Just when the Pacers' executives were still considering whether to trade Hibbert, who was rising in price, or continue to 'wait and see', ESPN's reporter broke a big news, which is actually not news, after all, everyone knew about this matter a long time ago, that is, the league's broadcast contract expires next year, and after the end of next season, the league needs to negotiate a new contract with major broadcasters.

In fact, this is not a thing worth paying attention to for the alliance, after all, this thing was determined ten years ago, but the key is that the current economic development speed is beyond people's imagination, and the income of each broadcaster is very amazing, and the alliance will naturally not give up this opportunity to make a lot of money, so this time the alliance's broadcast contract is likely to be signed at a sky-high price.

And this sky-high contract, the BA salary cap, is the NBA's most famous salary limiting clause. The total amount of wages spent by a team on a player must not exceed this figure. The concept of a pay cap was introduced in 1984, and negotiations between the NBA league and the players' union first took place, and the pay cap was only officially published if both parties agreed. The NBA's salary cap increases every year, from $26.9 million in the 1997-98 season to $58 million in 2010. In the 2013-2014 season, it increased to $58.679 million.

The exact amount of the salary cap is closely related to the total income of the NBA in the previous year. Specifically, this salary cap is based on the total income of the NBA in the previous year, and then take 48% of this total income as the capital of the NBA team to spend money, and then take this 48% of the income and divide it by 30 (the total number of NBA teams last season), and the average is the salary cap for the current year, and the total salary spent by each team on players must not exceed this number.

But it is this total income, after signing a new broadcast contract, will definitely get a very terrifying increase, and the increase in the salary cap will inevitably cause a very terrifying situation, that is, the salary of the star will rise significantly, and the league's base salary will also get a boost. Therefore, many stars will deliberately set their contract year for the next season in terms of contract formulation, even if it is a longer contract, they will leave a player option to jump out of the contract to give themselves the opportunity to get a big contract.

In fact, these things don't have much impact on Ye Xuan, because his contract is directly signed for the 17-18 season, and he doesn't have any player options to jump out of the contract, so even if other people's contracts start to grow at that time, he can only watch it. However, this also has an advantage, that is, Ye Xuan's contract can be regarded as a value-for-money contract, not the poison contract similar to Jeremy Lin's that Pritchard expected at the beginning.

In fact, this is not necessarily a bad thing for Ye Xuan, of course, his current strength is beyond doubt, but judging from the current development of the league, it is too difficult to lead the team to win the championship alone, so if Ye Xuan occupies less salary space, he can also save some space for the team to sign some other helpers. And now Ye Xuan's income is no longer supported by the team's salary, under Shen Wei's care, Ye Xuan now has a lot of endorsement contracts, and his original commercial value has also increased to a very terrifying point with the help of last season's championship and finals MVP.

Therefore, Ye Xuan no longer cares about the small income of the team's salary, he now wants to achieve a lot of honors to help him gain survival time and improve his strength. After all, the team's salary can only account for less than 1/5 of his income now.

So for this reason, a lot of fish belly teams want to take the opportunity to get some junk contracts that are about to expire, so that they can use it to free up salary space, wait for those big-name players to jump out of their contracts, and then sign one or two with the maximum salary to complete the rebuild in one fell swoop. So in this season, although there are not many big-name players traded, some ordinary players are traded much more frequently than in previous seasons.

Time flies, and although it has been two days since the Pacers defeated the Cavaliers, the tight schedule has not given them much respite, and on February 9, they will have to leave Indiana again to take on the Hornets of Joe's boss in Charlotte.

The last time they played against the Hornets, the Pacers relied on Ye Xuan's excellent play to beat the opponent to the ground, and their core player Kemba Walker was almost beaten by Ye Xuan. And in this game, the Pacers with the momentum of just defeating the Cavaliers, they must win this game in one fell swoop, but the Hornets are not really without a little change of hands, after all, their internal and external strength is quite average, although there is no particularly strong point, but the overall strength is not weak.

It's a pity that in this alliance where strength is respected, 'strength is not weak' is not enough, and in the face of Ye Xuan, who is still strong, and Hibbert, who suddenly woke up, the Hornets still seem a little vulnerable. At the beginning of this game, the Pacers still seemed to be a little slow to heat up, and they didn't have any advantage in the first seven or eight minutes, but soon after the start of the second quarter, Ye Xuan began to exert his strength, and after a wave of 7:0 Xiao Gaochao, he directly firmly controlled the rhythm of the game in his own hands.

At the end of the first half, the Pacers relied on Ye Xuan's excellent play and Hibbert's crazy performance on the inside to take an 11-point lead, and at the end of the half, Ye Xuan and Hibbert teamed up to get 37 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists. (Ye Xuan still didn't grab a single rebound.) ）

In the second half, the game became simpler, and since they had already achieved a double-digit lead, the Pacers played unhurriedly, constantly using their strong points to extend their lead, and finally stretched the difference between the two teams to 18 points near the end of the third quarter. At this time, the Hornets were obviously not ready to continue to insist, and directly replaced all the main forces.

After this game, it is even more determined that the general managers of those teams want to pursue Hibbert's **, after all, it can be said that it is luck to play well in two games alone, and this four consecutive games have played very well, that is the problem of strength, which shows that Hibbert himself has the ability to dominate the game. It's a pity that they all selectively ignored Ye Xuan's key factor.