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Chapter 1387 It's hard, Mr. Great Dan
The men's basketball team led by Louie will play seven warm-up games against several NCAA teams in Los Angeles.

At this point, the sports world has accepted this fact.

Legend Lu is both the coach of the Lakers and the coach of the Chinese team, so there will be no problem.

In the days when the incident happened, it was still a hot news, but now it is nothing.

Not only did people not want to get to the bottom of it, they also wanted to know how Louie felt about Tyson biting Evander Holyfield's ear off in a fight last month (exaggerated questioning).

Louie smiled and replied, "I don't know, but I know Rudy will be happy about it."

Rudy Tomjanovich didn't have time to be happy about it.

Because since the offseason, his life has changed a lot.

The team offered him a four-year, $4 million contract extension.

After thinking about it, Tomjanovich still signed.

Although the Knicks have a lot of troublesome things, this team still has prospects. The iron triangle of Ewing, Miller, and Stockton is enough to guarantee the bottom line.

It's a pity that the successor Kemp has fled to Vancouver.

Tomjanovich's contract extension kicked off the 1997 offseason drama.

Sending Kemp away, choosing McGrady, and renewing Tomjanovich are all wise moves. Now, the Knicks still need to do one last thing-send away Scottie Pippen.

Pippen's contract is very long, and it is not difficult to sell.

His problems with the Knicks are not a problem for the teams that want him.

After all, trying to renege on a negotiated contract and negotiate a new contract like the Knicks is a major "innovation" since the establishment of the NBA, but no normal management can do this kind of thing.

After the Knicks put Pippen on the shelves, there were endless people who came to ask the price.

The offer that really comes into the sight of the Knicks management has to be the Heat and the Celtics.

It's very simple for the Heat. Lewis Shafier offered to trade Danny Manning and Scottie Pippen for one.

It's hard not to be tempted by the Knicks.

After sending Kemp away, they lack a reliable starting candidate at the power forward position. If Manning can be there, it can really be a seamless connection.

The biggest problem is that Manning has a terrible reputation.

Moreover, Tomjanovich also asked Louie about the deal.

Louie, who was busy with the men's basketball team, heard about the deal and thought that Shafier was really a bad boy. Although Pippen was not a good bird, Manning was a cancer.

What he did in Miami says enough.

Having said that, the Knicks are still tempted by Manning.

However, Manning's salary prevented the transaction from advancing.

Manning holds the largest contract today, with an annual salary of $2000 million next season.

If the Knicks want to trade with them, they have to raise a few million dollars in chips, and it is bound to bring those young players with sustainable development potential, which is not worth it.

Therefore, the deal between the Knicks and the Heat failed to advance.

They also escaped a catastrophe of destroying the team.

The Knicks turned to talk to the Celtics.

The Celtics shot Grant Hill.

This is also a deal that makes people laugh. Wasn't Hill traded because he couldn't meet the Knicks' requirements?
No, no, think about it carefully. In order to get Pippen, the Knicks sent Hill to the Celtics in exchange for the third pick (Garnett), and then traded from the Lakers to Pippen through the third pick.Now, they want to send Pippen to the Celtics in exchange for Hill, who had a good life in Boston.

Celtics deputy general manager Isiah Thomas said: "We want to win in the moment!"

上赛季，现年25岁的希尔场均18分7篮板6助攻，而现年32岁的皮彭在不到40场比赛里场均14分6篮板6助攻。

Then, Thomas said they were going to win in the moment.

Knicks, who wants both the present and the future, nodded repeatedly, yes, yes, you are right.

The speed of this transaction was beyond imagination. The Knicks, who were determined to make the team younger, reached a deal with the Celtics after two days of discussions.

The Knicks traded Scottie Pippen and Sam Cassell for Grant Hill and Christian Laettner.

It seems that Ni and Kai are getting what they want.

The Celtics got what they wanted immediately and added to their guard -- Sam Cassell is an underrated guard, and for the Knicks, it's a good idea to have such a guy off the bench. A player is too extravagant.Stockton seems to be able to play for another four or five years, and Cassell definitely can't afford to wait, so he was sent together, and Laettner was also earned in Hill's deal to reinforce the fourth position , It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

For the Celtics, although it is nonsensical to exchange Hill for Pippen, considering the former's stealth performance in the finals, it is not too bad to exchange him for Pippen, who has proven himself in the playoffs.If you don't consider the future, Pippen is the most suitable role as the third child between Malone and Sampson.

Getting Kassel is a stroke of genius.

Laettner had already had conflicts with Malone, and as a sixth man, there was no chemical reaction. Bringing him in exchange for a promising young guard is a sure-fire deal.

No matter how you look at it, this deal is a win-win.

That's how it works if you don't open your eyes.

But the biggest question is, can Scottie Pippen really be the No. [-] player as the Celtics management thinks?

This is no longer what Louis cares about. He only knows that the Knicks may make a comeback in the new season. However, no matter how they operate, they can only repair the original lineup.

Hill will not super-evolve because of his return to New York. McGrady is not ready yet. Relying on the old three of Ewing, Miller, and Stockton can guarantee the basic set, but after strengthening Duncan and Bodi Loga In front of the Lakers, there is basically no resistance left.

After that, the satisfied Knicks still reorganized the lineup, basically no major operations.

They cleaned up all the cancers visible to the naked eye, changed the roster, slashed the salary cap, made the team's financial pressure plummet, and planted the seeds for the future.

If Louie has the right to vote, next year's General Manager of the Year, he will definitely give RC Buford a vote.

Comrade RC is not easy. There are so many people who are holding back, but they insist on turning the dead chess into a living chess.

As for the Heat, because the deal between Manning and Pippen failed, Shafier basically gave up getting an equivalent return in Manning's deal.

The Suns popped up and offered to trade Dell Curry, Eddie Jones and a 2000 first-round pick for Danny Manning.

When the quotation first came out, Shafier thought he had heard it wrong.

After confirming again and again, it was indeed the three melons and dates reported by the Sun, which immediately made Shafier doubt Manning's value.

If Manning is worth this chip, it might as well keep him on his own team.

At this time, the Timberwolves who had been watching the wind for a long time came out.

Kevin McHale offered Juwan Howard, Amon Gilliam, and a 2002 first-round pick for Manning.

After thinking hard for a long time, Shafier struggled with the Timberwolves and asked for an extra first-round pick in 1998 before gritting his teeth and agreeing to the deal.

This is the day when the history of cosmic heat comes to an end.

The Heat sent Danny Manning to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for Juwan Howard, Amon Gilliam, 1998 and 2002 first-round picks.

On the day the Heat sent Manning away, Shafier had an in-depth conversation with Petrovic's agent, and the two sides reached an agreement on the numbers.

That night, the Heat announced that they had reached a four-year, $4 million contract extension with Dragan Petrovic.

This is different from what Shafier and Louis said at the beginning, sending Petrovic away in a signed exchange.

The Heat kept Petrovic.

The Knicks and the Heat have attracted people's attention with various deals, and the Blazers, who also need to make a big breakthrough, delivered all the rights that can be severed during months of negotiations with Rick Pitino .

In early August, Rick Pitino appeared in the Portland Trail Blazers' press conference with countless halos.

Owner Paul Allen attended the press conference, and Jack Brewer, vice president of operations, told reporters: "Coach Pitino will not only be our head coach, but also our general manager, president, and team leader. Chairman."

So, the reporter asked Pitino: "Coach Pitino, how will you reverse the problems left by the Pat Riley era?"

"Don't worry, ma'am." Pitino smiled amiably. "Problems don't arise in a day, and they can't go away in a day. Coach Riley is a great coach. He has gone far enough and has a lot of problems." This time, he was one last step away from success. That's why I came to Portland, and I'm going to take this team and take that last step."

A required course for a college coach who is used to being the protagonist of the stage is to insist on saying things that make people happy when everything is okay.

Today, Rick Pitino gave the Portland media and all the Trail Blazers fans who paid attention to this matter a refreshing feeling.

They all thought in their hearts, maybe, the Pitinopin era will be completely different from the Riley era?
Maybe this new coach, who is as elegant as a gentleman, can lead us to success?
You want to know what Louie thinks about this?
At the time of the incident, Louis had just won three consecutive US warm-up matches.

He learned about it through the newspapers.

After reading it, he folded the newspaper and burned it with a lighter.

It's hard, Mr. Dan, just finished the training maniac, and now we're coming back to the full-court pressing maniac with inflated self-confidence, how can the 35-year-old you bear it?

Louie would have played baseball, really.

(End of this chapter)