unfinished glory

Chapter 291 A Big Market

In the first round of the playoffs, the Grizzlies 4-0 the Lakers, Li Chongxiao personally sent Kobe to retire at the Staples Arena.This season, Kobe has enjoyed the shouts of "MVP" in many arenas, and other teams have spontaneously set up a stage for performances.

Twenty years of NBA years, in exchange for a "Mamba Out"!
Not surprisingly, the regular season MVP belongs to Curry, who led the Warriors to 68 victories. After the 2008-09 season, except for Li Chongxiao, all other MVPs have one thing in common, that is, they were ranked below Li Chongxiao in the previous season and ranked second in the MVP list.This is the case for James and Durant, and now it is Curry's turn.

The final championship was also won by the Warriors. They defeated the Knicks in six games. Curry was undisputedly awarded the Finals MVP.

Now the pressure is on Durant. He is the only player who has not won a championship among the MVPs in recent seasons.In the entire league, apart from him, there is only Nowitzki.

This season, his contract expired, but has not been renewed.Because the Thunder's management and head coach Donovan are so wonderful that they don't take the team's MVP seriously.Not only has there been a delay in the renewal of the contract, but also tactically showed an obvious intention to build a team around Westbrook.In addition, what is even more amazing is that he would rather prepare a halal meal for his new teammate Kanter than prepare food that suits his taste for Durant, forcing him to go to the visiting team to grab a box lunch.

As a big fish in the free market, Durant has a lot of options in the offseason.

The first choice is naturally to stay in the Thunder.But he may be able to accept the decline in tactical status, but he can't accept that the team treats Kanter as a treasure, and he has become a grass.

The third brother of the Rockets is calling, but he doesn't want to go at all.The Rockets are notoriously mean and ungrateful. Yao Ming and McGrady have learned from the past, and Durant does not want to repeat the same mistakes.The same problem also appeared in the Spurs.

The Wizards are a good place to go, this is the hometown team and good friend Wall.Even if Durant is very hesitant, Westbrook and him have a deeper relationship, but when it comes to ball possession, there will still be big problems.In addition to Wall, the Wizards also have Bill occupying the ball. When the three monks have no water to eat, it will be uncomfortable.

After all the calculations, the two giants, the Celtics and the Lakers, are ideal targets.However, the former's lineup is too weak, and Durant doesn't want to lead the team to level up.

In the past ten years, apart from the Grizzlies and the Warriors this season, there have been no two top stars, let alone a championship, and they couldn't even make it to the finals.The Celtics don't even have a third-team player.

Especially after Horford joined the Lakers with 1.13 million in four years, Durant's tendency became even stronger.If there is no better choice, he will first consider the Lakers.

But a better choice soon came, the Mavericks appointed Durant's mentor Brooks as the new head coach.Then after Deron was bought out by the Nets, he joined the Mavericks with a basic salary.

After some conspiracy, Durant signed with the Mavericks, and then it was reported that Gasol signed first and then traded, and returned to the West from the Magic.

The Mavericks completed the reconstruction in an instant and became the league's top team.

The fans were very surprised by this, and the Lakers were even more disappointed.The media in Los Angeles asked Durant why he joined the Mavericks. He said: "When I trained with Li Chongxiao, I learned a lot of Chinese culture. One of the words is "the grace of a meal". Last season, the Mavericks gave me two A box lunch, in return, I choose to join them."

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This reason made people laugh and cry, so Li Chongxiao made a special phone call and scolded him.In fact, he also knows why Durant would choose the Mavericks instead of the Lakers.

Because the next home chosen by Li Chongxiao is the Lakers.After discussing with the team, he told Durant the news.Durant was very hesitant. He wanted to fight side by side with Li Chongxiao and win a few more championships; he also thought he couldn't compete with Li Chongxiao and didn't want to live in the opponent's shadow.

Li Chongxiao also understands Durant, everyone wants to maximize profits, and he himself is like this.Li Chongxiao chose to implement the final year of the contract, but did not discuss any signing with the Grizzlies.

If the Grizzlies don't trade him, then next season he will leave directly, and the team will not get any compensation.But it also means that Li Chongxiao will lose his bird rights and his salary increase will be reduced.

In order not to hurt both sides, the Grizzlies agreed to trade him to a team acceptable to both parties.That team is the Lakers.

After Thompson helped the Warriors win the championship, Ballmer laughed at Ellison as a fool, giving the opponent a championship for nothing.

And through his operation, the Clippers also traded for Paul George.So Ballmer showed off to Ellison intentionally or unintentionally, his team has a superstar, and the Grizzlies will lose their superstar next season.

According to Ellison's temper, he couldn't bear it at all.After confirming that Li Chongxiao was leaving, he immediately thought of the Lakers.Firstly, he could send Li Chongxiao to Los Angeles to fight in the ring, just in time to kill the Clippers in the same city; secondly, he had long disliked Conley, and after kicking Conley out, he happened to be replaced by Paul.

The Grizzlies and Li Chongxiao are both maximizing their interests, so they hit it off.The Lakers will definitely not be so stupid as to have any opinions. Naturally, whatever the boss says is what they say.

Li Chongxiao's contract next season is only 300 million higher than Paul's. In order to balance this deal, the Lakers also packaged and sent Louis Williams, who the Grizzlies are interested in, and poured out a difference of 400 million.

Ellison is also a fastidious person, so he packed Jabari Parker with Li Chongxiao.He didn't like this player who got too close to Li Chongxiao.

The Lakers couldn't tell for a while whether Ellison was doing something good.

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After the deal was concluded, the alliance was shocked again.

Even if the Lakers only match Li Chongxiao with Horford and David West, this lineup can be called a strong contender for the championship.

Immediately, Li Chongxiao signed a contract extension agreement with the Lakers. The contract period is five years, and it will take effect next year, with a player option for the last year.Transaction veto power and so on, there should be some.

Because the new broadcast contract came into effect, the league's income has increased a lot. The salary cap of this season has already risen sharply, reaching 9414.3 million US dollars, and it will definitely be higher in the next few seasons.

Li Chongxiao has played in the league for more than ten years, so the starting salary of the new contract starting next year may reach 3500 million.At the same time, the transaction brought over the bird rights, and the increase was also 7.5%.In other words, this agreement may be a large contract of more than 2 million yuan.

(End of this chapter)