At the end of the draft, Jiang Dongbing successfully got his three favorite players.

The main reason is that there are too few fish that slipped through the net this year. Otherwise, Jiang Dongbing would definitely be able to select more than these three outstanding newcomers.

However, although three people were selected, what is more embarrassing is that only one Artest can join the team directly, while others like Ginobili and Kirilenko had to work hard.

As the president of basketball affairs, Jiang Dongbing actually had to handle this kind of thing in the end, but old Jianghu Stewart took over this responsibility and promised to bring these two players back to Jiang Dongbing.

Old Stewart is still willing to do this kind of thing that he can do, because if he doesn't do it, the Grizzlies won't have any other important things for him to take care of.

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After the draft ended, Jiang Dongbing immediately started thinking about bringing in insiders.

This matter is actually quite tricky. The value of inside players is inherently higher than that of outside players. For example, Jiang Dongbing easily acquired Ricky Davis and Bowen for the Clippers. Now he wants to find players suitable for the Grizzlies with the same difficulty.

Insider, obviously impossible.

How could there be so many people like Xiao Ao who slipped through the net?

More importantly, the Grizzlies don't have much chips in their hands right now. To be precise, it's not that they don't have any chips, but Jiang Dongbing is reluctant to trade with those chips.

The players you have managed to train with great difficulty cannot just be sold.

Because he really couldn't find a suitable trading partner, Jiang Dongbing could only put this matter aside for the time being and look at the progress of Stewart's side first.

About a month later, Stewart may have gone to Moscow in person, and I don’t know what kind of price he offered. As a result, Moscow nodded and agreed to let him go, but the buyout fee must still be paid.

The total buyout fee is one million U.S. dollars, which is absolutely sky-high in this era. The Grizzlies paid 300,000 U.S. dollars, and Kirilenko will settle the remaining 700,000 U.S. dollars himself.

It's not that the Grizzlies are stingy and unwilling to pay Kirilenko the full buyout fee, but the NBA stipulates that the buyout fee given by the team cannot exceed $300,000.

Because Kirilenko is a first-round pick, he has a four-year contract salary to earn, so it is not that he cannot get the $700,000, but for him, a low-ranked first-round pick, it must be considered

There was a lot of bloodletting.

But Ginobili's solution is more troublesome. The main reason is that Ginobili is a second-round pick, and he is not a high-ranking second-round pick. Under normal circumstances, his contract will not be high.

Where to go.

But his parent team's asking price was higher, asking for 1.5 million US dollars, which was hard to break for Stewart.

However, as the saying goes, there are policies above and countermeasures below. Because Jiang Dongbing specifically told Stewart about Ginobili's magic during the draft, Stewart asked his boss McCaw for instructions and directly used a relatively bad rule to solve the problem.

Drop this thing.

That is to directly offer Ginobili a high-dollar contract worth three million US dollars and two years...

It seems that this contract is not too outrageous compared to top stars, but you must know that Ginobili is only a second-round pick, and it is difficult to say whether other second-round picks can sign guaranteed contracts. Where can I get such super treatment as Ginobili?

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In contrast, Kirilenko, the first two years of the contract he signed actually only amounted to US$1.5 million.

Since Ginobili got a big contract, he would naturally have money to pay for the buyout, so his matter can be considered a satisfactory solution.

In order to let Ginobili, who Jiang Dongbing was optimistic about, join the Grizzlies smoothly, Stewart didn't care about bad rules.

"Ginger, the mission was successfully completed. Kirilenko and Ginobili brought them all to you!"

"Well done. Our chances of winning the championship next season are not to say 100%, but at least 95%." Jiang Dongbing was overjoyed. It seems that the veteran's intervention is effective. If he had to do it himself, he might still be able to do it.

It didn't go so well.

"By the way, Jiang, before I got on the plane yesterday, the Pistons called me. They wanted to trade our Christie." Stewart said suddenly.

Jiang Dongbing was startled. The Pistons want their Christie? This is quite new.

He can guess what the Pistons are thinking. Now the Pistons are going all-out. The team has famous players such as Grant Hill, Jerry Stackhouse and Laettner, but they can't play every year.

What results will come.

It is very possible that they analyzed that the reason was that the team's defensive intensity was not high enough and they lacked a main point of control, so they decided on Christie's idea.

In the Grizzlies team, when Billups was off the court, Christie often served as the Grizzlies' point guard, and he still played impressively.

Now that the Pistons have brought Christie over, relying on Christie's defensive and organizational skills, as well as his ability to shoot cold arrows from the outside, may be able to qualitatively improve their lineup.

From Jiang Dongbing's perspective, the Pistons actually did a very good job in this transaction. If it can be successful, the Pistons will definitely have a good performance in the new season.

But now the question is whether it can be successful. The Grizzlies have just won the championship, so there is no reason to sell their starting player Christie.

So when Stewart said this, he didn't pay much attention, and just told Jiang Dongbing procedurally.

The Grizzlies and Pistons actually have a relationship. The two teams had previously conducted a major trade for Thorpe, and now the Grizzlies still owe the Pistons a first-round pick...

This first-round pick does not necessarily have to be the Grizzlies' own first-round pick. As long as it is a first-round pick, it is fine. Originally, Stewart wanted to use the 24th pick of the Trail Blazers to directly return it to the Pistons, but in the end, he was

Jiang Dong stopped him. He needed to continue to improve the Grizzlies' strength. Naturally, he couldn't just return the draft pick to the Pistons.

After all, the contract the Pistons signed with the Grizzlies at the time ran until 2003, so they are not in a hurry to repay the first-round pick right now.

"What chips are they willing to give?" Jiang Dongbing joked, because he really couldn't imagine what the Pistons could offer in exchange for Christie.

Now in this Pistons team, the one person that Jiang Dongbing really likes is Grant Hill. Like Laettner and Stackhouse, Jiang Dongbing really doesn't like him. At least in his opinion, these two people are not as valuable as

Christie.

Even if it's Grant Hill, if the Pistons really want to trade Hill for Christie, Jiang Dongbing may have to think carefully about it.

After all, no one knows when Hill will be seriously injured, and Hill's style may not be suitable for appearing in the Grizzlies' lineup, because he is too similar to Jackson.

If others knew about it, they would probably be frightened to death by Jiang Dongbing's idea of ​​exchanging Hill, the former No. 1 small forward in the league, for Christie. How could you even say that he was unwilling to do so?
Chapter completed!