The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

The first shot was the Portland Trail Blazers.

As a certain grievance with Wang Xiao, and because of this, he became the biggest beneficiary of the 2007 draft.

This time Jordan was put on the free market, and the Blazers made the move almost without hesitation.

64 million in 4 years, no bird rights, no Curry clause, this is the largest contract that the Blazers can provide within the standard rules.

To be honest, the salary space of the Blazers is not healthy. Roy's contract is as high as 16 million in the 11-12 season. Last season, the Blazers just renewed Durant with 85 million for 5 years. Durant's salary in the new season It will also reach 15.5 million U.S. dollars, and another member of the Trail Blazers, Lamarcus Aldridge completed the renewal agreement in October 2009 and signed a 5-year 65 million U.S. dollar contract. 11 years is also as high as 12 million US dollars.

The combined salary of the Blazers' three young men has reached 43.5 million US dollars, and the contracts of other role players have reached the upper limit of the salary cap.

If Jordan is signed with a maximum salary, the Blazers will undoubtedly trigger the luxury tax.

But Blazers owner Paul Allen doesn't care about the luxury tax.

In the early 20th century, he spent a lot of money trying to get the Blazers to win the championship trophy, but it didn't work.

The players who paid a lot of money to sign were all a bunch of ruffians, and the entire Trail Blazers were made into a mess by them. At that time, the Trail Blazers even had the title of Trail Blazers Prison.

Later, Paul Allen, who couldn't stand it anymore, learned from the pain and ordered the team management to trade all the thorns such as Damon Stoudemire, Rasheed Wallace and Zach Randolph, and then revolved around Bran As the core of the team building, Den Roy slowly recovered.

And now, although Roy's career was almost completely ruined due to meniscus removal surgery, relying on Durant and Aldridge, the Blazers last season still maintained a strong competitiveness.

However, although Durant and Aldridge are both big men, they are not the type who are good at fighting inside. needs.

While Paul Allen wanted to win Jr. Jordan without hesitating to pay a huge luxury tax, he couldn't help thinking that whether it was Durant or Jr. Jordan, they were the players selected by the Chinese who was kicked out by him a few years ago... This feeling is very bad, especially when the Wizards are thriving and reached the finals last season.

But no matter what, the 64 million real money was really placed in front of Jordan.

At the time of the draft, he fell all the way from the small green room to the second round. Jordan may never have thought that he could still get a maximum salary offer during his rookie contract year.

But that's just the beginning.

Following the Blazers, Morey, the general manager of the Rockets, who has always loved the excitement and didn't think it's a big deal, also offered Jordan a maximum salary contract.

Dayao chose to retire in the summer, and the Rockets have already lost the mainstay of the inside line. Although it may be difficult for Jordan to take the position of Dayao, it is better than nothing, right? The Rockets currently have plenty of salary space, and signing Jordan doesn't have to worry about paying the luxury tax.

In addition, there is Jordan's old club, the Los Angeles Clippers.

There is nothing more painful than knowing how to cherish after losing.

In order to get Griffin's No. 1 pick, the Clippers fell into Wang Xiao's tricks and sent Jr. Jordan as a bonus, but when Jr. played his worth in the Wizards, he began to regret it.

They offered Jordan a four-year contract of 58 million yuan, which is not a maximum salary. There is no way, because the current salary space of the Clippers is limited, and the team owner is not willing to pay a high luxury tax.

In November, just after the lockout ended, a sensational event happened in the league. The Lakers, Hornets and Magic almost reached a three-way deal. The Lakers almost got Paul and Howard to form the Big Three after the Celtics. After the Big Three and the Big Three of the Knicks, the fourth Super Big Three in the league.

However, since the Hornets have no boss and the team is managed by the league, as the president of the league, Stern stopped the Hornets' deal, which led to the three-party deal eventually falling through.

Then he led the Hornets to trade Paul to the Clippers, and partnered with Griffin to form a lob city.

But obviously relying on Paul and Griffin alone, it may be difficult for the Clippers to go further, so the team still needs reinforcements. A defensive champion like Jordan is obviously the best choice.

The Trail Blazers, Rockets and Clippers have become the main teams competing for Jordan, but as Jordan's current team, the Washington Wizards have been calm and have no intention of attacking at all.

"Wizards really want to give up Jordan?"

"Bad choice, without Jordan, does the Wizards still have a defense?"

"Next season, the inside line of the Wizards will become a stage for the performances of various centers..."

No one understood why the Wizards let Jordan go so easily. Is Wang Xiao such a short-sighted person?

Let go of Harden, Green and Jordan one after another, can the Wizards continue to occupy a place in the Eastern Conference?

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Two days later, the battle for Jordan finally came to an end.

After much consideration, Jordan finally decided to join the Portland Trail Blazers.

Compared with the Clippers, which also has two All-Star players, the Blazers gave him nearly 6 million more contracts, which is not a small number.

Compared with the Rockets who have given the same maximum salary contract, the Blazers undoubtedly have the potential to win the championship.

Durant, Aldridge, plus Jordan, even if Roy can't come back, this team also has a strong competitiveness in the West.

Even compared with the Clippers, the Blazers are obviously stronger.

The combination of Paul + Griffin is at most equal to Durant + Aldridge. Apart from these two, the Clippers have no other players that can be played, but the Blazers have Durant and Aldridge. There is also experienced veteran Andre Miller, who played 81 games for the Blazers last season, averaging 12.7 points and 7 assists per game.

In addition, in order to fill the shooting guard vacancy after Roy was injured last season, the Trail Blazers traded the Jazz rookie player Wesley Matthews. The latter performed very well as a shooting guard. The defensive and offensive end can also contribute nearly 14 points per game for the team.

Now that Jordan has joined the Trail Blazers, the Trail Blazers' starting lineup has become a lineup of Andre Miller, Wesley Matthews, Kevin Durant, LaMarcus and DeAndre Jordan. It can be regarded as a top-notch team.

Just when the Blazers got Jordan and were full of spirits and joy, the Wizards, who had lost their main center, released such news on their official website.

The team signed Chinese player Yi Jianlian to a one-year, $1.5 million contract.