The Asian Championships were over, and Wang Feng got on the plane to the United States without stopping.
Although there were many celebrations after winning the championship, such as the Basketball Association’s leadership banquet with members of the national team to celebrate the victory, and CCTV’s exclusive interview with the Asian Championship winner, Wang Feng did not have time to attend these.
The preseason of the NBA 2015-16 season has started on October 3, which is the same day as the Asian Championship finals!
Fortunately, the Warriors' first preseason game started on October 6, so Wang Feng was able to catch up and not miss it.
For the majority of Chinese fans, it is naturally a good thing for Wang Feng to return to China to participate in the Asian Championships.
But as far as the Golden State Warriors are concerned, they don’t care whether you are winning glory for the country or anything else. Unless you have become the team’s well-deserved core leader and superstar, you must abide by the team rules. Absence from the game is a matter of course.
This behavior is very destructive in the eyes of the coach.
Wang Feng was famous in the Asian Championships, looking like an Asian Jordan, but in the Warriors he was just a 3D role player. Even though he relied on defense and three-pointers to help the team win the championship last season,
By no means irreplaceable, the Warriors also have excellent players on the bench who are similar to Wang Feng such as Barnes and Ying Guodala.
If he wants to secure his position, Wang Feng must not miss any game, even the preseason!
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Rushing back to the team in a hurry, Wang Feng didn't even have a day's rest, so he immediately returned to the team to report, and flew with the team to Toronto. Their first preseason opponent was the Toronto Rams!
Wang Feng felt very tired while sitting on the plane.
Originally, he basically spent the offseason in training, and he had a high-intensity game not long ago, plus he was constantly on planes. It would be a lie to say he was not tired.
It's no wonder that many players choose to quit the national team after receiving certain honors in the national team. This was the case for James and Curry later on.
The intensity of NBA games is already high enough. There are 82 games in the regular season. If you play all the way to the finals in the playoffs, the burden on your body will undoubtedly be even heavier.
The reason why Dayao's career was so short may be that excessive pressure on his ankles caused by his excessive height and weight may be the main reason. However, the fact that he frequently led the national team in various battles and never got proper rest for his body is definitely one of the indirect factors.
"This won't work..." Wang Feng murmured to himself, while making a decision in his heart!
Closing his eyes slightly, Wang Feng entered the consciousness space of the system, brought up his attribute panel, and fixed his gaze on the physical fitness column.
When he first obtained the system, Wang Feng received a gift package for newbies, and his physical strength was strengthened to 81. Subsequently, the NBA regular season, playoff games, and hard training in the offseason caused Wang Feng's physical strength to increase significantly.
Small, now there are 85 points!
Originally, Wang Feng had never thought about strengthening his physical ability. This ability can be regarded as the easiest to train among all abilities. After the system digitizes the body, without any talent or threshold restrictions, as long as Wang Feng trains, no matter what the type of training is.
Anything can indirectly improve your physical fitness.
But sure enough, it is not professional physical training, and the growth rate of physical ability value is too slow.
"System, strengthen your physical strength to full strength!"
"Player Wang Feng, the current physical strength is 85 points. It takes 5 ability points to strengthen it to 90. Are you sure?"
"confirm!"
With Wang Feng's confirmation, one-third of the 15 free points allocated after the Asian Championships were immediately deducted.
At the same time, Wang Feng clearly felt that his fatigue was immediately relieved a lot, and his energy was even lifted a lot.
Don't underestimate the improvement of these 5 points of ability value. The higher the ability value of 2K, the more difficult it is to improve it. In the end, even an improvement of 1 point or 2 points can bring a qualitative leap in the player's ability!
"The 15 free allocation points I finally got were spent in the blink of an eye, and another 5 points were used up... But it doesn't matter, just work harder this season and earn more points to get them!"
Wang Feng has not yet decided where to add the remaining 10 points of freely allocated attributes. Moreover, it is only the preseason, so he is not in a hurry. He can wait and make a decision.
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Preseason is a performance game before the start of the NBA regular season. First, it warms up for the start of the regular season. Second, it also allows teams that have changed their lineups in the summer to get familiar with each other more quickly through games.
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Including the championship-winning Warriors, they also made a lot of moves this summer.
The Warriors first began to find ways to free up salary space.
The current biggest contract in the Warriors team is David Lee, with an annual salary of more than 15 million US dollars. Since last season, he has gradually fallen out of the main rotation because his heavy footwork is not suitable for the Warriors' small-ball tactics.
Warriors general manager Myers chose to trade David Lee to the Boston Celtics during the summer offseason in exchange for former All-Star small forward Gerald Wallace.
But Elvis Presley, who had seriously degraded, was not the target of the Warriors, so Myers subsequently traded Wallace to the 76ers, and at the same time used some cash and a future second-round pick to trade for Jason Thompson.
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With this operation, the Warriors used some cash and a second-round pick to turn David Lee into Jason Thompson. The latter's salary was only US$6.43 million, which was equivalent to a direct saving of nearly US$9 million.
salary space.
After freeing up salary space, the Warriors chose to complete a contract extension with Draymond Green, whose contract had expired.
As the main core player of the Warriors, Drummond's tactical status in the team is second only to the two splash brothers Curry and Thompson, and the offer contract he received is also quite impressive, 85 million in five years!
This price may not be a big deal next year, but in the summer of 2015, the new TV broadcast contract has not yet started. This salary is already quite considerable. Although it is not the maximum salary, Green, who signed this contract, expressed that he is very satisfied.
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It's a pity that he doesn't know what kind of salary increase the NBA will see next year. The five-year contract he signed is really not profitable at all.
By trading David Lee and renewing Green's contract, the Warriors' preparations for the new season have basically been completed. The Warriors won the championship last season too easily, which is enough to prove that the current Warriors' lineup is far stronger than other players in the league.
For the team, rashly breaking the existing structure will only bring more losses than gains. The safest way is to make scattered reinforcements based on the championship-winning lineup like this.
Myers made careful calculations, renewed Barbosa's contract, and signed Nuggets player Yon Clark. There were also some fringe players in the team who left the team when their contracts expired, but they were all harmless.
Before the start of the preseason, the Warriors' lineup has been determined, and the main lineup has not changed significantly. The most important thing is...Wang Feng will still be the team's starting small forward in the new season.