roccoschili Chapter 521 Chaos into a summer of porridge (1th update, for genuine subscriber readers!)
Chapter 521 Chaos into a summer of porridge (1th update, for genuine subscriber readers!)
Chapter 521 A Summer of Chaos
After Lin Yi and Paul watched the draft together for 12 years, the Knicks' first operation in the summer also followed.
For the Knicks, there is nothing more important than an early contract extension with Lin Yi. According to the "Lin Yi and Rose Clause", Lin Yi will be able to get a maximum salary contract that accounts for 35% of the team's salary cap in this early contract renewal.
How exaggerated is this contract?
You know, if it is at a time when the salary cap will rise sharply in the future, Lin Yi's contract is equivalent to Curry's 2 million contract.
The extension of Lin Yi's contract with the Knicks on Twitter immediately attracted the attention of countless people. Most of them came to watch. After all, after the 98/99 NBA season was suspended, Lin Yi was the first player to receive a contract worth more than [-] million yuan as soon as his rookie contract in the NBA ended.
The other four members of the top five in the 09 class were seriously stimulated. Curry will also renew his contract with the Warriors in advance this summer. The Warriors will give him a maximum salary of 25% of the team's salary. Although Curry feels that he has made a lot of money, the contract with Lin Yi is still incomparable.
And Griffin was selected as an All-Star for two consecutive years and completed the "Ross file" of "Lin Yi and Rose Clause". He will, as Lin Yi remembers, sign the five-year $5 million contract with the Clippers, accounting for 9500% of the team's salary space, and a long-term contract that will take effect in the summer of 30.
DeRozan also completed an early contract extension with the Raptors. Of course, envious of Lin Yigui and Lin Yi, many rookies and second-year players expressed on Twitter that the "Lin Yi file" of the "Lin Yi and Rose" clause is really impossible for concubines!
Because he was elected MVP four years before the rookie contract, was selected to the first team of the year twice, and was selected to the starting lineup of the All-Star Game twice. Even if these rookies have all kinds of dreams, they dare not go wrong!
Lin Yi is so fucking perverted!
So without Lin Yi's knowledge, he silently pierced the hearts of many people.
As long as the future NBA rookies hear "Lin Yi's privilege", they will hate Lin Yi so much!
This kind of feeling that I have drawn a cake for you, but you can't eat it anyway, is really uncomfortable!
The new contract between Lin Yi and the Knicks will also take effect in the summer of 2013, with a total value of 1.18 million US dollars and a total duration of 5 years, the last year of which is a player option.
At first, Knicks general manager Donnie Walsh strongly opposed giving Lin Yi the right to veto the trade, but soon Knicks owner James Dolan swears at him. In Dolan's words: What kind of bicycle do you want?Lin Yi will give him whatever he wants, if possible, I can't wait to give him a contract of 5000 million+ per year, let him sign a lifetime long-term contract with the Knicks!
You know, although the Knicks failed to win the championship in the 11/12 season, the market value of the Knicks has exceeded the $50 billion mark. For Dolan, the cash cow of Lin Yi is equal to the future of the Knicks.
And as long as the Knicks can keep Lin Yi, they will be a strong contender for the championship every season.
Being able to gain both fame and fortune, such a good thing, how could Dolan be reluctant to give up a small transaction veto?
There is no harm if there is no comparison. Originally, Silly Fen wanted to show off his big contract, but after seeing the Knicks announced the result of renewing the contract with Lin Yi, Griffin silently quit the group chat, and then went to an NBA sports goods store to buy 20 pieces of Knicks Lin Yi's jerseys. Burn them all!
The reason why Lin Yi chose the last year as a player option in this contract extension is because he knows that the salary space in the NBA will rise sharply in the future. If Lin Yi jumps out of the contract at that time, if the Knicks renews his contract with him, Lin Yi will earn more.
In addition, the Knicks also completed a four-year 4 million contract extension with Livingston. Although "Karen Karen" missed many games this season due to injury, the Knicks are still very optimistic about his contribution to the team after returning from injury.
Lin Yi knew very well that Livingston's fate was bad, and after a year or two passed by, his resistance to fuck would slowly fill up.
And after Billups' contract expired, "Big Heart" also specially invited Lin Yi to a meal, not to renew the contract, but to bid farewell.
"Lin, the Los Angeles Clippers invited me with a one-year contract of 1000 million. I want to leave New York." Billups's career trajectory has also changed.
Paul didn't go to the Clippers, so the Clippers had plenty of salary space, and Bledsoe needed a mentor to train him, so digging Billups was completely OK for the Clippers. After all, although the Clippers owner Sterling didn't want to pay the luxury tax, he didn't want to be fined because his salary didn't meet the standards.
Back then, Sterling deliberately mocked Dolan for this matter.
Billups knew that it would be difficult for him to return to the top after this injury. "Big Heart" didn't want to cheat the Knicks, so he decided to go to the Clippers to retire.
In the past two years with the Knicks, Billups won a championship with the team, and his career has been completely consummated. Billups also has many friends in Los Angeles. This time he went to Los Angeles.
Lin Yi sent Billups his blessing, because this was Billups' own choice, and Lin Yi could only choose to respect it.
"Chauncey, I hope you can have a wonderful season with the Clippers." When saying goodbye, Lin Yi Billups said.
In this way, Billups came to the Knicks in a low-key manner, and finally left the Knicks in a low-key manner, but New York fans will not forget him, because the championship banner in the 10/11 season has an indispensable contribution to Billups.
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Before starting to roil the free-agent market, the Knicks had trouble with their own extensions, as the Knicks faced vicious competition.
The Sacramento Kings offered Knicks restricted free agent Hassan Whiteside a three-year, $3 million contract.
As the saying goes, there are policies and there are countermeasures. In order to counter the NBA's "Arenas" clause, poison contracts will become common in the summer of 12.
The offer that Da Baibian received this time is a poison contract. In the first and second years, Da Baibian's salary is 500 million U.S. dollars, and in the third year it is 1400 million U.S. dollars!
The most famous case of such a contract is Jeremy Lin in Lin Yi’s memory. The Knicks can’t match Da Baibian’s contract. The key is the salary of 1400 million US dollars in the third year of this contract. After renewing the contract with Lin Yi in advance, the Knicks don’t have enough salary space.
And Dabaibian himself was also moved. After all, there is no player who doesn't want to make more money. Lin Yi thinks that the Kings team is poisonous. He believes that the Knicks rookie must be good?
Sorry, the Kings really think so, because Tristan Thompson played well in the Kings. In the 11/12 season, he averaged 8 points and 8 rebounds per game.
Originally, Lin Yi thought that the Knicks could take advantage of Dabai Bian, but he didn't expect that the king's wave of poison contracts would directly defeat the Knicks.
Because there is no problem that the team's salary will not be enough in the third year when the king digs the white side. The current salary of the king is empty.
Whiteside's heartbeat is too normal. He also has a championship ring. In the Knicks, he can only continue to be a substitute for the boxing champion, and the King has promised that he will be given more playing time.
The Knicks have a headache because where can they find a reliable center at a time like this?
Regardless of the long summer, in fact the most critical moment in the arms race of NBA teams is at the very beginning, because after the good fish are caught, all that is left is rotten fish and rotten shrimp.
Lin Yi found that while he was dismantling other teams, other teams in the NBA were also thinking about how to dismantle the Knicks.
And just when Lin Yi and Javier Stanford were worried about the Knicks' backup center, as July progressed, those deals and signings that changed the game came one after another!
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