Give up the 210 million super cap salary and assist the small card to win the championship! You have figured it out, and Harden also welcomes the best ending

Lao Liang commented

2024-04-26 22:22Posted in Shandong Sports Creators

The NBA playoffs have quietly kicked off, and compared with previous years, this season's NBA has indeed reached the stage of changing dynasties, and the Warriors, the champion in the summer of '22, can't even make the playoffs. And the Lakers, who took the last train of the playoffs, were easily taken by the Nuggets to the match point, and it was only a matter of time before they were out, James is really old, and the Lakers only rely on the Zhan Mei combination, and they are completely unable to compete with the Nuggets' perfect starter. In addition, the Suns, who built a team around Durant + Booker + Beal, have exposed huge shortcomings in offense and defense when they enter the playoffs. A generation of new people replaced the old, and as Edwards, Alexander, Doncic and others grew and rose, they gradually began to take over the mantle of legend. In the Clippers and Mavericks series, the Clippers also lost home-court advantage, and the situation is not very optimistic.

Looking back on the performance of the Clippers this season, Harden experienced a 6-game losing streak when he first arrived, and after Wei Shao took the initiative to ask Ying to be a substitute, the Clippers quickly got on the right track, with a win rate of more than 8% in December and January, and topped the West on February 7. But in the next two months, Harden was cut off the ball, and Tyronn Lue was in the public, which was to enrich the playoff playing system, after all, in the playoffs, Xiaoka and George were the team's ceilings; Of course, in the playoffs, the most stable performance is Harden, averaging 25 points and 8 assists per game, but he is not the basis for raising the Clippers' ceiling, he can only be a green leaf to hand over the ball. Leonard urgently needs to get on the right track, and George should take more responsibility! Give up $220 million super cap salary to help the junior win the championship! You've finally figured it out.

Let's start with a piece of news. Pixar, citing insiders, revealed that George does not plan to leave the Clippers this summer. Columnist Winderhorst and the American media "The Bleachers" both affirmed the authenticity of the news. You must know that at the end of the regular season, the 76ers frequently released news that because the team has more than $65 million in salary space this summer, Maxey is not too surprised and is sure to get the maximum salary contract, in addition to Maxey and Embiid, the team aims at Paul George. Because George will be 34 years old in May, according to the 38-year-old rule, he can get a maximum four-year super-cap salary offer of $221 million from the Clippers and a maximum four-year super-cap salary offer of $212 million from other teams. Obviously, the Clippers won't give that much.

But what does it mean that George chooses to stay with the Clippers on his own initiative? George and the Clippers have one year left on their $48.79 million player option contract, and they will definitely jump out of the option. Previously, when Leonard renewed his contract in January, it was $152 million for three years, $52.37 million for next season, and $50 million for the next two years. After Leonard completed the contract renewal, he directly expressed his hope that his brothers would stay. And Leonard's contract is to bind George and set a salary cap for him, while trying to give Harden enough contract space. Everyone understands that no matter how good George's advanced statistics are, he will not be able to surpass Leonard, who must be the boss of the team. And in the playoffs, George released this signal for two purposes: to show that his attitude is to stabilize the morale of the army, and to respond to Leonard's attitude that he wants Harden to stay!

George averaged 22.6 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game this season, hitting a career-high 41.3% three-point shooting, and an attendance rate of more than 90%. George has praised Harden's experience and control more than once this season, which has brought the team an uplift, but after the contract extension of the small card, George and Harden must be on opposite sides. Harden could not care before, but George must want to retire with a big contract. But then again, there are two questions: first, is there a team that is closer to a championship than the Clippers while staying healthy? Second, is there a more comfortable championship environment than in the Clippers? The 76ers, neither the Knicks, who were interested in the past, can do it.

Ideally, the salary ratio of Xiaoka + George + Harden + Wei Shao is 50 million + 40 million + 30 million + 10 million, so that the Clippers can still retain the core framework such as Mann, Powell, Zubac, etc., and even have room to strengthen the operation! According to the analysis of salary expert Bobby Marks, George decided to stay with the Clippers, then his salary will definitely not exceed Leonard, which is also the psychological expectation that George has to accept. But at the same time, it will not be much worse than Leonard, estimated at about $140 million in 3 years, if it is this salary level, Harden will play a tandem organizational role and get a contract of about $100 million for 3 years, the Clippers' salary pressure is not great, and it can make Xiaoka get his wish, and several good brothers will stay!

In fact, in my opinion, the Clippers have a good championship window this season, but the team really lacks a small lineup of No. 5 and a spatial No. 4 pitcher. With the arrival of Harden, the Clippers are finally no longer playing like headless flies, including staying healthy until the playoffs, and the Big Four model will have a strong championship strength in the coming years. Harden also ushered in the best ending, through the lower limit of leading the team in the regular season this season, and the degree of resoluteness in the playoffs, Harden can give up everything in order to win the championship, and I also hope that Xiaoka can take three good brothers to attack the championship, no one is missing, thanks to George!

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