NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 317 Continue signings, targets: Kuzma, Rose
No matter what the outside world thinks about Wang Chao joining the Nuggets, the conclusion has been reached at this time, and the Nuggets have also become one of the powerful teams in the Western Conference because of Wang Chao. Although the prospect of winning the championship is not optimistic, their strength is definitely It was recognized, after all, it was Wang Chao, the eight-time champion!
The Nuggets signed Wang Chao, and the signings are still going on.

After all, Gallinari gave up contract renewal this summer, sent away Faried, Wilson Chandler, and cut Darrell Arthur one after another. The Nuggets' lineup is not neat, although Wang Chao, Gobert, Mitchell, Murray and Tucker can already make up a starting five lineup, but the bench lineup pales in comparison.

In the past, Wang Chao’s team basically not only had a strong starting lineup, but also had a solid bench lineup. During the Rockets period, there were Thomas Jr., Chandler Parsons, Middleton and others on the bench. During the Nets period, there was also Powell. , Harrell, Brogdon.

But in the current Nuggets, there is no one on the bench who can play.

For Wang Chao, who aspires to lead the Nuggets to the championship, this is obviously unacceptable.

So the signings deal continues.

On July 7, the Nuggets and the Utah Jazz reached a trade agreement, using the 10 first-round pick plus a special transaction valued at 2020 million to trade for forward Kyle Kurz, who was selected by the Jazz with the 500th pick in the first round of this year horse.

(It was supposed to be traded directly at the draft conference, but I forgot about it before, so I can only make it up now, please forgive me for the unreasonable part.)
The management of the Jazz is actually quite hesitant about this deal. Who knows whether this is the meaning of the management of the Nuggets or Wang Chao.

If it is the management of the Nuggets, it’s okay. This year is a draft year recognized by the league. There are not many players worth cultivating and exploring, let alone the 30th pick in the first round, which is not much different from the second round in essence. .

The Jazz will choose Kuzma, also considering that the head star Gordon Hayward has shown that he is unwilling to stay in Utah and wants to join a strong team in the league.

As a result, Hayward really chose to join the Boston Celtics on July 7 with 5 million in four years. The Jazz lost their only star because of this, and the road to reconstruction is far away.

From the perspective of the Jazz's management, it is not a bad deal to exchange a worthless first-round No. 30 rookie Kuzma for a first-round pick three years later from the Nuggets.

Indeed, with Wang Chao, the Nuggets regular season record will not be too bad, and the draft picks in the past two years will not be particularly high, but this does not mean that the Nuggets will still be like this in 3 three years later. powerful.

From the very beginning, Wang Chao's goal was very clear, that is to win the championship. Once he found that he could not win the championship with the Nuggets, there were only two options before Wang Chao. The first was to ask the team to recruit reinforcements, and the second The second is to leave the Nuggets and seek another way.

Considering Wang Chao's annual salary of more than 3500 million, Gobert's 1600 million and PJ Tucker's nearly [-] million in the team, the salary space of the Nuggets is simply not enough to sign for some powerful star players. Chao Chao is more likely to leave the Nuggets.

Once Wang Chao leaves the Nuggets within these three years, the team's record will definitely plummet, and it is very possible to go straight to the lottery and even compete for the No. [-] pick.

This is what the Jazz are betting on, and even if it takes 2020 steps back, Wang Chao is still in the Nuggets in 30, and he has led the team to win the championship all the way. The worst result is the first round that the Jazz got. The pick became the 500th pick in the first round, which is no different from the pick they used to select Kuzma. Under this premise, they also made a special case of [-] million trades for nothing, and they made a lot of money.

But... If this deal was made under Wang Chao's behest, then the Jazz must carefully consider it.

It's no secret that Wang Chao's eyes are as bright as a torch in the league, but there are basically no players he can't play that he values.

From Leonard, Butler, Thomas Jr., to the current Jokic, Booker, Wang Chao has almost never missed.

The Rockets already regretted letting Gobert go so easily. If they first got the news that Wang Chao was going to join the Nuggets, they would never ignore Gobert, and the Nuggets just poached Gobert with 4 million in 6400 years. Bell, even if Whiteside doesn't need Gobert, he has to make a symbolic offer to increase Gobert's worth and bleed the Nuggets.

But the Nuggets and Wang Chao are very thieves. They wait until everything is settled before officially announcing the news of their joining. It is too late to regret it at this time.

The Jazz don't know exactly who wants Kuzma, and they can only trust the judgment of their coaching staff and scouts.

As a striker, Kuzma's height of 2 meters is not bad, but his weight of only 08 kg is too weak to resist, and his athletic ability is also average, and his offensive skills are relatively single. Ability, defense is not good, in a word, mediocre.

If not, his draft pick would not have dropped to the bottom of the first round.

In the original history, Kuzma was also missed. He should have been selected by the Nets with the 27th overall pick in the first round and then sent to the Lakers as a bargaining chip. As a result, he did not expect to play well in the first season of the Lakers. The average of 16.1 points and 6.3 rebounds is not inferior to Ingram, who is expected by the Lakers.

In the 18-19 season, Kuzma's personal data went further, averaging 18.7 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. He is the most powerful assistant around James. In the 19-20 season when the Lakers won the championship, Kuzma was also the third scoring point in the team. The scoring average is second only to the two core players James and Davis.

Kuzma is indeed a player who can surprise people. With average talent, he can learn and improve quickly in the NBA, and he can have a good mentality and clear his position.

Wang Chao found a way to exchange for Kuzma, let him share playing time with Tucker at the forward position, two people, one main defense, one main attack, no matter who is on the bench, they can become the team's main force during the bench time.

Of course, this is not enough. In addition to Kuzma, the Nuggets also need at least one general who can attack the team for the team during the bench time.

Wang Chao already had the best candidate in mind.

In the 17-18 season, there are still some good players in the league's free market, especially in the low-end free market.

For example, the former All-Star player Derrick Rose whose contract with the Knicks expired, and another example: he played for the Bulls for one season, but the team’s performance and his own performance were not satisfactory, and he is currently negotiating with the Bulls to buy out The Flash Dwyane Wade is a good candidate.

In the original time and space, both Wade and Rose chose to join the Cavaliers with a basic salary. As a result, both of them had unsatisfactory lives in the Cavaliers.

罗斯17-18赛季仅代表骑士队出战16场比赛，场均9.8分1.6助攻，2月份被当作交易筹码送到爵士，又被裁掉辗转加盟森林狼。

Wade's situation is slightly better than Rose, but after foreseeing that the Cavaliers have no hope of winning the championship, he chose to break up peacefully with the Cavaliers and his good brother James, let the team send him back to the Heat through a trade, and after the Heat finished 18- In the 19 season, he retired with dignity.

From the perspective of Wang Chao, a traveler, whether it is Wade or Rose, there is obviously fuel in the fuel tank. It is only the playing time, tactical status and ball distribution that lead to their poor performance.

Especially Rose, in the 18-19 season when the Timberwolves played 27 minutes per game, he could contribute 18 points and 4 assists, and he played extremely efficiently. After joining the Detroit Pistons in the 19-20 season, his playing time was reduced to 26 minutes. Can get 18 points and 5.6 assists, and the shooting percentage is as high as 49%.

This is enough to prove that even if he loses the explosive power to survive due to injuries, as long as he stays healthy, Rose can still be the starting point guard of a team, and it is more than enough to serve as a substitute sixth man.

The next main signing target of the Nuggets is these two players, especially Rose, who has become a free agent.

Rose was quite surprised when he learned from his agent that the Nuggets, to be exact, Wang Chao was interested in him.

My family knew about my own affairs. After the big contract with the Knicks ended, Rose knew that it might be difficult for him to get another big contract in his career. Therefore, his goal this summer is to join a team with the ability to win the championship. Try to get a championship ring before the end of your career.

In this regard, if Wang Chao recruited him in the Nets, he would be very happy to go, even if it was just a basic salary.

But now it is the Nuggets... There is no room for Rose not to hesitate.

As most people in the outside world know, no matter how strong Wang Chao is, he has no chance of winning the championship if he leads such a bad Nuggets team.

While the Nuggets management contacted Rose, the Cleveland Cavaliers in the East were also actively persuading Rose to join.

In Rose's view, the Cavaliers are significantly more attractive than the Nuggets. The strong combination of the three champions is the strongest team configuration in the league without Wang Chao.

But just when he was about to join the Cavaliers after careful consideration, Wang Chao called him specifically.

"Derek, I don't know if you have made a decision about where to go, but before you make a choice, I want to have a good talk with you."

On the phone, Wang Chao didn't have too many polite words, and expressed his meaning directly.

"I can't give you much. The Nuggets can only provide you with a basic salary, but I can still give you some promises. If you join the Nuggets, I have absolute confidence to win the championship in two years." Champion, in fact, the probability of winning this year is more than [-]% in my opinion."

"In addition to the promise of the championship, I can also promise you that your average playing time is at least 25 minutes per game. Although you will not be the team's starter, you are the core of the team's tactics when you are on the bench. The team will Try to help you compete for the best sixth man award as much as possible, and help you regain your worth."

Hearing Wang Chao's promise, Rose was moved.

For him at present, the value of Wang Chao's promise is too high.

The average playing time is more than 25 minutes per game, and he is the core of the team's tactics during the bench time. Help him to compete for the best sixth man as much as possible. These promises are even more attractive to him than the championship.

At this moment, his favorite next family has already been decided.

After the phone call with Chao Wang ended, Rose asked his agent to get in touch with the management of the Cavaliers and inquired about his tactical status and role in the team after joining the Cavaliers.

A day later, the Nuggets announced that they had reached an agreement with Rose to sign the former Windy City Rose with a veteran's basic salary of $1 million for one year.

Although due to Wang Chao, Rose failed to become the youngest MVP in NBA history, but the lack of this honor did not affect Rose's own strength and playing style. Fans of breakout playing styles.

Rose's injury and fall have always been a matter of regret in people's hearts.

In the 10th year of his career, Rose, who is just 30 years old, can only get a basic salary contract, which makes people sigh, but also sincerely hopes that Rose can get a total contract when he is partnered with Wang Chao in the Nuggets. Championship rings come true.

The signing of the Nuggets and Rose has not received much attention from the league.

Rose is no longer the Rose of the year. The veteran's basic salary can prove that the Nuggets signing such a player with serious injury risks is not enough to improve the team's poor lineup.

The only disappointment is the Cavaliers who were pursuing Rose before.

In fact, the Cavaliers' pursuit of Rose is not based on Rose's personal ability. The team management actually cares more about Rose's status as the No. 08 pick in the NBA in [-].

The Cavaliers currently have a lineup of three champions. If they can sign Rose again, they can form an unprecedented combination of four champions, which is full of gimmicks. As for Rose's own ability, the Cavaliers have never considered it at all. With the ability to hold the ball, the Cavaliers really have little need for a point guard.

This is why it is difficult for both Deron and Rose to perform after joining the Cavaliers.

Failure to sign Rose shattered the Cavaliers' idea of ​​forming the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."

But Rose is just a gimmick for the Cavaliers, so the impact is not particularly large.

But the Cavaliers couldn't even imagine that the Cavaliers' signing work hadn't fully started, and the team's backyard caught fire first.

Just like the original time and space process, Irving suddenly jumped out to do something without warning, submitted a trade application to the team, made it clear that he did not want to continue playing with the Cavaliers, and asked him to be traded to the Celtics by name.

The reason Irving wants to leave the Cavaliers is actually very simple. After playing with James for 3 years, he has had enough of the ball and the spotlight being all focused on James alone.

He wants to change the environment and be the boss of a team by himself, instead of being a green leaf next to James year after year.

Owen's idea was correct, but he was a little overwhelmed.

As an attacking player, Irving, who has outstanding offensive skills, is indeed quite good. As a team leader, whether in the Cavaliers, Celtics or later the Nets, he has never proved himself, and often even because of some weird individuals. The absence of the game due to reasons affects the atmosphere of the team. No matter what the reason is, this kind of lack of professional attitude should not appear on a professional player.

Irving's choice to leave the Cavaliers is definitely a choice for both sides. No matter where the Cavaliers trade Irving, there is no way to exchange for a second master who can match James' style so well. After Irving leaves the Cavaliers, whether it is personal honor or team honor It can be said that nothing has been achieved, and what can be mentioned until 2023 is still the key three-point lore in the Cavaliers finals in the 15-16 season.

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