Bishop of the Devil

If Turner is on a team that has always been his core, Richard feels that the statistics that Turner can produce will definitely be quite dazzling.

Although Turner is currently favored by Richard, even Turner is actually the 11th overall pick, a proper lottery pick. Naturally, it is impossible for Richard to get Turner with the picks in hand.

Apart from Turner's future players, Richard doesn't have much interest, so he might as well not go this time.

Let Walton select Bobby Portis with the 21st pick of the Grizzlies.

This player was quite good, and he and Mirotic were called brothers in later generations.

Of course, their blood brothers are different in nature from the Warriors' water brothers.

The Splash Brothers got their name from the fact that three points are like water splashing when it rains.

The bloody brothers were fighting fiercely for the position of the team's starting power forward, and blood was spattered...

Next, the Clippers brought the No. 28 pick in the first round. Richard hesitated for a long time among Kevin Looney, Montrezl Harrell and Josh Richardson.

Each of these three has its own shortcomings. For example, Looney has no three-pointers and his overall strength is weak.

Harrell, as a discarded player from the Rockets, was sent to the Clippers under normal circumstances in the deal between the Clippers and the Rockets regarding Paul.

As a result, no one expected that this guy could average 16.6 points and 6.5 rebounds per game as a substitute player for the Clippers. His key shooting percentage was quite good, reaching a total shooting percentage of 61.5%...

Because he is only playing the fourth position with his height of 2.03cm, he can't expect his defense to be very good. It can't be said to be bad, it's probably above average.

And the most important thing is that he has no three-point ability. He can shoot three-pointers but cannot make them, and his shooting rate is very bad.

In the end, Richard made his decision and chose Josh Richardson.

Josh Richardson is not a particularly talented player. Whether it is offense or defense, he can only be said to be at an above-average level.

The biggest reason why he was later selected as a core outside player by the Heat was probably because his contract was relatively cheap...

When he was with the Heat, because he was selected in the second round, Richardson's rookie contract was only three years. Later, when his rookie contract ended, he accepted a four-year, $40 million contract from the Heat...

Ten million dollars a year, but can provide a stable score of 16+ per game, which is simply a bargain.

In later generations, salaries have risen sharply, and even decent young players can earn tens of millions of dollars in annual salary...

Now that Richard has taken Josh Richardson, it actually means that this young man is not greedy, and it will be easier to make subsequent appointments in the future.

And because of the capture of Portis, Richard didn't need much inside players, so he chose Richardson to serve as a substitute for Thompson.

After acquiring Portis and Richardson, Richard simply let Walton Jr. choose the remaining second-round pick, No. 27, without bothering to give any advice.

Because there are really no players that Richard wants with the 27th pick in this round...

The 2015 draft has officially come to an end, and Richard's gains, at least in his own opinion, can only be said to be better than nothing.

In the next 15-16 season, in the eyes of fans, the league is still dominated by the Clippers and Spurs, and these two teams started off very vigorously.

However, at the end of the season, Klay Thompson, one of the Clippers' perimeter offensive powerhouses, was injured.

Richard did not use the injury scroll for Thompson this time. He wanted to see whether the lineup without Thompson would be a match for the Spurs.

The result made Richard very disappointed...

In the tiebreaker of the Western Conference Finals, the Spurs defeated the Clippers and qualified for the Finals.

Obviously, the Clippers lost the opportunity to create a dynasty, which made many Clippers fans feel extremely regretful.

They were just one step away from the dynasty, and were eliminated by the Spurs.

Richard doesn't care much about it. If the dynasty is not a dynasty, Richard definitely doesn't care anymore.

In the following offseason, Richard offered Leonard and Thompson a four-year maximum salary each.

After giving these two maximum salaries, because the Clippers have so many newcomers, their salary space still has not triggered the luxury line.

The rookie contracts of newcomers, excluding the expensive contracts of high-ranking rookies, the contracts of other newcomers are basically similar to free labor, and they are all quite cheap...

At this time next year, Chasing Green's rookie contract will also expire. It will not be a problem for the Clippers to renew Chasing Green's contract by then.

The main reason is that beginning next year, that is, the 2016-2017 season, the NBA salary cap will increase significantly, from US$70 million to US$94 million, which means that each team suddenly has an additional quota for the maximum salary.

This is also the reason why the situation of team groups becomes more and more serious in the future.

Even if they originally wanted to form a team, due to the salary space not allowing it, except for a few teams, there was no way to form a team.

But now that the salary space has increased significantly, a team without two or three first-line stars is embarrassed to say that it is ready to compete for the championship.

Think about it when Leonard and the others first entered the league, that is, in the 2011-2012 season, the team's salary cap was only 58 million US dollars. In the blink of an eye, in just five years, the salary cap has skyrocketed to 94 million US dollars, which is simply terrifying.

In the next two seasons, Richard's Clippers record was still very outstanding, but he never won the championship. In the past two years, the Spurs won two consecutive championships. Duncan finally won his own dynasty before retiring. .

This is a true three-peat dynasty, not the pseudo-dynasty of the Spurs or Warriors under normal circumstances.

Is there really nothing Richard can do to stop the Spurs' dynasty? Of course not. Richard has not done anything in team transactions and drafts in the past two years. He has always maintained the Clippers' current lineup and has not made any reinforcements on the bench.

Of course, the Spurs' strong lineup is also a very important reason. Otherwise, Richard's current lineup alone would be enough to beat the entire league.

Not winning the championship is also a good thing for Richard. At least he has an explanation with that old boy Xiao Hua.

However, after the creation of the Spurs' three consecutive championship dynasty, all three GDP players except Parker retired, and Parker also switched to the Hornets.

They couldn't retain all of the Spurs' four young players, leaving only Kemba Walker and Jimmy Butler...

There is no doubt that the Spurs have declined.

In the 18-19 season, after the Spurs declined, the Trail Blazers successfully took over the Spurs' team, forming a two-power competition with the Clippers in the Western Conference.

But before the start of this season, something happened that made Richard's family extremely heartbroken.

Paul Allen dies…