Zhiba NBA

Chapter 39 (38) Crazy Arms Competition

On July 7, the Timberwolves participated in a four-team deal with Mark Jackson and Tyrell Brandon, and got the Knicks star "Madman" Sprewell.Coupled with the Cassell traded with the Bucks before (paying Joe Smith and Anthony Peeler), the Wolves finally found two star helpers for Garnett.

（这里插一句对布兰登的介绍，作为小说首战的重要配角他巅峰期是一位很有实力的球星，还曾两度入选全明星。99年布兰登和狼队签下了一笔6年6000万刀的大合同，但2002年他毁于伤病，02年2月13日后就再也未能出场。被交易到老鹰后的03-04赛季他被裁员随后宣布退役，退役时也仅有32岁）
Also in this deal, the 76ers got "Big Dog" Robinson and Mark Jackson.The Knicks, determined to rebuild, paid the "madman" Sprewell, who is about to turn 33, for Van Horn from the 76ers.

(This is a typical case of a multi-party transaction. Team A is willing to pay A to get B, and Team B is willing to sell B but is unwilling to get A. Therefore, in order to complete the transaction and achieve a win-win situation, Team A and Team B must recruit Team C or even Team D to complete the transaction together.)

Next, on July 7, Jason Kidd signed a 24-year maximum salary contract with the Nets.On the same day, Brad Miller signed a 6-year 7 million contract through sign-and-trade, and then switched to the Kings in a three-way deal. In this deal, the Spurs got the Kings' young player, 6800-year-old Quentin Richardson.

7月31日，安德鲁.米勒和弱旅掘金队签了一份6年共计5100万的长约。同日，招募米勒失败的活塞以7年6200万的高薪续约了汉密尔顿。

On August 8, a big news came: the Pistons recruited the European King "White Magician" Dejan Bodiloga with a three-year middle-level contract with a starting salary of 2 million (Note: the middle-level exception allows the team to ignore the salary cap and sign several players, but the sum of their wages must not exceed the average salary, and each team only has one middle-level exception per season), thus forming the starting five tiger lineup of Big Ben, Milicic, Prince, Hamilton and Bodiloga.After the Pistons lost the Eastern Conference finals last season, they immediately fired the head coach and hired the original 490ers coach Larry Brown.The management has repeatedly made moves to show their great ambitions.

(Note: Bodi Loga was 30 years old at the time. He was a tall point guard with a height of 205cm. He was known as the white version of Magic Johnson in Europe. He led the team to three European league championships, four of which won the MVP. He also led the Yugoslavia team to the World Championships and was known as the best basketball player outside the NBA. He did not join the NBA in history. Let’s make up for this regret in the novel)
On August 8, another big news came.Arenas, who just won the most improved player a few months ago, was recruited to the team by the championship Spurs with a six-year contract of 8 million.

This is a bug event in the rules, which caused quite a stir in the league.

Since Arenas was a second-round pick in 2001 and had only played for his old team, the Warriors, for 2 years by this time, there is only the early Bird exception (when the team has played for the parent team for 2 years, it has the early Bird exception, and its starting salary for renewal can reach 175% of the previous year's salary or 104.5% of the league's average salary, whichever is greater. There are also some concepts such as transfer inheritance exceptions, which will not be repeated). According to regulations, the Warriors can only match up to $490 million. The starting salary, but the Spurs offered him an invitation contract with a starting salary of 850 million US dollars, which caused the Warriors to be unable to match the contract in terms of rules.

The Spurs freed up a lot of salary space due to the retirement of general Robinson.Signing Arenas is just the first step in rebuilding a championship team around Duncan.Obviously, in the next few years, the combination of Duncan, Ginobili and Arenas will allow the Spurs to continue to maintain the strength of the league's top power.

And the Rockets don't have the troubles of the Warriors, because Reed has played for the Rockets for three years, with Bird exception, the Rockets can even offer Reid a maximum salary extension contract.Yuan Fei resisted the crowd and signed Reed for three years, and his vision was once again reflected (Reed played for the Rockets for three consecutive years, and did not leave the team as a free agent, nor was he bought out, so he had a special case of Bird. The Rockets can renew his contract beyond the salary cap, up to the maximum salary).

On August 8, Michael Reid successfully renewed his contract with the Rockets with a 3-year contract with a starting salary of 500 million.Bosh was also quickly signed to a rookie contract.

Compared with the continuous reinforcement of the Spurs, Lakers, Nets, Kings, Wolves and Pistons, the Rockets seem to be doing a lot less, just signing players that should belong to them.

Yuan Fei decides to be a good person to the end, and uses the skills of the national comedian Master Ben Shan to resolutely fool the boss Alexander.Yali was once again intoxicated by him, and under the temptation of money, he finally signed a completely free agent in the free market-Mengke. Bateer (do you know this famous star known as "God"?).

So the Rockets roster with minor repairs and repairs is as follows:
Player/Position/Age/Salary (US$[-])

McGrady/shooting guard/24/1328
Billups/Point Guard/27/550
Redd/shooting guard/24/500
Yao Ming/Center/23/414.8
Bosh/Power Forward/19/263.6
Wang Zhizhi/Forward/26/209
Olajuwon/Center/41/200
Johnson/shooting guard/22/185
Jefferson/Small Forward/23/175.8
Turkoglu/Small Forward/24/143.2
Wallace/Forward/21/122.7
Okur/Center/24/110
Parker/Point Guard/21/99.6
Battle/Center/28/63.7
(Note: Mark Bryant’s contract expires and has not been renewed. Monk Battelle’s contract with the Rockets is 2 years, and the second year is not guaranteed)

In this way, the construction of the Rockets' 14-man roster was completed, and the trio of the Great Wall of China gathered in Houston.The total salary of the Rockets is about 4365 million, which is just below the salary cap of 4384 million.

And the heat of the free market has not abated.Although the Spurs got Arenas and Richardson, Stephen Jackson was dissatisfied with the lack of possession of the ball and turned to the Atlanta Hawks.

On August 8, the Mavericks, with local bosses, also increased their investment.They made a 18-for-5 trade with the Warriors, trading players such as Van Exel and Avery Johnson for players such as Antawn Jamison.However, Yuanfei knew that the Mavericks' deal was not a success. On the contrary, their first-round pick this year, Josh Howard, would grow into a good third-tier star.

So far, five of the top six teams in the Western Conference and the top two teams in the Eastern Conference have all had star players to join, with the exception of the Rockets.In this unprecedented crazy summer, tycoons are competing for banknotes and throwing money to reserve combat power. Only Houstonians seem to stay away from this arms race.

　the Great Wall!The pride of our Chinese fans back then!
　　Thanks to the book friend Xiongba vs Tianxia 1 for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)