NBA Opening Draw To Twilight Shaquille O’Neal

Chapter 510: Reinforcement in summer

After Pau Gasol decides to renew his contract with the Lakers, I am afraid that Los Angeles will also be the last stop of his career.

The end-of-life Lakers seems to be a good choice too.

At the same time, with the joining of the former captain of the Green Army, Rondo, a storm quickly rose outside the country.

Not long after F4, after two seasons of silence, the Lakers quickly formed a big three combination, making the reinforcements faster than the outside world expected.

In this regard, many team management in small cities are only envious and jealous, and at most they can only be sour: big cities are good!

The heat of the transaction between the Lakers and the Celtics has just dissipated. In late July, the Mosaic, Heat, Wizards, Bulls, and Clippers became the most active teams in the free market.

Howard, Bosh, Anthony, these big fish are the focus of the most attention in the free market.

In the process, the Mavericks management, who failed to make the playoffs last season, reached a basic salary contract with former NBA slam dunk king Richard Jefferson on the 22nd. The season will be the main line player for the Mavericks.

Don't look at the fact that the Mavericks have not been able to get tickets for the playoffs for two consecutive seasons, but still the same sentence, the Mavericks are in charge, the star Dirk Nowitzki's 11-year single-core championship Yu Wei is still there, and he was also selected as an All-Star last season. , the Mavericks is still a playoff seed-level team in the West.

No one dares to underestimate this calf too much!

As time goes by, and August is approaching, Wang Zelin has no time to pay attention to the transactions happening in the NBA every day, because there is a major event that requires him to concentrate all his energy.

2014 Spain Men's Basketball World Cup!

On July 30, 2014, more than 20 days before the men's World Cup, Wang Zelin said goodbye to the brothers in the training camp one by one, ready to return to China.

But before he left, general manager Nell Olshey came with a piece of news that surprised him...

"What, the team got in touch with Vince Carter?"

At the team headquarters, Wang Zelin's face was a little surprised when he heard the familiar and unfamiliar name.

As far as he knows, many fans in later generations said that Carter would have won the championship long ago if he held a group. Shouldn't Carter in this period be the stage to enjoy the fun of basketball?

How did he choose to join the Blazers?

On the opposite side, the old fritters Orsi saw Wang Zelin's thoughts on his face, and curled his lips in disdain: "Wang, don't you think that someone can really refuse the temptation of the championship?"

"Is not it?"

Wang Zelin replied stupidly.

"Don't be funny, think about the teams that Carter has been in before, the Nets, the Magic, the Mavericks, which of these teams was not a championship team the year before he went? What do you think Carter is going to do? Community benefits?"

Orsi asked rhetorically like setting off firecrackers, stopping Wang Zelin from asking.

Wang Zelin carefully recalled Carter's previous career history... It's true!

"Just saying that after Carter joined the Magic, the news headlines in the local Orlando media are counting on the Magic to enter the finals again against Kobe, just like the Lakers took Artest to LeBron."

Nell Olsey continued to break the news.

In fact, this is not a revelation. The old fans who have experienced the four major summits know these things, and only young people who have only watched football in recent years will be fooled by the media.

Saying that an NBA player doesn't yearn for a championship is like saying that he doesn't want to be popular in the entertainment industry.

It’s okay to talk about it occasionally, shouldn’t people really believe it?

Hearing what the general manager said, Wang Zelin came back to his senses and understood that it was indeed feasible for Carter to join the Blazers.

He opened the data and checked, oh, Uncle Carter did a good job last season!

In the regular season last season, Carter played 81 games off the bench for the Bulls, averaging 22.4 minutes, and the data was around 11+2+2.

Since the Mavericks here failed to make the playoffs last season, Carter naturally has no playoff data.

However, Wang Zelin still specially asked the system to call up the data of Carter's 13~14 season playoffs in the last time and space.

In the original career trajectory, the Dallas Mavericks entered the playoffs with a record of 49 wins and 33 losses in the eighth regular season in the Western Conference, and met the regular season champion San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the playoffs, and then fought 7 games with the Spurs. In the end, I lost the 7th, and I missed the black 8...

In that series, Uncle Carter played the role of the bench gangster very well, averaging 27.1 minutes in 7 games, averaging 12.6 points, 2.4 assists and 3.6 rebounds, shooting 45.6% from the field, and especially exaggerated three-point shooting. It reached 48.7%!

Although the sample of 7 games down the round is too small to tell the truth. But after the 81 regular season games of the 2013-14 season, when Carter averaged more than 4 three-pointers per game, his three-pointers could still maintain at 39.4%, which is already very high!

The sample of 81 games is large enough!

Pushing forward another season, it is also 81 regular season games, also averaging more than 4 three-pointers per game, and the shooting rate is 40.6%!

Although Carter has been labeled as a "dunk" until now, he is actually a very deadly three-pointer.

He has been in the league for more than ten years, and for 10 years, the three-point shooting rate has remained above 35%, of which four years the three-point shooting rate has exceeded 40%.

In this way, after Carter joined the Blazers, wouldn't he just be able to solve the problem of backup firepower on the second and third positions?

However, when Wang Zelin looked at Carter's performance in the 2014-2015 season, he frowned and asked:

"How's Carter doing now?"

When it comes to money, Nell Olsey returned to Wang Zelin very solemnly: "Carter's agent has proposed a contract of 12 million over three years, but we think there is still room for manoeuvre, and we are currently working with his agent Mark Stein. Berg is negotiating."

"12 million in three years?" Wang Zelin shook his head when he heard the result, and gave his own advice, "Tell them that our bottom line is 8 million in three years!"

The three-year 12 million mentioned by Nell Olsey happened to be the contract signed by Rickart and Memphis in the last time and space, but don’t forget, the Mavericks in this time and space have not made the playoffs for two consecutive years, let alone experience. In the 7-game battle with the Spurs, Carter's transaction value is naturally not as high as it used to be.

"But wouldn't that be too low?"

Hearing this, Nell Orsi looked at Wang Zelin in astonishment.

I didn't expect you, a guy with big eyebrows and big eyes, to be even more ruthless than us. He directly cut off 1/3 of his salary, almost asking Carter to join him at a basic salary, and it is no more than a capitalist.

Wang Zelin glanced at random, do you want him to say that Carter, after 14 years, has never scored in double figures in the regular season again?

"The big deal, promise him another condition in the contract."

"What conditions?"

"Let him wear the No. 15 jersey back!"

"this……"

Nell Olsey paused for a moment, thoughtful.

The Blazers' No. 15 jersey was retired as early as October 11, 1981. The owner of the jersey, Larry Nelson Steele, was one of the members of the Portland Trail Blazers' first championship in 1977.

Considering that Steele's 9 NBA careers have all played for the Blazers, and he is the only champion in the team's history, and the Blazers' ancestors are indeed not very rich, he chose to retire the legendary veteran. The jersey also makes sense.

After all, not everyone is as harsh and impersonal as the Magic.

Seeing that Orsi was still weighing the pros and cons, Wang Zelin added:

"I think, rather than wearing the No. 25 jersey to win the Blazers, Carter should wish he was wearing the No. 15 jersey that carried many highlights of his career!"

"Wang, has anyone told you that you can become a speaker after you retire," Olsey sighed and lit another cigar and stuffed it in his mouth.

"If I were Vince Carter, I would probably be moved by your words."

However, Wang Zelin only shrugged.

To say that Uncle Carter is tragic enough, as long as he can join the Nets, Magic, and Mavericks one year ahead of schedule, he will not miss the championship ring one after another.

So that after retiring, he was often pulled out and criticized by a certain sauna basketball commentator.

All I can say is, make good luck!

Given that Carter hasn't completely degenerated to only three-pointers, his desire to win the championship should still be strong, and it is unlikely to solve the requirements of the championship team.

After discussing with Olsey for a while, the Blazers decided to have another round of negotiations with Carter's agent.

But before that, Orsi wanted Wang Zelin to contact Carter first.

Because he believes that with Wang Zelin, a new superstar who has just completed a single-season honorary grand slam, the possibility of successful recruitment will be higher.

After all, people want faces, and trees want bark.

Being dispatched by their strongest player can also make Carter feel the sincerity of the Blazers.

So, Wang Zelin decided to take a moment to see the former demigod before returning to China.

Dong Ai, Xi Ke, North Carolina, Nan Mai, Dong Ai and Nan Mai, who were dubbed by fans as the four main guards in the past, have disappeared, and only Xi Ke and North Carolina are still standing.

Fans today would never have imagined that North Carolina, with the lowest achievement among the big four, would become the longest-serving player in the NBA.

Wang Zelin didn't have the chance to witness Carter's highly entertaining dunks at his peak, but fortunately, what the team needs now is Carter's three-pointer.

"Hey, by the way, I remember Anthony Morrow also became a free agent, the team can touch it, that guy's three-pointer is very good."

When leaving the team headquarters, Wang Zelin gave another reinforcement candidate.

"Is Anthony Moreau?"

Hearing this name, Orsi suddenly smiled mysteriously.

Anthony Morrow shot 45.1% of the current top three-pointers last season, how could the Blazers have not touched it.

and……

Forget it, I'll give Wang another surprise when it's done.

...

After returning to the apartment to rest for a night, the next morning, Wang Zelin went to Carter's hometown of Daytona Beach, Florida, and found Carter who was fishing.

True Fishing!

As a black athlete, the well-educated Carter doesn't even have a tattoo on his body. In addition to business activities during the offseason, he spends a lot of time in his hometown and often goes to church, which is summer training and entertainment.

Carter isn't a good icon compared to many offseason players who have been playing for a while.

"Wang, you just won the championship. You should be quite busy now, why are you free to come to me? Could it be that you want to fish with me?" Carter smiled.

"Farewell, I don't know anything about fishing. And I can't be idle either."

Wang Zelin waved his hand and sat on the spot.

"Then you are here..."

Carter's attention was still on the fishing rod, and he asked without looking back.

"If I remember correctly, your contract with the Mavericks has expired. Next season, buy Portland. Let's win the championship together!"

Hearing this question, Carter immediately became serious when he put down his fishing rod.

As an old Jianghu, after he received a call from Wang Zelin in the morning, he had already vaguely guessed the latter's purpose. But when Wang Zelin really recruited himself, his expression was hard to move.

"Stop kidding? Last year's best defense, youngest ever MVP, Finals MVP and double first-team Grand Slam winner~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is actually recruiting an old man who is approaching 40?"

Carter's self-deprecating question.

His heart was already in a mess, and he didn't even notice that the fishing rod moved.

"Hehe." Wang Zelin stretched out his hand, picked up the fishing rod, and quickly took up the line.

Soon, a three-foot-sized fish appeared in front of the two of them.

"I don't believe that the blood of the dignified demigod has cooled. Here, your fish."

Wang Zelin caught the fish and sent it to Carter.

Hearing this, Carter was suddenly silent.

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