It took a few days to deal with domestic affairs, including news interviews, advertising shoots and other miscellaneous things.

Subsequently, Wang Meng got on the plane back to the United States. Wang Meng, who arrived in the United States, was also not idle.

The first thing that bothered Wang Meng was the wedding with Taylor, and Taylor's parents also attached great importance to this wedding, after all, this was their baby daughter's wedding, and it must be held perfectly.

Therefore, in terms of wedding venues, wedding dresses, and jewelry selection, Wang Meng needs to discuss with them for a long time to solve every problem.

In fact, Wang Meng said a long time ago that no matter what it is, let Taylor and his parents pick it, as long as Taylor likes it, everything is fine.

However, this point was collectively opposed by Taylor's parents, and in the eyes of the old couple, choosing these things is also one of the good memories of newlyweds, and it would be a pity to take them in such a hurry.

Looking at Taylor's expectant eyes, Wang Meng reluctantly gave in.

But it's not just these things that make Wang Meng busier.

With the playoffs over, the reinforcement work of the major teams has been carried out one after another.

The Lakers are undoubtedly the most turbulent of this offseason, Paul and Howard are no longer in the city, and it is likely that both stars will leave the Lakers one after another at the beginning of the new season. Many teams have also set their sights on these two superstars.

Basically, Paul Howard didn't move, and many teams didn't dare to move, because they were afraid that they would use up too much of their salary to bring in either of the two superstars.

In this case, some teams have been unable to bear the loneliness and started to strengthen the team first.

At the moment in the free market, there are so many big-name players. First up are the two superstars, Paul and Howard, whose contracts both expire this year and are definitely the top new ones.

Immediately after that, there is the All-Star, the Eagle King of the Eagles, Josh Smith. Iguodala of the Nuggets. David West of the Pacers.

Next, there is a group of potential rookies in '09, including Evans of the Kings, Jennings of the Bucks, and Mayo of '08.

However, all this is not very attractive to the Hornets. The Hornets, who have just won the championship, have a complete lineup, basically as long as they can maintain the main lineup of last season, and at the same time sign some more powerful substitute players, it is a very good reinforcement for the Hornets.

The Hornets have a total of seven players whose contracts expire this season, but several of them are base-salary players and don't even play games on a regular basis. More importantly, including Tony Allen, Fisher, Barnes, and Milicic, there are only 4 people in total.

Of the four, the Hornets want to stay, including Tony Allen, Fisher and Barnes, have three players. Milicic played 70 games off the bench for the Hornets in the regular season, averaging only 2.3 points and 2 rebounds per game, and his performance was not as good as expected, so the Hornets are not ready to renew Milicic's contract.

In the renewal process, Fisher is very cooperative, because his current age is basically in the NBA pension, it is good to be able to play for a few minutes, in the Hornets, Roy has Roy on the bench to control the ball, Fisher only needs to shoot a three-pointer, defend his players, such an easy job, and it is very likely to win the championship again, why not Fisher?

After negotiations, Fisher and the Hornets signed a one-year veteran base salary again and successfully stayed with the Hornets.

However, after successfully renewing Fisher's contract, the Hornets had a big problem when renewing Tony Allen and Barnes.

First of all, Tony Allen, who the Hornets value the most, is very hesitant to renew his contract. Because the biggest contract the Hornets can offer to Tony Allen is only a three-year, nine-million, average three-year contract.

But at the same time, several teams have offered Tony Allen more than 20 million contracts, including the Los Angeles Clippers with Harden and Griffin, the Clippers offered Tony Allen 24 million for four years, and the Clippers expect Tony Allen to be able to form a tough backcourt line with Harden, although the Clippers have no point guard, but Harden, a two-way guard, is obviously capable of doing the job of a point guard.

Thinking about it from the aspect of feelings, Tony Allen undoubtedly wants to stay in the Hornets, after all, the atmosphere of the Hornets team is very good, the core of the team Wang Meng has a gentle temper, never blames his teammates, and other teammates are also some guys who can play. But thinking about it from the perspective of rationality, what Tony Allen needs more now is a high-value contract.

Today's Tony Allen is not young, at the age of 30, he almost got the last high-salary contract of his career, according to his level and status, after four or five years, even if he is still playing in the league, he can only get a veteran contract at most.

Tony Allen has played his entire career and has never signed a contract of more than five million, and his financial strength is enough for him to squander before the age of fifty.

When it comes to the Hornets, Tony Allen has signed long-term contracts with several Chinese manufacturers, and now if he takes on a larger contract, Tony Allen will basically not worry too much about his life in the future.

This is very important for a player, after all, not every NBA player can make tens of millions a year like James and Kobe.

For the current Tony Allen, he already needs to start thinking about what will happen after his retirement, the NBA players have a prosperous career, but after retirement, they are too poor, they play basketball as a profession, they know too little in other fields of knowledge, and even many people participated in the NBA draft in the second year of college.

Away from the NBA, they have a lot of people who don't have anything else to do.

The most typical, and the closest, is undoubtedly the son of Philadelphia back then, the "answer" Alan Iverson.

When Iverson was in his glory, the amount of money he could earn in a year was not much less than that of Wang Meng, James, Kobe and others now. In his entire career, not counting advertising contracts, the salary paid by the team alone is enough to hundreds of millions of dollars, but such a huge wealth was squandered by Iverson soon after retiring.

That's right, hundreds of millions of assets have been squandered, and now Iverson is poor, according to his latest revelations, he doesn't even have money in his pocket to buy a hamburger.

There are countless NBA players who have retired from the NBA, including former dunk king Webb, who now coaches a group of strippers at a strip parlor. Why is he willing to do such a shameful thing? Because apart from this, he has nothing else to do. If he doesn't do this, he won't have anything to eat.

So, Tony Allen's thoughts began to hesitate unusually much. With two championship rings, Tony Allen's pursuit of the championship has become very low, and being able to have a very lucrative contract is obviously more attractive to Tony Allen.

Tony Allen, Fisher, Barnes, although the Hornets want to stay, but among the three, the Hornets need it the most, undoubtedly Tony Allen, although the other two players also attach importance to it, but it is not impossible to give up.

Barnes wanted a bigger contract, and the Hornets simply let him go, because there are a lot of free agents like Barnes.

But for Tony Allen, the Hornets really don't want to give up, specifically, it should be the player coaches led by Wang Meng and Monty who don't want to give up.

Tony Allen's superior individual defensive ability is too important for the defensive-oriented Hornets. Although Tony Allen's offense is not very good, his defense fully compensates for this shortcoming.

However, the contract proposed by his agent like the Wasp was unacceptable to the uniform team.

4 years and 20 million, compared to the contract offered to Tony Allen by teams such as the Clippers, this contract is still less, but Tony Allen said that if the Clippers can accept this contract, Tony Allen will renew his contract with the Hornets.

However, the Hornets could not accept such an offer.

In fact, it should be the Wasp's uniform team that does not accept such an offer. The owner of the Wasp, who is Liz's father, thinks it's too expensive.

I have to say that Liz's father is too similar to Jordan, the owner of the Bobcats, in this regard, and he is extremely stingy.

Liz and her father fought for a long time before finally fighting for the biggest contract from her father, which was 12 million for three years. An average of four million a year.

Obviously, this still doesn't impress Tony Allen.

"This is too picky, the Hornets are now 1,800 miles earlier than the luxury tax, and even the salary cap is just over it, but it costs an extra three million a year, why can't Tony Allen be kept? With him, the Hornets are more hopeful to defend the championship! In this regard, Wang Meng showed great incomprehension. However, Monty, as the head coach, calmly analyzed it in the phone call with Wang Meng.

"I can't quite say that. As the owner of the team, he has a lot more to think about. Monty analyzed: "First of all, your contract with Gasol will expire next year, Gasol is in his thirties, and he may sign a contract similar to the current Duncan Garnett." But you're different, you ask how big a contract is for you next year? ”

Wang Meng was stunned, he really hadn't thought about this.

Due to his Chinese background, Wang Meng's contract income is much higher than his salary income, so Wang Meng really hasn't carefully considered how much he wants to earn from his salary.

"The maximum salary is for sure." "Moreover, your conditions are enough to trigger the Roth clause, which means that your annual salary next year will be at least about 18 million." In the second year, it will reach 20 million. At that point, there will be no guarantee that the Wasp will not trigger the luxury tax. ”

"Isn't that easy? Won't my salary reduction be over when I sign a contract? When Wang Meng said this, he felt like he should have taken it for granted.

But Monty looked at Wang Meng as if he was looking at a monster.

"You're not sick, are you? How old are you now? It's the peak of his career, and this is going to cut his salary to ensure the team's record? Aren't you to the point where you are so hungry for a championship that you can sacrifice money for the championship, and now you want to take the initiative to take a salary cut! Monty kept muttering, "Even Jordan back then, who was desperate for a championship, never thought of taking a salary cut in order for the team to bring in a strong helper." It's unreasonable that you should think about taking a pay cut. ”

Wang Meng opened his mouth wide, very surprised by Monty's reaction, but after thinking about it, Wang Meng was relieved again.

The American bourgeoisie and China are indeed very different in terms of ideology. Americans value money more, while Chinese care more about honor.

This is also because there are too few Chinese playing the NBA in the United States, otherwise this group of evil capitalists will not pit the Chinese players miserably? One by one, they use championships to strengthen the team to tempt and persuade players to take a pay cut.

But even so, from Wang Meng's point of view, he is still willing to reduce some salaries in order for the team to sign some more powerful players to help him get more honors.

"These things still need to wait for the general manager to speak thoroughly before they can be determined." Monty sighed and said: "Wang Meng, you must know that the league has always been a business field, players are just goods, this can not be changed by anyone, like you is a particularly sought-after high-end goods, and Tony Allen can only be regarded as a good goods." ”

"There are a lot of good goods, and there are quite a few cheaper than Tony Allen. It's a thought that all team owners have, and they won't regret it until the good stuff is gone, but now, they won't give up. ”

Hanging up the phone with Monty, Wang Meng was a little upset. After thinking for a long time, he picked up the phone, hesitated for a moment, and then dialed Lis's phone.

"Liz? I want to talk to you about Tony Allen. Wang Meng waited until the phone was connected, and said bluntly.

Liz has always been on the side of players like Wang Meng, working hard for the maximum benefit that the Hornets players can receive. Wang Meng knew this, so he wanted to communicate with Liz, and he really didn't want to give up such a powerful teammate as Tony Allen.

"Forget it." Lis, on the other end of the phone, couldn't hear anything from her tone, but she said a piece of news that surprised Wang Meng. "I've quit my job as general manager of the Hornets."

"What?!" Wang Meng was dumbfounded, "Are you kidding me?" ”

"Who's kidding you? Where's your pretty one? Liz rolled her eyes and said angrily: "The main reason is that I have been too busy recently, and it is estimated that I will not be idle in a short period of time in the future, and the recent Hornets are in a critical period, so I simply resigned and let a more suitable person take the position." It's good for anyone. ”

"Busy lately?" Wang Meng asked suspiciously. "What are you up to? Can't even take care of the team's work? ”

Liz on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment before she said, "I'm about to marry Jason." ”

Suddenly, Wang Meng felt as if something in his heart had broken like a glass, and he couldn't hear what Liss was saying behind the phone.

Hanging up the phone in a daze, Wang Meng felt that there seemed to be a beep in his ears.

"Liz is getting married?" Wang Meng never thought that Lisi was about to get married.

This has always been expected by Wang Meng, but when this moment came, Wang Meng found that he really couldn't accept it.

It wasn't until this moment that Wang Meng realized that deep down, he had fallen in love with Lis.

It's not just because I had a ** relationship, because of a one-night stand, I really fell in love with Lis.

Wang Meng felt that he was too beastly, he was about to marry Taylor, and he still had another woman in his mind. But sometimes a person's mind is not something that he can control at will.

Lisi's simple words made Wang Meng completely overwhelmed, he didn't know what to do, and he didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing. Do you want to run to rob Lis's wedding like in the novel or TV series?

No kidding!

Wang Meng hugged his head in distress, was stunned for a long time, then picked up his mobile phone and called Lisi again.

"Hello?" Lis's tone on the other side of the phone was the same as before, unchanged at all.

"When did you and Jason get married?" Wang Meng opened his mouth and asked, he originally thought that he might speak with a trill, but he didn't expect that his tone didn't change much.

"In a month." "Jason and I both wanted to get married as soon as possible, end a story, and start a new story at the same time," Liz said. ”

End a story? Is it ours?

Wang Meng wanted to ask like this, but when he got to his mouth, it became. "Jason is a good guy, you will be happy."

"Hmm." Lis's rare gentle response, "Thank you." ”

Hanging up the phone, Wang Meng sat in place and sent for a long time, what Tony Allen, what team and other questions, all of which were forgotten by Wang Meng.

That night, Wang Meng and Taylor lay on a double bed in Taylor's own house in Nashville. Wang Meng rested his head on his arms and lay on the bed looking at the ceiling.

"Wang Meng, something is wrong with you this year?" Taylor looked at Wang Meng and asked a little strangely.

"Nothing." Wang Mengqiang said with a smile: "Mainly because of some things in the team, I feel a little annoyed." ”

Taylor looked sideways at Wang Meng's face, and suddenly, for no reason, said something.

"Wang Meng, Lisi will get married in a month, faster than us."

"Hmm." Wang Meng replied lightly.

Taylor looked at Wang Meng, sat up suddenly, and then approached Wang Meng, her golden hair scattered on Wang Meng's chest, and her royal blue eyes stared straight at Wang Meng.

"Wang Meng, don't you think you have something to say more than I said?"

(To be continued)