554. Can you still do this?
On July 29, the Lakers, who had not made any moves in the free agency market this year, and who had more than 10 million space but watched so many free agent signings and contract renewals, suddenly threw a bombshell without any idea. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The Lakers acquired former Pistons full free agent Greg Monroe on a three-year, $27 million, final-year player option contract, and then traded Mike Scott to the Hornets to get the Hornets' restricted free agent Bismarck Biyombo!
Biyombo then signed a three-year, $9 million contract with the Lakers with a third-year player option.
The Hornets signed a huge contract with Batum with an average of more than 25 million per year, with a starting salary of 22.7 million, and the space was instantly blocked, after reaching a 4-year 50 million contract extension with Kemba Walker, Courtney Lee signed a 4-year 44 million contract extension, and Al Jefferson signed a 3-year 30 million contract extension, the total salary is only 2 million away from the luxury tax threshold, plus the 1.64 million qualification offer to Biyombo, the total salary has reached 81.37 million.
At this time, they were no longer able to give Biyombo the contract he should have at his market price, and Biyombo's value on the free market was about 3.33 million.
Moreover, the Hornets are now extremely understaffed, and only Courtney Lee is the only scoring guard who can only sign a veteran with a base salary, so the Hornets seem very hesitant to renew Biyombo, or even don't want to, because Al Jefferson has been renewed, what else do you need Biyombo?
When the Lakers made a three-year, 9 million offer to Biyombo, and offered to use Mike Scott, a backup point guard who is really not expensive for an ordinary team, to sign and trade Biyombo, Michael Jordan immediately agreed.
Average 4+3 per game as a backup point guard...... I won't be able to find any 5 million next year! Being able to win 3.33 million doesn't seem to be a loss.
Signed Monroe, sent away Scott to get back Biyombo, the Lakers' 15-man roster was full, so Green's contract extension was officially submitted to the league, and Green had to play for the Lakers for at least three more years before he could have the possibility of a transfer.
Green's new contract comes with a three-year non-tradable clause, which is actually two different things, and the non-tradable clause is only to keep it and give up these two options, once Green gives up, the Lakers can send him to any team, just like Gasol's non-tradable clause.
And the veto power of Kobe, Anthony, James and others is that management can find a trade partner, and then they can choose to go or not.
However, this doesn't matter to Green, the important thing is that he immediately got the majority of his salary for next season after signing, a total of 12 million before taxes.
After the agent commission, players' union commission, state tax, and personal income tax were paid, a total of 6,273,700 US dollars were paid, and Green instantly changed from a base-paid man to a local tyrant! He's going to buy a house!
...... Beverly Hills Green is still a little reluctant, like Liu Ren is lucky to meet a Lakers fan who sells him a house cheaply, which is a rare encounter in ten years, and everyone lives too close, and there is no novelty at all when he goes to visit the door, so the new house Green chose is in the villa area of San Marino.
Most of the blacks are big money, and they just got more than 6 million, and more than 5 million were thrown out, and they instantly became the poor face when they got the basic salary last season.
Fortunately, Nike's endorsement contract was finally won, 30 million in 7 years, and Green will stay under Nike for the next seven years!
After all, Nike agreed to Green's average annual endorsement fee of more than 4 million, but the number of years has been greatly increased to seven years, which is considered to be no profit or loss from a long-term perspective.
Of course, endorsements like Green's are not signed shoes......
……
……
After the Lakers' two signings were exposed, the other teams instantly collapsed in their hearts, 80.29 million!
The Lakers are now full of 15-man rosters, with Kobe, Liu Ren, Gasol, Green, Whiteside, and Korver, six All-Star members last season, plus Antetokounmpo and Monroe, two new generation superstars, the Lakers' total salary next season is only 80.29 million!
Especially the Lakers' interior line, it's outrageous!
Green, Gasol, and Whiteside are three All-Star-level insiders, plus Monroe and Biyombo are two starter-level insiders...... The Lakers are crazy!
Popovich was the first to come out and accuse the Lakers of starting to rob again!
Popovich's heartache! Monroe offered the Spurs a starting salary of 17 million at that time! If he could take Monroe for 9 million, he would have gone to the troika to reduce his salary a little more, maybe he could still trick Leonard into dropping a few million, so wouldn't he take Monroe?
When the time comes, the troika plus Leonard, Monroe, Aldridge, and David West, this lineup is no worse than the Lakers!
The most stunned was Aldridge, who was not well after hearing the news.
Monroe's free market this year is actually cold, and the same is true in Liu Ren's original time and space.
Monroe demanded a relatively high price, he wanted the maximum 4-year contract he could get more than 60 million, of course, he finally found the Bucks, who were very short of centers because Larry Sanders went to pursue art and didn't want to play, and got a 4-year 68 million contract, but other strong teams were greedy for him and felt that it was too expensive.
Aldridge was also interested in free agency before signing with the Spurs, especially in Los Angeles, where he waited for a balding white-haired man in Los Angeles to invite him to dinner.
However, Aldridge did not receive an invitation to dinner, but heard that there was an infatuated man stationed in Los Angeles who wanted to join the Lakers.
At the beginning, Aldridge mocked Monroe from the bottom of his heart, he was a 10-million-level insider, which was too embarrassing, just like he didn't put down his face.
But I didn't expect Monroe to really "move" the Lakers, and then really went to the Lakers after dropping three million from the market price!
Aldridge felt like his heart couldn't take it anymore.
Aldridge began to feel that if he took the initiative, would the Lakers take him for 3 years and 54 million?
It's not possible, it's very likely! The Lakers made it clear that they would not let go of the opportunity to strengthen the interior, and also announced that Antetokounmpo will focus on point guard and small forward next season, deliberately freeing up playing time on the inside! And the Lakers took Monroe and Biyombo in one go, Aldridge asked himself that his contract was not much higher than the two combined, in fact, the Lakers still have more than 3 million space after signing the two, which is enough to sign him who is willing to take a salary cut of three to four million......
"What the hell is this kind of operation?"