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Chapter 1214 Please understand the technique of falsely reporting your height first

The first thousand 220 eight chapters, please first understand the technique of falsely reporting height

As Louie and the Lakers waited patiently for preseason training camp, the Portland Trail Blazers announced that a contract extension with Alonzo Mourning fell through.

Mourning left the team in Philadelphia because he was jealous of the penny's 76 million yuan contract, so he wanted the 7ers to give him a super maximum salary of 1.2 million for seven years.

The 76ers naturally refused, and the relationship between the two parties deteriorated immediately. Mourning was put on the shelf, and the Blazers spent a lot of money to buy it.

In Pat Riley's view, the 7-year 1.2 million contract renewal for Mourning does have a premium, but it is not unbearable.

But that was when the league did not introduce luxury tax rules.

The situation has changed after the New York bankrupt's fierce operation for the Knicks brought out 3 million in luxury taxes.

In fact, Pat Riley handed in his resignation at the end of last season.

He thinks he can no longer bring any change to the Blazers.

Paul Allen privately agreed to his resignation application, but I hope he can persist until the team selects a new head and head coach. After all, although Riley has not made any achievements in the Trail Blazers these years, he is already the closest to success among all the coaches who failed to succeed in the 90s.

Even if you want to change coaches, you have to change to a reputable master.

As a result, after the GM summit, the league launched the "luxury tax" policy with great fanfare. Allen, who has always been sensitive to this, directly put aside the matter of Riley's resignation after carefully comparing the increase in the luxury tax and the salary cap space, and only asked him to keep the team's total salary within 5000 million.

It's not that Allen is reluctant to spend money, he just wants to see if the money is worth spending.

If he can win the championship, even if the salary exceeds 5000 million, it is not impossible to grit his teeth for a year, but he can't see any hope.

If Mourning is given 7 million in seven years, Portland's salary for the new season will reach 1.2 million US dollars. Although it is not as bad as New York's 6600 million, the luxury tax it can bring is also a frightening beast-that is 7700 million US dollars.

If the salary space is controlled within 5000 million.

Assuming the Blazers' total salary for the new season is $4999 million, then they only need to pay a luxury tax of $5997 million.

Coupled with the team's salary, the operating cost of a season is about 1 million US dollars.

This is still a deal that is unlikely to be paid back under any circumstances, but it is within the acceptable range.

The superteam is being destroyed, so to speak.

A luxury tax like a monster will scare off bosses who think they are rich.

And a disheartened Riley, under the circumstances, oddly stayed in Portland.

Paul Allen seems to have forgotten his resignation application.

Riley didn't apply a second time either.

Worse than being denied is not being cared about.Riley can no longer feel the wealthy owner's desire for a championship. If his goal is not to win the championship, but to keep the team competitive, then whoever is in the coaching position is the same.The Trail Blazers with Jordan and Olajuwon will not be worse.

Riley's heart was full of unwillingness. He felt that he shouldn't have such an ending.

Maybe this is the reason why he didn't apply for resignation a second time. Anyway, he only has one year left in his contract. Instead of giving up, it's better to give it a last try.

Louis, who caused the changes in the offseason, now looks back on the luxury tax policy and finds that the fines in it are too heavy.

The punishment of the current luxury tax is copied from the future NBA, but the league's income at that time was not the same as it is today.

However, without strong medicine, the super team cannot be contained.

The reason why the outrageous luxury tax of the Knicks appears is that Dolan Jr. is mentally retarded, doesn't understand the new regulations, and doesn't bother to understand them, and the salary cap system is not perfect.

Although most things have been stipulated, the most critical point has not been stipulated, and that is the limit on the maximum salary.

The current No.1 annual salary in the league is still Ewing. His contract is 4 million in 9000 years, with an average of 2250 million US dollars a year, directly accounting for 2/3 of the salary cap.In today's luxury tax era, Ewing's contract is terrible.

According to the normal development, the league's next plan should be to limit the maximum salary, but the next labor agreement negotiation will be in 1999.

In the next three years, it is unpredictable what kind of big contracts the league will produce.

Mourning, who came to the free market, found that most teams had no room to sign him.

The only team that offered him a big contract was the Cleveland Cavaliers.

They gave Mourning a seven-year, $7 million contract at the level of team history.

This is far from the seven-year $7 million that Mourning originally asked for, but he has no choice.

Mourning accepted the contract.

In fact, this is exactly what the league wants to see.

A good young player like Mourning should have been a cornerstone for other up-and-coming teams, not a No. [-] in Portland.

The Knicks' sky-high luxury tax has woken up many people.

The Blazers stopped losses in time. As for the Heat, after a series of contract extensions, their total salary was also as high as 6000 million. The terrible luxury tax figure made Alisson jump, and he urgently called Shafier, asking him to lower the total salary to less than 5000 million.

Now that all the teams have ended their operations, how can they be suppressed?
Shafier was dumbfounded.

In order to get rid of the sky-high luxury tax, the Knicks have done all kinds of outrageous things in the future, which is a later story.

Louis, the instigator who started the super team era with one hand and ended the super team era with the other hand, counted the salary space of the Lakers.

Overall, their salaries are healthy.

队内只有四份大合同，分别是威尔逊的4年5500万、艾利斯的3年1200万、巴克利的4年3200万和巴洛斯的5年3000万，剩下的不是新秀合同，就是老将底薪。

The total salary of the Lakers is less than 4200 million, and of course they have to pay taxes, but compared to those super teams, the small life is very good.

In early September, before training camp began, Louie convened the coaching staff.

A new member of the coaching staff, Alex Stevens, has a formal position.

He will be the Lakers' wing development coach and defensive coordinator.

Defensive coordinator is a job title only in football. The defensive coordinator in football mainly manages the roster of defensive players, supervises assistant coaches, develops defensive game plans and guides players to defend during games.And Louis does not need Stevens to take on so much responsibility. His responsibilities mainly include two points, developing the rookie's defensive ability, and being responsible for recording the team's defensive data during the game.

This defensive stat is very personal.

Louie asked Stevens to judge the defensive performance of the team's players by his own standards.

Louis requires that the work must be detailed to the defensive data of each player and each game.

From the beginning of the new season, the Lakers will have the number of "good defense" and "bad defense" contributed by each person per game.

Although Louis does not plan to implement the Knicks' defensive philosophy in the Lakers, it does not mean that they do not defend, but that the priority is lowered.For rookies, defense is very important, and being able to lay a solid defensive foundation early in their careers will be of great benefit to their future development.

The weight of this job made the rest of the coaching staff feel unbearable.

If Stevens accepts, he will be the busiest person on the coaching staff.He not only has to record the players' defense during the game, but also has to re-watch the video comparison after the game, and at the same time take into account the development of the wing players.

Unexpectedly, Stevens readily agreed.

After Stevens took over the job, Louis announced in public that Kobe and Liu Yuqing would be assigned to him.

He needs Stevens to get a grip on those two defenses.

"Leave it on me," Stevens said.

Afterwards, Louis looked forward to the new season to everyone. He believed that the Lakers would have a lot to do in the coming year.

The luxury tax has seriously shaken the superteams' dominance, creating many cracks within them that didn't exist, and this is the Lakers' opportunity.

"It sounds like we have a chance to win the championship?" Nelson asked jokingly.

Bird joked: "Who says no, what this guy lacks most is self-confidence."

"Of course, what if you don't have confidence?" Louis finally said, "As for the preparations for the new season, I have asked Coach Zhao to prepare the documents. You can go to him to get a copy later. The work of the new season will be very heavy, and I need your full support."

After the meeting, Louis left Rick Carlisle and Mike Budenholzer alone to talk about the optimal design of the "beautiful basketball" tactical details. After a summer of painstaking research, Carlisle and Budenholzer have each achieved results.

Louis was very relieved and asked them to compile a report and bring it out for discussion at the next meeting.

It has been a long time since Louis has been so serious about preparing for the new season.

Usually, he would leave these things to the people under him to do, but in the Lakers, many times he had to do it himself.

As a "savior" who has not achieved any actual results here, Louis really needs to lead by example.

Moreover, the impact of the luxury tax on the league is far beyond imagination, giving Louis greater ambitions for the new season.

Then, the time came to September 9th, which is the day when the preseason training camp for the new season starts.

After research by the coaching staff and management, everyone agreed that Palm Springs Resort is the most suitable place for training.

Therefore, the Lakers still chose to hold training camps in resorts as in previous years.

The coaching staff was in place one day in advance.

Early the next morning, players began to enter the resort.

The first player to settle in was Ben Wallace. He thought this could show his attitude and let the coaching staff appreciate him.

In order to show his self-motivation, the naive Wallace took the initiative to ask Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the key technical points of the Skyhook.

The old-fashioned Kareem Abdul-Jabbar didn't even look at him: "It's useless for you to practice this."

"Karim, the skyhook is the most beautiful offensive move ever. Since you retired, no one has used it anymore. Don't you want to find a successor?" Wallace looked at him eagerly.

Kareem finally looked him in the eye.

He estimated Daben's height, and then glanced at his small trotter-like hands, this kind of person actually wants to be the successor of Skyhook?

Abdul-Jabbar sneered sarcastically: "Stop dreaming, you'll never be able to!"

"Why?"

"You just can't!"

At this time, the kind and righteous coach Lu appeared: "Karim, why are you so cruel to the rookie?"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar snorted coldly: "Because he is so stupid!"

"How stupid is he, tell me."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said meanly: "With his height and his small hands that may not even be able to hold an egg, he told me to learn skyhook and be my successor? It's just ridiculous!"

Big Ben said unconvinced: "What's wrong with my height? No matter how bad I am, I'm still six feet nine inches tall!"

Even Louis couldn't bear it anymore.

Six feet nine?Is this person out of his mind?How the hell are you six feet nine!

"Ben, I suggest you learn the art of lying about your height before you tell me you're six feet nine!"

Big Ben left depressed.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar complained: "Six feet nine? I think he is not even six feet seven!"

"Yeah, rookies are getting more and more messy nowadays. They lie about their height and don't know how to have an afro. If he wants to have an afro, I can barely calculate that he is six feet eight."

"What's the use of that? The height brought by the length of the hair is not the effective height!"

Louis smiled and said, "At least I can convince myself that at least his net height has indeed been achieved."

(End of this chapter)