Chapter 172 171: Challengers who are crazy about reinforcements

Sabonis is the most legendary player in the international basketball arena at this stage.

In Europe, he has already won almost all honors.

But in fact, Sabonis never loses when facing American players.

In 1982, the 17-year-old Sabonis traveled with the Soviet men's basketball team and played several friendly matches with NCAA teams.

In the game against Indiana University, a strong NCAA team at the time, Sabonis scored 25 points, 8 rebounds and 3 blocks.

After that, some people said he was the tallest point guard on the planet.

Opposing coach Bobby Knight praised Sabonis as the best international player he has ever seen.

A few days later, Sabonis, who was still in high school, faced off against Ralph Sampson, a senior center at the University of Virginia and the next No. 1 pick.

As a result, Sabonis scored 21 points on the senior player and left an almost flat dunk. Sampson scored 13 points.

There was a scene where kids on the basketball court drove big cars!

It was said at the time that this 17-year-old guy was as good as Bill Walton.

If he performs well, they are even willing to give Hu Weidong a guaranteed contract!

If this were placed in the original history, there is a high probability that Hu would not have come to the NBA.

The final score was 11 to 7, and the provincial team unfortunately became the first in the group.

Last season, the Knicks essentially forced the Bulls to do nothing on the defensive end, but because they were too stretched offensively, they were eventually reversed.

NBC morning news suddenly reported a piece of news: Drexler officially joined the Rockets!

The Rockets sent Thorpe, Sam Cassell and the 1995 first-round pick and the 1997 first-round pick to acquire Drexler and Mark Bryant, who had a premium contract, from the Trail Blazers.

By the way, I also need to brush up on experience. Shay is not far away from the next major upgrade.

In this way, the Knicks took the lead in completing reinforcements.

Don't talk about Grant, even if the management trades Pippen, Slipper will leave.

In last season's finals, Grant averaged 2.3 blocks per game against the Trail Blazers, which was a nightmare for the Trail Blazers on offense.

So in order to avoid meeting the Chinese team in advance, the two sides actually worked hard to compete for second place in the group!

In 1985, the Hawks took action and selected Sabonis with a low pick.

In 1986, the Trail Blazers directly used the 24th overall pick in the first round to pursue Sabonis, but due to various reasons, Sabonis failed to land in the NBA.

Of course, the Trail Blazers still don't know that the Bulls' main target in the trade is Sabonis.

The Rockets joined the trade, which was the biggest reason why Drexler insisted on leaving.

Riley could also see that the Bulls couldn't be defeated by a bunch of muscular defense.

In three consecutive rounds, we easily defeated the provincial team, South Korea and North Korea.

A player on the provincial team accidentally scored a goal and was scolded by the coach!

Drexler returned to his hometown team as he wished, and joined forces with his college teammate Olajuwon as he wished!

Injuries like this make every NBA team very uneasy.

On the Asian side, the 1993 Asian Championships has also begun.

Then came the well-known 1986 World Championships, where Sabonis and the Admiral were neck and neck.

Therefore, not only did the Knicks have to renew the contracts of most of their players, they even signed "Thunder" Marr, who performed well in the Suns last season, for a three-year price of 9.1 million before the renewal, when there was still plenty of salary space.

profit!

He has some of Bird's skills and Kareem's athletic ability. He can shoot three-pointers and is skilled in passing and controlling. We should plan to kidnap him to Ugly Country!

By 1989, Sabonis was finally allowed to play abroad.

Continue to train and maintain your physical condition.

They are indeed beautiful, they know everything and can do everything. But you can't have this kind of people, you can only be crooked.

And Shay's vacation has passed by unknowingly for a month. Shay, who no longer feels any fatigue or discomfort in his body, continues to find his old partner Grover.

After all, Sabonis still has a contract with a European team, and if he wants to get him, he will have to pay a large contract buyout fee.

You know, this is Sabonis who has already seriously injured both knees.

Things have been going smoothly in the past, so I thought there would be no problem in attacking Saudi Arabia.

Klaus decided to become the second person to receive the international player bonus!

Lao Hu is strong again, but he is not yet strong enough to play the main role in a strong team.

If you slap me and give me a candy, do you really think I am a three-year-old child?

Moreover, no one knows whether the 28-and-a-half-year-old Sabonis, who is already scarred, can still play in the NBA.

Everyone was waiting for the ending of the farce between Drexler and the Trail Blazers, and this large-scale family ethics drama finally came to an end on a day in early July.

He said: "No, Sabonis is better than me!"

After losing to the Bulls again with a 2-0 lead last season, the entire Knicks team was fully motivated to work hard for another year.

At that time, the Trail Blazers scouts who seriously went to Europe to watch Sabonis play, commented on Sabonis in the scout report:

Shea feels that it is better to be able to slowly adapt to the rhythm of the NBA and practice leveling up slowly on a weak team.

Plus Shay's success.

This Asian Championship also led to two things that were different from the original history.

Since he was going to Europe anyway, Klaus decided to take the initiative to meet Sabonis!

That piece of jade must not just rot in Europe!

Shea's complete success this year has made every team obsessed with international players.

Since last year's series of in-depth exchanges between Jiang Shuai and Glover, whom Shea brought, his training methods have become more scientific.

From a fledgling performance in last year's Olympic Games to a dominant performance in this year's Asian Championships.

He did not hesitate to sell Sabonis's signing rights.

After all, there will be Grant Hill, big dogs Robinson and Kidd in next year's draft, so it is still very tempting to mess up this choice.

He wants to play One Star Four Shooting to the extreme!

Master knows that men like tightness, but when playing basketball, the space must be as loose as possible!

The game was about losing rather than winning. When the two teams were grabbing rebounds, they tried their best to send them to their opponents, deliberately fouling their opponents and allowing them to take free throws.

Sharpen your skills with the Bulls next season!

This signing is significant enough, but it is not the most significant yet.

Therefore, neither the provincial team nor North Korea is willing to touch the Chinese team.

The new boss is Alexander, whom Chinese fans are very familiar with.

All these have given Chinese players unprecedented attention.

The Blazers got a bargain by accident.

But because of Shay's sudden emergence, China now has a more positive attitude toward letting players come to the NBA to compete.

After signing Marley, the Knicks used the Bird Rights to re-sign Oakley, Herb Williams, Anthony Mason Jr. and others.

In the world of New York, we don’t seek the best grades, but we seek to spend the most!

What's more, the NBA does not have luxury tax rules these days. As long as it is reasonable, the salary cap can be exceeded without any substantial penalties.

At one point they thought the deal was a good deal.

This battle caused Jiang Shuai to be questioned, and they felt that he was a little too arrogant for not calling Shay to participate.

In another group, the Taipei Provincial team played against North Korea. Although the Chinese team unexpectedly lost and fell to second place, its strength was still there.

Teams such as the Mavericks, Warriors, Timberwolves and Nuggets have all invited Hu Weidong to come for trial training.

You must know that Drexler in this history has not been seriously injured, and his strength is much stronger than when he joined the Rockets in the original history!

Later, the referee couldn't stand it anymore and stopped the game before the end of the quarter.

In this year's Asian Championships, Jiang Shuai did not summon Shay.

This caused Sabonis' knees to be unable to bear the sudden weight increase, causing both injuries.

Maxwell, who was in the last year of his contract, and third-year rookie Carl Herrera were traded to the Suns in exchange for his national father-in-law Hornacek.

But of course it didn't work out in the end.

This gave Dameng and the whole team a shot in the arm.

The Suns let go of Marley before, and now they have traded Hornacek with an expiring contract.

This summer, the contracts of many of the Knicks' main players will expire. If they all use Bird Rights to renew their contracts, the Knicks' salary will directly explode.

The salary cap this season is about 15 million, and if the Knicks renew all their contracts, the final salary may exceed 20 million!

You know, in this era, 5 million is equivalent to one more superstar!

In the knockout stage, the Chinese team made no more mistakes.

Thompson expressed his willingness to try out Battelle and would definitely let him play in the NCAA if given the chance!

The competitors are much stronger than in the original history.

Shea then recommended Battle to his college coach, the well-known Giants point guard John Thompson, and gave him a video of Battle's game.
To be continued...