As the finals come to an end, many players who have reached the player option or the team option are starting to decide whether to jump out of the player option or exercise the player option, or give up the team option or exercise the team option.

At this time of year, more or less, there is a movement of some players, and naturally some people are happy and some are worried.

The Spurs' Bunch Wells jumped out of the player option of the 1+1 contract signed last summer, relying on the data of 17.5 points and 7 boards per game in the finals, and the data of 23 points and 11 boards per game when playing in the Suns series, and vowed to ask for an annual salary of 10 million, and the Spurs began to have a headache.

On the Timberwolves' side, the renewal of the contract between the madman Sprewell and the alien Kassel, from the beginning of the season to the end of the season, has been making a lot of trouble, the Timberwolves' season has been over for more than two months, and it still hasn't been negotiated, Kassel is okay, simply dissatisfied with the Timberwolves can only give him a middle-class contract, because he doesn't have bird rights, it's no wonder the Timberwolves, it's no wonder that Kassel, Kassel has no shortage of champions, so it's normal to go where the salary is high.

After the finals, the Timberwolves immediately gave a 3-year 21 million fat contract, but Sprewell hesitated for a few days and refused, and said in an interview: "I can't accept 7 million a year, I can't support my family, and my performance is worthy of tens of millions of annual salaries......

There is nothing wrong with what Sprewell said, his experience, skill and competitiveness, playing well, and a salary of 10 million a year is not a problem.

But...... The biggest problem is that some of the things he did in the past, conflicts with coaches, conflicts with teammates, etc., made his reputation stink, if he left the team directly, if he didn't say this, maybe a team would give him a big contract because of his outstanding performance in the past two years.

But the madman's remarks have put off many teams that want to get him, including the Spurs who want to replace Bunch Wells with a madman.

Just when people were eating melons about Bunch Wells and Sprewell asking for big contracts and the team, a deal was made.

On the evening of June 20, 2005, Tracy McGrady announced that he would jump out of the player option, and the Hawks held a press conference to announce that Maddie would be re-signed for 5 years and 90 million!

In the morning, Liu Mang fooled Maddie to Price's office, and Maddy, Schwartz, Coach Kruger, and Price talked for a day, and finally finalized the new contract in the afternoon.

After watching the team's first day of tryout, Liu Mang attended the press conference of Maddie's contract renewal together.

The Hawks officially announced that they will renew Maddie's contract for 5 years with a starting salary of 15.9 million, with a 4+1 player option, with a total contract of 90 million US dollars.

90 million in 5 years, this salary Liu Mang is very unexpected!

Originally, Maddie signed for six years, and with this season's salary cap, he could get up to 113 million for six years, and even if he signed for five years, he could get up to 95.39 million for five years.

Although it is still more than 1.5 million US dollars more than last season, with a starting salary of 15.9 million, compared with the highest starting salary of 16.83 million, nearly 1 million US dollars have been argued, and the total salary of the entire contract has been reduced by more than 5 million!

Even if the estimated income of the league this season is only the same as last season, affected by the Auburn Hills palace incident, the increase in total income is not as expected before the start of the season, but the estimate of professional financial institutions, the total income of the league still has a small increase, and the salary cap next season will not be lower than this season, that is, the salary given up by Maddie adds up, more than 5 million!

Liu Mang knew that Maddie had a salary cut to renew his contract, with an average salary cut of about $1 million per season, which was quite unexpected.

Don't underestimate the $1 million, this is the amount of salary cut determined by Maddie and Schwartz after talking with Coach Kruger and Price for a long time.

Since McCarty's contracts with Persson and Mourning expired, Maddie only reached a contract extension, and the real submission of the renewal was after the end of the summer reinforcement, so the salary space occupied by Maddie was still 14.6 million US dollars.

Even if three expiring contract qualification offers were given, the Eagles' total salary was reduced to $62.19 million, just reducing the team's total salary below the luxury tax threshold, and then the rookies were selected, and the salary space was not occupied before signing, Maddie gave the Hawks the opportunity to use the middle-class exception!

Liu Mang chatted with Schwartz and understood, Maddie signed a 5-year contract not for 6 years, but for the next contract consideration, after 5 years of 31 years old, you can sign a 5-year maximum salary, when he renewed his contract in advance in 2010, he was actually not 31, and the long-term contract can be signed up to 35 years old, that is, 5 years.

If you sign for 6 years, you will be 32, even if you renew the contract in advance, you will be 31 years old, and you will get a 4-year contract at most, just like Kobe Bryant, who is one year older than him, Kobe Bryant will be 32 years old in 2011 and can only renew the maximum salary for 3 years.

Nowitzki renewed his contract in 2011 for 4 years with an average annual salary of 20 million, and his willingness to reduce his salary is on the one hand, and on the other hand, he can't renew his contract for 4 years without a salary cut, and can only get a three-year contract, Nowitzki is two months older than Kobe.

Mainly because Kobe Bryant and Nowitzki didn't care about an extra year of salary at that time, anyway, as long as the contract extension did not exceed two years, they could sign the contract casually, and their teams were willing to give it.

Maddie is now on a five-year contract, and even if he is traded, he can keep the bird rights, and he can sign for another five years after the contract expires, and if he jumps out of the player option early, he will be 29 and under 30 years old at that time, and he will have better room to operate.

If it is just a salary cut, 1 million US dollars per season, it will not cause such a big response, and Maddie's contract renewal is basically expected by the media and fans.

However, Maddie's salary cut just allowed the Hawks to use the middle-class exception, which was different, and for a while, Maddie became a model of "salary reduction and contract extension......

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Maddy's contract extension is the Eagles' top priority in the summer, and what the Eagles have to do is to ensure that Liu Mang, Maddy, and Jason Terry have a three-star combination of one substitute, which is the backbone of the Hawks' offensive end.

And Liu Mang has shouted out three consecutive championships, so he has to be more prudent, maintain his strength, and strengthen the lineup.

Coach Kruger thinks it's too normal to say anything to Liu Mang, this guy is not only big, but also a little wild!

The ambitious kind!

Now that the words have been spoken, let's do our best for the triple crown...... Don't just do your best, give your best from the start!

Maddie has negotiated to take his wife and son out on a trip, and the Hawks are still working hard for the next contract extension and draft.

Liu Mang is also very busy now.

Who should I pick in the draft?

The first few picks in '05 are really powerful, but the players at the end of the first round and the second round in '05 either conflict with the team's existing personnel roles, such as Louis Williams and Monta Ellis, although it is easy to use, but with Jason Terry, there is no need for these two at all, and it is enough to have an evergreen player like Jason Terry who has no injuries all year round on the bench.

Liu Mang discussed with the coaching staff that the players needed are roughly divided into three types, one is a player with impact, three-point and defensive attitude, that is, a 3D player, Ariza was originally very good, but the team didn't have time to cultivate it, so it was traded.

The second is a solid backup point guard, such as Jarrett Jack, who was passed by Liu Mang.

The third is the substitute inside, even if Mo Ning is left, Mo Ning is a year older, and there are still many problems.

After three days of draft tryouts, on June 23, Liu Mang finally submitted a list, as for whether the team wants to pick two of the current draft picks, or use as many as four draft picks in 2006 to trade, Liu Mang does not care.

Now that there are more and more members of the team's management, Price has invited a lot of consultants to study it, and Liu Mang only needs to provide advice.

Of course, Liu Mang's opinion is the most important in Price's opinion.

Some people are talented, Price has to sigh about this, Liu Mang has that kind of "talent".

When Liu Mang determined the draft reference for the team, the Eagles did something......

Coach Kruger wanted to "help" Jarrett Jack, a mature point guard produced by Georgia Tech, and invited Jarrett Jack to participate in a tryout for three consecutive days, and also invited Jarrett Jack to participate in a solo tryout, "inadvertently" revealing that they wanted to trade draft picks up to select Jarrett Jack, who was predicted to be mid-to-late in the first round......

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The Hawks started preparations for next season immediately after the finals, and started the summer plan early for the third consecutive championship.

The other teams in the league have their own things going their own way.

Over here in Houston, a top agent is now extremely excited!

Steve Nash, Yao Ming, Carmelo Anthony, Byron Davis, Elton Brand are under his hands...... Bill Duffy, who waited for the star, is now in a state of ecstasy.

"Yao, are you sure? Then you will become a villain, of course, if you are sure, I will take all the responsibility, this is what I did to trick you for money, and it has nothing to do with you. Bill Duffy said sincerely.

Yao Ming smiled and shook his head: "Bill, this is my own decision, you don't have to bear the infamy for me." ”

The reason why Yao Ming chose Bill Duffy as his American agent for Yao's team back then was because of Bill Duffy's sincerity.

Bill Duffy was able to become a top agent in the NBA and sign so many young talents by relying on two weapons: sincerity and kindness.

Before Yao Ming entered the NBA, when he saw the domestic sensation, he knew that he would not be short of money after entering the NBA, so the agent he wanted was not the kind of person who was strong in ability and how good he could bargain with the NBA team.

Bill Duffy's ability is not the most outstanding, for example, his negotiations with sponsors have been criticized, but he can become the third agent in the NBA, and the salary and endorsement income of his players in the 04-05 season reached 112 million US dollars, which is higher than the commission income of Schwartz, who holds a group of rookie contracts, because of his sincerity.

In the summer of 2003, before the final moment of exercising the player option, Bill Duffy forgot about Anthony Carter because he was busy with the extension of Byron Davis' 99-year multimillion-dollar contract, resulting in Anthony Carter only getting a base salary contract in the summer.

Bill Duffy did not shirk his responsibility, and without hard and fast rules, he took out 3 million US dollars to Anthony Carter, 3 million US dollars, which is almost the income of Bill Duffy for the whole year in the 02-03 season.

As a result, Bill Duffy's reputation soared, signing Elton Brand, a 99-year-old pick who fired his former agent because his contract had been unnegotiated; Nash, Carmelo Anthony and others have also joined his banner.

Yao Ming originally did not give full authority to Bill Duffy, but after that, he completely handed over the American business to Bill Duffy, and fired many domestic agents in Yao's team who opposed this matter.

Hearing Yao Ming's words, Bill Duffy had a feeling that he was dying as a confidant.

Bill Duffy would rather miss the opportunity to make a fortune than serve some players who are not sincere enough, no money is absolutely impossible, but money does not represent everything, in the world of professional sports, there is also such a clear stream.

Liu Mang's signing of Schwartz and Yao Ming's signing of Bill Duffy to join his team can be regarded as treasures.

Of course, although Bill Duffy is sincere and does not consider money as the first consideration, however, Bill Duffy does not want Yao Ming to play in Houston and is sure from the beginning.

Alexander has carved out a new world! Bill Duffy knows Yao Ming's slightly foolish and loyal character as a Chinese, and of course he also appreciates this character, and the two are the same kind of people.

But I don't like Yao Ming playing on the Rockets, I just don't like it.

However, before Yao Ming, except for a few two or three people, he had never mentioned his future plans to anyone, including everyone in Yao's team and even his girlfriend Ye Li, who had never talked about this matter.

Now the time has come to maturity, after the finals, Yao Ming saw that Liu Mang had won two consecutive championships, and he couldn't sit still at all, and decided to implement the plan he had endured for a long time.

Yao Ming has been thinking since the end of the finals, and as the time for the opening of the free market is getting closer and closer, Yao Ming finally decided that he did not notify the rest of Yao's team, and only called Bill Duffy, who was in charge of his American affairs, to his home, and Bill Duffy was frightened after hearing Yao Ming's goal, and then ecstatic.

After confirming that Yao Ming's idea would not waver, Bill Duffy and Yao Ming talked in detail and were ready to start the plan.

"Yao, you should have told me about this earlier." Bill Duffy complained.

"How? Isn't it possible? ”

"No, there's nothing that can't be done, but in this case, I can't take the responsibility, you have to be prepared to be scolded."

"Haha, with Ace on top, I'm fine."

"Haha, Yao, when did you learn well......"