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8. Transactions and renewals

On July 3, the Clippers, Bucks and Suns reached an agreement on a three-party deal. The specific content was that the Clippers sent Eric Bledsoe and Caron Butler to the Suns in exchange for Ja

Reid Dudley (Suns) and JJ Redick (Bucks sign-and-trade), while the Bucks received two future second-round picks.

After completing this three-party trade, the Clippers' core lineup is quite young. Except for Crawford, who is 33 years old, Paul is 28 years old, Griffin and DeAndre Jordan are both 24 years old, and Dudley is 27 years old.

Redick is 29 years old...



Then "Yahoo Sports" famous reporter Wojnarowski reported that Kevin Martin, the Thunder's sixth man last season, has reached an agreement with the Minnesota Timberwolves on a four-year, $28 million contract. This means that Martin will serve for the third time

Playing for his mentor Adelman, Martin and Adelman previously collaborated with the Kings and Rockets.

The 30-year-old Martin has played in the NBA for nine seasons. He was selected by the Kings with the 26th overall pick in the first round of 2004. Under the careful guidance of then-Kings coach Adelman, Martin made significant progress and gradually became an important rotation player for the Kings.

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In 2010, the Rockets under Adelman acquired Kevin Martin, who has grown into the Kings' leading scorer, in a three-way trade involving Tracy McGrady, and the two collaborated again.

Adelman moved to the Timberwolves in 2011. Martin, who did not gain the trust of new coach McHale, was sent to the Thunder by the Rockets in a deal involving Harden before the start of last season.

In the past season, Martin played 77 times as the Thunder's sixth man. In 27.7 minutes, he posted 14 points and 1.4 assists, with a shooting percentage of 45%.

Although the Thunder very much hope to keep the team's first offensive player on the bench, they can only provide Martin with a contract with an annual salary of US$5 million at most, and this is their upper limit, otherwise they will need to pay the luxury tax.

There is no place for him to stay, he has his own place to stay, so Martin signed a contract with the Timberwolves without hesitation.



In the early morning of July 5, the Pelicans, Kings and Trail Blazers completed a three-way trade. The main content of the transaction was that the Kings sent Tyreke Evans to the Pelicans.

Evans became a restricted free agent on July 1, and he accepted a four-year contract offer from the Pelicans worth a total of $44 million.

The Kings did not choose to match the contract offered by the Pelicans when they had the right to do so, but they hoped that Evans would agree to go to New Orleans in a sign-and-trade deal. After the Trail Blazers joined the negotiations, the three-way deal was quickly reached.

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The 23-year-old Evans serves as a shooting guard and averaged 15.2 points, 4.4 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.4 steals per game for the Kings last season.

What's interesting is that after entering the league for 4 years, Evans' statistics have declined every year compared to the previous season!

Throughout his career so far, Evans has averaged 17.5 points, 4.8 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 1.4 steals per game.

You know, historically Evans was the Rookie of the Year in the 2009-10 season, beating Curry and claiming to be comparable to James!

Four years later, Curry has become the most dazzling star in the league, while Evans has begun his wandering life.



In the early morning of July 7, a well-informed source revealed that the Rockets' dream of forming a Big Three was shattered!

It is reported that "Eagle King" Josh Smith has verbally agreed to sign a four-year contract with the Pistons worth a total of $56 million. This means that Smith has no chance to go to Houston to join forces with Dwight Howard and James Harden.

One day ago, after Howard announced that he would join the Rockets, multiple sources showed that Rockets general manager Morey began to discuss with the Hawks about Smith's sign-and-trade. After giving "Warcraft" a maximum salary contract, the Rockets

There is not enough salary space to directly sign Smith.

It is reported that the Rockets intend to send Asik or join Jeremy Lin, and the Hawks are also interested in brokering this deal. Just when everyone thought that it was only a matter of time before Smith came to Houston, it was suddenly revealed on Saturday local time that Smith agreed to join

Pistons news.

Josh Smith has always wanted to leave Atlanta. Before the trade deadline last season, he hoped that the Hawks would trade him out, but ultimately failed. On July 1, local time, Smith officially became a completely free agent, and he has the right to join any ball.

Team.

Regarding Smith's issue, the Hawks management expressed their hope to send out the "Eagle King" through a sign-and-trade, but in the end Smith chose to sign directly because the Pistons had enough salary space.

The addition of Smith will greatly enhance the Pistons' frontcourt strength, which currently includes Greg Monroe and center Andrew Drummond.

According to sources, the Pistons management is very satisfied with the acquisition of Smith, and the team is looking forward to making a run for the playoffs next season.

The 27-year-old Smith is in his prime. At 2.06 meters tall, he is one of the most comprehensive forwards in the NBA.

Statistics show that Smith played a total of 76 games for the Hawks in the regular season last season and started all of them. He averaged 17.5 points, 8.4 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.8 blocks, and 1.2 steals in 35.3 minutes per game.

In the playoffs last season, Smith averaged 17.0 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists, and 1.8 steals in 33.2 minutes in 6 games.

Having been in the league for 9 years, Smith has averaged 15.3 points, 8.0 assists, 3.2 rebounds, 2.1 blocks, and 1.3 steals in 34.1 minutes per game throughout his career.

Deng Fang is not interested in Josh Smith.

Josh Smith has excellent physical fitness, but is technically rough, especially his shooting ability.

If that's all, that's it. The most important thing is that Josh Smith, like Howard, doesn't have the ability to be the boss, but he has the heart to be the boss!

To put it bluntly, it’s just high-minded but low-handed, and it’s not worth the money!



In the early morning of July 13, well-known ESPN reporter Mark Stein reported that well-informed sources revealed that completely free agent Monta Ellis has finally found a new club!

It is reported that Ellis has reached a three-year verbal agreement with the Mavericks worth a total of US$30 million. In this agreement, US$25 million is guaranteed, and according to the team's salary space, Ellis can get up to 3,000 US dollars.

Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

Last season, the 27-year-old Ellis rejected a three-year contract extension worth $36 million from the Bucks. Last month, he decided to opt out of the final year of his contract, which was worth $11 million.

Entering free agency.

Because he misjudged the situation, Ellis did not seek the expected big contract after the free agent market opened on July 1. Seeing that other outstanding players had found their homes, the slightly impatient Ellis made a decision

He decided to fire his agent Jeff Fried. It is reported that Ellis's new agent is Dan Fagan.

As the Bucks' scoring leader, Ellis played all 82 regular season games last season, averaging 19.2 points, 6.0 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 2.1 steals in 37.5 minutes per game.

In the first round of the playoffs when the Bucks lost to the Heat 0-4, Ellis averaged 14.3 points, 5.5 assists, 3.3 rebounds, and 2.5 steals in 38.0 minutes per game.

The Mavericks will be the third NBA team that Ellis has played for in his career. The previous two teams were the Warriors and Bucks. It was previously reported that the Kings were interested in Ellis, and finally after weighing it, Ellis

Leith chose to travel to Dallas.

As for Ellis, he, like Howard and Josh Smith, has a problem, that is, he has too much ambition and too little ability.

The difference is that the other two have excellent physical fitness and are much more famous, and there are many teams who want to try their luck on them.

But Ellis is different!

Therefore, a person's greatest advantage and most important ability is self-knowledge...


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