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The five stars who have not found their next home so far in the offseason

Howard had it coming, and Ade was upset

By boland gracelynPublished 2 years ago 10 min read
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The five stars who have not found their next home so far in the offseason
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There are still 9 days to go, the NBA preseason will start, now the teams have completed their reinforcement, in the past period, many teams in the league completed the excellent operation, like the Clippers, they extended the contract of Covington, Batum, also took John Wall, next season the Clippers have a chance to chase the championship trophy, they have completed great reinforcements, Wall also has a chance to prove himself here Wall has a chance to prove himself here.

When the Wizards were traded to the Rockets, Wall because of the big contract, has been questioned as a premium contract, in the offseason Rockets and he reached a buyout contract, and now Wall is just a mini-mid-income joined the Clippers, I believe he can play low pay high performance, in the league, not all players have Wall's luck, now there are five former stars in the league did not get a contract, together Let's take a look at who is there.

Howard had it coming

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Howard when he was young is considered to be able to single for James's existence, in 12 years is to join forces with Kobe ho group F4, thought this joint will let Howard to the peak of life, but whoever thought Howard here only want to be the boss, the locker room to get a chicken feather, and finally in this season only into the first round of the playoffs will be eliminated, the off-season Lakers want to renew his contract, the results of Howard directly gave a request. "I can renew my contract, but send Kobe away."

In the trade-off, the Lakers finally chose the injured Kobe, and Howard also because of this reason his position in the league is declining, and eventually fell to the point of no ball to play, in the 19 off-season if not the Lakers give him the opportunity, Howard has even long disappeared in the league, and this time Howard can return to the Lakers, his efforts are also very critical, he sincerely apologized to his teammates, and He apologized sincerely to his teammates and played well as a substitute, helping the team to win the championship.

After Howard had bounced around the 76ers, he was able to get a stable contract, and in the last season the Lakers brought Howard back to the team, last season Howard averaged 6.2 points, 5.9 rebounds, 0.6 steals, and 0.6 blocks, as a backup center to play such a performance is very good, but why in this off-season Howard and no one asked for it? The thing is also from before the NBA selection 75 big starts.

In the selection of the top 75, Howard did not make the cut, and Lillard and Brow were selected, on their career achievements, indeed less than Howard, but the NBA is after all a business league to promote young players, but this caused Howard's dissatisfaction, in the locker room all kinds of chatter, eventually annoying Brow, leading to the rupture of the Lakers last season, his tumor attributes still exist, which for Any team is a time bomb, so not getting a contract is also normal.

Cousins ruined by injury

Cousins in the early stages of his career, although temperamental, no one has ever questioned his talent, he had 11 consecutive years to take an average of 20 + 10 performance, but also was a seven-time All-Star selection, when it was considered the future of the league's first center, the results in the King traded him to the Pelicans, he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon, which also made the loss of the original outbreak of cross-speed, but then the decline in athletic ability It's not particularly impressive, playing for the Warriors is still averaging 16 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists a game.

But after joining the Lakers Cousins suffered a major injury, this time let Kao Shen completely obliterated, also because of this injury, Cousins can not even get a base salary of stable contracts, generally get a short contract, but there is still good technology, Cousins in the play rocket period, an average of 20 minutes will be able to take 9.6 points 7.6 rebounds 2.4 assists performance, but he scored how many points The opponent will get as many points or more because his feet are too slow to become the opponent's ATM.

Last season the Nuggets gave him a short contract, this time Cousins played well, averaging 11 minutes in the playoffs to get 10 points, 3 rebounds, and 1.2 assists, shooting 65% from the field and 66.7% from three, at first with the efficient play, he even got the Nuggets general manager's appreciation, after the end of the season, the Nuggets general manager has said: "off-season Our primary goal is to extend Cousins, and he will get a stable contract."

As a result, after the offseason came, the Nuggets gave Jordan a contract but gave up Cousins. Jordan averaged 3 points and 3 rebounds in 10 minutes per game last season, which is completely inferior to Cousins' performance, so why did he get the Nuggets' approval? One of the main reasons here is that Cousins has been plagued by injuries, and he has been fighting his knee injury for the past season, while Jordan Jr. is very healthy, and although functionally Jordan Jr. is no better than Cousins, health seems to be what this team values more.

Anthony still can't let go of his price

Anthony's peak period had and James flush, but the two took a different path, James has always wanted to win the game, for which he can sacrifice his data, Anthony is cool data, the year Billups had revealed that Anthony if you can cut 30 points in a single game, even if you lose the game he is also very happy, but if you do not cut 30 points, win the game he will also be unhappy, this is Anthony has been the character This is Anthony's character all along.

Although in the year after leaving the Knicks to join the Thunder, such brush points character has changed, but he still cares about his position, when the Thunder Big Three if Anthony plays the sixth man, perhaps their ceiling will be very high, but also because Anthony is not willing to sacrifice their tactical position eventually led to the team's first at all no chemistry, which also let the Thunder to failure, Anthony after the pay cut Join the Lakers, because he is not willing to sacrifice the ball, coupled with very inefficient, and eventually directly bought out.

This is close to the path of Anthony to play without the ball, but the Trail Blazers gave him a chance, Anthony also realized that he is not suitable to play the starting core, he began to play the main bench sixth man, and whether in the Trail Blazers or after joining the Lakers, Anthony got his due respect, last season playing for the Lakers, he also averaged 13 points and 4 rebounds, shooting 45% from the field, 37% from 3-point range. The three-point shooting rate of 37% is very good.

According to his strength, in this off-season wanting to find a preferred contract should not be difficult, but why so far has Anthony still did not get the team to sign it? Previously the Celtics were rumored to be interested in getting Anthony, and the two sides were also interested in each other, but because of the issue of ball rights, the two sides had a dispute, and Anthony wanted more plays. And previously the Lakers had contacted Anthony, they can give Anthony so many plays, but Anthony felt they could not win the game directly and refused.

The high is not low, the melon still did not put down the price.

Ade is old

Ade in the peak is the best player in the league on the 4 position technology, although he is not as good as the talent of the thick eyebrows, by the unresolved technology, his kill is also very stable, a hand in the middle distance is to let the opponent can not do anything, Popovich even recruited him to the Spurs to let him become the successor of Duncan, but Ade empty of Duncan's technology, but not Duncan's defense and leadership temperament, he is also not The team had Leonard, and the team had a lot of people.

But at that time the team had Leonard, small card offense and defense as one, they also had teamed up to play in the divisional finals, but Appalachia's kick made Ade completely lose the opportunity to win the title, if I may say Ade is also unlucky enough, first by Pachulia pit, after joining the Bucks, the first season because of heart disease retired, the second season Ade full-blooded return, the result was again pitted by Irving, his demolition team attributes directly let the team Lost the possibility of winning the title.

This is not the main thing, Ade in last season's playoffs miserable Nash abandoned, you know during the regular season Ade can average 13 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1 block performance, shooting 55%, efficiency is still great, although his defense in the defensive end of the defense is no longer, Ade in the offensive end and box protection can still give the team help, at least in the face of the Celtics in the playoffs, he The Celtics are more suitable than Griffin to play against Horford, but Nash did not reuse him.

A player in the key game abandoned, may not be his problem, but the problem of the head coach, but it will make other teams not dare to take the risk to take him, they also believe that if good not to be abandoned, the result Ade also by Nash to the pit, in addition to Nash there is an important reason is that Ade is 37 years old, he is no longer as good for the team to help as before The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you want to do, and he has heart problems.

Griffin destroyed by injury

The peak Griffin is one of the strongest players in the league among the actual dunking, in the Clippers period, at first he was stunning the whole league, but afterward because of the delay across the Spurs, but also met with questions, but after leaving the Clippers to join the Pistons, Griffin is the real sense to prove themselves, he used his comprehensive performance to lead the Pistons into the playoffs, and Griffin also played the top holding big core style.

However, Griffin is very unwise, in the first round of the playoffs, the Pistons face the first Bucks in the division, and obviously can not beat the situation, but Griffin chose to play closed out of the game, which also led to his peak is not in, after the return of Griffin and therefore did not get the Pistons recognition, discouraged under Griffin chose to leave the Pistons, he joined the Bucks, Griffin also clear, after this major injury, he is afraid The first season, because of Irving and Haha, the first season of the first season.

As a result of the first season because of Irving and Harden's injury, the Bucks lost, but in the playoffs, Griffin's performance is very eye-catching, for the Bucks in the off-season also renewed Griffin, the results and because of Irving, Griffin also did not take the championship, estimated that Griffin is now some hard to be fair, he has no team interested in him, wants to take the desired championship ring is a dream.

After a major injury, Griffin's athletic ability is not there, but his space ability and ability or good, but he is like Ade, in the last season was abandoned by Nash, and in recent days the Bucks team reporter for Griffin was abandoned to say the reason: "Nash think Griffin has not been able to shoot", such rumors The reason why Griffin was discarded was that he

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