The first game of the Stankovic Cup started on July 5th, and on July 1st, the NBA's trade window finally opened, and the Lakers announced that they would become Pau Gasol's next home almost as soon as the trade window opened, at this time, a 2-year 30 million contract, and in the second year, Gasol still had a player option, and fans in Los Angeles naturally played a slogan to welcome Gasol home, the Lakers' first All-Star level player in the summer, It's already in the bag.

The free agent market in the summer is also very lively, but big-name stars such as Kevin Durant and LeBron James have not moved, although Lao Zhan has won the championship this season and helped Cleveland get the coveted championship trophy, but he still chose to jump out of the contract in the summer, in the end this time he is to sign a big contract, or to switch to his team? Only he knows.

Ye Xuan is also considering whether to take the initiative to contact these stars who are testing the free market, after all, the Lakers still have a lot of salary space, and there are only two people in Ye Xuan and Gasol who have contracts of more than 10 million levels, Ye Xuan's contract has been raised to 20 million in the third year, and Gasol's contract is 30 million for two years, that is, 15 million US dollars a year, in fact, Gasol could have found a higher contract, but the Lakers are the team he stayed in when he won two consecutive championships, Maybe his jersey can be retired here in the future, so after Lao Ke contacted him, he immediately agreed.

The salary cap for next season has been boosted so much that many teams in the league have started waving checkbooks to attract big-name stars, with the 2015-16 salary cap at $70 million and the luxury tax threshold of $84.7 million this season, according to the NBA. By the 2016-17 season, the team's salary cap had been set at $94.143 million. The luxury tax trigger for next season is $113.287 million. In other words, if the Lakers now recruit stars according to the luxury tax threshold, they still have nearly 50 million room to recruit two All-Star level players.

However, these are not things that Ye Xuan thinks about for the time being, because the Stankovic Cup is about to start, on the evening of July 5th, at 8 o'clock Beijing time, the match between the Chinese team and the French team officially started, Zhou Qi and Gobert jumped the ball, and the basketball was photographed by Gobert to Fournier, who slowly controlled the ball and came to the front court, ready to start attacking. But Ye Xuan's side was already gearing up to show himself, so before the opponent could set up his position, he directly pasted it. Fournier is also a more experienced point guard in the NBA, and immediately passed the ball to Batum next to him, Batum also came up and directly chose the momentum, facing Ding Yanyuhang is a three-point shot, but unfortunately the hand is not good, and the basketball bounces out of the basket.

After the UAE grabbed the rebound, he immediately launched a fast attack with a long pass, Ye Xuan's speed was indeed not covered, he caught Yi Jianlian's long throw in a few steps, and then hit the ball with a three-step layup, the defense of the French team was indeed worse, and the speed of the recovery was obviously not strong, so he didn't put any pressure on Ye Xuan at all, and he was directly attacked by Ye Xuan.

In the next few minutes, Ye Xuan was also full of firepower, and he was very active on the court, in fact, it was no wonder that Ye Xuan was so active, the strength of the opponent was originally worse than the opponent he usually faced in the NBA, plus it was a warm-up cup game, so the opponent's concentration was also worse, this kind of excellent opportunity to brush data, Ye Xuan naturally didn't want to let it go, so it seemed a little too hard, the game only started less than 5 minutes, and the Chinese team had already scored 18 points. Except for Zhou Qi and Yi Jianlian, who scored a goal on the inside, the other 14 points were all scored by Ye Xuan alone.

Although the French team has Gobert and Fournier and Batum on the field, they do not have an advantage on the field, mainly their three absolute strong points are exactly against the three strong points of the Chinese team, Gobert is good at defense, the offensive end is relatively average, and it happens that Zhou Qi is also a defensive inside, so the two are basically entangled on the inside, and there is no such thing as defending for three seconds in the FIBA rules, so this is more helpful for Zhou Qi to take root in the inside.

And although Batum is positioned as a small forward, but because the original insiders of the French team have basically not returned to the team, Batum can only temporarily make a cameo in the position of the big forward, and the result is just against Yi Jianlian, who has suffered in height, today's hand is not too strong, and the result is naturally not able to play, and Fournier is even more tragic, against Ye Xuan, the killing god, it is simply called the sky should not be, and the earth is not spiritual, as a result, the French team only scored 9 points in these few minutes, was directly opened up by 9 points.

However, the overall coordination and strength of the French team still have a slight advantage, so after coming to their senses, they immediately found their own offensive rhythm, although the Chinese team relied on Ye Xuan's personal ability to keep making trouble for the opponent, but it could only barely help the team not to be chased back by the opponent.

In the end, this team is too young and lacks experience, so it's easy to get shaken and form a hole. However, being young also has the advantage of being young, if this team is trained, the Chinese men's basketball team will not have to worry about it in the next ten years, unlike in previous years, it has been in a state of lack of success. And this team has a lot of momentum, quite a bit of a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

After the first quarter of the game, the Chinese team relied on Ye Xuan's 21-point display to lead the opponent by 11 points at 32:21. However, from this point, it is not difficult to see that the role that a top star can play in the international arena is indeed much more obvious than in the NBA, and Ye Xuan alone has scored as much as the entire French team combined.

The rhythm of the second quarter after that is very similar to the first quarter, the only difference is that the Chinese team will replace Ye Xuan and other main forces to rest, Ye Xuan, who has played the first quarter, actually doesn't feel tired now, but since the palace director has replaced himself, he is also happy to rest, after all, the data, you can brush it whenever you want. And the French team doesn't seem to be particularly serious about the outcome of this game, so they also didn't choose to chase the main force for them to chase points, but also replaced a relatively young player.

The French team is actually very similar to the Chinese team now, a Gobert on the inside is a representative of the young players, and Fournier and Batum are both veteran players who have worked hard in the NBA for several seasons, but the higher-level players such as Noah, Turyaf, Parker and other players are basically about to retire, so the French team also needs to cultivate its own newcomers now, otherwise there will be a fault line at that time.

The first half of the game ended quickly, and the Chinese team only replaced the main players in the second half of the second quarter, at which time the difference had been gradually eroded by the opponent's newcomers to only 4 points, but Ye Xuan was very unreasonable, and first hit a three-point shot himself, and then assisted Ding Yanyuhang, who had obtained a vacant position on the outside, to hit a three-pointer, and the difference was expanded to 10 points in an instant.

In the second half of the game, the Chinese team simply began to practice the lineup with the opponent, Ye Xuan did not start in the second half, but in the middle of the game, the score difference was almost wiped out by the opponent, and the palace guide replaced Ye Xuan, and then after a few rounds, the situation on the field was stabilized again. And the French team obviously found that there was nothing to do with Ye Xuan in the single defense, and the bag gave Ye Xuan more opportunities to brush up on assists, so he simply broke the jar and began to train the lineup.

This is also in line with the consistent style of the French, and it is called a refreshing thing to do with the shopkeeper. And the Chinese team is naturally willing to do this, because in this way they will play much easier.

In the end, the Chinese team defeated the French team 96-88 and won the Stankovic Cup. Ye Xuan played a total of 25 minutes in this game, scored 39 points and 11 assists, this is also the first time Ye Xuan has won a double-double in the national team, mainly because the French team's defense focused on him today, so that he brushed several assists in a row in the second half of the second quarter. However, in international competitions, it is a little difficult for outside players like Ye Xuan to grab rebounds, and Ye Xuan seems to have returned to the era when he couldn't grab rebounds in the whole game, because he only had one rebound in the whole game, and most of the rebounds were taken away by interior players, it seems that FIBA rules are indeed more beneficial to interior players.

The first day of the Stankovic Cup was over, the Chinese team finally defeated the French team, while the Nigerian team lost to the almost second team Argentina team, it can be seen that the Argentine team that has won the Olympic championship does still have a pretty good basketball tradition, even some substitute players, can still play a very good fighting ability.

On July 6th, there was no rest in between, the next day the Si Cup continued to play, the Chinese team did not train in the afternoon, but watched the game between the French team and the Argentine team on the spot, after the French team lost yesterday, not only did not make any changes, but also relied on the gourd to draw a scoop, almost unchanged copy yesterday's rotation rhythm, and although the Argentine team is the second team, but their desire to win is still very strong, after all, the second team is the kind of player who wants to prove himself and then become a team. So the fight was very hard, and the result was self-evident, and the French team suffered another heavy defeat.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the game between the Chinese team and the Nigerian team officially started, in the face of the Nigerian team with unfamiliar faces, Ye Xuan's side was not soft at all, and he was directly brushed and shot, and he was used to the fact that the Chinese team has always been an interior attack-based Nigerian team, and as soon as he came up, he was stunned by the outside bombardment of the Chinese team's outside line Ding Yanyuhang and Ye Xuan in turn, coupled with the tradition of the Chinese team, the inside players are not weak, so the game has not been played for two quarters, and it was directly beaten, Ye Xuan didn't even get a chance to play in the second half.

At the end of the game, the Chinese team defeated the Nigerian team 87:59, and the 28-point victory is also the largest point difference in this Cup, although Ye Xuan only played 19 minutes, but he contributed 28 points and 7 assists very strongly, basically all the goals in the first half were directly or indirectly initiated by him. And the African friends also felt what the top outside players in the NBA are in this game.

After a day of rest on July 7th, the final round of the round-robin match began on July 8th, the Nigerian team, which lost two consecutive times, met the French team with the same fate, both teams played this game back and forth, but in the end, the hard power of the French team was better, in fact, if the French team played seriously, the Chinese team and the current team of Argentina may not be able to beat them. In the end, France won their first victory in the Slovakian Cup.

In the afternoon game, Gong Gui simply refrigerated Ye Xuan, Zhou Qi, Yi Jianlian and Ding Yan Yuhang, almost all substitutes were playing, in the face of such an unserious Chinese team, the Argentine team was embarrassed to be ruthless, and in the end, the Chinese team 'only' lost 21 points in this game.

July 9th, finally came to the last day of the Si Cup, according to the record, the Argentine team with three wins and two wins and one loss will compete for the championship and runner-up, while the other two teams are competing for the third place, which is simply no different from yesterday's game, the French team still crushed the Nigerian team with strength, and finally won the third place in the Si Cup.

In the championship battle, the Chinese team changed the appearance of giving up resistance yesterday and played with the Argentine team, with the excellent performance of several main forces and the light enemy of the Argentine team, in the first half of the Chinese team achieved a huge advantage of 18 points, but in the second half, the situation suddenly changed, and the opponent suddenly strengthened the intensity of the defense, which once made Zhao Jiwei and others, who played on the substitute Ye Xuan, feel the pressure, but fortunately, the palace director immediately made personnel adjustments, and finally maintained the advantage to the midfield, The Chinese team also won the Stankovic Cup for the second time after winning the 2012 Sri Lankan Cup.