Chapter 1122: Go Clever Plan to Settle the World!
After the Spurs made a three-year, $26 million poison contract to defending champion and No. 16 player of the dynasty team Seattle SuperSonics, Wesley Matthews made a splash.
The Seattle SuperSonics have money and yes, and it can be said that the players of this team are extremely difficult to poach.
With the same conditions, the same contract, no one would choose to leave the Seattle SuperSonics and go to another team.
And this offer from the Spurs to Matthews is undoubtedly a guide for them to learn how to poach people from the Seattle SuperSonics!
The move out of the Arenas clause of the poison contract plays right into the weakness of what is now the Seattle SuperSonic.
Matthews is the No. 16 player of the Seattle SuperSonics, and he has the strength to get an average contract of more than 7 million, but he is absolutely not capable of getting a contract with an annual salary of 16 million!
The Spurs are telling these teams in the NBA, don't be afraid that the supersonic is rich and attractive, you can change your thinking, you covet a certain player of the superSonic, you can open a contract that the SuperSonics cannot match!
Matthews, the undrafted pick, can use the Arenas clause to play a poison contract, giving a contract that the SuperSonics will never match, and the other free agents of the Seattle SuperSonics, you can also offer in the same way!
Therefore, after the Spurs offered this contract to Matthews of the Seattle SuperSonics, it was basically equivalent to a war against the Seattle SuperSonics.
"Popovich really thinks of himself as the biggest opponent for the SuperSonics next season, right?"
"That is, he signed a rondo and inflated him like this? He doesn't really think Rondo is an MVP + FMVP + scoring champion Jordan-type player, right? ”
"It's Alzheimer's, but isn't that just right? Just let the Spurs offend the supersonics, and we'll pick up the ready-made ones in the back! ”
Soon after the Spurs made the move, the Portland Trail Blazers also offered Matthews the same four-year, $31 million contract.
The Seattle SuperSonics have announced that they are waiving the contract to match Matthews.
Matthews eventually announced that he had signed a four-year, $31 million contract with the Portland Trail Blazers.
After Matthews signed with the Portland Trail Blazers, on July 6, 2010, the San Antonio Spurs offered Sessions, another rookie player of the Seattle SuperSonics who had expired on his contract, a four-year, $48 million, starting salary of $11 million, with the last three years of the contract as a team option.
Soon after the Spurs proposed this contract to Sessions, the New Jersey Nets, who had been coveting Sessions, also offered Sessions a four-year, $48 million contract exactly like the Spurs.
When I saw this, many teams and fans who watched the excitement were stunned.
"Vicious Spurs online teaching!"
"The Spurs are teaching teams that want superSonics how to make contracts that the Seattle SuperSonics can't match!"
"Spurs have worked out last year's new collective bargaining agreement!"
"The Seattle SuperSonics can't match Sessions' contract, for the Spurs and the Nets, poaching Sessions, if it is not used well in a year, it can be directly discarded, anyway, there is no cost, Sessions is worth at least 5 million, and it will lose up to 5 million in a year, but the Seattle SuperSonics are different, even if there is a team option, Sessions is the hero of the supersonic dynasty, if you really want to give up this contract in one year, what do you think of other heroes? For the Seattle SuperSonics, it's not an 11 million year, it's a real 4-year, 48 million contract! ”
"Sessions' contribution to the supersonic dynasty may not even rank in the top ten, he has 48 million in 4 years, what do you think of Milicic in 5 years and 60 million in 5 years, and Millsap in 5 years and 55 million?!"
"This contract proposed by the Spurs, the Seattle SuperSonics cannot be matched!"
In fact, on July 6, the Seattle SuperSonics did drop the contract to match Sessions.
In fact, after the Spurs offered him the contract, Sessions knew that he could not stay with the Seattle SuperSonics.
The SuperSonics also offered him a three-year, $20 million contract before the Spurs offered the contract, which was higher than his market expectations.
In the NBA, even now that the annual salary is skyrocketing, it is difficult for a backup point guard to get a contract with an annual salary of 7 million, not to mention that many experts in the league evaluate his current strength as a player with an annual salary of 5 million.
It can be said that the supersonic contract for him is very lucrative.
And he didn't accept it at the first time, and Matthews's idea was the same.
His team accolades are at their peak.
He's only 24 years old, and he hopes to play as a starting point guard in the NBA one day.
He was grateful to Yes for his reversal, but the Spurs' offer was too lucrative, and the Nets' promise was too tempting.
The Nets said that as long as he came to New Jersey, he would be the team's starting point guard, and he would get the ball at the star level.
Although the guarantee of this contract is only 12 million, but New Jersey gives the starters and star-level ball rights, if he can't let the Nets implement the team option in such an environment, then he will be completely insulated from NBA stars, and then he will completely give up becoming a star.
If the SuperSonics are willing, he can also come back next year and get a salary of 5 million to play as a substitute, even if the SuperSonics don't want him, he can go to other teams, and the money may be more, with his experience with the SuperSonics, it is impossible for him to be unemployed in the NBA now.
Therefore, even if this contract is guaranteed for 12 million, what he can earn in the next three years will exceed the lucrative contract of 20 million for 3 years given by SuperSound.
With more money, ball status, and a higher outlook, Sessions really can't turn down such a contract.
On July 6, after the Seattle SuperSonics gave up matching Sessions, the Seattle SuperSonics backup point guard announced that he had signed with the Nets with an annual salary of 48 million for four years.
On the Seattle-to-New York plane, looking at the text messages sent by Yes and his teammates on his phone, Sessions tried to control his emotions, but in the end he couldn't control the ticking......
"Come on, Ramon, believe in yourself, you can fly higher."
When Sessions left Seattle, he didn't notify any of the Seattle SuperSonics players.
Yes and the SuperSonics players know that Sessions is ashamed.
He became a bridgehead for the Spurs to disrupt the internal atmosphere of the Seattle SuperSonics, and at the same time, knowing the Spurs' conspiracy, he still willingly fell into the scheme.
Sessions felt sorry for Yes and the Hypersonics.
For Sessions to feel like this, yes and Nelson Sr. are understandable.
It has nothing to do with Sessions.
Loyalty is important to players in the NBA, but a team must never kidnap a player with loyalty.
Any NBA player is entitled to pursue his own interests, just as any team pursues his own interests.
Yes has never been a moral kidnapper when managing a team, even if he has a player like Durant who has loyalty engraved in his bones, even if he knows that Durant is recognized as one of the most loyal players in NBA history around the world, he will meet Durant's needs based on Durant's strength.
Durant's strength has reached the MVP level, and he will meet Durant's demand for MVP.
Now that Matthews feels like he's at the right time to play as a regular player, Sessions feels it's time for him to challenge himself for NBA star status, and it's only natural that he and his team can't meet that need.
There is nothing wrong with them having such needs, and there are problems with the people who bring out their needs and ambitions.
It can only be said that Popovich's tactics are indeed too poisonous.
"Even though we didn't match these poison contracts that the Spurs came up with, and we didn't break the hierarchy within the team, if Sessions and Matthews were both successful on the outside, even if someone did, it would make a lot of non-important players on our team want to be in the wrong place."
Old Nelson finished earnestly, and Presti and Yes both nodded.
This is where Popovich and the Spurs ploy are the most vicious.
It looks like the Seattle SuperSonics have just lost two insignificant players, Sessions and Matthews.
At the Seattle SuperSonics, both players are considered players at the end of the bench.
But with these two players on the outside, the superSonics players who are higher and stronger than them will have no idea?
The players at the end of the bench like the SuperSonics have succeeded on the outside, and those NBA teams on the outside have no idea about the other players on the Seattle SuperSonics?
Isn't it just gambling?
Teams that lack potential stars but have enough salary space will frantically offer the Seattle SuperSonics this 'model poison contract' for the SuperSonics after their rookie contracts expire.
At that time, no matter how strong Yes's training ability is, can it still compare to the poaching speed of these teams?
The supersonic team has five starting positions!
Unless the players on the team who feel like they are not afraid to compete with Milicic, Millsap, Durant, James Harden, and feel that they want to be stars and can do it in the SuperSonics, who can stop such poaching?
"Popovich is targeting the deepest lineup in our league."
Old Nelson is Popovich's teacher, the most commanding elder in the NBA, Popovich's ass is a promise, and Old Nelson knows what bad things this bad apprentice is going to do.
Presti, on the other hand, was promoted by Buford and is also a descendant of the Spurs. Fly Lu
Both men can be said to know Popovich quite well.
"This time, Popovich really caused us a big problem."
Compared with Nelson Sr. and Presti's worries, Ye Si was also worried on his face, but ......
To the surprise of Nelson Sr. and Presti, Yess had more of an unclear look on his face......
"Does Popovich really feel like the SuperSonics are the Spurs' biggest rival next season?"
Forehead.
Hearing Ye Si say this, the old Nelson and Presti, who were originally worried, all turned into such looks.
Duncan, Rondo, Stephen Jackson......
Although Rondoyes is the fifth player in NBA history to win the scoring title + MVP + FMVP in a single season, he ......
If Rondo is really a single-season scoring champion + MVP + FMVP player like Abdul-Jabbar, Jordan, O'Neal, and Yes, Popovich thinks there is no problem.
Whether it's Abdul-Jabbar + Duncan, O'Neal + Duncan or Jordan + Duncan, Yes + Duncan, it's strong enough.
But Rondo + Duncan......
Both Nelson Sr. and Presti had the loudest symphony on the basketball court ringing in their ears......
Go is a clever plan to be in the west, and the speed of sound is broken!
This is the scene created by Popovich's hand-in-hand online teaching everyone to poach supersonic players.
When Popovich taught everyone how to poach supersonic players with the Arenas clause and how to poach those restricted free agents with drug contracts expiring rookie contracts, the whole league was in chaos!
After Sessions went to the Nets, the next team to suffer was the Grizzlies.
The Pacers offered Kyle Lowry, a player whose rookie contract with the Grizzlies expired, a four-year, 70 million, 2+2 team option with a starting salary of 15 million.
Soon after the Pacers proposed the contract, teams across the league that lacked a point guard but had enough space frantically threw the contract at Lowry.
For players like Gay, Roy, and Aldridge, the parent team can not hesitate to match the contract, or simply extend the contract with a maximum salary of five years.
But for a player like Lowry whose value is not easy to assess, it is the most difficult to do.
On July 8, 2010, the Memphis Grizzlies announced through gritted teeth that they had no way to match Lowry's contract.
On the same day, Lowry announced that he would join the Pacers, a powerhouse in the East, for 4 years and 70 million.
"Starting this year, the free market in the future will really be in chaos!"
Popovich's poisonous scheme disrupted the alliance, but the man who messed up the world did not have the slightest psychological burden.
On July 10, 2010, Popovich held a grand press conference with the team's new team boss, Rondo.
And at this press conference, Popovich announced that he will sign a five-year contract with Rondo with a starting salary of $27 million, and based on the space of $90 million next season, Rondo will get a contract with a starting salary of $27 million and a total salary of $139 million over five years.
"Congratulations to Rajan, who will be the first beneficiary of the 'Yes clause' after the signing of the new collective bargaining agreement last year!"
"He deserves it!"
According to the Yes clause in the new collective bargaining agreement, a player can earn an MVP or FMVP or two All-Star starts or two All-Star starts in the first four years of his rookie career, and the player who triggers this clause can increase his starting salary from 25% to 30% of the salary space.
This clause is named after Yes, but because Yes has not yet renewed his contract with the SuperSonics, Rondo became the first player to use this clause.
Of the rookies in the class of 2006, only Yes, Roy, and Rondo could trigger the Yes clause.
Listening to the audience from all over the United States, and even the local media were scolding him for Alzheimer's and the NBA stupidity, Popovich didn't care, smiled slightly, and everything was under control.
Next season, all the insults will turn into praise, no, not next season, the upcoming World Championships, all the insults will turn into praise for me, worship of Rajan!
In the midst of the scolding, Rondo and Popovich confirmed each other's eyes, which was the taste of love......
Rondo became the first player to earn money on the Yes clause, and also became the highest-paid player in NBA history after his rookie contract.
For a player like Rondo to sign such a contract, the whole world feels like crazy.
This time, even Spurs fans are starting to believe that Popovich is indeed Alzheimer's.
You know, when the whole world was talking about Popovich's Alzheimer's before, Spurs fans firmly believed that their Popozovich was playing dumb.
Nima's, pretending to be stupid is to pit others, what's the matter with pit yourself now?
Give a player like Rondo a five-year, $140 million contract, Nima's, this is not Alzheimer's What is Alzheimer's?!
And at a time when the whole world was crazy about this big contract in Rondo, on the day that Rondo signed this big contract.
The Dallas Mavericks have announced that the team and free agent, Heat former center Tyson Chandler have agreed to a five-year, 70 million contract.
Finally, the whole world knows that Chandler has rejected the Spurs, so the Spurs will choose to sign with Rondo now.
Chandler finally chose the Mavericks to reject the Spurs, which was indeed very disappointing for Popovich.
He drafted the plan for recruiting Chandler.
For recruiting Chandler, Popovich was imperative.
With the top supergiants in history like Rondo and Duncan, such strength, it can almost be said that the entire league is invincible except for the supersounds.
And in order to dispel Chandler's doubts, he also focused on why Bowen and him and the Spurs think that Rondo is a historical supergiant, and how the world misunderstands Rondo, so I hope Chandler will not misunderstand Rondo.
But in the end, Chandler turned down the Spurs.
"Mr. Bobo, don't worry, I don't have any misunderstanding about Rondo, in addition, about what you said about joining the American team, I am very happy to be able to work for the American team, this is my honor and dream, but this year's finals defeat has not calmed me down now, please allow me to refuse, finally, I wish you good luck and a dream come true."
Popovich was rejected by Chandler without a temper at all.
In the end, it can only be attributed to Chandler's ignorance.
However, when Rondo shows his strength in the Spurs and the United States in the future, if you want to join the Spurs, I will see if you are qualified!
Chandler wasn't just here, of course.
Spurs are not just looking for Chandler but also Chris Posh.
Now that the Spurs are renewing Rondo's contract, it means that Bosh, who is now the biggest fish in the free market, should also have rejected the Spurs.
And so it is.
On July 11, 2010, the Rockets announced that they would renew Rose's contract with the YES clause, and for a while the Rockets fans were boiling, and the team kept their 'favorite' Roy!
And on the same day, Yes received a call from Roy.
"I was traded."
Hanging up the phone, Ye Si's face was a little ugly.
opened Twitter and once again retweeted Yao Ming's decision, this time, not only liked, but also written.
"There are teams that never deserve the loyalty of their players."
With Yes's traffic, this tweet shocked the whole world.
"Something big is going to happen!"
The Rockets fans, who were fighting with Warriors fans online recently, were just about to make trouble on Yes's Twitter when they were stunned by the Rockets' official push.
"It's a tough decision, and Roy won't be a Rockets player next season."
The madness of these days, this official tweet makes them look like a bunch of SBs......