Basketball Altar Living Buddha

Chapter 312 The Chaotic Offseason
Chapter 306

With the end of the finals, the 2015-2016 season is completely over!
But this does not mean that the team can relax, especially the team's executives, the busier they are at this moment!

A few days after the finals, it was the draft!
Other teams are busy picking their favorite rookies, but the Knicks have nothing to do...

The main reason is that when the Knicks traded Anthony from the Nuggets, they paid a huge price, the draft picks for the next few years...

Due to the Stepping Law, last season's Knicks' picks could not be sent out, but this season's picks must be handed over to the Nuggets...

Fortunately, the Knicks have an excellent record in the regular season this season. Even if they have a first-round pick, it is only the second-to-last position in the first round, which does not have much effect!

The most painful thing in the entire league is probably the Nuggets team. Originally, according to the Knicks' record last season, they would have guaranteed a top-five pick, but due to Stein's Law, they could not get the Knicks. Picks from last season!
This season's draft pick can be obtained, but it's just a cheating 29th pick in the first round. It hurts to think about it...

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The second-round pick has also been traded, which means that the Knicks have no sense of presence in this draft, and they don't even need to participate...

Although there is no new blood to add, the Knicks currently have a lot of rookies. It doesn't matter if they have a draft pick. Even if a good rookie is selected, it is estimated that it will be difficult to get a lot of playing time in this lineup. , [-]% is going to be wasted!

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Throughout late June, although there were no games to be played, the major sports forums were full of enthusiasm, mainly because of various predictions and transactions, and there were still a lot of big fish in the free market.

In the Knicks team alone, there are three players facing the problem of contract renewal or signing, namely Lei Feng, Anthony and Parsons!
Barnes Jr. from the Warriors, Durant from the Thunder, James from the Cavaliers, etc.

Among them, there are countless predictions about Lei Feng, and there may be several news about Lei Feng's whereabouts in the sports forum's home page push.

"The Rockets management has recently contacted Lei Feng, the Rockets champion!"

"Morey is going to spend a lot of money to introduce Lei Feng!"

"After Magic Johnson took office, the first thing he did was to contact Lei Feng..."

"The head coach of the Spurs announced that he would exchange the GDP combination for Lei Feng!"

Lei Feng looked at all kinds of news, and felt extremely painful. Good guys, these news editors are really good at editing, and he didn't even know about these things.

Especially the Rockets, who presumably beat Lei Feng to death, Lei Feng didn't want to go...

It is said that the Rockets are the mother team of China. If Lei Feng really joins the Rockets, how much pressure will there be? After all, there is only one championship. If he fails to win, he may be sprayed to death.

Besides, Morey never tried to contact Lei Feng...

It is estimated that Morey knows that the Rockets are far behind those teams in terms of competitiveness...

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"RAY..." Lei Feng is currently in China. After confirming his relationship with Xing Yishan, he should take it back to show his parents. It happens to be the offseason and he wants to take this opportunity to return to China.

At this time, Knicks owner James Dolan called Lei Feng.

"James, haha, you don't need to say, let me guess what you want to do?"

"You want to talk about contract renewal?"

Lei Feng asked with a smile on the phone.

James Dolan on the other end of the phone also laughed: "That's right, all kinds of bullshit-like gossip news are spreading now. If it goes on for a long time, it will be bad for the morale of the team. Why don't we quickly finalize the contract?"

"Okay!" Lei Feng agreed without saying a word...

Dolan originally thought that Lei Feng would shirk, for example, to think about it and let his agent team contact the team, but he didn't expect Lei Feng to agree so simply!
In fact, even if Dolan doesn't call, Lei Feng will take the initiative to discuss the contract with the team when the door of the trading market opens in early July!

The main reason is that there is actually nothing to talk about. For players at Lei Feng’s level, the maximum salary must be the maximum salary. The most other things are to ask for some ball rights or a guarantee that they will not play as a substitute...

Lei Feng doesn't need to talk about these things at all. Will the Knicks let him lose the ball?This is completely impossible!
So when Dolan called, Lei Feng agreed without saying a word. Anyway, he didn't think about leaving New York.

"Good! Good! Good!" James Dolan said repeatedly, feeling a little excited!
After renewing Lei Feng's contract, with this cornerstone, all the problems of the Knicks this offseason will be easily solved!

"By the way, RAY, Chandler has already decided to leave the team..." Dolan said with some regret.

Parsons' strength is actually quite good, at least it looks very good right now, the standard height of a power forward, but he has an extremely good shooting ability, which is quite compatible with Lei Feng on the court.

"Oh? Are you sure you're leaving the team? Didn't we give him a contract?" Lei Feng asked casually.

"Yes, I gave a four-year contract of 6000 million yuan, but he is not satisfied with this contract..." Dolan said helplessly.

Lei Feng was a little speechless, still not satisfied with the four-year 6000 million contract? !Is this going to heaven? !

The average annual contract is 500 million US dollars, which is almost the worth of the first-line players in the league. How confident is Chandler in himself!

"Since this is the case, let's forget it. Everyone has his own ambitions. Since he wants to seek a big contract, let's save the money to sign other players!" Lei Feng said with a smile.

Parsons' departure didn't have much impact on Lei Feng. He didn't like Parsons very much, so it's just right to leave now!
But with the departure of Parsons, the team must strengthen this position, otherwise the team's strength will be affected, which is what Lei Feng absolutely does not want to see.

At present, the door to the trading market has not been opened, and Lei Feng is not in a hurry to pay attention to these things right now.

Lei Feng's parents are naturally extremely satisfied with Xing Yishan. It can be said that Xing Yishan's perfection is a bit too much. The old couple feel that they are dreaming that their son has found such a perfect wife.

After staying in China for a few days, Lei Feng took Xing Yishan back to the United States on July [-]st.

The door to the trading market has opened, and it's time for Lei Feng to sign a contract!

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Last season, the salary cap of each team was 7000 million U.S. dollars, and last season it was 300 million U.S. dollars!

But in the new season that is about to start, the salary cap has reached a terrifying $400 million!
Lei Feng couldn't help secretly rejoicing that the contract he signed with Zen Master Jackson was so wise. If he didn't ask for player options at that time, he would have lost a lot of money this season.

There has never been a single-season salary cap increase of more than 2000 million US dollars in NBA history!

The extra 2000 million US dollars, you must know that Lei Feng's maximum salary contract, the annual salary is only more than 2000 million US dollars!

As for why the salary cap of more than 2000 million can be added, Lei Feng doesn't know much about it, but he knows a little bit, the main reason is that the NBA's broadcast revenue has soared, and each team has made more money. Naturally, the players' union cannot miss this good thing. Boy, they want a piece of the action too!

Therefore, Paul, the chairman of the players union, as well as the first vice chairman James, the financial director James Jones, Anthony, Iguodala, Curry and other players who hold important positions in the players union, directly represent the players and the NBA. labor agreement.

The salary cap has risen sharply, and the salaries that top players can get will naturally rise sharply. After all, the top salary of top stars is based on the ratio of the salary cap!

This is naturally a good thing for the players, even those players with a basic salary have benefited a lot...

But for the development of the alliance, it may not be a good thing. Lei Feng can already foresee that the sudden increase in the salary cap will definitely make the alliance chaotic.

Among other things, the Knicks alone can definitely do some big things!

The Knicks are rich, especially now that they have won the championship, so Dolan is even more willing to spend money, so in the predictions of the fans, as long as the total salary of the Knicks does not exceed the local tyrant line this time, then there is no problem, and Dolan is absolutely willing pay!
The salary is 400 million U.S. dollars, the luxury tax line is 300 million U.S. dollars, plus 400 million U.S. dollars is the local tyrant line, which is 1.17 million U.S. dollars!
With Dolan's generosity, I am afraid that if it is necessary this season, the total salary of the entire Knicks will reach 1000 million US dollars, and there will be no problem at all!

And Lei Feng only occupied about 9000 million U.S. dollars, and the Knicks still have more than [-] million U.S. dollars in space to operate!
Parsons is gone, Anthony's contract is now expired, and he has to re-sign!

The two insider Gemini stars are currently receiving the salary of the rookie contract, which is cheap as hell, and the total is less than 1000 million US dollars...

And Rondo's contract is also in the tens of millions of dollars...

The combined contract of the team's first three main players is about [-] million US dollars, how cheap and affordable it is!
On the bench, De Xiaopang's contract is slightly higher, but there is no way, the Knicks can only eat it, who made them want to get Parsons at the time...

However, if there is a problem with salary at that time, De Xiaopang's contract can be bought out completely, which is not a big problem!

Considering that the Knicks will sign some corner players, it can be said that the Knicks are still capable of two more maximum-salary contracts!
This is the disadvantage of the salary cap increase, which can easily lead to the situation of superstars clumping together...

In the previous NBA league, if the superstars wanted to form a group, they would have to suffer from their own salary cuts or the team’s role players were not strong enough. In the end, it was very likely that they lost their wives and lost their soldiers. They did not get the money and did not get the championship. ...

But now it’s better, stars don’t need to cut their salaries, the strength of role players is not affected, and there is no harm in teaming up. Teams that aspire to win the championship must start to operate giant teams.

On July 7, the Knicks officially held a signing conference. Such a formal signing conference was naturally prepared for Lei Feng!

The press conference was scheduled for the afternoon. What Lei Feng didn't expect was that at noon, the league suddenly released a big news that Parsons and the Grizzlies had signed a contract with a maximum salary!

9480 million US dollars for four years, starting salary of 2210 million US dollars in the first year!
It is exactly the same as the contract that Lei Feng is about to sign...

Lei Feng couldn't help being speechless, this grizzly bear must have lost his mind and went crazy, right? !Parsons actually got the maximum salary, it is really speechless...

It is true that Parsons' strength is considered good, but it is only good, averaging less than [-] points per game, which is not worth a maximum salary in any way...

But since Grizzly is willing to be taken advantage of, Lei Feng naturally has nothing to say, and can only silently wait to see Grizzly's joke.

The Grizzlies this season may have lost their minds and sent out various big contracts. In addition to Parsons' damn contract, they also directly gave Conley, who averaged 16+6 per game, a five-year history of $1.5 million. contract!
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In the past two days, the league has exploded a lot of contracts, but no team can be as crazy as the Grizzlies, offering two maximum salaries one after another.

The Spurs signed Pau Gasol at a super uneconomical price of 3000 million U.S. dollars for two years. No one knows what the Spurs are thinking...

The Warriors' Barnes Jr. eventually left the Warriors and was poached by the Mavericks with the same contract as Parsons, but the Warriors didn't seem to care much about it.

The Internet has been bursting with rockets chasing Lei Feng, and finally came up with two big contracts unexpectedly, namely, round-faced Gordon's four-year 300 million and Ryan Anderson's four-year 8000 million...

This is another crazy team...

If the Grizzlies and the Rockets are insane, then the Lakers' operations are pure nonsense. They got Deng Yingqiao for 4 million in 7200 years, that is, Luol Deng, Jordan of the United Kingdom...

4 million won Mozgov in 6400 years...

This almost made the Lakers fans vomit blood, and they don't understand what the Lakers are doing!
If you just want to fill the poor line, you won't have to sign for such a long period of time. Is it possible that you want to count on these two to make the Lakers rise again? !
With all kinds of big contracts, it can be said that this offseason is the craziest offseason in NBA history!

Throughout the history of the league, no offseason has so many maximum salary contracts and super contracts!
There are no fewer than ten contracts with a maximum salary alone, not to mention those contracts with a level of more than ten million!

But even if there are more contracts, Lei Feng's signing is still the biggest highlight of the entire offseason. You know how many reporters are here!
All Knicks executives were present, and even the boss Dolan appeared at the press conference with a smile on his face. One can imagine how excited he was about Lei Feng's signing.

(End of this chapter)