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    　　北京时间8月22日，NBA自由市场再度迎来重磅动向。    

    Ronald Sakolsky fills a jar with sand from the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia, planning to bring it back to the US, on August 24, 2026. Photo: Lin Xiaoyi
On Monday afternoon, Ronald Sakolsky, an American teacher, set foot once again on the soil of the Mu Us Desert, in the Uxin Banner of Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He first came here in 2000. Back then, the land was little more than drifting sand. Today, it is green with trees – a transformation driven by decades of local effort.
He stood within Sakolsky Forest, a woodland formally named to honor his early donation toward local ecological restoration. There, he carried out a plan he had held long before this trip: filling a jar with sand from the desert to bring home to the US.
More than two decades ago, sand was the one thing this place had in abundance. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by the tireless efforts of Chinese desert fighter Yin Yuzhen and her husband to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert. He raised $5,000 – equivalent in 1999 to three years of income for Yin’s entire family – to fund their local tree-planting initiative.
The young saplings bought with that donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
When Sakolsky met Yin at the airport on Sunday, 26 years after his first visit to Inner Mongolia, he joked that he could not take a tree from the Mu Us Desert, but he could slip some sand into his shoes and carry a piece of the land back with him. Now, he had found exactly the sand he wanted – not just any sand, but from a place where persistence had turned desert into life, and where his own name had become part of that story.
“Promise is a promise,” he said. “Ms. Yin made a promise, and she fulfilled it.”
For Sakolsky, the sand is not just dirt. It is a metaphor, a bridge, a shared ground. He plans to tell his grandchildren what it means. “It’s not just a piece of sand in the jar,” he said. “It’s a jar of love.”
He used the jar of sand to symbolize that America and China share a relationship rooted in the same soil. He shook the jar, holding its two ends as if they were the two countries, and said that it shows we’re all on the same planet.
There is an old American joke, he noted, that if you dig a hole deep enough, you will eventually reach China. “We’re all on the same planet,” he said.
Earlier that day, while visiting Yin’s home, he spoke about the need for Americans and Chinese to see each other as family. “All Americans should understand that Chinese people and Americans can be family,” he said. “We can transcend differences if we focus on our common ground. We all love our countries, and we all value loyalty and respect – these are the shared virtues we hold dear.”
As for the sand he collected, Sakolsky said he would treat it as a treasure, alongside all his other precious keepsakes from China. He expects to display it in his living room – a daily reminder of the forest that carries his name and the people who made it grow.
。四届总冠军得主克莱-汤普森与达拉斯独行侠达成买断协议，计划在度过澄清期后以两年1300万美元加盟迈阿密热火；与此同时，六届全明星德罗赞以一年390万美元底薪签约丹佛掘金。

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    　　篮球解说员殳海在社交媒体上对这两笔操作进行了点评。他指出，两位进入生涯暮年的全明星老将同日确定去向，各有逻辑。“汤神和独行侠就剩余最后一年合同达成买断，以2年1300万签约热火。

三 | 对进攻端几位主将缺乏空间属性的热火而言，休赛期连续拿下小哈达威、汤普森这样产量巨大的投射专家，管理层还是非常清晰地在对症下药。”
    
    　　谈及德罗赞加盟掘金，殳海认为这是一笔出人意料但极具价值的选择。“德罗赞依然是一个出色的球员，单打、支配球、控失误水平依然超过同位置绝大部分球员。”尽管德罗赞防守欠佳、三分能力有限，但他指出，“对今年已经被掏空板凳的掘金而言，无论如何都是一个相当宝贵的补强。”
    
    　　两笔签约均体现了球队在赛季前的针对性调整。

四 | 热火补强外线投射，为字母哥与阿德巴约创造更大空间；掘金则以老将经验填补替补深度。新赛季即将开启，这两笔操作的影响将在常规赛中得到检验。