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In the trade with the Lakers, the Grizzlies received three inside players in Mark Hill, Kwame Brown, and Pachulia to balance their contracts, as well as two first-round picks in 2008 and 2010, and a first-round pick in 2009.

swap rights in return.

But in fact, for the Grizzlies, the real valuable assets are only two first-round picks and three-year blue-collar insiders Mark Hill, Kwame Brown and Pachulia, who are not with the Grizzlies.

in the long-term plan.

However, there is no shortage of market in the league for insiders like Kwame Brown who are tall, strong, defensive, and good at rebounding. The Grizzlies are willing to include him in the trade.

The Menglong team immediately joined the transaction.

After the introduction of Lewis, the Menglong team formed the league's softest striker combination of "Lewis Posh Bagliani". The inside line was often "exploded" by opponents, and the team's record could not improve! Obviously, the team needs a

"The one who does the dirty work", their original target was Anderson of the Eagles, but Ke Yan did not intend to trade away his "confidant".

Kwame Brown's offensive skills are too rough and he won't be able to eat the cake, but from a blue-collar perspective, he is still useful. He broke away from a superstar like Kobe who had extremely strict requirements on his teammates and came to Toronto, which is relatively loose.

The environment may also alleviate Brown's heavy psychological burden. From this perspective, the potential benefits of this deal for the Menglong team are very high!

Especially when the bargaining chip they paid was only Kapono, and they gave up the right to swap the team with the Eagles in the first round of the 2008 season, getting Kwame Brown to supplement the inside line was simply a "free prostitution"!

You must know that this swap right itself is impossible to fulfill. The Eagles' record is far better than the Menglong team, and the draft pick must be behind the Menglong team. Exercising the "swap right" is equivalent to giving benefits to the Eagles.

But when they gave up the swap rights in the deal, they liberated the Eagles! This allowed the Eagles to gain something other than players from the deal.

The Grizzlies and Mongolian Dragons were both willing to facilitate the deal, and neither the Eagles nor the Bulls resisted the deal. After mediation between the several parties, the main plan for the deal was basically finalized.

The Hawks sent: Gasol's signing rights, Brandon Bass, Kareem Rush, Prigioni; received: Sefolosha, Shannon Brown, Hajim Warrick, and unlocked the ball

The team's first-round pick in 2008.

The Grizzlies sent: Kwame Brown, Hajime Warrick, David Navarro, the Lakers' 10-year first-round pick; received: Gasol's signing rights, Brandon Bass, Kapono, Pu

Riggioni.

The Menglong gave up the first-round swap rights with the Eagles in 2008 and sent out: Garbajosa and Kapono; they received Kwame Brown and Karim Rush.

The Bulls sent: Sefolosha, Shannon Brown; received Garbajosa, David Navarro, and the Lakers' 10-year first-round pick.

On January 11, this huge deal involving 4 teams and 9 players was reported to the league, and media reporters also learned the contents of the deal immediately!

As early as when the Grizzlies completed the deal with the Lakers, media reporters guessed that the Grizzlies' deal was not over yet. The team had accumulated a large number of insiders. At the same time, Gasol's departure also made Nava, who is also a Spaniard,

Luo Xinsheng wants to leave. In this case, it is inevitable that the team will make further operations!

But no one expected that the Grizzlies would make such a big noise! ​​This deal also sparked heated discussions in the league.

TNT’s Buckley explained the deal on the show:

"In my opinion, the main purpose of the Eagles' transaction is to improve the team's wing defense! This season, the Eagles' wing defense has obvious loopholes, and has been beaten by multiple outside stars one after another! Losing Stevens

After that, the team cannot improve the team's defensive intensity as quickly as last season! Sefolosha is an underrated defender, and I think he can play a better defensive role than Stevens! Whether it is

Whether he faces Ray Allen and Stojakovic in the playoffs, or faces Kobe and Ginobili in the Finals, he can play his role."

"Sacrificing Brandon Bass may be difficult for Ke Yan to accept, but Larry Sander brought him back Varrick. This young player has a similar body, similar playing style, and similar style to Bass.

The experience, the two even entered the league in the same year! I think Warrick may be able to take over Bass's role and even do a better job."

After completing a wave of transactions, rating the transactions is also the media's favorite thing to do, and this time is no exception. In this wave of transactions, the Eagles received a high rating of A, and the media could not find it from all angles.

Where did the Eagles "lose money"?

Even the Boston media who are hostile to the Hawks can only say that the Hawks are missing Prigioni. Once Paul is injured, they will not have a guard who can control the court.

Well, this is indeed a hidden danger. But if you use this standard, Durant, the 73-win Warriors, has flaws!

The Grizzlies got a C rating. To put it bluntly, the media and fans don't know what they got in this deal. It seems that the only valuable gain is Brandon Bass, but he has the same style of play as Millsap.

They are similar and cannot be used together, so what is the point of trading them?

Except for Ke Yan and the Grizzlies management themselves, most people would not have thought that the Grizzlies' real goal was to "trade for" Gasol.

The Mongolian Dragons' trade rating is B. This is not difficult to understand. After Lewis joined, the playing time of Kapono and Garbajosa was greatly reduced, and the value of the draft swap rights with the Hawks itself was also "0". With these

If you bet on Kwame Brown's potential with chips, you may not make a profit, but you will definitely not lose!

The Bulls were given a "B" rating, which is not bad. Sefolosha has the potential to become a strong defensive player, but the Bulls themselves are "defending the strong and attacking the weak", so Sefolosha is used in the key position of shooting guard.

Such players will only amplify the problem. The two Spanish stars will join together, firstly, they can keep each other company, and secondly, they can lubricate the Bulls' too rough offense.

Fans and the media expressed their opinions on the result of the transaction. In the eyes of the head coaches of several strong teams, the Eagles' transaction was aimed at themselves.

Phil Jackson, for example, started talking during training. Ke Yan was afraid of meeting the Lakers in the Finals, so he made this deal to prepare more manpower to target Kobe.

"Since our opponents recognize us so much, we have to believe in ourselves even more! We can break out of the Western Conference. Kobe is not Shane Battier, but Sefolosha and his like can limit us, right?" Phil Jackson said.

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Also giving the players chicken soup is Rivers of the Celtics. They played two games with the Hawks this season, and after two "fights", the two sides were at loggerheads! Rivers was in training.

Hao Yitong belittled the Hawks' operations, but found Ainge after the training and asked the team to further strengthen the lineup.

"I have to say that our opponent is really strong. It was really difficult for us to play against the Eagles." Rivers said truthfully.

"Now I will try to contact some veterans. Some of them will try to push for a buyout with the team and then join the team." Angie said.

He vomited blood and formed the Big Three. It is inevitable that the Celtics' bench strength is insufficient. Anji does not have the vision of Ke Yan as a "time traveler", so he can only rely on his own connections to strengthen him. His "vision" is definitely not as good as that of Ke Yan.

As for Popovich, he doesn’t have much opinion on the Hawks’ reinforcements. Zhugevich has not yet recovered from the Lakers’ “robbing” Gasol trade, and his eyes are also set on the Lakers!

After acquiring Gasol, the Lakers made a "sudden improvement" in their inside strength. The Spurs' "Duncan Oberto" configuration may not be able to withstand it. Popovich also made two plans. On the one hand, he paid attention to the player buyout market.

On the other hand, it plans to give the team's young inside man Mahinmi more training opportunities.

You have to pass the Lakers first before you have a chance to meet the Eagles!

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The transaction documents still need to be confirmed by the league, and the players still need to pass a physical examination before they can officially join. Therefore, when the Eagles challenged the Nets away from home on January 12, the Eagles were missing three players.

But among the three players sent away, only Buss is an important role in the Hawks' formation. If, just if, if a new team is added to the league, each team has an "8-man protection list",

Only Bass can squeeze into this eight-man list.

In this game, the two sides fought fiercely, but the difference was that the Eagles defended.

Buss was away, and Ke Yan increased Garnett's playing time. The Wolf King devoted most of his experience to defense. He scored 25 points on 10 of 21 shots in the game. The shooting rate was really not high, but he was comprehensive on the defensive end.

Suppressed the Nets' attack;

The Nets were overwhelmed by the Hawks' torrential offensive. They only resisted for two and a half quarters and fell behind by as many as 24 points. The game lost suspense early on.

Paul continued his solid performance, making 8 of 14 shots, including 3 of 6 three-pointers, and 4 of 4 free throws. He efficiently scored a double-double of 20 points and 12 assists. He clocked in three quarters and helped the team beat the Nets 117:89.

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On January 14, the Hawks visited Madison Square Garden to challenge the New York Knicks.

After several consecutive seasons of spending money and then ending miserably, Dolan followed Yinsaiah Thomas's suggestion and formulated a long-term plan for "Keyan LeBron". The team plans to use 1 to 2 seasons to clean up the long-term garbage in its hands.

contract to prepare for welcoming Ke Yan in the summer of 2009 and signing James in the summer of 2010.

What is the way to deal with garbage contracts? Either give away the draft picks, or exchange "garbage contracts", which is what the Knicks did. They are now committed to using the garbage contracts in their hands to exchange for garbage that expires in 2009 or 2010.

The contract will help free up the most salary space for Keyan to operate.

Such a team naturally does not have the fighting capacity to show off. After defeating the Nets in three quarters of the previous game, the Eagles once again "checked out in three quarters" in this game and easily widened the point difference.

Because of this, the team's three new players, Sefolosha, Shannon Brown, and Warrick, all got 15 minutes of playing time in their Eagles debut.

Sefolosha's performance was mediocre. He made 1 of 4 shots in the game and scored 3 points and 2 rebounds. The poor strength of the Knicks made his defensive skills not very obvious;

Shannon Brown and Warrick had outstanding performances respectively. Before the game, Shannon Brown was encouraged by Ke Yan, actively engaged in physical confrontation, and ran forward when there was a chance to counterattack quickly. This arrangement just

He has strong running and jumping ability, and his characteristics of quick impact have come into play. Shannon Brown made 2 of 3 shots and scored 5 points, 1 steal and 2 rebounds. All the points came from attacking the frame after counterattack (including a 21)

Shannon Brown is not favored by the outside world, but Ke Yan is quite optimistic that he will become a good substitute. Varrick is purely to balance the contract and fill Bass's position. However, in this game, Varrick

His performance was not bad. Although he made 0 of 4 shots on the offensive end and only scored one point on free throws, his attitude was very good. He "turned into a rebounding maniac" when he had no chance to score on the offensive end and grabbed 6 rebounds in the whole game.

After confirming the news of joining the Eagles, Warrick watched a lot of videos of Josh Smith playing with the Eagles. He felt that his style of play was similar to that of Josh Smith and that he could imitate the other player's play.

The final score was fixed at 101:134. The Hawks defeated the Knicks by 33 points in the away game, becoming the first team in the league to win 30 games this season. (30-9)

Everyone is talking about the decline of the Eagles' bench and the lack of strength in the regular season, but it seems that even so, they are still ahead of the league.