On July 26, Beijing time, the Nets and Trail Blazers officially reached a deal. The Trail Blazers gave Allen Crab , and got a 12.9 million trading special case from the Nets, plus Nicholson. It is reported that the Trail Blazers will cut Nicholson to free up salary space and relieve pressure on luxury taxes. The biggest victim of this deal is Jeremy Lin, who welcomes another backcourt contender.
Last offseason, Jeremy Lin signed a three-year, 35 million contract with the Nets. To be fair, in this era of soaring salary, Jeremy Lin, who averaged 11.7 points per game during the Hornets period, signed the contract was not large. From Jeremy Lin's perspective, coming to the Nets is expected to become the boss of the team. After the contract expires in 2019, he can earn a larger pension contract based on his performance in the past three years.
However, just like he did not become the boss during the Rockets period, after coming to the Nets, he still failed to become the master of Brooklyn as he wished. After Jeremy Lin was brought to the Rockets by Morey's poison contract in 2012, he could have become the team's backcourt core, but Harden's buzzer-beating franchise at made him the Rockets' No. 2 character. Last season at the Nets, he stopped and stopped due to injuries and failed to become the core of the team. This season, Jeremy Lin, who has returned from health, planned to show his strength and work hard in the contract year of the next two seasons, but he never expected that he would welcome three backcourt competitors.
In the deal between the Nets and the Lakers, Russell came to Brooklyn. Although he performed averagely in the first two seasons, he, who is the second best, will definitely become the focus of training for the Nets. Now, the Nets have obtained Allen Crab, whom they have coveted for a long time through trades, and this second-place shooter will also get a lot of playing time next season. In addition to the lottery pick LeVer, which the Nets have selected and have been training, these four people will be divided into two positions in the backcourt.
Not only that, except for LeVer, the rest of these four players are players who need the ball rights, especially Jeremy Lin needs the ball rights most. During the Rockets, it was because Harden had a lot of ball rights that Jeremy Lin gradually lost and became a substitute. Over the years of experience in NBA have proved that Jeremy Lin is not suitable to be a fixed-point pitcher, he must have the ball in hand to control the entire team. However, Jeremy Lin's ball rights are not optimistic next season against competition from Lotto Show LeVere, Russell and the highly-paid Crabb.
Wit until the contract expires in 2019, Jeremy Lin is already 31 years old. Considering his Chinese physical foundation, his peak is not left for a few years. Not only that, Jeremy Lin’s identity as a Chinese descent would have discounted his contract. In the next two years, he will face such strong competition at the Nets and it will be difficult to play outstanding data. It is probably not easy for Jeremy Lin to get a high salary in his last contract in his career.
