The Lakers and Nets are bullying others too much! Finally, someone is about to rise up

With the signing of Zhuang Shen and the Lakers settled, this year's NBA reinforcements have come to an end!

The upstarts in the Eastern Conference, the Nets, relied on their own efforts to recruit two former All-Stars (Griffin and Ade) in the buyout market at very low prices; the defending Eastern Conference champions The champion Lakers turned the tide and picked up Zhuang Shen at the last moment.

At this point, the two giants in the East and West were born, and the gap between the rich and the poor in the NBA has once again widened!

The first to bear the brunt is the Brooklyn Nets.

Although they did not send away Dinwiddie before the trade deadline, the Nets are still the biggest winner in this reinforcement battle, because the addition of Ade gave them another full-level player. "Orange" weapons.

I vaguely remember that the Nets at the beginning of the season were still a sick boy (Durant) and a brainless combination (Irving). Although the team was competitive to a certain extent, its shortcomings were very obvious, and there were also conflicts among the players. There are differences (Irving and Dinwiddie), and the prospects for the playoffs are not clear.

But just four months have passed, and now the Nets have become a "public enemy"!

They have 6 All-Star players who have participated in a total of 41 All-Star Games:

Durant 11 times, Harden 9 times, Irving 7 times, and Ade 7 times , Griffin 6 times, DeAndre Jordan 1 time.

Just looking at the accumulation of talent and the depth of the lineup, today's Nets are not far behind the 5-star Warriors back then!

The NBA announced the finale in advance, which made many fans uncomfortable. In order to vent their dissatisfaction, some netizens began to crazily criticize the Nets' teaming behavior on social media, pointing the finger directly at Durant and the Nets.

"How could this be accomplished? Durant and the Nets should be sued in court!"

"This is what Durant is like. If you don't stick together, you won't win. Yes. He ruined the NBA! ”

As you can see, this is the current situation of the league:

The continued proliferation of grouping behaviors has shaken the foundation of the NBA to some extent. When Du Xiaoshuai formed the Super Nets with the help of his keyboard and connections, James immediately called Curry to do business at the All-Star Game.

The birth of super strong teams will force some teams to join the arms race, and some teams will also choose to give up directly. As the saying goes, no matter how hard you fight, you have no chance of winning, so why bother persisting?

But tracing back to the roots, the birth of the super team began in 2010. No matter what achievements James achieves in the future, this will always be his career resume that cannot be erased. To be fair, the grouping is already taking shortcuts and runs counter to the purpose of the alliance. After ten years of development, the current grouping has become even more "outrageous"!

The reason for "outrageous" lies in the use of buyout rules. When the super team was born, some former All-Star veterans took the initiative and asked for buyouts and sought to join!

After buying out, these players join super strong teams with basic salaries. In fact, the parent team spends a lot of money to help these super strong teams raise players. Super strong teams only need to spend a symbolic half of the basic salary. , you can use big names with annual salaries of tens of millions!

Faced with such an unbalanced situation, the management of some small and medium-sized teams have united and asked the league to change the buyout rules. And the reason they gave is very simple: The strong get stronger, so what should we do? Is the salary cap system still useful?

Some small-market executives complained to him that many small-market teams have been threatened by team agents. What kind of threat?

If a team in a small or medium-sized market rejects a player’s buyout application, the agent will tell them directly, “Don’t ever get players from this agent again in the future.

"Out of worries about future prospects, teams in small and medium-sized markets often have no choice but to swallow their anger and complete buyouts with players.

Just like James' playmate Rich Paul and his company Klutch, He has a very large say in negotiations, because he has too many players, and generally teams with weaker markets cannot afford to offend them.

In the 2023-24 season, the NBA will have a new season. A round of labor negotiations, the league is currently considering whether to include the buyout issue within the scope of discussion

Although Xiao Hua believes that the buyout does not involve fairness issues, it does take advantage of the salary cap and luxury tax. The loophole destroyed the ecological balance of the NBA!