Because there were no Spurs games on the first day of the playoffs, the Spurs had three days off, and the day after the regular season, the Spurs did not schedule any training to give the players a day off. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although there was no in-team training, Li Yang was obviously an idle person, and he came to the arena early in the morning for training, along with Danny Green and Leonard.

All three were young players and had no physical problems, and the coaching staff told them not to train hard in preparation for the playoffs, so they went to the arena for some less intense training.

"Young, your free throws look like they're improving. ”

After finishing training, the trio returned to the locker room, changing their clothes and sneakers while chatting. Green just saw that Li Yang's free throw shooting rate was not bad, so he said to Li Yang.

"But the shooting percentage is still a bit terrible, and I think I need to ask Chip a good shot shot. ”

Li Yang replied to Green, after coming to the Spurs, he was mainly doing physical confrontation layup training, and the Spurs did not arrange shooting coach Chip England to guide Li Yang, and Li Yang has not taken the initiative to ask for advice.

It's not that Li Yang doesn't want the shooting rate to get higher, but Li Yang has always felt that his wrist was too stiff before, and he wants to train his wrist softer through a period of training before doing intensive training in shooting.

Recently, Li Yang can clearly feel that his wrist has become much softer than before, so he has the idea of asking England for guidance.

Of course, Li Yang didn't think about it all at once, after all, the previous shooting of this body was really bad, and he wanted to start with his free throw practice first and improve his free throw shooting first.

Li Yang was about to ask Leonard how England taught him to shoot in the first place, when the door of the locker room suddenly opened.

Looking at the people who came in, Li Yang and the three of them were slightly stunned, and the person who came turned out to be Stephen Jackson.

When Li Yang came to the Spurs, Jackson had already had a stiff relationship with Popovich, and he had begun to slack off in training, and the Spurs players had not seen Stephen Jackson practice for a long time, so Stephen Jackson's appearance in the arena at this time really surprised Li Yang and the three of them.

"Could it be that because the playoffs are coming, Jackson has rekindled his passion?" Li Yang couldn't help but guess at this time, but then he felt that it was a little impossible, because Jackson's face was gloomy at this time, and he obviously looked like something was wrong.

Pushing open the door of the locker room, Jackson was also a little surprised to see Li Yang and the others, but he didn't speak, just walked towards his cabinet with a gloomy face.

Seeing Jackson's expression, Li Yang and the three naturally didn't speak, because the relationship between the three and Jackson was not very good.

Jackson took out a bag from the cabinet, took a few things and put them in the bag one after another, and then stood up and left, but before leaving, he turned his head and glanced at Li Yang and the others.

Feeling Jackson's obviously not the slightest kindness, Li Yang frowned slightly, feeling a little inexplicable, but Jackson had already walked out of the locker room at this time, and Li Yang had no choice but to ask Green and Leonard with a puzzled face:

"Did something happen?"

"I don't know. Green replied, and Leonard shook his head.

This made Li Yang more and more confused, Jackson came here a little inexplicably, and he packed his things and left.

Thinking of this, Li Yang suddenly thought of a possibility, although he felt that this possibility was too small, he immediately took out his mobile phone.

turned on the phone, Li Yang quickly found the reason, just a few minutes ago, the Spurs officially announced a piece of news.

"Stephen has been cut!" Li Yang said in surprise to Green and Leonner.

"What?" Hearing Li Yang's words, Green and Leonard were obviously a little surprised, and Li Yang showed the news on his mobile phone to the two of them.

After all three of them read the news, they understood why Jackson appeared here before, and his face was so ugly, anyone who was cut by the team may not be much better, even if Jackson once asked the team to cut him two months ago.

However, why the Spurs chose to lay off Jackson at this point in time made Li Yang a little puzzled, after all, the playoffs are about to start.

In fact, Li Yang is not the only one who is puzzled, when this news is paid attention to, many fans are also very confused.

Now that the Spurs are on the lineup, Ginobili and Dio are both injured and unable to play, why did the Spurs choose to cut Jackson at this time, the playoffs are the season of employment.

Soon, more news was reported one after another.

There is no doubt that the feud between Jackson and Popovich was the main reason for Jackson's final cut, and he mentioned this issue in a subsequent interview with reporters.

On why Popovich advocated for his cut, Jackson said: "He wants me to agree and adapt to the more important players on the team, but I'm not going to do that, I know what I'm capable of and what I've achieved throughout my career. I feel like I'm nowhere near the point where I need to give up, and I don't feel like anyone else is better than me. ”

In addition, Jackson was very unhappy with the timing of the Spurs' cut, as the league rules prevent players who were cut after March 1 from signing with another team this season.

"Before this year's All-Star break, I said I didn't want to stay here anymore and wanted to play on other teams, but Spurs management didn't do that at the time," Jackson said. They laid me off sooner and I'm probably already playing for other teams by now. ”

Immediately afterward, the Spurs also conducted a media interview on this topic, and it was Popovich who answered the reporter.

"Stephen is a fantastic player and he has previously said he wants to leave but at the time we couldn't find a deal that would be willing to take him and that would match our expectations. ”

Popovich said in the interview that he had spoken to Jackson afterwards in the hope that Jackson would change his mindset to fit into his role with the Spurs, but Jackson felt he needed a higher status and a more important role.

'It's not the same philosophy as I am, because we had a stiff relationship and the playoffs were about to start, and I didn't want any unrest in the team, so we made this decision. ”

After Popovich's explanation, there was a lot of media speculation that Popovich kept Jackson in the team, perhaps considering the record of the players during the rotation, after all, Jackson was still able to get up from the bench to help the team many times.

And after spending the regular season, even if he is not cut, Jackson will not have many opportunities in the playoffs. The decision to cut Jackson at this time was most likely influenced by the clash with the Kings, who, as Popovich said, didn't want any instability on the team.

The media is also still speculating that the "others" mentioned by Jackson are very likely to be Li Yang, because since Li Yang joined, especially in April, Jackson's playing time has been squeezed out by Li Yang a lot.

These explanations and speculations basically analyzed the reasons why the Spurs cut Jackson, and most of the Spurs fans also expressed understanding, they knew Popovich's character too well, and they couldn't put sand in their eyes, but they just worried that the Spurs' player rotation would not be affected.

At this time, another piece of news about Spurs broke out again, and the outside world suddenly realized that Spurs still had moves.