Today the Los Angeles Clippers shocked the entire league once again.
They traded with the Blazers, sending out Bledsoe, Winslow, Keane Johnson and a future second-round pick.
Got Powell and Covington.
With a blood cloth that no longer overlaps with Reggie Jackson's position, Winslow, who has declined in form after a major injury, and last year's rookie Johnson, the three bench rotations that are not very useful, plus a second-round pick.
In exchange for two fierce immediate combat forces.
Norman Powell, nicknamed "Bobby," is the league's best-known number two scorer today. In the 2019 Finals, when he was at the Raptors, he was still just a solid 3D, but in the past two years, his average score per game soared to 18+, and his three-point shooting rate reached 40%, which was a sharp knife on the outside line.
Robert Covington is probably the league's top five 3D forwards in recent years. Whether it's in the Timberwolves, Philadelphia or the Rockets, they are all dreamers. In the 2019-20 season, the Rockets even sent starting center Capela to get him.
Get these two big players, and think about the Clippers' core team, Batum Morris- Reggie Mann-Ibaka, if the two bosses Leonard and George return again.
How can the entire NBA not tremble?
In this league, you can always trust West.
As the current head of the Clippers (the general manager is Frank on the surface), he once again plotted a "pin for villa" deal for the Clippers, especially after he had just fallen out with the Lakers management.
On February 2, the league's "logo man" was interviewed by sam Amick, saying that his relationship with the Lakers could not be reconciled, and the trigger was that the Lakers used text messages to cancel his lifetime ticket, which the old Buzz promised West before he died.
"My wife got a cold text message from my cell phone, no one dared to call me, and they were too stingy, right?"
"Sometimes you feel like you're abandoned, like a pile of garbage. There were a few people over there, not Jenny, but there were a few people who did things that I didn't quite understand, and the things they did were very strange. ”
Asked if he could fix the relationship with the Lakers, West responded: "It's impossible, it's too late. I don't need to either, okay? I really don't need to. People have changed so much. ”
The legend who helped the Lakers win their first championship in Los Angeles, planned the Sharks, kobe bryant joined, and completely broke with the old club.
He's the NBA's first-generation two-game guard, with superb shooting skills and elegant style, and if he hadn't met Bill Russell, God knows he could have won several championships for the Lakers.
After retiring from the army, he became the general manager of the Lakers in 1983, selected the "greatest three" James Worthy, signed Klay Thompson, his father, Michelle Thompson to play as a substitute for the elderly Abdul-Jabbar, and won three championships.
In the nineties, he dug up sharks who were not happy in magic, and forced the crowd to choose Kobe Bryant, who was not yet an adult, and created the glory of the Lakers for twenty years.
Only in 2002 did he leave the Lakers because of conflicts with the children of Lakers boss Dr. Bass Sr. But old Buzz promised him that you would always be a part of the Lakers and that we would always reserve a VIP seat for you.
In 2002, he became general manager of the Grizzlies, helping the new team reach the playoffs for the first time, and Paul Gasol became the first All-Star in team history.
In 2011 he became a Warriors consultant, helping the team select Klay and Green, and in 2014 he firmly opposed the use of Clay to trade For Love, preserving the foundation of the later dynasty.
As a player, relying on skill and demeanor has become a symbol of the league.
As a manager, he played a key role in the Lakers' "Showtime", "Ok Combination" and "Splash Warriors" dynasties in the 1980s.
In the middle, the grizzly bear was also "technically alleviated", laying a foundation for this new army to be used to this day.
Today's deal is just West once again reminding the whole league and the Lakers management that is now in a hurry,
Your uncle is your uncle after all!
After joining the Clippers in 2017 and becoming the behind-the-scenes conductor, West's grandfather began to show his "fairy magic hand" again and again.
I. Chris Paul 'One for Seven'
On June 11, 2017, West faced a thorny issue as soon as he took office with the Clippers.
The team's core and leader, the league's first point guard, Chris Paul, doesn't want to play here anymore.
Since joining in 2011, Paul has brought this declining team that has become the laughing stock of the league into a 50-win Western Powerhouse every year, and has long suppressed the Lakers, a sworn enemy in the same city.
However, successive years of playoff defeats have made Paul lose patience, and the relationship with the other two big men on the team, Griffin and Jordan Jr., has been broken. The "master of control" urgently needs to change places to compete for the championship.
So at the end of that month, West hatched an "earthquake-scale" deal.
Paul joined the Rockets to team up with Harden, while the Clippers got a total of seven players from the Rockets, including Lovell, Harrell, Beverley, Decker and others + 2018 draft picks.
Everyone rejoiced, and Rocket got Paul. After that, they won 67 and lost 15, Harden MVP, and became the biggest title rival of the four-star Warriors.
The Clippers also received their first "start-up capital" while sending Paul away. Harrell Lovell went on to doubles as the best sixth man, and Beverley became a spiritual symbol for the Clippers.
Second, "borrowing corpses to return the soul" Gallinari
The year followed, they traded the Nuggets' "Italian gun" Gallinari for the Nuggets' "Italian gun" Gallinari, with jammed Crawford, who was 37 years old, plus the first-round pick they had just received from the Rockets.
The elder Crawford basically quit the NBA after a year, and there is no longer the bench leading style of that year. The Clippers "upgraded" Crawford to the peak of 29-year-old Gallinari with just one first-round pick.
After the 2017-18 injury season, the Italian cannon quickly became a transit point and outside cannon on the offensive end of the team. He averaged 19.8 points and 6.2 rebounds per game and 43.3 percent from three-point range.
In the 2018-19 season, he once again upgraded his value.
Third, "transfer flowers and elderly" Griffin
After cleaning up Paul, West didn't see Griffin as the core of the team. Having experienced magicians, sharks, Bryant and Curry, West knows that Griffin, who has limited talent and injury hazards, is not suitable to be the boss of a championship-level team.
So although he had just signed a four-year, 135 million contract with him in June 2017, he was dumped to the Detroit Pistons half a year later.
Got Avery Bradley, Tobias Harris, Damayan and a first-round pick (2018), a second-round pick (2019).
Although the abandoned Griffin has since broken with the Clippers, if you want to build a champion division, you sometimes have to break it off.
Fourth, "discerning pearls" Alexander
In the 2018 draft, the Clippers selected Miles Bridges with the 12th pick in the first round, followed by a second-round swap trade to alexander who won the hornets with the eleventh pick.
Bridges has averaged 19.8 points and 7.2 assists per game this season, becoming the fiercest wing scorer on the side of the three goals, and even won the first Eastern Conference best.
But Alexander matured earlier than he did. He scored 10.8 points, 2.8 rebounds and 3.3 assists as a starting point guard in his rookie season (18-19), and improved to 13.7 points and 3.2 assists against the five-star Warriors in the playoffs, becoming the Clippers' biggest potential stock at the time.
Today he is the boss of the Thunder, averaging 23.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game.
Of course, what he meant to the Clippers was more important than the core chip in that earth-shattering deal.
"Desperate" Paul George, Leonard
From 2017 to 2019, the Clippers under West cleaned up Paul, Jordan Jr., griffin, and brought in Lou, Harrell, Gallinari, Andrbias Harris.
Played the five-star Warriors in the first round of the 2019 playoffs. But West understood that the purpose of these operations was simply to clear up salary space, accumulate chips, and prepare for a bigger hand later.
So in the summer of 2019, they took the shot.
Harris was first moved to the 76ers, in exchange for Shamet, two first rounds and one second round.
Then, taking advantage of the fact that Paul George did not want to play for the Thunder, he directly studed Gallinari, Alexander + five first-round picks in exchange for the star striker.
That's not all, George is just the first step, the ultimate purpose is to use this as a chip to attract the biggest fish in the free agent market at that time - Kawaii Leonard, the new Finals mvp signed as a free agent.
So Gallinari + Alexander + five first-round picks, in exchange for Leonard + Paul George, two James and Durant, the league's best forward line.
What a big deal!
Sixth, "turning stones into gold" Trey Mann
While the Clippers grabbed George and Leonard with thunder tactics in 2019, there was one operation that most people ignored.
They picked 48th in the second round of the draft, taking over Florida big forward Trey Mann.
Mann in the rookie season, who basically had no chance in that Galaxy, only played 41 games, scored 2.4 points in 8.8 minutes, and was almost a "water dispenser administrator".
But under the daily confrontation with George, Leonard, Morris and other top strikers, the young man's progress can be described as a day by day.
He doubled his playing time last season (18.9 minutes) to 7.0 points, 2.8 rebounds and 3.6 assists, shooting 41.8 percent from three-point range.
It was even worse in the playoffs, especially after Leonard retired from injury, and he completed the substitution. He averaged 10.7 points per game in the Western Conference Semifinals, scored 13 and 39 points in the final two games, and made Gobert remember him forever with a dunk.
Today, the Clippers' only non-sale other than Kacho? Trey Mann.
Maurice Jr. and Reggie Jackson
Halfway through the 2019-20 regular season, the Bucks, Lakers, and Clippers, who are the most hopeful for the title, began an "arms race," especially the Los Angeles twins, who were indomitable in almost every hot player.
At the time of the Pistons' depressed Reggie Jackson, Paul George relied on personal connections to help the team win.
At that time, the hottest player in the league's transfer market was none other than Maurice Jr., a swingman who could play three positions in the front line, who averaged 19.6 points and 43.6% of long-range shooting per game in New York, and the Knicks who were aiming to rebuild had hung up the label for him.
In the end, the Clippers laughed to the end, and they got the forward fighter in a three-way deal with a first-round pick + a first-round swap + a second-round pick, and once again beat the Lakers in the transfer market after Reggie Jackson.
It made many people exclaim:
"The league has changed, LeBron + Lakers are no longer attractive."
VIII. "Darkness Chen Cang" Ibaka, Kennard
Before the 2020-21 season, the Clippers were embarrassed.
Their best sixth man Harrell was pried away by the lakers who won the championship, which is a double blow.
The 3-1 lead in the Western Conference semifinals was reversed by the Nuggets, and head coach Rivers hung up the crown. Except for Leonard and George, everyone else is in danger of falling down and scattering.
But in such a situation, the team's two operations stabilized the military's heart.
He signed Ibaka on a two-year contract, and he was Leonard's forward partner when he won the Raptors title.
Shamet was then traded for Luke Kennard, an underrated quality shooter. Like Grayson Allen, who nearly "died" the other two days, he was an old K coach at Duke.
Although last season due to repeated injuries, the Clippers were eventually eliminated by the Suns in the Western Conference Finals.
But this season, both Ibaka and Kennard have stepped up.
Ibaka missed the playoffs last season with an injury, but this season has propped up the Clippers' interior line with the team full of injuries. In yesterday's win over the Lakers, he scored 20 points and 8 rebounds.
Kennard is the team's current first battery on the perimeter, and he has thrown a total of 121 three-pointers this season, the first in the team, shooting 43.4, and the third in the league (more than 5 shots).
In today's Clippers, which have no kawaii and no George, he is the most worthy of firepower.
IX. "Employing people without doubt" Tyrone Lou
Of course, if the Clippers management's most successful handbook so far, in addition to Leonard and George, is probably Lue's guidance.
The 2019 Western Conference semifinals were reversed by the Nuggets, and the "three-to-one reversal" spell once again proved that Coach Rivers was really lackluster in other ways except for "Chicken Soup for the Soul Let's Go".
And at the end of the season, Clippers management unexpectedly straightened out assistant coach Tyrone Lou.
In the eyes of many people, Director Lu was worse than Rivers.
Although there are championships in hand, the miracles of 16 years are remembered only by LeBron and Irving, and it seems that they have little to do with him.
Worst of all, in The coaching career of Director Lu at the time, there was no win without LeBron.
The Clippers of the 2020-21 season are on the road.
But Director Lu's tuning of the team was unexpectedly good, they became the best team in the league for three points, Leonard and George played easily and efficiently, they were the few teams in the league that could line up three sets of "big, medium and small" lineups, and also dug up super newcomers like Mann.
In the playoffs, they eliminated the league's no. 1 Jazz with the owner's reimbursement of Leonard, and lost to the Suns with enough dignity.
Leonard has not yet returned this season, and George has retired injured, but the Clippers under the guidance of Lue have not become a mess like next door, but have played more and more fiercely and unitedly, always staying in the playoff sequence.
Anyone who watched yesterday's Los Angeles derby should have felt it, although the game was won at the last minute by Reggie Jackson's quasi-kill.
But compared to the Lakers, the Clippers, who have two less All-Star players, are the ones who play more reasonably, more balanced and more united on the court.
Whose credit goes for itself.