December 27th, two days after Christmas.
Because of the lockout, the NBA’s Christmas Day game didn’t happen in time.
This made NBA fans feel a little deserted and spent a Christmas without a game.
But on the 27th, a piece of hot trading news came out.
The previously canceled deal for Paul between the Lakers and Hornets has been restarted!
This time the two teams kicked off the Houston Rockets and were joined by the Los Angeles Clippers as the third party.
Clippers' core guard Baron Davis returns to the Hornets where his dream began.
Also going were Lakers power forward Gasol and two future first-round draft picks.
The Lakers finally got the coveted Chris Paul, and the feeling of regaining him made Lakers fans and the Los Angeles media ecstatic.
The server of Goupu, a Chinese basketball forum, was instantly overcrowded.
News about the Hornets going to the Lakers flooded Twitter again.
The first person to break the news was the mysterious Twitter account: NBA-Batma.
He was ten minutes ahead of all other media outlets, and a huge number of retweets followed.
NBA-Batman's tweet not only reported the news of the three-party trade, but also criticized the Clippers.
"The Los Angeles Clippers sent away the great hero Baron Davis in this transaction and got a garbage contract and a garbage player. The reason for this is because Smart Min only values him and Baron Day. Weiss’s friendship was to satisfy Baron Davis’s request, but he ignored the interests of the Clippers! That’s why he made such a big loss-making deal!”
This tweet also received a lot of comments and retweets.
Indeed, on the surface, the Clippers suffered a huge loss from this three-party transaction.
The Lakers won as always, and the Hornets quickly completed their reconstruction, acquired two All-Stars, and got rid of junk contracts.
There are only Clippers, so what are they trying to do?
Soon some netizens joked that the Clippers pictured Fisher.
After all, Fisher has championship experience and is an important championship puzzle piece.
Although the defense is now one step ahead, the offense can only shoot fixed-point three-pointers.
But as a member of the championship and a veteran, his role in the locker room will definitely be played.
It's just that the Lakers gave up Fisher in exchange for Chris Paul, and Lakers fans would laugh out of their dreams.
Lakers fans are happy, but Clippers fans are certainly not happy.
But looking through the entire Internet, there are not many voices criticizing the Clippers and Min Congda.
The NBA-Batman with the loudest voice is actually Min Congda himself.
In other words, he wanted to trigger a storm of public opinion against the Clippers as a reward for this big loss-making trade.
Who knew that in the end you would be the only one scolding yourself?
This made Min Congda very depressed.
In fact, the transaction plan was finalized on the 24th.
The reason why we chose to announce the implementation on the 27th is to cool down the public opinion about the cancellation of the previous transaction.
Let the bosses of each team calm down. The agreement has been signed anyway and the rematch is underway, so don't mess with it.
After two days of delay, the deal was announced. Of course, Min Congda had to strike first and take advantage of the situation.
Unexpectedly, it was of no use!
Min Congda was flipping through the pages of various forums and websites at home, and the sports section was already filled with this deal.
There are all kinds of voices, but there are no voices criticizing Min Congda and the Clippers.
"What's going on? Do these people understand football? Aren't they going to scold me for such a big loss-making deal?"
"Hey, damn, I don't feel very at ease if they don't scold me."
I thought my big loss-making trade would be criticized.
In the end, everyone just cared about Paul going to the Lakers and celebrated the success of the Lakers' super backcourt combination.
Without paying much attention at all, the Los Angeles Clippers took a big advantage in this transaction.
"Hey, when I came back to the team and proposed this deal to Olshey and Jeff Ball, they all readily accepted it without any objection at all! What's going on?"
Min Congda fell into self-doubt.
If this was a really bad deal, it stands to reason that they would stop it, right?
Since they didn't stop it, is it a good deal?
But what’s so good about it?
Min Congda, who had no clue, sent a message to Fan Chen and asked him what he thought of the deal.
Fan Chen naturally had already learned that the Lakers had acquired Chris Paul, and he was extremely excited.
He responded to the message and asked Min Congda: "Mr. Min, you are such a kind person! Did you really help the Lakers get Paul? My God, it's amazing. You are so magnanimous and a great benefactor to the Lakers."
Fan Chen is a Lake honey after all, and like many other Lakers fans, he was very excited.
Min Congda replied: "The person who benefits the most from this deal is actually our Clippers, don't you think so?"
Min Congda asked this deliberately to see what Fan Chen would say.
Unexpectedly, Fan Chen was very direct and said: "Mr. Min, your deal is really bad. It is comparable to when the Grizzlies sent Gasol to the Lakers, maybe even worse."
Hearing what Fan Chen said, Min Congda's eyes lit up.
He pretended to be angry and asked: "What nonsense are you talking about? I'm doing this with foresight. You see, no one is scolding me."
Fan Chen replied: "Actually, everyone feels the same way, thinking that your foresight must have a back-up plan. But judging from the current situation, it's really bad. Balang was the core of last season and the hero of Black Eight. In exchange for These two players? Although Fisher and Okafor are suitable for the Clippers, the cost is too high and the benefits are too low."
"Olshe came to see me just now. We made a phone call. He complained that no one agreed with Mr. Smart's transaction, but you are used to speaking out in the team, and no one would object, and there was no objection. If you use it, you might as well agree to it."
"There are also Goupu.com and external networks. They are all your fans. They all think you are far-sighted. Who will scold you? And there are so many Lakers fans. Who will scold you before I can thank you."
Hearing what Fan Chen said, Min Congda felt completely at ease.
Fan Chen had said before that Curry was prone to injuries, but he was actually injured and had surgery, right?
This guy is pretty good at reading people and football.
"Okay, okay, you are all short-sighted! How can you understand my heart?" Min Congda still sighed, looking like he was not understood.
Fan Chen hurriedly replied: "Oh, we know that you must have different ideas from ordinary people, and we all believe in you. By the way, I have good news for you. This time, there is a basketball training camp held in southern Jiangsu. The high school students were spotted by scouts and thought to be quite talented, so they might be the focus of training."
Min Congda's "Three Treasures Plan" has been implemented in China for more than a year. It has held many training camps and competitions and tested many young players.
This is the first time I heard Fan Chen say that if a young player is spotted by a scout, is it possible that he is really a genius?
"Really? Then you should train him well first, and if there is a chance... there will be a chance for him to come to the United States to play."
Min Congda is not very concerned about this matter. The Asian Youth Basketball Development Foundation is just a tool for him to spread money.
He doesn't believe he can unearth the next Yao Ming.
"By the way, how tall is this kid? Is he an inside player?"
"Uh... not very tall, about 180cm, playing guard."
"180? Allen Iverson?"
"We took him to have his bone age measured. He will grow to over 190 in the future."
Min Congda thinks there is no chance of a defender. Can China produce a good basketball defender?
It's really difficult to come up with a point guard like Chris Paul anyway.
Some people died, but not completely...
