Two Hundred and Twenty-Three: Finally Busy

On November 26, after the NBA officially announced the end of the lockout, each team immediately opened the preseason training camp. It is less than a month before the start of the new NBA season, and the teams are busy immediately.

Then a very embarrassing thing is that many teams find that they simply don't have enough people to participate in the new season's pre-season training camp!

Since the free agency and transfer markets have not yet opened, most players are not signed, so it often happens that there are only a few players on a team.

Among them, naturally also includes Link. His contract has expired, and according to the rules he can't participate in the Grizzlies' preseason training camp for the time being. . . .

When Link returned to Memphis in high spirits, only to be told that he would have to wait until he was signed to practice, Link really wanted to scold all the people who made these boring rules.

So Link could only rent a training hall to keep himself in shape. On December 7, the day before the opening of the free agency market, the NBA officially announced the schedule for this season.

This season's regular season will start from the end of December to the end of April. Although the regular season has been shortened by nearly two months, the number of games has not shrunk much. Players still have 66 games to play this season! Only 16 games less than a normal season!

The game is two months late, but the number of games is only one month short. Equivalent to, the league just plugged in more games for a month, and the average division into the season. It seems that in order to restore the loss, the alliance is also insane.

This arrangement of the schedule has led to back-to-back games becoming the norm. The so-called "back-to-back", that is, the situation of three consecutive battles, will also happen frequently this season! Of course, there are also some arrangements of 5 days and 4 games, which are not uncommon.

In the entire schedule, the league has arranged a total of 42 back-to-back games, which means that each team has at least one back-to-back game, and some more than one!

And back-to-back games, the league has arranged a total of 529 games!

Next season, Link believes, will be a miserable season for many teams. The intensive schedule will also greatly increase the risk of injury to players. Link must also protect himself. If he is injured, everything will be in vain.

For professional players, the biggest enemy is not your opponent, but injury!

A 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 Grizzlies took the lead in renewing the contract with Link before the offers from other teams came out.

"I hope we can go further in these three years, Link." After signing the contract, Chris Wallace's nerves that had been tense for more than half a year finally relaxed.

As long as you can grasp the core, the subsequent operation will not be difficult.

Link finally breathed a sigh of relief. Now, he can finally practice together 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, the Mayo-Butler deal was immediately realized. After all, the two teams have already reached an agreement, just waiting for the alliance to review it. So this year's preseason training camp, Mayo went directly to Brooklyn to report. And Jimmy Butler, will come to Memphis to sign his rookie contract.

Butler was still quite young at this time, with a simple short head and a happy smile, it was really difficult for Link to associate him with the all-powerful star in the league in the future.

But the Grizzlies may have to wait a little longer to see Jimmy Butler in action.

After signing Jimmy Butler, Chris Wallace re-signed Sean Battier non-stop.

In the original history, Battier went to the Heat this offseason. The easy move of letting Battier go is considered one of the Grizzlies' worst operations that year.

But now in this history, Shane is interested in the Grizzlies, and he is eager to see what kind of sparks he and the Grizzlies can create.

And the Grizzlies don't want to easily break up the team that reached the Western Conference finals last season.

So the two sides hit it off and renewed the contract again. Subsequently, Wallace shot Sam Young, who had no chance last season, and switched from the Hornets to the dynamic second-year guard Quincy Ponderset. Ponderset is another 3-and-D player, and it seems Wallace really wants to make the Grizzlies an impregnable wall.

The Grizzlies' signings are going well, but for some teams, the belated transfer market isn't so good.

The first is the Mavericks. The Mavericks, who just won the championship last season, just disbanded this season's lineup.

Tyson Chandler left New York City for 4 years and 58 million, and Barea, Stevenson and Butler also left one after another. Cuban was clearly reluctant to spend too much money on them, switching to cheaper Odom and old Carter instead.

But to be honest, Chandler's role in the Mavericks last season is not something that can be easily replaced by others.

Speaking of Lamar Odom, we have to talk about the more tragic Los Angeles Lakers.

The Lakers originally put Gasol and Lamar Odom on the shelves, ready to welcome Chris Paul.

As a result, the league rejected the deal for a "basketball reason".

At this time, the Hornets had no boss and belonged to the state of alliance hosting. The owner of the Cavaliers complained in a joint letter, telling Stern that there is no human rights in the small city, and it was stunned for the Lakers' transaction.

In the end, Paul did not combine with Kobe Bryant as he wished, but switched to the Los Angeles Clippers. Although it still came to Los Angeles and to Staples, the ending was very different.

If you do this, the Lakers will be embarrassed. It is equivalent to a player who was put on the shelf, but was returned, and he was not a person at both ends.

Gasol's side is okay, the Spaniard's mentality has been very peaceful. Although more or less hurt, but still willing to get along with the Lakers management.

As for Odom, the Lakers simply kept throwing him to Dallas. Dallas won last season's Sixth Man of the Year with just one trade exception and a 2012 first-round pick, which the Lakers gave away for nothing.

Odom's mentality collapsed directly, and his heart is not as strong as Gasol. Link can already "predict" what kind of cliff-jumping fall the sixth man of the season is about to usher in.

Overall, this year has been a flop for most of the big teams. The most profitable is undoubtedly the Clippers. People have begun to look forward to the chemistry of Paul and Griffin who scored 20+10 No. 1 picks this rookie season.

On the Grizzlies side, the lineup can only be said to be minor repairs. While retaining the core lineup, the depth of the bench has been slightly improved.

After all, there are no big-name free agents this year, and the Grizzlies have a good core lineup. After all, it is a team at the Western Conference finals level, and there is no need to trade core players. What's more, with Guy back this year, there's reason to believe that the Grizzlies can go further.

Some media even claimed, "The Memphis Grizzlies are the team with the most powerful players!"

After the turmoil in the trade market, training camp and preseason games followed. Due to the short pre-season preparation period this year, there are only two preseason games.

However, it was these two games that cast a shadow over the Grizzlies' prospects for the new season.

In the first game against the Timberwolves, Conley sprained his ankle and will definitely miss the beginning of the new regular 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 okay, after all, the ankle sprain is not a big problem. But watching Arthur's Achilles tendon rupture, Link is really uncomfortable. Achilles tendon rupture is such an injury that even a superstar can't stand it, let alone Arthur.

Therefore, the biggest enemy of professional players is injury.

Link previously said that many teams would be in trouble this season, but the Grizzlies became the first team to run into trouble.

It was a blow before the season started, and it seems that it is not easy to go further.

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