basketball pope

Chapter 95 [One head and two big]

Two days later, general manager Glenn Gruward started making a big deal about Marcus Camby.

The team signed Yang Rui, which made Camby and his agent Rick Kaplan tougher.

Rick called and said: "In any case, Marcus won't play for the Raptors again next season, you don't want the team to become stronger, right? Believe a 24-year-old Chinese to lead the Raptors to the playoffs? I never I've seen someone who can brag more than him."

Glenn persuaded hard: "stay for another half season, if Jerry Young can't make the team stronger, I will immediately trade Marcus out, is that okay?"

"Last season, you said that, in the mid-term, Damon Stoudamire was sent, but Marcus was not sent. He is now the league's shot-blocking champion and has a high transaction value. Next season, who knows if the coach will Reuse him? And they all say that the league is going to be shut down, and if we don’t trade in the draft, we don’t know when to wait, we can’t take risks.”

You can't take risks, we can?Glenn really wanted to directly turn his face, but that would be even more detrimental to the team.

Once the media reports that Camby and the team have a complete fallout, he will have to depreciate, and other teams will sit on the ground and raise prices.

Fortunately, Camby didn't want to tear his face with the team, which really angered the management. The next season will be frozen, and the players won't be able to eat and go.

"I'll think about it, if no strong team wants Marcus, don't blame me." Glenn said angrily.

Camby has mentioned more than once that he wants to go to a strong team, and has mentioned the New York Knicks.

Now that the Knicks are the defending champions, they need immediate combat power and have no time to train new players. Even if they do, the team already has an excellent blue-collar Ben Wallace.

Rick smiled and said, "I'm waiting for your good news. It's better to trade on draft day. You don't want to delay until the season starts, right? Trade early and everyone will win."

Looking at Glenn's soft service, the agent's purpose has been achieved. The Raptors know that they can't keep Camby, so they can only choose to get together and leave.

Glenn hung up.Scout Hanks just came to report and asked, "Is it about Camby again?"

"Well, Thomas shouldn't have picked this bastard at the time. He knew that he would jump and block shots, and he couldn't grab a few rebounds. What did he have to do? Fuck!" Glenn cursed.

The Raptors don't win at all, and Camby's data is very watery, and other teams must know.Fortunately, Camby is the No. [-] pick in the Golden Generation, so there will be a lot of interest from teams.

Hanks suggested: "Jerry said the 4 is too weak, it's better to trade for a power forward who can shoot, and take Camby for someone?"

Glenn sighed: "I'm afraid it's hard to get someone with strength. You first find a suitable candidate. Jerry didn't ask for it. It should be easy to handle."

Hanks asked, "Would you like to have a word with Jerry to send Camby away? He said he was optimistic about Camby's potential before."

Glenn sounded bigger, Camby was the Raptors' biggest rookie, and he suspected that Yang Rui would be anxious.The insiders are all gone, so will you be doing shit next season?

"Let's not talk about it, let's see if there is a strongman who can get it? Jerry said he likes those who can shoot... Marcus's shooting level is so good that he can't be the core of his men. So let this greedy bastard go away, it's better to go. I'll retire with serious injuries in the future." Glenn cursed.

As soon as Camby entered the league, he was fussing about the contract with his agent and wanted to sign a long-term contract with a high salary. He was not satisfied with the second highest salary in the team in his rookie season. It seemed that the annual salary of 280 million humiliated him.

The Raptors are a very poor team. They have just been established. The owner loses money every year and supports them hard. He has done his best to Camby.

But Camby wasn't satisfied, he was a greedy guy and had a bad track record in college.

Because Camby was found to have received $28000 in funding from two sports agents, UMass was disqualified from the Final Four, and the school was ordered to refund the $151617 they earned from the NCAA tournament, which Camby later repaid. loss.

The two agents from Connecticut, John Lownsbury and Wesley Spears, both hope that Camby will be able to hire them as spokespersons after he becomes a professional athlete. Some media revealed that Camby was also from the agent. Jewelry, rental cars and pornography were received there. In the end, Camby did not find these two as agents, but chose the more famous Rick Kaplan, in order to get more money and of course. Joining a good team, he looked down on the Raptors from the beginning to the end, and played big names for two years, even if the data was not very good.

With less than two weeks left before the draft, the time is very tight. Glenn immediately contacted multiple teams to seek trades. Famous veterans and powerful young players could not be exchanged.

The Knicks are also the target of Glenn's trade. They have Ben Wallace in the team and are trying to sell Oakley.

In Yang Rui's previous life, Oakley started for a season, averaging 34.6 minutes, 9 points, 9.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, and was selected for the second team of the best defensive team in the regular season.

Looking at the data, the Raptors management believes that Oakley is still an excellent blue-collar worker, and he is willing to change his reputation even if he is a 35-year-old veteran.

Now, Oakley averaged 25.2 minutes per game in the regular season, 6.7 points, 6 rebounds and 1.8 assists, a slight increase in the playoffs, 7.6 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2 assists, which is not enough to watch.

He gives a feeling of being immobile, unable to play for a long time, and has less personal honor of defending the second team.

After the discussion, the deal was not reached, the Knicks were willing to send Oakley, Van Gundy loved Ben Wallace very much, and prepared to focus on training.

The Raptors don't want to.The salary difference between the two is a lot. If they are traded, the Raptors will have to add a few role players. Those players can be replaced individually.The management is very annoying to Camby. How could it be possible to send him to a strong team like the Knicks to rush to the championship at a loss?

In the end, Glenn asked around, and sadly found that if he wanted to send Camby away, he could only suffer a loss.

The Raptors want to change the inside line, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of the transaction.At present, there is a shortage of high-quality insiders in the league. The kind of space-oriented power forward Yang Rui said, experienced people are very valuable.

If you are looking for an insider who can only shoot the ball and has poor defense, there will be in the free market, and there is no need to trade Camby.

The most terrible thing is that the Raptors, as a new army, are located in Canada, and have no friendship with the management of the American team, no connections, no one to give them face, and they all want to rob.

Oakley of the Knicks and Tony Batty of the Nuggets, these two are reliable chips.

The only person who has a bit of a personal relationship is the Portland Trail Blazers. The Raptors "assisted" the Trail Blazers in the middle of last season, almost giving away Damon Stoudamire for nothing, only in exchange for two draft picks and useless role players.

The Blazers have no shortage of power forwards who can shoot. Even the team's fifth man inside can shoot. They lack a center. The veteran Sabonis is about to stop moving, and the movement speed is the slowest in the league.

After thinking twice, a desperate Glenn called Blazers manager Larry Miller.

(End of this chapter)