Chapter 390: Preseason Opening Match (Tianya Alliance Title 10)
According to the rules, the Bucks can only pay a buyout of 500,000 US dollars, and even if these 3 million Bucks can be paid, I'm afraid Xia Longwen will be reluctant......
This point is extremely understandable by Li Tuanjie, after all, Marc Gasol is not well-known, and it is strange that Xia Longwen is willing to pay the three million dollars for nothing......
It was this $500,000 that Li Tuanjie won after stating to Xia Longwen about Makgasol's awesomeness!
There are still 2.5 million US dollars left, Marc Gasol himself has no money, it would be good if he can come up with 200,000 US dollars, and the eldest brother Gasol has paid more than 1 million US dollars......
Some people may wonder, the big Gasol is so rich, he will pay a million dollars? It's a little too picky, isn't it......
This is a misunderstanding of Gasol, in fact, Gasol's four-year rookie period has just passed, and he has only received two years of salary, and the salary is a little more than 10 million US dollars!
Ten million dollars, 40 percent of taxes alone, and it would be nice for Pau Gasol to have $6 million left a year......
The $6 million spent on a luxury house, a luxury car, and all kinds of expenses......
Being able to come up with more than a million dollars is actually good, and I can't fault it at all......
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There is still a million-dollar loophole, this is an insurmountable gap, and if you can take it, that's good, the Bucks can have an All-Star level super center, if you can't take it, you have to wait, wait for Marc Gasol's club to collapse on its own like the future, then Marc Gasol will naturally become a free man......
Li Tuanjie didn't want to wait, and after contacting Makgasol himself, he proposed a solution!
That's borrowing money! Lee Tuanjie lends money to Marc Gasol!
At present, although Li Tuanjie's salary is not much, there are many endorsement contracts, and Nike alone has an income of more than 10 million a year, so Li Tuanjie is not short of money, and there is usually no place to spend money!
In order to bring Marc Gasol under his command, Li Tuanjie decided to lend 1 million US dollars to Marc Gasol to solve the current problem!
He didn't promise that Marc Gasol wouldn't be able to pay a million dollars at all, and that an All-Star super-center wouldn't be worth a million? Definitely not!
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As soon as Marc Gasol heard the news, he immediately burst into joy, and this was simply a noble person for him!
Without thinking about it, Little Mark agreed directly, he was very confident in his strength, and knew that he would definitely get an annual salary of tens of millions or even more than 20 million dollars in the future, and he naturally didn't worry about paying back this million dollars!
In this way, Marc Gasol was successfully signed by the Bucks, and he officially became an NBA player!
For Li Tuanjie's generosity, the Gasol brothers are grateful, and Little Ma Ke directly called Li Tuanjie his second big brother!
And Pau Gasol was also extremely moved by what Li Tuanjie did, if it weren't for the fact that he had a contract with the Grizzlies and couldn't get out, he would even want to throw himself into the arms of the Bucks!
And this situation is not completely impossible, you must know that the Bucks' salary space is just above the poor man's line, and there is still a lot of salary space to sign up!
Of course, it's hard to say that Xia Long Wenshe is reluctant to spend this money......
In Xia Longwen's opinion, Lao Tzu can win the championship by spending one money, why spend two copies, isn't that a waste? Shame on waste!
In fact, this is also the reason why Xia Longwen doesn't have any money on hand......
If the Bucks' salary can reach the luxury line level this season, then the Bucks can completely dispense with Vallejo, free up an annual salary of about 30 million, and sign two former stars with an annual salary of about 15 million, such as Billups and Rashad Lewis, then the Bucks' lineup will be terrifying......
I can't count how many giants there are......
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Time flies, and soon it's October, and the pre-season is finally about to start!
During the half-month training period, most of the Bucks are newcomers, so they have been playing a full-court 5v5 training game, and the performance of these newcomers has really satisfied the veterans in the team!
Artest feels like he has really come to the right team, these newcomers don't look at each draft pick is not high, but each has two brushes in strength!
Grant Hill feels like he has a championship hope this season!
As for Mike Reed, his face is full of smiles every day, his veteran players of the Bucks, since the arrival of Li United, the veterans of the Bucks are currently only him and Gazuric, and he is of course very happy to see the Bucks so thriving and so energetic!
The entire Bucks, this season, have only one goal, and that is to win the championship!
As long as they win the championship, the fame of these players in the Bucks team will definitely rise, and the market value of the Bucks will also soar, which will be of great benefit to everyone!
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On October 1st, the pre-season officially started!
As last season's Eastern Conference finalist team, the Bucks will naturally play the opening game in the preseason, and their first game will be the Chicago Bulls, their opponent in the same division last season!
What makes the Bucks players unhappy is that their first game is on the road......
This is also purely normal, after all, the Bucks' ball market is still much smaller than Chicago's, and the NBA certainly wants to put games in better stadiums in the ball market to increase revenue!
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United Center Arena Chicago! The Bulls' home arena!
I don't know what kind of madness the Bulls did in the offseason, traded Big Ben out, and traded Larry Hughes and Drew Gooden from the Cavaliers, causing the team's interior rim protection ability to plummet directly......
Originally, when Big Ben was in the Bulls, Li Tuanjie still attached great importance to the Bulls, thinking that this was an opponent that needed to be taken seriously, but now with the addition of Larry Hughes, the backcourt has indeed become stronger, but the inside line is rubbish, and Li Tuanjie is naturally a little disdainful......
Eighty percent of the Bulls' management's idea is to let this year's rookie Joakim Noah take Big Ben's place, after all, the two guys still have extremely similar styles of play, and they are both rim-protector type players.
But Noah is just a newcomer, how can he compare with Big Ben, a skinny camel bigger than a horse......
This also led to a sharp drop in the history of the Bulls, who originally ranked third in the East, after losing the big book, the record fell directly to the tenth in the East, which is really embarrassing......
It's true that a trade can give a team a new lease on life, but a trade can also plunge a team into the abyss, and there are many cases of this happening, and the Bulls are the best antithesis!
With the referee's whistle, the preseason opener officially began!