Time flies quickly, Liu Ren is looking for fun in the training that is constantly repeated every day, and another month flies by. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

An interesting thing happened in the league during this time.

On June 30, the Clippers successfully auctioned off to Ballmer, a colleague of the Trail Blazers' local tycoon, a shareholder of Microsoft, and a super-rich tycoon in New York, for a record NBA transaction of $2 billion.

Sterling's struggles were in vain, and the court ruled that he was incapacitated and declared the trade legal.

But at this time, the Clippers had something to worry about, and Jordan Jr.'s contract expired! On July 1, the free market opened, and Cuban sent a big contract of 90 million for 4 years and successfully pocketed Jordan Jr.

However, the league has a rule that it will not be officially concluded until July 8, after the end of the one-week trade buffer period, but Cuban is too confident and has reached a verbal agreement with Jordan Jr. and has not signed a formal contract.

The Clippers team who learned the news ran to Jordan Jr.'s hometown in Dallas to block the door, not letting Jordan Jr. out, and successfully lobbied Jordan Jr. to return to the Clippers!

Cuban went crazy all at once, what player in the league would go back on after making an agreement? Only Boozer, who used to be of the Cavaliers, and then Boozer's fate was also miserable, no team would believe his promise, and after the season just ended, the Bulls pardoned him, and so far no team has been willing to claim him.

The NBA is that big, and the credibility of one person and one team is important.

So Cuban didn't expect Jordan Jr. to regret it at all, and he only talked to Jordan Jr. on the phone, and he didn't even know where Jordan's house was, so he could only drive around the various rich villa areas in Dallas, and it made headlines.

It is said that the owner of the Nets is a Russian tycoon, in fact, there are much richer bosses in the NBA bosses, the Trail Blazers are one, and now the new owner of the Clippers is more than double the assets of the Russian tyrants!

Ballmer is quite a tyrant who lets Rivers spend whatever he wants, as long as he can win the championship, Rivers gave Jordan Jr. a 5-year 110 million fat contract, plus the team owner has changed, and Paul and Griffin, who have worked together for many years, have a tacit understanding, the lineup is much stronger than the Mavericks, plus the whole team of the Clippers ran to his house, and he signed a contract with the Clippers half-pushed.

The contracts that have been signed and the verbal promises are of course valid for the contracts that have been signed! In the early morning of July 8th, the league must have recognized the contract that had been signed and announced that Jordan Jr. would renew his contract with the Clippers for 5 years and 110 million!

This incident adds a touch of fun to the boring long grass, and people don't care about where little Jordan goes, but because the process is so fun, Cuban becomes the protagonist of the tragedy again.

For Jordan Jr.'s return to the Clippers, Liu Ren has long known it, and he doesn't care anymore, the most powerful thing about Jordan Jr. is only rebounding, and the defense is a bit of a deterrent in addition to the block, in fact, the overall defense is very average, and he will stop when he encounters good skills, but now there are too few centers with good skills in the league, so it seems that his defense is not bad, not to mention the offense, obviously Whiteside will be stronger in the future.

The official free market opened, and all the teams began to operate in earnest.

First up is the Heat and the Knicks.

Wade announced that he would stay with the Heat with a large salary cut of 30 million for 2 years, and expressed his willingness to take a salary cut to give James and Bosh a bigger contract extension.

James remained silent as Bosh began a journey of talks with as many as ten teams.

Anthony agreed to stay with the Knicks under the persuasion of the Zen master and renewed the contract with a fat contract of 120 million for 5 years, he played 4 years longer than Jordan Jr., and the contract was relatively large.

On July 11, the Warriors announced that they had fired Mark Jackson due to a record that did not meet expectations, and Suns general manager Steve Kerr became their new head coach.

On July 12, Knicks president Phil Jackson fired current head coach Mike Woodson, and Derrick Fisher became the new head coach of the Knicks on a three-year, $5 million contract.

On July 13, James rejected the 5-year 120 million contract extension offered by the Heat, announced the "return of the prodigal son", and returned to the Cavaliers with a 2-year contract of 40 million!

On the same day, the Cavaliers and the Timberwolves made a deal to trade Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett for Kevin Love!

The Knight Triumvirate is formed! The alliance pattern suddenly changed!

James' return to the Cavaliers is blessed and ironic, and the fans have different mentalities.

The media also disagrees on this, with the pro-James ESPN naturally touting it wildly, and the anti-James media constantly mocking it.

Liu Ren called James for the first time to tease, but he was more excited, James who returned to the Cavaliers will return to the top again, and after losing weight, he will be stronger than in the past two seasons!

It's interesting to play against such an opponent, the Heat's approach of squeezing out stars can only allow players to reach their peak for a short time, but it will soon decline, Liu Ren understands James' choice very well.

As for Anthony staying at the Knicks, Liu Ren can't predict whether it is a good choice, obviously not from memory, but the strength of the Knicks at the end of the season overturned his memory, everything is very different!

The tragedy is Wade, who neither kept James nor got the contract he wanted, even less than he should have gotten out of the contract.

On July 15, the Lakers officially renewed their contracts with Bazemore, Nick Young, and Thackeray.

Bazemore got a 4-year, 10 million contract extension, an average of 2.5 million per year, without a salary increase, and a last-year team option, which is much higher than the 3-year 6 million Bazemore got from the Hawks, so he is willing to have a team option.

Nick Young was offered a four-year, $16 million contract that was decreasing year by year, up to $5.5 million in the first year and only $3.5 million in the final year, apparently in preparation for salary space afterward.

Thackeray was offered a four-year, $7 million contract extension with a starting salary of $1.23 million.

After the contract renewal of these three people, the general framework of the Lakers has basically been completed, the salary space is almost occupied, and there are not many positions, this summer except for the 03 Big Four and Jordan Jr., there are not too many big-name stars, and the Lakers have people in the positions played by these big-name stars, so the Lakers management finished what they had to do early, neither delaying things, but also doing other things earlier.

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Kupchak looked at the roster of players and began to get depressed again.

He looked at the roster of players, point guards: Nash, LaVine, Jeremy Lin, Clarkson, shooting guards: Kobe, Nick Young, McCollum, Henry, small forwards: Liu Ren, Antetokounmpo, Bazemore, power forwards: Gasol, Green, centers: Whiteside, Thackeray.

The roster is full!