I’m Really Playing Basketball

After the draft, the NBA has since entered the turmoil of the free market.

This year's NBA free market is very lively. For example, the Bucks' top four, former best defensive player, best team player, All-Star, and Dream Chaser Green, after their contract with the Bucks expired, the Bucks There is no intention to renew his contract.

Because Dream Green wants a five-year, 120 million contract. This contract is indeed a bit big for the Warriors. Of course, the Bucks hope to keep Dream Green, but the problem is that the Bucks have already There are three players with big contracts, Durant, Curry and Antetokounmpo.

The contracts of these three people have exceeded 100 million US dollars. Although the contracts of Ariza, Iguodala, Brogdon, Connaughton and others are not large, the Bucks actually have a lot of salary space.

The Bucks do not have the financial resources of the Warriors. If possible, the Bucks actually hope to retain Durant, Curry and Antetokounmpo and save on other players.

If Green is willing to cut his salary, the Bucks can keep him, but obviously Green doesn't seem to have such an idea.

There is no way around this. After all, Durant, Curry and Antetokounmpo have all had their salaries reduced.

In fact, Durant and Curry made less than 15 million in total in one year.

Antetokounmpo also made 3 million less in a year.

In this case, if you chase Green and pursue such a big contract, wouldn't this embarrass the Bucks?

However, the matter may not necessarily mean that there is no special plane at all. Although Dream Green is a completely free player, if he really wants to abandon the Bucks, he may not be able to get such a big contract.

Dream Green's defense is really good, but his offensive performance in the past two seasons is obviously poor.

For such a player, there are really not many teams that dare to offer him an average salary of more than 20 million.

In this case, Dream Green may not be able to leave the Bucks.

In short, it is precisely because they know the characteristics of Dream-Chasing Green that the Bucks are not in a hurry. They will delay it first. If they really leave, they will leave. If they can't leave, they will stay and accept a contract that they deserve.

In short, the Bucks are really not in a hurry now, and they have got Dream Green under control.

In addition to the big fish chasing Dream Green, an important player of the defending championship team, there are many other big fish in this year's free market.

For example, take Leonard, the head player of this year's runner-up team.

Leonard is planning to jump out of the last year of his contract. He probably is not planning to leave the Lakers. After all, everything is going well with the Lakers. He is just jumping out of the contract and wants to sign a bigger contract.

As the new head of the Lakers, his performance in the playoffs last season was outstanding, and he is indeed worthy of the maximum salary.

But it's obvious that Leonard's super-max salary puts great pressure on the Lakers' salary.

This also has hidden dangers for the Lakers' future team building.

But you can't always expect any player to cut their salary for the team like Luo Ge, Durant, Curry, Antetokounmpo and others.

The team's salary reduction is a matter of affection, but not a salary reduction is a duty.

Kyrie Irving is in the same situation as Leonard. Kyrie Irving also chose to opt out of the last year of his contract with the Nets. Of course, the Nets are in good shape now, and his cooperation with Ingram is just right. The understanding is getting better and better. In this case, Irving only wants the maximum salary after breaking out of the contract, not wanting to leave.

Compared with these people, the Bobcats' major star players are completely different. Kemba Walker and Horford will definitely leave the team.

After Cousins ​​was seriously injured, he wanted to stay with the team, but the Bobcats, who were already preparing to rebuild, seemed to have no interest in keeping Cousins.

Cousins ​​​​is really unlucky in his current situation. He suffered such a major injury in his contract year.

He is a big center, and then he didn't play for almost a season. The injury was still the kind of serious injury that greatly affects his athletic ability and career. ‘

Under this circumstance, except for the Bobcats, other teams dare not offer Cousins ​​a big contract.

In fact, it's not like the Bobcats haven't offered Cousins ​​a contract.

The Bobcats offered Cousins ​​a five-year, $200 million contract, and when Cousins ​​was injured, the Bobcats wanted to reward him for working hard for the team, even though they knew his injury would have a great impact on his career. In view of his contribution to the team, he is also willing to give him a five-year sub-maximum contract.

But Cousins ​​wanted a supermax salary of $250 million over five years, and then directly rejected the Bobcats' offer.

There is really no way around this.

For the Bobcats, Cousins ​​is not Chen Xiao, Roy and Rose, Roy, Rose and Chen Xiao. The Bobcats are willing to support their contributions with the maximum salary, but you, Cousins, really don’t deserve it. Maximum salary.

In the end, both sides fell into embarrassment.

Of course, the most embarrassing thing at this time is definitely Cousins, as the Bobcats have rebuilt.

Cousins' agent asked around and found that no team was willing to offer him a long-term contract.

Even the best contract is a three-year, 60 million contract with a team option in the last year. How can Cousins ​​bear this?

In addition, this year's unrestricted free agents include Danilo Russell, Middleton, Harris, Porzingis, Vucevic, Gasol, Bogdanovic, Harry Excellent elite players like Barnes, Mirotic, Valanciunas, Rudy Gay and Rubio.

Let's put it this way, if your team has enough salary space this year, as long as it can sign three to five of these players, the reconstruction will basically be completed.

This is a good year in NBA free agency.

Of course, it is not easy to sign these players.

It is precisely because there are so many big fish in this year's free market that everyone is also paying attention to which team will be more crazy in this year's free market.

Soon, this year’s most shocking first draw appeared.

The defending champion Bucks and Bobcats free agent Horford signed a two-year full mid-level contract.

Horford originally chose to go to the Bobcats just to win a championship. Now after wasting so many years with the Bobcats, he still wants a championship.

The Bucks are now the strongest team in the league.

Just as the contract between the Bucks and Dream Green expired, Horford chose to cut in seamlessly.

The Bucks signed Horford, which made Dream Green a little embarrassed.

Originally he wanted a high salary, but now that the Bucks have signed Horford, they are definitely not asking Horford to come on the bench.

Wouldn't that be too luxurious?

Cousins ​​was reimbursed last season. Although the Bobcats did not make the playoffs, Horford's performance was still very good. He averaged 15 points, 7 rebounds and 4.5 assists in 32 minutes per game, and shot 40% from three-point range. The field goal percentage was 54%.

Apart from being inferior to Green on defense, Horford has no shortcomings on offense.

When Antetokounmpo has fully grown up, Antetokounmpo and Dream Green are paired inside. The offense is really miserable, so much that Durant and Curry are under great offensive pressure.

That is to say, if they meet the Lakers in this year's finals, if they meet the Warriors and the two teams attack in the end, to be honest, the Bucks may not be able to win the championship.

With Horford, Antetokounmpo has room to break through, the offense is opened up, and the offensive pressure on Durant and Curry is also reduced.

If Chen Xiao was replaced by Ray Allen, and he had to choose between Horford and Dream Chaser Green, he would also choose Horford.

Besides, Horford is cheap.

Of course, although Horford signed a two-year contract, he will definitely only play for one year at such a relatively low salary. After winning the championship, he will definitely break out of the contract and get a big contract.

But this is no loss to the Bucks.

It will be fine if you use it for one year. Now the Bucks are racking their brains to defend the championship at a relatively low cost.

The Bucks may even stop triggering the luxury tax this year.

Of course, this is impossible. With Durant Curry and Antetokounmpo, how can it be possible not to trigger the luxury tax, but just pay more and pay less.

The Bucks shouldn't hand over much this year.

Originally, he went out for a walk, but when he came back, he found that his home had been robbed. Dream Green is now as embarrassed as Cousins.

Even Dream Chaser Green didn't know where he was going.

Then Dream Green's mother couldn't bear it anymore. She felt that her son had made such a great contribution to the Bucks, so why should he be treated like this if he wanted a high salary?

After expressing her dissatisfaction with the Bucks, Green's mother said something very sinister behind her Twitter: "Before you came to the team, we were the championship!"

This was certainly not said to Durant and Curry, but to Horford.

Isn't this just mocking Horford for coming to the Bucks to hug him?

Even if you win the championship, you still can't hold your head high.

This actually hurt Horford quite a bit, but now that Dream Chasing is no longer a Bucks player, the damage to Horford is not that great.

After all, you are no longer a Bucks player. You are forcing a ball, and neither Durant nor Curry Antetokounmpo has spoken.

In short, after this year's free market opens, the most exciting team is the Bucks.

The Bucks are now the most popular team in the NBA. This team is strong, has many stars, and has many jokes.

Green's mother, Durant's mother, Curry's mother, these three mothers are all celebrities.

Mother Green is a representative of the tiger mother type that James’ mother used to be.

Durant’s mother is the representative of loving mothers.

And Curry’s mother is... lustful?

Let’s put it this way, Curry’s mother’s current boyfriend is the husband of Curry’s father’s current girlfriend.

Taste it carefully, it’s terrifying to think about it carefully.

Even the American media, which has always been open, can't stand these four public figures playing this kind of game so blatantly.

Due to pressure from public opinion, Curry's father and mother are preparing to divorce.

But in this kind of play, if two of you get divorced and two of you get married, is there any difference?

Well, I can only say that Curry’s parents are quite good at playing, haha.

Of course, these are all reports from the American media. As for whether they are true, no one knows anyway. No matter how open it is, they will not talk nonsense when playing this kind of game.

Even people with such a good relationship between Chen Xiao and the Curry family don't know.

In short, just wish them well with Curry.

It's not illegal here in the United States.

Anyway, here in the United States, there are many people who play very openly. Wade in history played even more openly.

It's okay to be surprised.

The free market continues, and after the Bucks stole the show, the Dallas Mavericks, the lottery team in the Western Conference last season, showed their lethality.

Cuban and the Mavericks successively signed three star players: Cousins ​​​​and Dream Green, as well as Barnes.

The Mavericks, originally rebuilt with Doncic in mind, will see a significant increase in strength after signing these three and adding Doncic, even if Nowitzki retires next season.

In the West, the Mavericks with Cousins, Dream Green, Harris-Barnes and Doncic definitely have a certain fighting capacity.

While other teams in the league are scrambling for free agency this summer.

Ye Xiao and the Warriors are keeping a low profile.

Anyway, the league now feels that the Warriors are retiring and rebuilding, and the future championship this year will have nothing to do with this team.

After all, teams like the Bucks are strengthening, while the Warriors seem to be declining all the time.

However, now that the Warriors have lost the pressure to win the championship, the players are very relaxed.

Chen Xiao, Wade and Luo Ge followed the team's young players to the summer league in July.

Nongmei and Clay were having fun all over California. Clay stayed in a nightclub, while Nongmei was looking for games to play. Anyway, there was basically no basketball-related news for the two of them during the offseason. It is estimated that during the offseason After coming back, the two of them had to gain weight a few more times.

To be fair, after the Warriors won four consecutive championships, Klay and Big Eyebrow, who have no desires and desires, have indeed become more wanton.

Especially thick eyebrows.

However, if you have thick eyebrows, you will do the same.

After all, you are not the boss of the team, and you have no responsibility for the team. You do not need to be responsible for the team. In this case, there seems to be no need to fight for anything. You have money, championships, and a lot of other things. Celebrity, isn’t your life complete and ready to enjoy it?

Of course, compared to thick eyebrows, Clay actually has more fighting spirit.

Thick eyebrows are not actually a matter of fighting spirit now. As an insider, his life and professional attitude have caused him to start suffering from injuries.

And this is the hardest thing for the Warriors to accept.

Last season, thick eyebrows suffered injuries. The future of thick eyebrows is very worrying.

Then, the development of things is always so unexpected.

In the 2019-2020 season, the whole world was hit by the epidemic.

The NBA eventually shrunk again, and even the playoffs were held in the park.

With various NBA teams experiencing confirmed cases from time to time, this year's championship ultimately went to the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers have not had any confirmed cases this season, which is simply unbelievable among other NBA teams. The self-discipline of Cavaliers players such as James, Oden, and Conley is terrible.

At the beginning, Chen Xiao also felt that this team had completed its sublimation, but he had no choice but to always have bad luck.

But this time the epidemic has given this team an advantage.

In the playoffs in the park, other teams still often trigger safety regulations and bans.

The Cavaliers made it to the end completely, and finally defeated the Lakers 4-2 in the finals.

In the finals, the Lakers' Paul George triggered his health clause, Leonard was injured, and Jokic was the only one left in the Big Three.

As for Chen Xiao and the Warriors, Clay was reimbursed for the season and his thick eyebrows triggered the health protocol.

In the end, the Warriors and the Lakers fought for 7 games in the Western Conference Finals, and after injuring Leonard, they were eliminated again.

In short, this season that was ravaged by the epidemic ended in a hurry. After the end, many experts said that this season was the least valuable season in NBA history.

Every team except the Cavaliers, the grandpa team, is uneven.

But no matter what, there is still an NBA championship born this season.

In the 17th season of his career, James finally won his second career championship.

It was also his first championship away from Chen Xiao.

After 17 years of taking root in the Cavaliers, this season is finally complete.

There is no doubt that this season, relying on the integrity of the team, James won the MVP and FMVP. He has achieved 2 MVPs, 2 championships, and 1 FMVP in his career.

Therefore, even though there was not a single Cavaliers fan present, James still broke down in tears on the court after winning the championship.

He has always paid attention to his image and no longer cares whether he looks super ugly when he cries.

Think about the past.

After leaving Chen Xiao, it was really, really difficult for him!