If Wei Shao is the Most "high-paid and low-energy" player of the Lakers this season, it is not an exaggeration, as the Heavy Reinforcement of the Purple and Gold Army in last year's offseason, Wei Shao did not play the strength it should have in the case of wearing the Lakers' jersey this season, averaging only 18.3 points, 7.8 rebounds and 7.6 assists per game, and the three shooting rates were as low as 43.5%, 29.8% and 66.5%, but even so, he still held the third highest $44.21 million in the league this season. Behind Harden (44.31 million) and Curry (45.78 million), it is more than 3 million more than James.
According to relevant statistics, the top five salaries of the Lakers this season are Westbrook (44.21 million), James (41.18 million), thick eyebrows (35.36 million), Tucker Jr. (9.5 million) and Luol Deng (5 million), you are not mistaken, "British Jordan", who has been retired for 3 years, can now still hold the top five salaries of the Lakers' team, which is really regrettable. The current 36-year-old Luo Er Deng was selected by the Bulls with the 7th pick in the first round of the 2004 draft, and for the first 10 years of his career, Deng was also the team's indispensable core striker, and at his peak (13-14 season), Deng could average career-best 19 points, 6.9 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game.
However, as Rose was plagued by injuries afterwards, the predatory Bulls that were once run by Thibodeau also collapsed, and Deng was also traded by the Bulls to the Cavaliers in the 13-14 season, and after a brief 40-game game in Cleveland, he was favored by the Heat later, switching to the South Coast for a price of 2 years and 20 million, replacing the vacancy that James left, in fact, in the last season of the Heat (15-16 season), Deng's state has already declined to a certain extent. The average score per game dropped to the lowest 12.3 points since the rookie season, and as a result, the Lakers management did not know what medicine was wrong, and actually offered him a four-year, 72 million contract, bringing such a balloon star who had begun to decline back to Los Angeles.
In the first season of wearing the Lakers jersey, Deng's state suffered a cliff-like decline, although basically as the team's starting small forward, but in the 26.5 minutes of playing time, Deng averaged only 7.6 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, a poor competitive state, so that the Lakers directly chose to abandon it afterwards. And in the following season, the Lakers would rather let Deng sit on the bench to "count money", rather than let him continue to play, 17-18 season, only for the Lakers to play 1 game of Luol Deng and the team parted ways, the Lakers and him reached a buyout agreement, until the 21-22 season, the Lakers have to give Deng Bai 5 million DOLLARs a year.
After leaving the Lakers, Deng once briefly went to the Timberwolves and his mentor Thibodeau to reunite, after the end of the 18-19 season, the 33-year-old Deng also chose to retire, but the lament is that even if he has officially retired, the Lakers still have to play 5 million for him every year, and this 5 million is to be counted into the team's salary space, and the Lakers' subsequent reinforcements are greatly limited because of Roll Deng's garbage contract.
Fortunately, after surviving this season, Luol Deng's contract will be clear with the Lakers, and it is difficult to get rid of this salary burden, and now Wei Shao's more than 40 million, but also make Pelinka very big. Given his high salary and low performance, unless he has the pick, no unjust team will be willing to take over Wei Shao, and before the upcoming trade deadline, Wei Shao wants to leave the Purple and Gold Army, which is basically unlikely, considering that he and the contract have another year (next year's contract is 47.06 million), the Lakers management should really think about countermeasures.