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Being poached! Udu Card has become a non-sale product, and the Rockets will have a significant salary increase, and 28.5 million yuan is really unstoppable.

2:31am, 6 June 2025Basketball

The Knicks, who reached the Eastern Conference Finals, cut head coach Thibodeau. This is indeed incredible, although Thibodeau uses players as a cattle and a horse. But it must be admitted that after he joined the Knicks, the team has performed best in the playoffs in the past 10 years. And the Knicks' new coach is now targeting Uduka and Kidd. According to famous reporter Stein, although neither Uduka nor Kidd wants to leave the current team, if the Knicks forcefully poached people, the two teams cannot be said to be stable.

Among them, Uduka is the Knicks' favorite target, because Uduka brought the Rockets who were previously badly played into the second place in the Western Conference in just 2 seasons. If it weren't for the Warriors whose strength was not matched by the seventh place in the first round, the Rockets would have a chance to enter the Western Conference Finals. The Timberwolves defeated the Warriors 4-1 in the second round, facing the Warriors without Curry. If the Rockets don't play Curry's Warriors, they can still play 4-1 or 4-0. The scary thing about the main Warriors is that Curry is not Butler, and the Rockets have to use a lot of defensive resources to encircle him.

So the Rockets were hacked to seven, which will not affect Uduka's team status. Even the Knicks' poaching people forced the Rockets to give Uduka a salary increase and keep people. Houston reporter Adam Spolane reported that Uduka signed a four-year, 28.5 million contract with the Rockets for 23 years and will expire in 27 years. Now that the contract is halfway, the Rockets can give Uduka a salary increase in advance. After all, the Rockets refused to meet Uduka by the Knicks, so they naturally had to give some benefits.

coupled with the rise in the NBA salary cap in the past few years, the salaries of players and coaches have risen sharply. Uduka's 28.5 million contract looks average. Spolane believes that the Rockets will give Uduka a significant salary increase, and it is estimated that there will be no problem starting with an annual salary of 10 million. Many Rockets fans always say that Uduka has no tactics and only knows the 15 pick-and-roll starting style and then focuses on defense. But we need to know that the Rockets are not trying to play 15 pick-and-roll, but are forced to keep 15.

First of all, Jaylen Green is this, he is basically one of the worst starting points in the league. He is very unqualified in terms of luck control, poor defense, and unstable shooting percentage. If Jaylen Green can play Booker and Edwards' performance, the Rockets will not always allow Van Jordan and Shin Kyung to start the pick-and-roll. It was Green's inability to help the Rockets could only frequently 15 pick-and-roll. Uduka is also very popular among players. Letters and Durant, two players who are likely to join the Rockets, like Uduka.

Durant has been showing kindness to Uduka this season, and Rockets reporters also revealed that Uduka is the Rockets' treasure. There are indeed many players in the league who want to cooperate with Uduka and want to play under him. You can't blame Uduka for not giving Green a chance, on the contrary, he gave Green too many resources. Until this time in the playoffs, Green's disappointed performance. Let Uduka declare that he will play without a ball next season. To put it bluntly, Uduka gave up his resource tilt towards Green.

If Uduka can become the Knicks' head coach, it is really possible that the upper limit will be higher than the lead of Thibodeau when he remains in the original team. Thibodeau is quite exaggerated in his main force in ruthlessness. Uduka, like Thibodeau, is a defensive coach, but he is still more open-minded in employed people. To put it bluntly, the Rockets' poor record in the past two years is still dead on the point guard. The Rockets first change to a qualified point guard in the offseason, which is a big upgrade. If you give Uduka a Raven or Booker, the Rockets are likely to be in the Western Conference Finals or even the Finals this year. A shooting guard can't play any of the Warriors in a misplaced position. Even Hilde, who has extremely poor defense, has become a strong player when facing Jaylen Green. What do you think he is playing?

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