Chapter 16: Contracts

"Does Mr. Brown know about this?" After the initial excitement, Danny Ferrie exhaled deeply and asked with a smile.

"Oh, I haven't told him yet." Adam touched his head embarrassedly: "I forgot, I was so excited just now, otherwise I'll tell him now." ”

"No, you're doing a good job. Oh no, I mean there's no need for that, I'll take care of it. After Danny Ferry said a few words incoherently, he looked at Adam in front of him with an appreciative smile on his face: "I mean, Adam did a great job, if it weren't for you, we almost missed out on a real genius." This should have been told to Mr. Mike Brown immediately, after all, he is the head coach of the team. But now, he's actively preparing for pre-season, which is important, so let's not bother him with this kind of thing, I'll just take care of it. ”

After saying this, Danny Ferry said: "Adam, I'll make a note of your performance, by the way, when was the last time you got a raise?" ”

"Two years ago, sir."

"Oh, it's been two years, you've been doing well for two years, I think your salary should be raised, what do you think?"

"Of course, oh no, thank you sir! It would be great if that was the case. Adam said excitedly.

Danny Ferry smiled with satisfaction on his face: "Very well, go and call that little guy." Let me see this talented young man. ”

After watching Adam leave, Danny Ferry leaned back in the swivel chair and smiled smugly. What an unexpected gain, those managers, those scouts are already blind? With such physical fitness, unless you don't know how to play basketball at all, how can you be worthy of a first-round pick, how can you fall to the end of the second round to be selected, and you will be traded right away?

Anyway, all in all, it's a good thing for Danny Ferry.

Think about it, at a time when all the managers in the NBA are looking away, Danny Ferry has a good eye for talent, and he has signed an extremely physical interior player, which will bring him a lot of prestige. What's more important is that this matter has nothing to do with his Mike Brown!

Even, if this guy can really play out, become the main force of the team, or even become a star, then he is equivalent to having his own power in the team, and in the specific affairs of the team, it is even more important.

Although he is the general manager, Danny Ferrie does not have much power, and many times he is just a mouthpiece for the boss. Obviously, he can't be satisfied with the current situation, and his goal is to become a super-big manager like Larry Bird!

Facts have proved that human beings, no matter what inch of land on the earth, even if they develop to colonize outer space in the future, there is no way to change their aggressive habits, and there is no way to get rid of the talent of infighting!

He originally wanted to sign a contract with the longest possible base salary to ensure that Zhang Kong's future was in the palm of his hand, but he didn't expect that Zhang Kong, the end of the second round, was calm and not at all like a twenty-year-old young man, not only did not sign the contract with him quickly under his superb eloquence as he expected, but asked for a short contract extremely calmly.

This was not what Danny Ferry expected.

In fact, although Zhang Kong's current age is twenty years old, but before the crossing, he was already an old fritter who was close to the age, and he was born in the Great Heavenly Dynasty inherited from ancient times in intrigue, and he has been working as a small clerk in the company for nearly ten years.

Danny Ferry's psychological quality as a professional manager is obviously not up to par, and what he thinks in his heart, Zhang Kong can guess it at a glance.

Danny Ferry didn't know the reason for this, but he also understood that Zhang Kong was not the same as the ordinary nineteen or twenty-year-old, strong-blooded young man, but rather calm, even calm and a little terrifying. Danny Ferry, who knew what he had done wrong, could only admit defeat.

In the end, only one contract was signed that did not satisfy Danny Ferry.

The contract is for two years, with a salary of $950,000 for the first year, $1.45 million for the second year, and a team option for the second year, with the Cavaliers having the right of first refusal on the same terms.

Zhang Kong is not good at economic things, but he still carefully read the clauses one by one, and at the same time paid close attention to Danny Ferry's expression, he wanted to judge whether there were any contract traps in this contract from the change of Danny Ferry's expression.

In fact, this contract is already very generous for a rookie, especially for a second-round finalist pick, with a salary of $2.5 million for two years, but many first-round picks can't get a high salary.

Of course, this level of salary is not even a leg hair compared to LeBron's three-year, $12.96 million rookie contract.

But considering Zhang Kong's identity as the end of the second round, this is even the largest contract that Danny Ferry can come up with within his power, no matter how high it is, even if Danny Ferry wants to give it, Zhang Kong can't get it. Here I have to mention the NBA salary limit order, also known as the 'Robinson Clause'.

Glenn Robinson, nicknamed Big Dog, did two big things in 1994, one was to be selected as the top pick, and the other was to ask the club for a contract of 100 million yuan.

The Milwaukee Bucks drafted Glenn Robinson with the No. 1 pick in the 1994 draft, and the team was hell-bent on the super-scorer becoming the team's new leader.

But Glenn presented the team with a conundrum as he demanded a huge price tag to sign a 13-year, $100 million contract. At that time, NBA stars were not paid as much as they are now, with Chicago Bulls small forward Scott Pippen earning only $4 million a year and Michael Jordan earning only $5 million a year. Glenn's megalomania was criticized by the old-timers. After much negotiation, the Milwaukees finally offered Glenn a 10-year, $68 million contract, which was already a sky-high price at the time.

This incident directly led to the NBA league's later salary limit order.

According to the terms of the league's salary limit order, Zhang Kong's status as the end of the second round, the maximum salary he can get is these, which the bitter Danny Ferry has explained to Zhang Kong, and also assured Zhang Kong that as long as Zhang Kong's performance is excellent, he will definitely give him a more generous contract after the first year.

After careful inspection, to make sure that there were no ambiguous or ambiguous statements, Zhang Kong finally signed his name on the contract.

"Damn, the hardest second-round show I've seen over the years is this guy!" Finally signed the contract, Danny Ferry sighed in his heart, and at the same time, he also put a 'difficult' slogan for Zhang Kong.