Speights was drafted by the 76ers with the 16th pick in the first round in 2008 and can play both power forward and center. During the first eight years of his career, Speights played for the 76ers, Grizzlies, Cavaliers and Warriors, averaging 7.8 points and 4.1 rebounds in 15.2 minutes per game in 571 games. In the summer of 2013, Speights signed with the Warriors for a total of $11 million over three years. Since then, Speights has been a backup power forward with the Warriors and won the 2014-15 championship with the Warriors.

However, last season, Speights gradually fell into the cold, playing time from 15.9 minutes to 11.6 minutes, averaging only 7.1 points and 3.3 rebounds per game, and although the three-point shooting rate improved to 38.7%, his shooting percentage fell from 49.2% to 43.2%. In the playoffs, Speights' playing time dropped to just 8.4 minutes, and most of the time was garbage time, and even ranked behind the new signing Vallejo.

With the Warriors acquiring Durant, the team even needed to send Boggart backwards to make room, and dropped Barnes and Barbosa and then Izeli. And the team used the only 2.9 million space exception to sign Pachuria, leaving Speights with only a base salary, and the team signed West, a big forward who came to hug his thighs, and Speights may not get many opportunities.

Although the Lakers also gave him a contract with a base salary, from the staffing of the Lakers, it seems that he is likely to get a lot of opportunities to play in the Lakers' second team, and Speights should get more opportunities to perform, expecting to get a new contract in the free agent market next year, but as the main rotation of the championship runner-up, now he can only mix the salary, and Speights is miserable enough, in addition to getting more opportunities after joining the Lakers, There is also a certain quality that can cause problems for the Warriors, which is one of the reasons why Spats joined the Lakers.

Then the Lakers rushed to sign another player with a base salary, Gerald Green, the 30-year-old Green, who was selected by the Celtics with the 18th pick in the first round in 2005. In the 2007 Slam Dunk Contest, the "Nine-Finger Dunk" won the Slam Dunk King of the year with a big windmill dunk that "Leaping Over the Table". He was then sent to the Timberwolves in Garnett's big trade, then moved to the Rockets, Mavericks, CBA and Russian leagues, returned to the NBA and played for the Nets, Timberwolves and Suns, and last season Green joined the Heat with a one-year salary, making 69 appearances, starting 14 games, and scoring 8.9 points and 2.4 rebounds in 22.6 minutes while shooting 39.2 percent from the field.

The main reason for signing him is actually very simple, first, the Lakers need the benches to be able to maintain vitality on the court, even if the defense is not good and is penetrated by the opponent, but at least it will cause some trouble to the opponent on the offensive end, and the characteristics of Green and Nick Young, who are strong and weak in offense and defense, are basically the same, in fact, it is equivalent to buying an insurance for the team.

At this time, Wade's side finally made his own choice, he decided that while he still had energy, he should rush to the championship again, so he was willing to give him a contract with the highest salary, and the Lakers, who also seemed to be very strong, became his next stop. A two-year, $47.5 million contract, which should also be the last max salary contract of Wade's career.

At this point, the Lakers' reinforcements are basically over, and it seems that their interior line is still a little thin, and among the three giants, Wade and Gasol are both at the end of their careers, and it seems that this lineup is not very strong, but when you look at Ye Xuan's almost single-handedly carrying the Chinese team on the podium of the runner-up in the Olympic Games, everyone no longer dares to question the combat effectiveness of this team. Coupled with the addition of Clarkson and Solomon Hill, a defensive giant, and the existence of a super-valuable base-salary player like Speights, the Lakers also transformed themselves this summer and instantly became a powerhouse in the West.

Of course, although the Lakers' big reinforcements have basically ended, the team's personnel are still not enough, so the team still has to continue to look for some suitable role players, but the follow-up tinkering is not so important, at least it will not have much impact on the overall strength of the team.

In addition to the Lakers, there is another team that has risen suddenly, that is, the Celtics, and the Lakers, the old demon Celtics in the East, also use their salary space to recruit Horford of the Hawks, so that the Celtics' combat effectiveness has been improved again in an instant, plus they still have the Nets draft picks in the next two years, so their maneuverable space is still very large, maybe the league will return to the yellow-green war in a few years.

Then the Lakers came with good news again, they directly cut off their city brother Clippers again, and signed Raymond Felton, who was already negotiating a contract with the Clippers, to solve the situation that Ye Xuan had no one on the court to control the ball after the break.

The 32-year-old Felton was the No. 5 pick in the first round of the 2005 NBA Draft, standing 6'1" tall and playing as a point guard. So far in his career, Felton has worked hard in the NBA for 11 seasons, playing for the Bobcats, Knicks, Nuggets, Trail Blazers, and Mavericks. In a total of 776 games. In the regular season, Felton averaged 32.7 minutes per game, 12.4 points, 3.2 rebounds, 6.0 assists, and 1.3 assists. In the past, when he landed in the NBA league, Felton and Marvin Williams, Sean May, and Rashad McCantz became the "North Carolina Four", and Felton and Williams also became the only people among the four who currently work hard in the NBA.

The pinnacle of Felton's career came with the Knicks in 2010-11, when he was at home with Dantony's run-and-gun system, averaging 17.1 points, 3.6 rebounds and 9.0 assists per game. But he was then sent to the Nuggets by the New Yorkers as one of the chips in the Knicks' pursuit of Anthony.

Felton's performances have been tepid since then, but his form rebounded during his time with the Mavericks last season. He averaged 27.4 minutes per game that season, averaging 9.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 3.6 assists. Felton, who earned $4 million a year in 2015-16, became a free agent this summer. Although he is no longer as brave as he once was, Felton's performance last season proved that he can still help the team on the point guard line, and after coming to the Lakers, he will also be a strong backup for Ye Xuan.

At this point, the Lakers' reinforcements have basically come to an end, although Ye Xuan was ready to bring Yi Jianlian to the Lakers at the beginning, after all, in fact, the strength of the United Arab Emirates is still very good, and the style of play is also very suitable for the role of center in the five-small lineup that Wharton is familiar with, but after the Lakers signed Wade with 47.5 million in 2 years, the space is a little insufficient, if Yi Jianlian is only given a base salary, it is estimated that he will not give up the annual salary of 10 million in the CBA to continue to pursue his dream in the NBA. After all, he's not a young man in his early twenties.

The Lakers' recruitment has come to an end, and the recruitment of other teams in the West that aim to win the championship is still in progress, first of all, the Rockets, because Howard has confirmed his departure, so the Rockets have not saved salary space for Howard, in order to match the style of play of Harden and their new coach Mike D'Antoni, so the Rockets have poached two players with super outside firepower from the Pelicans at a high price, that is, Ryan Anderson and Eric Gordon.

The Rockets signed Gordon with a 4-year $57 million contract, in fact, this signing is understandable, after all, the salary cap has risen sharply this season, and it is not unacceptable for a good scorer to give a contract of less than $15 million, but Ryan Anderson's contract is a bit confusing, and the Rockets reached an agreement with free agent Ryan Anderson for a price of 4 years and 80 million. The big forward, who has been chasing Houston for a long time, will finally become a member of the Space City, but the 4-year 80 million contract means that Anderson will occupy $20 million in salary space for the Rockets in the next few seasons.

In addition, because in order to sign Ryan Anderson, they had to give up signing with Terrence Jones, a power forward who performed well last season, and coincidentally, Terrence Jones's next home is the Pelicans, which means that the two teams are basically digging each other's feet.

However, in this way, the salary space on the Pelicans' side is completely liberated, in addition to the contracts of Brother Thick Mei and Anthony, their next series of signings are to sign some role players, such as Ye Xuan's water cooler caretaker Chris Copeland during his time with the Pacers and Ye Xuan's waterer caretaker Robert Thackeray with the Lakers, of course, there are some contract extensions, such as Tim Fraser and Alonzo Key's contract extension, plus Terrence Jones, they still have room to sign a big-name star.

But at this time, the big-name stars have basically found their home, and the Pelicans are slow to shoot because they want to leave space to renew the contracts of Anderson and Gordon, and now there are few active big-name players left in the free agent market, and only Howard is still struggling whether to return to his hometown of Atlanta to play, or to join a team with championship strength in order to make the final sprint.

At a time when big-name player signings have not yet been finalized, the Pelicans have found themselves another good role player, which is Dion Waiters, who escaped from the Thunder, and the Pelicans reached an agreement with Dion Waiters, a shooting guard who played for the Thunder last year, and is about to complete a one-year, $2.9 million contract. According to Wojnarowski's report, Wittes' contract with the Pelicans is in the form of 1+1, with a two-year contract amount of nearly 6 million, of which 2.9 million is guaranteed in the first year, and Wittes has the right to jump out of the contract in the second year.

The 24-year-old was drafted by the Cavaliers with the fourth pick in the first round in 2012 and was traded to the Thunder after two-and-a-half years with the Cavaliers. Although Waiters was only able to contribute 9.8 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2 assists in 27.6 minutes in the regular season last year, his outstanding performance on the defensive end and timely firepower supply in the playoffs were key factors in the Thunder's ability to reverse the Spurs and almost win the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals.

Due to Durant's departure, the Thunder also had no intention of keeping Witters, and they withdrew their contract offer for him, giving up the right to match, making him a full free agent. Since then, Witters and the Nets have been very close, and there were rumors that he would get a contract of 18 million, but in the end the negotiations between the two sides broke down, and then Witters had an affair with the 76ers, but considering his previous "cancer" attributes, the 76ers still gave up signing with him.

This kind of cabbage price to pick up Dion-Vitesse Pelicans is also lucky, after all, Vites's combat effectiveness is still very good, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't get his favorite offer in the summer, so Vitesse decided to come to the Pelicans, a team that now seems to have a lot of opportunities to play, for a year, as long as he can play his own value, he will be able to get a big contract next season, which is similar to Jeremy Lin, who joined the Hornets with almost a base salary last season, Jeremy Lin also received a contract from the Nets because of his outstanding performance last season, which is a three-year two-plus-one contract with a total value of $36 million, which is a full six times more than last year's contract.

However, in the end, Howard still did not choose to join the Pelicans, after all, even if he came to the Pelicans, his status in the team still could not be improved, after all, the first choice of the team was Anthony Davis, so in the end, the Monster chose to return to his hometown - Atlanta and joined the Hawks.

The Pelicans couldn't find any big-name players to sign with, so they could only choose some of those excellent role players to give contracts, and finally they signed Courtney Lee, who could only choose to leave because the Hornets spent five years and 120 million to renew Batum's contract, and Rohr Deng, who also chose to leave at the speed of light after Wade left the Heat, of which Courtney Lee's new contract is for 4 years and is worth nearly $50 million. And Rohr Deng chose to join, this contract is also more valuable, a 4-year contract of 36 million US dollars, and an annual salary of less than 10 million US dollars, for such an all-round small forward, it is already the price of cabbage. Deng actually chose the Pelicans in order to impact the championship, although he wanted to go to the Lakers more, but the Lakers did not give him any offer, so he could only give up.