"The winner of the 2016~2017 Season of the Best Head Coach is ...... Mike D'Antoni. ”

Xiao Hua announced the attribution of the best manager, and as in his previous life, D'Antoni won the second best manager honor of his career.

There was a burst of whistles and cheers, and Tang Tian and Popovich also stretched out their hands to applaud.

The Rockets lost Howard last season and didn't sign Gordon to their previous life, but still have a 55-win record, and D'Antoni does deserve that honor more than any other coach.

Although they failed to win the championship, they won the best sixth person and the best head coach one after another, and the Rockets finally had the intention of re-emerging after Tang Tian left.

The Best Manager was followed by a number of other awards.

These awards are quite interesting, such as Nowitzki winning the league's best teammate award, Carter presenting him with the award, and the scene was extremely heartwarming for a while; The Most Dressed of the Year award went to Westbrook, and Wei Shao, who leads the fashion style of dressing, is well deserved.

After all the miscellaneous awards were awarded, the finale was the MVP award of the season.

Harden, Westbrook and Leonard were shortlisted.

The final result was the same as in previous lives, Westbrook, who averaged a triple-double per game for the second time in history, was honored with the MVP award, and Harden of the Rockets became the most regrettable person at the awards ceremony.

At the end of the award ceremony, the 2016~2017 season was also announced.

The Nets didn't score anything at the awards ceremony.

However, Tang Tian didn't care at all, this past season, the most important thing for the Nets was the growth of Booker and Jokic, and a few small awards were insignificant.

After the award ceremony, Tang Tian also set his sights on the free agent market that followed.

Before the start of free agency, Tang Tian was also anxious that the core personnel of the management held a regular meeting to discuss the future plans of the Nets.

Before trading Gordon and waiving Justin Hamilton, the Nets now have a roster before signing a rookie:

Point guards: T.J. McConaughey, Dejounte Murray

Shooting guards: Booker, Brogdon

Small forwards: Butler, Tucker, Jefferson Jr

Power forward: Yi Jianlian

Centers: Jokic, Oden

In the 10-person roster, there are only 3 people with contracts exceeding 10 million, Butler 19.3 million, Yi Jianlian 12 million, Tucker 10 million, counting other rookie contracts and base salary contracts, the total salary of the Nets' 10 people is about 53 million.

The league announced that the league's salary cap for 2017~2018 is 99 million, the luxury tax threshold is 119 million, and the minimum wage line is 89.18 million US dollars.

In other words, the Nets are still 46 million away from the salary cap, 66 million from the luxury tax, and even if they want to reach the minimum wage, they will need to make up about $36 million.

After Deron expires on his contract, the Nets' salary space has never been healthier.

And such a space also makes them full of aggression in the next free market.

They could even eat two max-salary players on the free agency market with Jokic in mind until next year's contract extension.

"What we need to strengthen now is the point guard and the forward line."

Tang Tian proposed the next direction of the Nets' reinforcement at the meeting.

DeLong's contract expires, whether it is a contract extension or other path, this position will definitely have to poach an All-Star or even super-star star.

As for the forward, last year and the Warriors have proven that their current forward group is still difficult to compete with the Warriors.

"We can try to chase Gordon Hayward, who is a full free agent, with a maximum salary contract, a starting salary of less than 30 million, and his college exchange Stevens is a subordinate of Don, so we can easily get in touch." Frank was the first to speak.

"Yes, Hayward is the best forward on the free market, or Paul Millsap, who is a former disciple of Don, is also a good choice." Rogers chimed in.

"Millsap can't do it, he's too old, he's been in the league for a long time, even if he takes a salary cut, it's estimated to be 30 million a year, and he's more of a No. 4 position, which doesn't suit us." Jones rejected Rogers' proposal, and as general manager, he would think more about the future.

"This is the most troublesome thing, we can chase Hayward on the front line, but the point guard, the point guard in the live market, Curry will definitely renew his contract with the Warriors, Paul may jump out of the contract, DeLong's contract expires, these three are the first gear, what we can do is to choose between Paul and Delon, but Paul 32, Delon 33, their strength must be worthy of the maximum salary or maximum salary contract, but after signing a long-term contract, the future space is directly locked."

The words of Deputy General Manager Joseph directly silenced the conference room.

Tang Tian nodded, this was indeed the most troublesome point.

The NBA's maximum salary is related to the length of time the player has been in the league, Delon and Paul have been in the league for more than ten years, and the starting salary they can get from the contract is 35% of the salary cap, which is close to 35 million starting salary, and if it is increased in four years, even if it is a 4-year contract, the salary in the last two years is more than 40 million US dollars.

Such a contract is really a huge burden on the team.

But the Nets must choose one of the two, and the signing of other second-tier stars will make the overall strength of the Nets decline significantly.

"Case, go and get in touch with Hayward's economic team to try to sign him, and then we'll talk about whether to renew Deron or sign Paul." Tang Tian said after being silent for a long time.

"I would recommend renewing Delon's contract, he is more familiar with the system and he may be willing to accept a partial pay cut for a similar price." Frank gave his advice.

"I also think Deron is a better fit, he has an advantage against Curry, which has been proven in the Finals, as long as we can win Hayward, we can compete with the current Warriors." Rogers chimed in.

Tang Tian nodded, Frank and Rodgers are on the team's coaching staff, and they are still very clear about the team's situation.

Seeing that Jones didn't speak, Tang Tian looked at him.

"I think we might need some changes, Paul has played very well under Don, it shouldn't be a problem for him to adapt to the tactics, he has to be better defensively than DeLong, DeLong has to be more advanced on the defensive end, his movement speed has dropped more obviously, and Paul has signed us on a contract of up to four years, so our salary burden will be a little smaller in the future." Jones finally gave his advice.

Tang Tian nodded thoughtfully after listening.

Jones's words reminded him that Paul's struggles in the West over the past few years had a lot to do with his knee injury.

But he had invested an iron knee in Paul in the first place, and if he returned to him, wouldn't it be nice to recover from his injury?