NBA: This flower path is a bit strong.

With the end of the 96 draft, the rookies have all returned to their respective teams, but every team in the NBA league still has a chance to adjust its lineup!

That is, the league's trading window will be opened briefly, and the free market will also open.

During this period, the league will calculate the salary cap for the 96-97 season based on the player salary data of each team last season. Therefore, in this short week, each team can communicate, contact, and agree to determine transactions in advance to balance salaries.

However, the official transaction must be completed one week after the league has completed calculating the salary cap, so this short one-week period is also called the transaction freeze period.

Although the time is very short, all team managements aiming for the playoffs are secretly making trades.

Don't underestimate this week. Often, big events in the league happen in such quiet moments.

For example: Juwan Howard also reached a 7-year, $1.05 million contract with the Washington Bullets.

For example, the Miami Heat, who were just one step away from the playoffs last season, renewed the contract with "Kidney Fighter" Alonzo Mourning with a 7-year, $1.1 million contract.

According to gossip, the Heat management failed to hook up with Shaquille O'Neal and had to settle for the second best option and retain the core base of the team.

As for Shaquille O'Neal, a free agent who was having a great time with the New York Knicks, he was moved by the Lakers management's sincerity of offering him $7 million over seven years and headed for Los Angeles.

The Lakers originally only had 9800 million in salary space, but in order to get this "Shark" who had just entered his prime, they sent George Lynch away, freed up salary space, and promised O'Neal the only core position of the team! (At this time, the cauliflower snake was still a little brother)

And what O'Neal values ​​is exactly this point - the core rights of the team!

Although Ewing disappointed New York fans last season, the Knicks management still retained him. After all, this twin tower core did perform well in the just-concluded playoffs. If it weren't for the sudden two-game suspension, perhaps they would have won the championship this year.

O'Neal also agreed with this point, but facing Ewing who stayed, the team management has been vague about who is the core of the inside line, which made O'Neal very unhappy!

And in this regard, the Lakers are obviously much more generous!

We all have foreign girls, high salaries, and the standards of bars and nightclubs are also on the same level. The management goes all in with me, unlike you New York Knicks who dunk and slam!

So as a free agent, the Big Shark joined the Lakers without hesitation.

But this is a bit unfair to the Heat, who have the same conditions but only have a slightly lower salary of 1000 million.

[Great Shark] is also a fish cook:

"If you're not happy with the Lakers, go to the Heat!"

“I heard the summer beaches in Miami are pretty good too!”

(In fact, when the Lakers also had a core dispute, O'Neal also went to the Heat in anger)

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In any case, these two big fish in the free market were taken away by other teams with billion-dollar contracts, which undoubtedly caused a sensation in the media!

One hundred million dollars in 1996, what a huge "money power"! It can be said that it completely inspired many top stars and first-class stars to pursue big contracts!

This has nothing to do with loyalty. In this era, if you don’t have a billion-dollar contract, you’d be embarrassed to call yourself an All-Star, let alone a superstar!

The prerequisite for loyalty is that you must first be an All-Star player. Aren’t there enough loyal players in the league who have been guarding the water dispenser in a mediocre team for a lifetime?

And our honest Uncle Mu, the [African mountain] who has his own unique "finger shaking" action, also added fuel to the fire at this juncture.

Feeling aggrieved, he asked the Nuggets for a big contract, but was rejected!

Note that what Mutombo asked for was not a 100 million yuan contract, but a 10 million yuan contract, which was also ruthlessly rejected by the team.

This also added fuel to the fire during the sensitive period of this transaction.

The alliance has thus entered the true "billion-yuan" era!

As for Pippen, he fainted in the toilet crying:

"Huai didn't listen to what Danzi said!"

They are all 7-year contracts, why is mine only 2000 million while yours are over million!

How many 7 years can a person have in his life? Who can predict for sure about injuries?

So the main reason why Pippen avoided talking about the sharp interviews from the media reporters was that he couldn't afford to lose face!

As for Michael Jordan, he would definitely not give up the opportunity to join in the hype, and he also announced that he would join the free market!

I heard that the cause of the incident was that the Bulls offered [Old Rogue] a contract with an annual salary of 2500 million US dollars, but Jordan demanded that the Bulls must renew the contracts of Phil Jackson and Pierce. As a result, the Bulls management said "consider it" (disagree)!

This consideration led the "Old Rogue" to the free market, and Jordan's agent David Falk tried hard to bring him together with the "Gorilla" Ewing. After all, the "Gorilla" Ewing was also under Falk's management.

The New York Knicks also gave enough face to the league's top player by directly throwing a blank check to Jordan and letting him fill in the numbers himself!

However, it was later proved that this was mostly a "force strategy" by the "old rogue" agent David Falk, just to force the Bulls to make a decision quickly!

If the "Old Rogue" and the "Gorilla" Ewing are both on the New York Knicks, it would be strange if the "Gorilla", who is the mortal enemy every year, is willing to be humble and do the same? If you can't beat them, then join them, or if you can't beat them, then pull you to join them. This is not popular in this era.

Besides, the Knicks don’t have the salary to support two superstars at the same time. If they rob Peter to pay Paul, it might be possible, but what about other positions?

You can't let the team start the new season with 2 vs. 8, right?

However, it must be said that Jordan's agent David Falk's move to force the club to resign did work. It immediately triggered heated discussions in the media and the league. What was the Bulls doing? They were trying to get rid of the donkey after it had done its work!

He just won a championship for you, and this is your sincerity? Besides, Jordan's request is not excessive!

Phil Jackson is the championship coach, and Phil Jackson is such a cheap and useful second-in-command. If you go to the league to ask around, you will find that if you don't want him, there are many teams that are ready to hire their own coaches, and those teams that can get Phil Jackson by slightly squeezing his salary will be vying for him.

As expected, once the public opinion came out, the Bulls were afraid of completely losing the "Old Rogue", so they quickly offered an annual salary of 3014 million US dollars and agreed to his request. This is also the only case in NBA history where a player's personal annual salary is higher than the salary cap.

As for Pi Er: "Good brother, it has to be you! I'm so jealous of you, but you can still let go of the past and keep me!"

[Old Rogue]: "That's the main thing. I can't find anyone else who's this cheap as the second in command!"

It turns out that there really are such cheap second-in-command or even third-in-command people!

Barkley, the "Flying Pig" who was already past his prime but still without a championship, chose to leave his old team, the Suns, and join the Rockets. Together with Olajuwon and "Glider" Drexler, they formed the Rockets' Big Three and chose to fight for their championship again.

As for the result, those who understand will understand!