In my opinion, there is essentially no difference between Guo Allen leaving the Liaoning team and Thompson leaving the Warriors.
Guo Allen and Thompson both wanted to play in the team for more than ten years until they retired, one person and one city, but their personal demands conflicted with the team's future plans, so Thompson left Dallas, and Guo Allen was notified to go to Guangzhou.
At the end of his career, he left his hometown team, and no one wanted to leave it. But this is bound to happen, sooner or later, the only difference is whether it can be done in a decent way.
The departure of stars will cause concern and discussion, especially stars like Guo Allen and Thompson, who have dedicated more than ten years of youth to a team, and they are all hometown teams.
Fans are excited, happy, frustrated, and sad with the team and stars, and they regard the players as family in their hearts, and the team and the players as husband and wife who are close to each other, not the kind of dewy marriage that will leave after a year or two, and they all want them to grow old forever.
But it's a professional sport, not a playhouse.
Professional sports have an operation cycle, a good period and a bad period, taking advantage of the good year to harvest, and the fortune has passed to hibernate and sow seeds. The Warriors spent desperately during the championship window, and the owner knelt down for Thompson, who tightened immediately after the window, and Thompson walked away in tears, vowing to prove himself again.
Contrary to the Warriors, the Liaoning team can win a few more championships in the championship window. In theory, the Liaoning team is in need of experienced and powerful manpower, and Guo Allen should not be abandoned. But Allen, like Thompson, has been affected by major injuries, and Thompson's efficiency is not as good as before, and Allen has only played 30 games in the past two years, including three last season.
You can't blame the Warriors and the Liaoning team with "unloading the mill and killing the donkey", professional sports should certainly be humane, but they are essentially professional sports, and the rules themselves are impersonal.
The Warriors are worried that wages have broken through the second fence of the luxury tax, and their hands and feet are tied and they cannot operate, so they are unwilling to give in to price and years; Guo Allen's injury continued to decline in value, and he didn't play, and the Liaoning team also won the championship, and exchanged him for the younger defender Wang Lanqin. These are understandable, and this is professional sports.
However, Guo Allen and Thompson are slightly different, the differences in the negotiations between him and the Liaoning team are mainly not in the contract price, and the current CBA maximum salary has been cut in half, and after deducting taxes, there are only more than three million left. In other words, the current head players can't rely on their salaries, and although Guo Allen has been injured in the past two years, his commercial value is still top-notch.
You see, Tatum, Luka, and Zion are here, and only he and Yang Shuyu are in the same frame on the Great Wall.
Allen Guo is a ball idiot, everyone knows it, you don't have to worry about him training. He also thinks the same, I don't delay training, I just want to make some money in the summer. Don't say that Liaoning is the champion team, ordinary clubs also have to train and play summer leagues in the summer. In the Liaoning team, you have to ask for leave when you go out for business activities, even if you go to make a guest appearance as a commentator, you have to ask for leave. As for what other aspects of business activities are agreed upon, this is a trade secret, I don't know.
Every time Guo Allen renews his contract, he almost always signs it. At his level, the Liaoning team will not be ambiguous about wages, and should talk about rights and interests other than wages. In the past, Guo Allen was indispensable, and he could always reach an agreement in the end, so Guo Allen also thought it was a repeat of previous years. What he didn't expect was that the Liaoning team gave up.
Therefore, the biggest misunderstanding here is: Guo Allen thought that he would have one person and one city, and the Liaoning team would also let him have one person and one city, but his "thought" did not have any contract guarantee.
It's a bit like a quarrel between a young couple, one says it's a big deal and leaves, and the other says it's a big deal, but neither of them really wants to leave in their hearts, and they still want to grow old.
Once like this, I still chuckled in my heart, and twice I got used to it, because I knew that no one could do without anyone, and I still had to live my life.
But unlike a young couple, the CBA has a clause called "right of first refusal", which is held by the team. There is no time limit on the right of first refusal, as long as you played with one team last season, the right of first refusal to renew the next contract always belongs to the team. This clause is very unfair to the players, even if it is to protect the academy, at least the rights should be returned to the players after the age of 28.
Put this clause into the state of marriage, you will know how unfair it is, the woman wants to divorce, no, the man has the final say, isn't this the "divorce" system of feudal society?
Under such terms, Allen Guo always thought: Where else can I go? His original words during the live broadcast: "(July 23) Why didn't we sign a contract at this time, because every time we signed a contract, we signed it at the last time, because we didn't leave anyway, and there was no negotiation in the middle." What do you say and pull each other several times, I didn't even think about leaving, I didn't pull. ”
This is the reason why Allen Guo and the fans are very surprised.
The CBA's current trade system is a replica of the NBA, and theoretically only needs to notify the players, not negotiate. The relationship is good, discuss it, the relationship is average or the players are not very important, they are still training in the morning and the afternoon will be notified to pack up, and some are still playing in the first half, and they will not be allowed in the second half. What is more embarrassing and impersonal is to know the news of being traded from the mobile phone news or TV first, and then receive the call. The most embarrassing thing is that the general manager patted his chest and said, don't believe those rumors, I will definitely not change you, and in a few days the news said that it was traded.
That's professional sports, and that's how it goes.
Thompson and Guo Allen are both free agents, but Thompson has freedom in the NBA, and Guo Allen has no freedom in the CBA, so Thompson went to the Mavericks to sign by himself, Guo Allen was transferred to Guangzhou, the Mavericks are a strong team in the finals, and Guangzhou is being dismantled and rebuilt.
The root cause of their departure or departure is that injuries have affected their form not as well as before, and fans are entangled in human issues.
This past summer, I think the Clippers have done the most decent and clean work. They and George also broke down, but before the rumors flew all over the sky, they issued an official announcement as soon as possible, so that they could be reconciled and dispersed, and sent thanks and blessings.
This is the real human touch of professional sports.