Bishop of the Devil

Chapter 298

We just saw off Lao SA here. Richard is thinking about whether to talk to Rasheed or Lao curi about the contract renewal.

As a result, Zhang Weiping hurried into Richard's office.

"Richard, guess what?"

"Jordan just announced his retirement..."

"Good news! Absolutely good news, our championship hasn't run this year! " Zhang Weiping's face is full of smiles.

In Zhang Weiping's view, this is undoubtedly good news. After Jordan retired, the bull was still a hair

Besides the bulls, who else in the league can stop their pioneers from winning the championship?!

No, absolutely not!

At first, Zhang Weiping predicted that Richard would be the same as him. He was very happy after hearing the news, but Richard was quite calm.

There's no happy expression on my face

He's no surprise that Jordan Retired!

Jordan announced his retirement at this point in time. According to Richard, part of the reason was that he was threatening the league.

Now the glory of the league, which has at least 30% of the credit should be attributed to Jordan!

When Jordan retired for the first time, stern invited him back in person. In addition, he made a special rule for Jordan, also known as the "Jordan regulations"

Each team can appoint a player with the highest salary, which is not included in the salary cap.

This gives Jordan a chance to get 30 million annual salary. Otherwise, the previous salary cap was only 20 million yuan. How can Jordan get 30 million annual salary.

Later, Reggie Miller also benefited from this regulation. He signed a contract with walkers with an annual salary of 10 million yuan, becoming the highest paid player in the League besides Jordan.

Now that the season is over, negotiations between the NBA Management Committee and the players' Union are about to officially start.

Jordan jumped out at this time to announce his retirement, which could not have no intention of threatening the League

But it's obviously impossible for stern to give up the bottom line because of Jordan, because more than half of the league's teams are losing money

Jordan, Reggie Miller, O'Neill and Garnett have made quite a bad start, especially Garnett, which is almost the trigger for Stern's determination to introduce a top salary.

In October 1997, before the start of last season's regular season, Minnesota and Garnett renewed their six-year super contract of 126 million US dollars in advance without finishing their rookie contract.

With an average of 21 million contracts a year, stern can't sit down.

One rookie in Garnett got such a horrible contract. What about the other rookies? Can they still see the millions of contracts?

There will certainly be a bid up prices, players get higher and higher salaries, team loss situation is more and more serious!

In the long run, the NBA is over

After all, the team is in a state of loss, how can the owners support it? We need to know that many team owners, their only industry is the team. If the team loses money, they will not be able to make ends meet. It's not a problem to persist for a year or two. If the time is long, they will be completely cool

So stern has made up his mind to introduce a top salary this time.

……

"How do you think you know this in advance?" Zhang asked doubtfully.

Richard smiled and waved: "I don't know, but I can guess. By the way, Lao Zhang, please contact Dell for me. In the afternoon, I'm going to meet him and talk about the renewal first."

……

At first, Richard wanted to talk to Rasheed and old curry about the renewal after Jordan announced his retirement.

After all, Jordan retired. The Blazers are the number one seed in the league. In the west, at least in the current situation, there won't be a team that will pose a great threat to the Blazers.

On the eastern side, at best, it's a New York Knicks. They have no threat to the pioneers.

In this case, the chances for the Blazers to win the championship are too great, which is also quite beneficial for the players to renew their contract.

Especially for the veteran who has no title in his career like old curry, he is expected to be happy to stay in the Blazers

In the afternoon, Richard met old Kuri in his office.

"Old man, now it's time for us to talk about the renewal." Said Richard with a smile.

"I thought the trailblazers were going to give me up and look for a home in the free market..." Old Curie laughed, too.

He didn't expect Richard to take the initiative to renew his contract.

Last season, old Curie played more time, but in the just concluded season, because of the joining of wusheng Jackson, old Curie's playing time further declined, is the player with the least playing time in the backcourt of the five pioneers.

It can be said that whether there is old Curie or not, in fact, does not have a great impact on the backcourt strength of the Blazers. After all, the defense of old Curie is not so powerful. Compared with the defense strength of the other four backyards, it is at least one level inferior.In this case, he felt that the trailblazers should give up themselves. After all, trailblazers have five draft rights. In the next draft conference, you can easily choose a backcourt player to replace the position of old Curie.

But at the moment, Richard even offered to renew his contract, which made old Curie a little excited.

If he can stay in the Blazers, he naturally doesn't want to switch to other teams. Let alone stay in the Blazers this season, he will have a great chance to win the championship. It's just the matter of moving, which also gives old Curie a headache

To change a team, we have to move home once. He is a family man, hoping that he can always be with his wife and children.

"You are the most senior player in our backcourt. Those young people need your advice. Naturally, we need to find a way to keep you." Said Richard with a smile.

"Let's not talk about the contract amount today. Then you can talk to olsey."

Old Curie nodded. He knew the difficulties of the pioneers.

The dilemma of the Blazers is different from that of other teams. The other teams are worried about the lack of good players in the team, while the Blazers are worried about too many strong players, and they will renew their contracts in one piece next year

Even if Lao SA left, he made a lot of salary space for the pioneers, but when he wants to renew his contract next year, he is still in short supply.

At least Big Ben, xiao'ao and Kobe Bryant need to renew their contracts. The Blazers can't swallow all three.

So this season's Blazers can only be cautious, try not to sign long-term large contracts, and prepare for next season.

Old Curie knew all this, and he knew that the trailblazers were unlikely to pay him too much.

However, he didn't expect to be paid too much. He looked at the veteran who was nearly thirty-five years old and was always a substitute. It was unrealistic to want a high salary.