With three points at the start, Nash begged for a maximum salary to renew his contract

Chapter 315 Accumulation of honors: 6 MVP, 7FMVP, 5DPOY!

"The gentleman swept with a big score of 4:1. The Nets defeated the Warriors and won the 2016-17 NBA championship!"

"The eighth championship in his career has been achieved. Wang Chao was unanimously elected FMVP and became the eight-time champion. The number of championships is close to Lord of the Rings Russell. At present, Wang Chao, who is 34 years old, still has the chance to catch up with Bill Russell for eleven championships. Chance?"

"Really. Without you, we are all championships. Durant successfully won the first championship of his career, but the taste of this championship ring is not very good. In the case of his poor performance in the last three series, the Nets still won. With 2 wins and 1 loss, they easily defeated the Warriors 4:1 to win the championship. This proves that even if Durant is replaced by any All-Star player in the league, the Nets have a great probability of winning this championship. Of course, Durant's existence is still valuable, such as 73 wins in the regular season, without him, the Nets should have no chance to achieve such a dominant record."

"Wang Chao's acceptance speech once again issued a declaration of leaving the team. It is imperative to leave the Nets. The free market is ushering in a carnival. Which team will be the No. 1 team in league history will become the biggest attraction this summer!"

The NBA Finals is over, but the turmoil in the league has just begun.

Wang Chao wants to leave the Nets, which has attracted all teams in the league to move around.

Everyone knows that the only teams that have a real chance to win Wang Chao are those teams that have never won a championship in team history.

Although I don't understand why Wang Chao has this idea of ​​precision poverty alleviation, but after the Nets' success in winning the championship within two years, no one will doubt Wang Chao's ability to lead the team to win the championship.

At present, there are still 10 teams that have never won the championship in the league. There are Bucks, Pacers, and Hornets in the East, and the Clippers, Mavericks, Jazz, Timberwolves, Grizzlies, and Pelicans in the West. .

Theoretically, these 10 teams all have the opportunity to compete for Wang Chao, but in reality, considering that signing Wang Chao with a maximum salary requires a starting salary of about 3400 million US dollars, there are not many teams that can provide this contract.

The Clippers, Mavericks, and Grizzlies are the first to be excluded. The Clippers currently have three players with an annual salary of more than 2000 million in Paul, Griffin and Jordan. The Mavericks also have Harden’s 2800 million plus Barnes. With 2311 million and Matthews' 1700 million, the team's salary space is also stretched.

As for the Grizzlies, they gave McConley a 5-year 1.53 million sky-high contract last summer plus a 4-year 9480 million contract for Chandler Parsons, and their salary space was even more bursting than the Clippers and Mavericks.

Except for the above three teams, the rest of the teams can find a way to provide Wang Chao with the maximum salary signing conditions. Even if the conditions are not met, it can be barely achieved by sending away some high-paid players in the team through transactions.

The question now is which of these seven teams can be favored by Wang Chao.
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On June 6, the NBA Draft will continue at the Barclays Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets in New York.

The 2017 draft can only be regarded as a small draft year, and the only rookies worth mentioning are Jason Tatum, Donovan Mitchell, Bam Adebayor and a few others.

However, the arrival of Wang Chao has greatly changed the situation of the alliance, causing the draw to be completely messed up.

The No. 76 pick went to the Orlando Magic, which had the lowest record in the league, and the Philadelphia [-]ers ranked second. The third pick went to the Phoenix Suns, who ranked last in the Western Conference.

The Celtics have nothing to do with the lottery draft, because they selected Jason Tatum's third overall pick, which itself came from the Brooklyn Nets, that is, they packaged Pierce, Garnett and others. When he arrived at the Nets, he got the Nets' first round pick.

Now, the Nets won the championship with a record of 73 wins in the regular season, and the draft pick directly became the last in the first round. How can the Celtics still have a chance to select Tatum?
However, to Wang Chao's surprise, Tatum did not join the Celtics, but was picked by the Lakers.

The Orlando Magic, who won the No. [-] pick, chose the No. [-] pick, Markelle Fultz.

The Philadelphia 76ers, who also need a point guard, can only settle for the next best thing and choose the same highly acclaimed point guard, Lonzo Ball.

Ball's father is quite dissatisfied with this. He has only one ideal place for his son, and that is the traditional giants, the Los Angeles Lakers. Although Philadelphia is also a big city, it is obviously dwarfed by Los Angeles.

The old Ball, a professional troll, chattered about his dissatisfaction to the reporters, but the deal was done, and he had no choice but to BB.

As for Tatum, who was supposed to be selected with the third overall pick, he was not chosen by the Phoenix Suns. They chose Josh Jackson, who was in the same position as Tatum and had more physical fitness and athletic ability.

This is a typical example of losing the watermelon and picking up the sesame seeds.

Tatum is definitely the player with the highest value in this class in 17. Although he will still look like a douchebag under the support of the league in the future, which is disappointing, but Tatum is also a top-level All-Star. , It's just inferior to MVP-level stars such as Jokic, Antetokounmpo, and Embiid.

What is Josh Jackson?It's just that his physical fitness is stronger than Tatum's, which makes it easy to confuse scouts.

In the original history, the Suns also selected this man with the No. 11.2 pick, and then he moved to many teams in his career in just a few years. His career average of 4 points, 1.8 rebounds and [-] assists per game cannot be regarded as particularly bad. But it is obviously different from Tatum.

In this way, the Suns missed Tatum, the only big cow in 17 years, but was picked up by the Lakers.

The Lakers were lucky enough to enjoy the era bonus brought by Wang Chao. In 15, they selected Towns as the No. 16 pick, and in 17, they selected Ingram as the No. [-] pick. In [-], they picked Tatum, the peach. up.

With this lineup, James looked at it and called it a good guy. It is estimated that he will consider joining the Lakers in less than two years.
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After the draft, the NBA awards ceremony will be held on June 6 a few days later.

In Manhattan, New York, the first awards ceremony in NBA history was held as scheduled. At the party, the league began to announce the season awards that should have been announced during the playoffs.

On the night of the awards ceremony, Wang Chao appeared in a handsome suit, followed by Candice Swanepoel in a black elegant evening dress.

When the two walked on the red carpet, the reporters on both sides of the red carpet frantically pressed the shutter.

Facing the camera, Candice looked calm and generous. Since Miranda was bringing a baby, she naturally accompanied Wang Chao to attend the awards ceremony.

Today's Candice has successfully turned into a strong business woman. Her contract with Victoria's Secret has been terminated, and she has served as the CEO of a fashion brand invested by Wang Chao.

Unlike Miranda who puts more emphasis on bringing babies, Candice’s brand has developed rapidly in the past two years under the operation of the same name fashion brand Miranda Buddha, and has become an internationally renowned fashion brand. Candice is also known as As a new generation of fashion queen, her status is far from being comparable to being a supermodel in Victoria's Secret.

Of course, Candice's development in the fashion industry is inseparable from Wang Chao's strong support, and because of this, the two women can always maintain a relatively harmonious relationship.

"Mr. Wang Chao, may I ask which team do you prefer to join this summer? Do you have any plans now?"

"Mr. Wang Chao, as the biggest favorite to win the MVP award this season, are you confident to win the sixth regular season MVP trophy in this career?"

After walking the red carpet show and answering questions from several reporters, Wang Chao and Candice finally entered the banquet hall of the awards ceremony.

The highly commercialized alliance is also approaching Hollywood and the Grammys in terms of award ceremony, and the award ceremony is indeed impressive.

After the party started, the invited celebrity guests first came on stage to perform, and then the awards began.

At the beginning, the awards were all trivial and insignificant. For the sake of time, the league gave out a bunch of awards, such as the best dunk of the year, the best assist of the year and other awards.

There is no way, who let the season's ultimate awards total only a few items, it is impossible to make such a big awards show with great fanfare, and the awards will end in less than a few minutes.
It's just that the announcement of this kind of award without much value is really meaningless, not to mention the audience in front of the TV, but the players in the main venue are all watching drowsily.

Fortunately, after persisting for a long time, it was finally the turn of the more critical awards.

The best rookie was won by Nuggets rookie Jamal Murray.

Murray averaged 11 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game this season.

Such data can get the best rookie, which sounds a bit fantasy, but in fact, Brogdon, who originally won the best rookie this season, averaged only 10 points, 2.8 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game.

In this time and space, because Brogdon was cut off by Wang Chao and used as a bench substitute, the statistics were not as good as before, so the league could only choose the big one among the dwarfs and chose the Nuggets' Murray.

Murray originally averaged 9.9 points per game. In this time and space, perhaps because of the absence of Jokic, his scoring average has increased slightly, so he stood out from the rookies and won the best rookie.

As for the other 16-year rookies, Ben Simmons was reimbursed for not playing a game this season, and Brandon Ingram, second place, averaged less than 10 points per game. It is true that there is no other more suitable candidate.

The best sixth man was won by Eric Gordon of the Rockets.

Going around, Gordon still joined the Rockets. Although the team's leading brother was not Harden but Leonard, the difference was not big for him. During the regular season, he still averaged 16.3 points per game. Played extremely well.

The Most Improved Player Award was awarded to Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Bucks.

This season is the season when Antetokounmpo is on the rise. He averaged 22.9 points, 8.8 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game in the regular season, which made the whole league shine. People have a feeling of watching James play when he was young. Considering Antetokounmpo's terrifying static talent, his impact at the basket is even stronger than James when he was young. As long as Antetokounmpo can develop in the next few seasons With the ability to shoot from mid to long range, he is bound to become one of the hottest stars in the league.

The best coach award was awarded to the head coach of the Nets, Lionel Hollins.

However, everyone knows the gold content of this award.

The Nets won 73 wins in the regular season and won the championship. It has nothing to do with the head coach. Almost all of the credit is Wang Chao. From the selection of team building players to the formulation of team tactics, it is Wang Chao who decides. In this team, the head coach is just a mascot.

As for the two biggest awards of the season, the regular season MVP and the best defensive player DPOY, they were all won by Wang Chao without exception.

No way, Wang Chao's dominance on the field is too strong. In terms of DPOY awards, Wang Chao's main competitors are Warriors' Green, Rockets' Leonard and Spurs' Howard.

The final voting result was that Wang Chao got 51% of the votes, and the other three could only share the remaining 49% of the votes.

The suspense of selecting the regular season MVP is even smaller.

There are only two competitors for Wang Chao, Westbrook and Curry.

Curry's Warriors are close to Wang Chao's Nets in terms of record, but his personal data is too mediocre to compete with Wang Chao, but Westbrook's triple-double data of 30+10+10 per game can compete with Wang Chao's. Super gesture twice.

But Wang Chao not only has a triple-double data of 27+13+13 per game, but also has a bonus of 73 wins in the regular season. No matter how luxurious Westbrook's personal data is, it is indisputable that the regular season record is only ranked seventh in the Western Conference. fact.

If there is no Wang Chao Yuzhu in the front, the shock brought by Westbrook's triple-double miracle on the spot can really make people ignore the problem of the team's record.

But before Westbrook, Wang Chao had averaged a triple-double for four consecutive seasons, and achieved his fifth triple-double this season.

The data is not competitive, and the team's record is still very different. Even the local media reporters in the United States who want to favor local players can't find any reason or excuse.

No matter how eccentric they are, they still have to base their judgments on their own attitude as a public media, and they cannot reverse black and white.

In the first two seasons, Curry of the Warriors had a reason to win the regular season MVP. Although it is a little untenable, at least a forced explanation can still be explained.

But Westbrook, no matter how forcibly explained, it is impossible to win the regular season MVP.

Therefore, the final result is that Wang Chao won the regular season MVP for the sixth time in his career with an absolute advantage of 37%.

Don't underestimate the 37% vote rate. There are three votes for the regular season MVP selection. Even if it gets 100% of the first votes, the vote rate is only 38.46%.

It is very rare for Wang Chao to get such a high vote rate despite being rejected by the American local media.

It's just that, the honor accumulation of Wang Chao, the honor harvester, has reached an almost exaggerated level.

8 championships, 7 FMVP trophies, 6 MVP trophies, 4 DPOY trophies.

As for those minor honors, 7 scoring titles, 5 season triple-doubles, best first team, first defense, All-Star starters, etc. I don’t even bother to look at them.

With these honors, it is true that even the former No.1 Jordan in the league has to bow his head and bow his head. It is too hard!

This honor of Wang Chao is unprecedented, and I am afraid that there will be no one in the future. What is even more frightening is that the current 34-year-old Wang Chao has no tendency to decline in the slightest, and the honor will continue to accumulate in the future. Degree.
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The NBA's award ceremony can only be regarded as quite satisfactory, which is not interesting, but the ratings and evaluation are still so-so, so it also gave the league the confidence to continue to hold it.

To this, Wang Chao just wanted to say that it was done very well, so don't do it next time.

The time will soon come to the end of June, and as July enters, the free market will officially open.

This year's free market is turbulent, and the contracts of many top stars have expired.

Wang Chao is naturally the biggest big fish in the free market, but under him, there are two regular season MVP Stephen Curry, Clippers All-Star Blake Griffin, Raptors Kyle Lowe Rui and many other star players have expired.

However, most of these players tend to renew their contracts with their respective home teams.

On July 7, after the opening of the free market, the Warriors took the lead in announcing that they had signed a five-year, $1 million contract with head star Curry. This contract successfully replaced Conley as the largest contract in league history, and Curry also became The first 5 million yuan player in league history.

The Warriors are willing to give Curry such a sky-high contract, not only as compensation for his previous child labor contract, but also to appease the two-time MVP winner. After all, the Warriors have not won a championship for so many years. The idea of ​​leaving the Warriors.

With Curry's start, other teams in the league also started to act. The Clippers renewed Griffin's contract with 5 million in five years.

The No. 09 pick in 09, Blake Griffin, performed very well at the beginning of his career, worthy of the title of No. [-] pick. However, with the successive rise of Curry and Harden in [-], Griffin's position is somewhat embarrassing. , especially in recent years, under the leadership of Paul, the Clippers have never had good results in the playoffs. In addition, Griffin is affected by age and injuries, and after the explosive power on which he depends for survival is reduced, his strength is inevitable. began to decline.

With the signing of this contract, Griffin will also officially become a representative of junk contracts. Although in the next two years, Griffin can still contribute about 20+7 star data per game on average, but his performance will start to change later. High platform diving, and injuries continue.

As for the Raptors, it is a good choice to renew Lowry with $3 million in three years. Although Lowry does not belong to the kind of player whose personal data explodes, his ability is definitely at the forefront of the current league point guards. The main players for the Raptors to stay competitive.

In addition to contract extensions, the league also had several notable deals on July 7.

The biggest of these is the Oklahoma City Thunder, who sent Sabonis and Taj Gibson plus a first-round pick from the Indiana Pacers for All-Star small forward Paul George.

This transaction caused quite a shock in the league. Although Westbrook failed to win the regular season MVP, his triple-double data per game this season is still shocking. It is an indisputable fact that the single-core leader entered the playoffs this season. With George Joining, the Thunder's combat effectiveness next season will surely rise.

At this time, the league did not know that the Thunder had already begun to plan for the Big Three. They not only wanted the partner of Westbrook + George, but also wanted to introduce a third giant to form a configuration of the Big Three. Their goal was the New York Knicks. Carmelo Anthony.

Apart from the management of the Thunder team, only Wang Chao, a traveler, knew about this matter. Not only did he know that the Thunder finally got Anthony to form a super Big Three lineup, but he also knew that this Big Three combination failed.

17-18赛季，有着三巨头配置的雷霆常规赛仅取得48胜，并且季后赛首轮便被犹他爵士4:2淘汰出局。

Only the second year after the formation of the Big Three, the team traded Anthony away from the team.

Although the above contract renewals and transactions are big news, in the eyes of major media reporters, they are all trivial matters. The most important news this summer is Wang Chao's final destination. After all, which team will Wang Chao join? The team will directly determine the direction of the league's championship situation.

As for Wang Chao himself, during the period after winning the championship, he has actually considered the team he wants to join.

In the middle of the season, he had considered whether to join the Charlotte Hornets led by Joe.

The Hornets currently have a combination of Davis, Oladipo and Kemba Walker. The strength is not bad. With him joining, it is bound to become the biggest favorite to win the championship.

But this season with the Nets, to be honest, he really didn't have much interest in playing.

It's really meaningless to play a game with a strong lineup.

This is really not Wang Chao Versailles, this is like playing an online game. The initial period of land reclamation must be the most interesting and exciting time. Players are full of motivation to complete their goals.

But when the land reclamation period is over and the character level and attributes are improved, most of the games have become a simple and boring swipe game. Apart from logging in online and completing a fixed task to receive rewards every day, there is nothing else to do. .

At this time, there are generally only two choices before the player.

First, quit the game and stop playing, anyway, I can no longer experience any fun of the game.

The second is to find a way to create some difficult challenges for yourself and re-stimulate the desire to challenge.

Wang Chao doesn't want to retire now. He is still a little curious about what the system's ultimate prize is, but he really doesn't have much interest in winning the championship easily with the Nets this season. I can manually create some competition difficulty for myself.

Out of such considerations, Wang Chao gave up the option of the Hornets.

The thick-browed brother Davis is a first-team defensive player this season, and Oladipo will also usher in an explosive period next season. With the addition of Kemba Walker, if he joins, he will really win the championship with his eyes closed, too It's boring.

Wang Chao's goal is only on those teams without strong stars, and he quickly locked the target.

When the whole league was paying attention to which team Wang Chao's next home would be, no one noticed that the Denver Nuggets management offered the Rockets' backup center Rudy Gobert for $4 million over four years.

(End of this chapter)