With the 1985-86 season coming to an end, the NBA entered a long offseason, the busiest time of the year for team management.

After a few wonderful nights at Zhou Chen's home in Los Angeles, Madonna finally left and continued her tour to various cities.

As Zhou Chen's agent, Jenny Bass will not only participate in the construction of the team offseason, but also help Zhou Chen continue to undertake and respond to various business activities.

Zhou Chen and Monica Bellucci took a few days off and began a wonderful vacation time for two.

Regarding the team building and recruitment of the Lakers next season, Zhou Chen did not interfere and participate too much.

Now that he has broken the last layer of doubt and won the highest honor, he feels that as long as the team maintains the original team, the results next season will definitely not be too bad.

The biggest question for the Lakers in the offseason is the question of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's stay.

After the regular season, Abdul-Jabbar "Skyhook" officially turned 39 years old, and after a major ankle injury last season, many people are skeptical that he will be able to return to the field.

But judging by the performance in the playoffs, Abdul-Jabbar does still have oil in his tank.

Especially the further back in the playoffs, the more important it is for the team to have a veteran.

There is an old family and a treasure.

After a few days of deliberation, Abdul-Jabbar officially announced that he will not retire next season, his injury recovery is not bad, and the results of yoga training throughout the year have kept his physical flexibility good.

The Lakers eventually agreed to a three-year, $5 million annual contract extension with the all-time scoring champion, and Abdul-Jabbar will continue to play for the Lakers for the next three seasons.

Due to the outrageous inflation of prices in recent years, the value of NBA players has also risen.

Zhou Chen is still under a child labor contract, with an annual salary of less than $1 million, and the majority of the Lakers' salary is still paid by Magic Johnson, Abdul-Jabbar and James Worthy.

However, after playing next season, Zhou Chen has the opportunity to sign a maximum salary contract with the Lakers in advance.

At that time, judging from Zhou Chen's personal ability and worth, the next contract is very likely to refresh the record of NBA players' salaries.

Although the Magic has retired, the Lakers still need to pay the rest of his salary.

However, the main source of Zhou Chen's annual salary, the salary given by the team is only a small part, which comes from off-court commercial endorsements and advertising fees, far exceeding his salary.

Now he also owns Nike's share of the company, and can get millions of dollars from Nike every year.

After winning the championship, Zhou Chen's value has risen even higher, once topping the top ten of the world's rich list under the age of 25, and his worth has reached tens of millions of US dollars, looking at the entire sports industry of this era, it is second to none.

Another big news piece of the offseason was the trade between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Washington Bullets.

In order to correct the team's super rookie Charles Barkley, the Philadelphia 76ers were painfully defeated after being eliminated last season.

In a fit of anger, he unexpectedly broke up the winning combination of Dr. J and Ma Long.

The legendary 31-year-old center, who is at the end of his career, was traded by Philadelphia management to the Washington Bullets for a very low chip.

For that, they also had to pay two first-round picks.

Last season, Moses Malone averaged 23.8 points and 11.8 rebounds per game to make the All-Star starting lineup.

No one expected that the Phillies would trade the biggest contributor to the 1983 NBA championship for the 3-time regular season MVP.

Although Barkley, known as the "flying pig" in the air, has grown rapidly and made obvious progress, the ruthless operation of the Philadelphia management is too unkind, and there is a taste of unloading and killing donkeys.

After the news of the trade broke, the Philadelphia 76ers also caused public anger in the league.

Although Philadelphia management later came out to explain that Malone had been injured, this reason was a little too high-sounding.

The 1986 draft, the most tragic in NBA history, was hailed as a disaster year in draft history.

Before the draft, there was a player named Len Byas who was known as a "once-in-a-century genius", and the limelight was no less than Jordan in college.

Byas, who is 2.03 meters tall, has a better height and arm span, more outstanding athletic talent and shooting ability than Jordan and Zhou Chen.

In 1981, when Jordan and Zhou Chen were freshmen, their University of North Carolina met the University of Maryland, led by Byas.

At that time, the University of North Carolina was a star-studded university, and the starting four players later entered the NBA to shine.

That season, before meeting the University of Maryland, the University of North Carolina remained undefeated.

But in that game, the University of Maryland, led by Byas, single-handedly, abused the University of North Carolina.

Byas' personal performance completely crushed Jordan, slamming 47 points in a single game and limiting Jordan's score to 19 points.

After the game, in an interview, Jordan also made a rare "confession": "

Lost to Byas? That's normal, and I can't beat him one-on-one during normal training. The

NCAA's famous coach Coach K once said: "I have coached the NCAA for so many years, and the only players who can really be called great are Michael Jordan and Len Byas." Later

, Byas slowly became known as a god, and many people regarded him as Jordan's lifelong enemy.

When Zhou Chen and Jordan shined in the NBA, many people were looking forward to Byas entering the NBA scene where he faced Zhou Chen and Jordan after his college career.

The Celtics' old fox Auerbach struggled to trade Barra to the 1986 draft pick in order to get the chosen son.

Everyone knows the later ending, Byas died young two days after being selected by the Greenshirts because of an overdose of cocaine.

He also became the only person in NBA history who had not played an NBA game and was retired.

In his freshman year, when he was just a little drunkard at the end of the bench, Zhou Chen once had a relationship with Byas.

From all the signs in him, Byas didn't look like an addict at the time.

Zhou Chen didn't know what happened to Byas in the next few years.

However, he always felt that Byas's death was a little strange.

Because the Celtics at this time are already strong enough, if they choose this once-in-a-century genius again, it is very likely to open the Greenshirt dynasty.

So in later generations, many people believed that Byas's death was a premeditated murder, and there were people in the alliance who wanted to stop the rise of the Green Shirts.

In order to verify his thoughts, Zhou Chen decided to end his vacation early and personally go to this year's draft to take a look.

By the way, help the Lakers find a lost pearl.

The "rebounding devil" from Oklahoma State University must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the bad boys.

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