super small forward

Chapter 14 14. Kupchak is a bit annoying

After the regular season, the Lakers held a party according to the practice after reaching the playoffs. No matter what, they still made the playoffs this year.

Party, you have to drink some wine. After drinking, Howard told his friend that he was unhappy with the Lakers. His friend sold the news to the famous sports TV station ESPN.

Liu Ren also drank some wine. The only people who drank with him were Thackeray, Jamison, Blake, Artest, and Clark. , began to get acquainted.A good old man like Gasol and an old man like Kobe were unable to come due to injuries, and it is impossible for them to play in this year's playoffs.

After having a few drinks, Liu Ren returned to his small apartment.

"It's getting more and more inconvenient." Liu Ren glanced downstairs, passing a few reporters from time to time.

Liu Ren played very well in these two games. If he was placed on a team without Kobe and Howard, he would have been overwhelmed. Even so, he still gained a lot of attention, but he devoted himself to it these days In the last regular season game, I didn't pay that much attention.

In this era of information explosion, a player who has been sitting on the bench, got a chance because of the injury of the starter and the main substitute, broke out and scored 25+ in two consecutive games. This is very inspirational, isn't it!

Especially since this player is Chinese, it is even more touching. Specifically, why is this touching? Liu Ren, who finally got a few days off, read a lot of news and comments and didn’t understand it, but judging from the fans’ replies, he felt it was touching...

Now the news channels are very developed. After an event that people are interested in happens, even the protagonist of the event may not realize what he has done. People all over the world already know about it.

For example, what Howard said to his friends was slightly embellished by ESPN, and the title became "The Lakers Infighting, the New King Wants to Escape Los Angeles".

Someone questioned this is fake news?Who could say such stupid things when the playoffs are about to start?

The attention of ESPN suddenly skyrocketed, and they responded immediately. This is the news from the two sources who sold the news to ESPN. It is said that Howard and his best friend said this.As for who the source of the news is, I'm sorry for the inconvenient disclosure. I don't believe that Howard said this, so we can confront him...

When Liu Ren saw the news, he knew that Howard would probably become the happy beast in the eyes of the fans starting this year.He believes that there is still a 90.00% chance that Howard said this, not a fake.

As far as Liu Ren's future generations know, the Howard will definitely do such a thing. In the few months before he left the Magic, these things happened once.

It is said that Hollywood screenwriters are very good, but those screenwriters all have to suffer in the NBA. The three superstars James, Anthony, and Howard have staged good dramas in recent years so that those screenwriters dare not write like this.

Knowing that these things cannot be stopped, Liu Ren's life is still the same as the past few days. He wakes up in the morning to watch the news, takes a taxi to the team's training hall, and then goes to the training hall to do strength training and start to master the strength of his body. Then practice shooting for a while in the afternoon.

Persistence is the most important thing in shooting training.

Liu Ren seems to have returned to the time when he was twelve or thirteen years old. At that time, he just had the strength to shoot three-pointers. For him, playing basketball has changed from shooting the ball every day to throwing the ball into the basket from the basket. more fun, more passion.Since then, I have dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player, and I devote myself to basketball every day after school.

Treating boring things as interesting things to "play", the boringness has been reduced a lot, and it seems that I really have fun.Just like a fat person exercising every day, you may not see any changes in the fat on the day of exercising, or even for several days, but if you can exercise for a while every day, you will know that you have made progress, and take this progress as fun. It's fun.

Liu Ren shoots the same number of times every day. On the first day, a group of 100 balls, [-] mid-range shots and [-]-pointers in each of the five positions. At the beginning, each position in each group made three shots at most. collapsed.

You know, even Sati Thackeray, who is known as the "defying" shooting ability, and Howard, the free throw king, made more than [-]% of his three-pointers during training, and more than [-]% of his free throws in mid-range shots.

But because it is too bad, there is no room for him to get worse. As long as he trains, he will improve, and the improvement is visible to the naked eye...

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Kupchak is kind of annoying right now.

There is a hidden genius in his team, and now the genius has exploded. Logically speaking, as the team's first boss besides the owner, Kupchak should be the happiest one, but he found that the talent's contract is about to expire up.

It's okay if it's about to expire, the rookie basic salary contract is about to expire, and the team has the priority to renew the contract.

However, the priority right to renew the contract has been leaked. The first-round rookies are fine, and the second-round picks who have signed contracts for three to four years are not afraid of being robbed. For example, Liu Ren only signed a two-year 1+1 contract. Contract rookies are the most likely to be robbed if they show their talents.

Thinking of this, Kupchak wanted to pull out that damn fat guy Morey and beat him up. This wretched fat guy is too smart. Last summer, he did something that would have a huge impact on future second-round rookies.

All managers know there is this rule, but all use it as a rule to depress the new contracts of super second-round picks whose contracts expire, and no one uses him to poach people.

When Morey offered Jeremy Lin and Asik a three-year, 3 million-year contract to occupy the maximum salary space in the third year, the general managers of the Knicks and the Bulls directly scolded their mothers.

The Knicks and Bulls, two championship-level teams, where can they find the salary space of last year's minimum salary of 1527 million?Even if this space is in the summer of 2014, it can't be vacated!Back then, Asik only played for two years without a big bird clause, and Jeremy Lin only played with the Knicks for one year without a big bird clause.The Knicks and Bulls, whose salaries have already exceeded the salary cap, can only provide them with the salary of the early bird clause. The Knicks and the Bulls, who had a basic salary of 120 million, could only offer them a contract offer of less than 200 million yuan, and they are not eligible to match Murray's poison contract.

The so-called Big Bird clause is called the Larry Bird clause. When renewing the contract with the team, if you have played in this team for more than three consecutive years before that, you are eligible to use the Big Bird clause. Salary cap extension.

The early bird clause is far worse. It applies to players who have played in a team for less than two years. If the team still wants to renew his contract, even if the team’s salary exceeds the salary cap, the salary cap can be ignored. Last year's 170% salary renewal was regarded as compensation for players who were willing to stay on the team.

Last year, Kupchak was still the one who watched the Knicks and Bulls jokes. There were at most one or two second-round picks with an annual salary of tens of millions. As a top team in the league, the Lakers, the Knicks, and the Bulls have rarely been strong in more than ten years. It seems that the teams in the past two years are different. It is rare for the Lakers not to make the playoffs for a few years. Kupchak thinks that it is difficult for the Lakers to have the opportunity to cultivate a second-round pick, so he is happy to see the joke.

But it's only been less than a year, and this matter is likely to fall on him. This is so embarrassing. Kupchak looked through Liu Ren's team files, but couldn't find it...

"This kid doesn't even have a manager..."

(End of this chapter)