Chapter 580 [Big Names' Contracts, Prophecies and Curses]

In September, all the big names in the free market signed contracts.

Ray Allen renewed his 5-year, 80 million high-salary long-term contract with SuperSonics, which is a difficult decision, he knows very well that there is no hope of competing for the championship in SuperSonics, but the strong teams have no salary space and cannot provide him with a satisfactory contract, he can only continue to stay in the weak team as the boss, and it is not the maximum salary.

The SuperSonics are the team with the least conflicts between Ray Allen and his teammates and management, but there is still one thing this year that makes fans question the character of "Junzi Lei".

He was nervous about renewing his contract with the SuperSonics, and in September, he asked the team for a five-year contract of 100 million yuan and was ridiculed by the media, and no one regarded him as a superstar at all.

He also fired his agent and signed with a lawyer, and the media believed that he was saving the agent's 4% commission.

In Guo Xu's previous life, after Lei Allen won the championship, he once expressed regret for renewing his contract with the SuperSonics in 2005. "When I won championships with the Celtics and the Heat, I realized that we were playing at home in the SuperSonics. I loved the team, the city, but the team wasn't serious about winning the championship at the time, they didn't do a good job to put us in a position to win the championship. ”

This sounds as if Ray Allen is a superstar who has the strength to lead the team to the championship, and the SuperSonics are very sorry for him. In fact, in his four and a half years with the team, he only led the team to the playoffs once, and in his final year, he was even named an eye-pick.

His biggest credit was helping the team draft Kevin Durant.

"Old Cat" Catino Mobley tried unsuccessfully to return to the Rockets, and finally signed with the Clippers on a five-year, 42 million contract.

It's the most expensive contract in Clippers history to sign a non-home free agent, and it's confusing, and Clippers owner Donald Sterling seems to have suddenly turned his mind around generosity.

However, it was a loss-making signing, and in his previous life, Mobley was forced to retire in 2008 due to heart problems. He wasn't very efficient at scoring and didn't do well defensively.

The Lakers signed short power forward Marcus Fetzer with a base salary, and since Fitzer did well last season, he reached the Eastern Conference Finals as a backup with the Heat, which is widely considered to be a great value signing.

Because of the selection of big-mouth Bogut, the media exposure is surprisingly high, and many pundits believe that the Lakers have the potential to be the most improved team next season, and if they run in well, they now have four outstanding players on the team.

The Lakers also pardoned interior Brian Grant and still had to pay him about $30 million on his contract for the next two years, which led to the dissatisfaction of some Lakers fans, and it was crazy to trade O'Neal for this kind of garbage contract.

In fact, the Lakers are already much stronger than the previous roster, and they did not send Caron Butler in exchange for Kwame Brown. This is an all-round small forward with 20+5+5 ability at the pinnacle, who can be the second offensive point with the ball, qualified defense, and tough ball style.

Kupchak can't get back a parallel champion to influence the development of a new champion, and as long as Bogut can play his own boastful eight-win power, the Lakers will be the best in the West next season.

The Lakers also signed free agent Jeff McGinnis, an experienced heavy point guard who added depth to the No. 1 roster off the bench. However, the No. 1 position is still the Achilles' heel of the Lakers.

The Lakers' center position is not weak, the disadvantage is only that the players are young and lack experience. In addition to Bogut, second-round rookie Turyav was on the bench and Haseung-jin was on the fringe, and they dropped Medvedenko, who was poorly defensive.

Some people are also pessimistic about the prospects of the Lakers, and some reporters broke the news that Kobe and Bogut have not met, including the press conference of Bogut's joining, Kobe Bryant did not show up to welcome him. He later refused to comment on his new team-mates, clearly disliking Bogut.

There are also media who believe that next season Kobe Bryant will definitely play hard, regardless of the team. It's not about who to fight against, it's about the expiration of his contract with Adidas. Previously, Adi and Maddy signed a lifetime contract, and Kobe, who has super self-esteem, definitely doesn't want to have a worse contract than Maddie, he needs to prove himself.

Kobe Bryant couldn't pretend to choose another company and sit on the ground. Everyone knows that it is impossible for him to switch to Nike with this character, with Guo Xu and James, he went to Nike and was the third-ranked star at most.

At the end of September, Suns training camp began.

On the media day, the sun was invincible, and everyone was ready to defend their title with confidence, but only two days later, bad luck struck.

Stadameyer, who has been promoted to second leader of the team, was diagnosed with a cartilage damage in his left knee and underwent minimally invasive surgery to repair it.

Surgeries that can be avoided must be avoided. That's the philosophy of Suns doctor Carter, but this time he said he had to have surgery.

Guo Xu felt very helpless after getting the news, he couldn't remember how Xiao Si was injured in his previous life, so he remembered that he had minimally invasive surgery and was reimbursed for the season. Now listening to Carter's explanation, it is inevitable that overwork will become a disease.

To put it bluntly, this is caused by Xiao Si's style of play, he likes to dunk too much. Last season, in order to participate in the dunk contest, he practiced dunking for a period of time, and after three seasons in the league, he left the deepest impression on people with the air cut dunk after blocking and dismantling.

Guo Xu persuaded him to change his style of play after the end of last season, Xiao Si did not train at high intensity in the summer, but he already had a problem with his knee, and when he felt uncomfortable, he had to have surgery.

The Suns officially announced the news and it immediately made headlines. In the eyes of major media, minimally invasive surgery can basically announce Xiao Si's "death sentence". The players who had this kind of surgery before all had a decline in physical fitness and could no longer feel it.

Stars such as Chris Webber, Anfernee Haddawi, Alan Houston, Kidd and others are all examples of athletes who have lost most of their athleticism after knee surgery.

Now the teams that want to compete for the championship are happy, and many people are waiting to see the excitement of the Suns and Guo Xu.

The San Antonio media gloated: "The Suns management was so arrogant in the summer that they didn't bring in stars, they didn't even sign middle-class players, and this season they were the second-lowest paid team in the league, thinking they could defend their title." Now it's too late for them to bring in any more reinforcements, and the big-name players already have a home. ”

According to the New York Times, "Amare is the most underrated interior star, and many people say he became a star because of Jason Kwok, which is not the case. The new season will surely see how difficult it is to lose Amare to the Suns' offense, who is a superstar capable of averaging 30 points per game, and Nene can't replace him on the offensive end. ”

The "black pot" is happier than the New Year, and a large number of "prophecy" posts have appeared on the Internet, all saying that Guo Xu will not be able to do without Xiao Si, and some remarks are not so much prophecies, but actually more like "curses".

Guo Xu was too successful in the first two seasons, and his interviews after winning the championship were not low-key enough, and the three consecutive MVPs made fans of other stars unbearable.

When he was with the Lakers, Guo Xu was selected for the All-Star Game for the first time, and some people said that he was overrated, and now he is a three-time MVP, and there are more people who say he is overrated.

"The Suns' back-to-back best regular season record is directly related to the depth of the roster. Marion, Stoudamire, and Joe Johnson all have star strength, but in the end, the award was won by Jason Guo, and his individual ability is definitely seriously overrated. With two less stars in the new season, it will be very difficult for him to get assists again. ”

In short, the opportunity for the new season for the teams to take revenge......