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The Lakers Warriors lose both on the offseason? James can t afford to wait, the Warriors are stuck in a hurry by Cumingga!

8:24am, 20 July 2025【Basketball】

Brothers, let's talk about something heartbreaking today - the Lakers and Warriors, two former champions, have been competing for championships this year. In the words of fans, it is "one pretends to be sleepy, the other is cheated". Want to win the championship in the new season? There is basically no chance.

Let's start with the Lakers.

Now Lakers fans are all in their hearts: James is 41 years old, and there is really not much oil in the fuel tank. Last season, he played the regular season with a tough bullet just to maintain the character of "I can still play", but the management is not stupid - especially after the boss was replaced by the Jewish consortium, they were calculating long-term accounts.

Look at the Lakers' salary chart: James has 52.6 million, Doncic has 45.9 million, among the remaining players, Hachimura's 18.2 million is considered a high salary, and then Reeves has 13.9 million, Vanderbilt has 11.5 million... The total salary of 15 players in the team is 195 million, just below the first tycoon line (195.9 million). This is not a coincidence, it was intentional - the management now wants to save some money and leave room to sign big fish and make deals next year.

Why? Because Doncic is only 27 years old, this is the future of the Lakers. Look at the management's operations in the past six months: signing Ayton for 16.6 million in two years (the actual total salary after the Trail Blazers bought out) was signed, signing Laravia for 6 million, and leaving Hayes and Goodwin for the basic salary... There was no big move on the surface, but in fact it was paving the way for Doncic.

How can Lao Zhan not understand? In order to stay in the championship ranks in the past two years, he has gone from "regular season" to "successful in the regular season" that year. What's the result? In the last four playoffs in 2020, WS's victory contribution value reached the top 40 in 23 years, and at other times, even the team's core was not considered a team. But what can he do? The 38-year-old James needs to prove that he can still play, but what the Lakers management needs to prove is that without James, Doncic can lead the team far.

Looking at the Warriors again, it was so "I was so anxious that I stomped my feet."

Curry said last season that this is the last dance, what is the result? The offseason operation is even worse than the Lakers. The three old Kuzhaiba's salary will be 147 million next season, and there will be no older or more expensive iron triangle in the entire league. What's even more terrible is that the Warriors can't even get 10 people on the list now - not counting the second round picks, there are only 9 people on the official list, all because of Kumingjia's "Big Buddha".

This Kuminga, in the last year of his rookie contract, the Warriors gave him 30 million yuan, and he didn't sign it, and Moody's contract in the same class was still exhausted. After a round of free market, he didn't want him, so he was still spending time with the Warriors. The Warriors want to sign Horford and Melton now? You have to first see if Kuming stays or not - if you keep it, you will be more rich in the middle class; if you don't stay, you will have to have a free space. The result is that all the free agents on the market have been stolen, and the Warriors can't even find a reliable substitute.

If you want to tell the root cause, you have to blame the Warriors for being blind in the draft in recent years. In 20 years, he missed three goals, Halliburton, Bain, and Maxi; in 21 years, he missed Wagner Jr., Aldama, etc. The funny thing is that the Raptors used to exchange Siakam for Wiseman, but the Warriors didn't change; after Anunobi, the Raptors wanted Cuminga, but the Warriors didn't change. Now, these two have become "bad cards in your hands", which cannot be exchanged for combat power, and cannot be cultivated.

Some people say that the Warriors at least have Curry? But Curry is 38. He played seven tough battles last season, and then he got tired of the Timberwolves - how fast the league is now? Young people like Jokic and Alexander, Curry couldn't keep up with him when they ran. Cole still wants to rely on the old system to support it? But even the management is not good - after Miles left, now General Manager Deng Liwei is "can't wake up" and there are no moves except for the draft.

To put it bluntly, the Lakers and the Warriors are now "helpless": the Lakers are "actively transitioning", knowing that James can't hold on for a few years, so they wait for Doncic with their salary; the Warriors are "passively waiting to die", the three old people's salary is locked, and the rookies can't help them, so they can only bet on the last one or two years.

But no matter what kind of helplessness, the championship competition in the new season is in lingering. James is 41 years old, Curry is 38 years old, Jokic is 28 years old, and Alexander is 25 years old - the age difference is here. Even if the Lakers can make a transition, they have to wait for Doncic to grow; even if the Warriors can get together, the three elders' bodies cannot withstand the rounds of hard battles.

This may be the cruelest thing in the NBA: no matter how strong a superstar is, he cannot withstand time; no matter how brilliant the dynasty is, he has to face the alternation of new and old. To put it bluntly, the Lakers Warriors' offseason operations are all racing against time - but one runs the "future" and the other runs the "present". But no matter which direction the track is running, the track is already filled with younger and more energetic opponents.

The new season, we may really have to say goodbye to "Jackie Curry Times". But it doesn’t matter. Isn’t the excitement of the alliance lies in the fact that a new story will always begin?

source:7m vn1