Westbrook was in a bad mood. After losing the finals, he wanted to get Xie Kai drunk. Unfortunately, this good brother was not in Los Angeles, but was preparing for the Olympics in China.

"Kane, when will we meet?" Westbrook sent a message to Xie Kai.

Xie Kai replied: "It's time for the Olympics!"

Westbrook is on the final list of the American Men's Basketball Team Dream Ten.

After the NBA Finals, the management of each team was preparing for next season. Those who had signing positions were going to inspect rookies and try out rookies; those who had salary space were going to be with those big-name free agents.

For Xie Kai's parent team, the Grizzlies, they have a 25th draw in the first round. This kind of signing in the second half of the first round is actually not very valuable. In the NBA, the value of a lottery is often even more than two 25-30 draws in the first round.

The Grizzlies are not confident that they can use this first round No. 25 pick to select players like Xie Kai, which is almost zero.

However, if you can use this sign to choose a qualified rotation player, you can add a weak bench and optimize the team's salary space.

As we all know, the dividends of rookie contracts are a very important part of a team with less abundant salary space. Since the Grizzlies renewed their contracts with White Bears and Xie Kai last summer, their salary pressure is still quite high in the new season and they may have to pay high luxury taxes at any time.

For Grizzlies General Manager Chris Wallace and his management team, their task this summer is still very difficult. They don’t need to pay attention to the big fish in the free market because they don’t have the space to sign them. One of their biggest headaches at the moment is to deal with Rudy Guy.

The conflict between Rudy Gay, the Black Bears and Xie Kai's three players was the main reason why the Grizzlies were swept by the Spurs in the just-concluded 2011-12 playoffs.

Rudy Gay on one side, Xie Kai and the Black Bears on the other side, which is not a difficult question for the Grizzlies.

The Black Bears and Xie Kai are the team's internal and external offensive cores. With these two, the Grizzlies played to the Western Conference Finals. Although Guy is also a powerful striker, he still cannot be compared with these two.

So if the Grizzlies want to compete for the championship next season, they will inevitably have to deal with Rudy Guy.

But the problem is that Rudy Guy is not easy to deal with! He signed a five-person maximum salary contract with the Grizzlies in 2010, which was only 3 years old, but it was still huge so that those teams who were interested in signing him but lacked salary space eventually chose to give up.

Guy's contract is not a garbage contract, but it's still a bit of a premium. He is only 26 years old, he may not even reach his peak, and he was still very healthy last season.

The healthy Guy has the top physical fitness on the league's wings and has very good singles ability. This is attractive to those teams that do have enough cap space, but such a team cannot use their future assets to trade with the Grizzlies.

Because Guy's contract is large (42 million left), if you need to balance, the Grizzlies will not look down on those garbage contracts, and the bad team will not be willing to give out future assets.

This is one of the reasons why Guy is difficult to be traded successfully.

There is another reason why the Grizzlies are infighting in the entire league and even the whole world know that others are not in a hurry, but you are the ones who are in a hurry. In the negotiations, the Grizzlies are the weaker side, and it becomes more difficult to obtain more positive assets.

But no matter what, the Grizzlies will work hard to trade Guy, in order to allow the team to return to the championship ranks, and to give Xie Kai, Black Bears and fans an explanation that the deal must be completed.

The Grizzlies put Guy on the shelves and accepted quotes from interested teams at any time. Guy himself knows this, and Xie Kai and the Black Bears also know.

Guy was very dissatisfied with the Grizzlies' plan to trade, and he wrote on his social media: "It is impossible for a foolish team to win the championship!"

Once this tweet was published, it immediately attracted high attention. Many people left messages below, and the retweets exceeded those of the top superstars.

Some people who are flirting also deliberately @ the Grizzlies, Chris Wallace and others.

Of course, the deeper the conflict between Guy and the Grizzlies, the worse his transaction value will be. He understands this truth himself, but he doesn't care. You guys can cut me off! He knows that his contract is very large, and the team cannot buy out or cut off himself. If they really do that, his own interests with a full protection contract will not be greatly affected.

As for being traded, where the trade goes, it is not something he can control, so he doesn't care that what he says will annoy the team.

Where is Guy going? This drama will be a major highlight of the 2012 offseason, and those interested will want to know how the drama will end in the end.

But everyone knows that it is probably not something that can be accomplished in a short while if you want to trade Guy. Some media even predict that once the Grizzlies cannot trade Guy, they will even choose Xuezang, a small forward with super scoring ability.

On June 29, the 2012 NBA Draft was held in Madison Square, New York. The Grizzlies, who had the 25th pick in the first round, chose Tony Roten, who graduated from the University of Washington.

Luo Teng is a scorer with a 198cm tall No. 2 position. It is obvious that the Grizzlies selected him to enhance the team's outside scoring ability. You should know that in the past season, their outside scoring ability has indeed not been very ideal.

After the draft, Grizzlies owner Robert Pera said in an interview that once the team needs to pay luxury tax for signings, he will not hesitate to support it. This means that he is willing to spend money to win the championship.

This statement has indeed made the Grizzlies' management players have more expectations for the team's new season. After all, if the team does not want to pay luxury tax, it will be difficult to renew contracts and sign ups.

If the Grizzlies don't trade Guy, they just want to renew Arthur and Spetts, they will need to pay luxury tax, which is extremely unfavorable for them. Guy did not play much role last season, and his salary of nearly 20 million seriously restricted the team's signings.

The Grizzlies are not a giant team, and their boss Robert Pera is not that generous, so when he said he was willing to spend money on the team's championship, it still made the team excited. After all, in today's NBA, it is really difficult for a team in a small-scale market to win the championship if they refuse to pay luxury tax.
Chapter completed!