After Tang Tian's marriage proposal was successful, Olsen took his two children back to the manor first.

He stayed with Davis and Stevens for the post-match press conference.

'Actually, we won the game in the fifth game, but the referee let me know that you can rely on penalties to win games in addition to scoring goals, and that's what they did, all the time.

Words of thanks, Tang Tian had already said it in the stadium before, and now in front of reporters, he said everything he didn't say.

Davis on the side pushed him with his hand, and Tang Tian had been fined by the alliance for this before.

"AD, what do you do? Are you reminding me to be prepared to pay $25,000? ”

Tang Tian turned his head and said, Davis coughed dryly.

There was a commotion in the audience, obviously as long as you are not blind, you know how bad the referee's judgment in the finals is.

"Don't worry, I can afford to pay $25,000 many times."

Tang Tian's next words made the reporter laugh even more.

This is the public diss alliance and Xiao Hua!

"But we won, and it turns out we can do 5 to 8, the Pelicans championship."

Tang Tian's next words made the reporter can't help but stretch out his hand and applaud, Tang Tian is really a little rigid after his status in the alliance has come up now!

At the end of the press conference, Tang Tian and Davis whistled and walked to the locker room, after winning the championship, it was a little cool to be so open and diss.

They returned to the locker room and threw Xiao Hua and the league aside for a post-championship with the rest of the team.

The first championship in the team's history, it needs to be celebrated.

They celebrated in the locker room, drenching Stevens in champagne.

Stevens smiled very happily this time, and the outside world thought that he was capable of catching up with Popovich as a young marshal, but the pressure on his back was just as great.

Now that the pressure is released, he also releases himself and celebrates with the players.

The celebration in the locker room was a small fight, and after that, the Pelicans, including the coaching staff, headed to the biggest bar in the area.

The bar has been taken over by Tang Tian, and all the consumption tonight will be paid by him.

The players in the bar released themselves to their heart's content, Bojan hugged left and right, and led his teammates to teach on base.

It was their best day of the season.

The day after the carnival, Tang Tian slept a lot in the manor.

When he woke up, a guest came to the manor, the team's general manager, Temples.

He came to Tang Tian to discuss the championship parade.

At 3-1, Demps had already prepared several parade plans with the people below.

It's just that after the Cavaliers equalized the score, those plans were shelved.

Now that the Pelicans have managed to win the championship, it has been taken out again.

New Orleans is a port city, and the boat parade is one of Temples' options.

Tang Tian also likes this plan.

When I was in San Antonio, the Spurs did it, but San Antonio was a small river, and the river was only a dozen meters.

But the Mississippi River is a large tributary, not on the same level as the San Antonio River.

The two discussed for a while and quickly perfected the plan.

Tang would come up with the Mars plan, and the team would sail down the left bank of the Mississippi River, then up the right bank until they anchored in the harbor outside the arena and finally gave a championship speech outside the arena in New Orleans.

The package includes boat rides, street tours, and a port, which is very local to New Orleans.

After deciding on the parade plan, Demps talked to Tang Tian about planning for next season.

After winning the championship, the Pelicans' role has also changed, and they have gone from being a championship contender to the defending champions.

The so-called defending champions, their goal is the same as it literally, to defend the championship.

There are many NBA championship teams, but not many can complete the defense of the title, the last one was the Spurs when Tang Tian played.

The changes in the lineup itself, such as the Mavericks in 2011 and the Heat in 2014, changed the lineup after winning the championship and failed to defend the title.

There is also a decline in its own strength, such as the Spurs in 2013, who let go of Tang Tian, and the lineup did not change much, but it still lost to the Heat and failed to defend the title.

Of course, there are also opponents who rise, such as this year's Warriors, who were defeated by the Pelicans and failed to defend their title.

There are other things like injuries, inflated mentality leading to poor performance, dressing room problems and so on.

All in all, because the NBA regular season spans nearly a year, and there are many factors involved, defending the title is not an easy task.

Fortunately, as Tang Tian said in his speech after winning the championship, the Pelicans finally won the championship after three years of grinding, and it avoided many problems.

The Pelicans are a team dominated by young players, there is no such thing as a decline in strength, and the core has won the championship for three years, and there is no psychological expansion, coupled with the harmonious atmosphere in the team and the core is getting stronger every year, the probability of them defending the title is actually very large.

So the exact opposite of what happened after the Mavericks won the championship in 2011, all the Pelicans have to do this offseason is try to keep the championship roster as much as possible, and then make small repairs.

Demps handed Tang Tian the list of team contracts.

The end of the season, the contract situation of the team.

Tang Tian: A 4-year 4400w contract signed in the summer of 2013, which expires in the summer of 2017, with a salary of 14.86 million next season;

Davis: 2012 rookie contract, expiring this summer;

Jokic: Rookie contract in 2014, expires in the summer of 2018, salary of $1.19 million next season;

Holiday signed a four-year, 41 million contract in the summer of 2013, which expires in the summer of 2017, with a salary of 11.29 million next season;

Ariza, signed in the summer of 2014 for 4 years and 40 million, expires in the summer of 2018, with a salary of 10.21 million next season;

Bojan, signed with the Nets in 2014 for 3 years and 10.11 million, expires in the summer of 2017, and has a salary of 3.73 million next season;

Dinwiddie: 2014 second-round rookie contract, 3 years 3.1 million, expires in the summer of 2017, next season's salary is 1.1 million;

Stephenson: A three-year, $27.5 million contract with the Hornets in 2014, with a salary of $9.5 million next season, but a team option;

Aminu: 2 years and 6 million signed in the summer of 2014, due this summer;

McGee: Signed a one-year contract with a final salary last year, which expires this summer;

Biyombo; The 2-year 6 million signed in the summer of 2015 expires in the summer of 2017, and the salary is 3 million next season;

Harrell: 2015 rookie contract, expires in the summer of 2019, salary of 1.09 million next season;

Joe Harris: 3-year, $2.33 million signed with the Cavaliers in 2014, expires in the summer of 2017, $810,000 next season, but team option;

Ci Shiping: The one-year contract signed last year expires this summer;

Bryn Forbes: Undrafted in 2015, signed a 3-year non-guaranteed contract, expires in the summer of 2018, and has a salary of 530,000 next season;

"Mehta has spoken to me that he will retire in the summer."

Demps spoke.

Tang Tian nodded, Ci Shiping had already expressed this idea more than once in the locker room before, which was expected.

Now the team has Bojan in the dressing room, and there is a new locker room leader.

After reading the list, if Stephenson's contract option is not implemented, the Pelicans will only have a salary of 47.81 million in their contract next season.

Even if you add the basically confirmed Davis maximum salary contract (starting salary of 22 million), it is only 69.81 million.

This is far from the 2016~2017 season salary cap (94.143 million) and luxury tax (113.2 million) announced by the league not long ago.

It is still far from the poor people's line of $84.72 million.

The Pelicans' salary structure is really too healthy, a healthy level that makes other teams red-eyed.

But they also have a problem, they have too many players in contract years.

Tang Tian, Holiday , Bojan, Dinwiddie, these are the team's core rotation players.

The NBA is a commercial league, and most players play with the ultimate goal of earning a big contract, especially after they have already won a championship.

The body is already gilded, and the player will definitely be fighting for the next big contract in the contract year.

Especially for players like Bojan and Dinwiddie, who are young but have never taken more than 10 million contracts.

This would be a huge ticking time bomb.

In the 2018~2019 season of the Celtics, the team's performance was far less than expected because of the fact that many people were in contract years.

And to solve this problem, what the Pelicans have to do is to renew their contract early.

"We want to renew your contract early."

Demps is planning the future of the Pelicans with Tang Tian, of course, as the general manager, the first thing he needs to do is the most important Tang Tian.