Now, many teams have expressed interest in Chen Yu.

Although Bill Duffy also knew the reason to choose more, he still felt that Chen Yu was too calm.

This kind of selling at a price is already a bit of a businessman's look.

But this kind of waiting, this approach really worked!

Because the Knicks directly gave Chen Yu a reply, and this is really a big news!

The Knicks said they were willing to sign Chen Yu with a middle-class exception!

This is really a big breakthrough!

It stands to reason that Chen Yu's current salary, according to the rookie, even if it is the best one, is five or six million, which is almost the price of the champion.

But even so, Chen Yu still feels a loss, after all, what he can contribute is almost equivalent to the level of a superstar, although Chen Yu is a rookie, and he will be in the second year next season, but just looking at the contribution, he feels that he is worthy.

In fact, many stars bring far more benefits to the team than their salaries.

To put it simply, it is: a superstar can now get about 20 million a year, and that's just because the salary cap is 20 million. Otherwise, players like Kobe James, the competitiveness that their performance brings to the team, and the commercial value they can bring to the team, can even be worth almost 100 million!

So in this way, Chen Yu didn't feel that he was losing enough to say, but the market of a rookie was originally like this, and Chenyue had no other way.

However, now the Knicks have given Chen Yu another idea, and this idea is indeed a huge opportunity.

Because, now the NBA has very strict salary rules for first-round rookies, which generally do not exceed the middle contract of the team.

This is done because previous first-round rookies often refuse to sign with the team and demand high contracts. Moreover, some veteran players will also be wary of seeing unqualified rookies get lucrative contracts. As a result, the NBA began to implement strict first-round rookie salary rules after 1994, and since 1995, the annual salary of first-round rookies has been strictly tied to their draft picks......

Therefore, as long as the first-round rookie enters the NBA, the salary is constant for four years, and it is generally not high. On the contrary, because there is no such salary limit for the second-round pick, the team can directly use salary space or a middle-class exception to sign a player.

Because the second-round pick basically has no success rate, this is also a hole that is not a loophole, and throughout the history of the NBA, few players have enjoyed such a loophole. That is, Arenas broke through the rookie salary in the third year of his career, joined the Wizards as a free agent and received a salary of almost $10 million, and the previous Marc Gasol was in a similar situation.

One or two second-round picks will not make the league change the rules, and Chen Yu's contract with the Lakers is only one year, and he has no other restrictions, so the Arenas clause cannot be applied to Chen Yu. In this way, Chen Yu was able to sign a big contract with other teams!

It's not that other teams didn't think of this before, but they were worried that as long as a team put forward this idea, it would immediately cause the dominoes to collapse, and maybe it would cause free bidding! And now the Knicks have used this trick directly.

After the Knicks made a move, teams quickly followed up, and both the Kings and the 76ers said that they could also come up with a middle-class exception to sign Chen. In this way, the Knicks are still increasing their chips, and are even directly preparing to use 10 million valuable team salary space to sign Chen Yu.

The Lakers, on the other hand, are a little bit of a stabiliser and don't know what they're doing.

Until the past few days, there was a sudden big news: Howard, who is a big fish in the eyes of many teams and fans this season, officially announced that he accepted the olive branch of the Rockets and left Los Angeles for Houston! It's clear that the various lobbies that the Rockets have formed from top to bottom, as well as the olive branch, are more attractive than Kobe's dry preaching.

As soon as Howard left, the Lakers' salary space also freed up a lot, and at the same time, they also pardoned Artest, and everything made people feel like the Lakers were holding back some big moves.

On the same day, Chen Yu received a call from Kobe Bryant, inviting Chen Yu to visit his house in the evening, and the Lakers management also invited Chen Yu to have a good talk tomorrow. In addition, Bill Duffy also called, and after three phone calls, Chen Yu felt as if things were about to change significantly.

Bill Duffy really brought Chen Yu a very important news:

The Lakers also shot!

Moreover, the Lakers made an extraordinary move this time, and directly offered Chen Yu 38 million for three years! (There's still a bit of a bug here.,But you can't let the protagonist take it too low.,Besides,The price is still negotiable.。 ）

This salary made Chen Yu feel a little dumbfounded...... After all, for a sophomore rookie, and it's a second-round show to give such a price, no one will believe it when they say it......

Chen Yu was also a little puzzled, and then said: "Bill, I don't think it's that easy, indeed, Howard left the Lakers, but you have to know that now Kobe's salary is the first in the league, Gasol also takes 20 million, plus other players, the Lakers' salary space can almost reach 70 million, which should be able to exceed the luxury line tax, which is going to pay taxes, why can you still take out so much money?" ”

Bill Duffy: "Seriously, that's where I feel like I need to get to know you again, and before that, I thought you were taking your ideas too lightly, but it turns out they're still competing for you!" But then again, who would give up on such a player with so much potential? ”

Then, Bill Duffy suddenly said to Chen Yu: "Based on my speculation and the information I have got, the most important thing is that if you sign the contract, the Lakers are likely to correct you, and when the time comes, they will deal with Steve Nash's contract!" ”

This sentence shocked Chen Yu's heart, and then he had some mixed tastes.

The Lakers would actually give up Nash for themselves, which made Chen Yu feel very happy, and he also felt that he was really valued by others...... After all, that's Nash! But on the other hand, he was also very sorry and embarrassed, and always felt sorry for Nash......

But when you think about it, it's also a good thing.

The Lakers are ready to correct themselves, Kobe Bryant may not be able to come back this season, so it can be expected that the Lakers will not be able to compete for the championship this season, so it is better to send Nash to a team that can compete for the championship.

Thinking of this, Chen Yu's heart was surging, and he also felt his current influence.

It's already up to this point!

PS: There may be bugs in this chapter, but please bear with me.

Personally, I don't know much about the NBA's trading rules...... But that's not the point, thank you for your support.