The Way of Basketball: Never Talk Shit to Him!

The official height marked for Karl Landry at the NBA Rookie Training Camp was 2.01 meters.

As a power forward, this height is undoubtedly a bit short.

But Morey found out that Landry's actual height was 2.07 meters.

Another reason why Landry went unnoticed in the draft market was his knee injury. Upon examination, it was found that some media had exaggerated his injury, which was actually not that severe.

Eventually, Morey used a second-round pick in 2007 to select Landry.

Of course, even if these misunderstandings didn't exist, Landry's real draft position would probably be around the 20th pick in the first round.

He has quite a few issues.

For example, limited offensive means, not top-notch physical fitness, and his competitiveness at power forward isn't first-class, and so on...

His greatest strength is his willingness to fight hard, and he can fight hard.

The Warriors and the New York Knicks both offered him a contract, and the prices were similar.

Originally, he joined the Warriors this season, but this time he joined the New York Knicks.

Su Wan was quite satisfied with this deal.

Before the time travel, Su Wan was deeply impressed by Karl Landry's grittiness, having such an "Energy Boy" sitting on the bench seems like a good thing any way you look at it.

However, after signing Landry, there weren't many usable players left in the free market, and the New York Knicks' salary cap was no longer ideal.

Su Wan could only make mild moves.

The New York Knicks signed Beverley and "Big White Side" Whiteside with two two-year minimum contracts separately.

Originally, Beverley was signed back by the Rockets from the European League this season, assigned to the Development League, and caught up with Lin Shuhao's injury, making a name for himself in one go. However, his real rise would be in the next season.

As for Whiteside, he would also gradually find his footing in the league in two years.

But Su Wan believes that in the defending champion's team, they could develop rapidly.

Then the Knicks renewed Danilo Gallinari with a four-year, 28 million contract.

The new season's Knicks roster looks like this:

"Point Guard: Stephen Curry, Little Thomas, Beverley;

Two: Su Wan, Jimmy Butler, Ray Allen;

Small Forward: Paul George;

Power forward: Dior, Danilo Gallinari, Karl Landry;

Five: Tyson Chandler, Whiteside;"

With basically no one at Small Forward and Five, Su Wan had Donnie Walsh renew contracts with Kwame Brown and Artest with two-year, 5 million and two-year, 6 million contracts, respectively.

Looking at this year's free market, it's clear that there is a real shortage of inside players!

As the league's offense and defense systems speed up, many "traditional inside" players have lost the market, but mobile inside players or "space four" are still scarce in this era, which leads to even a "mid-level contract" not being able to secure a pure blue-collar player like Chris Humphries!

It's worth noting that Ben Wallace, as strong as he was, only had a few million annual salary back then, and it wasn't until he left the Pistons that he got his first ten-million-dollar contract in his career!

It can only be said, in that era, blue-collar inside players were really undervalued...

Just like that, the New York Knicks' 14-man roster was officially set.

In terms of overall fighting strength, the New York Knicks have definitely gotten stronger.

This is the traditional feature of the "Youth Army".

The external media has also given them enough respect.

Including ESPN, many media outlets have placed the New York Knicks in the first place.

The betting odds for them to win the championship are 1 to 2.3.

They have the lowest odds among all teams for the new season.

Well, even though Vince Carter left, this team hasn't noticeably strengthened.

But this team's absolute core is still intact, with Su Wan, Dior, Curry, and Tyson Chandler...

If the odds were set too high, the ones paying the price would be themselves.

So the bookmakers never act recklessly.

At least now, without cooperation with the NBA, they won't do reckless things.

From the various attitudes, it can be seen how much the outside world is optimistic about the New York Knicks winning the "three consecutive championships"!

However, with the outside world being so optimistic, Su Wan was somewhat worried about the team becoming complacent, so the New York Knicks' closed training camp had high-intensity training every day.

Led by Su Wan, they increased the training intensity by 20% daily, and others in the Knicks could only follow his lead and increase their training intensity as well.

Meanwhile, shocking news came from Los Angeles:

Yao Ming formally announced his retirement, ending his ten-year career.

This news, once released, is undoubtedly regretful.

After all, two years ago, Yao Ming was the best five in this league, and the flaunting Howard in 09 could only tremble before him.

But, who would have thought, in just two or three years, Yao Ming went through twice career-ending injuries.

Considering he is about to turn 33, it surely makes people sigh with emotion.

Yao Ming accepted this result very calmly.

From Su Wan's perspective, Yao, who stayed with the Rockets all along, finally got 2 "Second Team All-NBA" and 2 "Third Team All-NBA" selections, with his career-best achievement being leading the team to the second round of the playoffs.

This time, he has clearly been more dazzling.

He made the "First Team" 3 times, the "Second Team" 2 times, and once the "Third Team", and in the first 8 years of his career without injury troubles, he won the Championship Trophy!