The glory of the basketball gods

Chapter 280 Jeremy Lin's Summer, China Tournament Begins (Part [-])
The time has entered August, and the lineups of all teams have almost assembled. This summer's arms race is in full swing. The strength of many teams has improved significantly compared to last season. According to media statistics, including Cavaliers, Lakers, Spurs, Heat , Thunder, Clippers, Bulls and many other teams have the strength to hit the championship. This does not include the Grizzlies, Pacers, Mavericks, Celtics and other strong players who have performed well in recent seasons.

In this offseason, in addition to the above-mentioned teams, there is another team that has been receiving much attention. This is the Chinese player Jeremy Lin who caused the "Linsanity" storm in the second half of last season.

The issue of Jeremy Lin's contract and his stay with the New York Knicks has become the focus of many fans.

When the time entered July, the Houston Rockets took advantage of the loophole in the "Arenas Clause" to offer a poison contract to the Bulls' restricted free agent Asik.This poison contract is a three-year offer of $7 million. If the home team matches it, it will cost the home team a huge salary of nearly 3 million in the third year.As soon as this move came out, all walks of life in the NBA were shocked, and the New York media immediately discovered that Jeremy Lin also met the conditions of the Asik poison contract.

Subsequently, Jeremy Lin was selected for the US men's basketball training team, and soon withdrew due to the undecided contract.

Knicks coach Woodson has repeatedly said that Jeremy Lin will be the team's starter next season.

Jeremy Lin's happy vacation information on Twitter, coupled with the confirmation of Jeremy Lin's early bird terms, everything seems to be moving in the intended direction.

The Knicks did not cause any alarm. They are still patiently waiting for the free market offer, but obviously, they underestimated the value of Jeremy Lin. Interested.

Finally, on July 7th, the Rockets prepared a four-year "poison contract" of 4 million. The first two years of salary were 4 million and 2880 million US dollars, and the last two years were 500 million US dollars. The Rockets have the team for the fourth year options.

The Knicks were unrelenting, and one executive even said they would match even a billion dollars.

On July 7, Kidd joined the Knicks. On the 7th, the Knicks signed another guard, and Argentine point guard Prigioni joined.

The fans smelled a hint of danger, and the possibility of Jeremy Lin staying in New York seemed unlikely.

On July 7, the Rockets officially offered Jeremy Lin, and they gave a formal poison contract: 14 million for 3 years.

This means that if the Knicks match, they will pay close to 1500 million in salary in the third year!

This is very difficult for the Knicks who already have the three-point contracts of Anthony, Stoudemire and Chandler.

On July 7, the New York media broke the news that the Knicks had reached an agreement with point guard Raymond Felton.

According to news obtained by Yahoo, Felton signed a three-year $3 million contract, which is much cheaper than Jeremy Lin's three-year $1000 million offer.

For this move of the Knicks, the major media have made interpretations, and most of the media probed the Knicks' next move by inquiring about sources of news and calculating salary.After learning that Felton returned to the Knicks, most of the media made the judgment that New York would not renew Jeremy Lin's contract.

In the Knicks team, there are also voices that are not conducive to Jeremy Lin.

Knicks star Anthony pointed out in an interview that the Rockets' offer contract to Jeremy Lin is absurd, and JR-Smith even bluntly pointed out that Jeremy Lin's big contract may make some people unhappy.

The Rockets offered Jeremy Lin an offer of $1480 million for the third year of the contract, which was the main reason why the Knicks finally gave up, because once the Knicks match, they will be under huge financial pressure. According to the terms of the new collective bargaining agreement, Jeremy Lin’s The contract comes with a luxury tax, and the Knicks need to support $2014 million in the 15-4300 season, which is unacceptable to any team.

But they seem to have forgotten the big words they once let go: even a billion dollars will match.

The NBA is still a business after all.

On July 7, a Knicks spokesperson confirmed that the Knicks did not match the Rockets' offer to Jeremy Lin, and Jeremy Lin officially became a Rockets player.

Jeremy Lin's transfer rumors also came to an end, and then with Howard joining the Lakers, the offseason transfer market finally calmed down.

In September, the NBA, which had tasted the sweetness last season, once again offered an overseas game. China was one of the stops in the overseas game. The NBA arranged for two teams to play two games here. The two teams were China The current "parent team" Cleveland Cavaliers, and this season's upstart, the highly popular Los Angeles Clippers.

Except for Mirotic and Green, the Cleveland Cavaliers have made minor repairs this season. Among them, center Ryan Hollins went to the Clippers and won the No. 17 rookie of the season, Taylor, who is 2.13 meters tall. - Zeller.

The Clippers look strong, with Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, Caron Butler, DeAndre Jordan, and Willie Green starting five players, and the bench is still star-studded." Best Sixth Man" Jamal Crawford, perimeter fighter Matt Barnes, all-around forward Lamar Odom, former All-Star forward Grant Hill, "backcourt commander" Chauncey - Billups and explosive guard Eric Bledsoe.

Two overseas games, one in Shanghai and the other in Guangzhou.

This time the overseas game is not the hasty regular season of last season, so the nature of the overseas game is mainly to attract fans and increase the influence of the NBA. Almost the first few quarters are entertainment basketball, and it doesn’t start until the last quarter of the game It's real work, but even so, the team coach will not let the players go all out to prevent injuries at the beginning of the regular season.

In the first overseas game in Shanghai, the two teams played their main players. The Cavaliers' Yuan Man, Irving, and Klay all appeared on the field, and the Clippers' main players such as Paul, Griffin, and Jordan also started.

What attracted the attention of the fans was that after last season's starting power forward Jamison left, the Cavaliers would arrange Mirotic and Green to start. After the first day's starting lineup came out, everyone knew the result.

The talented Montenegro player Nikola Mirotic, who was visited by the Cavaliers in person, became another young player standing beside the four little kings.

Being able to see so many talented stars in one game, the basketball fans in Shanghai can be said to be overwhelmed. Amidst the cheers of the fans, the referee whistled, and the overseas game between the Cavaliers and the Clippers officially began.

(End of this chapter)