Go home basketball +1, Finney Smith for Ayton and Laravia

Anthony Irwin, a reporter from Clutch Points, wrote an article in the past two days to talk about some inside information about the Lakers and Doncic this summer. In fact, most of the time I spent talking about how the Lakers cooperated with Doncic to form a brand new individual team, but also talked about some parts about the Rockets. That is, the Lakers want to use Doncic's relationship to keep Finney Smith, but the latter eventually left the team. It’s not that the two of them have no close relationship, but that Finney Smith wants to return to Texas to play.

Texas exempts athlete taxes from Texas is a popular science that everyone knows, but DFS wants to come to the Rockets in addition to their income, in fact, because of their feelings. In fact, DFS is a Virginian born on the East Coast, but he has lived in Dallas in the early days. His family also followed him in Texas for more than 7 years. This is considered home basketball > brother basketball. After all, it is not easy to break up the Tony combination.

In addition to geographical reasons, Finney Smith also has another dissatisfaction, which is that he believes that the Lakers' handling of the negotiations is also one of the main reasons for his departure. I guess I am not satisfied with the Lakers' enthusiasm for renewal before the free market starts. After all, DFS can actually finalize the contract as soon as possible, and the Lakers' options for DFS's contract renewal is relatively low. However, the wrong entry and error is also because the Lakers lost DFS, which led to their full non-luxury tax middle class special case.

And most importantly, the Lakers actually waited for the Trail Blazers to be caught off guard: cut Ayton. This kind of center with a total of 35 million yuan can be cut in a few years (not only Ayton but also Lillard and Bill this year, it was simply a buyout of the New Year). The Lakers finally used the relationship between Ayton and Doncic and successfully won the former in the first month.

If DFS chose to stay in the Lakers at that time, then they would not have the full middle class of non-luxury tax and could only provide the mini middle class, so they would be unlikely to compete in the free market to Ayton, because the latter can actually get a tens of millions of contracts in a well-paid team such as walking. DFS's departure gave the Lakers the opportunity to use the full middle class in the free market. They signed Ayton with 8 million of them and signed 3D Lalavia, which was linked to by the free market with another 6 million.

If it develops in the long run, it will make more profitable. This is the interesting thing about the free market. Any operation will affect the subsequent results. However, it will definitely make a profit for the Rockets. They locked in DFS with a 4-year contract that is even lower than the full middle class. This contract also has a lot of non-guaranteed parts and team options, so the flexibility is absolutely full. If you want to say it's a pity that the Rockets' free market was too active in the early stage this year and used up all their salary space early, so that they could only recruit with a basic salary contract in the past half month.

It is true that the free market has changed dramatically this year. A few days later, a big brand was bought out, which led to most teams that had been confirmed on the roster early in the morning to only watch other teams perform. I personally think that Bill and Lillard are actually quite suitable for the Rockets. However, Coach Li has no pursuit of winning the championship and is focused on returning to Portland to retire. It’s a real pity that it’s Bill. I personally think that the Rockets’ lineup is still very short of shooters.