The 23-24 playoff competition is becoming more and more exciting, and the teams that fail to set foot in the playoffs will naturally not become spectators like our fans and friends, although there are no games to play, but there is still a busy job! For example, the Chicago Bulls have contract extension issues to deal with. And this will naturally remind us of the Los Angeles Lakers who are competing in the first round of the playoffs, after all, the player involved in the contract extension is DeRozan!
This season, DeRozan can still average 24.0 points, 4.8 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game, which is an All-Star statistic and the target of the Los Angeles Lakers eager to recruit in the offseason, but he may say goodbye to Los Angeles because of the contract extension offered by the Bulls? This means that DeRozan's annual salary will reach $40 million next season, which is a short-term contract but worth a lot!
For this reason, it will naturally make us think that the Lakers will miss DeRozan this summer or because of the $80 million contract extension offer, you must know that James is eager for the team to attract a third star, if there is such a deal or reinforcement during the regular season this season, I think the Purple and Gold should not be 2-0 when facing the Nuggets now, right?
"G3 is a game that the team must win, we have to go all out to play this game well, defend the glory of the Lakers' home court! In the next game, we need to think about how to win the game, except to win G3 at home, we have no choice!" This is the general content of James's speech before the start of G3, it can be seen that the 39-year-old James is still eager to win, although facing the defending champion Nuggets, but it can be seen from this remark that Lao Zhan and the Lakers have not given up the competition for this round of the series.