roccoschili Chapter 242 Jokic Zhou Qi Signs the Contract
Chapter 242 Jokic Zhou Qi Signs the Contract
Chapter 242 Jokic Zhou Qi Signs the Contract
On July 7, the free market officially began.
There are many big fish entering the free market this season, such as the Spurs' small card, the Eagles' Millsap, the Bulls' Butler, the Cavaliers' Love, James, the Warriors' Green, the Pacers' Hibbert, the Heat's Dragic, Ruhr Deng, the Thunder's Kanter, the Trail Blazers' Alder, the Mavericks' Matthews, the Spurs' Duncan, and Manu's contracts.
There are a lot of big players, but most of them already have their own owners. For example, Kaka, James, and Love, the three biggest players must all renew their contracts with the original team. It should just be that the amount of the contract has not been negotiated.
Sure enough, as soon as the free market opened, various news spread. Kaka successfully renewed his contract with the Spurs for 9000 million in five years. Love successfully renewed his contract with the Cavaliers for 1.1 million in five years.
Adelaide joined the Spurs, 8000 million in four years, with a player option in the fourth year, Butler renewed his contract with the Bulls for 9500 million in five years, Green renewed his contract with the Warriors for 8200 million in five years, Dragic and Kanter successfully renewed their contracts, and Ruhr Deng implemented the player option.
CJ Watson was the first to leave the Pacers. This guy averaged 10.0 points, 3.6 assists and 2.6 rebounds last season. His salary was $211 million a year. You want 300 million from me?Are you joking?
So the two sides were at a stalemate. Unexpectedly, when the free market opened, he really found a buyer who was willing to give him 500 million. The Orlando Magic announced that they had signed him for 1500 million for three years, but Pritchard was very angry.
After Watson left, Lavoy Allen announced that he would renew his contract with the Pacers for two years and 300 million yuan. After testing the waters of the free market for a few days, he finally understood that the world is too dangerous.
Xu Xiang called him immediately and took him out to play for a while. Xu Xiang likes Lavoy very much. He plays very passionately and can mobilize the enthusiasm of his teammates on the court.
Before they wanted to test the free market, Xu Xiang couldn't stop him, and now he is welcome when he comes back.
Immediately afterwards, Donald Sloan announced that he would renew his contract with the Pacers with the veteran's basic salary. The contracts of Solomon Hill, George Hill, CJ Myers, and Mahinmi have not yet expired, and they have no right to speak.
The contract of the Pacers' new aid Plumlee has not yet expired. Next season is 136 million US dollars, which is the same as Solomon Hill.
The most critical thing now is the reconciliation contract between West and Hibbert.
Xu Xiang talked to the two of them. In fact, the two of them could implement the player options for the last year, but they didn't, because once they chose to implement the player options, the Pacers could only maintain this lineup, and they couldn't make any reinforcements. So they were waiting, waiting for the team's next move.
They also saw the "grand wish" of the Pacers next season. They didn't want to cause the Pacers' strategic layout to fail because of themselves. Xu Xiang was very moved when he heard that, these two people were really thinking about the team.
This is what West told Xu Xiang:
I’m so old, it doesn’t matter how much money I get. I played because I loved it. Now I play because I want to have no regrets in my career. I want to win a championship before I retire. For this reason, I am willing to do anything.
The current Pacers Xu Xiang and Paul George team up. If they are supplemented with a few top role players, they will definitely have the strength to win the championship. Not to mention that Xu Xiang is still growing. This is far from his peak period.
He wants to be a part of it too!
So he's waiting, he's waiting for the team's next move.
Hibbert had the same idea as West. Many teams had already offered him offers, but he just didn't let go.
Jokic arrived on July 7th. In fact, he didn't expect that his first stop in the NBA would be Indian City. He thought it must be the Denver Nuggets. After all, he is a second-round pick. No one wants his trading rights?
But I didn't expect that Yincheng would take out the chips of the first-round pick to replace his signing rights. Moreover, this was what Xu Xiang, the core of the Pacers, strongly demanded.
He was puzzled.
Is it because they are all rookies in the same class?
After being at a loss for what to do, he still decided to visit Yincheng first.
When he got off the plane, he saw a person holding a big sign in front of the airport. Why did he look so familiar?
Look at it yourself, the name on the sign is impressively written on it.
"Nicolas?"
A clear voice came, and the man took off his sunglasses, which immediately caused a burst of exclamation from the people around him, Xu Xiang came to pick him up in person!
Jokic was also very panicked, Xu Xiang is the core of the Pacers, he actually came to pick up his opportunity?
Just looking at the word Xu Xiang is really not a big deal, but if you add: the best rookie, the youngest Mr. 60 points, the rookie with an average of 25 points per game, the All-Star Game MVP series of titles, and then look at the word Xu Xiang, he is different.
Seeing that Jokic next to him was a little stiff, Xu Xiang couldn't help but smiled and said:
"Our team doesn't have so many twists and turns. They are all good brothers and good buddies. Just relax. Besides, you and I are rookies in the same class. My rank is lower than yours."
Jokic pursed his mouth, is there a fart for a high ranking?
Wiggins was beaten to the ground in front of you, how dare I, a second-round pick, talk?
Zhou Qi has already arrived. He came to Yincheng after the draft. Just in time, Xu Xiang took two people to get acquainted with Yincheng and the Pacers.
Both of them are centers and both are international players. Zhou Qi and Xu Xiang are very happy to get along with each other. If Zhou Qi can learn Jokic's high-level support skills, it will be great.
On July 7, the Pacers held a press conference and announced that they had officially signed with Serbian player Jokic and Chinese player Zhou Qi.
Jokic earns 4 million in 800 years, and he has a player option in the fourth year. This is much better than the later contract with an annual salary of more than 100 million and doing more than 1000 million things. The most important thing is that he has player options in the fourth year, which is very free.
Zhou Qi's contract is similar to that offered to him by the later Rockets, but the only difference is that Zhou Qi's 4-year contract has 2 years guaranteed, and the last two years are not guaranteed. The total is 4 million for 542 years.
Does every Pacers core have to experience this terrible injury?
I was scared.
Pray for Oladipo!
(End of this chapter)