As soon as the Finals are over, the NBA enters the summer trade period. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The loss of the Lakers has given the league a huge shock, judging from the superficial data, O'Neal, who averages 26.6 points and 10.8 rebounds per game, and shoots as high as 63 percent, should not bear the blame, and Kobe, who averages only 38 percent of 22.6 shots per game and only gets 22.6 points and 4.4 assists, seems to be the person who should be most responsible for the loss.

But the facts don't just look at the numbers. For example, Billups, who has always been known as the "big heart", averaged 16.4 points per game but shot only 38.5 percent during the entire playoffs.

After analysis, an important reason for Kobe's low shooting rate is that he met Prince, who had a particularly good defense, and Prince's strategy for Kobe Bryant was to prevent breakouts and not prevent shooting, taking half a step back to interfere with the shooting with long arms, forcing Kobe to shoot on the outside. And whenever Kobe and O'Neal are on the strong side, the Pistons always focus on cutting off the connection between the OK combinations, forcing Kobe to pass the ball to the weak side, and as soon as the ball is passed, the Pistons rotate to defend, and the Lakers' offense is broken again.

If Kobe Bryant and O'Neal or Karl Malone block the offense, the Pistons' two interior lines are the fastest and strongest young interior players in the league, with very strong mobility and really not very high efficiency.

So in the final analysis, the inability to open the situation on offense is related to the Lakers as a whole.

Failure is always accompanied by contradictions, since the end of the three-game championship, Kobe Bryant is not satisfied with O'Neal's lazy attitude, including O'Neal's famous sentence "work injuries should be taken care of at work, vacations should be a good vacation" refusal to have summer toe surgery and so on. And O'Neal is also not satisfied with Kobe's increasingly strong demand for the ball, the 25-year-old Kobe is eager to surpass Jordan, strict with himself in every aspect, and at the same time paranoid about the people around him, who is the boss of the team?

At this point, Gary Payton stepped up, and despite his most disappointing season, the 36-year-old decided to stay with the Los Angeles Lakers for a year.

But now, Kupchak, the Lakers' president and general manager, is facing two stars who have completely broken up.

O'Neal has two years left on his contract, with a player option in the final year, and O'Neal's agent team has already begun discussions with the Lakers about a contract extension. In the 99-00 season, the Lakers, who had just won the championship, once sent O'Neal a three-year 88 million contract extension in advance, and O'Neal's seven-year 121 million contract expired three seasons in advance.

Bryant signed a six-year, $70.9 million contract after his rookie contract, with one year remaining, but with a player option. As soon as the Finals were over, Kobe's agent informed Kupchak that Kobe would jump out of the final year of his contract and become a free agent.

"If he can't make a change, Bryant will leave Los Angeles."

Kupchak was uncomfortable, and even more sad, he had a keen sense of the undercurrents in the trade market, with multiple team general managers meeting with Bryant's agent on the message board. O'Neal's side is not worrying, the 32-year-old Big Shark is still the league's No. 1 center, and after knowing that the Big Shark has had an unhappy season in Los Angeles, countless suitors have come to him.

On June 22, the newly formed Charlotte Bobcats held a league-wide draft draft.

Young, who was in the midst of injury, was put on the Heat's protected list, and the Bobcats picked Gerald Wallace from the Kings and immediately traded with the Los Angeles Clippers for their No. 4 pick to the Clippers' No. 2 pick.

At this time, the Magic team was not peaceful, and even the Zhuang scoring champion Maddy and the general manager had a complete falling out, and the Magic began to seek a trade for Maddy, holding the 04 champion sign, ready to completely enter the rebuilding period.

As soon as the news came out, it instantly caused more than a dozen teams to scramble, among which the Rockets were the most enthusiastic.

In order to get Maddy, the Rockets, who have just entered the playoffs and are still on the rise, did not hesitate to send Francis, Mobley and Cato three main players, basically except for Yao Ming, they can be selected by the Magic.

Seeing that the deal was about to be done, Francis openly declared in front of the media that he was not willing to join the Magic. This immediately embarrassed the Magic team, and general manager Wesbrod immediately called for a halt to the trade, and he was not willing to trade Maddy, and after that, another player came who didn't deal with him.

Rockets general manager Carol Dawson was annoyed and called Francis, and such behavior was really not what a player should do, completely disrupting the team's deployment.

Francis was disappointed and took the initiative to call Wesbrod to express his disappointment with the Rockets, while apologizing for his previous behavior and expressing his willingness to play for the Magic.

At this time, the Magic are not in a hurry to trade, and are ready to wait until after the draft to make a decision.

Closer to the June 25 draft, the number of teams interested in "Big Shark" O'Neal increased to 12, with the Clippers saying they were willing to trade any three players on the team plus the fourth pick in the first round of this year's first round in exchange for O'Neal. It's a pity that O'Neal said that although he wants to leave the Lakers, he will definitely not play in the second-to-last place in the league.

The Mavericks are interested in both Kobe and O'Neal, but Cuban is reluctant to trade Nowitzki, "He's always been a group with us. ”

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Before the draft, the Heat, the general manager's office.

Pat Riley roared with red eyes, "There's no way Dwyane can be traded, don't even think about it." He's the hope of our Heat's rebuild, not for sale. ”

"What, two more draft picks, it's too exaggerated, half the team has been demolished by you."

Pat Riley felt painful, but if he could get O'Neal, it would be worth it to pay any player.

Coop-Cheek didn't talk to Pat Riley for much longer after the offer.

"I won't make an easy decision until July, you still have time to think about Lamar Odom, Eddie Jones, Wade, Jandy and next year's first-round pick in exchange."

Kupchak made an offer and withdrew a draft pick, in the Heat, every player is very talented, after all, it is a player who has reached the second round of the playoffs, compared to some data brushes of weak teams, these players are obviously more worthy of training, especially Wade and Yang Di, of course, Yang Di is better if he is not injured.

"You want Dwyane Wade, you want Lamar Odom, even the injured Yang Di, do you want me to be a charity?"

Pat Riley, who hung up the phone, was furious and slapped the table in hatred, even jumping the ashtray.

However, he also knows that Koop Cheek is now in the stage of sky-high asking price, and it is estimated that every team in the league is talking loudly, but it is too outrageous to come to the Heat.

Made, traded Dwyan, who will Lao Tzu take to partner with this shark?

"Is there something wrong?"

The little secretary opened the door and asked.

"Ready, get ready, come to New York with me tomorrow." Pat Riley spoke.

"Okay, boss."