During the men's basketball World Cup, the NBA league is still operating in an orderly manner, and the teams are trading.

Like another time and space, when the light bulb combination failed to make achievements for two consecutive years, the conflict between Harden and Paul increased day by day, and finally the Rockets chose to trade Paul to the Thunder in exchange for Russell, the star of the Thunder team. Westbrook.

The deal sent quite a stir through the league.

Although Westbrook's performance last season was not particularly good, he finally managed to achieve a triple-double for the third consecutive season, and successfully single-handedly wiped out the triple-double data.

Rockets fans have every reason to expect that the two of the former Thunder three young players will get together and make the Rockets stronger.

And the Thunder, who got Paul, will also officially start the rebuilding work.

I'm afraid they can't imagine that in the upcoming new season, only Paul's Thunder team, the final regular season ranking is still above the Rockets, although the records of the two teams are close, but the combination of Harden + Westbrook can only be on par with Paul's single-core leader, supplemented by Gallinari, Schroder and other players The Thunder team.

It can be seen that Chris. Although Paul's stats have been declining with age, his control of the team has not diminished much.

Unfortunately, Paul's $38.51 million annual salary is too high and slightly out of line with his current actual value.

After the Rockets traded to the Thunder, no team in the league staged a big trade, and it was just a few small signings and reinforcements.

The Lakers also have a lot of action.

The two rookies selected in this year's draft, Poole and Ball, have both signed contract extensions with the team, and then, the Lakers signed Dwight with a veteran base salary of $2.56 million a year. Howard, and kept McGee for $4 million, and also used the base salary to re-sign Seth, who played soy sauce with the Lakers last season. Curry.

Subsequently, the Lakers signed two more unknown water cooler players in free agency, expanding the roster to 14 players.

After some operation, it was dazzling, but after careful calculation, many Lakers fans couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

After winning the championship, the Lakers had nothing to gain in the free market, except for Howard, who no one wanted, and thus let go of McGee, who played well with the Lakers last season.

And McGee is not the only one who has won the championship that the Lakers have let go.

Rondo, Rose, Nance Jr. and other players all left the team in the offseason, and these players performed well in the team last season and have the ability to stay and continue to compete for the team.

But the team didn't hesitate to give up on them.

In fact, this is also a helpless move in the eyes of the management.

These players have all received quite lucrative offer contracts in the free market, with an average salary of about 10 million, and they start at least 2 years, and there are no short-term contracts of 1 year.

If the Lakers want to keep all of them, the price they will have to pay is a bit big.

At the same time, if you keep them, you will have to give them playing time and possession in the game.

On the Lakers, the distribution of the ball is already very tight.

As the first core of the team, Wang Feng naturally and comfortably occupies more than 50% of the ball, and Wang Feng's offensive efficiency is also worthy of him having so many balls.

Under Wang Feng, as the second leader of the team, Butler, who currently has the highest salary in the team and is slightly more than one million dollars higher than Wang Feng, naturally has to take away a part of the ball, and Butler's proportion last season was not much, but it was close to 20%.

The remaining 30% is divided between Ingram, Kuzma, López and a group of substitute rotation players.

The rotation players are saying that the two young players are a little less satisfied with their current position on the team, especially Ingram.

Ingram has been in the league for three seasons since entering the league in 2016 as the second pick in the first round.

However, his best performance in the three seasons was 16+5+4 per game in the 17-18 season.

Last season, due to the arrival of Butler, Ingram's tactical position in the team was further reduced, the ball possession and the number of shots were affected, and the personal data did not advance but retreated, although the team won the championship as a result, but not many people thought that Ingram's performance was very good.

The 19-20 season was Ingram's fourth season and the final year of his rookie contract.

With his current performance, even with his excellent talent, it is still slightly difficult to get a contract with a maximum salary.

Therefore, Ingram has spoken to the team's management in the offseason, making it clear that he wants to get more tactical support in the new season, and hopes to have more shots.

"Heaven Descends"

After all, Ingram is the Lakers' most important young potential player, two years younger than Kuzma, who entered the league a year later, and has an astonishing static talent, and has the possibility of becoming a second Durant.

Therefore, the Lakers have decided to agree to Ingram's request and not keep Rondo, and it is precisely for this reason that players such as Rose who need to play the ball are also motivated.

Wang Feng has no opinion on the Lakers' decision.

Ingram is indeed quite a good player, after being traded as a bargaining chip to the Pelicans' Davis in another time and space, Ingram quickly gained a foothold in the Pelicans, and his personal data quickly stabilized at about 24+5+5, shooting 46% from the field, and more than 38% from three-point range.

While Ingram has excellent ability on the offensive end, although Ingram is far inferior to Leonard, George, Butler and other forward defensive giants on the defensive end, his excellent height and flexibility allow him to play well on the defensive end.

Young, strong, and potential.

Considering the above factors, Wang Feng feels that it is a good choice to let Ingram serve as the team's third leader, and as a player selected by the Lakers, the Lakers do not need to be subject to the salary cap limit to renew Ingram, and can give a maximum salary renewal, which is generally much more convenient.

In the new season, it is also acceptable to give Ingram some shots.

Of course, the premise that Wang Feng can accept the right to give Ingram a shot is that this season's scoring list is not as involuted as last season, and Harden will maintain an average of about 34.4 points per game like in another time and space.

The honor of scoring champion is absolutely impossible for Wang Feng to give up due to its generous reward system!

Suppose that a scoring maniac suddenly appears this season and can score an average of 40 points per game, then Wang Feng will not even think about it, and will definitely directly snatch the right of his teammates to shoot, even if he uses a brush, he must win the opponent in terms of average points per game!

And if the only threat to the scoring list is only Harden, who averages about 34 points per game, then Wang Feng is a little more restrained and maintains an average of about 35 points per game.

In front of the system reward, no matter whether Wang Feng averages 50 points or 30 points per game, the reward of the scoring champion will not change anything, and if part of the 50 points are converted into assists, becoming an average of 30 points and 10 assists per game, the score of the season evaluation may be higher.

Although the new season has not yet started, Wang Feng has made a target plan for his season data.

He averaged 35 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists and about 3 steals per game.

That's right, Wang Feng is also going to roll a volume.

Although Westbrook has averaged a triple-double per game far less than before, even so, looking at the history of the NBA, only Oscar can average a triple-double per game in the season. Robertson & Russell. Westbrook is just two people, and it's not bad to add Wang Feng after the names of these two people.

As for the team's goal, of course, it is still the championship.

In the new season, there are two carrier-level powerhouses in the league, namely the Nets with the Big Three configuration of Durant, Irving, and George, and the Clippers driven by James and Leonard.

These two teams were immediately the favorites to win the championship and ranked above the Lakers and the Warriors, who lost Durant.

In the eyes of many fans and sports commentators, the strength of these two teams is terrifying.

But Wang Feng didn't think so.

Compared to another time and space, the Nets and Clippers are indeed much stronger, and they can indeed pose a certain threat to the current Lakers, but the Lakers' roster depth is significantly better.

It's like the combination of James + Leonard of the Clippers, at most it is just a draw with Wang Feng + Butler, but the Lakers still have Ingram who can get an average of 24+5+5 per game in the 19-20 season, and also have good players such as Kuzma and Lopez.

The Clippers signed Leonard to free up salary space and sent away Tobias. Harris and Gallinari, relying only on Luis. Williams, Harrell, Jordan Jr. and other players are still a little short of competing with the Lakers.

As for the more luxurious lineup of the Big Three, the Nets are configured......

Forgive Wang Feng's words, he is not targeting Owen, but Ou Shenxian has been a pit in recent years.

From the 19-20 season to the 21-22 season, the average number of regular season appearances was only 34, whether it was the injury-prone physique of the glass man, or all kinds of brainless remarks and strange reasons to miss the game, it all showed that the No. 1 point guard is not a thing in the pool.

Although Durant did not suffer a major Achilles tendon injury, plus the more reliable George, he is just the same duo as the Clippers.

And unlike the Clippers, in order to get George through a trade, the Nets are bleeding in the real sense, the original lineup is dismantled, except for the Big Three, there are not many excellent role players, but it is very similar to the original Heat.

Durant 37.2 million, George 33.01 million, Irving 31.74 million, the total salary of the three has exceeded 100 million, even if the local tyrant Boss Cai is willing to pay a huge luxury tax, it is difficult for the Nets to sign some powerful players, and can only choose other players on the team in the low salary and middle class.

Of course, most fans can't see through this, in their opinion, these three players alone are enough to play, and the three of them score 25 points each in a game, isn't this game stable?

Even compared to the Nets and Clippers, the Lakers' current lineup is a wonder.

The team has not signed a point guard for a summer, and so far, the only point guard on the team is Seth, who played soy sauce last season. Curry.

What do you mean? Could it be that the Lakers are ready to correct Seth. Is Curry the team's starting point guard?