roccoschili Chapter 970 Another Offseason
Chapter 970 Another Offseason
Chapter 970 Another Offseason
There is no major competition for the national team this year. Yao Ming, who was elected as the chairman of the Basketball Association last year, has already called Xie Kai, hoping that he will have a good rest, and the men's basketball game in the summer will not bother him.
After Yao Ming came to power, he paid great attention to the training of young domestic players. He divided the national team into two teams, red and blue.Since the blue team started the China-Iran match in Shenyang at the end of May this year, the red and blue national teams have participated in many warm-up matches in the past two months.
The most important task of the competition this year is that the red team will represent China in the Asian Games, and the blue team will participate in the Stankovic Cup and the World Preliminaries.
Yao Ming did not allow Xie Kai to participate in such competitions, in part because he did not want him to be too tired.Back then, Dayao had participated in too many games and had too much physical load, so he ended his career early due to injuries.
Xie Kai was injured in 2015, and then returned from injury to play in the Rio Olympics and the two-year finals. He has been training during the offseason and his body needs to rest.
Yao Ming also wants to train the team. The Chinese men's basketball team cannot rely on Xie Kai and Ah Lian forever. Young people must learn to take responsibility.
Xie Kai stayed with Zhou Jing at home, and the training did not fall behind.In order to achieve greatness, there must be no slack.It's just that the body needs to rest after all. During this period of time, his training intensity is not high, just to keep his body from getting out of shape and maintain his body's feeling of competition. There is a big gap with the intensity of his special training.
Xie Kai is a veteran, and he knows that more training is not better, it needs to be scientific and reasonable.He spends more than $100 million a year on his body, and the training team alone is huge.The body is the capital of revolution. Without a good body, it is absolutely impossible to chase great stars.
On July 7, the NBA free agent market officially opened.
The Thunder completed a blockbuster signing as soon as the free agent market opened!They re-signed the team's All-Star small forward Paul George with a four-year, $4 million contract!
This signing is a bit of a premium, because Paojiao only scored three teams last season.But in today's era when big contracts are flying all over the sky, it is not an exaggeration for the former Pacers boss to sign a maximum salary. After all, if you don't give a maximum salary, some teams are willing to give it.This is the market today!
In this way, Guan is the Big Three, and the salary of the Thunder next season is already close to 1 million. If they want to renew the contract of Duck and others, they must pay the luxury tax over the cap.Fortunately, the team has the bird rights of Duck and others, and they can operate on the hat, but the boss's wallet must accept some challenges!However, in order to establish a dynasty, it is basically impossible not to pay luxury taxes.
The Thunder and Duck are talking, but they haven't finished talking yet.Duck also wants a maximum salary, but it is impossible for the team to give 4 maximum salaries at the same time.Even if the general manager agrees, the boss will not agree. You really think that his money is flooded. It’s fine if the big three give a big contract. You, a blue-collar center, come to ask for a maximum salary. Is the maximum salary really that much? Is it worthless?
Duck eggs are actually very difficult. If the team does not renew the contract of Paojiao, considering that he can renew his contract, he can sign a 5-year contract. A 1500-year contract with an average salary of 2000-5 million is still very promising. , Although he is not an All-Star center, fortunately, he is excellent in defense, has a good offensive board, and was trained by the team. He has no serious injuries and is young.But Pickled Pepper's contract has been renewed, so the team has to think carefully about the money the team can give. You must know that if you give an extra $100 million, the pressure on the luxury tax will be great!
The Thunder can indeed lower the price of duck eggs. The role of duck eggs is indeed not small, but the core competitiveness of the team is not the inside line, but the three outside superstars.The substitutability of the inside line is still very high. There is no duck egg. I will find a blue-collar center who can defend.
Of course, the Thunder don't have much salary to give to their replacements, which is the duck egg's negotiating advantage.
Kanter also wants to renew his contract, but obviously, the first choice of the Thunder is to keep a good defensive duck egg. Kanter has been targeted frequently in the playoffs, and his playing effect is not good. Unless he accepts the basic salary, the team will not use the middle class. Or the mini-middle class keeps him.
The Thunder will not renew Kanter, and of course Kanter is looking for a next home.On July 7, he signed a two-year, $1 million contract with the New York Knicks, with the second year being a player option.
Kanter still hopes to be able to play good data in the Knicks, jump out of the contract next year and sign a big contract.He is only 27 years old, far from the age to accept the basic salary.
Today's league is not very friendly to Kanter, who is strong in attack and weak in defense, but the kind of space-type insider who can shoot and make fast breaks has become a sweet pastry for league teams to loot. Opportunity is very important!
The Thunder's loss of Kanter did not cause much shock. Originally, Kanter had no place in this team. The team's offensive efficiency became worse when he was on the court. Can get better!
Later on July 7, the Thunder retained backup lineman Jeremy Grant on a three-year, $1 million midlevel deal.
Grant was one of the contributors to the Thunder's championship last season. As the 4th position in a small lineup, he played his athletic ability and defense very well. What he needs to do next is to improve his open 3-point ability and finish at the basket s efficiency.He's still young and still has room for improvement.
On July 7, the Thunder signed free agent Norris Noll with a two-year minimum salary.
Noel is 211cm tall and was the No. 2013 pick in 6. He is only 24 years old this year.He is a defensive center with great potential, good at blocking shots and rebounding in the backcourt, and he is also good at eating cakes under the basket.
The most impressive thing about Noel is not his skills, but that he rejected the Mavericks' four-year, $4 million contract extension last summer and signed a one-year, $7200 million short contract with the team.He did this in order to play beautiful data through the contract year of this season, and strive for a big contract with an average annual salary of more than 1 million US dollars next summer.The sad reminder is that in 410 games played for the Mavericks, he averaged 2000 points and 18 rebounds per game, and gradually fell out of the rotation.
In the end, he was diagnosed with a torn ligament in his thumb with little to no load on the game. …
Noel's big contract naturally flew away, and he also revealed the flaws of laziness in training and disobedience to discipline, which made the teams who wanted to sign him stay away.
As we all know, stabbing players have always been unpopular in the free agent market, and Noel is not a superstar, and his substitutability is too high. It is not surprising that he is coldly received by the market.
(End of this chapter)