NBA has been opening the door to the free trading market on July 1st.

However, at the beginning of free market trading, there is still a period of freezing.

The main thing is to leave time for everyone to negotiate, to compare and strive to sell at a good price.

In fact, before the free market officially opened, many teams and players had already started secret negotiations, but they could not contact, meet, and announce the final decision until the market opened.

Usually by mid-July, when the freezing period ends, a large number of signing agreements will be reached.

However, basically, the signing agreements reached in July are all unknown small characters and small contracts.

Like this time, O'Neil Garnett swaps owners, Timberwolves middlemen make a difference and sell O'Neal to Boston, which are all completed in August and September, when the free market is the hottest and most tense.

There is no doubt that these two incredible deals have contributed to the prosperity of the free market this year.

From these two pieces of hand, we can see that the two giants of Lakers and Celtics have taken action one after another and have done a considerable job in competing for the championship next season.

It can be predicted that in addition to the defending champion Bucks, there will be a super strong team in the East and West this season that can compete with the Bucks.

So what reason does other teams that want to go further have to be indifferent and do nothing?

However, the greatest pressure was given to the Bucks.

The Bucks management has thought that the Lakers will make great achievements this offseason, but who would have thought that the Lakers would actually exchange O'Neal for Garnett!

Switch alone, no draft picks added!

This is too cool!

You know, although Garnett is one of the best superstars in the league, he has never been a player who dominates the league.

But O'Neal is the strongest player without any dispute!

Judging this transaction from the strength level, the Lakers took the initiative to send O'Neal away and came to Garnett from the Timberwolves trade, which would be a loss.

More importantly, the salary of the two is not equal.

In 1996, O'Neal signed a seven-year, $121 million contract with the Lakers.

Immediately in 1997, Garnett signed a 6-year, $126 million, a record-breaking super contract with the Timberwolves.

That is to say, Garnett contracts with larger salary but shorter years are more expensive.

The Lakers use O'Neal to trade for Garnett, which is relatively "high salary and low ability", not only does it take up more salary space.

But even so, the Lakers did this without hesitation.

That's because it's all up to the peers.

I have to say that it was He Li who invisibly caused this transaction.

After all, if the Lakers want to recreate the Lakers dynasty in five years, they have to solve Heli and the Bucks with Heli in the past two years.

As long as He Li is still in a rookie contract and as long as He Li is not seriously injured, the Bucks will be more competitive than any team.

The Lakers are very clear that if they want to defeat the Bucks, they must have a top striker, not a center player like O'Neal who dominates the penalty area.

The Lakers' management is not a good deal. On the contrary, the Lakers' management, led by the logo man, is one of the best industry elites in the league.

The logo man planned to leave the Lakers after the founding of the Lakers Dynasty, because the Lakers were a little impetuous and inflated for two years, and it became increasingly uninteresting to see his importance.

So, he is ready to bring his management talent to the next team.

However, after the Lakers lost to the Bucks 0-4 this summer, Lakers boss Bus almost knelt down for the logo man.

After Old Bass struggled to retain the logo man, the logo man took the helm again and took off with the Lakers.

It was just a while ago that through this amazing operation, O'Neal's single-for-Garnett transaction was facilitated.

In the eyes of logo men, is O'Neal suffering a loss by switching to Garnett alone?

He is not at a loss at all. Garnett has defense and top defense! Garnett can not only defend alone, but also assist in defense, supporting the team's defensive system.

But in addition, Garnett can still attack, get a spot, and grab rebounds.

Garnett can do anything inside players can do, and can do things that most inside players cannot do.

More importantly, Garnett's body shape and footsteps can try to defend against others.

This is very important, fully increasing Garnett's value and making up for the gap between Garnett's "premium contract" and O'Neal.

Besides, the logo man has always been very optimistic about Kobe, but he will also have a headache about Kobe's growing desire to take action.

The Lakers were easily swept by the sudden rise of the Bucks at the critical moment of establishing a dynasty with three consecutive championships, which exposed many problems in the Ok combination.

With the real strength of the Ok combination, it is absolutely fine to play against the Lakers until the sixth game. No matter how bad it is, you can win a game back from the Bucks and not be swept cleanly by the Bucks.

But the result is that the O-combination dislikes each other and ignores the feelings of other players. The two leading players of the team are in a state of disagreement. How can the team run at high speed and move forward quickly?

At this time, it was time for the Lakers to have to change their faces.

As for who is the boss of the Lakers after Garnett came to the Lakers?

That goes without saying that Kobe had won the championship before Garnett came!

It is precisely because Garnett does not take advantage of the ball, and Garnett is willing to come to the Lakers to win the championship, so this deal will be reached in early August, rather than entrusting it until September.

As for whether to care about O'Neal's feelings, you naturally don't need to worry about it.

Another reason why the Lakers traded O'Neal instead of Kobe was that O'Neal renewed a three-year, $88 million super contract in advance in 2000.

Through this early renewal, the Lakers directly extended O'Neal's contract to 2006.

It can be said that almost all O'Neal's peak period was booked in advance.

But the problem is that in the past two years, O'Neal has not been enterprising, has begun to become lazy, has started to play big names, has not trained, and even used injuries as an excuse to take a break.

But in summer, O'Neal went to film movies, record songs, and even go to nightclubs.

The personality problems of black people are a big problem. Many black players sign big contracts and don’t play seriously after they don’t have enough money.

At the peak, O'Neal does have the ability to dominate the entire league, but this dominance is getting smaller and smaller because of O'Neal's character as time goes by.

Especially after He Li emerged this season, whether O'Neal still has absolute dominance or not needs a question mark!

Next season, it’s hard to say whether O’Neal will dominate the entire league or He Li will be the number one player in this league.

Therefore, in order to consider the present and look at the future, the Lakers need to deal with O'Neal.

And, it's not just a simple trade from the Timberwolves to Garnett.

Under the influence of the logo man, the Timberwolves management has become smarter and smarter.

O'Neal's water is too deep, and the Timberwolves know that they can't grasp it.

In the past two years, O'Neal has been a big shot, eating alone, not signing sports brands, and making sneakers and props by himself.

The most important thing is that even the agent who had been working with for ten years was kicked away, with his uncle as his agent.

The most slutty thing is that his agent just helped O'Neal win a three-year contract extension in the Lakers in 2000. After signing the contract, he left the donkey and killed him.

Simply put, playing basketball in NBA is not about fighting and killing, but about human nature.

O'Neal, this fat man, has huge benefits coveted by the whole league, but suddenly runs to the single gang. Wouldn't he besieged by the group?

Therefore, after the Timberwolves traded to O'Neal, they didn't keep it for themselves.

Indeed, a super giant like O'Neal can sell tickets if you stay in the Timberwolves.

But if you just want to sell tickets, you don’t have to trade Garnett at all. Garnett itself is a “big box office”!

The Timberwolves management also knows that O'Neal can't help the Timberwolves win the championship just by trading, so they can only focus on the future and use O'Neal to trade from other teams to the future they want.

Speaking of Timberwolves' boss and vice president Kevin McHale himself was born into a Celtic.

Under Kevin McHale's operation, O'Neal was decisively sent to the Celtics.

The Celtics are also trying to rebuild their glory, feeling that the previous Celtic Gemini could not bring them the glory they wanted.

Then it’s better to take the opportunity to change it and change it to O’Neil Ga Pierce’s new lineup, one inside and one outside.

In the Celtics' view, O'Neal is still the most dominant player in the league.

When the Celtics win the championship, they have always needed such a super giant with the inside stabilization of the sea.

Besides, Pierce is indeed much better than Antoine Walker.

In addition, Pierce is also one of the few stars in the league who can defend against He Li alone. Of course, it can't be defended, so let's talk about it.

As the attack and defense are becoming more and more expensive, it is undoubtedly a wise move for the Celtics to keep Pierce.

There is another good thing about the Celtics trading O'Neal, that is, there are many first-round picks signed by the Celtics in recent years, but they don't have time to train them.

Now that the Celtics have returned to the playoffs, the draft picks in the next few years are not important, so it is just right to pack Antoine Walker and send them to the Timberwolves, which is just right, and it is considered to be a loss of burden.

The Timberwolves seem to suffer a loss, but in fact they are not.

The Timberwolves have many potential rookies, such as Joe Johnson.

In addition, the Timberwolves were punished by the league for their Yin-Yang contract, but the punishment has ended from next season.

In other words, starting next season, the Timberwolves will finally have the choice to play badly.

Although it is still unknown whether the next year will be the New Year of the Draft or the Big Year of the Draft.
To be continued...