One Year Left to Play

Chapter 622: Chapter 192: The Time Has Come!

The Orlando Media show has begun!

Regarding this, Zhang Hao is at a loss for words.

What he cares about more now is another matter—the Phoenix Suns used two young players with All-Star talent, Van Exel and Finley, to trade for Kidd!

The trade itself is not important. After the end of the season, the only news about the Dallas Mavericks was the gossip of the Dallas 3J Duo and Donnie Briscoe, which made Donnie Briscoe earn a fortune.

After the legendary coach of the Mavericks, Dick Motta, announced his resignation, it was only a matter of time before the Dallas Mavericks split up the 3J to appease Dallas fans’ anger.

Zhang Hao is interested in the rewards after completing this trade...

In the press conference after the trade, the Mavericks stated: "We need a genius like Aix, Michael is such a genius, he is the successor to Jordan..."

Zhang Hao feels that the Mavericks did it on purpose, doesn’t this make Kidd hate him even more?

Doesn’t matter...

"The impotent rage of the 3J:

Goal: The signed player Zhang Hao must break up the Dallas 3J Duo that should have fallen apart. (Completed)

Congratulations to the host for obtaining the reward: a random Star Experience Card of the strongest season from each player of the Dallas 3J era."

Zhang Hao hasn’t done anything yet, and the reward is already in hand!

Anyway, as long as he is happy, that’s all that matters. Nowadays, to go viral, you’re bound to become a public enemy.

They got Charles Barkley for only 4.7 million US dollars a year! The most amazing thing is, with a superstar like Barkley, the Lakers’ current salaries decreased, Van Exel’s 1.9 million US dollar salary, Donyell Marshall’s 2 million US dollar salary, Anthony Peeler’s 1.33 million US dollar salary, the Lakers’ total salary went down instead of up...

After attending the press conference of Barkley’s joining, Zhang Hao, the Magician, Doug Christie, and George Lynch went to Van Exel’s home.

Originally wanting to comfort Van Exel, but Van Exel had already accepted the situation long ago, he even predicted this outcome a month ago when Barkley informed the Suns about his trade to the Lakers.

With the departure of Van Exel, the talent accumulated by the Lakers from the 92 draft with the Logo Man is almost entirely used up!

Van Exel, Anthony Peeler, Eddie Jones, Sibaros, Divac, Donyell Marshall... these people, in the end, became Zhang Hao and Barkley!

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Before the Dallas 3J even started to show their talent, they were dismantled, Barkley went to Los Angeles, stealing a lot of the spotlight, but the draft night still became the most popular event.

The draft night had no surprises... at least for Zhang Hao.

His arrival changed a lot, such as the teams’ draft picks being somewhat altered, but for the 95-96 season, the playoff teams were still the same playoff teams, and the lottery teams were still the same lottery teams.

In this year’s draft, with an abundance of talent, where teams had clear goals and many to choose from, the draft results seemed to have no difference compared to Zhang Hao’s impression.

The 76ers picked the legendary 183-man Allen Iverson, after enduring hardships, Iverson’s mother finally held her head high, shouting in front of the cameras, "My son is a millionaire now!"

The Logo Man’s extraordinary eye for draftees made him pick Derrick Fisher from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, projected to be in the mid-to-late second round, at the 29th overall pick.

Zhang Hao paid special attention to this so-called college defensive standout who was from a non-NCAA Division I school, averaging 12 points and 4.4 rebounds over 4 years in college...

A rookie projected to be at the tail end of the second round, regardless of whether their Lakers’ draft pick was the original 24th position or the current 29th position, the Logo Man was determined to get him.

"Great, I’m only 19, I have a reason not to let him in my house..."

This is not important anymore, what is important is that Henry Thomas’s agency grabbed Sheriff Raheem, Jermaine O’Neal, and Eric Dampier, along with...

Two days after the draft, on June 30th, Pelinka found Zhang Hao, who was taking a break between scenes: "Aix, I found a summer league team for Wallace, he will represent the Bullets’ affiliate team... are you sure he has talent? He’s just a player from a second division league." Pelinka was perplexed.

Before this, he relied on his connections with Zhang Hao, Jermaine O’Neal, and Raheem to sign him, Henry Thomas managed to sign the first-team All-American center Eric Dampier with David Falcao’s help, and all three were successfully picked by NBA teams, all in high positions, even Jermaine O’Neal was picked 16th overall by the Blazers.

But Zhang Hao wasn’t concerned about these players at all; he focused all his attention on the short center he signed at the end of April when no agents wanted him.

"He’s great, and he works hard. There will definitely be an NBA team that notices him and signs him. He might not have the chance or the strength initially, but after a few years, it will be fine."

Since Zhang Hao’s behavior always seemed like that of a chosen one, even when he was filming, the owners of long-established production companies praised Zhang Hao’s talent, and so Pelinka did not question Zhang Hao’s eye for potential players. After all, there’s a history in the NBA of defensive players like Rodman, who didn’t have many opportunities in the first two years but later shined.