Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Knight Gives Me a Maximum Salary?
In terms of age, Wang Chao, who was born in November 83, is one year and one month older than James.
But the problem is that James, who joined the league in 03, is the predecessor of Wang Chao, who only joined the league in 04, on the court.
What did he mean by that? Look down on me Fat Tiger?
Wang Chao actually didn't mean anything else, he just felt that it would be a pity if Duncan's hand-me-down classic was not said at this time.
This sentence should be for Nash, who joined the league in 96 and is now 33 years old and has two regular season MVP trophies, and it is more than enough to tell James that the future is yours in his capacity.
But with Wang Chao's understanding of Nash, he shouldn't be able to say this, so he can only do it for him.
As for what James would think after hearing his words...... He likes to think and think, anyway, Wang Chao himself is cool, and that's enough.
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Minutes later, the podium was set up on the Cavaliers' home court, and the podium was set up by NBA commissioner David Brown. Stern took the stage to personally present championship trophies to the Suns players who won the championship.
By this time, the Cavaliers' home fans were basically scattered.
Originally, the team lost the championship, or was swept out of the game by 4:0 humiliation, which is sad enough, sitting at home and watching the championship award ceremony of other teams is simply pouring salt on the wound.
Although not many people witnessed the moment when the Suns lifted the championship trophy, no one cared, the flowers and applause will be countless when they return to Phoenix, and the most important thing is to be able to hold the championship trophy in their hands!
The finals FMVP was awarded to Nash.
In terms of statistics, Stoudemire's double-double data of 25 points and 11 rebounds per game in four games is not inferior to Nash's average of nearly 16+13 per game.
But in terms of the contribution of the Suns as a team, connecting the whole team and being the core and key to the team's run-and-gun tactics is obviously more important than Stoudemire.
In other words, it doesn't matter if the Suns don't have Stoudemire, and even last season without Stoudemire, the Suns still reached the Finals, and his presence will make the Suns stronger, but it won't bring qualitative improvement.
But if the Suns lose Nash, no matter if they are replaced by any All-Star point guard in the league, they will not be able to play Nash-style 7-second extreme run-and-shoot tactics.
Therefore, this finals FMVP is well deserved to be awarded to Nash.
"This is also a veteran's dream, right?"
Wang Chao stood behind and watched Nash receive the FMVP trophy with a bright smile on his face, thinking to himself.
He used to like Nash very much, and his gorgeous playing style and long flowing and chic hair were once Wang Chao's idols admired and sought after.
Nash's career experience has always made Wang Chao regretful.
After eight years in Dallas, he finally found his true self after returning to the Suns, and he rose all the way to the regular season MVP for two consecutive years, but in the playoffs, he fell to the Spurs one after another, and never missed the championship.
At the end of his career, Nash, who wanted to fight for the championship, took great pressure to join the Lakers to form an F4 combination, but he didn't admit that the Lakers' F4 combination was vulnerable, not to mention the championship, and even in the playoffs, Kobe Bryant did not hesitate to fight for a spot until his Achilles tendon ruptured.
In the end, Nash didn't have a championship until he retired.
Wang Chao didn't expect that the first major thing he did after crossing over was to help Nash win a championship at his peak, and this championship was equivalent to snatching it from the Spurs.
Duncan didn't have a fourth career title, while Nash got a championship and an FMVP trophy to match his strength.
Wang Chao only sighed, because his arrival has turned this era upside down, and it is difficult for him to predict the trend of the alliance in the next few years.
However, this is something that every traverser will inevitably experience, and he has already been mentally prepared.
And at this time, Wang Chao's ears sounded the emotionless voice of the system, but it was extremely pleasant to Wang Chao's ears.
"The NBA2006-07 season is officially over, and the next step is to start the season evaluation."
"Player Wang Chao, played 82 games in the regular season, averaging 20.9 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game, and played 20 games in the playoffs, averaging 21.8 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game, and finally led the team to the championship."
"According to the above situation, the player Wang Chao will be comprehensively evaluated for the season."
"Final Result: A+"
"Rewards will now be distributed based on the assessment score, please check the ......"
Wang Chao silently listened to the system's evaluation and calculated in his heart.
"Is there an A+ score?"
With 20+ points in both the regular season and the playoffs, a 68-win league record in the regular season and a championship in the playoffs, this performance is perfect.
Wang Chao estimated that this rating should also have ratings such as S, S+ or even SS or SR, but if he wants to get a higher rating, his personal data needs to be further improved, and even all aspects such as the tactical position in the team must be comprehensively considered.
This doesn't matter anymore.
How to get a higher season rating, that's what he needs to think about next season.
Now Wang Chao wants to know more about what kind of reward A+ score can give him!
I can't wait to close my eyes and enter the space of consciousness.
This time, the reward distribution is not like last season, when the vast potion rain fell in the sky, which was extremely spectacular, but a little dull.
The appearance of the shop module allowed the system to change all potion rewards into point rewards, and directly transferred the rewards to Wang Chao's account for him to buy the corresponding training potions at the vending machine according to his needs.
Wang Chao came to the vending machine and looked at his balance.
2640 points?
Wang Chao was stunned at first, then couldn't help but rub his eyes, and looked at it again.
That's right, it's really 2640 points!
If he's not mistaken, he should have had 640 points, including 500 points for completing the Barkley Punch in the Face mission, plus points for a playoff victory.
In other words, the A+ assessment can actually reward him with 2,000 points at one time?
So much???
Wang Chao was ecstatic at first, but he quickly reacted.
"Isn't that right?"
Wang Chao remembers that when he got the B+ rating last season, because the system had not yet opened the store module, it directly provided the rewards of the potion, and several potions were all added together, and the total amount was about 280 bottles, which was converted according to 10 points for a bottle of potion, which was 2800 points!
Why is it that now his rating score is higher, reaching an A+ rating, and the rewards are even less!
Don't look at the reward of 2,000 points, it seems like a lot, but Wang Chao knows very well that this point is not spent at all!
The Suns scored 68 wins in the regular season and were awarded 680 points under the rule of 10 points per win, and then doubled their playoff points to earn 320 points for 16 wins.
In addition, Wang Chao also earned 100 points for his mission in the All-Star Three-Point Contest.
To sum up, Wang Chao earned a total of 1,600 points for the entire season, not counting the rewards assessed by the season!
But before the season rewards were just released, Wang Chao only had 640 points, because the points he earned were basically used up in his daily training.
From November last year to June this year, a total of eight months, although there were also game days and rest days during which there was no need to train, but due to Wang Chao's hard training, the training potion consumption was extremely large, and the points for regular season victories were basically not saved, all of them were used up, and they were even a little short of supply in the last two months.
After all, sometimes, potions are used in stacks, such as stamina potions and concentration potions that strengthen training concentration, and they will consume 20 points at a time, and the amount used is far greater than Wang Chao imagined.
Let's assume a summer offseason, starting in mid-June and ending with the start of the preseason in early October, a total of three and a half months, or more than 100 days.
Wang Chao trains every day, according to the amount of 2 bottles of training potion used every day, it needs 2000 points, and in actual training, the amount of training potion may be more than 2 bottles, after all, the effective time of training potions such as strength, speed, and bounce is 10 hours, and with the blessing of physical strength potions, he may train for more than 10 hours.
With a measly 2,640 points, he may have to squander them before the preseason starts.
"Where's my Rewards points?"
As soon as he thought of this, Wang Chao was a little anxious, and hurriedly looked around to see if he had missed anything.
Then he saw something extra under the talent tree not far away.
"What's that?"
Wang Chao approached and looked at it, and was suddenly a little speechless.
What the hell is this? It is actually a set of agricultural tools for spraying pesticides, and some places are called sprayers.
What the heck? Is this the system going to let him farm?
But the next moment, his expression suddenly froze, and then began to become pleasantly surprised.
"Will it be ......?"
Wang Chao thought of a possibility, which made him almost impatient to put the sprayer on his back, pick up the nozzle and aim at the talent tree.
Just as he was about to press the jet switch, he suddenly hesitated, and his eyes also looked at the branches of the talent tree that had awakened their talents.
Wang Chao now has a total of five talents, and there are four shooting types, namely marksman, fast gunner, sniper, fake pitcher, one in terms of physical fitness, and long-distance runner.
It can be clearly seen that the distribution of branches representing natural skills is also significantly different depending on the type.
The four Shooting Talents are all located next to each other in the upper right corner of the Talent Tree.
Fitness runners, on the other hand, are alone in the lower left corner.
"According to this distribution, the bottom right and upper left corners should be different types of talents than before, such as defense and organization......"
Wang Chao thought silently, shook the pesticide box on his back, and felt that there didn't seem to be much pesticide in it.
"Or take a gamble......
After a moment's hesitation, Wang Chao aimed the watering can at the lower right corner without any branches, and then pressed the button.
A thin layer of dense mist sprays towards the trunk in the lower right corner of the gifted tree.
The next moment, a branch grew out of the trunk at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it was full of green.
Wang Chao: "......"
That's true!
This is an item that allows the talent tree to grow new talent skills.
The system really knows how to play.
However, this has an advantage over before, that is, he can at least actively choose the general direction of talent, rather than completely passively and randomly acquire.
Seeing that the new branches had grown, Wang Chao immediately turned the direction of the watering can, wanting to water the area in the upper left corner, but the pesticide box seemed to have only enough medicine for the growth of a branch, and as the branches finished growing, they began to fade gradually, and finally dissipated in the air.
"So, although the A+ reward has fewer points, there is an additional talent skill that can be selected independently? That's pretty good. ”
So far, the only function of points is to exchange for training potions, which is not necessary, after all, even if there is no training potion, Wang Chao can still improve himself through training, but the efficiency is a little lower.
But natural skills are different, this kind of skill that can really provide him with excellent results in the field, each of which is extremely precious and hard to find!
If he could, Wang Chao was even willing to use all the remaining points to exchange for another talent skill, but unfortunately this was not what he said.
Shaking his head, Wang Chao's eyes looked at the newly grown branches, and he wanted to know what his newly acquired talent skills were, and whether he had won the lottery.
Then after seeing the introduction of the new talent skills, Wang Chao knew that his luck was still as good as ever.
"Won the lottery!"
Talent skills: Ball handler, players are less likely to be tackled when dribbling, and their dribble speed is increased, which is affected by the value of ball control.
The introduction is very simple, but the effect of this ability is very intuitive, which is to improve Wang Chao's ability to dribble, making him more difficult to be stealed by opponents.
This is definitely an ability that Wang Chao needs very much.
You must know that since the end of December last year, Wang Chao has been practicing his ball control ability hard, in order to strengthen his ability to attack with the ball.
After some hard work, he finally strengthened his ball control training to 82, and he could show off his ball-handling attack when he came off the bench.
But as he enters the playoffs, Wang Chao's number of ball-holding offenses has decreased.
Because 82's ability to control the ball is far from enough for him to play against the defense of those strong teams in the playoffs, if he wants to head iron and attack with the ball when facing opponents such as Bowen and Kirilenko, the opponent will definitely let him know why the flowers are so red.
So when facing these opponents, Wang Chao can only do his old job on the field and run without the ball.
Speaking of which, the talent of the ball handler is a bit of a conflict with that of a long-distance runner.
These two talents, one is to strengthen the ability to run a lot, and the other is to strengthen the ability to control the ball when attacking with the ball.
Theoretically speaking, if you want to increase the running distance, you must run without the ball, and you can't dribble the ball while running around the court.
But even so, Wang Chao must strengthen his offensive ability with the ball.
At the end of the day, off-ball is just a role-player-oriented style of play, and even if it reaches the extreme in this area, it's nothing more than Klay. Thompson's level.
Thompson is very strong, but so what, when he is ranked in the top 10 players in the league, is there anything about him?
Wang Chao, who has a system, aims to become the strongest in the NBA and even surpass Jordan to become the strongest in the history of the league, and his off-ball running style of play is just his current transition method, and he will definitely continue to strengthen his offensive ability with the ball in the future and become an all-round scorer.
Therefore, in Wang Chao's view, the importance of the newly acquired ball handler ability is even more important than the long-distance runners who have been upgraded.
Of course, choosing to attack with the ball does not mean that the talent of long-distance runners is completely wasted.
Even if it is a normal starter, the running distance of a game is at least 3 kilometers or more, which means that even if Wang Chao does not play an off-ball attack, he can still activate the two-layer buff effect of the long-distance runner's talent, that is, the third layer of 5 kilometers of the buff is more difficult to trigger.
"With the talent of a handler, the direction of the next training is also there."
Wang Chao felt that his training goals for the summer off-season were instantly clear.
First of all, it is necessary to further strengthen and improve the ability to control the ball, at least to increase the ability to control the ball from 82 to 90.
Secondly, the ability to break through with the ball also needs to be improved, Wang Chao's mid-distance shooting ability is already very high, the three abilities of vacant mid-range shooting, interference-affected mid-range shooting and mid-range shooting after dribbling reach an average of 88, with the talent of the marksman, the shooting rate will definitely not be low.
But the following shooting abilities related to breaking through with the ball, including 80 from close range, 72 from the pitch, 80 from the layup, and 51 from the dunk, are not very good.
Since you have the ability to break through with the ball, you must strengthen the lethality of the breakthrough with the ball to correspond to it.
Therefore, during the vacation, Wang Chao needs to improve all the other abilities except for dunking, at least to the extent that he can successfully score the ball in the face of the opponent's supplementary defense after rushing to the basket with the ball.
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The days that followed the Suns' championship win were all about Phoenix revelry.
As soon as the team returned to Phoenix, they held a championship parade, and the whole city was almost empty, after all, this is the first championship trophy in the history of the Suns, and it means no less to the city than the championship James brought to Cleveland in the next 16 years!
While the Suns are celebrating the first championship in team history, the league's major teams have also begun to take action.
The 2007 draft is just around the corner, and with the end of the 06-07 season, the free agency market is about to open, and all the league teams are in full swing to start signing, renewing, trading and other work.
The Suns are no exception.
Before the draft began, the Suns management contacted Wang Chao and Beal again. Duffy, negotiate the renewal of the contract.
"Is this the sincerity of your team?"
Bill. Duffy carefully flipped through the renewal contract handed over by the assistant, and then his tone was slightly dark. "I can reiterate our attitude again, if the Suns want to keep Wang Chao, they have to give him a max contract, and his performance this season and his future development potential is fully worth the price."
"Don't be upset, Bill, you're right." The general manager of the Suns said with a wry smile: "But I hope you can also consider it comprehensively according to the current salary situation of the Suns, there are now three players with an annual salary of more than 10 million in the team, and if Wang Chao is renewed with a maximum salary, the team will pay a high luxury tax next year......
Before he could finish his sentence, he was killed by Bill. Duffy interrupted directly. "That's a problem that the team needs to consider, not ours, I'm just reiterating our attitude to you now, if you are not willing to renew Wang Chao's contract with the highest salary, after the free market opens, Wang Chao will go to the free market to test the water and see if he is worth the maximum salary."
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Looking at Wang Chao and Bill. Duffy walked out of the office, and the general manager of the Suns rubbed his eyebrows with a headache.
"Sure enough, they didn't get rid of ...... so easily"
In the days just after the finals, he was worried about renewing Wang Chao's contract.
The highest authority given to him by the team owner is to give Wang Chao an average annual salary of 10 million.
In the owner's original words, "Wang Chao is just a fixed-point shooter, he can get high scores in the Suns, all thanks to Nash's assists and the team's fast-paced offensive system, leaving the Suns, which team in the league will he go to have such a good playing environment?" ”
"No one in the league is willing to give a player with such a single style of play a contract with a maximum salary, and if he is not happy, he can wait for the free market to open and try it in the league to see how many pounds and taels he is worth."
"For 10,000 steps, even if a team really offers Wang Chao a contract with the highest salary, we have the bird right in hand, and we can also choose to match the contract to forcibly keep Wang Chao, so what we have to do now is to reduce the price as much as possible and keep Wang Chao at the lowest price."
The truth is this, but the question is ......
"What if?"
The general manager muttered in a low voice.
After all, the owner of the team is just an investor, a hobbyist in the field of basketball, and a layman at worst, neither strategic vision nor judgment can be better than those of them who rely on this industry for a living.
He has a feeling that once Wang Chao enters the free market, it will definitely cause many teams to scramble, and if someone really offers Wang Chao a contract with the highest salary...... It's likely that their own team owners will forgo matching contracts because the extension amount is too high.
It's not impossible, after all, two years ago Joe. Johnson is a prime example.
In order to renew Joe's contract with the remaining salary cap. Johnson's five-year, $70 million contract, the Suns chose to sign and trade first, getting Dio and two first-round picks from the Hawks.
Two seasons have passed, and now Joe. Johnson has become an All-Star who can average 25 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists per game, while Dio is still only a bench player, and the Hawks' two first-round picks have not made any substantial gains.
Whenever he thinks that the team has missed such an excellent scorer, the general manager of the Suns feels sorry.
But there is no way, who made him expensive?
He is too clear about the extent of his own team owner's slamming.
If Wang Chao really misses out on Wang Chao in the free market every year, it will be too much loss for the Suns, and the general manager is very sure that as long as Wang Chao can stay with the team, the Suns will continue to maintain the current lineup, and in the next two to three years, the team still has the opportunity to win the championship, and there is a great possibility of winning one or two more championships.
After all, although Nash is in a declining stage, Stoudemire and Wang Chao still have room to continue to grow and improve, and as they grow, the Suns will become stronger!
"I must persuade the boss to ...... again"
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On the other side, Bill. After Duffy came out, he sighed and said to Wang Chao. "I thought that with your help the Suns win the championship, and your performance in the playoffs is as consistent as ever, the team will definitely give you a contract extension with the maximum salary, and it seems that I was wrong."
"Wang, there are two choices in front of you now, the first is to selectively reduce some of the salary requirements and continue to stay with the Suns, where there is a very suitable tactical system and environment for you, which can make you perform better on the court, but at the cost of making a little less money."
"Another option is to consider leaving the Suns and joining some other teams that are willing to give you a contract with a maximum salary, the benefits are obvious, the maximum salary can make you at least 5 million more than in the Suns, but your style of play is still more dependent on Nash's passing assists, if you go to other teams, it is difficult to say whether you can play as efficient and excellent as you are now."
Bill. Duffy explained the pros and cons of the two options very clearly, and then looked at Wang Chao: "So it depends on how you choose." ”
"There's nothing to choose from."
Wang Chao didn't even think about it, and said to him directly: "You said before that there are several teams that are more interested in me, we can study which of these teams is more suitable for me, and which one is willing to give me a contract with a maximum salary." ”
For the Suns, Wang Chao doesn't have any nostalgia, he doesn't have any friends here, and it can even be said that there are many opponents, including Barbossa, Dio and others are unhappy with Wang Chao because Wang Chao stole a lot of the ball that belonged to them, but because of Wang Chao's strength and the relationship between the head coach, he didn't dare to be too blatant.
And Wang Chao naturally scoffed at their belief that he had left the Suns and that he would not have the current three-point accuracy without Nash, and his scoring ability would be greatly reduced.
His family knows his own affairs, if this season has just begun, Wang Chao is indeed very dependent on Nash, and the timing of the opponent's pass often directly determines the level of his score in a game.
But the situation is no longer the same.
In this season, Wang Chao not only strengthened his ability to control the ball to more than 80, but also successively obtained natural skills such as fake pitchers and ball handlers, and already has a certain ability to hold the ball and attack.
From this point of view, continuing to stay in the Suns is not conducive to the development of Wang Chao, after all, in this team, Nash is the absolute ball-holding core, and the ball is concentrated in Nash's hands most of the time, followed by Barbossa, Dio and others.
Even judging by the overall tactical execution of the Suns, head coach D'Antoni may hope that Wang Chao will continue to play without the ball this season next season.
It's just that...... If you leave, where would it be better to join?
This question is something that Wang Chao must consider.
Limited by some settings of the system, Wang Chao will be more inclined to join a stronger team, because every win in the regular season and playoffs will reward him with a little more points for him to buy training potions to strengthen himself.
And Wang Chao feels that his season evaluation this season can reach A+, which must be partly linked to winning the finals, which is an important factor related to talent and skills, and Wang Chao must pay attention to it.
After incorporating these into the reference criteria, in fact, Wang Chao has very few teams to choose from.
The Spurs' GDP triumvirate combined with an annual salary of nearly $40 million, and they are on the verge of paying the luxury tax.
The Lakers have been paying the luxury tax for several years in a row, and nothing has happened to him.
Who among the other teams that are more qualified will be interested in him until the draft is over in a few days' time, when he is officially free agency.
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On June 28, the NBA2007 draft was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
This draft has gathered extremely wide attention.
Not only is he regarded as a rare genius in twenty years, but also the "Emperor" Greg who will rule the alliance in the future. Oden is coming to the NBA.
is even more because there are two players participating in the NBA draft for the first time this year, namely the United Arab Emirates and Sun Yue.
In view of the success of two big Chinese players in the NBA, Da Yao and Wang Chao, who are 2.12 meters tall and have an arm span of 2.22, the United Arab Emirates is widely favored by the league and it is widely believed that he will be selected in the lottery area.
UAE's agent Fagan is also very confident in this, and even in order to remain mysterious, he made a set of comical operations in the team's trial session, which led to the UAE being nicknamed "chair man".
The reason for this was that Fagan declined all the team's tryout offers, and only showed them the UAE's non-confrontational training, in which no one defended the UAE, who only dribbled or shot in the chair.
Celtic's general manager Danny Brown. Anji said at the time that the performance of the UAE was very good, and he could still shoot steadily in the face of the chair's defense, hence the nickname "Chair Man".
Fagan's move did have some effect, otherwise with the ability of the United Arab Emirates, it would have been a bit difficult to enter the league with the sixth pick in '07, when the draft pick was behind him. Noah, Nick. Young, Belinelli, Thaddeus. Yang and other players.
Putting aside the future that Wang Chao is familiar with as a traverser, at this stage, the United Arab Emirates is really a very hot choice, especially after Wang Chao won the championship with the Suns, which further increased the popularity of Chinese players.
After all, the UAE looks like a big Wang Chao, with a better height and arm span, better athleticism, and a good range.
As for Sun Yue...... Although his attention is far less than that of the United Arab Emirates, he is 2.05 meters tall, but he focuses on the positioning of a defender, which has made him favored by many teams.
There are so many players in China, only these two have the potential to land in the NBA, which is enough to prove their strength.
It's just that many things have changed since Wang Chao's arrival, including the Suns winning the championship, and due to the regular season record rankings, the draft has also changed slightly, but several more important drafts have not changed because of this.
The UAE was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks with the sixth pick, becoming the second Chinese player in NBA history to enter the NBA in the first round.
Sun Yue was also successfully selected by the Lakers in the second round, and it is very likely that he will win a championship ring with the Lakers in the future.
The unlucky guy who selected the top pick Oden is still the Portland Trail Blazers, Kevin. Durant also continues to be drafted by the yet-to-be-renamed Seattle SuperSonics. Horford was drafted by the Hawks......
Wang Chao only paid attention to the first few important drafts, and then he was not interested.
The draft itself doesn't have a lot to do with him, and he just looks at how big the butterfly effect he brings is.
The only thing worth mentioning is that the Suns drafted shooting guard Aaron with the No. 27 pick in the first round. Afflaro.
Afflalo is a typical 3-and-D player, and his capital on the court is defense and three-point shooting, which is actually similar to the Suns' main scoring guard. Bell is conflicting.
However, Afflaro is physically strong, and although he is only 1.96m tall, he can swing between the shooting guard and small forward positions, and there is no problem in playing the team's small forward position.
The Suns' choice of Afraro has made many people aware of some clues.
Obviously, the Suns are strengthening the team's lineup, and as for why they want to strengthen an Afraro with the same positioning as Bell, there is only one answer! They are preparing for Wang Chao's departure, assuming that Wang Chao really leaves the team, it will inevitably seriously weaken the Suns' firepower outside the three-point line.
A few days have passed since the Suns renegotiated the contract extension with Wang Chao, and all kinds of gossip have already been flying all over the sky.
Including but not limited to: Wang Chao wanted to renew his contract with a maximum salary, but the Suns refused to provide him with a maximum salary, and the two sides broke up unhappily.
The Suns wanted to add restrictive clauses to Wang's contract extension, such as how many games he played at least each season and what standard his points per game would reach, which made Wang Chao leave the table in anger.
There are also some gossip newspapers that like to join in the fun, speculating that Wang Chao is not compatible with other players in the team, and those players unite to force the palace team, asking the team not to renew the contract with Wang Chao and so on.
There are many rumors, but the most real situation is the most inconspicuous one.
I'm afraid many people didn't expect that what made Wang Chao's contract renewal with the Suns come to an impasse was really the amount of the contract.
To be reasonable, with Wang Chao's performance this season and his bright future, the Suns will not lose at all by paying the highest salary to renew Wang Chao's contract.
Besides, Wang Chao still has bird rights in hand, and the Suns can completely ignore the salary cap and complete a contract extension with Wang Chao, although there may be some luxury tax penalties in the next few years, but what is it compared to the championship won by the team?
With such an obvious truth, how can the big bosses of those league teams not understand?
But the truth is that the big bosses of these teams really don't understand, and there are many of them who are short-sighted and only stare at the idiots in front of them.
O'Neal, who used to play for the Magic, is a prime example.
At the beginning, O'Neal didn't want to go to the Lakers, he just wanted to stay with the Magic, after all, the league at that time was still preaching loyalty, one person, one city and other brainwashing remarks.
But the strange boss of the Magic team felt that O'Neal's contract was too big, and tried every means to find a reason to lower O'Neal's contract, which eventually caused the big shark to be angry and turned the table and stopped playing.
When the Magic team found out that O'Neal was really going to join the Lakers, they were in a hurry, and hurriedly offered a contract that was a little higher than that of the Lakers to save O'Neal, but what did you do earlier?
O'Neal, who has learned about the Magic team's urine through this incident, still resolutely joined the Lakers, and started the road of dynasty hegemony with three consecutive championships in the Lakers.
Using O'Neill's example as an example, I just want to show that the big bosses of these teams in the league are not really all exhausted, and sometimes they are really stupid like a donkey, maybe this is because we have such thoughts from the premise of God's perspective and foresight, but it is the case.
The owner of the Suns is determined that a player with too one-dimensional playing style like Wang Chao will not be so popular in the free market, and no team will be willing to give him a maximum salary.
But he was clearly wrong.
On July 1, the free market officially opened.
Wang Chao and his agent Bill. Duffy has been discussing the possibility of joining with multiple teams almost non-stop.
Wang Chao's popularity, let alone the owner of the Suns, even he didn't expect it at all.
Just one day, Bill. Duffy received inquiries from more than ten teams, although many of them were persuaded to quit after hearing that Wang Chao only considered a contract with a maximum salary, but there were still many teams that expressed their willingness to sign Wang Chao with a maximum salary.
That night, Bill. Duffy put a sorted document in front of Wang Chao.
"Wang, according to the requirements you provided me before, as well as the quotations of most teams, I have screened out a few teams that are more suitable for you, you can take a look at them, and I will continue to have an in-depth understanding and negotiation with them in the future."
"Thank you." Wang Chao stretched out his hand to the result document, and the first page he opened made his eyes pause.
Cleveland Cavaliers, offer $58 million over 4 years, final year player option, proper max contract!
Wang Chao didn't expect that the Cavaliers would actually give him a contract extension with a maximum salary, what does it mean, James wanted the Cavaliers to sign him and then take revenge on himself because of his hi "the future is yours" in the finals?
Just kidding, he can probably understand why the Cavaliers want him so much.
First of all, Cleveland is nicknamed Kecun, and it can be regarded as the bottom few small ball markets among the 30 teams in the NBA, and it is extremely difficult to attract stars to join, which is why James' 1.0 version of the Cavaliers has not introduced decent stars for so many years.
In addition to the twilight of O'Neill, the twilight of Ben. Wallace, who would want to go to a little place like Gram where birds don't poop?
Secondly, James is a typical player with his own system, and the most suitable tactic for him is to shoot four stars, and Wang Chao's range outside the three-point line can perfectly fit James's style of play.
This is probably the main reason why the Cavaliers are willing to give Wang Chao this big contract with a maximum salary.
(End of chapter)