Chapter 688: The Biggest Contract in History
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Boston Celtics training hall, now the Boston Celtics training camp this summer has opened, and during this time period, most of the teams in the league have also opened their own team training camps, as this year's championship team, the Boston Celtics naturally can't start camp earlier than other teams, in this case, it is naturally difficult to recruit too many free agents to train, but even so, for a giant team like the Boston Celtics, There will still be no shortage of people in the training camp.
It's just that it's not possible to crowd the training gym with hundreds of people like it did before last year's draft. Although the Boston Celtics' training hall now looks a little less, but this has not affected the heat of the training hall, now the Boston Celtics' three rookies this year and the latest renewal player Birdman Anderson are here and other free agents who want to enter the NBA training, although the Boston Celtics introduced these four players this year are very good in strength, but in terms of skills and tactics are not very in line with the current requirements of the Boston Celtics, such as Wade and Mo Williams, both of whom have a unique style of play, Another example is that Birdman Anderson doesn't know offensive running at all now, and the interior player didn't learn these things in college or in his previous Nuggets, or his former coach didn't ask him to learn them.
So among the four, Korver is slightly better, but Korver is originally a pitcher, and he is also a second-team pitcher, so the Boston Celtics have extremely low requirements for him, and naturally it is impossible to be like Wade or Mo Williams, even Birdman Anderson is higher than him in terms of tactical position. After all, it is possible for Birdman Anderson to match the starters in the new season, after all, whether it is for Yao Ming or O'Neal Jr., Zhuang Fei cannot let them play 38 minutes or more than 40 minutes in a game like an outside player, so in such a situation, these four new players of the Boston Celtics are definitely experiencing the most painful training of their careers.
"How. Tom. Zhuang Fei looked at the two teams on the court that were playing a training game, and then smiled and walked to Xibodu, who is now at work, and asked, After returning to Boston from Los Angeles, Zhuang Fei signed a three-year contract with the former Clippers scout, with five million for three years, and an annual salary of nearly 1.7 million a year, which is a gap with Green's annual salary of $2 million, but it is still the top salary among the NBA assistant coaches, you know. Many head coaches in the league do not have such salaries, and his annual salary was less than 1 million when he was with Van Gundy, or even far less than 1 million.
And as soon as the former Van Gundy assistant coach came to Boston, Zhuang Fei used his relationship with the team to find a villa for the assistant coach, and it was also very close to Zhuang Fei's home, so it can be said that Zhuang Fei had prepared everything for his new assistant coach. This is also the reason why the new assistant coach of the Boston Celtics can put into work so quickly, and in fact, the current Boston Celtics really need him to get into the job as soon as possible, because now another assistant coach of the team, Stephen Green, has gone to China, and there is a men's basketball game in the Asian Championships in September this year, and this game is also related to the Olympic tickets of the Chinese team next year.
So when Zhuang Fei left Boston for Los Angeles not long ago, Green also set off for China, of course, returning to China with Green naturally also has Yao Ming, the core of the Boston Celtics team who won the championship this year. This year, it is his turn to represent the Chinese team in the Asian competition, and Wang Zhizhi can rest, since Zhuang Fei was the vice chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi's proposal to take turns to return to China to lead the team to participate in the Asian competition was accepted. At the current level of Asian basketball, even if these two come back, it is enough to sweep everything. Therefore, the current Boston Celtics training camp is also completely in the hands of the new assistant coach, and what makes Zhuang Fei even more pleased is that the new assistant coach of the Boston Celtics is indeed an extremely reassuring guy, or a workaholic.
"Very good, the Boston Celtics have a lot of strength in these new players this year, especially that Wade, who is extremely talented and a superstar embryo, and that Chris Anderson is also physically talented, but these two lack defensive awareness and skills, and they still need to be polished."
After hearing Zhuang Fei's question, Xibodu also took a deep look at the court and turned his head to Zhuang Fei and said, since he took over the Boston Celtics training camp, he was very surprised that Zhuang Fei rarely came to the training hall, you know, when he mixed with Van Gundy in the past, Van Gundy has been in and out with the players, originally Xibodu thought that this was the Chinese deliberately showing his generosity in front of him, signaling that the team was completely handed over to him, and he would not interfere, But after a little inquiry, Thibodo realized that he was very wrong, the most famous basketball coach in the United States is indeed a hands-off manager, and this is also a surprise to the new assistant coach of the Boston Celtics, because in the NBA, not any head coach has such a complete trust in his assistant's consciousness, and no head coach dares to let go like this.
"In this way, these boys still owe some heat, so I will trouble you to train them well this summer" Zhuang Fei smiled and looked at the assistant coach who had been very serious with a straight face, and said, not smiling This is Xibodu's style, which is completely different from Zhuang Fei and Green, but Zhuang Fei doesn't feel that there is anything wrong, he is still extremely satisfied with the current Xibodu in charge of the team's training camp.
"By the way, Zhuang Fei, I recommend a player to you, you look at the No. 7 defender of the white team, what do you think?" Just when Zhuang Fei was thinking about Thibodo's recent performance, the assistant coach of the Boston Celtics had already pointed to a player on the court and said to Zhuang Fei.
"White Team Seven?" Zhuang Fei also took advantage of the situation to look over, and at this time, a black player who looked a little thin came into Zhuang Fei's eyes, according to Zhuang Fei's memory, he did not find any memory of this person in the later life. Of course, for Zhuang Fei, the players he can remember are either stars or players with characteristics, and it is obvious that the player recommended to him by Thibodu is not inferior to these two categories.
"The defense is good, the play is also reasonable, he is a good player" Zhuang Fei nodded after looking at it for a while. The defender was able to resist against Wade. It's not easy, and more importantly, this defender doesn't have the bad problems of other practical players, for most players who want to find a job, beautiful statistics are naturally the most important, so they will be more selfish in the game, and this player who was recommended by Thibodu does not have such problems, the ball quotient is good, and he is a team player. I guess this is also the reason why Xibodu recommends it.
"He was introduced by Maddie not long ago, he is Maddie's fellow countryman and high school student, and he lost the draft this year, I think we can give him a contract" Xibodu also continued after seeing Zhuang Fei nod, he is the team's assistant coach, and he has all his strength to sign his eye-catching free agent. Of course, the contractual authority he can give is naturally not too high, and it is generally a non-guarantee contract.
"It's up to you to decide for yourself, I won't ask," Zhuang Fei said to Xibodu with a smile, and the team's new assistant coach still looks a little restrained. And after Zhuang Fei finished speaking, Xibodu also nodded again.
"By the way, what's the name of this kid?" Zhuang Fei also asked again after watching the game between the red and white teams for a while.
"Daniels, Marquis Daniels" Thibodu returned with some caution.
"Daniels, it's a very good player," Zhuang Fei nodded again in his heart after getting the player's name. This is a player who can play three positions on the perimeter, which can be considered to complement the Boston Celtics' somewhat weak No. 1 defense
Now that the Boston Celtics have begun training several new players on the roster in preparation for the new season, the door to free agents is closed for the Celtics. In fact, as far as the current Celtics are concerned, there is no need to sign any free agents, and now the configuration of this team has been formed, even if Marquis Daniels is given a 2-year 900,000 non-guaranteed contract, which is just a supplement to the team, it is impossible for the Boston Celtics to overhaul the team.
Of course, in the entire league, it is estimated that there is only the Boston Celtics who have not set foot in the free market this summer, except for the Celtics, almost all teams in the league are now crazy about opening contracts in the free market, and the salary space of all teams in the league will reach 54 million next season, and the luxury tax trigger bottom line will also reach 66 million, and at this time, the total salary of most teams is around 45 million, not to mention that it is still far from the 66 million luxury tax stipulated by the league. Even if it is far from the salary cap of 54 million, this is because the NBA has developed too fast in recent years, so fast that even the player's salary can't keep up.
In this case, almost all of these NBA teams are like nouveau riche, basically every team can open a contract of more than 10 million, and even like the Spurs, who reached the finals last season, can actually have a salary space of 40 million to sign, the Spurs because of the departure of Pippen, the retirement of Stephen Smith, plus the departure of players such as Admirals and three-point king Kerr, so that this team has only Duncan with a big contract, and Duncan's contract this year is also expired, in addition to Duncan, Parker and Scola are rookies, and after Duncan, the team's highest-paid small forward Eric Williams is actually the team's small forward, and the player's annual salary is less than 6 million.
In this case, even if the team offers Duncan a 20 million top pick, it can still have more than 20 million to close to 30 million salary signings without thinking about paying the luxury tax, and in fact, the Spurs are now the biggest predators in the free market. Even the Grizzlies, who are frantically competing with this predator for Duncan, are not as good as the Spurs in terms of salary, after all, the total salary of the Grizzlies has reached more than 53 million, although it does not exceed the salary cap, but it is also a relatively large restriction, and in this case, the money he can give Duncan will naturally not be more than the Spurs. In this case, the Grizzlies and Spurs need to play the championship card and the favor card to grab Duncan.
In fact, if the Spurs want to keep Duncan now, they need to smash the Grizzlies' favor card and championship card, and the favor card is easy to say, although the Spurs can't take former teammates like Carter and Szzebiak and James Posey, but they can sign Ragabel, who is now a restricted free agent, and the Grizzlies can seek a trade with Rajabel, and they can, as for the championship card, it is naturally to grab a superstar to let Duncan see the competitiveness of the team, and this superstar will naturally not be someone else but Kidd, in this case, As long as the Spurs can snatch Ragabel and Kidd, then this team will be able to keep Duncan.
It is precisely because of this that almost when the Grizzlies extended their claws to Duncan, Popovich extended his claws to the 76ers' Ragabel and the Nets' Kidd, Ragabel was not interested in staying with the 76ers because of Larry Brown's departure, and Kidd also lost patience with the team owner's endless sale of the team, in this case the two are not unshakable, and in fact, before the Grizzlies can react, The Spurs announced that the team used the 2004 and 2006 first-round picks in exchange for Ragabel, and immediately announced that they had signed a four-year 29 million contract with the player after the exchange for Ragabel, and now the Grizzlies are still discussing with the 76ers what chips to take and the 76ers for Bale, and the Spurs used two first-round picks to exchange for a restricted free agent, which is a great loss, but this is also a decision that can be seen in Popovich.
didn't make people wait any longer, not long after signing with Ragabel, the Nets' Kidd announced that he had signed a 5-year, 89 million contract with the Spurs, and with Kidd's arrival, this protracted battle for Duncan was also over, and soon, Duncan announced that he had signed a 7-year, $140 million NBA contract extension with the Spurs.
At the same time that Duncan signed with the Spurs, Kidd and Duncan had no less impact on the media than Malone and Payton both joined the Lakers.