What if the Bulls didn't make it to the Eastern Conference Finals?

On the Western side, the San Antonio Spurs, whose record is only inferior to the Bulls, was blacked out in the first round.

So no matter how good James' stats are, as long as there is no bonus to the regular season record, he is not qualified to compete for this MVP.

The "Chosen One" was even more embarrassing, he single-handedly led the Cavaliers to second place in the East, met the Hawks at their peak, and lost to the Celestial Empire in the MVP election for two consecutive years.

Finally, Erniu was injured and joined a team with the strength to win the championship, but he met the explosive Chicago Bulls.

It's also ironic that the Chicago Bulls were once one of James' possible next moves.

People were surprised to find that James was really an "uncrowned king".

It's been almost 8 years since he entered the league, and even though he has had many times with a burst of defense, he still hasn't won the hard honor of regular season MVP, coupled with LBJ's huddle behavior this season, which directly makes people doubt his dominance.

James, who had just qualified for the Eastern Conference finals, congratulated Rose in front of the media, and said with a stiff face: "I have no interest in personal glory right now, and the championship is the only pursuit." ”

Charles Barkley, a well-known TNT commentator, mocked on Twitter: "Obviously, whether you want to take it or not, and whether you can get it, is not the same thing. ”

There is no specific name, but it is clear who it is, not to mention that a large group of fans with good things have already gone to @James.

You know, Barkley is qualified to say this, although he has not won a championship, but Barkley won the MVP trophy when he was the Suns.

Now the pressure is all on James's head, without the hard honor of MVP, his superstar is discounted, and if he can't win the championship after collecting the Big Three, he will inevitably become a laughing stock in the eyes of all fans this summer.

After talking about the individual awards, let's take a look at the selection of the best teams.

The first is the All-Rookie Team 1st and 2nd Team.

A burst of: DeMarcus Cousins, Blake Griffin, Landry Fields, Gary Neil, John Wall.

The second team is: Greg Monroe, Derek Pfeives, Wesley Johnson, Paul George, Eric Bledsoe.

Statistically, the rankings of the first and second teams are well deserved, and Landry Fields and Gary Neal, as second-round picks, can be selected for the best rookie team after a year, which is an extremely important bonus for their future careers.

Then there are the best defensive first and second teams:

One of them is:

C Dwight Howard

PF Kevin Garnett

SF LeBron James

SG Kobe Bryant

P.G. Rajan Rondo

It's undoubtedly unconvincing, as evidenced by Tony Allen, who has been shown in two playoff games, but Rondo was more efficient defensively than Allen in the regular season, so it's understandable that Rondo was the starting No. 1 spot in the defensive squad.

What is incomprehensible is that Kobe Bryant occupies the No. 2 position, and it is not the first year that Mamba's defensive efficiency has declined, but various media are always accustomed to voting with their feet, perhaps they are so impressed by the All-Star Game that Kobe Bryant's consecutive steals of Wade are so impressed that they ignore the fact that Kobe's defensive efficiency cannot enter the top 50 in the league this season.

Howard, Garnett, and James are well deserved, and the Sparks are selected for the best defensive team for the first time in their careers.

Not to mention, even for this, the spark that has already been on vacation has to save the souls of a few more women, and by the way, a few more lives will be "made".

After talking about it for a while, let's take a look at the second formation:

C Tyson Chandler

PF Joaquint Noah

SF Andrea Iguodala

SG Tony Allen

PG Chris Paul

Among them, CP3 may be overrated, after all, in terms of defensive efficiency, D. Wade, who actually plays point guard, and Derrick Rose, the new MVP, are both higher than Paul, but there is no solution to this, and the experts in charge of voting don't care who has better high-level statistics, their feet are better at thinking than their brains.

The final announcement is, of course, the best team first, second, and third teams:

In the first line, Dwight Howard, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, and Derrick Rose were selected together.

The second team is selected for the second team by Amare Studamayre, Pau Gasol, Dirk Nowitzki, Dwyane Wade, and Russell Westbrook

The three-team list is Al Horford, Zach Randolph, LaMarcus Aldridge, Manu Ginobili and Chris Paul.

This is undoubtedly another questionable list, despite leaving the Atlanta Hawks, Ruan Erniu still expressed his doubts about the best team on Twitter and Weibo for the first time, the Hawks still reached the Eastern Conference Finals this season, but even so, they didn't even get a spot in the best team, which is really unreasonable.

Greg Popovich also expressed dissatisfaction, although the Spurs were eventually blacked out, but the Spurs' performance in the regular season is obvious to all, as one of the two teams to reach 60 wins at the same time as the Bulls, the team's top scorer Tony Parker didn't even mix in three shots, isn't it ridiculous?

Popovich is not without reason, the Hornets can't compare with the Spurs, who are first in the West and second in the league, and in terms of individual performance, Tony Parker's stats are no worse than Paul, who played dead in the regular season.

Well, as long as it's a squad that's chosen, there's always going to be one kind of problem.

People make mistakes, and so is a shrewd Ouyang Haotian, especially after talking to Carlos Rodriguez, an alumnus of Erniu High School who currently works for CAA's athletic department.

In particular, it should be pointed out that Erniu has ended his agent contract with Leon Rose early at this time, and he made an unforgivable mistake on the transfer of James, and the famous "live TV" completely stinked James's reputation, and Ruan Erniu didn't want this kind of thing to happen to him.

And after this conversation with Carlos, Manniu made up his mind to make the captain of his high school basketball team his agent.

After all, Ouyang is the de facto partner of Erniu, and to assume the responsibility of "asset steward", in a longer time dimension, it is necessary to find a transferred Mi broker.

Originally, Ouyang Haotian still had no confidence in the young Carlos, but after this exchange, Ouyang immediately changed his opinion and expressed great affirmation of Carlos' professional ability.

"It's that simple, can it work?" Time went back to a few minutes ago, and Ouyang Haotian began to reflect after hearing Carlos's thoughts.

Ruan Erniu on the side smiled and said to the old captain: "Carlos, how sure are you that the Clippers and even the league can agree to such conditions?"

Carlos Rodriguez smiled and asked, "How do you know it's impossible if you don't try?"

Speaking of this, Ruan Erniu and Ouyang Haotian fell into contemplation at the same time.

Back to the topic, that is the contract renewal issue that has been plaguing Ruan Erniu and his team.

That's right, putting aside the humiliating contract that the Hawks threw out at the end, with the conditions that the Hawks had privately given before, and the sincerity shown by the Clippers, it was a sure thing that Ruan Erniu would get a contract with a maximum salary.

But in the NBA, there's a big difference between a max contract and a max contract.

According to the league's salary cap, the maximum salary is 25% of the salary cap for players aged 0-6 years (Pot 1), 30% of the salary cap for players with 7-9 years of play (Pot 2), and 35% of the salary cap for players who have played in the league for more than 10 years (Pot 3).

In addition, the maximum annual increase in the contract is 7.5%.

There is no doubt that Ruan Erniu, who has just played in the NBA for four years, is in the first gear anyway, that is, the lowest level of the salary cap.

The reason why Erniu and his team hesitate to renew the contract in advance is that on the one hand, they want to see the specific reinforcements of the Eagles in the summer of 11, and on the other hand, it is also considering that labor negotiations are imminent, and after a new round of "sharing the cake" trip, Ruan Erniu's own interests can be maximized.

But Carlos Rodriguez put forward a completely different idea, signing first, but setting a floating clause in the text of the contract, once there is a new salary increase clause in the league, Erniu's contract can be matched according to the actual situation.

It has to be said that even in the NBA, a commercial league, Carlos Rodriguez's idea has never been there.

After all, labor negotiations don't happen every year, and it's also rare for a historical superstar like Ruan Erniu to be in a contract year.

The authorities are confused, but the bystanders are clear, and if they think about the problem from another angle, some problems will naturally be solved.

"So, what we did wrong in Atlanta was that if we had done that in the summer of '10, maybe nothing would have happened. Erniu sighed.

Ouyang Haotian smiled and said: "Kraft, don't rush to make a conclusion, on the one hand, the success rate of Carlos's plan still needs to be verified, on the other hand, if it weren't for those twists and turns, how could you have recognized Tony Ressler's nature in advance?"

"Yes, Steven, you have a point. Erniu nodded, and then turned sideways to Carlos and said, "Carlos, after that, please contact the Clippers and submit our plan to the alliance at the same time!"

As Carlos Rodriguez said, there are some things that you never know if you can succeed without trying.

In fact, everything went far more smoothly than they imagined, the league passed the plan, and the Clippers quickly agreed to the conditions of the Erniu team.

In this way, at the beginning of May, the Los Angeles Clippers and Ruan Erniu reached a contract worth 5 years and 90.3 million meters, starting from the 11-12 season, Erniu's salary for the next five years is: 15.6 million meters, 16.7 million meters, 18 million meters, 19 million meters, and 21 million meters.

Of course, this is only a starting salary calculated at 25% of the salary cap, and if there is a salary increase plan after the labor negotiations, then Ruan Erniu's salary will definitely be increased accordingly, and this variable salary is still the responsibility of the Clippers.

However, it should be pointed out that the proportion of Erniu's salary that occupies the salary cap will not change, because according to Erniu, he has the "bird rights" traded from the Hawks.

What people never expected was that the impact of Ruan Erniu's contract was far from over.

At present, most of the media only saw Erniu's renewal amount at this time, but ignored his floating clause.

In July of the same year, Kevin Durant, who also expired his contract, also completed a maximum salary extension, and the Thunder gave a five-year contract of 85 million yuan, but it should be pointed out again that Durant's contract did not take the initiative to indicate the terms of the contract.

As a result, when the labor negotiations ended, the newly released "Rose Clause" immediately made Durant's team dissatisfied, because according to the "Rose Clause", during the rookie contract, players who have been selected to the All-Star team more than twice, shortlisted for two All-Star or selected as the Most Valuable Player of the regular season can renew their contracts with the team for more than 30% of the team's total salary.

This undoubtedly made Durant's team feel unfair, so they only remembered to revise the contract at this time.

In the end, after negotiations with the league, Durant implemented the "Rose Clause", and the extra part of the salary was paid by the league, but the extra part of the salary space was paid by the Thunder.

Finally, the extra occupancy should be included in the salary space.

The following year, Westbrook was also in a contract year, but the championship-hungry Westbrook eventually abandoned the "Rose Clause" and sacrificed his 14 million meters in the hope of leaving more space to help the team maintain a competitive roster.

To be more specific, the Thunder chose to give Serge Ibaka and James Harden a four-year contract of 49 million yuan, but rejected Harden's four-year contract of 60 million meters, and only gave a four-year contract extension of 55 million meters.

Reason?

That's because Thunder management just doesn't want to pay luxury tax.

This is the truth, the Thunder's slamming of the door is naturally irrefutable, but it is also an indisputable fact that Durant occupies more salary space, in the incident of Harden's departure, the Thunder should be mainly responsible, but Durant, who is bent on getting a big contract, is not a white lotus.

In the future, the propaganda proposal of the rich goose is really good: fame and fortune are not up to others.

This is the truest portrayal of the NBA!

Ruan Erniu didn't have time to think so much during that time, he didn't even have time to care about the upcoming semi-finals of the East and West Division, because he still had an extremely important task to complete, that is, to recruit his own team of assistant coaches!

But before that, Erniu also needs to find a reliable old-timer to help him check the gates, on this day, Ruan Erniu held a golf charity tournament on the beach in Los Angeles, and the person he wanted to find was one of the invited guests that day.