pinnacle of basketball

Chapter 525
The news that the Heat wanted to win the championship "Stud" Gaia immediately spread to Mu Chenfeng's field of vision. As a bargaining chip, the team needs to send more than half of the team. Except for the Heat's Big Three, everyone else is in the ranks of chips, and Seattleites can choose at will.

This is a "win-win" deal. The Heat's goal is to compete for the championship, so a super center like Gaia is needed to make up for the team's current shortcomings. Seattle, after failing to build a team around Gaia, has entered a long rebuilding period, and getting a good bargaining chip from the Heat can speed up the team's rebuilding.

The Heat also got rid of several "poison contracts" of the team because of this, successfully liberating the team's salary space.

The news that Miami and Seattle are about to complete the deal immediately aroused huge repercussions in the league. As far as the current lineup of the Heat is concerned, they already have a certain ability to win the championship. I dare not say that they will win the championship 100%, but at least they are the absolute favorites for the championship.

Gaia is definitely the most perfect jigsaw puzzle for the current Heat team. His interior dominance is the most in the league. Coupled with the existing Big Three, the league's strongest starting four will gather in Miami.

Many team executives are extremely opposed to the execution of this deal. After all, whether it is Wade, Barrett or Gaia, they are only 27/28 years old. For a professional team, they are all in the golden age.

Spend a lot of money on the team, but they can only run with them every year. No one is interested in a game that has no chance of winning. After all, the goal of a team is to compete for the championship besides making money.

However, even though there are many voices of opposition, the executives of the league have no right to interfere with this deal. First of all, the owner of the team is the owner of the team, not the league. As long as both parties agree, the deal has a reason to be executed. Moreover, the deal between the two teams is reasonable and there is no violation of the rules. The Heat got Gaia, but they also paid half the team's price.

Gaia's contract exceeds $3800 million. Including the contracts of Wade and Barrett, these three individuals alone account for 90% of the team's salary space. The remaining 10% of the salary can only allow the Heat to sign some players with lower quality with clean contracts. Fortunately, Mu Chenfeng is only in his rookie season. His contract share is not large. It is a highly cost-effective contract.

The combination of Wade + Barrett + Mu Chenfeng + Gaia looks very strong, but the basketball game is 48 minutes long, and the season is very long. It is difficult to support the team's entire game with just the four of them. Moreover, the intensity of the playoffs is much higher than that of the regular season. Each team will do their best in every game in order to be able to advance. The consumption is very huge, so the Heat management must find cheap and easy-to-use substitutes for the team.

As soon as the news came out, many capable veterans announced that they were willing to join the team for the basic salary of the championship. Among them, there are some players who can still fight.

With the Heat's starting lineup, it is not difficult to complete the formation of the championship puzzle in a short period of time, but the Heat's management is not in a hurry to sign players. There is still a certain amount of time before the opening of the trading window, which is enough for them to screen.

The management of the Heat has always been known for their shrewdness, and their operations are very delicate, which will always bring surprises to people. Naturally, they have to screen out the best choice among the many defectors. After all, the upper limit of a team is so many. If you want to receive a ring, you still have to queue up.

The city of Miami has already begun to campaign for Gaia, adding his portrait to the posters of the Heat's "Big Three" and dubbing it the "Big Four."

Other teams in the league were very envious of that, and a chain reaction of the Heat's trade also followed. Some teams that were also aspiring to win the championship, because the Heat's reinforcements were not satisfied with the status quo, actively sought deals from other teams.

All the negotiations and transactions were almost uniformly completed in a very short period of time. All kinds of teams waited for the opening of the transaction window after the end of the regular season, and then completed the transaction.

The league will undergo earth-shaking changes from the moment the regular season ends.

However, the season is still going on. Without Mu Chenfeng, the Heat lost the game against the Lone Ranger. Their 28-game winning streak was terminated. At the same time, they also ushered in their seventh defeat of the season. The winning streak is gone. Fortunately, they broke the winning streak in team history and successfully completed the previous season's mission. They are still on the way to hit the best record in history, but they can only lose one game. If they lose the next two games, they can only share the first place in history with the Warriors.

As the saying goes, there are no draws or ties in competitive sports. Of course, the Heat hope to be the only one in history.

Even without Mu Chenfeng, the overall structure of the Heat team is still there, and the news that all players other than the Big Three have been put on the shelf has already flowed out, but the team has not been distracted by this, but has inspired a stronger team effect. All this is because of Gaia. If Gaia joins the team, the Heat will naturally be the biggest contender for the championship. Those players who stay on the team are basically sure to get a championship ring. This makes the players hope to impress the team with their positive performance and let the management keep themselves in the team .

Gaia's deal is "7 for 1", which means that only half of the entire Heat team can stay. Excluding the Big Three, there are only 4 spots left.

(End of this chapter)