The Heat's persistence in Shaquille O'Neal convinced Chen Feng, and Pat Riley was tolerant enough to wait until Grizzlies broke up with Shaquille O'Neal. Although it was a year later than the original historical process, the Heat returned to the normal track.
But the other team was unlucky.
After the Phoenix Suns opened the free market, they constantly tried to price Nash of the Lakers.
From the various chips given by the Suns, we can see D'Antoni's desire for Nash.
First, Joe Johnson+Sean Marion, then two more first round signings, and finally even Stoudemire took the pain out.
Never mind, Kupchak was really impressed when the Sun's offer reached Stoudemire+two first rounds.
That's Stoudemire. Last season, he averaged 25+9 per game. He is an all star player and has a promising future.
Although Nash also performed well, he is already over 30 years old and will only get weaker in the future.
If you can get Stoudemire and form a double tower with Pau Gasol, the picture should not be too beautiful.
Of course, this is just a thought.
Stoudemire is a very good player, but also a typical type of strong attack and weak defense, with distinctive characteristics and many weaknesses.
It's better for a player like this to have a top guard around to pass the ball to give full play to his strength.
It is not a good idea to trade Nash for Stoudemire. It is very likely that the team's strength will decline rather than rise.
Kupchak also tried to ask Chen Feng and Kobe Bryant for suggestions, which were firmly opposed.
So the sun still failed to beg Nash, and failed to get what he wanted like the heat next door.
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The Lakers' recruitment work is basically over, and the assistant coach also takes the new players to the summer league.
Chen Feng, the coach, was free for a while.
Of course, he is not completely idle.
The management finally approached him about the new contract.
Chen Feng's original contract with the Lakers was only one year, with an annual salary of 500000 yuan, which was the lowest level of NBA coaches.
The Lakers prepared a four-year contract of 12 million yuan for Chen Fengxin, with an average annual salary of 3 million yuan. It is not high among coaches, but it is also not low. It can also rank in the middle of the league among coaches of 30 teams.
No way, coaches and players are different. Although coaches are vital to a team, they cannot generate income for the team. They cannot increase the sales of tickets and uniforms like star players, so the annual salary is generally not high.
In 2005, when Phil Jackson returned to the Lakers and signed a contract with the Lakers, 30 million yuan was already the highest salary of NBA coaches.
Although Chen Feng led the Lakers to achieve results that everyone did not expect, and also won the Best Coach Award, after all, his seniority is here. It is a very good salary to have an annual salary of 3 million yuan.
Chen Feng didn't hesitate too much and simply signed a contract with the Lakers.
Although he doesn't have much money now, he doesn't lack the way to make money. It is 2005, and there are a lot of investment opportunities in China and America.
Even if the stock market is risky and Chen Feng is ignorant of his profession, he is easy to step on it. If he spends all his money on buying houses in the capital, he will earn enough in the future.
The most important thing is to accumulate a sum of original capital first.
With an annual salary of 3 million yuan, after deducting various taxes and daily expenses in California, there is still about 2.5 million yuan left, which is almost 20 million yuan converted into Chinese currency. It is undoubtedly a huge sum in 2005.
Watching Chen Feng sign the contract, Kupchak smiled and offered to shake hands with Chen Feng.
"Congratulations, it's my honor to work together in the future. I hope you and I can work together to bring the Lakers to a higher and larger stage."
Chen Feng knows what Kupchak said about the bigger stage.
This season, the Lakers have reached the Western Conference finals, which is a bigger stage than the Western Conference finals.
"Of course, I will."
At present, the Lakers have captured a group of outstanding players. As the main coach, Chen Feng not only has a tactical concept 20 years ahead of this era, but also has opened the system plug-in.
If the Lakers can't win the championship in recent years, Chen Feng might as well take the salary of the head coach to invest, and the basketball novel will be directly transformed into a rebirth business novel.
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That said, Chen Feng still needs to work hard to make the Lakers become a championship team as soon as possible.
The eastern side will not be discussed for the time being. The strongest opponents of the Lakers in the western side in the next few years are undoubtedly the Spurs and Mavericks, two Texas teams.
Chen Feng has always felt that the current lineup and style of the Lakers are relatively restrained by the Mavericks, because Pau Gasol can compete with Nowitzki, while the combination of Kobe Nash in the Lakers' outside line is completely unmatched by the Mavericks.
The Mavericks are a team whose style tends to attack the strong and defend the weak.
Compared with offense, the Lakers with Kobe Nash will not lose to anyone.
The Spurs are the team whose style is more restrained than the Lakers.
The defense system built around Duncan is impregnable, and it is the biggest killer of Nash's running and shooting style.
At the same time, Duncan can also suppress Pau Gasol, leading the Lakers to lose the inside advantage.
This season, the Lakers lost 4-1 to the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference, which has fully proved this point.
So the biggest opponent of the Lakers in the west is the Spurs.
The main goal of the Lakers' training and team building is to fight against the Spurs.
Fortunately, Chen Feng's season evaluation award this season won him the ability to strengthen the outside defense. Next season, while maintaining the original offensive firepower, the Lakers will also have stronger defense. In addition to the four players from the draft conference, the bench substitute firepower has also been enhanced.
If Pau Gasol gets honed and developed after being hanged by Duncan in this playoff, he will become stronger next season. Even if he can't compete with Duncan, as long as he can play 46 or even 37 shots, and slightly restrain Duncan, the Lakers will have a chance to win.
Chen Feng, who renewed his contract with the Lakers, found that he had nothing to do in a short time.
The assistant coach is in charge of the summer league, and the team's recruitment and trade work has been basically completed. Before the team's training in September, Chen Feng was basically in a semi holiday state for nearly two months, and only occasionally went to the team once or twice.
I have to say that this kind of fishing life is quite exciting. The only pity is that in 2005, various computer games were not developed. Most games are still low quality pixel style, so it's not very interesting to stay at home.
When he went out to play, Chen Feng had to think about his wallet. After all, the newly signed four-year contract of 12 million yuan was not immediately paid to him.
So Chen Feng, who has nothing to do every day, will still go to the gym office to learn and study various tactics and coaching skills of the basketball coach, and on the one hand, continue to study the system in depth to try to improve his level before the new season.