Chapter 735: It's not a problem for you to chase after me
Qin Yang is helping Durant speak.
Before this decision was made, Durant knew that he would encounter a lot of criticism, but it was not without reason that Durant dared to do so.
As long as the performance is good enough in competition, everything else can make up for it.
Fans all over the world are like that.
What's more, with James' decision 1.0 before, Durant's decision is nothing.
At the beginning, James could claim to surpass Jordan, end up with the first team, and lead the team to win the championship, but there was really no way, so he went to Mihami to play brother basketball.
Back then, the influence was much greater than Durant's.
Durant would be much better with James on top.
But even so, Durant's departure from the Thunder is very influential.
Major media outlets have reported on it, and various superstars and retired players have been invited to report on it.
Shaq O'Neill:
"There's nothing wrong with that, the league is just a business, there's nothing wrong with chasing a championship!"
Bryant:
"If it were me, I would choose to stay with the Thunder, it's a rare thing to be able to retire from one team, and Kevin has the strength to lead the team to win the championship alone."
Kobe Bryant speaks standing and doesn't have back pain.
At the beginning, Kobe Bryant was clamoring to leave after the Lakers couldn't win the championship, and everyone in the league knew about it, and then the team traded Pau Gasol, and the Lakers were rising again.
Now that Kobe Bryant is saying this, it is really ...... Braggart.
Jordan spoke about the Kevin Durant transfer, saying:
"I'm never going to say to Johnson, hey, let's win together! Among the top five players in the current league group, there must be Durant and Bruce, and the two of them are in a group, which leaves the others without the ball to play. Such a championship is a shame. ”
Hehe!
Jordan and Pippen weren't in the top five in the league at the time.
When James decided to 1.0, Jordan said the same thing.
Almost everyone is questioning Kevin Durant's approach, whether it's a Western star or an Eastern star.
There is no way, Qin Yang feels that it is difficult to play alone, plus Durant, the Mavericks are going against the sky, although the game has not yet started, many stars have already felt the fear of being dominated by the Mavericks.
Speaking in an interview between training sessions after Durant's statement, James expressed his support:
"It's not a big deal what he's doing, everyone has their own choice, there's no right or wrong to go to other teams, and I support Kevin."
James also exhaled lightly in his heart, and it was even more troublesome for the Cavaliers to win the championship.
Qin Yang and Durant huddled, how could the Mavericks fight.
Although there is still one year left on his contract, James is already thinking about what to do in the future, and no one can get out of the quagmire of the Cavaliers.
After Durant's announcement, many owners of the league came out against it.
The league, including Lakers owners, Cavaliers owners, Knicks owners, and others, objected: "The league should stop this trade by a way that violates athletic competition." ”
"It's going to make the NBA less competitive!"
"The league has to ban such trades, otherwise what's the use of going to the playoffs, just give the championship to the Dallasians!"
In response to the accusations of other bosses, Cuban rose up against it:
"I don't know why other people would object, we don't have a high salary in Dallas, even now it's just past the luxury line, there are only two superstars in the team, compared to a lot of teams, the gap is still very obvious, in the last ten years, a lot of teams have three superstars, we shouldn't be treated differently."
"If the alliance bans it, I will go to the alliance high court to file a lawsuit!"
Kuban dares to say anything, dare to do anything.
The Mavericks did a bit undisciplined in doing this.
But let's be honest, within the rules, the Mavericks' operation makes sense, Gobert is still on a rookie contract, and so is Nurkic, and neither of them have big contracts.
That's why even if Durant signed a two-year 1+1 contract totaling 51 million, the Mavericks could only break the luxury tax line.
This salary is much more than the salary cap.
This is still with Dirk's 20 million contract and Rudy Guy's 15 million contract, and when Rudy Guy is traded, the Mavericks won't even be able to trigger the luxury tax.
In response to this controversy, the coalition simply issued a statement. There is nothing illegal about the Mavericks' operations that violate the league's rules. Wishing Kevin Durant a wonderful career.
Superstar huddles?
It's not a day or two, Adam Silva has long been used to it, and only in this way can there be topicality, competition, and it is easier to bring out superstars.
The Thunder lost Durant, leaving only Westbrook, and the league could pull it along.
Other teams have player stats coming out, and they can also be praised.
On the contrary, Qin Yang and Durant are together, the data will be reduced, which is a good thing, the league can press it, otherwise it will continue like this, the Mavericks will win the championship with Qin Yang leading the team alone, and those seven or eight championships in a row, how can the game be played, and how attractive is the league.
In comparison, it's still as good as it is now.
In the era of skyrocketing salaries, there is always a super team like this.
For example, the original Bulls, the biggest reason why the Bulls were able to win consecutive championships was not Jordan, but Pippen, Pippen signed a contract for more than ten years, and after the player's salary skyrocketed, Pippen's contract was almost the base salary.
Signing a top-five superstar in the league with a base salary?
That's right, the Bulls of that era were so lucky, and it was precisely because of this that the Bulls were able to win consecutive championships.
That's how interesting the history of the NBA is.
Now the luck is here with the Mavericks.
After Kevin Durant joined, the Mavericks continued to seek a trade, and the first to be traded was Cosby, who wanted to play, but the Mavericks would not stop him, and after changing to a second-round pick, the cabbage price was thrown out.
There are several trade partners, and which team Cosby chooses to trade with, and the Mavericks do it very kindly.
The second to leave was Rudy Gay.
Rudy Gay's performance in the previous seasons was excellent, and he was full of physical fitness, with a high efficiency value, and around Qin Yang, the hit rate of all statistics was very high.
As soon as Rudy Guy was put on the trading market, he attracted a lot of attention.
In the end, the Mavericks and Jazz made a trade, with Rudy Gay trading for a second-round draft pick and the veteran and Rodney Hood. After the trade, the veteran will be cut directly and will not execute the final year of the contract.
In this way, the Mavericks' only gain, except for the draft pick, is Hood.
With the draft pick, the Mavericks selected guard Malcolm Brogdon.
This draft is incomprehensible to many people, Brogdon played in college for four years, the stats are average, and the physical fitness is not very good, as an older rookie, such characteristics are difficult to be selected.
But the Mavericks chose Brogdon just that.