Beijing time on April 8, today the Lakers will go to the away game to challenge the Warriors, before the two sides began to play, the Lakers officially updated the team's injury report, the Lakers big three missed the Warriors, James, Thick Brow and Wei Shao all chose to truce!
The lakers' big three are collectively absent, this result is actually not unexpected, after all, the Lakers have no chance of playoffs + playoffs, and the results of the last few games are indeed insignificant for the Lakers.
Coupled with the fact that James and Thick Brow have been hit by injuries, Wei Shao has really tried his best in the recent stage, and in the absence of promotion pressure, the Lakers chose to let the Big Three rest, which is also a more reasonable option.
On the other hand, the future direction of Wei Shao and Thick Brow has also become the focus of heated discussion. First of all, let's look at the situation of Westbrook, this season's performance of Westbrook has suffered many doubts, which has also led to the decline in the prospects of Westbrook, and NBA celebrity Stein also gave a follow-up report.
Stein wrote an article detailing the prospects of Wei Shao, pointing out that the Lakers do not rule out laying off Wei Shao, Stein also emphasized one thing in particular, that is, if the Lakers want to lay off Wei Shao, then the Lakers will achieve this goal through extended terms.
What is an Extended Clause? In short, it is the terms of paying players' salaries in installments, and when the Lakers cut Rolle Deng, they also used extended terms. Taking Wei Shao's contract as an example, Wei Shao's annual salary next season is as high as $47.06 million, which is a considerable amount.
If the Lakers use the extended clause to lay off Wei Shao, then Wei Shao's player options next season can be converted into the Lakers' salary space ratio of about $15 million per year in the next 3 years, so that the Lakers' salary space will be more flexible and they can avoid paying high luxury taxes in the next few years.
Compared with the situation of Wei Shao, the thick eyebrows are very optimistic about their own prospects. Although the Lakers did not qualify for the playoffs stage, thick eyebrows are still full of confidence, in an interview with the media, when asked if they are worried about being traded by the Lakers, thick eyebrows gave a very confident answer.
Thick Eyebrow said: "I'm not worried about being traded, it's something that team management and my agent need to consider, after all, I can't control this kind of thing." If they really think about it (trading), then I'm definitely going to be involved in talking about it, but I don't know their plan, my job is to play on the pitch, that's all! ”
In the final stages of the interview, Thick Brow also responded to the topic of "glass attributes", Thick Brow said that he could show dominance in a healthy state, and bluntly said that he was glad that last summer he had made unimaginable efforts to avoid more serious injuries. Thick eyebrows also used a sentence to describe their helplessness, "Whether it is stepping on someone else's foot, or someone else stepping on my foot, these things I can't control." ”
Overall, the Lakers missed the playoffs this season, and one of the important reasons is injuries, which also made the Lakers' big three suffer from fans' doubts. Now that the Lakers have not made the playoffs a fact, whether Wei Shao and Thick Eyebrows can continue to stay in the team depends on the next statement of the Lakers management!