“…”

Howard Schultz was speechless. Can you stop talking so loudly?

Moreover, he will only turn 50 next month and is preparing to hold a party to celebrate. He also thinks that the three consecutive championships are the best gift... Where are you old?

...

"Ben, have you decided to go to the Bulls?"

"Yes, boss."

"I know you will definitely choose to go."

"Boss, I..."

"I didn't say you're bad. Of course you have to choose the contract given by the Bulls, which is close to 120 million?"

"According to the estimated salary cap, the starting salary is 13.4 million, and the total salary in seven years is close to 120 million."

"No one can refuse a contract like this. After returning from the suspension, it seems that there has been no contract for 100 million yuan for a long time. You are the first one."

Looking at Zhang Hao, Ben Wallace's confusion dissipated at this moment.

Zhang Hao was not dissatisfied with his acceptance of the Bulls' offer, and he was always considering how much he got.

It is precisely because of this that he has implemented the player option before he finished playing last season and gave up the large contract with a starting salary of about US$9 million that he may get in the offseason...

Perhaps it was because of the blessings that were willing to sacrifice. After the just-concluded season, I got a contract that Wallace once dared not dream of.

If you agree, you will become a billionaire. Last year, Ben Wallace was very decisive when executing the player option, and now he agrees to the Bulls' invitation, he is also very decisive.

There are many things that don’t need to be confused about, they just have the difference between wanting to do and not wanting to do.

Any choice will have corresponding consequences.

The Bulls have provided such a high offer, and he accepts it, it depends on whether the team is willing to match the same contract. Obviously, the Supersonics cannot give such a large contract. The Supersonics... To be precise, Zhang Hao has a lofty goal and will not give him a third largest contract in the league today for Big Ben.

Then, he has to face reactions from all walks of life after accepting the Bulls' invitation to leave the Supersonics.

There will definitely be a lot of negative comments, because the contract with a price of nearly $120 million is really exaggerated!

Why did Ben Wallace nod without hesitation?

It is because this contract is ridiculously big! Maximum salary, this is possible, Henry Thomas said, maximum salary is possible.

But the maximum salary for 7 years... is far higher than the expected plan to stay in the Supersonics team for the 4-year maximum salary.

Originally, Ben Wallace thought of staying at the team for 4 years, relying on his seniority contract to make a living... Finally retired.

Now they have given a maximum salary of 7 years, and the last year is more than 20 million US dollars... In fact, Ben Wallace still likes to listen to the encouragement of the media and fans.

He just wanted to go to Chicago and listen to people's scolding, such as calling him greedy for money, and calling him trash contracts after three or four years...

Since he has come to an end, Ben Wallace has made a lot of psychological preparations.

His brain is much smarter than he seems.

He likes to solve many things by relying on brute force, not stupid, but things that can be solved simply by brute force, so there is no need to be such trouble.

But he still had concerns about Zhang Hao's reaction.

From the beginning of entering NBA, he was the right guardian of Mr. Zhang...

Seeing Zhang Hao's reaction and attitude, Ben Wallace felt relieved.

After so many years, the little Buddha has become the Buddha, but it still has not changed!

...

...

Paper cannot keep the news. As the Supersonics and the Bulls communicate more and more frequently, before the draft began, the matter about Ben Wallace was exposed.

7 years maximum salary, sign first and then change!

This really shocked everyone!

The Supersonics did not choose to keep Ben Wallace, and no one felt that it was wrong.

Ben Wallace will sign and then exchange contracts with the Bulls, with the total contract amount ranked third in history!

The only ones in the front are O'Neal's 7-year, $126 million contract and Garnett's 6-year, $128 million contract.

No one has ever received such a huge contract.

A pure defensive player gets such a big contract... The Bulls quotes like this, which is hard to describe.

In order to compete for the championship, the Bulls exchanged future salary space for the present. It cannot be said whether the choice is good or bad. If they really win a championship, even if they only have one championship, everything will be worth it.

But the Supersonics will definitely not be able to match the contract. No one has made a good choice, but no one has made a bad choice.

As Ben Wallace expected, the public opinion was directly targeted as the beneficiary.

In the opinion of public opinion, Ben Wallace is the beneficiary who has won five championships and is about to win the third largest contract in history, but throws the Supersonics aside.

As for the fact that professional players are workers... when it comes to "loyalty", the media think that NBA must be loyal.

Fortunately, Zhang Hao was prepared, so he couldn't watch Ben Wallace be scolded, so he asked Pelinka and Henry Thomas to spread the news that the Supersonics and Ben Wallace achieved each other early.

Ben Wallace helped the Supersonics establish a dynasty. The Supersonics gave Ben Wallace, who had no chance to perform in the Lakers before, became the strongest defensive center in history, and finally got the third largest contract in history of nearly 120 million.

Zhang Hao couldn't say how much it could play, but he could do his best, so he couldn't do nothing, right?

It was already June 24th, and the draft was about to begin. Such a popular draft was stolen by Ben Wallace's contract of nearly 120 million US dollars.

Two more days passed, and on June 26th, the day before the draft.

Ben Wallace will sign first and then join the Bulls, and the popularity of this matter has cooled down a little.

Many people need this in the 2003 draft, which is full of geniuses. For example, LeBron James, the top pick who has won a seven-year, $90 million endorsement contract before he was selected. His endorsement brand is focusing on promoting this draft.

People deliberately issued a notice, but Ben Wallace did not want to show off on this matter, so they would not turn against the press release. Naturally, the popularity of the new contract on Ben Wallace has faded.

But this year's draft is really 'many and difficult...'

A transaction rumor spread, and this transaction rumor was close to the suspension of the season. Zhang Hao retired and asked to be traded to the Supersonics!

On the evening of June 26, 2003, Yahoo Sports columnist Wokin Navoski revealed that the Timberwolves would reach a deal with a California team, and the bargaining chips involved Kevin Garnett.

As soon as this news came out, many people thought that the revelation might be fake.

But Timberwolves vice president Kevin McHale said in an interview that Garnett applied for a deal and would leave the Timberwolves as a full free agent in the summer of 2004.

The four major California teams, Lakers, Clippers, Kings, and Warriors.

The four California teams, the Kings and Lakers, are very talented, and have good geographical locations.

For a time, ‘Where is Garnett going’ became the hottest topic at the moment. As for the rookies who run for this year... who cares...

...

"king, Brother Hu, Xiao Ming, Sister Guan, Bajie, where do you think Garnett will be traded?"

"Brother Hao, I said don't call me Bajie!"

"Okay Bajie."

“…”

Yi Jianlian didn't know why Zhang Hao called him Xiao Guan's sister, but after he objected once, he accepted it, which made Zhang Hao feel speechless.

On June 27, the day of the NBA draft was here. At noon, at Los Angeles Beach, the old, Chinese and new third generation players of the Chinese men's basketball team were having barbecue while blowing the sea breeze.

Yi Jianlian may stay in the United States to study in high school, but he is not going to Inglewood High School, but to study in high school in Seattle and receive close guidance from Zhang Hao, who is also a sports power forward.

Zhu Fangyu will be loaned to the Bundesliga by Guangdong team, playing in the European League for a year, and try it out.

All domestic clubs have followed the national command and sent some young players with good talent to Europe, but like Zhu Fangyu, who has become the top domestic player at the age of 20, is the only one.

And only Zhu Fangyu went directly to the European first-tier league. Other young players in their 20s all went to the German second-tier leagues, Spanish second-tier leagues, Russian League One, and even Spanish League One.

Zhu Fangyu is very outstanding, very outstanding, but he is too old. He is 20 years old and will definitely not be able to go to the United States to go to the "genius training stream". In China, based on the situation of domestic training of defenders in the past ten years, it can basically be determined that if Zhu Fangyu stays in China, then what Zhu Fangyu will be like now? Five or six years later, Zhu Fangyu's theoretical peak period will still be like.

The training system of domestic players has a "fault". It is actually really good to train before the age of 18. However, as an adult, domestic professionals do not know how to train them.

Zhu Fangyu saw Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming and Hu Weidong in the NBA and was very envious. When he learned that he had the opportunity to play in a stronger league in Europe, Zhu Fangyu chose to make a try...

This summer, Zhu Fangyu signed up for the NBA Summer League and will represent the Warriors' Development League team in the Las Vegas Summer League. Nottingen of the Bundesliga last season, 7 wins and 27 losses, 6 wins and 20 losses in the round-robin match, 2 wins and 8 losses in the Democratic Cup... There are 77 games in total, 20 wins and 57 losses, and the bottom level.

But at least there are many games! Moreover, the opponent is strong, but the Nottingan team is a bit too bad.

Of course, if Nottingan wasn't really bad, he wouldn't have promised Zhu Fangyu to have the position of the main small forward and at least 20 minutes of playing time per game.

Now Zhu Fangyu has to show his abilities through the Summer League and the Harbin Basketball Asian Championships held in September... Zhang Hao heard that Zhu Fangyu chose to play in the Summer League because he wanted to practice speaking well in an English-speaking environment.

It just so happened that Zhang Hao, Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming and Hu Weidong were in Los Angeles, so he called Zhu Fangyu, who was training in San Diego, and played for two days. After the draft, Zhu Fangyu had to go to Las Vegas.

As for how many people in the German basketball league can speak English... Zhu Fangyu did not ask Zhang Hao for questions. Although Zhang Hao heard about it, he didn't care.

He, Zhang, can't speak German...

On the 26th, they gathered in Los Angeles. On the 27th, the group learned that Garnett was going to change teams.

Zhang Hao was also surprised, but when he saw the media say that Garnett left the team, it was related to the saying "Don't let loyalty harm you." He didn't expect that the damage was so great...
To be continued...