You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 561 Just Live Your Life Like This

Wei Xia felt ridiculous. A few seconds ago, he was prepared to sacrifice millions of income to accept the offer from the Lakers, just to play for a championship team in the next few years.

Now, he doesn't have to worry about it anymore.

The Lakers withdrew their offer for him, and did not match any offer on the market, which was tantamount to sending Wei Xia away for nothing.

Even Wei Xia himself couldn't figure it out.Could it be that Ariza and Fernandez's outstanding performance made them feel that they no longer need the help of a former FMVP?
Not long after, news came out that the Lakers used the middle class exception to sign another Titan in the free market: Ron Artest.

Last season, Artest obviously had more energy in Houston. With his strength, joining the Lakers will undoubtedly make them even more powerful.

Ariza, Fernandez and Artest, none of them can compare with Wei Xia in the 2007-08 season, but the three are tigers, let alone Wei Xia who suffered a torn ACL.

In order to join the Lakers, Artest also took the initiative to cut his salary.

From the perspective of the Lakers, winning Artest is a lower risk option.

Moreover, compared to Wei Xia, he is too cheap.

For Artest to give up Weixia, the basketball world was in an uproar as soon as the news came out, and most people expressed their understanding.

During the season, Wei Xia's agent Dan Brown took the initiative to reveal the insulting offer the Lakers gave Wei Xia-4 million for 5000 years.The shock caused by this offer in the league is immeasurable, but at the social level, some non-basketball media believe that this is a sign that the Lakers are preparing to trade Wei Xia.

No matter what reputation and reputation Wei Xia has now, his contribution to the team during his three years with the Lakers is indelible.If the Lakers deliberately choose an insulting offer, and then take advantage of the injury to trade him, it will undoubtedly damage the reputation of the Lakers.

At the same time, trading the injured Wei Xia will also cause chaos within the Lakers. Everyone has to think about the consequences of working hard for this team.Therefore, trading Wei Xia seems to be the most "professional" approach, but it has caused endless disasters.

Therefore, the Lakers chose to first give an insulting offer that could not be accepted by Wei Xia's team. When his economic team started to move around, they borrowed the team's media background and repeated the old tune "We are not sure whether the Lakers can win the championship without Wish."

The management stabilized the morale of the army and sent a signal to other teams with insulting quotations: clean up the space and grab people.

Strong teams want reinforcements, and weak teams need cores. Even if Wei Xia suffers from a torn ACL, there are still not a few teams willing to bet.

As the Lakers defeated the Magic in an overwhelming manner to achieve two consecutive championships, it became less and less necessary to retain Wei Xia with a maximum salary that would fully expand the space.After months of push and pull between the two sides, Wei Xia received a call from Bass Jr.

As a non-Lakers executive, Bass informed Wei Xia that the team was about to withdraw his offer and would not match other offers on the market. He not only gave Wei Xia all the answers, but also left room for them to operate flexibly.

Without staying with the Lakers, Wei Xia got the greatest freedom, he can go to the city he wants to go, and get the biggest contract.The Lakers saved their reputation and avoided the space explosion in the summer of 2010.

Such painstaking efforts to kick the former FMVP off the boat have enough reasons to explain to the outside world. If Wei Xia's future is really what they think, this may be the most successful "standing and standing" in NBA history.

"Either Wish becomes a mediocre player, or the Lakers make the most stupid decision in team history, let's see what time will tell!"

So far, Wei Xia's departure from the team is a foregone conclusion.

Next, what Wei Xia has to do is to find the most suitable one from the eight generous offers.

In the next week, Wei Xia met with many teams, had a brief conversation, and let the other party explain the team building strategy.During this period, three teams with no clear plans were removed from his options, and then only the Spurs, Mavericks, 76ers, Trail Blazers and Bulls remained.

The Spurs and Mavericks are championship teams, and the Trail Blazers and Bulls deserve the words "the future is promising."

These four teams are all good picks.

What about the Philadelphia 76ers?There seems to be nothing wrong with this team, but for one thing, it is Wei Xia's hometown team.

Just for this, it is worthy of Wei Xia's serious consideration.

The contempt of the Lakers made him realize that if he wants to take the initiative, he must become an unshakable soul, like Kobe.

The Spurs have Duncan, the Mavericks have Nowitzki, and the Trail Blazers already have Roy, Aldridge and Oden. Wesha went there and could only help them.

Now what Wei Xia values ​​​​is no longer just the competitiveness of the team, but the status of the team he can obtain after he joins.

The Spurs are a parent team, and the influence of GDP spreads from the court to the off court. Even if they exceed them, there is still an unshakable Popovich on their heads.The close relationship between the Mavericks and Nowitzki, coupled with the racism of Dallas, made Wei Xia look back.The Trail Blazers are interesting, the team that drafted him with the sixth pick and one of the last teams he wanted to join on the eve of the draft.In just a few years, they had gotten rid of the reputation of the prison team, but he couldn't bring up the idea of ​​joining this team anyway.

So he turned down the Spurs, Mavericks, and Trail Blazers early on, telling them to withdraw their offers, while there were still people in the free market to pursue others.

Wei Xia's performance can be called "kind". If the Mavericks and Spurs wait any longer, people will not sign in by then, and money will not be spent anywhere.

For the remaining two teams, the team that Wei Xia originally wanted to join was the Bulls.

The Bulls hope that he can bring the championship gene back to this team that has been sinking for 11 years. Derrick Rose has great talent, and George Noah is a passionate big man. They all have excellent potential, but they still need a leader.I am afraid that no one is more suitable than Wei Xia to guide this group of young people forward.

Later, his father's phone call made Wei Xia change his mind.

Wei Mingliang took the Lakers as an example. He had achieved enough in Los Angeles, but when he was in a quagmire, the city could not provide him with much support.Even, due to the international status of the city of Los Angeles, some social activists will add insult to injury when Wei Xia suffers. For example, during the recovery period last season, those who hoped that the Lakers would trade him first appeared in Los Angeles.

He gave everything for the Lakers, fought so hard that he tore his ACL and brought back a championship. Even if he is treated like this, can he really start off smoothly if he goes to other cities?
Philly is his hometown, and returning home has the added benefit of not having to spend time trying to endear himself to fans.

His roots were never in Los Angeles, he was a son of Philadelphia, a hero of Pennsylvania, a man who made a city proud.This sense of belonging, the pride of fellow countrymen, and the support you can get without paying more, are not available in other cities.

So, why not go back to a group of fans who really love him, go back to his family and fight for his home city?

Wei Xia was completely moved by his father's suggestion.

Two days later, some media broke the news: "Wish and the Philadelphia 76ers reached a verbal agreement of 4 million in 6700 years."

At that time, the Wecha was still in Los Angeles, and he had to go to Philadelphia to sign a contract before coming back to move.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but Lakers center Ryan Hollins, who had a good relationship with Wei Xia, was sent to Philadelphia by the Lakers after Wei Xia announced that he had reached a verbal agreement with the 76ers.

The 76ers sent a guard, Willie Green, to get Hollins.

Critics speculate that this is an agreement between Philadelphia and Wecha.

Wei Xia will join them only if they do what Wei Xia says.

In fact, Wei Xia didn't know about it, it was an internal decision of the 76ers.

Wei Xia is indeed the darling of Philadelphia, but he has no foundation or connections in the team.

Since Weixia suffered a torn ACL, the 76ers have been actively preparing.

Iguodala appears to have the talent for greatness, but he doesn't have the ambition to match that talent, and the Sixers have no future under his leadership.Therefore, the 76ers would rather take a big gamble.When the Lakers signaled that they might let Weixia leave, the 76ers' management set about clearing the space.

With the determination to take advantage of the situation if they don't get Wei Xia, they sent Haitian center Samuel Dalembert to the old enemy Celtic in vain by changing the air.In order to get this top basketball center, the Celtics also dealt with the contract of Kendrick Perkins by the way.

Some American fans who are keen on conspiracy theories believe that the 76ers did this entirely to help Weixia disgust the Lakers.

If Wei Xia is to choose the team he hates the most at present, the Lakers will be the top three even if they are not the first. According to the normal development trend, they will hardly have opponents next season. Now, their biggest enemy, the Boston Celtics, has received a strong support.

This kind of conspiracy theory seems to be groundless speculation without any evidence, but if you correlate several other things with each other, you can find that it may not be that simple.

If the 76ers didn't have the idea of ​​pleasing Wei Xia, they would not have signed Wei Xia's classmate and friend Vaughn Weaver, and now they have traded to Ryan Hollins.

In this way, Wei Xia has at least two people who can be trusted in the new team.

On July 7, Wei Xia signed his new contract at the Sunset Center, a new training center built by the Philadelphia 11ers with a lot of money.

He officially changed from a former Lakers player to a current 76ers player.

The current director of the 76ers, Ed Stefanski (Ed Stefanski) held Weixia's hand with great joy: "When you were still in Villanova, we paid attention to your performance. Unfortunately, you chose to stay in school to continue your second college season, so we missed you. Unexpectedly, after five full years, you still joined us. Welcome home, Wish!"

"Thank you, it's my pleasure."

When Wesha walked out of the director's office, he met the 76ers' rookie drafted this year and his junior guards-Jrue Holiday and Lou Williams on the court at the Sunset Center.

Holiday took the initiative to say hello to Wei Xia: "Man, how are you doing? It's a bad idea for the Lakers to give up on you. You will make them regret it sooner or later. I fully believe in your strength!"

"Yes, they definitely made a mistake!" Williams made a superficial "me too" statement.

Wei Xia nodded with a smile, remembered their names by the way, and exchanged contact information.

Wei Xia, like them, is a newcomer who has just arrived. If you communicate more, you can never go wrong.

Tomorrow, Wei Xia still needs to return to Los Angeles, deal with the affairs there, hold another party, and propose to Elaine Trovis by the way.

That's right, propose.

After so many things, Wesha and Trovis know enough about each other.

Wei Xia thinks he is ready.

Before that, he needs to go home first, and then talk to his parents.

Hearing that Wei Xia signed a contract with the 76ers, Mei Chen showed an extremely enthusiastic response. She cooked a table of British delicacies that night.

When Wei Xia tactfully stated that he was going to propose to Trovis, Mei Chen's knife and fork fell to the ground.

"Really, Philip?" Mei Chen asked incredulously, "Are you really worthy of him?"

Wei Xia's eyes widened. He had just put a piece of meat into his mouth with a knife and fork, but now there were countless question marks on his face.

"Just kidding! This is a good thing!" Mei Chen asked excitedly, "Are you sure?"

Wei Xia really dare not say that he is 100% sure, "I am sure that I love her, she is the woman I believe, and I believe she is the same."

"Double happiness! No, triple happiness!" Mei Chen said excitedly.

"Three joys come to the door?" Wei Xia wanted to know what the third joy was.

Mei Chen said: "Randall is going to finish his studies recently. He will officially graduate and enter the society. I always thought he was the kind of idiot who had a hard time graduating. Now it seems that I am really sorry for him."

Wei Xia wanted to say that his mother's opinion was correct.

His elder brother is the kind of idiot who finds it difficult to graduate. As for why his studies have improved by leaps and bounds and he can graduate on time, Wei Xia believes that there must be some disgraceful hidden secrets.

Wei Xia's father, Wei Mingliang, was calm throughout the whole process. He would echo Mei Chen from time to time, but he didn't mention his own point of view very much.

After the meal, the cheerful Mei Chen hummed and rejected Wei Xia who wanted to help her clean up the table.

"Go, talk to your father, it's none of your business here!" Mei Chen was as tyrannical as the lion king who drove the sub-adults away from the lion pride.

Wei Xia walked into the yard, and Wei Mingliang was playing with a ball on his basket to wipe the board.

Don't underestimate this old basket, it is one of Wei Xia's basketball enlightenment.

"In a blink of an eye, you are also at the age where you are going to talk about marriage. When I saw you for the first time, I thought you were not an ordinary child. Your eyes are very firm, with a kind of firmness like an adult." Wei Mingliang passed the ball to Wei Xia, "Phili, I will not be surprised by all your achievements."

Wei Xia laughed at himself: "No matter how great an achievement is, it will not be recognized, otherwise I should still be a Lakers player now."

"Don't say that, and don't think like that. Think back to the 2005 draft, and think about the teams that missed you. The Lakers made exactly the same mistakes as them, and you will make them regret it, I have no doubts." Wei Mingliang said seriously.

Compared with discussing whether the Lakers will regret it in the future, Wei Xia is more concerned about his proposal.

He wanted to learn from someone who had passed by: "I decided to propose to Elaine in a few days, Dad, do you have any suggestions for me?"

"Suggestion, no." Wei Mingliang said, "But I have a little expectation."

"What expectations?"

"I hope that the woman you propose to marry is your perfect match. I hope that you will feel comfortable and enjoy the long time spent with each other, just like me and your mother. You will encounter many difficulties, but life is long, and you have enough time to adjust. You have problems, and she has problems. I hope you can change each other a little bit for each other, communicate more, communicate more, and be able to understand each other." Wei Mingliang paused, "Then, live a happy life."

Wei Xia noticed that Wei Mingliang was wearing Larry Bird's jersey. He fully listened to his father's words, but he didn't want to make the atmosphere too tender.

This is not the atmosphere that two old men should have when they are alone.

Therefore, Wei Xia asked inappropriately: "Is your jersey genuine?"

(End of this chapter)