NBA: Top 3D talents to start

Chapter 140 Crazy Free Market

With the arrival of July, the NBA free market officially opened.

The new TV contract has come into effect, and the league has announced the salary cap for the 2016-17 season, which is 9414.3 million!A full 25% increase from last season.

The skyrocketing salary space has plunged the entire league into a frenzy.

On the first day alone, more than US$10 billion in contracts were signed!

Eric Gordon signed with the Rockets for 4 million in 5300 years.

Harrison Barnes extended his contract with the Mavericks in 4 years and 9500 million.

Mahinmi signed with the Wizards for 4 million in 6400 years.

Al Horford signed with the Celtics for 4 million in 1.13 years.

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A large number of jaw-dropping contracts are constantly being announced, shocking the league and even the whole world. Isn't the money earned too exaggerated?
Especially Barnes and Horford, neither of them can be regarded as top stars, but one got 9500 million, the other has a contract of over 2000 million, and the average annual salary is more than [-] million!
At this time, no one would have thought that this is not the most exaggerated.

July 7nd, the second day of the free market, was even crazier than the first day.

The Grizzlies starting point guard Mike Conley reached a contract extension agreement with the team to stay with the Grizzlies for 5 million in 1.53 years.

1 million in one year, with an average annual salary of 1.53 million!
This is the largest contract in NBA history!

Mike Conley, who was unknown before and had never even been selected as an All-Star, became the subject of hot discussion in the league in an instant.

"A point guard who has averaged 15 points and 6 assists per game in his career, is he worthy of such a big contract?"

Not to mention becoming a top star in the league, even if Conley can be selected as an All-Star once, perform well, have the experience of being selected to the best team, and even lead the Grizzlies to a substantial honor in the playoffs, no one will. say what.

But it doesn't matter what Conley wants, why should he get such a big contract?Isn't this disrupting the market?
While doubts arose everywhere, some people were also analyzing rationally. , The salary cap has skyrocketed, and it is inevitable that the salary of players will increase accordingly. Although the Grizzlies feel a bit stupid and have a lot of money, they are actually helpless.

Rich teams are everywhere, but they are strong, but there are very few stars in their prime.

It doesn't make any sense to have money but not sign stars.

Although the Grizzlies gave Conley this five-year 5 million contract, although it is a bit exaggerated, at least they left the team's main point guard to ensure that the team's strength did not decline. In the view of the Grizzlies management, this is enough .

And Mike Conley's largest contract in history is just the beginning.

Immediately afterwards, Howard joined the Atlanta Hawks for 3 million in three years. He played more and more in the Rockets and developed towards a blue-collar center, and he could no longer stay.

The Grizzlies hit hard again, signing Rockets forward Chandler Parsons for 4 million in four years.

In fact, the Grizzlies really want to get Wang Feng. At the same price, Wang Feng's strength is completely different from Parsons.

However, after they took the initiative to contact Wang Feng's agent Bill Duffy, the other party replied directly that Wang Feng was not interested in the Grizzlies.

Wang Feng did seriously consider the Memphis Grizzlies, but after Conley's largest contract in history appeared like another time and space, Wang Feng was not very interested.

Conley's annual salary is 3000 million, Marc Gasol's annual salary is 2000 million, plus the maximum salary that can be given to him is about 2200 million. The three players alone almost occupy more than 7000 million salary space, which is left for the team to reinforce. space is almost zero.

Marc Gasol's contract is a little bit better, and he can maintain his state for a few years, which is a good immediate combat power.

But Conley's annual salary of 3000 million is really a scam. This contract alone is doomed to the Grizzlies having no chance of winning the championship.

Besides, although Memphis is a big city, the Grizzlies are a standard small-market team, so Wang Feng refused without hesitation.

Knowing that they had no chance to sign Wang Feng, the Grizzlies stopped struggling and signed forward Chandler Parsons for 4 million in four years.

This contract, in the next few years, will be hailed as the most rubbish big contract in recent years. Chandler Parsons, who takes money and does not work, is also jokingly called "Money Got. What are you afraid of?"

The Pistons renewed their contract with their self-trained center Andre Drummond for 5 million in 1.3 years. Considering that the league is now dying of centers, this contract is not an exaggeration.

The Wizards renewed their contract with guard Bradley Beal, which is also 5 million for 1.3 years, the highest maximum salary allowed under the salary cap.

The Hornets renewed Batum's contract for 5 million in 1.2 years.

The Raptors renewed DeRozan's contract, 5 million in 1.45 years...

The major teams have struck out with heavy blows, and the white money is flowing out like a flood, and there are fewer and fewer big fish in the free market.

After the end of July 7, there are only a handful of more famous players in the league left.

At the same time, Huaguo fans, who have been following Wang Feng's news, gradually became anxious.

"What is Wang Feng doing? Why hasn't he renewed his contract with the Warriors?"

After the salary cap skyrocketed, the Warriors’ salary space increased a little, and Bogut, who had an annual salary of 1200 million, was also traded to the Mavericks a few days ago, freeing up a lot of salary space, and he is fully capable of providing Wang Feng with a 4-year 9500 million contract. maximum salary.

However, it has been the third day since the opening of the free market, and there has been no news from both sides.

Even the information from various gossip channels is quite intriguing.

Wang Feng's economic team, Team Yao, met with many teams in a few days, including the Lakers, Celtics, Knicks and other teams with sufficient salary space. There's the Warriors' arch-nemesis, the Cleveland Cavaliers.

On the Warriors side, many players including Green are actively communicating with Durant, and seem to want to persuade Durant to join the Warriors.

This kind of behavior is unbelievable. Durant is one of the top stars in the league, a standard big name, how could he cut his salary to join the Warriors who have won two consecutive championships? Shameless?
When many people read these news, they felt like they saw a joke, thinking who made up the news, do they understand football?Never mind.

However, just one day later, the reality told everyone, who doesn't understand football?

On July 7th, Durant issued a statement on his personal Twitter, officially announcing that he would leave the Thunder and join the Golden State Warriors for 4 million in 2 years. road.

In the article, he thanked his old club for everything, and then used "a new chapter in my life" and "the most difficult decision" to describe his decision.

Once this news was announced, it immediately caused an uproar in the alliance!Everyone was stunned by Durant's showy operation.

(End of this chapter)