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After the end of the trading market, it is now left to buy out the market. So the Nets fired the first shot at the buyout market, and after the All-Star Game, they quickly took free agent Goran Dragic.
Dragic, 35, is an uncompromising veteran of the NBA, and last offseason, the Heat sent Dragic to the Raptors in order to get Lowry.
However, at that time, Dragic did not want to play for the Raptors, but instead had some gossip with the Lone Ranger. In the end, Dragic only played in 5 games for the Raptors, averaging 8 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 18 minutes per game.
Dragic then bid farewell to the Raptors' status as a player and waited for a deal. On the trade deadline, Dragic was sent to the Spurs by the Raptors, and the Spurs were clearly not the team Dragic wanted to play for, and soon Dragic was bought out by the team and became a free agent.
After Dragic was bought out, it attracted the attention of many teams, after all, compared to the performance in the Raptors, Dragic's performance in the former owner Heat was remarkable. When playing for the Heat last season, Dragic was the team's sixth man, averaging 13.4 points and 4.4 assists per game.
If we go further, Dragic in the 2019-2020 season can average 16.2 points and 5.1 assists per game, and help the Heat reach the Finals as an absolute core.
As a veteran who has played in the league for 17 years, Dragic has received too many teams' olive branches. According to Stein's previous report, in addition to the Nets, the Warriors, Clippers, Bucks, Lakers and Bulls are interested in signing the veteran point guard, and they all think Dragic is a good piece of the championship puzzle.
There was even news the other day that the Bucks were close to getting Dragic, when the news said that Milwaukee has always been aggressive, and they can not only give Dragic a chance to become a defending champion, but also give him a chance to play an important role.
Including teammate Doncic, who is also in the national team, who also hopes to join forces with Dragic in the NBA. Doncic said: "My father was Dragic's mentor, and Dragic was a good friend of mine. I had discussed with the team management whether it was possible for him to join the team. ”
Yesterday, the media also said dragic was "very open" about the offers he received and that he would spend at least a week evaluating the teams chasing him.
Unexpectedly, the news of joining the Nets came out today, which shows how the Nets played a key role in promoting this deal.
Especially in the case of the Nets now eighth in the East, Dragic still abandons a number of more stable teams such as bucks and Warriors, in addition to considering the strength of the team, there should be human feelings hidden in it.
I have to say that the Nets' ability to shake people is really good. Last year, he won Griffin and Ade, and this year he found Mills and Dragic, which is not unrelated to the team's network.
Nets general manager Max is from the Spurs, and Ade, Mills has a good relationship, Adu and Griffin's personal relationship is also good, coupled with dragic and Nash's relationship, the Nets' main lineup is almost accumulated by personal connections.
Recruiting Dragic, Nash is naturally the key, after all, when Dragic first debuted, he was known as "Little Nash". During the Suns, Dragic was Nash's substitute, and the two were teammates for three years, and Dragic played a total of 190 games as a substitute for Nash.
In an interview a long time ago, Dragic said that he called Nash a mentor and had a very good relationship in private. And the two also have the same agent.
So the US media The Athletic also turned out Nash's 2014 INS, when Nash sent out a photo with Dragic and wrote: "Dragic, Slovenian rock star!" ”
Of course, Dragic's joining the Nets also has its own considerations, and Compared with other teams with relatively stable lineups, Dragic has a greater chance of getting at the Nets.
According to the latest news, although Simmons is about to increase the amount of training, it may take a few weeks to come back, Irving continues to play only away games, and his organizational ability is not outstanding, and Curry Jr. and Mills have limited control ability.
That said, after Harden left, the Nets lacked characters who could deliver shells.
If it is in other more mature teams, it can give you ten or twenty minutes, but in the Nets, maybe it will start in 40 minutes.
Dragic also wants to seize the Nets' loopholes in the point guard to get greater opportunities. Although the Nets are now eighth in the East, they are still a big three team, and when Adu returns, he may be supported.
To make room for Dragic, the Nets will cut Jervan Carter. Carter has played 46 games for the Nets this season, averaging 3.6 points, 1.5 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game, shooting 33.3% from the field, making him the best in the Nets.
In fact, Carter has long been the main target of the Nets' layoffs, before trading Harden's team to cut Bembry, some fans asked, why cut Bembry, who played well, is it bad to cut Carter?
The reason is simple, because it is not cost-effective to lay off Jervan Carter. Carter and the Nets have another $7.5 million in contracts for two years, and the cuts of the Carter Nets will see $3.65 million in dead money this season and $3.925 million next season.
Dead money refers to the part that must be paid and cannot be traded after buying out or laying off players, so cutting Carter directly locks up the team's salary space of nearly 4 million next year, which is likely to become part of the high luxury tax for the Nets, which is itself paying luxury taxes.
So before, although the Nets did not want Carter, they could only endure the pain of defending Bembry. When Dragic came, Carter naturally became the first choice for layoffs.
After all, if you can win the championship, money and salary space are not a problem, and Boss Cai will not be sad about this money.
But by recruiting veterans like Dragic by selecting a proxy, the Nets have undoubtedly earned. After all, Dragic is also a big-game player, and his playoff performance is better than his regular season performance.
Throughout his career, Dragic averaged 13.9 points, 3.1 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game in the regular season, averaged 14.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game in the playoffs, and averaged more than 16 points per game in the heat for four seasons in the playoffs.
Last season, Dragic played four playoff games with the Heat, averaging 16.0 points, 1.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. Previously, in the 2019-20 season when the Heat reached the Finals, Dragic averaged 19.1 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game. If it weren't for the injury in the first game of the Finals, the Heat should have created more trouble for the Lakers at that time.
However, it should also be noted that the Nets won Dragic, it is likely to be prepared for Irving's inability to attend the home of the playoffs, although there are rumors that New York's epidemic prevention policy may be adjusted, but who can say this kind of thing accurately.
It's better to prepare Dragic in advance than Irving really doesn't play at home when the time comes.
Of course, There is another small problem with Dragic's joining, plus Dragic's words, the Nets have Irving, Curry Jr., Mills, Dragic four point guards below 1 meter 91, no matter how you arrange the combination, the disadvantage of the height of the guard line seems to be not easy to make up.
At that time, it is likely that fans will account for Nash's "Why not go to Mills?" Why not get on Little Curry? Why not dragic? "The case of this permutation combination.
Finally, let's talk about the Nets player relationship diagram. Simmons and Griffin belong to the ex-boyfriend series and now have a common enemy Booker. But between Irving and Seth Curry, it's really a relationship between the past and the current.
Coupled with the miscellaneous relationships, this set of nets composed of human emotions and sophistication, only Adu's emotional line is clear.
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