Chapter 728

On April 25, 2004, the morning when the Knicks played against the Eagles in their fourth game of the playoffs this season, Knicks owner James Dolan held a press conference and announced that he would renew the contract with Stephen - Marbury, is negotiating with Marbury's agent.

When Liu Mang saw the news, he had two feelings about James Dolan.

One is that this boss is really a "gentleman". In the game the day before yesterday, many Knicks fans were instantly moved by Marbury's "sprinkling his last blood" style of play. Some fans couldn't bear to leave the field early. Marbury abruptly offset the buff of Liu Mang's King of Madison. At the back, no one booed the Eagles or the Knicks. There were many fans to choose After leaving, there were not many cheers, only James Dolan kept cheering Marbury on the sidelines, which led some fans to applaud Marbury.

From this point of view, Liu Mang felt that Marbury and James Dolan were really a pair of mung beans when they got together...

But Liu Mang also has a feeling that this rich second generation named James Dolan is not as "stupid" as he imagined. He is too good at buying people's hearts. If this thing is done deliberately, it will be interesting.

Moreover, in the capacity of James Dolan, Liu Mang felt that it was a deliberate thing. Everyone said that James Dolan was stupid, a fool and a rich second generation, and his fate was good, but the American cable TV system under his control The company, thriving on the ever-present plethora of buzz about the Knicks.

From a basketball point of view, James Dolan is as stupid as he is, but from a profit point of view, the Knicks will always have topics, and the various topics of the Knicks are so terrible that they are not on the verge of the playoffs every year. No less, more topics, brought unlimited attention to the Knicks, James Dolan's American Cable TV System Company and the surrounding industries of Madison Square Garden are booming.

And James Dolan, apart from being criticized for his decision-making in the Knicks, his business affairs have not been attacked too much.

Especially seeing that James Dolan cried when he said in the press conference that he would build a championship team around Marbury. What does Liu Mang think? The second generation, if he didn't ruin his family business, he would really be pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger!

Because in Liu Mang's memory, in the original time and space, after Marbury led the team to the playoffs this season, James Dolan said the same thing, but the Knicks did not really build on Marbury. The core of the team did not regain its strength, and for many years to come, it was still more about creating topics than building a good team.

It is easy for fools to fail, but they are also more likely to succeed, because they will always go one way to the other, but as long as they choose the right way, they are smart people.

And James Dolan is so fickle, he turns his head and forgets what he said, and continues to toss the team, with constant news every year. It seems that he does not look like the so-called "idiot" at all.

In contrast, Liu Mang felt that his own boss was really a bit stupid... But fortunately, he was good at listening to suggestions. Of course, Liu Mang felt that his boss was not the heir of the family, and only this one industry was the key reason...

After the news that the Knicks announced that they would renew Marbury with a maximum salary, the basketball fans in New York were enthusiastic for a while. More fans wanted to watch the last game, and the ticket prices also soared. Of course, It was a scalper ticket, and the tickets were sold out long ago. Half an hour before the game, there were still rare scalpers selling tickets at a higher price, and they were not worried about not being able to sell them.

The Knicks did not make money because of the ticket price increase, but they gained attention. The number of buyers for the fourth live televised game soared significantly compared with the third game.

Moreover, this also affected the Lakers over the mountain!

O'Neal, who had been clamoring for 80 million, saw that Marbury was about to get the maximum salary, so he immediately called the reporter and shouted at Lakers owner Jerry Buss, asking for 100 million.

Marbury's maximum salary, the minimum is 93 million in 5 years, the higher is 114 million in 6 years, and the highest is 136 million in 7 years. It is stipulated in the 1998 labor agreement that the longest and the same are seven years. NBA players can now get the maximum salary renewal of their home team, which are these three situations.

Players often don’t care about the average annual salary, especially for a 32-year-old veteran like O’Neal. What he cares more about is the total salary of the contract. Seeing that Marbury can get at least more than 90 million, he immediately shouted at the owner of the Lakers , 100 million in 4 years...

After these news came out, the happy ones were naturally the teams of Liu Mang, Duncan, Garnett, Webber and others. Who is Jerry Buss?

A generation of heroes in the NBA!

Being swept away by O'Neal in public like this, the Lakers are likely to have infighting because of this!

And even if there was no internal strife, Liu Mang didn't think there was anything, it was a surprise.

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The first round of this year's playoffs can be regarded as making NBA history!

Since the number of participating teams in the NBA playoffs has changed to 16 teams, there has never been a situation of sweeping all of them, especially now that it is a seven-game four-win system, the probability of this situation is even lower!

However, when the Hawks defeated the Knicks 111-75 in the fourth game and swept the Knicks to advance to the second round, they really made history.

In the four games played on the 24th, the Timberwolves did not spend much effort, and defeated the Nuggets 104 to 89, sweeping the promotion.

In the first round of 4 games, Garnett averaged 25 points, 14.5 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game, and deservedly ranked second in the MVP rankings.

However, Liu Mang's average of 38 points, 3.5 rebounds, 7.5 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks per game after four games is more terrifying than Garnett!

From an objective point of view, the opponent Liu Mang met was much weaker than the opponent Garnett met, but the reality is cold. People only look at the result, that is, Liu Mang played better!

Seeing that the voting for the major awards has already started, Liu Mang's MVP calls are getting louder and louder.

There was not much suspense in the other six rounds of the series. After 3-0, the opponents almost gave up struggling.

Before Gasol got the chest of an iron-walled old man, he was really good in the playoffs. He was educated by Duncan for the first time in the playoffs. He averaged 17 points per game in four games. An average of 5 rebounds really made it impossible for the Grizzlies to play. Gasol couldn't grab rebounds, let alone others, the Grizzlies were swept away.

For the Rockets, the little blacksmith in the Western Conference playoffs was really incomprehensible. In the last game, Kobe made 12 of 21 shots and scored 30 points and 11 assists. The Lakers limited the Rockets to less than 80 points three times in four games.

The beginning of Yao Ming's career was mixed. The good thing is that he made it to the playoffs for two consecutive years, and he started to experience the feeling of the NBA playoffs early. The bad thing is that he met the most peak double MVP in the first year of the playoffs. Duncan plus David Robinson met Malone plus O'Neal in the playoffs in the second year.

The other Heat, Hornets, and Bucks, like the Nuggets and Knicks, were purely lacking in strength, and they were killed before the waves could turn over.

These seven series are sweeps, which is reasonable, and it is easy for people to accept it.

But in the series between the Kings and the Mavericks, the Mavericks were swept, which was completely unexpected!

Last season, the Mavericks and the Kings reached the tiebreaker and won the Western Conference finals. This season, the Mavericks also introduced many powerful stars. Antawn Jamison can only play as a substitute. It seems that the Mavericks are much better than the Kings this year. up.

Who would have imagined that Webber, who became obese and crippled, beat Nowitzki to death...

The first round of 8 games was 4-0, which ended the series. The losers went fishing early, and the remaining eight teams went to their destination cities to prepare for the next round.

Liu Mang followed his teammates back to Atlanta, and it really feels good to have home court advantage!

Set off home and wait for the away team players to challenge!

During the last two days in New York, Liu Mang received so many news interviews that his head grew bigger.

The main question is about Marbury's contract, because Liu Mang is about to renew his contract, but Liu Mang has not considered this aspect yet, and we will talk about it after the season is over.

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"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" Little Lolita ran away quickly, "Damnuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Little Lolita rubbed her red face and looked at Liu Mang angrily. If she had known earlier, she would not have pushed the suitcase for this guy!

Liu Mang fell on the bed and rolled around, it was the most comfortable home! Looking at the cute little loli, she is so cute. Just after eating the tofu made by such a cute little loli, Liu Mang thinks that he should be lucky now!

After seeing little Lolita getting angry, she went to open the suitcase and took the laundry bag with dirty clothes to the laundry room. Liu Mang cooled down the joy of going home first, now there is a big event!

Liu Mang went to wash his body quickly, shaved off the stubble, brushed his teeth... the whole body was washed and wiped clean, and changed into a clean white T-shirt and shorts.

The cleansing ceremony is ready, Liu Mang invites Erye Guan out and burns incense sticks.

"Second Lord Guan bless you, please give me good luck this time!"

After paying homage to Second Lord Guan, Liu Mang opened the system panel.

Looking at the Knicks random star card with the words "Peak" on the back, Liu Mang immediately smiled.

The Knicks were crushed 4-0, and Marbury's peak year was defeated. The task evaluation was perfect, and the Knicks' revenge was completely shattered. Therefore, the level of the star card reached the highest level. The Knicks 03 -The pinnacle version of random star cards for players in the 2004 season!

Originally, the best player of the Knicks was Marbury, who already had a Marbury star card, and used Marbury’s star card for the 02-03 season before, as far as last season, Marbury’s star card , and Liu Mang's own strength after breaking through 80 ability points is not much stronger. Marbury was a top star last year. Although Marbury is a top star this year, he is only at the edge of the top stars. His strength There are top stars, but the style of play is much lower than the help that many top stars bring to the team. It can even be said that among the stars of the same level, they are the worst adapted to each team.

Any team that gets a top star to join will have a leap in strength, but Marbury may cause the team to collapse.

So for the current Knicks, Liu Mang doesn't think anyone's star card is particularly useful.

But now it's the pinnacle star card of a random current Knicks player! That would be different!

What Liu Mang wanted was the star card of the Magic's last No. 1 player!

After making all the preparations, Liu Mang closed his eyes and said to the system: "Boss of the system, use the Knicks random peak player card!"

"Ding... The host uses the random star card of the New York Knicks players in the 2003-2004 season, and the randomly obtained star card is the version that draws the player's peak strength..."

In front of Liu Mang, a virtual image of a star he hadn't seen for a long time appeared, and the players of the Knicks this season were flashing past one by one.

Number 1... Number 1...

Liu Mang murmured, looking at the fast-switching player images, slowly, the switching speed slowed down, so unstoppable, when it was about to stop, it happened to be No. 1 of the Knicks!

"Hahahahaha..."

Liu Mang couldn't help laughing out loud, just when Liu Mang was about to twitch from laughing, the player's image was about to stop, and suddenly, he moved again...

Number 1, became number 42...

Vin Baker!

Liu Mang's laughter paused for a second before turning into a scream...

Little Lolita, who was watching a soap opera in the living room, heard Liu Mang's screams and was used to it: "Uncle is having nightmares again, let's go comfort him later, it's better to watch TV..."