Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

After Duane signed the huge "pension contract", most media people began to sneer and add insult to injury. Even the media reporters who have always been optimistic about Duane felt that Duane's condition would further decline in the new season.

Who would have thought that although Duane didn't practice much this summer, he performed quite well in the qualifiers for the Men's Basketball World Cup.

For a time, the Chicago media took the lead in praising Durant, saying that Durant still has the strength to be in the top ten in the league.

2K was not to be outdone and said it must take advantage of this opportunity to ride on Duane's popularity, so it hurriedly announced the player ratings for the new version of 2K19.

Compared with his ability value of 92 last season, Duane actually increased by one point to 93, barely ranking tenth in the league.

After 2K came out to verify Durant's status and strength, some tabloids took advantage of the situation and openly accused the Bulls management of underestimating Durant's true strength, causing Durant's most valuable peak career to be delayed for another year.

As a result, not only does the Bulls not know when they will be able to win their fifth consecutive championship, but it also becomes unclear whether the Bulls can win another championship before Duane retires.

To be honest, there is still some market for such remarks.

If the Bulls management had not sent away the previous veterans, they would still have a chance to play in the new season, and at least have no problem reaching the Eastern Conference Finals.

However, the difficulty for the Bulls to win the championship is completely different from that for other teams.

Throughout the league, except for the Bulls players who still want to win the championship, no one else wants the Bulls to pick the sweetest golden apple of the year again.

This even includes some Bulls management and individual players who just want to sit back and relax.

How much is it per month?

Since the league does not support the Bulls to win the championship and does not support Curry to be the boss, then wouldn't it be better to start fishing leisure activities in advance and take it easy?

The team's reconstruction is neither good nor bad, and it is extremely painful for the fans. However, it is good news for the team management and some players.

After all, you can get a generous salary and live a comfortable life in the future!

To be honest, Duen thought so too.

Then play music, then dance!
After fighting for the Bulls for so many years, can't you just enjoy yourself?

Anyway, the team has clearly been rebuilt!

Then just like we did with Curry and Jokic, we should give opportunities to more rookies and accelerate their growth!

That is why Dunn was not disturbed by the outside voices.

After finishing the qualifying games in China, he was not in a hurry to return to Chicago until the team was arranging the final photos for the new season and the preseason games were about to start. Only then did he finally arrive at the United Center and show his face in front of his teammates and the media.

Duane understands his own value, as well as the team's goals and expectations for the coming season.

The reason for appearing in front of the media during the preseason game was not for any other reason but simply to retain the Bulls' sponsors.

As for whether Duane's statistics will be drastically reduced after the start of the new season, causing controversy, Duane actually doesn't care about this.

Anyway, the contract extension has been signed, and as long as the money is in the contract, it belongs to Duane, and not a penny will be less.

In short, before even a single game has been played this season, Duane already seems to be fat and carefree.

Coincidentally, in the team training camp for the new season, Duane discovered that Curry had also gained weight.

"Stephen, didn't you practice basketball this summer? You don't look like you gained weight on purpose."

"I practiced golf this summer, and my family and friends all said I was good at it!"

Curry hugged Duan and then began to share interesting stories about his family playing golf and vacationing at the beach in the summer.

Obviously, the team's previous contract extension with Durant and the departure of veterans still had some impact on Curry. Although Curry is already the new king of Chicago!

However, as long as Duane has not retired, Curry will inevitably be influenced by Duane, the emperor.

After all, Duane brought 10 championship trophies to the Bulls!
If Curry's influence in Chicago is not even as great as Jordan who left the city for 20 years!

So, after accepting the reality that Durant will continue to retire in the Bulls and that the Bulls are preparing to rebuild in the new season, Curry also chose to start!
But this may not be a bad thing for the Bulls at this stage.

Curry didn't practice in the summer, so he will use games as training in the new season and slowly recover his form. He won't be too anxious to brush up on stats or honors.

Anyway, in today's league, apart from Durant, no one has more personal honors than Curry.

Coupled with his personal playing style and appearance, he is very attractive to fans.

So even if Curry performs poorly again, he will still be a starter in the Eastern Conference All-Star Game!

This means that Curry doesn't have to rush in the first half of the regular season.

Curry himself is not a person who plays basketball in a very individual way.

On the contrary, whenever his teammates are in good form, Curry's shots and scoring data will shrink rapidly.

When Curry's shooting is not good, he will not take too many shots. At most, he will shoot a three-pointer from time to time to see if he can get his touch back.

Curry's personality is that he doesn't fight, doesn't compete, and doesn't dominate.

In the new season, the ball rights distribution within the Bulls is such that Curry doesn't want much of the ball and Durant has no intention of brushing up his stats, so only Jokic may be able to influence the growth of the rookies.

Speaking of this year's preseason training camp, Jokic, who was originally a fat man, looked a little thinner, as if he had trained hard in the summer.

However, Jokic is different from Curry. In the past few years, Curry would practice with the rookies of the Bulls.

This year, Curry went to play golf and go on vacation with his family, so the summer training camp in Chicago was not held.

Logically speaking, as the successor to the King of Chicago after Curry, Jokic should be in charge of the new generation of the Bulls, leading the rookies to practice basketball hard in the summer, and then develop tacit understanding and cultivate the team.

But Jokic didn't do that. Instead, he returned to Europe to practice alone.

In addition, he did not return to his country for vacation like Duane did in his early years, and then gathered the team's rookies in late August or early September to start a training camp and practice with them.

Jokic simply has no intention of attracting and training rookies within the team.

This also resulted in the three potential rookies selected by the Bulls this year not having anyone to practice in the summer to improve their strength and better adapt to the NBA game environment.

For this reason, after taking the final photos, it was Duen who took the initiative to call Daqiao, Datou and Lowe over, gave them a thorough lecture and made several promises.

Opportunities come to those who are prepared. Ohashi and Datou have been teammates for three years. They encouraged each other and practiced hard together this summer.

Even though the Bulls didn't have the veterans to coach them in practice, they performed pretty well after the preseason started.

But Lowe does not have this enthusiasm and urgency, and his offensive skills are a bit rough. After coming on the court, he can only pick up rebounds for other teammates. Even the assist defense, which he is good at, is not done very well.

But as a rookie, there is always an adaptation process.

The Bulls don't need to rush to rebuild this season.

Time flies and it is October 10th, and the regular season of the new season is finally about to begin!

Tonight, Durant will also wear the Chicago Bulls championship rings on all ten fingers of both hands!
As for the third championship ring from the Los Angeles Lakers, I will take it off for now... (End of this chapter)