Whether it is Ben Wallace or O'Neal Jr., Chi Liang hopes to get them. With their characteristics, they are very suitable for the current Nets.

However, things went against my expectations. After confirming the candidate, Nets general manager Stefansky immediately contacted the Magic and wanted to get Ben Wallace.

Unfortunately, although Wallace is not a non-selling product for the Magic, it is also the only center that the Magic can show off. If Wallace leaves, the Magic will not have a reliable center.

However, the Magic did not refuse, but the Lions spoke out loud, hoping to reach a deal with the Nets for multiple players. In addition to wanting the Nets' first-round draft pick in 2001, they also hope that the Nets will accept their team's garbage contract players.

Stefansky naturally couldn't agree to the Magic's conditions, not to mention that Ben Wallace's data is not good, and it is not worth the price.

However, Stefansky did not give up immediately, but continued to argue with the Magic manager, hoping to get Ben Wallace at a small price.

While discussing with the Magic, Stefansky also called the Trail Blazers, hoping to get O'Neal Jr.

At the beginning, the Trail Blazers manager refused on the grounds that O'Neal Jr. was not a seller, but Stefansky did not give up, but contacted O'Neal Jr.'s agent.

Although O'Neal Jr. signed a good contract with the Trail Blazers, his playing time was always small. In the three seasons of the Trail Blazers, he averaged only 3.73 points per game.

What disappointed O'Neal even more was that in the second half of last season's playoffs, O'Neal Jr. performed quite well, not much worse than Sabonis and Wallace.

In O'Neal's view, this proved his strength, so this summer, he decided to express his wishes to the management, hoping to get more playing time and become the team's main substitute.

The Trail Blazers management did not agree, but did not refuse, but instead took out a four-year contract of 24 million. Due to the amount of the contract, O'Neal Jr. had the illusion that the team wanted to reuse him, so he chose to sign the contract.

Unfortunately, O'Neal Jr. was destined to be disappointed. Shortly after signing the contract, the Trail Blazers got Schramff again.

Schramf has proved himself long ago, being selected as the All-Star three times and is also one of the representatives of international players. Although he is 35 years old this year, he maintains a good form and averages 15 points, 7.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game last season.

If the Trail Blazers get Schramf, they will naturally not let Schramf sit on the bench, and at least take up a lot of playing time.

In addition to Schramf, the Trail Blazers also have Sabonis, Wallace and Brian Grant, a total of four All-Star inside players. How can O'Neal Jr. play time increase?

With Schramf's arrival, O'Neal Jr. gave up completely because the Trail Blazers could not give him too much playing time.

The Trail Blazers management is also helpless because they cannot reduce the playing time of the four All-Stars inside. Moreover, the team's boss Paul Allen only cares about his performance. In recent years, the team's strategy is to build up stars without any room for rookies.

Therefore, the Trail Blazers in recent years have almost become the grave of rookies. Even if O'Neal Jr. performed well last season's playoffs, there was no extra chance to give O'Neal Jr.

Even so, because the Trail Blazers boss has enough money and the league's center is in urgent need, even if the Nets have a trade intention, they don't want to give up O'Neal Jr., the potential center.

O'Neal Jr. was very angry. He came to the NBA with the youngest player in history. At that time, he was naturally ambitious and thought he could create a world.

As a result, after three years, he didn't get much chance to play, so the data was naturally terrible.

O'Neal Jr. envied his teammates and opponents who appeared in the McDonald's All-Star Game with him, because most of them made some achievements, such as Garnett and Carter became the core of the team building. And he was still sitting on the bench, and this great contrast made him feel very disappointed.

He is eager to succeed and also wants to be valued by the team, but the strategy of the Blazers to accumulate stars makes him destined to fail to succeed here.

But in his anger, O'Neal Jr. felt helpless. He didn't want to stay with the Trail Blazers, but judging from the contract he signed, it was difficult to win the favor of other teams.

In this era, the annual salary of NBA players is far less than that of later generations, and the annual salary of superstars is only more than 10 million yuan per year. As for O'Neal, the average average of 33 data in these three seasons, but his contract is 24 million in 4 years.

In this era, an average of 6 million per year is that many teams can rank among the top three in the team, and even have the first place. For example, the Nets, in addition to Jason Williams, who retired due to injury, the highest annual salary is Jill, who has 5.6 million yuan, which may be one of the reasons why Jill wants to be the core of the Nets.

With such annual salary and data, and with O'Neal Jr., O'Neal Jr., there is a high risk, and almost no team is willing to gamble.

Just when O'Neal Jr. was on the verge of despair, his agent called and told him that the Nets wanted news that he and the Trail Blazers refused to trade.

Originally, the agent just wanted to ask O'Neal Jr.'s opinion, but O'Neal Jr. was like seeing the dawn. Now he really wanted to leave the Blazers, no matter which team he could do.

Three years of waiting have already suffocated O'Neal's patience. Now that he has the opportunity, he naturally doesn't want to wait any longer. He never doubts his strength, he only needs a place to prove himself.

So O'Neal Jr. immediately put pressure on the team's management. He had a hot temper and wanted to leave the team.

Even at this point, the Trail Blazers management has not given up on O'Neal Jr. They are very clear about the potential that O'Neal Jr. has. As long as he is given enough time, he is likely to become an excellent inside player. Even if the Trail Blazers now do not give him the soil for growth, they still hope that O'Neal Jr. can stay. After all, Sabonis and Schramf are old and may be expected to abdicate next season.

But no matter how they persuaded him, O'Neal would go in and out of his left ear, and instead made the fuss even more fun.

In the absence of any solution, for the stability of the team, the Trail Blazers management had to contact the Nets and negotiate the deal for O'Neal Jr.

This time, the Nets' bargaining chips were Kendal Gill, who wanted to trade the team's thorn, and at the same time, his contract with O'Neal Jr. was not much different.

However, in addition to hoping to get Jill, the Trail Blazers also hope to get a center to replace O'Neal Jr. and act as the third center.
Chapter completed!