148: Crazy Summer under the Influence of the Butterfly Effect (Votes for Monthly Tickets Please!)_2

They decided to wait another year, making the decision wasn't difficult.

After that came the various crazy transactions of the summer of '96.

As he promised, Reggie Miller stayed in Indianapolis.

When interviewed by reporters, he even deliberately taunted Jordan, "If Patrick calls me to New York, I'd say go to hell"

There was no doubt this enraged Jordan, poor Reggie Miller didn't know he was already on Jordan's hit list.

The Miami Heat retained Mourning with a hundred-million-dollar contract and were prepared to secure Juwan Howard with another hundred-million-dollar deal.

But the Bullets appealed to the league, claiming that the bonuses in the contracts offered by the Heat to players like Tim Hardaway were above the normal value and should be considered as part of the salary cap; therefore, the Heat didn't have enough cap space to sign Juwan Howard. As a result, Howard returned to the Bullets.