Translator's note: This article was originally published from the Orange County Chronicle, and the author is Mirjam Swanson. The data in the article are as of the original text as of July 3rd local time. The views in the article have nothing to do with the translator and the platform.

fans shouted loudly and strongly demanded that the Los Angeles Lakers sign a free agent center quickly, but the general manager was patiently waiting for the better candidate to pass the clarification period and finally got DeAndre Aiton at a discounted price.

To be honest, I am very glad that all the NBA fans here do not have the key to controlling the Purple and Gold Legion. To be honest, I feel relieved that you impatient keyboard general managers are giving advice in the bedroom, basement or corridor - this is better than having you really sit in the management office of a team, especially the management office of the Lakers.

Because I've seen how you guys will operate, the scene was simply full of Black Friday atmosphere. What we are talking about here is the Black Friday before the rise of large-scale online shopping - when people would camp for hours, rush into the store at midnight, and huddle with other customers in order to grab the promotional product that can meet the needs of life.

The enthusiasm you showed in order to snap up that big TV is now being used by you to win over the big guy under the basket. Even now, in this relatively calm version of the NBA free agent market, it still feels like the first day of Christmas shopping in July.

When you too anxious and self-righteous shoppers saw the guy who had been working in the store for many years standing aside at 12:02 in the morning, you couldn't help but: What are you doing! Get moving! Buy something! Check out with a credit card! Who cares about interest! Who cares how you plan to pay it off! Don’t delay the problem, that’s too bad! You need it now! You needed it two minutes ago! Oh my God, are you a fool?

I wasn't going to be a public defender, but the "just standing there" - the Lakers' basketball operations president and general manager Rob Pelinka - was supposed to comfort you, "It's okay, brother. I have a friend to hide the bookings for me."

Then he should have walked out with the big item he needed and coveted to keep up with the team next door (by the way, those teams are still wondering what he was like this February, what he was like Didn't anyone pay attention to Luca Doncic. When Pelinka finally came out, he received a much larger discount than any offer you know.

He was lucky, right? Just when the Lakers found out that they had a full $14 million special case of middle class to spend, center DeAndre Ayton happened to be on the signable list. Is this just a coincidence?

Of course, if you believe everything you see online, you'll think Pelinka "just stand there "Doing nothing is to make the mistake of being fired - when 32-year-old winger Dorian Finney Smith found another job in Houston and signed a four-year, $53 million contract, you all said online that Pelinka let him slip away in vain. (However, that's a good thing for DFS.)

But now it seems that the guy is not "just standing there". He seems to be waiting for his friend to come out with his "trophy" from behind Come on - a 26-year-old starting center who was not publicized and significantly discounted before, and the center happens to be the same agent as Doncic.

Losing Finney Smith, but welcoming Ayton and 23-year-old winger Laravia, it feels a bit like the arithmetic problem that Clippers guard Norman Powell did after his team let Paul George go for nothing last season - but not completely "for free".

Powell's team made the playoffs as the fifth seed in the West, and George's where he is Before the City Sixers were eliminated in the East, he looked at it like this: the Clippers are doing "subtraction" add.

But in the Lakers' case, it's not a matter of providing a bigger role for players who are more eager to win, but a real "spend a portion of money to get two players" - a real Black Friday operation!

They will sign Ayton on a 2-year, $16.6 million contract, so they'll pay $8.2 million this season and a player option next season. For this 7-foot (about 2.13 meters) tall, once the No. 1 pick and bought out by the Portland Trail Blazers, it's an incredible deal. The Trail Blazers will now pay him about $25 million to play for the Lakers -- the Lakers also signed the marksman Laravia with another part of their middle class exception.

Although Pelinka "just stand there" makes you madly angry in the first two days of the free agent market, he still has relatively abundant assets now.

31 or 2032 first-round picks, or pick swaps, or sophomore wing player Knector with huge potential. Whether it is Hachimura Shiraki with an annual salary of $18.3 million, or players whose contracts are about to expire.

No matter what the asking price is, Pelinka will not appear impatient in negotiations - after all, the whole world (including fantasy basketball managers) knows that he does need a center.

The Lakers need a center so much that you are ready to force arranging players like Brooke Lopez and Clint Capela who should have played as a substitute to make up the numbers. Because from the perspective of you queuing outside the store, the Lakers seem to have only these people.

And now, they get Ayton for a very good price, and you probably want to tell the manager that you still have reservations about it.

The NBA has a very interesting habit of throwing dirty water on players when they leave. Whether fair or not, anonymous sources would describe former employees as distorted or vampires, as if they felt that this would allow fans to continue to support their team after the breakup.

So you'll read an article about why the Trail Blazers were willing to let Ayton go, which called his "crime" including "causing casual and noisy, often blurting out singing or commenting casually in the locker room." Go and ask the security guard to come.

But before you do, consider this: The Bahamas player averaged double-double per game every season in his career, averaging 16.4 points (59% shooting percentage) and 10.5 rebounds. That's right, the Lakers got a guy who can really grab rebounds! A player who can complete both an all-time threat and a mid-range shot threat. He has this upcoming season to prove that he deserves his next big contract.

Yes, I know what you are thinking.

What is Pelinka doing? What does he mean, what is he doing now? Ayton's news has been in the past two news cycles, and the Lakers still have work to do!

If they want LeBron to satisfy, impress Doncic, and turn this team with two top 15 players in the league into a team with strength and should be competitors, they still have defensive loopholes to fill.