On April 12, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs are about to start, but unlike previous years, the Los Angeles Lakers have ended their season ahead of schedule, and as the team does not qualify for the playoffs, both players and management need to start planning for next season in advance. After head coach Vogel was sacked, it was almost certain that the Lakers in the offseason would suffer a major reshuffle, and some of them had announced that they would be willing to stay with the Lakers next season, such as Warcraft Howard, which is what fans want to see.
But in contrast, there are also some players who stay in the team, but the Lakers fans are a little unhappy, such as Lakers guard Kendrick Nunn. Lakers guard Kendrick Nunn chose to execute the $5.2 million player option for next season, according to Silver Screen and Roll, to which he said in an interview: "Considering that I've been off for a whole season, executing the player option is unthinking for me. ”
As an important signing object of the Lakers this season, Nunn got their only mid-term contract from the Lakers, compared to the basic salary contracts of Howard, Anthony, Munch and others, Nunn's 2-year 10.25 million contract has been all the Lakers can give, and it can also be seen that the Lakers originally had high hopes for Nunn, but as a result, Nunn only played the preseason for the Lakers and suffered an injury, and the entire regular season did not play 1 game.
"After this season, I'm pretty sure you've noticed that I've been trying to get back to health and get back on the field, a couple of times – like in early January, when I tried to get back to training, and then I tried to get back and prepare for the game in early March, but I had another setback," Nunn said. So things like this make me understand that the body hasn't recovered yet, and I'm not ready to play. So I have to accept reality and make concessions to heal [the injury]. ”
Nunn believes he has been trying to come back, but the recurrence of injuries has prevented him from playing and contributing to the team. At the same time, Nunn also promised that he would try to help the Lakers win next season, saying: "It's extremely frustrating because I never know what will happen to the team if I finish this season in good health." But I have to get through that time, and I feel much better now. I will definitely train hard in the offseason to prepare for next season. ”
Unfortunately, Nunn's words have not been forgiven by fans, on the contrary, many fans have angrily accused him of having no work ethics, because there was news that Nunn actually deliberately concealed the injury before signing a contract with the Lakers. And throughout the season, Nunn has been showing love and drinking on his social media, and there is no sense of wanting to work hard to train and recover and seize the comeback. And now, he chooses to execute next season's contract, probably knowing that he can no longer get a contract above the base salary, wanting to continue to rely on the Lakers, and maybe even next season, he may not be able to play.
In this regard, many fans said that Nunn is simply worse than this season's Wei Shao and the former Luer Deng, although Ruhr Deng has not played for the Lakers for several years, but has been receiving a salary, but at least people have worked hard for the Lakers that year; although Wei Shao's performance this season is pitted, sorry for his contract, but at least he can also play.
Only Nunn is holding the high salary of the 5th in the team, but has been lying until now, try to think, if the Lakers had given Money to Nunn to sign a better forward or interior line, increase the team's height and defense, then this season their ending will not be different?