Super Small Forward

Porzingis was depressed. Although he was going to New York, the largest city in the world, the place he was going to was originally was Los Angeles!

Although New York is more prosperous than Los Angeles, it is Los Angeles there! Angel City! Look at the lace news that the Lakers players are usually exposed, and the appointments are all supermodels, celebrities, and beauty stars!

In New York...they are a group of rich people, not fun for young people!

Originally, the Lakers had never traded with a team with first-round draft picks. Porzingis has been anxious and afraid of falling into the second round. You must know that there is no guarantee contract in the second round.

Then the 25th overall pick was over, and the deputy host announced that the Lakers and the Eagles had traded the 27th overall pick in the first round of this year. Porzingis instantly felt that it was light!

Going to play for the Los Angeles Lakers!

Porzingis is confident that his three-point ability and athletic ability will be very suitable for D'Antoni's system, and he will be able to play well in the Lakers like another young European player.

Unexpectedly, I was suddenly selected by the Knicks!

You know that Porzingis is planning to rent an apartment in Los Angeles and how to play in Los Angeles during the offseason... Well, now that he is selected, he doesn't have to leave...

Liu Ren and the little girl were shocked...it's nothing. The team is not short of this talent. When the time comes to discuss the rookie contract with New York, they can still try to win at 120% of the contract and earn so much more. For a little bit of money, the team did not suffer any particularly big losses. At most, it was an extra two-year mini-middle-class contract. The current salary situation of the Lakers should not be too good. When Jeremy Lin’s contract expires, the salary cap will increase next year. After more than 5 million and Green has not renewed his contract, the Lakers have at least 16 million or so of cap space, and a barely signed minimum salary such as Parsons is enough.

Only Kupchak was the most sorrowful.

"No wonder Phil Jackson, a bitch, didn’t trade with me, so he also took a fancy to Porzingis!" Kupchak was aggrieved in his heart, and then he had to start selecting this first. Who should pick the pick with the 27th overall pick.

Since Liu Ren had never planned to get involved in this draft before, after Liu Ren asked him to pick Porzingis, Kupchak's goal was only Porzingis, and he waited until Porzingis was about to be wanted by himself. The picks that were traded when the pick was selected have no backup options at all!

During the three minutes of thinking, Kupchak cursed the Zen master for two and a half minutes. In the last 30 seconds, he thought of a player who had not yet been selected, the former dunk king he saw during the joint trial. son.

Kupchak also broke the jar, wrote Lari-Nance-JR, and handed it to the staff of the league.

Kupchak is frustrated. He is regretting it. Even if he spends more cash to trade the 25th pick with the Grizzlies, it will not lead to a new rookie and a rookie who doesn’t know much about everything except the dunk, which seems good. Trash the contract.

And people sometimes like to be horny, because Kupchak is convinced that the person Liu Ren recommended to him is a rookie with great potential, so he feels that the Knicks must have also taken a fancy to Porzingis’ talent and picked a low overall pick. Bao, of course, this is a fact, but it's okay for Kupchak not to know it. If he knows it, he is very depressed. It is estimated that it will be depressed for a long time...

Kupchak had no choice but to return to Los Angeles with the rookie just selected.

To be honest, the Lakers this summer is another year when there are not many opportunities for operation. The team has a complete lineup, and there is no opportunity to prove Kupchak's ability to operate.

The remaining backcourt players for the Lakers after the end of the season include LaVine, Clarkson, Kobe, McCollum, Nick Young, and Liu Ren, Korver, Green, Antetokounmpo, Whiteside, Gasol, Thackeray.

This is already the twelve players who have guaranteed contracts and are about to have guaranteed contracts, and none of these players are willing to trade, all of which are the core team to win the championship.

Adding in Mike Scott who was traded and the son of the selected Dunk King, the Lakers already have 14 players...

In other words, there will be at most some minor repairs and repairs, there is not much room for manipulation. Originally, Kupchak also had a way to make bright things, such as choosing a talented rookie with a low rank. , For example, last year's godlike take Lawen, to say that Kupchak's most grief after being cut was that another draft trade that might be called God's operation was cut by others.

So what Kupchak can do next is to renew his contract with Green, and negotiate with Liu Ren, Clarkson, and Thackeray about the early renewal.

Liu Ren, Clarkson, and Thackeray have only one year left in their contracts, and they can choose to renew their contracts in advance. However, renewing the contracts at this time naturally means that the contract is lower, because neither of them can be the best except for Liu Ren. Although people know that the salary cap will rise sharply next summer, it is still unknown how much it will increase. It depends on how much money each team can get next season after signing a new broadcast agreement this summer.

So at this time, non-maximum players have to estimate how much the salary cap is likely to increase in percentage to calculate how much their current value can get in the next year.

For the super young stars who have only one year left on rookie contracts, their teams have already begun to want to renew their contracts, because they don’t know how high the salary cap will be next year. In case it is too high, there are others. The team in the cap space has sent a big contract that is poisonous to the extreme, and then I really don't know whether to match or not to match.

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On June 30, under the little girl's unhappy expression, Kupchak surprised Green with a five-year contract extension of 72 million yuan!

Although the little girl is very careful to add such as 15% of the trading margin, the annual salary can be withdrawn in advance after the free market is opened. The next season salary is only left in Los Angeles. The average salary is paid every week, and the contract is not available for the first three years. Five-year player option...

These terms seem to be unreasonable, but Kupchak thinks it's not a problem!

Kupchak is ready to give Green a five-year contract of 82 million yuan, and he is also ready for a five-year maximum salary of 85 million yuan for the iron cock, who knows Green actually took the initiative to cut his salary by 10 million !

As a result, Green's starting salary next season will be 12.7 million, which is almost 3 million more space!

Although the annual salary paid in advance is equivalent to almost 6% more money based on the average return of market investment, but this is not a problem! For the Lakers, it is not the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but more flexible salary space! In the next few years, Kupchak’s biggest concern is the problem of the team’s salary space. There are too many people on the team to renew. Although the big boss is not bad for money, it is necessary to ensure the flexibility of the salary space!

Just after Green and Kupchak made a verbal agreement to renew the contract, the "intelligence personnel" within the Lakers sent the news to the media that had relations with them.

When Oj exposed the verbal agreement between Green and the Lakers to renew the contract and the news that Green took the initiative to cut his salary, Green's position in the fans' minds was suddenly elevated.

Contemporary living Lei Feng! To illuminate the rest of the Lakers, sacrifice their own wages, and cut their wages by at least 10 million dollars, an average of at least 2 million in a year, and Green’s salary in the first three years totaled more than 2 million...

After Green’s contract renewal was completed, Thackeray also reached an early renewal agreement with the Lakers and signed a 4-year 13 million contract. The player options for the last year were really expensive, seven or eight higher than the market price. One hundred thousand a year, and even if other teams want to dig Thackeray, it is impossible to give such a long contract, which is regarded as compensation for the little girl's agency.

Green and the Lakers reached a verbal agreement. As a result, Green’s salary space occupied by the Lakers before the official contract renewal was only 150% of last year’s 920,000 salary, or $1.36 million. The Lakers retained A lot of space can be operated in summer.

Thackeray’s contract extension does not take up space in the team, because it will only take effect next summer. By then, this contract, which is now only a mini-middle class size, will be nothing.

However, Liu Ren’s contract renewal was temporarily shelved. Kupchak made a request for a five-year contract extension of 127 million. He was fooled by the little girl. Kupchak has no choice but to first. Put this matter aside and talk about it slowly.

Kupchak is very confident about renewing the contract with Liu Ren~www.readwn.com~ It is just a matter of contract size. He gave 127 million yuan in 5 years to test the chick’s tone. But obviously the other party is not satisfied with the offer, so they don't talk about it directly.

Although oj broke out that Liu Ren refused to renew his contract for a five-year period of 127 million, many teams began to prepare for action, but Kupchak was not worried at all, because only the Lakers can offer Liu Ren the largest contract, and the Lakers have Liu Ren's bird rights will be able to give the largest contract even next summer, and Liu Ren has no intention of not renewing the contract. He just wants to wait for a bigger contract.

That being the case, Kupchak first focused on the free market.

This summer is not a free market year. Compared with last year, the biggest names are James, Aldridge and Monroe. Although James has broken out of the contract, everyone knows that he will not leave the Cavaliers. .

Aldridge... If there is enough space, Kupchak would like to take it. When Kupchak is digging for stars, he doesn't care whether the lineup is too saturated. Gasol, who was the peak of the year, could play as a substitute and the lineup was saturated. Not a problem at all!

But Aldridge's salary is too high, and the Lakers can't afford it.