The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 336
In the general manager's office of the Kings, the nameplate outside has been replaced with Angelina Lanadive's name.

That's right, this office now belongs to An Jiali.

After the team won the championship last year, the Kings terminated the contract with Divac ahead of schedule. Simply put, Divac was fired.

Here Divac set another record, that is, he became the first general manager in history to be fired after the team won the championship.

However, no one came forward to scold the king for this incident, and even on social media, it did not cause the slightest disturbance.

The reason is simple, everyone knows that Divac is a puppet!
The real masters of the Kings are owner Vivek and his daughter Anjiali.

Of course, what they don't know is that these two are actually puppets, and the real team leader is Li Pu behind them.

"General Manager, this is an offer from the Celtics!"

A middle-aged man with a bald head and a beard, wearing a short-sleeved Kings uniform, stood respectfully in front of An Jiali.

This person's name is Monte McNair, who has worked in the Rockets management for nearly ten years. When the Kings management changed last year, he received an invitation to join the Kings.

Over the past year, his professional ability has been recognized by An Jiali, and he can be regarded as An Jiali's confidant.

"Well, their conditions are not bad! Let's put it here first!" An Jiali picked it up casually, glanced at it, and then put it aside the desk.

"Uh, don't you think about it? The conditions they proposed are really attractive!" McConnell tried to ask again.

"Monte, this is the critical moment of the finals. Do you think it is really appropriate for us to contact the opponent's management with great fanfare?" Of course An Jiali understood what McConnell meant, so she asked back.

"In this case, why did you ask me to release the news before? Even if the relevant players are not involved, I am afraid that people will panic, right?"

"Monte, do you know what the salary cap of our team is this year?"

"7000 million!"

"What about next year?"

"Uh, it should rise to nearly 8000 million, right?"

"Next year's salary cap is said to exceed 9000 million!"

"How many?"

Now it's McConnell's turn to be dumbfounded. How can the salary cap soar?

But seeing An Jiali's serious appearance, McConnell felt that it could not be a fake!

The reason why there will be such an abnormal surge in the salary cap is mainly because the NBA signed a 2015-year $9 billion TV contract before the start of the 240 season. The new contract will take effect in the summer of 2016. Compared with The original contract more than tripled.

The NBA's income is directly proportional to the team's salary space.

Such a skyrocketing salary space of more than 2000 million US dollars is enough for a team to sign a maximum salary player.

Since the poor line is set at 90% of the salary cap, it is conceivable how crazy this year's offseason will be. There will definitely be a large number of teams waving checks to sign players to fill their poor line.

The main lineup of the Kings is either already bound by a long-term contract, or they are all rookie contracts, so it is very difficult to fill the poor line!
The best way to do this is to sign a superstar with a maximum salary during the offseason, such as Durant whose contract has expired.

But it’s okay to think about it. He is a champion team, so how can he recruit such a superstar?

So how shameless is such a star?

What's more, even if they are found, how can the team's salary space be guaranteed in the future?

After all, in the next few years, the rookie contracts of several young players in the team are about to expire. If the salary is blocked at this time, they will have to pay the luxury tax year after year!

The Kings now have five tens of millions of big contracts. Therefore, if they want to fill the team's poor line, they need to trade one or two big garbage contracts that are about to expire, and then the team will survive smoothly.

"I see, and about this year's draft, here are the draft reports of several players!"

"Okay, you can put it here, I will look at it later, is there anything else?"

"No more!" McConnell shook his head quickly.

"Okay, you go back, I'm going back to see the child!" An Jiali got up and picked up the luxury bag on the cabinet next to the office.

Since having a child, An Jiali's devotion to the team is far less than before.

Of course, this is also a good thing for McConnell, at least as his number one confidant, he has gained a lot of rights.

But is this really good for the team?

Under McConnell's wild thinking, An Jiali left the office and came to the arena to pick her up from get off work.

"husband!"

Although the two have been "old husband and wife" for five years, and now they have children, they are still in love mode.

After the hug, Li Pu walked to the parking lot with An Jiali in his arms. All the staff members he met along the way bowed to the two of them.

The status of this male and female combination in front of the Kings is really special.

It can be said that without the two of them, the Kings would not be where they are today, but there is no Kings fan who does not thank the two.

The two got into the car together, An Jiali was in the driver's seat, and Li Pu was in the co-pilot.

Basically, after Li Pu's training, An Jiali would take the initiative to drive.

"The draft is coming soon, I won't go to Cleveland with you tomorrow!"

"That's fine, just wait until the fourth game for you to come!"

"Are you so confident in sweeping the knights?"

There have been two games in the finals now, and the Kings lead 2:0.

Although the big score seems to be a big gap, the actual game was very fierce, and it was not easy for the Kings to win.

"Confidence is not too great, as long as the referee does not shoot, there is still an 80% possibility!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

After some laughter, the conversation between the two returned to normal work.

"Are we really going to move the roster?"

"You haven't made up your mind yet?"

"After all, this is a super team that is about to win two consecutive championships, or should it be passive without moving?"

"After winning the championship this year, we won two consecutive championships. Some people in the team are not so interested in the championship. What do you think they want next?"

"You want status, you want tactics?"

"This is on the one hand. On the other hand, during the crazy offseason this summer, everyone who is not as good as me has a contract of 2000 million. Can they balance it? Therefore, we still have to make an example of others!"

When Li Pu talked about the fate of his teammates, it seemed that he was talking about an unimportant matter, and he seemed very indifferent.

"Those are your teammates after all, does it really matter?"

"My teammates are all my fellow travelers. If they are unwilling to go on with me, or fall behind, then I would rather help him! This league has never lacked capable people who want to chase the championship!"

(End of this chapter)