On November 26, the NBA officially announced that after the shutdown ended, all teams immediately opened preseason training camps urgently. With less than a month to go until the start of the new NBA season, the teams are immediately busy.

And then a very embarrassing thing is that a lot of teams find that they simply don't have enough people to attend pre-season camp for the new season!

Since the free agent market and the transfer market have not yet opened, most players are not signed, and as a result, it is often the case that there are only a few players on a team.

Among them, of course, also includes Link. His contract has expired, and according to the rules, he is not allowed to participate in the Grizzlies' preseason training camp for the time being......

When Link returns to Memphis in high spirits, only to be told that he can only wait until he signs up for training, Link wants to curse all the people who make these frivolous rules.

Link then had to rent a training gym for himself to keep fit. And the day before the free agent market opened, that is, on December 7, the NBA officially announced the schedule for this season in an expedited manner.

This season's regular season will start at the end of December and end of April, and although the regular season has been shortened by nearly two months, the number of games has not shrunk much. This season, the players still have 66 games to play! That's just 16 games less than in a normal season!

The game was two months late, but the number of games was only one month less. In other words, the league simply stuffed an extra month of games in, and the average division into the middle of the season. It seems that the alliance is also mad in order to recover its losses.

As a result of this schedule, back-to-back matches have become the norm, and the so-called "back-to-back", that is, the situation of three consecutive matches, will also happen often this season! Of course, there are also some arrangements for 4 games in 5 days, which are also common.

There are a total of 42 back-to-back games scheduled in the league across the entire schedule, which means that every team has at least one back-to-back game, and some more than one!

And back-to-back games, the league has arranged a total of 529 games!

Next season, Link believes it will be a bitter season for many teams. And the intensive schedule will also greatly increase the risk of injury for players. Link also has to protect himself, if he gets hurt, everything is in vain.

For a professional player, the biggest enemy is not your opponent, but injuries!

A day later, on December 8th, Link was in Chris. Wallace's office signed the three-year contract. Jeff. Austin has already said that he will not sign with any team, so before the offers from other teams have come out, the Grizzlies are the first to complete the contract extension with Link.

"Hopefully we'll be able to go far in the last three years, Link." After the signing, Chris. Wallace's nerves, which had been tense for more than half a year, finally relaxed.

As long as you can grasp the core, it will not be difficult to operate later.

Link finally breathed a sigh of relief, and now, he was finally able to practice with the team!

That afternoon, Link was in Chris. Wallace's office finally met Jimmy for the first time. Butler.

As soon as the transfer market opened, the deal between Mayo and Butler was immediately concluded. After all, the two teams have reached an agreement a long time ago, just waiting for the league to review. So this year's preseason training camp, Mayo went directly to Brooklyn to report. And Jimmy. Butler will come to Memphis to sign his rookie contract.

Butler was still quite young at this time, and his simple head and happy smile made it really difficult for Link to associate him with the stars who would later dominate the league.

But the Grizzlies want to see Jimmy. Butler may have to wait a little longer to play a role.

Sign Jimmy. After Butler, Chris. Wallace has non-stop to renew Sean's contract. Battier.

In the original history, Battier went to the Heat this offseason. And the move to easily let Battier go was also considered one of the worst operations of the Grizzlies that year.

But now in this history, Battier is interested in the Grizzlies, and he is eager to see what kind of sparks he and the Grizzlies can have. And the Grizzlies don't want to easily break up the team that reached the Western Conference Finals last season.

Therefore, the two sides hit it off and renewed the contract again. Subsequently, Wallace made another move against Sam, who was squeezed out of a chance last season. Young, who moved from the Hornets to energetic second-year guard Quincy. Bombset. Bombsett is another quasi-3-and-D player, and it seems that Wallace really wants to make the Grizzlies impregnable.

The Grizzlies' acquisitions have been smooth, but for some teams, the belated transfer market has not been so rosy.

First of all, on the Mavericks' side, the Mavericks, who just won the championship last season, have directly dispersed this season's lineup.

Tyson. Chandler left New York City for 58 million in 4 years, and Barria, Stevenson and Butler also left one after another. Cuban was clearly reluctant to spend too much money on them, switching to cheaper Odom and old Carter instead.

But let's be honest, Chandler's role for the Mavericks last season was not something that anyone else could easily replace.

Speaking of Odom, we have to talk about the more miserable Los Angeles Lakers.

The Lakers originally put Gasol and Odom and others on the shelf, ready to welcome Chris. Paul's.

As a result, the league vetoed the deal with the phrase "basketball reasons".

At this time, the Hornets have no boss and belong to the league custody state. The Cavaliers owners complained in a joint letter, saying to Stern that there was no human rights in the small city, which was a mess of the Lakers' trade.

In the end, Paul did not get his wish to combine with Kobe Bryant and switched to the Los Angeles Clippers. Although he still came to Los Angeles and Staples, the ending was very different.

If you do this, the Lakers will be embarrassed. It is equivalent to a player who was put on the shelf, and he was returned again, and he was not a person at both ends.

Fortunately for Gasol, the Spaniard's mentality has always been peaceful. Although he was still hurt more or less, he was still willing to get along with the Lakers management.

As for Odom, the Lakers simply didn't do anything about it and threw him to Dallas. Dallas used just one trade exception and a 2012 first-round pick to win last season's Sixth Man of the Year, which the Lakers gave away for nothing.

Odom's mentality collapsed directly, and his heart was not as strong as Gasol's. What kind of cliff-jumping fall the sixth-man of the season is about to come, Link can already "predict".

Overall, this year has been a failed deal for most of the big teams. The most profitable is undoubtedly the Clippers, and people are already looking forward to what kind of chemistry Paul and Griffin can produce in the new season when they cut 20+10 champions in their rookie season.

On the Grizzlies' side, the lineup can only be described as minor repairs, and the bench depth has been slightly improved while retaining the core lineup.

After all, there are no big-name free agents this year, and the Grizzlies' core roster is already good, after all, it is a Western Conference Finals-level team, and there is no need to trade core players. What's more, this year Guy is back, and there is reason to believe that the Grizzlies can go further.

Some media even claimed, "The Memphis Grizzlies are the team with the most powerful players!" ”

After the chaos in the trading market, training camp and preseason games followed. Due to the short pre-season preparation period this year, there are only two pre-season games.

However, it was these two games that overshadowed the Grizzlies' prospects for the new season.

In the first game against the Timberwolves, Conley sprained his ankle and is sure to miss the start of the regular season of the new season.

The second game played without Paul and West's Hornets, Darrell. Arthur ruptured his Achilles tendon and was immediately reimbursed for the season......

Conley is fine, after all, an ankle sprain is not a big deal. But watching Arthur's Achilles tendon rupture, Link was really uncomfortable. An injury like a ruptured Achilles tendon can't even be withstood by a superstar, let alone Arthur.

Therefore, the biggest enemy of professional players is injury.

Link has previously said that many teams will be in trouble this season, but he didn't expect the Grizzlies to be the first team to run into trouble.

I was hit in the face before the season even started, and it didn't seem easy to go further.