Champions Creed

Chapter 368 Chapter 367: King of Kings, God of Gods, Star of Stars (asking for monthly votes!)

Kevin Garnett secretly made big news while everyone's attention was focused on the Olympics.

Because Yao Ming and Wade are both on child labor contracts, the Knicks have plenty of salary space and are able to take on any top-paid player.

The problem is how to attract Kevin Garnett to join.

Wade and Yao Ming were both in the Olympics and couldn't come out to recruit him. The Knicks management had to do it themselves. They took Garnett around New York, painted a rosy picture for him with the unique business environment, and showed him the enthusiasm of New York fans. It was basically a repeat of the previous recruitment of Roger, but on a twice smaller scale.

But Kevin Garnett is still a little shaken. He doesn't know whether he really wants to leave the Timberwolves.

He played in Minneapolis for nine seasons, where he became a star and an idol admired by local fans. From a young high school student, he became the leader of the wolf pack.

He has feelings for that place and he can't bear to leave it. He actually wants to leave something in his territory like Roger did and bring honor to his fans.

There is no real man who doesn't want to be a hero, and there is no real man who wants to be a deserter.

But he also hated the Timberwolves' decision not to renew the contracts of Cassell and Sprewell. He couldn't play for a team that didn't want to win the championship at all.

Loyal teammates, normal statues and the fairy tale of one man and one city, these things will always be something that only a few people can possess in the world of competitive sports.

After returning to the hotel, Eric Fleischer looked at the client in front of him and wondered what he should say.

From his point of view, Kevin Garnett's transfer to New York will definitely be of great help to the subsequent development of his career.

The exposure of that damn place Minneapolis is just like the temperature there in winter, freezing cold and lifeless, while New York is the most exposed place in the entire league, with countless business cooperation opportunities.

Before, although Eric Fleischer did not let Roger go to New York, Garnett and Roger's situations were different.

Roger can open up a new market on his own, he can stimulate the huge potential of the Bay Area, and he does not need the support of the New York market to make a career.

But Kevin Garnett obviously does not have this ability. He needs to rely on the support of a mature market, even if this mature market has some drawbacks. For example, the fans are extremely demanding, and the head coach is changed every few days.

Also, Kevin Garnett needs good teammates more than Roger.

Roger can go to a place like the Warriors to develop his own team. As long as Stoudemire and others grow a little, Roger can lead the team to win the championship.

What about Kevin Garnett? He can't do that, so he can only compete for the championship by going to a team that already has a star.

And right now, there is no better teammate for him than Dwyane Wade and Yao Ming.

Neither Yao Ming nor Wade are the kind of people who are bad-tempered and are locker room cancers, and their playing styles are highly compatible with Garnett's.

You can imagine that a team with both a top rim protector like Yao Ming and a top sweeper like Kevin Garnett would have a terrifying defense. In the Knicks, Garnett doesn't have to be the attacker at the critical moment.

Of course, moving Garnett to the Knicks could threaten Roger's position, and Roger happens to be Eric Fleischer's largest and most profitable client.

But Roger told Fleischer many years ago: "When you work for your players, don't consider whether I can beat them. This will make my championship worthless and make me feel humiliated."

So, the issue of "threatening Roger's position" was skipped.

Eric Fleischer now just wants to find the best home for his client Garnett.

Then, Eric Fleischer, who had been staring at Garnett for a long time, said, "The decision is up to you, Kevin, but I must say, never let your chips be only loyalty and kindness."

Kevin Garnett didn't sleep all night after hearing this. At four in the morning, he asked Eric Fleischer to meet him in the hotel gym.

When Fleischer arrived, Kevin Garnett was sitting next to the boxing ring in the gym with the hood of his sweatshirt on, with used boxing gloves next to him, and the chest of his sweatshirt was soaked.

It was a scene straight out of a Hollywood sports inspirational movie, with the protagonist sweating profusely late at night, about to make a decision that would change his career.

In this scene, Fleischer can give Garnett 8.5 points because he has 1.5 words.

Does it have to happen at four in the morning?

Eric Fleischer really wanted to remind Garnett that staying up late and doing strenuous exercise is not good for the body, but then he thought, at least that guy didn't find some messy woman to exercise in the room, but only exercised in the gym. How could you ask him to do more?

Kevin Garnett looked up at his agent with a very calm expression: "Eric, have you ever seen the first ray of sunlight in New York at four in the morning?"

"Even God has never seen it. The center of New York City is located at 40 degrees 43 minutes north latitude and 74 degrees 00 minutes west longitude. This geographical location determines that at four o'clock in the morning in New York there is only darkness, homosexuality and sirens. Kevin, this is basic common sense."

Kevin Garnett, who was afraid that he would not be able to get into college because of his poor grades, and decided to take the risk and follow Roger's example and participate in the draft in high school, remained silent.

Is this common sense?

He didn't say any more, but held his pants tightly with both hands, as if he was making a difficult decision.

"Next season, I want to stay here (in New York)."

And so it happened.

Yao Ming felt double happiness on the night he won the Olympic gold medal.

Last season, although he and Wade were a sophomore and a freshman respectively, they had already made it to the divisional semifinals.

Even though they barely made it through the first round thanks to Wade's buzzer-beater in the life-and-death battle, it still counts as a pass.

If we add Kevin Garnett to this foundation, we can say without any modesty that the New York Knicks will be a championship-contending team next season.

At the celebration banquet in the evening, Yao Ming, who was in extreme joy, drank a lot.

For a professional player, Yao Ming's career has been smooth sailing.

He dominated the CBA in his home country, became the first Asian No. 1 NBA draft pick, won an Olympic gold medal, and now has an outstanding teammate who can allow him to make great strides in the NBA.

When Luo Jie and Zhu Fangyu sent the drunk Yao Ming back to his room, he held the Olympic gold medal to his chest with both hands and kept muttering: "No regrets, no regrets."

For all Chinese players, even if they retire immediately, they can occupy the most special page in the history of Chinese basketball.

Just as special as the Class of 2019.

But when Roger and Zhu Fangyu were about to leave, Yao Ming, who was groggy, said, "It would be better if there was an NBA championship."

Human desires are limitless, even Roger himself.

Perhaps before participating in the Olympics, Yao Ming felt that if he could defeat the Dream Team, he could retire without regrets.

But when he really defeated the Dream Team, he said that the most glorious moment of his career had not yet arrived and he still wanted to win an Olympic gold medal.

Now, he has his sights set on the O'Brien Cup.

Roger could understand this feeling. Human beings will never learn their lessons and will never be satisfied.

Zhu Fangyu smiled and said: "If two Chinese people play in the NBA finals one day, it would be really the opposite of the world."

"Nothing is impossible. Let me remind you of a fact: in the past eight years, the NBA MVP has been won by Chinese six times."

"Indeed, indeed, the world is different now. The Dream Team only advanced from the group stage in the Olympics, and the Chinese team won the gold medal. But you know what? Qualifying from the group stage was our ultimate goal." Zhu Fangyu looked at the medal in his hand and felt that it all seemed like a gorgeous dream.

"Not anymore." For some reason, Roger inappropriately thought of the bunch of rubbish in the national team in the future, so he immediately changed his words, "At least not before I retire."

"Dayao is really a bad drinker. You are really good, Luo Ge. I think you are fine. Let's go and find a place to drink, eat some skewers, and wash our feet."

Roger was not surprised at all to hear this from Zhu Fangyu.

Everyone finds it shocking that A-Liu is a prostitute, but if one day Zhu Fangyu is exposed to have done something similar, Roger will just think it is normal.

Because he looks like that kind of person.

Fighting, smoking, tattoos, drinking, cheating, ball control on the beach, and the one who is controlled is not his own wife. Don’t Japanese players do enough of these things?

Roger waved his hand, "No more drinking, the skewers here are not tasty. And I brought my girlfriend here, so she doesn't need to wash my feet. By the way, those elbows you have on the defensive end are beautiful, keep developing them, maybe they can be used in four years."

Zhu Fangyu then remembered that there was a Brazilian supermodel in Roger's room waiting for the emperor to arrive.

To be honest, he didn't know what the difference was between Roger's life and that of a god.

No wonder foreigners like to call him "God".

The 2004 Olympics ended just like that. This summer, two Chinese people took advantage of the Olympics to ascend to the altar.

One is Roger, who created a myth in Greece and destroyed the immortal basketball empire.

One of them is Liu Xiang, who made yellow lightning flash across the Greek night sky.

These two people have also become iconic figures in Chinese sports.

Once you become a god, naturally many things will happen against you.

In the world of competitive sports, people are as keen on creating gods as they are on bringing them down.

It was still four years before Liu Xiang was overthrown, but the campaign to overthrow Roger was in full swing in the NBA. The New York Knicks' acquisition of Kevin Garnett was just the beginning, and many NBA teams began to actively recruit players, hoping to push Roger, who stood at the top of the basketball world, off the cliff.

The Dallas Mavericks signed 188 cm point guard Jason Terry. Already with Dirk and Shaq, they seemed to think the team did not have enough firepower, so they signed this small guard with excellent scoring explosiveness.

Jason Terry was the player personally selected by Mark Cuban to sign, and he said he made this decision after careful consideration.

Roger guessed that his careful consideration was probably because he used NBA2K or NBA LIVE to simulate Terry's games after joining the Mavericks for one night, and then won the championship in one of the simulations, so he firmly believed that this team building strategy was correct.

Only in this way can you explain what Mark Cuban's train of thought is. Otherwise, it is hard to imagine why he would buy a player who is strong in offense but weak in defense when the team's defense is not good.

Steve Nash renews his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers and continues to work with Kobe. At the same time, the Lakers traded Grant Hill, who was out last season, and a first-round draft pick to the Hawks for Shawn Marion, allowing the latter to end his five-year Hawks career and fill the vacancy left at the No. 4 position by Karl Malone after his retirement.

The Hawks wanted to completely give up, so they traded Marion, a player who could change their plan.

Last season, it was Michael Jordan and Pippen who dragged the team into the playoffs, which disrupted all the team's plans and caused the Hawks shareholder team to miss out on the Atlanta native genius Dwight Howard that they had been longing for.

They will never allow something like this to happen again.

At this point, the Eagles dynasty's legacy has basically been squandered.

In the eyes of the Hawks' shareholder team, this matter is all due to LeBron James, and it's all controlled by LeBron!

If he wasn't so useless, the 41-year-old Michael would never have made it to the playoffs.

The Eagles cannot control others and can only choose to control themselves. They need a thorough reconstruction to make up for this mistake.

In the original timeline, people said that the Lakers wasted Kobe Bryant's peak because the team's lineup was the worst during the years when he was at his best.

Smush Parker's start was a microcosm of the Lakers' lineup in those years. He was a regular starter in the Lakers' two seasons, but after leaving the Lakers and joining the Heat, he was cut after only playing 9 games.

The starting players of a team can't even play as substitutes in other places. This is the level of Kobe's teammates when he was at his peak. The Lakers with peak Kobe is like a perfect body with an ugly face, which always makes people feel regretful.

And today, Kobe Bryant, at his peak, still has a very competitive lineup.

No one knows how far he can lead the Lakers.

As for the Magic who acquired Dwight Howard, they also used this super No. 1 pick to calm Tracy McGrady's emotions.

Because McGrady didn't want to live in Roger's shadow, he was at odds with the team last season.

But the Magic promised to give him an insurmountable position in the team and also guaranteed to build a championship lineup with McGrady as the core.

Dwight Howard's joining also gave McGrady more confidence in the team's future.

But many media began to report that Dwight was McGrady's shark, which made McGrady quite depressed.

I am simply the "Roger's Meal Replacement" of the people of Orlando!
Although it has been teased by the media, who knows what will happen if McGrady and Howard join forces?

The San Antonio Spurs lost Payton, but learned from the lack of outside response last season and signed shooters such as Brent Barry. Coupled with the growth of Manu and the French sports car, the Spurs will still be competitive next season.

Gary Payton went around in circles and eventually went to the New York Knicks. He only joined championship contenders, and he firmly believed that he could get a ring in Roger's era.

All these transfers are dedicated to doing one thing - defeat Roger and bring down the God.

Of all these teams, the Cavaliers have undergone the biggest changes.

LeBron James returned to the United States after a frustrating Olympics and found that the Cavaliers had been sold.

The original owner of the Cavaliers, Gordon Gund, allowed Michael Jordan to invest in the team because he essentially hoped that the team's influence would increase in a few years so that he could sell the team for a good price.

But Gordon Gund fooled himself last season with all the hype about the LeBron James-Michael Jordan partnership.

He once wanted to continue running the team, as he believed that the Chosen One could make the Cavaliers a lot of money and put them on the right track.

He even backstabbed Michael Jordan for this.

But when James lost to Michael Jordan in the playoff spot battle, Gordon Gund woke up from his dream.

The best option is to sell the team at a high price now and cash out, because in a few years, everyone will see what kind of person LeBron James is.

It turns out that LeBron James is still very attractive today, as Quicken Loans owner Dan Gilbert purchased the Cleveland Cavaliers for $3.75 million - the highest sale price in NBA history.

Two years ago, the Russians didn't spend that much money to buy the Golden State Warriors from Chris Cohen.

The reason why a small team like the Cleveland Cavaliers is so valuable is because of LeBron James.

Under today's new contract rules, because of the concept of "restricted free agent", LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers are deeply bound.

Dan Gilbert still believes in LeBron James' potential and commercial value. He thinks he is Roger in the United States.

Well, Dan Gilbert is certainly not stupid. He thinks James is the American Roger, but that doesn't mean he thinks James and Roger are on the same level. In Dan Gilbert's eyes, Roger is the most perfect basketball player of this era.

James is worse than him, but not by much. He can't be Roger, but at least he can be Michael Jordan.

As long as we create a better environment for No. 23 and improve the team's competitiveness, it is not impossible to overthrow Roger.

As long as they can defeat Roger, LeBron James will become the most commercially valuable basketball player in the world, and the Cleveland Cavaliers will become the most profitable team in the world!
This is the natural law of competitive sports. Michael Jordan's fall allowed Roger to take his place. Kobe wanted to follow suit, but failed too many times. He is at most a Drexler. Only LeBron James can be the one who overthrows Roger!

To be honest, the ending of James' rookie season was indeed very embarrassing, but Dan Gilbert's Cavaliers team is still very sustainable.

The world of basketball in the 21st century has never had such an influential player become the target of public criticism.

But in the current timeline, in order to bring down Roger and turn his wealth into his own use, Dan Gilbert doesn't mind a bigger investment.

So on the third day after returning to the United States, LeBron James, who had not yet adjusted his mood, was invited to meet with his new boss.

The two met in Las Vegas, and Dan Gilbert hoped that this place would help James relax after a bad game.

Dan Gilbert looks like a vibrant young man, completely different from the bloated and decadent Gordon Gund.

He hugged James warmly, then patted the young man on the shoulder: "LeBron, I'm here to help you."

James had a forced smile on his face. He really disliked the word "assist" now because Michael Reed had said sarcastically last season, "I thought I was here to assist him."

Seeing that James was not interested in this statement, Dan Gilbert went straight to the point: "I know that the team let go of important inside player Carlos Boozer this summer. Although Carlos regretted it first, when the Utah Jazz gave him a big contract, the Cavaliers still had the opportunity to offer him to stay. In the end, in order to save money, they chose to let Carlos leave. I promise you, LeBron, this kind of thing will never happen to the Cavaliers again."

Dan Gilbert said as he handed a cigar to the young son of Cleveland.

"And next summer, we have the opportunity to make the Utah Jazz experience the same pain. You should know that Russian Andrei Kirilenko has not renewed his contract with the Jazz in advance. He will most likely enter the free agent market next season, and he will be our number one target. Of course, not just him, I will build a lineup for you at all costs.

I'm willing to spend money for you, LeBron. You just need to do one thing - fight like a hero, push the god off the altar, and then sit on it yourself!

I believe in you LeBron, I have so much faith in you!"

This is an inspiring encouragement for LeBron James, who has been living in dire straits almost every day for the past few months.

The media and fans mocked him for being kicked out of the playoffs by the 41-year-old Michael Jordan, Larry Brown did not trust his ability and made him sit on the bench, and the tragic defeat in the Olympics made his reputation plummet.

Although Nike's mouthpiece put all the blame for the Olympic defeat on Larry Brown, promoting Larry Brown's ignorance and burying the person who could have changed the game, this voice seemed weak in the face of the shameful national defeat.

Every time he opens his eyes, LeBron James faces abuse, questioning and ridicule.

It was the first time in a long time that someone had said to him: I believe in you.

LeBron James looked at Dan Gilbert and felt like he had met his own Ted Turner.

He felt that he would probably never leave Cleveland in his life.

"I will, sir," LeBron James' eyes sparkled again, "I will bring a championship trophy to Cleveland, I promise."

Dan Gilbert smiled and patted James on the shoulder. A man would not make promises casually.

Everything that belongs to Roger will belong to the chosen one.
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Tim Duncan announced that he would never join the Dream Team again. I think fans would never want to see him wear the uniform of the national team again. The combination of these two things is simply a disaster. - "Slam Dunk".

The basketball world was dyed Chinese red! ——Sports Illustrated used the Chinese national team on its cover for the first time.

Dan Gilbert is determined to win the championship, and a new era for LeBron and the Cleveland Cavaliers has begun! ——The Cleveland Plain Dealer

You can give the Eastern Conference championship trophy to the New York Knicks in advance. I don't think there is any team in the East that can stop Dwyane, Yao and Kevin. Maybe even the Golden State Warriors can't stop them. -- Spike Lee talked about the Knicks next season with his hands dancing in an interview with reporters.

Shaquille O'Neal's legendary status is declining. The three consecutive championships in Orlando seem to be his last glory. But one fact is that the old Dream can win the championship with Roger. If Shaq can't continue to break through in Dallas, he will be forgotten sooner or later. - Dallas Morning News.

The Los Angeles Lakers are still the team with the most potential to compete with the Warriors next season. Who between Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal can defeat Roger first? Or will they both live in Roger's shadow? - Los Angeles Times

Many stars are trying to defeat Roger, but all efforts are in vain. The only thing that can defeat Roger is time. He is the king of kings, the god of gods, and the star of stars in this era. ——Bill Simmons column

(End of this chapter)