Chapter 632 [Historical Position, Vacation Plan]

Yang Rui and Yao Ming are the most popular people this season, and there are reports about them in various countries.

Yang Rui has won the eighth championship ring in his career. As a head coach, he has won seven championship rings. The number of rings has tied Auerbach. Almost everyone believes that he is the number one coach in NBA history.

The most frightening thing is that he is only 35 years old this year and is still very young. Many players have not retired at the age of 35.

Countless Los Angeles fans are trying to retain Yang Rui, hoping that he will continue to lead the Lakers to win the championship. Even if he doesn't like Kobe, don't leave Los Angeles and coach the Clippers.

As for where to go next, Yang Rui is considering and will not take a position for the time being.

Chinese fans mainly discuss Yao Ming's historical status. He has four championship rings, a regular season MVP, and two finals MVPs. There is no active inside player ahead of him, not only the center, but also the power forward.

In this time and space, Duncan currently only has two championships, one regular season MVP and two finals MVPs.

Olajuwon also won two championships, a regular season MVP and two finals MVPs. He won two MVPs and the Best Defensive Player in the same season. He is the only one in history. However, his number of championships is not as good as that of Yao Ming, so his historical status cannot be ranked too high.

The other three major centers O'Neal, Ewing, and Robinson only have one championship, which is even further away. This means that Yao Ming's historical status exceeds that of the four major centers in the 1990s.

Going back further, Chamberlain won four regular season MVPs, one Finals MVP, and two championships.

Although Chamberlain had personal abilities that surpassed all of his contemporaries, he met the Celtics in the playoffs eight times and lost seven of them. After cooperation, we won the second championship. As one of the greatest basketball superstars in history, it is absolutely a shame to lead his team to lose to the same opponent 7 times, so he cannot be ranked ahead of Yao Ming.

In the end, people came to the conclusion that only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Russell had more honors inside, ranking ahead of Yao Ming.

This makes Chinese fans very proud. Even if Yao Ming retires directly after his contract expires, his historical status will still be firmly in the top ten in the NBA and the top three centers. No strong man will catch up in the short term. Everyone knows that Howard is a blue-collar guy.

Kobe has more rings than Yao, with 5, but no one knows how to rank him in history. He got the ring lying down this year.

In Yang Rui's previous life, Pippen had six championship rings. For a while, he had one defense and was a top small forward. Unfortunately, his teammate was Jordan, so he could only be the second in command. No one has ever thought that Pippen's historical status can be among the top ten in the league.

So here comes the question. Without Pippen, Jordan never won a championship. Without Kobe, the Lakers won all the playoffs. What role does Kobe play in the team?

On the Internet, the celebrities have all disappeared. No one stands up to clean up their idols, and they will be ridiculed by the crowd whenever they post.

Everyone on the Lakers returned to Los Angeles, and everyone was happy except Kobe.

The Lakers management was also very embarrassed. They invited Kobe to participate in the championship parade and championship party, but Kobe did not want to participate. He did not know what expressions to use to face his teammates, coaches, fans and media.

If you ask him to laugh, he will definitely not be able to laugh; if he participates in the championship parade with a bad face, it will be even more troublesome. Reporters will definitely question, does he not want the Lakers to win the championship?

And according to the news, he had a serious knee injury. Did he have to use crutches to participate in the parade?

Finally, Kobe did not attend the championship party and championship parade, which provided the media with good material. According to news analysis, Kobe is likely to break out of his contract in the summer, become a free agent, and leave the Lakers.

After the parade, the Lakers management immediately held a meeting. They all knew that the situation in the summer was very serious, and what must be done to make the Lakers still have the strength to compete for the championship next season.

The contracts of Odom, Millsap, Posey, Deng Tai Jones and James Jones, the five heroes who won the championship, have all expired. And except for Millsap, those four are all free agents.

In the playoffs, Millsap averaged 14.4 points, 8 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game.

He shot 52.3% from the field and averaged 4 offensive rebounds per game. Based on this data, there must be a team willing to pay a premium to poach him. Betting on his potential, it is not surprising to offer him an annual salary of tens of millions. Between Odom and Millsap, the Lakers can only keep one.

Millsap is younger and is good at grabbing offensive rebounds, so he is suitable to partner with Kobe. However, his relationship with Kobe has already gone wrong, and he may not be willing to stay.

Odom is more versatile, but he is already 30 years old this year, and his personal life is a bit chaotic. His condition may decline at any time, so renewing his contract is a risk.

In addition, Iguodala, who averaged 17+4+4 per game in the playoffs, is already a well-known star swingman in the league. He also had conflicts with Kobe over the ball rights. He signed a high-paying long-term contract last year, but he didn't know if he was willing to stay. If Kobe plays like that again next season, the locker room may not be clean.

The biggest headache for management is the relationship between Kobe and Yao Ming.

Yao Ming is so strong in the playoffs. If Kobe Bryant grabs the ball as soon as he comes back, plays like he did in previous seasons, and treats Yao Ming as the second player, even if Yao Ming is willing to sacrifice data, Chinese fans will not agree.

On the contrary, if Yao Ming is the first core of the team and Kobe is the second leader, it will be like the OK combination era, and Kobe will definitely not be happy.

If both of them have privileges, the role players will probably want to leave. The regular season will definitely be like last season with no shooting opportunities and no data. Now that we have a championship, who wants to be a role player and take the blame for the stars?

The Lakers appear to be prosperous, but are actually full of contradictions. They have to find a capable swingman in the free market in the summer, otherwise the strength of the substitutes will be reduced a lot.

After the meeting, Jim Buss and Jeanie Buss had a rare moment of agreement. They planned to bring Kobe and Yao together in the summer to establish a relationship. As long as they have a good relationship and the "drug-taking team" does not separate, the Lakers will be a super team. .

They all believe that without Yang Rui, the "drug-addicted combination" can lead the Lakers to compete for the championship next season. After Yao Ming's contract is renewed, there is no chance of establishing a dynasty.

The Lakers have experienced the breakup of the "OK group" and do not want to give up a good situation to others due to conflicts between the stars.

Yang Rui didn't care what would happen to the Lakers in the future. After the championship party, he greeted all the players and left, wishing them better and better games in the future.

Immediately, many teams called Yang Rui's agent, John O'Connor, and expressed their willingness to offer a high salary, a record high in NBA history, to invite him to coach. The amounts proposed were not at all like a coaching salary.

These team owners have discovered that signing Yang Rui is equivalent to cooperating with Facebook. It is worth treating the money given to Yang Rui as advertising fees.

Yang Rui said in an interview that he left the Lakers because it was too easy to win the championship, so many bad teams saw the hope of rising. Now Yang Rui is a golden sign. As long as he joins, it will be easy to poach players in the summer free market, killing two birds with one stone.

Afraid that the phone calls were not sincere enough, some people even organized a group to come to Los Angeles to meet with Yang Rui, promising various benefits, which made Yang Rui impatient.

He wanted to join a bad team, but small cities were not at all on his radar.

For example, how can Michael Jordan's Bobcats defeat the North Carolina Blue Devils, who seem less popular in Charlotte than the NCAA?

He simply held a press conference in Los Angeles and stated that he would not coach any team next season.

"I'm going to take a year off. I don't want to work, I just want to play. My current plan is to take a cruise on the Serenity in the Pacific and go to the Mediterranean to see the scenery. Then I want to play golf, participate in poker tournaments, and maybe play pool, Tennis matches. And eating everywhere, tasting delicious food from all over the world, without making Scarlett gain weight."