Chapter 923: Barea’s Parade and the Mavericks that Hit the Screen!

People coming and going has always been a reality in the NBA. Even the Seattle SuperSonics, which has very little personnel turnover, cannot escape this iron law.

The Seattle SuperSonics selected Ty Lawson and Danny Green in the draft.

At the same time, the team's most important substitute player in the past three years, Jose Juan Barea, will also be lost this summer.

As the core of the Seattle SuperSonics' bench for the past three years and one of the most famous sixth men in the league, many teams sent offers to the two-time champion super substitute after Barea was given permission to leave. Invited.

As a small defender whose official height is 1.83 meters and whose actual height is estimated to be only a little over 1.7 meters, perhaps not many teams will pay a large transaction price for such a player.

But since the Seattle SuperSonics have not set up any transaction obstacles for Barea's departure, it is very, very exciting.

He does not have enough organizational skills, and coupled with his height, it is very difficult for him to start in the NBA.

But Barea has proven himself on a championship team.

He can become an important piece of the puzzle for the championship team.

And his experience in two championships is enough to make teams aspiring to the championship excited.

The Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs, Dallas Mavericks, Memphis Grizzlies, Denver Nuggets, and even the Miami Heat have all offered Barea an olive branch.

Barea is simply the substitute sixth man that these strong teams covet most. The little man's step forward at the critical moment against the Heat in the finals is really impressive.

So much so that when Barea left, many Coconuts and Sonics fans didn't understand.

Not to mention other teams.

If you have to choose between James Harden and Barea, even coconut fans and SuperSonics fans know who to choose, right?

"James is a very interesting kid. When he was willing to bear Artest's fatal blow for Yes, I swore that no matter what his performance in the NBA was, I would not criticize him, but, It's hard for me to believe that the team would actually keep him. I believe that as long as the team reveals even a little bit of information that can trade James, jj will not leave, but it is a pity. I wish jj good luck, he will always be He is the No. 11 of the Seattle SuperSonics. I look forward to the day when JJ’s jersey is retired at the New Key Arena. He will always be a legend of Seattle and the pride of the SuperSonics!”

This was the first response from the No. 1 fan in the NBA and the No. 1 SuperSonics fan after the news came that JJ Barea was leaving.

And his response basically represents the voice of all Seattle SuperSonics fans.

For now, since Barea has chosen to force the palace to choose one of the two requests.

It's hard to imagine the Sonics keeping James Harden, then.

Of course, the SuperSonics never wanted to punish Barea by forcing him to go to the palace. Barea knew this and everyone knew it.

So as long as Barea is willing to be teammates with James Harden, he will always have a contract extension with the SuperSonics in front of him.

But as James Harden screwed Barea so badly last season, no one would want to continue to partner with James Harden.

Barea is the best sixth man in the league. He was cheated by James Harden last season and disappeared from the regular season. At the end of the season, he was selected by some eye-catching and unscrupulous media as the "10 fastest declining players in the NBA." , if Barea hadn't ruined the Heat in the finals, Barea would have been ruined by this group of unscrupulous media.

So, if you want to force the SuperSonics into a palace in Barea, you can either choose me,

When the news came that James Harden would be selected, almost most SuperSonics fans were on Barea's side.

but……

The attitude of the fans is not important, what is important is the attitude of the team.

Seattle's attitude is ambiguous, even in the middle.

James Harden’s team doesn’t want to give up, and Barea’s team doesn’t want to give up either.

But such an attitude is almost equivalent to siding with James Harden.

Therefore, Barea, perhaps the best substitute player in the league, has flowed into the free market and become a hot commodity for teams aspiring to win the championship.

Fans of the Lakers, Spurs, Nuggets, Rockets, Heat, Grizzlies, and almost all teams competing for championships have recently been crazy about blackmailing James Harden to increase Barea's favor with them.

But faced with such pursuit, Barea's attitude was very vague.

Leaving the Sonics is a sure thing.

But Barea's first choice wasn't to join a championship contender.

Barea's first choice was to join a team that was neither that strong nor that weak as the core.

Although his third season with the Seattle SuperSonics was horribly screwed up due to the arrival of Harden, but even so, what he did with the SuperSonics was basically the ultimate as a substitute.

Now that the substitute has been developed to the extreme, the next step is of course to become the core of a team like Ginobili.

It doesn't have to be a starter. With his height, he never expected to be a starter for an NBA team.

Therefore, Barea is very clear about his goals and positioning.

He didn't want to leave the Sonics, but now he had to leave. He loved Yes and loved the Sonics, but he really didn't want to partner with James Harden.

Now that he has left his beloved Sonics and Yes, how could he just repeat the role of Sonics? Of course he hopes to go further.

He knows his strength very well, and now just being an ordinary sixth man can no longer satisfy his strength.

He wants to be a core player like Ginobili!

However, there are many teams interested in him, especially strong teams.

But there is no team willing to give him a core position.

These teams all want him to come to their team and do what he did in the SuperSonics.

After all, these teams still don't have that much trust in him.

After all, although the Spurs and Popovich are tired of Ginobili now, there is only one Ginobili in active NBA service.

As the Leafs and Seattle prepare for the draft, Barea has been traveling around the league.

Yes and the SuperSonics management are still very concerned about the results of Barea's tour.

After all, even now, Yease and the Sonics don't want Barea to leave.

If Barea doesn't find a suitable team after a tour, it's not without hope of staying.

So Yeas and the SuperSonics management are actually very clear about the difficulties Barea is encountering now.

If Barea is not a fake 1.83 meters, but the real 1.83 meters, the sacred height among point guards, let alone the core substitute, if Barea wants to be the real leader of a weak team, there will be teams. Willing to gamble.

However, Barea is indeed not 1.83 meters tall.

If you are not tall enough, you will not be trusted by most people.

Ye Si and the others all believed in Barea's strength, but this was Ye Si and the others.

Others are not them.

Therefore, after the draft ended and Barea failed to find a suitable buyer, Yeez and the SuperSonics management even felt that things were still turning around.

But in the end, they were still disappointed.

As July 1st is approaching.

Barea, who has never received a core commitment, actually received four invitations from the team's core commitment on June 30.

One is an invitation from the Bulls, former assistant coach Scott Brooks, the league's new best head coach.

One is an invitation from the Cavaliers, former SuperSonics player and the league's new All-Star starting power forward David Lee.

One is an invitation from the Dallas Mavericks, former SuperSonics player and starting core center Kwame Brown of the Dallas Mavericks.

These three teams have one thing in common, that is, they all have people from the Sonics.

They know Barea better than most other teams.

Apparently, Scott Brooks, David Lee and Kwame Brown convinced their teams that Barea deserved a spot in the backup core.

In addition to this invitation, another invitation was a bit surprising.

The Golden State Warriors and Jerry West, who were in the limelight after the draft, also extended invitations to Barea and were willing to give Barea a core role in the team.

Four invitations were placed in front of Barea.

Yes and the Sonics knew very clearly that Barea was definitely leaving.

In fact, Barea is not a person who hesitates.

Soon he chose the Dallas Mavericks among these four invitations.

As one of the best substitute players in the league and the best substitute for the Sonics, Barea is very popular in the NBA.

After Barea chose the Dallas Mavericks, public opinion throughout the league focused on Barea.

This year's free market is too deserted. After Kobe McGrady, Barea may even be the most popular.

Kobe Bryant is destined to re-sign with the Lakers.

This soap opera between Tracy McGrady and the Rockets made me vomit.

Tracy McGrady has already said that he doesn’t want you to test the goods for one season. This season, he is going to get out of the contract. You damn thing, you want Tracy McGrady to play out the rest of the contract. If you are sick, if you have money, pay for it. If you don’t have money, don’t pay more. Beep, these don’t exist!

The Rockets' owner and management were ridiculed by this soap opera between the Rockets and Tracy McGrady, and even the local Rockets fans were vomiting.

A team that could have been successful was turned into this by a cunning owner and a bunch of idiot management.

Look at Barea, he never lets fans stay up late waiting for news.

"JJ, you have received many, many invitations, why did you choose the Dallas Mavericks?"

"Nowitzki told me that he wanted to be my teammate. He is the NBA player I respect most besides Yes."

In the pursuit of strong teams throughout the league, Barea finally chose the Dallas Mavericks. This was a bit surprising. What is even more surprising is that Barea actually did it because of Nowitzki.

Nowitzki cleared his name in last season's playoffs.

But Nowitzki isn't the only one who invited you personally, right?

Even James and Wade of the Heat went out together.

Neither James nor Wade is as important as Nowitzki in your mind?

In the minds of others, Wade and James combined are naturally heavier than Nowitzki.

But in the minds of Sonics players...

That's completely different.

so……

"This guy!"

Looking at the news in his hand, Wade's expression was not very good. In order to get Barea, he and James interrupted training and went out in person.

But the two of them actually lost to that softie Nowitzki!

"Dwyane, it doesn't matter if you don't get Barea. Barea has left the SuperSonics. This is very good news."

Wade, who originally didn't look very good-looking, became a little calmer.

Wade came back to his senses and looked at the smile on James' face. Wade thought about it and realized that it seemed like that was really the case.

One increase and one decrease, even if their Heat did not increase, the Sonics also decreased.

This year's finals Barea is still very crucial.

If it weren't for Barea's key performance, the SuperSonics and Heat would not have been able to compete in the finals.

Now that Barea is gone, the two rookies the Sonics added in this year's draft...

Now no one dares to say that the rookies selected by Yes are parallel imports.

Even if the rookies themselves are parallel imports, Yes can turn them into treasures.

However, even Yes takes time, but next season will be the most critical season for Yes.

Yes there is no time!

Now all the strong teams in the league are trying their best to improve their strength, but the SuperSonics have done nothing except drafting.

Now they have let Barea go in vain, and their strength has been damaged. This is simply a textbook operation of harming interests for the sake of favors.

The contract given to Barea by the Dallas Mavericks was a three-year, 20 million contract, and the SuperSonics did not match it.

Barea was originally a restricted free agent, and the SuperSonics directly released Barea as a free agent.

This is indeed very humane, but the NBA is a fast food league. Humanity can only be realized in the future, but now, it is a loss.

The SuperSonics' operation is the same idiot as Jerry West's operation. Regardless of Jerry West's or the SuperSonics' operation, this is not their evaluation, but Pat Riley's evaluation.

The Mavericks are very sincere towards Barea. Mavericks general manager Nelson Jr. even told his father Nelson directly that the Mavericks are willing to accept Barea's sign-and-trade offer if the SuperSonics are willing to accept Dampier's junk contract. , they can use the Mavericks' first-round pick next season as a bargaining chip.

It's not that the Mavericks used draft picks to clear out junk contracts, but that the trade requires contract matching...

Since the SuperSonics have said that they can let Barea choose any team without setting any obstacles, there is no need to take advantage of this gratitude.

In vain, the pure feelings between the Sonics and Barea, as well as the Sonics and their own players, were polluted.

It's good to have Barea leave the Sonics with gratitude and appreciation, and it's worth more than a Mavericks first-round pick.

Barea was intercepted by the Dallas Mavericks, which made Pat Riley and the Heat a little unhappy.

But at least you can comfort yourself by weakening the Sonics.

But after Barea signed, the Dallas Mavericks made another official announcement that really made Pat Riley and James Wade look green with anger.

The Dallas Mavericks and the Phoenix Suns reached a deal. The Dallas Mavericks sent the team's core player, 28-year-old star small forward Josh Howard, to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for the Suns' 31-year-old small forward Marion.