Because of Chen An's little butterfly, the Trail Blazers chose 'Zhuangshen' Drummond in the draft, and formed a twin tower with Aldridge, plus JJ Hickson's strength is also good, and Mayers Leonard, who was also picked in the draft, their interior line can be called luxurious.

And they have Batum, known as 'French Maddy', on the front line, Matthews, who has grown up, and Crawford, a super sixth man on the bench.

However, Crawford's contract expired and entered the free market, and the Trail Blazers did not renew his contract because they did not want to lock up salary space and leave enough playing time for Lillard. But this time, although they did not renew the contract for the time being, they wanted to get a point guard first, and then use the mid-class exception to sign Crawford.

Thanks to Brandon. Roy retired, and his contract also expired this season, so more than 16 million salary space was freed up for the Trail Blazers, and now the Trail Blazers still have more than 8 million operating space from the salary cap, and if they clean up the contract that is not guaranteed, they can even have 10 million space, they originally wanted to aim at the free market to see if they could catch a big fish, but they really couldn't renew last season's guard Felton, but they didn't expect to see Nelson at this time.

For the Trail Blazers aiming for the playoffs, Nielsen is undoubtedly a good fit, first of all, Nielsen has a lot of experience in the playoffs, as well as experience in the finals. Secondly, Nelson has become accustomed to partnering with a strong insider, scoring, and organization are not bad, and the final salary is not expensive, only 8.6 million next season, and the contract on his body is only two years, which is very flexible and will not become a salary burden for the team.

Don't look at the same stats as Nelson and Felton, but Felton has little playoff experience, and Nelson is much better than him in this regard, and sometimes experience is a very important thing.

And because of Nelson, the Trail Blazers also paid attention to Richardson, and found that Richardson turned out to be a good target, although he is 31 years old, he is an ideal reinforcement for the Trail Blazers' forward lineup, just as a substitute for Batum, filling the firepower gap in the rotation lineup.

So the Trail Blazers made the idea to pack Nelson and Richardson, and they also knew that the Magic team wanted to clear the salary space, so the chips were very low at first. Hennigan negotiated back and forth, and finally the two teams reached a deal.

The Magic sent Nelson, Richardson to the Trail Blazers' JJ Hickson, Nolan Smith and a $9 million trade exception.

[Trade exception: This exception actually enables the team to send players in the transfer in exchange for "credit points", which is mainly generated by the party with salary space, and the winner can use the trade exception to balance the transaction salary, if not used, it is equivalent to clearing the salary space. 】

Richardson and Nelson's total salary is 14.4 million, JJ Hickson's annual salary is 4 million, and what Smith is 1.4 million, this transaction is equivalent to helping the Magic team directly clear 9 million salary space, and Nolan Smith's contract is only 670,000 is guaranteed, after the transaction is completed, this guy was directly laid off by Chen An, so the Magic actually cleared 9.73 million salary space through this transaction.

The deal was a win-win for Chen, with the Trail Blazers getting the ideal starting point guard and deepening the depth of the front, while the Magic cleared salary space and JJ Hickson was a surprise.

JJ. Hickson belongs to the jumping man, which is commonly known as the spring man, this guy was traded to the Trail Blazers in the middle of last season, and his performance is actually very good, averaging 15.1 points, 1.2 assists, 8.3 rebounds per game, and the salary is only 4 million, why should the Trail Blazers trade him?

On the one hand, because the Trail Blazers selected two interior players in a row, Zhuang Shen and Leonard White, the growth of newcomers requires enough playing time, and if Hickson and others continue to be retained, the growth of the two will be suppressed. But more importantly, JJ Hickson is not a long-term player, because he has a serious back injury and has only played a dozen games with the Trail Blazers.

But in the end, the reason for people to give up on him was defense, this guy is terrible defensively, and his ability to help defend and supplement defense is at the bottom of the interior, so although he can run and jump, and his rebounding ability is not bad, teams aiming for the playoffs will not want this kind of player.

The reason for this situation is very simple, the player is not focused enough on the defensive end, the investment is not enough, in addition to the poor sense of space in defense, this is a problem of talent, the sense of space here is not for the ball, but for the judgment of the scope of the defensive space is not accurate enough, so it causes leakage, the defense is not timely, and the defense is not in place to cause gaps and so on.

In fact, there are many players like JJ Hickson in the NBA, the most famous is Big McGee, can you say that Big McGee is poorly talented? McGee was the master of the rebounding edge at his peak, but due to poor defense and poor independent offensive ability, once his physical function declines, his own value will shrink significantly, and he may even face a situation where no one cares.

The same is true of JJ. Hickson, his rebounding ability is not bad, and he also has a shot on offense, but he is not stable enough, but because of poor defense, and there is a hidden danger of back injury, and he is only 2.06 meters to be a good frame protector, so he is not a long-term player.

In the original history, JJ Hickson was a famous vagabond, tossing and turning many teams, and when he was a little older, he couldn't jump high and couldn't run fast, and no one cared about him, JJ Hickson left the NBA in 16 years, and then took root in the CBA, and he was only 28 years old when he left.

In addition, Chen An remembered that this guy seemed to have a black history of taking illegal drugs, but it seemed to be found out during the Nuggets period, it should be 2014, it seems that after this guy came, he had to be strictly managed, and he must not be allowed to bring his youth army badly.

Of course, even if JJ Hickson has so many shortcomings, he is still very capable at the moment, and his arrival can solve the problem on the offensive end to a certain extent, as for the defensive end, it can only be coached by Budenhozer.

After completing the deal, Chen An immediately put Glenn Davis and JJ Redick on the shelf, both of them are high-quality resources, but they are not in Chen An's plan, take Redick as an example, although this guy is three-pointed, he does not have the ability to attack with the ball, and Chen An's requirements, the guards must have the ability to handle the ball and have a certain offensive ability with the ball, and the front line must have a stable three-point ability.

The key is in Chen An's impression that the previous Redick seemed to have been traded to the Bucks by the Magic in the 12-13 season, in exchange for a fairly good 3D embryo, so he wanted to try to continue the trajectory of history to pick up a leak.

But before that, Chen An decided to get Ryan first. Anderson.