Leonard's plan, with George's sudden self

Cory Leonard and his team found it interesting to do this -- to put out the message that "every team has a chance to get Leonard, except the Clippers" and eventually, his coterie got everyone in a circle of speculation, and that's what's happening now --Speculation.

After Leonard and Paul George joined forces with the Clippers, well-known journalist Chris Haynes knocked out this quote on Twitter. We can imagine his resentment as he coded, just as we can imagine Lakers management's resentment right now.

The resentment is visible to the naked eye, and from the time Leonard's team released the news of joining the Clippers, the resentment was quantified into millions and millions of dollars, visually reflecting the anger of Lakers fans.

Immediately after Paul George burned down the house of the eating melon Ray honey, and then returned to his and Leonard's happy old home with three years left of his top salary contract.

The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. The righteous, not yet involved in Leonard's crowd still adhere to the idealistic idyll of "a willingness to fight, a willingness to suffer", they firmly believe that Leonard's team is only following the rules and doing the most rigorous planning for their careers.

Until reporter Ramona let out the last straw that broke the Lakers' hearts - two hours before Leonard announced he was joining the Clippers, his team had asked the Lakers to delay the Davis deal, and they didn't give a reason, it was just a condition.

Seriously, this news made me laugh for half an hour.

Put away the smile of "Damn he's too good to do this kind of thing hahahahahaha but I knew he was this kind of person" and let's take a serious look at this drama directed by Leonard.

First of all, Leonard wanted to return to Los Angeles as early as last year, this is no news, he and the team several times to help the Lakers pressure the price of the Spurs, this is also what I sprayed last year's things. But the Spurs didn't get Leonard's wish in the end and traded him directly to the Raptors, a prelude to today's big play.

After Leonard went to the Raptors, the Clippers have been squatting in Toronto, Rivers coach also allegedly "recruiting violations" to eat the league's fine. In fact, without the need for hindsight, anyone can see that the Clippers are the best team for Leonard - Los Angeles, with great management and coaching staff, quality role players and space, and absolute ownership. With the strength of Leonard and the Clippers, even if he enters the team single-core, the Clippers can become a championship-level powerhouse.

But Leonard wanted to win a little more easily.

So he started to contact other stars. Durant is Leonard's primary target, but Durant has just come out of the shadow of his sophomore championship and has paid the price of a ruptured Achilles tendon for this toughest of roads. And the strength has been Leonard's poor grade Butler and a heart when the boss, so Leonard can only choose the third spare tire - Paul George.

You can hardly imagine that this will be something Leonard can do, just as I can hardly imagine him helping the Lakers to pressure the price of the Spurs in the first half of 2018. But there's always a first time for everything, and you get used to it when you get used to it. Just like George, although he still has three years left on his contract, it's not like he hasn't done things to force management to break the bottom line only 0 times and countless times. The next team designated the mother team to apply for trade this kind of thing, he and Leonard are too skilled.

So this time, after the secret passage, lightly familiar with the two people divided work clearly, George is responsible for the Thunder management pressure, let them trade themselves to a place with Leonard; and Leonard is responsible for the Clippers management pressure: "get Paul George, I will join."

From this perspective, both the Clippers and Thunder are the ones being manipulated by the superstar, and both sides have to reach an agreement before the news leaks out, so the deal to designate the next home only seems fair (how else do you think the Thunder got the 7 picks + Gallinari + Alexander chips? Looking back at the past few years of superstar-designated deals, which one was a truly fair swap? (Which time is not the superstar and their future owner team up to suppress the parent team?) The Thunder's "Willow and George for the Raptors' Siakam" is a fantastic dissonance, but fortunately, Ujiri is a righteous man and rejected the unequal treaty.

So in addition to the flurry of "where is Leonard going" farce, the whole of Canada and Los Angeles kneeling, Drake's shares, the paparazzi camera on the helicopter aimed at the special car, the empty airplane meter at the airport, the Lakers and Raptors lining up for Leonard's meeting, the Lakers' sincerity in convincing the three teams to postpone the trade, one after another missed The quality of the players, as well as the various reporters, exposed the gossip, is to play cover for the darkness of the fast boat.

Both hands must be grasped, both hands must be hard. On the surface, Leonard and his team successfully created a hunger marketing, in addition to amplifying their brand, but also use the strange request of "testing the teams' ability to keep secrets" to smoothly promote the dark line of the poaching plan.

What's more, to ensure that nothing can go wrong, Leonard also succeeded in stalling the Lakers (according to WOJ's report, the Lakers are only his third choice, the second spare tire). Needless to say, the spare tire kneeling goddess attitude is so spot on that until Leonard confirmed joining the Clippers two hours ago, the Lakers were asked to delay the Davis deal - with no explanation at all, it was just a unilateral condition of Leonard's team.

The best part is that Chris Carter, the royal reporter for Leonard's team, publicly stated the night before the announcement that "the Lakers are the most likely next home."

Not to mention the story of Woj and the Clippers.

So it's easy to understand why James said "Stop playing with me!" this morning. (Seriously, turn on the superstar self-awakening. (Seriously, James, the mastermind who started the road to superstar self-awakening, also has the day to be played by the latter, which is a bit of a "Trail Seed Cycle" in itself.)

The company's strategy is to make use of its silent characteristics to stay behind the scenes and let its team carry out the details. At the same time supplemented by a variety of news rumors to exert pressure and confuse opponents ...... Leonard perfectly avoids the pervasive nature of the social era, and in turn, perfectly uses the social era to infinitely amplify his superstar influence and perfectly conceal his true intentions.

(Outside of admiring the Clipper's management, we have to be impressed with Leonard, under the disguise of silence is the strategizing and conniving that has played everyone in the dark. No one knows what he wants, no one knows his next move, everyone is surrounding him, and all the cameras are chasing him, but he didn't leak a bit of wind and even let the chasers hold the fantasy of "I have a good chance", and hesitate to let go. In the end, he dazzled almost everyone, and what he wanted: a big city, superstar teammates, and a chance to compete for a championship, all came to him without even realizing it.

Even in this era of superstar-dominated teams, Leonard is a true kingpin. (This is not a derogatory term, it's just my heartfelt exclamation as a Buddhist Spurs fan after witnessing Leonard's operation in the past two years.)

In any case, the wonderful drama revealed this day, fully afforded the black eyes of the fans, we can finally sleep a peaceful sleep with a complex mood, Leonard with Paul George, once again broke through our perception and the bottom line of the NBA industry - the original FMVP can say that he does not like super teams at the same time The original FMVP can seduce all kinds of stars while saying he doesn't like super teams, all the stars in the world are free agents, the original can encourage the stars who still have three-year contracts to apply for trading, the original goddess can hang a kaiju while doing a wedding, the original licking dog licking is nothing at the end, the original has endless gains as long as the bottom line is broken.

This world is how amazing, we are opening our eyes every day, to see a whole new landscape, from George's front foot for the Pacers to show loyalty after the foot farce to go to the Lakers to start, to Leonard every day to update the injury froze not to announce the reimbursement, to the two of them to join forces for the future of the home team for the welfare, to suppress potential opponents, and now the grass snakes and gray line, a double line of attack, the NBA stars of the power game more and more exciting, but also more and more The power game of the NBA stars is getting more and more exciting and expanding the lower limit of fans' tolerance.

I still say the same thing I said last year, if you think Leonard and George's behavior is ok, then I wish your home team more players like that too.

Put aside the simple childish sense of morality, let's talk about the long-term impact - the awakening of player awareness, the benefits will always be only the head of the few superstars, just like the 2011 labor negotiations only cheap superstar, but let the middle-class players ate a secret loss, in recent years the stars dominated the team trade play, only to make the small ball market into a big ball market The leek field, only let the league's top one or two dozen stars to benefit. The teams whose interests are compromised will instead push the league to impose terms that are more favorable to the capitalists. The stars will always have the ability to bypass the rules and create more opportunities off the field, while the average player will have to passively accept the stricter constraints of the owners.

The game of cat and mouse is endless, the superstars in the form of capital predators squeezed on the table, with equal power to deal with management, but the real benefit is only the superstars, the interests of the majority of ordinary players, and a team, unfortunately, miss Los Angeles, New York, and the local fans and market. They did it perfectly, providing everything the superstars wanted - superstar status, a sense of trust, a medical team, strong teammates, and business partnerships ..... As WOJ said, Ujiri met everything, and the Raptors were even able to offer the ultra-luxury of one man, one country, and share options, but they couldn't change the geography, the weather, the market, and Leonard's homesickness.

Not to mention his hometown is still Los Angeles.

If this is the result the NBA and fans want to see, then please abolish the salary cap, draft, and bird rights system as soon as possible, follow the example of European soccer, and just let those few star jammers entertain themselves. A little less deception, a little more pain, this is what Spurs fans last year and Lakers fans this year want to say to Leonard, these are also my heartfelt feelings after witnessing the chaos of the trade market in the past two years.

As for the "Spurs fans get the right to breathe", this kind of thing is not so important.