This year's free agency market was directly ignited after the Grizzlies signed a contract and a trade was made!

According to WOJ, Nowitzki, whose contract expired, directly let the Mavericks give up his bird rights, plus other expired contracts, and now the Mavericks have only two players left who may be alive, 11 million Conley, 8.33 million Ellis, and Chris Bosh who retains the bird rights, Bosh's salary last season was 19.07 million, according to the latest rules, Bosh can renew his contract with a starting salary of up to 21.48 million US dollars, and sign a 5-year contract with an annual increase of 8 percent. Only a four-year contract can be signed with an increase of 4.5 percent.

According to the Sports Illustrated reporter's follow-up revelations, Nowitzki, who ranked second in the league in terms of salary last season with 22.72 million and 30 million after Kobe Bryant last season, told Cuban to give up his bird rights first, and wait to see if Bosh agrees to renew the contract.

Nowitzki jumped out of the contract and did not increase his salary to renew his contract, Kobe Bryant had already cut his salary for two years and renewed his contract by 40 million, and Sun Ce's $23.31 million knife directly became the highest salary in the league.

Within two hours of the news being exposed, there were rumors that Bosh had a strong intention to renew his contract because of Nowitzki, but let's take a look at the changes in the free market this year.

And even if the Mavericks currently retain Bosh's bird rights, Bosh bird rights occupy 28.6 million US knife space, and there is still close to 24 million space, and before Bosh renewes his contract, the Mavericks still have the ability to recruit a top-salary player.

Anyway, according to ESPN, after the Mavericks opened the free market, they didn't say a word, just like Kings restricted free agent center DeMarcus Cousins sent an annual average of 12.5 million for a total of 4 years and 50 million offer contracts, and the space is so casual.

The Kings matched the contract the first time and gave a higher four-year, 64 million contract.

Failing that, the Mavericks offered Chandler Parsons, a restricted free agent for the Rockets, a three-year salary cap of $54 million, and a four-year $72 million cap salary to Gordon Hayward, a restricted free agent for the Pacers.

The Dallas Boosters, Portland Boosters, and Houston Boosters have all been dispatched......

Sun Ce, on his part, contacted Vince Carter, a free agent who gave up his early bird rights to the Mavericks, and the other party said that he would consider accepting it and is currently on vacation.

There was some contact with Ariza, who wanted to come, but he wanted to start, and it was up to Paul George to decide in the end.

After the Grizzlies management promised to renew the contract on his side, in addition to various things to trade with the Trail Blazers, the first goal was to renew the contract with Paul George, and the team owner Robert Pera, who was in Los Angeles, invited Paul George to go out fishing and stamp collecting two days in three days.

Sun Ce first contacted the two powerful veterans, Carter didn't know if he would join, Ariza was basically impossible, and the middle-class short-term Ariza would agree, but the start could not be guaranteed.

Sun Ce is not in a hurry, the free market has just opened, and many teams have freed up a lot of salary space like the Mavericks this year, so this year has led to the most free agents in 17 years since the free market in 1997.

However, when Sun Ce told the team about the conditions proposed by Ariza, Sun Ce received a call from Chris Wallace that night, and the middle class used it out!

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At 8 p.m. on July 1, the Grizzlies officially announced that they had opened this year's $6.1 million mid-class contract and signed Knicks free agent Paul Pierce with a starting salary of $2.9 million and a two-year contract totaling $6 million!

When Sun Ce received the news, he felt that Chris Wallace was so powerful this year!

I didn't get Ariza, I just got Pierce back!

Although Pierce is certainly not as good as Ariza at the moment, mainly on the defensive end, Pierce, who averaged 15.3 points per game for the Knicks last season on the offensive end, should be able to average 10 points per game as a role player even if he declines.

In them, the Grizzlies may not be able to average more than 10 points per game, but they are capable enough, and it is more than enough to play the second small forward!

Counting Richard Jefferson and Stoudemire, the two veterans of the forward line who are waiting for their Grizzlies to bring in reinforcements to complete the contract extension, as well as Tony Allen, Paul George, and Yi Jianlian, who have retained the bird rights, they have a maximum of 13 players, and now there are only two players at the point guard and point guard positions.

Now there is no rush to compete with those teams for free agents, the guard line bench can be found slowly, Carter is expected to be interested, then only the point guard remains.

And in the current league, the most important thing is to have a point guard.

As for Antetokounmpo's brother, after he was selected for training, the Grizzlies regretted it and sold it to the Suns for 150,000 US dollars.

Sun Ce's biggest concern for the team's lineup is the position of small forward, Richard Jefferson mostly plays power forward, if Paul George does not renew his contract, they don't have a real small forward, now don't worry.

On July 2nd, Sun Ce pulled away from his chaotic thoughts and began training with Payton.

This time he practiced with Payton, and Sun Ce used the "blessing of a legendary point guard" to formulate the characteristics of Payton's pressing defense on the defensive end, hoping to get a skill like a "glove".

But...... Failed! It's not that Payton isn't happy with his training, it's that he's not a good fit for pressing defense at all.

He is more suitable for Prince and Durant's ability to defend by movement and size rather than by pressing defense.

This made Sun Ce understand that investment is risky, and when using the blessing of the legendary point guard, he has to consider whether it is suitable or not.

But the problem is not big, compared to Jordan, Payton is really like a defensive textbook, he can't defend like Sun Ce, but it doesn't mean that he can't have a brain, on the contrary, after research, he formulated a more targeted defensive training content for Sun Ce than when Coach Hollins, Tony Allen and others taught him.

Finding a person with defensive experience and defensive ability like Payton is not something that can be done casually, and people who give money may not come.

And the biggest role of this card is not to get anyone's guidance, but as long as he doesn't do it, people will teach him wholeheartedly, just like Stockton.

This is the most important thing, if the other party teaches casually, it is better to watch the teaching video.

Payton taught Sun Ce the details of defense and basic skills by hand, and he did not slack off for three hours a day.

For example, Peyton's change of direction and explosive speed shown by Sun Ce in the game was higher than his usual normal starting speed, and Sun Ce needed to explode and accelerate under mental tension, so according to Sun Ce's characteristics in this regard, he helped him strengthen his defensive ability in this regard.

From this, it can be seen that Payton is different from Jordan, Jordan wants to exercise his body, find the feeling of shooting and back, and let Sun Ce experience it for himself.

Payton has carefully studied Sun Ce's defensive video and made a lot of preparations.

The only thing that hurts Sun Cedan is that he practices defense, and the system does not score him in this aspect, and it cannot be improved to the overall ability evaluation.

Fortunately, there has been a significant improvement in three points, the three points of the left hand are infinitely close to the right hand, and the key is the three points of the 45-degree angle to the 30-degree angle on both sides, which has improved a lot.

Time passed, and on July 7, free agents could officially sign with Pierce to the Grizzlies.

But a top free agent like Bosh hasn't moved yet.

On the contrary, the free agents on the Pacers' side have all left.

The Kings poached Darren Collison of the Pacers for three years and $21 million.

After Ariza learned that the Grizzlies had signed Pierce, he joined the Knicks for four years and $38 million.

Lance Stephenson unsuccessfully asked for an average annual salary of 10 million yuan for 5 years, and joined the Hornets for 18 million in two years.

According to media reports, if it weren't for the addition of a player option with two years left on his contract, David West would have wanted to leave.

The Pacers matched the four-year, $72 million max contract offered to Gordon Hayward by the Mavericks.

The Pacers are said to have started touting Roy Hibbert after losing two of their biggest starters on the guard line, but no one cared about it.

When Sun Ce saw the news of the Pacers, he found that the Pacers, who had played the strongest team in the league last season, were about to be dismantled!

However, the Pacers also got a player back, and George Hill jumped out of the final year with the Spurs for an 8 million player option to join the Pacers on a three-year, 30 million contract.

On July 10th, there was a thing that made Sun Ce and Zu Ge complain wildly together.

Wade jumped out of the last two years of a total of 44 million contracts, and under Pat Riley's flickering on the grounds that he wanted to renew Chandler, Wade signed a two-year 30 million contract extension with the Heat, while rejecting the big contract of 2 years and 40 million given by the 76ers and the Mavericks.

And on July 12, Chandler did not reach a contract extension with the Heat, but instead agreed to a two-year, 30 million contract with the Mavericks.

After Chandler joined, Bosh immediately chose to renew his contract and reached a quasi-maximum salary contract with the Mavericks with a starting salary of 21 million and a total of 110 million for five years.

After Chandler joined and Bosh completed a contract extension, Nowitzki agreed to a two-year, $15 million contract.

The best sixth man, who averages 20 points and 6 rebounds per game, has a 7.5 million one-year contract, but Sun Ce's salary cut for Nowitzki and Wade's salary cut cannot be compared at all.

The Mavericks really got the players back, and the Heat simply wanted to get salaries below the luxury tax threshold.

But this made Sun Ce feel that the probability of signing Carter had declined!

Conley, Ellis, Nowitzki, Bosh, Chandler...... Bosh has a blood disorder, but that was after 2016, the disease is not manageable, it is said to be related to genetics, and the only solution after the onset of the disease is to reduce exercise.

With such a core combination, Sun Ce is worried about signing Carter.

However, on July 14th, the last day of the four-week training with the two famous players, Sun Ce received good news.

Due to the inability to negotiate with the Mavericks' salary, the Mavericks did not provide him with the middle class or even part of the middle class, Carter and Chris Wallace reached an agreement to get the Grizzlies to break up the remaining part of the middle class and join the Grizzlies with an annual average of 3.15 million for a total of 2 years and 6.3 million US dollars!

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Fortunately, there are no random signers!

Sun Ce knew that as the free market became more and more popular, there were many guards who wanted to join their Grizzlies, and Carter was slow to reply, and there were some disagreements within their Grizzlies team, and they felt that they could not continue to pursue Carter.

But in the end, he endured it, didn't shoot randomly, and at the same price, he really couldn't find a better free agent guard than Carter, even if Carter was 37 years old.

Carter's signing was reached, and the Grizzlies quickly began a wave of contract extensions.

The Grizzlies matched the average annual contract offered by the Knicks to Yi Jianlian in the free market, but the Knicks gave him a four-year 32 million contract, and the Grizzlies gave him a three-year 24 million player option in the final year, and Yi Jianlian could jump out of the contract in the summer of 2016 and test the free market.

Tony Allen signed a contract extension with the Grizzlies on a three-year, $15 million contract averaging $5 million.

After this wave of contract extensions, the Grizzlies' total salary reached more than $84.74 million, which is only $1.2 million away from the luxury tax threshold.

The third point guard is definitely the base salary, which means that the Grizzlies have exceeded the cap, and there are currently negotiations between Larry Sanders and Paul George, who still have bird rights, to contract extensions.

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On July 18th, Sun Ce's four-week training finally came to an end!

"Gary, are you really not coming to our team as a trainer?"

"I want to be a commentator more, you can call me if you have any questions, I will definitely come to help you train when I have time......"

After the three-hour training session with Payton on the last day in the morning, Sun Ce sent an invitation to Payton, but the other party did not agree.

Everyone's personality is different, and Peyton doesn't like Stockton's low-key life, and wants to appear on TV.

On the 15th, Jordan had already left Los Angeles for a vacation in Hawaii.

After chatting with Peyton, Peyton also went back to the villa to pack his luggage, took the 80,000 US dollars knife that hit his account, and prepared to take his wife out for a trip.

This afternoon, Sun Ce did not continue training, but prepared to take a break, and start a week-long training on the 21st, and will return to China for business activities at the end of the month, and will follow the national team to Spain to play the Basketball World Cup in mid-July.

In the evening, Paul George and Larry Sanders, who learned that Sun Ce's training with the two best defensive players and defenders had ended, came to Sun Ce's house.

This night, Sun Ce didn't sleep, and talked to the two of them in the early morning, but he really couldn't sleep, not because he didn't talk well, but because he was sleepy, and he fell asleep at dawn......

The next morning, Paul George flew back to Memphis with Larry Sanders.

First, Paul George fired his own agent, Aaron Mintz, to sign a contract with the famous agent Jeff Schwartz.

Bill Duffy also followed Larry Sanders to Memphis to negotiate a contract.

The reason was that Mintz wanted Paul George to go to the Knicks, which became an obstacle to Paul George doing what he wanted to do, and he decisively jumped to Schwartz.

On July 19, the Grizzlies officially announced that they had reached a quasi-maximum salary contract with Paul George with a starting salary of 15.93 million and a total of 70 million US dollars.

Larry Sanders turned down a two-year, $20 million contract offer from the Hornets and agreed to a three-year, $27 million contract with a player option with the Grizzlies.

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After the free market opened, the Grizzlies signed Sun Ce, traded Aldridge, and reached a verbal agreement with Pierce, but remained unchanged for more than half a month, which made the Grizzlies "invisible" in the free market for a while.

Other teams are hilarious, and the Mavericks relied on Nowitzki's salary cut to $7.5 million to get Chandler back, which is equivalent to prostituting a Bosh for nothing.

The Knicks offered the Rockets small forward Chandler Parsons with a 3-year, $49.73 million contract, the Rockets did not match, Chandler Parsons joined the Knicks, and the Knicks also signed Ariza, although they lost Pierce, the Knicks became stronger.

The Lakers let go of six players in one go this summer, re-signed Boozer with a base salary, traded back from the Bucks for a deal to get back center Donatas Motayunas, who was cleared by the Clippers last year, and signed free agents Wayne Ellington, Sean Marion, and Ed Davis.

After the Lakers signed Ed Davis on the 13th, the 13-man roster was already alive, and the next step was to sign two water cooler managers or injury alternates.

The Spurs knew that they would lose George Hill, Duncan jumped out of the contract of 10.36 million US dollars next season, chose to take a salary cut, and renewed his contract for 21 million US dollars for 3 years until 2017, helping to make the space for the early 10 million that had been freed up for 7 million, and signed free agent Rajon Rondo with a two-year contract of 20 million.

After signing Rondo, the Spurs renewed Boris Dior for 3 years and $21.5 million.

Prior to this, the Spurs had signed Parker to a four-year contract extension for 44 million and a one-year 7 million contract extension for Ginobili.

After Gay has one year left on his contract, renews the troika, renews Dio, and signed Rondo, the Spurs' total salary is only 81.42 million US dollars, and it is still more than 4 million from the luxury tax threshold.

In addition to these six players, none of the Spurs players have a salary of more than 5 million US dollars, and they have suffered many losses of middle-class contracts in the early years, and they will never give full middle-class contracts, except for these 6 players, Danny Green, the best paid player in the Spurs, is 4.07 million US dollars, Patrick Mills has a salary of 3.87 million US dollars, and the rest are all base salaries.

Regarding the signing of Rondo, many teams are not very optimistic about the Spurs' operation, but this is the limit of what the Spurs can do, and without George Hill, they are missing a key point of consistent playmaking.

Regardless of whether other teams are optimistic about signing in the end, but in the first half of this year's free market, other teams are very hot to sign, perhaps because the information exchange in this era is too developed, and there is no longer the situation where big-name players are still talking about contracts in August and September like at the beginning of the century.

But the Grizzlies haven't moved.

But at the beginning of the 15th, to the 19th, in 5 days, the Grizzlies frantically smashed out more than 40 million, and the total salary skyrocketed to 109.68 million, directly breaking 100 million!

This was so unexpected by the media and fans, who thought that the Grizzlies would give up one player each of Yi Jianlian and Larry Saunders, Paul George and Tony Allen, who knew that the Grizzlies would keep all of them!