Maximum salary renewal! The Spurs recreates a new GDP combination after many years

This year's offseason's Western Conference is very lively. The Thunder sent two major contracts in a row to retain the championship team. The Rockets' trade was Durant and became the favorite to win the championship. The Nuggets, Lakers and Clippers have all made targeted reinforcements. The Mavericks selected the No. 1 pick Flag, who has talented historically, and the competition for the Western Conference playoffs in the new season will inevitably be in full swing.

Recently, the long-silent San Antonio Spurs finally took action and renewed the starting point guard Fox with a maximum salary of $229 million for four years. The All-Star player averaged 23.5 points, 4.8 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 1.5 steals per game last season. If Chris Paul had not taken part of the ball in the team, Fox's various data would have been better. In the past few seasons, Fox's average score was more than 25 points per game during the Kings.

Fox's style of playing is very similar to that of the Spurs' historical celebrity Tony Parker. Both have a small and fast pace, extremely fast and a stable mid-range shooting, but a slightly worse three-pointer from the outside. The team's management left this point guard to lock in the future main lineup in advance. He will become the core of the Spurs' internal and external lines with Wenban Yama.

The team building model is similar to the era of glorious GDP that created it back then. In recent years, the Spurs have insisted on independently cultivating many potential new stars and powerful players through drafts. Last season, including Champany, who averaged 9.9 points per game, as many as 8 players in the team averaged double-digit points per game. Castle and Vassel were gradually trained by the team to become players with both offense and defense, and Popovich also continued his ability to train defenders.

In addition, Kelden Johnson also became the sixth man on the bench, averaging 12.7 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game in just 23.6 minutes. If nothing unexpected happens, the Spurs already have the prototype of a new version of GDP, and in addition, the role players are even stronger than the team led by Duncan back then.

In this era of stars gathering together, it is not easy for San Antonio as a traditional strong team to continue to build a team-building model of independently cultivating rookies. However, with the Thunder's championship, small city teams have also seen the success of this model. As Wenban Yama also realized her talent, averaging 24.3 points, 11 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 1.1 steals and a terrifying 3.9 blocks per game, the Spurs once again have the same team-building core as Duncan. Let's wait and see whether they can create a myth of the times that belongs to them again!