overlooking the pitch

Chapter 515 The Veteran's Departure and Retirement

After undergoing Anson's changes, the progress of the Clippers' entire championship parade instantly accelerated. In 2010, the Los Angeles Lakers' parade only lasted 5 hours, but now the Clippers took half of the time to leave. Less than a quarter of the way.

It was the mayor of Los Angeles who waved his hand at this time and continued to let the transportation department coordinate, directly doubling the parade time of the Clippers. After all, Steve Ballmer made him feel very satisfied at the beginning , and he restored it because he will bear all the losses caused to the Los Angeles City Government, and this, why not do it?

The Clippers parade continued orderly in the afternoon, and the carnival continued into the evening. Throughout the day, the Clippers and Clippers fans were in a state of extreme excitement, but at this time, Chris Kaman appeared The problem.

"I am very happy to be able to win the championship with you this year. My statistics are not very good, but I must say that this is the happiest season I have ever played in the NBA, so I think at this time, I must Let me tell you the truth first. Dallas contacted me yesterday! And offered me an offer I couldn't refuse!"

The meaning of Chris Kaman's words is very simple. The Dallas Mavericks contacted him, hoping to go to Portland to continue his career, and gave him a salary that he could not refuse.This year is Chris Paul's contract year, and before winning the championship this time, the Clippers' management has already confirmed that they will sign a 5-year maximum salary contract with Chris Paul with a total contract value of up to 1.07 million.

And next year, the Clippers' goal will be to renew Anson's contract, and this is bound to be a top salary, plus the tens of millions of annual salary of Jordan and Jason Richardson and last summer and Ray Allen With the contract offered, the Clippers don't have much salary space. Even if Steve Ballmer is rich, it is impossible to offer Chris Kaman a big contract.

Life is bigger than basketball, not to mention that when Chris Kaman rejected the Dallas Mavericks for the first time this year, he came to Los Angeles because of his dream. This time, he is very happy that his dream has come true, but he also has a life. He needs To raise a family, with a veteran's basic salary of 200 million and only one year, and a two-year contract of 1000 million US dollars, Chris Kaman, who may have reached the end of his career, should not hesitate at all.

An Sheng did not try to persuade Chris Kaman to stay here this time. He just accepted it with a smile, and then gave the big white bear in front of him a warm hug: "Thank you for serving the Clippers this year." Come back, we will always be teammates! I hope you can have a better development in Dallas!"

The same is true for Chris Paul. If he can, he may accept a few million dollars less in annual salary to keep Chris Kaman, but this is not his own business. He became a member of the players union this year. The purpose of the chairman is to seek benefits for the players, and he cuts his salary when he should be worthy of the maximum salary contract. This may become the talk of all NBA bosses. It will also cause a lot of discussion.

Chris Kaman's departure is already a sad thing, but everyone is almost ready, he still has a very good immediate combat power, after all, in the Clippers, a championship team, he can have Very stable playing time, how could there be no team invitation.

But soon, the same thing happened to another substitute insider of the Clippers. This time it was Reggie Evans. He suddenly announced his decision to retire at this time. unexpected.

This season, because of the replacement of Blake Griffin with Anthony Davis, coupled with the addition of substitute insider Chris Kaman, Reggie Evans' playing time has been decreasing, averaging only 2.8 minutes per game Brad Stevens averaged 0.3 points and 1.2 rebounds per game, and basically all of them were garbage time. Even sometimes in garbage time, Brad Stevens would train young players more.

His offensive ability has become the biggest problem restricting his existence on the court.You must know that the Heat didn’t even dare to put Joel Anthony on the court for a long time because of the bad offense, and Reggie Evans’ offense is definitely worse than Joel Anthony. You just let him dunk, he Both are likely buttery hands.

The decision of two consecutive people to leave seems to be a huge blow to the extremely happy Clippers, and all of them are insiders. If the two of them leave, only Anthony Davis and Jordan Jr. will be left in the Clippers. There are three Kenyon Martins. Anson and Ryan Gomez's guest appearances as inside power forwards are still guest appearances after all, and it is definitely not a long-term solution.

But in any case, these are things that the Clippers management should consider this summer. The overall structure of the Clippers will be maintained, and all that needs to be done are some minor repairs, and Steve Ballmer's generosity It will not make it difficult for the Clippers' management, and what the Clippers players have to do now is to celebrate the current championship together.

Soon, the news that Chris Kaman was about to sign with the Mavericks and that Reggie Evans was retiring spread directly on Reddit, and Anson, the leader of the Clippers, immediately expressed it on his personal social media. Sad for the loss of these two teammates!
"I like these two teammates very much. Chris has become my teammate when I first entered the league, and his offensive ability in the interior has always been my favorite and favorite. His offensive effect in the interior is very good. Yes, he always spaced me out and passed me the ball. It is no exaggeration to say that at least a quarter of my points were due to him attracting defenses inside. I hope he can Dallas was better, and Reggie, I think everyone knows the game-winning shot he passed to me against the Bulls, he left the NBA, but we won't forget him."

I didn’t write much, but this thing brought back the memories of the Clippers fans for these two veterans. Most of the Clippers fans sent their blessings to these two veterans on the Internet, thanking them for their first time in the Clippers. A championship trip has contributed to the Clippers, and these have become an indelible part of this Clippers.

(End of this chapter)