readytorunbook Chapter 804 Another Grand Finale
Chapter 804 Another Grand Finale
Chapter 804 Another Grand Finale
The Hornets made a good deal.
After the Rockets renewed Paul, they started chasing Carmelo Anthony again.
Melon is already a bitter melon, and the Thunder don't want it. Since they can't win the championship, why keep the big contract of bitter melon?
The Thunder also wanted to trade, but no one wanted to.
More than 3000 million junk contracts?
The league doesn't get any worse than this.
Weak teams are waiting to develop rookies and have no interest in social melons. Only strong teams that want to win the championship are interested in melons, but no one is willing to make a deal.
Finally, at the end of the offseason, the Thunder finally reached a buyout agreement with Melo.
Melon's final year contract was bought out and he became a free agent.
The Thunder don't have to pay the luxury tax.
Then Melon joined the Rockets and signed a contract with a basic salary of one year. The meaning is obvious. After winning the championship this year, Melon still wants a big contract.
This... Where does the courage come from.
Melon is currently unfavorable offensively and defensively. Few teams are willing to take it. At least before the buyout of Melon, he wanted to join the Mavericks. Manager Don Nelson Jr. refused.
Why do you want melons? It's far worse than Nurkic.
After all the superstars signed, the market suddenly became quiet.
Last year, all managers knew that the team's annual salary would increase, so they dared to sign a big contract, but after a year, many teams regretted it.
That was probably the year with the most garbage contracts.
Many teams are starting to count.
The free market suddenly quieted down.
At this time, everyone has forgotten another superstar, Cousins.
Cousins was injured last year, with serious shoulder and knee injuries. He needs to rest for a year. He is expected to return around this year's All-Star Game. Therefore, the Partridge team chose not to renew his contract.
Cousins is a free agent.
But an embarrassing scene appeared...
The superstars of the previous two years were ignored by everyone this offseason.
An injured superstar, relying on physical fitness to play, has a bad temper, drove away two head coaches, and had conflicts with his teammates... No one dared to ask for it.
No team dares to ask for it, and no team makes a qualified offer.
Holding grass, that's embarrassing.
Waiting until the end of the off-season, Cousins has yet to find a place to play next season.
This is hard.
At the end of September, just after Lily gave birth to a lovely son, Qin Yang received a call from Little Nelson. After the congratulations, Little Nelson's manager said:
"Cousins wants to join the Mavericks, what do you think?"
"What?"
Qin Yang was shocked.
But after thinking about it, Qin Yang hesitated again. This is a good thing, but it’s also a bad thing. Cousins joined and won’t be able to play in the short term. It may not be a good time to run in. If it affects the atmosphere of the team, it will be embarrassing, so signing Cousins is not necessarily a good thing.
"Manager Nelson, I suggest not to sign a long-term contract, but to give a short-term contract. If it doesn't work, just don't renew the contract next year."
"it is good!"
Manager Don Nelson nodded.
When Qin Yang left the Kings, it was largely because the new core of the Kings, Cousins, was going to be the boss, and the two couldn't get along, so Qin Yang left.
Therefore, Manager Nelson must listen to Qin Yang's opinion.
If Qin Yang disagrees, the Mavericks will definitely not sign Cousins.
As a result, Qin Yang agreed, and Manager Nelson also started to get in touch.
Cousins was seriously injured, and it was basically impossible to participate before the All-Star Game, so it was not difficult to sign a contract. Few other teams contacted Cousins. Cousins took the initiative to seek refuge and wanted the championship, so the contract must be a big deal.
Although it's a big deal, a one-year contract shouldn't be too small.
In the end, the Mavericks and Cousins signed a one-year 400 million mid-level contract.
As soon as the contract came out, the entire league was shocked.
"The finale of the NBA has arrived. Next year's championship may be the least suspenseful in the NBA in the past 50 years. The league should stop the Mavericks from signing."
"The Mavericks have formed a four-star lineup, which makes other teams play. Before Cousins signed, the Warriors and Rockets were the strongest teams in the league, but this signing proves that the best choice for other teams next season is to play poorly, because there are many potential rookies next year."
"Four-star Mavericks, four-star Warriors, four-star Rockets, how do other teams play?"
"This may be the season with the most obvious gap in strength in the history of the NBA. Except for a few three or five teams, other teams can choose to play poorly as soon as possible."
……
This signing is too scary.
The Mavericks are very strong. In the past two years, Gobert has also been called a superstar. With the previous Kevin Durant and Qin Yang, the Mavericks' three-star lineup almost beats the entire league.Although Durant is gone now, and Paul George has been added, it is reasonable to say that the first is slightly weaker.
But now that Cousins has joined, the strength of the Mavericks has not decreased but increased.
The Rockets are a lightbulb combination, Melon, Harden, Paul, although... the name is not very good, low burst, but there is no doubt that the Rockets are very strong.
Coupled with Capela and Gordon, the lineup is surprisingly thick.
The Warriors added Kevin Durant to fill that last gap.In this way, the strength of the Warriors is very strong.
The Mavericks did not sign Cousins, the Rockets, the Warriors are still fighting, and even the Celtics can fight.
But if Cousins joins, then other teams really have nothing to play.
Perhaps the only good news for other teams is that Cousins will be absent for most of the season, and when the All-Star Game returns, the ghost knows how much state he will have.
At that time, the state is not good, the team is not running well, and other teams still have a chance.
Otherwise, this game cannot be played.
Even so, the news of Cousins joining has caused an uproar in the league.
But in the TV show, Cousins expressed his wishes:
"I didn't have the idea of joining the Mavericks at first. In fact, I can go to any team. At the beginning, I wanted to stay with the Partridge, but obviously, the Partridge didn't want to keep me. They didn't give me any contract, and no one from other teams contacted me."
"Everyone thinks that I'm out of shape after the injury, that I'm not worthy of a big contract, that I'm a cancer in the dressing room, but I'm not that kind of person."
"I called Bruce, and in the end I chose to join Dallas. Maybe I can only stay here for a year, but I will prove myself."
Cousins went to hug his thigh. There were still many people who had opinions, but when the TV show came out, no one said anything.
Before joining the Mavericks, everyone thought that Cousins was a cancer, and the middle-level contract was not offered by the team. Now that he has joined the Mavericks, it is considered the finale of the NBA and affects the balance of the league. This is too immoral.
Of course, for the Mavericks, this is not entirely a good thing.
(End of this chapter)