Chapter 487: The Boss's Story
In addition to renewing the contract of the veteran driver, the Mavericks have also signed Dwight Powell and Deron Williams in succession.
Dwight Powell, 25, was a second-round pick in the 2014 NBA Draft and played as a power forward for the Celtics and Mavericks. Last season, he gradually became the main rotation in the Mavericks' frontcourt, playing in 69 regular season games, starting two games, averaging 14.4 minutes per game, contributing 5.8 points and four rebounds.
His new four-year contract with the Mavericks is worth more than $37 million. There is a player option in Year 4.
Powell was in the same session as Xu Xuan, and he was the No. 15 show in the second round that year, which was a little worse than Xu Xuan's signing, but this guy's performance was quite good, at least there was no pit.
On the other hand, De Xiaopang also signed with the Mavericks on a one-year short-term contract with an annual salary of $10 million.
Delon recently turned 32 and played 11 seasons in the NBA, making a name for himself with the Jazz as one of the league's top point guards, making five All-Star teams and alongside Chris Paul. However, in the 2010-11 season, he fell out with his veteran coach Sloan, and Sloan immediately announced his resignation in a fit of rage, and has since gone into hiding, which also became an important turning point in DeLong's career. He was then traded to the Nets, and his career began to decline. Coupled with the impact of various injuries and illnesses later, Delong gradually became obscure.
It's worth mentioning that Delon received an early bird clause for this extension, according to which he can veto all deals related to him this year.
Last summer, Delon decided to buy out his contract with the Nets and then joined the Mavericks on a short-term contract in an attempt to regain his spurs. Although it is impossible to return to his original peak, on the whole, he still played his own value in the Mavericks. Last season, he averaged 14.1 points and 5.8 assists per game.
In addition to renewing the veteran's contract, the Mavericks also signed Warriors veteran Barnes with a four-year contract with a total salary of 94 million.
This Barnes is not the same person as the Lakers' Barnes, this one is called Harrison Barnes.
Barnes was drafted by the Warriors with the seventh pick in the first round in 2012 and spent the first four seasons of his career with the Warriors. He started 246 of the Warriors' 307 games, averaging 10.1 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 28.1 minutes per game. In the 2015-16 season, Barnes averaged 30.9 minutes per game in 66 games, averting 11.7 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists, shooting 38.3% from three-point range, almost reaching career highs in all statistics.
Despite poor performance in the playoffs and Finals, Barnes, who is only 24 years old, is still widely favored in the free agent market, while the Mavericks, who lost their starting small forward Parsons, offered the most sincerity, quoting a four-year salary cap worth a total of $94 million over four years. And the Warriors have given up the right to match for Durant, and Barnes has naturally become a member of the Mavericks.
Barnes is a player with very good potential, but the salary cap is ...... This price is a bit high.
In Xu Xuan's eyes, his price is between 18 million and 20 million, and if there is more, it will be worth it, but the Mavericks are rich and capricious, and you can't help it.
And Barnes has surpassed Matthews, who signed for 4 years and 70 million last year, in the Mavericks with this super contract with an average salary of $23.5 million, and has become the team's highest-paid player in the team.
It's all free signings, and the Mavericks haven't traded much this season, with the only trade being from the Warriors to Bogut.
Since the Warriors managed to get Durant, but they don't have enough salary space right now to swallow Durant's max contract, they need to sell out what they already have. The first thing the Warriors planned to send was center Bogut, and Bogut also emptied Twitter about the Warriors at the first time, and it seems that it is a foregone conclusion that he will be traded.
While the Mavericks have suffered frequent setbacks in the free agent market and have never been able to get the starting center for next season, the deal is a win-win: the Mavericks get the starting center, and the Warriors clear the space. It's worth mentioning that in order to compensate the Mavericks in the trade, the Warriors also sent a draft pick.
At present, Bogut has one year left on his contract to expire, and Deron has only renewed his contract for one year, Cuban has said that the Mavericks will continue to look at the free agent market next year, so the Mavericks will continue to pursue the current policy of big names, and the current lineup at least looks like it has the power to fight.
At 7 p.m., the game was played at the Staples Center Arena.
The Mavericks only had eight players playing today, which is a small number.
The previous record was also not ideal, with only 1 win and 5 losses, ranking last in the West.
Xu Xuan said hello to the old driver, and after the two hugged for a while, they separated.
Speaking of which, this summer the Mavericks are also one of the many teams that are very eager to get Xu Xuan, and compared to other teams, the Mavericks are more enthusiastic about Xu Xuan, because strictly speaking, Xu Xuan was selected by the Mavericks in the draft, but the initiator was not them, but the New York Knicks.
The big screen showed the start of both teams this evening.
The Mavericks played away from home, with only eight players playing, and fielded a starting lineup of Jose Barria, Wesley Matthews, Harrison Barnes, veteran driver, and Bogut.
The Lakers sent Xu Xuan, Russell, Ingram, Randle and Yi Jianlian as regular starters.
When jumping the ball, Bogut and Yi Jianlian glanced at each other, these two are really old rivals, and three months ago at the Olympics, the two had a wave.
Beep!
As the referee's whistle blew, the basketball was thrown into the air, and the two jumped at the same time-
Syllable!
Yi Jianlian touched the ball in advance and slapped the ball to Xu Xuan.
The Lakers' first offense -
Bang bang!
Bang bang!
Bang bang!
Under the frantic cheering of the home fans, Xu Xuan slowly dribbled the ball through the half.
The Mavericks lineup defense spread out, and Xu Xuan dribbled twice in the frontcourt and gave a lot of Wesley Matthews who defended him.
The guy signed a big contract last year and then just withered, dropping four points per game from 16.4 to 12.5, which is a very fatal drop for a No. 2 scorer.
Averaging 16.4 points per game can say you're an All-Star reserve, but 12.5 points is just a role player.
Signing a role player for the price of an All-Star Reserve can only say that the Mavericks really have money.
The first attack Xu Xuan was not in a hurry, and beckoned Yi Jianlian's blocking.
The corners of Bogut's mouth twitched, don't, don't change your defense, don't change your defense, don't change your defense!
Bogut really didn't want to play against Xu Xuan, and he was afraid of being beaten in the Olympics.
However, Wesley Matthews is also very single, and he has no intention of going around the block and grabbing defense, and when he saw Yi Jian even blocking and dismantling, he didn't even hesitate, so he directly changed it.
Bogut: "......"
I want to die!
Knock, knock, knock!
Bogut closed his eyes - this familiar rhythm, familiar sound, Falk squid!
Not again!
Here he is again!
But no matter how much he didn't want to go, Bogut had to change it.
Die generously!
Heroic righteousness!
This is now Bogut.
Xu Xuan didn't rush to make a shot by himself, but passed the ball to Russell in the bottom corner, and took Bogut to the other side.
Obviously, Xu Xuan could feel a sigh of relief coming from Bogut.
Xu Xuan: "......"
Are you so afraid of me?
You're an all-star too!
Russell singled Barria for a mid-range jumper and scored.
On the opposite side is to use Wesley Matthews to defend himself, and it is naturally Barria to defend Russell.
There is no way, Xu Xuan's current height, many teams have no choice but to use the No. 2 position to defend.
For example, this Maverick, their point guard Barria is only 183 tall, while Xu Xuan is almost 196 now.
You have a 183-tall person defend a 196-tall ...... Unless you are Beverley, even if you are Beverley, in the few games he had with Durant in his previous life, did he really prevent Durant?
It's not just how many points you deserve?
0 to 2.
The Mavericks' offense is still more traditional, and the veteran driver occupies the absolute right to shoot, and after the first quarter, the two sides are tied at 25-27, and the Lakers lead by 2 points.
The veteran driver played well in the first quarter, making 3 of 5 singles and scoring 7 points.
Xu Xuan sometimes really admires these veterans, they are really very different from the current young players, of course, it is not that the current young players are not good, Xu Xuan himself is also a young player, just that these young players do not have the toughness of this group of old guys.
Especially the old driver and Duncan, these two old guys really performed very well at the moment of retirement, and they were like a day for ten years, which was terrifying.
Xu Xuan didn't shoot much in the first quarter, but he got a lot of assists and rebounds, 5 points, 4 assists, and 4 rebounds, which was a triple-double.
In the second quarter, Xu Xuan rested off the field, and the old driver over there also closed his eyes and recuperated under the massage of the team doctor.
This is really old, the old driver played about 7 minutes in the first quarter, and he had to go to the team doctor, I still remember the year when they overturned the Heat, the old driver was sick, so I didn't think about it for a few years, and the state declined greatly.
said that it was a decline, in fact, in Xu Xuan's memory, the old driver was still able to cut an average of 14+6 data per game this season, and the shooting rate was not low, with a shooting rate of 43.7% and a three-point shooting rate of 37.8%, and last season, which was just the past season, the average per game was able to cut 18+6 quasi-all-star data, you must know that the old drivers are 38 years old this year, and this state is amazing.
The game was played very well, but because there were only 8 people in the squad on the Mavericks' side, the old driver had to play early, otherwise the situation would not be stable.
Xu Xuan was sitting on the bench with the old god there, and compared with Ci Shiping behind him.
The results of the "vicious incident" that led to the last brawl in the last time Green committed a crime have come out, Ci Shiping was banned for 3 games, and Green was banned for 2 games.
In the final analysis, although Green deliberately fouled, Ci Shiping's behavior of rushing onto the court from the bench and smashing the basketball into Green's nose was still more serious, so Ci Shiping was banned one more game than Green.
In fact, if there was no brawl in the back, Green's pulling was at most a technical foul, which is a very common foul in the playoffs, but it was only after Ci Shiping rushed up that the time was too big.
"By the way, did you really see Jenny meet that old fellow?" Xu Xuan said suspiciously: "It can't be a lie, right?" โ
"Can I lie to you about this? I really saw it, on that day, the day of the sun, I was going to come to the stadium for a walk, but I saw it. Ci Shiping swore solemnly, "Not only did they meet, but they also seemed to go out together, but I didn't dare to star, I was driving, and the woman Jenny should know my license plate number." โ
"I'm rubbing! Didn't they break up? Why are we together again? Xu Xuan said with interest.
This life is different from the previous life, in the previous life, the relationship between Jenny Bass and the old Zen master was completely broken at the end of the year, and in this life, at the beginning of this year, the two have made a public statement, and the love run has come to an end.
Of course, the experience of the two is completely different from the previous life, at this time in the previous life, the old Zen master was still the "big man" of the New York Knicks, and Jeanie Buss was still at home, and now, the old Zen master has been killed by Dolan's "spicy hand destroying flowers", and Jeanie Buss has also become the president of the Lakers.
Ci Shiping said disdainfully, "Who said that you can't be together if you break up?" I'm telling you, it feels better to be together after a breakup than it is not to break up. โ
"How do you know?" Xu Xuan rolled his eyes, "It's the same as you've experienced it." โ
"I don't know, but the boss does." Ci Shiping looked like a "person who came over".
โ....... Top dog? Wipe! Hurry up, hurry, how to say? โ
"Do you remember that the boss had a sad and crying relationship before?"
"Uh...... I don't understand it very well! โ
"That's it, the ...... who danced just now."
"Wellโโโโ if you say that, I know, and then what?"
"Then didn't it make a fuss for a while, and my sister-in-law swept him out of the house, but you would never have thought of it later. About a month later, I saw the two of them meet, and then the boss came back and excitedly told us that this feeling was much more exciting than before......
Ci Shiping is also a big mouth, at least Xu Xuan has never heard of such a thing in his previous life or in this life, and what comes to his ears is news about what he wants to leave and share.
I've never heard of such a novelty......
Time passed quickly in the gossip, and little Wharton had already come over to inform Xu Xuan that it was time to play.
The Lakers played well in the second quarter, expanding the difference from two points to five points, 52-57, and Xu Xuan went up to execute the last attack.
The old driver was replaced, the old driver on the defensive end didn't play a role, there was not much time, more than 5 seconds, the sideline ball was released, Xu Xuan glanced at the people on his side, Lu Wei, Nick Young, Russell, Ingram and himself...... It's all outside pitchers.
Co-author Frank didn't think about what to do when he was stealed?
The line-side ball was sent by Ingram, it was sent very steadily, and it was directly given to Xu Xuan, and Xu Xuan was then distributed to Russell, and after two transmissions, time was gone, and Russell made a three-point shot-