Chapter Ninety-Five: One Head and Two Big
Two days later, general manager Glenn Gruward started to make a big deal about Marcus Camby's transfer. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The team's signing of Yang Rui has made Camby and agent Rick Kaplan tougher.
Rick called and said, "Anyway, Marcus won't play for the Raptors next season, you don't want the team to get stronger at all, right?" Believe a 24-year-old Chinese lead the Raptors to the playoffs? I've never met anyone who can brag more than him. ”
Glenn persuaded hard: "Stay for another half season, if Jerry Young can't make the team stronger, I'll trade Marcus out immediately, is that okay?" ”
"You just said that last season, sent Damon Stoudayre in the middle of the game, but didn't send Marcus, he's the league's block king right now, he's got a lot of trade value, and who knows if the coach will reuse him next season? And they all say that the league is going to shut down, and if it doesn't trade in the draft, we don't know when it's going to happen, and we can't take any chances. ”
You can't take any chances, but we can? Glenn really wanted to turn his face directly, but that would be even more detrimental to the team.
Once the media reports that Camby and the team have a complete falling out, he will have to depreciate and the other teams will sit on the ground and raise the price.
Fortunately, Camby didn't want to tear his face with the team, which really angered the management, and the players couldn't eat and walk around next season.
"I'll think about it, if there's no strong team willing to want Marcus, don't blame me." Glenn doesn't have a good airway.
Camby has more than once mentioned wanting to go to a strong team, mentioning the New York Knicks.
Now that the Knicks are the defending champions, they need instant combat power, and they have no time to train newcomers, and even if they do, there is already an excellent blue-collar Ben Wallace on the team.
Rick laughed: "I'm waiting for your good news, it's best to trade on draft day, you don't want to delay until the season is about to start, right?" Trade early, it's a win-win for everyone. ”
Seeing that Glenn is soft, the agent's purpose has been achieved, and the Raptors know that they can't keep Camby, so they can only choose to get together and disperse.
Glenn hung up. Scout Hanks came to report and asked, "Is it Camby's business again?" ”
"Well, Thomas shouldn't have picked this bastard at that time, he knew that he couldn't grab a few rebounds from jumping blocks, what did he have to drag? ! Glenn scolded.
The Raptors don't win at all, and Camby's stats are so watery that the other teams know for sure. Luckily, Camby is the eye of the golden generation, so there will be a lot of teams interested.
Hanks proposed: "Jerry said that the No. 4 position is too weak, and it is better to trade for a power forward who can shoot, and then trade Camby for a man?" ”
Glenn sighed: "I'm afraid it's hard to get the powerful, you find the right person first, Jerry didn't ask for it, it should be easy to do." ”
Hanks asked, "Do you want to talk to Jerry when you send Camby away?" He has previously said that he is optimistic about Camby's potential. ”
Glenn was even bigger when he heard it, and Camby was the biggest rookie of the Raptors, and he suspected that Yang Rui would be in a hurry. The insiders are gone, and you're going to have a fart next season?
"Let's not talk about it yet, can I see if there is a strongman in exchange? Jerry says he likes to be able to shoot...... Marcus's shooting is so good that he can't be the core under him. So, let this greedy bastard fuck off, it's better to retire with serious injuries when you're gone. Glenn cursed.
As soon as Camby entered the league, he was scheming with his agent in terms of contracts, wanting to sign a long-term contract with a high salary, and he was not satisfied with the second highest salary in the team in his rookie season, as if the annual salary of 2.8 million humiliated him.
The Raptors are a very poor team, not long after it was established, the owner loses money every year, struggles to support, and has done his best to be kind to Camby.
But Canby wasn't satisfied, he was a greedy guy who had a bad track record in college.
Because Camby was found to have received $28,000 from two sports agents, the University of Massachusetts was disqualified from the Final Four and ordered to return the $151617 they received from the NCAA Championship, and Camby later reimbursed the school's losses.
The two agents from Connecticut, John Lawnsbury and Wesley Spears, both hoped that Camby could hire them as spokespersons after becoming professional athletes, and some media revealed that Camby also received jewelry, rental cars and ****** from his agent In the end, Camby did not find these two as agents, but chose the more famous Rick Kaplan, of course, in order to get more money and join a good team, he looked down on the Raptors from beginning to end, and played a big name for two years, Even if the data isn't great.
With less than two weeks left before the draft, Glenn immediately contacted several teams to seek trades, and there were no veterans or young players with real strength.
The Knicks are also a trade target for Glenn, who has Ben Wallace on the team and is looking to sell Oakley.
In Yang Rui's previous life, Oakley started one season, averaging 34.6 minutes per game, 9 points, 9.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists, and was selected to the All-Defensive Second Team in the regular season.
Looking at the data, the Raptors management believes that Oakley is still an excellent blue-collar worker, and he is willing to change if he is not a small reputation, even if he is already a 35-year-old veteran.
Now, Oakley averaged 25.2 minutes per game in the regular season, 6.7 points, 6 rebounds and 1.8 assists, and the playoffs rose slightly, with 7.6 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2 assists, which is a bit insufficient.
He gives people the feeling that he can't play anymore, can't play for a long time, and even less of the personal glory of defending the second team.
After discussions, the deal didn't go through, the Knicks were willing to send Oakley, and Van Gundy loved Ben Wallace and was ready to focus on development.
It's the Raptors who don't want to. There is a lot of salary difference between the two, and if it is traded, the Raptors will have to use a few role players, and those players can be replaced by someone else. The management is very annoyed with Camby, how can he send him to a strong team like the Knicks to win the championship at a loss?
In the end, Glenn asked around, and sadly found that if he wanted to send Camby away, he would only suffer a loss.
The Raptors want to trade inside for inside, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of trading. At present, there is a scarcity of high-quality interior lines in the league, and the kind of space-based power forwards that Yang Rui said are very valuable to experienced people.
If you are looking for an interior line that can only shoot and has poor defense, there is it in the free market, and there is no need to trade Camby.
The most terrible thing is that the Raptors, as a new army, are located in Canada, and they have no friendship with the management of the American domestic team, no connections, no one to give them face, and they all want to rob.
The Knicks' Oakley and the Nuggets' Tony Barty, these two are reliable chips.
The only one with some personal connection is the Portland Trail Blazers, who "assisted" the Trail Blazers in the middle of last season, giving away Damon Stoudamire almost for nothing, only trading back two draft picks and useless role players.
The Trail Blazers have no shortage of power forwards who can shoot, even the team's interior fifth can shoot, they lack a center, the veteran Sabonis is almost unable to play, and the movement speed is the slowest in the league.
After much thought, a desperate Glenn called Trail Blazers manager Larry Miller.