"What do you say? The Grizzlies rejected my trade? ”

"Yes! West replied that the Grizzlies have a good chance of making the playoffs again this season, and that they are ready to re-sign Gasol this summer, and the Grizzlies have no intention of rebuilding this season. ”

"I see! You go down first! After saying that, Riley frowned tightly and looked at who else could be traded by Jones.

Jones is the only one with trade value for the Heat now, and who can be useful if the other people's contracts of about two million are traded out?

If the Heat are willing to trade Wade, of course...... Riley directly vetoed this proposal, for Wade, almost did not complete the trade with the Lakers, and now the trade ability has reached the league's Wade? Or Wade, who only has more than 2 million? Riley didn't have a high fever yet.

But Jones is really difficult to trade, especially when there are two scorers on the team, Jones's stats are declining again, and now that the Heat just want some good blue-collar players, it is very difficult.

Grizzlies don't want to trade James? Posey's reason is because the team is now lacking such an outside defensive gate, Marshall's contract is about to expire this summer, although his all-around ability has given the Grizzlies a lot of help, and even allowed the Grizzlies to enter the playoffs at the end of last season, but he was born as a rookie in '92, and he is already an important factor in the Grizzlies' renews of not wanting to renew his contract.

Jones' second difficult trade is that he still has a contract of nearly $40 million for three years, including this year.

The only ones who are interested in Jones are the Timberwolves and the 76ers, but the price they are willing to pay is not what Riley is interested in, and of course, the Magic are willing to trade Houston for it...... When Riley heard the call, he angrily threw the phone directly to the ground.

After looking at the rosters of all teams, Riley finally reluctantly re-read the call log with the Grizzlies, but also announced that this season's Heat is just like that, and there is no permission to continue to strengthen.

Cheap sale, Riley disagrees, not cheap sale, the league's interest in Jones is really limited, although against a team like the Knicks, Jones's ability to lead the bench is limited, but for most teams, Jones leading the bench is enough.

"If you can't get what you want from other teams, you have to find out from within the team!" Riley sighed and could only do so this this season.

Riley didn't want Van Gundy to fire him this season at first, even though Van Gundy had the potential to move towards the core of the Heat's power, but the Magic suddenly contacted Van Gundy at this time, and secretly reached a series of agreements with Van Gundy, including deciding everything about coaching and deciding how to develop Howard, giving Van Gundy a lot of convenience.

Van Gundy was immediately tempted by the conditions offered by the Magic team! With Riley, who has a strong network across the league at the top of the Heat, Van Gundy is more interested in coaching the combination of Maddy, Houston and Howard.

So when Van Gundy bluntly discussed with Riley how to make the Heat team go further, especially after he told all the loopholes of the Heat team, when he needed to trade to whom, Riley, who couldn't bear it, could only reach an agreement with the Magic first, complete the secret buyout, and save a sum of money for the Heat.

The NBA league is like this, there is no right opportunity, even an 18+ player can't be sent away, and he can't get what he wants.

Now that the Grizzlies' goals have changed, especially after Battier was traded to New York, many things have changed, where LeBron's Cavaliers should go, what will happen to the Heat's playoff journey, and the impact of the Knicks in the East has reached a peak this season.

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The rest of the league and the Knicks don't seem to have the slightest connection at the moment, a good atmosphere, rising records will temporarily suppress some bad things, the Knicks' general salary in the next two or three years is not much to worry about, besides, now for the Knicks, how to successfully defend the title is the most important thing.

After the victory over the Cavaliers in January, the Knicks welcomed an easy journey for a wave of league underdogs, defeating the slumpy Trail Blazers and Hornets successively, although the Bulls caused some problems for the Knicks, but the Bulls' most sure defense, and Curry's interior offense were really restrained by the Knicks.

There is such a situation in the current league, the top teams in the league want to beat the Knicks, the weak teams in the league want to play well in the battle against the Knicks, but the league's playoff fringe teams will not play seriously with the Knicks.

The Bulls belong to the last one, their average points per game is about 90 points, but the Knicks are now averaging 98 points per game, and the 8-point gap really makes the Bulls feel discouraged in the end.

The Knicks, who have won 14 consecutive victories after Gong Feng returned, still encountered a strong rival, the Houston Rockets.

The current Rockets are still performing very well in the playoffs where the competition in the West is not very fierce, Francis and Mobley did not trade to the impact of the Magic, which is generally beneficial to the Rockets, and Cato, a somewhat unlucky guy, was not abandoned because of Yao Ming's relationship, and did not play well in the Rockets because of being Howard's backup in the Magic.

Randolph has also begun to change himself in places like Van Gundy and the Rockets, which are considered very clean players, and the defense is active, and the offense is also good, especially after Van Gundy now intends to take him as the core of the team, Randolph is already a 20+10 league first-line interior player.

But the Rockets still have a point, the strength of the bench is too poor, for the Knicks is still the same sentence, the main force can still deal with the Knicks for a while, but once the bench comes on, the gap between the two sides will arise.

At the beginning of the season, no team noticed this, but after Gong Feng came back, the teams that used to feel that they could beat with hard work became playing, and before they felt anything, the gap between them became 10 points, 15 points, and 20 points.

In particular, Gong Feng led the bench lineup to play a large-scale rotation of small balls, which really made many teams feel that playing with the Knicks had to adapt to two ways of playing first, or you have someone who can crack this style of play, such as Nash and Kidd.

Of course, if you have a strong scorer, you can do it as long as the score is not solved to a certain extent...... But if you add it all together, many people will find that the Knicks' opponents are only a few teams.

This game against the Rockets and the next game against the Bucks is a good illustration of the Knicks' toughness.

Then there is the first collision between the first team in the West and the first in the East, the two teams that are in the limelight in the Suns and the Knicks, after the return of Gongfeng, the gorgeous collision of the United States and the world.

The Suns didn't sign Quentin in free agency because of the trade with the Knicks? Richardson, the one signed by the Raptors, this player with good three-point ability, is already the most important helper for Milicic in the next three or four years.

The Suns' starting point has become a team composed of Nash, Joe, Marion, Smalls and Kert that is good offensively and defensively, and D'Antoni wants it to be both fast and defensive.

Of course, D'Antoni still has a shortcoming that has not been changed, that is, the use of the main players is too frequent, and there are few trusted players on the bench, only Barbosa can be used by D'Antoni.

Another point is that many people can't imagine how much the total salary of the Suns this year is, 44.6 million, and the salary cap is about 42 million, and such a Suns is now the first in the West.

This alone makes many people admire Kerr, the new manager of the Suns, of course, such a Suns team is essentially the same as the current Knicks, for the future and victory of the team, it is not necessarily how much luxury tax needs to be paid in the next three to five years! (To be continued.) )