After changing careers, I became No.1 in basketball

Chapter 172 Chapter 171: Challengers who are crazy about strengthening
Sabonis, the most legendary player in the international basketball arena at this stage.

In Europe, he has already won almost all honors.

But in fact, when Sabonis faced American players, he never fell behind.
In 82, Sabonis, who was only 17 years old, followed the Soviet men's basketball team to visit the ugly and played several friendly matches with NCAA teams.

Sabonis scored 25 points, 8 rebounds and 3 blocks against Indiana University, the NCAA strong team at the time.

After that, some said he was the tallest point guard on the planet.

Opponent coach Bobby Knight hailed Sabonis as the best international player he had ever seen.

A few days later, Sabonis, who was still a high school student, faced the senior center of the University of Virginia and the next No. [-] pick, Ralph Sampson.

As a result, Sabonis scored 21 points on the senior player and left a dunk that was almost flat. Sampson scored 13 points.

There was a wave of kids driving big cars on the basketball court!

It was said at the time that this 17-year-old guy was as good as Bill Wharton.

And Bill Walton, who already holds the championship and MVP, naturally does not agree with such a statement.

He said: "No, Sabonis is better than me!"

Then there is the well-known 86 World Championships, where Sabonis and the Admiral played neck to neck.

You know, that's still a Sabonis whose knees have been seriously injured.

The Ugly people have been trying to find a way to do something to Sabonis, trying to recruit him.

After all, who would give up such a terrifying behemoth?
The first to do it was Dale Brown, a teacher at O'Neill University.

This upright old man directly wrote letters to the presidents of the Ugly Soviet Union in an attempt to engage in a basketball diplomacy and get Sabonis to study and play at Louisiana State University.

But of course it didn't work out in the end.

In 85, the Eagles made a move. They used a low pick to draft Sabonis.

However, because Sabonis is under 21 years old and has no automatic eligibility for international players, the Eagles' draft has completely become a performance art.

In 86, the Trail Blazers directly used the 24th pick in the first round to pursue Sabonis, but due to various reasons, Sabonis failed to land in the NBA.

At that time, the Trail Blazers scout who seriously went to Europe to watch Sabonis play, commented on Sabonis in the scout report:

He's got some Bird skills and Kareem's athleticism, he can shoot [-]'s, he's a master passer, we should plan to kidnap him to Ugly Country!
By 89, Sabonis was finally allowed to play abroad.

But he chose to go to Spain instead of playing in the United States.

In this way, the Trail Blazers gradually lost the idea of ​​​​getting Sabonis.

After all, Sabonis still has a contract with the European team, and if he wants to get him, he has to pay a large contract buyout fee.

Moreover, no one knows whether Sabonis, who is already 28 and a half years old and already scarred, can still play in the NBA.

Because of the extremely unscientific training methods before, and in order to make Sabonis lose weight quickly, the Su team injected him with hormones and steroids.

This caused Sabonis' knees to be unable to bear the sudden increase in weight, which resulted in both injuries.

Such injuries make every NBA team very uneasy.

The Blazers have long since given up on Sabonis.

So in order to get rid of Darth Walker's bad contract and get Grant to make Drexler change his mind.

He did not hesitate to lose the signing rights of Sabonis.

In the eyes of the Blazers, Sabonis is like the heroine in an art film.

They are really beautiful, they know everything, and they know everything.But you can't have this kind of person, you can only be crooked.

If you can't get it anyway, it's better to give it to the bull as a bargaining chip in exchange for immediate combat power that you can see and feel.

In the original history, it was Sabonis who really didn't feel any challenges in Europe, so he took the initiative to choose to go to the NBA to test the waters.

And it happened that the Blazers had the right to sign Lao Sa, so Sabonis went to the Blazers.

So it is not so much that the Blazers waited patiently for Sabonis, it is better to say that Sabonis took the initiative to throw himself into the arms of the Blazers.

The Blazers picked up a bargain by mistake.

And the Bulls don't want to wait.

They decided to take the initiative!

The Bulls have been quite interested in international players in recent years, and Klaus is extremely obsessed with Kukoc, the "Balkan magician".

This year, the Bulls can finally sign Kukoc, who is also considered by Klaus to be the hope of the Bulls' resurgence.

Since he was going to Europe anyway, Klaus decided to take the initiative to meet Sabonis!
That piece of jade must not just rot in Europe!
Shai's utter success this year has made every team obsessed with international players.

Klaus decided to become the second person to receive the international player bonus!

Of course, the Trail Blazers don't know that the main target of the Bulls' trade is Sabonis.

At one point, they thought it was a good deal.

From the perspective of the Blazers management, Grant's poor performance in the Finals last season was mainly due to a break with the team.

But his actual strength is not limited to this.

The Blazers have a deep understanding of how strong Grant's defense is.

After all, they were beaten by the Bulls for two consecutive years before, and Grant contributed a lot to this.

In the Finals last season, Grant averaged 2.3 blocks per game against the Blazers, which was a nightmare for the Blazers' offense.

Now that the opponent's master is coming, Drexler should be satisfied, right?

No.

Drexler has made up his mind to go.

Don't talk about Grant, even if the management trades Pippen, Ah Hua will leave.

He has had enough of management's monkey-like behavior.

If you slap a candy, do you really think I am a three-year-old child?

Of course, there is another reason why Drexler insisted on leaving, that is, among the teams pursuing him, Drexler saw a suitor that he also liked very much.
When the farce between Drexler and the Blazers continued, Klaus was still embarking on his unknown journey to Europe.

On the Asian side, the Asian Championships in 93 have also started.

In this year's Asian Championships, Jiang Shuai did not call Xie Yi.

For one thing, Shay had just finished playing in the NBA Finals, and Jiang Shuai was afraid that Shay would be too tired and get injured.

Since Jiang Shuai had an in-depth exchange with Glover in the series brought by Shay last year, his training methods have become more scientific.

It also pays more attention to the health of players.

Secondly, Jiang Shuai felt that with the level of the Chinese team, even if Xie Yi was not called, the pressure to win the Asian championship would not be too great.

The team can't rely too much on Shay. For the 94 World Championships, others have to exercise well.

In this way, the Chinese team started this year's trip to the Asian Championships without the NBA's most valuable player.

In the group stage, the Chinese team also unexpectedly lost to the underdog Saudi Arabia.

In the end, they only finished second in the group.

This battle caused Jiang Shuai to be questioned, and everyone felt that he was a bit too arrogant for not calling Xie Yi to participate.

But in fact, this game is completely because the players of the Chinese team underestimated the enemy.

After all, this Chinese team is still very young, so they are not so calm.

The front is going smoothly, and I think there will be no problem in Saudi Arabia.

How did he know that he would be beaten up by others instead.

The Chinese team lost to Saudi Arabia and ranked second in the group, which also caused an ironic scene in another group.

In another group, the Taipei provincial team played against North Korea. Although the Chinese team accidentally lost the game and fell to second place, their strength still lies there.

Therefore, neither the provincial team nor the North Korean team is willing to touch the Chinese team.

So in order to avoid meeting the Chinese team in advance, the two sides tried their best to fight for the second place in the group!

The game between the two sides was more than losing than winning. When the two teams grabbed rebounds, they tried to send them to the opponent as much as possible, and deliberately fouled the opponent to make the opponent free throw.

A player in the provincial team accidentally scored a goal and was scolded by the coach!

Later, the referee couldn't stand it anymore, and terminated the game before finishing a quarter.

The final score was 11 to 7, and the provincial team unfortunately became the first in the group.

Must play against the second Chinese team in another group!
This second battle in the group also surprised Xie Yi.

In the knockout stage, the Chinese team did not make any more mistakes.

In three consecutive rounds, they easily won the provincial team, South Korea and North Korea.

In the end, I climbed to the top without any risk!

And this Asian Championship also led to two things that were different from the original history.

The first thing is that this is the first time that the 18-year-old Battelle was selected for the national team to play in the Asian Championships, and he performed well.

Shay then recommended Battelle to his college coach, the well-known Giants controller John Thompson, and gave him Battelle's game video.

When Thompson saw this tall, mighty, and amazingly powerful center forward, he salivated as if seeing Hesi's long legs.

Shay directly suspected whether Thompson had any special hobbies.

Thompson expressed his willingness to try out Battelle, and if given the opportunity, he will definitely let him play in the NCAA!

In addition, some NBA teams have sent invitations for trial training to Hu Weidong, the God of Myopia.

From the fledgling in last year's Olympic Games, to this year's Asian Championships.

Add to that Shay's success.

These have allowed Chinese players to receive unprecedented attention.

The Mavericks, Warriors, Timberwolves and Nuggets all invited Hu Weidong to try out.

If they perform well, they are even willing to give Hu Weidong a guaranteed contract!
If this is placed in the original history, there is a high probability that Lao Hu will not be able to come to the NBA.

But because of Shay's sudden birth, the country now has a more positive attitude towards letting players play in the NBA.

Lao Hu then successfully boarded the flight to American!
Seeing that most of the teams interested in Lao Hu are weak teams, Xie Yi is quite happy.

Old Hu is strong, but he is not strong enough to be the main player in a strong team.

Shay felt that it would be better if he could slowly adapt to the rhythm of the NBA in a weak team and practice slowly.

If Battelle and Myopic God of War can really stay here to play, then next year's World Championships.
Maybe, you can fight for a higher result than the top eight!
The fate of the international players has undergone tremendous changes this summer.

And Shay's vacation has passed for a month without knowing it, and Shay, who has no fatigue or discomfort in his body, continues to find his old partner Glover.

Keep training and keep getting in shape.

By the way, brush up your experience well, Shay is not far away from the next big upgrade.

The NBA's free agency and trading market is also in full swing.

After losing to the Bulls again with a 2-0 win last season, the entire Knicks team has gathered enough energy to work hard for another year.

This summer, the contracts of many of the Knicks' main players expired.If all bird rights are used to renew the contract, the Knicks' salary will explode directly.

This season's salary cap is about 1500 million, and if the Knicks renew all their contracts, the final salary may exceed 2000 million!
You know, 500 million in this era is equivalent to one more superstar!

If you change to another team, you will definitely not accept such a high price to preserve the lineup.

But the Knicks are different. The Knicks spend more and earn more.

In the territory of Greater New York, you don't want the best grades, but you want to spend the most!
What's more, there is no luxury tax rule in the NBA these days. As long as it is reasonable, the salary cap can be exceeded at will without any substantive penalties.

Therefore, not only did the Knicks have to renew most of the players, they even signed the "Thunder" Marr, who performed well in the Suns last season, at a price of 910 million for three years before renewing the contract. profit!

After signing Marly, the Knicks used the bird rights to renew the contracts of Oakley, Herb Williams and Anthony Mason Jr. and others.

Directly raised the team's salary to 2200 million!
This signing is undoubtedly quite successful. Marley, who can defend and shoot from outside, is simply the Knicks' favorite.

Riley can also see that a muscular defense cannot handle the Bulls.

Last season, the Knicks essentially forced the Bulls to have no choice on the defensive end, but because they were too aggressive offensively, they were eventually reversed.

Because of this, the Knicks traded Fan Crazy, who had killed all quarters in the NCAA, and signed Marley at a big price.

There have to be a few guys who can score.

On the Suns side, in the original history, Marly's contract was matched to keep him on the team.

But that's because the team has Barkley and the hope of competing for the championship, so the Suns are willing to spend money.

And now the Suns are completely a team with no hope of competing for the championship.

The team management naturally does not want to give Marley a big contract with an average annual salary of 300 million.

In this way, the Knicks took the lead in completing the reinforcement.

Sharpen your knife next season to the Bulls!
This signing is big enough, but not the biggest.

Everyone is waiting for the ending of the farce between Drexler and the Blazers, and this large-scale family ethics series finally ushered in the ending one day in early July.

Early that morning, Shay was still eating breakfast, and Glover was still working out Shay's training plan for the day.

NBC Morning News suddenly reported a piece of news: Drexler officially joined the Rockets!
The Rockets sent Thorpe, Sam Cassell and the first-round pick in 95 and the first-round pick in 97, and traded from the Blazers for Drexler and Mark Bryant with a premium contract.

Drexler returned to his hometown team as he wished, and joined forces with his college teammate Olajuwon as he wished!

With the Rockets joining the deal, this is also the biggest reason why Drexler insisted on leaving.

He dreams of going back to Houston to play!
The sensation of this transaction is well known, the No. [-] SG in the West teamed up with the No. [-] C in the West.

This caused a great hindrance to the Lakers!

You must know that Drexler in this history has not been seriously injured, and his strength is much stronger than when he joined the Rockets in the original history!

The reason why the Rockets delayed until now to complete the transaction is because the team has just changed a new owner.

The new boss is the Alexander that Chinese fans are very familiar with.

The arrival of Alexander established the concept of team building with Olajuwon as the core.

This gave Dameng and the whole team a shot in the arm.

So Master Tang also started to build the team according to his own ideas.

After losing to the Lakers last season, the master learned from the pain and decided to maximize the offensive space of Dameng.

How did the Rockets lose?She was pinched to death by Xie Yi playing the fourth position and attacking Dameng!
So he needs a shooter and needs a star ball handler on the perimeter.

Therefore, he can directly use Horry, who can shoot, to play the fourth position without Thorpe.

He wants to play One Star Four Shooting to the extreme!
Master knows that men like to be tight, but when playing basketball, the looser the space, the better!

Therefore, after the trade got Drexler, the Rockets immediately operated again.

Traded Maxwell, who was in the final year of his contract, and third-year rookie Carl Herrera to the Suns in exchange for Nationals father-in-law Hornacek.

The Suns let Marly go directly before, and now they have replaced Hornacek with an expired contract.

This is straight to start clearing cap space for a complete rebuild.

After all, there are Grant Hill, Robinson and Kidd in next year's draft, so it's still very tempting to play badly.

After a long time, it turned out that the most ruthless person who was dismantled by Xie Yi was actually the sun!
In the original history, they were competing for the championship in this period, and they went straight to the top spot in this period!
Shay watched this series of trading news, put down the newspaper, and prepared to spur himself even more crazily!

Competitors are much stronger than the original history.

On the Knicks side, without regressing in defense, the offensive end supplemented Fan Maniac and Marley, which can be regarded as making up for shortcomings.

The Rockets got a stronger Drexler and a first-class shooter in the league, and Dameng's one-star four-shot will play more calmly!
This 90s is even crazier than the original history!

Therefore, you can't fall behind!
But Xie Yi never expected that the craziest thing this summer is not over yet.

The craziest thing happened to the bulls.

To be precise, it happened to Michael Jordan.

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