I’m Really Playing Basketball

  Chapter 294 The Cavaliers’ Two Deals

  With O’Neill's arrival in Phoenix, Phoenix, which was a small and transparent league for a time, became the focus of the league.

  This is also no way, because O'Neal is so domineering now.

  Don’t look at O’Neal’s second defeat of the strongest team in history last season. This has taken a very big blow to O’Neal’s reputation. However, the aspect of O’Neal’s reputation that has been hit is not his strength.

  Playing the Cavaliers in the playoffs last season, O'Neal's dominance is still very strong.

   Breaking the strongest defense in history, is this a joke?

  The area where O'Neal was really hit in this series is his luck.

  One round of the series encounters three Miller moments and one Chen Xiao moment. This luck is also absolute.

  So, for now, O'Neal is still the league's first center. Perhaps the first person in the league is Duncan, but O'Neal's position as the league's first center and the top three in the league is still very stable.

  And this is why the Suns are willing to give everything for O'Neal, almost emptied their team, and traded Marion and Joe Johnson for O'Neal.

  You know, Marion and Joe Johnson performed very well last season.

  Marion can average 19+9 per game, and Joe Johnson has made rapid progress, from a rotation player averaging less than 10 points per game to a semi-star player averaging 17+4+4 per game.

  So, in order to get O'Neal, the Suns really paid a lot.

  But, I have to say that the management of the Suns must be satisfied to see that our team has grown from an unnamed team to the most watched team in the league.

Although it is really painful to send Marion and Joe Johnson out, with O'Neal and the future of the team, who has averaged 21+9 per game in the NBA last season, the Suns’ current combat effectiveness is definitely better than that. Stronger last season.

  The combination of O’Neal+Stoudemire not only gave reporters and media across the United States see great hope, but also gave the Sun’s management see great hope.

  Let’s put it this way, the inside combination of the Suns is definitely the strongest inside combination in the NBA right now, and in the entire West, it is definitely the strongest presence.

  And more importantly, O'Neill and Stoudemire are also very suitable.

  And this is why O'Neal joined the Suns, causing such a big sensation in the league, especially in the West.

  This insider combination is visible to the naked eye.

  In this small fish pond in the West now, it is hard to imagine what kind of threat a team can pose to the Suns next season.

  According to the NBA experts and celebrities, as long as you surround O'Neal and Stoudemire with a few decent outside lines, the Suns will reserve the position of the Western Conference champion next season.

  This is definitely not a blow.

  At the very least, many players in the Western Conference think so.

  For a time, the Timberwolves, Lakers, Kings, Mavericks and other Western teams are under great pressure.

  Of course, the Cavaliers are now under the same pressure as the strong teams in the West.

  In the face of O'Neal and the Suns’ venting deliberate demolition, the Cavaliers are now in action.

  In this way, Crawford and Darius Miles were sent to the Suns for free. Of course, the Cavaliers could not be willing.

  Although after the Suns gave Crawford and Dalius Miles such a contract, the Cavaliers would not be able to use them even if they matched, but the Cavaliers could seek the opportunity to sign first and then change.

  Look at whether there is a team in the NBA that is willing to pay some price for these two people. The Cavaliers are not very demanding, even in the first round.

  Faced with such a desperate strategy as the Suns, the Cavaliers certainly can’t just sit back and die.

  It is impossible to send them to the Suns for free.

  So, after O'Neal announced that he would join the Suns, Chen Xiao gritted his teeth and asked the team to renew Crawford and Dalius Miles.

  5 years 60 million matched Crawford and 5 years 55 million matched Darius Myers’ contract.

  When the Cavaliers announced the contract extension with the two young players of the team, the entire NBA was shocked.

  Although the whole world knows that the Cavaliers use such a contract to renew these two players because they don’t want the Suns to take advantage, but isn’t this too cruel?

  O'Neal and the sun are ruthless.

  Wonder kid and the Cavaliers are even tougher!

   "Shaq, our offer failed."

  Phoenix, the hotel where O’Neal stayed, O’Neal, who got the news from the sun, didn’t have any frustrated expressions on his face.

   Crawford and Miles have good strength and great potential. He wants to get these two people, but he has no plan to get them.

  "The Cavaliers renewed Crawford and Miles, whether they used it by themselves or signed first and then changed, they are destined to be unable to make up for themselves in the free market this season."

  O'Neal finished speaking extremely calmly, and the staff of the Suns next to him was shocked.

  Too ruthless!

  The whole world knows that because of Jordan’s dizziness, 11 million **** contracts have been cleared for the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers have a lot of room to sign powerful free agents this season.

   But by O'Neal, the Cavaliers really can't sign a big fish in the free market this year.

After Crawford and Miles renewed their contracts, the two men occupied the Cavaliers’ salary of 23 million, plus James, Chen Xiao, Chandler and Diop, Xiao Mo, Al Jefferson, With the salary of rookie contracts such as Dior, Korver, and Barnes, the salary of the Cavaliers is close to filling the salary space of 43 million.

  It is impossible for the Cavaliers to continue to sign big names in the free market. The Cavaliers now only have a full middle-class contract and some basic salary special contracts available.

  Furthermore, if the Cavaliers are so dealt with by O'Neal, not only can they not sign big names in the free market, but the same is true for the contract between Crawford and Darius Miles.

  Using them, Chandler and their renewal must be done in accordance with the two, and then Chandler must be renewed with a maximum salary.

  So, although the Cavaliers match the contract with the Suns, it must be to send them away and minimize the loss.

  In other words, last season, the thriving Cavaliers, who scored in the duel last season, were not only unable to sign, but also faced dissolution.

  Originally a thriving team, it was caused by O'Neal!

   "After this fat man disappeared in the world for a while, he actually became so sinister and vicious?!"

  The staff of the Sun looked at each other by O'Neill, and faced the complicated gazes of the staff around him, O'Neill didn't care.

  If you are betrayed by someone who has always been regarded as a father, if you met the scenes like the playoffs of last season, you will grow up and you will be blackened.

  After being betrayed by Phil Jackson and the poisonous snake, O’Neal now feels that he is no longer the innocent child he used to be.

  He, Shaq O’Neal, from now on, has grown up!

  Ignoring the strange gazes of these people, O'Neill plunged into the hotel's rehabilitation center.

   is a real rehabilitation center, not a strange place.

  Don’t pick up girls, don’t drink Fat House Happy Water, don’t eat and drink too much, don’t indulge in nightclubs, and are frantically taking care of your body every day...

  This is how the Sun staff felt about O'Neal after they had contact with O'Neal during this period.

  "Is this person really the legendary big shark?"

"have no idea……"

All the staff of   Sun shook their heads dumbfounded.

  If it’s not his looks, really, they really don’t believe that this person is the legendary O’Neill.

  Because he has become more sinister and cunning than his heart.

  And people have become thinner.

  Yes, O’Neal, after last season’s playoffs, the difference disappeared for more than 2 months, and he lost weight!

  The 32-year-old O'Neal looks more energetic than the 31-year-old O'Neal last season.

  Chen Xiao naturally did not know what happened in Phoenix.

  In order to prevent O'Neal and the Suns from taking advantage, the Cavaliers gritted their teeth and matched the Suns' contract with Crawford and Miles.

After the    match, the two players who are now on vacation returned to Cleveland to meet Chen Xiao's ‘last side’.

  Crawford and Miles are not fools, the Cavaliers matched such an outrageous contract, which means that their fate with the Cavaliers and Chen Xiao ends here.

  Seriously, although the two have been tortured by Chen Xiao for a season, they have been thinking about fleeing Cleveland, but, really, when they really want to leave here, the two are still a little bit reluctant.

  Of course not because of reluctance to part with Cleveland.

  What can't you bear in this place in Cleveland?

   Mainly still reluctant to part with Chen Xiao.

  After bidding farewell to Chen Xiao, Crawford and Miles looked at the sun above their heads, their faces were blank.

   "Now you can finally get out of the clutches."

   "Now you can finally fly high."

   "But..."

   "My heart is empty and noisy."

   Crawford and Darius Miles looked at each other the same, with wry smiles on their faces.

   "Being his teammate is really happy."

  "Being by his side, I feel so safe..."

   But, now, this happiness and this sense of security are going to leave them.

   Thinking of this, Crawford and Myers glanced deeply behind them at the same time.

   Then gritted his teeth and turned and left.

   And when the two of them didn't know, upstairs, the person they were thinking about was also watching them.

   "Brother, have a good journey."

  Looking at the two backs disappearing into the two cars in the distance, Chen Xiao closed the two windows in front of him.

  After matching Crawford and Miles, the Cavaliers began to sell these two players who played very well in the Cavaliers last season.

Crawford and Dalius Myers performed very well last season, and it’s really good. They have one offense and one defense. They are very distinctive, unhappy and mindless. They only attack one. Defense.

  There is such a bottom line.

  There are many teams that are interested in them.

  It’s just that there are many interested teams, but not many teams are willing to take over this big contract between the two.

  For example, Miles, after the Cavaliers matched this contract, the Blazers became very interested in Darius Miles.

  And they are also willing to take over the five-year 55 million contract of Darius Miles.

  The relationship between the Trail Blazers and the Cavaliers is very good. The two teams also worked together in this year's draft.

  The Cavaliers used the 18th pick in exchange for the 15th pick of the Trail Blazers, which is considered a cheap advantage for the Trail Blazers.

  This time, since the Trail Blazers have a need, and the Trail Blazers are interested in Miles, the Cavaliers did not want to pinch the Trail Blazers.

  The Blazers’ bargaining chip against the Cavaliers is next year’s Lotto-protected first-round pick + Raheem/Damon Stoudemire/Ratliffe’s three choices.

  Raheem has only one contract left for the last season, and the Blazers have no patience with him anymore.

The same goes for   Little Flying Squirrel.

  And Ratliff is still on a four-year junk contract, and the Cavaliers certainly won’t choose it.

  It can be said that this quotation from the pioneers is very sincere.

  The Cavaliers get Raheem or Flying Squirrel, which can get rid of this **** contract next season, and at the same time get immediate combat power this season. Raheem and Flying Squirrel still have immediate combat power.

Last season, Raheem played mainly as a substitute for the Trail Blazers. He averaged about 20 minutes per game and scored 10 points per game. It looks average, but he averaged 20 points per game when he started with the Hawks last season. .

  Flying squirrel, who started in the Blazers last season, averaged 13.5 points and 6 assists per game. He is a very qualified starting point guard.

  Flying squirrel or Raheem, which one should I choose?

   Both can start, and both can play Crawford's sixth man. It can be said that they are all players the Cavaliers need.

  Finally, the Cavaliers chose Raheem.

  Because Raheem proved that he can play the sixth man last season.

  While flying squirrel, he has played as a starter for most of his career.

In the end, after matching the contract of Dalius Miles, the Cavaliers announced a deal with the Trail Blazers. The Cavaliers used Miles + cash in exchange for Raheem and 2005 from the Trail Blazers. The first round of lottery protection for the Trail Blazers.

  After resolving Darius Miles’ contract, the Cavaliers need to resolve Crawford’s contract next.

  Crawford’s five-year 60 million contract is bigger than Dalius Miles’s contract, but likewise, there are more teams interested in Crawford’s contract.

  Although Crawford can't defend, but offense is really outstanding.

  Beside Chen Xiao and James, not only can he be a shooter, but also a singles. At the same time, he is only 24 years old, and he seems to have hope of becoming the next Kobe?

  If Miles’ offense makes him less likely to become a star player, then Crawford’s offense and his age really make many people look forward to.

  So, when the Cavaliers decided to trade Crawford, many teams still asked for the price.

  Crawford’s contract is big, but it’s worth the gamble to be able to trade with a first-round sign.

  The question is, are the Cavaliers willing to only have one first-round pick?

  Of course it’s impossible!

  It is a favor for the Trailblazers to be able to trade to Miles in the first round of a lottery protection.

  For Crawford, whose value is greater than Miles, why do you need two first-round picks? And it's the kind of two first-round picks with lottery hopes!

  Of course, if Crawford can really develop into an All-Star player in the future, both lottery picks are very worthwhile.

   However, if you can't become an All-Star, it is a player who traded two promising lottery signs for a **** contract.

  This is a loss.

  Seriously, if Crawford hadn’t broken the Cavaliers’ salary structure, the Cavaliers would have been willing to take on Crawford’s five-year 60 million contract.

  Crawford’s market price is between 8 million and 9 million.

  A premium of three or four million is acceptable.

  But for players like the Cavaliers, this is really not a problem of millions. The Lakers, Knicks, Trailblazers, the four heads of rich teams, have no problem getting such a contract, but the Cavaliers can’t.

  So, it can only be sent out.

  Among the teams that are interested in Crawford, there is no doubt that the most sincere one is the New York Knicks.

  The New York Knicks are willing to trade for Crawford with the 2005 and 2007 first-round picks + penny Hardaway.

  The two first-round picks of the New York Knicks are unprotected.

  The other first round picks for Crawford are all protected by lottery, which is a bit unsatisfactory.

  Although the Knicks’ penny Hardaway’s contract is considered a **** contract, the Knicks’ two draft picks are still very attractive.

  After the Knicks got Crawford, Marbury, Crawford, Alan Houston, and Thomas’ lineup are still very strong on paper.

  So, this is also the reason why the Knicks dare not protect the lottery.

  In history, the Knicks sent out two unprotected first-round picks in order to get Eddie Curry of the Bulls. Crawford's performance last season was better than Eddie Curry.

  The Knicks feel that they have got Crawford, and the value of the first round in the future is not great, so they are very confident. Well, the Knicks are always so confident.

  The Cavaliers feel that even if the Knicks get Crawford, they may not be able to make the playoffs, so these two first-round signings are of great value, so they are willing to trade.

  In short, after the Knicks sent this offer, the Cavaliers have decided to accept it.

   And just as the Cavaliers were ready to accept this offer from the New York Knicks, an extremely attractive offer for Crawford was placed in front of the Cavaliers.

  Seeing this offer, not only the Cavaliers general manager Paxson was shocked, but Chen Xiao was also shocked.

  "Houston Mosaic is willing to trade Francis for Crawford + Diop + Cavaliers' first-round draft pick next year!"

  Seriously, Francis is still very strong in the NBA. Whether it is popularity or strength, it is definitely an All-Star level.

  As long as the Cavaliers get Francis, the Cavaliers will change from a double star team to a Big Three team.

  And more importantly, the Cavaliers will get the starting point guard the team dreams of!

  In this way, the Cavaliers will complete the reconstruction in an instant.

  Chandler, Raheem, James, Chen Xiao, Francis, is this starting lineup very reverie?

  In the Mosaic team last season, Francis had the worst data of his career because of Jie Williams.

   Obviously, Jie Williams and Francis’ point guards can’t coexist with their point guards. Both need a lot of ball rights. At the same time, both have some problems with their defenses.

In this case, many people are speculating that Mosaic will trade Jie Williams or Francis in the offseason of this season, but, what people did not expect is that the Mosaic team actually chose to trade Francis in the end. .

  Many people think that Mosaic will trade Jie Williams.

   "Why did Mosaic choose to keep Jie Williams instead of Francis?"

   Just as the Cavaliers general manager Paxson was about to give up the agreement with the Knicks, Chen Xiao took this question to stop the excited Paxson.

   "Jim, wait a minute."

  After Chen Xiao stopped Paxson, he took out his mobile phone and dialed the number of his old friend Jie Williams.

   Regarding the fact that Mosaic will use Francis to trade with the Cavaliers, it is obvious that Jie Williams does not know.

  Je Williams knew that the Mosaic team finally chose him and gave up Francis.

  But I don’t know that Francis will be used to trade with the Cavaliers.

  So after hearing Chen Xiao’s inquiry, Jie Williams still told Chen Xiao some things that outsiders didn’t know.

"Chen, Francis is a very strong player. He is definitely better than me now. However, I don't recommend you to trade him, because last season we can smell some other strange smells in our locker room. I think you should understand. I mean."

  "……"

  Other strange smell...

  After Jie Williams finished speaking, Chen Xiao almost understood it in seconds.

   "Thank you, Jay."

  Chen Xiao returned to the Cavaliers' general manager's office after finishing the call with Jie Williams.

  At this time, everyone was waiting for Chen Xiao's decision.

   "Jim, terminate the transaction."

  "……"

  Paxson's eyes widened, James and Carlisle looked at Chen Xiao with the same curiosity and surprise.

  In the office of the general manager of the Houston Mosaic team on the other side, Dawson was also at a loss.

  Just now, Paxson looked like he was about to trade with them. Why did he suddenly change his mind?

  And stopped trading with them so decisively?

  Is there a ghost, and Francis has been infected with smoky things exposed?

   But, shouldn’t this be? !

  The rest of the Mosaic team knows that Francis smokes marijuana at most, and the others do not.

  But what Dawson didn’t know was that even if he smoked marijuana, Chen Xiao couldn’t accept it.

  The team meeting ended. Xiao Zhan was very curious about why Chen Xiao rejected Francis. Chen Xiao did not hide, except that he did not tell Xiao Zhan that Jie Williams told him, everything else was said.

   "So he got marijuana..."

  It is a pity that Xiao Zhan~www.NovelMTL.com~ Chen Xiao can't accept it, he can accept it.

  However, Xiao Zhan, who is now proficient in Chinese history, is willing to respect and understand Chen Xiao’s culture and habits.

  It’s just that at this time, Xiao Zhan didn’t know Chen Xiao’s attitude towards marijuana, which almost saved the future of James and the Cavaliers.

  Back to Crawford’s deal.

After rejecting the Mosaic deal, the Cavaliers reached a deal with the Knicks.

  The Knicks traded the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Cavaliers’ number three scorer Crawford with pennies and the 2005 and 2007 unprotected first-round picks.

  At this point, the Cavaliers have solved the problem raised by O'Neal.

   Seeing the Cavaliers send Crawford and Darius Miles away, O'Neal snorted with satisfaction.

   "Want to rise?"

  Huh, continue sinking!

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  (End of this chapter)