Chapter 580 The "Revival" Of the Lakers

When you experience a shock, you're a little confused.

But when you experience continuous impact again and again, you will feel indescribable excitement.

Many fans feel this way about the changes in the last few days of the free market.

When James decided to come out, their excitement reached its peak.

What was supposed to come finally came!

Although this process is a bit tortuous and even a bit like an absurd novel, the result is so reasonable.

James, how could he go to a place like New Orleans? As a businessman, he must go to a big city!

What kind of small ball market can develop?

Why wait for the small ball market to develop!

For James, who has already experienced turning Cleveland from a small ball market into a big ball market, this experience is basically not of much interest!

Of course, many aspects of this process still make people complain.

For example, right now, Durant is talking non-stop to Lin Ying after training.

"I never expected that AD would be this kind of person! The Pelicans really have a white-eyed wolf!"

"Rich Paul is really a troublemaker in this league. Wherever he is, there will be unrest. We must not want his players!"

"The Lakers really set a new limit for me. They actually sent Paul George away. George originally wanted to go to the Lakers!"

"Business is just business! I don't know if we will be abandoned like this one day when our condition is not good."

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Lin Ying was shocked when he heard Durant's complaints.

Although because of time travel, he knows a lot of things that happened in the original parallel world.

But he was still shocked.

The main reason is that the Lakers sent George away!

George was the first player to be designated as the next player in the contract, but he made a fuss all over the city.

In the end, he was different from being forced to go to the Thunder in history. He went to the Lakers as he wished.

It feels like you are pursuing a goddess, and the goddess immediately agrees to you, the three pinnacles of life.

As a result, not long after the conversation, before you had time to get in touch with her deeply, the goddess dumped you directly!

Falling in love can be called a waste of emotions, but George was really hurt.

In a sense, he, the former Yincheng general, has now become a complete joke.

To put it nicely, my heart yearns for the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch.

Let's be realistic, this is called using it up and just kicking it!

George is ridiculous and the Lakers are hateful.

The reputation the Lakers have accumulated over the past dozen or even decades has been wiped out by this deal.

Who will go to the Lakers in the future because they like the Lakers?

Although if you really think about it carefully, Jenny came to power just to make this deal.

This is like using the reputation accumulated by the Lakers to change the present.

Following James' decision, there was also an official report from ESPN.

James gave up his Bird clause and signed a direct 4-year, $1.5 contract with the Lakers.

This direct signing was a helpless move, because the Warriors had already signed Hayward, but they completely broke with James and didn't want to help him at all.

The focus of this news is that this is a four-year contract, which is the first long-term contract James has signed in recent years.

It can be completely felt that he is making a desperate move this time. He will not just change his position, but will fight for a future with the Lakers.

This is also understandable. Davis, who is most suitable for him, has already gone to join his team, and this time it is not him but Davis who bears the greatest pressure from public opinion.

It can be said that the right time, right place, right people and all the people have taken advantage of it. If it still fails to succeed, then it is really impossible to think about a second championship in this life.

At this moment, another piece of news popped up on Durant's phone.

The Lakers are looking for more deals. Only James and Davis are not tradeable (and cannot be traded according to the rules), and the rest are all available.

This wave is a complete reorganization.

Now in the Lakers, in addition to George Hill leaving the team due to the expiration of his contract, there is also Gasol who left for Kobe last season, as well as Chandler and Ed Davis, who signed the contract not long ago. In terms of players, there are also Jordan Clarkson, Zubac and others.

Overall, the Lakers still have plenty of chips.

And because of Kobe's retirement and the increase in the salary cap, their salary space is relatively healthy.

As long as one of Gasol or Chandler is traded, they will even have enough space to sign another maximum-paid player.

Sign another...max player?

Lin Ying was suddenly stunned.

He took Durant's phone and scrolled through the news. When he reached the latest list of free agents, he opened his eyes and frowned.

Now that free agency is coming to an end, there are two players still up in the air.

One is Paul and the other is Jrue Holiday.

Both of them have one characteristic, they are both point guards.

James and Davis teamed up, with a forward and an interior lineman, but what they lacked was a point guard.

If you want to form a Big Three lineup, these two people are very suitable.

Anyone can match Paul, but Holiday is an all-around defender with outstanding defense.

And there were rumors before that Paul and James wanted to play together.

Although this is pheasant news, whether it is Paul or Holiday, as long as one of them goes to the Lakers, the Lakers' strength will instantly grow enough to compete with the Warriors and Nets.

The previous pattern of the Yongwang war will be suddenly broken.

So although the price is a bit high, the rewards for the Lakers are also high.

As long as James stops running away, this wave of Lakers guarantees can have a golden competition period of three to five years.

If that's the case, the Nets will have another powerful opponent on their way to the dynasty next season.

It has to be said that this grouping method is really the most "efficient" way to become stronger.

Of course, even then, it's just one more opponent.

The experience of the Warriors last season has shown that paper strength is only one aspect, and the key is how well they run in.

Really compared to the paper strength, whether it is the Warriors last season or the new Big Three of the Lakers that may arrive, they are not weaker than the Nets.

But the Warriors have been proven to be unfit, and it is still unknown whether the Lakers will be able to do so.

Moreover, it is still unknown whether the Lakers can sign these two people.

then……

after one day.

The Lakers made two official announcements one after another.

The first thing is that they completed a deal with the Spurs, sending Pau Gasol and a second-round pick to get Dwayne Dedmon.

If it were before George was traded, the Lakers would have been criticized verbally for making this deal. After all, Gasol returned to the Lakers because of Kobe. As a result, Gasol was traded just after Kobe retired.

But that’s just how people are. If they’ve accepted things at a lower level, they won’t react much to this kind of thing.

The second thing is that after freeing up enough salary space, they reached a 4-year maximum salary contract with Paul of 150 million.

This is a contract with the same length and salary as James, plus there are still four years left on Davis's previously renewed maximum salary contract.

This means that under normal circumstances, Paul, James, and Davis will work together for at least four seasons.

This is a bit similar to the situation of the Knicks' Big Three.

Four years later, Paul is 36 years old and James is 37 years old. The two Big Three are too old to be old. If the Lakers still fail to succeed, their careers will probably be frozen.

So this signing is still very particular.

And just after the Lakers finalized Paul, Jrue Holiday also reached a four-year, $110 million contract with the Pelicans.

It can be seen that the Lakers should have been in contact with the two, and then they chose Paul among the two.

Holiday did not choose to return to the Mavericks, but switched to the Pelicans.

In this way, the Pelicans' situation is not too bad, because they have formed a Big Three lineup of Holiday, George, and Cousins.

If Cousins ​​recovers well, this lineup will be quite competitive even in the Western Conference.

As for the Mavericks, Yao Ming is just one step away from an official announcement about his retirement. Although Nowitzki can still play, he is obviously no longer competent as a core player. The dual-core players who once aspired to the top position are too old to survive, so reconstruction is inevitable.

At this point, this summer's free market has officially settled.

After this wave of free market turbulence, the league structure has changed accordingly, and there are more things to watch.

On the Lakers side, because of the feud between James and Green, it was definitely a highlight when the two teams played against each other.

And whether the Lakers can break the Warriors' dominance in the Western Conference in recent years, and whether James can win the championship in the first year like he did when he joined the Knicks.

Can the Nets become another team to complete three consecutive championships after the Lakers at the beginning of the century?

These are all worth looking forward to in the new season.

Then, just as the free market came to an end, the league announced that three new rules would be implemented in the new season.

First, the second attack time is changed from the original 24 seconds to 14 seconds;

The purpose of this rule is obviously to speed up the pace of the game.

Second, it is to simplify the foul rules on the offensive path.

This is a bit troublesome to explain, but its general meaning is to loosen the standards of the game and better protect offensive players.

Third, the standards for flagrant foul calls have been expanded and the penalties for flagrant fouls have been increased.

The reason for adding this rule is obviously related to the flagrant fouls in the finals of the past two years. Those things are obviously not conducive to the globalization of the NBA.

And next season, actions such as "kicking the egg" will also be included in the scope of flagrant fouls.

The promulgation of these three rules caused an uproar for a while.

Because of the league's new rules for the new season, many teams have been watching. They want to see how the league targets the Nets like it did against the Lakers.

The result...is this?

These three rules are even beneficial to the Nets to some extent!

First, the second attack time is changed to 14 seconds, which means that it is difficult for the offensive team to make a tactic after grabbing offensive rebounds.

In other words, the second offense will rely more on singles to end the offense.

And this is what the Nets are best at.

The second piece is good news for offensive teams.

As for the Nets' offense, opponents who have played against it all know how tough it is.

Article 3: Although the Nets have many "bullies", they are not deliberately looking for trouble. They are all counterattacks against their opponents' malicious fouls.

The addition of this rule is undoubtedly good news for the Nets, because they can really concentrate on playing!

So in the end, these three pieces of news are all beneficial to the Nets!

This time, Tatum was criticized by some fans of the team.

Stern was trying his best to prevent the Lakers from completing three consecutive games, but Tatum not only failed to stop him, but instead added fuel to the fire!

However, Tatum should be helpless at this time.

Because with the implementation of no-handcheck, the release of offense is irreversible.

And the Nets are different from the Lakers back then. The Nets' core players are strong not because of the rules, but because they are strong themselves.

So you can't limit them like you have historically restricted Harden.

And unlike O'Neal, they are more outside players.

You can't help but let people shoot, right?

So it's not that Tatum doesn't want to target him this time, but he really has no choice.

But it is precisely because of this that many fans are looking forward to next season.

Because what's good for the Nets is also good for the Lakers.

The Net-Yong battle pattern may really be broken next season. After many years, fans will be able to see the Lake-Net battle again.

Of course, everything is just an expectation before it happens, and the results will only unfold in the new season.

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Brooklyn, Chinese restaurant.

Lin Ying came here non-stop after finishing training.

The reason why he came in such a hurry was because of one person, Kobe.

Kobe came to Brooklyn alone, and his face didn't look too good.

Lin Ying hadn't seen Kobe for a while. After sitting down, he reminisced about old times and started talking about things.

Soon, Lin Ying knew why Kobe had this expression.

It wasn't that he was distressed about not flying in a helicopter, but...

"I almost don't recognize this Lakers team anymore."

Sending George away was a stab in Kobe's chest. After all, George was a die-hard fan of Kobe. It is better to say that he went to the Lakers because he liked the Lakers. It would be better to say that he went to the Lakers because he liked Kobe.

But it just hurts Kobe.

Sending Gasol away would directly pierce Kobe's heart.

Jenny really didn’t give Kobe any face.

So it's no wonder why Kobe reacted like this.

Because he has been a Laker all his life and has fought for the Lakers all his life, he experienced what it means to leave after leaving the game not long after he took off his jersey.

Lin Ying can understand Kobe's feelings.

He even struggled to get the Lakers to trade for Davis, but that was more because of the Lakers' reputation.

There probably was no thought of Kobe at all.

The Lakers are "reviving", but they are no longer the familiar Lakers.

So after hearing Kobe's bitter words, Lin Ying smiled and looked at the Black Mamba, who was both his teacher and friend, and said with a smile:

"Are you coming to the Nets?"