NBA: I was the No. 1 pick at the beginning

The Lakers championship parade is over.

But on the sports media side, no one reported this matter.

Because of Kobe's retirement, the Lakers' championship parade has been dimmed a lot.

All the sports media are reporting that Kobe will retire after next season.

But Chen Tian knew that after the end of the next season, it wasn't just Kobe who was going to retire.

In the previous life, during the offseason of the 15-16 season, Kobe, Duncan and Garnett all chose to retire.

This is also the last dance of the older generation of basketball players.

These didn't have that much impact on Chen Tian.

But Chen Tian still feels a little uncomfortable when he thinks that his idols in his youth have all retired one after another.

After the championship parade was over, Chen Tian brought Li Xirui and the others back to the manor.

And Yi Jianlian and Dellavedova also made an agreement with Chen Tian that everyone would return to China together in early August.

Because September is the match day of the Asian Championships.

So a few people have to go back in August to make good arrangements for the national team lineup.

After that, Chen Tian also entered the offseason stage.

Apart from training for a while every day, I just accompany the six of Li Xirui.

The stomachs of Li Xirui and Zhou Ling'an are also getting bigger day by day.

Just after July, the free market of the nba offseason also opened.

But on this day, the headquarters of the nba in New York began their meeting to select the president.

The voting selection this time also concentrated on the owners of the 30 nba teams.

and David Stern et al.

The rules for voting are simple.

The referee union and the players union will have three votes.

There are two chairmen and four vice-chairmen who vote.

The others are the owners of the 30 teams and David Stern's vote.

In other words, with 37 votes, there will never be a tie.

On July 7st, the nba headquarters also held a vote.

This time, the nba directly voted in a fully closed manner.

So if the media wants to know anything, it can only be after the end.

This also made many media very angry.

But there was nothing they could do.

The nba voting went very smoothly, and after one morning, the results came out.

But Li Xirui did not go to New York.

But general manager Johnson did it for him.

After all, Li Xirui can't take a plane yet.

After one morning, the presidential election was finally over.

Reporters waiting outside nba headquarters saw someone come out.

It was also surrounded in an instant.

But surprisingly none of the representatives of the [-] NBA teams spoke.

The members of the referee union and the players union also left immediately.

None of them said a word.

But it was obvious that many of the owners of the [-] teams were smiling.

Only a few people had very ugly faces.

As for the players' union and the referees' union, they mostly don't care.

After all, the interests here have nothing to do with them.

Afterwards, Adam Silver, David Stern, and Mark Tatum did not come out.

It was the staff who came out and told the media that they will hold a press conference in the afternoon to announce the new president of nba.

Later in the afternoon, a press conference was held at the nba headquarters.

In the end, David Stern also announced that Mark Tatum became the new NBA president.

The news spread throughout the basketball world in an instant.

Because before the result was announced, everyone believed that Xiao Hua's reassignment was certain.

After all, with Stern's help, it would be difficult for him not to come up.

But as soon as the result came out, it immediately exceeded everyone's expectations.

No one expected that Tatum, who had only served for half a season, would be so appreciated by the team owner.

In fact, the root cause is not the case.

After Chen Tian told the team owner that there was a mole in the team, he cooperated with him.

Xiao Hua's behavior has already touched the interests of the team owner.

You know, as a businessman, no one's money is completely clean.

Even Chen Tian is the same.

So as soon as this incident happened, Xiao Hua was already a death sentence in their hearts.

In addition, Stern has already distrusted Xiao Hua.

So in the end, of course, Tatum got the biggest benefit.

But then Stern also announced the nba president system.

That is, from now on, the NBA president will be elected every five years.

In other words, no matter what you do, five years is an end.

Of course, you can still continue to participate in the draft.

There is no saying that after five years, he must step down.

With this decision, let everyone know that the NBA has really entered the post-Stern era.

As for who will be next, no one knows now.

The president system was decided after the election.

In fact, Xiao Hua was really angry, he didn't expect to be put together by these capitalists in the end.

But as soon as the president system came out, Xiao Hua's anger decreased significantly.

For Xiao Hua, although he has failed now.

But he could wait another five years.

Five years later, he will be able to make a comeback.

The matter of the NBA president has officially come to an end.

Tatum's rise has also become a fact.

Next is the NBA offseason, the battle of the free market.

This year's free market can be said to be full of big names.

James, Anthony, Rondo, Monroe, Wade, etc. have all become free agents.

This also allows many championship teams to target some big fish.

But someone like James basically renewed his contract with the Cavaliers.

After all, no team can give James such a configuration.

But James still chose to jump out of the player option.

This made the entire offseason confusing.

The same Lakers are also ready to fight a tough battle.

Because the Lakers don't have the rubbish contract of Luer Deng in his previous life.

So the salary space is still good.

Ariza, Curry Jr., Thackeray, Hawes and others all have their contracts expired.

So the next step for the Lakers is to discuss who will renew the contract.

On the second day, Chen Tian came to the arena.

Also coming was Kobe.

Kobe at this time can be said to be in good spirits on happy occasions.

Not only won the championship, but when he retires, he can also get the shares of the team.

Kobe can be said to have gained both fame and fortune.

Seeing Kobe's happy expression, Chen Tian also laughed.

The two came to Johnson's office together.

At this time, the general manager's office was full of people.

In addition to Johnson, Monty, Kaleman and others are also here.

Johnson didn't talk nonsense when he saw Chen Tian and the two coming in.

"Okay, everyone is here, now we have to discuss the signing of the Lakers."