In fact, the Pelicans' lineup, if you want to maintain it next season, it will be very difficult, first of all, Brother Thick Mei's $22 million contract this season is naturally the highest in the team, and secondly, Kaoshen's 16 million contract and Anthony's $22 million contract also make the team's salary space not so healthy, but this is actually okay, after all, the salary cap has risen sharply this year, and the price of these contracts is relatively high. It can even be said that these contracts are actually value contracts.

But the problems they will face next season will become very real, Holiday is a contract year this year, and if they want to keep Holiday next year, then they will give him a contract that he is happy with, and now his 11 million contract is obviously not satisfying him. The contracts of these four people add up to 70 million this season, which is not bad compared to the salary cap of 100 million, but after Holiday renews his contract next year, the total salary of the four may exceed 80 million, can only 20 or 30 million be left to sign the remaining ten role players?

So this year will be their desperate fight, if they can successfully win the championship, maybe in the summer they can recruit good veterans to join the team with a base salary, so that they can solve the problem of insufficient salary space, but if they can't win the championship, Anthony's contract will expire, and next year is also Cousins's contract year, both of them are very eager to win the championship, so if the Pelicans are not able to win the championship, it is difficult to ensure that these two continue to stay on the team, Not to mention anything like a salary cut and contract renewal.

Of course, in fact, this situation is also applicable to the Lakers and Warriors, after the end of this season, several major point guards in the league will basically start to negotiate contracts, as far as Ye Xuan is concerned, his contract expires next season, and although his contract amount for next season has reached about 2300, it is obvious that in the current environment, this price is still not able to satisfy Ye Xuan, although Ye Xuan doesn't care about the size of the contract now, but who would dislike more money?

In addition to Ye Xuan, Curry's contract has also expired, which will make the Warriors very passive next season, the reason why they have been able to be so good in the last two seasons, in addition to the reason why they rose through the draft, the biggest reason is actually that Curry did not get an All-Star level contract after the end of his rookie contract, and now he still holds a 1200-year contract, which is simply a child labor contract for Curry. And if the Warriors want to keep Curry after the end of this year, then their salary space will be greatly reduced, if they don't win the championship this year, and they want to keep Curry at a big price, then Durant estimates that there is no way to continue to stay with the Warriors, if they win the championship, they still have the opportunity to use the championship to keep Durant.

Of course, there are several point guards who are also out of contract within this year or two, the first to bear the brunt is Paul, the Clippers' current combat effectiveness is obviously very problematic, and now Reaves is also a little unpleasant to Paul, after all, Paul is now blocking his son's way to the top, so this season can basically be determined to be Paul's last season with the Clippers, and next season, Paul's whereabouts will also become a decision that is likely to change the league landscape, Especially according to the current media, then Paul's next home is likely to be the Spurs, so the Spurs with Paul, Aldridge and Leonard will become another horror in the West.

Then Wei Shao's contract also expired after this year, but after the Durant incident, the Thunder team was obviously a little scared, so he directly began to talk to Wei Shao about the renewal of the contract in the middle of this season, and finally Wei Shao was also very decisive to renew the contract with the Thunder team, after all, in order to form a sharp contrast with Durant, the best choice is to stay with the Thunder team. And Wei Shao's contract is not small, and in the end, the Thunder team offered him a contract of up to 210 million for five years.

Of course, now it's all about the point guards in the West, and the point guards in the East are all fine, only one Rondo is on a one-year contract, and it's very likely that the Bulls will trade him away for rebuilding, and Rose's big contract is likely to continue to renew with the Pacers next season, but the contract amount is not expected to be as big as the current contract, of course, it doesn't mean that there are no top point guards in the East, they also have players such as John Wall and Kyle Lowry, Kyrie Irving, However, these players are currently playing well in their own teams, and their contracts still have some time to expire, so there is little chance that these players will change teams next season. (At this time, few people could have imagined that Owen would be forced directly into the palace next season and then traded)

Not to mention the contract problems of a bunch of point guards in the league right now, the Lakers do have some problems that need to be solved urgently after losing this game. However, in the following period, the Lakers' opponents became various rebuilding teams, so in the next few games, the Lakers can slowly begin to adjust their state and run in the lineup and so on.

So in the next few games, the Lakers defeated the Mavericks 103:100, the Suns 102:99, and the 76ers 121:109. Although he has already achieved fame in the alliance, it is precisely because he became famous too early that he is a little floating.

After two games with the Suns and the Mavericks, Ye Xuan finally readjusted his mentality, so in the game with the 76ers, the Lakers finally won easily again, and Ye Xuan finally clocked out after 5 games.

In some of the subsequent games, the Lakers also had to start to pay attention again, and when it came to the sixteenth, they would usher in the Rockets who played this season, Harden scored 61 points alone in the game against the Pelicans last week, and overturned the Pelicans with the Big Four alone, which was also unexpected by many people. And the score of 61 points is also Harden's career high so far, although it is not as exciting as Ye Xuan's 90+ super scoring show, but it can also make 99% of the league's players look up.

Fortunately, in that game, maybe Harden used up his luck, so in this game with the Lakers, Harden's performance was very different from that game, and he still shot 23 times in the whole game, but only hit 7 of them, although he still got a high score of 39 points by cheating fouls and other methods, but because his offensive efficiency was indeed a little low, so in the end the Lakers still easily defeated the Rockets.

After defeating the Rockets, the Lakers set off with confidence to start their six-game road trip in a row, but they didn't expect that this road trip was much more difficult than they imagined, the first away game against the Bucks, Ye Xuan instantly felt why Milwaukee couldn't keep those big-name stars, it was obviously March here, Ye Xuan had already started to wear single clothes in Los Angeles, but after getting off the plane, Milwaukee was still a snowy scene, This made the Lakers players very uncomfortable, and the originally planned outing operation ended up squeezing into Ye Xuan's room to play electricity.

When it came to the game, the Bucks didn't know if it was intentional, the air conditioning in the arena was not Tybi's, which made the Lakers feel a burst of coolness when they warmed up, and it was because of this problem during the game, Ye Xuan felt that he was almost about to catch a cold, although in the end the Lakers still defeated the Bucks, but this game was also a rare game for the Lakers this season when the opponent dragged the game into overtime. In overtime, the Lakers still relied on Ye Xuan's play to achieve the final victory, and of course Ye Xuan also paid some price - both bottles of physical recovery potions were used up in this game.

And then they knew why everyone was reluctant to go to the away games continuously, after coming to Cleveland, they needed to stay here for a day, and then start the game, but during this day, Ye Xuan and others basically had no place to go except for being able to nest in the hotel, and they were able to borrow the basketball hall of the local school for training, but this year's Lakers have been defined as the main opponent of the Cavaliers to win the championship, so there is no hope for borrowing the stadium. And this game also let Ye Xuan know what it means to be the first person in the league.

In this game, Lao Zhan suddenly burst out with amazing combat effectiveness, just like last year's finals, Lao Zhan shot 13 of 21 in this game, and got 41 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists Super data, although Ye Xuan also performed very well in this game, but 19 shots and 11 of 15 assists did not help the Lakers achieve a victory, but I also have to admire Coach Lu, who actually played this regular season like the finals, Lao Zhan's luxurious data, It's just because he was forced to force out all his energy, after all, Lao Zhan actually played 42 minutes in this game.

After losing to the Cavaliers, the Lakers are still playing away, but their away game is equivalent to a change of direction for the Lakers to have a chance to rest, because this time the away game is against the Lakers' city team, the Clippers. This is no different from the home game for the Lakers, and although the opponent this time is still the Clippers, but their current situation is not the same as when the Lakers' winning streak ended, at that time Paul had just returned, and the whole team was still working together for the same goal, but it didn't take long for the atmosphere of the whole team to start to be different, Reaves's tactics remained the same, and Paul hoped that the team's rotation would make some appropriate changes in terms of tactics.

This small suggestion is not excessive, but it touched Reeves's fragile nerves, he felt that if he agreed to Paul's request this time, then his voice in the team would be smaller and smaller, and then gradually Paul's overhead, and finally not only himself, but even his son's future star career will be affected, all things, as long as it relates to his son, then no matter how small things are, they will become serious.

So Reaves not only did not make a positive modification of the tactics, but also changed the direction to reduce Paul's role on the court, and the results are self-evident, although the Clippers have won more than 30 wins, but they can only rank ninth in the West, and still have not entered the playoffs, which makes Paul more and more dissatisfied, so recently Paul is also directly on his social software to the Clippers showdown, if the Clippers still can't enter the Western Conference Finals this year, Then he won't be thinking about staying with the Clippers next season.

So the current Clippers seem to have a strange atmosphere, this game with the Lakers is not as difficult as the last time to end the opponent's winning streak, Ye Xuan scored 31 points and 11 rebounds in the third quarter, and then clocked out directly, in stark contrast, it was Rivers Jr., who was almost on par with Paul in playing time, he played 29 minutes in this game, and scored 9 points on 3-of-17 shooting, and the assist was okay, with 6 assists, but he still had as many as 8 turnoversIf it weren't for the fact that the rest of the Clippers players in this game also played like shit, then Reaves Jr. would probably be set up as a model and used as a negative teaching material.

In the next few games, the Lakers also won the game easily, two of which were relatively difficult with the Timberwolves, although the Timberwolves are still a rebuilding team, but when the Lakers challenged the Timberwolves away, they found that they were just like the Milwaukee voters, they were using their own bad environment to make trouble for the visiting team, and the Lakers were fortunate to come from Los Angeles this time, so they were able to deal with it.