NBA peak

Chapter 170
Before Nas started arranging training, Ge Feng took out his mobile phone and checked today's NBA news.

Sure enough, the biggest breaking point in the NBA today is the exchange of cores between the Spurs and the Raptors.

DeRozan was sent to the Spurs, and the Raptors got Leonard, the core of the Spurs.

Goddamn's bloody script!
What do you think the Raptors' management thinks.

The small card has been put on the shelf by the Spurs management a few months ago, but the Raptors have not shown interest in Leonard for a long time.

Now, half of the regular season is played, and the Raptors rank second in the league. But at this time, the Raptors management and the Spurs exchanged cores. Isn't this obviously a trap for the Raptors?
Leonard and the Raptors' run-in, how can it be completed in half a season!
Ge Feng checked his phone and found a post from the depressed DeRozan.

"I have depression, but I love the Raptors. The Raptors are winning. Loyalty means nothing."

It can be seen from this dynamic that DeRozan himself does not understand this deal very much.

Although DeRozan went to Los Angeles and some teams in San Antonio last summer.

But DeRozan went to those places only to discuss his plans to become a free agent after his contract with the Raptors expires three years later.

DeRozan himself does not intend to leave the Raptors this year.He really wants to bring the Raptors a championship before leaving the Raptors.

Loyalty has no meaning, this sentence is full of irony.

In addition, Ge Feng also discovered the real intention of the Raptors.

The complete record of this transaction is that the Raptors acquired Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green in exchange for DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl and a protected first-round pick.

Danny Green is an excellent 3D shooter in the league, and his positioning is somewhat similar to Ge Feng this season.

Ge Feng's keen sense of smell immediately noticed that the Raptors management probably wanted to rebuild the team!

Losing to the Cavaliers led by James for three consecutive years, although the Raptors management never said much, the fact that DeRozan was traded made Ge Feng fully understand that the Raptors management has long lost confidence in this Raptors!

The management probably also believes that even if the Raptors reach No. [-] in the Eastern Conference, it is impossible to win the final championship trophy.

So they decided to put all their eggs in one basket!
In the next step, the Raptors are likely to attack Ge Feng!
Danny Green was packaged and taken to the Raptors, and many things can be seen.

Leonard is a superstar not inferior to DeRozan.

But at the same time, Leonard is also a superstar who is not well received by the management.

The Raptors know the risks of using a small card, but fortunately, the contract between the small card and the Spurs will expire next year.

At that time, Leonard will become a free agent for the next year.

The Raptors made a good calculation. If Leonard does not play well this season, he can directly abandon Leonard next year.

At that time, the Raptors would have enough salary space to re-sign a superstar.

DeRozan only signed a four-year 4 million maximum salary contract with the Raptors last year, which means that DeRozan will return to free agency until 1.2 anyway.

The Raptors were unwilling to wait that long, so at the last minute, they chose to sell their star star, DeRozan.

What a vile and shameless transaction.

The players are working hard below, but the management above is thinking about how to replace them.

Next year will also be the third year of Ge Feng's 2+2 contract year, that is to say, if the Raptors don't want to continue using Ge Feng, they can send him away.

Ge Feng used to be the Raptors and rejected the Lakers' olive branch several times.

Unexpectedly, the Raptors would beat him up and send him away in the end, which really made Ge Feng angry!

Ge Feng knew in his heart that his participation in the two seasons of NBA agents brought him a lot of negative news.

The Raptors management also lost trust in Ge Feng.

The Raptors, like most American fans, do not believe that a yellow-skinned player can have a great future.

In the evening, Leonard and Danny Green arrived in Toronto together.

Among the Raptors players with complicated thoughts, no one was willing to pick up Leonard at the airport.

The two got off the plane, Danny Green went directly to the hotel, and Leonard came to the Raptors Arena a little lonely.

It was already past 10 o'clock in the evening, and the players all went home to accompany their wives and children.

Leonard didn't go to the hotel, he went straight to the Raptors' training facility.

The doorman let Leonard in very politely.

As a die-hard fan of the Raptors, the uncle is looking forward to Leonard's performance after coming to the Raptors.

Ge Feng was still practicing silently in the training ground.

At this time, Leonard appeared at the door.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Ge Feng turned around, and when he looked back, it was Leonard who came.

The two suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Leonard lowered his head and walked in expressionlessly.

Ge Feng greeted him with a smile: "It's so late, you still come to practice?"

Leonard hummed lightly, and went to his training on his own.

Sure enough, as rumored outside, Leonard is an unsmiling robot.

Is it really possible to have a tacit understanding with such a person as a teammate?Ge Feng began to have doubts in his heart.

The day of the trade deadline finally arrived, and Lakers owner Jenny Buss finally cleared Mozgov's contract before the trade deadline.

Mozgov still has a certain degree of competitiveness, so there are not a few teams who are interested.

However, Mozgov's 4-year contract of 6400 million yuan is quite pitiful. In order to make Mozgov's deal more straightforward, the Lakers lost the first pick next year.

As for Luol Deng's four-year contract of 4 million US dollars, it has completely become a hot potato.

Even though Jenny Bass tried her best, she still couldn't get rid of Luol Deng.

In the end, Jenny Buss took out a sum of 1.5 million U.S. dollars and directly bought out Luol Deng.

So far, the trade deadline for the 2017-2018 season has officially ended.

All teams are prohibited from trading players until next year's draft.

After the trade deadline, the All-Star Game was officially held at the Staples Arena in Los Angeles.

After cleaning up the junk contracts of Luol Deng and Mozgov, the Lakers' salary space this year has reached 8000 million US dollars.

The free market this summer is a crucial opportunity for the Lakers.

For this reason, the Lakers have made enough sincerity to the league superstar who is about to become a free agent.

The 17-18 season's All-Star game configuration was extremely luxurious, and many players lamented: "Los Angeles really deserves to be a first-class super city in the league. This is definitely a hundred times more expensive than any other team!"

In the All-Star Contest, Ge Feng signed up for this year's three-point contest.

Ge Feng, who came to Staples, instantly felt the strong determination of the Lakers management to strengthen this year.

In the past two days, most of the basic necessities of the All-Star players in Los Angeles were sponsored by the Lakers.

All-star players participating in the game enjoyed the world's top luxury feast.

The day of taking off for the hard-working Lakers is not far away!

(End of this chapter)