In July, teams around the league began bolstering their rosters through trades.

The Raptors and Pacers fired their first shot in the NBA player market this summer. The Raptors sent guard TJ Ford in exchange for Pacers guard Tinsley.

Both of the players in the deal, Ford and Tinsley, have serious injury histories. Ford has a spine injury and has been sidelined twice in a season. In the '04-05 season, when Ford was still playing for the Milwaukee Bucks, he was reimbursed for the entire season due to neck surgery, and last season Ford was injured by Al Horford in a game against the Grizzlies, and missed another 13 games with a neck injury.

Tinsley has only played more than 40 games in one of his last four seasons, and was injured again in March this season. Ford is in slightly better shape, and the Raptors are eyeing Tinsley's contract to expire next year. TJ Ford stays with the Raptors, and Brooks can't get on the line. Now the Raptors prefer the young and energetic Brooks.

Now on the issue of Okafor's contract extension, the Raptors are hesitant. Okafor has been playing poorly in the playoffs, and the Raptors are worried that a high-salary extension with Okafor will be a long-term garbage contract. The Raptors first renewed the contract of French swingman Petrus for 4 years and 21 million. Then the free market began to chase Kwame Brown. Brown's price is low, and the Raptors signed him with a 1+1 contract worth a total of 8 million.

The Bucks and Nets reached an agreement to trade Brandon Wright and Bobby Simmons for Richard Jefferson for the Nets. Wright was the No. 7 rookie last season, and Simmons has $20.5 million left on his contract, which expires in the summer of 2010.

On July 6, the lynx also took action. After deliberations, the Bobcats and Grizzlies made a trade. Because of the selection of French teenager Batum, the Grizzlies want to trade the team's god pitcher Mike Miller out of the team. And Kwame Brown enters free agency, and the Grizzlies only have Milicic and Al Horford on the inside, lacking bench depth on the inside. The Bobcats traded small forward Matt Barnes, DeAndre Jordan and next season's second-round pick for Mike Miller.

It's a win-win deal. Barnes could bolster the Grizzlies' defense, and DeAndre Jordan bolstered Grizzlies interior bench depth. As for sending away second-round picks, the Bobcats are not distressed at all. They will definitely be able to play well in the regular season with their current roster, and if they are the last few picks in the second round, they will not be able to pick anyone at all.

Mike Miller's six-year, 47.25 million contract, which expired in the summer of 2010, averaged 16.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game last season, shooting 50.3% from the field and 43.2% from three-point range. Who is the best pitcher in the league? Aside from Stojakovic and Ray Allen, the third thing that comes to mind is often Miller.

Miller is a calm veteran and Hayes is very happy with his new teammate.

When Jordan informed Hayes, he said excitedly: "Chuck, now our lineup, if we can't win the championship next season, we can't say it." But we have too many inside lines, so what should we do? The other teams are not very good at trading chips, and if we trade draft picks, is it a bit of a loss? ”

"It's a real headache, so let's wait and see. We are always in touch. Hayes said. Now he also feels that it was not enough to consider finding so many interior rookies in the draft.

After that, Bulls Dujon joined the Knicks. Veteran Brent Barry joins the Rockets.

These deals are all pediatric.

The heavyweight signing took place on July 9.

The 76ers signed "Captain" Elton Brand to a five-year, $82 million contract. In order to sign Brand, the 76ers made a deliberate trade yesterday to free up salary space. The 76ers sent Rodney Carney, Kelvin Booth and a future first-round pick to the Bucks to free up $3 million in salary space, while also receiving a $3 million trade exception and a 2010 second-round pick from the Bucks.

After Brand's arrival, the 76ers are also on the verge of finalizing Andre Iguodala's contract, with the new contract rumored to be around $80 million over six years.

Brand left for money, and the Clippers also made a big move.

The Clippers signed Okafor for 5 years and 53 million to free agency. Although Okafor was able to score a double-double in the regular season, the pundit evaluation of him has been reduced to a blue-collar who can grab rebounds and has a good defense. Okafor is excited to join the Clippers because the Clippers look promising this season.

After Okafor's arrival, the Clippers immediately made a second big trade, signing point guard Byron Davis for 5 years and 65 million. Coupled with Michael Beasley, a top-notch pick with super offensive ability, the Clippers also have the strength to make the playoffs.

Next up was the turmoil with the Wizards. Gilbert Arenas couldn't stand Zach Randolph and was unhappy with the Wizards' operation and jumped out of contract. It may also be the butterfly effect of Hayes's crossing, and the Wizards no longer fancy players in Arenas' style, but are more interested in Randolph who flows on the floor. So he didn't take out a 100 million yuan contract to keep it like Hayes did in his previous life.

Arenas wanted to join a team with championship power, and the Bobcats were not interested in him, so the Nuggets offered Arenas a five-year, $80 million contract.

Arenas didn't ask for more for the championship and signed with the Nuggets! The Nuggets already have Martin, Nene and others, and if he asks for a big contract, the team's bench lineup will not be able to be strengthened.

When Hayes learned that Arenas had joined the Nuggets, he immediately called Jordan. "Michael, here's your chance. Hurry up and contact the Nuggets, you must be fast, don't be preempted. Take our interior players, Hibbert, Gortat, plus other role players to contact the Nuggets and trade Camby. You can also give them our trading exceptions! Don't miss it! ”

Jordan listened to Hayes' explanation and immediately figured out one thing, because of the signing of Arenas, the Nuggets' salary was already in trouble, and there were several role players on the team who could not renew their contracts, and they had to continue to clean up some big contracts on the team.

Rod Higgins reached out to the Nuggets right away. Sure enough, the Nuggets urgently need to clean up the contract. After some deliberation, the Nuggets sent center Marcus Camby to the Bobcats for another shocking trade this summer.

In this deal, the price paid by the Bobcats was only last season's backup center Marcin Gortat and the $8 million trade exception.

Camby's six-year, 57 million contract was signed in 2004 and expired in the summer of 2010. His annual salary for the new season is only $8 million. Camby, who has only been in the best defensive team for two consecutive years, has an annual salary of only 8 million, what is this concept?

In fact, Camby's annual salary for the new season is $8 million, but when used in this deal, his total trade value is $10 million, and that's because Camby also has a $2 million bonus. Under his contract with the Nuggets, Camby will receive a bonus if he plays as many games as he meets the contract requirements for the 2007-08 season and has 10 points, 10 rebounds and two blocks. Last season, Camby made the number of appearances to meet his contract requirements, and the money was eventually added to the total deal value of the deal.

Under league rules, teams with a total salary in excess of the salary cap are subject to luxury tax, which is paid an additional $1 to the league for every dollar exceeded. According to analysis, sending Camby away could save the Nuggets $16 million to $22.5 million.

Bobcat doesn't have any salary issues, and trading to Camby doesn't trigger the luxury tax.

With this deal, the Bobcats roster for next season has become very terrifying.

However, things did not always go well, and at the same time that the Bobcats traded Camby successfully, Calderon was "poached". He was signed by the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors have gone Byron Davis, the guard position needs to be strengthened, and Calderon is very suitable for playing small-ball tactics, so the Warriors gave him a five-year, $38 million contract. A week later, if the Bobcats don't follow up on this, Calderon will join the Warriors.

Calderon left, Bobcats executives felt it didn't matter, and now there were Felton, Rondo and George Hill, who was drafted with the 20th pick. Felton has the quality to start and Rondo is also an excellent substitute.

The Bobcats sent Gortat and DeAndre Jordan and reduced the center position to four as they continued to seek a trade because of the overnumber.

Jordan will always contact Hayes, who is in training camp for the national team, to inform him of the deal.

The Dream 8 team has begun high-intensity training, and the sparring partners have also reported to Las Vegas.

It is also a great honor for many players to be a sparring partner for this dream team. The United States Basketball Association announced the official list of the 2008 Yenjing Olympics U.S. men's basketball "sparring team" on the 13th, and "08 Leader" Derrick Rose became the biggest player.

In order to improve the preparation level of the dream team and help Hayes and other main players find the game as soon as possible, Jerry Colangelo, director of the American Basketball Association, specially recruited 12 players from various NBA teams, summer leagues and other channels to form a "sparring" lineup.

The last two sparring spots have been pending before, and today the old Cranjilo finally announced the full list, and the Timberwolves rookie power forward Kevin Love and Suns center Robin Lopez became the last two options, lucky to catch the last train. Loew was selected by the Knicks with the fifth overall pick in the draft and averaged 20.7 points and 15 rebounds per game in the first three games of the summer league.

Robin Lopez, the No. 17 rookie who was drafted by the Raptors in the first round, averaged 16 points and 7.7 rebounds per game in the first three games of the Summer League, and he is also the twin brother of Brook Lopez of the Bobcats.

The 12-man U.S. men's basketball team is on the sparring team: Kevin Durant (Bobcats), Derrick Rose (Heat), O.J. Mayo, Aldridge (Trail Blazers), Iguodala (76ers), Kevin Martin (Kings), Al Horford (Grizzlies), Jeff Green (SuperSonics), Rodney Starkey (Hawks), Luthor Hyde (Rockets), Kevin Loew (Timberwolves), Robin Lopez (Suns).

These players entered the Dream Team training camp on Sunday and will prepare for the Olympics with a 12-man squad from Monday to Wednesday, during which the U.S. will play a warm-up match against the Canadian national team. The U.S. team's first Olympic match will be played on the evening of August 10 against the host Chinese team.

As soon as the sparring lineup arrived, they first had a meeting with the players of the Dream 8 team. The first thing Hayes did was say hello to Durant, who will be his teammate next season.

"Hi Kevin. Checking in to the Bobcats? ”

"Hello, Chuck. I've already checked in and everyone is very nice to me. It's a pleasure to be teammates with you. Durant shook hands with Hayes and smiled shyly.

(To be continued)