: One thousand and six: the greed of champion teams

　　 Jimmy Butler's departure was not only beyond Link's expectations, but also reasonable.
　　 Indeed, three consecutive championships, this is an achievement that many players dream of. Many people don't even mention three consecutive championships. If you want to win a championship, you have to work hard throughout your career.
　　 Even so, it may not be available.
　　 But not a team that has won three consecutive championships can definitely maintain the status quo. After all, everyone has their own pursuits and goals. Not everyone wants to repeat one thing in a team.
　　 Especially after winning three consecutive championships, people's psychology will change.
　　 Let alone three consecutive championships, even after winning a championship, the championship lineup is not rare.
　　 The Dallas Mavericks in 2011, the Lakers after the last three consecutive championships, etc. are all living examples.
　　 No team can always dominate one side. The huge mobility of players is also one of the greatest charms of the NBA.
　　 In this regard, Pat Riley, a well-known NBA coach and the current general manager of the Heat team, has long studied and summarized this situation. He vividly calls this mentality "greed and hyperemia."
　　 Pat Riley is not just a well-known head coach, it is not enough to sum up his greatness. Riley has a very thorough understanding of the sport of basketball and the NBA.
　　 He is one of the few people who can win a championship in this league as player, coach and general manager. This is not because Riley is lucky.
　　 He can lead the team to win the championship as a coach, and as the general manager, he can finalize the transfer of the big three of the Heat.
　　 He has his own ideas about basketball. He predicted that the boundaries between different positions in basketball will become more and more blurred in the future. There will be five players of about 2.05 meters on the basketball court.
　　 Now, this trend is gradually becoming a reality.
　　 The greediness of the championship team is also a very real theory put forward by Pat Riley.
　　A game, a series, or even a season may not reflect the impact of participation on the enthusiasm and motivation of players.
　　 But what about two seasons? How about creating a dynasty? When in the third and fourth seasons, you still just stayed silently at the bottom corner and made an open three-pointer, combined with the inertia of the championship team "I have been on the top of the mountain", you can still maintain the first time you hit the championship. Concentration, and still feel that seeing the same face every day to complete 82 games is a fun, passionate and honorable thing?
　　 After a team wins a championship in a certain year, all players will want more time, more money, higher status or more shots in the second year.
　　 They would think "I am already a champion player, I should always have some privileges of my own, instead of repeating pick-and-rolls and open three-pointers every day, giving the spotlight to another person."
　　 He will want to be on his own and create his own era of champions.
　　 He would think that he has won enough championships, and maybe he should continue his career in another way.
　　 Everyone has their own thoughts and desires. This is the greed of the championship team, an inevitable phenomenon that occurs in every winning team.
　　 Pat Riley has seen this phenomenon thoroughly and put forward theories many years ago. He knows that the players in this league are not a bunch of data, but a living person.
　　 You can't make everyone's minds highly unified, as if Iguodala doesn't like the role of a star, but some people are fascinated by it.
Many years ago, guard Gary Neal, who was discovered and trained by Popovich, said when he left the Spurs,
The Spurs are indeed a great team, but no matter how many championships and victories there are, You will never be the protagonist. The protagonist is Parker, Ginobili, and Duncan. No one will remember you at all."
　　 Therefore, Gary Neal chose to leave.
　　 So, it's not that a team always wins, always wins the championship, everyone will stay forever.
　　Don't talk about these role players. Superstars like James, Garnett, Paul and others have never made it to the first team.
　　 And the players of the old first team are not necessarily as glamorous as they seem.
　　 Don't look at Duncan now that he has become a symbol of the Spurs, but at the beginning of the millennium, he was close to the Orlando Magic infinitely.
　　 Don't look at Kobe now as the totem of the Lakers, but he used to go to Chicago to play. If it wasn't for the Lakers to get Gasol, God knows if Kobe is still wearing a purple and gold shirt.
　　 At first, Link was actually a little hard to accept that Butler was leaving.
　　 But after going back and thinking about this the next day, Link was relieved.
　　 Not only did he accept the fact that Butler wanted to leave, but he was also mentally prepared for more people to leave.
　　 This summer is a wonderful summer. But inevitably, it will be a parting summer.
　　 "What's the matter? You've been distracted after returning from dinner with Jimmy yesterday." Rachel, who was lying in Link's arms watching TV, touched his face, and Link came back to his senses.
　　 "Nothing, thinking about our travel route, hehe." Link smiled, he didn't want to bring work troubles to Rachel.
　　 "It's pretty good, go take a shower, the water should already be hot."
　　 "It's still early, it's only eleven o'clock."
　　 "You have to rest early today. You forgot, will you go to the rookie's trial tomorrow?"
　　 "Oh, yes." Link patted his forehead. Tomorrow is the day when this year's rookies will try out at the Federal Express Arena.
　　 And Link will naturally come to the scene, as far as possible to let the Grizzlies bring some useful people back to the team.
　　Since the Grizzlies have always been a champion team, there are no high draft picks. The low overall draft requires Link's future experience.
　　 Speaking of which, time flies so fast. I don’t know what happened to Jokic and Dinwiddie, who were selected last year, a year later.
　　 One of them is in Europe and the other is in the development alliance. They haven't even started to make their mark in the Grizzlies, and it's time to make choices again.
　　 Link got up to go to the bathroom, but after a few steps, he turned back and looked at Rachel, "Aren't you together?"
　　Rachel smiled and turned off the TV, and got up from the sofa.
"OK then."
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　　 When Link came to the entrance of the Federal Express Arena the next day, he found a lot of fans gathered outside the arena.
　　 They all came for Jimmy Butler.
　　 This morning, Butler officially announced that he will not renew his contract immediately, but will test the free agent market.
　　 There is no doubt that this is undoubtedly a depth bomb for the entire free agency market.
　　 Although Butler is not the star of the Grizzlies, he is undoubtedly worthy. Everyone believes that there will be many teams vying to win big contracts for Butler.
　　 So early this morning, fans gathered at the entrance of the stadium. Some of them held signs with the words "Keep it, Jimmy", and some held signs with the words "Go away, traitor".
　　 It seems that fans have very different views on Butler's departure.
　　 Link shook his head. The parting is unpleasant for everyone but has to go through.
　　 Soon, Link crossed the player tunnel to the training hall. Like last year, the rookies on the court are already warming up.
　　 Seeing Memphis's "His Majesty" arrive, the rookies instantly become serious.
　　 "Morning Link." After seeing Link ~EbookFREE.me~, Georg waved at him, "What's wrong with you? The dark circles are so heavy."
　　 "Uh... I slept a bit late yesterday, hehe." Link scratched his head embarrassedly.
　　 He even suspected that Rachel urging herself to take a bath was a trap from the beginning...
　　 "Pay attention to rest, how is your injury?"
　　 "Recover soon, as long as you don't exercise vigorously, there will be basically no pain. By the way, Jimmy's thing..."
"Jimmy has talked with the management, he insisted on leaving, and claimed not to be for money. I think it is irreversible that we lose Jimmy. Besides, we have no advantage in the price of the contract. I heard, Many teams are ready to sign Jimmy for five years at a price of close to 100 million. We can’t open up this number at all. Because this summer, we have to renew the contract with Mark. Next summer, we have to renew the contract with Conley. We have nothing to do. Space for manipulation."
　　 "Um...there is no way, this is the NBA." Link shook his head and did not continue to regret too much.
　　 "But I have worse news than Jimmy." Georgel looked at Link with a serious face.
　　 "The worse news?"
　　 "I heard that Kevin Durant is likely to jump out of his final year contract and enter the free agent market. Moreover, the Golden State Warriors will be his first transfer target."
　　 "Watt!?"
　　 Link was completely dumbfounded, Durant left the Thunder a whole year earlier than in the original history!
　　 The face of history has changed beyond recognition.