Chapter 229 (1/2)

On November 26, after the NBA officially announced the end of the lockout, all teams immediately opened the pre-season training camp. Now 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 attend the pre-season training camp of the new season!

Since the free agent market and transfer market have not yet opened, most players have not signed a contract, so there are often only a few players in a team.

Among them, of course, link is also included. His contract has expired, according to the rules, he can't participate in the Grizzlies' pre-season training camp for the time being...

when link returned to Memphis with enthusiasm, but was told that he could only wait for the signing to participate in training again, link really wanted to scold all the people who made these boring rules.

So link had to rent a training center and keep himself in shape. On December 7, the day before the opening of the free agent market, the NBA announced the schedule of the season in a hurry.

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

The match was two months late, but only one month's share was lost. Equivalent to, the league is forced to put in more than a month of games, average division to the middle of the season. It seems that the alliance is also insane in order to recover the loss.

This arrangement of the schedule has made back-to-back become the norm of the game. 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 for four games in five days, which are also common.

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

And back to back games, the league is a total of 529 games!

Next season, link believes, for many teams, it will be a tough season. And intensive schedule, will also greatly increase the risk of injury players. Link also has to protect himself. If he gets hurt, he will be blind.

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

One day later, on December 8, link signed the three-year contract at Chris Wallace's office. Jeff Austin has said that he will not sign with any team, so the Grizzlies took the lead in completing the renewal of link's contract before any other team's offer was made.

”I hope we can go further in these three years, link.” After signing the contract, Chris Wallace's nerves, which had been strained for half a year, finally relaxed.

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

Link also finally big breath, this, he finally can and the team practice together!

That afternoon, link finally met Jim Butler for the first time in Chris Wallace's office.

As soon as the transfer market opened, the deal between Mayo and butler was completed. After all, the two teams have already reached an agreement, just waiting for the League to review. So this year at pre-season training camp, Mayo went straight to New Jersey to report. And Jimmy Butler will come to Memphis to sign his rookie contract.

Butler is still quite green at this time, simple inch head and joyful smile, so that link is really difficult to connect him with the future stars in the league.

But Grizzlies may have to wait a little longer to see Jimmy Butler work.

After signing Jimmy Butler, Chris Wallace has been renewing Shaun Battier.

In the original history, Battier went to the heat this off-season. The easy release of Battier was also considered one of the worst operations of the year for Grizzlies.

But now in this history, Battier is interested in Grizzlies. He wants to see what kind of sparks he and Grizzlies can make. And Grizzlies don't want to easily break up the team that made it to the Western Conference finals last season.

Therefore, the two sides agreed to renew the contract once again. Then, Wallace shot Sam young, who was squeezed out of last season, from the Hornets to the energetic second grade guard Quincy bondset. It seems that Wallace really wants to build Grizzlies into an iron wall.