The Way of the Center - Chapter 787

Just as the Trail Blazers lost a large number of important personnel in the summer, only Lillard, who was personally selected by An Jie that year, publicly stated that he would continue to play next to An Jie.

Nell Orsi did not live up to Lillard’s loyalty. When the preseason was about to begin, the Trail Blazers officially announced that the team would renew their contract with Lillard in advance at a price of $120 million in 5 years. This means that Lillard’s salary this season is only 4.24 million, and his salary will soar to 20 million next season!

In this way, Orsi at least ensures that the Trail Blazers will continue to be competitive in the West. Although Anjie’s contract has only one year left, he will definitely renew his contract with the Trail Blazers in the next summer. Lillard has just renewed his contract with the team for five years. In this way, the Trail Blazers can at least keep the core combination of Angel Galilard in the future. As long as these two guys are there, the Trail Blazers won’t sink completely.

Nell Orsi suddenly made such a large contract extension is not without reason, because the total salary of the rest of the Trail Blazers this season is the lowest in the league.

The money Paul Allen gave to Orsi was not used up, but Allen had to get it all back. Rather than save money for Paul Allen, Orsi might as well stabilize Lillard before the offseason comes.

After all, who can say clearly what will happen a year later? Just like a year ago, Orsi killed him and didn’t expect the Trail Blazers to become divided.

Lillard’s contract extension with the team has also become the last blockbuster news of the NBA during the offseason this season.

After that, the nba pre-game training camp officially began, and after that, the pre-season games will follow. After the preseason, the journey of the NBA in the new season will begin completely.

With anticipation, Anjie once again walked into the maze of player passages in Moda Center after four months.

“Hey, I cleaned the locker room for you!” In the player tunnel, An Jie met the old Ivan the locker room cleaner.

“How does the champagne taste?” Anjie and old Ivan joked.

“Awesome! Hey, if I can, I wish I could drink your championship champagne every year!”

“I will work hard, old Ivan.” An Jie waved at the amiable cleaner and walked to the door of the dressing room.

An Jie took a deep breath. Although he was very familiar with this locker room, after pushing the door and entering, everything was definitely different.

In addition to the three cores of Anjie, Lillard and Iguodala, the Trail Blazers have almost undergone a major change this summer. At this moment in the locker room, I don’t know what it is like.

After An Jie took a deep breath, he didn’t hesitate anymore. He slammed open the locker room door, and the familiar noise instantly hit his face.

“Hey! See who’s here! The Dark Knight!” Lillard jumped up excitedly, and gave An Jie a high-five.

“How is the rest? Man.” Iguodala nodded at Anjie while sitting in front of him.

“You finally came the boss, I’m still here waiting for you to show me your dunk dunk in the Asian Championships!” Meyers Leonard, the big man who entered the team through the draft, is still there. here.

“Ann, I heard that this year’s championship ring will be very different.” Courtney Lee, who joined the team the same year as Anjie, also stood up and waved to Anjie.

“Hey boss, I heard from the boss that my playing time will increase a lot this year, and I will pass you a lot!” In the end, it was Trail Blazers young guard Alan Crabbe.

An Jie scanned the room again and it was gone. The trailblazers who created the dynasty with him last season, now there are only these five people left.

Of course, Aldridge, Batum, Matthews and Robin Lopez needless to say, they are the hottest personnel changes in the Blazers this summer. But in fact, these four people are not the only personnel changes.

Old Miller was involved in the trade, Earl Watson retired low-key, Thomas Robinson did not renew his contract, Dorell White went to Houston…

After greeting acquaintances, An Jie was presented with a bunch of strange faces. These people all looked at An Jie with a look of awe, and An Jie only smiled at everyone in an easygoing manner. This locker room is really familiar and unfamiliar.

“It seems that you are getting along well!” Just after Anjie and his new teammates met, Ricard and Divac, the core of the coaching staff, also pushed in.

“Hey, boss, how was your vacation.” Anjie embraced Ricard and Divac warmly. No matter how the Trail Blazers change, the core pillars of this team will never fall apart.

“Just so-so, mainly because those **** trading rumors made me uneasy. I was so scared that I was suddenly notified of being traded.” Ricard played a joke with everyone, and provoked the new recruits who just came Slightly let go of restraint. The legendary gangster coach is not that scary.

“Okay guys, just sit in your place. Listen, I don’t care where you were from, and I don’t care what you have achieved with your previous team. Now, you all belong to the Portland Trail Blazers. From now on, each of you will have to fight for the championship! Believe me, as long as you work hard, the next dynasty member is likely to be you! This afternoon’s training, everyone performed well! I just watch training The status determines the team roster and playing time. I don’t care about yours before! Say you Ed, if your performance this afternoon can impress me, maybe I will put it on the bench and let you start. “.” Ricard said, joking at Ed Davis, the strong insider who just came from the Lakers.

“I will try my best, sir!…no, boss!” Ed Davis gave Ricard a military salute in a decent way. In this way, the distance between Ricard and the new player was instantly shortened.

The training in the afternoon was also going on in full swing as An Jie expected. When most of the team’s rotation players left the team, Ricard also had to adjust the team’s tactics appropriately according to the situation.

Especially the team’s second team, almost the whole big change. As a result, the task of training today is very onerous.

Players must experiment over and over again, experimenting with which tactic and style of play is more suitable for the current configuration.

Some players have begun to feel that the Trail Blazers’ training is too hard, but when they see An Jie, the legendary character, is still sweating without complaint, others are not qualified to say that they are tired.

Anjie is always able to drive the team with actions on and off the court, even if there are many new members in this team, it is no exception.

After an afternoon of training, Ricard still failed to straighten out his tactical thinking. There are too many new players on the team, too mixed. There are surprises like McCollum, and there are guys like Henderson who are not up to it.

It is not easy to knead an almost refurbished team together.

It seems that this season is really a huge challenge for the Trail Blazers!

“Okay guys!” Ricard yelled, and many new players thought they could finally get off work.

“Activities, let’s continue training!” However, Ricard’s next sentence caused many people to take a breath.

It seems that it is not so easy to play for a dynasty team.

The Moda Center has once again become a battlefield for this group of players to sweat. An Jie’s NBA career will also be very different due to the huge change in the team’s lineup ~www.mtlnovel.com~.

But no matter how the team changes, there is one thing that will definitely not waver here in Anjie.

This thing is the heart that longs for a championship!

Anjie is ready for the new challenge!

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Attachment: 2015-2016 season Portland Trail Blazers player list

Centers: Angel, Meyers Leonard, Mason Plumley

Power forwards: Al Farouk Aminu, Ed Davis

Small forwards: Andre Iguodala, Gerald Henderson, Maurice Harkless

Shooting guards: c.j. McCollum, Courtney Lee, Allen Crabbe

Point guards: Damien Lillard, Noah Von Lay, Tim Fraser