Legend of Tomorrow

Both Chinese players were selected in the second round, and Chinese fans feel like they are celebrating today.

Zhou Qi's pick was much lower than expected, and he was not selected by the Rockets until the 43rd overall pick. Zhou Qi, who was training in Italy, had a live interaction with the cctv5 studio. The Big Devil didn't feel depressed at all. He couldn't hide his excitement and covered his mouth and snickered.

Zhou Qi's draft pick is lower than expected. This is not because the current Chinese market environment has become worse, but because of his strength. He was not dominant in the CBA, and there was an age fraud incident before the draft. This is him paying for the fraud in Chinese basketball in the past.

The Rockets' selection of Zhou Qi seemed more impromptu than carefully planned, so even Zhou Qi's draft team was surprised. It is certain that the Rockets have commercial considerations, but this expectation is not as big as Chinese fans imagined. Zhou Qi will not land in the NBA next season.

Earlier news broke that the Xinjiang team agreed to accept the NBA team's buyout of Zhou Qi's contract for $650,000 to complete the transfer. But what many people don't know is that this clause only takes effect after Zhou Qi is selected in the first round. If he is selected in the second round, the buyout fee will have to be renegotiated and the price will be higher.

Buying out second-round picks is higher than first-round picks. The logic of the Xinjiang team management is so nonsense.

Wang Zhelin was selected by the Grizzlies with the 57th pick. It is generally difficult for rookies at this position to get signed, and the fans have nothing to be happy about.

Many people hope that China can have a successor to Yao Ming and become an NBA All-Star. However, centers like Yao Ming are rare and China may not be able to have another one in 50 years. There is a big gap between the strength of these young players in China and Yi Jianlian, and fans are bound to be disappointed.

On July 1, the NBA summer free market officially opened, and all teams went crazy.

The momentum of the team owners to spend money is amazing. When renewing contracts and signing players, they offer huge contracts, setting a record for the contract amount in the history of the NBA.

Any free agent with a surname in the league can get an annual salary of about 20 million at least. Ordinary role players are also facing good opportunities for salary increases. After a round of crazy buying, if the role players don't sign a contract with an annual salary of tens of millions, they will be embarrassed to say that they have played in the NBA.

Bosses will never do a loss-making business. The reason why there are so many big contracts is inseparable from the increase in the NBA salary cap. If you make more money, you will be awarded to the players in accordance with the labor agreement.

As early as 10 years ago, the NBA salary cap was only $53.13 million. However, as the pace of NBA internationalization accelerates, more and more foreign funds begin to flow into the league, and broadcast contracts have increased significantly.

This summer, a television broadcast contract worth US$24 billion began to be implemented, further pushing up the NBA's overall revenue level. Current preliminary predictions are that the average value of NBA teams has reached $1 billion. In the future, the big pie of the NBA may become bigger and bigger, as long as it is not cheated to death by Adam Silver due to match-fixing.

Matt Smith is very grateful to Guo Xu. He only bought the Warriors a few years ago, and the value of the team has tripled.

Guo Xu frequently makes headlines. Many people believe that the NBA has become more profitable than the NFL, which is directly related to him.

Even American economists are studying Guo Xu’s business value and believe that he has directly or indirectly generated hundreds of billions of dollars in value. The business he controls has formed a terrifying industrial chain.

Involving film and television entertainment, catering, sports, electronic products, tourism and other aspects.

In short, the situation of more wolves and less meat in the NBA market will not fundamentally change in the short term. As long as a player can play in the NBA and he becomes a free agent at the right time, it will not be difficult for him to get a satisfactory contract.

According to predictions, the league's salary cap will continue to soar in the next four years, and may even reach $112 million by the 2020-21 season. As long as labor and management do not break up in the next few years, there will inevitably be bigger contracts on the market, and it is possible for top stars to earn an annual salary of 50 million.

In previous years, when teams recruited big-name players, they could still gain the upper hand through price wars. Nowadays, salary is no longer the primary issue that stars consider, and it is easier for stars to stay together.

This year's NBA free market has a people are stupid, money is abundant, come quickly attitude. On the first day it opened, it spent 1.735 billion, and five billionaires were born. Of the 28 players who have received contracts, 21 are worth tens of millions, making it the craziest free agent market in NBA history.

The Grizzlies extended the contract of point guard Mike Conley for 5 years with 153 million, making it the largest contract in history. Fans think this is nonsense. Not only does he have no dominance, he is not even ranked among the top five point guards. His personal ability is at most equal to Billups back then.

The Wizards renewed Bradley Beal's five-year contract for $128 million. He averaged only 17.4 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3 assists per game last season.

The Lakers renewed Al Horford's five-year contract with $140 million, and his annual salary is close to 30 million. His statistics are not very good. He has never averaged more than 20 points per game in a single season in his career. The contract offered by the Lakers is very sincere.

Nicolas Batum renewed his contract with the Hornets for US$120 million in five years, Chandler Parsons signed with the Grizzlies for US$94.8 million in four years, and Ryan Anderson joined the Rockets for US$80 million in four years, all of which are large premium contracts.

Nets center Dwight Howard jumped out of his contract and signed with the Hawks for $70.5 million over three years. In addition, the Eagles also renewed Bazemore's contract for 4 years and 70 million.

Even someone like Solomon Hill can sign with the Pelicans for 4 years and 52 million, which is simply incredible.

The Lakers poached Dwyane Wade with their second pick, and the contract was not as big as 2 years and 16 million.

Although Wade didn't get a basic salary, he still got a salary cut because he was here to hold on to his salary. He had already been demoted with the Nets last season and couldn't get much more from the Lakers. Based on his performance of 18+4+4 per game last season, and according to the current overall market situation in the NBA, there will definitely be teams willing to offer him an annual salary of 15 million to 20 million if he goes to a weak team.

The Lakers' third signing gave Durant a two-year, 54.3 million contract, with a player option in the second year. This is called the biggest free signing this summer, and it is a super bargain. Durant has taken a significant salary cut.

Online fans were in an uproar. Many people said that Durant was shameless for surrendering to the enemy. James fans are proud to say that James also has no championship and entered the league earlier than Durant, but he never thought about hugging Guo Xu's thigh.

Little did he know that James wanted to join forces with Guo Xu, but it was difficult to leave the Nets. The Nets left Howard to free up salary space. He also wanted to recruit Durant, but the Lakers got Adu first.

James was so depressed that he couldn't sleep all night after seeing the news. The weather is hot in summer, and the heart is like a cold winter night.

Durant held a press conference to show off his new jersey, and by the way showed off his low emotional intelligence and poor language skills.

He said: In the past few weeks, I have faced the most difficult choices of my career. I know that I am at a crossroads and I have to make a choice both as a player and as a man. Ultimately, the premise of making this decision is In terms of future prospects and potential, I want to make sure that I am going in the right direction. In this new stage of life, I have to seize opportunities and not be conservative, but go to new cities and new environments to challenge myself and make progress. With this in mind I decided to join the Lakers.

Finally, Durant concluded: There is no shortcut, this is the hardest road.

When Durant said these words, the whole world was laughing at him. Some fans ridiculed: It is really difficult to win.

Then, a deal that surprised Lakers fans happened...