I'm king in the basket

Chapter 272 again

What is basketball reason, it needs to start from the source.

The owner of the Hornets was unable to run the team due to illness, and was planning to sell the team to the second owner at the time. Unexpectedly, due to the oil spill in the Gulf, the second owner was also unable to take over the Hornets.But the team can't be without a boss all the time. In the end, the NBA took over the Hornets for $3 million. In fact, the boss of the Hornets is the boss of all NBA teams, a total of 29.

The first time Paul confirmed the deal, Cavaliers owner Dan Gilberto wrote a stern email to the NBA commissioner, demanding that the deal be rejected.This letter was later exposed in the media.

The two most important paragraphs of this can shed light on why the deal didn't go through.

"This deal will help the Lakers save about $2000 million in salary and about $2100 million in luxury tax, and the 2100 million should be used to distribute to those teams in the league that don't pay the luxury tax and for the league. income and expenses.

I can't think of a trade in history where a team not only got the best player in the league, but also saved $4000 million.From the current point of view, the Lakers do not have to send any draft picks, and this will undoubtedly help them get Dwight Howard through a trade later. "

The NBA later stated that the refusal to trade had nothing to do with Gilberto's email, but you have to admit that the reason for the NBA's rejection of Paul to Los Angeles is roughly the same as this letter.

In the labor negotiations that lasted for several months, the core point emphasized by the management is to make the strength of the 30 teams in the league more balanced, to allow teams in small markets to retain their stars, to prevent superstars from gathering together strong teams, and to prevent the entire NBA from appearing "a few The situation where a wealthy family sings and most teams accompany them to watch the show".

This deal happened to be the first grievance of the new labor agreement. The NBA needed a case to shock the league to make its position clear, and the Lakers happened to hit the gun.

This is a decision made from the perspective of the bosses.

From the perspective of the Hornets themselves, this deal should not have happened.

The Lakers and Rockets got the players they wanted and cleared cap space.

What about the wasps?They sent the best player on the team, got several veterans with big contracts, no salary space, no high draft picks, and no future.

It can be said that once this deal is successful, the Hornets will be dark in the next few years.

At this time, the Hornets are still under the trusteeship of the league. They cannot be managed by the league forever, and the league also needs to find a good buyer.

Which buyer would buy a hopeless team?

That's what "Basketball Reasons" is all about, and this trade is the single most important thing of this tumultuous offseason.

Everyone is watching how the Lakers operate, and in the end they fell short, the deal was not completed, and they got everything.

Time passed day by day, and the opening day was getting closer.

The Raptors basically maintained the main structure of last season, letting go of several replaceable role players.

The main players are still old.

Li Xing is the unshakable core. Bargnani is currently positioned as the second in command, followed by DeRozan, Calder, Tony Allen, Stephenson, Barnes, Evans, Whiteside and others.

Li Xing found that through offseason training, DeRozan's current score is 84 points, which is consistent with Bargnani.

He still doesn't understand what Bargnani did to get his score to 84.

Co-authored the whole season of last season and made progress for nothing.

The first time Li Xing met someone was not because of overeating or injury, and his score declined by 3 points while maintaining training.

This is equivalent to degenerating from an all-star to a quasi-all-star. This is a qualitative gap!
It's useless to say these things now, Bargnani is a wonderful thing, Li Xing couldn't find the reason, so he stopped looking.

Due to the tight schedule, the training camp does not have a month like it used to.

The shrinking season has preseason training camps, free agency transactions, and team operations all being completed within a few weeks.

Li Xing showed amazing three-point shooting ability during training.

That happened in a black-and-white match.

Li Xing gave Stephenson a pick-and-roll and stood outside the three-point line to ask for the ball.

Stephenson thought he was wrong, but passed the ball anyway.After receiving the ball, Li Xing immediately made a three-pointer, more decisive than any other shooter.

In the end he made it.

It was the first time he made a [-]-pointer, and every one of his teammates opened their mouths.

Snyder knows what that means.

Li Xing can shoot three-pointers, which is of strategic value to them.

It's not that Li Xing has to shoot three-pointers in every round, but that he has since become an offensive core with no dead ends.

When he was in court, the two-way demolition became a three-way demolition.

The same goes for off-ball screens.

Just imagine, Li Xing is helping someone to cover, is getting stuck, and suddenly cuts out of the three-point line to take the ball and shoot.

This is no longer a fantasy, but a possibility.

Snyder knew that Li Xing would give him a surprise, but he didn't expect such a surprise. Although he was often gossip during the offseason, he didn't delay training.

Compared with him, these guys are all too lazy.

Even Li Xing's guys know how to work hard, why don't you guys know? (Li Xing: Such a guy?)

The Raptors' preseason training camp was in full swing, and the roster was also determined in more than a dozen intra-team competitions.

The Raptors did not seek trades like other teams. Their lineup is very stable, and the framework from the main team to the second team is no different from last season.

In the opening game of the new season, they will face the Thunder at home.

They are also young guards with high expectations. The Raptors have fulfilled their talents and won the championship last season. The Thunder still need to work hard.

eve of opener

Bargnani picked up Matilda Lutz at Pearson Airport.

This is Lutz's first visit to Toronto, and he is very new to everything around him.

Her English isn't very good yet, so the translations along the way were done by Bargnani.

It is worth mentioning that this year's rookie Shelvin Mark is responsible for carrying the bag.

It took only one day for Bargnani to make Mark willingly but as a pawn.

The picture of Mark carrying the bag was also photographed by the reporter, using it as "evidence" that Bargnani relied on the old to bully the rookie.

It has always been an NBA tradition for veterans to instigate rookies, and the reporters who made the report were complained by many fans.

Finding this black spot is really too bad.

There are so many black spots on the Raptors, what's wrong with the black spots?Black people abuse rookies?Too LOW!
As for Li Xing, apart from the good news these days, there is only good news left.

After completing the Beloved event, he gets 10 attribute points of the Beloved system, and he can improve some weaker attributes in the Beloved system.

These attributes are too explicit, so I won't repeat them here.

Although 10 attribute points cannot bring about a qualitative change, he still has a chance to draw a lottery for the Lover.

The skill he drew was called "Skill Specialization-Love Saint Edition".

As the name suggests, it means what you think of.

As the new season approaches, Dai Linsi, McPhee, and Stewart have returned to the Lincoln apartment one after another.

Theron is a workaholic, finishing one job and starting the next without stopping.

As for Alexandra, she also loves work. Li Xing found three resources for her, two American dramas and one movie, which are only half completed.

Dai Linsi and McPhee cared about Li Xing, turned down some boring invitations, and returned to Toronto early.

Stuart is more complicated. Her rank is second only to Theron in the Witches, and the notice will not be interrupted. After finishing the work at hand, she gave herself another half month's leave and returned to Lincoln's apartment. .

That night, Li Xing continued to practice the "flipping" system.

According to Xifudi, no matter how strong a man's sexual ability is, he must be restrained.

Therefore, Li Xing didn't become fearless just because his body was hardened. He still adhered to the original set, but he did it with ease and a lot easier.

The next day
new season opener
After a boring lockout season, the NBA finally came to the opening day.

In addition to celebrating the re-opening of the season, the Airline Center Arena will hold a sacred flag-raising ceremony.

Last season's championship will witness the championship flag being raised at home.

That night, there were fans in every corner of the route center, and the last person watched the game through a live broadcast.

After leaving for so long, the new season is finally about to start.

Li Xing stood in the core position, surrounded by his teammates. They raised their heads together, looked at the flag in the sky, and waited for take-off.

The Raptors' victory means that there is one less champion in the Eastern Conference.

Today, there are only five teams in the Eastern Conference that have never won a championship.

They are the Pacers, Magic, Bobcats, Nets and Cavaliers.

Seeing the championship flag that he laid down with his own hands rose to the top of the arena, a fire ignited in the hearts of the players.

It was a call to "do it again",

Each of them wants to do it again.

This kind of heart is interlinked, watching the championship flag go up to the sky, and the audience shouted with the loudest voice they can: "We are the champions!"

There aren't many moments more moving than this one.

After that, the championship ring was awarded.

Stern sent them one by one until Li Xing was in front of him.

"Congratulations."

Stern took a deep look at Li Xing. The appearance of this young man was the biggest surprise in the past two years.

Stern has been in charge of the league for so many years, and he knows what it takes to be a global icon.

Although Li Xing has gone further and further on the road of global nausea, he believes that those who hate him will eventually become his fans.

After the ring was distributed, the two sides began to warm up.

Durant, Westbrook.Harden walked over together.

Li Xing's all-seeing eyes swept over them—what an amazing attribute?Three monsters with a potential value of A+ actually gathered in a team.

It’s amazing!

"It's a good day for you guys tonight, but we're going to mess it up," Durant said with a laugh.

Li Xing snorted: "Really? I'll wait to see how you mess up."

(End of this chapter)