On December 9th, the first day of the free market, a very shocking transaction intelligence broke out immediately, the Los Angeles Lakers and the New Orleans Hornets reached a trade agreement, in the form of a three-way deal, the star Chris Brown. Paul was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Lakers had to pay just Paul. Gasol, Lamar. Odom and a 12-year first-round pick.

The general managers of both teams had already finalized the deal and formally submitted it, but less than an hour after the trade request was submitted, the league's president, David Brown, had already submitted the deal. Stern urgently halted the deal.

Since the Hornets now have no owner, they belong to the hosting team, which is run by the league official and the owners of 29 other teams.

Therefore, Stern rejected Paul's partnership with two top superstars of Kobe Bryant with a veto.

From the revelation of the deal to the clear termination and halting, it caused an extremely violent shock in the alliance.

You must know that although Kobe Bryant only has four championships in hand, lost to the Magic in the finals for two consecutive years, and stopped in the second round of the West last season, after all, Yu Wei is still there, and he is still a top superstar in the league who can rank in the top five or even the top three.

And Chris. Paul is also a superstar with great strength at the moment, and once the two team up, the impact will be no less than that of the Heat triumvirate James and Wade.

The formation of the Big Three of the Heat, Stern was powerless to stop, after all, the Big Three were completely free agents at that time, and it was up to them to decide whether they went or stayed, and no one could interfere with the operation.

But Stern's opposition at the time was very clear, and he even became angry with James because of it, and James's miraculous six-step layup almost never escaped the eyes of the referees during the Heat, and the number of superstar whistles also plummeted.

Paul's deal is different, as the manager of the Hornets, Stern can ask the team's general manager to stop the deal as the team's interim owner, and this behavior is also used by the owners of the other 29 teams in the league...... No, it should be the consent of the owners of the other 28 teams except the Lakers.

After all, the Lakers just paid the price of Gasol Gaodom to get a top 10 superstar in the league, which is too cheating, as the most successful team in the NBA and the team with the largest number of fans, the Los Angeles Lakers have always had the privilege to make many people feel dissatisfied, just like when they got Gasol in 07, the Grizzlies almost gave away their own All-Star players to each other for nothing, if it weren't for the second-round rookie Mark Brown. Gasol played like his brother as an All-Star, and the Grizzlies didn't get anything to gain from the deal.

It's enough to take advantage once, but it's a second time?

Paul's failure to join the Lakers disappointed countless Lakers fans, who lashed out at the league and Stern for stopping the trade.

"The old thing, I just can't get used to seeing the volute continue to attack the championship, why don't you stop when the Celtics Big Three? Why didn't you stop when the Magic team formed a super magic combination? Where were you when the Heat's Big Three were formed? Why did it take our Lakers' turn and you jumped out? ”

"Shady, absolutely shady. It should continue to stop, and don't let these evil capitalists get their wish! ”

While a large number of angry fans were abusing on the Internet, the melon-eating masses also watched the farce beautifully.

A large number of sports-related media have analyzed and discussed this incident, and the research has been very interesting.

However, at this moment, another shocking melon was exposed.

On December 10, Wang Chao officially announced that he jumped out of his contract to become a free agent, and at the same time officially issued a document through the media, making it clear that he would not continue to renew his contract with the Magic team, thanking his teammates and coaching staff in the Magic team for their support in the past four years.

The league, which had just calmed down a little because of the Paul trade, was detonated again! A stronger earthquake is triggered!

"Wang Chao jumped out of the contract and officially announced his departure from the Magic? Three-time champion dynasty team falling apart? ”

"The dark tide surging under the calm waves? Could it be that Wang Chao and Howard are also like the OK combination, and there are contradictions after they succeed together? ”

Immediately, the media reported on the incident and analyzed the cause.

In fact, some clues can already be seen last season.

Howard began to change his style of play during the regular season, focusing on interior ball-handling singles rather than his best pick-and-roll coverage, and the result of this was an increase in Howard's stats, but the team's record declined, and the team's record slipped from 70 wins in the '09-10 season to 63 wins in the 10-11 season, despite the team's lineup not changing significantly.

And entering the playoffs, especially at the beginning of the Finals, this feeling is especially obvious, Howard's frequent back-to-back singles can be said to be one of the main reasons why the Magic team lost the first two games of the Finals, and the reason why the Magic team was able to win four games in a row is also because Howard changed back to his original style of play and returned the team's tactical system to normal.

It is obvious that Howard wants to achieve more and better results, rather than being a green leaf by Wang Chao's side.

However, due to the good relationship between the two themselves, they have not put the contradictions and conflicts on the surface like Kobe O'Neal...... No, maybe if they continue, sooner or later, the two will break up openly like the OK group due to a conflict of interest.

From this point of view, Wang Chao's departure from the Magic team is also a wise choice.

A few hours later, Howard publicly expressed his support for Wang's decision, declaring, "No matter where Wang plays, he will always be my best friend, brother, and the four years we spent together in Orlando will be the best memory I can remember." ”

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The disintegration of the Super Demon Combination is much more decent than the OK combination of another group of dynasty team partners, both sides are grateful and blessed to each other, there is no quarrel with a red face, and there is no mutual slander, but both of them have higher pursuits, that's all.

However, when it was learned that Wang Chao was about to enter the free market to test the waters, the whole league was ready to move.

This is Wang Chao! Four championships, two MVPs, three FMVPs! The top three or even the first superstars in the league!

As long as there are conditions, the team management that can give Wang Chao a maximum salary to renew the contract will almost find a way to communicate with Wang Chao's agent Bill. Duffy gets in touch and wants to be part of the competition for Wang Chao.

But the management of the Magic and Rockets knew that Wang's whereabouts had already been achieved long before the league shut down.

Just when a large number of media and basketball commentators began to speculate about Wang's possible next home and the team competing for Wang's most advantageous team, the Rockets had already made a lightning move.

On December 11, the Houston Rockets reached a trade agreement with the Orlando Magic to send Kevin Murphy in the form of a sign-and-trade. Martin & Sharad. Lewis, along with 2012 and 2014 first-round picks, received Wang Chao from the Magic and the Magic's 2014 first-round pick.

Wang's new contract is $102 million for five years, with an annual salary of $17.41 million for the first year and an average annual salary of $20.42 million.

This is a contract renewal with a maximum salary, but in fact, in theory, Wang Chao can get a contract with a higher maximum salary.

Wang Chao, who has played for four years with the Magic, has met the conditions of the Bird clause, which can increase the contract period from 5 to 6 years, and the annual salary increase can also be increased from 8% to 10.5%.

If the conditions of the Bird clause are followed, Wang Chao can actually get a six-year contract extension of 136 million yuan, with an average annual salary of 22.67 million US dollars.

However, after the collective bargaining agreement, a number of new provisions were added, including a supplementary nature to the Byrd Clause.

In an effort to further restrict stars from staying at their parent clubs, the league has eliminated the possibility of acquiring the Bird clause on a sign-and-trade basis and joining other teams.

Even if Wang Chao first renews his contract with the Magic and then is traded to another team, he still can't activate the Bird clause, which is exactly the same as leaving the team as a free agent.

Without the Bird clause, earning $12 million less in 6 years can indeed make many stars need to re-evaluate, after all, not every star is willing to take the initiative to reduce his salary in order to win the championship like James, Wade and others.

Of course, Wang Chao doesn't care about making less than one or two million dollars of small money, he has a lot of bitcoin in hand, and he even has no special requirements for his salary.

As for why there is no way to use the sign-and-trade method to activate the Bird clause, he still chooses to sign and trade to let the Rockets pay Kevin. Martin & Sharad. Lewis and a first-round pick next year for a number of reasons.

First, Kevin. Martin and Lewis' combined salaries are close to 25 million, and considering the status of the two in the next few years, they are both standard garbage contracts, and it is definitely a good thing for the Rockets to take this opportunity to send the two away and free up 25 million salary space at once.

Second, in Wang Chao's opinion, Martin and Lewis are worthless, but the two in the league can be regarded as relatively good fragrant buns.

Last season Kevin. Martin can contribute an average of 18.6 points per game, Lewis also averages 14.7 points per game, both are outside players, Lewis can just fill the vacancy after Wang Chao left the team, next year is also Lewis's contract year, his contract is only the last year, if it is not good, it is completely possible not to renew the contract and use Howard's contract extension period tomorrow to make room to compete for top players.

As for Kevin. Martin can also replace Jamal whose contract expires. Crawford has become the team's new shooting guard, and Martin, who was born in '83, is now just 28 years old, and whether he is playing as a starter or as a sixth man off the bench, he is clearly better than the 31-year-old Jamal. Crawford is better value for money.

Crawford, who has become a free agent when his contract expires, has received offers from multiple teams in the past few days, and the contract amount is very high. Martin doesn't have to be so entangled, after all, the total amount of the player's contract for the next two years is only $23 million for two years, which is cheap.

In this way, the two "generals" of the Rocket team were handed over to the Magic team, which can be regarded as a little contribution made by Wang Chao to the Magic team.

You know, even if James decided to leave at the first time, it was in the form of a sign-and-trade, bringing the Cavaliers a $14.5 million trade exception, two first-round and two second-round assets.

And then the second and third decisions, although they both left as free agents, the Heat and the Cavaliers both won their own championships, which is somewhat reasonable, at least not so ugly.

And Wang Chao is now leaving the Magic team, obviously there is no difference between signing first and then changing and signing directly with the Rockets, and the salary he gets is the same if he doesn't enjoy the Bird clause. (Yao Ming's contract expired, and the Rockets' salary space was enough), but he still sent two star players, and he also signed two for one in the first round, no matter who could find fault with him.

As a result, Wang Chao left the Magic team, and was not abused by the fans of the Magic team, but everyone sent blessings to Wang Chao like Howard, and at the same time scolded the management of the Magic team by the way.

Wang Chao is reluctant to continue to stay in the Magic team, it must be that the management has done something dirty, the operation of these guys, Orlando fans have become accustomed to it, O'Neal left the team that year, Duncan almost joined the Magic, all caused by the arrogance of the team management.

The management of the Magic team was also shot while lying down, and only felt very innocent and wronged...... Well, in fact, they are not particularly resentful, in order to regain the rights from Wang Chao last season, the Magic team management did make a lot of small moves, and the transaction and contract extension did not ask Wang Chao's opinion, although O'Neal rubbed a championship, but in fact, it brought the team no use except for dragging its feet and fanning the flames with Howard.

The rookie didn't play much last season and was completely useless.

These are also one of the reasons why Wang Chao chose to leave the Magic team.

With the sparring potion, Howard may be able to develop interior offensive skills if he trains with him, and continue to be at the top of his game for three or four years.

But the various operations of the management of the Magic team made Wang Chao realize that he was not happy to continue to stay in the Magic team, and it was better to leave as soon as possible, which was also the way he had already thought of when he first joined the Magic team.

Wang Chao joined the Rockets and partnered with Da Yao to form a Huaguo group, which immediately became the biggest news in the league and quickly swept the whole network.

Huaguo fans are happy, Wang Chao and Da Yao's NBA combination partner, just sounding enough to make people look forward to it.

However, in the eyes of the alliance, the partnership between Wang Chao and Da Yao is not as shocking as it seems, but in fact, there are far more surprises than shocks.

In fact, when it was learned that Wang Chao had left the Magic, the league's teams with championship strength were greatly relieved, especially the Miami Heat's Big Three.

The Heat team, which occupies full salary space, itself has no ability to participate in Wang Chao's competition, unless they are willing to use one of the Big Three as a trading chip, but even if the Magic team is moved by the Heat's chips, whether they can trade depends on Wang Chao's mood, he is a free agent, and he is a sign-and-trade operation, not who the Magic team wants to trade with and who to exchange.

The Magic team now doesn't have Wang Chao, even with the addition of Kevin. Martin and Lewis, the strength is still greatly reduced, even if the new season is still the East powerhouse, but whether they have the strength to compete for the championship is still doubtful.

And the Rockets team that got Wang Chao are even less likely to win the championship than the Magic team that lost Wang Chao.

After all, the current Da Yao can no longer be compared with Howard, although the interior offense is stronger than Howard, I don't know how many Bynum, but compared to Howard, there are many weaknesses, such as age, glass physique, lack of physical fitness, and the defensive end and rebounding are not as good as Howard.

And in order to get Wang Chao, they also paid two tens of millions of players with good strength, and now in addition to Wang Chao and Da Yao, there are only Brooks, Scola and several rookie players who were just selected in June.

Although the combination of Wang Chao and Da Yao is the first combination of Chinese players in the NBA, it looks like a good gimmick, but its strength is definitely not as good as the super magic combination.

During the Magic team, Wang Chao and Howard's most inexplicable cooperation on the court was the blocking and dismantling cooperation, Wang Chao blocked and dismantled the outside three-point projection, and Howard used the mobility advantage to catch the basket and eat cake after blocking and dismantling.

This kind of blocking and dismantling cooperation is not applicable to Wang Chao and Da Yao, Da Yao can pull out the outside line to block and dismantle, and the wide body blocking and dismantling effect is very good, but Da Yao after blocking and dismantling does not have the speed to go down the basket, and there is no way to link the next link with Wang Chao.

And Wang Chao himself is not a star who is good at defense, when he was in the Magic team, Howard helped to check and fill in the gaps, and not only Wang Chao, the entire Magic team's defensive system was built around Howard.

Da Yao does not have such ability, so the Rockets may have the strongest offensive ability in the league because of Wang Chao, but the defensive end is a problem.

And in this case, a day later, the Rockets made another trade.

The Rockets sent player Luis. Scola, who got backup guard Kyle from the Chicago Bulls. Korver with substitute center Omir. Asik.

This inexplicable deal left everyone scratching their heads.

Although Scola didn't get many opportunities last season because Da Yao was not reimbursed as in the original history, he didn't average 18.3 points and 8.2 rebounds per game as he should have, but he still averaged 13.7 points and 7.8 assists per game and became the team's main power forward.

But the Rockets traded him for two Bulls role players at this time, and the deal looked like a clear loss.

The Bulls are naturally happy to make the deal, and last season's joint second-place record in the league and failed to catch up with the first-place Magic team in the regular season was largely due to power forward Carlos. Boozer's reason, Boozer was injured in the regular season, only played in 59 games, as the team's second scoring point, Boozer's absence on the court has a great impact on the Bulls, after all, their own offense is bad enough, most of the time they can only rely on Rose's individual ability to create opportunities.

The trade in exchange for Scola, whose style of play is close to Boozer's, is an insurance policy for the Bulls, and all he paid for Korver, who averaged only 8.3 points per game last season, and Asik, who averaged 2.8 points and 3.7 rebounds, why not?

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