At two o'clock in the afternoon, a new version of the collective bargaining agreement was reached, and representatives of the players' union and league officials announced that the NBA was about to resume operations.

A new collective bargaining agreement was announced, including a split rate, a new contract system, and ......

The salary cap, luxury tax line, and so on were announced on the NBA's official website at the same time, and it is clear that the NBA officials have been waiting for a collective bargaining agreement to be reached.

Bill Duffy, who was taking Yao Ming to give a speech in San Francisco, immediately took a charter flight to Memphis with his team for 22,000 US dollars, and he didn't want to delay for a second.

Before receiving an email from Fisher, the players' union, as soon as the news of the NBA's shutdown came out, Sun Ce received a text message from Bill Duffy, waiting for Bill Duffy to bring someone over.

At half past five, Bill Duffy arrived at Sun Ce's house, and Sun Ce had a final discussion with the brokerage team.

Before getting on the plane, Bill Duffy and his team had already obtained the details of the new version of the collective bargaining agreement, salary caps, and other details of their work in the new season, and they had already held a meeting on the plane to study and calculate the new terms that Sun Ce could use and the maximum salary he could get.

The terms of the rookie contract extension have changed significantly in this collective bargaining session.

Two of the changes are directly related to the Grizzlies.

The first one is directly related to Sun Ce - the 2011 version of the rookie player's contract renewal clause.

The salary of first-round rookies, which was born in 1995 and is strictly tied to the salary cap, has not changed, and the rule that second-round rookies can freely agree on salaries for up to four years if the team has salary space has not changed.

There has been no change in the matching rights of the parent team, and the parent team has the absolute matching rights for the first-round rookie and the second-round pick with a rookie contract of at least three years, and the original Arenas clause has not changed.

But on top of that, the terms of the extension after the rookie contract expires have changed.

The model for regular rookie contract extensions remains the same, but very good young players have incentive clauses when their rookie contracts expire.

And the second-round pick, which only signed a two-year rookie contract, has a supplemental clause.

Sun Ce looked at the new version of the second-round rookie contract extension clause that Bill Duffy transcribed in layman's language, and this look ...... Isn't it the original second-round version of the Ross Terms? And it's almost impossible to trigger that.

The specific content of the supplementary clause of the second-round draft renewal clause, Sun Ce looked at the approximately: if the second-round draft only signs a two-year rookie contract, and is selected as an All-Star starter or best team, MVP, and best defensive player at least once in the rookie contract, if the rookie contract is renewed with the parent team, he will get 1 year of virtual playing age, and the incentive clause can be triggered.

The player can also give up the virtual age and accept the offer of other teams, if he chooses to sign first and then exchange, the player also needs to voluntarily give up the virtual age, once the virtual age is voluntarily waived, it will no longer be available, and the parent team will continue to retain the right of first refusal, but the contract needs to be renewed under the Arenas clause.

A second-round rookie who signs a contract of at least three years is subject to the same conditions as a first-round rookie, as is the requirement to trigger an incentive clause.

Throughout the history of the NBA, no one can do it except him to trigger it, and no one can trigger it in the next ten years as far as he knows.

But that's obviously a good thing for him!

And in addition to having 1 year of virtual age at the time of contract renewal, he can renew his contract like a player who has played for three years with bird rights, and he can also trigger the incentive clause!

The content of the incentive clause: In the rookie contract, at least two All-Star starters or best teams, or won the regular season MVP, and there is no change of team in the rookie contract, after the rookie contract is executed, the contract can be renewed with a starting salary of 30% of the NBA salary cap, and if the contract has been renewed early, a salary increase can also be agreed.

This is a clause specifically for second-round picks who sign two-year contracts, because second-round picks on three-year contracts directly have bird rights.

Sun Ce feels that this incentive clause may be triggered by him, Sun, Rose, Evans, Durant, and Griffin, and the others are unlikely.

He's already ready to trigger the clause that's exclusive to him, and he's currently a one-year virtual player, won the MVP last season, and was named an All-Star starter for two years in a row.

Rose was selected as an All-Star starter last season and is gaining popularity, and there is no problem with being selected as an All-Star starter in the final year of his rookie contract.

Griffin still has two years left on his rookie contract, and with his popularity, there is a high probability that he will be selected as an All-Star starter next.

Evans is likely to be triggered by the best team, and in the next two years, Evans will most likely be selected to the best team in the 76ers.

Durant has been selected twice in the 09-10 season and the 10-11 season, although he has been extended early in the 09-10 season, but he can agree with the Thunder for a salary increase.

Another clause Sun Ce looks very interesting, and it has to do with Jason Williams, who has announced his retirement after the shutdown.

Because last season the Grizzlies bought the Magic's second-round pick with cash, and then traded that second-round pick to get Jason Williams, this brain-opening operation can be regarded as a loophole in the NBA rules.

It's not a big deal, but it's not a small thing, and the NBA's trading system doesn't allow players to be bought or sold for cash.

As a result, new provisions have been added to the official rules of the NBA, specifically prohibiting the purchase of draft picks with cash after the end of the previous year's draft and before the trade deadline of the new season.

This clause is not very practical, for example, last season a team only had 2.2 million dollars in cash to use in the transaction,

But in order to plug this loophole, the NBA still gave restrictions to avoid some special circumstances

It's the same as when Big Z was traded to another team and didn't report it, and finally returned to the Cavaliers to sign a new contract, and the NBA gave restrictions.

The other changes had little impact on Sun Ce, who was more concerned about his salary.

Sun Ce looked at the salary cap, more than 60.39 million US dollars.

When a new collective bargaining agreement was reached, the share was eventually reduced to a maximum of 53 percent, and a flexible share of 47 to 53 percent.

Why didn't Bill Duffy, a veteran agent with more than 20 active players under his staff, get the news of the collective bargaining agreement in advance?

Because the collective bargaining agreement was passed very suddenly! Basically, the players' executives will compromise, which is why Fisher will send an apology email to all players registered with the players' union.

Nearly 70 of the players who played in the NBA last season left the NBA to play overseas, including Wilson Chandler, the Nuggets' best sixth man favorite, who is a big spender and has paid his salary in advance almost every season and joined the CBA early.

Even Kobe Bryant and Sun Ce both received offers from the CBA, and the local sponsors of some teams wanted to give Kobe Bryant 20 million US dollars and Sun Ce's salary of 18 million US dollars.

Under such pressure, the bigwigs of the players' union can't bear it, they are not short of money, but they are about to catch fire behind them, so they can only agree.

It seems that the 53 percent share is only four percentage points lower than the previous 57 percent, but through Bill Duffy's analysis, Sun Ce understands what this means, that is, if there are really many bosses who pick the door, all players can only get at least 47 percent of the NBA's total annual income.

And the maximum can only be 53%, and the player's custody salary has also been increased from the previous 10% to 20%, and the excess will be deducted from all the player's custody salary in proportion to the remaining salary.

In other words, in the end, it was the bosses who won.

However, there is good news for players who already have contracts, that is, the previous contract will remain the same, and the salary of the original contract will not be reduced proportionally due to the reduction of the share ratio.

It's just a salary cap of more than 60 million...... is a little different from Sun Ce's impression, he remembers that the NBA salary cap broke 60 million in 2014, three years ahead of schedule, and it was said by some unreliable media to be an epoch-making year at that time, but the salary cap was more than 90 million two years later.

The salary cap is almost a million higher than the estimated 59 million, which is certainly a good thing for Sun Ce, making up for the loss of the lower salary increase in the new version of the collective bargaining agreement.

In the previous collective bargaining agreement, the annual salary increase of players without bird rights could reach 10%, and the annual salary increase of players with bird rights could reach 12%, but now the maximum salary without bird rights is 8%, and the maximum salary of bird rights is 10%, if calculated according to the starting salary of 20 million, from the second year, the salary will be reduced by at least 400,000 US dollars per year.

Sun Ce discussed with Bill Duffy and Bill Duffy's lawyers, finance, etc. for half an hour, and at 6 o'clock in the evening, as soon as the NBA officially resumed operations, the mobile phone rang.

Sun Ce took out his mobile phone, and the team owner called, and saw that the time was 18:00:03, that is, the team owner Robert Pera was ready to make a call, and he pressed the dial button as soon as it was six o'clock.

Sun Ce answered the phone and made an appointment to see you at the FedEx Arena in 1 hour.

Bill Duffy also received a call, it was from the team's general manager, Chris Wallace, at the same time as Sun Ce.

Finally, after a brief discussion on how to negotiate, Sun Ce's domestic agent, He Zhengkai, the lawyer he brought with him, and Bill Duffy's finance and lawyer were all making preparations.

Bill Duffy asked Sun Ce, "Noah, do we really want to renew the contract like this?" I won't talk about the number of years, is that kind of clause really good? ”

"Is there a rule in the NBA that you can't include such a clause?" Sun Ce asked with a smile, he liked that kind of clause very much.

"No, they're happy to see that all the owners of small city teams won't say no, and the big city team owners don't dare to jump out and say it's wrong, but for us, for you...... Of course, your opinion rating will be better because of it. ”

"Isn't that enough? I like to do things from the beginning to the end! ”

"OK, I know that even if I ask you again, you still won't change your mind, what I appreciate most is your character, it's just that the people in the team asked me to persuade you to cancel ......"

Sun Ce listened to Bill Duffy's words, the words were good, but why did he feel like he was scolding him?

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In the 4 hours that Sun Ce was waiting for Bill Duffy to come over and wait for the NBA to resume operations after the team contacted him, the Internet had exploded!

It's finally over! The NBA is finally back!

Fans are keen to learn about the specific agreements reached by the NBA, see what changes are made, and see how much impact they will have on the NBA.

Of course, the media liked it, a large group of experts began to analyze the various terms, major portals and forums were occupied by analysis posts, and fans were enthusiastic about the discussion.

Most of the clauses are actually aimed at weakening the treatment of players, such as a reduction in the maximum contract from the previous six years to five years, and a reduction in salary increases for new contracts......

Where the players are considered "victorious" is that they have kept the salary cap system, which is still a soft salary cap, that is, they can use various terms and conditions to renew their contracts, and there is a flexible share ratio.

Such a flexible salary cap makes it less likely that players who can get high salaries will take a salary cut to renew their contracts, after all, the share has been reduced, and who knows if the total salary of players will exceed 53% of the total income.

Then there was the Arenas version of the amnesty clause, in which each team had the full force to lay off a player and remove his salary from the total salary, limited to the contract signed before the new collective bargaining agreement was signed.

Most of the terms have not changed much, but as long as there is analysis, there are still many people discussing, after all, the last time the collective bargaining agreement was reached in 2005, most fans have long forgotten what the terms of the collective bargaining agreement are, and there are many fans who began to watch the game after 05 years, and the discussion is very hot.

One of the most popular is the change in the rookie renewal clause!

The two new clauses added to the rookie renewal clause - the incentive clause and the two-year clause for the second-round show, and these two clauses, especially the officially named two-year clause for the second-round show, all fans who saw the content of this clause immediately thought of Sun Ce.

Moreover, except for Sun Ce, I can't think of anyone else!

This clause can be triggered by no one except Sun Ce.

Fortunately, the incentive clause can already be triggered by Durant, not exclusive to Sun Ce, and like Sun Ce's analysis, Rose, Evans, and Griffin are all regarded as candidates who have the opportunity to trigger the new clause.

But the new clause of "two-year clause for the second round of the show" is like a special set for Sun Ce alone!

On the domestic side, commentators on the official media court station directly named this clause "overlord clause" on social media, while in the United States, the media combined the collective bargaining agreement with this clause and the incentive clause, and summarized it as the "lord agreement".

This clause seems powerful to the fans.

After Jordan's first comeback that year, the league and the owners of various teams gave the Bulls a special clause that allowed Jordan to renew his contract outside the salary cap, not on the salary cap, but outside the cap, that is, it was not counted in the team's salary, did not have to pay the luxury tax, and there was no upper limit, as long as the Bulls were willing to give.

The overlord clause is similar, such as the league and the owners collectively giving the Grizzlies the green light, allowing Sun Ce to have bird rights one year in advance, and allowing the Grizzlies to renew Sun Ce's contract with an offer that is much higher than what other teams can give.

In anyone's opinion, it is impossible to refuse a renewal.

3 million can be less, 5 million may also grit your teeth and hold on, but, more than 10 million! It's still a U.S. knife, so it's impossible to refuse to renew the contract.

After this clause was announced, fans were waiting, waiting for the NBA to resume operations, waiting for the news of the Grizzlies and Sun Ce's contract extension.

But...... The first thing to wait for was not Sun Ce's contract renewal, but the Thunder announced that at 6:30 p.m., Durant's previous starting salary of 13.7 million US dollars according to the salary cap of the 08-09 season, a total of 82 million US dollars for 5 years was canceled, and a 5-year contract totaling 93 million US dollars was re-signed.

When the Thunder kicked off the contract renewal, the signings of various teams came one after another.

During the shutdown, the teams were not idle, they had already started looking for candidates, and after the resumption of operations, the uniform teams of the teams immediately contacted their favorite free agents and quickly reached an agreement, and the training camp will start on the 10th, giving them only a short 84 hours.

Fans waited and waited, wanting to wait for Sun Ce's contract renewal news, but they didn't wait.

The media is also speculating and analyzing, but none of them are really reliable.

On the morning of December 7, there was finally news of the signing of the Grizzlies.

However, it is not Sun Ce, or even the renewal news of Gasol Jr., Yi Jianlian, and Battier, but the signing of an inside substitute.

The Grizzlies signed the 76ers' '08 first-round pick Maris Spatz, who gave up his fourth-year rookie contract, for two years and $5.4 million, bringing the team's current players and upcoming contract extensions to 14.

Finally, by noon, the Grizzlies had new news.

The Grizzlies officially announced that Gasol Jr. has a starting salary of 12.92 million US dollars and a total of 57.5 million US dollars in 4 years.

At the same time, Yi Jianlian reached a contract extension with the Grizzlies with a three-year contract of 12 million US dollars, and Battier renewed his contract with a three-year contract of 9 million US dollars.

At noon, the Grizzlies held a press conference for five new players: Nash, Neal, Klay Thompson, Jimmy Butler, and Maris Speight.

It has been 18 hours since the NBA resumed operations, more than a fifth of the time has passed in the "free market", and Sun Ce has not yet reached a contract extension, which makes the media and fans can't help but start to reverie, is Sun Ce doing something?

Rose, Griffin, and Evans have agreed to an early contract extension, and the incentive clause can be triggered when the conditions are met.

The reason for the early contract extension is that even if the incentive clause is triggered, the contract can be calculated based on this year's salary cap, like Durant's side is a special case.

Finally, wait, wait, wait for the time when the Grizzlies opened their training camp in advance, that is, on the morning of December 8, the fans finally waited for the news of Sun Ce's contract renewal.

The Grizzlies officially announced that Sun Ce will renew his contract with a starting salary of 18.117 million US dollars, a total of 38.0457 million US dollars for two years, and a special option for the second year.

When the Grizzlies' official Twitter and official website announced the news, not to mention the fans, even the media and players from other teams were stunned.

It's actually a 1+1 renewal!

Only renewed for two years!

Is this Sun Ce crazy? Or are the Grizzlies crazy?

Then they noticed that the second year was not a player option or a team option, and it was not a no option, but a special option.

Subsequently, Grizzlies owner Robert Pera announced on private Twitter that the Lords would never leave Memphis until they brought the O'Brien Cup to Memphis, and it was written into the contract. The Grizzlies will re-sign the Lords to a salary cap each year, and if the salary cap is not expected to be the same as the previous year, they will exercise a player option and extend the contract for another year.

Robert Pera announced the news, and Sun Ce also liked it!

Then Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace revealed the details helplessly in the interview: "The special clause is actually to join the unwon team to retain the contract matching rights of the lords forever, we don't want to limit the lords like this, we want to give him the greatest freedom, even if he really wants to sign a 1-year contract, we will not make such a request, but he has to be added......"

This magical operation, fans and the media and other players who paid attention to Sun Ce's contract renewal were stunned, it was incredible! Which player will renew his contract like this?

Is the NBA championship so easy to get? is as strong as Olajuwon, and only won two championships, Garnett, Pierce, and Ray Allen form a triumvirate, and there is only one championship, like Malone and Stockton are even more championshipless for life!

All those who paid attention to this matter had only one thought at this time: where did this guy get his confidence?

Let's say that Sun Ce wants to stay forever...... A direct long-term contract is enough, but this clause, except for the Grizzlies taking the initiative to trade him, may really have to stay in Memphis for the entire NBA career.

Of course, there are also fans and media who have a very positive evaluation - the lord is giving back to the team and fans with his sincerity!

Obviously, this clause has made Sun Ce's prestige soar!