The season is over and the Raptors are preparing for a series of things after winning the championship.

This is the first championship in the history of the Raptors. Although the team history is bleak, they are undoubtedly very lucky compared to those teams that have glorious history but have never been involved in the championship.

From the finals to the draft day, Li Xing has been in a state of devotion.

The team repeatedly ruthless when they looked for him to see the rookie.

In the end, he was so annoyed that he could only participate, so he looked around and gave the team a candidate - Shelwin Mark.

The potential value of b- is not high, but it is very practical.

The Raptors are not short of players with great potential, what they lack is a substitute who can drive the second team.

Mark is such a player. He is an offensive guard with excellent combat power. He is clear-headed and always calm on the court. He is an aggressive scorer, good at creating shooting opportunities, good shooting choices, and strong one-on-one skills.

Looking at this description, is it a bit like Stephenson's second place? But his potential is not high, so no matter what, he can only become a sharp knife on the bench and cannot become the starter.

Calderon, Stephenson and Mark will support the Raptors' No. 1 position next season.

In fact, Li Xing is not a second-round pick who has discovered high potential.

Isaiah Thomas, who has no draft prospects, is a player with a potential reaching A-. Although he is only 175 cm tall, his attributes are comprehensive, but it's a pity that he has some bad attributes.

These attributes will affect the harmony within the team, so Li Xing did not recommend him to the team.

As the same goes, the Raptors are not short of potential kings. They just won the championship and only need to add bricks and tiles to the original foundation, rather than make drastic transformations.

Thomas Jr. is undoubtedly a better choice than Mark, but Mark is more in line with the needs of the Raptors.

On the draft day, the Raptors selected Shelwin Mark with the first pick in the second round.

Li Xing also watched the live broadcast. He thought the team would choose others, but he didn't expect it...

"Did they really choose Shelwin?"

Li Xing didn't expect the team to value his opinions so much.

It’s no wonder that the team obeyed Li Xingyan. Since he began to intervene in the team’s operations intentionally or unintentionally last summer, the suggestions he gave have proved to be correct.

Whether it is to suggest the team to choose Stephenson, to push Snyder to take over the Raptors, or to suggest the team to exchange for Whiteside in the middle of the season...

These little suggestions worked. Stephenson showed considerable combat power in his rookie year, while Snyder proved that he was the most suitable person to lead the team. Whiteside could not provide much help in a short period of time, but he also brought what the team needed most - the second team's rim protector.

Solomon Arabi's contract will expire this summer. If the Raptors have no other signings, Whiteside will take over Arabi's role from next season. As the Raptors' defensive core on the court when Li Xing left the court.

"You were surprised?"

Jean No said lightly: "Jose Calderon has more stability and less progress, Lance Stephenson has more passion, and of course you need another defender."

"That's right, it's still a little bit of a sudden someone is valued so much..." Li Xing hummed embarrassedly.

Jeonuo frowned and was about to drink water.

"Shy."

"Puff~~~~~~"

Damn, what did I hear?

This shameless guy in the world actually said he was shy? How shameless is this person to say this? God!

Nuo's heart was turbulent, and his face was indifferent, "I'm used to you like this."

"By the way, how did I tell you what you did?" Li Xing asked.

Jeanno replied: "Everything is done."

"Yeah?"

Li Xing didn't expect that a person who seemed so lazy to do things so easily was really not good at it.

"What are your plans for the next holiday?" Jean Nuo just asked casually.

Li Xing replied seriously: "I don't know yet. I have about one month to promote sneakers and shoot advertisements. I will arrange the rest of the time freely. In fact, there is not much time. After finishing everything, it will almost start the new season."

"Your plan is probably going to change," Jeanuo said.

"Why?"

"The new season may not go as scheduled."

"Why?"

Li Xing felt like a mentally retarded person. He clearly was the one who beats NBA, so he had to know this kind of news through letting Nuo.

"Have you never heard of the shutdown?" Jeanno looked at him.

Shutdown? Li Xing had heard it vaguely, but he couldn't remember where he heard it, but he didn't know what it meant.

"so what?"

"If negotiations don't go well, the new season will not go as scheduled. It's more serious, and maybe the whole season will be cancelled."

Jeonuo's words scared Li Xing.

He vaguely remembered that, yes, the summer when Yao Ming announced his retirement, the NBA seemed to be closed for a while, and there was rumors that Kobe almost came to China to receive the baptism of socialism.

Li Xing also remembered Jeonuo's reminder, as if this was the case.

On the first day of July, the labor and management sides held their last negotiations and exchanged constructive but incomprehensible suggestions. The two sides regretted that they failed to reach any consensus in the negotiations. The negotiations broke down and the NBA officially stopped.

During the suspension period, all contracts between teams and players will be automatically terminated.

Both parties cannot contact, players cannot use the team's training hall, both parties cannot sign new contracts, and the free market will no longer be open.

Regarding the suspension, Bill Simmons joked: "It won't take long to reach a consensus between the two sides. No matter who suffers or who benefits, they will eventually reach a consensus. Moreover, it can be foreseeable that there will be many more overweight NBA players in the world."

Although NBA players are one of the most popular geniuses in a million, not everyone can manage their weight well.

Simmons is not just kidding. If the offseason is too long, some players will not be able to withstand loneliness.

Some will cause trouble, sabotage everywhere, and make news, trying to "save" Li Xing from the vortex; some are much simpler, they will overeat and put all their thoughts of the game into their stomachs as appetite, at the cost of being overweight.

The typical representative here is Sean Kemp, who flew into the sky after the suspension season and became a "Michelin man" who jumped but could not have a drill.

The NBA was suspended. Even if the Raptors just won the championship, even if the team had no conflicts with the players, even if they were still raising glasses and drinking with each other the night before, they had to draw a clear line now.

Players need to stand on the side of the players, while the team stands on the side of the boss.

In fact, the Raptors' boss did not want to stop. Li Xing's joining caused the Raptors' profits to soar, which he had never expected before.

The boss originally wanted to launch the Raptors as a company advertisement, but he didn't expect it to have such an effect.

The Raptors are no longer the company's living signboard, or the old hen that keeps laying eggs.

When he learned that the league was about to stop, he couldn't help but blurt out: "These bosses of the Japanese dogs!"

He scolded him like this and had to follow his feet. He had to commit himself to the ranks of his boss and criticized the insatiable laborers with them.

As for Li Xing, as a popular figure, he is also a member of the Players Guild. Although he has no position, the players hope that he will stand up and express his opinion.

Li Xing's response was: "Call your mother! Hurry up and finish the trouble, I want to play basketball!"

Although Li Xing's reaction was too extreme, it was not unexpected.

In the opinion of labor, it is already considered morally polite if this girl does not turn to the boss.

Li Xing knew that the shutdown would end sooner or later, regardless of whether he intervened or not, so he was not like he was involved in a war between labor and capital.

For the players, he hates them; for the boss, he is a money tree; for the league, he is a benchmark person.

He has a bad reputation, but his influence is unmatched among the current players.

Even James can't do it.

In just two years, he made his fame surpass the basketball itself, which is the effect that the benchmark figure should have.

The so-called benchmark means that others may not know what you do, but they must know you.

For NBA, a person who is so topical, has both terrifying strength, is so young, and likes to cause trouble and does not trigger the law. It is still the first person in history.

The last benchmark Michael Jordan also has the reputation of "I don't know basketball, but I know Jordan", but he is very good at packaging himself.

Jordan is not like Li Xing, and the person who mentions him is either bigger than his middle finger or bigger.

Li Xing knew that this summer vacation would be longer than before, so he readjusted his itinerary.

Put those advertising plans in advance and then advance the sneaker promotion one month.

Within a month and a half, he would travel across Europe and Asia, and he did not bring anyone else except the bodyguards and several assistants.

The first place Li Xing went to was - he didn't want to come to China.

It has been more than two years, and this is his first time returning to China.

He never knew whether he wanted to come back to see it, nor did he know what he was doing when he came back.

The system told him that there was no family here, and his family did not exist in this time and space, but he was still very worried.

He was worried that he was walking on the road, and suddenly someone ran out and called him:

"Good!"
Chapter completed!