The convulsion superstar of basketball

Chapter 341 340. Entering August!The free market is on! ! (4.5K words ask for a monthly ticket)

February 8.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is August 8st.

And as time entered August, just after the bell rang at 12 o'clock in the morning in August, there were many blockbuster signings from the league.

Among them, the Magic, as the defending champion in the league, has always attracted the attention of other teams.

So after 12 o'clock, many people turned their attention to the Magic team, intending to see what kind of operations the Magic team has this season.

After all, this season, as the Magic renewed the contract of the potential rookie Su Jiu in the team, and traded the All-Star player Carter from the Nets, after this series of operations, the Magic's next season's defending journey is obviously already blowing the clarion call.

So after the free market opens in August, all teams want to see what kind of news the Magic will have in the free market.

Sure enough, as the time has just entered August 8st, the Magic's methods this season have indeed not disappointed people.

I saw that when the time entered August, the official of the Magic team directly released several blockbuster signings.

Among them, the first is that the Magic announced that it has signed a free agent Sean Marion with a four-year $3300 million contract.

It can be said that when this news was released, people obviously took a breath.

Although as early as the offseason, the news of the Magic's frantic pursuit of Marion had spread throughout the league, but at that time, Marion had not publicly stated whether he would accept the contract offered by the Magic.

As a result, as soon as the free market opened in August, the Magic officially dropped a blockbuster and announced the news of officially signing with Marion.

And this news has obviously become a nightmare for other teams in the Eastern Conference that want to compete for the championship.

You know, although the Magic traded All-Star player Vince Carter during the offseason at that time, the Magic paid a heavy price for it.

That is to let go of Pietrus, the mainstay of the team's perimeter defense last season, and Pietrus's trade away from the team directly caused the Magic's forward defensive ability to greatly decline.

So for teams like the Cavaliers and Celtics with top scorers on the front line, this is obviously good news.

After all, although Vince Carter's personal strength is excellent, he is not a player known for his defense after all.

If you only talk about fame, then Carter is definitely much higher than Pietrus and others, but if it is really placed on the Magic, and consider the running-in and distribution of ball rights.

So Carter's contribution to the team may not be much more than that of Pietrus.

But while many teams are thankful that the Magic's forward defensive ability will be greatly weakened next season, the Magic suddenly released heavy news and signed the defensive general Marion in the free market.

It can be said that when this news is completely confirmed, this night, many teams in the league are bound to stay up all night, unable to fall asleep for a long time.

In addition, the second news announced by the Magic is that the team has renewed the championship hero Iverson with a two-year contract.

As for the specific amount of the contract, the two parties have not been announced.

Regarding this matter, in fact, most of the management in the league have already guessed that Iverson has a high chance of staying in Orlando.

After all, although Iverson helped the team win the championship trophy last season, he completed a redemption for his career.

But as the individual grows older, Iverson's offensive ability has greatly begun to decline, and this will definitely be an irreversible fact.

So in this case, the contracts that other teams can offer to Iverson are also short-term contracts with the same average salary.

So if this is the case, Iverson can't find a reason to leave the Magic at all. You know, Iverson was relatively happy with the Magic last season.

Whether it is on or off the court, it seems to have rejuvenated his second career.

And in the case that the external contract still cannot impress Iverson, then the chance of Iverson staying in the Magic will be very high.

After all, here, he not only won the first championship in his career, but also gets along very harmoniously with his teammates on weekdays, and there are no so-called conflicts with the head coach.

So as early as the offseason in July, although Iverson and the Magic did not renew their contract for a long time, there was even news that there was a complete stalemate between Iverson and the Magic.

But in this case, other teams still believe that Iverson will have a very high chance of staying in the Magic.

The final result was indeed as expected. As soon as the free market opened in August, Iverson announced that he would continue to stay with the Magic with a two-year contract.

As for why the details of the contract are not disclosed to the public, then presumably in this negotiation between the Magic and Iverson, someone from both sides must have taken the lead in making concessions.

And the extent of this concession may not be very small, so the details of the contract will not be disclosed, and this kind of thing is also very common in the NBA.

When these two pieces of news were announced, many Orlando fans went straight into madness.

Because with Iverson confirming that he will continue to stay with the Magic next season, this also means that the Magic's lineup next season will have both Iverson and Vince Carter, two extremely popular players.

The playing style of these two players can be described as very attractive to fans. One of them has a picturesque dunk, and the other has a picturesque beauty. They can definitely be regarded as the idols of a generation of young people.

To paraphrase the words of the fans, when these two people play in the same team, even if the team's record is not good, I believe that the audience seats in every game will still be full.

What's more, the team these two people belong to is not the bottom team in the league, but the Magic team that just won the NBA championship last season.

So in this case, people seem to have predicted the Magic's box office next season.

Among them, fans discovered a very scary thing, that is, in the Magic team's roster at the moment, there are three All-Star vote champions in history! !

And these three All-Star ticket kings are Iverson, Vince Carter and Warcraft Howard.

I have to say that when a team has three players who have won All-Star votes at the same time, it can definitely be called a visual feast.

It can be said that being elected as the All-Star vote champion does not necessarily mean that this player is the most popular player in the league.

But on the other hand, if he can be selected as an All-Star box office player, then he definitely has a very large number of fans in the league.

So when Vince Carter, Allen Iverson and Warcraft Howard are determined to join forces, I believe Magic fans will become very crazy next season.

In addition, just when people thought that the news about the Magic was over, the Magic released another message.

And this news is still related to a retired player, and this person just announced his retirement last season, White Chocolate Williams! !

In 1975, White Chocolate Williams turned 34 this year. After the 07-08 season, Williams had just announced that he had signed a one-year contract with the Clippers, and suddenly there was news that he was planning to retire.

In the end, White Chocolate Williams, who had just signed a contract with the Clippers, chose to retire without playing for him in a single game.

Just when people thought that white chocolate would disappear from the arena, this year, Jason Williams announced his comeback in a high-profile manner.

And just as soon as the free market opened in August, it was reported that he had signed a one-year veteran's basic salary with the Magic.

It can be said that this news is absolutely too sudden, because during the offseason, all teams' attention is on those free agents in the free market.

No one thought that the Magic would contact White Chocolate Williams, who had announced his retirement, in private, and the two sides also reached an agreement to really include Williams in the bag.

Faced with this situation, the Magic obviously caught other teams in the league by surprise, but many people still expressed their understanding of White Chocolate Williams' choice.

After all, as the NBA champion last season, the Magic already possesses a very strong strength, and in this year's offseason, the Magic has been strengthening the team.

So for a veteran like White Chocolate Williams who still loves basketball, joining the Magic will obviously be a very high-quality choice.

Even if there is no accident, then Williams is likely to win the second championship ring in his career.

In fact, White Chocolate Williams also chose to come back after retiring in his previous life, and after his comeback, he also chose to join the Magic.

Because when White Chocolate Williams retired, the Magic have been in active contact with him.

Want to make Williams come back, come to the team to give pointers to the young guards in the team.

Faced with the active contact of the Magic, White Chocolate Williams finally joined as he wished.

It's just that as the Magic team won the NBA championship trophy last season, just when Su Jiu thought that this scene would never happen again, White Chocolate Williams finally came to the Magic team, which made Su Jiu feel a little helpless.

"Sloppy..."

With a series of news from the Magic, there are bound to be many teams in the league who feel uneasy.

Because looking around at this moment, the Magic's lineup on paper for next season is already very strong, even so strong that it is frightening.

And in addition, what makes people feel the most uneasy is that even though the Magic's lineup is already very strong at the moment, the Magic has not yet assembled a roster of 15 people.

Similarly, the salary cap is not completely locked, and this situation also means that the Magic will have the possibility of continuing to operate in this year's free market.

No, to be precise, it is not that there will be the possibility of continuing to operate, but that the Magic will definitely have some other operations in the free market in the future.

So whenever the management of other teams think of this, they will feel a little depressed in an instant.

Because in the dark, it seems that the matter of the Magic team hitting consecutive championships has become more and more real.

However, after the free market just started, it may not be all good things for the Magic.

Among them, Turkoglu, one of the heroes who helped the Magic win the championship last season, came out with news, but this news has nothing to do with the Magic.

If you really want to get involved, the most you can do is to add the title of former Magic team champion.

In this offseason, Turkoglu, who is a free agent, is highly sought after by other teams.

After all, compared to Iverson, who has entered the twilight of his career, Turkoglu is at the peak of his player career at this time, and he has just proved himself in the playoffs of last season.

So in this case, Turkoglu is bound to usher in the pursuit of many teams in the league.

In the end, under the pursuit of many teams in the league, just when people thought that Turkoglu was likely to parachute to Phoenix and join the Suns, the news suddenly came from the Toronto Raptors.

According to official reports from the Raptors, the Raptors have signed a five-year, $5 million contract with Turkoglu.

And Turkoglu will also assist Dragon King Bosh in the next few seasons, launching a new round of impact for the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Finally, after a very long wait, the Rockets officially announced that the team officially signed a contract with the former Lakers small forward "Cobra" Ariza. As for the specific amount of the contract, it has not been disclosed to the public.

Although the Lakers failed to win the NBA championship trophy last season, they were swept 4:0 by the Magic in the NBA Finals.

But the Rockets are still very optimistic about Ariza's personal strength, and intend to trade him as a head star for training.

Although this sounds somewhat funny, at the time, this is what Morey's pig brain was thinking.

In addition to Ariza of the Lakers, in the end, Bynum, the little shark who has been attracting much attention during this offseason, also received news on this day.

According to the official announcement of the Sacramento Kings, the Kings have reached a four-year $4900 million contract with Shark Bynum.

And after publicly signing with the Kings, Bynum also posted a series of dynamics on his personal social media with provocations against Kobe.

The general meaning is that I will definitely become better without you, and after I join the Kings, I will definitely make you look good next season.

It can be said that for Bynum's joining the Kings this season, he successfully attracted a large number of onlookers who eat melons.

After all, the Kings were the bottom one in the league last season. In terms of strength, it can be said that they have diarrhea and cannot be more diarrhea.

So what will be Bynum's ability to lead the team, then there will be a very obvious answer next season.

But if you want to say that the worst team in the past two years is definitely the Los Angeles Lakers.

In last year's finals, due to some internal discord, the Lakers were finally swept by the Magic with a total score of 4:0 in the finals.

In the offseason of the second year, the Lakers lost Ariza and Bynum one after another.

The most important of these is that during the offseason of this year, the Lakers have not been able to report who they will sign with.

So under such circumstances, many people have begun to silently mourn for the Lakers in their hearts.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the Lakers fail to receive players who can truly improve the team's strength in this year's free market, then the Lakers next season will most likely fall out of the ranks of strong teams...

(End of this chapter)