Chapter 164: Go to Indiana
The progress this year is particularly fast. The next day, the signing of the first card player was decided. Mike Conley of the Grizzlies received the largest contract in history, with 153 million in five years, which was shocked the whole world. Although Conley has always been regarded as the biggest bead of the All-Star, this contract is too exaggerated.
Lin Sen narrowed his eyes and thought about it. It seemed that he was a little too strict with himself. No matter how I look at the data, I don’t have to be as good as Conley’s gap, right? Is it necessary to put down my posture like this? Isn’t it just the status of a core player? Damn, no wonder I want to revive the center! Nowadays, the status of the center is too low! Everyone wants to regard themselves as Chandler’s envoy.
After Lin Sen posted that post, there were still not many teams in the league that were still in contact with Lin Sen. They had their own team building methods, or they planned to play badly in the past few years. Fortunately, Lin Sen's outstanding performance in the playoffs and his youthful traits have attracted him a lot of people. If you don't want to be a bet, even if Lin Sen's offense is really not good at playing, it would be great to convince him to be a defensive center in the future. With his ability to make three-pointers and downs, as long as the team has a good point guard, averaging 15 points per game is not a problem.
So, after that, there are still teams who express their intentions to Linson, such as the Indiana Pacers. This team was a tiebreaker with the Heat Big Three a few years ago. Paul George, the core of his teammate, has evolved into a superstar player with both offense and defense.
If it weren't for the previous broken leg accident, I'm afraid the striker's name would be with James, Durant and Leonard. However, this broken leg made many people question whether he could return to his state of competing with James in the East in those seasons. His performance last season dispelled this question.
In the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, the Pacers, the seventh-ranked Eastern Conference Pacers fought the Raptors in the seventh game with his own strength. The Pacers lost, but George did not lose.
George's return to the king after injury also gave the Pacers the idea of competing for the championship again, otherwise this would have completely wasted Paul George's peak. George's contract has not been long. If there was not enough hope of winning the championship, it would be impossible to keep George.
So this summer, it is obvious that the Pacers are ready to make a little big move, and Linson is the player they want, and the player Bird considers the best for them.
The Pacers' Five Tigers at that time had the greatest impact on the team, Hibert's defense and West's offense, both are very important, while their general manager Bird believes that Lin Sen is very strong and talented, and he will make up for the vacancies of these two people by himself.
There is no voice in the Pacers. They have a very young and talented inside line. Miles Turner, who won the lottery pick with the 11th pick in the first round in the draft last year, averaged 10.3 points and 5.5 rebounds in the first season, is excellent enough for him who averaged only 22.8 minutes per game. Now you go to the maximum salary to sign a second round pick that you didn't choose last year. Isn't this the most fierce slap in the face last year? It's hard for the management to pay for this mistake.
There is resistance on the Pacers, and there are other teams, and the other team that likes Lin Sen is Rhine. The Hawks also want to win a center, but they like Howard even more. Originally, Howard was an Atlanta, and returning to his hometown team is also a beautiful story. It may have a good rescue effect for their miserable attendance. Lin Sen is not the first choice for them.
Similarly, Linson doesn't like Atlanta. He still remembers it when he met Atlanta this year's playoffs. The overturning sound of his team made him still scared of Atlanta now. He even warned his agent: "Man, stop contacting Atlanta. If you can go there for a year, you will either trade me or you will have to retire."
Lin Sen still wants to go to the Pacers most. Pacers coach McMillan is a coach who likes the inside, which coincides with Lin Sen's idea. Moreover, the Pacers' lineup is good, and fighting side by side with this team will be more conducive to the accumulation of his own honor.
On July 3, Lin Sen officially met Larry Bird. Lin Sen was still full of respect for this great small forward, the historical master who started the 80-year Lake Care Competition. However, more of the circulating in the world are Bird's trash words and pretentious quotations. Lin Sen has no objection to becoming a player like Bird on the field.
"Lin, we really hope to sign you! Although there are many questions, you know, in the Pacers, no problem is a problem for me." Bird's face was smiling.
"I'm so happy to be able to play for the Pacers and I won't let you down."
Bird has enough trust in Lin Sen. In his opinion, Lin Sen will change the style of the league again and think that the player is a player, while Lin Sen doesn't care much about the number of the first big contract. He is less than 20 years old. He is probably the second round pick and undraft who can sign a maximum salary at this time will probably be the first year of explosive performance.
But the problem is that under the current perfect scouting mechanism of NBA, so many scouts can see the players who are out of sight and have enough opportunities to make them play, just like Lin Sen, a player with a plug-in every day.
The negotiations between the two sides went smoothly, with almost no obstacles, because when Bird used his supreme power in the Pacers to disagree, Lin Sen's signing became very simple. 80 million in 4 years, this salary is a little lower than the salary provided by the Lakers. However, Lin Sen accepted it with pleasure. The Lakers would be a good team, but it is not suitable for him who is so "premature" and he is not interested in going to the
When the news was announced on July 4, everyone suddenly realized that this year's Pacers would become very strong. Their biggest problem inside line has been solved. Linson and Miles Turner's double tower lineup will perfectly make up for the Pacers' lineup defects, and these two players are not slow. Even if they encounter small balls, their defense will not be problematic.
Chapter completed!