and then suddenly took a step backwards. Russell was then knocked to the ground. During the period, the two had some physical contact, but the referee no longer paid any attention. , Jordan calmly shot from the original position after staring at the basket for about 0.5 seconds, the ball hit the net, and the Bulls went ahead by one point!

At this time, only 5.2 seconds were left for the Utah team. With Stockton’s last 3-pointer failed to hit, Chicago finally succeeded in taking the sixth game victory in Salt Lake City, thus winning 4- The total score of 2 defeated the Utah Jazz again, completing the third championship in team history. In this year, Jordan carried this countless glory and smiled and ended his NBA journey.

And what about our protagonist team, the New York Hans? !

Not surprisingly, he did not make the playoffs and did not disappoint, and his results were only ranked fourth from the bottom in the Eastern Conference.

In fact, this is not to blame for the others. Since Garnett and the others left, the overall strength of the team has declined too fast. Chuck Daley will not be saved in the short term. If he can't be saved, he will simply not be saved. K. Daley decided to let the team practice their own tactics, that is, the ultimate defensive system. At this point, you can ask Kobe, because he is the most tiring one after every game. Chuck Daley completely regards Kobe as the five players in the Pistons' bad boy army before. What kind of treatment those five were treated in those days, and now Kobe is treated like that, only increasing.

The New York Hans ended the 1997-98 season with such results. The fans are the most disappointed, but they can also understand that it is normal for the team to experience the pain of a change of coaches. If you don’t believe it, you see. Look at the Bulls next year. Jordan has retired. Pippen is said to be traded away. The Bulls will definitely be completely rebuilt. How long will it take? The ghost knows!

Of course, this kind of performance is really not a big deal for Bruce, because he is thinking about the 1998 draft. After all, after Garnett, the position of the team's power forward has already appeared vacuum, and inside Mourning is also It won’t last long, so no one can do it right now. What should I do?

For this reason, Brewster hung up a phone call to Cuban and Nelson in Dallas. What is the content, without him, the Mavericks did not fight with him in the draft, and the price paid was for Nowitzki. Hu Weidong and Wang Zhizhi are two Chinese players.

After discussing it, Cuban and Nelson also agreed to the private transaction. They had expected Nowitzki to be selected in the first round of 1998, even if it was possible to pay some price, plus Nelson Jr. I also like Nowitzki very much, and I went to Germany for a special inspection. The feedback I got is very good. After all, Europeans have physical conditions there, and they will never suffer when they are selected.