Unfinished! Another garbage contract! This team is going to disintegrate?

Everyone knows that the Nuggets lost to the Thunder in the semi-final tiebreak.

In this year's playoffs, the Nuggets' performance was actually quite good. The two core players Jokic + Murray were completely within expectations. Gordon even made a representative work of his career, contributing three games to the finals this year.

In contrast, the loss of another maximum player in the team, Porter Jr. As the third leader in the team's contract, Porter Jr. This year, he has completely lost his value.

Look at the regular season first. This year, Porter Jr. is still pretty average. He played in a total of 77 games in the regular season, contributing 18.2 points, 7 rebounds and 2.1 assists, with a shooting percentage of 50.4% + 39.5%, and a real shooting percentage of 61.7%.

Although the data has not improved much compared with the previous two years, the winning rate is stable output and good efficiency. The attendance rate in the past two years is extremely high. Last season, he played 81 games and 77 games this season.

In this year's playoffs, Porter Jr.'s performance was at a disaster level...

Since the entire playoffs, Porter Jr. has played 31.1 minutes per game, with only 9.1 points, 5.5 rebounds and 0.6 assists, with a shooting percentage of 39.2% + 34.3%, and his real shooting percentage is only 50.7%.

Especially in the second round of the series with the Thunder, he averaged 29.5 minutes per game, with only 7.4 points, 5.3 rebounds and 0.6 assists remaining, with a shooting percentage of 32.2% + 25%.

The key G4, 1 of 7 shots in the game, scored only 2 points, G5 also scored 1 of 7 shots, and 3 of 8 shots in the tiebreak, with only 6 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist. The team eventually lost to the Thunder in the tiebreak.

After playing this year's playoffs, Porter Jr.'s net worth is gone. Once the Nuggets decide to reorganize the lineup in the offseason, the first one to be cleared out is Porter Jr.

Denver media Nugglove also mentioned his situation. They believe that Porter Jr. has finished the last game of his Nuggets' career and is highly likely to be sent away in the offseason.

Nugglove pointed out that Porter's contract has become unbearable for the Nuggets.

Potter Jr.'s salary is about $36 million this season, and will rise to $38.3 million next season, and more than $40 million in the next year. This is a star-level salary, but under the current labor agreement, the team cannot pay star salary for non-stars.

However, Porter Jr. is obviously not at the star level now, his progress has never been as expected, and his performance is stable but far from outstanding. Although he is still a top shooter with a height advantage, his ball control and organizational skills have almost no improvement, and his defense and rebounding abilities have also stagnated, making him a very single-dimensional player.

His growth rate is too slow, and he is now almost 27 years old and has entered the maturity of his career. It is very difficult to make another breakthrough in the later stage. The Nuggets need to rebalance the lineup and salary structure, and Porter Jr. is obviously the primary breakthrough.

This season, the Nuggets ranked eighth in the league with a total salary of 194.6 million, and the luxury tax of 20.36 million US dollars, but this is based on the fact that the new maximum salary contract between Murray and Gordon has not yet begun to take effect. Murray's 4-year 210 million and Gordon's 4-year 133 million have both begun to take effect in the new season.

And the bigger problem is Jokic's contract renewal. This offseason, Jokic is eligible to complete a three-year, 212 million yuan contract renewal with the team. If you wait until next summer, the contract will reach a maximum of 5-year, 380 million yuan.

In addition, the team also needs to consider Braun's contract renewal. As a newcomer trained by the team, this year's regular season 15.4 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.6 assists, 12.6 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists in the playoffs. His rookie contract is only one year left and he is about to face a renewal of 20 million yuan in annual salary.

So in the situation where salary pressure is so explosive, the team has fallen to the semi-finals for two consecutive years. The team will inevitably take the initiative to optimize the salary structure in advance, and Porter Jr. is likely to become the primary goal.