How much do you know about trading rumors? Once into the Lakers are as deep as the sea...
As the deal deadline approaches, teams are waving their flags and peddling the tough players who once regarded them as "treasures", and of course, there are not a few teams that have been rebuilt.
This does not... The Pistons' Grant became a glutton.
According to the media, as many as 12 teams are trying to pursue Grant, including the Lakers, Jazz and Trail Blazers. As for the asking price of the Pistons, it is nothing more than 2 first rounds, or 1 first round + 1 potential nova.
The deal is basically a foregone conclusion.
Here Grant looked at himself so sought after, began to put up the score, issued a trading statement:
"If the new owner can't give me important roles (the first or second offensive option in the team), then don't talk about it!"
Grant also said he wanted a four-year, $112 million contract. It can be seen that this guy is not interested in joining the championship team, after all, youth is capital, and it is more real than anything to make money first.
The Lakers have been hungry for Grant for a long time, but the chips are really not enough to see, and they are rejected by the Pistons.
Of course, the Lakers are not the lord of conceding defeat, on the one hand, they began to make "fraudulent" calls, contacting the uniform groups of each team, which roughly means: Little Jordan or not, white to ... Don't hang up the phone, there are cup cats, if you want to take it all together, don't give you some money, consider it...
The Lakers, on the other hand, have put Tucker Jr. on the peddling list. In view of the old and disabled in the Lakers' lineup, the little Tucker has become the last hope of the Lakers to trade for change, but if you want to strengthen, the weight of a single small Tucker is far from enough, and it must be on the first round of 2027 to barely have a play.
In addition, after seeking a deal for the time being fruitless, the Lakers management thought of Vogel. After all, this "cauldron" must be backed by someone.
According to TA reporters Bill Oram and Sam Amick:
Behind the scenes of the Lakers, Vogel is encountering unprecedented doubts because of their 37-point defeat to the Nuggets in the previous few days! If the War Jazz Lakers are still this fiasco, it is likely to become the last battle of The Wales coaching the Lakers.
Fortunately, the Lakers were fighting for the whole team and gave Wo Shuai a breathing space, but this does not mean that Wo Shuai is safe.
It is mentioned in the text that the Lakers executives will evaluate Vogel's performance according to the performance of each game, and once the team cannot continue to make positive progress, Vogel may leave at any time...
In fact, speaking of this, it is not far from Vogel's layoff.
The name is beautiful: the game is seen in the real chapter, in fact, it is just the Lakers waiting for a suitable opportunity.
This opportunity may be a fiasco, it may be a less than expected record, it may be... Anyway, the boss looks at you unfavorably, and any excuse can be buckled on your head!
For example, Marc Stein, a reporter for The New York Times, put it:
'I've also heard about the serious danger of Vogel's position because he's not fit to lead an aging squad and because he's also responsible for the absence of the thick-browed guy and so on.
Well, what excuses are these.
Not suitable for an aging lineup, is the Lakers' lineup an aging problem?
Obviously not, the Bass family in the offseason insisted on getting the young master, and originally a good game of chess was completely broken... The young master came to the field to drag space, no space can only imitate the former rocket, swing five small, but the Lakers these five small to defend no defense, to three points without three points, this change who to come is also an unsolvable dead end.
Speaking of the injury of the eyebrows, this can also be blamed on the head of the manager, which is quite outrageous.
So, the manager who just helped the Lakers win the championship two years ago is now in a crisis of leaving the team with only one willingness.
That is: the Lakers' record in the past half of the schedule did not meet expectations, resulting in a huge gap.
At this time, someone must stand up to bear the anger of the media and fans, and Vogel is the best candidate. After all, you can't always let the boss admit it himself - let Wei Shao do something wrong...
Personal friendship suggests that the Lakers finally hang on, don't go up, as far as the current situation is concerned, they have lost their wives, and it is not worth it to fold the soldiers!