Basketball striker

Chapter 579: Turbulent Summer

"Chris, are you saying Rasheed is going to retire?" After hearing Mullin's words, Yang Shuai immediately shouted in surprise.

"Yes, Yang, I have to say, this is bad news... Of course, we also have good news. After buying out Ronnie and having Rasheed retire, the team finally has enough salary space.

I think you would be happy to stay with the Warriors again, right?"

After listening to Chris Mullin's words, Yang Shuai made a verbal commitment and then hung up the phone.

Yang Shuai knows very well that whether Ronny Turiaf or Rasheed Wallace left is because of himself, because only in this way can the Warriors offer a contract that matches his strength. Yang Shuai has regrets about this but does not.

Guilt.

After entering the NBA, Yang Shuai knew that this was a business league, and everything here was a naked transaction, both between teams and between teams and players. In Shangyan

After entering this alliance, Yang Shuai himself became a special commodity. No commodity wants its value to be low.

In the NBA, there are indeed many veterans who choose to lower their prices and stay with the team in order to maintain the integrity of the lineup, but most of them are veterans. Yang Shuai has only been in the league for three years. He is a star, and a star of the new generation.

He can't lower his worth when he has just established his own value.

Yang Shuai may not care about the amount of money in the contract, but he cannot ignore the significance of this number. It is an affirmation of his strength and value. He cares about this, and he cares about it very much!

This is a business league, and it is also a battlefield where the weak and the strong prey on each other. This is true between teams. The stronger team continues to advance and the weaker team retreats. The same is true between players. The more suitable players stay.

down, and some players will have to leave.

Turiaf left because of his own strength, while Rasheed Wallace left because of his age and condition. Judging from the current situation, although Jamison's condition in the playoffs is still

There are ups and downs, but after all, he is two years younger than Wallace and is in better shape than Wallace.

It's actually good for Wallace to leave like this. At least, it's very honorable. Retiring with a championship ring. Many people want to do such a thing, but many people can't do it. And Wallace is lucky. Before retiring, he

Can wear two.

Originally, Yang Shuai was planning to return to China for a while, but as July 8 was approaching, the Warriors hoped that Yang Shuai could return to Oakland as soon as possible to complete the contract extension as soon as possible, so after sending his parents back to China, Yang Shuai took Gladys with him.

Flying to Auckland. Chu Xiyun and Tang Ying did not accompany them because they had to go home.

In order to cooperate with the official signing of ziyou players and the recruitment work of each team, the pending NBA "salary cap" and "luxury tax threshold" situation for the 2010-11 season finally came to light on July 8th. NBA officially announced that the new season

The salary cap is officially set at US$58.04 million, and the luxury tax threshold is set at US$70.3 million. Both figures have increased from last season and are much more optimistic than previously expected.

At the same time, NBA officials also announced the "mid-level terms" for the new season, which are set at US$5.765 million.

As soon as this number was announced, it also meant that the Zi You market was truly open, and a battle for Zi You players began. On July 8th, a series of actions took place.

The Hawks re-signed Joe Johnson, the Celtics re-signed Paul Pierce, the Celtics re-signed Ray Allen, the Bulls signed Carlos Boozer, the Grizzlies re-signed Rudy Gay, and many more

Big names have settled on their destinations one after another, and most of them are mainly about contract extensions. The Bulls signing Boozer is an exception.

Most of these stars who renewed their contracts were expected. If there was any surprise, it was just the size of the contract. For example, Joe Johnson's six-year, US$123.7 million extension with the Hawks surprised many people.

Since it is a natural contract extension, it is impossible to miss Yang Shuai. After the Warriors cleared the salary space, the other teams basically gave up signing Yang Shuai. Yang Shuai has only been in the league for three years, and other teams cannot

The contract offered to him is too high, and the Warriors have enough salary space to renew Yang Shuai's contract.

Sure enough, on July 8th, news came out that the Warriors had officially completed the contract extension with Yang Shuai. The two parties signed a six-year contract with a total value of 113 million.

Yang Shuai's salary in the first year will be 25% of the NBA's new salary cap, which is US$14.5 million, and will increase by 10.5% in each subsequent year. If Yang Shuai can still choose the player option in the sixth year

If he stays with the Warriors, his salary in the 2015-2016 season will reach $23.8 million.

Seeing that the Warriors finally successfully renewed Yang Shuai's contract, Warriors fans were naturally relieved, and many fans had already shouted slogans to defend their title.

The goal of the Warriors is naturally to defend the title, but before that, what they must do is to improve the lineup, because in order to retain Yang Shuai, they could not sign other players before. What they have to do now is to retain the heroes who won the championship last season.

Down.

The Warriors are taking action, and so are the other players. The Warriors are targeting those in their own team, while the other teams are targeting those who are still in the free market.

The first person to break the news was Amar'e Stoudemire. This top power forward in the league who originally belonged to the Suns had previously been rumored to join the Knicks. Not long after the Warriors renewed Yang Shuai's contract, there was news

It was reported that Stoudemire officially joined the Knicks.

As a result, news soon came that James would join the Knicks' smart Stoudemire in order to compete with Yang Shuai's Warriors.

However, at this time, another piece of news came out that made James' whereabouts unclear. Wade stayed with the Heat, and at the same time, the Heat also signed another representative of the 2003 generation, Chris Bosh.

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The Heat have cleared enough salary space, and they can bring in another big star, and according to the most reliable news, their target is James.

When all the teams in the league are making moves, the possibility of James staying in the Cavaliers has become less and less. James has long been dissatisfied with the Cavaliers' top management. When competing with the Warriors for Jamison last season, James finally joined the Warriors.

He once scolded his general manager for being incompetent, but at the end of the season Yang Shuai won the O'Brien Trophy, which further stimulated his nerves.

James wants to defeat Yang Shuai, a person he originally thought should be below him, but he has already seen that with the strength of the Cavaliers, let alone defeating the Warriors, it seems very difficult to break out of the Eastern Conference.

Difficult, so he had to leave, and now, after the Heat have Wade and Bosh, he finally sees his best destination.

On July 10th, the third day after the contract signing officially started, the biggest news of the summer finally appeared in the NBA. James officially joined the Heat.

Wade, Bosh, James, and the three major stars of the 2003 generation joined the Heat at the same time. For a time, the Heat became the most eye-catching team, even surpassing the Warriors. The topic of the Heat's Big Three has also become the hottest topic among basketball fans.

topic.

Words like "The Heat are sure to win the championship", "There is no rival in the league", "The Big Three are invincible" can be seen everywhere on the Internet. Naturally, Heat fans are extremely happy, while Cavaliers fans are extremely angry.

In Cleveland, everything about James is being destroyed. Cavaliers fans are surprised, disappointed, and angry at the news that James has joined the Heat... In the past few years, James has been the darling of this city.

The idol and conquest of this city, but now he has abandoned this city.

Traitor, hugger, coward, the shame of Cleveland, along with the emergence of the words "Big Three" of the Heat, such names were added to James' head.

No matter whether some people are happy or angry, it cannot change the fact that James has indeed confirmed to join the Heat. The Heat's three giants all appeared at the press conference in Miami, which attracted the attention of countless basketball fans.

Compared with the high-profile Heat, the Warriors, who were the championship last season, have been low-key in recent times. Even Yang Shuai's contract extension did not cause such a big sensation. Except for Yang Shuai's contract extension, the other players' contract renewal actions Chris

-Mullin didn't stop either.

After Yang Shuai, the first thing Chris Mullin has to keep is Stephen Jackson. As the team's other captain, Jackson also played an important role in the Warriors' championship.

For 47 million in four years, the Warriors kept this alternative shooting guard because Jackson had already played for the Warriors for three years. According to the Bird clause, his contract extension would not be restricted by the salary cap. After signing Jackson, the Warriors

The same method was used to renew the contract of Anthony Morrow.

Due to the departure of Rasheed Wallace and Turiaf, the Warriors are also in a state of shortage of inside players. Chris Mullin began to turn his attention to the big guys among the free players. This time, the Warriors are digging

On the Suns' wall, Chris Mullin's target is Channing Frye, who is 2.11 meters tall but can also play inside and outside.

After bringing in Frye, the Warriors suspended all actions, and their operation this summer seems to have ended here. There are still many big fish in the market, but they have nothing to do with them anymore.

As time goes by, stars big and small have also settled down. However, because of the precedent of the Heat's Big Three, the subsequent series of signings and transactions did not cause much sensation. In fact, this summer's biggest

After the card players settled in one after another, the next actions did not cause much sensation.

As time goes by, more and more people are beginning to look forward to the arrival of the new season. The new Big Three of the Eastern Heat will face off against the old Big Three of the Celtics, and the new generation stars of the Western Warriors will face off against the veteran stars of the Lakers. This season, there will definitely be another

A lot of wonderful things.