Chapter 419: Dude, see you in the arena

When the draft show and the free agency market gradually fell silent, most of the fans' eyes were temporarily taken away from the NBA, and the fans would not pay attention again until the new season began. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The management of the league's teams is still preparing for the new season and making signings, but these are mostly minor deals compared to when the free agency market first opened, because the big fish in the free market are basically gone.

The three most watched stars in the league before, Li Yang joined the Celtics, James left the Heat and returned to Cleveland, Anthony chose to renew his contract with New York and signed a big contract.

Pau Gasol, who has been underappreciated by the Lakers for the past two seasons, chose to leave this summer and joined the Chicago Bulls. Paul Pearce left after spending one season with the Nets and opted to join the Washington Wizards, while Roel Deng left the Cavaliers to join the Heat.

The Mavericks traded Rondo to the Celtics without getting Lee Young and poached Houston's starting small forward Chandler Parsons from the Rockets.

Of course, after the dynamics of the three most watched stars such as Li Yang, the most interesting trade in the league is the three-way trade between the Cavaliers and the Timberwolves and the 76ers.

On August 24, local time in the United States, the three teams made a big deal, after signing back James, in order to be able to form a big three as soon as possible, the Cavaliers sent their newly selected champion Andrew Wiggins, and obtained All-Star power forward Kevin Love from the Timberwolves.

The specific trade was for the Cavaliers to get Kevin Love, the Timberwolves for two No. 1 picks, Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett, as well as Thaddeus Young and a $6.3 million trade exception, and the 76ers for Alex Sherved, Luke Richard Bamott, and a 2015 first-round pick.

After the completion of this transaction, the Cavaliers formed the Big Three of James, Irving, and Love, and also made the Cavaliers the hottest team in the East in the new season.

Relatively speaking, the other teams have not made such a big move. The same is true for the Celtics, after signing Li Yang and sending Rondo away, the Celtics only made two operations, one is to send away the veteran Keith Bogans from the original team, from the Cavaliers to the second-round pick Dwight Powell and two second-round picks, and the other is to sign the 10-year star swingman Evan Turner in the free market.

After clarifying the tactics of playing playmaking forwards, the Celtics were looking for a No. 2 or No. 3 player who could hold the ball to be Li Yang's replacement, and finally chose Turner.

Turner, 26, was the 2010 star of the year, and as a swingman at the back lineman, Turner is still in his prime. In addition to his scoring ability, his rebounding and assists are also remarkable. In the regular season last season, he played 81 games for the 76ers and Pacers, and in 30.3 minutes, he handed in 14 points, 5 rebounds and 3.2 assists while shooting 42.5% from the field.

Because the 76ers have completely overturned the rebuild, Turner was traded to the Pacers last season, but because of the overlap with the two cores of the team, Paul George and Lance Stephenson, Turner has not been reused after joining the Pacers, and his average minutes per game (21 minutes) and statistics (7.1 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.4 assists) have plummeted, and he even had infighting with Stephenson. In an offseason interview, Turner openly expressed his displeasure with the team, arguing that the Pacers caused his value to plummet.

Long before the player market officially opened, there were reports that the Pacers would not make an offer for a contract extension to Turner. Sure enough, after summer, Stephenson moved to the Hornets, and Turner parted ways with the Indiana.

Before the Celtics made an offer, the Timberwolves were also very interested in Turner, but they were only willing to offer him a one-year short contract, which greatly reduced the Turner camp's interest in signing.

In the end, the Celtics successfully signed Turner with a two-year contract of 6.4 million, which was unanimously favored by the outside world, although Turner was not popular in the NBA, but also made steady progress, and once approached the status of the leader of the 76ers, signing as a substitute is undoubtedly extremely practical.

Li Yang mostly learned about these contents from the news, and during this time, he rarely paid attention to these things in the outside world, and stayed in San Don Anio to fully immerse himself in his own training and improvement.

"Kehuai, sit down and talk. ”

At the end of another day's one-on-one training, Li Yang stopped Leonard, who was still about to practice shooting, Leonard glanced at Li Yang and didn't speak, but sat down next to Li Yang.

"Dude, I'm leaving San Donio tomorrow. ”

Li Yang pulled the ball in his hand with his hand, and said in a somewhat complicated tone. After staying here for two years, whether it is for the city, for this team, and these teammates, Li Yang has a lot of reluctance.

Here, Li Yang has worked hard for hundreds of days and nights, growing from a development league player to a star, and is on his way to becoming a top star. Here, after more than 100 games, Li Yang won the league's highest honor with this team.

Even though he had already decided to leave in his heart, when he really wanted to leave the city, Li Yang's mood was still complicated and reluctant.

However, as the time approached September, Li Yang needed to go to China to participate in a series of business activities, and needed to go to Boston to familiarize himself with the environment, Li Yang had to say goodbye to the city and his former teammates.

"Hmm. Just as Li Yang was thinking like this, a voice came from beside him, which brought Li Yang back to his senses from his melancholy.

It's just a bit of a moment?

Li Yang turned his head, looked at Leonard and emphasized: "Dude, I mean, I'm leaving tomorrow, and I won't come back except for playing away next season." ”

"Hmm. Leonard hummed softly again, still without much expression, which made Li Yang speechless.

Well, this is Leonard, Li Yang thought to himself. If Leonard suddenly said something reluctant, Li Yang would probably think that he was next to a fake Leonard.

"Yang, let's practice. At that moment, Leonard spoke up again. Li Yang looked at each other in some surprise, the two had just finished sparring.

At this time, Leonard had already stood up directly, looked at Li Yang and said seriously: "Ten balls, bullfighting!"

"Okay, ten balls!" Li Yang quickly stood up from the floor and said with the same serious face. Leonard is hoping for a special farewell before parting, a real showdown, and Li Yang finally understood what Leonard meant at this time.

In the open training hall, an extremely fierce bullfight was going on, neither of them spoke, completely focused on attack and defense, only the sound of basketball hitting the floor and the violent friction of shoes against the floor showed how fierce such a confrontation was.

When all the sounds stopped, even Li Yang and Leonard, two extremely perverted guys with extremely physical fitness, couldn't help but gasp for breath at the moment.

No one knew the result of this duel, packed up everything, Li Yang and Leonard walked out of the training hall together, and at the moment of stepping out of the training hall, Li Yang stopped, turned his head to look at Leonard, and stretched out his hand.

"Dude, see you in the arena!"

"See you in the arena!"

Leonard raised his palm and slammed it into Li Yang's palm, one yellow and one black, and the two big hands were clenched together!