NBA: Starting with $20 billion, buying the Knicks

Chapter 460 We are still champions! ! !
No one can Drag Me Down! ! ! !
Jiang Chao sang in "Drag Me Down" released by Chaoshen Music! !

The Thunder didn't have the time and energy to play at home, and they didn't have the funds to invite Queen to sing "we are the champion" again, but it also gave the Knicks enough face to play Drag Me Down, so that the fans at the scene could sing along and sing together. high!

At this time, Jiang Chao was sitting quietly in the front seat. The troubles in the world had nothing to do with him. He just nodded, very chic and indifferent.

It was in stark contrast to the way he sang "darg me down" loudly at his home court two days ago.

It can also be said to be retractable.

The camera cuts to the godfather of the Knicks in a suit at a low angle, and the fans in front of the TV kneel down. This is the real god! ! !
At this time, he was watching everyone rushing up and down the field calmly, with a slight smile on his mouth, and he was no longer as excited as when the Knicks defeated the mighty Lakers last season.

Calm down!

Calm down please! ——Tieba PS Party is late but arrived.

But, next second.

Just like last season, he was directly pushed up by the players, who cheered him up in front of all the beauties.

Howard:
"Boss takes off!"

Beverly: "Boss Jiang, I've been waiting for this moment for a year!"

Yao Ming is also a master of humor: "You bought goggles last year, and I bought them this year too. Let's go champagne!"

Matthews and Butler:
"Boss, thank you for choosing and saving us!!!"

"lets, go, NewYork!!! Let's go New York Knicks!!!!!!!"

Jiang Chao was also put down amidst the cheers, and he ate tofu with a few cheerleaders and super girls, no, kisses, how could his hug be called mopping, or the other way around, girls They are for him.

On-site staff came to hand out championship caps and T-shirts.

Jiang Chao happily gave a suit worth tens of thousands of dollars to a fan wearing a Knicks jersey with "JIANG" printed on it, and then put on an orange-blue championship T-shirt, and suddenly became youthful.

A generation will always grow old!

But someone is always young! !
Forever young, always with tears in my eyes! ! !
Last year, the dream of the Lakers dynasty was shattered, and this year proves that youth will not fail!
It's so cool to win the away game!

Because there are not so many fans, it will not be so noisy, very warm! ! ! !

"I am convinced, I am really convinced of this team."

"Defending the title is awesome!" President Pu, Donovan, and a few old-school coaches from the Thunder came over to applaud and congratulate.

And he also felt that without Jiang Chao, their team might not be able to reach this position this season. It is enough to think about it. The history of the Thunder team is still young enough, and the Knicks are indeed legendary. .

Want to know how difficult it is to successfully defend the title in the NBA? ? ?
Jiang Chao never witnessed Jordan's three consecutive championships in his previous life, but he has seen five-star warriors who couldn't win three consecutive championships. People who have always been so awesome are not allowed to exist.

Anyway, the finals were 4-2, and the ratings were not as high as the Eastern Conference finals, let alone Stern. Everyone in the Knicks felt a little boring.

Thunder is not strong enough.

After G4, the thunderbolt could not rise.

They are really a young team that can be said to be playing too carefully, and lack of experience is a big problem.

Of course, that's all. After all, who doesn't want to be strong? It's just that the game with a lore or a tiebreaker at the end is more exciting, but the Knicks haven't had such a situation in the entire playoffs. Last year was still scary.

But this year's push all the way will allow the league to completely target them.

While waiting for the awards ceremony, Jiang Chao saw David Stern's inadvertently dull expression and knew something.

The alliance will do something next year, okay? ! !
Today's whistle is actually heading for the tiebreaker. It is actually very difficult to win an away game. However, the Thunder are really disappointing, and the Knicks have always had two Optimus Primes inside. easy.

How difficult is it to successfully defend the NBA title? ? ?
Perhaps everyone is used to Jordan now, but "people who have come here" like Jiang Chao know that there is only one Jordan.

In the future, the first team to lead the team to win the championship will only be these three.

The first gear: Jordan, O'Neal, Russell (only three of them have led the team to win three consecutive championships, and their dominance can be seen)
Second gear: Magician, Kobe, Olajuwon, Thomas, Durant, James (the player who led the team for two consecutive championships)
But now there are many Knicks titans on this list.

It seems reasonable for the Knicks to defend the title. Jiang Chao got the right person. As long as the coaching staff doesn't play around, this result is also expected.

Since the birth of the NBA, a total of 19 teams have won the championship, of which only 7 teams have successfully defended the title.

This is still the case when there is no such ace team as the Heat and the Warriors.

Refer to the Spurs, who only win the championship in odd-numbered years.

So, is it really difficult to defend the title?
Li Shishi, Wang Binbin and Rachel reported on the basketball forum in time. Of course, the content was written long ago.

If you want to blow it, blow it!

The defending champion has several biggest difficulties.

The first is salary. Player strength is part of it. The main thing is to have good role players while retaining the core.

After all, situations like Pippen and child labor Curry are really rare.

After winning the championship, everyone's value has skyrocketed. If the team wants to renew some players whose contracts have expired at this time, then 100% have to face a choice problem, pay the luxury tax to force the contract to renew, or release someone to find a substitute? ?

Didn't the Knicks encounter such troubles last year, causing both the Turkish duo to leave? Didn't the fans say that if there is a Turkish duo this year, it might be 16-0!

Many teams just release people to make substitutes, as long as the main lineup remains the same, but in fact, the impact of this is still quite large. Refer to the Mavericks last year in the previous life. After winning the championship, they all disintegrated and suddenly became fish belly.

However, Jiang Chao has already resolved this point. The contracts he signs start from 5 years and up to 7 years. At least for 3 years, he does not have to worry about salary issues. Except for Howard, they are all child laborers. The salaries of the others are Alian and Dior. .

Coupled with the league's annual salary cap increase, a team like the Knicks that eats rookie bonuses every year is simply comfortable.

This is why many fans call Jiang Chao the boss of God. This operation is perfect, and the core lineup basically does not worry about reaching the luxury line.

The second factor is the schedule factor.

In the regular season, the championship team should win as many games as possible in order to strive for a better ranking, so as to gain home court advantage in the playoffs.

In the playoffs, the team must also ensure that they do not make mistakes.

In the end, the team that won the championship will have to play at least 100 games in a season. There are many uncertain factors and it is extremely difficult to win the championship.

If they want to defend their title, the team must strengthen while retaining the heroes who won the championship.

tired!
To ensure that the players are not tired before going to the championship, it is difficult to be average!
The runner-up with 73 wins has been complained to death in later generations.

However, the Knicks also solved this matter perfectly. Everyone's playing time is very even, and they take turns to rest veterans from time to time, so they have always maintained good physical fitness to play in the playoffs.

The third point is what the Knicks have been encountering this year, and it is also a problem that was thoroughly studied by Zen Master and the Celtics last year.

Tactical question.

After the team wins the championship, its tactics are often known by other teams for research.

Other teams will design special tactics and styles for the winning team.

The difficulty of winning the championship has greatly increased. If you do not improve, failure will be inevitable.

For example, the Warriors have achieved great success by virtue of their small ball tactics for 5 years and 3 championships. Other teams in the league have also followed the Warriors' small ball tactics. In the finals of the Warriors' three consecutive championship seasons, the Warriors lost to the Raptors .

In fact, the Knicks have encountered the same difficulties this season. For example, the Celtics clearly found that their forward line is not good, so they frantically supplemented the striker line, but other teams did not follow the Knicks' lineup, so the Celtics played in the playoffs. If you don't meet the Knicks in the first round, you will be broken if you touch it...

What they thought was that they would meet the Knicks in the Eastern Conference finals, but they didn't know that they would meet the Heat in the first round and be eliminated.

Coupled with Jiang Chao's magic stroke in this year's draft, it directly raised the defensive ability of the front line and back line to another level. Butler + Thompson traded for Thomas Jr., this is actually a change in the winning lineup.

The Splash Brothers are in battle, what's the point? ? ?
Diaw replaced David Lee. Although his athletic ability has declined, the team's tactical execution has risen to a higher level, which is very comfortable.

Another point is the most uncomfortable, the cause of injury.

On the road to defending the title, the main lineup will gradually age, some core players will decline in performance, and even injuries will occur during the intensive schedule, while the team's strength will decline and the title defense will fail.

In 2009, the Celtics' Big Three were about to defend their title, but at that time the three players were too old and had injuries. The 32-year-old Garnett suffered a knee injury and was reimbursed for the season, which greatly affected the team's strength and lacked insiders. The pillar Celtics were finally defeated by the Magic led by Howard.

绿军2009年比08夺冠那年还厉害，可惜遇到了KG报销；前世2010遇到21世纪最肮脏最黑暗的总决赛；然后2010年夏天某队伍组建……

At last!
Psychological reasons! ! !

The NBA season is very long. Players need to be physically and psychologically strong. To maintain the desire for victory, what is needed is the heart of a king.

The Spurs have entered the playoffs for 21 consecutive years. As a veteran team, they have won the NBA championship 5 times, but missed defending the championship 5 times. A large part of the reason is that the players lack the heart of a king.

In the Western Conference semifinals in 2004, the Spurs were killed by Fisher in 0.4 seconds. In the subsequent games, the Spurs lost their fighting spirit and suffered a crushing defeat.

After the Spurs lost in 13 years, the king returned in 14 years, and after the Heat won the championship, the role players were no longer motivated, which created the legendary revenge of the Spurs.

However, the Spurs have always been a pity. It was a pity in 04, 10, 13, and 17 years. There is a reason here that I dare not say. City, if you have won the championship in the past few years, the NBA will lose half of its money!

Thinking of this, Jiang Chao was not pessimistic, but looked at Thompson waving his arms and Curry roaring on Howard's back. He remembered what Mengku said in an interview.

"If making history is easy, why bother?"

(Why make history if it's easy?)
- Stephen Curry!

"Let's make history together!!"

"yeah!!"

When Jiang Chao raised the camera, the Splash Brothers said yeah to the camera, Howard smirked underneath, and the picture of the three of them became a world famous painting! ! ! ! !

"do not leave!"

"Durant, we need you!"

And because Durant is about to face the issue of contract renewal after this year, some fans on the scene yelled at the player channel, hoping that Durant will renew his contract and work together with Westbrook for a few more years. How can fans who like their play want them to separate? Woolen cloth?
The combination of Wang Zha is tragic, and their Thunder has been defeated for 4 consecutive years.

The most embarrassing thing is that LeBron James sent a private message to Durant at this time:
"Loyalty sometimes kills you, because there are no young people."

What do you mean by that? ? ?
Durant, who didn't take a shower or accept an interview in the locker room, touched his nose. His first thought was that James could say such literary words? ? ?
After thinking about it carefully, oh, it seems that Ma Long said this.

It seems to be 10 years ago. At that time, Stockton and Malone were sad, because when the Bulls were celebrating the championship, Malone and Stockton left the continuous team in the player tunnel sighing and breathing. The arena that brought them sad memories for two years.

Then the postman uttered a famous sentence during the interview in the locker room:

"Loyalty is something that hurts you at times, because you cant get you thback."

It's almost the same as what James said just now.

But what Durant wants to say is... How old is he, how old was Malone at that time? ? ?
But it is true that he is a little tired in the Thunder, and this year's draft is a small year, except for AD Davis, who has shined in the Olympics, he is so-so.

James is recruiting himself? ? ?

do not care.

Durant hugged his mother in the locker room to comfort him, and there was live noise in his ears, and he left the arena lonely.

But not to mention, this year's teams, led by Jiang Chao, still attach great importance to the draft.

Scouts from other teams also hope to create such a myth, so they don't pay much attention to the rookies.

Yijian was once a master of millions!

Pay attention to the second round!
How many decisions Jiang Chao has made in recent years may have saved the team hundreds of thousands or even millions of money.

This is the role of the staff.

A commercial team is more than just the players themselves. How to find "good" players, players with both commercial and technical skills are also a compulsory course.

The Knicks do not have a high pick this year, and no team has swapped picks with the Knicks like they did last season. Therefore, the Knicks’ team before the No. 30 pick must make a good selection. up.

So it's a tense comparison. The draft is even more tense than their free market arrangements. If they are picked by the Knicks for three consecutive years, they will be really drunk.

Who wouldn't want Matthews? ?

No matter how bad it is, who doesn't want a second-round pick like Thomas Jr.! !
You said it's fine for the Knicks to choose Harden as the pick, but they would choose it with their eyes closed.

But they selected Matthews, Beverly, and Danny Green, which are really awesome, and other teams also want this kind of all kinds of gods! !

Although the rookies in the past two years have not been so outstanding (Fensen Dabaibian and Butler), their role is still obvious. This is the gate of the Knicks' bench defense. Without them, the Knicks will not play in the regular season. so smooth.

A player who can be used in the development league, not to mention how cool it is.

But the draft is something other teams are considering.

On the Knicks side, Jiang Chao simply told Sean Marks a month ago to pay attention to Chasing Dream Green, and it doesn't matter if he can choose the best.

As for the other first-round pick (the Warriors' first-round pick in 12 belonged to the Knicks, about 15th), it doesn't matter, let Sean Marks choose it himself.

Dream Chaser and Splash may have buffs, but it doesn't matter if you can't choose him. This year is indeed a small year, there are not many outstanding players, and Dream Chaser may have a stronger personality than Thomas Jr.

Anyway, their No. 30 pick this year definitely doesn’t have any good players left. Don’t think too much about missing out this year’s draft picks. Just pick a similar one. Except for Dreaming Green, Middleton, Jack Crowder, Forney Yeah, General Patton and other players are also okay...

They are all the kind that can be typed, at worst, they can be typed and sold...

And the Warriors' first-round pick, plus the Knicks' own 30th pick, can't be replaced by Lillard and others who are hot this year, so they just let it go.

Besides, Jiang Chao didn't think about who to pick in this year's draft at all, and he didn't think about how the league would target him. He didn't pay much attention to this year's draft.

Because now, David Stern came to him holding the Alternate Cup! ! !

What he's thinking now is whether to bring Pu Chulong and Li Shishi to Oklahoma City for a crazy night after winning the championship.

But he prefers to go to the home court to celebrate when no one is around.

Yes, in the arena that belongs to him, in the middle of the field, in the locker room, and in the player tunnel, leaving traces of battles belonging to the boss Jiang Chao.

Wouldn't this be extra cool? ? ?
Back at the scene, everyone took a group photo with the O'Brien Cup held high.

All gestures make a "2" sign.

two! ! !

Double crown!
The Knicks' fourth championship in team history.

It is also the only time in Knicks history to defend the title.

(End of this chapter)