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Chapter 559 Alliance also targets

Su Yang thought for a while.

The salary cap for the new season is 7000 million U.S. dollars, which is nearly 6306% higher than last season's 11 million U.S. dollars. After the Kings did not renew Gay, they got nearly 2600 million salary caps, which were originally intended to be used to sign Durant + a middle-class big forward.

As a result, West voluntarily paid a basic salary, and Durant, Matthews, and Aldridge didn't get any of them, and they didn't spend any money.

Covington's agent, and even Covington himself, must be aiming at the 2600 million space and want to get more.

Based on Covington's performance, the Kings should renew their contract.

What's more, there are no big fish in the 16 free market.

However, with a space of 2600 million, signing Covington will allocate about 1400 million. Even if the salary cap continues to rise in 16, the follow-up competitiveness will become smaller. It is better to keep the space flexible and prepare for potential superstars to leave the team. Prepare.

For example, the superstar in the East, what Paul George.

In the lineup of the Pacers, George's brothers who fought against the Heat are all gone. It is hard to say that there will be no butterfly effect.

Not to mention the team in the East, the Big Three, the Pacers almost rebuilt in the summer, and it is difficult for Ellis to join.

At that time, Cousins ​​​​and George will be exchanged, and Antetokounmpo will switch to the power forward. The lineup will be more flexible, and there will be no need to move around to satisfy the trade, let alone send a draft pick. It can be traded directly, but that is only one Such an assumption is difficult to guarantee.

Anyway, it is necessary to ensure flexibility.

Of course, the Kings are not in a hurry to trade Covington.

In order to win the championship steadily, take your time.

"Since they are unwilling to renew the contract in advance, let's wait and talk about it later, and don't let the wind trade..."

Su Yang made a decision, Hinkie nodded to express his understanding, and continued to discuss the matter of increasing the transaction margin and reward terms for Curry's contract. The main reason is that Curry's contract is too cheap to sign, but he can't re-sign it for the time being. He can only show his importance in those ways. .

"All to the highest standard..."

Curry is much better than Covington. Su Yang didn't think much about it. The main thing is that he has to sign a five-year long-term contract or re-sign in advance.

It is to treat them differently.

But based on their respective strengths.

The next afternoon, Su Yang flew to the NBA headquarters in New York to attend the annual board meeting and meet with representatives of each team.

This time, most of the team owners participated, and there were also some team chairmen, mainly discussing the development direction in the next few years.

Jim Buss and Mark Cuban sincerely congratulated the Kings for winning the championship, Rockets owner Alexander and others gave Su Yang a bad face, Celtics owner Baker and others looked at Su Yang very unhappy, the Bucks The owner of the small ball market is not happy either.

Jordan took the time to chat with Su Yang.

"Su, these guys are jealous of you. You are so young, but so good. You make it difficult for those small market owners to use the difficulty of recruiting superstars as an excuse for the team's long-term garbage in the future. They have poor draft vision, even if they are selected. No. [-] players don’t know how to train them, you use one season to turn the Kings around, gain fame and money, and make them look like fools…”

Hearing Jordan's praise, Su Yang was ashamed.

In fact, many small teams are also very good at selecting and training.

But Su Yang snatched away the 20-year core of the two teams.

For example, the Nuggets were supposed to pick Jokic with the 41st overall pick. After three seasons, they traded away Nurkic, helped him become the boss, and built an offensive and defensive system around them. However, Su Yang snatched Jokic away. The Nuggets are more advanced and more accurate...

The Bucks are the same case.

No way, the ability to predict, even in the world of Marvel and DC, is powerful and terrifying, because it saves time by not making mistakes.

"I'm really lucky..."

Su Yang nodded calmly and was about to continue explaining when Cavaliers owner Gilbert suddenly said loudly: "In the new season we have LeBron, we have Kevin Love, we have Kyrie Irving, we have Andrew Wiggins, we have will beat you!"

Hearing the sound, he turned his head and found that the target of Gilbert's demonstration was Bulls owner Jerry, showing off like a child.

Narrator: Several bosses followed suit.

Su Yang suddenly recalled that the leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and other countries gathered together. These big figures who looked very powerful on weekdays also liked to brag and chatter.

Meetings followed.

Xiao Hua made a report first, emphasizing that the entire league is led by him, the revenue of last season has increased greatly, and the future is bright.

The main evidence is the salary cap hike.

The salary cap is determined by league revenue.

The Suns boss Sarver opened up on the spot, implying that it was a legacy of the Stern era, and Silver hadn't done anything yet.

The crowd watched the play without making a sound.

Xiao Hua didn't bother, and instead said: "Our focus next season is to improve the fluency of game viewing. At present, the main direction is to reduce the number of timeouts and the time of each timeout, and limit the use of tactics such as 'shark chopping'. In the new season, the active fouls will be reduced by 45%, and at the same time, the active fouls will be strictly limited, so as to prevent some players from taking the opportunity to profit too much, which will affect..."

Between words, several bosses turned to look at Su Yang.

They all put on a look of gloating.

Seems like those changes of direction, would limit the king drastically.

Su Yang thought about it carefully. He did not abuse the shark-cutting tactics. In the fourth game of the Western Conference finals, in order to pursue a 4-0 sweep of the Rockets, he used the shark-cutting tactics to make it difficult for Howard and Josh to appear on the stage, which caused the Rockets to lose their frame, which in turn contributed to the king's victory. Set off a counterattack.

That game really made the fans scold a lot.

But only in extreme cases.

As for adjusting the number and time of pauses.

It does have a little impact on the Kings, mainly because there will be fewer unexpected lineup targets, which will make the Kings' personnel rotation more predictable, but other teams will also be affected. It is definitely not a Kings team. What are you happy about?

Taking advantage of Xiao Hua's elaboration, Su Yang glanced at the document on the seat in advance, which mentioned specific improvement directions.

The number of timeouts has been reduced from 18 in the game to 14. Except for the official timeout, both sides of the game have 7 timeouts each, and the number of timeouts in the last three points of the game has been reduced from a maximum of three to a maximum of two. Overtime timeouts have also been reduced. 1 time.

With such a change, the NBA will never have three consecutive timeouts at the end of the Lakers, and then kill the Spurs in 0.4 seconds.

Rules affect the game more or less.

But Su Yang, as a person who has experienced it, knows that the reduction in the number of final timeouts will not really change the situation that it takes a long time to play at the last moment. In the second game of the Western Conference Finals between the Suns and the Clippers, the 90-second game time actually consumed 33 minutes. The case is too profound .

Just like in 1983, the NBA announced the adjustment of defensive rules and severely whistled for illegal defense. The original purpose was to let NCAA players integrate into the NBA faster and let those players play good-looking data faster. As a result, since then, the NBA has started a defensive prosperity. , The rules were revised several times in the middle, and the defense of all teams in the league was not really weakened until the defense was set for three seconds.

In 2001, the illegal defense was simultaneously canceled. Many coaches and players thought that they could defend better. As a result, more coaches and players took advantage of the fact that defense can unscrupulously interfere with people without the ball, and invented many offensive tactics, which basically canceled each other out.

"Finally, in order to ensure the fairness of the game..."

Xiao Hua paused for a while, "The referee will whistle more strictly for mobile screen violations and limit the benefits of mobile screens."

After saying those words, several bosses looked at Su Yang again, without any demonstration of the smiles on their faces.

Su Yang felt a little fucked up.

It seems that only the Kings have mobile screens, and it seems that Curry relies on mobile screens to score. The prejudice is too fierce.

Not too tangled.

A lot of people don't know what mobile cover is.

And the degree of enforcement of the regulations is also a big problem.

Just like the hand check rule, from its appearance to its complete cancellation, it took several revisions in the middle, but the actual effect depends entirely on the referee’s call on the spot, so that it continues to be used after it is completely cancelled. Ray Allen and others defended Kobe in the 08 Finals It was just wandering in the gray area of ​​the hand check rule, and the referee did not strictly call the penalty, so Kobe's performance in the final was mediocre.

Su Yang put away his thoughts and looked at the smiling Warriors boss, thinking that if the whistleblowing is really strict, you will cry in the new season.

Between the talks, the meeting ended.

Su Yang flew back to Saskatchewan to prepare for off-season related matters, focusing on Jokic's offensive and defensive tactics after entering the main rotation.

(End of this chapter)