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Chapter 110 The Lively NBA Trading Market
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After the Asian Championships, the Chinese men's basketball team disbanded on the spot, and Wang Dalin had a meal with everyone.

Everyone was very happy at the banquet, and they all drank a little too much.Wang Dalin was also drunk, he didn't have the chance to drink in the US, so he simply drank once after returning to China...19 years old, but he is already an adult!
The drink was so good that Wang Dalin didn't wake up until noon the next day, and Wang Zhizhi on the bed next to him was still sound asleep.

Wang Dalin got up and took a shower. When he walked out of the bathroom, Wang Zhizhi finally woke up: "Dalin, are you planning to go directly to Detroit or go back to Chongqing first?"

"Let's go back to Chongqing first!" Wang Dalin said with a smile, "I've been out for more than a year, so I have to go home and have a look... roughly, how about you?"

"I'm also planning to go back to Beijing to gather with my family for a few days, and I might go to Dallas next week! To be honest, I didn't think NBA stars were so good before. Didn't I surpass David Robinson in Atlanta in 96? But seeing your performance this time, I am convinced! Dalin, even though you are younger than me, you are much better at playing football than me. I have to go to Dallas to train hard and strive to be the main player in the new season!"

"Generally, what you lack now is not skills, nor physical fitness, but self-confidence!" Wang Dalin said seriously, "To be honest, your post-up skills in the low post and mid-range are better than mine. Believe in yourself! After Dallas, don't always want to pass the ball as soon as you get it. You must play independently, and the Yankees will do it!"

Wang Dalin is not talking nonsense, most American coaches have this kind of thinking.

If you don't dare to attack personally after you get the ball, he will think that you lack self-confidence and will never be a big player.And as long as you dare to fight, even if the offensive efficiency is not high, he will look at you highly, thinking that you have strong self-confidence, and you may be able to achieve something with time.

Kobe entered the NBA when he was 18 years old. In his rookie season, he dared to shoot a game-winning shot in the playoffs. Although it ended in failure, the fans in Los Angeles believed that this young man had the style of a general and dared to take responsibility at critical moments.

Although James in the 1.0 period of the Cavaliers in the later generations performed very well in the regular season, when he "dumped the pot" to his teammates at critical moments, fans would think that he had no leadership qualities and dared not take responsibility.

Wang Zhizhi is not lacking in talent, and he also has very delicate offensive skills. His strength is completely sufficient to gain a foothold in the NBA.The only shortcoming is that he has always lacked self-confidence, which is also the main reason why he did not continue to stay in the NBA in his previous life.

In addition, although Wang Zhizhi has a cheerful personality, he only likes to socialize with familiar people and is not good at communicating with unfamiliar teammates. This is also a very big shortcoming.

Wang Dalin communicated with him for a long time, and the two parted with regret.

After returning to Chongqing by plane, Wang Dalin met his parents in this life for the first time.

Although he doesn't have much deep affection for his parents in this life, they are close relatives after all, and the three of them are relatively harmonious after getting along for a few days.

It's time to return to the United States. He knows a little about the situation in Detroit, but he is not very clear. He wants to go there as soon as possible. First, he needs to solve the problem of food, accommodation and transportation.

Needless to say, eating, living and traveling are big things!
He rented a house in Miami last season. Now that he has signed a big contract and signed so many commercial endorsements, his annual after-tax income is as high as tens of millions of dollars. He feels that he should buy a house in Detroit.

As for the trip... He is going to find someone to consign his car to Detroit. He drives the "Ford Raptor" very comfortably, and has no plans to change the car for the time being.

On the last day of leaving China, he called Zhang Zilin, not to urge him to pay back the money, but simply to say goodbye.

Wang Dalin pretended to be relaxed and made a few jokes with Zhang Zilin, and Zhang Zilin also laughed happily, but the two were reluctant to part in the end... Although the two young hearts are thousands of miles apart at the moment, they seem to be close at hand.

Wang Dalin went back to Miami first, checked out the rental room and checked the car, and said goodbye to Riley face to face.

The old and the young chatted for a long time, and Wang Dalin could see from the increasing wrinkles on his face... the "magic fortune teller" who once dominated the NBA league is really old!

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When he came to Detroit, Wang Dalin first rented a two-bedroom house, and then went to Dumas to find a suitable villa.

Hearing that Wang Dalin wanted to buy a house, Dumars was naturally very happy... Shouldn't he be happy that the head star of the team wants to take root in Detroit?
Detroit is the largest city in Michigan and one of the most important industrial cities in the United States.It used to be very prosperous here, but now the housing prices here are very low, mainly because Detroit's economy has continued to decline in recent decades.

Since 1980, Detroit's economic crisis has been there.After the first and second oil crises, major Japanese auto companies entered the U.S. market one after another, occupying more than 30% of the North American market, and Detroit's advantage as the "City of Automobiles" no longer exists.

Dumas quickly helped him find a large villa on the banks of the Detroit River. This villa has a basement, two indoor parking spaces, six bedrooms, two living rooms, three bathrooms and a large kitchen. There are four floors including the basement, with a construction area of ​​more than 800 square meters.

Moreover, this villa also has a large yard with an area of ​​more than 300 square meters. There is a lush lawn in the yard, and there are two apple trees on the edge of the lawn.

Wang Dalin took a fancy to this place immediately, not only because of the good house and environment, but more importantly, it is cheap... Such a big villa only costs more than 50 US dollars!It's just too cheap, isn't it?

In Beijing or Shanghai at this time in 2001, a villa with such conditions and such a large yard would probably cost at least 3000 to [-] million yuan.

So he readily paid for it and moved in quickly.

He didn't know that Detroit's economy would continue to decline in the next decade or so.By 2017, Detroit had the highest violent crime rate in the United States, nearly 8 buildings were abandoned or severely damaged, 40% of the city's street lights were not working, public services were close to collapse, and the unemployment rate was as high as 18%.

Just like his villa, maybe no one bought it for $1 at that time!
But these have nothing to do with him now. He came to this city to play basketball, not to invest in real estate.

The annual offseason is of course a good time for players to take a break, but it is the busiest time for team managers.

As the general manager of the Pistons, Dumars was really busy during this time.

He first signed Wang Dalin as soon as the trading market opened, and then contacted the Wizards and Timberwolves to complete a three-way deal:

The Pistons sent Jerry Stackhouse to the Wizards for Richard Hamilton, a third-year shooting guard;
The Wizards sent Hamilton and the 2002 first-round pick (top three pick protection) to get Stackhouse;
The Timberwolves sent backup point guard Chauncey Billups and some cash for the Wizards' 2002 first-round pick (top-three protection).

All three parties are satisfied with the transaction.

The Wizards got Stackhouse, the second offensive weapon in the scoring list last season. For the Wizards, Stackhouse is obviously much better than the third-year Hamilton (not necessarily).

The Timberwolves got the Wizards' first-round pick. For this, they only need to pay a backup point guard who averaged 9.3 points, 2.1 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game and some cash, which is really a bargain.

You must know that the Wizards only ranked No.14 in the East last season, and only ranked third from the bottom in the league. This first-round pick is at least a lottery!

The operation of the Wizards makes people call it a blood loss, and the trade of the Pistons also makes people feel inexplicable... The head coach Rick Carlisle is a rookie, and the core of the team Wang Dalin is also a rookie. He simply sent away the team's top scorer in exchange for Hamilton and Billups. Is this trying to compete for the top pick?
Who knows what Hamilton and Billups mean to the Pistons?
No, it should be said that except for Wang Dalin, no one in the entire league is more aware of the importance of these two people, not even Coach Carlisle who advocated trading them!

Wang Dalin rented the right to use the arena at the University of Detroit for 3 hours every morning. There is still about a month before the team training camp in mid-September. He wants to use this time to train well.

The first is to maintain a good state, and the second is to improve strength.

As mentioned earlier, Wang Dalin can also get points in training, but the speed of getting points is very slow.But now the system has not issued a task, and if he wants to improve, he can only take the training test.

Fortunately, there is still more time, and through a lot of training, he feels that before the team gathers in September, he should be able to raise one or two abilities to the upper limit of the current stage... His "speed" and "horizontal agility" are only a few points away.

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Since July 7st, the NBA free market has been lively.

首先是克里斯.韦伯以7年1亿2270万美元的天价与国王队续约，这是NBA有史以来的第二大的合同，仅次于森林狼队凯文.加内特的6年1亿2600万美元。

Since the opening of the trading market, nearly 20 teams have been in contact with Webber, and several of them are still Webber's favorite teams.But he still chose to stay in Sacramento, because of loyalty?No, because the Kings offered him the highest price!
Then, the New Yorkers also offered Alan Houston a maximum salary of 6 million US dollars for 1 years, successfully renewing the contract of the league's top shooting guard.

Last season, Houston averaged 18.7 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game, shooting 44.9% from the field and 38.1% from the three-point range.He is indeed a first-class shooting guard in the league, but he cannot be regarded as the best shooting guard, at least Iverson, Carter, Kobe and Tracy McGrady are not comparable to him.

Therefore, this is obviously a premium contract, but the "overflow" is not too much.

The Mavericks have also successfully renewed their contract with Michael Finley. His contract is $7 million for seven years, which is worth the money based on his performance last season.

In San Antonio, David Robinson and the team negotiated many times, and finally renewed his contract with 2 years and 2000 million US dollars.

这位传奇中锋虽然已经年满35岁，可他上赛季仍能场均贡献14.4分8.6篮板1.5助攻1.6抢断和2.5盖帽。“海军上将”确实老了，可他还是联盟里一流的内线防守高手，正值巅峰的邓肯身边不能没有他在一旁辅助。

In addition, Dikembe Mutombo, Aaron McGee and Teyron Hill, who became completely free agents this season, all successfully renewed their contracts with the 76ers.

The Raptors also retained the three most famous free agents in the team, they are Antonio Davis, Alvin Williams and Jerome Williams.

"Staying behind" has become the mainstream of this year's free market, especially some high-end free agents.

The main reason for such a large area of ​​"staying behind" is that the league will officially implement the "luxury tax" system next season. The 1:1 levy has seriously affected the normal operation of the team.

In fact, the Heat did not match Wang Dalin's contract, mainly for this reason.

In addition to these "left behind" in the free market, there are naturally a large number of transactions.

The first is Derek Anderson, the current No. 6 man on the Spurs. He forced the team to sign and trade him for six years and $4200 million, leaving the Spurs for the Trail Blazers.

In addition, the Raptors signed legendary center Hakeem Olajuwon for $4 million in four years, but Wang Dalin knew that Olajuwon would retire after this season.

In addition, Patrick Ewing, who is also about to retire, signed a contract with the Magic. The contract amount is 2 years and 460 million US dollars.For Ewing, who averaged 9.6 points and 7.4 rebounds last season, this is already the most decent contract he can get in the league so far.

Along with Ewing, the 36-year-old veteran Horace Grant also came to the Magic. His contract amount is 3 million U.S. dollars for three years, which is slightly higher than Ewing.

In addition, Joe Smith, who was nicknamed "the most mediocre No. 90 pick in the 6s", also signed a contract with the Timberwolves for 3400 years and [-] million US dollars.

Because of cheating with the Timberwolves, Smith was forced to leave the team, but when he left, he vowed to come back a year later.

Sure enough, Smith did come back a year later.I have to say, sometimes the communication between people...is just so congenial!
The biggest deal in the free market this year was born, that is, the Suns traded last season's assist king Jason Kidd and the Nets' Stephen Marbury, and the two exchanged clubs.

The Bulls were not to be outdone. They first signed the Hornets' restricted free agent Eddie Robinson to a five-year, $5 million contract, and then traded rookie forward Brian Skeener from the Raptors for Oakley and a 3200 second-round pick.

However, the Bulls made another deal that is incomprehensible. They actually traded Elton Brand from the Clippers for a second pick... One is an All-Star power forward with an average of 20+10 per game, and the other is a rookie who doesn't know how he will perform.
Of course, Wang Dalin knew that they had lost blood!

The NBA free market is buzzing, but all of this pales in comparison to the news that Michael Jordan is back with the Washington Wizards...

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