In July and August, the NBA's long offseason continued. Although it is a vacation, most of the players are not idle, for professional athletes who eat youth, making money is likely to be just a few years of hard work, a little waste, but the impact is a lifetime of jobs.

Stars host a variety of camps across the U.S. to stay in shape and improve their skills, and many fringe players use these camps to show their faces in hopes of getting scouts on the radar and getting a job offer.

Most of these camps are held in Los Angeles, which has been a gathering place for holiday stars since the 1980s.

The warm climate, well-developed tertiary industry, complete training facilities, and many related practitioners make this a basketball paradise.

With players comes scouts, who fly in from all over the United States and around the world to inspect players and connect with young players who have the potential to be unemployed for the time being, as a human resource reserve for the team's future players.

The teams will certainly not be idle, the players can rest and concentrate on training, and for the uniforms, summer is when they really have to fight.

Starting in July, the NBA player free market officially opened, and although this year's free agency market is not destined to be as full of expectations as next year, it does not mean that there are no big fish this year.

Different teams have started recruiting for the next season according to the different needs and positioning of their respective teams.

Bulls guard Ben Gordon was out of contract, and in the 2009 playoffs they played a thrilling first round with the Celtics, and in overtime after overtime, Ben Gordon had the best playoff performance of his career.

But the Bulls, who already have Derrick Rose, no longer need this slightly shorter shooting guard, and directly let him test the free market, and the rebuilding Detroit Pistons signed him to a five-year, 60 million contract, firing the first shot of the summer free market.

Subsequently, the Boston Celtics, a powerhouse in the East, also made a move, and they signed Rasheed Wallace for 2 years and 12 million to serve as a backup for Kevin Garnett.

The Celtics, who originally had a full lineup, were invincible in the 09 season, but Kevin Garnett's injury was reimbursed near the playoffs, which greatly weakened the Celtics, otherwise it would have been the Celtics who would have faced off against the Lakers in this year's finals.

The defending champion Lakers, of course, will not sit idly by with the old rivals Celtics, and they have followed up with a major signing to acquire All-Star forward Ron Artest and use him to get Paul Pearce.

Artest just represented the Rockets and Lakers in the 09 playoffs, and clashed with Kobe Bryant many times in the game, but his contract expired in the summer, and he was not in the Rockets' rebuilding plan.

And Trevor Ariza, an important contributor to the Lakers' previous championship, swapped owners with Artest and joined the Houston Rockets, of course, for the big contract given here, 5 years and 33.95 million, and the Rockets seem to be interested in cultivating Ariza as the new core of the team, and they gave Ariza the No. 1 jersey of Maddy before.

may be hoping that Ariza can become the second Maddy, when Maddy also started as a defensive forward in the Raptors, and after coming to the Magic, he soared into the sky and became one of the most feared scorers in the league, and the Rockets can be regarded as whimsical and very thoughtful.

In addition to these signings on the opening day of the free market, the subsequent teams continued to make big and small moves.

The Mavericks and Raptors reached a deal for Marion, pulling the Grizzlies and Magic into a four-way trade because of a salary mismatch.

The Raptors will acquire Magic's Turkoglou via a sign-and-trade deal and give the Magic a trade exception along with Devin George and Anthony Wright for the Mavericks.

The Mavericks will get Marion from the Raptors, who has been offered a five-year, $40 million contract, while Humphries, who is also being sent by the Raptors, will also join the Mavericks.

The Grizzlies get the Mavericks' Stackhouse and a future second-round pick from the Raptors, but the Grizzlies aren't prepared to keep Stackhouse, and Chris Wallace will cut Stackhouse soon.

The Magic this time was purely a partner, sending away Tekoglu, the big player who helped the team reach the finals, in exchange for only two cash, and the reasons for making this self-harm transaction are also very simple: 1. They can't afford to give Tekoglu the big contract he wants, and they don't want to pay taxes;

2. In the June trade, they got Vince Carter from the Nets, and management believes that there is a replacement and the Turk is no longer needed.

A team that reached the finals last season has dismantled and reorganized their core roster in this way...... But it's not surprising to think that it's Orlando Magic's management who did this.

In addition to these large-scale signings and multi-party transactions, all kinds of small signings and small transactions are continuous.

The Magic signed Brandon Buss to bolster the front, the Suns signed Channing Frye to bolster his three-point shooting firepower inside, and the Mavericks signed Tim Thomas to continue targeting the Spurs Duncan.

The Memphis Grizzlies even signed one-time superstar Allen Iverson, hoping that he can work with Blake Griffin to blow up the Memphis basketball market and attract more fans to the home court.

In short, each management has its own talents, according to their own needs, to strengthen the reinforcement, to save money, to rebuild, no matter which one is happy and which one is sad, which one is scolded and which one praises, there is always something to do.

Even if the team has been rotten for many years, operating every year, as long as you sit in this car and you can't drive this car, you have to rock it up and down, pretending that the car is moving forward, so that you can have an explanation to the fans.

But from July to August and then to September, a summer is coming to an end, and the free market is almost empty of all the big and small fish and even shrimp, and the Los Angeles Clippers have not moved.

All summer, Olchea was almost idle, and not a single trade or signing was made!

Although his salary has increased by 20 percent, his workload has decreased by 50 percent, which is a good thing for him.

But how long can such a good working state last? If this continues, the team has no hope of rising! (It seems that there is hope for the operation every year before that.) ）

The new season is just around the corner, and Olsie can't hold it back, and submits several signing application reports to Min Congda in a row, but all of them are returned.

Olchea felt that his career was in an unprecedented crisis, and on September 15th, he submitted another signing application and scouting report, and the free agency market was really running out.

The Clippers still have gaps on the front line, and Olshea picked out former Lakers small forward Karim Rush, a player who had a magical performance in the 2004 playoffs, shooting 6-of-7 from three-point range to help the Lakers beat the Timberwolves to reach the Finals.

This kind of player who has had a small shining point, especially after the playoffs, is worth trying.

Five minutes later, however, Olsher received a call from Ada, informing him, "I'm sorry Mr. Olsie, Mr. Smart has denied your signing application. Then he also said that he should not submit any more contract applications......"

"But the preseason is about to start, we have to report the 15-man squad before the regular season starts, and now there is one person missing, what can I do if I don't sign a contract?"

"This... Sorry Mr. Orchea, Mr. Smart said he would take care of it. ”

Olser has completely lost his temper, come on, you deal with it, you deal with it slowly, this team will be yellow sooner or later!

Before hanging up the phone, he asked again, "Ada, what is Mr. Smart doing in the office?" Lately, he's locked himself in his office every day at work, and he doesn't care about anything but meetings, what the hell is he doing? ”

Ida hesitated for a while, and replied truthfully, "Uh... Mr. Smart... Mr. Smart is playing games in his office. ”

"Playing games? What game to play? ”

“2k10……”

"Smack!"

Olsie hung up the phone heavily, he really couldn't bear it, this Smart was playing games every day in the office?

Although he plays a game of basketball.

But what's the use? Do you have to rely on 2K games to trade and sign people?

It's over, the Clippers, it's completely over.