Basketball: starting from the nerve knife

Chapter 360: Announcing “Retirement”

When Li Wan heard what Chris Bosh said, he thought that he didn’t hear it clearly, and subconsciously: “What? ”

He really didn’t think Chris Bosh would retire.

Although he is 34 years old.

You know, in the just-concluded Finals G5, Chris Bosh’s data was fixed at 33 points, 12 rebounds and 2 blocks, shooting about 50% from the field, which is undoubtedly a super-giant level of data.

Contribute such data on the stage of the finals, you tell me, ready to retire?

Chris Bosh looked at Li Wan’s surprise, and also smiled bitterly: “Dude, I can’t help either… The doctor told me that my blood clots were no longer under control! Either retire, or…”

The “Dragon King” did not continue, but Li Wan understood what he meant.

But when Chris Bosh talks about blood clots, Li Wan is suddenly no longer so surprised.

Players with blood clots in the league, while uncommon, are not that rare.

To judge whether a player can continue his career, and the difficulty of controlling the worsening of the blood clot, mainly depends on one point: where the blood clot is in the body.

Like “Kevin Durant” Ingram, his blood clots are on his forearm, which is the type that is easy to control.

And Chris Bosh, who appears on the calf, can be controlled, but not completely controlled, and how much time he can play depends on how long he can be controlled.

The doctor meant that if you want to continue playing, you can, but you still have to come back after a break for most of the season as before, so that the body can recover from the threshold.

But the problem is that Chris Bosh is 33 years old…

You have to make any star retire at this age and a half and then come back, and the sweat that takes is hard.

Especially for Chris Bosh, who has a blood clot.

It is likely to rest for half a year, and after the comeback, in order to find the state as soon as possible, train hard for a month, and the result is that the thrombus is well controlled and “stormed” again, which is very likely to happen, in this case, there is no need to continue to insist.

Life……

Greater than basketball!

Moreover, even if he retires at this time, Chris Bosh does not have many regrets.

In Miami, he became the “back pot man” of the whole team, but in the next 4 years and 3 championships, he was able to “sink into the wrong”, counting the championship rings won this season, he also won a total of three championship rings in his career, and all of them were won as the “second master”.

The achievements are not low.

At least it’s much better than he was.

And the stats of this last game also prove that he can still continue to play in this league.

“I didn’t go by myself, I just lost to injuries …”

Chris Bosh’s words made Li Wan sigh.

Compared to him, Li Wan is so lucky.

However, now Li Wan also understood it all.

Why does Chris Bosh look so tired this round of the finals;

Why did he specially greet Li Wan before the start of G5, wanting to have more shots in the fifth game…

I don’t want to compete with Anthony Davis, because this is the last game of his career!

“Man, you left behind a curtain call that is enough to prove you!”

Li Wan patted Chris Bosh’s shoulder, and a smile appeared on the face of the “Dragon King”, which he also agreed with.

33 points, 12 rebounds, couldn’t be better…

The overall prize presentation is over, but the “sleepless night” belonging to the Columbus people has just begun.

Well……

The “sleepless nights” for New Yorkers have just begun.

Li Wan was interviewed after the game.

He appeared in front of the media with the championship trophy and the finals MVP trophy, and before he spoke, the media people in front of him got busy first, and a “click-click” sound sounded non-stop.

This shot is definitely going to be recorded.

Because this is not only Columbus’s first crown, but also Li Wan’s official surpass the “basketball god” Michael Jordan in the number of championships.

In fact, there are more championships than Michael Jordan, but very few.

Frank Ramsey, Robert Horry, Jim Roskatov has 7, Sam Jones has 10, Bill Russell has 11…

Of course, this is the original time and space, and now there is a Kwame Brown who has already won 7 crowns and is about to have 8 crowns!

Aside from these six people, no one in this league has won more championships than Michael Jordan before Li Wan, and at most it is equal.

And if you count the boss champion who won the championship MVP trophy, then among these 5 people, I am afraid that Bill Russell can compete with Michael Jordan.

Without questioning Bill Russell’s ability, naming the “Finals MVP” trophy after him already speaks for his gold content, but there was no championship MVP in that era.

At the same time, Bill Russell is a typical offensive and defensive strong, the highest data is often his rebounds, in the “eight-in-a-row” Celtics, the Finals average is much higher than him.

Therefore, Bill Russell is bound to win a few “second champions”.

Because this “eight-in-a-row” has too many Hall of Famer players.

Coupled with the fact that the league as a whole was not on track at that time, the overall level of the league was debatable, and what was more exaggerated was that the “cardinal” controlled most of the transactions of this league, as long as it was the player he wanted, he would definitely get it, and there was also a lot of debate in terms of competitiveness…

This also makes there is no obvious gap between Michael Jordan and Bill Russell in this regard.

Of course, from the dialectical point of view of “your honor is honor, my honor is not honor”, you have no problem putting Bill Russell at the top of history.

The name “Lord of the Rings” is not called in vain. Isn’t playing this league all about the championship?

From this, it can also be seen why the “boss champion” has become a hard criterion for judging a player’s historical status, which is to evaluate these things first, and then evaluate those bits and pieces.

After all, a star who is great to this stage, if it is really compared to the data, who does not have the data that others cannot play, your “all-time first total scoring king” is awesome, is it not awesome for others to “total first rebounding king in history”?

Moreover……

Who’s there is nothing better than the accumulation of data!

Not to mention…

Even if you score 40,000 points, it is more than 1,000 points more than 38,000 points compared to the second, is this a world of difference?

To talk about the gap, “two consecutive crowns” and “three consecutive crowns” are called gaps, and a “two consecutive crowns” and two “triple crowns” are called gaps!

As for the accumulated data…

One “scoring king” and ten “scoring kings” is called the gap!

Li Wan now belongs to surpassing Michael Jordan in hard honors, plus some “data honors that Michael Jordan does not have”, it is not an exaggeration to say that he surpassed Michael Jordan…

As for completely squeezing Michael Jordan into the position of “second old”, it is a little bit worse.

But……

At the age of 29, he has surpassed the “basketball god”, what a bicycle!

A reporter asked Li Wan how he felt, and Li Wan still said when he gave the finals MVP speech: “This is the beginning, but not the end…”

In and out of his words, he revealed his ambition.

What he wants is not just such a small transcendence, but a big leap like Alan Iverson in the ’01 finals!

Another reporter asked an interesting topic: “Man, so you didn’t think about retirement?” ”

Like Barkley’s inner thoughts between games, this is a very real question:

When there is no opponent in front of you, or if the opponent who is still in front of you is no longer a height that you cannot reach, the motivation will naturally decrease, and in this case, retirement will naturally be mentioned.

Although Li Wan is still very young, what he has achieved is enough for him to stop running.

Just kidding, when Michael Jordan won a “triple championship”, he felt that this league had no opponents, and Li Wan now? A “4 consecutive championships”, a “2 consecutive championships”, a total of 7 championships, but more Michael Jordan than Michael Jordan at that time, some similar ideas, what is so strange!

However, Li Wan said: “Man, I just said, this is the beginning, but not the end…”

The reporter asked again: “Then in your heart, is there already a time to retire?” ”

Li Wan was crying and laughing: “Are you looking forward to my retirement so much?” ”

These words made the audience laugh continuously, and Li Wan said: “I don’t have an accurate idea of the future, but one thing I know very well is that I will not use my retirement as a gimmick, and when I say that I will retire, it means that it must be a clear point in time.” I’m not going to say, maybe retire, it’s not clear, it’s possible for me to do it, and by that kind of thing, I think it’s disrespectful to the fans, I have a lot of fans who love me, so… At least for now, I’m still looking forward to next season, and I hope to bring an era to Columbus! ”

This was warmly echoed by Columbus reporters.

No one hopes that Li Wan can fight for a long time than Columbus, and whether the city can become a new “super front” depends on how long Li Wan has played in the NBA!

Although this is not a national sport like football, it is undeniable that the NBA has a different influence throughout the United States and throughout the world.

This league’s cross-era players can change the status quo of a city!

Columbus……

Proud of Li Wan!

Early the next morning, news of the Columbus Explorers’ victory flooded the United States.

Li Wan’s name also made headlines in major media outlets, his 7th title, and this championship ring allowed him to surpass Michael Jordan in the number of championships.

Originally, he had achieved “55 open” with Michael Jordan in “Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong”, and now, almost most of the media believes that Li Wan surpassed Michael Jordan and became the new “GOAT” of the NBA!

The American “Time” news even made this incident a front-page headline, with a large headline that read:

“The development of the times, that is, the “new king” is better than the “old king”! 》

The “miracle” you thought was destined to be shattered by a greater “miracle” in the future. And the record you think can never be broken, someone will eventually write the first name on this record, even if this record, no matter how difficult, the process of completion, no matter how difficult it is to imagine, there will always be such a day! ”

Some media already believe that Li Wan’s name will appear on the list of “100 human beings who have changed the world’s cognition” in the 21st century.

Columbus people and New Yorkers were extremely excited on this day, and all kinds of news about Li Wan can be seen everywhere under the comments of netizens in these two places.

Just the general manager’s office of the Grand Navigation Arena, Griffin’s smile froze the moment he received Chris Bosh’s call.

“Man, I’m preparing for retirement-related matters, so… You’ll have to prepare early!”

Griffin:……

He was tempted to roar:

No, big brother, you play me, right?

Have you forgotten the stats you just scored in the final game of the finals?

Such a performance, only 33 years old, continue to follow Li Wanna championship is not fragrant?

Retired so early, can you sleep at night?

But when Griffin learned that Chris Bosh’s blood clots were difficult to control, he was silent again.

This is…

Fate!

It seems that there is no rest this summer!

Originally, Griffin had a lot of things this summer, first of all, Li Wan’s contract, which has now completed the first three years of the contract, and the last year is a player option, Li Wan can announce that he jumped out of the contract in advance and signed a larger contract.

At present, Li Wan has not announced whether he will jump out or not.

It’s just that Li Wan didn’t speak, he can’t help but be sensible, in terms of Li Wan’s current alliance status and his contribution to Columbus, his contract of more than 20 million in the last year is really too small. ——Columbus has generated a gross domestic product of more than 400 billion a year because of the arrival of Li Wan, and the Columbus Knights have also made a lot of money, winning the championship on the field and making money off the field, do you say more than 20 million like words?

The same reason the league allowed the Bulls to give Michael Jordan a $30 million contract that doesn’t count toward the salary cap.

Jianghu status, sometimes, must be given a suitable value.

Then Wiggins, who entered the league in 14 years, officially completed the third year of his rookie contract, and it is also a sign of respect to send him a contract extension in terms of his progress rate one step a year!

In addition to these two “big guys” in the team.

Adams, the absolute workhorse of the championship team who has been with the Cavaliers for three years and has played the final year of his rookie contract, has become a restricted free agent this summer and needs to negotiate a new contract.

This is the main lineup, and contracts need to be negotiated.

In the bench, Kwame Brown has completed another 3-year contract, and now he needs to negotiate a new contract, this guy has nothing to say, although the data is not good, the whole season has begun to decline, but…

As far as his relationship with Li Wan from the Magic to New York, and from New York to the Cavaliers and Columbus, it is necessary to continue to give a contract, and the number of years cannot be short, otherwise, it is disrespect for Li Wan!

More than that, Barbosa will definitely leave this summer, and how to fill the vacancy after Barbosa’s departure after signing these people also requires Griffin to think carefully.

You must know that Li Wan has already spoken, this championship is not the end, but the beginning…

Even if Griffin now takes Gilbert’s words as a fart, he cannot ignore Li Wan’s needs.

So this summer, being able to do these things well can be regarded as Griffin’s quality and quantity to complete the task!

As a result, now…

Chris Bosh is actually announcing his retirement!

Suddenly there is such a big combat power, how do you let Griffin make up for it!

He had a headache, but in the case of Chris Bosh, he couldn’t force it to stay.

The time has come to test whether he can be a good family.

Griffin could only wish Chris Bosh better and better in the future, and as soon as he hung up the phone, he called Li Wan and reported the situation to the latter.

Li Wandao: “Man, Chris Bosh told me about this matter last night, and I thought about reminding you, but after thinking about it, I still think that it is better for Chris to tell you about this matter himself!” ”

The main Chris Bosh did not really announce, and Li Wan still had a glimmer of hope.

As a result, now, there is no possibility at all.

The good news is that Chris Bosh told Li Wan and Griffin his idea at the first time, and now the 16~17 season has just ended, and the free market is still half a month away, Griffin’s situation is not too passive.

Griffin, who accepted the reality, also officially started the summer work, taking advantage of this call, he said to Li Wan: “Dude, Gilbert wants you to jump out of the current contract, we will prepare a new contract for you…”

Although Li Wan has only played for the Cavaliers for 3 years, these three years just triggered the “Bird Clause”, plus he has been in the league for 10 years, so if Li Wan jumps out of this old contract, then he will get a contract with an annual salary of more than 35 million, Griffin did not grind, directly gave the maximum 5 years 201 million!

This contract is much lower than Mike Conley’s staggering “billion yuan contract”, but Mike Conley’s 5-year 250 million contract contains a lot of incentive mechanisms, looking at the annual salary of 50 million, but in fact, Mike Conley finally got more than 30 million last year.

Griffin’s contract to Li Wan is also the largest number of contracts that the league can currently offer.

If this contract is signed, Li Wan’s annual salary next season will be close to 40 million, which is the highest annual salary in this league in the new season.

It’s not that Griffin doesn’t want to give Li Wanjia a reward mechanism, but Rao is that the league’s salary cap for the next year is around 94 million, and the luxury tax threshold is about 110 million, but…

This team does have a bit of a lot of people who need to renew their contracts over the summer.

Li Wan also knows this.

He also didn’t think that he would take all the meat and broth, and he had to leave something to eat and drink for his brothers, saying that he would be rich with his thick rice!

He is not a person who says one thing and actually does another…

So he readily agreed.

To be honest, although it is a 5-year contract of 201 million, Li Wan is not very excited… It’s just the performance fee for filming a “Li Wan”… If you compare the profit of PG1 for one year, it is even worse!

So nearly 40 million, looking like a lot, but for Li Wan, whose annual income exceeds 100 million, and even almost reaches 250 million, it is really not a big number.

“It was a difficult decision, but it came and after careful consideration, I decided to end my 14-year career and officially retire this summer!”

On June 12, the third day after winning the championship, Chris Bosh officially announced his retirement.

This shocked the entire alliance.

It also managed to dominate most of the headlines in sports news.

The New York Times counted Chris Bosh’s many accolades in his career: 14 years, 11 All-Star Weekend selections, 3 All-Star Team titles, 3 championship trophies!

This is already a historical player.

Columbus media were shocked, and as for Columbus’ fans, they also ran to Chris Bosh’s Twitter for the first time to leave messages, a bunch of crying emojis, expressing their reluctance and accident.

This thing is really unexpected, obviously three days ago, he was still on the stage of the finals, playing a supergiant level performance, but I didn’t expect that in just 3 days, he actually announced his retirement.

Without you…

Isn’t Li Wan missing another “big help”?

Columbus management later thanked Chris Bosh on his official website for his dedication to the team and said that he would retire Chris Bosh’s No. 1 jersey in the new season.

Although Bosh also played for a year with the Columbus Explorers, even if he added the predecessor, he only played for 3 years, but he won 2 championship trophies in 3 years, and he is still the second oldest in the team, which is fully worthy of this honor.

Sometimes, it’s not really who has been there for longer, and you can’t survive a dominant era no matter how old you are, then it’s useless to say anything!

Even if you have ten media companies, you can’t blow the “best in history” position!

On the contrary, it will also cause disgust due to more and more tumultuous operations, resulting in the current status can not be maintained!

Under Chris Bosh’s retirement statement, Li Wan left a message: The best partner!

Soon, Chris Bosh left a message saying: The best brother!

The preposition caused another wave of interpretation.

And the wave caused by Chris Bosh’s retirement announcement is far from it.

Since he officially announced his retirement, the phone in Griffin’s office has not been heard again, all kinds of calls, all kinds of purposes, want to trade with Columbus, their own customers want to come to Columbus, in short, in an afternoon, Griffin’s anxiety is all gone.

He really didn’t expect that after Li Wan won the first championship in Columbus and surpassed Michael Jordan, his influence in this league actually rose to another height, and now those depressed stars want to come to Columbus and rejuvenate the second spring of their careers.

Just like that who, and then like that who…

Such a large environment gave him the feeling that the ancient emperor “chose a concubine”, which was too conducive to his summer operation.

So…

Instead, he was not in a hurry, but first communicated with those Columbus Explorers players whose contracts were about to expire and had expired one by one by phone, and conducted basic contract extensions.

Because of Li Wan’s core leadership in the team, these players did not ask for a sky-high price.

They are actually very clear that following Li Wanyou to eat meat, in the championship team, every point obtained is worth a lot, and they are not afraid that there will be no more contracts in the future.

The “champion coach” is not afraid of not having a job, in fact, the “championship puzzle” of the championship team is also not afraid of not having a job!

But any team that needs experienced players to play the field, then it will inevitably consider these who have reached the finals and won the championship, especially Kwame Brown, don’t look at next year’s 35, now throw it to the free market, then it is still a big meal of people looting there!

With qualifications, it is easy to find a job…

At the same time, in a luxury villa in Brooks, the increasingly rounded Cameron Anthony is sitting solemnly on the sofa in the living room, his eyes motionless looking at the TV in front of him.

It’s not the godfather, it’s not Lala, it’s Chris Bosh’s retirement.

His expression was quite calm, but the constant flickering light in his eyes showed that his mood was quite uncalm at the moment.

Chris Bosh’s sudden announcement of his retirement surprised everyone, as well as Cameron Anthony, and he realized that it might be his only chance in his life.

Once Columbus came with a new “second master” who was young, then he really had no chance.

After all, the Columbus Explorers still have a future Wiggins deposited!

But……

Originally, he wanted to join after the Columbus Explorer loss this season, lest he be shouted “We were champions before you came”.

And……

The first person to say this is now also in Columbus’ lineup.

Therefore, he is very entangled.

Should he let his agent contact the Columbus Explorers…

He was hesitating, but his agent called at this time, and his tone was very impatient: “Dude, you know what? Dwight Howard’s agent has pressured management to trade him to Columbus…”

WTF？

Upon hearing this, Cameron Anthony, who was originally sitting in a big position, suddenly couldn’t help it, stood up impatiently, and the hand holding the mobile phone was also unconsciously forced, testing the bearing capacity of the Apple mobile phone.

He didn’t expect that Howard, the thick-eyed man, actually had the intention of going to Columbus to “pay tribute” without making a sound!

No way!

He can’t continue to think, if he continues to think, when he finishes deciding, I’m afraid that Columbus’ new lineup has been officially announced.

“Man, if that’s the case, then tell Billy King my thoughts, I… I also wish I could be traded to Columbus! ”

Cameron Anthony didn’t hesitate, he was going to stud directly!

When the agent heard his words, he was a little stunned, although he knew that Cameron Anthony had the intention of leaving the Nets, but he really did not expect that Cameron Anthony’s favorite object was actually the Columbus Explorers!

Seashell……

Somewhat out of line with his perception of Cameron Anthony.

However, if you think about it, it was probably Chris Bosh’s announcement of retirement that stimulated this guy.

Also in ’03, when people retired, so many All-Star lineups, so many best teams, so many rings…

If the first two items can’t make Cameron Anthony feel envious, then the championship ring is definitely something that reaches his heart, as a 6-time All-Team finalist in the league, Cameron Anthony is definitely one of the best scorers of this era, if you finally retire, there is not a championship ring, let alone Cameron Anthony himself, even others think this is a very regrettable thing!

From this perspective, it’s no surprise that Cameron Anthony wants to join Columbus.

And……

This is definitely the best opportunity!

In the next three years, Columbus will not need a “second master” more than now!

Today’s game is really …

At this point, whether the Celtics ran out of their last bit of luck or the Heat lost their last chance depends on G7.

But anyway, it’s much better than the West, at least there are more stories to tell.

Finally, there is another sentence, the Celtics are stupid than the coaching staff, and they should be the most important to give White a kowtow, what about this Nima vs. Nima?

(End of chapter)

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