As Wang Xiao expected, after more than ten minutes of discussion, the Wizards decided to hire Wang Xiao when the team owner finally made a decision.

The Wizards immediately drew up a contract and signed it.

It's a two-year contract with an annual salary of $3 million.

3 million, which belongs to the middle and lower reaches of the NBA coaches, is not the lowest, but it is definitely not high.

As a coach in his early 30s who does not have any NBA achievements to rely on, Wang Xiao feels very satisfied with being able to get such a salary.

As for the two-year period, I'm afraid the Wizards still don't believe in Wang Xiao and are worried that Wang Xiao will mess up.

The start of the contract is after the end of the 08-09 season, which means that Wang Xiao does not need to lead the team for the rest of the season, but Wang Xiao's trade decision has already been executed on the day the contract is signed.

After signing the contract, Wang Xiao returned to Harvard first.

This season, the Wizards have basically missed the playoffs, and at Wang Xiao's suggestion, the team decided to mess up in order to get a high draft pick, in this case, Wang Xiao is not suitable for exposure to the media, because the team still needs the current head coach to lead the team to lose.

They are ready to wait until the end of this season to fire the current head coach before announcing the news of Wang Xiao's partnership with the Wizards.

So before that, Wang Xiao will also be a coach at Harvard.

Wang Xiao has given the job to Jack before, and Wang Xiao is not ready to take it back, Jack has done a good job these days, fully proving that he is capable of leading the Harvard varsity team.

As for Wang Xiao, who is free, in addition to guiding the team in the general direction, the main focus is on studying the Wizards' roster.

Honestly, the current situation of the Wizards...... Not particularly idealistic.

The salary cap for the '08-09 season is $58.68 million, while the luxury tax trigger is $71.15 million.

As a team that has reached the Eastern Conference playoffs for four consecutive years, the Wizards can be regarded as a luxury team in terms of team lineup.

Arenas signed a six-year, $110 million contract extension with the team in the summer of '08 and is now in the first year of his contract with an annual salary of $14.65 million.

Arenas was followed by All-Star power forward Antoine. Jamison, his salary is 9.92 million.

Caron. Butler 9.25 million, Etang. Thomas 6.86 million, Mike. James 6.24 million, Brandon. Heywood 5.5 million.

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The combined salary of the entire team has reached $70.73 million, which is one step away from the bottom line of the luxury tax.

Arenas, Jamison and Butler are all valuable contracts, as all three have performed well in both seasons.

But Itang. Thomas and Mike. James's contract is a typical garbage contract, these two players Wang Xiao are not even impressed, looking at the performance of the previous season, it is just a dead run with no highlights, and there is no trade value at all.

After studying for several days, Wang Xiao reluctantly found that the real attractive chips of the Wizards are none other than Arenas, Jamison, Butler and Haywood.

Arenas is definitely leaving, Wang Xiao can't stand the gundoor incident, especially Wang Xiao's temper is not particularly good, when he encounters a thorn like Arenas, what if he annoys the other party, what if someone shoots himself?

He didn't want to die before he could get out of school.

Although Arenas has not played much for two consecutive seasons due to the reimbursement of the surgical season, the famous general still has a trade value, and the 26-year-old is in the prime of the player's prime and has just signed a big contract.

Wang Xiao feels that if Arenas is put on the shelf, even if one or two fillers are added, there should be many teams interested.

What Wang Xiao wants most is undoubtedly the draft pick in the first place in 09.

The '09 draft is the best one in the next few years.

Stephen. Curry, James. Harden, and DeMar. DeRozan.

Wang Xiao now has only one possible future draft pick in his hand, which is completely insufficient in his opinion.

Children make choices, and I want them all!

Wang Xiao's goal is to rob Curry and Harden to the Wizards!

Theoretically, this is absolutely possible!

Whether it is Curry or Harden, the style belongs to the dual-energy position, the former when he first joined the Warriors, and Monta. Ellis partnered, and the latter played directly on the bench for three years with the Thunder, and there will definitely be no conflict between the styles of the two.

What is the biggest advantage of the traverser? It's a prophet!

Now that it is known that these two people will be Hall of Fame-level superstars in the future, how can Wang Xiao let it go?

As for DeRozan, it's like a spare tire choice.

Although this is also an All-Star level player, he can also average 27 points per game at his peak, but it is much worse than Curry and Harden.

If you don't get both Curry and Harden as planned, then grabbing a DeRozan halfway through is also an acceptable option.

When Wang Xiao was studying the team list, the outside world had not received any information, and everything was going on as always.

Harvard continued to run high in the league, winning by an average of 24 points per game while never allowing an opponent to score more than 70 points against their defense.

Harvard's winning streak was matched by a series of heavy defeats by NBA team Washington Wizards.

The team, which has made the playoffs for four years in a row, has lost its spirit after Arenas, the centerpiece of the team this year, has lost its spirit, and although the team's other two stars, Jamison and Butler, contributed 22.2 points, 8.9 rebounds and 20.8 points and 6 rebounds, respectively, but it was still difficult to prevent the team from failing.

Many media believe that in this case, the coach of the Wizards should be in a position and is about to step down, after all, his last term was fired after 10 losses in the opening 11 games of the season.

But the Wizards surprisingly didn't make any moves.

Instead of firing the team's head coach, there was no big move before the trade deadline, just an attempt to put a few players with garbage contracts on the shelf in an attempt to get rid of the baggage.

"The Washington Wizards have obviously had a terrible season, they have lost their direction completely after losing the core of the team, Gilbert, and the Eastern Conference powerhouse has had a very poor season, but ...... There will always be a rainbow after the storm, and I believe that with the return of Arenas from injury next season, the Wizards, who maintain their current lineup, will definitely return to the ranks of the playoff powerhouses!

This is ESPN's assessment of the Wizards' lack of action at the trade deadline.

At this time, no one would have thought that in a few months, this strong team, which in the eyes of many people has a complete lineup, will be torn apart by a ghost coach......