NBA: Start with 20 billion, buy the Knicks

Chapter 466 The salary cap exceeds [-] million!Kill Xiao Hua to worship the sky!

What was their original purpose? ?

Isn't it just to weaken the strong teams and make the league as balanced as possible?

Don't look at the Spurs and Lakers, they are old, but their regular season records are still accurate.

There are several teams in the West that are good at cooking.

And the Knicks are even more important, because their lineup is too exaggerated. After they won the championship this year, all the players are in their prime, and they are all at the peak of their careers. The league is not a fool.

They can fully imagine how terrifying this team will be in a few years. Damn, there are no players over 30 years old, and the only player over 30 years old is Dayao, but he is a veteran with a basic salary, which is the worst.

In fact, it’s nothing. Under the salary cap system, the salaries of this group of people will skyrocket after they are played, because the renewal is to compete with other teams in the free market. Players are not fools, and making money will be the first.

But Jiang Chao is so smart, every player has signed a five-year contract.

So in the past 5 years, there has been no such thing as the Knicks reaching the luxury tax line.

As for the brutal substitute players like Ibaka and Beverly, their wages are actually pitifully low. Ibaka may be able to renew his contract this year, but the renewal will not cost too much.

After these five years, the Knicks would have been lonely.

But Nima Nix, the boss, has made too much money in the past five years. After five years, it is very likely that Jiang Chao doesn't care much about the luxury tax. A little more is fine? ? ? ? ?
So don't blame the alliance, even if the bosses don't have a collective request, they will take targeted measures.

Now it is no longer a matter of the league favoring New York. They realize that if the Knicks are allowed to develop like this, they are likely to dominate the league in the last 5 years, or even 10 years! !
Jiang Chao's style of play made the NBA a bit unplayable. It was okay. Last year, because of the salary cap, the Turkish duo left the Knicks, thinking that the Knicks lost two generals.

But this Ibaka has risen again, and he simply signed Dior, which is really unsolvable.

So we have to target it.

However.
The fact is that the rest of the league's rumors are too crazy, or the Lakers boss and other bosses are too pretentious, and they expose their intentions prematurely, so that the opposition has time to react.

That's why the situation is now out of control.

Otherwise, if the meeting is decided at once, it will not be so much.

It can also be said that even if there are so many things, Durant and the Knicks will not be so constrained by Durant and the Knicks. Even Kobe, who is pushed by Jordan and the league, does not support it.

This kind of feeling is very uncomfortable. We should have taken the initiative, but now the Knicks' macho operation has scared them silly.

So they have held this meeting for an hour and haven't made a decision yet, which is too difficult.

Some were frightened, some said that Jiang Chao was scaring everyone, he would never dare to stop the capital chain of all his businesses, especially the movie he is currently filming, would he give up his own starring role? ? ? ?

For a while, there were different opinions, and no one could come up with an accurate statement.

David Stern did not expect that the immature boy in front of him 3 years ago would be so tough and awesome now! ! !One speech made it impossible for the league to step down, but in fact...he was also using the Knicks himself.

At the meeting site, they connected with the slightly weaker Spurs side.

Popovich said directly:

First of all, the NBA is the highest hall of basketball in the world and represents the highest level of professional basketball. There is no doubt about this.

Some systems of basketball leagues in many countries are modeled after the NBA.

Since the NBA introduced the concept of "salary cap" in 1984, this salary limit clause has been used to this day, which has shown the importance of this clause.

The biggest advantage of the existence of the salary cap is that it prevents teams from spending money to build an ultra-luxury lineup, so that the ownership of the championship loses suspense!

Then David Stern also called the Knicks office. Jiang Chao answered the call and didn't speak, but the league was also full of sincerity and directly let everyone in Jiang Chao's office hear the content and voice of the meeting.

Jiang Chao laughed directly.

In fact, the reason why he objected so much was not because his team would be hit because of it. Just kidding, even if they still have this lineup, it would be difficult for other people to fight together in any way they can, okay?

Did he already have the foresight?

To give a simple and crude example, it is precisely because of the existence of the salary cap that the Warriors' lineup of five All-Star players in the 19th season ceased to exist after the end of the second season.

First of all, if Cousins ​​​​plays well in the new season, it is impossible for the Warriors to renew his contract just to pay the only middle-level exception.

Secondly, Clay's contract expired that summer, and he could get an average salary of more than 3000 million yuan for another team with his strength, but if the Warriors want to keep Clay with the same contract, they will face a huge luxury. Tax.

In the past three years, Durant, who had a player option that summer, and Green, whose contract expired in the summer of 2020, also bothered them.

The Warriors cannot directly offer Cousins, Clay, Durant, and Green contracts with an average salary of 3000 million, because the huge luxury tax will make it difficult for them to bear.

This is the role of the salary cap to prevent the team from hoarding multiple super giants and the league finale.

So the Warriors will make a choice, and someone between Clay and Green may have to make sacrifices or even leave the team.

It is the role of the alliance to let the strong teams take the initiative to change, not to let the weak teams buy people...

Therefore, Jiang Chao has been silent on this side, in fact, he agrees with the alliance's positive point of view.

The opposing side has been saying that the gap between the league teams is too big. Some teams have no All-Stars, some teams have several, and several teams are so bad that they want to beat people. But because they make money every year, The boss and the general manager don't want to make progress.

David Stern lost his composure, and said to the other end of the phone:

"Boss Jiang Chao, Mr. Max, what are your thoughts?"

So in order to avoid the finale, Jiang Chao finally spoke:

"It's very simple. You just need to raise the poor line. Don't let some teams not think about making progress every year. Do you understand me?"

"Then it's raising the salary cap. Isn't that what you really want to do?"

"Poor ghost line? Raise the salary cap?"

David Stern's complexion changed for a while, thinking that you had seen through him, young man!
"Yup!"

When Adam Silver heard Jiang Chao's words, and saw David Stern's expression that seemed to be looking forward to these words, he knew that he had been used as a gunman.

Became the perfect tool man for Stern.

In addition to the luxury tax line, there is also the poor ghost line, which is 90% of the salary cap. This is done to prevent teams from taking advantage of the NBA's great platform to make money, but they don't want to make progress, and they only know how to show bad.

Then, if the total salary of a team is lower than 90%, it will be fined like a luxury tax, and the fine must be more than the salary.

This line can indeed be improved, otherwise the salaries of all the players on too many bad teams will be 5000 to [-] million. It looks okay, but it is too bad. I just want to hang around with the champion for a few years. For the sake of making money or playing well, it doesn't matter whether you can make it to the playoffs.

This is something that Stern didn't think much about.

In fact, his ultimate goal is to find an excuse to significantly increase the salary cap this year.

But if this is proposed from the beginning, there will be no less people who absolutely oppose it than now, but if it is the topic of canceling the salary cap to finally increase the salary of the salary cap, that would be easy to say.

"This... looks like it can..."

"It seems to be, yes."

Some officials of the alliance were directly led astray. Does this really make sense? ? ?
Even Max and others didn't expect Jiang Chao to have such a clever idea, poor ghost line, it's you!

This kind of thing is what Jiang Chao can think of.

Then Jiang Chao also talked about a practical problem, that is, they did affect fairness, and it is likely to be the finale.

If it weren't for them, the emergence of the Heat would have brought the league close to the finale in the past few years, but fortunately, there is a group of Spurs hanging in the West, specializing in James.

What can be done now is to let the other teams have a proper average point, and then come to the most powerful one to challenge them!
"high!"

"The boss is really clever!"

"The boss is amazing!"

After that, Jiang Chao never spoke again.

Jiang Chao held a remote control that looked like a car key, and pressed it: "Let's go, this matter should be over."

Yui Aragaki, who accompanied Jiang Chao to continue working as an assistant, was pressed by Jiang Chao, his whole body trembled, and his voice was coy: "I, I will prepare the car right now."

really.

An hour later, the final decision of the league was also made.
When Jiang Chao kept playing Yui Aragaki's remote control to admire her "water" twisting posture, the alliance solemnly released a piece of news on the official website:
"Response to some recent rumors"

Then I explained the NBA first.

"Unlike the football league, the NBA is a closed league without relegation, so we must have our own regulations to maintain the "ecological balance" of the entire system, so that teams without money can also have their own living space, and avoid one or more. A situation in which a wealthy family wins the championship happens.

In the NBA, spending money is also subject to various restrictions.

In order to limit spending, our NBA has introduced two concepts of salary cap and luxury tax.

Without a salary cap, teams with better finances would have an easier time acquiring better free agents than others.

The basic idea is that a team can only sign one free agent if the team's total payroll is within the salary cap.

If any team exceeds the salary cap, it will pay the NBA luxury tax to the league.

So all teams are on the same starting line. "

This passage is to give everyone an affirmative answer first, that is, the salary cap will never be cancelled, everyone can rest assured.

Then the netizens couldn't help but move their keyboards to comment: Then why didn't you announce the salary cap for this year!
Next, the NBA announced the salary cap for this year.

"Next season, the NBA salary cap for the 2012-2013 season will reach $10800 million!"

That is, a sudden increase of 1000 million compared with last season? ? ?
It also officially broke [-] million! ! !
The [-] million yuan mark! !
Biggest salary cap increase since the 2009 season! ! !
Although exaggerated, it can be considered as a degree of mutual recognition by both parties.

No wonder…………

Now other people in the circle understand why David Stern made such an accident. If the salary cap exceeds [-] million yuan, if this is announced directly, there will definitely be a lot of opposition.

But now after such a fuss, it's okay.

But in fact, this girl has a salary cap of over [-] million yuan! ! !
You must know that the maximum salary of the previous big contracts in the league is 2000 million. If the salary cap of 1 million is based on the level of big contracts a few years ago, it is enough to sign 800 super giants! ! !
Duncan and Nowitzki, including Howard of the Knicks, are all under 2000 million contracts. When their contracts expire in the future, teams with space will definitely set off a wave of big contracts! ! !

Jiang Chao spread his hands indifferently, he was the first to take the blame, but it doesn't matter anymore.

After all, the salary cap has been rising all the time, and it has indeed been a node in the past few years, otherwise Stern would not have released the news of the cancellation of the salary cap, and recently the Knicks don’t need high salaries to keep people. This year it seems that Ibaka is alone contract expires?Not bad for the Knicks.

Then the NBA League announced the change of the poor ghost line that had not been moved for a long time under the surprise of everyone.

Because this line is actually unnecessary, and the teams actually have to face it, and it won't make the team particularly bad, but this time it can be regarded as driving them with a whip to become stronger.

The poor ghost line standard has become 50% of the salary cap of the season
That is, starting with 5400 million.

This is equivalent to the salary cap level of the NBA 4 years ago, which is equivalent to a big increase!

It also makes some poor teams have to recruit some stars to fill the poor ghost line, otherwise your team is full of rookies and middle class contracts, and you can't fill the poor ghost line. If you can't fill the poor ghost line, you will face the same as the luxury tax. fine.

The minimum salary line that each team must achieve according to the NBA League. If the total salary of all players in a team does not reach the minimum salary line, then the team will compensate the difference between the total salary and the minimum salary line to the players who play for that team. All players on the team.

That is, the bottom line of the salary cap, and the part of the team that does not fill the poor line will be awarded to the players.

There may be many players with high salaries and low abilities in the future.

This rule Jiang Chao refers to the later Eagles, so there is nothing wrong with the poor ghost line being higher at this time.

Because a few years later, the poor ghost line will rise rapidly, even reaching 9000 million.

After a bad season, the Atlanta Hawks finally got their favorite No. 19 pick and chose the [-]-year-old Slovenian genius Luka Doncic.

But then the Eagles sent Doncic to the Lone Ranger in exchange for this year's No. 5 pick Trey Young.At that time, Angie of the Celtics in the previous season sent the No. 76 pick to the [-]ers, and then selected Tatum with the No. [-] pick.

The team did this because they have no shortage of players in this position, but it would be a bit extravagant to use a high pick to select a player with slightly less talent. It is better to choose a talent that everyone needs first, and then Do business with others, but also earn a difference.

But Jiang Chao couldn't understand the Eagles' amazing move, but now he understands it: the Thunder, the Eagles, and the 76ers made a three-way deal.

Oklahoma City sent Melo to get Schroeder and Timothy Luwau;
76ers send Luwau and Justin Anderson to Mike Muscala

The Eagles sent Schroeder and Muscala for Anthony and Anderson.

Immediately afterwards, the Eagles paid $2790 million to buy out Anthony's contract in full!
After becoming a free agent, Anthony is likely to join the Rockets with a veteran's basic salary.

There are two points in this transaction that are puzzling: first, why the Eagles sent Schroeder for nothing; second, why the Eagles bought out Anthony instead of staying or making a deal.

The first point is that Schroder renewed his contract with the Eagles at a price of 2016 million for four years in 4. His contract has more than 7000 years and more than 3 million. The Eagles are to release the salary space in the next few years to attract big names. players.

In addition, the Eagles' goals for that season may still be poor. Schroeder was not very obedient last season. What if he "works hard" this season and causes the team to lose the lottery pick?
A player like Xiao Hei can go from crazy to crazy, and his professionalism is still okay.

The second point, why not stay or trade Anthony?

Keeping Anthony and the Eagles' record must have improved, which is not good for "shocking" the bottom of the league.

In addition, if it is traded, the Eagles still need to face the problem of salary space in the next few seasons, which is not good for the reconstruction plan to attract big names.

At this time, it is the turn of the poor ghost line to play.

The poor ghost line stipulates that the total salary paid by NBA teams to players must have a minimum standard every year. If the minimum standard is not met, they will be fined, and the difference will be evenly distributed to the players.

In layman's terms, the total salary expenditure of the team should not be too low every year, and money should not be saved maliciously.

But there is one of them: the salaries of players who have been amnesty, bought out, and players whose careers have ended due to injuries are included.

In this way, things are clear. At that time, the salary cap of the NBA was 1.13 million U.S. dollars, and the poor ghost line was 9090 million U.S. dollars. The Eagles spent 2790 million U.S. dollars on Anthony at once. U.S. dollars can meet the requirements of the alliance.

This not only avoids fines, but also does not have to worry about the players signed at a large price not doing well, and you can use some "cheap players" with confidence and boldness.

Originally, Jiang Chao wouldn't have cared so much about these things, because their fans just watched the football.

But because of that season, Jeremy Lin joined the Eagles, so Chinese fans knew about the Eagles' showy operations at that time.

After hearing these news, Jeremy Lin may be silent.

He was traded to the Eagles by the Nets at that time, and he was still counting on a good performance in the new season. Unexpectedly, the team would dare to use any tricks to show off. The 29-year-old with a good book may be wasted again.

The fact is also true, it is purely to bring Treyang.

And when Tre Young is in the 2021 Eastern Conference playoffs, he has nothing to do with Lin Crazy.

So Jiang Chao was very annoyed by this at the time. This is still a situation where there is a poor ghost line. If there is no one, it is even more exaggerated. Some role players going to some bad teams are wasting time and wasting basketball life.

So his proposal is still very powerful. After the league proposed an increase, it has also received unanimous praise. At least fans of teams like the Hornets and Timberwolves don't have to watch the team lose their belly every year.

Thinking about rookie Taobao every year is not enough! ! !
Do you really think you are Nix? ?
The Knicks paid a lot of money to recruit the league's number one center.

At last……

The NBA League apologizes to all fans and insiders who care about the NBA and make friendly suggestions to the NBA. David Stern is completely unequivocal at this time.

Then they fired Adam Xiao Hua, a business executive, to sacrifice to the sky. The people were angry.

Otherwise, this matter cannot be justified. If there is such a big disturbance, and no high-level executive is responsible, then David Stern will be a stain on his life, and he will have no credibility.

After all, who would believe you said this without his urging?

But if you fired a business executive, it’s okay, and everyone will remember your last mistake and correct it.

Xiao Hua: "Meow meow??"

He was dismissed out of nowhere.

At this time, someone in the Chaoshen Building next door laughed.

Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, I didn't expect that the one who sacrificed to the heavens turned out to be the school belle, good expulsion, Stern! ! ! !

Since then.

The controversy over the cancellation of the salary cap has completely subsided, and the league apologized and announced new salary cap lines and poor ghost lines.

And sadly some bosses.

The Bass family, the owner of the Lakers, lost their wife and lost their soldiers. They had no money and pretended to be rich. In fact, basketball is their real main business, and they make money from it.

So they're kind of like clowns.

Now a bunch of Zijin fans are forcing the president of the Lakers to say that you want Durant and Paul, so go ahead and do it! ! !

What is the luxury tax afraid of? We need to see the rise of Zijin! !

Kobe Bryant has only a few years in his career, so please give it a try! ! ! !

The New York Knicks told everyone again.

Their boss is a lunatic.

No one can mess with it! ! ! !

Of course, anyone who understands can see that Stern has no plans to cancel the salary cap at all. This is just to make some heat during the off-season and raise the salary cap logically.

Therefore, the Spurs owner Peart and the Thunder president President Pu did not speak out anymore. The salary cap has increased, and the bosses are not feeling well, and they have to pay more wages.

Jiang Chao didn't care about it either, because he was going to be shooting a movie again the next day.

That night, he met Liu Yifei, Tang Wei, and Liu Yan, who had been pregnant for three or four months, at his villa on the Gold Coast. They had some red wine and some open-air action.

"Your men are not so easy to bully!"

"Hurry up and bully us~"

Liu Yifei, who hasn't seen Jiang Chao in the past few days, rushed over
Jiang Chao, who is being served by a fairy at this moment, is really happy like a fairy!
　It is predicted that there will be a big outbreak on the 30th and 31st, so stay tuned! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)