On the 3rd, the Hornets and Grizzlies made a deal for the "King of the Bears" Al Jefferson official.

According to the agreement, the Hornets will send Paul Millsap and Benno Udri in the deal and get Al Jefferson from the Grizzlies.

As soon as the deal was completed, Jefferson rushed to Charlotte with the blessings of his hometown elders in Memphis.

The simple-looking Jefferson actually weighed more than 130 kilograms at this time, and on the day he met him, Wang Shuo successfully felt what a "bear hug" was.

"Al, for the new season, I want you to keep your weight at around 125 kilograms, are you confident that you can do it?" Looking at Jefferson, Wang Shuo, who was so close to being hugged to death, said to him.

Hearing this, Jefferson immediately showed an embarrassed expression.

It's not that he doesn't want to lose weight, it's that he's worried that if he loses weight, he'll lose his previous dominance in the game.

However, Wang Shuo woke up the dreamer with a word.

"Al, you're only 28 years old this year, and you certainly don't think there's anything wrong with your current weight.

But what about another two years? ”

In Wang Shuo's previous life, after turning 30 years old, Jefferson's already overwhelmed knees immediately caused Jefferson's career to start a cliff-like decline.

Moreover, he himself completely faded out of the NBA at the age of 33, which should have been the year of playing.

Although in Wang Shuo's plan, he does not plan to renew his contract with Jefferson in the future......

But considering that the current pace of the Hornets is bound to accelerate the wear and tear of Jefferson's knees, Wang Shuo still hopes that Jefferson can control his weight a little in the new season.

For one, it will allow him to have a healthier career.

Second, in the future, after the Hornets become famous, Jefferson also has the capital to go to other teams to fight for another big contract.

"Al, I may arrange for you to play as a substitute in the new season, you have to be mentally prepared for this." After a pause, Wang Shuo then said to Jefferson.

Looking at Wang Shuo, Jefferson gritted his big white teeth and smiled: "I don't mind playing as a substitute, as long as you don't let me watch the water cooler all the time." ”

Wang Shuo's status in the NBA at the moment is decided, even if he lets the peak Jordan play as a substitute, Jordan has to obediently obey the arrangement.

Jefferson is well aware that even a point guard god like Chris Paul could be thrown to the bench in order to win last season, so let alone him?

However, as a head coach who has always been convincing, Wang Shuo still explained to Jefferson why he planned to arrange Jefferson to play as a substitute in the new season.

"If you're a starter, you're going to play with Stephen, you're going to have to keep him on the floor and you're going to have to keep switchback and run, are you sure your knee can handle that?

But as long as I stagger your and Stephen's playing time a little bit and let you and Chris partner for more time, then not only will you be able to play to your strengths in positional battles, but Chris will be able to pass you all the time on the court. Patting Jefferson's sturdy back, Wang Shuo said.

Seeing this, after thinking about it in his mind, Jefferson immediately understood why every player who played for Wang Shuo would willingly obey the leadership from Wang Shuo.

Because Wang Shuo ......

He has a point!

Of course, if it weren't for Wang Shuo's status today......

In terms of the understanding ability of the NBA giants, even if Wang Shuo wears out his mouth, it is impossible for stars of Paul and Jefferson to be willing to play on the bench.

In fact, Wang Shuo knows better than anyone that Curry and Jefferson are not completely incompatible.

Jefferson is even more likely to play more beautiful stats because of Curry.

But then Curry's own data is bound to suffer.

As the NBA's master of data brushing, Wang Shuo knows very well how to make his leading stars look better while winning.

In addition, Jefferson is more likely to partner Paul in the second team, which can also greatly reduce the pressure on Paul when he is on the bench.

Next season, Wang Shuo doesn't believe it, and under the condition that he strictly controls Paul's playing time and continues to reduce his burden, Paul can continue to drop the chain at critical moments.

After this in-depth exchange with Wang Shuo, on the 4th, at the press conference prepared by the Hornets for himself, Jefferson also showed the world what the pattern is, "Although Stephen is young, he is already a three-time champion.

I hope that in Charlotte, I can help him win more honors. ”

Curry's luck in this life is indeed so good that it explodes.

Because it is clear that at this moment the Hornets are a galactic battleship with many star players......

But under the leadership of Paul, Jefferson and others, in the eyes of the world, this Hornets was molded into a single-core team led by him Stephen Curry.

Fortunately, Curry himself is not the kind of player who doesn't count in his heart and will catch the media and say, "I've never been on a super team" and "even without the Lakers' triple crown doesn't affect my NBA dominance."

On the day Jefferson officially joined the Hornets, Curry posted a photo of him and Jefferson in his early years on his personal social platform and posted: "You know, Al is my brother......

I'm excited to work with him, he's one of the best centers in the league today.

I believe that we will be able to join hands to become bigger and stronger, and create brilliance! ”

Jefferson's arrival has come to an end for the time being.

On the 5th, Wang Shuo, who was thinking about which veteran to sign to fill the team's bench, received another call from TayXia Prince's agent.

Speaking of which, Wang Shuo in this life is indeed related to the five piston tigers in his memory.

Because counting Hamilton and the two Wallaces......

Wang Shuo has already won the championship with three of the five Pistons in his memory.

Prince, 33, plans to pursue his dream with a team with championship potential after his contract with the Pistons expires this year.

Originally, Prince planned to join the Heat with a base salary.

But after learning the thoughts of this former teammate, Big Ben immediately reprimanded him: "If you want to win a championship in the NBA, but don't give priority to hugging the king's thigh, are you sick in the brain?" ”

At the moment, Prince is far from being unable to move.

He has a lot of experience defending, doesn't possess the ball on the field, and is a very good value 3D player.

Therefore, after learning that Prince was willing to vote, Wang Shuo laughed at the veteran without even thinking about it.

Of course, before signing with Prince, Wang Shuo did not forget to give the veteran a vaccination: "Tayxiaan, you should know how talented we are on the front line.

So even if you want to join, I won't be able to schedule you more playing time in the new season. ”

In response, Prince said with a look of surprise: "I would like to play the same role as Sean (Battier) in the Hornets!" ”

What an international joke!

He, Prince, is here to hug his thighs.

In Prince's opinion, the stronger the Hornets at the moment, the more likely he is to win a championship before he retires.

So how could he be worried about not getting more playing time at the Hornets?

As we all know, the reason why Barkley hated to retire back then was ......

A large part of the reason is precisely because he wanted to go to the space city to hug his thighs, but in the end he turned into thighs.

It's just that if Prince can win the championship in the future......

In that life, Billups, who does not have a championship ring, will undoubtedly be the most embarrassing person.

Because despite this life, Hamilton is no longer a member of the Pistons Five Tigers......

But you must know that Ray Allen, who replaced Hamilton, also has a championship ring!

Let's think about it, in the future, when the Pistons Five Tigers have a dinner party, everyone will have a championship ring, only he will be "better than missing", so how embarrassing will he be at that time?

In addition, on July 10, Curry also officially completed a contract extension with the Hornets.

At Wang's suggestion, Curry signed a four-year contract with the Hornets worth around $75 million.

At present, as the NBA's ratings increase year by year, the vast majority of people in the market have a premonition that the salary space of the NBA may rise sharply in the future.

Curry's four-year contract comes at the end of the NBA's current broadcast contract, allowing him to earn more in the future.

It's just that with Curry completing the contract extension with the team, even if Wang Shuo does not plan to keep Jefferson in the future......

Wang Shuo will also be troubled when Leonard, Klay, Butler and others enter the fourth year of their careers.

Because after signing a new collective bargaining agreement in the NBA, each team can renew their contracts through the super cap of Bird Quan is limited, so this also means that after the rookie contracts of Leonard and others are prostituted, Wang Shuo will have to give up one of the three in the future.

In this regard, even the resourceful Wang Shuo could not make up his mind in a short time.

However, no matter what the future holds......

This can't change the fact that the Hornets will be the number one favorite to win the championship in the eyes of Wang Shuo in the new season.

This summer, after winning the championship, the Knicks have been forced to drop Ariza and Chandler from their championship roster due to restrictions imposed by the new collective bargaining agreement.

Plus next season's New York Three Kings will be one year older......

Therefore, if they meet in the playoffs next season, Wang Shuo is full of confidence that he can beat Yao Ming and Duncan this time!

After leaving New York, where he had played for many years, Ariza opted to join the Celtics this summer.

The Celtics are hoping that Ariza, a four-time champion, can bring a bit of good fortune to a Celtic team that has not had much luck in recent years.

Chandler, on the other hand, chose to join the Cavaliers.

When working with Mike Malone, Chandler was very fond of this passionate coach.

In the championship lineup, the Knicks chose to renew the contract of J.R. Smith, who made great achievements for the team to win the championship this year.

This is a decision that is in line with the will of the people.

Because compared to Ariza and Chandler, New York fans obviously prefer Smith, a nerve knife that has basically booked a Knicks retirement jersey.

In the future, the Knicks' team is destined to become eternal legends at Madison Square Garden.

Especially Yao Ming, Duncan, West, Smith and Rondo.

Four-time champion, a dynasty.

In the first two decades of the 21st century, these five players who have made immortal contributions to the Knicks have become the "miracle generation" in the eyes of Knicks fans.

In addition, this summer, in order to free up salary space and renew Hayward's contract in the future, Kupchak also traded Jordan Jr., Thomas Jr. and the 2014 first-round pick of the Trail Blazers that the team previously acquired through a trade for the Thunder in 2014, as suggested by Wang Shuo.

With Gasol Jr. currently at his peak, it is somewhat extravagant for the Lakers to continue to use Jordan Jr., who earns tens of millions of dollars a year, to play him as a substitute.

Coupled with the fact that Ellis is still in his playing years, DeRozan has improved rapidly after getting a contract extension......

As a result, the Lakers don't really need the firepower that Thomas Jr. provides to the team on the bench.

After losing in the finals last season, the Thunder, who realized that they needed a full-fledged center, hoped to strengthen the team's No. 5 position through this trade.

In addition, the Lakers don't look down on Thomas Jr.'s bench output, which doesn't mean that the Thunder don't need Thomas Jr., the super sixth man.

In this deal, the Lakers took a fancy to the tacit understanding between Ibaka and Gasol Jr. as teammates on the national team, as well as Yi Jianlian's contract that is about to expire next season.

In Kupchak's view, even if the Lakers can't negotiate a new contract with Yi Jianlian after his contract expires, the Lakers can just free up salary space to complete the contract extension with Hayward.

For the Thunder, who is from a poor family, because the team owner does not want to pay too much luxury tax in the future, they can only choose to reluctantly part with their love if they are not sure to keep Yi Jianlian.

As for how the Thunder's No. 4 spot will be strengthened after the completion of this all-you-need, fair-priced and mutually beneficial deal, Presti has his sights set on the future after signing Brazilian actor Vallejo from the free agent market to put an immediate suspension.

As a famous draft year in history, regardless of whether the 14th rookies have fulfilled their talents in Wang Shuo's memory, you can't deny that as early as the summer of 13, the world generally believed that the 14th rookies would become the new golden generation.

With the development of the Internet......

Young players in the 21st century get attention from the NBA from a very young age.

For example, Andrew Wiggins, who has already made a name for himself in North America at the moment and is known as the next Jordan and Kobe.

With a barefoot height of 201 cm and an arm span of nearly 215 cm, Wiggins has an almost perfect model.

He is very athletic, with a vertical jump of more than 90 centimeters and a run-up jump of more than 110 centimeters.

In addition, in addition to his outstanding athletic talent, Wiggins' many offensive combos before the election also allowed scouts to see the shadow of Jordan and Kobe Bryant in him.

In the eyes of scouts, the only fly in the ointment is that Wiggins' palm is only slightly larger than Kobe's.

However, there is Kobe Bryant, the jewel, in the front......

In the eyes of scouts, Wiggins could become an All-Star caliber player even if he could only cash in half of his talent in the future.

And as a general manager who is good at Taobao in the draft......

Presti also agreed to trade with the Lakers because the Lakers added the Trail Blazers' 2014 first-round pick to the deal.

Although judging by the current roster of the Trail Blazers, this first-round pick will not be too high, but at least ......

It's definitely higher than the Thunder's own draft pick.

And......

With the rookies in the '14 class so good, in Presti's opinion, it is certainly not a bad thing to have one or two more draft picks without affecting the team's strength.

It's just that even Presti won't believe it at the moment......

The 14th truly top player was not in the first round.

For the past two years, Wang Shuo has been obtaining information about Nikola Jokic through his private channels.

For the sake of secrecy, Wang Shuo never even talked about Jokic to the second person.

Yes.

If only history could repeat itself.

In Wang Shuo's view, Jokic is the well-deserved champion of the 14th session.

And, in a sense, it's the most suitable center for Stephen Curry.

Again, that's the same sentence.

Due to Curry's excessively high true shooting percentage, he is more suitable to play the finishing core on the court.

So that means that if you want Curry to get the most out of his output on the court, you have to have a playmaker with him.

In this regard, as the most passable big man in NBA history, Jokic is undoubtedly a perfect fit for Curry.

Secondly, Jokic's solid blocking and pick-and-roll fundamentals and ball quotient can also help him observe Curry's movement in the first place on the court.

Finally, when Curry was stuck in a physical bottleneck on the court, the future NBA's one of the few No. 5 positions with hard solution ability could even ensure the team's lower limit through his hard solution on the court.

In Wang Shuo's previous life, as Jokic began to cash in on his talent, Jamal Murray was definitely the most envied guard by the NBA's outside players.

Because of the top center like Mr. Yoo by his side, Murray's future life will be as comfortable as he wants.

On the contrary, in the early years of that career, in the eyes of a certain group of fans, Curry, who was able to kill all sides in the NBA because of the "egg chaser" Green around him, became recognized by NBA guards as the most reluctant to exchange lives with him.

Because after watching Curry's performance in leading the Warriors to a championship in the 21/22 season......

The NBA guards couldn't believe that Curry had to be on the court so that the Warriors could win the championship.

Facts have proved that the eyes of the masses are clear.

In the future, only when the tide recedes, people can gradually understand what the Curry in Wang Shuo's memory means to the Warriors, to Green and Kerr.

In July, after the NBA teams successively completed reinforcements, Wang Shuo officially confirmed the 15-man roster for the new season of the Hornets:

Center: Jefferson, Speights.

Power forwards: Garnett, Kirilenko, Barnes.

Small forwards: Leonard, Butler, Prince, Battier.

Shooting guards: Klay, Middleton, Jones.

Point guards: Curry, Paul, Mills.

For the Hornets, who have an excellent bench lineup, they also have good news before the start of the new season.

That is the new season, and the number of players in the NBA regular season and playoffs will be changed to 13.

Now, with the NBA game getting faster and faster, and the level of role players getting higher and higher, more single-game registrations can not only effectively prevent a team's main players from suffering too much wear and tear in the regular season, but also make the game more exciting.

In addition, at Mark's suggestion, the NBA will officially introduce a playoff play-in system in the upcoming 13/14 season.

Under this new format, the seventh- and eighth-placed finishers in the East-West will play a play-off match before the playoffs begin, and then the loser between the two teams will face the winner between the ninth- and tenth-place finishers for the final playoff ticket.

In Wang Shuo's previous life, although many fans were not optimistic about this system in the early days of the introduction of the playoff system, in a sense, the introduction of this system did make the competition between the East and West of the NBA in the regular season more fierce than before.

Because as long as they finish tenth, they have a chance to catch the last train of the playoffs, so many teams that have started the swing mode early because they missed the top eight in the past will have more motivation to play than before.

Wang Shuo feels that in this life, the reason why the NBA introduced the playoff play-off system in advance is mainly because in recent years, there have basically been ten to eleven teams with playoff level in the East every year.

In Wang Shuo's view, the early introduction of this system will definitely make the east more tragic in the new season.

As for the issue of the new system, some fans believe that such a format is not fair enough......

If you don't understand, ask if you are all under the same conditions, where is the unfairness?

The playoff play-offs are undoubtedly a good format for how exciting the NBA is in the regular season.

Because at the end of the regular season, such a format can make many games with clear strengths and weaknesses more exciting.

Once the underdogs who have a chance to make the playoffs give it their all, even the top teams must be taken seriously in the NBA, a league with a small gap in relative strength.

And in the blink of an eye, another month has passed as time passes, looking at Curry and others who are evolving wildly every day under Grover's personal training......

Wang Shuo is also full of expectations for the upcoming new season.

This summer, under the continued guidance of England, Leonard's dry pulling skills have been a small success.

In this regard, Wang Shuo decisively set a small goal for Leonard before the start of the new season.

Hopefully he can work hard to be an All-Star in the new season.

Butler, who never needed Wang Shuo to worry about, also received a small task from Wang Shuo before the team assembled.

In the new season, Wang Shuo hopes that Butler can challenge the NBA's best sixth man.

As for Clay, who didn't know how to change a few Sports Illustrated cover girls as female companions this summer......

Wang Shuo was ready early in the morning, and it took at least two months to prepare for him after the start of the regular season.

In addition, Paul, who dropped the chain in the east last season, has made a deep reflection this summer.

And in the upcoming 13/14 season, as the young players in the Hornets team grow, Wang Shuo also plans to conduct more scientific experiments in the regular season.

In addition to planning to use two completely different lineups in the starting and substitute lineups, Wang Shuo also plans to try more lineups in the game.

Wang Shuo didn't know what the world would say about this wasp in the future.

But he believed......

This team will definitely continue to refresh the world's three views in the new season!