25. Transactions
Because the Celtics made too much trouble in this transaction, the soul of the Celtics, Pierce, who is known for his loyalty, has a very popular Garnett in the world, and the design of the transaction of these two will attract huge attention. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
As a result, the Lakers' petty trade was completely ignored.
The Lakers made a three-way trade with the Warriors and the Rockets, with the Lakers sending Steve Blake to the Warriors' backup point guard Kent Bazemore, and the Lakers taking their team's No. 3 small forward Draymond Green and the Rockets' 2014 second-round pick.
The Warriors sent Bazemore, Green, Marshon Brooks, Steve Blake, and the Rockets' 2016 second-round pick.
The Rockets were purely here to suffer, they took advantage of the Lakers in the summer, and Morey took the initiative this time to suffer, trading two second-round picks for Marshon Brooks, who could barely play.
Warriors head coach Mark Jackson has long wanted a steady and tough bench point guard to inject an iron-blooded temperament into the team, don't look at Blake as a white man, but he has always played hard, the kind of toughness that comes out of his bones, no matter who your opponent is, you dare to be tough.
It was worth it to send away young Bazemore Mark Jackson for Blake, but he didn't know that what Kupchak really wanted was the Green he saw as an add-on, the short forward he didn't see as a standout, too slow to play the number three and too short to play the number four.
Mark Jackson was a traditional coach with a very detailed division of each position, completely different from Steve Cole who would come later.
Mark Jackson heard that the Lakers had previously signed a center who had been cut for two years on a long-term contract, and thought that the Lakers really had no interior line before they would let Green go.
When Liu Ren saw this deal from the Lakers in the corner of the news section, he couldn't help but wonder if Kerr took over the Warriors next year according to history, and then saw Green, who was sent to the Lakers by the Warriors as a head, play out, would he be so angry that his kidneys hurt?
Liu Ren doesn't doubt that D'Antoni can let Green play, if D'Antoni is given four superstars, all of them are former bosses, and they have just been put together, and they don't even know what they want to do together, maybe he won't be able to make the playoffs, because they are all bigger than him.
But if you give him a bunch of average-strength players, he can give you a lot of money.
Liu has always felt that D'Antoni's ability to scout role players is comparable to Popovich, and the Lakers' Earl Clarke left the team a few days ago to sign a three-year, $14 million contract with the Cavaliers.
Clark was almost out of play when he was with the Magic a year ago, and after a year under D'Antoni, he is now almost middle-class.
Green, an all-round player under D'Antoni, allowed him to play well during the period when Kobe Bryant had not returned, Kobe Bryant will only trust him more when he comes back, and a player like Green who passes the ball is the first priority, Kobe Bryant likes it the most.
Just like Liu Ren once fantasized that Kobe and James teamed up at their peak, one loves passing, is all-round invincible, the other is invincible in scoring, and the defense is desperate, and the combination of the two is not too beautiful.
"This is a bankrupt version of the 23+24 combination, right?" Liu Ren thought maliciously.
The Lakers continue to reinforce, and their summer league team has two first-round picks in recent years, one of which is Wesley Johnson, a small forward who played in the Suns last year and the No. 5 pick of the Kings in 2010.
Wesley Johnson has always been good, but unfortunately he was older when he entered the NBA, and he didn't have much room for improvement, and he didn't have a place in a team like the Kings that needed to hoard talent, and the Suns didn't have a place for him. He got offers from other teams, but he chose to return to Los Angeles to prop up the Lakers, who were about to collapse.
The other was also a 2010 first-round pick named Xavier Henry, a domestic and foreign king, who was drafted by the Grizzlies with the 12th pick. Unlike Wesley Johnson, he didn't play, not because the team didn't have a position, and he was young, 19 when he was drafted, whether it was with the Grizzlies or the Hornets, the team was willing to develop.
But Henry is a serious glass man, he has a strong jump, first-class speed, and skill, but he is not tolerant of grass.
The Lakers were willing to gamble on him and also signed him with a two-year salary.
After signing the two in a row, the Lakers continued to strengthen their strengths, and after studying a lot of videos of Antetokounmpo playing in Europe with D'Antoni, Kupchak made a decision and requested a trade from the Bucks.
At this time, the Bucks didn't see Antetokounmpo's potential, and in this year's super draft year, when even the top pick was only positioned as a qualified starter, a 15th pick didn't even make the lotto, and they randomly selected someone from the list provided by scouts.
However, Bucks general manager John Hammond wanted to take advantage of the small advantage, and after bargaining with the Lakers, he made a deal.
The Lakers sent Jordy Meeks, Ryan Kelly, their own 2014 second-round pick, and the Rockets' 2014 second-round pick to the Bucks' rookie Giannis Antetokounmpo.
The trade seemed to be a decent deal, with the Lakers signing a lot of young outside players, and trading Meeks for a frontcourt player to strengthen the frontcourt that lost Jamison and Howard was necessary.
Time flashed to mid-September, there were still two weeks left before the start of training camp, and the Lakers players began to return to the team one by one, Liu Ren invited Thackeray, Gasol, and Jordan Hill, three old teammates, to go to his house for a reunion, and the Lakers players last season were only the four of them plus Kobe Bryant, who had healed their tendons and began to recover.
After Kobe Bryant's tendon injury was fully recovered, Gary Widdy was taken away by Kupchak to take care of Kobe, and Liu Ren could only train on his own, but fortunately, he got used to the gradual weight gain method every day, and regarded boring things as fun, so he was not boring.
The Lakers are now young to the limit all of a sudden, except for Kobe, Nash, Gasol, and Famar, everyone else was born after 89, a group of 22 and 23-year-old new forces.
Young people, most of whom had a bad time before, are now very motivated to prove themselves in a new environment.
At first, it was Whiteside who joined Liu Ren in training and asked Gary Widdy to guide him in training.
Gary Widdy is a very good trainer throughout the NBA and has a lot of fame, while Whiteside played less games in the NBL and trained less usually, mainly because of environmental issues.
One thing Whiteside doesn't understand is why some Chinese players who are very talented in his eyes don't like training at all, and would rather play with a beer belly, can they play well?
However, the training on the Chinese side Whiteside felt very unprofessional, and he turned back and ran squats at every turn, which Whiteside felt was murder, especially for a center like him.
Everything is unprofessional, this is what Whiteside learned about Chinese basketball when he played in the NBL.
Liu Ren is very excited about Whiteside joining the training together, not surprisingly, this big man is the pillar of the Lakers' future, and he is still a defensive type who will not grab the right hand with him, which is very beautiful......