Chapter 974 The strongest opponent
Chapter 974 The Strongest Opponent
Fans probably hate Hinki because of Hayward's departure.
However, this process will not last too long.
Because fans will immediately see the "legacy" left by Hayward.
Save his 30 million, what can the 76ers do? Of course it is a signing. 2017 is a big year for free markets. Although the 76ers do not expect to poach James's greedy move from Cleveland, some other players can expect.
The first thing the 76ers announced was that they would sign with the team with the Chinese player Zhou Qi, who was selected last year.
In this way, the 76ers have three Chinese players.
Then there are a series of explosive bombs!
First, Hinki came forward, and then Wei Xia came forward to lobby. With the efforts of several parties, Italian player Danilo Gallinari decided to sign a contract with the 76ers.
The two parties signed a three-year contract of 60 million.
Garlinari played for the Nuggets last season. The team originally wanted to send him to Atlanta by signing, but he was not happy, and there were 76ers who were enthusiastic about pursuing it.
Gallinari is the 41 system that Jay Wright has been pursuing.
In theory, the most perfect candidate for this position is Durant or James, but being content is important.
Gallinari's arrival will greatly strengthen the 76ers' wings.
He can play the third position and the fourth position under the small ball system, which is very suitable for 76ers.
Although he is a white player, he has a tough style and a competitive personality. Perhaps he is the style of daring to fight and fighting. He has suffered minor injuries for many years and has never had a full-time season.
Then there are good news from overseas.
Hinki broke through Russia's level and reached a two-year agreement of 10 million with Milos Teodosic, a core player of Moscow's CSKA.
Teodosic has always been known as a European magician and is also recognized as the strongest player outside the NBA.
Previously, Weisha was not familiar with Teodosic. When he heard that the team had signed this person, he went to the YouTube to see the other party's highlights.
It took only a few seconds for Teodosic to make Wei Xia fall in love with him.
His range has reached the level of the NBA and even further. His imagination and creativity of passing are, and no one in the NBA except Wei Xia and Curry may be able to compare with him.
As a big point guard, his skills are very delicate and his organizational skills are outstanding, but his speed is slow and his athletic ability is weak.
This is the usual shortcoming of the white defender.
Compared with his advantages, these are no longer problems.
As long as the 76ers can protect Teodosic from being targeted by the opponent on the defensive end, it is almost certain that this is a mature combat power.
With the addition of Gallinari, the 76ers not only made up for Hayward's loss from leaving the team, but also made the lineup more diverse.
But this is not the end.
The 76ers asked Kobe to recruit Rose again.
Ross had just finished the last year of maximum salary, and the son of Wind City had become an abandoned son. From the moment he sent him away from Chicago, he was equivalent to making a conclusion about him.
If Ross is still possible to return to the level of the MVP season, then the Bulls will never trade him.
His rookie season broke out and promoted the introduction of Ross' terms, and then signed a super maximum salary as he wished, and then he was defeated by injuries.
For fans, the superstar Rose is already a very distant past.
The 76ers signed him with only a minimum salary of $1 million.
After signing Rose, 76 people lost David West.
This guy has always been very opinionated. He gave up his eight-digit salary for the sake of the championship. Although the 76ers were as fierce as a tiger, he still chose to execute the player option and leave.
Where did he go? Los Angeles!
While the 76ers were recruiting soldiers with great fanfare, a quake-magnitude transaction also occurred in Los Angeles.
The Lakers use Andre Drummond as the main body of the trade, with some scraps, and exchange them with two future first-round picks and one first-round pick. From the Clippers in the same city, Chris Paul was traded.
Is Durant Paul enough to make West consider the Lakers more promising?
And, the earthquake caused by the Lakers is not just that.
Because Durant and the Lakers signed a contract of 11, if it were just Paul, he might not be able to keep him.
At first, Durant wanted to join forces with Wei Xia. The reason is very simple. He and Wei Xia are good friends. Since he challenged the Lakers for the first time in his rookie season, the entire Lakers team targeted him. Only after Wei Xia showed goodwill to him, they are friends.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as expected, and Wei Xia had no idea about joining forces with him.
In other words, in Wei Xia's perception, he and Durant can be friends, but not teammates. He wants to defeat Durant on the court rather than joining forces with him to defeat others. Wei Xia has his own position, and Durant has it. Since he can't ask for it, forget it, he is not without anyone else.
Soon, when the Lakers got Paul, Durant knew that you didn’t need to recruit real good brothers, they would come by themselves.
When Paul's signing was completed, the King from the East lost to the finals, LeBron James, who was just now. For his family, for his children to get better educational resources, for his future donation of school district housing plans, and for various reasons that were not related to basketball, he left Cleveland again.
Some people remember that when he returned home, he wrote in that famous letter that he wanted to end his career in his hometown.
When someone "submitted the book bag" very rudely and used these words to question the emperor.
The emperor smiled steadily and said, "Ideas are changing every moment, and I believe I have made the best choice for my family."
Joining forces with Durant and Paul is indeed an attractive option, but the Cavaliers just drew the East last season and reached the finals. Why did James decisively jump ship?
Not long after, the news of Kyrie Irving's application for a deal was revealed, and everything made sense.
The Eastern Conference champion collapsed last season, and the 76ers who completed the signing seemed to be able to focus on the finals.
One summer, they formed such a lineup: Wei Xia, Kobe, Ross, Garlinari, Cousins, Oubre, Robertson, Teodosic, Bamot, Siakam, Og Anunobi, Zhou Qi, and Wang Zhelin.
In addition to the lack of reliable substitutes in the center position, several other lines, back lines, and wings - especially wings, are not just luxurious, but luxurious.
On the other hand, the price the Lakers paid to assemble Durant, Paul and James was $84 million.
The current salary cap is $99 million, and the Lakers have several exceptions, but with other players on the roster, there is not much space they can use.
The Lakers' situation is a bit like the Big Three Heat that has just become an army.
The core talent is invincible, but players in other positions can only use rookies and hope that veterans who want to win will come to help.
So, David West, who was eager to win, joined them.
James's same class as Kyle Korver came to vote.
The most dramatic scene also happened here.
Iguodala, whose contract expires, cannot get the Warriors' compensatory contract, and their space is already full.
In a fit of anger, he actually accepted the Lakers' 1-year, 6 million contract.
The Lakers used part of their salary space and broke up another middle-class special case, which made up a contract of 6 million.
Even if the Lakers have worked very hard on this contract, it is a low-key contract that is completely incompatible with Iguodala's abilities.
Iguodala accepted this contract completely to snipe the Warriors on the Lakers' ship.
Although the Warriors apologized repeatedly, Iguodala still felt that she had been betrayed.
Next, veterans from all sides poured into Los Angeles like a tide.
Not everyone wants the Lakers. They choose carefully according to the characteristics of core players, just like the palace selecting concubines.
It took only one summer to change the pattern of the alliance.
The knight sinks;
The Warriors' salary space is expanding, and as Wall's cheap contract expires next summer, they have to face another choice, and a team that cannot be strengthened cannot continue its competitiveness;
The Lakers form a brand new Big Three;
The media were excited to find that the Lakers and the 76ers were most likely to meet in the finals.
At that time, there will be Weisha, Durant, James, Kobe, Paul, and Cousins in the finals...
Kobe beat the Lakers on behalf of other teams in the finals;
James and Kobe are 9 years late for a showdown, 23 24, even though Kobe no longer wears 24;
Weisha and James faced off in the finals for the first time;
The two rulers of the 10s may have to write a summary of their competition in the next few seasons, and Durant may become a force to dominate the situation. After all, Kobe is too old.
The 76ers' lineup is better, and the Lakers' talent is stronger.
In any case, in this era of traditional competitive sports gradually weakening.
In the era when large-scale stand-alone games, various live broadcasts, and apps diverted young people's attention, NBA finally has another attractive ticket to attract attention from the outside world.
For the Warriors, this is sad.
In less than two months, everyone didn't care about the existence of the defending champion. Everyone wanted to watch the 76ers and the Lakers play a seven-game series in the finals.
Green tweeted indignantly: "It seems like we can no longer compete for the championship!"
The fan replied sarcastically: "Yes, your time has passed, although it is only a short year, thank you very much!"
The moment James announced his joining the Lakers, Wei Xia's heart sucked.
He knew what this meant.
The strongest frontcourt duo in NBA history has appeared.
James and Durant are the ultimate combination of height, length and athletic talent. But their styles are so complementary and there is no conflict at all.
Chapter completed!