Basketball Myth: Super Guard

In the office, Stefanski rubbed his temples, looked at the various plans in front of him, and couldn't help sighing.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Stefanski called out, "Come in."

The door was pushed open, the secretary stood by the door, rushed inside and said, "Boss, Qin is here." Then he turned sideways and made a gesture of invitation to Qin Hao.

Qin Hao nodded and walked into the office. Stefanski also stood up with a smile on his face. He greeted Qin Hao enthusiastically and grabbed Qin Hao's hand: "Haha, you are here." Said Then, he ordered the secretary to bring her own tea set.

After a while, the secretary took out the tea set and placed it on the coffee table, covering the bowl, justice cup, tea cup, tea washing, etc...

"Yo." Qin Hao was a little surprised, "Stefanski, I haven't been here for a few months, have I finished all this?" He pointed at the tea set and couldn't help but tease, "These things , do you know how to use it?"

"Of course I do." Stefanski laughed, waved the secretary out, and began to fiddle with it.

Don't say, there are still the same.

While making tea, Stefanski explained...

Because Qin Hao likes to drink tea, Stefanski always keeps tea leaves in the office. Originally it was just a simple tea bag, but later it was replaced with tea leaves. Then Stefanski himself started drinking tea and entertained guests with tea leaves. .

Later, he didn't know where he saw it. It turned out that Huaxia tea has a complete set of tools, and there are many kinds of tea leaves.

Such as Pu'er, Jin Junmei, Tieguanyin...

This made Stefanski interested and attracted by the Chinese tea culture, so he even made a set of tea sets and bought a lot of tea.

Sure enough, after using a whole set of tea sets and learning the tea ceremony, Stefanski felt that the matter of drinking tea instantly became taller, and there was an indescribable sense of ritual when serving guests. sublimated.

This is the buff blessing of China's millennium tea culture!

"Fuck, you can still do this, you can." Seeing Stefanski's skillful operation, Qin Hao was taken aback again, thinking that I am not a cultural export?

"Haha, I just learned, and I know a little bit." Stefanski said modestly, and gave Qin Hao a resentful look.

Since he got this tea set, Qin Hao came to his office for the first time.

That's not to blame Qin Hao.

After eating the sweetness, Stefanski was looking forward to getting some secret investment news from Qin Hao all day long, such as which stocks would go up, which funds would make big profits, etc. Qin Hao didn't get tired of it, and he was usually fine. They all hide far away.

"Please." Stefanski made tea, divided the cups, and handed it to Qin Hao with both hands.

Qin Hao took it and took a sip, and praised: "This Jin Junmei is not bad, I'm not blind to your tea set, it's okay."

Stefanski laughed suddenly, and he took up the teacup and drank slowly. After drinking a cup, he began to cut to the subject: "Qin, I invited you here today mainly to ask for your opinion. You I also know that the free market has already opened, and the contracts of many players in our team will expire, whether to renew the contract or not, we have held several meetings, but we still can’t reach an agreement.”

Qin Hao nodded, he knew it before he came.

In fact, before the finals, no, since the regular season to be precise, Qin Hao talked to Coach Luke about this issue.

At that time, he decided to sacrifice himself, reduce playing time, reduce the number of shots, and give players and opportunities to Butler and Xiaoka, not only for the two to grow up as soon as possible to cope with the playoffs, but also to prepare for this problem at this time.

So Qin Hao had thought about it for a long time, but he was not in a hurry to express his opinion, but instead asked: "What do you mean by the team management first?"

Stefanski said: "Iguodala, Mozkov, Thaddeus Young, Delphio, Briggins in the team, the contracts of these people will expire."

"We have negotiated that for Brackins and Del Philo, what we mean is not to renew their contracts and let them become full free agents."

"However, Iguodala, Mozkov, Thaddeus Young, the three of them belong to the team's regular rotation players, and we have disagreements about their whereabouts."

"Some people think that Mozkov can stay. As the team's backup center, he has performed very well in the rotation time. The team's bench lineup also needs such a high-level center to guard the interior and protect the rebound."

"And if Mozkov is left, then Thaddeus Young cannot be left. After all, there is still Speights in the bench."

"As for Iguodala..."

"Some people think there is no need to keep him, after all, his salary is too high, it is too much pressure on our current cap space. But if Iguodala is released and he becomes a free agent, our starting lineup There will be another vacancy and who will fill his position is also a question."

After speaking, Stefanski sighed with a headache.

Qin Hao nodded, expressing his understanding.

In fact, the biggest problem is salary space.

Last season, Qin Hao and Butler signed a max salary contract with the team. Until next season, their contract will implement the salary of the first season. The salary of the two of them alone occupies a small half of the team's salary space. , reaching more than 30 million US dollars.

In addition, Sessions' annual salary next season is about 5 million, Lu Wei 6 million, Speights 5 million, Nene 13 million, Xiaoka 3 million, and Curry 500,000.

Combined, that's more than $32 million.

This doesn't count Iguodala, Thaddeus Young, Delphio, Briggins, and Mozkov.

Even if Iguodala is not counted, the 76ers' salary next season will be close to $70 million.

For the next season, the 2014-15 season, the NBA salary cap is $63.065 million, and the luxury tax threshold is set at $76.829 million.

In other words, if they don't want to pay the luxury tax, the 76ers have only $7 million of operating space, only $7 million, except for Delphio and Briggins, which the 76ers don't want, and only enough to sign Mozkov.

As for Iguodala and Thaddeus Young, that's not enough.

And, just a few days ago, the 76ers and Xiaoka completed an early contract extension and signed a four-year, $76 million max salary contract.

In other words, the 76ers have three max-salary players. Next season, Xiaoka will execute the fourth year of his rookie contract. He can wait until the 2015-16 season Xiaoka's maximum-salary contract begins. Team salaries will be even more intimidating.

Whether to keep Iguodala several people, not only to consider the salary space next season, but also to consider the next season.

That's why Stefanski has such a headache.