It is naturally Yi Jianlian's idea to let Downey renew his contract with James Harden in advance, although he doesn't want to be involved in the selection of the management, but James Harden was introduced by Downey at the beginning, and it has been successfully traded, he naturally wants to help Donny determine this guy early, and he naturally knows what kind of combat power this guy with the ball can burst out.

78 million in 5 years is definitely not a loss!

Donny listened to Yi Jianlian's words, so he naturally had to do it early, and the reason was very simple, Yi Jianlian's contract for the new season was the second year of his contract, which means that he might jump out of the contract after the new season next year.

So from now on, they will try their best to meet all of Yi Jianlian's ideas, after all, this can be regarded as building his own team for Yi Jianlian.

He wants to renew James Harden's contract as soon as possible, so renew James Harden's contract as soon as possible, this is nothing wrong with that!

It's just that these thoughts of his, as well as the advice given by Yi Jianlian, are not known to James Harden, when he heard that Donny had just signed him to the Knicks, he would immediately renew his contract in advance, James Harden said that it was definitely impossible not to be shocked and moved, and at this time he was just abandoned by the Thunder, Downey told him that mentioning the contract extension made him feel like he had met a confidant.

What's more, the price at which Downey signed with him is not low, the Thunder are only willing to give him 54 million for 4 years, an average of only 13.5 million yuan per year, while he wants 60 million for 4 years, which is 15 million per year, and the 78 million for 5 years given by Downey is 15.6 million per year!

600,000 more than the annual salary he wanted!

Although it seems that 600,000 yuan a year is nothing, Harden knows that Downey is showing his respect for himself by giving an extra 600,000 a year in this situation!

So Harden didn't hesitate without any hesitation, nodded and agreed to renew the contract!

5 years and 78 million, plus the last year of the rookie contract this year, a total of 6 years, which means that until 2018, James Harden will be a player for the Knicks.

That's basically half a player's career!

But Harden doesn't care, he has no problem even if he spends his entire career with this team, because he feels the respect that the Knicks have for him, which is the most important thing for him right now!

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The news that James Harden completed a contract extension with the New York Knicks was also reported two or three days later, and no one felt that the number was a bit too high for a five-year 78 million contract.

After all, James Harden himself wants 60 million in 4 years, and the fans don't think it's a big deal, but now it's just an extra 600,000 per year, which is not much for the fans.

And with the New York Knicks winning two consecutive championships in the last two years, fans are no longer disparaging and ridiculing the Knicks management's trade, and they are willing to trust the Knicks' management's decisions.

That's the NBA!

As long as there are results, whether it is for the fans or for the management of the team, it is a good and harmless thing, and everyone will understand the management's approach.

And when the team's results are not good, no matter what the players the management selected in the market at the beginning, what kind of market it was at that time, everyone will say that they signed bad contracts again.

These are all real situations.

"James Harden is a good addition, but just one more James Harden against the Lakers shouldn't work, right? I'd like to see more additions! ”

"For the Knicks, if this year's big trade is only James Harden, it will undoubtedly be disappointing!"

"I hope to see the Knicks' follow-up trade, although they have won two consecutive championships, but for the whole team, the new season is definitely the biggest challenge, if it is just this level of reinforcement, it is obviously not enough to see!"

It's just that for Knicks fans, just one more James Harden trade is not what they want to see, what they want to see is more reinforcements, there are more changes, they want to see the Knicks on paper to compete with the Lakers, instead of waiting for the game to come, they also have to consider what Yi Jianlian has to play like in order for them to win.

Plainly!

They want to see the Knicks build a great team as well!

It's better to get another star!

And the current Knicks do need some big deals to complete better additions, after all, in order to get James Harden, the Knicks completed a three-way deal with the Thunder and the Timberwolves, and they sent David West and Dragic to get James Harden and an additional head Armstrong.

It's just that James Harden may be able to fill the void of Dragic's departure, but Armstrong certainly can't make up for the void of David West's departure.

And the Knicks currently have multiple players whose contracts are expiring.

The current list is not perfect, Donnie is not in a hurry to make the next trade, but takes a look at the entire list: the current personnel on the guard are only: James Harden, Thomas Jr. and Petrus, and the small forward is Yi Jianlian and Grant Hill, the big forward position is only one Armstrong who has just been traded because of the departure of David West, Xiao Si can play the two positions of power forward and center, but his injury will not return until January of the new season, And it's really a little worrying about what he can recover after not playing for more than a year, so the No. 4 position must be supplemented.

There is Tyson Chandler in the No. 5 position, and he also signed two rookie centers this year, but the performance of these two centers in the summer league was not so satisfactory, and it is also for this reason that Downey gave up signing these two centers, so that the candidates for the center position also need to be supplemented!

"This year, the inside line is going to be supplemented!"

Last year, Downey's main problem was the outside, and this year's Knicks' main problem has become the inside, of course, if Xiao Si is not injured, he doesn't need to worry about anything, it's just that injuries are also part of the game in the NBA, and he can only go to the free market to need players who can be used!

There are still a lot of interior players on the free market this year, such as Garnett, Jeff Green, and Asik, all of whom can be used as interior players.

But these players have their own problems, Garnett's current age is too old, and the injuries in the past two years have been a bit frequent, and these injuries have also made him look old, these are not good news!

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