Chapter 309 308: An era is over, but my era will never end!

Author: Grove Street Brothers

Chapter 309 308: An era is over, but my era will never end!

"You should shave your beard, why do you look so decadent?"

Lima tidied up Shay's house and complained about Shay's growing beard.

Shay just smiled: "What decadence? As I get older, don't you think I'm more attractive with a beard?"

"You're not old! Here, I'll give you the new electric shaver."

"Tsk tsk tsk, what a good day? Send me a gift suddenly."

"Celebrating that I was signed by Victoria's Secret!" Lima said, happily approaching Shay. "If you hadn't chosen me to shoot the commercial, I still don't know where I would be hanging out with now. I have to thank you so much."

"Congratulations, I heard that Ambrosio and Bundchen were also signed, right?"

"Huh, you just care about them! Come on, I'll help you walk around the yard!"

"Do you really think I'm disabled? I can walk, but I can't play basketball yet. I don't need help." Shay said, stood up and walked out.

Lima looked disdainful: "Yes, yes, a certain person was photographed dating Batgirl a few days ago. It seems that you have indeed recovered! What kind of ugly country sweetheart are you looking for? Bah, I won't get tired of you to death!"

"Ah, stop reading those gossip tabloids! Besides, Silverstone and I just had a simple night, ah no.

It's just a simple friendship, discussing her journey of playing Batgirl, nothing more."

Although he was complaining about Shay, Lima still took Shay's arm and walked into the huge courtyard.

Shay's ankle still feels a little stiff when walking.

But according to Vitti, Shea is recovering very well.

I will definitely be able to return to 100% condition from mid-March to early April.

A 100% status means that Shay will not feel any discomfort or be affected by anything, and can play happily.

Walking to the yard, Shay looked at the sky that was still gloomy in January and sighed.

Lima immediately asked with concern: "What's wrong? I'm sighing. But having said that, those bullshit rules that restrict you are enough!"

Lima has also been paying attention to basketball news recently. Since the labor negotiations were successfully concluded on January 6, various new regulations have been officially released.

And these new regulations, in the words of the Chinese media, are extremely targeted!

First of all, although the league retains a soft salary cap, as previously revealed, it cannot break out of the contract first and then risk renewing the contract with the Bird Rights. If it wants to do this, it must retain the salary space for the Bird Rights renewal.

In other words, even if Shea breaks out of his contract, the Lakers will still have to occupy 40 million in salary space in order to renew Shea's contract.

If the space is not reserved, the bird rights are deemed to be waived.

Secondly, the league has stipulated in detail the proportion of different levels of contracts to the salary cap.

In other words, from now on, players' salaries will have a cap, and they will no longer be given as much as the boss wants.

Such exaggerated things as 40 million annual salary will no longer exist.

There is also the addition of the "luxury tax". Every team that exceeds the salary cap has to pay an extra portion of the money to the league, restricting wealthy owners from doing whatever they want.

Isn't this aimed at the Lakers who are paying Shea the highest salary while still maintaining a championship lineup?

These are just contractual rule changes, but the rule change at the competitive level is that the league officially allows zone defense and cancels the illegal defense of the idiot!

It also relaxed the restrictions on contact with offensive players with hands when defending.

To put it bluntly, the defense can be more rough than it is now!

Don't be surprised, basketball in the 21st century is not soft from the beginning.

In fact, the beginning of the 21st century was precisely the most terrifying years for league defense.

The era of allowing zone defense and still retaining Hand Check was the era of the tightest defense in the entire NBA!

The defense is better than that of a girl!

In the original history, strong defensive teams such as the Pistons and Spurs were able to win championships because of this defensive era.

And because of Shea, this era of tightest defense has arrived early!

These rules are undoubtedly limiting Shay's unstoppable personal singles ability.

Although Dr. Bass strenuously opposed open zone defense during negotiations:

"Fans spend money just to watch the wonderful one-on-one matches between stars, and you can't take away this!"

But it's useless, because other teams also want to win the championship, and they can't just watch the Lakers make a lot of money.

And if you want to beat the Lakers, the best way is to weaken Shay!

Stern also supports this. He wants to use a wave of version updates to weaken Shay and prevent four consecutive championships from happening.

In the end, the league passed the new defensive rules with 22 votes in favor, 6 votes against, and 1 abstention.

Shea is about to take on the challenge in the tightest defensive era!

Therefore, Lima thought that Shay sighed because of this series of highly targeted new regulations.

But it wasn't because of this that Shay sighed. To be honest, changing the rules made Shay even more excited.

After all, only powerful enough stars can force the league to change the rules.

Only the strong will let the alliance change the rules to target themselves.

Being able to force the league to change the rules is also proof of a player's superior strength.

But that old boy Stern thinks he can limit himself by changing the rules?

Do other teams in the league think they can take the crown away from them by changing just one rule?

You can try it!

The real reason that makes Shay sigh is that there are fewer and fewer people he is familiar with in this league.

Just the day before yesterday, Ewing visited Shay's home and told Shay in detail about his plans to retire.

After winning three consecutive championships, Ewing, who has been on the bench for two consecutive seasons, has begun to think about quitting.

If it weren't for three consecutive championships, Ewing would have retired in the first year after a serious knee injury. After all, it doesn't suit his personality to always play on the bench.

Now that he has received enough honors, Ewing decided to leave the basketball court and concentrate on competing for the gold club.

In addition, McMillan also has plans to retire.

He accompanied Shay to win all five championships. As a role player, it can be said that he has no desire and no desire.

Plus, now that I'm older, I really can't fight until the last minute every season.

By the way, 38-year-old Terry Teague was also about to leave the basketball court. When he called Shea, he burst into tears: "This old slave can never serve you the king again!"

Speaking of which, in the original history, Terry Teague completely disappeared from the league in 1993, and he was just a little transparent his whole life.

But in this history, he and Shay won five championships together, and they played together until 1998.

Shay felt sad when he thought that no one would serve him better than Teague.

In addition, there is another person who is not on the Lakers but is also very important to Shay and plans to retire, that is Sir Charles Flying Pig.

After the back injury of the Flying Pig Jazz recurred during the regular season last season due to rebounding, there was no news about it as if it had disappeared from the world.

Until a few days ago he sent a text message to Shay:

"Rejoice secretly, you bastard. The person most likely to defeat you, the old pig, is ready to retire!"

Barkley knew very well that after a serious injury, he could no longer shake Shea's status after winning three consecutive championships.

Instead of being stepped on by young people again, and being irritated by that idiot Danny Ainge, he would rather leave early.

In fact, Barkley has already found a new job. He has reached a preliminary agreement with TNT TV station and is about to change careers to be a commentator.

After changing careers, he is bound to become the number one commentator!

Jordan, Slippery, Barkley, Ewing, Terry Teague, McMillan.

The league is suspended, the rules are revised, and we are about to enter the millennium

All of this gave Shay a feeling that times were really about to change.

He couldn't help but sigh.

Unconsciously, so many years have passed, and so many opponents and teammates have disappeared.

Seeing Shay's face full of sorrow, Lima smiled and rested his head on Shay's shoulder:

"It's okay, you are still the strongest player in the world."

"nonsense."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I praise you and you're still out of breath."

"Damn, why did Xiao Nizi talk to me?"

"Hey, I won't talk to you anymore, I have to rush to shoot the magazine cover. By the way, Ambrosio is about to celebrate his 18th birthday, don't forget it."
To be continued...