Porzingis was depressed, although he was going to New York, the largest city in the world, but the place he was going to go to was Los Angeles!

Although New York is more prosperous than Los Angeles, it is Los Angeles! O Angel City! Take a look at the lace news that Lakers players are usually exposed, and the appointments are all supermodels, celebrities, and beautiful stars!

...... in New York It's all a bunch of rich people, and it's not fun for young people!

Originally, the Lakers have not traded with a team with a first-round pick, and Porzingis has been nervous, afraid of falling to the second round, knowing that the second round is not guaranteed a contract. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Then after the 25th pick, the vice host on the scene announced that the Lakers and Hawks were traded for the 27th pick in the first round of this year, and Porzingis instantly felt that the sky was bright!

I'm going to play for the Los Angeles Lakers!

Porzingis is confident that his three-point ability and athleticism will be a perfect fit for D'Antoni's system, and he will be able to make a name for himself with the Lakers like another young European player.

I didn't expect to be picked by the Knicks all of a sudden!

You have to know that Porzingis has planned where to rent a house in Los Angeles and how to play in Los Angeles in the offseason...... Well, now that you've been chosen, you don't have to leave......

Liu Ren and the chick were stunned...... It's nothing, the team is not bad for this talent, and when the time comes to negotiate a rookie contract with New York, you can try to win a 120% contract, make a little more money, and the team does not have any particularly big losses because of this, at most it is an extra two-year mini-middle contract, the Lakers' current salary situation is not too good, before Jeremy Lin's contract expires, next year's salary cap has risen by more than 5 million, and Green has not renewed his contract, the Lakers have at least 16 million or so salary space, A naked signing, a lower salary like Parsons' cap is enough.

The only one who is the most sad and angry is Kupchak.

"No wonder Phil Jackson, a son of a bitch, doesn't trade with me, and he actually takes a fancy to Porzingis!" Kupchak felt a grievance in his heart, and then immediately began to select who should be selected for the 27th pick in the first round.

Since he didn't plan to intervene in this draft before, after Liu Ren asked him to choose Porzingis, Kupchak's goal was only Porzingis, and he waited until Porzingis was about to be selected by the pick he wanted, and there was no backup option at all!

Kupchak spent two and a half minutes cursing the Zen master for three and a half minutes of deliberation, and in the last 30 seconds he thought of a player who had not yet been drafted, the son of the former slam dunk king he had seen during the joint tryout.

Kupchak also broke the jar and wrote Larry Nance JR and handed it to the league staff.

Kupchak is frustrated, and he's regretting that even if he had spent some more cash to trade the Grizzlies for the 25th pick, it wouldn't have resulted in a rookie and a garbage contract that he doesn't know much about except for a dunk.

And people sometimes love to drill the horns, because Kupchak is convinced that the person recommended to him by Liu Ren is a rookie with unlimited potential, he feels that the Knicks must also take a fancy to Porzingis's talent and pick up a treasure in the low pick, of course, this is a fact, but Kupchak doesn't know that it's okay, and he is very depressed when he knows, and he is estimated to be depressed for a long time......

Without the newcomer he wanted, Kupchak could only return to Los Angeles with the rookie he had just selected.

Truth be told, the Lakers have had another year of not much chance this summer, with a full roster and no chance to prove Kupchak's ability to operate.

The Lakers' remaining backcourt players at the end of the season are LaVine, Clarkson, Kobe, McCollum, and Nick Young, and the frontcourt is Liu Ren, Korver, Green, Antetokounmpo, Whiteside, Gasol, and Thackeray.

These are already twelve players with guaranteed contracts and about to have guaranteed contracts, and none of these players are willing to trade, and all of them are the core team of the championship.

With the addition of the traded Mike Scott and the son of the selected dunk king, the Lakers now have 14 players......

In other words, there will be some minor repairs at most, and there is not much room for maneuvering, and Kupchak also has a way to do eye-catching things, such as selecting a talented rookie with a low rank, such as winning LaVine like a god last year, and the most sad and angry thing after Kupchak was cut off is that another draft deal that may be called a god operation was cut off by others.

So what Kupchak can do next is to renew his contract with Green, and negotiate an early contract extension with Liu Ren, Clarkson, and Thackeray.

Liu Ren, Clarkson, and Thackeray have only one year left on their contracts, and they can choose to renew their contracts in advance, but at this time, renewing their contracts naturally means that the contract is lower, because in addition to Liu Ren, neither of them can be the top salary, and although people know that the salary cap will rise sharply next summer, it is still unknown how much it will rise, and it depends on how much each team can get next season after signing a new broadcast agreement this summer.

Therefore, at this time, non-maximum salary players have to estimate how much of a contract they can get next year according to how much the salary cap is likely to rise.

And for the super young stars who only have one year left on their rookie contracts, their teams can't wait to renew their contracts, because they don't know how high the salary cap will be next year, and if it is ridiculously high, other teams with salary space will send a big contract with poison to the extreme, and then they really don't know whether to match or not.

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On June 30th, under the unhappy expression on the girl's face, Kupchak was pleasantly surprised to win Green with a 5-year 72 million contract extension!

Although the chick has been very careful to add things like a 15 percent trade margin, an annual salary that can be withdrawn early for the next season when free agency market opens, leaving only the average salary in Los Angeles paid weekly, a non-tradable salary for the first three years of the contract, and a player option for the fifth year......

These terms seem like they don't make sense, but Kupchak doesn't think it's a problem!

Kupchak is ready to give Green a 5-year contract of 82 million, and he is also ready for the highest salary of 85 million in 5 years, who knew that Green actually took the initiative to cut his salary by 10 million!

In this way, Green's starting salary next season will be 12.7 million, which is almost 3 million more space!

Although the annual salary is paid in advance in a lump sum and the average return on market investment is equal to almost 6% more money, this is not a problem! For the Lakers, it's not the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but more flexible salary space! In the next few years, Kupchak is most worried about the team's salary space, too many people in the team are going to renew their contracts, although the big boss is not bad for money, but it is also necessary to ensure the flexibility of salary space!

Just after Green and Kupchak reached a verbal agreement to renew their contracts, the "intelligence staff" within the Lakers sent the news to the media that had a relationship with them.

When WOJ exposed the verbal agreement between Green and the Lakers to renew his contract and the news that Green took the initiative to cut his salary, Green's status in the hearts of fans suddenly rose.

Contemporary living Lei Feng! Illuminating the rest of the Lakers, sacrificing their salaries, at least 10 million US dollars in salary cuts, an average of at least 2 million in a year, and Green's salary in the first three years added up to more than 2 million......

After Green's contract renewal was completed, Thackeray also reached an early contract extension agreement with the Lakers, signing a 4-year contract of 13 million, and the player option in the last year is really expensive, seven or eight hundred thousand a year higher than the market price, and other teams can't give such a long contract even if they want to dig Thackeray, which is considered compensation for Chick's agency.

Green and the Lakers reached a verbal agreement, so that the Lakers' salary space occupied by Green before the official contract extension was only 15 percent of last year's 920,000 salary, that is, 1.36 million US dollars, allowing the Lakers to retain a lot of space to operate in the summer.

Thackeray's contract extension doesn't take up space in the team, as it won't take effect until next summer, and then the current mini-mid-sized contract will be nothing.

And Liu Ren's renewal was temporarily shelved, and Kupchak made a request for a renewal of 127 million for 5 years, but he was fooled by the chick Gu left and right, and Kupchak had no choice but to put this matter aside first, and then talk about it slowly.

In the matter of renewing the contract with Liu Ren, Kupchak is very confident that Liu Ren will be left, but it is just a matter of the size of the contract, he gave 127 million for 5 years just to test the tone of the chick, but obviously the other party is not satisfied with this offer, so he will not talk about it directly.

Although many teams began to prepare to act after woj broke the news that Liu Ren refused to renew his contract for 5 years and 127 million, Kupchak was not worried at all, because only the Lakers could give Liu Ren the largest contract, and the Lakers had Liu Ren's bird rights, and they could give the biggest contract even next summer, and Liu Ren had no intention of not renewing the contract, just wanted to wait for a bigger contract.

That being the case, Kupchak is focusing on the free market first.

This summer is not a big year for free agency, it is far worse than last year, the biggest big names are James and Aldridge, Monroe, although James jumped out of the contract, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that he will not leave the Cavaliers.

Aldridge ...... If there is enough space, Kupchak wants to win it, Kupchak doesn't care if the lineup is too saturated when he digs up stars, Gasol, who was at the peak of the year, can play as a substitute, and the saturation of the lineup is not a problem at all!

But Aldridge's salary is too high, and the Lakers really can't eat the space.