In recent days, almost the whole of the United States has been revolving around the Los Angeles Lakers winning this year's NBA championship, for this NBA giant, winning the NBA again after fifteen years is indeed a lot of things that need to be written, especially this year, when the Lakers returned to Los Angeles, the crazy reception and the crazy celebration after that caused a sensation in the United States, in fact, the movement of the Los Angeles Lakers when they returned to Los Angeles that day was indeed extremely huge, and it was inevitable to cause such a sensation.

Of course, in addition to the Los Angeles Lakers, who were crowned by the media as the strongest team in history, there is another thing that surprised the whole United States and the world is that the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, Zhuang Fei, announced his marriage on the night of the end of the finals, which is no less than a big event for the Lakers to win the championship.

Zhuang Fei is now the most famous Asian in the United States, but also the most famous Asian in the world, just last year, in 2004, Time magazine for the first time selected the world's top 100 influential people Zhuang Fei was among them, and the whole of China except Zhuang Fei There are only two people left, one is the president of the country and the other is the premier of the State Council, and the entire NBA is only Zhuang Fei.

And more importantly, in the past few years, the 35-year-old Chinese coach has been rumored to be a homosexual, although Zhuang Fei has been denying it, but many media do not believe it at all, whether it is really not believed or want to discredit Zhuang Fei, anyway, it is believed that this Chinese will not get married in the future, especially as Zhuang Fei's age slowly increases, these people's remarks are more rampant.

Although Zhuang Fei has said before, as long as he gets five championship rings. He'll get married. But basically everyone doesn't think it's true. I thought that Zhuang Fei was just changing the topic, and some people would even think that Zhuang Fei would try his best to wear the championship ring with one hand for his future wife after winning five championships.

Therefore, for Zhuang Fei's marriage, it was basically an extremely unexpected thing, an unexpected thing that was unexpected, and when Zhuang Fei announced that he was going to get married after the finals, it was not a few days after the Lakers returned to Los Angeles. Zhuang Fei announced through his agent Chris that he would hold a century wedding at the Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles on August 11, and at this time, after getting the specific time for Zhuang Fei's wedding, almost the world's most famous bridal shops and jewelry companies began to act.

Zhuang Fei also said, to hold a century wedding, the century wedding is not something that everyone can shout, if a person does not reach a level, no matter how loud the slogan is, it is also a slogan, for a character like Zhuang Fei. Basically, any commercial company will squeeze on him, and it is not a question of whether he can make money or not. It's a matter of commercial impact, so in addition to these wedding dress and jewelry companies starting to contact Chris on Zhuang Fei's side.

Even several major TV stations in the United States, such as CBS and ABC, which have a good relationship with Zhuang Fei, announced that they were willing to provide live broadcast of the wedding of the century on the same day that Zhuang Fei announced that he would hold the wedding on August 11, and they are negotiating the live broadcast fee, and according to outside speculation, the live broadcast cost of Zhuang Fei's wedding will not be less than 100 million US dollars, because it was last year's football Super Bowl. The advertisement alone bought $250 million, and although Zhuang Fei's wedding does not necessarily mean that the ratings can be compared to the Super Bowl, it will definitely not be much lower, in this case, $100 million is just a minimum guess.

Of course, at this time, Zhuang Fei's marriage has already been made by these American media or world media outside, for them, they never thought that a basketball head coach would have such a huge influence, and at this time the happiest person is probably David Stern, for him, Zhuang Fei This is invisibly to help him make the best advertisement.

Zhuang Fei has been accompanying Scarlett since returning to Los Angeles at this time, Scarlett's mood has not been very stable for a while recently, in fact, Zhuang Fei listened to his mother and sister-in-law say that pregnant women are like this, they always think a lot of things, or they like to think cranky, so pregnant women are the most easily anxious and the most prone to accidents, and Zhuang Fei is really a little scared when his mother and sister-in-law say this, so he can only accompany her all the time, in this case, Naturally, he didn't know how much impact he had on the outside world because of his own affairs.

However, although Zhuang Fei has been accompanying Scarlett for a while recently, basically some celebrations of the Los Angeles Lakers in the last day Zhuang Fei also needs to participate, and because the draft is approaching, Zhuang Fei has also been a little lacking in skills recently, but fortunately, Zhuang Fei does not need to make any big moves in the draft this year, so the only thing that Zhuang Fei needs to deal with at this time is the renewal of the team's contract, which is not bad for the team in Los Angeles.

As long as the players are satisfied, there is basically no problem, so most of the players have renewed their contracts, such as Webb and Hill, these two Lakers veterans have renewed a 3-year contract of 50 million, and the team's important rotation players are also Zhuang Fei's descendants, Stephen Jackson also renewed a three-year contract of 24 million, Bobby Simmons has renewed a 4-year contract of 15 million, basically all Lakers players have been renewed, With the exception of Penny Hardaway, one of the team's most important outside players, the Lakers veteran has been hesitant lately.

Zhuang Fei knew more than a month ago that the veteran of his team would hesitate to do something, for this extremely emotional player, when he came to Los Angeles, his villa in Cleveland was not sold, and his family has been living in Cleveland, obviously, when he came to the Lakers, he always thought that he would return one day, and both the fans and the players there have inseparable feelings for him.

For him, a veteran who has no regrets in his career, Cleveland is the most suitable place to retire, for which Zhuang Fei also recognizes, and Zhuang Fei also knows that one of the reasons why Hardaway has been so hesitant in recent times is that he also has feelings for the Lakers. This year in this team. The atmosphere inside the Lakers. These talented teammates, it can be said that this year is the most enjoyable year of his career, and this year of his career is also the happiest year for him, he is here without any pressure, he enjoys basketball without restraint, unlike when he was a Cavaliers, he had to take on so much.

Now Hardaway is hesitant, and Zhuang Fei and Kupchak are willing to give him this hesitation time. After all, whether Hardaway goes or stays, it is not for money, and Zhuang Fei also supports his choice of whether to go or stay.

It may be because Zhuang Fei announced the news that he is about to get married, or it may be because Zhuang Fei has been too busy recently, so Hardaway doesn't seem to want to add trouble to Zhuang Fei, and soon Hardaway has a decision.

June 21, 2005, Los Angeles Lakers head coach's office.

"Coach, I've had a really happy year here and if I'm three years younger, I won't leave here. I enjoyed what is the real fun of basketball here, and I also enjoyed basketball without any pressure for the first time. It's reassuring and happy to be here, but I know that now I'm destined to have no chance with basketball like this, and it's good to have basketball without pressure, but the Cavaliers need me now, and I need to fulfill the promise I made to them."

"I'm sorry, coach, I hope to be able to come back to Cleveland"

Hardaway bowed his head in front of Zhuang Fei after finishing speaking, he came to Zhuang Fei today is full of contradictions, Zhuang Fei is very good to him, the team is also very good to him, he is also very happy and happy here, such happiness has not been done before, and even he himself feels that he should not leave here.

Just thinking of Boozer, thinking of Andre Miller, thinking of Ricky Davis and Big Z, the former Cavaliers boss still can't convince himself to stay here in the end, he may be able to win one championship after another here, and he may win one victory after another, but he also knows at this time that while he is constantly winning, his little teammates who have great trust in him and Shinna are experiencing continuous failures, if he continues to stay with the Lakers to win more championships after winning the championship, Then he is too selfish and too greedy.

Hardaway knows he's not a greedy man, he doesn't have such a big pursuit, and it's enough for him to be able to get a title in the twilight of his career that he almost dreams of, and in this case, he also knows what his choice should be.

Hardaway also knew that his decision would make Zhuang Fei angry, after all, Zhuang Fei's trust in him and his status in this team were basically difficult to replace, but in the end he was still willing to bear all Zhuang Fei's anger.

Only in the end, what Hardaway didn't expect was that after he said that he wanted to return to the Cavaliers, what he was waiting for was not Zhuang Fei's anger, and when he looked up again at the Chinese who almost saved his career, and the coach he respected very much, the Lakers head coach was looking at him with a smile on his face, which also made him a little puzzled.

"Perry, I told you when you came to my team, you are a great leader, any decision you make is right, whether it is on the court or off the court, I will not interfere with any of your decisions, since you want to return to the Cavaliers, I will not stand in the way, this is your decision, I believe it is right, you are not a selfish person, and I am not a selfish person either, you can choose greater basketball, I will not stop your greatness"

When Hardaway left Zhuang Fei's office, he didn't know what kind of mood he was in at that time, and I am afraid that at that time, in addition to gratitude, he could only be grateful.

Of course, for Zhuang Fei, when watching Hardaway leave his office, Zhuang Fei's mood at this time was also very complicated, no head coach was willing to lose such a player, a player who was playing with his life, and a player who was taking responsibility with his own life was becoming less and less in the commercial NBA, and the current players basically did not have such a simple basketball quality, but Zhuang Fei knew that he should not force him to keep at this time.

Hardaway's matter was quickly resolved, Hardaway and the Lakers still have one year of contract, that is, the last year of the contract, at this time he can choose to jump out of the contract and join the Cavaliers as a free body, even if he does this, Zhuang Fei will not blame him, but in the end, the Lakers veteran did not do it.

On June 22, Zhuang Fei received an offer, the Cavaliers are willing to take out McBibby to trade Hardaway, McBibby is a first-line point guard in the league in his playing year, although Hardaway has returned this season, in the eyes of many people, it is also a hero twilight, so if such a deal is known to many experts or the media, in the eyes of these experts, the Cavaliers' deal is definitely a big loss.

Therefore, the Cavaliers' trading chips are not said in sincerity, and they almost took out their best chips, after all, in the entire Cavaliers, the only missing and eye-catching estimate of the Lakers now is Bibi.

Of course, Zhuang Fei knows that Hardaway is not a veteran of heroic twilight now, but he is the only one in the world who knows.

Zhuang Fei did not prevent this deal from happening, although he did not have much interest in McBibby, but after Hardaway left, Paul will inevitably start at the top, and the Lakers will indeed need a good point guard at that time, Bibby is a very good choice, he works well with the Kings and Webb, and the strength is also excellent.

Of course, after the completion of this deal, Zhuang Fei quickly got the news that Hardaway finally jumped out of his last year's 10 million contract and signed a 3-year 3 million veteran base salary contract with the Cavaliers, and when Zhuang Fei got the decision of the former Lakers veteran, he could only shake his head in admiration.

For the Knights, they are lucky, it is extremely rare to have such a leader, and for Hardaway, the Suns are also lucky, to have such a place that almost blindly trusts him, it is definitely an extremely rare thing.

Hardaway's matter Zhuang Fei solved, and after solving Hardaway's matter, Zhuang Fei also had to leave Los Angeles for a while, because he now needed to solve the Boston Celtics matter. (To be continued......)