This year's NBA offseason can be described as non-stop and lively. Simmons left the team, Wiggins and Irving refused to be vaccinated against the new crown, and the three major leaders made a collective disturbance. With the regular season approaching and a compromise on money, Wiggins has been vaccinated and played in the preseason; Simmons has relented and is ready to return. Only Irving's matter is still pending, which also makes the Nets management have to make a quick decision.
Previously, it was revealed that the Nets were going to hold a four-person internal meeting including Durant, Harden, general manager Max and boss Tsai Chongxin. The meeting was about whether to allow Irving to play away games without vaccinations and absent from home games, in a "part-time" format.
Now that the meeting has made a decision, the Nets have officially issued a statement: Irving will not play or train with the team until he fully complies with the epidemic prevention regulations in the New York area. Max said: "Irving made his choice and we respect him, but this choice prevented him from being a full-time member of the team, we don't allow any player on the team to participate in part-time form, we need to build chemistry and establish long-term values, as well as our championship goals." ”
According to NBA reporter Ryan McDonough, the Nets chose to pay Irving for away games, which prevented Irving from filing a complaint with the players' union. (Under the current rules, as long as a player receives a salary for the corresponding game, there is no need for a reason for a team to choose to let a player out of the game.) ）
I can pay you for away games, but you don't have to think about training and games in the team! From the above statement, we can see Boss Cai's tough attitude. It is no wonder that Boss Cai did not hesitate to pay a high luxury tax for the championship, spending a lot of money to create a popular championship team, but he saw that he was going to be disturbed by a part-time worker under his hand, who could bear it. And this is also in line with the consistent domineering personality of Chinese entrepreneurs, from the initial huge amount of money to take over the Nets to Durant who gambled heavily on the rupture of the Achilles tendon to The Sohadon can see Cai Chongxin's courage and wisdom.
If you want to speak for others, you can retire to be a "great savior"; if you want absolute freedom, you want to pursue your so-called faith, and no one will restrain you after you retire. Judging from the various strange deeds and strange brain circuits in the past, Owen, as a professional athlete, behaved very unprofessional. It used to be just a small fight, but now it's a big game! Is what Irving is doing now worth the self-sacrifice of teammates like Harden, Griffin and Ader at all costs to realize their championship dreams? In the face of the Nets' final "ultimatum", Irving is now riding a tiger. Before the team has given a lot of steps, Irving can't get down, and then I think I'm afraid that I'm going to fall and my face is swollen.
There are only two paths ahead of Owen, either to compromise with capital and get vaccinated against COVID-19, or to retire. Why?
1. Compromise with money
Not getting vaccinated would mean Irving would lose $17 million in home salary and a planned four-year, $187 million early contract extension. Faced with the temptation of $200 million, Irving has the potential to eventually compromise.
2. Hard to the end
If Irving chooses to break with the Nets, he will not be able to play for at least 1 season, which is fatal to professional athletes; and what he does will completely touch the anti-scales of the capitalists. Such a player enters the free market, even if the basketball is played well, basically no one wants it, and then the only thing that awaits Irving is retirement.
Boss Cai is willing to spend money, and the new season is a great opportunity for the Big Three to make a comeback. However, once the two sides completely broke up, Irving could not play but still had to occupy more than 30 million salary space. The Big Three were cut down and could not be strengthened, and regardless of whether Durant and Harden could survive the entire regular season and playoffs, they took a group of low-paid players to compete for the championship, which was really a bit of a feeling of dying before they could succeed. Even if Irving can compromise and return to the team, his relationship with the team will not be restored to the beginning, the wonderful locker room atmosphere of last season will no longer exist, and the Nets' chances of winning the championship in the new season have dropped significantly. Durant and Harden originally wanted to justify themselves by winning the championship at the Nets, but they didn't want to meet Owen's "fairy", and the brothers were really dumbfounded.
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