The 2010 draft is over, but it's just the appetizer of the new season, and the real drama is just beginning in the league.

On July 1, the drama of the summer of 10 years finally officially began, when the time came to 0:01 in the morning, Rocket general manager Morey held an iPad and was the first to meet Bosh. Subsequently, most fans on Morey's Weibo believed that this was a complete victory for the Rockets in the free agent market.

But Riley never thought he would lose out to a MIT graduate who made a living from data analytics. For a long time, it has been widely believed that Bosh hopes to join forces with either James or Wade, but what Bosh really wants is to join forces with James and Wade at the same time.

During his time with the Raptors, Bosh gradually felt that he was not suitable to be a team leader, so he was willing to be a helper for James and Wade. As a result, Riley's Heat has become Bosh's first choice, because only Miami, Nets, New York, Clippers, and Bulls can afford to give three huge contracts, but the Nets, Knicks, Clippers, and Bulls don't have too strong a need for him.

As for James, Riley is also full of confidence, and there are three sources of confidence. On the one hand, he'll tell James how when he coached the Lakers in the '80s, the players of that team sacrificed their salaries, shooting opportunities and stats to make a great dynasty team. Secondly, Riley's team has the unique geographical and climatic advantages of Miami; Third, Riley believes that the close relationship between James and Wade is unmatched by any other team.

On the morning of July 1, the Knicks took the lead in going to Cleveland to "meet" James. This kicked off the "pilgrimage" of the six teams.

Proven after the fact. The Knicks had an "audience". It was the one that impressed James the most out of the six teams.

In the process of "pilgrimage", Knicks's lobbying was highly targeted and innovative, using a hybrid mode of video and commentary, and even the script of the lobbying was revised countless times by professional writers, so as to attract James's attention at all times when necessary.

They focused on the team's global impact, the appeal of the Big Apple, and the grand future of the league's largest market. Nix emphasized. They can bring James a global reach, and one day, they can make James a billionaire athlete.

The objective reason why the Knicks impressed James is also that they are the first team to "make a pilgrimage".

Those who know James well know that he tends to feel absent-minded about his overly lengthy presentations, and if there are long meetings with him in the morning and afternoon, James will never sit still. The Knicks know this, so they try to keep their videos down, humorous in their speeches, and try to keep time to the limit. I was afraid that James would get distracted and lose interest in the whole interview.

The Nets are also part of the "pilgrimage" army, but unfortunately. The Nets, who have a panda brother, did not pay attention to this, and they "pilgrimaged" on the same day as the Knicks, ranking behind the Knicks. And the focus of their statement is similar to that of the Knicks, such as explaining the vastness of New York City, such as promising to bring more and more wealth to James, and so on. The whole meeting took up to two hours, the script was not revised, and the video was only a short segment.

The "Cup" was born, and James began to slip away after listening to it for a short time, and almost fell asleep. When the Zen master and others left Cleveland, James privately told his agent that the Nets' "pilgrimage" was lengthy and redundant compared to the Knicks' lobbying.

What displeased James the most was that the reason why the Nets delayed the "pilgrimage" until the evening was that they offered a five-year $60 million contract for Brother Panda in the early morning, but they didn't come to see him until the evening, which made the little emperor feel that he was not valued by the Nets.

The last team to make the pilgrimage is the Bulls, this team is good in all aspects, they have almost taken Boozer, but there is still close to 20 million space, and there are three excellent players in the team, Rose, Rohrdon and Noah, if you add him and Boozer, then this team has no weaknesses.

But one thing has always bothered James: Rose never called him, never sent him a single text message, and never publicly welcomed him in front of the media.

As the last "pilgrimage" team, the Bulls walked into the office of James LRMR on the afternoon of July 3, and they always believed that they were the "leaders" in the "battle for the king". In the aftermath, many insiders attributed the Bulls' defeat to their reluctance to hire James' relatives and friends to hold key positions in the team's management. But another way of saying it is: Ross is playing a big name?

The Bulls' "pilgrimage" team is not strong, owner Reinsdorf, general manager Foreman and new coach Thibodeau are all on the field, but there is no Derrick who James wants to see the most. Ross. The three-hour meeting was the most of any team, and the Bulls already had about $35 million in salary space at the time, enough to sign two top free agents at the same time.

But from beginning to end of this meeting, there was always one thing that bothered James, and that was that: Bulls star Derrick. Rose never made a phone call to him, and the Bulls brass never asked Rose to call James directly, but the younger Rose thought that if James really wanted to discuss the possibility of playing together, the emperor should have taken the initiative to call first.

Rose was wrong, James never had that style, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to stay in Cleveland to "meet" the teams. And Rose's silence also surprised James - it turned out that there were still stars in the league who didn't buy him, and he was a third-year player.

If Ji Guoqiu of the Nets has this qualification, after all, he has the honor of three consecutive championships and three consecutive finals MVP, and his status has surpassed James. But Rose is only a sophomore and has never made the playoffs, so what qualifies him?

On the night before the Bulls and James meeting, Bulls president Foreman and vice president Paxson met with the missing Kobe Bryant for the second time in 24 hours. In the office of Kobe's agent, Pelinka, the two sides talked for hours.

The Bulls' strategic thinking was to get Kobe Bryant before going to Cleveland as an important bargaining chip for the "pilgrimage". At the same time, the Bulls may further expand the team's salary space through a series of actions. And the reason why Kobe Bryant is eye-to-eye with the Bulls is because he doesn't have hope for the Lakers' future. Kobe Bryant understands very well that the Lakers, who have lost their Zen master, will no longer have a chance to win the championship, and if he wants to win his fourth championship, he can only forcibly jump out of the car and give up the Lakers who have fallen apart from the inside.

Kobe Bryant is also out of the way now, since James, Wade, Bosh, Ji Guoqiu and others don't care about salary, what can he, a rich man with a net worth of more than 200 million, not sacrifice? The reason why Kobe Bryant doesn't want to sacrifice in the Lakers is that he doesn't want to sacrifice in vain, if he wants to sacrifice, then he must die worthwhile.

The Bulls have played big enough this summer, touching Kobe Bryant on the one hand, James on the other, and Boozer who has already talked about it, what are they going to do? Do you engage in the Big Four?

Chicagoans are having a good time here, and Miamians aren't idle.

According to league rules, Wade was not allowed to recruit free agents on behalf of the Heat until the end of last season, as he was still under an old contract with Miami. But as the Finals drew to a close, Wade met with James' team twice, once in Ohio and once in Chicago.

Stern did not pursue the matter after the incident, but a senior NBA official insisted that the league investigate to see if Riley had lured the emperor by "hiring a close friend of James."

"Providing jobs for a player's friends and family is not a bargaining chip for free agents, and if that's part of the negotiations, that's a violation," said an NBA executive who received anonymous complaints alleging that the Miami Heat had privately placed his family and friends in a team position in an attempt to woo James, but the matter was ultimately closed.

On July 4, James has already made a decision in his heart, on the one hand, the enthusiastic Wade and Riley, on the other hand, Rose, who is reluctant to call, and under the trade-off, James is naturally easy to make his own judgment.

In fact, after meeting Riley on July 2, James became more and more determined to travel to Miami. When James lost to the Green Army Big Three in the Eastern Conference Finals in the 09 season a year ago and was finally eliminated, the unprecedented pressure has made James breathless.

This year's Finals were swept again by the Clippers, and James has had enough of such days.

The chosen one, who has been empty-handed for seven years, needs strong teammates, needs a Hall of Fame coach because he has to win a championship. All of this, the Heat can give James, and they may not only care about whether the team can win the championship, but how many championships they can win.

At midnight on July 5, James, Wade and Bosh were having trouble sleeping as they were on a three-man conference call.

Wade has now returned to Miami to meet with Riley and Heat owner Mitch. Alison meets.

He has already dealt with Bosh at this time, and the two are ready to officially announce their joining the Heat on the morning of July 6.

Wade and Bosh called James together at midnight on July 5, hoping that James would join them in announcing their decision to settle in Miami. On the same day, Nash also discussed with Ji Guoqiu on the phone, and only waited until the morning of July 6 to officially announce that the son of the wind would join the Nets. (To be continued......)