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Chapter 1484 Let's Make a Deal You'll Regret Later
Within a few days, Chris Webber announced his next home.

He signed with the New York Knicks for $7 million over seven years.

In order to sign Webber, the Knicks did a lot of internal work, the most difficult of which was persuading Ewing to cut his salary.

Ewing, who decided to fight for another year, wanted an annual salary of tens of millions. When he heard that the team was going to introduce Webber, he rarely retreated in terms of money.

Ewing told management to give Webb the price he wanted and leave him alone.

Ewing's choice brought his playing career to a happy ending.

He will die in New York.

After Webber signed, Ewing immediately announced his return at a price of $1 million for one year.

And, he held a press conference very formally, saying that the 2001-2002 season will be his last season.He will fight for the championship as always.

Unlike a rich and attractive team like the Knicks, even if the Celtics are rich, it is difficult to attract others.

Joe Dumars' first recruiting object was Heat hero Stephen Jackson who had just become a free agent.

Wu Sheng, who is very satisfied in Miami, has never considered leaving Miami.

He flatly rejected the Celtics, turned around and signed a five-year, $5 million contract extension with the Heat.

The pursuit of Wu Sheng failed, and Dumars went to pursue combo guard Kendall Gill.

Obviously the Celtics offered an annual salary of tens of millions of dollars, but Jill said with a sense of honor: "I will not join a hopeless team for money."

Then, he reached a three-year, $76 million contract with the Philadelphia 3ers.

He would rather take the 76 million of the 500ers than the 1000 million of the Celtics.

Dumars asked all over the free market and finally found a star player who was willing to come to Boston.

His name was Latrell Sprewell.

Sprewell has been fighting for his human rights since he received a long suspension for "fondling" his boss's neck a few years ago, fighting several years of legal battles that, while victorious, have disfigured his career.

While some teams are willing to take him, no team will really see him as a long-term asset to the team.

When the Celtics offered him a three-year, $3 million contract, he took it.

The reporter asked him, how does it feel to play for Boston?
"I don't know, I don't understand there, I just need to support my family."

Knowing that Sprewell was coming, Louis gave Thomas a neck collar as a gift.

After that, Louis began to formally talk about Ginobili on the phone with Zhao Yuanzheng.

When Louis talked about Ginobili, Zhao Yuanzheng suddenly realized.

He knew that this was Luigi's purpose, and he also knew that Luigi was bound to win Ginobili.

In recent years, Zhao Yuanzheng has been following up the two Argentine players selected by the Lakers.He still believes that as long as Pablo Priginho improves his confrontation, he is also a very useful pure point guard in the NBA, especially for a team with a lot of star players like the Lakers, which needs a dealer who does not take the right to shoot.

Similarly, Zhao Yuanzheng's judgment on Ginobili has not changed.

He always believes that the physical fitness of European players cannot support him to play the same performance in the NBA.

The European players who really make a difference in the NBA are basically Kukoc, Schramf, Sabonis, Bodi Loga, and Nowitzki, who are not outstanding in physical fitness but have outstanding skills.

However, he has been with Louis for so many years, and he is very clear about the other party's vision.

What kind of player is it that after Louis leaves the Lakers, he still misses him and wants to bring him there?

"Old Lu, just tell me what you can give for him." Zhao Yuanzheng asked bluntly.

Louis smiled and said, "Old Zhao, how many years have we been friends? Don't you know what I can give you? Except for the rookies I selected this year, you can say whatever you want."

Zhao Yuanzheng scanned the players on the list and found that apart from rookies, the Celtics really had nothing the Lakers needed.

Zhao Yuanzheng didn't want to be ruined because of Ginobili's deal, but he also had to give Louis this face.

After all, what Louis wants is just an Argentine player who has been drafted for a few years but still does not plan to play in the NBA. Maybe he will never play in the NBA for the rest of his life.

It can be said that if you want to give a favor, Zhao Yuanzheng can give it for nothing.

But he knew who Louis was all too well.

If he is not sure that Ginobili can become a talent, he will not pull his face and ask for a trade.

Zhao Yuanzheng took a deep breath, and quoted a fierce price: "Give me a random player, and then bring two first-round picks along with it."

An overseas player gets two first-round picks?

Louis feels that if this deal is done, the alliance will investigate overnight whether there is any ulterior motive between him and Zhao Yuanzheng.

"Old Zhao, this deal is not easy to do." Louis said, "I think your asking price is reasonable, and in my heart, Ginobili is also worthy of this price. But his value is only known to you and to outsiders. What will others think when they see this deal?"

Zhao Yuanzheng had to admit that Louis was right, but he was necessary in the first two rounds, so don't feel insecure.

In case the deal is lost, he can still use these two first rounds to explain.

"Well, besides Ginobili, you give me another player." Louis said, "Give me Hedo Turkoglu, so the transaction looks normal."

The alarm sounded in Zhao Yuanzheng's heart. Hedo Turkoglu has shown certain strength in the Lakers in the past few years, but because he is a tall third position, he overlaps with Artest's position. If he is placed at the fourth position, there will be Malone and Rashard Lewis.

It is not impossible to trade him.

But Louis's tone of voice was too familiar to him now.

That's the tone Louie used in those years when he said "this is a win-win deal" to the person on the phone.

"Old Lu, you won't cheat me, will you?"

"Let me tell you the truth, you will definitely regret this deal in the future, but at least it seems that you are the one who took advantage." Louis said, "I watched your games last season. Turkoglu had no room to play in your team. In our team, he will have more opportunities, and of course he will perform better."

Louis continued to draw cakes for his good brother: "If our performance in the new season is not as expected, wouldn't you make a lot of money? It's a lottery pick!"

Zhao Yuanzheng asked unexpectedly: "Are you planning to sign me in the first round of 2002?"

"Yes, how about it? Do you want to make this deal? Let's have a quick talk."

At this point, Zhao Yuanzheng could only agree.

Like Louis said, he will regret this deal later.

On July 7, the Celtics and the Lakers announced their deal.

The Celtics sent Danny Fortson PF, a 2002 first-round pick, and a 2006 first-round pick to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for the signing rights of Hedo Turkoglu and Manuel Ginobili.

When the deal was finalized, critics agreed that Louie was betting on Turkoglu and completely ignoring Ginobili.

At the same time, it was also this transaction that made some people discover for the first time that the proportion of blacks in the Celtics team is approaching the lowest point since 1958.

Among the existing list of 13 people, the only pure blacks are Gerald Wallace, Shandon Anderson and Sprewell, and Tony Parker and Carlos Arroyo are both fake blacks who have been mixed to the point of losing their black signs.

After this deal, Louis will be on vacation.

There are still two places left, so Dumars and Thomas are tossing about. There is only one requirement, to sign a short contract.

Even if God came down to play, he had to sign a short contract.

(End of this chapter)