In the 2009-10 season, as former Chinese national team coach Del Harris joined the Nets coaching staff, Yi Jianlian's potential was further explored.
In order to catch big fish like James, Wade and Bosh during this offseason, the Nets traded Carter away before the start of last season and officially entered the Home Alone situation. This is a big improvement for Yi Jianlian's statistics.
Positive factors.
As the team's main power forward, Yi Jianlian continued to play as a starter last season.
At the end of the season, Yi Jianlian played a total of 52 games, including 51 starts. He averaged 31.8 minutes per game, contributed 12 points per game, grabbed 7.2 rebounds, and sent 1 block. All statistics were career highs.
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However, although Yi Jianlian performed well last season, the Nets still chose to send him away this offseason.
This offseason in history, the Nets traded with the Wizards, trading Yi Jianlian and $3 million in cash for Quentin Rose.
Quinton Ross is just a role player, and his performance is much worse than that of the UAE.
Why would the Nets give away US$3 million instead of giving away the UAE?
The first is the issue of playing style.
After Yi Jianlian entered the NBA, he was basically a space power forward.
Although Yi Jianlian's physical fitness has improved since entering the NBA, in general he is not very strong. He is a fast insider with good bounce and average low-post defense and post-playing abilities.
The 2010 NBA put more emphasis on confrontation and hand-to-hand combat between inside players. Obviously, with Yi Jianlian's physical fitness and playing style at the time, he was not a qualified inside defender, and his inside offensive skills were not very rich. He relied more on
Shooting basketball makes a living.
The second is the issue of injuries.
Yi Jianlian suffered from injuries early in his career. In the first three seasons of his career, he never maintained a very good health.
You know, no team is willing to use a young player who is at risk of injury as the future of the team's construction. The risk is too great to do so.
Last but not least, keeping Yi Jianlian is inconsistent with the team's team building philosophy.
The 2010 Nets did not focus on developing young players. They urgently needed some players with immediate combat ability to enhance the team's championship competitiveness.
Only in this way can we attract James and others to join.
Obviously, an immature young man like Yi Jianlian is inconsistent with the team's philosophy.
In order to attract big-name players to join, and for big-name players to join, the Nets' primary goal is to clear out enough salary space!
As long as they cannot attract James' attention, players with slightly larger contracts will be traded away from the team.
UAE's annual salary is much higher than that of Quentin Rose. His annual salary after arriving with the Wizards has reached 4.05 million U.S. dollars, while Quentin Rose's annual salary at the time was only 1.14 million U.S. dollars. The Nets paid the Wizards 3 million U.S. dollars.
It is equivalent to helping the Wizards pay the difference in Yi Jianlian's annual salary.
Although they all spent more than 4 million, the advantage of the Nets doing this is that they have more than 3 million more salary space!
This is very beneficial for big-name players to join the team!
Do you know who James likes?
have no idea.
If you don’t know, leave enough salary space and let him decide after he comes!
Historically, after Yi Jianlian's transaction, the Nets' salary space will increase to about 30 million, and they will be able to sign two top-paid players at the same time.
In fact, on the night of the draft, UAE was almost traded to the Pacers, but in the end, the two sides failed to negotiate and the deal was abandoned.
Therefore, the Nets are very eager to trade Yi Jianlian.
This is the moment Deng Fang has been waiting for.
If they had forced the Arab League to trade last year, the Warriors would have had to spend a lot of draft picks and powerful players.
But if you wait a year and trade now, you can not only save a lot of draft picks, but you can also earn something back!
Why not?
Deng Fang asked general manager Tim to keep an eye on every move of the Nets early on.
No matter which team wants to trade players, it will leak some news to the market in advance.
Why?
Awaiting price!
The more choices, the greater the benefits, or the less you lose!
Even if the transaction is carried out quietly, the team will secretly ask several sellers or buyers.
And what does a general manager do?
That's what it's for.
The general manager of each team has many eyes and ears and is very well-informed. Once there is any disturbance in the market, he will evaluate it immediately.
Is this player suitable for our team, is it worth the price, and does he have a future...
Can I have a piece of this deal and gain some benefit from it...
Warriors general manager Tim is certainly no exception.
Even if Deng Fang didn't tell him, he would have noticed the news of the Nets trading UAE.
But without Deng Fang, Tim would not have traded UAE.
In Tim's opinion, a young man with yellow skin and very introverted is not as useful as a white player!
Not to mention black players!
It has to be said that basketball is a sport that requires very high physical fitness.
Generally speaking, black people's physical fitness is indeed the best.
Players with yellow skin have no advantage in running or jumping ability or strength.
But since Deng Fang said it, Tim will pay attention to Yi Jianlian's movements.
Now Deng Fang is a man of his word in the Warriors, and his status is quite high!
Especially when it comes to the draft and player trades.
Deng Fang spoke, and Tim followed suit.
The Nets wanted to trade Yi Jianlian, the Warriors wanted Yi Jianlian, and the two teams hit it off immediately.
Of course, Tim was not stupid, and he didn't act very eager.
Having been a general manager for many years, Tim is also an old fox.
If you can earn more, earn more!
The prerequisite for making more money is to hide your intentions.
Tim knows Yi Jianlian's value in the market and also knows what the Nets think.
The Nets no longer have much hope for Yi Jianlian. They are eager to get rid of Yi Jianlian's contract in order to clear their salary space and welcome the arrival of James, Wade, and Bosh!
In this case, of course I will kill you!
In fact, there are not many teams interested in taking over Yi Jianlian.
Yi Jianlian has been playing in the NBA for three years. During these three years, he has suffered constant injuries and his strength has not improved far from what people expected of him.
A yellow-skinned player is not popular to begin with. After playing for three years, he did not perform very well and suffered a lot of injuries.
Although there are no major injuries, Yi Jianlian always plays intermittently and rarely plays a complete season.
In addition, Yi Jianlian is introverted and taciturn, making it difficult to integrate into the team, so few teams want to trade with the Nets.
The Wizards back then just had a lottery mentality.
Anyway, the Nets gave him more than three million, and Yi Jianlian's salary is equivalent to what the Nets paid, so let's give it a try.
Anyway, all it takes is a Quentin Rose who can't hit the ball!
If you can't buy it, you will suffer a loss, if you can't buy it, you will be fooled!
