Basketball injuries only make me stronger

Chapter 109 Final Destination

Lian Feng proposed his intention to CAA.

However, CAA doesn't think the Rockets are a wise choice.As a brokerage company, they are profit-driven.

The Rockets already have Yao Ming, and Lian Feng couldn't be the first core in the past, so his commercial value will inevitably be reduced.To give full play to Lian Feng's Chinese advantage, it is best to join a team without other Chinese.

Moreover, this is also more in the interests of the alliance.

Lian Feng and Yao Ming are in different teams, and the attention they bring to the entire NBA must be greater than that of the two on the same team.

However, at Lian Feng's request, CAA agreed to negotiate with the Rockets management on his behalf.

Compared with the few teams that offered invitations, joining the Rockets is obviously much more difficult.

For this reason, Lian Feng also specially called Yao Ming, hoping that Yao Ming could help him influence the Rockets.

However, CAA brought the Rockets' response, which made Lian Feng's mood fall directly to the bottom: "They said that they will consider it. If they think it is okay, they will reply before the end of the invitation period."

Obviously, the Rockets' communication intentions are not strong.

Suddenly, Lian Feng realized a big problem. The Rockets really needed a shooting guard. From his own point of view, there was nothing wrong with choosing him.However, from the perspective of the Rockets, this is not the case at all!

Where is the problem?

That is... In the eyes of the Rockets, Lian Feng at this time has no three-point ability!

And now, the Rockets urgently need someone who can open up space for the team.Lian Feng's attacking ability and mid-range ability are similar to Yao Ming's ability, but the passing ability has a little value, but this value is obviously not enough for the Rockets to make up their minds to offer Lian Feng a poison contract!
You must know that although the poison contract is not harmful to poaching people, it also has great hidden dangers for the team itself.The Rockets that poached Jeremy Lin almost suffered the backlash of the poison contract in the later stage, which affected the operation of the entire team.

Thinking of this, Lian Feng finally understood that his thinking was too simple after all.

After Lian Feng figured this out, he was relieved.The only small regret is that if he can't partner with Yao Ming, it will be difficult for him to make further progress in his NBA career.

However, Lian Feng believes that "helping Yao Ming go further in the NBA" is actually the wishful thinking of many fans.

You know, Yao Ming's goal is not at all the glory of the NBA.In his eyes, national honor is higher.Compared to winning an NBA championship, he hopes to lead the national team to a world championship!
When he suffered a stress fracture that year, his first thought was not the glory of the NBA, but whether he could participate in the Olympics.He said: "If I can't participate in the Beijing Olympics, it will be the biggest regret in my life."

After all, there are only a small number of people who watch the NBA in China, but once an international basketball game is played, those who watch the ball, those who don’t, the teenagers who play, the aunts who dance in the square... almost all Chinese will pay attention!
It is difficult for ordinary people to understand the family and country feelings of Yao Ming's generation of basketball players.For Yao Ming, playing in the NBA is only a way to improve the level of the national men's basketball team.

Therefore, if you really want to give Yao Ming a good ending, instead of helping him win a championship, it is better to play a good result in the national team with him!

After figuring this out, Lian Feng no longer struggled, and seriously thought about the situation of those invited teams.

黄蜂队开出的是500+540+1260，总价值2300万的毒药合同，平均每个赛季会占用700多万薪资空间。

This season, without a forward, the Hornets will use their $1755 million in cap space to sign free agents Peja Stojakovic and Bobby Jackson.

But if he chooses to join the Hornets, the above deal will naturally not exist.

Pejastojakovic is a pure shooter, but his defensive efficiency is too low and the cost performance is not high.But Bobby is quite well-behaved. After having himself, his existence will be useless.

He will take up more than 700 million salary space of the Hornets, so there is still more than 1000 million space left, which is enough to reinforce one or two excellent champion puzzles!

As for which free agents are on the trade market this year... Lian Feng still needs to think about it.

Another very sincere invitation team is the Bobcats. They offered a big poison contract of 500+500+1500.Compared with the Hornets, they have more salary space, a full 2000 million!
However, after Lian Feng thought about it, he denied Shanmao.

Although the Bobcats have a lot of salary space at this time, as a young team, they have inherent shortcomings compared to other teams. Their salary cap in the first year is only 2/3 of other teams.

In other words, the total salary of all the players of the Bobcats is only more than 1000 million.The main force of this team is basically some college students or role players who are eager to make their mark in other teams.

If Lian Feng joins the Bobcats, the remaining salary of more than 1000 million yuan will not bring about any revolutionary improvement. It means that he will play games with a group of CBA-level teammates for a long time. Then his ending can refer to Kobe Bryant in the last two seasons.

Judging from Lian Feng's current ability, it is much worse than Kobe.

As for the other two teams, the Hawks and Raptors, similar to the situation with the Bobcats, there is no possibility of a championship.

After a season of training, Lian Feng has a deeper understanding of the NBA.I can't help but sigh that if a team wants to win the championship, it is difficult to achieve it only by operations. There must be a talent who can change the fate of the team.

That's why the draft is so important.

The value that a talented rookie brings to the team is not just as simple as reinforcement.A rookie who can become the core, and his price is cheap, then the team will have more salary space to reinforce, which is an advantage that transfer stars do not have.

This year is a standard draft year, and the Hornets selected the player with the 15th pick is Cedric Simmons, a not-so-good power forward.

It's a pity that Lian Feng failed to receive an invitation before the draft, otherwise he could persuade the team to use the No. 15 pick to intercept Hu Long's guidance and play Paul as a substitute, which is also a good choice.

In the end, Lian Feng had nothing to worry about.

He called CAA and explained his wishes.

In the end, Lian Feng accepted the invitation of the Hornets. If the 76ers refuse to match within the time limit, then this transfer will be successfully concluded.

At the same time, Lian Feng's deal has not yet been reached, which has completely detonated the news media.

Iguodala called the first time. He was very reluctant to leave Lian Feng, but he still understood that this matter was not the reason for Lian Feng.To blame can only be blamed for a stupid move by the management.And their tricks are far more than that... Iguodala and Lian Feng chatted for a long time, and finally sincerely wished: "Brother, I wish you good luck! No matter what, we have to keep in touch! Remember my words, and our two greeting gestures!"

Lian Feng suddenly felt a little melancholy, and said seriously: "Brother, I will! You too!"

And Paul also called immediately. He was so excited that Lian Feng could even feel Paul dancing on the other end of the phone: "Dude, I knew you would make the most correct choice! Let us create a great dynasty together! There is no doubt that we will succeed!"

Lian Feng laughed: "Don't be too happy. The 76ers didn't make it clear that they would not match this contract!"

"Wait and see! They're not smart enough to do it."

Sure enough, as Paul predicted, until the end of the deadline, the 76ers did not respond.During the period, they negotiated with CAA, but it was nothing serious, and they did not really advance the progress of the matter at all.

In this way, Lian Feng finally joined the Hornets.

It was just the beginning of July.Lian Feng's body has recovered, but it is not suitable to be exposed.And his arena was finally completed.

So next... it's time to start choosing skills!

(End of this chapter)