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On the afternoon of the second day after winning the championship, Curry took the FMVP trophy and Duane took the championship trophy, and immediately boarded the plane back to Chicago.

It was already dark when the plane arrived at O'Hare International Airport.

As in previous years, the Bulls boarded the team bus immediately after getting off the plane and headed straight to the United Center to place the trophy.

However, the Bulls players were clearly not riding in a Mazda, and as a result, they encountered a traffic jam as soon as they left the airport.

Perhaps someone leaked the flight information of the Bulls in advance.

Perhaps it is because this year's championship helped the Bulls tie the Celtics in the number of championships, which is of special significance.

In short, a large number of Bulls fans came spontaneously outside O'Hare International Airport to welcome the Bulls players back to Chicago and to welcome the championship trophy in Duane's hand, which represents the Bulls' official promotion to the second most powerful team in history!
In terms of record, the Bulls tied the Celtics with 16 championships, second only to the Lakers with 17 championships.

Considering that most of the Celtics are ancient champions, which seem to be of low quality at the moment, it is reasonable for the Bulls to come in second.

In terms of market value, according to data released by Forbes in February this year, the New York Knicks' valuation of 2 billion ranked first in the league, followed by the Bulls at 36.2 billion.

In fact, after Kobe retired, the Bulls, led by Durant, surpassed the Lakers and became the second most expensive team in the league.

Now that the Bulls have won their 16th championship in team history, perhaps they can use this opportunity to challenge the title of the league's most expensive team.

However, they have not yet surpassed the Lakers in terms of the number of championships, and their exact market value has not been announced yet.

Considering that they are only second in both aspects and have not reached the top in either aspect, it is embarrassing to directly call themselves the number one powerhouse in the NBA.

Fortunately, Durant has not retired yet, and the Bulls have Curry and Jokic. In the next few years, they have every chance to challenge the status of the top team in the NBA.

However, this is not what Dunn cares about.

With the fans' farewell, the Bulls slowly returned to the United Center.

Duane put down the championship trophy and left for the time being, returning to his villa and having a good sleep.

It wasn't until a week later that he appeared at the championship parade.

What’s different from last year is that since the team has been handed over to Curry, Durant no longer takes the lead.

For this reason, Dunn even gave the championship trophy to Jokic.

However, the fat guy Jokic didn't take the championship trophy he inherited too seriously, as if the championship trophy was not as fun as a baseball bat.

With a baseball bat in your hand, try swinging it a few times to feel the feel of it.

Then look around to see if there is anything nearby that you can hit.

Now in Jokic's hands is a championship trophy of great significance, and Jokic can't bump into anything with it.

This could only be done by raising it up from time to time to signal in front of hundreds of thousands or millions of Chicago fans.

Such mechanical and wooden operation is meaningless to Jokic.

So at the championship parade, Jokic had no intention of showing off. Instead, he held the trophy for a while and then handed it back to Durant.

But Duane also didn't want to be the center of attention in the championship parade.

So, Durant and Jokic could only act like skilled workers in a factory, mechanically repeating their previous actions, lifting the trophy from time to time, and taking turns to hold it for a distance from time to time.

In order to pass the time, Durant and Jokic mostly watched Curry holding the FMVP trophy, constantly winking, cheering and joking with the fans on both sides of the road.

Because he had experienced a four-peat parade before, the feeling this time brought to Duan was far inferior to the last time, or even inferior to the previous two consecutive championships.

After marching for several hours, Dunn became bored and even began to feel sleepy.

If the sun hadn't been a little too strong, even if Duan closed his eyes, he would have seen a bright red scene in front of him. Maybe Duan could have fallen asleep at the final parade speech meeting.

After finally waiting until the championship parade was over, Duan was finally freed and able to do what he wanted.

However, Bulls general manager John Paxson suddenly came to talk to Duane about contract renewal.

Duane still has one year on his contract with the Bulls, or to be more precise, a one-year player option.

This is also why John Paxson came to us.

Duane is not young anymore. Normally speaking, he can only play in the league for four or five years at most.

In the past, many superstars and giants would threaten to opt out of their contracts at this critical juncture to put pressure on the team and strive for a three- to five-year maximum salary retirement contract.

If you can't get a satisfactory offer from your parent team, then go to other teams to get a generous pension. Many superstars who are known for playing for one city were kicked out by their parent teams at the end of their careers, mostly because they couldn't reach an agreement on the contract amount.

However, such a situation where a tiger is bullied by a dog in a desperate situation would never happen to Duen.

After all, Durant is different from other superstars and superstars who don’t have enough honors to win.

Not to mention that Duane was already the undisputed GOAT in the basketball world, he won his 11th championship this year, tying the ancient championship record of Russell, the Lord of the Rings.

Not to mention, Duane brought 10 championships to the Bulls, which is something that even the deputy GOAT Jordan could not do.

Given Durant's achievements, especially the fact that he has just established a four-peat dynasty for the Bulls, there is no way the Bulls would not give Durant a pension contract or ask him to take a pay cut.

In other words, the Bulls can only actively request a contract extension with Durant and increase his salary to the maximum.

For the Bulls management, the only thing that can be negotiated and manipulated is the length of the contract.

Everyone can see that Duan's strength has declined in the past two years.

Last year, the team was in the top ten in the league, but this year it has dropped to the top 20.

If this continues, Duane will at best be able to play at the level of an ordinary starter in the next few years.

But the salary that Duane is about to receive will be the highest in the league.

This also means that the Bulls have to take the initiative to give out the biggest garbage contract in history and take good care of an old man like Duane for several years.

From the perspective of the Bulls owner and management, they certainly don't want to pay a huge luxury tax while watching the team's performance go from bad to worse.

In particular, the team recently renewed the contracts of Jokic and Curry, and the contracts within the team are bigger than each other.

However, Duane is a player and a wage earner, and he cannot empathize with the capitalists.

It is impossible to reduce the annual salary, and I will not take the initiative to mention such a thing as a salary cut.

At worst, if we can't reach an agreement, we can just drag it out and ask someone to leak some news after a while to see who will be scolded by the fans!
John Paxson appealed to Durant's reason and emotion, hoping to renew Durant's contract with a 2+1 contract totaling 3 million for three years.

You know, Durant's last contract was for 4 million over 1.38 years, while Curry's current contract, the highest-paid contract in history, is for 5 million over 2.01 years.

To be honest, the new contract is indeed full of sincerity in terms of the amount.

Even if it is the contract period, if Duane renews his contract, it will become a four-year contract of 1+2+1.

But what's Dunn's bottom line? At least one more year.

Perhaps Jerry Reinsdorf gave John Paxson a strict order that Duane's new contract could not exceed three years, so the new contract was not negotiated.

Duane doesn't care about it. He will return to his country to play in the Men's Basketball World Cup. This summer he has plenty of time to be patient with the Bulls owner and management.

What I didn’t expect was that if the east is not bright, the west will be bright.

Just as Duane was about to return home, he was invited by Nike owner Phil Knight to visit Nike's headquarters in Portland.

Not long after Duane arrived in the Rose City, he received a big, fragrant contract - a lifetime contract worth $10 billion.

Of course, it’s not pure cash, nor is it a one-time payment.

Mainly including the Dunn series of research and development centers (property, some design patents) as well as Nike stock and a small amount of cash (spread over ten years).

Although he does not have as much dividends as Jordan and AJ, Dunn basically controls his own Dunn series.

Besides, if you obtain some design patents, you will also get dividends.

In short, the profits that Dunn will obtain in the future will only be more than 10 billion, not less.

After Duane completed the renewal of his sky-high lifetime contract with Nike, Bulls general manager John Paxson called Duane again and played the emotional card.

4 million in 1.94 years!
There is nothing to say, the contract must be given, and the Bulls have no choice but to meet Durant's standards.

But in this way, in the last two years of the new contract, Dunn will successfully enter the 50 million club!
"The biggest contract in history? Not the biggest crappy contract!"

"Crazy contract extension, the end of the Bulls dynasty!"

"Dunn took the Chicago Bulls to the top of the mountain, but he also took them to hell!"

After the news of the Chicago Bulls and Dunn's contract extension came out, many people inside and outside the league began to spread alarmist rhetoric, gloat over the misfortune, and celebrate. (End of this chapter)