123-99, how easy it was for the Grizzlies to defeat the Hornets, Sun Ce only played 19 minutes, got 11 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, and was replaced, and the substitute Vazquiz played 20 minutes and got 5 points and 7 assists, and the Hornets players gave up defense.

Gasol Jr. played 26 minutes, scored 25 points and 6 rebounds, setting a new personal scoring high this season, and his sister-in-law also ate dumplings.

Playing the Raptors and Hornets, the second-to-last opponents in the East and West, the Grizzlies won without causing any waves, 40-10, and the Grizzlies became the second team after the Spurs to win 40.

They all know that these two teams will definitely try to lose, they desperately want to "overtake" the Timberwolves and the Wizards, they are already rotten to the penultimate level, of course, they want to improve the probability of drawing the top three picks.

There was basically no attention in the two games, and there was a certain amount of attention to the alignment of Sun Ce and Wall, but Wall played in such an undisciplined team, and he had talent, but everyone guided him in the direction he should work towards, and his rookie season felt a little off.

In the past two days, there has been little news about the Grizzlies game, but there is also a lot of news about the Grizzlies.

Mainly about one thing, and a little interesting, many head coaches jumped out to Randolph to show overture, saying that Randolph is the first choice for All-Star power forward in their minds.

This is a headache for Grizzlies management.

After playing the Hornets, the Grizzlies finally ended one of the most brutal schedules of the season, getting two days off, and then there is one game left before the All-Star weekend, a battle of the spotlight, No. 12, the Grizzlies play the 76ers on the road.

On the 10th, the first day off after the Grizzlies' 8-day 6-game game, the Grizzlies closed the hall to rest in case a 192-centimeter-tall point guard who practiced after playing the Hornets last night came to practice again.

However, the Grizzlies coaching staff and management did not take a holiday, and they had a meeting in the morning.

"Leonar, you've heard, a lot of teams with salary space are building momentum for the summer." General manager Chris Wallace said to Coach Hollins.

"I understand that they want to use Zach to attract Noah to their team." Coach Hollins also felt like he was in trouble.

There is a bias between people's cognition, and Sun Ce knows that it is Randolph who wants to make decisions based on his decision, but the cognition of others is not quite the same as the two of them.

Sun Ce and Randolph are in the same agency, and Sun Ce constantly touted Randolph, making some team management think that Randolph was the key to Sun Ce's decision, including Grizzlies management.

"We should reach a contract extension agreement with Zach as soon as possible to increase the leverage to keep Noah." Coach Hollins suggested.

"It's hard." Chris Wallace said with a sigh.

"Why? Don't we have Zach's Byrd Clause? ”

"It's because we have Zach's Bird clause, Zach goes to other teams, and he can get a starting salary of more than 18 million for 10 years, and we can give him a starting salary of close to 21 million at most, of course, we don't have to give 21 million, but even if we give other teams a starting salary of 18 million, it will affect the fact that we create salary space for Noah.

We also have Mike and Mark as restricted free agents this summer, and to keep their Bird clause, they need to occupy close to 12 million spaces in total, and the two of them plus Rudy have already occupied 27 million spaces, plus Zach, Otterspeth, Toney...... It's hard to create the right salary space. Chris Wallace analyses the problems their team is currently facing.

Hearing Chris Wallace's words, Coach Hollins knew the current state of the team, and the main reason was with Guy!

Guy was reimbursed early this season, but last summer, the Grizzlies just signed a five-year, $82.3 million contract with Guy, and next season, Guy's salary is $15.03 million.

Of course, renewing Guy's contract is an operation that has to be carried out, no one would be stupid enough to let go of a super genius who can average 201 points, 62 boards, 2 assists, 14 steals and 1 block per game in a sophomore for nothing, and although the Grizzlies have won a lot this season, there are many times when it can be seen that the Grizzlies need an outside singles point like Guy.

But now this season, the need for Guy has gradually decreased, especially Sun Ce's rate of improvement, God knows what he will improve next season, and at this stage, Guy's contract has become a burden for the Grizzlies.

"And the most troublesome thing is that there are so many teams that want to recruit Zack, and the starting salary of 15 million we originally gave may be difficult to keep Zach" Chris Wallace pressed the remote control pen, and the projector in the conference room cut the screen after a while, Chris Wallace said while pressing, "The Clippers, Hornets, Suns, Jazz, Magic, Hawks, Cavaliers, Raptors, and the head coaches of the Mavericks, Nuggets, and Lakers have publicly stated that they voted for Zach, Many of these teams could create more than $30 million in salary space in the summer, and many of them are likely to offer Zach a 10-year veteran salary cap on a non-Bird clause. ”

Randolph, which no one wanted before, has now become a sweet treat!

"Oh...... Damn, these guys want to steal our people! "Coach Hollins couldn't help but curse.

Just as Chris Wallace wanted to curse, the door to the conference room was pushed open.

"Yes, they want to steal our core, but we're not going to give them a chance!"

Grizzlies owner Robert Pera pushed open the door of the conference room and walked in, sat down next to Chris Wallace and continued, "Chris, you try to negotiate with Zach and, if you can, try to let Bill Duffy help us test Noah's tone without Noah noticing."

Even if Zach has to ask us to match the contract offered by other teams, we are not in despair, first of all, Noah will not necessarily leave with Zach, and also, I have already discussed with Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert that I will contact some teams to pressure the league to adjust the rookie contract system, and if we can get the support of more than half of the owners, we can get the league's system terms committee to re-examine the rookie contract system.

I've reached out to some of the media, as well as Evans, Rose, Durant, Griffin and their agents, and they're going to do all sorts of ways to create public opinion about this, and I've asked our press officers to go and talk to TNT about it and build momentum for us.

Of course, our own negotiations with Zach are very important, but from what I know about Bill Duffy, he is a person who knows how to reciprocate, maybe Zach's contract extension will not be so troublesome, and the more important thing for us is to allow Noah to renew his contract on the hat, this is the key, he is our future superstar, he can't take such a low salary.

Lionard, you don't have to worry about these things, your job is to get a good record, don't take this as pressure, coach well, results are the key to us to keep them! ”

After listening to the owner's words, Chris Wallace and Coach Hollins were quite shocked, this is still the same "buy a team as vvvv...... The audience of the young boss?

So many things have already been done, and everything that the team should do at this stage has been sorted out, they just need to execute it.

This diamond king can gain a firm foothold in Silicon Valley in his 30s, and he is really not an ordinary person! People have already thought about everything.

In the past, I didn't meddle in the affairs of the general manager and the head coach because I didn't need to, and I may not be good at it, but people interfere in the operation at a time of crisis, and the pattern is bigger than them!

Chris Wallace wants to save salary space, while Robert Pera is different and is ready to start in the direction of the league! The vision is completely different.

The Grizzlies coaching staff and management used to occasionally complain that the boss didn't care about anything, but now they suddenly realized that it was great to have such a decisive and business-minded boss like that.

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Randolph at home.

After receiving a call from Chris Wallace to discuss, Bill Duffy came to Randolph's house to discuss with Randolph about renewing his contract.

When Bill Duffy and Randolph negotiated a contract extension with Grizzlies management at the beginning of the season, they were both satisfied with a starting salary of about 15.5 million, which would ensure that Randolph is the highest-paid player on the Grizzlies and ensure Randolph's status.

At that time, this was also the way Bill Duffy could help Sun Ce maintain his position as the core of the outside line, and the more stable Randolph's position in the team, the more stable Sun Ce's low position in the same company would be.

But now it's different, other teams can give Sun Ce a bigger contract according to the Arenas clause, although this clause was originally to help the parent team keep the second-round rookie, but this clause is limited by the rookie clause, so other teams can only give the league the average salary at most, which is almost a middle-class contract, and the Grizzlies are likely to create 3 million to 4 million space to renew Sun Ce's contract.

At the beginning of the season, Bill Duffy was willing to let Sun Ce take 100 to 2 million dollars less, sign a short-term contract of two to three years, and stay with the Grizzlies, because the Grizzlies will definitely give Sun Ce a core position on the outside, and going to other teams may not guarantee such a status.

Changing teams is not necessarily a good thing, such as Ariza, who jumped ship from the Lakers to the Rockets, and at first the Rockets told Ariza to give him a core position, and he went, and then he was traded in less than a year.

Of course, it is mainly a matter of strength, and it turns out that Ariza's excellent performance in the Lakers is mainly related to the system, and Sun Ce is obviously a player who needs the right system, and Bill Duffy is worried that Sun Ce will not be able to take on the heavy responsibility like Ariza.

But so far in the season, Sun Ce is still improving, and at this stage, it is almost recognized that even if Sun Ce changes teams, without the system bonus, he has the strength of an average of 15+8+6 per game, and the number of assists may rise, after all, the Grizzlies' offense is so bad, so Sun Ce does not necessarily have to stay.

Of course, Bill Duffy would prefer Sun Ce to stay, and changing teams means starting from scratch, while the Grizzlies are aiming to become a championship-caliber team.

But it's not just Sun Ce, Randolph has deepened the season, and the market is much better than before, and because of Sun Ce's relationship, many teams especially want Randolph.

It's almost certain that by the summer other teams will make better offers than the Grizzlies, and the Grizzlies won't dare to make high offers easily.

Bill Duffy doesn't know whether this is happiness or trouble, when he signed a contract with Randolph, he begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to find a job for Randolph everywhere, and kept telling those general managers and bosses that Randolph has changed, but no one believed it, and it took a long time to find Mengcun here, or relying on Chris Wallace to believe in his character, he got a two-year contract for Randolph, and now Randolph really has a market, but it has become a trouble.

After communicating with Randolph, Randolph did not answer directly, but asked, "Bill, what is your opinion?" ”

Bill Duffy is a real person, in the matter of Randolph's contract renewal, he wants to repay his kindness, but he doesn't want Randolph to suffer, so he can only say "I want you to stay, Noah also stays, it is difficult to have such a good team to impact the championship, but the starting salary of 3 million is not a small amount, it is more than 10 million in a few years." ”

Randolph nodded, he was very satisfied with Bill Duffy's honest character, and replied, "I also want to stay, but it depends on Noah, I will choose to take the less than 10 million if he stays, but I don't want to pressure him, I hope he can do the choices he wants to make, you know what I mean, Bill." ”

Bill Duffy really didn't expect Randolph to say that!

Public opinion in the outside world generally believes that Randolph will affect Sun Ce's decision, and Bill Duffy also thinks so, Sun Ce gave Randolph a momentum, held a concert with Randolph, and it is rumored that Sun Ce will continue to find someone to perform with Randolph in this year's All-Star Game, and the league has officially approved Randolph's application...... It's all evidence.

I didn't expect it to be reversed!

But Bill Duffy won't talk about it, which will inevitably affect Randolph's market value, even if the Grizzlies management knows this information, they will use it to lower the price of Randolph.

Although Bill Duffy wants both Randolph and Sun Ce to stay, that is not what he wants to see, and knowing that kindness is not the same as cutting meat to feed the eagle.

It's just that Bill Duffy doesn't know what Sun Ce's side thinks.

Bill Duffy and Sun Ce have been working together for more than a year, and they don't know much about Sun Ce, Sun Ce rarely talks about this matter, and his personality is elusive, and no one knows what kind of decision he will make.

This girl is a king of trouble! Always do unexpected things, as if you would die if you don't do something!

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