basketball talent system

Chapter 495 Ambition for the New Season
Speights was selected by the 76ers with the 2008th overall pick in the first round in 16 and can serve as both power forward and center.In the first 8 years of his career, Speights played for the 76ers, Grizzlies, Cavaliers and Warriors successively. In 571 games, he averaged 15.2 minutes per game, contributing 7.8 points and 4.1 rebounds. In the summer of 2013, Speights signed with the Warriors for a total of $3 million over three years.Since then, Speights has been serving as a backup power forward for the Warriors, and won the 1100-2014 championship with the Warriors.

However, last season, Speights gradually fell into the cold, his playing time dropped from 15.9 minutes to 11.6 minutes, and his average data per game was only 7.1 points and 3.3 rebounds. % fell to 38.7%.In the playoffs, Speights' playing time fell to only 49.2 minutes, and most of the time was garbage time, and even ranked behind the newly joined Varejao.

With the Warriors taking Durant, the team even needs to send Bogut away to make room, and has given up Barnes, Barbosa and Ezelli successively.And the team signed Pachulia with a special case of only 290 million space, leaving only a basic salary for Speights, and the team signed the power forward West who came to hug his thigh, Speights I'm afraid I won't get many opportunities.

Although the Lakers also gave him a basic salary contract, judging from the staffing of the Lakers, he is likely to get a lot of playing opportunities in the Lakers' second team. Speights should get more opportunities to perform, and expect to get a new contract in the free agent market next year, but as the main rotation of the championship and runner-up, now he can only mix with the basic salary, and Speights is miserable enough. In addition to getting more opportunities, the Lakers can also have a certain strength to cause trouble for the Warriors. This is one of the reasons why Speights joined the Lakers.

Then the Lakers quickly signed another player with a basic salary, Gerald Green. The 30-year-old Green was selected by the Celtics with the 2005th overall pick in the first round in 18.In the 2007 slam dunk contest, the "nine-finger dunker" won the slam dunk king of the year with a windmill dunk "jumping over the gambling table".Then he was sent to the Timberwolves in Garnett's big deal, and then moved to the Rockets, Mavericks, CBA and Russian League, returned to the NBA and played for the Nets, Timberwolves and Suns. Last season, Green joined the Heat with a one-year minimum salary and played. 69 times, starting 14 games, scoring 22.6 points and 8.9 rebounds in 2.4 minutes, shooting 39.2%.

The main reason for signing him is actually very simple. Firstly, the Lakers need their substitutes to be able to maintain vitality on the field. The characteristics of Green and Nick Young, who are strong in offense and weak in defense, are basically the same. In fact, it is equivalent to buying an insurance for the team.

At this time, Wade finally made his own choice. He decided that while he still had energy, he should once again charge for the championship, so he was willing to offer him a maximum salary contract. The Lakers, who are also very strong, became his next stop.A two-year $4750 million contract, this should also be the last maximum salary contract in Wade's career.

At this point, the signings of the Lakers have basically ended. It seems that their inside line is still a bit thin, and among the three giants, both Wade and Gasol have reached the end of their careers. Not very strong, but looking at Ye Xuan almost single-handedly carrying the Chinese team to the runner-up podium in the Olympics, everyone dared not question the combat effectiveness of this team anymore.Coupled with the addition of Clarkson and Solomon Hill, defensive champions, and the existence of super-valuable basic-salary players like Speights, the Lakers also transformed this summer and instantly became a powerful Western Conference.

Of course, although the big signings of the Lakers are basically over, the team is still not enough, so the team still needs to continue to find some suitable role players, but the follow-up repairs are not so important. , at least it will not have much impact on the overall strength of the team.

In addition to the Lakers, there is another team that has also risen suddenly, and that is the Celtics. The Eastern Celtics, which echo the Lakers, also use their salary space to replace the Eagles. Horford was recruited, so that the combat effectiveness of the Celtics was improved again in an instant. In addition, they still hold the picks of the Nets for the next two years, so they still have a lot of room for maneuvering. It's big, maybe the league will return to the yellow-green war in a few years.

Then the Lakers sent good news again. They directly intercepted their city brother Clippers again, and signed Raymond Felton, who was already negotiating a contract with the Clippers, to solve the problem. After Ye Xuan took the break, no one came to control the ball.

The 32-year-old Felton was the fifth pick in the first round of the 2005 NBA Draft. At 5 feet 6 inch, he plays point guard on the court.So far in his career, Felton has worked hard in the NBA for 1 seasons, playing for the Bobcats, Knicks, Nuggets, Trail Blazers, and Mavericks.In a total of 11 games played.During the regular season, Felton averaged 776 minutes of playing time, 32.7 points, 12.4 rebounds, 3.2 assists, and 6.0 assists per game.When he landed in the NBA in the past, Felton, Marvin Williams, Sean May, and Rashad McCants became the "North Carolina Four Greatest", and Felton and Williams also became one of the four. At present, there are only people who work hard in the NBA.

The peak of Felton's career was spent with the Knicks in the 2010-11 season. At that time, under D'Antoni's running and bombing tactical system, Felton was at home, averaging 17.1 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 9.0 assists per game.But since then he has been sent to the Nuggets by the New Yorkers as one of the bargaining chips for the Knicks to chase Anthony.

Since then, Felton's performance has been tepid, but during the Mavericks last season, Felton's state ushered in a rebound.This season, his average playing time increased to 27.4 minutes, and he handed over 9.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 3.6 assists. Felton, who made $2015 million in 16-400, became a free agent this summer.Although he is no longer as brave as before, Felton's performance last season proved that he can still help the team on the point guard line. After coming to the Lakers, he will also become a powerful substitute for Ye Xuan.

At this point, the signing of the Lakers has basically come to an end. Although Ye Xuan was planning to get Yi Jianlian to the Lakers at the beginning, after all, the strength of Ah Lian is still very good, and his style of play is also very suitable for Wharton. Familiar with the center role in the five small lineups, but after the Lakers signed Wade with 2 million in two years, the space seems a bit insufficient. If only Yi Jianlian is given a basic salary, it is estimated that he will not give up his annual salary in the CBA He came to the NBA with a salary of tens of millions to continue chasing his dream. After all, he is no longer a young man in his early twenties.

The signings of the Lakers have come to an end, while the signings of other teams in the West that are aiming to win the championship are still in progress. First of all, the Rockets. Howard saves salary space. In order to match Harden and their new coach Mike D'Antoni's style of play, the Rockets poached two players with strong outside firepower from the Pelicans at a high price, that is, Ryan Anderson and Eric G Gordon.

The Rockets signed Gordon with a 4-year $5700 million contract. In fact, this signing is understandable. After all, the salary cap has soared this season. Unacceptable things, but Ryan Anderson's contract is a bit confusing. The Rockets reached an agreement with free agent Ryan Anderson at a price of 1500 million in four years.The power forward who was chased by Houston City for a long time in the past will finally become a member of Space City, but the 4-year contract of 8000 million means that Anderson will occupy the Rockets' salary space of 4 million US dollars in the next few seasons. An annual salary of 8000 million is almost a contract that only players at the All-Star level can sign, and Ryan Anderson is obviously not in this ranks.

In addition, in order to sign Ryan Anderson, they had to give up signing Terrence Jones, a power forward who performed well last season. The next home is the Pelicans, which means that the two teams are basically poaching each other.

But in this way, the salary space of the Pelicans is completely freed up. In addition to the contracts of Brother Nongmei and Anthony, their next series of signings are some role players, such as Ye Xuan in the Pacers. The drinking fountain watchman Chris Copeland during the team period and the drinking fountain watchman Robert Thackeray of Ye Xuan in the Lakers, of course there are some renewals, such as Tim Frazier and Alonzo Key With the extension, plus Terrence Jones, they still have room to sign a big star.

But at this time, the big-name players have basically found their homes. The Pelicans want to leave room to renew the contracts of Anderson and Gordon, so the shots are slow. Now the free agent market is active. There are not many big-name players left. At present, only Howard is still entangled in whether to return to his hometown of Atlanta to play, or to join a team with the strength to win the championship, in order to make the final sprint.

When the signing of big-name players has not yet been implemented, the Pelicans have found themselves another good role player. This is Dion Waiters who escaped from the Thunder. Shooting guard Dion Waiters has reached an agreement and is about to complete a one-year, 1 million contract.According to Wojnarowski's report, the contract between Waiters and the Pelicans is in the form of 290+1. Get out of the contract.

The 24-year-old Waiters was selected by the Cavaliers with the fourth overall pick in the first round in 2012. After playing for the Cavaliers for two and a half years, he was traded to the Thunder.Although he did not perform well in the regular season last year, Waiters could only contribute 27.6 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 2 minutes, but in the playoffs, his outstanding performance on the defensive end and timely firepower supply enabled the Thunder to reverse The Spurs, the key factor that almost won the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals.

Due to Durant's departure, the Thunder had no intention of keeping Waiters. They withdrew their offer contract for him and gave up the right to match, making him a completely free agent.Since then, Waiters has been very close to the Nets. There were rumors that he would get an 1800 million contract, but in the end the negotiations between the two parties broke down. Later, Waiters had a scandal with the 76ers, but considering his previous "tumor" attributes, the 76ers still gave up signing with him.

It's good luck to pick up Dion Waiters Pelicans at this kind of cabbage price. After all, Waiters' combat effectiveness is still very good. If it wasn't because he didn't get his favorite offer in the summer, Waiters decided to come to the Pelicans. This team, which now seems to have a lot of opportunities to make a move, played for a year. As long as they can play their worth, they will be able to get a big contract next season. This is similar to Jeremy Lin who joined the Hornets with almost a basic salary last season. It is wonderful, and Jeremy Lin also got a contract from the Nets because of his outstanding performance last season. This contract is a three-year two plus one contract with a total value of 3600 million US dollars. Compared with last year's The contract has doubled by 6 times.

But in the end Howard still did not choose to join the Pelicans. After all, even if he came to the Pelicans, his status in the team still could not be improved. After all, the team's first choice inside was Anthony Davis. So in the end Warcraft chose to return to his hometown-Atlanta and joined the Eagles.

On the Pelicans side, since they could not find big-name players to sign, they could only choose some of those outstanding role players to give contracts. In the end, they signed the Hornets. 2000 million came to renew the contract of Batum so he could only choose to leave Courtney Lee, and after Wade left the Heat, he also chose to leave at the speed of light Luol Deng, among which Courtney Lee's new contract was 4 years, with a total value of nearly 5000 million US dollars.On the other hand, Luol Deng chose to join. This contract is also quite valuable. The four-year contract of 4 million U.S. dollars and the annual salary is less than 3600 million U.S. dollars. For such an all-round small forward, It's already the price of cabbage.Deng actually chose the Pelicans because he wanted to hit the championship. Although he wanted to go to the Lakers, the Lakers didn't give him any offer, so he could only give up.

(End of this chapter)