Because the previous series of trades that preceded the draft were too explosive, all teams fell silent after that, waiting for the offseason to officially start on July 1.

One of the big changes in the free agency market this year is that the Bird clause advantage of the parent team of the fully free agent will be largely gone.

The effect of the Bird clause is to renew the contract, and many strong teams this summer, their total salary is a big gap from the salary cap, this summer will be the first time since the NBA has a salary cap, all teams have not exceeded the salary cap since the offseason, even the Cavaliers, they are now in the case of some role players have not renewed new contracts, the current salary is only 97 million, two million short of the salary cap.

When there is a lot of money to scatter in hand, there is no need for many teams that are not strong or weak to trade, just spend money to poach people, and the Lakers, Warriors, and Knicks will be in a hurry to complete the deal as soon as possible.

For example, the Lakers get Thompson and the Warriors get McCollum and Durant, and these opportunities will never come up.

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Finally, on July 1st, the players whose contracts with their parent clubs expired are now free agents, and the free agency market began to heat up almost instantly.

Liu Ren, Howard, James, Chandler Parsons...... and so on, free agents have officially jumped out of the player option and entered the free market.

After the free agency market opened, the salary cap for the new season was officially announced.

A salary cap of $99.72 million and a luxury tax threshold of $124 million.

After the salary cap was officially determined, the teams began to move, and each free agent with a certain amount of strength was also ready to be sold for a price.

Originally, many teams were thinking about driving down the price, and they didn't want to throw out a lot of contracts because of the skyrocketing salary cap and the last offseason, although it didn't seem big compared to the big contracts thrown out by the current salary cap last season, but that's money! The boss can also save money.

However, there is always one team that will break the plans of individual teams and expose all the bad effects of the super salary cap with the first signing.

I don't know who grabbed it or how it dropped, but the Grizzlies threw out a huge 4-year, 96 million contract to Chandler Parsons, who jumped out of contract with the Mavericks, almost as soon as the offseason began.

Kuban said that you should take him without thinking about it, it is too expensive for us to afford.

Then, the Grizzlies signed a super fat contract with Chandler Parsons with a starting salary of 22 million and a final year of 30 million!

As soon as this signing was confirmed, the entire league was instantly not only the owner, but also the fans, players, and media...... All have a black question mark face.

The main thing is that the management of the various teams is going crazy.

Chandler Parsons gets a contract with a starting salary of $20 million......

If it is said that people in the free market have been robbed of everything, the contract in a hurry can still be justified.

But the free market has just begun! Liu Ren, James, and Howard have not been signed away, although it is impossible for Liu Ren and James to leave the team, and there is no better choice than the team they stay in, but there is still Howard! Before Howard even got the contract, he threw Chandler Parsons a contract that was higher than the two-year 48 million contract that Durant had just renewed?

This is a market breaker!

Just as the owners thought, the Grizzlies' signing of Chandler Parsons directly broke down the players' mental expectations for their new contract.

Because there has never been such a high salary cap, it feels like the price of players skyrocketed in the 90s, and no one can accurately evaluate themselves, such as Pippen signed a coolie for 3 years and 21 million US dollars, and then watched Drexler, who was of comparable value, sign a contract of nearly 20 million, which is worth seven years for him.

The reason why Pippen signed such a cheap contract is because there was no accurate comparison before, because Jordan's salary before his first retirement was only about two million.

But later, after the Michigan Five Tigers entered the NBA for the first time and renewed a 7-year 105 million super contract, the entire NBA began to go crazy, which was the NBA's first 100 million yuan contract.

With Juwan Howard as a comparison, players in the 90s only know how valuable they really are.

It's just that Juwan Howard has become the object of hatred for many bosses, and the bosses will not blame their peers for giving such a big contract, but will only blame the players for being too greedy.

Now Chandler Parsons is playing the same role as Juwan Howard, signing a huge contract of 96 million US dollars for 4 years and 30 million US dollars in the last year, and the last year is a player option, which is basically equivalent to no option, who would refuse 30 million a year?

Chandler Parsons got a 4-year 96 million contract, and his data last season was 13 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists per game, which is 96 million for 4 years, and the free agents are crazy, and then the players who have renewed their contracts or have contracts are crying...... At the same time, the bosses of each team were crying......

However, at this time, it was relatively not so explosive, because there was a clear stream among the players immediately.

CJ McCollum, who has just arrived with the Warriors, reached a five-year contract extension with the Warriors, and he signed an early extension with one year of rookie contract and got a five-year, 100 million contract extension.

If it were in previous years, it would be basically impossible for a fourth-year player who has not been an All-Star to get a 5-year, 100 million contract, it is impossible to do it from the rules, and it will be sprayed too much by fans.

But compared to Chandler Parsons, CJ McCollum is almost praised on the Internet as the sky and the sun shoulder to shoulder.

Just when the owners were about to breathe a sigh of relief, because McCollum, who is very likely to be an All-Star for the first time next season, "took a pay cut" to renew his contract, there was enough reason to negotiate with free agents, and then the Grizzlies hit another hammer.

Mike Conley and the Grizzlies agreed to a five-year, $163 million first-ever contract!

This is the largest contract that the current salary cap can give a player, and the current salary cap is the highest in history, that is, the Grizzlies gave Mike Conley the largest contract in history, although the salary cap will definitely rise next season after the contract expires for Curry and others next season, and it will soon be surpassed.

However, Mike Conley's starting salary of 27.8 million and the super fat contract of 40.13 million in the last year are still too shocking!

Chandler Parsons 22 million next season, Mike Conley 27.8 million next season, plus Gasol Jr.'s five-year contract extension last year 120 million and 23 million for the second year, Randolph's 11 million for next season's contract year, Tony Allen's 8 million next season, and Carter's 5.5 million next season.

The Grizzlies' starting team plus the sixth man is almost just enough to make up the salary cap...... Moreover, and that's just six people, the Grizzlies are a notoriously mid-class team with a lot of contracts, and the mid-level clause must be used every year......

The Grizzlies said, isn't it just a 30 million salary cap, and my brother will spend it on you in minutes......

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"Mitch, don't you think you're embarrassed by these offers? It's very likely that I'll take these offers back and be fired by Jordan and Hassan, maybe the boss won't want me......" The chick said she was very dissatisfied, can't you see anything in the free market, and still give this kind of offer? Not everyone has the same worldview as Green, okay!

Kupchak could only smile wryly.

Kupchak said that he said okay, let's go on a good trip and have a good time, why did the two signings blow us up from Hawaii?

However, after coming back, Kupchak saw the news of the Grizzlies signing, and his head instantly became big.

Kupchak is an old man, and all he reads is TV clips or newspapers prepared for him by his secretary, and the Internet is either his daughter or his secretary who helped him get a web page for him to see, and his daughter died of illness two years ago, so he also quit reading the web so as not to see things and think about people.

So Kupchak, who was on vacation in Hawaii, didn't know what was going on, and when he came back from a call from the magician, he realized that the Grizzlies had poked such a big basket into the teams.

The Grizzlies threw out several poison-like contracts, doubling the value of the players, especially the role players!

For the highest salary player, it doesn't rise much, for example, James was 25 million a year last year, and this year, I saw yo, Conley got a starting salary of almost 28 million? Then I asked the Cavaliers for a 2-year 63 million contract, 30 million next season, and the Cavaliers agreed without saying a word, and James would have risen by 2.5 million if he didn't jump out of the contract next season, and it would have risen by 2.5 million.

And the wages of those role players have exploded.

First of all, the Nets offered the Trail Blazers' group of Myles Leonard, who relied on Lillard to make the playoffs strongly, 44 million for 4 years, and an offer of 72 million for 4 years to Allen Crabbe.

This is a pioneer life!

Miles Leonard, a pitcher-type center who averages 5+4 per game, the Nets actually offered a contract of 10 million! This is only 6 years and 70 million for a center of Ben Wallace's level before!

Crabbe's 4-year 72 million is even more poisonous, and the previous contract extension between Harden and the Rockets was only 5 years and 85 million, in other words, it is not as good as Crabbe's contract, and Crabbe is just a player who was brought into the playoffs by Lillard on a weak team, and will average more than 10 points per game! And Harden was already the best sixth man who reached the Finals with the team at that time, and he had already shown his superstar image.

However, the Trail Blazers can't let go, otherwise there will be no one to play next season, so they can only break their teeth and swallow it, match the contract, and reach a contract extension with the two.

In this comparison, Kupchak threw away all the several contract extensions he had prepared to return from vacation to his own players.

Originally, Kupchak prepared for Clarkson a new version of a 5-year, 42 million full middle-class contract, and those special contracts will change with the salary cap, and now the middle-class clause has been raised to 8.4 million a year for at least three years, but now it looks like a stumbling person!

And Liu Ren's offer is 130 million for 5 years, which is also the top offer before it, as well as Whiteside's 5-year 85 million early renewal, Antetokounmpo's 5-year 85 million early renewal, and then these offers Kupchak threw them away directly after he came back, and then gave a new offer, but I didn't expect the chick to still disagree.

"Mary, we can negotiate the amount ......of this contract," Kupchak smiled wryly.

"No, no, no, I'm not talking about this, Hassan renewed his contract in advance for 5 years and 100 million, this is no problem, he is very satisfied with the annual salary of 20 million, Jordan is also very satisfied with the offer of 40 million for 4 years, but the contract between BOSS and Giannis, we have to discuss it carefully, Giannis should be worth more than 90 million in 5 years, right? I believe he's worth more than Chandler Parsons, and the boss has a contract of life, and I hope it's the same as before, not too long, preferably only for three years, and we want to have a chance to re-sign in 2018. "Chick is very direct because she has the initiative and these demands are not excessive.

And Kobe Bryant's salary cut of more than 10 million yuan before has already made the chick's heart bleed, and hundreds of thousands of American knife achievements have floated away like that.

Even Kupchak feels that the request is not too much, and has already solved two players who must renew their contracts this summer, leaving the two players with the highest potential and the most popular to discuss in detail, which is also a reasonable range.

"That's fine, we can talk slowly......"

Chick is not stupid, Liu Ren has shares in the Lakers, so Chick will not put forward a salary request that will make the Lakers' finances collapse, otherwise she will pay a million luxury tax, and tens of thousands of dollars will be taken from Liu Ren's dividends, so she negotiated very smoothly with Kupchak and the Magic who also rushed back from Las Vegas.

In fact, everything will go well for the championship team, because, this year is not bad for money!

In the end, under the premise that Jeanie Buss instructed to meet the girl's requirements as much as possible, Liu Ren's agency once again cooperated with the Lakers for three years!