Chapter 311
The 76ers teamed up with the Magic and Kongbu was cheated
Chapter 311 The 76ers teamed up with the Magic and Kongbu was cheated
Because draft picks will be involved in the military expansion draft, almost every time point in the military expansion draft will be deliberately selected a few days before the draft.
On June 2003, 6, NBA No. 22 military expansion draft officially began.
The venue, of course, is Madison Square Garden in New York.
According to the rules, each team can protect up to eight players, but some teams may only have eight players left during the offseason, so the rules stipulate that each team must provide at least one player , and the player cannot be a non-free agent with a player option.
Of course, if this player gives up his player option on the day of the military expansion draft, he can be selected by the new army.
"Kong, do we have to draft so many players? Now that we have so many picks in our hands, there is no need to pick their trash players."
Jordan asked in a low voice beside Combe.
Combe nodded, "That's right, at least 14 players must be selected, and at most 28 players can be selected."
"Try to choose some basic-salary players. After our team's roster is full, we will delegate or lay off them."
Jordan sighed, at least fourteen players had to be selected, and none of them might be useful. Even if these fourteen players had a basic salary, it would still be a waste of millions of dollars.
Now that the team has not earned a penny, it has to lose a few million dollars first, which really makes Jordan feel distressed.
Soon Stern on the stage announced that the military expansion draft had officially begun.
Starting from the east, Stern read out their protection list one by one.
The two sides of the Magic have already agreed, and Grant Hill directly became the No.1 player of the Charlotte Bobcats.
At the same time that Hill was selected, Combe also got the system reward as he wished, and the three-point calibration device was upgraded.
The representatives of the various teams in the audience gasped.
This pick is absolutely insane. Picking Grant Hill?What was Combe thinking?
There is nothing to say about Hill's talent, no one can deny this, but talent is not enough, his physical condition is too bad.
Comb is not a doctor, how can he be sure that Hill will recover in the future?
And if Hill can't recover, he will occupy the Charlotte Bobcats' salary of 500 million a year, which will greatly affect the Bobcats' signings and reinforcements in the next four years.
Stern was overjoyed, and he liked that Kumbu made it difficult for him.
The Magic directly became the biggest winner in this military expansion draft. They not only got rid of Hill's cancer contract, but also got a special transaction worth 1500 million US dollars.
Except for the Magic, the players given by other Eastern Conference teams are not up to the mark. The most powerful one should be Haslem released by the Knicks.
Lao Deng was still thinking about Konbu at the critical moment. He thought that Konbu's new army would have a very difficult start, and he could help if he could. He was reluctant to release the rebounding idiot Evans, so he simply made his strength more "balanced". ’ Haslem took out.
In the NBA arena, the word "equilibrium" is definitely not a commendatory term. In many cases, "equilibrium" means that you can't do anything, and you can't eat anything.
Comb did not disappoint Lao Deng's kindness, and he selected Haslem easily.
Although the Bobcats will select Bosh and David West in the next draft, both of them can actually play centers, but the number of insiders is still small after all, and they need two substitute insiders anyway.
Haslem's strength is not very good, but it is entirely possible to play as a substitute.
Comb's two old clubs, the Raptors and the 76ers, are the teams that have attracted the most attention in this draft.
After all, Kumbu has brought too much glory to these two teams, one family and one dynasty, and he also cultivated an extremely luxurious lineup for them.
With Comb creating a new army, many people think that the Raptors and Philadelphia 76ers will provide Comb with a huge boost.
First, the Raptors, they protect the valuable players in the team very well. In order to meet the rules that a player must be provided to participate in the military expansion draft, the player they took out was last season's patron saint of drinking fountains, Gideon Hamilton.
Played three games in one season, not as good as Sun Yue later.
Obviously the Toronto Raptors didn't mean to help Comb.
In fact, Kumbu had expected this situation a long time ago. Half a month ago, just after the season ended, the Raptors underwent a super big change of blood.
Lenny Wilkens and general manager Silen were all fired, and now the Raptors' management has no acquaintances with Comb.
The newly appointed general manager is Jack McCloskey, a player of the Philadelphia Warriors in the 50s. He coached for several seasons in the 70s and then began to enter the management team. 50 years.
He doesn't have any friendship with Kongbu. When he just took office, he couldn't sacrifice his own interests to help Kongbu.
Helping Kumbu is tantamount to weakening the Raptors' combat power. How could he, a newly appointed general manager, do such a stupid thing.
When everyone thought that Combe would be extremely disappointed with the Raptors and gave up choosing Combe's Gideon Hamilton, Combe chose unexpectedly.
There is no particular reason, it is simply because of Hamilton's low salary, which will only be $49 next season.
But the choice of Combe made Jack McCloskey think about it. Does this Gideon Hamilton have some kind of talent that he hasn't discovered?
Could this guy have been buried forever?
What if it shines in the hands of Kongbu?
The old guy in his 70s may have to sleep and eat about it until the NBA starts.
The next Philadelphia 76ers have attracted everyone's attention.
Because Combe traded the coach from the Raptors at that time, many experts and fans felt that Combe was preparing for tonight.
After all, the Raptors have no way to keep the bus, or if they keep the bus, it is tantamount to missing Yao Ming.
Who should choose between Daba and Yao Ming?
Not to mention the outside experts and fans, but Comb has high expectations for this matter. He has established a dynasty for the Philadelphia 76ers, and now he is creating a new army by himself. normal.
But when the Philadelphia 76ers' protection list came out, Combe was dumbfounded.
Eight players, Yao Ming, Iverson, Daba, Bearded Davis, Gerrard, Prince, Stoudemire, and Caron Butler, were neatly protected and none of them leaked out.
At the same time, these are the eight valuable players of the Philadelphia 76ers, and the rest of the players are all marginal players.
It is equivalent to saying that Combe has no way to get the slightest benefit from the Philadelphia 76ers, so he can only choose a water dispenser from Philadelphia.
It would be a lie to say that Kongbu is not angry. I have made a small contribution to the Philadelphia 76ers anyway. He is newly married and living abroad, so you have to give some gifts?Create a new army here, the Philadelphia 76ers have nothing to say?
Even if you release the lowest-valued Caron Butler?
You must know that although Butler also won the championship with the team last season, he played very little playing time, and he is the one with the least presence in the team.
He averaged only three or four points per game. He is such a player. Just because he was selected by Comb in the draft, the Philadelphia 76ers are still firmly in the palm of their hands.
While Kongbu was angry, he was also wondering.
Why did the Philadelphia 76ers protect the bus?How to solve their salary problem next?
Yao Ming will be an option for the team next season. According to common sense, the team should give enough respect to this super giant and the most valuable center forward.
The respect here means that the team gives up the team option and directly renews the contract with Yao Ming in advance of the maximum salary before the start of the next season.
And Iverson and Bus are both top-salary, how can the Philadelphia 76ers afford three top-salary players.
Comb scratched his head and thought hard, and when he saw Rivers of the Magic and Billy King, the new general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers flirting with each other, he suddenly realized.
That's right, after Combe left, Billy King returned to his position and regained his position as general manager of the 76ers.
Comb has seen the trick between the Magic and the 76ers.
The 76ers protected the bus, definitely not wanting to continue using him, but preparing to trade him.
If it can be traded, there is a salary matching rule. Even if it is traded, the players who are exchanged will still occupy the salary space.
If you want to not take up cap space, you need a trade exception.
Right now there are quite a few teams in the league that have trade exceptions, but there is one and only one trade exception that can eat up the bus's maximum salary, and that is the Magic that just got the 1500 million trade exception!
Kong Bu was really angry this time, his mood was like a bee flying on the switch, numb BEE.
I have a kindness to the Philadelphia 76ers and a kindness to the Magic. As a result, the two teams of you joined forces to put me together?
Seeing Kongbu's extremely ugly face, Jordan asked curiously.
"Kong, what's the matter? Are you feeling unwell?"
"Why don't you go back first. I'll stay here. There won't be any decent players left. I'll just pick up some cheap players and go back."
Jordan didn't know what happened at the moment.
Combe shook his head: "It's okay, Michael, I'm not as weak as you think."
"I have a hunch that the new season will be very interesting, let's wait and see."
Jordan nodded ignorantly, is the new season interesting?Isn't that interesting?That's the Bobcats' first season, and it's going to be fun no matter what.
Kong Bu thought in his heart.
In the previous transaction about Hill, the Magic had already been emptied by Comb. They now have no other valuable players in the team except McGrady.
So they are unlikely to get the bus from Philadelphia.
But there are no absolutes, maybe Rivers can take advantage of this 1500 million transaction exception to make a wonderful transaction.
Kumbu doesn't bother to care about them now. He wants to quickly finish the military expansion draft tonight, and then participate in the draft three days later.
After finishing the selection on the east side, we went to the west side.
The west actually seems to be more sincere than the east.
Under normal circumstances, the two cores of the Bobcats' debut season, one is Peja and the other is Gerrard, both of which are selected by the Bobcats from the Western Conference.
The king still did not include Peja on the protection list.
Kumbu is actually a little moved. As a member of the 96 golden generation, Peja still has strength at the moment. Give him enough right to fire, and he can still average 20 points per game.
It's a pity that he is not the kind of player who can lead the team to win with a single core.
Moreover, he is a small forward and overlaps with Hill. It makes no sense for Kumbu to take a substitute with an annual salary of tens of millions for Hill.
If there was no Hill, Combe might have chosen Peja easily.
Gerrard must not have to think about it, he is not in the west now.
Thinking of this, Kumbu sighed in his heart. He should have prepared for the military expansion draft earlier, or he shouldn't have made too large a deal at that time.
At least make sure that there are more than nine stars in the Philadelphia 76ers, so that you can choose at least one.
It's good now, I just left eight stars for the Philadelphia 76ers, and I didn't even get a single hair in the military expansion draft.
After selecting a few marginal players with a minimum salary in the West, the Charlotte Bobcats just made up the minimum required 14 players, and this expansion draft is considered to be over.
There was no surprise at all. Hill, the only one with star power, still triggered the system task.
At least in Kumbu's view, his military expansion draft was a failure.
Jordan felt sorry for the wages of the more than a dozen basic-salary players, and felt that it would be better not to do this military expansion draft.
When the results of the military expansion draft were published in the newspapers early the next morning, the fans were all frowning.
The Raptors and the Philadelphia 76ers didn't even provide the slightest help to Comb?
On the contrary, the old Thomas, who had been arguing with Combe, gave Haslem very righteously?
Comb actually selected Grant Hill from the Magic?
Kumbu didn't want the peja sent by the king?
Everything looks extremely weird, especially the Philadelphia 76ers, with so many players in their hands, didn't even give Comb a little help. Even the Philadelphia home team fans couldn't stand it anymore.
Philadelphia fans are different from Raptors fans. The history of the Raptors is too short, and they suddenly got a dynasty. They have a kind of upstart mentality, and nouveau riche often don't know how to cherish it.
The Philadelphia fans are too aware of the value of this dynasty, and they are full of gratitude to Combe. It just so happens that Combe created a new army this time, and the fans feel that this is an opportunity for the Philadelphia 76ers to repay Comb.
Anyway, these players were originally brought to the Philadelphia 76ers by Combe, so why not let him take one away?No matter how bad it is, let Combe take away the weakest Caron Butler.
The behavior of the Philadelphia management this time chilled their home team fans.
The fans are so chilled, and the Philadelphia generals must be uncomfortable.
Iverson and Yao Ming were very angry, and they felt very sorry for Kongbu.
The bus side was going crazy. On the night of the military expansion draft, he had even packed his luggage and booked a ticket to Charlotte!
(End of this chapter)
Because draft picks will be involved in the military expansion draft, almost every time point in the military expansion draft will be deliberately selected a few days before the draft.
On June 2003, 6, NBA No. 22 military expansion draft officially began.
The venue, of course, is Madison Square Garden in New York.
According to the rules, each team can protect up to eight players, but some teams may only have eight players left during the offseason, so the rules stipulate that each team must provide at least one player , and the player cannot be a non-free agent with a player option.
Of course, if this player gives up his player option on the day of the military expansion draft, he can be selected by the new army.
"Kong, do we have to draft so many players? Now that we have so many picks in our hands, there is no need to pick their trash players."
Jordan asked in a low voice beside Combe.
Combe nodded, "That's right, at least 14 players must be selected, and at most 28 players can be selected."
"Try to choose some basic-salary players. After our team's roster is full, we will delegate or lay off them."
Jordan sighed, at least fourteen players had to be selected, and none of them might be useful. Even if these fourteen players had a basic salary, it would still be a waste of millions of dollars.
Now that the team has not earned a penny, it has to lose a few million dollars first, which really makes Jordan feel distressed.
Soon Stern on the stage announced that the military expansion draft had officially begun.
Starting from the east, Stern read out their protection list one by one.
The two sides of the Magic have already agreed, and Grant Hill directly became the No.1 player of the Charlotte Bobcats.
At the same time that Hill was selected, Combe also got the system reward as he wished, and the three-point calibration device was upgraded.
The representatives of the various teams in the audience gasped.
This pick is absolutely insane. Picking Grant Hill?What was Combe thinking?
There is nothing to say about Hill's talent, no one can deny this, but talent is not enough, his physical condition is too bad.
Comb is not a doctor, how can he be sure that Hill will recover in the future?
And if Hill can't recover, he will occupy the Charlotte Bobcats' salary of 500 million a year, which will greatly affect the Bobcats' signings and reinforcements in the next four years.
Stern was overjoyed, and he liked that Kumbu made it difficult for him.
The Magic directly became the biggest winner in this military expansion draft. They not only got rid of Hill's cancer contract, but also got a special transaction worth 1500 million US dollars.
Except for the Magic, the players given by other Eastern Conference teams are not up to the mark. The most powerful one should be Haslem released by the Knicks.
Lao Deng was still thinking about Konbu at the critical moment. He thought that Konbu's new army would have a very difficult start, and he could help if he could. He was reluctant to release the rebounding idiot Evans, so he simply made his strength more "balanced". ’ Haslem took out.
In the NBA arena, the word "equilibrium" is definitely not a commendatory term. In many cases, "equilibrium" means that you can't do anything, and you can't eat anything.
Comb did not disappoint Lao Deng's kindness, and he selected Haslem easily.
Although the Bobcats will select Bosh and David West in the next draft, both of them can actually play centers, but the number of insiders is still small after all, and they need two substitute insiders anyway.
Haslem's strength is not very good, but it is entirely possible to play as a substitute.
Comb's two old clubs, the Raptors and the 76ers, are the teams that have attracted the most attention in this draft.
After all, Kumbu has brought too much glory to these two teams, one family and one dynasty, and he also cultivated an extremely luxurious lineup for them.
With Comb creating a new army, many people think that the Raptors and Philadelphia 76ers will provide Comb with a huge boost.
First, the Raptors, they protect the valuable players in the team very well. In order to meet the rules that a player must be provided to participate in the military expansion draft, the player they took out was last season's patron saint of drinking fountains, Gideon Hamilton.
Played three games in one season, not as good as Sun Yue later.
Obviously the Toronto Raptors didn't mean to help Comb.
In fact, Kumbu had expected this situation a long time ago. Half a month ago, just after the season ended, the Raptors underwent a super big change of blood.
Lenny Wilkens and general manager Silen were all fired, and now the Raptors' management has no acquaintances with Comb.
The newly appointed general manager is Jack McCloskey, a player of the Philadelphia Warriors in the 50s. He coached for several seasons in the 70s and then began to enter the management team. 50 years.
He doesn't have any friendship with Kongbu. When he just took office, he couldn't sacrifice his own interests to help Kongbu.
Helping Kumbu is tantamount to weakening the Raptors' combat power. How could he, a newly appointed general manager, do such a stupid thing.
When everyone thought that Combe would be extremely disappointed with the Raptors and gave up choosing Combe's Gideon Hamilton, Combe chose unexpectedly.
There is no particular reason, it is simply because of Hamilton's low salary, which will only be $49 next season.
But the choice of Combe made Jack McCloskey think about it. Does this Gideon Hamilton have some kind of talent that he hasn't discovered?
Could this guy have been buried forever?
What if it shines in the hands of Kongbu?
The old guy in his 70s may have to sleep and eat about it until the NBA starts.
The next Philadelphia 76ers have attracted everyone's attention.
Because Combe traded the coach from the Raptors at that time, many experts and fans felt that Combe was preparing for tonight.
After all, the Raptors have no way to keep the bus, or if they keep the bus, it is tantamount to missing Yao Ming.
Who should choose between Daba and Yao Ming?
Not to mention the outside experts and fans, but Comb has high expectations for this matter. He has established a dynasty for the Philadelphia 76ers, and now he is creating a new army by himself. normal.
But when the Philadelphia 76ers' protection list came out, Combe was dumbfounded.
Eight players, Yao Ming, Iverson, Daba, Bearded Davis, Gerrard, Prince, Stoudemire, and Caron Butler, were neatly protected and none of them leaked out.
At the same time, these are the eight valuable players of the Philadelphia 76ers, and the rest of the players are all marginal players.
It is equivalent to saying that Combe has no way to get the slightest benefit from the Philadelphia 76ers, so he can only choose a water dispenser from Philadelphia.
It would be a lie to say that Kongbu is not angry. I have made a small contribution to the Philadelphia 76ers anyway. He is newly married and living abroad, so you have to give some gifts?Create a new army here, the Philadelphia 76ers have nothing to say?
Even if you release the lowest-valued Caron Butler?
You must know that although Butler also won the championship with the team last season, he played very little playing time, and he is the one with the least presence in the team.
He averaged only three or four points per game. He is such a player. Just because he was selected by Comb in the draft, the Philadelphia 76ers are still firmly in the palm of their hands.
While Kongbu was angry, he was also wondering.
Why did the Philadelphia 76ers protect the bus?How to solve their salary problem next?
Yao Ming will be an option for the team next season. According to common sense, the team should give enough respect to this super giant and the most valuable center forward.
The respect here means that the team gives up the team option and directly renews the contract with Yao Ming in advance of the maximum salary before the start of the next season.
And Iverson and Bus are both top-salary, how can the Philadelphia 76ers afford three top-salary players.
Comb scratched his head and thought hard, and when he saw Rivers of the Magic and Billy King, the new general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers flirting with each other, he suddenly realized.
That's right, after Combe left, Billy King returned to his position and regained his position as general manager of the 76ers.
Comb has seen the trick between the Magic and the 76ers.
The 76ers protected the bus, definitely not wanting to continue using him, but preparing to trade him.
If it can be traded, there is a salary matching rule. Even if it is traded, the players who are exchanged will still occupy the salary space.
If you want to not take up cap space, you need a trade exception.
Right now there are quite a few teams in the league that have trade exceptions, but there is one and only one trade exception that can eat up the bus's maximum salary, and that is the Magic that just got the 1500 million trade exception!
Kong Bu was really angry this time, his mood was like a bee flying on the switch, numb BEE.
I have a kindness to the Philadelphia 76ers and a kindness to the Magic. As a result, the two teams of you joined forces to put me together?
Seeing Kongbu's extremely ugly face, Jordan asked curiously.
"Kong, what's the matter? Are you feeling unwell?"
"Why don't you go back first. I'll stay here. There won't be any decent players left. I'll just pick up some cheap players and go back."
Jordan didn't know what happened at the moment.
Combe shook his head: "It's okay, Michael, I'm not as weak as you think."
"I have a hunch that the new season will be very interesting, let's wait and see."
Jordan nodded ignorantly, is the new season interesting?Isn't that interesting?That's the Bobcats' first season, and it's going to be fun no matter what.
Kong Bu thought in his heart.
In the previous transaction about Hill, the Magic had already been emptied by Comb. They now have no other valuable players in the team except McGrady.
So they are unlikely to get the bus from Philadelphia.
But there are no absolutes, maybe Rivers can take advantage of this 1500 million transaction exception to make a wonderful transaction.
Kumbu doesn't bother to care about them now. He wants to quickly finish the military expansion draft tonight, and then participate in the draft three days later.
After finishing the selection on the east side, we went to the west side.
The west actually seems to be more sincere than the east.
Under normal circumstances, the two cores of the Bobcats' debut season, one is Peja and the other is Gerrard, both of which are selected by the Bobcats from the Western Conference.
The king still did not include Peja on the protection list.
Kumbu is actually a little moved. As a member of the 96 golden generation, Peja still has strength at the moment. Give him enough right to fire, and he can still average 20 points per game.
It's a pity that he is not the kind of player who can lead the team to win with a single core.
Moreover, he is a small forward and overlaps with Hill. It makes no sense for Kumbu to take a substitute with an annual salary of tens of millions for Hill.
If there was no Hill, Combe might have chosen Peja easily.
Gerrard must not have to think about it, he is not in the west now.
Thinking of this, Kumbu sighed in his heart. He should have prepared for the military expansion draft earlier, or he shouldn't have made too large a deal at that time.
At least make sure that there are more than nine stars in the Philadelphia 76ers, so that you can choose at least one.
It's good now, I just left eight stars for the Philadelphia 76ers, and I didn't even get a single hair in the military expansion draft.
After selecting a few marginal players with a minimum salary in the West, the Charlotte Bobcats just made up the minimum required 14 players, and this expansion draft is considered to be over.
There was no surprise at all. Hill, the only one with star power, still triggered the system task.
At least in Kumbu's view, his military expansion draft was a failure.
Jordan felt sorry for the wages of the more than a dozen basic-salary players, and felt that it would be better not to do this military expansion draft.
When the results of the military expansion draft were published in the newspapers early the next morning, the fans were all frowning.
The Raptors and the Philadelphia 76ers didn't even provide the slightest help to Comb?
On the contrary, the old Thomas, who had been arguing with Combe, gave Haslem very righteously?
Comb actually selected Grant Hill from the Magic?
Kumbu didn't want the peja sent by the king?
Everything looks extremely weird, especially the Philadelphia 76ers, with so many players in their hands, didn't even give Comb a little help. Even the Philadelphia home team fans couldn't stand it anymore.
Philadelphia fans are different from Raptors fans. The history of the Raptors is too short, and they suddenly got a dynasty. They have a kind of upstart mentality, and nouveau riche often don't know how to cherish it.
The Philadelphia fans are too aware of the value of this dynasty, and they are full of gratitude to Combe. It just so happens that Combe created a new army this time, and the fans feel that this is an opportunity for the Philadelphia 76ers to repay Comb.
Anyway, these players were originally brought to the Philadelphia 76ers by Combe, so why not let him take one away?No matter how bad it is, let Combe take away the weakest Caron Butler.
The behavior of the Philadelphia management this time chilled their home team fans.
The fans are so chilled, and the Philadelphia generals must be uncomfortable.
Iverson and Yao Ming were very angry, and they felt very sorry for Kongbu.
The bus side was going crazy. On the night of the military expansion draft, he had even packed his luggage and booked a ticket to Charlotte!
(End of this chapter)