On January 20, Beijing time, according to ESPN reporter Brian Windhorst, alliance sources revealed that there is no substantive discussion about Wizards guard Bradley Beale entering the trading market. Wizards owner Ted Lyonsis, general manager Shepard and team star Bill trust each other and maintain communication. And team sources say Beal was one of the reasons the Wizards decided to trade Westbrook last summer, with Bill and his family forging a close relationship with his new teammate Pop.
In last year's offseason, the Wizards miraculously dumped Wesbrook in exchange for kuzma, Harrell, Pope and other quality players, as well as a 2021 first-round pick, which can be described as a lot of money. As a wronged Lakers, while sending a number of defensive toughsters, originally hoped that Westbrook could become another team engine besides LeBron James, to win more rest time for the latter, but now Westbrook has become a tumor-like existence, not only did not reduce the burden on old Zhan, but also forced him to create a number of scoring records, this way of play is certainly not what the Lakers want to see, because what is the meaning of more scoring records for 37-year-old James? This only proves that the current team has too few stable scoring points. The lake pipe trade has become a big joke.
Bill, who has worked with Westbrook all season, naturally knows very well at what level Westbrook's current strength is, although in the late Wizards, the data brushed up, and led the team to the playoffs, but was swept by the 76ers gentleman, he also further proved that the data and the role on the court are very likely to be inversely proportional. When a player only punches, has no basic skills to speak of, will only live in his own world, thinking that statistics are more important than victory, then the team's record will certainly not improve, which is the real reason why Beal is determined to make the team trade less. In addition, the Dinwiddie deal is also led by Bill, so the real role of Westbrook is not as good as a high-quality starter, which Bill can see more clearly than the Lakers, but unfortunately the Lakers management has paid so much, but can only silently endure the pain of becoming a wronged boss.
Wei Shao's garbage contract is probably going to rot in the hands of the Lakers
According to the US media "Open Air Stand", the Lakers may try to trade Westbrook before the trade deadline, but the situation now is that except in the last year of the contract, the Lakers have the opportunity to send him away, otherwise no team is willing to take on the remaining big contract of Westbrook. After all, this year's 44 million, next year's 47 million, and what fool is willing to take this disk? Did you hire him to disrupt the chemistry of the team?
As a former MVP, the holder of the three-double record, Wei Shao's basic skills can be said to be in the worst of the file, but the physical quality of the previous years covered up some problems, the regular season can also kill all four parties, the playoffs immediately appeared in the original form, the Thunder period led the team alone, fell in the first round of the playoffs for three consecutive years, the rocket period of poor play directly let the team semifinals be swept by gentlemen, the Wizards period is also the first round of the swim a wave, it can be said that on the higher level of the stage, as the big boss Wei Shao has never proved himself, Maybe now the other 29 teams will be glad that the Lakers have taken over such a super bad contract.