The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Soon after the draft conference, the Wizards held a press conference for the rookies selected by the team.

In this draft, the Wizards selected a total of three players, namely Rudy Gobert from the Jazz first round of the 16th pick, and the Wizards themselves Alan Crab from the first round of the 30th pick. And point guard Lorenzo Brown, who was drafted in the second round.

Although the Wizards use their own second-round pick to select another player, Wang Xiao is not prepared to sign with the player named Brown.

The 13-year second-round draft pick is not valuable at all and has no trading value. Even if it is cheap labor, the value of signing some veterans with the veteran's base salary is more cost-effective than the second-round rookie.

Therefore, at this press conference, only Gobert and Crabbe attended. At the press conference, the team also made it clear in front of the media that they will sign the contract with these two players.

In this way, basically everyone understands that the Wizards really don't mean to renew Whiteside, and have even said that he has selected his spare tire.

Whether Gobert can be a substitute for Whiteside will take time to examine, and the majority of melon-eating people are only paying a little attention to this.

After the draft conference ends, the free market opens, and the real highlight is just coming!

In the summer of 13 years, the free market is a year of truly big names.

The Lakers center Dwight Howard's contract officially expired, and according to the current relationship between Howard and Kobe is almost the same as fire and water, I am afraid that Howard will not renew the contract with the Lakers.

At the same time, the Heat's Big Three contracts have all reached the first year of the player option. As long as they want, all three can jump out of the contract and become free agents. It is generally believed that James and Bosh are very likely to choose to jump out of the contract.

The Heat's Big Three have come together for the championship, but since their formation, the Big Three have lost to the Wizards in the playoffs for three consecutive years. In that case, what other reason do they have to continue playing together?

Next season, the average salary of the Big Three will reach 19 million US dollars. The three will almost completely occupy the Heat salary space. There is no possibility of continuing to strengthen the lineup. Naturally, it is impossible to be the opponent of the Wizards.

The possibility of Wade leaving the team is not big, but James and Bosh, two outsiders, choose to jump out of the contract and find another way out.

In addition, the Clippers' core point guard Chris Paul, 76ers center Andrew Bynum, Kings guard James Harden, Eagle King Josh Smith, Sir El Jefferson, etc. All-star players will also become free agents.

It is no exaggeration to describe this summer with a feast. The entire league team is eager to move and wants to get a slice of it.

In early July, after the opening of the free market, James first issued a statement announcing that he had jumped out of the contract to become a free agent, and then will negotiate with several teams, including the old club Cavaliers.

Immediately afterwards, Bosh also announced that he had jumped out of the contract and made it clear that he hoped to join a team with the strength to win the championship.

In this way, it can be basically determined that there are 10 all-star players in the free market, LeBron James, Chris Paul, Dwight Howard, Chris Bosh, Andrew Bynum, James. Harden, Josh Smith, El Jefferson, Manu Ginobili, and Andre Iguodala who just announced his contract.

Among the few people, the only restricted free agent is Harden. With the explosive performance of these two seasons, I believe that no matter how high the other teams offer, the King will not hesitate to choose to match.

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Soon, there was a big move in the free market.

The first is Spurs guard Manu Ginobili. On July 3, he officially signed a contract extension with the Spurs. The new contract will last for two years, with a total value of $14.5 million, an average of 7 million per year.

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Ginobili’s renewal is expected by everyone. Although the Spurs’ troikas are all old, they still have a strong dominance in the league. They have also reached the Western Conference every two years. If it weren't for Wang Xiao to stop Leonard, maybe the Spurs could have the chance to hit the championship like another time and space.

Following this, El Jefferson announced on July 5 that he will sign a three-year contract with Charlotte Bobcats worth $40.5 million. In the new season, he will leave the Jazz to fight for the Bobcats.

On July 9, Josh Smith and the Pistons formally signed a four-year contract worth $54 million.

On July 10, James Harden accepted the contract for the highest salary offered by the Kings.

Over time, big players in the free market have been continuously signed by other teams.

On July 12, at the same time losing the heat of James and Bosh, it was announced that they signed a two-year contract with Andrew Bynum for about 24.5 million U.S. dollars, followed by a four-year $58 million top salary. The Wizards center Whiteside signed.

Pat Riley's "fuck" made Wang Xiao stunned and signed two centers at the same time. This guy is going crazy.

But when you think about it carefully, Pat Riley's move also included a desperate idea.

After James and Bosh jumped out of the contract, there were only two paths before the Heat.

First, trade off Wade and completely ruin it. Second, using the salary space freed up by James and Bosh, signing big-name players to reinvigorate.

However, the risk of taking the first path is too great. When James and Bosh chose to jump out of the contract, only Wade said he would stay in the Heat and advance with the team.

Wade's move immediately raised his position in the minds of Miami football fans to a very high level.

In this case, if Riley chooses to trade Wade, he will endure the anger of the fans.

This is very different from another time and space situation.

In another time and space, Riley just gave Wade a humiliating "sex" offer, "forcing" Wade to leave, instead of actively trading away.

Although there are many big-name players this summer, as long as they consider winning stars, none of them will consider the Heat.

Not even James and Wade Garbosh can win the championship. Who else can make it?

Trading Wade was not established in advance, and the introduction of superstar players had no bargaining power. Pat Riley could only do so.

At the same time, two inside players were signed, including Bynum, who had a great hidden danger. The risk was certainly not small, but the two-year contract between the Heat and Bynum was very harsh.

The second year of Bynum’s contract is a team option. The Heat can unilaterally terminate the contract at any time. In the first year, only 6 million is a guaranteed contract. The rest of the salary must be met by Bynum’s specific conditions. activation.

In other words, if Bynum is really a time bomb that explodes at any time, the Heat's contract also minimizes its harm.

If Bynum couldn't help the wall, it would really lose the strength of the All-Star starting center, and the Heat only lost $6 million.

And if Bynum can regain his luck and return to the top, then he can earn a lot of money as a bargaining chip in exchange for other stars.