"Mary, yes, yes, can I still be lazy if you ask me to help? Rich has agreed, you two combined, he takes Ben Simmons, you take Brandon Ingram, of course you have to suffer a loss here, Ben Simmons is basically sure to be the first pick, Ingram can only be the second pick, thanks? No thanks, our relationship says the same...... By the way, the renewal of the boss...... Hey, hey...... I rubbed ......"

Pelinka hung up the phone in a speechless manner, and then looked at the three management bosses who were still laughing in front of him with a black line.

"Haha, Rob, I'll just say it, even if you help Mary, this calculating woman won't be busy talking to you about the renewal of the boss's contract, save this heart." The magician scoffed.

“…… Mary is a dime a die, but he does mean what he says, and if we can get a verbal extension with a relatively low contract now, we can save a little money then. Pelinka said helplessly.

"It's okay, even if the maximum salary is increased by 10 million, we can afford it, Jenny." The magician laughed.

"That's right, as long as we can win the championship, we don't care how much money we have, Time Warner will help us pay for it." Jenny Bass said indifferently.

Luxury tax? It doesn't exist, as long as the record is good, Jeanie Bass can gnaw the bones from those sponsors, and those sponsors are happy to send money to the door, this is the economic management ability of Jeanie Bass No. 1 in the league, when it comes to making money, he is better than any boss in the league...... Of course, it's limited to managing NBA teams.

"We don't spend that much money, those sponsors don't give us as much money, Erwin, you don't care, you don't have shares, I will have to pay hundreds of thousands less for an extra 10 million luxury tax." Pelinka said resentfully, his net worth is basically invested in the Lakers, and now he is waiting for the end of the season to pay dividends to support his family.

The Magic was poked in pain, who knew that the market value of the NBA would increase so much! The owners of the football league are basically indebted, and the Dodgers have a chance to make money in a big city like Los Angeles, you must know that although the NFL is the most profitable league in the world, it is more profitable than the five major football leagues, but more than 55% and nearly 60% of the money is players, so the players still make less money and want to strike and shut down.

But this is also something that can't be helped, a football team has thirty or forty players, and the contract is scary, a star has a ten-year contract, after all, the NFL has a very high chance of injury, and if you are not careful, your career will be reimbursed, who will do it if you don't sign a long-term contract! As a result, close to 20 percent of the NFL's salaries are spent on injured players on teams, and the pressure on owners is even greater.

Now the magician has repented of all his intestines, The Lakers now have a net profit of almost 250 million US dollars a year, even if 50 million US dollars are distributed to those teams who are willing to spend money and can't make money according to the collective bargaining agreement, there is still a net profit of 200 million, which means that his previous five percent of the shares can earn 10 million a year lying down, and if the Lakers win another championship, that is, complete the consecutive championships, the final terms of the broadcast agreement with Time Warner, which has been raised to 3 billion US dollars in 15 years, will be triggered, becoming 5 billion US dollars in 20 years, and a series of other sponsorships will also have corresponding price increases…… When I think of this magician, I feel that life is full of despair.

Seeing the magician's deflated expression, Pelinka finally felt a lot more comfortable for the hundreds of thousands of dollars he wanted to score.

After the joke ended, the Lakers executive quartet got down to business again.

The magician put away his aggrieved face and said: "The situation is very clear now, the Warriors are likely to turn the tables and enter the Western Conference finals, which is very bad for us, although we have the advantage of rest time, but their momentum of turning the tables against the trend is more terrible than their sweeping Thunder to advance, and the morale bonus brought by their reversal of three consecutive wins is more worrying than a direct sweep to advance." ”

"That's right, I really hope that the Thunder can beat the Warriors in the last game, but it's impossible, the Warriors win more than one game, just like playing the regular season playing the Thunder, the two teams are not on the same level at all, I don't know if there is any way for Mike and Bernie to have it, we didn't play particularly well with the Warriors in the regular season, and we lost three full times!" Pelinka is a little worried, if he fails to beat the Warriors to enter the Finals, the income that was expected to rise by tens of millions next year will be in vain, after all, this is a contract written, the championship raised the price once, and the consecutive championships mentioned the maximum value of the contract.

For the owner of a team, the love for basketball is certain, otherwise most of the teams in small cities have been indebted to them, how can they still stick to it, but fortunately, the main income of most owners is not the NBA team, such as the Clippers owner, it is purely the love of basketball, he earns hundreds of millions of dollars a year at Microsoft, and he has been sticking money for two years in the NBA, of course, For Ballmer, who is worth more than $23 billion in dollars and pays hundreds of millions in dividends from Microsoft every year, it is the same as playing games and rushing to become a VIP, which does not exist.

But if you can make money, it is natural to earn as much as possible, and the condition for making money is a good record, then you must pursue a good record, which is the original intention of the boss who loves basketball, and he can make money if he can complete his dream with a good record.

"It's up to Mike and Bernie and our players, Bob you have to believe we have the best coach and the best squad and the best quality." The magician reminded him that he was afraid that Pelinka would run to D'Antoni and put pressure on D'Antoni.

At this time, the management should be separated from the players and the coaches, let them focus on the game, and not have to worry about anything or take pressure for anything, their pressure is already big enough, defending the champions, sweeping the Spurs, and then the fans have only one expectation of the team, and this pressure is already big enough.

"But we should do something about it, Elwin, how are you talking with Myers?" Pelinka suddenly thought of something and asked meaningfully.

"Myers is very tempted, the Warriors basically think that we want Barnes to decide, don't you see that Barnes is so excited to stop Durant." The magician smiled his trademark smile, only this time a little badly.

"Then we should do something, do you want to help Thunder?" Pelinka smirked.

"No, no, no, this kind of thing doesn't work at a certain time, maybe it doesn't work, and it backfires because of the time gap, and it only works when we play the Warriors." The magician hastened to dispel Pelinka's idea of launching that plan now.

"Well, I can't wait." Pelinka is a bit stupid, as a former agent, he has always had a plan to start, and the agent needs to seize any opportunity, but as a management person, it is different, and he needs to seize the moment.

"What plans are you talking about?" Jeanie Buss asked suspiciously, and Kupchak, who was the team's top trader, was also curious, although it was not within Kupchak's power, and Kupchak's job was to make a deal and sign a free agent.

"You'll know about this then, and it's going to cause a lot of buzz at that time, and then you'll say you don't know what's going on, and you're angry that my plan was leaked, and you're going to be ready to find out who leaked it." The magician smiled his trademark smile again...... But it's a bit of a gloomy ...... It's more than bad......

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On May 19th, the last game of whether the much-anticipated Warriors can make a 1-3 Jedi reversal, the Warriors' home game against the Thunder is about to begin.

Just the day before, the draft draw was over, and the Phoenix Suns got the 2016 No. 1 pick! The Nets got the spot...... It's simple, the Celtics, the team that reached the second round, actually got the top pick...... Immediately after the Nets won the pick, they executed the add-on clause they had made to trade Pierce and Garnett, which was the right to swap first-round picks between the two teams in 2016 and 2018.

The trade rider is that the Celtics have the power to swap draft picks with the Nets in 2014, 2016 and 2018 in addition to the Nets' 2013, 2015, and 2017 picks, and is limited to the top three picks.

The Nets said they were helpless and desperate...... And for the next two years, they are expected to remain desperate......

The Celtics said they were interested in Brandon Ingram and immediately sent Brandon Ingram a rookie tryout.

Ben Simmons has been around for the top pick since January, and although he has been plagued by injuries, Irving's injury has not affected his position that year, and then Brandon Ingram, who is also excellent but has yet to hone his skills, is only second in the rookie rankings.

The rookies who entered the 2016 draft are considered superstar potential in terms of Ben Simmons and Ingram, as for the others...... It's really hard to even get into the lotto zone for many team owners to feel hopeless, and this year's draft talent is really miserable.

And the sad Bucks, holding the bottom record in the league, only got the No. 3 pick...... Kidd doesn't even have the courage to use this pick to make an offer for Antetokounmpo now, this pick is really worthless! It's not as valuable as a marginal pick from last year's lotto......

Although the teams with first-round picks are desperate, this year's draft is basically a reverse discount, and even this rookie rookie except Ben Simmons and Brandon Ingram is estimated to not even have a potential player with a career scoring double, but the draft is like this, there are draft years, and naturally there are current super draft years, just like 2000 and 2013, which are shockingly bad draft years.

Therefore, the owners of each team can only crush their teeth and swallow in their stomachs to see if they can always find a few treasures among other players who are not good-looking like like the Lakers and Spurs.

Some teams have even begun to explore who the Lakers have invited to participate in draft tryouts.

This year, the Lakers finally have their own draft pick, the 29th pick in the first round......

But it's not a draft pick, the 2013 and 2015 picks were used up to trade Nash, the 2014 draft pick and the Rockets' 2014 draft pick were packaged together to trade LaVine's draft pick, plus the previous 2010, 2011, and 2012 draft picks were basically traded out, the Lakers have not drafted a first-round pick for six consecutive years, and they can finally pick a first-round pick this year.

In view of the fact that the Lakers have always been able to rob the treasure from the unsightly players selected by other teams in the first round, other teams want to see who the Lakers will choose this year, anyway, this year's draft is worse than gambling, gambling still has a chance to win money, this year's draft picks are not the first two picks, which is basically equivalent to upside down money, even if it is known as Jaylen Brown, Jamal Murray, Buddy Hield and others who have NBA high-quality instant combat strength, they are far from worth the price of a lotto. In a normal draft year, it's all about the ability of the bottom 10 defensive picks and role pitchers in the first round.

Therefore, many teams have already made up their minds to directly select the players who are key tryouts of the Lakers, and if they choose potential stocks that have not been discovered, they will make money, but they will not be selected...... I didn't get it, anyway, this year's first-round picks are basically bought and sold at a loss.

What else can I do about this, the rookie player report given by the scouts is simply the fate of the general manager of the team who is looking forward to turning around by the draft but has not won the top pick, and this year's draft talent is really terrible.

In addition to Brandon Ingram, the highest-potential pitcher is a pitcher named Jamal Murray, and his template is the rookie Lonely Great Gem Freded, who was drafted by the Kings with the 11th pick in the 2010 draft......

And the lonely god has completely disappeared from the NBA after the end of the four-year rookie contract that was full and skyrocketing, and now plays in the CBA's Oriental Sharks......

In addition to the two possible super-rookies with superstar potential, the best potential player template among the remaining rookies is a player who can't play in the NBA after his rookie contract is played, and then the rest is either a defensive striker, or not even a defensive striker, which can show how desperate those team owners and general managers are now......

I can only go and grab people with the Lakers! Even if it was just the 29th pick and the 11th pick in the second round...... Moreover, the Lakers' second-round pick is still compensated from the Rockets......

Just when many teams were focusing their attention on the list of draft tryout invitations that the Lakers invited, the people invited by the Lakers left them dumbfounded.

Lakers President Magic Johnson invited Ben Simmons and Brandon Ingram to the Lakers draft tryout......

"Damn! Magician: That's funny, isn't it? Do you expect these two to be upset and fall out of the first round like Jordan Jr.? ”

You know, these two people have previously accepted the trial invitations of the Suns and Celtics, who have the top pick and the top pick, and the other Bucks, even the third pick, have been rejected, that is, the Bucks have not even had the opportunity to try out two hot rookies.

Everybody thinks the Lakers are here to be funny, a team with the 29th pick to invite the top pick and the top pick to try out?

And then...... Everyone was so dumbfounded that their eyeballs were about to fall out......

Ben Simmons and Brandon Ingram both accepted the Lakers' trial offer on the grounds that they were both Kobe fans......