: 854. Prologue to the transaction

In the snowy Toronto, there are two worlds inside and outside the house. You wear short sleeves in the room and eat Haagen-Dazs. The snow shovel outside the house is dispatched every hour.
Alonzo Mourning is discussing the future with his agent David Falke. For Mourning, the road of life is still very long, but the future of the NBA can already see the tail.
"Alonzo, Pat Riley and Steven Price all contacted me. They are the most suitable for you and the team that is most willing to take out the chips." David Falcao told Moning.
Since the return of Mourning, the Raptors have been open to trading Mourning, allowing other teams to contact Mourning's agents, such as obtaining authoritative materials such as medical reports.
After experiencing kidney disease, comeback, misdiagnosis, and determination of viral kidney failure, kidney replacement ... After four years of illness and pain, Mo Ning finally recovered, but his beard was white, and he, until February next year, only reached 35 At the age of only, injuries and illnesses are more than just being unable to play. The kind of anxiety and despair for the future is the most difficult.
But anyway, he recovered. In the 8 games after his comeback, Mourning averaged 10 points, 7 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game in 23 minutes per game, which was quite dazzling and attracted the attention of many teams, but he was really willing to take over. Not many contracts.
Mo Ning asked: "David, do you think I should go to the Heat or the Hawks are more suitable?"
"In terms of probability, the Hawks have a greater chance of winning. They have two players who can take the MVP." David Falk replied.
"Wow, David, I remember that the kid refused to meet you. Wasn't you mad at the phone?" Mo Ning exclaimed, apparently David Falke's answer surprised him.
"Alonzo, you are not a broker. You don't know what business is, that kid knows better than you." David Falke seemed to care nothing about Liu Mang's refusal to meet him two years ago.
In the final analysis, this is all business. Now Liu Mang's brokerage company is booming, and there are nearly twenty NBA players under his hand, and he is almost catching up with David Falk's brokerage company.
There were more than 100 players under David Falke, and the NBA was almost the "internal league" situation of David Falke's own agency, but since the cooperation between Jordan and William Wesley broke David -After Falk ’s monopoly, David Falk ’s influence in the NBA began to collapse, and by the 1990s, it was no longer a dominant company.
David Falke is now looking for big contracts for Spreeville and Eddie Curry. There are not too many teams to give face to him. At that time, Juwan Howard's 100 million yuan contract was very impressive.
Having a good relationship with Liu Mang is a good thing for David Falke, a vampire who had been in the NBA for 20 years and is now disgusted by many management.
"Fortunately, I don't understand. If I thought I knew everything and insisted on staying with the Hornets, I wouldn't have a salary of 100 million to make me sick after I got sick." Mo Ning laughed.
"So this is my favorite reason for Alonzo. You will not intervene in things you don't understand." David Falk also smiled and continued: "In addition to the high probability of winning the championship, there are also One other factor, the Hawks are not short of money, they are willing to accept the option of trading, Steven Price does not need us to give up the remaining four months of salary, Pat Riley asked me to negotiate a buyout with the Raptors . "
"Pat Riley has always been like that, he won't spend an extra penny." Mo Ning had long guessed the cost of going to the Heat.
"Then Alonzo, would you prefer to go to the Hawks or the Heat?" David Falke asked.
"I don't want to substitute O'Neal. Anyone can do it. A 19-year-old can do it. O'Neill can't." Mo Ning resolutely replied.
"Well, I'll call Steven Price ... Wait, I'll answer the phone." David Falke just took out his phone, and the phone just rang.
David Falk made a phone call to the bathroom, and Mo Ning read a book in the living room. After a while, Mo Ning saw David Falk walk out with regret.
"What's wrong, David, what happened?" Mo Ning asked strangely.
"OH, Alonzo, it seems that I am going to change my suggestion, let's go to the Heat!" David Falke rarely thinks about the players.
"Why?" Mo Ning was even stranger. "The Hawks don't want to trade me?"
"No," David Falke took out his laptop from his briefcase, opened the mailbox, opened it after receiving the email, and faced the screen to Moning, saying, "The Eagles are too young and too unstable, you have a look at this."
Mo Ning looked at the news screenshots in the email curiously and couldn't help but laughed: "Kwame Brown? That popular champion? No no no no, he is already the first center in the east, ha ha ha ha ha ... David, go to the Hawks and buy out the remaining months of salary with the Raptors, hahahaha ... "
"Ah?" David Falke didn't expect Mourning to react like this ...
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At noon on November 19, 2004, an ESPN TV interview was broadcast.
"I should be the starting center of this All-Star game because I'm very strong, very strong!"
"You said O'Neal? God, I won him 4 to 1 in the finals! You all saw that no Kobe passed him, no Kobe deliberately shot the ball on the basket and bounced into his hands. No. "
"Ben Wallace? How did I sweep him in the playoffs last year, didn't you see it?"
"I score more than Ben Wallace, rebound more than O'Neill, record better than all centers in the East, and there is no center better than my stats. My shooting percentage is 67%, the league's first This is a hit rate that O'Neal and Ben Wallace will never get. I am the first center in the East, and the All-Star starter should be me! "
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Kwame Brown made a big speech in an interview with Liu Mang, mainly aimed at O'Neill and Ben Wallace, two centers considered to be the first and second in the East. Ratliff's side also performed well this year. , Averaging 7 points, 5 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game in 26 minutes per game, not much different from last season, but the attendance rate has become lower, but there are no major injuries, but the minor injuries continue. The Nets have played 25 games. Seven injury stoppages, mainly leaving Liu Mang, Ratliff's popularity fell sharply, there is no threat of competition.
Liu Mang's answer to Kwame Brown's interview was in addition to Kwame Brown's claim that he was the No. 1 center in the East. He also brought Kobe fans together and unreasonably rubbed Kobe's popularity.
On the afternoon news of ESPN Sports Station on the 19th, an interview with Kwame Brown was broadcast, the afternoon newspaper also published this interview, and ESPN officials also released the video and text report of this interview. Kwame Brown was instantly on fire!
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"Kwame! Tell me what you think?"
"Ace asked me to do this ..."
"Ace? Can you be the same as Ace? How can you learn to play with Ace like this? Are you really the first center in the East? You% #% ￥% ￥% ...... You do n’t play tonight Fight! Go get Nazir and Ace to come over "
After seeing the news, Coach Kruger called Kwame Brown to the office for the first time.
Kwame Brown now feels Liu Mang's evil!
He didn't know what he said to the reporter at that time. In fact, after he accepted the interview and the reporter left, he thought that he had softened his legs according to the manuscript given by Liu Mang.
Now it is even more regretful-the boss pits me!
When Kwame Brown was about to cry, the office door was pushed open.
Coach Kruger looked at the door in exasperation and found that it was the boss, who could only put away his anger and asked: "Boss, what's wrong, you have to teach Kwame as a kid?"
"Lesson Kwame? No no no," Price smiled. "Long, Mo Ning is willing to take the initiative to buy out the contract with the Raptors and join us with a base salary."
"Ah? Why? Isn't the boss saying that Erke doesn't want to buy it out?" Coach Kruger immediately set aside Kwame Brown's affairs and asked curiously.
Price pointed to Kwame Brown and said: "Falke said that Mourning wants to teach Kwame to play, and he appreciates Kwame."
"..." Coach Kruger glanced at the pitiful Kwame Brown, not sure what to say.
The scene was very embarrassing. After a few tens of seconds, coach Kruger said to Kwame Brown: "Kwame, go ahead and prepare for the evening game. You do n’t need to call Nazr. Ask Ace to come. There is something to discuss with him. "
"Uh ... alright ..."
Kwame Brown didn't expect the peak to turn around! He thought he was going to be pressed on the bench by the coach. Although Muhammad did not have the peak performance of double-doubles per game in the 01-02 season, it was at the peak of the 28-year-old. Under the circumstance of trouble, giving 10 minutes per game is enough. Every season, many teams offer to Muhammad. In 2006, Muhammad was only 29 years old after the end of the current contract. It's easy to get a big contract and use Muhammad to play the blue-collar starting center without any problems.
But it seems that coach Kruger did not interrupt and put him on the bench. Kwame Brown did not know what to say.
Out of the head coach's office, Kwame Brown jumped up with joy!
That's Moning!
Although Ratliff is powerful, compared with Mourning, it is not enough to watch. Before he fell ill, Mourning was a superstar who won a while, a defense, the best defensive player and a block king in a single season!
"Boss is too powerful! Did he expect all this? Expect me to shoot at O'Neal would be appreciated by Mourning?" Kwame Brown's thoughts could not stop coming out, "Follow the boss. It's great! "
Kwame Brown flew to the training ground: Dear boss, your most loyal younger brother is here ...
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To drive away Kwame Brown, who looks more basic than Iguodala, who is nicknamed "I am gay," Liu Mang came to Kruger's office and learned that Moning was willing to buy out the contract and join, Liu Mang never thought of it!
He remembered that Moning should prefer the Heat.
But when you think about it, Liu Mang feels that Mo Ning can only join the Heat.
If you think about it, Liu Mang can tell that the relationship between Mo Ning and O'Neill is not very good.
The original Mourning would go to the bench for O'Neal, firstly due to injury, secondly because he has a house in Miami, and thirdly, the Heat are in the original time and space of the 04-05 season, almost from the beginning of the season First in the East, the Pistons led by Larry Brown did not fully display the strength of four All-Stars plus a god-class single defense master.
However, the relationship between Mourning and O’Neal cannot be as good as possible. O’Neal and Mourning are the same rookies of the same season. One pick and one leader. At the beginning, Mourning lost to O’Neal. Later, he selected four centers, and O’Neal was the only one The center who entered the NBA in the 1990s was selected, and Mourning lost again.
Being defeated by the same person in a row, or a very important point in his career, and the kind of things that can not be changed, Liu Mang does not feel that Mo Ning, a representative of the tough guys in the 1990s, will be willing to be a substitute for O’Neal.
If it is not due to kidney disease, Mo Ning, who just got the best defensive player in Lianzhuang in the 99-00 season, just turned 30, should be at the peak, but the 00-01 season began the season reimbursement ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Directly changed from the peak to a role player, wasting the golden years of 31 to 34 years old that would still be the peak, otherwise it will not end up holding O'Neill's thigh for the championship, and also actively give up most of the salary agreement Buy out.
Buyouts and layoffs are two concepts. Cutouts are full payment of the contract salary. Buyouts are a discussion of how much money the remaining contract will give. Often, buyouts will be paid by the player.
After discussing with boss Price and coach Kruger for a while, Liu Mang suggested: "Boss, coach, I think, let's trade."
"Why? We can wait for Mourning and the Raptors to buy out, and sign Mourning directly!" Price asked doubtfully.
"We have too many outsiders. We can take advantage of this transaction to strengthen our insiders and clean up the outsiders. Haven't you always wanted to make the outsiders less bloated?" Liu Mang wanted to collect draft picks again ...
Coach Kruger agrees. Liu Mang said that he was in heart, there were too many outsiders, and most of them were talented first- and second-year players with obvious defects. The three players outside the 12-man roster should be veterans. Mainly right, but the Hawks are rookies and sophomores.
"Aise, who do you think is better for trading? If we add a rookie, we may still be able to get back a final first-round pick or a good second-round pick." Coach Kruger asked.
"Allen or Ariza." Liu Mang answered this quite simply.
"Why?" Price asked curiously.
"I'm not as familiar with them as Keller or Jose ..."
For such a simple reason, the difference in surnames or first names used by Liu Mang when referring to the four people can be seen.
The players who are on the bottom of the team, to stay, is just a word from the core of the team ...