Standing pretty old

Chapter 801

So what if the Bulls didn't make it to the Eastern Conference Finals?

In the Western District, the San Antonio Spurs, whose record is only inferior to the Bulls, were blacked out in the first round.

So no matter how good James' stats are, as long as there is no bonus to his regular season record, he has no qualifications to compete for this MVP.

"The Chosen One" was even more embarrassing. In the two seasons when he led the Cavaliers to the second place in the Eastern Conference, he encountered the Eagles Dynasty at its peak. As a result, he lost to the Chinese in the MVP election for two consecutive years.

Finally Er Niu was injured, and he joined a team with the ability to win the championship, but he happened to meet the explosive Chicago Bulls.

It is ironic to say that the Chicago Bulls were once one of James' possible next homes.

People are surprised to find that James is really an "uncrowned king".

It has been almost 8 years since he entered the league. Even though he has played one defense many times, he still has not won the hard honor of MVP in the regular season. Coupled with LBJ's group behavior this season, it directly makes people doubt his dominance.

James, who just qualified for the Eastern Conference finals, expressed his congratulations to Rose in front of the media. He said with a sullen face: "I have no interest in personal honor now, and the championship is the only pursuit."

Well-known TNT commentator-Charles Barkley mocked on Twitter: "Obviously, wanting to get it is not the same thing as getting it."

There is no specific name, but it is clear at a glance who is talking about, not to mention that a large group of fans who have good deeds have already gone to @ James.

You know, Barkley is qualified to say this. Although he has never won a championship, Barkley won the MVP trophy when he was the Sun King.

Now the pressure is all concentrated on James. Without the hard honor of MVP, his superstar status is discounted. If he has gathered the Big Three and cannot win the championship, he will definitely become the laughing stock in the eyes of the All-Mi fans this summer.

After talking about the individual awards, let's take a look at the selection of the best team of all kinds.

The first is the All-Rookie First Team and Second Team.

First team: DeMarcus Cousins, Blake Griffin, Landry Fields, Gary Neal, John Wall.

The second team: Greg Monroe, Derek Favors, Wesley Johnson, Paul George, Eric Bledsoe.

From the data point of view, the rankings of the first team and the second team are well deserved. Among them, Landry Fields and Gary Neal, as second-round picks, can be successfully selected for the best rookie team a year later. Career has an extremely important bonus effect.

Then there are the first and second teams of the best defense:

One of them is:

C Dwight Howard

PF Kevin Garnett

SF LeBron James

SG Kobe Bryant
PG Rajon Rondo
Undoubtedly unconvincing, routinely appealing for Tony Allen, his performance in the two rounds of the playoffs is obvious to all.

However, Rondo's defensive efficiency in the regular season is higher than that of Allen, so it is understandable that Rondo occupies the first position of the defensive team.

What is incomprehensible is that Kobe occupies the second position. It is not the first year that the Mamba's defensive efficiency has declined, but various media always vote with their feet.

Perhaps they were so impressed by the consecutive shots of Kobe stealing Wade in the All-Star Game that they ignored the fact that Kobe's defensive efficiency this season cannot be ranked among the top 50 in the league.

Howard, Garnett, and James deserved their names. Among them, Sparks was selected to the best defensive team for the first time in his career. For Sparks, the days without Ruan Erniu are sunny.

Not to mention, even for this, Huo Huo, who is already on vacation, will go to save the souls of a few women, and "make" a few more lives by the way.

After talking for a while, let's look at the second round:

C Tyson Chandler

PF Joakim Noah
SF Andre Iguodala
SG Tony Allen
PG Chris Paul
Among them, CP3 may be overestimated. After all, in terms of defensive efficiency, both D. Wade and the new MVP Derrick Rose, who actually serve as point guards, are higher than Paul, but there is no solution to this. Those responsible for voting Experts don't care who has better high-level data, their feet are better at thinking than their brains.

Of course, the final announcement is the first team, second team, and third team:
For a while, Dwight Howard, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, and Derrick Rose were selected together.

The second-team selection list is Amare Stoudamire, Pau Gasol, Dirk Nowitzki, Dwyane Wade, Russell Westbrook

The three-team list is Al Horford, Zach Randolph, LaMarcus Aldridge, Manu Ginobili, and Chris Paul.

This is undoubtedly another questionable list. Although he left the Atlanta Hawks, Ruan Erniu expressed his doubts about the best team on Twitter and Weibo. The Eagles still reached the Eastern Conference Finals this season. , but even so, they didn't even get a place in the best team, which is really unreasonable.

Gregg Popovich also expressed dissatisfaction. Although the Spurs were finally blacked out, the performance of the Spurs in the regular season is obvious to all. As one of the two teams that reached 60 wins at the same time as the Bulls, the team's top scorer Tony Parker didn't even make it to the third team, isn't it ridiculous?
What Popovich said is not unreasonable. The Hornets can't compare with the No. [-] in the Western Conference and the No. [-] Spurs in the league. In terms of personal performance, Tony Parker's data is not worse than Paul who pretended to be dead in the regular season.

Well, as long as it is a lineup selected by people, there will always be problems of one kind or another.

Humans make mistakes, and Ouyang Haotian, who is as smart as he is, is the same, especially after communicating with Carlos Rodriguez, an alumnus of Erniu High School who is currently working in the CAA sports department.

What needs to be pointed out in particular is that Er Niu has already ended his agent contract with Leon Rose early at this time. He made an unforgivable mistake in James' transfer issue.

That famous "live TV broadcast" completely ruined James' reputation, and Ruan Erniu didn't want such things to happen to him.

And after having this conversation with Carlos, Manniu made up his mind to let his high school basketball team captain become his Mi Fang agent.

After all, Ouyang is the de facto partner of Erniu. To assume the responsibility of "asset steward", in a longer time dimension, he must find a full-time Mifang broker.

Originally, Ouyang Haotian had no confidence in the young Carlos, but after this exchange, Ouyang immediately changed his opinion and expressed great affirmation of Carlos' professional ability.

"It's that simple? Can it work?" Time went back to a few minutes ago, Ouyang Haotian began to reflect after hearing Carlos' thoughts.

Ruan Erniu on the side smiled and said to the old captain: "Carlos, how sure are you that the Clippers and even the league will agree to such a condition?"

Carlos Rodriguez smiled and asked: "If you don't try? How do you know it's impossible?"

Speaking of this, Ruan Erniu and Ouyang Haotian fell into deep thought at the same time.

Back to the topic, that is the contract renewal issue that has been bothering Ruan Erniu and his team.

That's right, leaving aside the humiliating contract that the Hawks offered at the end, based on the conditions that the Hawks gave privately before and the sincerity shown by the Clippers, it is a certainty that Ruan Erniu will get a maximum salary contract .

But in the NBA, there is a big difference between a max contract and a max contract.

按照联盟的顶薪规定，对于球龄在0-6年的球员（第一档），其顶薪为工资帽的25%；球龄在7-9年的球员（第二档），其顶薪为工资帽的30%；对于那些在联盟中打了10年以上的球员（第三档），顶薪可以达到工资帽的35%。

In addition, the maximum annual increase in the contract is 7.5%.

There is no doubt that Ruan Erniu, who has just played in the NBA for four years, is in the first gear no matter what, that is, the lowest gear with the highest salary in the salary cap.

The reason why Erniu and his team hesitated to renew the contract in advance is that on the one hand, they wanted to see how the Eagles strengthened in the summer of 11; "After the trip, Ruan Erniu's own interests can be maximized.

But Carlos Rodriguez put forward a completely different idea, first sign the contract, but set floating clauses in the contract text, once the league has a new salary increase clause, the Erniu contract can be matched according to the actual situation go up.

It has to be said that even in the commercial league of the NBA, Carlos Rodriguez's idea has never been seen before.

After all, labor negotiations do not happen every year, and it is also rare for a historical superstar like Ruan Erniu who is so talented and has a strong record to happen to be in a contract year.

The authorities are confused, but the bystanders are clear. Thinking about the problem from another angle, some problems will be solved naturally.

"So, what did we do wrong in Atlanta? If we had completed this operation in the summer of 10, maybe everything after that would not have happened." Er Niu sighed.

Ouyang Haotian smiled and said: "Karff, don't rush to draw conclusions. On the one hand, the success rate of Carlos' plan has yet to be verified; on the other hand, if you hadn't gone through those twists and turns, how could you have known Tony in advance?" Ressler's nature?"

"Yes, Steven, what you said makes sense." Er Niu nodded, then turned to Carlos and said, "Carlos, please contact the Clippers after that, and at the same time submit our plan to Alliance!"

As Carlos Rodriguez said, there are some things you never know if you don't try them.

In fact, everything went much smoother than Erniu and the others imagined. The league passed the plan, and the Clippers quickly agreed to the conditions of the Erniu team.

就这样，在5月初，洛杉矶快船和阮二牛达成了一份价值5年9030万米元的续约合同，从11-12赛季开始计算，二牛此后五年的薪金为：1560万米元、1670万米元、1800万米元、1900万米元、2100万米元。

Of course, this is only a starting salary based on 25% of the salary cap. If there is a salary increase plan after the labor negotiations, then Ruan Erniu’s salary will definitely be increased accordingly, and this floating salary is still provided by the Clippers. Responsible.

However, it needs to be pointed out that the proportion of Er Niu's salary in the salary cap will not change, because Er Niu has the "bird rights" traded from the Eagles.

What people never expected was that the impact of Ruan Erniu's contract was far from over.

At present, most of the media have only seen Er Niu's contract renewal amount at this time, but ignored his floating terms.

In July of the same year, Kevin Durant, whose contract also expired, also completed a maximum salary extension. The Thunder offered a five-year contract of 7 million yuan, but it still needs It is pointed out again that Durant did not actively indicate the corresponding floating terms in this contract.

Therefore, when the labor negotiations were over, the newly released "Ross Clause" immediately made Durant's team dissatisfied.

Because according to the "Ross Clause", during the rookie contract period, players who have been selected to the All-NBA team more than twice, selected to the All-Star twice, or elected as the most valuable player in the regular season, the contract amount when renewing with the team Can exceed 30% of the team's total salary.

This undoubtedly made the Durant team feel unfair, so they only thought of revising the contract at this time.

In the end, after negotiating with the league, Durant implemented the "Ross Clause." The extra part of the salary was paid by the league, but the extra part of the salary space was paid by the Thunder.

The point is at the end, the extra part should be included in the salary space.

The following year, Westbrook was also in a contract year, but Westbrook, who was eager for a championship, finally gave up the "Ross Clause". After sacrificing a salary of 1400 million meters, he hoped to leave more space to help the team maintain a competitive advantage. Competitive lineup.

To be more specific, it is the renewal of Serge Ibaka and James Harden. The Thunder chose to give Ibaka a four-year contract of 4 million yuan, but for the four-year contract of 4900 million yuan proposed by Harden Put forward a veto, and only gave a 4-year contract extension of 6000 million yuan.

reason?

That's of course because the Thunder management just doesn't want to pay the luxury tax.

This is the truth. The Thunder's stinginess is naturally indisputable, but Durant's extra salary space is also an indisputable fact.

In the incident of Harden's departure, the Thunder should bear the main responsibility, but compared to Westbrook who took the initiative to sacrifice, Durant, who is determined to get a big contract, is not a white lotus.

The publicity proposal of the rich goose in the future is really well said: fame and fortune are in the field, and people can't help but get together.

This is the truest portrayal of the NBA!
Ruan Erniu didn't have time to think so much during that time, he didn't even have time to care about the upcoming East and West semifinals, because he still has an extremely important task to complete, which is to recruit his own team. Assistant Coach Team!

But before that, Erniu still needs to find a reliable senior to help him check.

On this day, Ruan Erniu came to a charity golf tournament held by the beach in Los Angeles, and the person he wanted to find was one of the invited guests that day.

(End of this chapter)