Annual salary of 54.71 million yuan, but it has become Antetokounmpo s spare tire! With an average of 27 points per game, it will be difficult for you to win the championship again

The four teams in this season's division finals will decide three, the Eastern Knicks and the Pacers will meet on the East Final stage, and the Western Timberwolves will wait for the Thunder and Nuggets to win the seventh tiebreaker. The day when the final suspense is revealed is getting closer and closer, while the teams and many superstars that have been eliminated have attracted more and more attention. After all, many super giants were eliminated in dismay, James + Antetokounmpo + Curry + Durant + Harden + Tatum, they have ended this season. After the Lakers were eliminated, many Los Angeles media suggested that James cut his salary to help the team strengthen; after the Bucks were eliminated, Antetokounmpo's departure was a foregone conclusion, and it attracted many teams to pursue it with all their might; after the Warriors were eliminated, the boss continued to focus on Curry + Butler + Dream Chasing Green. But there is one super giant who is really embarrassing, that is Durant.

Let's start with Antetokounmpo. When the US media confirmed that Antetokounmpo's team would discuss the future with the Bucks during the offseason, many teams could not sit still. Especially when Antetokounmpo's team proposed to "be willing to play in areas without state income tax", the Rockets, Spurs, Heat, Mavericks, etc. that meet the conditions, the US media listed various plans. In the words of Houston media, except for Amen Thompson, the Rockets can be discussed with other bargaining chips. Heat team reporter Brandon Robinson also revealed that even though Antetokounmpo is not willing to play for Pat Riley, the Heat are really interested in Antetokounmpo and are willing to build a team around him. There is also the Spurs, and the US media imagines Antetokounmpo joining forces with Wenban and Yama. But what is embarrassing is that these three teams are all potential next players of Durant!

What about their attitude towards Durant? In the words of Rockets reporter Ike, Durant is very interested in playing for the Rockets, and has praised the Rockets' young men for having extremely high ceilings this season. But the Rockets management is not very interested in Durant. If the Suns ask for their first round pick, the Rockets will not respond! The Rockets management also dislikes Durant's age, which is inconsistent with the team's core growth timeline! The previous negotiations between the two teams were initiated by the Suns in order to recover their first round picks! The Rockets will pursue Antetokounmpo with all their might, not Durant. The Heat are even more ruthless about Durant: Jackson, a columnist at the Miami Herald, confirmed that although the Heat are also interested in Durant, they have no intention of providing Durant with a large number of draft picks as bargaining chips!

They can match their salary at most, such as taking out Wiggins + Dunrow's 19.8 million expiration contract + a young man's basic bargaining chip. Including the Warriors, the Suns and the Warriors reached a preliminary plan in the middle of the season, but Durant refused. After that, Durant went on the Dream Chasing Green program and said he would talk about it in the offseason! But after the Warriors were eliminated, they only clarified the rumors of pursuing Antetokounmpo. The Bay Area media did not mention Durant at all, and the team was still willing to strengthen around the Kuba combination. When Antetokounmpo entered the trading market, Durant, who had an annual salary of 54.71 million yuan next season, became the fourth in the league and still had a super-powered level, actually became a spare tire! There is another possibility, Durant will not go anywhere and stay in the sun. But Bill can't move the three giants of the Suns, Booker is a hot commodity, what about Durant?

Outsider! Any potential next player in Durant understands that Durant, who is 37 years old in the offseason, is really old. Even if he can play for another 2-3 years, he can still maintain his average of 27 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists per game in the past two years, but can he help the team win the championship? Since leaving the Warriors, Durant has always insisted on playing singles with sticks, which is not advisable, especially during the Nets, when Harden was angry and Irving was indulged. They may be just a few centimeters away from the championship in the summer of 2021. But then the money fell and scattered. After Harden left, Durant and Irving led the team in the first round were swept out by the Celtics 4-0! When he came to the Suns, Durant found his most perfect singles partner Booker, but the Suns are regressing every year, and Paul can still play for the second round.

After Paul left, he was swept out 4-0 by the Timberwolves in the first round of last season, and he couldn't even enter the playoffs this season! The double-core stand-up singles were played, and the teammates complained, and the team atmosphere was tense. The key is that Durant, like Booker, will reveal negative emotions and cannot become the leader of the locker room. After the Suns were eliminated, ESPN made a summary when talking about Durant: He left the Thunder with Durant, and he brought his own system, the Warriors tolerate and adapted to him, and he stood on the shoulders of the Giants to win two championships; but then he will destroy the team's normal system. As he grows older and his dominance declines, his data is still gorgeous, but he can no longer support the team's upper limit. If the Rockets really get Durant, will the young man follow Durant back and run? And Durant is no longer able to defend. How long can Durant last? Antetokounmpo attracted robbery from the whole league because he really led the team to win the championship, and Antetokounmpo was still young, only 30 years old. Durant is different. The biggest stain in his career is to surrender to the enemy. He still is not recognized by his teammates after winning the championship. After leaving the Warriors, he could never prove that his personal heroism model could lead the team to win the championship, and even lead the team to the final stage of the division, which was already defeated. To be honest, no matter where Durant spent his remaining career, whether he received a maximum salary or a basic salary, he would become a player who destroyed the overall environmental system, and it would be difficult for him to win the championship again.