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Chapter 726 726. Detonating the Offseason

Due to the explosion of a series of transactions before the draft, all the teams fell silent after that, waiting for the offseason to officially start on July 7.

This year's free market will definitely produce a huge change, that is, the Bird's clause advantage of the home team of a completely free agent will basically disappear.

The effect of the Bird clause is that the contract can be renewed on the cap, and for many strong teams this summer, their total salary is far from the salary cap. This summer will be the first time since the NBA has a salary cap. There is a situation where all the teams have not exceeded the salary cap at the beginning of the offseason. Even the Cavaliers, their current salary is only 9700 million when some role players have not renewed their new contracts. The cap is still 200 million short.

When you have a lot of money to spend, there is no need for many teams that are neither strong nor weak to trade, just spend money to poach people, just like the Lakers, Warriors, and Knicks who aim to win the championship. The team will be anxious to complete the transaction as soon as possible.

For example, the Lakers get Thompson, and the Warriors get McCollum and Durant. This opportunity is never lost.

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Finally, on July 7st, the players whose contracts with the home team expired are now free agents, and the free market began to explode almost instantly.

Liu Ren, Howard, James, Chandler Parsons...etc free agents have officially jumped out of the player option and entered the free market.

After the free market opened, the salary cap for the new season was officially announced.

A salary cap of $9972 million and a luxury tax threshold of $1.24 million.

After the salary cap was officially determined, each team began to move around, and each free agent with certain strength was originally ready to be sold.

Originally, many teams wanted to suppress the price, and didn’t want to throw out a lot of contracts because of the skyrocketing salary cap and last offseason. It doesn't look like much, but that's money!The boss also saves as much as he can.

However, there is always a team that will break the plans of each team, and the first signing will expose all the bad effects of the super salary cap.

I don’t know who snatched it or how it fell. The Grizzlies threw out a huge four-year 4 million contract almost immediately after the start of the offseason to Chandler Parker, who jumped out of the contract from the Mavericks. Sens.

Cuban said without consideration at all that you take him away, it is too expensive and we can't afford it.

Then, the Grizzlies signed a super fat contract with Chandler Parsons with a starting salary of 2200 million and a final year of 3000 million, as if they had to grab the heat!

Once the signing was confirmed, instantly the entire league was not only the owner, but also the fans, players, media... Everyone had a black question mark face.

The most important thing is that the management of each team is about to go crazy.

Chandler Parsons gets $2000 million starting salary...

If it is said that people in the free market are almost robbed, the contract in a hurry can still be justified.

But this free market has only just begun!Liu Ren, James, and Howard have not been signed yet. Although Liu Ren and James are unlikely to leave the team, and there is no better choice than the team they stayed in, there is still Howard!Howard didn't even get the contract, so he threw Chandler Parsons a contract that was higher than the two-year 4800 million that Durant just renewed?

This is simply destroying the market!

Just as the owners thought, the Grizzlies' signing of Chandler Parsons directly penetrated the players' expectations for their new contracts.

Because there has never been such a high salary cap, it feels like the skyrocketing value of players in the 90s. No one can accurately evaluate themselves. Quite Drexler signed a contract of nearly 3 million, one year is worth his seven years.

The reason why Pippen signed such a cheap contract is because there was no accurate comparison before, because Jordan's salary before his first retirement was only two million.

But after the Michigan Five Tigers entered the NBA for the first time, they renewed their contract with a 7-year 1.05 million super contract. After that, the entire NBA began to go crazy. It was the NBA's first [-] million contract. .

With Juwan Howard as a comparison, players in the 90s knew how valuable they were.

It's just that Juwan Howard became the object of hate for many bosses. The bosses would not blame their colleagues for giving such a big contract, but only blame the players for being too greedy.

Now Chandler Parsons is playing the same role as Juwan Howard, signing a huge contract of 4 million dollars in 9600 years and 3000 million dollars in the last year, and the last year is a player option, which basically means no option , who the hell would refuse 3000 million a year?
Chandler Parsons got a 4-year 9600 million contract. His data last season was 13 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists per game. This is 4 million in 9600 years. Free agents are crazy, and then he has renewed his contract Or the players who have contracts are crying... At the same time, the owners of the teams are also crying...

But at this time, it was actually relatively less explosive, because immediately there was a clear flow among the players.

CJ-McCollum, who was just acquired by the Warriors, reached a five-year contract extension with the Warriors. With one year left on his rookie contract, he renewed his contract early and got a five-year, 5 million contract extension.

If it was in previous years, it would be basically impossible for a fourth-year player who has not made the All-Star to get a 5-year 1 million contract. It is impossible to do it according to the rules, and it will be too big by fans.

But compared to Chandler Parsons, CJ McCollum is almost being praised on the Internet side by side with the sun.

Just when the bosses were about to breathe a sigh of relief, because McCollum, who is very likely to make the All-Star for the first time next season, "cut his salary" to renew his contract, there are enough reasons to negotiate with free agents, and then the Grizzlies again A heavy hammer came.

Mike Conley and the Grizzlies reached a 5-year 1.63 million contract with the largest history!
This is the largest contract that the current salary cap can give a player. The current salary cap is the highest in history, that is, the Grizzlies gave Mike Conley the largest contract in history. After the period, the salary cap for next season will definitely increase, and it will be surpassed soon.

However, Mike Conley's super fat contract with a starting salary of 2780 million and a final year as high as 4013 million is still too shocking!

Chandler Parsons is 2200 million next season, Mike Conley is 2780 million next season, plus Gasol's 5-year 1.2 million contract extension last year is 2300 million in the second year, and Randolph's contract year next season is 1100 million. 800 million, Tony Allen's 550 million next season, Carter's [-] million next season.

The Grizzlies started with a sixth man, almost enough to make up the salary cap... Moreover, this is only six people. The Grizzlies are notoriously a team with a lot of mid-level contracts, and the middle-level clause must be used every year...

The Grizzlies said, isn't it just a salary cap increase of 3000 million, I will spend it for you every minute...

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"Mitch, don't you think your quotations are embarrassing for me? It is very likely that I will be fired by Jordan and Hassan after I bring these quotations back. Maybe the boss will not want me..." The chick expressed her dissatisfaction. Can't you see what is going on in the market, and still give this kind of quotation?Not everyone has the same worldview as Green, okay!

Kupchak could only smile wryly.

Kupchak said that he agreed to let us go on a trip and have a good time. Why did two signings blow us back from Hawaii?

However, when Kupchak came back, he saw the news of the Grizzlies signing, and his head suddenly became dizzy.

Kupchak is an old man. The news he reads are TV clips or newspapers prepared by his secretary. The Internet is either his daughter or his secretary helps him prepare web pages for him to read. His daughter died of illness two years ago, so he also quit reading the web to avoid thinking about others.

So Kupchak, who was on vacation in Hawaii, didn't know what happened at all. He didn't know until he came back when he received the call from the magician that the Grizzlies had made such a big mess for the teams.

The Grizzlies threw out several poisonous contracts, doubling the value of the players, especially the value of the role players!
For top-salary players, the increase is not much. For example, James earned 2500 million a year last year. This year, you see, Conley got a starting salary of almost 2800 million?Then I asked the Cavaliers for a two-year contract of 2 million, 6300 million next season, and the Cavaliers agreed without saying anything. Originally, if James didn't jump out of the contract next season, it would be 3000 million, which would be an increase of 2750 million.

And the wages of those role players have exploded.

First of all, the Nets offered Miles Leonard, who relied on Lillard to reach the gold-plated playoffs of the Trail Blazers, for 4 years and 4400 million, and gave Allen Crabbe a 4-year offer. 7200 million offer.

This is simply killing the pioneers!

Miles Leonard, a shooting center who averages 5+4 per game, the Nets actually offered a contract of tens of millions!This is only 6 million in 7000 years for a center of Ben Wallace's level before!
Crabbe's 4-year 7200 million is even more poisonous. The previous contract extension between Harden and the Rockets was only 5 years and 8500 million. In other words, it is not as good as Crabbe's contract. The players Lillard brings into the playoffs will average more than 10 points per game!At that time, Harden was already the best sixth man to reach the finals with the team, and he had already shown his superstar image.

However, the Blazers can't let people go, otherwise there will be no players to play next season, so they can only smash their teeth and swallow it, match the contract, and reach a contract extension with the two.

In this comparison, Kupchak threw away all the contract extensions he had prepared for his players when he came back from vacation.

Originally, Kupchak prepared for Clarkson a new version of a five-year 5 million full middle-class contract. Those special contracts will change with the salary cap. Now the middle-class clause has been raised to 4200 million. Years, but now it looks like a wretch!
And Liu Ren's quotation is 5 million in 1.3 years, which is also the top quotation before, and Whiteside's 5-year 8500 million early renewal, Antetokounmpo's 5-year 8500 million early renewal, Then Kupchak threw these quotations away after he came back, and then gave a new quotation. Unexpectedly, the chick still disagreed.

"Mary, we can discuss the contract amount..." Kupchak smiled wryly.

"No, no, that's not what I'm talking about. Hassan's 5-year 1 million contract extension is no problem. He is very satisfied with the 2000 million annual salary. Jordan is also very satisfied with the 4-year 4000 million offer, but the boss and Giannis' contract, we have to discuss it carefully. Giannis' worth should be more than 5 years and 9000 million? I believe he is worth more than Chandler Parsons, and the boss's contract period, I hope it will be the same as before , not too long, it’s best to only sign for three years, and we want to have the opportunity to re-sign the contract in 2018.” Xiao Niu said it very directly, because she has the initiative, and these requirements are not excessive.

Moreover, before Kobe cut his salary by more than 1000 million, it already made the chick bleed, and hundreds of thousands of dollars floated away like that.

Even Kupchak thinks that the request is not too much, and he has solved two of the players who must renew their contracts this summer. The remaining two players with the highest potential and popularity need to be discussed in detail, which is also a reasonable range. .

"That's okay, we can talk slowly..."

The chick is not stupid, Liu Ren owns the shares of the Lakers, so the chick will not ask for a salary that will cause the Lakers to collapse financially, otherwise the luxury tax of 100 million will be paid, and tens of thousands of them will be taken from Liu Ren's dividend , so she negotiated very smoothly with Kupchak and the magician who also rushed back from Las Vegas.

In fact, for the championship team, everything will go well, because this year is not short of money!
In the end, Liu Ren's agency cooperated with the Lakers for three years again under the premise of Jenny Buss's instruction to meet the chick's request as much as possible!
(End of this chapter)