1 for 4! The Spurs traded at a loss! Send away the championship puzzle for the bad show

Recently, Celtic defender Derek White talked about his feelings about being traded by the Spurs in the past on a podcast show: "This is the craziest thing I have ever experienced in my career. I wholeheartedly towards the Spurs and tried my best to help them win. As a result, one day, they suddenly said 'Okay, you're going to the Celtics now'!"

"I was full of my mind at the time, why did the Spurs not want me? Why did they not trust me? What's even more crazy is that when My wife was seven months pregnant, and that deal confused me, and I had no idea what would happen with the Celtics. However, I had a great time with the Spurs, and the same was true in Boston! ”

Let's review the Spurs' 1-for-4 deal: On February 11, 2022, the Spurs gave Derek White to the Celtics, and got Josh Richardson, Romeo Langford, the 2022 first-round pick and the 2028 first-round swap. This draft pick in 2022 is the No. 25 pick in the first round. The Spurs selected Blake Wesley and sent him to the Wizards this summer.

Now looking at this deal, the Celtics got the championship puzzle, and the Spurs left almost nothing. Let’s compare it horizontally: this summer, the Grizzlies exchanged Bain for 4 first-round picks + 1 first-round swap; in the summer of 2024, the Nets exchanged Bridges for 5 first-round picks + 1 first-round swap. The Spurs sold White!

Popovich told White: "We didn't cheat you, we sent you to Boston." This sentence is true. White went from a bad team to a championship team, reached the finals with the team in the summer of 2022 and won the championship in the summer of 2024. Then why did the Spurs sell White? One of the statements is that White influenced the Spurs' plan to play badly!

2021-22 season, the Spurs ranked 10th in the Western Conference with 34 wins and 48 losses, and in the 2022 draft, Sohan was selected with the No. 9 pick in the first round. In the 2022-23 season, the Spurs ranked first last in the West with 22 wins and 60 losses. In the 2023 draft, the Spurs won the No. 1 pick to win the Wenban Yama. If White is kept to win, the Spurs may not be able to draw the No. 1 pick.

White was born on July 2, 1994, with a height of 1.91 meters and a wingspan of 2.02 meters. He was the No. 29th Show in 2017. In December 2020, the Spurs renewed their contract with White in advance for 4 years and $73 million. In the 2021-22 season, he averaged 14.4 points, 3.5 rebounds, 5.6 assists, 1 steal and 0.9 blocks per game with the Spurs, with three shooting percentages: 42.6%, 31.4%, and 86.9%. In the 2023-24 season, White averaged 15.2 points, 4.2 rebounds, 5.2 assists, 1 steal and 1.2 blocks in the regular season, with three shooting percentages: 46.1%, 39.6%, 90.1%. He was selected as the second team of the best defensive team for the second consecutive year! He averaged 16.7 points, 4.3 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 0.9 steals and 1.2 blocks per game, and his three-point shooting percentage was 40.4%. In the summer of 2024, the Celtics renewed their contract with White for US$125.9 million in four years, which is really inexpensive. In this playoffs, White averaged 18.8 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 0.6 steals and 1.1 blocks per game, with three shooting percentages: 46.3%, 38.5%, and 86.1%. During the offseason, the Celtics sent away Posses and Holiday, leaving White behind.

Produced by the Spurs, it must be a high-quality product. Who else can you think of the championship puzzle that the Spurs came out?