After the interview, Wang Xiao officially submitted an application for resignation to the Basketball Association, and the leaders of the Basketball Association decisively released him after some fruitless retention.

In fact, there are not many people in the Basketball Association who want Wang Xiao to continue coaching, although he led the team to win unprecedented results, but Wang Xiao's power is too great, the entire national team is almost his word, and the player's stay is a matter of his word.

No leader would be happy to see such a coach stay with the national team all the time.

Strictly speaking, these are no longer problems in the field of basketball, Wang Xiao has no ability and is too lazy to care, this kind of problem is left to Da Yao, who will be the chairman of the Basketball Association in the future, to have a headache.

Wang Xiao, who had finished all this, was finally able to go home to rest for a while, but his rest time was only about two weeks.

As soon as the two-week period was up, he took a non-stop flight to Milwaukee in the United States.

The NBA preseason starts in early October, and as the head coach of the team, it is inevitable to return to the team two weeks early to arrange various tasks for the new season, in fact, two weeks in advance is a bit late.

This year's Bucks don't really have much to worry about.

The team currently has a complete lineup and strong strength, as long as the ball is distributed well in the new season to ensure that the players are not troubled by injuries, there is basically no problem in defending the title.

Last season, Durant's initiative to defect completely disrupted Wang Xiao's idea of building a team, and directly ushered in the finale of the league, which he never expected.

Of course, having said that, there is still some work that needs to be done.

First of all, the Bucks want to keep Durant, whose contract expires, last season the team led the team to win the championship under the leadership of Durant, and was elected MVP of the Finals.

It's not a small number, but the Bucks currently only have Klay. Thompson has a big contract on him, and Durant's contract extension is more than enough unless the other party himself is unwilling to stay with the Bucks, but that's out of the question.

Durant, who just won a championship and an FMVP trophy, is in a honeymoon period with the Bucks, and as long as the money is in place, the contract extension can be completed in minutes.

After the NBA's new televised contracts went into effect, the salary cap began to skyrocket, and many sky-high contracts were born in July of this year, the most famous of which was the Grizzlies and point guard Mike in early July. Conley signed a five-year, $153 million contract with a maximum salary.

The contract broke league records and became the largest contract in NBA history.

However, it didn't take long for this record to be broken by other players one after another and continue to be broken.

In July '17, Curry signed a new five-year, $201 million contract with the Warriors.

In the same month, Harden reached an early contract extension agreement with a certain team, and the deadline for the new contract was extended to 2023, with a total of 6 years and 228 million for the new and old contracts.

September 17 Russell. Westbrook reached a contract extension agreement with the Thunder, leaving him with the Thunder for five years and $205 million.

By that time, Conley's 5-year 153 million was already a relatively cheap contract.

For the Bucks, the skyrocketing salary cap is a boon.

First of all, the skyrocketing salary cap gives the team the capital to keep more good players at the same time, and will not be forced to let go of too many strong players like the Wizards.

Like Brother Alphabet, whose contract expires next year, the team can stay with the top salary without frowning, as for the rookie contract that expires later, Jokic and Embiid, who will not renew until 18 years, it is a bit difficult, after all, these players can only be retained with the highest salary, if all five people stay, then the salary of these five people alone will exceed 100 million.

Wang Xiao will not consider the contract extension of Jokic and Embiid, that was in the summer of 2018, before that this roster can play in the NBA for two years, enough to lift two more championship trophies and build a Bucks dynasty.

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In addition to Durant's contract extension issue, the Bucks role players also need to be added, after the 15-16 season, the Bucks team has only 7 players left with contracts, including the extension of Durant, there are only 8 players.

The eight are: defender Clay. Thompson, Kyle. Korver.

Forward Kevin Durant, Giannis. Antetokounmpo, Larry. Saunders, center Joel. Embiid, Nikola. Jokic, Zaza. Pachuria.

In the next half month, Wang Xiao must complete the Bucks' lineup and put together a roster of at least 12 people.

For Wang Xiao, this is not difficult.

It can be difficult to find some suitable starters with quality players, but it is not easy to find some role players who can be on the bench and in garbage time.

Wang Xiao now has several suitable candidates.

The first person he asked his assistant to help with was a former member of the Wizards, center Javier. Mcgee.

Of the centers that came out of the Wizards, McGee was the worst of the worst.

At the beginning, McGee got an annual salary of 10 million like Jordan Jr. and Whiteside, but although McGee's talent is not inferior to Jordan Jr. and Whiteside, because of attention deficit syndrome, it is difficult for him to concentrate for a long time on the court, and he will always make some very mentally retarded behaviors that are incomprehensible to ordinary people, which makes McGee have not grown much over the years.

To add insult to injury, McGee's bounce and outburst were also affected, which directly led to him being laid off by the team.

McGee is now a full free agent and is looking for a home everywhere.

It doesn't cost much to sign McGee, a base salary is enough.

Although the Bucks are not short of interior lines right now, considering Embiid's glass physique, it will certainly not be a disadvantage to stock up on some more instant power centers.

What's more, Hao Peng will be in the NBA this season, and the Lakers with Hao Peng and Butler will rise, and if they catch another big fish in the free market, they may immediately become a strong force in the Western Conference.

In case the Bucks really meet the Lakers in the Finals, Jokic's defensive level can only be regarded as ordinary, and it is okay to deal with ordinary centers, but when he meets Hao Peng, he will be 100% blown up.

Sign McGee in case of emergency, even if he can't stop Hao Peng, he can still help share some firepower a little.

Wang Xiao's second contact was Fred. VanVleet, who later became known as the Raptors guard of Van Jordan.

VanVleet was a rookie this year, and like Hao Peng, he participated in the draft, but he was not selected.

Historically, he would have represented the Raptors in this summer's Summer League, and then signed a two-year contract with the Raptors for his outstanding performance in the Summer League.

It's a pity that there is Wang Xiao in this time and space.

When Wang Xiao led the Chinese men's basketball team to the Olympics, he had already instructed the assistant coach of the Bucks to participate in the summer league and recruited VanVleet to the team.

As a result, the undrafted rookie became a member of the Bucks' summer league team, and successfully received a contract extension from the Bucks after the summer league.

Because Wang Xiao was still in Rio de Janeiro at the time, the Bucks did not sign VanVleet's contract immediately, but waited for Wang Xiao to come back and deal with it personally.