Chapter 119: World Championship Mission, Ajan comes to give out rewards again?
Ryan eventually signed a 3+1 early-maximum contract extension with the Nuggets.
The contract takes effect in the summer of 2007, and you can opt out of the contract as early as 2010.
This is the best way for Ryan to make money while ensuring the health of the team's salary structure to the greatest extent possible.
The news of Ryan+'s early contract extension made the Nuggets fans cheer for joy the next day. This is a more wonderful championship gift than the championship parade.
In the following hours, the top players from the 2003 class also renewed their contracts with their home teams in advance.
However, what makes many team general managers uneasy is that James, Bosh, Anthony, and Wade also chose to renew their contracts in 3+1.
None of them signed long-term contracts without thinking like the players of the previous generation. Instead, they actively chose 3+1 contracts for the health of the team's salary space.
It seems that the ambitions of the 2003 generation are greater than those of their predecessors!
What they are pursuing is not just a maximum salary, but a championship, honor, and a name that will go down in history!
Indeed, in this year's finals, two third-year players have already led their teams to compete against each other. This is the first time in history.
Everyone can see how capable the Class of 2003 is.
In the summer of 2010, God knows what will happen.
After Ryan completed the contract renewal, he returned home happily.
I used to work hard for hundreds of thousands a year to make 996, but now I can earn tens of millions with just a few clicks of my fingers, and it’s still a joy to work with.
Ryan feels particularly unreal every time he signs a new contract.
In the past, after my salary was paid, I was always thinking about whether to bite the bullet and buy a PS5 to treat myself. Then, looking at the housing prices that were still frighteningly high even though they had dropped, I silently opened the STEAM discount page.
Now that I have paid my salary, I am thinking about whether to buy another car to reward myself. Then I looked at the price of the car and sighed that it was so damn cheap. It was completely meaningless to save this little money. Buy it!
After returning home, Ryan led Daddario, who was already dressed, out to the restaurant.
When the two of them appeared in public at the entrance of a high-end restaurant, the paparazzi around them started taking pictures.
Within half an hour, news of Ryan and Daddario's date spread around the world.
Denver fans cried to death, Bird and Ryan are indeed the two spiritual leaders of the Nuggets.
One is thinking about tactics in the bar, and the other is practicing ball handling at the beginning of the offseason.
How could the Nuggets lose if you two work so hard! ?
At dinner tonight, Daddario noticed that Ryan was devouring his food.
Both steaks were dry.
The most important thing is that several palm-sized oysters were cooked.
After being hungover for two days in a row, Ryan definitely needed to replenish his nutrition.
and
He was so drunk yesterday that he didn't even experience what it was like to be Dadario!
Tonight, I must come to a live recovery with full energy!
In the car after dinner, Ryan asked like a gentleman: "Shall I take you home?"
Daddario was even more anxious than Ryan: "It's still early! And I really like to sit on your sofa and watch movies!"
Of course, Lane could not go against the woman's will. Adhering to the principle of mutual respect, Lane took her back home.
For Ryan, whose ball-handling ability needs to be improved, the training of holding the ball with both hands to break the press must be done hard!
The days of constant gunfire lasted for several nights. During the championship parade, Bird felt that Ryan seemed to have lost weight!
However, Ryan could not live such an indulgent and sinful life for a few days.
After the championship parade ended, Ryan and Bird got busy again.
As for Ryan, he has to start attending various business events in the summer.
Nowadays, the celebrity status is big, and there are countless advertising endorsements.
Those endorsement and advertising fees were not spent on Ryan in vain.
There are new product signings, fan meetings, and new car launches. Ryan has to participate in all these miscellaneous activities.
But these are not Ryan's most important tasks this summer. Ryan's most important task this summer is to participate in the 2006 World Championships!
In the summer of 2004, Ryan actually made his first appearance on behalf of the Chinese team in a FIBA competition. He and the Chinese team finally reached the semi-finals and just missed the medal.
In this year's World Championships, when Yao Ming and Ryan have grown up, the outside world is expecting them to win a World Series medal!
What’s even more exciting is that according to this year’s grouping situation, the Dream Team and the Chinese Team are very likely to meet in the semi-finals!
In other words, if both sides successfully advance to the semi-finals, the winning side will be guaranteed to touch the medal!
If the Chinese men's basketball team wants to achieve a breakthrough of 0 medals in the World Series, it must get past the dream team!
This plot is simply "the female boss in black stockings falls in love with me", which directly hits the men's G-spot.
If the Chinese team wins, it will directly create a breakthrough of 0 medals in basketball in the world series.
For Chinese fans, this is simply a cool plot!
In addition, another highlight of this game is that the lineup of this year’s World Championship Dream Team is mainly composed of the 03 generation.
Anthony, Wade, James, Bosh and Hinrich and other players from the 2003 class will all play.
Therefore, the topic of "Ryan taking on America's 03 generation" has been very popular recently!
In addition, Ryan has just won the championship in the NBA, so even American fans who have never cared about the World Championships are paying close attention to this competition. They all hope that the Dream Seven Team can strive for success and win back the championship they lost in the league.
Fans in most parts of the world want to see Meng Qi continue to create miracles, and American fans want to see Meng Qi complete his revenge.
So, this is Ryan's superstar effect. The originally tepid FIBA World Championship has even become the most high-profile event this summer because of Ryan's appearance.
Ryan didn't have much time to rest at all. After participating in various business activities, it was almost time to go to the national team for training.
As for Bird, the day after the championship parade ended, he was scouting new talent for the Nuggets in the draft.
In the next few years, because of the three maximum salary contracts of AK, Webber and Ryan, the Nuggets' salary space is directly locked.
There's nothing you can do about it. NBA rules limit it. If you want to compete for the championship, in most cases, you won't have much room for maneuver.
It's impossible for you to win the championship with a group of rotten fish and shrimps with basic salary, right?
In the history of the NBA, only the Spurs can win the championship without spending too much money. Last season, the Spurs won a championship with the 24th highest payroll in the league.
But the Spurs are just an exception after all. Under normal circumstances, championship teams have little room for maneuver.
Champions often pay more than others. This is true before winning and even more so after winning.
This is why three consecutive championships are rare, and there are no four consecutive championships in modern basketball.
After a championship team falls out of favor, it is often difficult to quickly recover because its operating space is locked up. It takes a period of reconstruction to regain competitiveness.
So now for the Nuggets, in addition to trade, the draft is the best way to strengthen the team.
This is why Bird didn't spend a single draft pick when he traded for Webb last year.
Draft picks may seem useless to championship teams, but they are actually quite important.
After all, this is one of the few ways to strengthen the championship team.
Although Bird came to the Nuggets just to do a odd job, he will return to the big cornfield in a few years.
But Big Bird is still very professional. Even if he is only in the Nuggets for a few years, he will consider the future of the Nuggets.
He prepares very seriously for every draft.
Moreover, he is also willing to listen to Ryan's suggestions.
No matter what profession you are in, you must learn one thing - listen to advice!
Bird knew this and was very willing to listen to other people's opinions.
So in this year's draft, Bird and Ryan discussed and added two young people to the Nuggets.
He used the 30th pick + Leonard, the three-point shooter who had fallen to the edge of the rotation last season, to trade up to the 24th pick and acquire junior point guard Kyle Lowry.
Although Lowry has a history of injuries in college, he looks too mature in his game, and his long-range shooting ability is still weak.
But he has excellent ball control, and his strong body and footwork are extremely destructive on both offense and defense. And there is a pair of fat buttocks that do not belong to position 1, like those of Latin American models.
In Bird's opinion, this is simply a replica of the double-knife turkey!
If the lottery ticket really scratches another double-blade turkey, the Nuggets' offensive power in the connection section will undoubtedly be stronger.
Moreover, Lowry is a young man who is very passionate about basketball, so there is no need to worry about his training attitude.
Maybe because of hard training, he will become stronger than a double-sword turkey!
In the second round, Bird took junior forward Paul Millsap.
Because Millsap is old and too short to play the fourth position, he fell very hard in the draft.
This kind of all-around forward at the third or fourth position in college often becomes incompetent after entering the NBA. Therefore, Millsap is not very popular.
But Bird believes that with a little training, it is very promising to turn him into the next James Posey.
Although Posey fell out of the starting lineup last season, he was still an important rotation member for the Nuggets.
In the second round of the series against the Mavericks as a temporary starter, he also performed well.
If this short size 4 is cultivated well, it will have advantages in every aspect except height!
To the outside world, there is nothing unusual about Bird's two draft moves.
Everyone doesn't think a late first-round pick and a second-round pick can bring much combat effectiveness to the Nuggets.
But Ryan was very pleased after seeing the news about the draft.
The Birds are still very reliable in their selection. Although Lowry and Millsap have a longer growth cycle, they are both very good prospects.
Anyway, we don't need them very much now. When we need to use them, they will have almost grown up, and the time is just right.
After the draft is over, basketball fans all over the world now have only one focus, and that is the 2003 draft picks taking on the 2003 generation in the United States!
Naturally, Dream Team 7 will not sit still and wait for death, especially Wade.
Although he has just finished the finals, he is very active in preparing for the game.
Of course Wade knew that even if he won the World Championships and defeated the Chinese team in the World Championships, he would not be able to make up for the regret of losing the championship.
But it’s better than spending the whole summer empty-handed!
And, there is nothing better than instant revenge!
Wade needs victory to comfort himself now, he will never relax!
Nike also seized the opportunity and frantically set the pace online and stirred up news:
"Wade's loss to Ryan was not due to his personal incompetence, but simply to his teammates. He cooperated with James, and it was easy to handle Ryan!"
"Under the leadership of James, Wade will find that defeating Ryan is actually very easy!"
"LeBron + Wade = Invincible!"
This news makes Heat fans feel stupid after reading it.
Isn’t it because of you, James?
You, a guy who lost to Wade in the playoffs, are you worthy of being called "leader"?
However, Heat fans admit that with the help of James and others, Wade will definitely not lose again!
On Wade's side, his teammates have all upgraded.
As for Ryan, his teammates are all being demoted.
Although Yao Ming's inside dominance is better than that of the Nuggets at the fifth position, other positions are not as strong as the Nuggets.
So overall, the strength of Ryan's teammates has become weaker.
Wade's teammates have become stronger, Ryan's teammates have become weaker, and the outcome is already doomed!
After Ryan won the NBA championship, the whole world clamored that the dominance of American basketball was over.
Now American fans want to see who dominates the world of basketball!
This time around the World Championships, the popularity is unprecedentedly high. Almost every day, reporters visit the training camp of Dream Team 7.
And this young dream team is quite confident in winning the World Championships.
James issued a series of victory declarations during the interview:
"Can we beat Ryan in the semifinals? No, no, no, our goal is the championship, not just focusing on the semifinals."
"As one of the leaders of the team, no matter what difficulties the team encounters, I will use my own means to carry the team forward!"
"We did fail in Athens in 2004, but we have grown a lot in two years."
"I will definitely win a world championship for my country! We must keep the honor in America!"
After saying these words, he would often end by putting a crown on himself.
These are what the Nike team asked James to do in order to build him into the "Dream Team Leader."
But the reporters were speechless. You had to let this go, right? ?
Ajan and Nike are gearing up, hoping to regain attention at the World Championships.
In the finals, everyone was watching Ryan and Wade, leaving James ignored for a long time.
If we can perform well in the World Championships, we can suppress Ryan and Wade at once!
After being beaten so many times, Nike certainly knows how much Ajan weighs and how capable Ryan is.
But the reason why they are so bold this time is mainly because they feel that
James' teammates at the World Championships were so good and strong, so there was no way they would fall over, right?
On the other side, after participating in a series of business activities, Ryan also returned to the team in mid-July to train with the team.
The red banners in this year's training camp are all "Beat the American Empire and fight for medals in the World Series"!
The outside world also expects this.
For Ryan, who has watched the 2023 World Cup, these two goals are simply magical!
Looking at the current men's basketball team, and then thinking about the men's basketball team in 2023
You know, although this Chinese team has Yao Ming, Da Da, Yi Jianlian, Wang 7, Zhu 8 and Sun Yue. But Ryan still misses the men's basketball team in 2023, because they decided the winner after halftime!
And it’s very feminine!
Ryan really can't stay in this rough-guy national team for a minute anymore.
The team doesn't study any basketball skills all day long, they just learn Western fighting techniques and MMA every day.
He kept yelling about things like "If you can't play basketball, at least you have to be good at other things" that people couldn't understand.
Is that what serious basketball players should learn? Can you look like a little princess?
But don’t tell me, although this national team cannot resolve the battle in half, it is really not impossible to win Meng Qi!
In the original history, although the men's basketball team in this year's World Championships only qualified in the group, it still had strength.
Especially for Yao Ming, in 2006 he had completely reached his peak.
The three dimensions of technology, mentality and body are all at their peak.
But the biggest problem for the Chinese team is that apart from Yao Ming, there is no second stable point.
The most typical example is the game where Wang Shipeng defeated Slovenia in the original history. When that game was mentioned in the future, everyone would talk about Wang Shipeng, but in fact Wang Shipeng scored that one goal in the whole game.
The real foundation of that game was Yao Ming. The Chinese team scored 78 points, and Yao Ming scored 36 points alone!
One person's score is almost half of the team's!
The team took 59 shots, and Yao Ming took 21 of them.
Without Yao Ming's support, there would be no chance of winning in the end.
This is the epitome of the Chinese team in 2006. Yao Ming is strong, but it is really difficult to lead the team with a single core.
And as a center, Yao Ming is easily troubled by fouls. If there are too many fouls, he will have to go off the court to avoid danger.
Once Yao Ming leaves, the Chinese team will no longer be able to play at all.
After Yao Ming is tired, the Chinese team will also not know how to play.
Therefore, if the Chinese team can add one more core and solve the pain point of Yao Ming's single core, its strength will definitely improve a lot!
Ryan is the other core!
Before the start of the World Championships, Ryan was also full of motivation.
Because the World Championships are approaching, Ryan has a new task:
"Mission: World Champion!
Goal 1: Defeat Mengqi and advance to the finals.
Goal 2: Win the championship.
Reward: Complete goal 1 and get a chance to draw a Dream Seven player trait reward.
Complete goals 1 and 2 at the same time to get two Dream Seven player trait reward lottery opportunities. "
Ryan likes this kind of prostitution thing the most!
After the start of the World Championships, Mengqi's side really changed its situation and played smoothly. It seemed that it was really going to return to its peak. It never lost a game from the group stage to the semi-finals.
The Chinese team lost once to Greece and once to Lithuania in the group stage.
Although they managed to qualify from the group in the end, their dominance didn't seem as strong as Meng Qi's.
However, after entering the knockout rounds, the Chinese team still advanced to the semi-finals without any danger!
The Dream 7 VS Chinese team, Ryan VS 2003 class that fans all over the world love to see has finally become a reality!
Before the game started, the American media was also quite confident.
"Make no mistake, our goal is not to win, but to see how many points we can win! Any win that does not exceed double digits is a failure!"
"LeBron + Wade + Anthony + Bosh, how can we lose?"
"Ryan can lose to Lithuania and Greece, which has tested their strength. European teams can't beat them, how can they beat Mengqi?"
"Lian and Yao Ming may be very strong, and their 1+1 may equal 2. But my Da Mi Li family is the sum of twelve 1's!"
"The Chinese managed to dominate the NBA, but they couldn't beat our best team!"
It would be fine if it was just the media talking nonsense, but the players of the key Dream Team 7 are also dishonest.
Ajan was the most active. The day before the game started, he told the media:
"There will definitely be no problem in tomorrow's game. Please don't call me little emperor after this year's World Championships, because I will be on the throne soon!
In the FIBA arena, I feel like I can play five positions. I can play the five position if necessary. So, don't worry we will lose.
Together with Cameron and Wade, we not only want to win the world championship, but we also want to win the Olympic championship in two years! "
James really regarded himself as a leader and issued various declarations of victory.
In fact, not only the American media and Dream Seven players, but most fans around the world feel that the Chinese team has a narrow escape.
Because if you look at it with a blind eye, Meng Qi, who is currently victorious, and the Chinese team, which has lost two games, do not seem to be on the same level.
But Ryan knows very well that there is no shame in losing these two games, because the Lithuania and Greece that the Chinese team lost to are by no means good!
Let’s not talk about Lithuania. They have always been a strong team in this era. In the original history, they only lost to the eventual champion Spain in the 2006 World Championships. They were one of the few teams that could compete with Spain and the Dream Team.
As for Greece, in the 2006 World Championships in their original history, they directly defeated Mengqi and finally won the runner-up!
If Meng Qi was placed in this group of the Chinese team, they might lose these two games too!
It's just that most fans don't know much about the strength of FIBA teams.
I always think that the Dream Team is invincible and that the Chinese team cannot even beat the European teams, so it is impossible to compete with the Dream Team.
But in fact, Lithuania and Greece are no weaker than Meng Qi, and are even stronger! Losing to them doesn't mean anything at all!
Ryan rubbed his hands excitedly as he watched Ajan announcing his championship declaration like a leader on the TV news.
Well, with you throwing the boomerang before the game, I feel more at ease here!
So let me say it in advance:
"Thank you LeBron for the trait reward!"