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As in the original history, when Kobe Bryant tried his best to support Howard in the old lady's lobby and tried to coax him to stay in Los Angeles, he behaved very dragging and directly put down a sentence to Howard.

"First of all, you have to learn how to win, I can teach you!"

Well, this is kind of igniting a powder keg.

What Howard is most unaccustomed to is Kobe's high-minded attitude.

What do you have to drag? Just like who hasn't won, the second record in the history of the regular season is still 70 wins in the regular season played by Howard and Wang Chao, and I don't win much less than you in terms of championships, even Wang Chao is not as crazy as you!

Kobe Bryant actually understands this, but that's his personality, especially during the regular season this season, and Howard's lazy and unmotivated professional attitude annoyed him.

That's why I wanted to use these words to knock Howard and motivate the other party to ignite their fighting spirit.

And because Howard already has a championship, Kobe Bryant also deliberately changed his lines to learn how to win.

But this apparently only angered Howard.

On July 6, Howard officially announced his departure from Los Angeles and reached an agreement with the San Antonio Spurs to join the Spurs with a maximum salary of $88 million over four years, changing the situation of the entire league again.

As soon as this news was announced, it immediately caused a shock in the alliance.

The Spurs have always been one of the top contenders in the league and a championship contender.

The GDP duo is old and strong, and still has a good fighting ability, with 56 wins last season, and lost to the Thunder in the second round of the Western Conference.

Obviously, Wang Chao's interception of Leonard still has a great impact on the Spurs, but he does not admit that he wants the Spurs to have a chance to get Howard.

In fact, the Spurs made a lot of sacrifices in order to win Howard, after all, although the contracts of the three GDP have shrunk with age, the current annual salaries of Duncan and Parker are only in the early tens of millions, and Ginobili has become a free agent, which is why there is enough salary space to provide Howard with a maximum salary.

Even so, in order to get Howard, the Spurs gave up on signing their own center Thiago. Splitt, who was supposed to re-sign with the Spurs in the 13-14 season, signed a four-year, $36 million contract, and the starting salary reached 10 million.

And now, for the sake of Howard, the Spurs are directly giving up Split and letting him enter the free market to ask for a price.

Although Split played well last season, averaging 10 points and 6.4 rebounds per game, the team will definitely be able to see it, but it is still unlikely that he wants to get another 4-year contract of 36 million, close to 9 million annual salary.

After getting Howard, as a well-known small ball city in the league, in order to avoid paying the luxury tax, the Spurs had to persuade Ginobili to take a salary cut and sign a mini-middle-class contract with an average annual salary of 5 million.

This is also a loss to Ginobili, so don't you be mad if you change to other players? I don't want to say no outright.

Although he is the sixth person on the team, Ginobili's annual salary last season was $14 million, and who can stand it?

I have to admire the Spurs team culture is doing well, and the team veterans can accept such a large salary cut.

Wang Chao has the impression that Ginobili originally signed a new contract with the Spurs with an annual salary of 7.5 million, and in the 16-17 season, in order to compensate for Ginobili's salary cut, the Spurs provided him with a one-year pension contract of 14 million.

In any case, the Spurs who got Howard have formed an interior twin tower combination, and Duncan Howard, one old and one young, will become the strongest interior combination in the league in the new season, even stronger than the Rockets' Da Yao + Garnett!

Of course, Wang Chao is not very optimistic about this combination.

Although Duncan has a mid-range, his stability is much worse than Garnett's, and his main offensive means are also around the basket, which overlaps with Howard to a great extent, and more importantly, Howard is no longer the superman who flew away from the Magic team, and his dominance under the basket has decreased sharply.

Not surprisingly, Howard's average data per game next season is still about 18+12, and it is difficult to improve, after all, with his technical characteristics, the ceiling will stop after the injury has no explosive power.

The functions of Howard and Duncan partially overlapped, and the annual salary of 20 million also made the Spurs' salary space explode directly, and there was no way to bring in any role players, and the team's forward position could not be strengthened.

Don't look at the Spurs team that won the championship in 13-14, Leonard's average data in the regular season and playoffs are only 12.8 points and 6 rebounds and 14.3 points and 6.7 rebounds per game, but his defense at the forward position and his ability to help defend and supplement the defense largely build the Spurs' defensive system.

Therefore, Wang Chao believes that Howard's arrival with the Spurs will definitely make a qualitative leap in the strength of the Spurs, but it is difficult to say whether the strength can be compared with Leonard's version of the 13-14 Spurs.

In the era of small ball, it is always the outside line that can really determine the outcome of the game.

Including the Spurs winning the championship in the 13-14 season, the two highest scorers on the team are Parker with 18 points and Leonard with 17.8 points, and Duncan averages only 15.4 points and 10 rebounds per game.

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Howard joined the Spurs, which made the Lakers angry, and Kobe Bryant publicly said that Howard has no sense of competition, does not like challenges and wins, and is a standard soft egg.

Lakers fans have also insulted and cursed Howard in various ways, believing that he is the worst star center the Lakers have ever had, and even inferior to Andrew. Bynum.

Howard said I can't bear your scolding, what kind of weird is Bynum, I'm not even as good as him?

As the main bargaining chip in the trade for Howard, Andrew . After Bynum was sent to the 76ers last season, he completely began to let himself go, did not train seriously, and bowled during the injury recuperation, which caused his injury situation to worsen.

Now the 76ers have given up on the contract extension of Bynum, who is not testing the free market situation is not ideal, and is currently negotiating with the Cavaliers, but with his previous performance, it is enough to get a guaranteed high-salary contract.

Although Howard has a grinning personality, he is never lazy in training, and people are also serious about playing when he should be serious, so why use Bynum to insult him?

It's just that the Lakers fans who are already annoyed and angry, how can they care so much?

Howard's departure has already signaled that the Lakers are finished.

Kobe Bryant's Achilles tendon tear, an injury that seriously affects the player's career, is basically a death sentence for the 35-year-old Kobe Bryant's athletic career, even if he recovers well enough, he will never be able to return to the game to achieve the state before the injury.

In order to get Howard, the Lakers overdrew their future, sent away draft picks, and sent away Bynum, who had been cultivated for many years, but in the end they ended up with nothing left.

It is foreseeable that in the next three to five years, the Lakers will no longer have the strength to win the championship.

Watching a wave of multi-player big trades from the city's archrival Clippers to get outside shooters JJ Redick and Jarred Dudley to further strengthen the strength of the front line, and they can only watch dryly, this tormented mood can be imagined.

On July 11, Andrew. Bynum reached a contract agreement with the Cavaliers to defect to the Cleveland Cavaliers for 2 years and $24 million, but this contract turned out to be a restrictive contract, only 6 million of the 12 million contracts in the first year were guaranteed, and the remaining 6 million were incentive contracts, and Bynum had to achieve a certain level of performance on the court to get the money.

Despite the harsh conditions, Bynum didn't have an option, and this was already the most lucrative contract he could get when his value plummeted.

As a result, the Cavaliers have two top picks, Irving and Bennett, plus All-Star player Andrew Brown. Bynum has also begun to return to the limelight, with the outside media popularizing the belief that the Cavaliers are already competitive to return to the playoffs, and even the voices of James returning to Cleveland after next season have begun to gradually increase.

And James's current Heat team, after being swept 0:4 in the finals, is also actively carrying out reinforcement work, and the purpose of their reinforcements is also very clear and direct, interior players.

The Heat first renewed the contract of Birdman Anderson, and then signed the 2007 champion, known as the Emperor. Oden and 2000 champion Kenyon. Martin signed a base-salary contract, won two No. 1 No. 1 in a row, and with James, the Heat have gathered three No. 1 NBA No. 1 No. 1 No. 1 No. 1 No. 1 No. 1 No. 1 No. 1 No. 1 No. 1 No. 1 No. 1

The reason why the Heat signed Oden and Kenyon. Martin, naturally, is aimed at the Rockets, but with their current salary space completely occupied by the Big Three, they can only sign this kind of low-paid player to gamble on luck, in case Oden's injury suddenly comes to a halt, what about the current strength? In case Kenyan. How much success does Martin still have in his prime?

No matter how unlikely it is, the Heat want to take a gamble, after all, all they can do now is take a gamble.

Keen on this, Heat general manager Pat Brown. Riley then went on to sign Michael with a base salary. Beasley, the '08 pick, was recently cut by the Suns for possessing marijuana. Riley seems confident that the prodigal son of the addict will turn back.

In the end, the Heat reached a 1-year veteran base salary extension with O'Neal Jr., and poached this interior player from the Rockets, but it is not appropriate to describe it as digging, because O'Neal Jr. actually wants to stay in the Rockets, after all, the Rockets are still the biggest favorites to win the championship next year, wouldn't it be nice to rub one more championship?

However, the Rockets did not make an offer for him at all, so O'Neal Jr. could only switch to the Heat, who threw an olive branch to him.

The operation is as fierce as a tiger, and I look back at 0-5.

The Heat are bouncing on the free agency market, signing a few players without an annual salary of more than $1.5 million, counting on them to help the team in the new season...... Only Heat fans can lie to themselves.

The Rockets are completely of the lying flat type relative to other teams on the free market.

No way, who made the Rockets' current lineup really good?

In the back, there are Butler, Middleton, Thomas Jr. and Kyle. Korver, whose contract ended in the summer, was immediately offered by several teams to poach the three-point shooter for a high salary.

The most sincere of these is the Atlanta Hawks, who have made a four-year, $30 million offer for Korver, an average of $7.5 million per year.

To be reasonable, Wang Chao wants to keep Korver, after all, the next two seasons will be the peak of Korver, in the original history, 13-14 season, 14-15 season, Korver's three-point shooting rate was 47.2% and 49.2% respectively, ranking first in the league, even Curry has to bow down, for the team of the small ball lineup, such a super three-point shooter is still very important.

But the offer of 30 million in 4 years discouraged Wang Chao.

What a joke, this is also too expensive!

Korver is strong, but after all, he is only a role player, and he seriously lacks independent offensive ability, and in his two seasons at his peak, he averaged just over 12 points per game.

The Rockets currently have Wang Chao and Da Yao, two players with an annual salary of 20 million, and Garnett with 8 million, plus other players, the salary has gone straight to 60 million.

If they pay an additional $7.5 million for Korver alone, the Rockets will most likely have to pay the luxury tax next season.

Although Wang Chao is now the leader of the Rockets, he alone has the whole team, whether it is the general manager or the head coach, he has to listen to him, but after all, the money is still from the team owner, with the Rockets owner Leslie. Alexander's picky personality is definitely unwilling to pay the luxury tax, and it will inevitably be another fight when the time comes.

Anyway, for Wang Chao, Korver is not necessary, and Middleton can completely replace his role, so more is better than less, and there is not much difference between walking and leaving.

In the forward position, there are currently Wang Chao, Leonard, Garnett, and Parsons.

The central striker position is Da Yao, Whiteside and the new signing Rudy. Goebel.

Korver was poached with a high salary, O'Neal Jr. switched to the Heat, and Kidd chose to retire on the spot, and then ran to the Nets as the head coach of the Nets' new aircraft carrier after his request to join the Rockets' coaching staff was rejected.

The Rockets are only 10 players left on the roster and need to add at least 12 players to the roster before the season begins.

Wang Chao only listed one player for the Rockets management who could be recruited, named Marco. Belinelli and the rest of the players are left to the management and the general manager of the team to make their own decisions, anyway, they are all substitutes who sit on the bench, and it doesn't make much difference who they sign.

Height 1.96 meters, Belinelli, who serves as a shooting guard, is also a three-point master, and the three-point shooting rate can reach 43% next season, although it is not as exaggerated as Korver, but it is also an extremely stable fixed-point three-point shooting point, and more importantly, his price is much cheaper than Korver, in Wang Chao's impression, the Spurs signed Belinelli for only 2 years and 5.62 million US dollars, with an average annual salary of 2.81 million.

If you can cut off the Spurs and use it to use it to fill the void of Korver's departure, it doesn't hurt if you don't get it, it won't affect the overall situation.

(End of chapter)