Chapter 928: The Weirdos and a Breath of Fresh Air in the NBA!
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Ray Allen jumped out of his contract with the Celtics and chose to join the Miami Heat as a free agent, killing the crazy armament brought about by the sudden increase in NBA salary space from more than 70 million U.S. dollars to more than 80 million U.S. dollars. competition.
After all the dust settled, the Los Angeles Lakers announced that they had renewed Kobe's contract.
The Miami Heat announced that they have re-signed Ben Gordon and Varejao.
The teams that were still crazy before finally returned to calm.
In this crazy summer, the first protagonist is Jerry West's Warriors.
Then came the Mavericks who kept swiping the screen.
Then there is the crazy sun.
Then came the overwhelming Lakers.
In the end, the Heat reaped all the attention.
After all, although Ray Allen is not too young and is already 34 years old, Ray Allen has maintained a very good condition and can still average 20 points per game with the Celtics last season.
Moreover, most of the 20 points he averaged per game were not obtained in exchange for the ball and holding the ball. Unlike Ben Gordon, who conflicts with James Wade, these 20 points of Ray Allen have no conflict with Wade James. points, that is to say, the Heat have found an All-Star caliber player who perfectly suits them.
The Big Five are retained, and an All-Star is added who fits them perfectly.
The Heat's Big Five are indeed inferior to the Lakers' F5 in terms of hard power, but now the Heat are not the Big Five, but the Big Six.
Therefore, the number one hard-power team in NBA history has changed hands again!
The Heat once again regained the honor that originally belonged to them.
And when everything is settled, the impact of this crazy summer this year is still continuing.
After the NBA's free market returned to calm, ESPN quickly rated the trade signings of several popular teams in the league this summer.
As the crazy final killer this summer, the Heat certainly received the highest praise.
Miami Heat: A+
This offseason, the Miami Heat are the most active team. After the shocking and unexpected loss in the finals, they lost two strong players in Grant Hill and O'Neal. At the same time, they also made moves in the signing and trading market, but in the early stage The result was very disappointing. Barea was snatched away by the Mavericks, and Nash was snatched away by the Los Angeles Lakers. But in the end, they used their sincerity to impress Ray Allen, who had been unable to let go of the past and integrate into the team in Boston. After 6 years 80 million, this is a lifetime contract, which is far higher than the sincerity of the Celtics' two-year 20 million contract. It allows the Heat to get a player with All-Star strength. Maybe the Heat will be very good in the last three to four years of this contract. Injured, but now, in the last two to three years, the Heat will be the most terrifying team in the NBA. For the Heat, signing Ray Allen is more useful and crazy than signing Nash, and of course more suitable.
Los Angeles Lakers: A
Since the start of the off-season, the Los Angeles Lakers have been very silent, but after the Suns incident broke out, they quickly completed the attack, giving up the team's veteran point guard Kidd, and freely signed the second best super point guard in NBA history. Turkoglu, who was not suitable for him, was traded to the Magic in exchange for Lamar Odom, Bynum was sent to the Suns for Stoudemire, and O'Neal was signed. It is hard to imagine that this series of operations took place in just a short period of time. It was completed in half a month. The Lakers' mobility is impressive. However, the reason why the Lakers' operation this year was rated A by us is because the Lakers' series of operations are all gambling, F5 It's wonderful, but unlike Ray Allen's perfect fit for the Heat, which is visible to the naked eye, is Nash and Kobe's fit? Can Stoudemire replace Bynum with the Lakers? The Lakers completely gave up interior defense,
Can you control the team's offensive and defensive balance? The Lakers' series of gambles this summer have left them full of unknowns. They can be very strong, but equally, they may also be very disappointing. This requires the contribution of Phil Jackson and D'Antoni. They need to find a balance. A new approach for this Laker.
Golden State Warriors: A-
For Stephen Curry, the top pick was sent to the Thunder. It turned out that the Warriors, who failed madly last season, were not for Griffin, nor for robbing the Thunder, but for Curry and the three core players of the University of Washington. When Jerry West finally shot, we knew the true intention of this legend. This is his operating style. It can be seen that he admires Yes very much, and admires the tactical system of the University of Washington that Yes has passed down. The players who grew up under the James system, except for Master Romar, can't get it. From Jerry West's perspective, his operations are absolutely A+ grade. He almost got everything he wanted. But from the perspective of a calm objective person, Jerry West's operations are very risky. Curry, Thompson and Green are not talented players. Do they have the strength to become the core of a team? Can the things they did at the University of Washington adapt to the NBA? Maybe Jerry West saw something we couldn't see, but this is questionable, just like we can't understand why Jerry West accepted the Suns' trade of Barbosa + first-round pick for Biedrins. The Warriors don't have a surplus of centers. Biedrins averaged 12+11 last season. He is still very young. He is one of the most valuable young centers in the NBA. Jerry West has signed Jamal Crawford. They don't need more sixth men. Jerry West's operation in the Warriors is difficult to simply evaluate. If the person who operated it was not Jerry West, we would not evaluate it as D, but because he is Jerry West, we will give it an A- rating, because Jerry West has never made a transaction below A- in his management career. Maybe he saw something we didn't see again.
Dallas Mavericks: A-
Compared to other teams with huge changes, the changes of the Dallas Mavericks are more about checking for leaks and filling gaps in the existing lineup. The performance of the Dallas Mavericks last season shocked the world, but at the same time, the Mavericks also showed their own problems last season. There are no other defensive players on the front line except Afflalo, and the team does not have a first-class organizer except Afflalo.
Whether it is trading Marion from the Suns or signing Kidd in free agency, they are all supplements to last season. Although both of them are not young, these two very suitable trades and signings are excellent, and Barea's signing is a huge reward for the Mavericks. They got one of the best bench players in the NBA without paying any price.
In ESPN's rating of each team in the league during the offseason, the Lakers, Heat, Mavericks and Warriors all reached A level, and most of the other teams were B or C.
For example, the Grizzlies were rated B- for getting McGrady, the Spurs were rated B for getting Boozer, and the Thunder were rated B+ for getting Griffin and Spencer but losing David West and Evans. As for the Rockets who lost McGrady, they were rated C.
Generally speaking, C is the lowest rating for ESPN ratings.
But this year, the Celtics who lost Ray Allen, the Suns who lost Nash and Stoudemire, and the Sonics who lost Barea and did not make any achievements this summer were rated D.
Boston Celtics: D
Offering a 34-year-old former All-Star player $20 million for 2 years is a seemingly reasonable offer, but if this person is Ray Allen, this offer shows the Celtics and Danny Ainge's hesitation. They want to keep Ray Allen, but they don't want to keep Ray Allen. Their attitude towards Ray Allen is so complicated that they don't even know it themselves. They look down on Ray Allen, but sometimes they rely on him very much. They always say that Ray Allen can give more to the team, but they themselves are stingy in giving Ray Allen more. Ray Allen and the Boston Celtics have never been able to integrate together. Three years have passed. When we look back at the deal three years ago, we find that the biggest beneficiary at the time has gained nothing after three years, and the biggest victim at the time has won two championships after three years. The combination of Ray Allen and the Celtics is a tragedy. The more successful Yes and the Supersonics are, the more miserable the tragedy will be. The increasing success of Yes and the Supersonics has made the gap between the Celtics and Ray Allen bigger and bigger.
Ray Allen plays a special role for the Celtics. The Celtics' loss of Ray Allen means that they have lost their balanced advantage when facing other strong teams. In the current dangerous league environment, the era of the Celtics is actually over.
Phoenix Suns: D
From the perspective of transactions and signings, this evaluation is unfair to the Suns this summer, whether it is trading Marion for Josh Howard, or trading Stoudemire for Bynum, Laga Berdio Trading Dudley Jason Richardson and trading Biedrins for Barbosa and a future top-five protected first-round pick wouldn't be a money-losing trade, even for the Suns, who want to change their style. They wanted to get O'Neal, Yao Ming and Oden, but they couldn't get it, so they got Bynum and Biedrins, the two players with the most potential to become them. This is the future of the Suns. As for the arrival of Josh Howard and Jason Richardson, this is the present of the Suns. With the Suns' current lineup, even if they undergo such big changes this summer, their strength will not drop much, and their performance will not drop. To some extent, the reconstruction of the future has even been completed.
The Suns have done it by purging veterans with big contracts and acquiring players who can support the team now and in the future.
But the two-year, 22 million contract the Suns gave Nash will go down in NBA history.
They sent away the greatest player in their team's history in an extremely dirty and disgraceful way, Jerry West said, and they buried their own culture and ambitions with their own hands.
This operation allowed the Suns to completely tear away their pretense of continuing to win the championship.
This is the Suns' own choice. No matter how well they rebuild, their future is no longer worth looking forward to, because their future has no final destination, no championship, and may only be a cycle of advancement and retreat.
Maybe this summer, the Suns made money in every operation, which was a tactical victory, but strategically, they have surrendered.
Seattle SuperSonics :D
It’s hard to imagine that a team that has defended the championship and is looking forward to establishing a dynasty would be so quiet in the summer. Before the market opened, many people had designed many trading methods for the Seattle SuperSonics, such as Quentin Richardson. Trade Wilkins with only one year left on his contract in exchange for draft picks or to release salary space, or to clear out players such as Sessions and Ingles who are not available, and clean up the player list.
But in the end, the Sonics failed to do any of them. A team that had almost no operations in the summer actually had 16 players under contract, which is simply unbelievable!
In other words, the Seattle SuperSonics' 15 lineup players next season will not be able to accommodate the remaining Sonics players!
The team lost a great backup, didn't have enough replacements, and was overstretched.
The Seattle SuperSonics are incredibly amateurish.
The SuperSonics' operations this summer were indeed very criticized.
In ESPN's evaluation, it was actually tied with the Celtics and Suns.
Being evaluated like this by ESPN, Sonics fans, who have always been quite ferocious, had nothing to say.
The SuperSonics' operations this summer really made them blush with embarrassment. They were too amateurish.
The useless players were not cleared out in exchange for space and draft picks, and these somewhat useless players filled up the team's lineup.
Milicic, Millsap, Durant, Yee, Rondo, Harden, Gasol, Ibaka, Danny Green, Tucker, Wilkins, Quentin Richardson, Nick Collison, Sessions, Ingles, Ty Lawson.
The Sonics currently have 16 players under contract.
In other words, without Barea, the Sonics, whose strength has declined, have not added any players, and they need to lay off one before the start of next season.
This is so embarrassing!
Because the Sonics are so good that the players are reluctant to part with them, and the team is too humane and unwilling to get rid of the players.
Finally, something almost unheard of happened with the Sonics.
Being said to be amateur is already considered good.
If the Sonics hadn't won the championship in the past two years, the management of the Sonics would have been stupid!
What does a team think of giving 16 guaranteed contracts?
However, embarrassment is embarrassment.
But while other teams in the league are playing hard-and-blooded business for the sake of team strength, the Sonics' idiotic effort to embarrass themselves just for a favor has become a special sight. ’
It’s simply a breath of fresh air in the NBA!
"As a successful defending champion, the SuperSonics should be more eager for the championship than other teams, and should be more iron-blooded and business-oriented, but this team behaves idiotically for the sake of their players. After ridiculing, they found that their current embarrassing situation is actually It's quite cute. There is no doubt that compared to other teams, the SuperSonics are an oddity. However, according to the latest survey, 99% of NBA players are willing to play for the Seattle SuperSonics. Even if they are an oddity, the SuperSonics are still a popular one. The weird thing.”
Whether it's ridiculous or cute, now the Sonics need to face the question of who among the 16 people will leave.
Seeing the embarrassing scene of the team, Ye Si was speechless...
Let's all draw lots together?
Or a fight?