408. The NBA is a loyal place
After Garnett's trip to the Celtics, the smash hit 21 was gone. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Now that Garnett is back in the Timberwolves and back into the No. 21 jersey, it seems as if the No. 21 showdown between Garnett and Duncan is in front of them again.
But now things are different, Duncan and Garnett are both thirty-eight or nineteen-year-old veterans, and they are no longer as brave as they used to be.
It's just that the same thing is that the Spurs are still a playoff team, and the Timberwolves still can't make the playoffs.
However, the image of the two former super-power forwards being able to re-wear the No. 21 jersey at the last moment of their careers has already made many fans feel gratified.
Then the Heat made a trade with the Pacers, and since Granger was about to retire and wanted to return to the Pacers' retirement, Pat Riley would not be mad enough to be a villain.
The Pacers traded back Granger with a 2015 second-round pick.
At this time, some fans came out to ridicule.
"It's been a long time since I've watched the NBA, and NBA players are really loyal! James is still with the Cavaliers, Garnett is still with the Timberwolves, Jordan Jr. is still with the Clippers, Duncan is still with the Spurs, the driver is still with the Mavericks, Granger is still with the Pacers, Kobe is still with the Lakers, and Wade is still with the Heat. ”
"After more than ten years of squatting in prison, I found that people are really loyal. Garnett is still in the Timberwolves, James is still in the Cavaliers, Kobe is still in the Lakers, Yi Jianlian is still in Guangdong, Torres is still in Atletico Madrid, Drogba and Mourinho are still in Chelsea, Faye Wong and Nicholas Tse are still in love. ”
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Transactions do not happen if they do not happen, and when they happen, they are often concentrated.
Because there can't always be one candidate for a team trade, they usually negotiate with many teams, and the decision of any one team will involve the decision of the other teams.
For example, the Celtics originally wanted to trade Rondo with the Timberwolves with draft picks, and they wanted not only Thaddeus Young, but also Shabas, a young player who showed excellent offensive and defensive talent.
But the Timberwolves management, who was once cheated by McMyer, did not bird the Celtics, but made a loss-making trade with the Nets and traded Garnett back.
As a result, the Celtics can only choose the Mavericks, whose offer is much lower.
The Dallas Mavericks and Celtics announced that they have completed a big five-man trade.
The Celtics sent Rajon Rondo, Troy Murphy, Jay Crowder, Jamil Nelson, Brandon Knight from the Mavericks, and the Mavericks' first-round pick and second-round pick this summer.
"Ah Ren, the west will become more lively now, and the Mavericks' outside lineup can be comparable to yours." Xiao Niu said with some concern, Xiao Niu is a fan of the Lakers, Kobe Bryant, and Liu Ren, and what she wants to see most is, of course, that the Lakers are the strongest team.
The Mavericks have a good momentum this year, Nowitzki is still performing well, averaging 20 points and 6 boards per game, Ellis is averaging 18 points, 4 boards and 7 assists per game to play the highest organizational level of his career, Parsons later pitted, but his performance in the Mavericks in the first year was still good, averaging 13 points, 5 boards and 3 assists per game, Chandler can also get an average of 8 points and 11 boards per game after returning to the Mavericks, and now with Rondo, a rhythm to do big things!
Now the Mavericks seem to have what it takes to become a powerhouse in the West, getting Rondo with little to no loss and forming the league's most expensive starting lineup.
Rondo, Ellis, Parsons, Nowitzki, Chandler, in terms of salary, look crazy.
Rondo 15 million, Ellis 12 million, Parsons 15 million, Nowitzki 22 million, Chandler 18 million, this salary except for the Nets, no team can match the starters! A starter is directly higher than the salary of the entire Lakers team!
"Celtic, this is crazy? Rondo for Nelson? Liu Ren couldn't help but complain.
Although Liu Ren had known that such a deal would happen, he still felt strange when the transaction happened in front of him, what kind of ecstasy soup did the Mavericks general manager Nelson old pour into the Celtics general manager Anji, the best chip given by the Mavericks is Crowder, a defensive small forward, as for the first-round pick, after the Mavericks got Rondo, it was basically a chicken rib pick, and the Mavericks' lineup was determined to enter the playoffs, and history happened like this, and the current situation looks the same.
"The Celtics want to be the top pick, look at their current roster, they are the worst in the East." Monica's tone was full of sarcasm, the Lakers and the Celtics have never dealt with each other, and Monica, as an Angelenist, hates the Celtics very much.
"With Danny Angie's character, maybe the Rondo Celtics made the playoffs after being traded." Liu Ren has no ill feelings towards the Celtics and is the strongest opponent in the team's history, but he is disgusted with Danny Angie.
In fact, even Celtic fans don't like Angie that much.
"Then you have to congratulate them," Monica thinks about the situation in the East, even if the Celtics have the worst lineup, maybe they can make the playoffs, playing in the East is no longer a roster problem, the Celtics' current lineup is so mediocre, they are firmly in seventh place.
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Liu Ren didn't care much about these two transactions, but the white-haired old man in the general manager's office at the Toyota Center in Los Angeles sighed heavily.
The Lakers' trade has never been loud and will never happen, and the trade comes suddenly, such as almost getting Paul at the beginning, and later getting Nash and Howard, all of which happened suddenly.
In the summer, Kupchak actually courted Anthony and James, but both turned them down.
Since the Paul trade was rejected in 2011, the point guard position has been a pain in Kupchak's heart.
Although there is Jeremy Lin now, there are also talented LaVine and Clarkson.
But LaVine seems to be more suitable to be a scorer, Clarkson is more suitable to be a bench bandit, both of them have too prominent characteristics, Jeremy Lin is obviously not in Kupchak's long-term planning, Jeremy Lin's salary is too high, such a high salary can hire an All-Star level point guard.
So since the news of the constant conflict between Rondo and Celtic came out at the beginning of the season, Kupchak has been planning to get Rondo over.
But countless deals were proposed in private, and Celtics general manager Angie refused!
Kobe Bryant came to the Toyota Center early to train as before, this guy didn't stay at home for a while on Christmas, but brought his wife and daughter to train together, and took his wife and daughter to the Staples Center during the afternoon game, and the management reserved him three sideline positions.
After Kobe Bryant arrived at the Toyota Center, he went to Kupchak to talk to Kupchak about the team as usual, but found that Kupchak was unusually low today.
"The Celtics are really narrow-minded, and you can see from the Garnett trade back then." Kupchak is disappointed today, and the deal that has been in the works for months goes bankrupt today.
Danny Ainge didn't accept the Lakers' use of Jeremy Lin, Nick Young, and the Lakers' 16-year first-round picks, and instead of sending Rondo to the Lakers, he chose to trade with the Mavericks, much to Kupchak's frustration.
Obviously, Jeremy Lin and Nick-Young had better leverage than Nelson and Crowder, but the Celtics just refused without even a moment's notice.
"It's okay, we had a chance in the summer," Bryant took a sip of red wine, "Mitch, your wine is good, look a little bit away, we're in good shape right now, aren't we?" ”
"This is an opportunity to form the Big Four, and I am still very unwilling to miss it like this." The white-haired Kupchak was even less calm than Kobe.
"The Big Four aren't necessarily for us, are they? We didn't try it once two years ago, so let's just keep fighting. "Kobe doesn't quite understand why Kupchak is so fond of building super starters, if nothing else, if the team is all superstars, it will really be better than it is now?
And the team has fewer pitchers, although Jeremy Lin's three-point ability is not particularly powerful, but it is still more powerful than Ron, and Nick Young's three-point ability is indispensable to the Lakers' bench.
Kobe Bryant has always felt that Kupchak may be the strongest of all the general managers in the entire NBA history in terms of trading, but there are always problems in the selection of the lineup, and there was a Zen master to help press the lineup, which was exposed after the departure of the Zen master in 2012, but it was a mess to form a big four team of role players, only caring about recruiting famous and powerful, but did not take into account the problem of lineup matching.
In the past two years, the Lakers lineup has been matched so well, thanks to the fool Liu Ren in Kobe's eyes......
"However, I can now fully understand why the Celtics have been a bad team since Larry Bird won three championships in the '80s, until they won a championship thanks to McHale's gift." Kobe Bryant's tone was sarcastic, "Their management has always been so incompetent, Walker and Pierce didn't make the playoffs at the beginning, and Angie's operation in the past few years has made me more confident that we will be the team with the most championships in history in a few years." ”
Kobe Bryant is going to inherit the tradition of the Lakers, and the team's stars have entered the rhythm of team management after retiring, and they are becoming more and more accustomed to looking at the future with a big vision.
Kobe Bryant continued to comfort Kupchak, after all, Kupchak wasted a lot of effort to get Rondo.
However, in Kobe's opinion, Kupchak is a little old, more and more stubborn, too obsessed with the super lineup, and more obsessed than before.
Kobe Bryant's relief Kupchak relented and continued to plan for the future, knowing that he had already started to work on another supergroup without asking him.