NBA has already entered the offseason, and all teams are trying their best to renew their team stars. However, when Anthony Davis could renew his contract, the Lakers said that the priority of this matter was very low and they were not prepared to renew his cloud cloud contract this summer. Davis’s contract is still 2 years away, and the last year is the player option. What medicine does the Lakers sell in the gourd?
Davis has joined the Lakers for four seasons. He didn’t want to leave the pelican. The pelican and the Lakers were repeatedly entangled, and the pelican also changed the general manager. Finally, Pelican pressed the trade button and Davis joined the Lakers as he wished. In the first season of the Lakers, Davis contributed more on the defensive side and finally ranked second in the selection of the best defensive player award, second only to adtokunbo. He and James worked together to lead the Lakers to win the 2020 championship. At that time, he was considered to be among the elite insiders of the alliance, juxtaposed with adtokunbo, jokich and enbide.
After signing the 5-year 0.19 billion New Testament in December 2020, Davis’s ambition was increasingly questioned by people. He first played 36 games and was injured again in the playoffs, leading to the defeat of the Lakers in defending their titles. In the second season, he only played 40 games and revealed in his conversation with his friends that he didn’t touch the ball after injury, which led the Lakers to miss the playoffs. The fans were disappointed with Davis’s desire. He scored 22.5 points, 8.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists in both seasons, 1.2 steals and 2 steals of cap. When adtokunbo, yorkich and enbede got the regular season MVP respectively, Davis seemed to be outdated and could no longer be compared with the three of them.
In the 2022-23 season, the Lakers changed their manager. Ham creatively fixed Davis to an acre of three-point ground under the basket and received a miracle. Davis averaged 25.9 points, 12.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.1 steals, 2 cap. With him standing under the basket, the opponent would not want to break in easily. However, he gained a large number of rebounds and the inside line of the Lakers became stronger again.
The Lakers owned him and overcame the dilemma of 2 wins and 10 losses at the beginning of the season. At the end of the season, they won 43 wins and 39 losses. They won the seventh place in the West through the play-offs. The playoffs first beat the Grizzlies and the Warriors, two rounds in succession without the home court advantage, Lianke was finally swept by the Nuggets in the West with 0-4. For Davis’s performance last season, the senior Lakers can agree.
At the end of the season, Davis suddenly reached the moment of renewal, with a maximum of 0.17 billion dollars for 3 years, but the Lakers refused this time. According to Heavy reporter Sean Deveney, the Lakers are unwilling to renew their contract with Davis in advance. There are two main reasons. One is that Davis grows older and the Lakers want to see if Davis can keep healthy, whether the team will be the same as last season. The second is that they still need to see how James does it. What James did will affect Davis to a great extent.
The Lakers did not want to renew Davis at this time, but made up their minds that Davis would not leave the Lakers. Otherwise, after Davis jumps out of the player option next season and enters the free agent market, the Lakers will no longer be the only place to go. The Lakers are sure that Davis will stay with the Lakers for a long time, so they are not willing to complete the renewal in advance when Davis may jump out of the player option next year. Whenever a player renews in advance, the team is not sure whether the player will stay in the team when the contract expires, or the player is of great value. The team is eager to lock him, a star like Davis, the Lakers are accurate.
The first worry raised by the Lakers was that Davis’s minor injuries continued and then developed into major injuries, which required Davis to show them this summer. Davis missed a lot of games due to injury in the first two seasons. He also missed 20 games in a row between December and January last season. The Lakers had to worry about this attendance record. They want to see how Davis is injured and whether the Lakers can remain as strong as last season next season.
The second worry raised by the Lakers is about James. As we all know, James will also decide whether to execute the player option when the contract expires in Ming Xia. The most important thing is that James’s eldest son will participate in the NBA draft brownie next year. It is time for James to see which team is lucky and which team to join. It can be said that this is a matter that the whole alliance is paying attention. Recently, an eagle has become a lucky man, and it is predicted that brownie can be selected, thus attracting James to vote. James’s decision also had an impact on Davis.
In short, the Lakers are not in a hurry to renew Davis’s contract. They adopted a drag-and-write formula, asking Davis to take out another season’s outstanding performance to earn the next contract. On the other hand, it can also inspire Davis, making next season his contract year, continue to last season and have more performance, and the Lakers will also get benefits. Therefore, not to renew the contract with Davis is not to stay with Davis, but to inspire Davis’s top performance. Can this wishful thinking of the Lakers really play? Let’s wait and see.
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