4 years and 230 million US dollars, finally your turn to take the position! People are disliked when they are old, and the NBA era has really changed
Lao Liang commented
2024-05-17 23:08Posted in Shandong Sports Creators
This season, the NBA has reached the division semifinals stage, which is much quieter than in previous years. James, Durant, Curry, and even Harden, Antetokounmpo and Jr., who we are used to talking about in the playoffs, have all said goodbye to this season early. The Celtics made it to the Eastern Conference finals early, and there was no team in the East that could put pressure on them and go to the Finals with one foot. On the Western side, the Nuggets and the Timberwolves are inseparable, and the Mavericks have a good chance to pull down the Thunder, who ranked first in the West in the regular season. Young people have risen to power faster than expected, with Alexander and Edwards being prime examples. And several giant teams that have said goodbye to this season, the Clippers here, George is very likely to leave, to put it bluntly, it is for a big pension contract, the Clippers can't give it, but other teams can, and there are some gaps between him and Xiaoka, the problem stems from Xiaoka's annual playoff as a spectator.
The conflict between the new and old players of the Warriors, everyone knows what the ending is, but it takes a lot of courage for management to make up his mind, and it takes courage for Klay to face reality. The Suns finally made Vogel the man behind the blame, and Budenholzer took over, but Budenholzer can solve the problem of the Big Three's sticks and singles? The most difficult thing is the Lakers, Ham expected that after class, James will attract speculation and discussion from the media almost every year after he is out, can he stay with the Lakers? Will he still be able to compete for the title? In fact, if James exercises the player option (worth $51.42 million), he will be eligible for an early contract extension in August, up to $112.9 million for 2 years, for a total of $164 million for 3 years! But where does the future lie for the Lakers? 4 years and 230 million US dollars, finally your turn to take the position! People are disliked when they are old, and the NBA era has really changed.
Let's start with a few obscure news. Commenting on Edwards, Reggie Miller said: "Some of the veterans of our game are the presidents of the mountain in the hearts of many people, but they like to evade responsibility and blame others. Thibodeau also commented on Brunson: Brunson never makes excuses, never talks about injuries, you often hear about their injuries from some stars, but usually it's just making excuses! There is no roll call, but it is more terrible than a roll call. Including James's former Cavaliers teammate Frye even said bluntly: It is difficult for LeBron to win another championship in the West, the competition in the West is too cruel, if I were him, I would choose to return to Cleveland and see this young team. James led the team to be eliminated by Jokic's Nuggets for two consecutive years, and James has gone downhill with age, and there is little hope for a championship in the future.
And the interior is also disgusting Lao Zhan. A small example! McMenamin, the royal reporter of the Lao Zhan team, revealed after Ham got out of class that the Lakers will not only consider LeBron's opinion, but also Davis's when selecting a coach. But then Charania tore the fig leaf: the Lakers chose the coach more for Davis, not James! Potential candidates for Lakers coach, including Redick, Pelicans assistant coach Bolego, Nuggets assistant coach Adelman Jr., Celtics assistant coach Cassel and others, have two points to ponder. First, Lakers owner Jeanie Buss is not willing to spend more money on the coach position and invite a famous coach who has achieved fame; Second, even Redick, who has a good personal relationship with James, takes office as a rookie coach, does he need to satisfy James or thick eyebrows first? Directly say the answer: thick eyebrows!
Last summer, Thick Eyebrows and the Lakers signed a three-year, $186 million contract extension, plus $43.22 million from the original contract, for a total of $230 million over four years. James is not afraid of getting old, what the Lakers need is James's golden signboard, which is the commercial value of the market! But on the court, it's different: the Lakers won the championship in the bubble park in 20 years, in fact, there are three fundamental reasons: roster consolidation is one of them; James was still young at the time, and the long interval was very beneficial to James; The most important thing is that Thick Eyebrows is playing the No. 4 position, with McGee and Howard around him to go to the basket to fight and hand-to-hand combat, and Thick Eyebrows are liberated on the defensive end, so the efficiency is super high. But as James gets older, he can only be locked in the No. 4 position, forcing the thick eyebrows to the No. 5 position, and the thick eyebrows can't compete with Sabonis, Jokic, and other European interior lines with both confrontation and technical advantages.
If the thick eyebrows are really satisfied, then the Lakers' strategy is different, James is almost useless on the defensive end (most of the season), and the thick eyebrows must need a stable blue-collar helper on the inside, just like Cousins during the Pelicans period. Or upgrade the guard, quote Mitchell or even Trae Young, and form a new combination with thick eyebrows to weaken James's tactical position on the court. James' career has entered the countdown stage, and Thick Mei has said that he doesn't want to play the No. 5 position since he came to the Lakers, the original Vogel, and later Ham, actually understand, but there is no way, you can't let James follow the opponent's small forward at the No. 3 position, right? But there must always be a time to face reality, and the new coach is an opportunity! It can only be said that people are disliked when they are old, but this step must be taken.
The NBA era has really changed! It is foreseeable that the window for James to compete for the championship will become smaller and smaller in the future. James either stayed in Los Angeles for the sake of his family; If he does return to the East, it will definitely have a big impact on reputation, and it will not be so easy to compete for the championship, after all, James also occupies close to $50 million in salary space. And when it comes to the stage of fighting bayonets in the playoffs, it is really difficult to compete with the young people of the Mesozoic Generation. Of course, no matter how the Lakers operate this summer, the ceiling is fixed, and the owner Jeanie Buss doesn't have so much money and can't afford an arms race, in fact, it will be difficult for the Lakers to compete for the championship in the future.
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4 years and 230 million US dollars, finally your turn to take the position! People are disliked when they are old, and the NBA era has really changed -
4 years and 230 million US dollars, finally your turn to take the position! People are disliked when they are old, and the NBA era has really changed -
4 years and 230 million US dollars, finally your turn to take the position! People are disliked when they are old, and the NBA era has really changed -
4 years and 230 million US dollars, finally your turn to take the position! People are disliked when they are old, and the NBA era has really changed -
4 years and 230 million US dollars, finally your turn to take the position! People are disliked when they are old, and the NBA era has really changed -
4 years and 230 million US dollars, finally your turn to take the position! People are disliked when they are old, and the NBA era has really changed -
4 years and 230 million US dollars, finally your turn to take the position! People are disliked when they are old, and the NBA era has really changed