roccoschili Chapter 329 Draft Salary Space
Chapter 329 Draft Salary Space
Chapter 329 Draft Salary Space
There is actually nothing to say about the draft. This season, the Bobcats have all their first-round and second-round picks in their hands, and they also have an extra second-round pick in exchange for Darius Sangueira.
Because the two second-round picks may be used to send away Kenyon Martin, who has a big contract in the last year, the discussion meeting only discussed the use of the first-round pick.
The lottery has already been drawn, and the 10 draft is not much different from the previous life.
Still the No. 76 pick of the Wizards, No. [-] of the [-]ers, No. [-] pick of the Nets;
The Timberwolves are fourth, the Kings are fifth, and the Warriors are sixth...
The Bobcats' record is too good, so they only got the 27th overall pick in the first round.
Rich Joe first proposed two candidates provided by the scouting group, one is small forward Quincy Pondexter, and the other is point guard Greivis Vasquez.
Li Ke has heard of both of these names, and both will perform well in the NBA in the future.
But Li Ke shook his head, and he told Old Joe: "If it were me, I would choose Lance Stephenson."
"Lance Stephenson?"
Rich Joe quickly found the information of his junior from the documents submitted by the scouting team.
"A combo guard from the University of Cincinnati with a height of 1 meters. He declared for the draft after only playing one year in college. He averaged 96 points, 12.3 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game in his freshman year. Emmm, in high school, he was the ninth top high school student in the United States."
"His style is characterized by a very versatile, breakthrough, mid-range shot, rebound, offensive organization and defense..."
"But off the court, this guy is a bad boy. He was accused of molesting a female classmate in high school and pleaded guilty. He beat up his teammates in college..."
Before Rich Joe's introduction was over, Rivers interrupted it all: "A problem player? Sheldon, you don't really want to draft him, do you?"
"Just a small problem."
"Molesting female classmates and beating teammates, is this a small problem?"
Rivers shook his head: "Sheldon, I think you should find a reason to convince me."
"Is there a reason? The reason is that this guy will be an excellent organizer and an excellent perimeter defender. If he joins, your fifth team will have no shortage of organizers, and you can even let Stephen down."
The Bobcats' fifth team actually lacks a playmaker. From the inside out, the only real playmaker is Curry, who exists as a defensive loophole.
Therefore, among the Bobcats' five minors, Curry is indispensable.
But it's different if you have a junior. The role of the organizer can be played by the junior.
The defensive loopholes can also be completely made up for by replacing Curry's defense.
"you sure?"
"I trust Sheldon's judgment..."
At this time, there is no need for Li Ke to answer.
In terms of the draft, Lao Qiao has long believed in Li Ke's vision.
So, despite the twists and turns, the Bobcats' choice of Lance Stephenson in the first round was decided.
……
After the discussion meeting of the uniform team, Lao Qiao assigned tasks, and everyone set off separately.
Li Ke also set off, this summer, his time is still full.
First of all, last year's successful Sheldon training camp should be held again this year.
Secondly, this summer Li Ke also has an extra task for the national team.
The main reason is that Li Ke didn't play in last year's Asian Championships. As a result, the men's basketball team led by Dasheng and Arab League lost to Tianjin, lost to the Iranian team, and finished second.
The runner-up is fine, and the men's basketball team is not the runner-up who has never won the Asian Championships. The problem is that the men's basketball team lost to Iran in the final was too humiliating.
Four humiliating records - the lowest score in a single quarter (10 points in the first quarter), the lowest score in the half (25 points in the half), the largest loss (18 points, 16 points before), the first time to lose the championship at home...
To this day, the country is still criticizing this defeat.
In this year's more important World Championships, Dayao still can't play, and Li Ke has to go back to lead the team.
In the end, it was Li Ke who had to solve it first. Denzel Washington contacted Li Ke. He got an idea from Li Ke at the beginning, and now it can finally be realized.
On the one hand, although Denzel Washington wrote the script himself, the idea came from Li Ke after all. Denzel Washington believes that Li Ke should be involved.
On the other hand, Denzel Washington believes that Li Ke is the best starring in this movie.
To be honest, Li Ke doesn't want to act in any movies.
It's just that Denzel Washington invited him, and he still has to go to Los Angeles to meet him.
Before leaving Los Angeles, Li Ke had already made up his mind to reject Denzel Washington.
……
Holding the air ticket to Los Angeles in his hand, Li Ke remembered that there are two other matters waiting for him to solve in Los Angeles.
WeChat is going to be sold, if not, someone will force Li Ke to sell it.
Fortunately, WeChat has become popular in the European and American world, and the price is not low.
Another thing is also related to WeChat, emmm, it is Li Ke's own WeChat.
In WeChat, the account named "Emzie" has been sending various messages to Li Ke for the past two days.
In the beginning, it went like this -
"No way, Sheldon Lee, you just ran away?"
"A man who has no responsibility!"
"Don't let me see you again!"
"..."
"Why didn't you reply to me?"
"Hey listen, if I see you again, I will scratch your face!"
"..."
At this time, after careful consideration, Li Ke decided to give her back:
"Dude, I don't even know who you are?"
So, it became like this -
"Dude? Don't you know I'm a girl?"
"You did it on purpose?"
"You must have done it on purpose!"
"Now I have strengthened my determination, I will definitely scratch your face."
At this time, Li Ke became interested. The girl on the other side of the chat seemed a little savage?
"It's not like the character of an American girl..."
Besides, when he thought about it carefully, the girl probably didn't want to rub him or anything.
Otherwise, Li Ke would have been raped that night.
If he wanted to understand this point, Li Ke would know who the girl opposite was.
"no, do not want……"
"Don't what?"
The girl on the opposite side responded in seconds.
"Don't scratch my face..."
"Hmph, it doesn't count if you said it!"
"I have decided to apologize to you, ma'am."
"Apologize, yes, I want to apologize in person!"
"No problem, ma'am, but will you tell me your name first?"
"You can call me Emma."
Emma...
Li Ke's first reaction was Hermione who collected stamps.
Then he thought of Emma Roberts, Julia Roberts' niece.
However, no matter who it is, Li Ke will not have other ideas. He will go to Los Angeles, meet him, and settle the matter.
……
Li Ke boarded the plane to Los Angeles, and on the other side, the Bobcats with a clear purpose quickly started their summer operations.
After Li Ke flew to Los Angeles, he received a call from Old Qiao and learned some interesting things.
"Sheldon, you really hit the spot!"
Sure enough, with about a week left before the draft, the Cavaliers finally started.
Danny Ferry has made rumors that he wants to sell several big contracts in the team.
Including Jamison with an annual salary of 1336 million US dollars, Richard Hamilton with an annual salary of 1250 million US dollars...
Even Xiao Mo, who is 930 million yuan, is also on the sell list.
Danny Ferry is like the boss of a street clearance sale, yelling: "Former All-Star power forward for more than 1000 million dollars, former championship shooting guard for more than 1000 million dollars, top offensive point guard for more than 900 million dollars, all sold for free! All sold for free!"
Unfortunately, very few responded.
The reason is very simple. These days, there are not many teams that can spare tens of millions of salary space, and the few of them don't need Jamison and Hamilton, who have entered a period of decline.
If it is an expiring contract, the problem is that Jamison still has two years left on his contract. Excluding the next season's $1336 million, the next season will have a one-year contract of $1508 million, which is too tight a cap space.
Same goes for Richard Hamilton, $1250 million next season and $1250 million the next season.
For most teams with cap space, they are unwilling to swallow huge non-expiring contracts for free at the beginning of the season.
After all, with cap space in hand, who wouldn't dream of signing LeBron James?
If you want to swallow these two big contracts, you have to wait until there is no hope at all.
But for the Cavaliers, when that time comes, the day lily will really be cold.
Danny Ferry may not be that smart, but he's not that stupid either. He knows that listing these players is not enough, he has to take the initiative.
As a result, Danny Ferry began to look for teams with salary space all over the world and actively negotiate.
"So, which ones have space?"
"What else can there be? The Knicks, the Nets, the Heat, the Bulls...these have space, but they all have other ideas about this summer, and it is impossible to trade with the Cavaliers."
"The Timberwolves and the Kings who have no idea about this summer... have plenty of salary space."
Listening to Boss Qiao's narration on the other end of the phone, Li Ke tilted his head and clamped his mobile phone, and exposed the facts with one sentence: "Danny Ferry's hope is all in the latter two."
"It is said that the Kings, Jeff Petri (the general manager of the Kings) has already opened his mouth, and he must be in the first round before he is willing to swallow the big contract of Jamison or Richard Hamilton. On the Timberwolves side, David Kahn is stupid, and he may be fooled by Danny Ferry..."
As he was talking, something suddenly seemed to happen to Old Qiao, and the phone hung up for a while.
When he dialed back again, Li Ke heard Joe shouting excitedly: "The latest news is that the Cavaliers are also facing competition from the Timberwolves, mainly the Knicks. They want to deal with Eddie Curry's big contract."
Knicks want to deal with Eddie Curry's big contract?
Li Ke, who was already sitting outside the airport terminal, touched his chin.
What did he realize...
"The Knicks are going to send Eddie Curry away in the first round?"
"That's right!"
"What's Donny Walsh going to do?"
"Gossip, they've locked up Amare Stodamire, and now they're going all out for LeBron."
"If they lock Dwyane Wade or Chris Bosh, LeBron still has a chance, but Amare..."
Although he knew that the Knicks would not get Lebron, Li Ke understood the current situation from the few words of the trade rumors.
Facing the plethora of big names this summer, the Knicks have gone crazy, trying every means to send away Eddie Curry, who occupies more than 1000 million US dollars of space, in order to make room for a little more.
"The Knicks are going to play in the first round, but the Cavaliers can't make it. This situation is really embarrassing."
Last summer, Danny Ferry paid a first-rounder in order to get Richard Hamilton.
It is unacceptable to ask him to pay another first round when he sends Richard Hamilton away.
Therefore, the most the Cavaliers can play is the second round.
Compared with the Knicks, there is a huge gap immediately.
"Also, Sheldon, I've already decided, we're going to get involved!"
"what?"
Li Ke didn't expect that Old Qiao already had his own ideas.
……
Li Ke first rushed to the studio of [-]th Century Fox, where he met Denzel Washington.
"Hey, Sheldon, long time no see!"
In the studio, Denzel Washington is filming a movie called "Fast".
When I saw Li Ke, I just shook hands in a hurry to say hello, then asked the assistant to pour coffee, and handed the script to Li Ke to read first.
"This is the script, you can read it first, if you have any good suggestions you can make."
The script came in a very thin stack.
Li Ke roughly scanned around, and it was still a little different from the future Thunderbolt.
In Thunderbolt, Xiao Du's talent was exchanged by fans, so Xiao Du became a rookie on the court, and the fans who exchanged his talent became the stars of the high school team.
The script provided by Denzel Washington is that the two exchange souls.
emmm, more like Ronaldo's Nike commercials.
Which of the two scripts is better, Li Ke doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know.
Anyway, he has already decided that he will not appear in this movie.
……
After reading the script, Li Ke, who had nothing to do, started wandering around.
He also met some familiar people, either friendly or hostile.
Friendly ones like Tom Cruise warmly embraced Li Ke, while hostile ones like Snoop Dogg glared at Li Ke viciously on the spot.
Li Ke just spread his hands and said nothing.
Keep going down, into the depths...
A low-pitched voice came from a distance, emmm, it should be a girl, she looks pretty, but she didn't look in Li Ke's direction.
Li Ke didn't care. In order to avoid being like Brother Zhu, he even looked away.
But this move...
The girl who was gradually approaching, suddenly rushed forward with baring teeth and claws.
Li Ke was frightened by the pick-and-roll, thinking that the opponent had rabies.
until……
"Damn it, didn't you promise to apologize to me when you arrived in Los Angeles?"
Only then did Li Ke react: "Emma?"
It's not to blame for Li Ke's slow reaction, it's because he is a bit blind to Europeans and Americans, and he can't remember them just by looking at the photos.
But now... He blocked Emma with his short arms for basketball players and long arms for ordinary people, and then carefully sized her up.
I have to say that it is very beautiful, looking at the side face, it is a bit in line with Chinese aesthetics.
Wait... Why does Lao Tzu consider whether she conforms to Chinese aesthetics?
Thinking of this, Li Ke pushed the other party away regardless.
And at this time, he was sure that the domineering Emma in front of him was not Emma who collected stamps, but Emma who was born in a celebrity family... Roberts...
(End of this chapter)