Volume 5: Unrivaled

Volume 5: Peerless — Chapter 736: Not a Single One Will Remain. "What if Klay were replaced by Stephen? If Stephen tore his Achilles tendon, what would you do? Would you still keep building around him?" As Riley spoke, he rose to leave Zhang Yu's office, but before leaving, he asked a question: This had allowed him to produce many iconic moments that would go down in history, but it had also led to plenty of extremely ugly games. "To achieve extraordinary things, one must take extraordinary measures. If you want to build a dynasty in the twenty-first century, how can you avoid taking risks? Only the incompetent cling stubbornly to the old ways!" ...No matter how his agent tried to persuade him, he refused to budge. He insisted on a max contract and an unquestioned starting role, or he would never renew with the Warriors. He felt that Zhang Yu's offer was already generous enough. A four-year, $100 million contract was a gamble for a player who had suffered a severe Achilles injury. After the trade market opened, under Zhang Yu's instructions, Riley began extension negotiations with Wiggins's agent, Beal Duffy, but the two sides remained divided. An hour and a half later, the plane landed at San Francisco International Airport, and the three went their separate ways. The agent froze, then said in surprise: Although he had suffered a major injury that could potentially end his career, his ambitions had not diminished in the slightest. He remained supremely confident, looked down on any offer below the max, and even considered competing with Jaylen Brown for a starting spot an insult. Klay sneered. "You know that's not what I mean. It's just that Klay has only just suffered a serious Achilles rupture. Whether he can recover, and how much