The draft is over and the free market is about to open.

The free market this year is very lively because someone has run away again!

On July 2, LeBron James's agent team officially announced that James and the Lakers reached a four-year oral agreement of $154 million, of which the fourth year is the player option. The two sides will wait until the contract freeze period ends on July 6 local time to officially sign the contract. The biggest suspense of the 2018 offseason has been revealed. James ended his cooperation with his old club, the Cavaliers, and moved to the Western Conference for the first time in his NBA career.

This news immediately shocked everyone in the NBA circle.

James ran away again!

In fact, we saw signs of James running away in the middle of last season, but everyone still didn't want to believe that this would really come true.

Didn’t you say that you would not leave?

The son of Akron finally ran away!

Of course, it is inevitable that James will run away.

The first thing is to stay in the Knights and see the future.

In the summer of 2017, the Cavaliers sent Irving to the Celtics for Thomas Jr., and signed Ross and Wade. They thought their combat power would increase instead of decline, but things went against their wishes.

From the start of the 17-18 season to the middle of the season, the Cavaliers fell into an unprecedented chaos, the conflicts in the locker room were irreconcilable, and James fell into an embarrassing situation of helplessness. In the end, the Cavaliers management sent away Ross, Wade and Thomas Jr., and the Cavaliers' lineup had become fragmented.

Although he reached the finals, the Cavaliers' lineup has become much weaker, and it is difficult to fight against strong teams, especially when facing the Warriors.

In this case, you can only win the championship if you leave the Cavaliers!

Although leaving the Cavaliers may not necessarily win the championship, it is impossible to win the championship without leaving!

So James must leave!

Where to go?

Go to a team that can be the boss and has a lot of bargaining chips!

Before James joined the Lakers, the Lakers had not entered the playoffs for five consecutive years. Moreover, because the team was in the reconstruction stage, most of the Lakers were young people, and coming to the Lakers as him must be the absolute core and leader.

As a "big family", the Lakers have never rebuilt a team that slowly cultivates new players. When they have a superstar, they will try every means to find other stars to join, so as to directly strive for the championship. This is also the main reason why many stars with goals are very willing to come to the Lakers.

When James returned to the Cavaliers, he sold most of the young players of the Cavaliers and sold a lot of draft picks.

The Lakers must be like this.

The second is commercial reasons.

James is 33 years old and knows that his peak period will not be too long. His time in the NBA has entered the countdown. But this age is still a golden stage in other fields. With James' business acumen, he must obtain more business resources before retiring to pave the way for his career after retiring.

Obviously, Los Angeles is a perfect place - there are already two successful examples among the Lakers superstars, the Magician and Kobe.

Furthermore, James is for his son's education.

Both James' sons are going to attend basketball schools in Los Angeles. The educational resources in big cities are obviously not something that small cities can have. It is obviously not appropriate to live with his family in the eastern United States.

Of course, the latter reason is secondary, mainly the first two, especially the first reason.

James joined the Lakers, and the Lakers immediately made a series of transactions:

Stephenson joins the Lakers with 4.5 million a year!

McGee of the Warriors joins the Lakers with a contract of 2.39 million in a year!

Rondo joins the Lakers with 9 million a year!

Pope signed with the Lakers for 12 million in one year!

This series of operations made Lakers fans excited and began to shout the slogan "Lakes Championship".

However, these enthusiasms were immediately extinguished by the Warriors.

The Warriors did nothing in the draft, but they caused quite a lot of storms in the trading market.

Because Cousins ​​joined the Warriors!

Cousins ​​promised to join the Warriors, not 30 million a year or 20 million a year, but 5.3 million a year!!!

You should know that Cousins ​​has always been known as the top three players in the league's center!

When playing against the Kings, Cousins ​​scored 41+23. He was once a powerful center who started the All-Star in the Western Conference. He scored a career highlight last season and averaged 25+13+5 per game, which is only worth 5.3 million?

Almost everyone was shocked.

The Warriors have really become the Big Five this time!

The universe is invincible!

There is no need to play in the regular season, and the playoffs are meaningless. Just give the Warriors a championship ring!

Besides, did Cousins ​​ignore all the things that happened before? Regardless of his relationship with Brother Davis, he did not consider celebrating the festival with the Warriors?

You know, when the King of the Khao God was in the King, he used "F**k you Warriors" to criticize the Warriors fans...

Even last season, Cousins ​​in the Pelicans still had a hot conflict with the Warriors, and once blocked the Warriors' locker room and wanted to beat Durant...

In addition, the All-Star Game last season, Kao Shen was absent due to injury, and Brother Davis wore Cousins' No. 0 jersey. Cousins ​​tweeted and said, "This strong brotherhood is touching..."

After hearing the news that the King of Kowloon went to the Warriors, I couldn't imagine how much psychological shadow the Pelicans, who had just been eliminated by the Warriors, had... Unless Cousins ​​was the undercover agent used by Thomas to hit the enemy inside???

Of course, the pelicans and thick eyebrows are not the only ones with big heads.

There are also the Lakers and James who just saw hope...

Yesterday, the Lakers signed James, Finson and McGee, who had been headlined all day long, signed Rondo one minute before the Warriors. They were full of ambitions...

As a result, the Warriors ended the battle in just one day... The rhythm of the NBA finale...

Two regular season MVPs, five All-Stars last season, and an FMVP who can stand up at any time is sitting on the bench... This lineup, I dare not even think about playing 2k...

Defeat the Thunder and win Durant.

Defeated the Pelicans and enjoyed Cousins.

Universe courage has definitely become the public enemy of the alliance...

Almost everyone says so.

Only Deng Fang remained calm.

Because he knew that Cousins ​​now is not the Cousins ​​before.

Even Cousins ​​before, his strength is not that great!

Cousins’ biggest problem is that he suffered a serious injury in the middle of the season and was reimbursed for the season!

On January 27, 2018, Cousins ​​tore his left Achilles tendon in the game against the Rockets. He announced that he had a season reimbursement after the game and was expected to rest for about ten months.

This is a very serious injury, especially for a big center like Cousins.

Cousins ​​unblocked the Pelicans' social account in May this year. Obviously, from that time on, the relationship between Cousins ​​and the Pelicans has become worse and worse.

According to the news that came later, the Pelicans provided Cousins ​​with a contract of 40 million for two years after Cousins ​​was injured and the second year was the team option. Cousins ​​refused at the time.

Obviously, in Cousins' opinion, he still deserves a maximum salary contract, and the Pelicans offered him this contract to insult his value.

Cousins' idea was not wrong. Before he was injured, he averaged 25.2 points, 12.9 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game. Just looking at this data, he is definitely worthy of a maximum salary. His mistake is that he miscalculated his own strength, the impact of injuries, and the overall situation of the free market.
Chapter completed!