Chapter 1090 The Eve of the New Season

August. Just as Su Feng led the Chinese men's basketball team to the championship in London, several major events also occurred in the NBA.

First, the NBA's new television broadcasting agreement, negotiated by league vice president Mark, officially entered its final stage.

According to the negotiation details previously disclosed by the NBA and its major television broadcasting partners, the new NBA television broadcasting agreement is very likely to skyrocket to $3.5 billion per year, based on the current agreement of approximately $930 million per year.

Once the new television broadcasting agreement takes effect, it will undoubtedly have a huge impact on the NBA's salary cap, player salaries, and the team-building strategies of various teams in the future.

Because according to the new labor agreement, players' salaries will be directly linked to the NBA's revenue...

So, for a time, the stars who originally wanted to demand a maximum salary this summer turned to choosing short-term contracts with their respective teams.

For example, Dwight Howard, who had been haggling with the Magic management since the end of last season.

Because in this life, the "Happy Beast's" value was directly cut in half by Xiao Yao, so when Howard threatened the Magic management with transferring to another team...

Where could this "Happy Beast" have imagined that the Magic management would respond like Jiang Bao possessed, saying:

I—am—not—afraid!

Currently, the teams interested in Howard on the market either don't have salary cap space or are teams that Howard doesn't fancy.

So, after thinking at home with his agent for more than half a month, Howard, upon learning the news that the NBA salary cap was about to increase significantly, simply transferred to the Brooklyn Nets with a two-year, $33 million contract.

Since the Nets moved from New Jersey to Brooklyn, the team's appeal to stars has been increasing day by day.

In addition, the Russian "oligarch" Prokhorov has been determined to build the Nets into the NBA version of Chelsea.

Therefore, Howard, feeling that joining the Nets would be very "lucrative," left a harsh message to the Magic management, "Today, you ignore me; tomorrow, I'll make you regret it," before turning around, jumping into the Atlantic, and swimming along the East Coast to Brooklyn.

Although, in Howard's view, who always has a heart higher than the sky and a fate thinner than paper, the Nets' current core player, Griffin, is a bit worse than the Pippen he envisioned...

But because this guy promised him, when they were recruiting him together, that he would work hard on mid-range shooting in the summer...

So, considering that the Nets had promised that they would continue to bring in strong players in the future...

Howard didn't feel as aggrieved as before.

However...

How could Howard, who hadn't been happy for even three days, know...

That the Nets were only trying to fool him this summer because, in the Nets management's view, as an inside tool man, he was not only very suitable for assisting the short-armed, interior defense-lacking Griffin.

Moreover, after securing him, the Nets would have the possibility of further operations.

In fact, this summer, the Nets' goal has always been only one.

That is Chris-Maple-Paul, who is beaten by European guards on the international stage and then continues to be beaten by his peers in the NBA, the point guard you can always trust.

As the undisputed premier point guard in the league today, and one of Su Feng's successors.

Paul, who entered the league a year earlier than in Su Feng's memory, could also choose to opt out of his "4+1" contract with the Trail Blazers this summer.

However, faced with the Portland fans' pleas to stay...

Paul, who has always valued loyalty and righteousness, also fell into a "state of entanglement" after the free agency market opened.

Reason told Paul.

That next year, the condition of Garnett, Pierce, Carter, and others would only continue to decline with the passage of time.

In addition, Paul Allen, who has not been in good health recently, is far less concerned about the Trail Blazers than before.

So, at this moment, if he chooses to stay in Portland, he may not even be able to touch the Western Conference Finals floor for many years to come.

However, loyalty and righteousness told Paul.

That he should accept the Portland fans' pleas to stay and continue to share weal and woe with this Trail Blazers team.

And so...

Paul was stuck on the issue of whether or not to opt out of the last year of his contract with the Trail Blazers.

Originally, Paul planned to think about his future after fighting alongside the US men's basketball team in the London Olympics.

But alas...

Just then, the Nets, who had already secured Howard, suddenly extended an invitation to him.

Unlike when they extended an invitation to Howard, merely promising that he would improve his mid-range shooting.

Because Griffin also wanted to achieve something during his peak...

So, when inviting Paul, Griffin laid his cards on the table.

In Griffin's view, as long as he could invite Paul to help, what would be wrong with him being second-in-command for a few years first?

Anyway, he is younger than Paul, and his future career peak will definitely be longer than Paul's.

It has to be said.

In this life, O'Neal's career experience has become a negative example for today's young people.

Therefore, Griffin, as a rising star in the league in recent years.

Not wanting to continue being a "popular star," was also rarely smart this summer.

And facing the Nets' offer...

This time, Paul really couldn't resist a little bit.

Howard, who even Zakeri can't single-handedly trade for, is a bit weak on the inside, but as a qualified interior tool man, isn't the 27-year-old Howard more fun to ride than the 36-year-old Garnett? (Note 1)

Moreover, even if Howard is not acclimated to the Nets, he only signed a two-year short-term contract with the Nets.

In Paul's view, what really attracts him to the Nets is Griffin's explosive physical talent.

How popular was Griffin in 2012?

No exaggeration.

Even if you trade James for Griffin, I'm afraid the team holding Griffin would have to think about whether you're trying to take advantage of the situation.

Therefore, for Paul, who is now extremely eager to prove himself.

Joining forces with Griffin, he seems to have already touched everything he wants to touch.

But...

No matter what.

Paul is still a loyal and righteous person after all.

Therefore, after the London Olympics, Paul also called the Trail Blazers management as soon as possible.

And told the Trail Blazers management that if the team did not want to lose him in vain, he was willing to leave through a sign-and-trade.

However, what Paul also did not expect was...

At this moment, even though the Trail Blazers fans were still shouting that they wanted to replicate the Mavericks' fairy tale...

The Trail Blazers' ambitions had also dissipated with Paul Allen's poor health.

Unlike what the Trail Blazers fans thought.

The reason why the Trail Blazers chose Wei Xiao from China in the draft.

Was simply because the Trail Blazers hoped to use the Chinese market behind Wei Xiao to help the team through the next period of rebuilding.

As a team that relies on Paul Allen to burn money to build.

Once the Trail Blazers lose Paul Allen's unrequited investment.

Then this team will be on the verge of collapse.

Because the Trail Blazers at this time can no longer afford the huge super luxury tax...

So, when the team management learned one after another this summer that Pierce and Paul both wanted to leave...

The Trail Blazers management only felt...

God, you've finally blessed Portland once!

Good heavens!

Isn't this the legendary double happiness?

Paul: You really don't need to use me to trade for something back?

Trail Blazers management: No need, really no need, please leave quickly!

Admittedly.

Through a sign-and-trade.

The Trail Blazers can trade for some players and draft picks of equal value from the Nets.

But first of all...

The premise of a sign-and-trade must be that, in this deal, the players thrown over by the Nets must be equal in salary to Paul.

But just the dregs left in the Nets' lineup...

After trading them over, how can you let the Trail Blazers management complete the cleaning at the first time?

You must know that even if there is a buyout operation in the NBA, it also depends on how many years are left on the other player's contract before this operation can be carried out.

And as for the Nets' draft picks?

Don't be kidding.

If Paul really goes to the Nets, will the Nets' draft picks at that time still be worth anything to the Trail Blazers who are determined to impact "the first in the league"?

Operating the NBA is different from playing football manager.

Because the Trail Blazers management knows that indecision leads to chaos.

So now, breaking up peacefully with Paul.

Is the fate that the Trail Blazers in the post-Paul-Allen era do not want to accept but must accept.

Because only in this way.

The people of Portland who have lost now may be able to see a new Trail Blazers in a few years.

And this is also the determination that the members of the Trail Blazers management, as decision-makers of the team, should make.

The NBA is not the five major leagues in the football world.

There is no promotion and relegation here.

There is also no such thing as a transfer fee.

If you screw up these years, then simply tank and start over.

So, after returning to the United States from London.

In August, the NBA ushered in another earthquake.

Chris-Maple-Paul officially joined the Brooklyn Nets.

At Paul's signing ceremony, the Nets' front office said with excitement: "This is undoubtedly a moment that will go down in history!

We have introduced a super star to the team this summer.

Moreover, we have also successfully attracted a helper who can assist him before!"

Paul chose to sign a four-year maximum salary contract with the Nets.

And on the day Paul signed with the Nets...

Howard, who was still thinking at home about what kind of posture he should use to train his cute Pippen in the new season, was immediately stunned.

Because he, who has always been arrogant, where could he have imagined...

That Pippen was actually himself!

How dare Howard, who had been a bag carrier for Paul in the US national team in his early years, speak loudly to him?

Not to mention that Paul can jump up and cripple his knees with a casual move.

Just Paul's prestige in the players' union...

You must know that I, Paul, is the undisputed candidate for the next chairman of the players' union.

So...

This happy beast, who has been exploded by Xiao Yao in at least one hundred and eighty different postures in recent years, always feels that he has been deceived by the Nets before!

Nets: What did we deceive you about? Isn't introducing Paul to strengthen the team's lineup?

Howard: Although, but...

Nets: Oh, by the way, Blake will be our second scoring point next season, so you must remember to give Chris and Blake pick-and-rolls on the court.

Howard: .......

This summer, after forming this galaxy battleship with Paul and Griffin as the main players and Howard as the auxiliary player, the Nets also hired a "highly respected" "old senior" in the coaching circle to take the helm.

As a result, I don't know if it was when he was exchanging experiences with Chelsea players in the summer that he heard the story of "Mad Bird" Mourinho in his early years from the Chelsea players...

In early September, at the first training session after the Nets team gathered, Jason Kidd, wearing a suit, said with a mad, domineering, cool, and explosive look: "I am a two-time championship player who has achieved success!

And you...

Are nothing!"

On the training ground.

Paul was very satisfied with Kidd's training.

Because for Paul, who wants to start a career in Brooklyn at this moment.

Kidd's ambitions, who has just switched to coaching, coincide with him.

And after carefully tasting Kidd's training, Griffin also felt that Kidd was right.

Because at this moment, he has had enough of the so-called "popular star" label.

Only Howard.

Because he was arranged a lot of pick-and-roll training by Kidd on the first day of training...

So Howard always feels that Kidd is a bit dismissive of his "gorgeous" singles skills!

"You want me to arrange more low post offensive tactics for you?" Looking at Howard, who was full of dissatisfaction, Kidd said.

Howard nodded.

"Okay, now you come and one-on-one with me, as long as you can explode me in the low post, I will arrange more low post offensive tactics for you." Taking off his suit, Kidd mercilessly exposed Howard's laughable offensive talent in front of the Nets.

"Dwight, you shouldn't always not know that when you played against the Magic in the regular season...

As long as you enter the low post, I will tell my teammates that we can prepare for a counterattack, right?" In this life, Kidd, who has won two championships, has obviously increased a lot in prestige.

Therefore...

Even if Howard, who is no longer happy, is still aggrieved in his heart.

Looking at Paul's death stare at him...

Howard can only finish the contract he signed with a smile before on his knees now.

Compared with the "internal contradictions" of the Nets' preseason training class...

In September, the air in Los Angeles was already so "sweet" that every Lakers player who had just returned to the team couldn't wait to be sent to the eighteenth level of hell by the Grim Reaper.

Su Feng was very unhappy.

Kobe was also very unhappy.

Because clearly before the holiday, Su Feng had told Crowder, Bogdanovic, Middleton, Green, Stephenson, and others that they must practice a pair of big elbows in the summer that would scare James to pee.

But at the Lakers' first preseason training session...

Su Feng, who was only triggering a disease exemption by breaking a rib by Crowder and others, could not feel at all that this group of people had been seriously training this summer.

No...

Breaking a rib is just a small thing.

Can that elbow kill people?

What a f*cking international joke!

If you can't even elbow someone to death when you play basketball, then what kind of basketball are you playing?

Su Feng was very "unhappy".

So, in order to make the Lakers' wings more iron-blooded and brutal before the start of the new season.

Su Feng had to personally take the stage and teach the "court black technology" that was personally passed down by Kobe's father, Old Bryant, back then.

As for why Kobe was unhappy?

Because he clearly didn't elbow people on the court...

But Su Feng insisted on saying that these were all taught to him by Kobe when he was teaching others.

"Did I learn how to play basketball from you?" And for Kobe, who was still stubborn, Su Feng also brought out his ultimate trick.

"If I didn't teach you, did Tracy teach you?" Kobe asked not very cleverly.

"Then that's it.

Since I learned how to play basketball from you, then how to use elbows when protecting the ball, grabbing rebounds, and positioning, did Tracy teach you?" Su Feng asked.

Kobe: "......"

What you said makes so much sense, I am speechless!

In Su Feng's view, the Lakers' wings still need to improve their deterrence.

As for the Lakers' new three treasures on the outside...

It was a bit beyond Su Feng's imagination.

This summer, Rajon Rondo, who was exchanged by the Lakers for Dragic, Little Mo, and draft picks, told the other Lakers players in less than fifteen minutes...

What is a real point guard!

Originally, the Lakers' wings, who were already accustomed to helping point guards, not only "lost their jobs."

Moreover, Rondo can even take the time to help them defend from time to time.

No exaggeration.

Ordinary outside scorers can't really beat Rondo.

Because besides being very good at using skill, Rondo, who is tall and has long arms, can always make you annoyed.

And after another summer of precipitation.

Su Feng is willing to call Livingston the tactical core of the Lakers' second lineup.

Looking at Livingston, who can maintain considerable efficiency when dueling with Kobe, Su Feng has already imagined the scene of Livingston chasing Curry after passing half court.

What Stephen Curry?

With Rondo and Livingston, one for offense and one for defense, if they can't blow up Stephen's mentality, then Su Feng will write his name upside down!

And what's more...

In the new season, there is also Chauncey Billups, who is experienced, on the Lakers' point guard line?

In terms of absolute speed, Billups at this time can even pass O'Neal's grandma.

But...

Billups is easy to pass, but...

After passing...

Whether you will lose a layer of skin, that's another matter.

The experience of veterans is naturally irreplaceable by young people.

However, on the first preseason training class, after inspecting the Lakers' wings and outside line...

What Su Feng is most satisfied with is the Lakers' interior sky team.

Marc, who was beaten by Xiao Yao with his brother in London in the summer, always seems to be docile when facing Xiao Yao.

But in the NBA...

After changing a batch of teammates around Xiao Yao.

Looking at Marc's solid body and rigid soul, Su Feng is convinced that Xiao Yao is by no means a match for Marc!

And looking at Su Feng, who is always fooling him...

Marc always feels that Su Feng is bullying him for not having watched *Romance of the Three Kingdoms*!

Because before deceiving his subordinates to challenge Lu Bu...

The eighteen princes were also saying that at that time!

No!

Emperor Feng!

Can we be more pragmatic?

If I can really chop Xiao Yao with a knife and take away the LeBron warhorse under his crotch as my mount...

Then at this moment...

Do you think I would still be willing to be your third-in-command?

Marc is not stupid.

So even if he recovered well in the summer, he also knows that you can only believe 0.01 sentences out of 100 sentences Su Feng says.

On the other side...

DeAndre Jordan is more excited.

Because he practiced wrestling with Ben Wallace in Alabama for a summer, so when he heard Emperor Feng praise himself for having the courage of Bo Lun and being like O'Neal reborn...

DeAndre Jordan touched his head and smiled: "Actually, I also think that if I was born a few years earlier, Shaq would only be worthy of carrying my shoes!"

As for another new insider of the Lakers this year...

Looking at the "Whiteside" who has been baptized in the Flower Planting Country for a year and a half.

The Lakers' coaching staff always feels that this guy seems to have been possessed by someone.

During his time in China's second-tier basketball league, "Whiteside" not only strengthened his basic skills training.

And his finishing ability and confidence have also been trained.

In Su Feng's previous life, do you know how bad Whiteside's field goal percentage was under the basket without receiving socialist baptism?

The answer is: 41.7%.

As a player with a height of more than 210 cm and a wingspan of more than 230 cm.

If you don't understand, just ask...

With this field goal percentage under the basket, how can he play in the NBA?

Therefore, even if Whiteside had good static talent in his early years, the NBA teams would not be able to look up to him.

Now the question comes.

Do you know what Whiteside's subsequent field goal percentage under the basket was after receiving socialist baptism?

The answer is: 76.2%.

Because during his time in the Chinese second-tier basketball league, Whiteside must learn how to score and how to score steadily.

So after calming down and improving the field goal percentage under the basket...

Even if his main scoring method in the game is still mainly eating pie.

Because his model determines that as long as he is willing to practice, he can definitely become an excellent rim protector.

Plus, when he was playing in the Chinese second-tier basketball league, Whiteside learned how to be lazy by selecting positions from the FIBA rules.

So...

"Whiteside" at this moment is already different from the past.

Don't look at Whiteside's too slow movement ability determines his ceiling.

But in the new season, in a limited amount of playing time, Su Feng is willing to call him Hakeem Olajuwon in Los Angeles!

"I am so excited to join the Lakers!

I will do everything I can to help the team!"

And facing Su Feng's praise...

Even if Whiteside is not as stupid as that DeAndre Jordan...

How can he have the IQ of Marc?

Just...

Marc is smart, but when he calms down to think about how to narrow the gap between himself and Xiao Yao...

How does he know that Su Feng has already stood in the atmosphere from the beginning?

"As long as you can prove in the new season that you have one ten-thousandth of Steve Nash's passing skills back then.

I feel that the NBA can send the O'Brien Cup to Los Angeles in advance." At the end of the training class, Su Feng looked back at Kobe, who had inspected the team, and said.

Hearing this, Kobe, who was still immersed in the praise of his teammates, was immediately angry!

One ten-thousandth of Steve Nash's passing skills?

Wait!

You wait, Su Dog!

If I can't feed you to vomit in the new season!

Then I, Kobe Bryant, will go streaking on the streets of Philadelphia!

"So, is this the legendary way to control people?" On the Lakers' training ground, looking at Su Feng, who had subdued his teammates, Tyrone Lue, the "Little Zen Master", touched his chin and thought.

In September, the NBA teams have completed their assembly one after another.

Under the supervision of the Lakers' eternal cornerstone, His Majesty Sacre.

"Joy" has already become the theme before the start of the Lakers' new season.

As the Lakers' number one enemy in the new season.

The "Avengers" of Oakland are obviously still in the "running-in stage" that Su Feng asserted.

Although in the Warriors' preseason training class...

Xiao Yao, Ray Allen, Artest, Kirilenko, Chandler, and Terry have almost perfectly integrated into the Warriors' tactical system.

In order to extend his career as much as possible.

Xiao Yao accepted the new positioning that "Mad Scientist" Van Gundy gave him.

That is, only conduct singles in the interior when necessary.

In the future, in more offensive time for the Warriors, Xiao Yao will play the role of a high-position turret responsible for opening up space and pick-and-rolls for his teammates.

Although the starting point is different from Su Feng's memory.

But in terms of how to protect Xiao Yao's health, whether in the previous life or this life, Van Gundy is obviously the player in this league who understands Xiao Yao the most.

Van Gundy referred to the Chinese men's basketball team's tactics in international competitions and designed a new set of tactical systems for the Warriors.

On the court, when Xiao Yao, James, Clay, Butler, and Curry are on the court at the same time.

Clay and Butler will stand in two corners respectively.

And Xiao Yao will pull to both sides, ready to pick-and-roll or shoot at any time.

Because in recent seasons, Xiao Yao's three-point field goal percentage under completely open conditions is as high as 41%.

Therefore, the new tactics that Van Gundy designed for the Warriors can undoubtedly perfectly sanction those teams who want to compress the offensive space of James and Curry.

As for the second lineup, in addition to putting Artest or Kirilenko on according to their status, Van Gundy is also more inclined to cultivate Butler's ability to lead the second lineup.

As an "offensive madman", Van Gundy, whose basketball philosophy has long been occupied by offense and offense, had already seen the organizational talent hidden in Butler last season.

Different from the "organizational ability" that my Turtle relies on hard-plugging assists to brush up.

When Butler appears on the court, maybe he will not increase his score or an assist for a long time, but his help to the team, in Van Gundy's view, is irreplaceable.

Basketball is never a sport that compares who has better data.

Of course.

Under the premise of having so many excellent shooters.

In addition to formulating various tactics for this group of shooters, Van Gundy also put forward new requirements for each of them.

That is...

Van Gundy of the Knicks era never dared to think...

"If the number of three-point shots you take does not meet the standards I set for you.

Then in future games, I will gradually reduce your playing time until you are excluded from our roster."

If that is the case.

Van Gundy, who was more than ten years ago, could not figure out why he was always beaten by the team where Su Feng was at back then.

Now.

Not only does he understand.

Moreover, he is even crazier than that.

In addition, the defeat in the Olympic Games.

Undoubtedly, it also made Little Zhan Zhan, Curry, and Clay more motivated to beat Su Feng.

Oakland.

The banner of the "Avengers Alliance" has already been erected!

In the Logo Man's overall plan.

As the team that started preparing for the 12/13 season the earliest.

The Golden State Warriors have obviously pointed their polished knives at Los Angeles.

In September.

ESPN also threw out a question that caused a huge reaction in the workshop.

Facing this Golden State Warriors.

The Los Angeles Twin Walls, who just lost the 11/12 season Western Conference Finals.

Can they really make a comeback?

Winter is coming.

Even if Su Feng can always melt ice and snow like the sun.

This time...

Can he and Kobe ignite the extinguished flames of the City of Angels again?

Before the start of the new season.

David Stern, who is about to retire, finally made a decision after thinking hard for three months.

Looking at Mark, Stern said earnestly on this day:

"Tell the referees, give him back that damn privilege!"

"David, are you also worried that Su will decline in the new season?" Mark asked curiously.

Hearing this, Stern shook his head, "No...

I'm just worried that if we don't protect those players who are responsible for defending Su...

Su, who is angry, will make them unable to see the rising sun tomorrow."

Mark: "......"

As Su Feng's good brother.

Stern knows very well that because in recent years, defensive players have been making bigger and worse moves against Su Feng...

Su Feng has long reached the point where he is about to explode.

In the past, in order to protect Su Feng.

On the court, the referees never felt sorry for those players who thought they hadn't lived enough.

But now...

Because the NBA is about to sign a new TV broadcasting agreement.

So you can simply understand that Stern is both maintaining Su Feng's image and making up for the NBA's debt to him over the years.

Although in the NBA, Jordan and Su Feng elbowing people is never news.

Little Zhan Zhan elbowing people is news.

But...

With the development of the Internet, Stern, who increasingly feels that people's words are scary, hopes that he can prevent it before it happens.

Of course...

The superstar whistle is given to Su Feng to return to Su Feng.

When entrusting the referees, Stern did not forget to remind them...

The HC rule, whether it is no or yes.

Can continue to be used on Su Feng.

Now.

After leaving a "fair, open, and just" stage to the players.

Stern has already retreated behind the scenes.

According to the schedule, the Lakers will play two preseason games against the Trail Blazers and the Jazz in Beijing and Shanghai in October.

Then, they will return to the United States for another five preseason games before the start of the new season.

The curtain of the 12/13 season is about to open.

Kobe, who has already celebrated his 34th birthday in August.

Will start his sixth season with his partner, who will turn 35 next year since they joined forces!

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