NBA peak

Chapter 370 Durant Goes to the Raptors
Since the Chinese team defeated Poland in Group A, they entered Group I with a point advantage.

The Chinese team automatically wins a game against Poland, and then China only needs to win any team from Argentina or Russia to advance to the quarter-finals with a high probability.

Argentina is a world-class team, and it is also the most promising team to compete with the United States, Spain, and Australia for the World Cup title this year.

In terms of the current strength of the Chinese men's basketball team, Argentina is still a bone we can't gnaw.

However, it is not impossible for the Chinese men's basketball team with Ge Feng to beat Argentina.

Argentina's Ginobili, Diamond Scola, Campazzo, and Delia are Argentina's biggest reliance. They all play in the NBA, and Ge Feng is very familiar with their style of play and routines.

Maybe if Ge Feng and Li Nan are together, they can really discuss how to deal with Argentina.

As for Russia, according to the latest men's basketball world ranking released by FIBA, Russia can rank among the top 10 in the world.

Russia and Argentina are not easy to play, but it does not mean that the Chinese team has no chance to tie the historical record.

With three consecutive victories in the group, the confidence of the Chinese team has been fully demonstrated.

The Chinese team is now confident to meet these two traditional world-class teams.

At 9:6 p.m. on September 8, BJ time, China's first opponent in Group I was Argentina, the Olympic men's basketball champion from South America.

The match between Poland and Russia will start earlier.

Before the start of the Chinese team game, Ge Feng got a reply from Austin.

In the past two days, Austin chatted with the management of the nine interested teams.

Austin explained the conditions for Ge Feng to be the core of the team. As a result, no team withdrew from the competition.

Every team really wants to get Ge Feng, one of the best three-pointers in history.

During Austin's two days of constant negotiations, a team that Ge Feng hadn't considered much before gradually attracted Ge Feng's interest.

This team is the Dallas Mavericks. In order to show their sincerity, they directly offered Ge Feng a 4-year 8000 million maximum salary contract!

Signing a four-year contract at one time, the Lone Ranger is completely planning to train Ge Feng as the core of the team's future.

But this is in line with the style of the Mavericks boss Cuban.

There was such a joke circulating on the Internet.

Cuban: "Hi! Old driver, 2000 million a year, sign it?"

Nowitzki: "No!"

Cuban: "3000 million in that year?"

Nowitzki was angry: "No, I only need 500 million a year!"

Cuban: "That's not okay, you make at least 2500 million a year, otherwise I'm sorry for my conscience!"

Cuban can give the 39-year-old Nowitzki a big contract of 5000 million, and you can see how loyal Cuban is.

And Cuban is reading "Water Margin" recently, he may be conquered by Chinese culture.

In recent years, Cuban has been very interested in Chinese players and has successively introduced Chinese players Yi Jianlian and Ding Yanyuhang to the team.

But it is a pity that neither Yi Jianlian nor Ding Yanyuhang played well in the Mavericks.

The Lone Ranger has officially become the next home that Ge Feng and Austin have carefully considered.

While Austin was still relying on relationships for Ge Feng's qualification report, the two biggest fish in the free market announced their decisions to the outside world one after another.

Davis was the first to announce that he would stay with the Lakers and continue to partner with James.

Davis signed a two-year, $6000 million contract with the Lakers.

Davis didn't ask for a bigger contract. First, he wanted to see if he and James were in tune and could win the NBA championship with the Lakers. Second, he wanted to wait for James' contract to expire first, and then see how James would choose after the Lakers' contract expired.

Davis' contract and staying with the Lakers are all expected by fans.So after the news of Davis staying with the Lakers was made public, everyone passed on in a very ordinary way.

What fans are most concerned about is where Durant will go next season.

The timing of Durant's announcement is a bit tricky.

On September 9, BJ time, the day of the match between the Chinese team and Argentina, Durant announced his decision.

Joined the Raptors with a 4-year, $1.64 million 3+1 player option contract and officially became a member of the defending champion.

This news immediately caused fans all over the world to explode.

Domestic fans feel that Durant came here for Ge Feng out of selfishness.

When did Durant announce that his decision was not good, but he had to announce this news before the start of Ge Feng's most critical game. Isn't this deliberately trying to get Ge Feng's mentality?

As a member of the Raptors, Ge Feng naturally wouldn't be ignorant of such a big thing.

In fact, not only Ge Feng, but even the head coach of the Chinese team, Li Nan, and his teammates knew the news of Durant joining the Raptors. They were a little worried that this matter would affect Ge Feng's competitive state.

Lowry and Gasol have been sent away by the team in every possible way. Next year's Raptors will be a brand new Raptors.

Just after Durant officially announced to join the Raptors, the Raptors management finally breathed a sigh of relief and passed Ge Feng's qualification report to Austin.

After Austin got the qualification report, he talked to Ge Feng immediately.

All this happened quite suddenly, although Ge Feng had already prepared himself psychologically, but when it happened like this, Ge Feng still felt chills in his heart.

Unloading mills and killing donkeys, crossing rivers and demolishing bridges are talking about heartless management like the Raptors.

Compared with Cuban, the owner of the Lone Ranger, the Raptors management can be said to be a group of cold-blooded poisonous snakes.

In their eyes, there is no emotion at all.

Players are tradable commodities. Once a more suitable player is found, the team's championship hero will be kicked out immediately.

Such a raptor, there is really nothing that Ge Feng misses.

But one thing to celebrate is that Austin can finally talk about the future with other teams in a fair manner.

After receiving the qualification report, Ge Feng gritted his teeth and said to Austin: "Senior Austin, my conditions have changed. My current condition is to let all the teams that are interested in me directly offer a maximum salary contract starting at least four years."

Austin was taken aback, but soon he understood.

Ge Feng felt chilling for the Raptors' management.

Before Ge Feng proposed to become the core of the team, many teams that are interested in Ge Feng can survive through gritted teeth.

But the four-year maximum salary is different. The four-year maximum salary basically determines that Ge Feng is the core of the team's future development.

Ge Feng's doing this is equivalent to forcing the management to show the greatest sincerity, so that Ge Feng will consider joining their team.

Similar to the experience of the Raptors, Ge Feng didn't want to experience it again.

Ge Feng is going to try his best to secure a stable career for himself while the FMVP trophy is still hot.

He doesn't want to jump around in various teams in the league. If possible, Ge Feng hopes to end his career directly in the next team.

(End of this chapter)