NBA Ten Thousand Worlds Bishop

Chapter 154 The King's Ten Bosses
After returning to Saramento with Battelle, Davidson immediately received a notification from Petrie, saying that the team owners wanted to have a face-to-face chat with Davidson...

The ownership of the Kings team is quite complicated.

Ownership belongs to ten Kansas businessmen. In 1971, these ten Kansas businessmen bought the ownership of the Kings from former owner Les Harrison for $500 million.

This Les Harrison is also a talent. He introduced the first black player in NBA history.

In addition, as the owner of the Kings, he is also the general manager of the team and the head coach of the team, which is the only one in the entire NBA. (Richard does not count...)
When it was sold, the Kings were still called the Cincinnati Royals.

Later, these ten Kansas businessmen relocated the king to their hometown Kansas...

As a result, the Kansas ball market was too small and too small. Without making money, they had to move to Saramento again.

When Davidson joined the Kings before, he didn't actually meet the ten bosses at all. Petrie came to negotiate with him the whole time.

Because of the large number of bosses, Petrie has a lot of authority in the king.

It's roughly similar to how the NBA is today, and Petrie is probably similar to Stern...

There are 29 teams in the NBA, even if there are 29 owners, Stern, like Petrie, is also a part-time worker.

But because there are too many bosses, no one has the absolute right to speak. On the contrary, Petrie, a part-time worker, can sometimes have a lot of authority.

Davidson was really looking forward to meeting these ten bosses he had never met before, and he didn't know why these people were looking for him.

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In the team's conference room, Davidson met his ten bosses.

At first glance, these ten people really don't look like the super rich and wealthy...

Maybe some of the bosses are not as rich as their father.

It's normal to think about it. In the 70s, they gathered ten talents to buy the king for 500 million US dollars. Over the years, the king's profitability was actually very bad, and they didn't make much money.

"Hello, Wilson, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"When you joined the Kings before, we actually wanted to meet you, but we couldn't get together at that time, so we didn't really have this opportunity to meet until today." One of the leaders among the ten bosses said to Davidson with a smile.

Davidson nodded. It must be difficult for so many people to get together.

"You can call me old Jackman. Today we mainly want to talk to you about Battelle, about the renewal of the contract." The leader Jackman said.

Davidson frowned, a little confused about what these people were doing.

Let's talk about Battelle's contract renewal, why don't you talk to Battelle?
"Mr. Jackman, why don't you talk to Battelle about the contract renewal. I am just a coach, and the contract renewal is not under my jurisdiction." Davidson said with a frown.

Old Jackman smiled wryly.

The thing that their group of bosses regret most now is that they failed to see Battelle's potential earlier.

If Battelle's potential was known before signing the rookie contract, then it would have been impossible to sign him for only two years at the beginning, just like the big dog Robinson or Magic Johnson, and directly sign him for 20 or [-] years.

Now only signed a two-year contract, the problem is too big.

Players like Battelle will definitely have a maximum salary in the future. If the maximum salary is not given, other teams in the league will definitely use all means to snatch them up.

But the problem facing the Kings now is that they cannot give Battelle a maximum salary after the two-year contract is executed.

Because of the Bird clause, a player can only sign a maximum salary contract if he has been playing for more than three years and has the bird rights.

But Battelle's contract is over, and he has only two years of playing experience. He only has the early bird right, and he can only get the contract with 175% of the annual salary of last season or the higher average salary of the league.

Battelle will only have an annual salary of 30 next year, and in 175% of the cases, that means an annual salary of around [-]...

The average annual salary of the league is about one million dollars. In this case, after the contract ends next year, Battelle can only sign a contract with the Kings with an annual salary of about one million dollars.

The key is that according to the rules of the league, Battelle will have to sign the next contract for at least two years.

This is the highest annual salary that the king can give...

And what about other teams?They don't have any restrictions, and they can give Battelle a super high-level invitation contract.

Although there is no concept of maximum salary, but to be called a super high-level contract, the annual salary must reach the level of 500 million US dollars.

It's no wonder Battelle doesn't run away when the time comes. The Kings can only get about a million dollars, but if they go to other teams, they can get four to five million dollars. Even a fool knows how to choose.

The headache for the bosses of the Kings is not the salary of 500 million. They are actually relatively generous bosses. After all, the little potato Webb can get an annual salary of more than 200 million in their hands.

Their main worry is that they can't even give the 500 million annual salary, and they can only watch Battelle get hooked away!
Davidson actually didn't think about this at all, because the natural players have the attribute of accepting a [-]% salary cut, so Davidson feels that salary is definitely not a problem he needs to consider.

But now that what the old Jackman said, Davidson's egg hurts immediately.

From 500 million to one million, this is not just a matter of ten percent.

In other words, it is impossible for anyone to stay in the king, even if it is himself, he will definitely get the 500 million annual salary.

It may even be more than 500 million annual salary. It is not impossible for those desperate teams to directly drop 900 million or tens of millions of annual salary.

With such a big salary gap, how could Battelle stay in the Kings.

Even if Battelle really wanted to stay with the king, Davidson couldn't bear it...

Davidson is well aware that now he has a problem.

Naturally, he couldn't accept the situation where his natal players were on two teams with him.

Of course, there is no solution.

For example, after Battelle switched to other teams, Davidson joined with Muresan and the third natal player. Presumably no team would refuse.

But if you do this, you will really lose your conscience, and the Kings will directly become a poor team.

Davidson will definitely face a situation where everyone criticizes him...

The last time Davidson took Muresan to the Kings, it actually made many team executives complain.

If Davidson runs with three team cores this time, it will be too ugly...

Davidson frowned, not knowing what to do for a while.

Anyway, he definitely didn't want Battelle to leave the king, so he had to find a way to solve the current problem.

(End of this chapter)