The Nets and Clippers are getting stronger, but as for the Lakers, they have made no other moves in the past few days except for renewing Jimmy Butler's contract and breaking the news that Wang Feng is threatening the team.

On July 8, the Pistons signed Lakers guard Derrick Rose for 2 years and 20 million.

Rose briefly rejuvenated with the Lakers. Not only did he have a highlight moment of scoring 50+ points in a single game, but he was also a stable scoring output point on the bench for the Lakers, helping the Lakers win the regular season record and the final championship.

He has made great contributions.

This time last year, Rose signed a one-year, 3 million contract with the Lakers. However, based on his current performance, it is obvious that 3 million is no longer something he can get away with.

The Lakers did not match the Pistons' offer and watched Rose leave the team.

Immediately afterwards, Rajon Rondo also chose to leave the team and join the Atlanta Hawks for 15 million in two years.

In Wang Feng's view, Rose's price of 10 million a year is a bit expensive, and Rondo's 7.5 million a year is not worth it. Anyway, he has now enhanced his passing ability and passing IQ to 90, and selected a purple ten

If you don't have a cent badge, you won't have one if you don't have a point guard. He can also be a guest point guard.

Therefore, Wang Feng didn't say anything about the Lakers' decision to give up two point guards, and was even vaguely supportive.

After the two point guards left the team one after another, forward Larry Nance Jr. also announced his departure.

Larry Nance Jr.'s rookie contract expired. He and his agent were inclined to get a contract with an annual salary of tens of millions. Then the Cleveland Cavaliers took action. They offered a four-year contract worth $45 million, and

The Lakers didn't choose to match.

Lakers fans are gradually starting to understand the Lakers' routines again.

Other teams are looking for ways to strengthen, but after winning the championship, the Lakers seem to be lying flat, watching helplessly as the championship-winning lineup is constantly poached without doing anything.

But in fact, after the Lakers re-signed Jimmy Butler, they have very little salary space left.

Butler's new maximum-salary contract's first-year salary is as high as $32.74 million, while Wang Feng's original four-year, $118 million contract is in its third year, and his salary in the 19-20 season is also as high as $31.7 million.

The total salary of Wang Feng and Butler alone reached 64.44 million.

In addition, next season will be the last year of Jordan Clarkson's second contract, with a salary of 13.44 million.

Ingram is worth 7.27 million, Kuzma is worth 1.97 million, and Lopez is worth 4 million.

The most annoying thing is that the Luol Deng signed by the Lakers has become a garbage contract. Now the team has reached a buyout agreement with Luol Deng. Until the next 21-22 season, Luol Deng will

It will also occupy 5 million salary space in the Lakers salary cap.

Adding up all these messes, the Lakers' salary has been about 96 million, and the salary cap for 19-20 is set at $109.14 million.

Therefore, the Lakers only have $13 million in remaining salary space.

The problem is that this 13 million US dollars cannot be used to sign only one player, because the current Lakers roster only has 6 players, and including the two rookies selected this summer, there are only 8 players. Before the start of the new season, the Lakers need to gather together

Enough for at least 12 people, and up to 15 people.

Even counting the mid-level exceptions that can break through the salary cap limit, the Lakers still need to spend 18 million to sign at least 4 to 7 more players.

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Wang Feng doesn't care how the Lakers use their limited salary space to strengthen. Currently, the Lakers' core team is composed of Wang Feng, Butler, Ingram, Kuzma and Lopez.

The basic competitiveness has been maintained. The remaining players only need to have some scoring ability and can score a few points in the substitute time.

Originally, the Lakers still had Jordan Clarkson, Jordan Poole and others as rotation role players. Even if there were too many players with good abilities on the bench, they would not be able to give them too much playing time and opportunities.

After handling Butler's matter, Wang Feng took a plane back to China.

As early as May 15, the men's national basketball team had begun gathering members of the national team to carry out a training arrangement that lasted for more than three months and 108 days.

There are as many as 20 people on the training list, including the backbone of the Chinese men's basketball team such as Arab League, Zhou Qi, Guo Ailun, Zhao Jiwei, Wang Zhelin and so on.

Since Wang Feng will compete in the NBA playoffs and considering the physical exertion of the high-intensity confrontation in the playoffs, the Basketball Association also postponed his reporting time to the team and allowed Wang Feng to arrive at the training camp around mid-July.

Can.

After returning to China, Wang Feng went home to spend a few days with his family as usual, and then participated in interviews with several TV stations and media before heading to the national team training camp to report.

On July 20, Wang Feng officially returned to the team.

The news that Wang Feng signed up for the national team quickly became a hot topic and also gave Chinese fans a piece of reassurance.

NBA regular season, All-Star, and three-time MVP of the Finals, Wang Feng is now recognized as the number one player in the NBA, and it is not an exaggeration to even say he is the number one player in the world of basketball.

Currently, the Chinese men's basketball team ranks among the top five in the world, and it relies almost entirely on Wang Feng's reputation.

Without Wang Feng, the Huaguo men's basketball team might not even be in the top 20.

Sometimes the improvement a star can make to a team's strength is so exaggerated.

It is precisely because of Wang Feng's existence that the vast number of Chinese fans can vaguely see hope - the hope of winning the World Series!

This is not random conjecture.

As the end of July approaches, the roster of the American men's basketball team has gradually begun to emerge.

Just like another time and space.

James, Curry, Durant, Leonard, George and many other league stars have publicly announced their retirement from the national team.

The quality of players participating in the men's basketball national team training continued to decline, and soon only a scrap team led by Kemba Walker remained.

Although in the NBA, even ordinary starting-level players are first-rate in international leagues, the weakness of this American men's basketball team is also visible to the naked eye, and it is not even much better than teams such as Spain and France.

As the host country, the Chinese Men's Basketball Team has the right time, place and people. In addition, Wang Feng, who has just won the NBA championship and is at his peak, has every chance to win the Men's Basketball World Cup!

Men's Basketball World Cup Championship... if it were before, people might not dare to even think about it.

After all, before this, the Chinese men's basketball team's best ever result in the World Championships, the predecessor of the Men's Basketball World Cup, was only the quarterfinals. The slogan of securing eight and competing for four has been shouted for so many years, but it has never had an actual record.

breakthrough.
Chapter completed!