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Chapter 331 Sad for others, but wonderful for us
Chapter 3 Sad for Others, Beautiful for Us
Which was the most explosive trade at the beginning of the season?
Naturally, the Spurs sent away George Gervin, the first player in team history.

They sent the Iceman Gervin, who has always made the team a strong team from the ABA to the NBA, to the Bulls in exchange for David Greenwood.

It's a sad story. Gervin didn't rank in the top 20 in points per game last season, which the Spurs see as evidence of his decay.

The management hopes that he will retire in order to reduce the financial burden on the team. Gervin thinks he has worked hard and is eager to get a pension contract like other superstars who have dedicated their youth to the team⑴.

The Spurs are unwilling to give him a pension, and Gervin is unwilling to give up the million-dollar annual salary with a guaranteed amount of 70.

Therefore, the Spurs can only trade him.

The Bulls, who are eager to rise, are willing to be the receiver. After arriving in Chicago, Gervin said freely: "The Iceman has arrived in a new city and wants to meet some new friends. He is very excited and excited, and can't wait to start the new season."

You just need to know that he is the instigator of NBA stars using the second and third person to refer to themselves to achieve the effect of comparison.

Then Louie noticed a seemingly inconspicuous message.

The Houston Rockets waived Sam Mitchell.

Louis remembers that he later worked as a coach in the NBA. It is unclear what level he was as a player.

Standing two meters tall barefoot, Mitchell is a full-sized wing.

With the intention of testing the waters, Louis offered him a ten-day contract.

Next, the Knicks ushered in the second game of the season at home.

The opponent is the lost Spurs. They have a boss who refuses to spend money, and a management that claims to be a loyal dog of the boss.

Such a superstructure leads them to become a confused team.

The Knicks' new aid, Mitchell, performed mediocre. He was signed by Louis with the injury exception brought by Bernard King.

It can be seen that Mitchell plays very hard and is willing to use his brain, but his immediate combat ability at this stage cannot meet the standards of an NBA team.

Louis hopes that he will go to the Eastern Conference to exercise for a year, and maybe next year, he will sign Mitchell.

For economic reasons, Mitchell did not accept Louie's suggestion and chose to play overseas.

Louis had no choice but to wish him all the best, and then put the matter aside, at most it was to let Zhao Yuanzheng pay attention to Mitchell's performance in Europe.

Louis still has a special injury case in his hands. He wants to sign a defender or a forward.

After multiple inquiries, he found that John Paxson, who he once coached, is currently out of business.

His contract expired this summer, and the Celtics did not reach an extension with him.

It's no wonder that the Celtics are now tight in salary space. Bird, Sampson, and Thomas all have million-level contracts, and this is not counting Lambiel, Long, Wharton, Angie and others.

The Celtics are cunning. They don't sign Paxson, and they refuse to give up his priority to renew his contract.

So every team that wanted to sign Paxson had to call the Greek Academy office and ask if they could let him go.

This is a historical legacy after the Robertson case abolished the reservation agreement.

Although the player is free, it is not completely free.

The existence of the priority renewal right makes the initiative always in the hands of the team.

The compensation mechanism is the stupidest, but Louis very much hopes to use this mechanism in the relationship between men and women.

For example, if Li Pi wants to date your ex-girlfriend, but you don't agree, unless he gives you money or trades his ex-girlfriend to you.

What kind of world would that be?
As expected, Jane Walker put forward a condition that made Louis helpless, regardless of the friendship of his former colleagues: "Lu, if you want John, you must give us a first-round pick."

"Don't be ridiculous, I'll give you $10 in cash compensation at most, and nothing else." How could Louis send a first-round pick for a Paxson.

"If you don't agree, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do," Volker said.

"You don't need John at all now. He is in a state of suspension. If you don't give up the priority to renew the contract, he won't be able to go anywhere. Is there such a thing? Who will send a first-round pick for him?" Louis was furious.

Walker knows that Louis is right, but he is now representing the Celtics: "I am not the only one who has the final say on this matter."

"Then tell the old man who has the final say. I can't give you anything more than 10 US dollars in cash compensation. I'll give you an answer within a day. If it doesn't work, just pretend that I didn't make this call." Louis hung up the phone voluntarily.

Auerbach is a beast that eats people without spitting out bones, and Louis' threats can't scare him.

Paxson played a good performance in the Celtics for a few years, but unfortunately, his best performance remained in the Louie era.

In just one year, he was repeatedly dispatched by Louis as a surprise soldier at critical moments.

Louis' successor, KC Jones, is a steady coach who doesn't take risks easily. He would rather shorten the rotation and not give the Paxsons a chance to perform.

That led to Paxson's marginalization on the Boston team.

It's not that no one wants Paxson, it's because the Celtics refuse to give up the right to renew the contract first, so he has no place to play.

So Louie is annoyed, that's not how business is done.

Players have the ability to play, but you have to hold on to it. Obviously you can't use it, but you still delay others. Is this a human thing?

Half an hour later, Louis received a call.

Walker gave the latest plan, the Knicks can sign Paxson at a price of $10 in cash + first-round pick swap.

"It seems that what I just said was not clear enough."

Louis patted the table and said loudly: "This is my last offer, 10 dollars in cash, nothing else. You don't need John. In fact, we don't need it that much. I just want to have one more acquaintance. If you don't care about his years of hard work for you and insist on delaying his youth, then please do it. I have no regrets."

By the way, Louis also laughed at Volker: "Mr. Jane, you are really useless. I heard that the old man had an operation in the summer and almost died. Why is he still so strong in controlling the team?"

Volker had long accepted that he was a doll until Auerbach retired.

Lu Yi's banter, he just took it as the wind blowing in his ears: "Goodbye, Lu."

Later, Louie heard that Paxson had signed with the Blazers.

Portland paid $10 in cash plus a second-round pick.

Typical Auerbach style.

In fact, he had already done the same operation once.

Another guard of the Celtics, Gerald Henderson, who claims to be the only one in the league who can control Isiah Thomas, wants to sign a big contract of 50.Auerbach certainly refused to offer such a big contract to a backup guard.

So the team won two consecutive championships, and Henderson became a restricted free agent.

He was one of those very attractive players that the Sonics signed him for a 1986 first-round pick.

The deal terrified Louis.

Why?Louis had such an idea at the time.

Why would the Sonics dare to send out the first round of next year for a Henderson?
They only won 31 wins last season, fifth from the bottom in the league. They did not introduce any big names during the offseason. They selected Xavier McDaniel with the fourth pick in the first round, and exchanged him for Jim Paxson, a mature All-Star, on draft day.Can he help the Sonics get out of trouble?

And look at the GM who made the deal: Lester Habegger, who has been the Sonics' GM since 1977, didn't get operational authority until last year.

Then he did this shitty job.

It is both ordinary and confident.

Sometimes Louis really doubts that Auerbach's outstanding performance in the past few decades is because there are only a handful of general managers with an IQ over 100 in the entire league?
Otherwise, there is really no way to explain those seemingly outrageous operations.

The strange thing is that when Louie wants to do something, his opponents are always on the alert.

All he met seemed to be smart people, when could there be a fool?When will a pie drop from the sky?He also wants to trade a player of Henderson's level for a lottery pick.

If it can be changed, a bunch of people on the Knicks team can be exchanged.

What is it if you don't make the playoffs for two consecutive years?Give him a few more lottery picks, and his crew is up.

At that time, the flying sword will start, and the sword will point to the champion.

Louis was looking forward to it, maybe his power of thought was too strong, maybe God heard his call, or maybe it was just a certain city that deserved bad luck.

In the third game of the new season of the Cleveland Cavaliers, against the Nets, the team's core player Bill Cartwright suffered a fracture.

What is worrying is that the fracture site is exactly the same as the one injured in New York last year.

"The more unfortunate news for the Cavaliers is that New York has the option to swap their first-round picks for the next two years."

"Does God hate the Cleveland Cavaliers?"

It's sad that the Cavaliers are struggling to get out of the Steppy era, and now they are falling into the same hell.

Losing the best player on the team, relying on a patchwork of role players and lacking talent in recruits, how can the record be guaranteed?

Louis, who heard the news, had nothing to say. Sometimes, you can't stop luck when it comes.

Elgin Baylor stormed into his office cheering, opened two Cokes to celebrate: "This is a free opportunity!"

"Don't you don't drink Coke?" Louis asked.

"I have to drink a Coke for a disaster that is sad for others but wonderful for us!" Baylor said excitedly.

Sad for others, but wonderful for us.

What a great line that perfectly sums up the Knicks and Cavaliers' current situation.

⑴ In the same summer, the Lakers renewed the 38-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's contract for 1 year and 200 million.

(End of this chapter)