The contract has 28 million yuan left in one year, and it is difficult for Simmons to send it out! It is difficult for the Celtics to play badly in the new season

In the offseason, the Western Conference teams were busy strengthening, and the three teams, Rockets + Nuggets + Clippers, were all working hard to build a lineup to comprehensively encircle the Thunder. On the Eastern Conference, the Cavaliers and the Knicks suddenly lost their opponents. Last season, the Knicks' Eastern Conference Finals rival Pacers, with Halliburton's serious injury to the Achilles tendon, with Halliburton's serious injury to the competition next season, Turner also rushed to Milwaukee to join Antetokounmpo, and the team could only hide their strength and rest assured; here in the Celtics, Tatum also suffered a serious injury to the Achilles tendon. After three months of recovery, he has taken off his protective boots. According to US media analysis, Tatum has the conditions to come back next season, and his recovery speed is much faster than expected. But the Celtics are more ruthless: they will do their best to avoid taxes and give up next season. It is expected that Tatum will have a year and a half rest time.

So after the trading market opened, General Manager Stevens sent Holiday to the Trail Blazers in exchange for Anthony Smith; Pole God to the Eagles in exchange for Nian, and was sent to the Jazz. After these three transactions, the Celtics received a total of three transaction special cases: 4.7 million + 8.2 million + 22 million. The transaction special case is not used, but behind this, the Celtics have saved nearly $300 million in expenditure (salary + super luxury tax penalty). From the estimated total expenditure of 570 million to the reduction of total salary to $196 million, the Celtics management still does not intend to stop. As the Trail Blazers' first scoring point last season, Anthony Simmons averaged 19.3 points and 4.8 assists per game. The Celtics do not plan to keep him!

Anfini Simmons' contract has the last year left and his salary is $27.68 million. Simmons has reached the stage of renewal, and he is still very young, only 26 years old, but famous reporter Festcher revealed that before the new season's trading deadline, the Celtics will fully promote the trading discussion of Anfini Simmons, and the team has not prepared a new aid press conference for him. After a month of fermentation, first of all, famous reporter Amik revealed that the 76ers and the Nuggets are one of the few teams that have expressed interest in Simmons! But then it was refuted by column reporter Singer: The 76ers have exceeded the first tycoon line by 9.8 million, and have not renewed their contract with Grimes yet. Their backcourt depth is too strong. Maxi + McCain + Edgecom + Grimes is both cost-effective than Simmons.

Nuggets are even less interested in Simmons: this summer, they finally exchanged Porter's maximum salary contract for four new players, Cameron Johnson + Hardaway Jr. + Valan + Bruce Brown. They successfully increased the depth of the lineup and reduced spending. If they forcibly traded Simmons, they would at least send Gordon away, which was impossible. Then can the Celtics still send Anfini Simmons away? Let’s first look at the Celtics’ salary chart for the new season. Tatum is 54.13 million + Brown is 53.14 million + White is 28.1 million. These three are absolutely non-selling products and have already earned 135 million yuan. Anfini Simmons put aside, and his immediate combat power on the bench was only Hauser 10.04 million + Prichard 7.23 million + Boucher 3.28 million. In addition, he was a group of basic-paid players and had no competitiveness.

When Tatum basically doesn't play in the new season, Jaylen Brown and White are the only ones who train with the substitute lineup. According to the estimates given by the US media, the Celtics are expected to be seventh or eighth in the East in the new season! The Celtics have two problems: Of course they can keep Simmons, which means they have to pay tens of millions of luxury taxes, based on the lack of competitiveness in the championship, and the return rate is too low and not worth it. Moreover, Simmons is not in the team's long-term plan for the future. He will definitely leave tomorrow summer and will also lower the Celtics' salary cap. He must leave! Second, assuming that the Celtics give up next season, when Tatum returns, the salary pressure of the three Celtics Big Three is too great: Tatum will be 315 million in five years, Brown will be 290 million in five years, and White will be 126 million in four years.

When the 26-27 season, the total salary of these three people is 146 million, which is expected to account for 75% of the salary cap. So are there anyone else in the Celtics? No one is left except Hauser and Prichard. The Celtics won the championship in 24 years. In the words of Mengmeng Green, the seventh and eighth players in their team are the strongest in the league and can maintain the consistency of offense and defense. Horford is gone, Holiday and Posses are also gone. How did the Celtics rebuild a championship lineup while the Big Three eat most of their salaries? Not to mention Holiday and Posses declined, veteran Horford's role in the Celtics in the past few years has been irreplaceable. Only Kota and Boucher are left in the interior in the new season. The Cavaliers have double towers and the Knicks have Towns. The Celtics have too many shortcomings in the interior.

In other words, the Celtics have basically been the role of the Eastern Overlord for the past 8 years, but will slowly fall in the future. Brown's super maximum salary was a turning point, and Tatum's serious Achilles tendon injury was the last straw that broke the team. But it is also difficult for them to completely defeat them. Anthony Simmons has no trading market, Jaylen Brown's contract is not cost-effective, and when the double-Tanhua stays healthy, the team may have a good lower limit, but the upper limit has been lost. The championship in the summer of 24 was a careful deployment of two years before this, but it may take several years to completely recover.