naaapseattle Chapter 194 Show off your championship
Chapter 194 Show off your championship
Chapter 194 Show off your championship
7 month 6 day.
Li Lai went to O'Neill's house first. After participating in the championship parade, the other party took part in various entertainment programs one after another with the championship trophy, and said proudly to the world.
"The Black Mamba has 4 rings, but the Sharks have 5, so the Sharks are the greatest star in the history of the Lakers."
The hosts of all entertainment programs are already immune to O'Neill's character, and the program really needs O'Neill's non-surprise and endless effects, so the hosts of these programs cooperate with O'Neill to echo such topics.
At this time, O'Neill was also in high spirits painting his toenails at home.
"Coach, I'm going to be on duty on the streets of Los Angeles this afternoon. Do you want to play with me? Now I'm the traffic enforcement officer here."
Seeing O'Neal's current appearance, Hammond sighed again and again, he still looks like a basketball player.
O'Neal no longer has this ambition, and he has no goal at all in the NBA.
Li said, "Shaq, I want to sign another year's contract with you."
Hearing this, O'Neill paused.
He originally thought that what he had done should be enough to show his thoughts and determination, but he didn't expect that Li Lai still wanted to recruit him.
At this time, O'Neill finally calmed down all his mischievous emotions, and said seriously: "Coach, I don't want to lie to you, because you are the best coach I have ever seen, and your coaching ability is only slightly worse than that in my opinion. Coach Phil Jackson.”
"So I want to tell you honestly, I'm already planning to retire."
Li Lai heaved a long sigh when he heard this sentence.
O'Neal is 39 years old. He really doesn't need to fight for the championship anymore. Most players at his age may have already retired. It is a miracle that O'Neal can play until now.
"Do the Lakers plan to sign you?" Li Lai asked suddenly.
O'Neal quickly understood what Li Lai meant. As the No.1 in the NBA, he should not just hold a press conference to announce his retirement like other ordinary players.
For a player with outstanding achievements like him, when he retires, there should always be a tour or a retirement ceremony to accept the fans' cheers and congratulations.
The Lakers are the team that should do this for O'Neal most, after all, he has established a three-peat championship dynasty for this team.
"No."
O'Neal shook his head and said: "The Lakers are aiming to win the championship and revenge. They don't have any extra players to sign me, and they can't sign me."
"After all, we beat the Lakers last season."
"But coach, you have to be careful with them next season. The Lakers with Garnett will definitely cause us great trouble."
Li Lai nodded, and he naturally thought of this at the moment when the Garnett trade happened, and he continued to ask: "Then what about the Magic, do they want to sign you to complete your final retirement? "
O'Neal remembered the Magic that picked him up in the draft, and smiled bitterly: "That team didn't even intend to retire my jersey."
"Their management said that whoever brings the Magic a championship trophy will only retire his jersey."
"So don't even talk about holding a retirement ceremony for me."
After hearing this, Li looked at O'Neill, and after speaking, O'Neill also looked at Li Lai, and the two looked at each other.
O'Neal shook his head and said, "Coach, it's okay, I don't really care about the retirement ceremony, really, I don't care at all."
O'Neill himself had no confidence in saying this.
He also remembered that the first time he joined the Bucks last season, Li Lai said to him: If you don't want to play anymore, the Bucks will hold a retirement ceremony for you.
This is the treatment he deserves as the most dominant big center in NBA history.
So Li Lai said firmly at this time: "Come back, O'Neal, you should have a decent retirement ceremony."
O'Neal shook his head and said, "Coach, I know that the Bucks' goal next season will definitely be to win the championship. Although it seems difficult to defend the title, I don't want to occupy a valuable spot in the team."
"Also, it's really hard for me to help the team."
Li Lai patted O'Neal on the shoulder and said, "Who says you can't help the team?"
"You know the rookie I just drafted, DeMarcus Cousins, I hope he can play like you, so you need to give him all your abilities and skills to make him the next Shaquille O'Neal. "
"Be the coach of DeMarcus Cousins Veteran, Shaq, I still need you."
Seeing Li Lai's firm tone, O'Neill really wanted a decent retirement ceremony in his heart.
And Lee said, he is not completely useless for the Bucks.
The combination of various factors made O'Neill gather courage at this time.
"Okay, coach, then I'll go crazy with the Bucks again!"
7 month 7 day.
The Bucks announced that they signed O'Neal for one year and 1 million.
The emergence of this news did not cause much disturbance in the trading market.
Because the entire league knows that it is impossible for the 39-year-old O'Neal to play again. This signing is more like the mercy that the Bucks have no players to sign.
But such a deal was the Bucks' first signing after the trading market opened on July 7.
The situation for the Bucks is still very difficult.
After signing O'Neal, Li Lai really didn't expect the other party to help the team play a remarkable performance on the court. He gave O'Neal, the most dominant center in the history of the basket, a decent retirement ceremony, and helped DeMarcus. Cousins' accelerated growth is his main purpose.
In other words, the Bucks still have no progress in strengthening small forwards and inside.
There is not much time left for the Bucks management.
At this time, the alliance reproduced the earthquake-level transaction.
Wade and Chris Bosh join the Miami Heat!
The contracts signed by the two are exactly the same in terms of duration and amount, a 6-year maximum salary contract of 1.1 million US dollars!
It is worth mentioning that Wade's original home team is the Heat, so when the Bird clause was triggered, he could have signed a super contract with the maximum amount of 6 years and 1.2 million U.S. dollars, but for Bosh's joining, Wade made a big concession on salary.
After these two transactions appeared, the only big fish left in the entire NBA is the little emperor LeBron James.
Li Lai was surprisingly calm at this time, not even a little nervous or excited, but as if a big stone had finally landed in his heart.
Because Bosh has successfully joined the Heat, then everything that follows may be coming, and he can't stop the next script from being staged at all.
"LeBron James will announce his decision on ESPN at 9 a.m. Friday and will also announce it live on 'The Decision'."
Hammond is curious about which team LeBron James will choose to join, but in his opinion, re-signing with the Cavaliers may be the biggest possibility.
After all, there are not many players in the league who can be loved like James by the whole city, and even in terms of fans' support, he has received more praise than the local team Cavaliers.
"He's a son of Cleveland and shouldn't be playing anywhere else."
Hammond is very sure of this result.
Li Lai did not explain at this time, but continued to look for his next target, but he still couldn't help but muttered in his heart: Akron's child is going out to make a living.
7 month 8 day.
Li came to Artest's home, which surprised the latter.
Artest brought his daughter to see Li Lai and said, "Coach, I really didn't know you were coming, otherwise I would definitely prepare well."
Artest is training in the boxing room at home and keeps himself in good shape. There are still a lot of basketballs on the court in his yard. It can be seen that he just trained today.
Li took a look at Artest's figure and was very satisfied with his training.
"After winning the championship, why don't you go out and have fun and relax?" Li Lai asked.
Artest smiled and said: "Boxing is my only pleasure. In my opinion, it is the same as traveling."
"By the way, coach, what do you want to see me for?"
Li Lai went straight to the point and said: "The team's recruitment and reinforcement have been hindered one after another during this period. I have my eyes on a player and want to attract him to join, but to be on the safe side, I am going to find you first and let you do it." guest."
After hearing this, Artest said in embarrassment: "Coach, you don't know that my reputation in the NBA, Ron, has never been very good. Is there any player who can be persuaded by me?"
"Do you want me to use force to subdue him?"
"That's fine."
Li Lai shook his head and said, "He knows you very well. I think you are the only one who can convince him. If not, maybe you can only find Reggie Miller."
"However, since Reggie won the championship with the team, he has been invited to be the subject of various programs. He and O'Neal have participated in many programs together during this period, so I am worried that he does not have this time."
Artest has already guessed some.
There should be no players who can make him and Reggie Miller be lobbyists, except for the old Pacers.
"Coach, who is it?" Artest asked with some concern.
Li Lai said: "Little O'Neill!"
"It's him!?"
Reggie Miller was the calmest in the incident at the Palace of Auburn Hills back then. He was also the one who the Pacers had been working hard to stop the fight. The other thugs were martial arts saint Stephen Jackson, who punched a child.
And the only one who really fought against Artest and suffered punches and kicks from others on the front line of the battlefield, and even counted as one of the protagonists, was O'Neal.
At that time, Artest and O'Neal were real brothers, more golden than real money.
But after the Palace of Auburn Hills incident, more and more questions emerged as the Pacers lost their championship title.
Coupled with the fact that Artest was later chosen to be traded by the Pacers, they also asked Artest to state that he had applied for the trade, which became an indelible scar in O'Neal's heart.
"I treat you as a brother, and fought against the Palace of Auburn Hills for you, but you want to leave?"
This is the grievance between Artest and O'Neal over the years, and the latter has never chosen to forgive him.
Li Lai naturally knows all the stories in it. In his opinion, O'Neal really treats Artest as a brother, so he has always chosen not to forgive him.
If such brotherhood cannot be reconciled, it will be a great pity for both of them.
So taking this opportunity, Li Lai also hoped to help the two of them untangle their hearts.
Artest understood what Li Lai meant.
He still remembers when he met Jermaine O'Neal in the first season of joining the Bucks. At that time, Artest wanted to ask Jermaine O'Neal for forgiveness, but the opponent refused without hesitation.
At that time, Artest promised that the opponent would win the championship, and then put the championship ring in front of the opponent. Now he has finally achieved this step, and it is time to meet the opponent.
"Coach, let's go!"
Columbia, South Carolina.
Little O'Neill was walking on the streets of the city boredly.
Last season, he played 70 regular season games on behalf of the Heat, averaging 13.6 points and 6.9 rebounds per game, and his shooting percentage was as high as 52.9%.
It stands to reason that it should not be difficult to get a contract extension from the Heat with such a statistic, but the sudden joining of Dragon King Bosh made the Heat directly choose to give him up.
Coupled with the fact that all the teams are desperately signing strikers this offseason, old-school inside players like Eddie Curry dare not jump out of the contract to test the free market, so his signing is still in limbo until now. on hold.
O'Neal's agent told him that there are currently two or three teams interested in him, the Clippers, the Timberwolves and the 76ers.
However, the prices these three teams are willing to offer are not high. They are only willing to sign him with a contract that is slightly higher than the basic salary of the veteran. Not very good.
At this time, outside the street mall in the downtown area, the Big Mouth Barkley Show jointly participated by Reggie Miller and O'Neal happened to be playing on the giant TV screen.
Reggie Miller was in high spirits at the guest table. He finally won the only championship in his entire career, and expressed on the show that he was looking forward to the next championship ring.
The management of the Bucks has announced that it will build a ring with a great championship commemorative significance, and the construction cost invested is at least several million dollars.
This once attracted the attention of all the media, and made the Bucks' championship members look forward to it.
O'Neal on the side was also obsessed with this championship ring, but for the sake of the program effect, he sneered at Reggie Miller at this time.
Probably something, you don't even have the nerve to get the championship ring on the court?
Of course, Barkley chose to stand up as a peacemaker, and listed the team's shooting status from outside the three-point line before and after Reggie Miller became the Bucks' shooting trainer. It is obvious that Reggie Miller played a significant role.
Teby is Westbrook's shooting style and Yi Jianlian's ultra-long three-pointer, all thanks to Reggie Miller's guidance.
"So this ring Reggie has a clear conscience."
Jermaine O'Neill stood outside the mall looking at the TV screen for a long time, then raised his empty right hand to look at it, and said angrily, "I don't want to go to these three teams, all of them are fish in the belly." Belly."
"If I want to go, I have to go to the championship team, and I also want to get the championship ring, even if it is a basic salary, I can accept it!"
"Okay!"
A familiar voice suddenly appeared on the street, O'Neal Jr. turned around curiously, it was Ron Artest.
The enemy was extremely jealous when they met, and O'Neal, who saw Artest, felt infinite anger in his heart.
"What the hell are you doing here? To show off your championship?"
"Come on! Take out your championship trophy, I'm ready, hurry up and find your damn sense of superiority in me."
(End of this chapter)