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Chapter 465 Transaction Vulnerabilities
From the moment Danny Ferry's trade report was mentioned, the entire Cleveland management team has started to study it. The sense of urgency that the NBA schedule is about to enter January has forced this group of management guys to Make a decision in the shortest possible time. After all, there are not a few people who are aiming at the Wizards personnel adjustment opportunities like them. Otherwise, if they want to strengthen their team's internal strength, they basically have to wait for the summer transfer market.

But if we really have to wait until the transfer market reopens, maybe even they themselves will become prey in the eyes of others. Without a good result as a guarantee, maybe Cleveland will really lose the ownership of the little emperor this summer. For Cleveland as a whole, it is definitely a disaster that no one can recover. You must know that in this league, it is not as simple as one or two teams that are ignorant of the little emperor. A lot of people are waiting for the Cavaliers to be unlucky , including that James Dolan who kept waving checks on TV, he never gave up the dream of seducing a big name, the Cavaliers without the little emperor LeBron James, may be with the now disintegrated Washington Wizards Similarly, becoming a team that began to rebuild the framework at the bottom of the league basically means that the Cavaliers' desire to reach the top of the NBA has all come to naught.

Cavaliers boss Gilbert will not allow such a thing to happen in his team, he does not want to appear in public as a tragic figure who is ridiculed, he can be willing to spend a lot of money for the little emperor James built a Cavaliers team that belongs to him, which has already determined that this guy is no worse than any NBA owner in terms of spending money. He has never been stingy in terms of team sports investment.

O'Neal's salary of 2000 million, James' salary of 500 million, and Ilgauskas' contract of more than 1000 million. In addition, Mo Williams' salary is close to 800 million. The Cavaliers also have Several players with middle-class annual salaries, including Brazilian striker Varejao, who Gilbert left with a contract of more than [-] million annual salary this summer, although few knowledgeable people think that many signings of this guy seem to be taken for granted, but No one denies that Gilbert is a boss who is willing to spend money, especially when the little emperor makes a request, he will give a very happy answer, even if the Cavaliers have invested a lot of money in salary in recent years. It has become a wasted investment, and Gilbert has never had any complaints. In his opinion, being able to retain their biggest hope for Cleveland is already an absolute success.

However, it is absolutely impossible for the little emperor to become a guy like Ma Long. The pursuit of honor is what he desires most now, and it is also one of the important conditions for him to exist at the peak of the league as a representative of the post-Jordan era. As a peak that he must surpass, Kobe Bryant already has four championship rings, and he was able to get the most valuable player trophy in the finals with the Heat, which is for the little emperor himself , is a very big stimulus. Don’t forget, before the rise of the Heat last year, the hottest topic in the entire league was who can conquer the current NBA world, and the peak matchup of 23VS24 was endlessly hyped by the media , but what about the final outcome?
The chaotic battle between the Cavaliers and the Heat completely subverted the pre-written script. Even David Stein, the supreme ruler of the league, can only sit in his office and lament his most promising matchup Being spoiled by those lunatics in Miami, but at that time, few people may be more depressed than the little emperor who sat on the sidelines and watched the Miami people ravage. He worked hard for a season, but at the last minute, he was used in such a way It is impossible for him to be reconciled to such a defeat. Although he knows that in the first matchup, the entire Miami Heat's defense against him can be described as a net, but powerlessness and helplessness are two fundamentally different things. concept.

This is the last year of the little emperor's big contract with the Cavaliers. He doesn't want to accept a top salary with nothing. Not very attractive, he may be the guy with the highest income in the entire NBA now, so what he desperately needs now is a championship, he must shut up those who question his ability, even if he uses half of this summer The way of coercion has no room for negotiation when bargaining with the Cavaliers' top management, that is, because his desire for a championship has reached a point where he cannot back down. For James, there is not much time to prove his worth up.

Originally, the Cavaliers’ gamble this summer seemed a bit hasty. Facts have proved that the big shark they chased has lost its former sharpness, which made the entire Cavaliers fall into a passive position at the initial stage. The results are still in the top four positions, but after facing the big man of the Lakers Twin Towers and the Miami Heat, their weak inside line has been endlessly magnified, and now Gilbert may only have a choice. With the deal on his table, the Cavaliers boss has very few choices.

What is the difference between the 7500 million salary package and 8500 million?That's the value of Antawn Jamison. For the only available big man in the transfer market, the Cavaliers have no other alternatives. They have tried to reach him at the beginning of the regular season. Stoudemire, who has regained his form in Phoenix, unfortunately, the little bully who is used to running and bombing in the Suns does not want to leave at all. After all, Nash is getting older, and the future of the Suns belongs to Stoudemire. Yes, he doesn't want to be familiar with other environments, and he doesn't think that the Suns' performance is worse than that of the Cavaliers. There is still a gap between the boss and the second child. Such refusal blocks more options for the Cavaliers. There is room, since they have gambled so thoroughly, Gilbert has no other choice but to continue to raise. Unless he can see a miracle happen in Cleveland, otherwise, with the current lineup of the Cavaliers, It is difficult to kill the encirclement and suppression of the other three teams.

Lin Yi of the Miami Heat, Perkins, Garnett and Rasheed Wallace of the Celtics, Howard of the Magic, the twin towers of the Lakers plus Odom, look at yourself The opponents that may have to face, those tough big men have brought too much trouble to the Cavaliers, the fatal injury inside has been entangled with the Cavaliers for too long, even with O'Neal as a buffer, it can't solve this problem all the time The problem that plagued the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers once fell to Duncan in the finals. Last season, they were repeatedly ravaged by the inside monster of the Magic and the big man of Miami. Now they can have An opportunity for them to strengthen their internal strength, which they will never let go.

Antawn Jamison, a practical guy, has been brought into the sight of Cleveland people, but the question that plagues the entire Cavaliers management now is who can they send away in exchange for this guy, after all, Jamison is now the remaining two The cumulative annual contract will be 2800 million. Now it is not so easy to find such a trade partner with the same conditions from the Cavaliers. As for the kind of potential stocks that the Wizards want, the Cavaliers will not have it. Here There are only a group of guys who can build a tactical system around the little emperor, and there are no young people at all. Unless those Washingtonians think that someone like Daniel Gibson can serve as a potential stock, otherwise don't expect to be dug from the Cavaliers. What a treasure.

The only way I can think of now may be to use a person with an annual salary of tens of millions to trade with the Washington Wizards with other teams. Since there are no qualified young players, it is the most practical way to make room for the Washingtonians. There is only one reply from Gilbert to Danny Ferry, which is to ask him to minimize the loss of his team's strength and get the deal done without a large-scale exchange of players, even if it is a part of cash or Any draft picks in the future are fine, even paying some luxury taxes to the league is not a problem. As long as he can successfully sign back an inside helper for the little emperor, Gilbert is willing to pay a certain loss. All he wants is the final result. process can be ignored.

After obtaining the permission of his team's high-level executives, Danny Ferry has already started to carry out this potential transaction. As for who will be selected from the existing contract to execute, maybe only he knows, but he knows very well that he is now What to consider, now no matter who has a big contract, you can let go. As long as the team's internal strength is obviously improved, and the impetuous mood of the little emperor is stabilized, everything will become a reasonable choice. With a long list of players in his hands, Danny Ferry fell into contemplation. He needs to find the most reasonable way to trade, and make this deal while keeping the overall framework of his team as much as possible. Maybe sometimes he takes risks It is also worth it.

48 hours later, the choice of the Cleveland people finally revealed the final answer. This may be the fastest transaction process ever conducted by the Cavaliers. This is a miracle for the Cleveland people who have always been very inefficient. From the possibility of Ni Ferry proposing the transaction until Gilbert finally confirmed that the transaction can be carried out, they spent no more than [-] hours in total. If Gilbert's younger brother had such a transaction speed, it is very likely that MR. Huang's acquisition The action has been declared a success, but now Mr. Huang is no longer interested in the Cavaliers. The Miami Heat will reward him the most. After all, in that ancient land, there is no one more marketable than Lin Yi. appeal.

However, it was not the local media in Cleveland that first reported the results of this transaction, but the Washington Post, which explained the occurrence of such a big transaction with a bright headline on its sports page, Cleveland Cavaliers The Washington Wizards and Los Angeles Clippers have reached an agreement on a three-way deal through which the Cavaliers will get Jamison and Telfair, the Clippers will get Gooden, and the Wizards will get Ilgauskas, Al Thornton and a future first-round pick for the Cavaliers and the right to sign Slovenian forward Emile Pledjic, who was picked by the Cavaliers in the second round in 09, is a difficult deal for Washington fans. , But they understood that when Arenas was suspended indefinitely, the entire Wizards team had completely collapsed, and these potential transactions could happen at any time, but they didn't expect it to be so soon.

However, those teams that rank relatively high in the Eastern Conference have smelled bad taste from such transactions, including the Miami Heat. It is obvious that the Cavaliers' transactions are aimed at their own internal defects. , and letting go of Big Z in exchange for Jamison is a very worthwhile deal. After all, compared with Big Z who has begun to decline in old age, Jamison's offensive ability and rebounding ability will be stronger. It is not good news for the teams that sniped the little emperor and the shark counterattack. The strengthening of the enemy is the weakening of their own strength. Few teams are willing to see more and more helpers around the little emperor. Now the Cavaliers The team undoubtedly added a sharp edge.

Although Pat Riley does not want to see the strength of the Cavaliers greatly improved, he has the same idea as other teams. The Cavaliers have an owner who is willing to spend money to enhance the strength of the team. How do they choose their own? There is no problem with any trading method. Although an opponent does not want to see his opponent get supplements, no one will criticize such a transaction. The NBA becomes competitive because it is full of transaction variables. There are such hot scenes, but what these teams need to start paying attention to is the possible outbreak period of the Cavaliers.

If this deal ends here, everyone may regard it as an easy deal, but twelve hours after the Wizards got Ilgauskas, the Washingtonians announced that they had bought out Ilgoskas. For the remaining contract of Skas, the big Z who had just been traded to the Wizards instantly became a free agent. According to news, this deal is equivalent to the current third-ranked Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference getting Jamison with only one draft pick and two fringe players, and the price they pay is nothing more than a small luxury tax and Two innocuous players, and Big Z will return to Cleveland, if all this comes true, I'm afraid Danny Ferry is fully qualified to be elected the best manager of the season, because this deal is too worthwhile.

Although this is just a rumor, other people are obviously not fools. Many people, including Phil Jackson and Rivers, believe that the two parties must have reached such an implicit agreement beforehand.Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson said in a slightly mocking tone: "Is this possible? I don't know why the league would let such a deal happen." Some American media even used the term "robbing" the Cavaliers deal. .Indeed, if the big Z returns to the Cavaliers smoothly, it means that the Cavaliers got Jamison for nothing in the transaction.From the perspective of the lineup, if the big Z can return to the Cavaliers, then for James, it will undoubtedly add a more stable chip to win the championship, but for others, this is just a game.

However, the Cavaliers obviously want to deal with such a matter in a low-key manner. Everyone, including Mike Brown, ignores such rumors, but unlike those shrewd counterparts, Mike Brown has a simple and honest face. Round face, always smiling before answering questions.The more a guy like this speaks with a serious face, the less credibility he will lack, especially if he said something like this, "I don't think there is anything wrong with the current NBA regulations. The rules are very reasonable.", which is almost a tacit acceptance of everything.

And the most terrible thing is that according to the regulations of the NBA, as long as there is no substantive evidence that the two parties have premeditated, the Cavaliers can re-sign the two-time All-Star they traded out not long ago after the Wizards buy out the contract of Big Z. Star center.If Big Z returns to Cleveland, the Cavaliers will exchange for a combo forward who can attack and defend well without reducing any strength, and their prospects for winning the championship will be brighter.Seeing the Cavaliers conjure up such tricks, the most aggrieved are of course their Eastern rivals Magic and Celtics, the Miami Heat and the defending champion Lakers, but this kind of change is something that none of them can change. The rules of the NBA cannot be changed.

No one gets caught and therefore no one gets punished by the rules, the NBA is a league that follows the "Law of Silence", they often conduct internal investigations and then keep the lid on it, under this policy , only hopeless idiots get caught, said the general manager of one NBA team: "There's only one way to sell you out, and that's if you can't help but tell everyone in the world that you have How clever."

In the past 10 years in the NBA, there is only one person who has been arrested for illegal transactions, and that is Timberwolves owner Glenn Taylor. In order to avoid the luxury tax, he signed a "yin and yang contract" with Joe Smith.Because Taylor signed the $8600 million contract, he was caught dead. NBA commissioner David Stern at the time called Taylor's actions "a colossal fraud that severely undermines the very nature of the collective bargaining agreement, and its effects are appallingly bad."The Timberwolves were stripped of their draft picks for the next five years and lost Joe Smith and $5 million in cash. Guess what else the NBA did to Glenn Taylor?He was elected Chairman of the League Management Committee!Also fucking twice! !

Now no one doubts that Big Z will return to the Cavaliers after his contract is bought out, because similar plots in the past have been developed according to this. I wonder if this is "premeditated" or "unforeseen"? The top executives of the NBA actually have their own difficulties. When the Knicks executives and the small shareholders of the Nets nakedly lured LeBron James to join their team on different occasions, the top executives of the league did not issue any warnings. How are they doing now? Hold on to the big Z deal.Don't forget, Big Z has spent his entire career in the Cavaliers. He is the player with the most appearances in team history, and he is also the most popular Cavaliers player except James.In order to allow the team to have salary space to sign better teammates, Big Z has delayed his contract negotiations. His wife is a Cleveland native. They adopted two Eastern European children and planned to spend their lives in this city.

The Mavericks, Eagles and Nuggets have all expressed interest in Big Z after he was bought out. In theory, Big Z may choose any of them.But if you think about it carefully, will Big Z go away when the team is most likely to win the championship after playing for the Cavaliers for 13 years?Big Z can't find a reason to leave Cleveland, so the Cavaliers can use an insignificant player as the price in exchange for the last piece of the winning puzzle. However, the opponents of the Cavaliers suffered a dumb loss.

It's not that these teams haven't thought about grabbing the Cavaliers' backside trading handle, but now there is only one premise that can determine the Cavaliers' illegal operations, that is, they negotiated with him to buy out the contract before replacing Big Z, and signed him back. his series of steps.Cavaliers and Big Z are not fools, and it is impossible to admit that they have planned everything long ago. In fact, even if they accidentally slipped their mouths, there will be no trouble. At the beginning of 2008, before the deal between the Mavericks and the Nets was completed, Stackhouse publicly announced that he would take a 30-day vacation and then return to Dallas to continue playing.

So when such rumors kept spreading in the NBA, Pat Riley and Spoelstra, who have always been hot-tempered, chose to remain silent. When Riley talked about this deal in private, almost every time he scolded the high-level executives of the league for not doing the deal behind the scenes, but the old fox is very clear that this is a fact that there is no way to change it, so why should he spend his energy Spending on such boring things, they have such time to think about how to deal with this increasingly stronger opponent. Although David Stein wants to achieve the peak confrontation of 23VS24, he is not stupid So Pat Riley knows that this is just the Cavaliers taking advantage of the league's rules and habits to take advantage of the loopholes. Since it cannot be changed, let's face it calmly.

"Big Z, Jamison, O'Neal, Varejao, it seems that our little guy has more and more people to deal with." Pat Riley looked at the main opponent in Spoelstra's office. When looking at the regular lineup and personnel list, he smiled helplessly. He had discovered that that kid's career would definitely be full of traces of fighting, and his opponent would become stronger and stronger. . .There is no way, little guy, you should open your hands and kill these guys one by one. . .Only by fighting can you conquer this alliance. . .

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