From today on is the king

Chapter 1399 1398. When did we mess up so badly?
"Christine, take a photo with Avril for me..."

"Dinah wants it too!"

"We come alone."

"..."

"..."

There is no chance to be alone on Valentine's Day, at least for the past two years. Alexia watched Liu Mang take a bunch of photos with his daughter in his arms on Valentine's Day, and said with a smile: "There is an old saying in China that a daughter is a lover in a previous life. Ace, you interpreted this sentence very well."

"Ahem," Liu Mang was also a little embarrassed, but then he had a bad idea and said, "Aida, there is a second half of this sentence, you must have never heard of it."

"Is there the second half of the sentence?" Alexia asked curiously.

"Avril Lavigne is my lover in my previous life, and you are the courier..."

"Courier?"

"Yeah, delivery."

"You're going to die, you..."

After playing around for a while, looking at the little Lolita who was full of dog food and hugged Avril Lavigne and showed contemptuous eyes, Liu Mang controlled not to touch Alexia, and almost did something that shouldn't be done in front of Little Lolita.

The main reason was that Levia and Alexia did not spend the night in the same room as Liu Mang due to the tight schedule a while ago, for fear of affecting Liu Mang's physical strength. Liu Mang was already hungry and thirsty. When many of his teammates had already gone to Las Vegas in advance, Liu Mang returned to Atlanta first.

Starting today, the All-Star Weekend holiday begins.

For the Eagles, this is undoubtedly a chance to relax after a long drought.

Holding the All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas can be regarded as Marion's home court. Marion graduated from the University of Nevada, and the largest campus of the University of Nevada is in Las Vegas. Although Marion only played here for one year in his junior year, in this year, Marion was selected to the second team of the All-American team and became the ninth overall rookie, leaving a deep impression on the Las Vegas fans.

Marion has a lot of fans in Las Vegas. Although there are not many people there, it didn't help Marion to be selected as an All-Star, but Marion is also considered half of the host. If the Eagles players want to watch the All-Star Weekend this time, Marion will be responsible for the food, accommodation and transportation in Las Vegas.

On February 2th, Liu Mang did not leave for Las Vegas, so he rested at home for a day.

Compared with the past few years, Liu Mang has fewer activities at the All-Star Weekend this year, most of which Schwartz helped him push down.

When Liu Mang chose Schwartz in the first place, he was interested in Schwartz's reputation in later generations. He would not exhaust the players for the commission. Of course, without that kind of cruelty, Schwartz would have been quite downcast if he hadn't met Liu Mang.

This year, Liu Mang only had the promotion of Ace’s fifth-generation signature shoes on February 2 and 16, the promotion on Facebook, and a very coke promotional event, as well as a promotional photo shoot for an airline company. There were no other activities, not as tiring as in the past few years.

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After resting at home for a day, on February 2th, Liu Mang's family, who had packed a lot of luggage, boarded a chartered flight to Las Vegas.

This All-Star session is full of very different feelings.

In other words, this season, the fans feel very different!
Use one word to describe the fans' impression of this season so far... that is-radical!
The All-Star holiday is here, but the management of many teams in the league has entered the busiest time.

On the afternoon of the 15th, Liu Mang's family went to a villa hotel in Las Vegas. According to the usual practice, they didn't go to live with other All-Stars, rookies, and triathlon players. They rented a villa for themselves.

On the second day of the holiday, Liu Mang saw a lot of news about player turnover.

On the Supersonic side, Sharad Lewis insisted on asking for a maximum salary when he was negotiating with the management about the contract extension.

The league has 29 players averaging 20+ per game this year. The Sonics originally occupied two of them. Ray Allen and Lewis both averaged 22 points per game. The new owner has been emptied of capital by buying the team and financing the construction of a new arena in Oklahoma City. At most, he can survive the luxury tax for this year, and he will not be able to pay it next year. He can only put Rashard Lewis on the shelf.

But at this time, Liu Wei felt that it would be difficult for the Sonics to exchange Lewis for a good return. He probably had to wait until the summer when Lewis’ contract expired. He signed the contract first and then exchanged it for a little bargaining chip. With Lewis’ three-point ability, the three-pointer is now more valued than the original time and space. Lewis can get a maximum salary wherever he goes.

There are even more rumors about the trade of some players from the Nets and Pistons.

Since last summer, the trades of the teams aspiring to compete for the championship have been very aggressive, all trying to improve their own strength as much as possible, but it also made this season a huge soap opera.

Those who can send out the stars in exchange for chips have all been sent out, and those who have not been sent out have been delayed for most of the season, and it is almost the trade deadline, and they still cannot be sent out.

Because the teams that want to strengthen have squandered their salary space in the summer, while other teams that want stars are unwilling to give too much in return, and more importantly, for the top three picks in the 07 draft, bad teams don't want to become stronger.

This is as crazy as the summer of 1998 and the summer of 2002. The Eagles also took a big dog with the crazy league. This season, because of the Hawks' decline after three consecutive championships, other teams have also become crazy.

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"Ace, we are going to fight again soon, how about it, are you looking forward to it?" Yao Ming laughed, which is called a wretched one.

"I'm looking forward to it. You can only be happy until the All-Star Weekend is over." Liu Mang gave Yao Ming a white look.

I just won one game, and I started screaming!

So far, Yao Ming has averaged 18 points, 8 rebounds, 2.1 blocks and 1.9 assists per game this season. His average playing time is 31 minutes per game. He has performed quite well, and he has not played for a long time. Zen Master's use of him is even more precious than that of O'Neal.

Also embarrassing is the "husband and wife combination" of the Lakers.

Compared with Kobe and Yao Ming, Kobe and Gasol have a better understanding. The natural understanding, this kind of understanding, allows Kobe and the three highs to cooperate quite well.

Kobe's scoring has dropped a lot since he played, averaging 25 points, 4.7 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game.

加索尔场均16分11板4.1助攻，去和翘臀女友约会去了没有来参加刘莽举办的“除夕party”的奥多姆，场均13分9板3.3助攻，湖人队四大核心表现都很风骚。

Matt Barnes, the former Eagles defensive giant, has mediocre statistics in the Lakers, but he is loved by many Lakers fans. Compared with the proud Kobe + three towers, Barnes's kind of hard work anytime, anywhere, surprised the Lakers fans who are used to the aristocratic style of play.

On February 2th, the day of the rookie competition, Liu Mang held a New Year's Eve party in his rented villa.

Today, the Eagles participated in the rookie game, only Rondo, Rondo averaged 3 points, 3.7 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 1.4 steals, and was selected to the All-Star rookie team.

Tomorrow's three-point contest, Granger and Blake were invited to participate. Liu Mang rejected all invitations to the triathlon this year. In order to increase attention, the league has been promoting invitations to Liu Mang to participate in all events of the triathlon since the All-Star voting, but Liu Mang really has no energy.

After finishing the promotion of the so-called "Spring Festival Limited Edition" Ace Fifth Generation sneakers this morning, Liu Mang returned to the villa at noon and worked on the afternoon party with the two girls.

Originally, Liu Mang wanted his parents to come to Las Vegas to celebrate the New Year, but the two elders went to Europe for vacation by themselves on Valentine's Day. The world between the two of them was so happy that Liu Mang didn't say a word, so he hung up the phone, thinking that international roaming calls are expensive...

In this party, in addition to the three major stars of the Lakers plus Wang Zhizhi, Fisher who participated in the skill challenge, and some stars who participated in this season's All-Star and have a good relationship with Liu Mang, the Eagles coaching staff also came.

When Liu Mang desperately wanted to talk about Yao Ming, who was so badass, the coaching staff called him to the next room and had something to talk about.

"Ace, we now have two opportunities to strengthen." Coach Kruger operated the computer and called up two news, which were the two deals reached today.

Liu Mang looked at it, and it was the news of the layoff of players after two transactions.

The Heat sent Mark Jackson's contract that will expire after finishing this season, and a second-round pick protected by the top 2007 pick in 40, and got Brandon Bass from the Hornets who was reimbursed for two consecutive seasons.

"This transaction... is to save money again?" Liu Mang felt very strange about the operation of the magic operator.

It's so utilitarian.

Brandon Bass... Liu Mang has an impression, not a particularly good player. After 2010, he had a short season of 10+ games per game, but suffered a lot of injuries, especially Liu Mang’s intuitive experience in this time and space. Although he is a second-round pick, the Hornets signed him with a four-year rookie contract of $339 million. His rookie season was reimbursed, and he was reimbursed after playing more than a dozen games this year.

After the Hornets got Mark Jackson, they waived Mark Jackson. They just wanted to send Brandon Bass away to free up a team spot, and prevent Brandon Bass, a seriously injured four-year rookie contract, from occupying future team spots.

At the time of the draft that year, Brandon Bass was quite popular. He fell to the second round of the Hornets and thought it was a bargain. After all, he was the best player in the NCAA Southeast Conference. He averaged 17 points, 9 rebounds and 3 blocks per game in his sophomore year. Who knew that he would be reimbursed every year after entering the NBA.

And with Mark Jackson, maybe because of the increased internal strength, there will be problems with their plan to win the top two picks this year.

As for the Heat's second-round pick...it's almost certain that they won't be able to get it. The Heat have dropped out of the league's top [-] this year, and are now ranked fourth from the bottom in the Eastern Conference, successfully "overtaking" the Knicks.

Soon Liu Mang explained the reason why the Heat and the Hornets made this deal.

The second deal was related to the Magic. The Magic sent Kenyon Dooling and Travis Dinar a contract totaling $890 million. Dinar was a second-round pick in 2005. In the past two seasons, as a substitute, he averaged 40.00 three-pointers per game with a 1.1% three-point shooting rate. However, he is only good at three-pointers and nothing else. He is only 1.8 meters five.

But it is barely considered a potential stock, Kenyon Dooling... a complete garbage contract, counting this season, a total of 1600 million three-year contracts, the Magic signed him last summer, and regretted it before finishing this season.

Using Dinard as compensation, and eating the Grizzlies' team option for next season, Stromile Swift's junk contract with a salary of 560 million, sent Kenyon Dooling to the Grizzlies to save salary space.

Swift's characteristics are relatively similar to Howard's, and it is the extremely poor version, and even shorter. After the Magic team's deal was reached, Swift was amnestyd using the Alan Houston clause.

As for why the amnesty clause is used after the transaction, Liu Mang thinks that the word is still the same - money!

Amnesty Kenyon Dooling requires three years of salary. For Swift, since it is a team option for next season, in fact, if the team option is not implemented, it is no different from a non-guaranteed clause. The Magic amnesty Swift only needs to pay the salary for the remaining 27 or [-] games. This is the same as the Magic’s unwillingness to amnesty Grant Hill for a long time.

Liu Mang looked at these two targets that the management wanted to strengthen, and felt that the boss and the others really had no recruits this year!It's all miserable!It's time to wait for other teams to buy out players and sign them!

Of course, it doesn't mean that the players waived by other teams are necessarily bad. Some teams can play well in the playoffs by signing players who were waived or amnesty by other teams.

Being waived and amnesty is not necessarily bad, it may be that the salary is too high, like Mark Jackson, who joined the Heat with a two-year salary of 2005 million in the summer of 1500, Pat Riley failed to get Mourning at that time, so he could only spend a lot of money to buy a player with similar strength back then.

Swift... Anyway, he was the No. 2000 pick in 5, and the Grizzlies chose it themselves. The Rockets spent 9 years signing the rookie contract. Later, he was sent back to the Grizzlies along with Caron Butler.

"Ace, is it appropriate for these two to sign a reinforcement insider? If you don't like it, we can re-select someone. But time is running out. These two have good physical fitness and can be used as a substitute insider. If we don't sign, other teams will also steal people. John and Chip have already contacted them." Coach Kruger said.

"Just them..." Liu Mang realized that the team really had no other way, so he couldn't help asking, "Coach, when did we get so miserable?"

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(End of this chapter)