According to reporters Shams Charania, Joe Vardon and William Guillory, Pelicans center Steven Adams is currently on the shelves and could be traded in the offseason.
The reason is that the Pelicans want to keep Lonzo Ball in the offseason, and with limited funds, they need to deal with some big contracts to free up salary space.
In all 58 games this season, Adams averaged only 7.6 points and 8.9 rebounds per game, a very mediocre performance.
Adams was put on the shelves, which was to be expected.
As early as the middle of the season, Digo had said that he was a garbage contract.
In Adams's technical style, it may only be worth about 10 million, and more than 12 million will be bloody.
why? One is that he scores all on his teammates and lacks projection ability, which is not in line with the times.
The second is that he moves slowly, and although the rebounding card position is good, it cannot provide a protective frame for the team.
Referring to TT, the former Eight Sages, this year in the Celts can only take the full middle class of 9 million.
However, Aquaman's annual salary this season is as high as $27.53 million, and it is really puzzling that he received a two-year, $35 million contract from the Pelicans without playing a game last offseason.
After all, the rest of the team management is not a fool, and they all know the value and role of Adams.
With an annual salary of $27.53 million, he can only average 7.6 points per game, which is obviously unacceptable.
At the same time, unlike Gobert, he can single-handedly support the defense of the team's penalty area.
On the offensive end, when Adams is on the floor, it will completely block Zion's breakthrough space, including players such as Ingram.
This type of pure blue-collar center, which might have been popular twenty years ago, is really useless now.
We don't know where Adams's next house is.
The pelican's difficulty in sending him away was very difficult for Digo.
The Wizards may be a good place to go, one is that they lack an inside line, and the other is that their old partner Wei Shao is there, and maybe he can feed the Sea King back to the price.
Brothers, how much do you think Adams would get the most suitable annual salary?