Goodbye Lone Ranger! Finals average 3.8 points per game! With an annual salary of 17.9 million, he was the first to be traded

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2024-06-25 00:06Posted in Beijing Sports Creators

According to NBA Marc Stein and Forbes Sports reporter Evan Sidery, the Mavericks began selling Hardaway Jr. to find a home for him, and the Mavericks wanted to upgrade the roster through trades. His father, Hardaway Sr., confirmed this: "The Mavericks will trade my son away in the offseason, and we're ready to leave."

Can Hardaway Jr. be traded? His biggest advantage may be the expiration of his contract: Hardaway Jr.'s contract is four years and $75 million, which expires in the summer of 2025, leaving one year and $16.19 million. Hardaway Jr. is paying a whopping $17.9 million this season, which is $300,000 more than Celtics Derrick White (17.6 million).

Compare the finals performance of the two, and you will know how heart-wrenching the Mavericks are:

White averaged 36.8 minutes per game in the finals, scoring 13.8 points, 4.6 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.2 steals and 1 block, shooting 38.9% from the field, 39.5% from three-point range, and 100% from the free throw line.

Hardaway Jr. averaged 11.9 minutes per game in the finals, scoring 3.8 points, 1.5 rebounds, 0.3 assists, 0.3 steals and 0 blocks, shooting 33.3% from the field and 41.7% from three-point range, and no free throws.

Hardaway Jr.'s three-point shooting rate is over 40%, isn't it quite high? In fact, he only made one three-pointer: G4 was reduced to garbage time for the entire fourth quarter, and Hardaway Jr. scored 15 points on 5-of-7 three-pointers in the first quarter. In the remaining 3 finals games he played, he made 0 of 5 three-pointers! Suffice it to say, Hardaway Jr.'s three-pointer didn't do much for the Mavericks.

Sometimes the record can be deceiving: Hardaway Jr. hit five three-pointers in a single quarter of the Finals, the third player in NBA history, tied with Ray Allen and Curry. Netizens ridiculed: After the college entrance examination, I made 5 sets of full score papers. In this year's playoffs, Hardaway Jr. averaged 4.4 points, 1.8 rebounds and 0.4 assists per game, shooting 37.9%, 35.1%, and 50% from three.

For comparison, Hardaway Jr. averaged 14.4 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game in the regular season, shooting 40.2% from the field, 35.3% from three-point range and 85.2% from the free throw line. That said, his average points per game in the playoffs plummeted by 10 points. The Mavericks want to trade Hardaway Jr. for instant power and also want to make room for Derrick Jones Jr. to re-sign.

After losing the Finals, Mavericks general manager Nick Harrison said at the end-of-season press conference: "Signing back Jones Jr. is a priority for the team at the first level, and the team will do everything possible to achieve that goal." Even if you don't count Jones Jr., the Mavericks' entire team salary has reached $175 million, which is over the luxury tax line.

In the 2023 offseason, Derrick Jones Jr. joined the Mavericks with a one-year, 2.7 million base salary. Jones Jr. played in 76 games during the regular season this season, 66 of which were starts. He averaged 8.6 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1 assist, 0.7 steals and 0.7 blocks in 23.5 minutes per game, shooting 48.3%, 34.3% and 71.3% from three.

In this year's playoffs, Jones Jr. played 22 games and averaged 29.4 minutes per game, scoring 9.1 points, 3.5 rebounds, 1.2 assists, 0.5 steals and 1 block, and shooting percentages of 48.1%, 36.9%, and 73.3% from three. He didn't perform well in the Finals: averaging 6.6 points, 2.8 rebounds, 0.6 assists, 0.6 steals and 0.6 blocks per game, shooting 25% from three-point range. Everyone is welcome to discuss: Do you think the Lone Ranger can send Hardaway Jr. away? How big of a contract can Jones Jr. get?

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