In this day and age, reputation matters.

Other people can't do it, especially the onlookers, who think they will never do it, but in theory, it's a positive thing, and the prestige boost is huge.

For example, being loyal to a team or a city.

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Even fans who have been refuting the "loyalty theory" for their favorite stars before are difficult to resist too much of a star who is truly loyal to the team and the fans.

When the details of Sun Ce's contract were exposed, even the people who wanted to watch the show, the pure overlord black, couldn't spray from the perspective of "waiting for Sun Ce to slap himself in the face", and could only sour "one day I will regret it and suffer by myself".

This time, Sun Ce's operation, in addition to being "stupid", completely stood on the "moral high ground".

But he previously said this in the live broadcast decision:

"I know my characteristics as a player, my personality, I don't feel superior or compared to anyone, everyone has their own opinions."

This makes it impossible for those black fans who want to provoke the relationship between him and James to start.

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"Noah, you have made this decision...... Oh my God, we look like we're going to make a fortune! Bill Duffy looked at the news that the remake of Sun Ce's endorsement was out of stock, he didn't think about it before, at that time he just didn't approve of Sun Ce's long stay with the Grizzlies, and wanted him to sign a 4-year contract or a 5-year contract, and then he could become a complete free agent.

After all, it's hard to say that the championship is a thing, and it is possible that you can't really win the championship for ten or eight years, as good as Garnett, who won the championship in the 13th year after 12 years of playing.

But because he admired Sun Ce's 'character' in this regard, he did not listen to the team's request and tried his best to stop it, but respected Sun Ce's decision.

But after the dust settled, Bill Duffy noticed the huge increase in business value brought by Sun Ce's operation!

In just one day, there were long queues in most of the stores and online flagship stores of Econes all over the United States, as long as it was the sneakers endorsed by Sun Ce, and many cities were out of stock.

This wave of passers-by fandom, Bill Duffy really didn't expect it.

In addition, Sun Ce's sneaker endorsement has entered the last year, and other sneaker brands can make an offer to Sun Ce, and Sun Ce can sign a new brand or renew the contract at the end of this season, and the two years are linked...... Bill Duffy feels that his business is really not as good as Sun Ce's operation.

There is also the sentence that Sun Ce said:

"Wherever I am, there's the best basketball market."

Bill Duffy feels that Sun Ce is going for a new sneaker endorsement contract, although for most NBA players, the NBA's salary is the bulk of the income, but for Sun Ce, the commercial value is more important than the team contract.

But...... Sun Ce smiled a little embarrassed......

Sun Ce himself didn't think about this aspect at all, who knew that the current situation was caused by mistake.

He just wanted to pretend to be a force, but he didn't expect it to come to this point.

He tested the free market just to see what the free market was like and satisfy his curiosity.

Staying is definitely going to stay, it's a matter of time.

And he has to win the championship before leaving, otherwise the "Road of the Bear King" event will be broken! The overall completion of this S-rank series of events is much better than that of "Attack on the Overlord", and it is possible that you will eventually get the S-class reward.

That's an S-Rank bonus!

Jordan card let's not talk about it, the S-level event of "Road of the Bear King", if you don't complete it, you will lose an S-level reward, which is an event that you may not be able to complete once in a season, for example, you can't complete it last season, and you only get an A+ level reward.

If you have speed, there is also a physical fitness that can reach the S level......

Or get an S-class piece of equipment? Or is it some other reward? Sun Ce was unwilling to give up.

The event will not be easier to complete because he becomes stronger, which he already knows very well, the difficulty of the event is linked to his own strength, how difficult it is to complete a C-level event when he is C-level ability evaluation, and when he completes C-level event when he reaches B-level ability evaluation, it will also increase in equal proportion, and now that he has reached A-level, he estimates that the difficulty of completing the event will also increase.

Therefore, the S-class event is expected to be completed with the final score of the S-class, and he will definitely not give up.

And he didn't want to leave the team now, he really wanted to win the championship with this group of teammates.

Another point is that he understands that he is a "system player", leaving the Grizzlies who are now on the rise, changing teams, even if a new team builds around him, it is not something that can be completed in a year or two.

The current Grizzlies roster and new players are the talent that the Grizzlies have accumulated year after year since the '06 draft to cash in strength or trade back.

It would be stupid not to take advantage of the strength of the team to work hard to win the championship, whether he can win the championship or not, he is not willing to miss the best time of the Grizzlies, even if he fails in the end, he does not want to leave regrets.

Playing basketball, how can there be so much to say, it is just to work together to win with a group of teammates who can or can't get along with each other with a common pursuit.

"Noah, which sponsors are you going to approach next? I think all sneaker brands will reach out to you. Bill Duffy asked.

"Let's talk about it then, isn't there another year? If you have other brands contact you, you can talk about it first, and we will make a decision after this season. ”

Sun Ce wants to be an ethical spokesperson, and it is better to avoid contact with other brands until the end of the contract.

Now that the character has been established, it has to be well maintained, it is already negotiated, and the contract with the cone expires, and the cone also has the right to match the contract, unless other brands give the contract that the cone can't give.

Sun Ce's decision Bill Duffy agreed, and there is still more than half a year to operate slowly, so there is no need to rush it.

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On December 9, the Grizzlies' 14 contracted players were assembled.

Sun Ce came to the stadium early, got the team's latest list, and checked on the Internet, he currently holds a contract of 18.117 million US dollars; Randolph has a salary cut of almost 3 million US dollars and renews his contract with a starting salary of 14.72 million US dollars, with a total of 48.5 million US dollars in 3 years; Gasol Jr. renews his contract with a starting salary of 12.92 million US dollars at about 20% of the salary cap, with a total of 57.5 million US dollars for 4 years; Nash has a contract of 10.89 million US dollars, and there is a player option next season.

The Grizzlies currently have 4 players with an annual salary of several times that of tens of millions, among which Sun Ce and Gasol Jr. are new cap renewals, but these four people, the salary has reached more than 56.64 million US dollars, counting Jordan Jr.'s two-year 16 million US dollars An average of 8 million US dollars per year is renewed, which has exceeded the salary cap.

Plus Battier 3 million, Yi Jianlian 4 million, Tony Allen 3.15 million, Paul George 3.29 million, Wazquith 1.11 million, Jimmy Butler 1.07 million, Thompson 2.8 million, Neil 760,000, Speights 2.7 million......

The total salary reached 85.55 million US dollars.

Last season, Sun Ce, Jordan Jr., Gasol Jr., Yi Jianlian, and Conley were all still rookie contracts, and now although Yi Jianlian reduced his contract by 50,000 US dollars to renew, and Randolph also reduced his contract by nearly 3 million US dollars, Sun Ce, Jordan Jr., and Gasol Jr. increased their salaries by a total of more than 30 million, plus Conley's rookie contract in the last year became Nash's annual salary of 10 million US dollars, and other teams have more or less increased salaries, and the Grizzlies have also exceeded the luxury tax threshold of 12 million US dollars.

So, Sun Ce understood the need to trade Guy and just sent it to the Spurs...... It's all about the team's "culture", the reluctance to live up to the former stars who contributed to the team.

This matter has been turned over here by Sun Ce, he just wants to see the salary situation of the team.

Thanks to Randolph's early contract extension, and it was a salary cut and early contract extension, freeing up 3 million US dollars of space, plus Conley and Guy sent away together in exchange for Nash, almost 10 million US dollars of space was freed up, so that there was still room to sign back Speights when he signed Thompson and Jimmy Butler in advance.

Speights ...... Sun Ce and Speights have met in the past two days, a very passionate and enthusiastic player, and it seems that he can talk to anyone, and he doesn't seem to be very consistent with his appearance like Tyson.

In terms of strength, C+-level Speights can't be compared with B-level Yi Jianlian and Little Jordan, the team's No. 5 inside, but Sun Ce probably guessed the team's idea of signing back Speights.

This guy is a good teammate who can talk to his own players, but that look, if he is sent with Randolph, will scare the person to death.

At present, the team also has a mini-middle class exception, which is stipulated in the new collective bargaining agreement, and the team whose total salary exceeds the luxury tax threshold will lose the league's average salary after exceeding the salary cap in that year, and can only sign a player at the mini-middle class exception of 5% of the salary cap.

The team still has a position to sign players, and there is no rush for the time being, Sun Ce feels that his team has nothing to do with sending Guy to the Spurs...... Sun Ce still doesn't understand why the team would let Conley go to the Mavericks, let the Mavericks complete the switch at the point guard position and it doesn't seem that there will be much loss of strength.

But why the trade, Sun Ce didn't want to care, he just had a headache that the Mavericks didn't collapse and sent Chandler away.

Originally, in time and space, because Kidd could predictably lose momentum after winning the championship, Cuban directly dismantled the championship lineup, but now with Conley, who has a steady playing style, Cuban chose to renew the contract with Chandler for 3 years and 42 million US dollars, retaining the core combination of Three Towers, Marion, and Jason Terry, and using Conley to remove the hidden danger of Kidd......

Even if Nowitzki doesn't have the scary performance of last season's playoffs, he will still be among the top teams in the West.

The Lakers will not say that it will collapse completely, as far as Sun Ce knows, even if the Lakers use Mike Brown as the head coach, they also caused a trade storm between Odom and Gasol, and finally sent away the team's best bench, made Gasol's mentality unbalanced, and also entered the playoffs with the third place in the West.

Now that Paul is seriously injured, he will not be able to return until January next year, not to mention, people are in New York, will the Lakers still trade?

As for trading Howard, it was a four-way deal, and now that the 76ers are in such good shape, they don't need to send away any of the three outside lines to get Bynum for the Lakers......

Sun Ce was curious about the next development.

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By the time it was nearly 9 o'clock in the morning, the teammates had arrived one after another.

Watching Randolph and Speight, two round players, compete in muscles, Sun Ce wanted to complain.

However, Randolph's current body shape is already the best Sun Ce has ever seen.

Thanks to Battier not being invited by James to the Heat!

Because Battier was there, Randolph was called back by the big brother of the same year to lose weight early, and did not start the shrinkage season with a weight of more than 135 kilograms as in the original time and space.

Sun Ce remembers that season Randolph averaged 17 points and 13.9 rebounds per game at the beginning of the game because of weight problems, but after playing ten games, he suffered a torn cruciate ligament injury and was out for several months, and only returned at the end of the season, which had a huge impact on the strength of the Grizzlies, and then there was a nightmare of being reversed by the Clippers when he led by 27 points in the first three quarters of the first round.

The Grizzlies lost 3-4 in that series, and the main reason was related to the first loss, and not only the loss of one, but also the psychological shadow of the subsequent games.

"Zach Randolph, 30 years old, height 206 cm, weight 121 kg, ability evaluation S......"

Sun Ce is also the first time to see Randolph who has an S-level evaluation at the beginning of the season.

"Steve Nash, Aptitude A+; Mark Gasol, Competency Assessment A; Sun Ce, Ability Evaluation A-; Paul George, Competency Assessment B+; Klay Thompson, Competency Evaluation B; DeAndre Jordan, Ability Evaluation B; Yi Jianlian, Competency Evaluation B; Sean Battier, Ability Assessment B-; Grevis-Vazquis, Ability Evaluation B-; Gary Neal, Competency Assessment B-; Tony Allen, Ability Assessment B-; Maris Speights, Competency Assessment C+; Jimmy Butler, Competency Evaluation D+. ”

Sun Ce looked at the ability evaluation of his teammates, four at least A-level, and one superstar-level Randolph, the core lineup is very good.

There are a total of eight B-level players in the mainstay category.

Paul George already has the starting strength, this speed of progress, Sun Ce looked at it, but as everyone knows, Paul George is even more optimistic about his progress.

Wazquez has also moved up from D+ to B- in his rookie year, but he's a playmaker.

Thompson, Yi Jianlian, Jordan Jr., and Neal are four scoring players, if they go to a bad team, such as the Warriors, they have the strength to average double-doubles per game.

Battier and Tony are defensive players who have a hard time scoring double-doubles, Battier also has corner threes and passes, and Tony Allen, an S-rated defensive ...... Relying on defense to pull up the overall ability evaluation.

To have stars, the team has stars, to have substitutes to have substitutes, and the structure is good, with a four-tower rotation on the inside, and there is a lot of improvement on the outside with Nash, Paul George and Wazquis, and two new pitchers from Thompson and Neil to fill the pitcher vacancy after Morrow's departure.

Plus your own progress...... Sun Ce is looking forward to the next shrinking season!

It's just that......

At 9 o'clock in the morning, when the coaching staff had the first meeting of the new season with 14 players, Sun Ce found that the tactical framework planned by the coaching staff according to the existing lineup was not quite what he thought!

He is going to play the main shooting guard this season, and the coaching staff has arranged for him, except for the rotation, the starting lineup is composed of Nash, his grandson, Paul George, Randolph, and Gasol Jr.

The starting tactic was positional play, with Son Ce and Randolph single-handedly splitting the ball, Gasol Jr. responding, Nash and Paul George catching and shooting, this is a certainty.

The starters can't run with Nash, and Randolph in the Bears will also turn 30 in the summer, and his playing time will definitely be limited strictly to last season's experience.

During the rotation of the lineup, Nash ran with Thompson or Neal, Paul George, and the two emperors, which was also a normal arrangement.

But in the rotation phase between the starting lineup and the run-and-gun lineup, the second point guard is not Vazquis! It's a two-way Weeill!

The role of Vazques is still very marginal! Only when Nash is rested, Vazquez can become the starting point guard, but if Nash is not rested, Vazquez has to wear a suit!

Speights has to wear suits in many games, Sun Ce understands, but a young player like Wazques who has B-level strength in the second year and is improving quickly, this is beyond Sun Ce's expectations, not only the ability evaluation he saw that Vazques can already appear as a substitute, but also in the team's physical and technical tests yesterday, Vazques is also quite good.

In the tactical meeting, Sun Ce did not influence the coaching staff to explain the tactical framework, which was the general direction of the team at the beginning of the season, and it must have been the result of careful analysis and discussion by the coaching staff.

The next training camp, pre-season ...... It's all too short, and it may even be the rest of December, the Grizzlies are in the run-in period, so it's important to determine the direction, whether it's right or wrong, to strictly enforce it, try hard, succeed if you succeed, and fail to fail very simply, and you can make adjustments quickly.

And if there are players who question it, the direction of the run-in period is not clear, and the coaching staff wants to change and still have expectations for the original idea, it may not be able to complete the run-in for a long time, and it may even be that a season is wasted like this, there are many such precedents in the history of the NBA, and there are many examples of the lineup looking strong but not making the playoffs.

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After the two-and-a-half-hour team meeting, it was lunchtime for Sun Ce to go to Coach Hollins' office and ask about what he had to do with Vazquis.

You can't talk about it when your teammates are there, for fear of affecting your teammates' mentality and causing your teammates to be not firm enough in training and games, but it's okay to ask the coach.

Coach Hollins explained: "Graves is very good, but we have you, Steve, Gary, Paul four outside ball-holders, which is already abundant, and we need a player who can usually not play, but when he is on the court, he can rely on experience to top the top." ”

With that, Sun Ce understood that they needed a player like Jason Williams, but Jason Williams announced his retirement when he saw the shutdown and went to the Mavericks as a trainer......

So Vazquiz wasn't in the team's plans! It's just that there is no free market, so there is no trade.

And Vazquis, who only played 26 games last season and averaged 3 points and 2 assists per game, has too little trade value, so he needs to be given the occasional starting opportunity this season to show his strength before trading.

While it's unfair to Wazquis, who is no worse than Neil and younger and more talented, there are times when older is a plus, and Neil, who is already 27, is more mature and is the substitute the team needs.

However, if Vazquez can seize the occasional starting opportunity and let some teams that need young potential point guards look at him, he will be better than in the Grizzlies, no matter how good his talent is, he will be a starter, but he is better than Neil's talent, not even Conley, and it is impossible to compete with Sun Ce or Nash.

This is Vazquis' chance, and whether he can catch it or not is his own business.

After Sun Ce understood, he chatted with Coach Hollins about the recent interesting incident, the Lakers tried to trade Howard with the Magic, but the Magic refused; After the Arenas clause came out, the first person to be pardoned was not Arenas but Elton Brand of the 76ers, and the second pardoned Arenas was ridiculed by fans after being pardoned and then made into a roll of paper with a knife to counter-taunt......

After chatting for half an hour, Sun Ce came to the restaurant, and it was time for lunch.

As soon as Sun Ce entered the restaurant, he saw two rookies sitting together chatting......

Looking at the hairstyles of the two, the two exploding heads...... Sun Ce felt so bad! Sun Ce walked up and put his hands on the shoulders of the two, his head sticking out from the middle of the two heads, and said in the stunned expressions of the two: "After eating, come with me, Otterspeth and Teacher Tony are very unhappy to see you!" ”

Not to mention the reaction of the two rookies, Yi Jianlian and Tony Allen, who just walked into the restaurant, were full of question marks, where were they unhappy? What is this bastard going to do again?