After returning to Saramento with Battle, Davidson immediately received a notice from Petrie that the team owners wanted to talk to Davidson in person......

The ownership of the Kings is quite complicated.

Ownership belongs to ten Kansas businessmen who bought ownership of the Kings in 1971 for $5 million from former owner Les Harrison.

This Les Harrison is also a talent, and he brought in the first black player in NBA history.

In addition, as the owner of the Kings, he also serves as the general manager of the team and the head coach of the team, which is unique in the entire NBA. (Richard doesn't count...... ）

At the time of the sale, the Kings were still called the Cincinnati Royals.

Later, the ten Kansas merchants relocated the king to their hometown of Kansas......

As a result, the Kansas ball market was too small and too small, and when they didn't make money, they had to move to Saramento again.

When Davidson joined the Kings before, he actually didn't meet these ten bosses at all, and Petrie came to negotiate with him the whole time.

Because there are too many bosses, Petrie has this lot of authority in the king.

It's roughly similar to what the NBA is doing today, and Petrie is probably similar to Stern......

There are twenty-nine teams in the NBA, and even if there are twenty-nine owners, Stern, like Petri, is also a part-time worker.

But because there are too many bosses, no one has the absolute right to speak, but Petri, a part-time worker, can have a lot of authority in some cases.

Davidson was looking forward to meeting these 10 bosses he had never met, and he didn't know what the gang was looking for him.

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In the team's conference room, Davidson met with his ten bosses.

At first glance, these ten people actually don't look like the super-rich people......

Maybe some of these bosses are not as rich as their fathers.

It's normal to think about it, in the 70s they got together 10 people to buy the king for 5 million dollars, and over the years, the king's profitability was actually terrible, and they didn't make much money.

"Hello Wilson, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"When you joined the Kings before, we actually wanted to meet you, but we couldn't get together at that time, so we waited until today to really have this opportunity to meet." One of the ten bosses said to Davidson with a smile.

Davidson nodded, it must not be easy for so many people to get together.

"You can call me Old Jackman, we mainly want to talk to you about Battle today, about the contract extension." Jackman, the leader, spoke.

Davidson frowned, a little confused what the hell these people were up to.

Let's talk about Battle's contract renewal, why not talk to Battle

"Mr. Jackman, why don't you talk to Battle about this contract renewal, I'm just a coach, and the contract renewal is not under my jurisdiction." Davidson said with a frown.

Old Jackman smiled wryly.

The thing that their bosses regret most now is that they didn't see Battle's potential sooner.

If he knew Battle's potential before signing his rookie contract, he would not have signed it for only two years, just like Robinson the big dog or Magic Johnson, and directly signed him for ten or twenty years.

Now that I've only signed a two-year contract, it's too much of a problem.

A player like Battle will definitely have a maximum salary in the future, and if the maximum salary is not paid, other teams in the league will definitely do whatever it takes to rob madly.

But the problem for the Kings now is that they won't be able to give Battle a maximum salary when his two-year contract is completed.

Because of the Bird clause, players need to be at least three years old and have bird rights before they can sign a maximum salary contract.

At the end of Battle's contract, which is only two years old, he only has an early bird right, and he can only get a contract of 175% of last season's annual salary or a higher average salary in the league.

Battle will only have an annual salary of 300,000 yuan next year, and in 175% of cases, it will be an annual salary of 500,000 yuan......

The average annual salary of the league is more than one million dollars, and in this case, Battle will wait until the end of his contract next year, and he can only sign a contract with the king with an annual salary of more than one million at most.

The key is that according to the rules of the league, Battle must sign at least two years of his contract for the next two years.

This is the highest annual salary a king can give......

As for other teams, they have no restrictions and can give Battle a super high-level invitation contract.

Although there is no concept of a maximum salary now, if it can be called a super high-level contract, it must also reach the level of four or five million dollars a year.

When the time comes, it's no wonder that Battle doesn't run away, the Kings can only get a million dollars, and if they go to other teams, they can get four or five million dollars, and a fool knows how to choose.

Now the bosses of the Kings have a headache of not four or five million salaries, they are actually relatively generous bosses, after all, the little potato Webber can get an annual salary of more than two million in their hands.

Their main worry is that they can't give the annual salary of four or five million, and then they can only watch Battle being hooked away!

Davidson actually didn't think about this at all, because natal players have the attribute of accepting a 10% salary cut, so Davidson feels that salary is definitely not an issue he needs to consider.

But now that old Jackman said this, Davidson's eyes suddenly hurt.

Going from five million to just over a million, it's not just a 10 percent thing.

It is impossible for anyone to continue to stay in the king, even if it is himself, he will definitely take the annual salary of five million.

It may even be more than five million annual salaries, and it is not impossible to run into those desperate teams and directly smash eight or nine million, tens of millions of annual salaries.

With such a big salary gap, how could Battle stay with the Kings.

Even if Battle really wanted to stay with the Kings, Davidson couldn't bear it......

Davidson was well aware that he was now in a difficult position.

Naturally, he couldn't accept the fact that his natal player was on two teams with him.

Of course, there is no solution.

For example, after Battle switched to other teams, Davidson brought Muresan and the third natal player to join, and presumably no team would refuse.

But if you do this, it will really lose your conscience, and the king will directly become a bare-bones team.

Davidson will definitely face a situation that thousands of people are pointing at......

The last time Davidson took Murraysan to the Kings, it actually made many team executives complain.

It would be ugly if Davidson ran away with three team cores this time......

Davidson's brow furrowed, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

Anyway, he definitely didn't want Battle to leave the king, and he had to find a way to solve the problem at hand.