On January 27, Beijing time, the NBA came out a lot of news after a night, according to the famous Perkins, Harden's camp has told Philadelphia that he wants to play with Embiid, if Irving still insists on his decision, Durant has not returned, this season's Nets are difficult to win the championship, which will accelerate Harden's departure process. On the other hand, in the negotiations between the Rockets and the Lakers, the deal between Westbrook and Wall was also temporarily shelved due to the latter's refusal to send out the 27-year first-round draft pick. In addition, there are several messages that are also worth paying attention to, summarized as follows: official announcement! The Lakers reached a signing, Harden was injured again, James spoke out domineeringly, and the NBA issued a new fine.
The Lakers reached a contract
The Lakers announced a two-year contract with Stanley Johnson, which is reported to be the team's option for the 22-23 season. Johnson has played in 14 games for the Lakers this season, averaging 6.4 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 0.8 steals and 0.4 blocks in 21.2 minutes per game. Among the starters, Westbrook and Thick Brow are James's right and left arms, and among the bench players, Johnson and Munch can be said to be James's left and right hands, and the Lakers did not disclose the specific signing amount, but it is certain that Johnson signed a basic salary contract, because the Purple and Gold Army has little salary space.
Johnson's defense is excellent, he has helped the Lakers complete the reversal against the Jazz, and defense is the weakest part of the team at present, so signing Stanley Johnson is undoubtedly the right choice.
Harden was injured again
The Nets officially updated the injury report today, and Harden missed the Nuggets due to a tight left hamstring. In addition, rookie Sharp will miss this game due to illness (not new crown), and Clarkston (hamstring injury management), Durant (knee injury), Joe Harris (ankle injury), Irving (home playing restriction) and Millsap (with a no-show agreement with the Nets) will not play. Harden's injury has long been expected, Durant can not play due to injury, Irving is unable to play the home game, for Nash, harden can help the team win, the result is that the beard is injured again.
In the past 15 games, Harden has played more than 30 minutes, 6 of which are more than 40 minutes and 13 of which are more than 35 minutes. Harden's season was due to a hamstring strain that led to the Nets being eliminated by the Bucks, and Nash did not expect that he did not have a long memory. It can be said that with Nash in, the Nets are doomed to win the championship, the Big Three may be disbanded this season, and Harden may also leave the team, after all, with Nash's tumor and Irving's time bomb, it is difficult for the Nets to go further.
James spoke domineeringly
Today, the US media posted James's 2013 on-field highlights. James saw it and retweeted it and said domineeringly: "I'm still angry that I didn't get DPOY that year!" In the voting results of the best defensive player of 2013, James was second only to Mark Gasol in the vote. The controversy is that Jr. was only selected for the Best Defensive Second Team that season, while James was selected for the Best Defensive First Team. It's not the first time James has been angry about losing the title of Defensive Player of the Year, and long before that, James believed that he was more qualified than Xiao Jia to be named the defensive player of the year that year.
James' role in defense has indeed been important over the past 18 seasons, but this season, he has lost his mind many times in defense, sometimes having to fork his waist and not move, watching attacking players throw the ball in, and it turns out that James is really old and lack of physical strength greatly reduces his threat on the defensive end.
The NBA has issued a new fine
The NBA officially announced that Maverick star Porzingis was fined $15,000 for kicking the ball into the audience during yesterday's game. In the fourth quarter of yesterday's game against the Warriors, Porzingis shot 0-of-4 in a single quarter, and there was a low-level mistake of receiving the ball directly out of bounds, and then he kicked the ball into the audience and was directly expelled. On leaving, Porzingis apologized to the audience. Obviously, Bozin's action was frustrated by his own sluggish performance, and it was not aimed at anyone, as can be seen from his performance when he left the field.
In that game, Bozin only had 9 points and 7 rebounds, and had 3 turnovers, plus-minus -17, as the second largest giant of the Lone Rangers, Bozin's performance was obviously not enough, if Bozin did not show enough threat on the defensive end, the Lone Ranger would not go too far this season.