In the history known to Xu, the NBA adjusted the trade deadline in the 2017~2018 season, bringing it forward to the second Thursday before the All-Star Weekend, but before that, the league's iconic node day was on the 16th Thursday after the start of each season.

This year, it's Feb. 19, the third day after All-Star Weekend.

Many people are familiar with this time, but they may not understand why there is such a day.

In addition to literally saying that it can't be traded anymore, it's more important that the league will calculate the team's total salary for the season based on the latest roster on the deadline date, and teams that exceed the luxury tax trigger will be subject to the luxury tax.

Seeing this, you understand, don't look at how much luxury tax some teams have at the beginning of the season, how willing the owners are to spend money, whether it's true or not, it depends on the lineup after this day.

So at this time, in addition to strengthening the lineup, tax avoidance is also an important reason for the transaction.

In fact, long before the All-Star Game weekend, trade rumors were already flying all over the sky, and even the previous Maddie deal was reached.

And during All-Star Weekend, there are endless scenes of stars recruiting each other.

For example, this year, Xu Yong heard it in Dallas, and there are many of them.

For nothing else, the summer of 2010 was a special one, one of the craziest free agency years in NBA history.

James, Wade, Yao Ming, Bosh, Nowitzki, Stoudemire, Joe Johnson, Pierce, all of the All-Stars who participated in this year's All-Star Game will either be free agents or have player options this summer.

In addition, there are also Ray Allen, Boozer, Big Z, etc., which together make up the craziest summer of the year.

This is the main reason for the abundance of this phenomenon.

Players can't dominate trades, but they can lobby free agents to join or huddle.

And based on this fact, there are also a lot of deals that teams make to free up salary space.

The Bulls are also one of them.

One thing that sounds ridiculous but realistic is that Brad Miller's contract expires this summer, and the Bulls could even sign James and Wade at the same time, as long as Hinrich's contract is disposed of.

That may not necessarily happen, but the Bulls have been working on it for a long time.

Hinrich's name has begun to appear frequently in the trading market.

Especially as the deadline approaches, even the Bulls players feel that the team's oldest veteran has entered the countdown to leaving.

Three days passed quickly, and as the trading deadline continued to approach, large and small deals continued to break out.

Among them, the Wizards were the biggest sellers at this year's trade deadline.

As one of the Bulls' trade partners in last year's draft, the Wizards' season has been up and down.

They added Salmons and Thomas from the Bulls with the No. 5 pick at the beginning of the season, and with the original roster, they can be described as strong.

However, before the season officially began, Thomas suffered a fractured left arm and will miss most of the season.

Losing a big player before the season started is a disadvantage.

But the good news is that they have plenty of personnel and are still strong overall, and they are among the playoffs at the beginning of the season.

But what happened in the middle of the season sent them to the bottom.

Arenas and third-year player Cliffanton got into a verbal altercation on the plane, after which Arenas, an All-Star with a lot of personality who would poop in his teammates' shoes, turned into the first "Gun King" in the locker room and confronted Claritanton.

The point is, this incident that happened inside the locker room was also exposed by the media, which attracted a heavy penalty of 50 games for Stern.

The team boss was suspended for an entire season, and after waiting for two seasons, the Wizards could no longer maintain the lineup, and directly announced that the Wizards supermarket was open.

Long before the All-Star break, Caron Butler was traded to the Mavericks by the Wizards.

And on the day of the trade deadline, Antoine Jamison was also sent to the ...... Cavaliers.

That's right, the Cavaliers, who were ranked No. 1 in ESPN at the start of the season and now have a record second only to the Magic in the East, are strengthening again.

This is a robbery trade that can be called Pau Gasol at the beginning, and the Cavaliers traded Jamison from the Wizards only after paying "Big Z" Ilgoskas.

In contrast, Il Goskas, who has been relegated to the bench since O'Neal's arrival, averaged only 7 points and 5 boards per game this season, and shot only 44.3% from the field, a career low.

And Jamison is old and strong, still averaging 20.5 points and 8.8 rebounds per game, and is one of the best spatial power forwards in the league.

And the Cavaliers' trade is very similar to the Rockets' trade for Hamilton, with Ilgoskas/Maddy both expiring contracts, and Jamison/Hamilton both have big contracts left for the next two years.

While the other teams were busy clearing the space, they were doing this kind of transaction to block the space, and there was really only one purpose.

The Rockets are here to keep Yao Ming, while the Cavaliers are here to keep James.

But no matter what, Mo Williams + Anthony Parker + James + Jamison + O'Neal, this lineup is basically a perfect lineup that can only be created by 2K in this era, except for the older age in the frontcourt.

Of course, only Xu Yong knows, and what is even more outrageous is that in the future, the Cavaliers management will get stuck with a bug and re-sign Ilgoskas back with a base salary.

At this point, Xu Yong still couldn't figure out how the Cavaliers' lineup didn't make it to the Eastern Conference Finals.

Then the Bulls also made a move, and they made a three-way trade with the Knicks and the Celtics.

The Bulls sent Will Bynum and Sangueira to Nate Robinson and Bill Walker.

The Knicks sent Nate Robinson and Marcus Landry to get Eddie House and J.R. Giddens.

The Celtics sent Eddie House, JR Giddens, Bill Walker and Will Bynum, Sangeira and Marcus Landry.

Xu Yong learned the news the day after the deadline.

His first reaction was an accident.

Bynum hasn't played badly since he came to the Bulls, and Bynum is still a Chicagoan.

But when you think about it, it doesn't seem so difficult to understand.

The first is the issue of salary space, Sangeira still has nearly 5 million contracts left next season, and the Bulls must try to trade him if they want to make a difference in the summer.

Then there is Brown, and as Xu Yong thought, the Bulls traded Brown for O'Neal and Howard.

But when Brown actually arrived at the team, they found that Brown was in poor form.

Yes, players are in form and in order for a player to be in form you have to give him playing time.

Coupled with hard power, Nate Robinson, who is also a short player, is significantly stronger than Bynum on the offensive end.

After all, he averaged 17.2 points per game last season, and his three-point range was much stronger than Bynum's.

And overall, the Bulls are equivalent to taking Tim Thomas, who is already about equal to the garbage expiration contract, plus veteran Hunter, in exchange for Nate Robinson, Kwame Brown and Bill Walker.

As Xu Yong judged at the draft, Foreman is not bad at all, but his business ability as a general manager is not bad at all.

And the Knicks, on the other hand, are more about perfecting Nate Robinson.

Robinson, a first-round pick drafted by the Knicks in '05, has never played in the playoffs in his career, has played hard with the team, and is in a contract year, and he is eager to show himself on a higher stage.

Bynum's experience has shown that he can get that opportunity with the Bulls.

As for the Celtics, House has been in poor form this season, barely shooting more than 40% as a defender, which is obviously not in line with the needs of championship contenders.

Swapping for Bynum, and at the same time taking Sangueira, this deal will not suffer no matter how you look at it.

However, after understanding, Xu Yong's understanding of the NBA business field is also deeper.

After all, his rookie season hasn't finished yet, and the teammates next to the closet have changed twice.

A few days after the trade deadline, Seo met Nate Robinson in the locker room.

His first feeling was, short, really short.

It's not that the two teams haven't played each other on the field before, but because of the lack of time on the field at the same time, his feelings are not so strong.

But standing in front of me at this moment, I really feel like an uncle is seeing a child.

Nate Robinson, absolutely not 1.75m, not even 1.7m.

But this guy is really strong, the same muscular mountain bag, even stronger than the Griffin he had played against at the beginning.

The little man who can mix in the NBA, there is really no one who is good at stubble.

"Xu, just because you won the championship, if someone else wins the championship, I have to make trouble with him." And as soon as he saw Xu Yong, he was complaining about the slam dunk contest that had just ended.

It can be seen that he was not invited to participate in the slam dunk contest, and he was quite unhappy.

Xu Yong was happy when he heard it, unlike Bynum, Robinson seemed to have a bit of a real temperament.

However, this is in line with the impression, Robinson is passionate and energetic on the court, and this kind of person certainly does not have so many twists and turns.

This kind of character is also what Xu Yong likes, so he quickly said: "When the training is over, we can have a competition." ”

"Really? I've had this idea for a long time! Robinson couldn't sit still when he heard this.

That's true.

Xu Yong smiled and nodded, and also thought of something very interesting.

With Robinson's current enthusiasm, there is a high probability that he will participate in the slam dunk contest next year, and Griffin, DeRozan, and Nate Robinson will also be worth looking forward to.

In the team's training sessions, Robinson showed the ability of a player of his playing age, and the tactical system and everything was quickly integrated.

Although, maybe De Nagro's tactical system is also so simple.

However, there was one person's performance that Xu Yong never expected.

Bill Walker, a player Xu Yong had never heard of before his rebirth, performed exceptionally well.

Especially the shots outside the three-point line, the stability is a little unbelievable.

You must know that Walker played two seasons with the Celtics before, but he rarely got the chance to play, the type that makes people feel completely unpresent.

Is the Bulls picking up a bargain for nothing?

"I know him." After the training session, Ross and Xu Yong were chatting.

Xu Yong was curious, he really didn't have any impression of this kind of player who couldn't find any information when he opened the search engine.

"If he hadn't had a knee injury, he would have been a star player by now." Ross sighed.

Bill Walker, not just a simple sentence "The one who can get into the NBA is the Jordan in their story" can be summed up, he was the same as DeRozan in high school, known as "Carter No. 2", when he and OJ Mayo were in a high school and had a bright future.

But as soon as he entered high school, knee injuries began to find him.

In his final season of high school, he was reimbursed for a cruciate ligament knee injury, which left him in the 69th place among high school students in 2007.

Then he went to Kansas State University in college, teamed up with Michael Beasley, averaged 16.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, and seemed to be on his feet again.

But just weeks before the draft, he double-wounded his own knee, his third major injury in five years.

That plummeted his draft prospects, and he was drafted by the Celtics only with the 47th pick as a supplement to James Posey's failure to re-sign.

But it's a pity that the Celtics formed a Big Three lineup that summer, and he naturally won't have much chance of a second-round pick.

Listening to Rose's description, Xu Yong remembered another person.

Perry Jones, the Thunder's 2012 draft pick.

Jones was also a top-10 or even top-5 prospect at the time, but ended up dropping to the end of the first round due to injury.

The experiences of the two are really strikingly similar.

However, looking at Walker's state, it seems that he is much better than Jones.

In particular, it is very rare to be able to transform from a dunk general to a shooter.

This kind of player can be used as a tactical endpoint, just like Novak of the Rockets back then, and has a lot of tactical value.

At this time, in the corner of the court, a person is scanning the court, and it is the team's general manager, Forman.

There are so many cheap things in the world that he can sift through Walker's garbage, and that's all the credit of his scouting in those years.

If it weren't for the fact that the Bulls had run out of second-round picks that year, he would probably have picked the other side.

And looking at this lap, the Bulls' lineup has changed a lot now and at the beginning of the season.

Point guards: Rose, Nate Robinson, Jerome Pargo

Quarterbacks: Xu Yong, Hinrich, Bill Walker

Front: Deng, James Johnson, Damion Wilkins

Ohmae: Gibson, Brad Miller, Richard

Centre-forwards: Noah, Kwame Brown, Aaron Gray

He is quite satisfied with the squad he has built over the course of the season.

At least it's a big improvement from the start of the season, and it looks like it's already a playoff-caliber lineup.

At this moment, Xu Yong and Robinson's entertainment slam dunk contest began.

Both of them showed their individual talents.

Xu Yong's dunk is a combination of power and aesthetics, just like the original slam dunk contest, while Robinson is a short man's violent aesthetics.

Xu Yong's dunk will amaze why he can dunk so well, and Robinson will make people wonder how he can jump so high.

Watching the two people in the game and the players cheering on the sidelines, Foreman couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

In fact, he was a little worried about the impact of frequent trades on the team, but now it seems that this concern is unfounded.

Even imagine that if the Bulls did make the playoffs this year, he should be able to win the best general manager award in a small way.

The pace of the book will be faster, just like the previous NCAA season, the games that don't promote the plot are not written, that is, the playoffs are coming soon, and the roles of some role players will not be deliberately written with games, and will be concentrated in the playoffs ~ In addition, daily requests for recommendation tickets, monthly passes and subscriptions ~~

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