There are some trades in the NBA that are almost doomed, such as the Houston Rockets, who were in a mess last season, have already decided the fate of the team's top player John Wall after getting potential guard Porter Jr., and it may only be a matter of time for him to leave Houston!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">从NCAA的MVP到NBA的选秀状元</h1>
Born in 1990, John Wall came from a poor background, his father died prematurely, and had a bad record of burglary. But he quickly focused on the basketball court and eventually became a little star at the age of 13, scoring 63 points in a game at AAU and entering the University of Kentucky in 2009!
In his freshman year of college, Wall was selected to the First Team and the Best Newcomer of the United States with an average of 16.6 points, 6.6 assists and 4.5 rebounds per game and won a series of honors and trophies, freshman Wall led the University of Kentucky all the way to the NCAA Southeast Division Championship finals and defeated the rival University of Mississippi to win the championship, he was elected MVP with 17 points and 9 assists in the game.
Often a perfect start does not mean a happy ending, especially in Wall, who attracted the attention and high expectations of fans across the United States and the University of Kentucky lost to West Virginia University in the later 8-in-4 knockout round and missed the NCAA Finals, and finally regrettably ended their college careers in the 2010 NBA Draft.
At that year's draft, the Washington Wizards, who held the signing, did not hesitate to select Wall, and signed him to a 4-year, 24.05 million contract in the rookie season, everything seemed to be a perfect start for Wall, the NBA was another perfect start...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">从阿里纳斯到比尔，沃尔成为华盛顿的希望</h1>
In the first half of Wall's rookie season, the number one star of the Wizards at this time was the first generation of Agent 0, Arenas, of course, the history is always similar, Wall's arrival is also doomed to Arenas' departure, and sure enough, the Wizards soon sent away the general Arenas to vacate the position of the main point guard for Wall, which shows the determination of the Wizards management to cultivate Wall, perhaps from the beginning of the draft to see him as the revival hope of the capital team.
Wall also lived up to expectations, rookie season he with outstanding talent and strength to get some honors and highlights, the entire season Wall played in 69 games, averaging 16.4 points and 8.3 assists per game, from the personal data point of view he is a complete super rookie, but from the team's 23 wins and 59 losses record is not as good as the previous season Arenas led the team's 26 wins. However, Wall's emergence does give this "capital team" hope, even if it is at the bottom of the record! After all, players like Duncan who can change the team and the league in their rookie season are after all a minority, so patience is essential in the process of team rejuvenation.
The Wizards never had more than 30 wins in a single season for the next two seasons, and of course they missed the playoffs in a row, the most important thing during which Time Waugh suffered the first major injury of his career: a stressful kneecap that missed eight weeks of games, and that season only played 49 games, and the average score per game in terms of personal data still did not exceed 20, and assists were still hovering around 8. At this time, the Wizards management still had hope for Wall, and Wall himself began to go to the hospital frequently...
Because of the team's continued poor record, the Wizards got their current top star Brad Beale in 2012 with a poker, and officially opened the team's dual-core mode!
The 2013–14 season was Wall's only 82-game full-time season so far in his career, and the Wizards returned to the playoffs with a 44-38 record under his and partner Bill, and eliminated the Bulls in the first round of the playoffs to reach the semifinals, but eventually lost 2-4 to the Pacers and collapsed at the door of the Eastern Conference Finals. At this point, the patience of the Wizards management has finally paid off!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">4年1.7亿美金均为垃圾合同</h1>
The Wizards reached the Eastern Conference semifinals under the leadership of twin stars Wall and Bill, the Wizards seemed to see the hope of winning the championship, Wall averaged 23 points per game, and the average assist per game increased to 10.7 times to become one of the best point guards in the league, so in the offseason of the 17-18 season, the Wizards uniform group did not hesitate to give Wall a four-year, $170 million contract.
But sadly, Wall, who had just signed his contract, missed 41 games due to injury, and the team fell in the first round of the playoffs. In the following 18-19 season, Wall missed 58 games due to injury again until the season reimbursement of the 19-20 season, when the Wizards management had lost their patience, but the big contract they personally handed over became a burden that they could not shake off...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">包袱互换，一场没有赢家的交易</h1>
This is better than the deal that happened in the NBA 2020-21 season like yesterday, when the Washington Wizards exchanged John Wall, who had just come out of his hospital bed, for The Houston Rockets' second-in-command, Rassell Westbrook, and if it happened a few seasons ago, it would be enough to shock the league or change the landscape.
But last season's one-for-one deal didn't cause much heated discussion and discussion, because the two former All-Star players who were the main body of the deal had already had their minds, and it just happened that their annual salary of up to $40 million was very matched, at least there wouldn't be too much bargaining in the negotiations, so the deal happened, as the team on both sides of the deal, the duo is still a double core, the two giants are still the two giants, and it seems that there is not much change. At the end of the season, the two teams also did not change much, although the Wizards made the playoffs, they could only rank ninth without the playoff rules, and the Rockets were decisively destroyed after Harden left, and Wall led the team alone... And the result of the pendulum made them one of the most successful teams in the 2021 Draft!
However, this is not the end, the current one of the protagonists of the deal, Wei Shao, has joined the Lakers, and Wall has also opened a deal with the Rockets in a peaceful negotiation way to break up peacefully, all of which seems to be doomed!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">沃尔的下一站......</h1>
Wall is still a Houston Rockets player, he still has two years left in a total of $91.7 million in contracts, of which the last year of $47.4 million for the player option, in terms of the current state of Wall and his vulnerable nature, he will not jump out of this huge amount, which makes it very difficult for the Rockets to find his next stop!
Of course, now a healthy Wall, who averaged 20.6 points and 6.3 assists and 40.1% shooting per game, is Wall, who has just turned 31, so his Rockets receiver is not difficult to find in a sense, such as the Philadelphia 76ers who are racking their brains with Simmons, and whether the scorned general manager of Philadelphia will look at the face of his former owner as Wall's next stop. After all, Simmons' annual salary of more than $30 million has become a burden in some ways!
We'll see if we can see another "swap baggage" trade, and finally wish John Wall a real belonging later in his career from injury to achieve his still burning ambition!
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