After being signed by NBA players, it does not mean that they can stay forever, many players sign a non-guarantee contract, and they need to win the opportunity to turn around through their own efforts. Now that the regularization deadline has passed, the fate of some players has changed, with a total of 25 non-guaranteed contracts, 19 players converted to full coverage, and 6 players were cut and continued to wait for opportunities.
Including the Warriors, Lakers, Nets and other popular teams, due to the limited salary space in the team, some non-guarantee contracts have been given to maintain the flexibility of the lineup and can be cut at any time to vacate places. None of these three teams cut non-guarantee players, they successfully won the trust of the team, the Warriors left Damien Lee and Payton Jr., the Lakers left Bradley and Reeves, and the Nets left Bembry, of which Peyton Jr. and Bradley became the starters.
At the beginning, both teams were holding the attitude of trying it out, interestingly, Bradley was officially topped by Payton Jr., when the two competed for the last place in the Warriors, the team chose Peyton Jr., and then the Lakers signed Bradley. Although the fate of the 2 has changed, they both won the opportunity to stay through their own efforts, and both entered the rotation and became starters. Among them, Payton Jr. will return to the bench next, Thompson has returned, but he has gained the trust of the team and will still get a lot of playing time. As for Bradley, he became the lakers' first starter, and Vogel also trusted him.
The six players cut were: DeMarcus Cousins, Jabari Parker, Denzel Valentine, Kohler Martin, Gary Clark and Miye Oni.
It can be seen that Cousins and Parker also had very good players at the beginning, but now they have to wait for opportunities in order to stay in the NBA, and their fate has changed. Cousins was very lucky, and after being cut by the Bucks, he quickly got another chance to join the Nuggets on a 10-day contract.
The Nuggets signed Cousins to a short 10-day contract, also to make up for the lack of the lineup. In fact, during his time with the Bucks, he performed very well, playing 17 games and averaging 9.1 points and 5.8 rebounds per game. In addition, Cousins has an old acquaintance in the Nuggets, that is, head coach Malone, the two have worked together with the Kings, and he previously said: "I coached Cousins at the Kings. He's actually out of the league now, which is really crazy. Cousins is a very, very talented player. ”
I really did not expect that in the end, Cousins and Malone joined forces again, this time he mainly served as Jokic's substitute, or quite in line with the needs of the team, it depends on whether he can stay this time.