: 223: finally getting busy

On November 26, after the NBA officially announced the end of the lockout, all teams immediately opened the pre-season training camp. With less than a month before the start of the new NBA season, the teams are immediately busy.
Then a very embarrassing thing is that many teams found that they simply did not have enough people to participate in the pre-season training camp of the new season!
Since the free agent market and the transfer market have not yet opened, most players have not signed, so there are often situations where there are only a few people in a team.
Among them, Link is naturally included. His contract has expired. According to the rules, he cannot participate in the Grizzlies pre-season training camp...
When Link returned to Memphis happily, but was told that he could only participate in training after signing the contract, Link really wanted to scold the people who made these silly rules.
So Link can only rent a training hall by himself to keep himself in shape. The day before the opening of the free agency market, that is, on December 7, the NBA officially announced the schedule for this season.
The regular season of this season will start from the end of December to the end of April. Although the regular season has shrunk by nearly two months, the number of games has not shrunk much. This season, the players still have 66 games to play! Compared to a normal season, only 16 games are missing!
The match was two months late, but the number of matches was only one month away. It is equivalent to the fact that the league has just overrun the game for a month, and the average division into the season. It seems that the alliance is also frantic in order to recover the loss.
This arrangement of the schedule has made back-to-back the norm in the game. The so-called "back-to-back", that is, the situation of three-game matches, will often happen this season! Of course, there are also arrangements of 4 games in 5 days, which are not uncommon.
In the entire schedule, the league has arranged a total of 42 back-to-back-to-back matches, which means that every team has at least one round of back-to-back matches, and some have more than one round!
For back-to-back matches, the league has arranged a total of 529 games!
Next season, Link believes that it will be a miserable season for many teams. The intensive schedule will also greatly increase the risk of injury to the players. Link must also protect himself. If he is injured, he will be blind.
For professional players, the biggest enemy is not your opponent, but injury!
One day later, on December 8, Link signed the three-year contract in Chris Wallace's office. Jeff Austin has already said that he will not sign with any team, so the other teams have not yet come out, the Grizzlies took the lead in completing the contract extension with Link.
"I hope we can go further these three years, Link." After signing the contract, Chris Wallace's nerves that had been strained for half a year finally relaxed.
As long as you can grasp the core, the subsequent operations will not be difficult.
Link finally let out a sigh of relief. Now, he can finally practice with the team!
That afternoon, Link finally met Jimmy Butler for the first time in Chris Wallace's office.
As soon as the transfer market opened, Mayo and Butler's deal was immediately completed. After all, the two teams have reached an agreement long ago, just waiting for the league to review it. So this year's pre-season training camp, Mayo went directly to Brooklyn to report. And Jimmy Butler will come to Memphis to sign his rookie contract.
Butler is still quite young at this time, simple inches and smiles of joy, it is really difficult for Link to associate him with the future stars of the league.
But if the Grizzlies want to see Jimmy Butler play a role, they may have to wait a while longer.
After signing Jimmy Butler, Chris Wallace renewed Shane Battier without stopping.
In the original history, Battier went to the Heat this offseason. And the move of letting Battier go easily is considered one of the worst operations of the Grizzlies that year.
But now in this history, Battier is interested in the Grizzlies, and he wants to see what kind of spark he can make with the Grizzlies. The Grizzlies don't want to easily break up the team that reached the Western Conference Finals last season.
Therefore, the two parties hit it off and renewed the contract again. Subsequently, Wallace shot Sam Young, who was squeezed without a chance last season, and changed from the Hornets to the energetic second-year guard Quincy Pondset. Pondset is another quasi 3D player, and it seems that Wallace really wants to make the Grizzlies into a bronze wall.
The Grizzlies’ signings went well, but for some teams, the late transfer market is not so good.
The first is the Mavericks. The Mavericks, who just won the championship last season, have just lost their lineup this season.
Tyson Chandler traveled to New York City for 4 years and 58 million. Barea, Stevenson and Butler also left one after another. Cuban was obviously unwilling to spend too much money on them, and instead replaced them with cheaper Odom and Carter.
But to be honest, Chandler's effect on the Mavericks last season was not something other people could easily replace.
Speaking of Odom, I have to talk about the more tragic Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers originally put Gasol and Odom on the shelves, preparing to welcome Chris Paul.
As a result, the league rejected the deal with the phrase "basketball reason".
At this time, the Hornets had no bosses and belonged to the alliance hosting state. The Cavaliers owner complained in a joint letter, telling Stern that the small city does not have human rights, Barabara, and it was the Lakers' deal that was disturbed.
In the end, Paul did not make his wish with Kobe, but switched to the Los Angeles Clippers. Although it still came to Los Angeles and Staples, the ending was quite different.
The Lakers are embarrassed by doing this. It is equivalent to the player who was put on the shelf, and was returned, making a two-sided person.
Gasol is okay over there, the Spaniard has always been very peaceful. Although more or less hurt, but still willing to get along with the Lakers management.
As for Odom, the Lakers simply left him to Dallas. Dallas won the best sixth man of last season with only one trade exception and a 2012 first-round pick. This is the equivalent of giving away for the Lakers.
Odom's mentality immediately collapsed, his heart is not as strong as Gasol. Link can already
predict
what kind of cliff-jumping the sixth man of last season is about to usher in ~EbookFREE.me~ Generally speaking, for most of the strong teams this year, their trade All failed. The most profitable is undoubtedly the Clippers. People have already begun to look forward to the chemical reaction that Paul and Griffin will have when they cut the 20+10 first pick in the new season.
On the Grizzlies' side, the lineup can only be said to be minor repairs. While retaining the core lineup, the bench depth has been slightly improved.
After all, there are not many big-name free agents this year, and the Grizzlies' core lineup is good. After all, it is a Western Conference Finals team and there is no need to trade core players. What's more, Guy is back this year, and people have reason to believe that the Grizzlies can go further.
Some media even claimed, "The Memphis Grizzlies are the team with the most players!"
After the chaos in the trading market, training camps and preseason games also followed. Due to the short preparation period before the season this year, there are only two preseason games.
However, it is these two games that cast a shadow over the Grizzlies' prospects for the new season.
In the first game against the Timberwolves, Conley sprained an ankle and will definitely miss the beginning of the regular season of the new season.
In the second game against the Hornets without Paul and West, Darrell Arthur ruptured his Achilles tendon and was directly reimbursed for the season...
Conley is fine, after all, a sprained ankle is not a big problem. But watching Arthur rupture his Achilles tendon, Link was really uncomfortable. A ruptured Achilles tendon, even a superstar can't stand it, let alone Arthur.
So, the biggest enemy of professional players is injury.
Link also said before that many teams will be in trouble this season, but he did not expect the Grizzlies to become the first team to be in trouble.
The season was hit before the start, and it seems not easy to go further.
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