Chapter 230: Spurs poached

In the Spurs' training gym, Li Yang held the ball outside the three-point line, and it was Leonard who stopped him in front of him. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Started outside the three-point line, Li Yang suddenly started after a shake of the dribble, and rushed towards the basket. Leonard had been prepared for this for a long time, and stopped Li Yang's breakthrough route early.

After slightly interfering with Leonard's defense, Li Yang immediately accelerated forward, found a breakthrough space from Leonard's defense and rushed to the basket, leaning on Leonard's defense to make a layup.

On the next shot, Li Yang broke through again, and this time he used the turn to flash past Leonard and scored a layup in the three-second zone.

"Yang, this trick is a good one. After Li Yang completed the layup, Green, who was on the side, immediately applauded and said.

However, in the following round, Li Yang was unable to break through Leonard's defense, and he was cut away by Leonard when he made a layup.

The two went back and forth, and did not stop until Li Yang won the duel with a two-ball advantage.

Li Yang and Leonard have been playing in such a battle every day, especially since September, and both of them hope to consolidate their previous training skills through actual combat.

Recently, Li Yang and others' training has been a lot lively, the time has entered September, at the end of this month, the NBA new season training camp will be opened one after another, but many Spurs players have returned to San Donio since the beginning of September.

Li Yang and the three of them just came early, and if they were later, there would be a lot more people in the stadium, most of them were teammates from last season, but some were new faces.

In the past two or three months, Li Yang and the three of them have basically been immersed in the training hall and have completely become training maniacs, and when they are dedicated to training, the free market has changed from open to lively to silent, many teams have adjusted, and many players have found new owners.

The most eye-catching teams this summer are the Nets and Rockets.

On the second day of free agency, the Nets made a big deal with the Celtics, sending five players, including Wallace and Humphries, as well as three future first-round picks, in exchange for Garnett, Pierce and Terry from the Celtics.

Immediately afterwards, their Russian boss signed Kiri Lianko through connections, plus the team originally also had Brook Lopez, Joe Johnson, and Deron Williams, forming a very luxurious squad. 、

In addition to this, the Nets have hired retired Jason Kidd as the team's head coach. The luxurious lineup, rookie coach, and the Nets have really attracted the attention of many people.

The Rockets became one of the most talked-about teams also because of a big move in the free market, they signed the biggest fish in the free market this season, the monster Dwight Howard, to form the so-called modern organization, which made many Rockets fans happy.

In addition, other teams have also made some moves to a greater or lesser extent, such as the Warriors who fought against the horse last season to get Andre Iguodala, such as the Heat signing Greg Oden, etc.

The Spurs, as a championship team, did not make major changes to the roster, but there were some changes.

The Spurs' most important thing this summer is their successful contract extension with Manu Ginoli and Split, although Popovich has said in the middle of the season that Ginobili can retire after this season, but after the free market opened, the first thing they did was to negotiate a contract extension with Ginobili.

At the same time, as the team's starting center, Split is also the target of the Spurs' contract extension.

In the end, Ginobili and Split signed contracts with the team for $14 million over two years and $36 million for four years, respectively.

Ginobili and Split have successfully extended their contracts, but some other Spurs players whose contracts have expired have not been so lucky.

Maddy, who only joined the Spurs in the playoffs last season, did not get a contract extension from the Spurs, and Maddy's form has declined seriously in recent years, and the Spurs now have many players in the second and third positions, and even the first position, so they did not provide Maddy with a contract.

In addition to Maddy, Blair and Neil were also waived by the Spurs, Blair, as a blue-collar insider, can bring little help to the team as he gets older, and the Spurs' waiver of Neil is a small surprise to the outside world.

However, when it was learned that Spurs had signed Italian sharpshooter Marco Belinelli, it was no longer surprising that for Spurs, they only needed one such player.

In addition to Belinelli, the Spurs have two newcomers joining, one is Australian center Aaron Baines.

In fact, the Spurs' uniform team was interested in signing Baynes last season, but Li Yang was out of the air at that time, and they finally chose Li Yang after investigation.

In addition, the Spurs also signed forward Jeff Ayers, who is 2.06 meters tall and joined the NBA with the 32nd pick in '09, and played for the Pacers last season to replace Blair's position.

Of course, there will be some players coming in before training camp, but these are players on unofficial contracts and it is unclear whether they will be able to stay.

Compared with the player lineup, the Spurs' bigger change is actually in the coaching staff, in recent years, the assistant coach of the Spurs has been very popular in the league, and it is common to be poached, but what the Spurs did not expect is that this year they are digging particularly hard.

Mike Budenholzer, the Spurs' chief assistant coach who was once thought to be Popovich's successor, left the Spurs this summer after the Hawks extended an olive branch. In fact, the Eagles' conditions are indeed difficult to refuse, and the head coach and president of basketball affairs can almost be said to be the person with absolute voice in the team.

The head assistant coach was poached, and Popovich originally planned to promote Brett Brown, who was in charge of defense and player development last season, to head coach, but unexpectedly, the 76ers stepped in at this time and they invited Brown to be the team's head coach.

In the face of such an invitation, it is also difficult for Brown to refuse, even if the 76ers are a fish belly team, but after all, it is the head coach of an NBA team, even the head assistant coach of the Spurs cannot compare.

This poached the two assistant coaches who were very important to the Spurs, which can be said to have made many Spurs fans scold * Niang, this digging is too ruthless, so I will leave one for the Spurs.

At this time, the fans of other teams also spoke, and they kept Popovich for you.

Spurs fans were speechless.

With the emergency signing of Jim Boylen and Anthony Carter, as well as the addition of Sean Marks on the management staff as head assistant, Popovich finally got the coaching staff together.

The squad of players is full and the lineup of coaches is ...... Barely neat, everything is ready, just waiting for the new season to start.

(To be continued.) )