Tang Tian's plan is to wait until next year to pardon Perkins, because even if he succeeds in renewing both Ibaka and Harden, their big contracts will only take effect next year.

But it was also at this time that Perkins' economic team protested against the team.

"Kendrick gave everything to the Thunder, and last year he agreed to an early contract extension for the Thunder, and now the team wants to pardon him next year, which is very unfair, the new management of the Thunder is very dirty, and we hope that the Thunder can trade Kendrick to other teams."

Trade?

Tang Tian has let Jones try for a long time, but no one wants to accept the current status quo of Perkins!

As for bleeding or trading to a greater negative equity, Tang Tian definitely won't do it.

And the matter of amnesty was only raised at the regular meeting before the draft, but now Perkins's team knows about it, which shows that the team does have internal ghosts!

Tang Tian didn't have time to find out who the inner ghost was at this time, but when he really got to this point, he didn't hesitate anymore and went to find Durant first.

Last year's Finals because of the "bathwater" turmoil, the two were a bit of a bargain, and this was the first time he had contact with Durant since joining the Thunder.

However, to his surprise, Durant has a very good attitude towards him.

Maybe this is Durant's character, he can fight with fans on Twitter, and he can fight with Tang Tian because of the bathwater, but in the same way, he can also let go of those previous entanglements for the championship.

Like Tang Tian, his personality is straightforward.

"I don't want to lose Kendrick, but I also don't want to lose James, coach you make the decision, don't worry about my feelings." This was Durant's last statement after the exchange between the two.

"It's paying for the Thunder's past." Tang Tian finally said.

After making the final decision, Tang Tian did not hesitate any longer, and asked Jones to contact Perkins' economic team and tell them of the final decision.

Shortly after that, the Thunder officially announced the news.

When the news came out, the alliance was shocked.

Perkins was the mainstay of the team's interior line in Boston before, and he was also the core of the Thunder team, and the big contract signed last year was only fulfilled for 1 year, but now he has been pardoned by the Thunder!

In other words, the Thunder gave Perkins $26 million for nothing!

This is a big wrong!

But the news that broke out immediately made them suddenly realize.

The Thunder followed up with James Harden verbally agreeing on a contract extension with a starting salary of 13.7 million and a maximum salary of 78.5 million for five years.

It's one year longer than previously predicted.

After Tang Tian pardoned Perkins for Harden, Harden felt the Thunder's sincerity enough.

Tang Tian, who opened his eyes to heaven, naturally put his interests greater than in his previous life.

Durant has four years left on his contract, Westbrook has five years left on his contract, and Harden has six years left on his contract with the final year player option!

The Thunder are building the core of the future Big Three!

However, the signing has also caused numerous controversies.

"Harden is good enough, but he's definitely not worth a contract like this, and look at his poor performance in the Finals, he can't play at that high intensity."

"Harden's defense is really worse than expected, he deserves a 10 million contract, but he definitely doesn't deserve the maximum salary, and the Thunder completely lock up the space for future reinforcement in doing so."

"The management of the Thunder team has always done a good job in handling contracts in the past, but Tang Tian's arrival has changed all this, and this is really a bad decision!"

……

In the eyes of many people, being promoted from general manager to president, Tang Tian has monopolized power, which is a complete self-liberation.

As soon as he arrived at the Thunder, he squandered nearly 100 million yuan, and the Thunder team handed over the future to him, which was really too bold.

Of course, only Tang Tian knows that he is leaving all the top five supergiants in the league in the future in the team.

After signing Harden, the Thunder exercised rookie Kerr Aldridge's team option.

Pardoned Perkins, re-signed Harden, signed a rookie and a draft pick, and halfway through the free agent market, the Thunder tinkered, and the prototype of a new roster has come out.

Point guards: Westbrook, Reggie Jackson

Shooting guards: Soflosa, Harden, Bazemore

Small forwards: Durant, PJ Tucker, Middleton

Power forwards: Ibaka, Collisson, O'Quinn

Centre-forward: Cole Aldridge

The 12-man list, because Harden and Ibaka's big contracts will only start next year, and the team's current total salary is 48.01 million, and there is still 10 million room for reinforcement from the salary cap of 58.04 million!

Although the early pardon of Perkins cost an extra 7.8 million, it made the Thunder's reinforcements in the free market more flexible!

In other words, this is a dead game of chess, and it has directly become a live game!

Because he didn't know who the inner ghost was for the time being, Tang Tian didn't hold another regular meeting, but talked to Jones alone about the next reinforcement plan.

10 million seems like a lot of space, but because Harden and Ibaka are in effect next summer, most of this space will only be useful this summer.

"We need to add an inside line, but the contract is only for one year, and we need to sign a cost-effective player on a long-term contract."

Tang Tian and Jones expressed their thoughts, in fact, the idea is already very clear, that is, the combat power is used to impact this year's championship, and the cost-effective players are planned in the future.

"Do you have any requirements?" Jones asked.

"The former has to be immediate, preferably fast, but stronger than Ibaka, the kind that can carry blocks, and the latter has the best ability to play inside." Tang Tian thought for a while and said.

"It's hard to find the inside line of Ceying, and now there is Boris Dio in the market, but he has a close connection with the Spurs, and the contract asking price will be around 5 million, but when you talk about instant combat power, I think of an old acquaintance."

"Who?"

"Kwame Brown, a former Cavaliers veteran."

"Him?"

After Brown was boosted by his basketball IQ, he played very well with the Cavaliers, and then signed a one-year, 10 million contract with the Warriors.

It's just that Brown left Tang Tian, and his basketball IQ slowly went back, and he didn't play well with the Warriors, who didn't choose to renew his contract, and now his performance in the free market is not good.

"Well, I've watched him play, he's not playing with the Warriors again, but I'm sure he'll still be able to get back to the feeling he had with you."

Yes! Absolutely!

Tang Tian can be sure of this, after all, Yao Ming has proved that what the system says is true.

Although the system has been playing with news, Jones's proposal has brought its role into play again.

"Dead people" are also useful.

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