From today on is the king

Chapter 1480 1479. Reid Enters the Bull

Fast forward to July 7th, and Liu Mang's 28-day, 12-station publicity campaign in China and other Asian countries and regions finally came to an end.

The last stop was Shanghai Station on the 27th. After finishing the activity, when Liu Mang took San Niu and others back to his hometown, he looked at the closed door of the breakfast restaurant. When he arrived at his hometown, he saw that the door of his house was also closed, and Liu Mang fell into deep thought...

"Dinah, do you know where the key is?" Liu Mang asked.

Dinah shook her head, and looked at Liu Mang together with Levia, Alexia and the two cubs, as if they were asking what to do next.

Liu Mang originally wanted to surprise his parents with three girls and two cubs, but he didn't expect this to happen.

"If I knew it, I would call first, you guys wait..."

Liu Mang dialed his mother's phone, but after answering the call, his mother hung up after saying a word.

"We were traveling in Switzerland, and international roaming was expensive, so we hung up."

Really went on a trip to Europe!Didn't tell where to go, a sense of fear of being followed by Liu Mang...

But what Liu Mang wants to ask is not this, he just wants to know where the key is!

Seeing Liu Mang's bewildered expression, Levia deeply felt the meaning of the word "mother".

Just before the driver left, he saw the closed gate. Although the driver didn't like sports and didn't know who Liu Mang was, he knew that there might be a business waiting there.

Levia called Schwartz and asked him to book a hotel in Shanghai for another night, and then contacted the airline to charter a flight...

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Looking at the white clouds outside the window, Liu Mang felt so bleak in his heart, the feeling of being abandoned by his parents, it has been a day and a night, and he still feels very bleak.

The chartered flight flies directly to Miami. This year, the training place agreed by Liu Mang, Rondo, McGrady and others is not in Los Angeles.

When the Eagles won, or when the Lakers didn't win, it would be good to go to Los Angeles, but now that the Eagles lost, the opponent was still the Lakers. Liu Mang chose to practice on the South Coast this time.

Of course, the little blacksmith will also come this time.

On the 30th, at around [-]:[-] pm Eastern Time, Liu Mang's family arrived in Miami. They were exhausted from the long-distance flight. After the driver took them to the beach villa they had booked, San Niu took the two cubs to sleep. The bodyguards and servants had other things to do.

On the plane, Liu Mang flew from the dark night of the domestic plane to the daytime. The bleakness was bleak, but he slept very well. People who love sports generally have good sleep quality.

Liu Mang asked Wade to help rent the private arena. After sending text messages to James, Tracy McGrady, Rondo, Kobe, Paul and Durant to inform them of the training location, he started to have nothing to do.

Jet lag is still a bit troublesome for Liu Mang who slept like a pig after getting on the plane in China last night. It is almost night in the United States, and Liu Mang is still full of energy.

"If I knew it earlier, I would have stayed awake with Dinah..."

Liu Mang's egg hurt a bit, but he didn't care about it too much. He has a strong self-adjustment ability. There is still a day and two nights before the appointment to start training on the 1st, so there is enough time to adjust.

Almost a month has passed since the offseason, and the free market is still booming.

Liu Mang looked at the transactions that were refreshed almost every day on the website. Most of them were small transactions, but it also proved how hot this summer was.

Moreover, some experts and the media predict that some teams want to discard stars who have played in the past but failed to lead the team to perform well like the Pistons and Nets, and start over.

Teams as decisive as the Nets are too rare, and most of them will drag on for a long time like the Anthony change team, Paul George change team, Leonard change team, and Anthony Davis change team in Liu Mang's memory.

No, one month has passed, and the big deals are Billups, Randolph, and the Nets double stars.

Just when Liu Mang was about to read the news and waited to see if he felt sleepy, a new transaction was actually posted!
2007年7月30号傍晚，芝加哥公牛队和密尔沃基雄鹿队达成交易，公牛队送出了萨博-赛弗罗莎、安德烈斯-诺西奥尼、克里斯-杜洪、上赛季场均出场9分钟拿到5分1板的高效替补投手托马斯-加德纳、04年的次轮秀大前锋维克托-卡亚帕，得到了雄鹿队的迈克尔-里德和鲍比-西蒙斯。

Seeing this transaction, Liu Mang was taken aback!
The Bulls are too willing!
In order to get Reid, he would not hesitate to eat Bobby Simmons' garbage contract!

Chris Duhon was a second-round pick in 2004. At that time, he only signed a one-year contract. In the second year, he renewed his contract with 3 million for three years. Now it is the last year of the contract. He is a super-high-value backup point guard.

For the Bucks, Reed averaged 26.7 points per game in the just-concluded season, but it is no news that the Bucks are dissatisfied with his ability to lead the team. In addition to getting some high-quality contracts, there is another reason for sending Reed away, which is to send away Bobby Simmons.

Bobby Simmons Liu Mang has an impression. He was a second-round pick in the same class. He played poorly at the beginning, but suddenly broke out when he was playing with the Clippers in the 04-05 season. He averaged 16 points and 4 rebounds per game. He was poached by the Bucks for 5 years and 3500 million.

The Bulls sent Duhon and Sefolosa away in order to make up for parity cap space...

However, Liu Wei could see the determination of the Bulls management. Reed and Ben were close to the maximum salary, plus Garnett... the total salary is almost catching up with the Mavericks!

This summer, the Bulls changed coaches and hired Tom Thibodeau from the Rockets as the head coach.

Garnett and the Bulls had negotiated a good contract extension since January last season, but it ended in the playoffs. Garnett's contract was a player option in the summer of 1. The Bulls tried their best to keep Garnett.

Last year, the Bulls lacked a tough offensive player. Even though they played the strongest defense in history, they still didn't make it to the second round. So this year, they have to trade for a powerful outside line.

The Bucks had no choice but to make a deal. Australia's Duncan yelled loudly, but he turned out to be just an average player in the No. [-] pick. It's nothing to say, but compared with the top pick in the No. [-] pick, it was completely incomparable.

Reed and Bogut really can't do anything big. The Bucks chose to collect a batch of immediate combat power, which is also beneficial to trade draft picks later.

Before seeing the news of this transaction, Liu Wei felt that he hadn’t seen any news about Reid for two years. Liu Wei remembered that Reed’s career was quite miserable. He played in the playoffs only two or three times in 12 years. He was selected for the Dream Eight team at his peak, but the club’s performance was very poor, and there were many injuries in the later part of his career.

Seeing Reed, Liu Mang remembered the two-year rookie contract duel with Reed, but the goals the latter two pursued were far from each other. They only played against each other three or four times a year, and had no other opportunities to meet.

But... Thibodeau...Liu Mang saw that Thibodeau became the head coach of the Bulls in the related news link under the news...

Can Reed hold on?The Bulls get Thibodeau, Garnett, Luol Deng, Ben Wallace, Hinrich, Big Z, etc., and they may not have too much problem if they lose Sefrosa's defense.

But that's Thibodeau!

Liu Mang could only silently wish Reed good luck.

But Liu Mang thought about it. This is 2007. In the original time and space, Reed also reached the final peak in the 07-08 season, but the Bucks seem to be at the bottom of the Eastern Conference...

It seems that for Reid, going to a top team before the peak is over...

Thinking of seeing Reid at his peak playing against Reed at the peak of a strong team, Liu Mang still felt very excited.

Although playing against the Bulls was indeed a headache, Liu Mang was more interested in such a game. It was fun to sweep and smash, but it was even more enjoyable against evenly matched opponents.

As soon as the news came out, the focus of discussion among fans on the Internet became the Bulls.

This summer has a feeling of "the emperor takes turns to come to my house this year". It is closer to the era of information explosion. The speed of news dissemination and the convenience of fans' communication are getting faster and faster.

The faster the information is replaced, the easier it is for the news to become popular.

Liu Mang reads the news, watches TV, plays games, and only feels sleepy late at night...

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The South Coast is still great. Liu Mang feels great every time he comes here. Although it is not as prosperous as Los Angeles, it is also the best city on the South Coast.

After a night of rest, Liu Mang also sat leisurely on the balcony to watch the scenery the next morning. In the afternoon, McGrady, the little blacksmith, James, Paul, Durant, and Rondo, who hadn’t seen each other for a long time, came to Miami one after another. They made an appointment to come to Liu Mang’s place together.

The first place the six of them came to was the villa where Liu Mang lived.

"Ah...ha..." Looking at the six people who came, Liu Mang yawned.

It was a bit embarrassing, James thought that Kobe would not come this year, but Liu Mang still invited Kobe, which changed James' perception of Liu Mang a little bit.

But it's still awkward with you, McGrady didn't talk about the fun, and Paul and Rondo, the two backpack boys who just ended the Pan American Basketball Championship, didn't talk.

Durant rookie...

In the Pan American Basketball Championship that ended in mid-July, these six players were selected for the US national team, helping the US team easily win three games in the Pan American Basketball Championship.

The Pan-American Basketball Championship changes every year. The last champion, the U.S. team, played only three games this time and started directly from the quarter-finals. This time, the U.S. team played for real. A total of 24 American NBA All-Stars and potential new stars were invited to form a random lineup. They won the championship by averaging more than 40 points in three games. There is a reason why they were not allowed to play in the group stage.

For the US team, such a game is not as good as their team training game.

After the U.S. team won the championship on July 7, except for Durant and Rondo, the other four went to participate in commercial activities in Asia. Whether it was Adidas or Nike in Europe, except for Liu Mang who had European promotions, Nowitzki, Gasol, Milicic and others had European promotions, and no other NBA players were arranged to promote.

Compared with Liu Mang's influence in Europe, both Kobe and Tracy McGrady are far behind. Like the European players who play in the NBA, Liu Mang is also an overseas player in the NBA. Although his skin color is different, he is more loved by European fans.

As for Durant... the sneaker endorsement has not yet been negotiated, and there is a gap between the endorsement fee and the expected value. Liu Wei wants to get a commission. Of course, it needs to be discussed slowly. Anyway, Durant can't have signature shoes from the beginning like Liu Wei and James, and not many overseas fans know them.

Rondo has no endorsements for the time being. He played well in his rookie season. After all, he is still a quasi-second-year player who has just finished his rookie season. Some sponsors are still waiting to see.

Liu Mang saw that Rondo and Paul were sitting far apart, and sighed in his heart that these two people were indeed at odds. In the Pan American Basketball Championship, it seemed that neither of them had a chance to play, but it seemed that there was a gap.

Kobe saw no one talking for a long time, and asked bluntly: "Where do we live?"

"The hotel next door is at your own expense." Liu Mang pointed out the window, there was a sea...

Seeing that the two of them were about to quarrel if they didn't agree, James hurriedly said: "When Ace sent me the address yesterday, I already booked a nearby hotel. I'll take you there..."

Seeing Kobe who was about to leave with a cold snort, Liu Mang thought of something and asked, "Kobe, do you know how to play three threats?"

"No!" Kobe left without looking back...

(End of this chapter)