Healing Basketball

   Chapter 535 535. The Pistons can't afford three max salaries?

   Liu Xiu: ? ? ? ?

   Looking at the transaction that WOJ broke the news, Liu Xiuyi had a question mark in his head.

Judging from Yao Ming's negative sentiment towards the Rockets revealed to him in the past two years, he knew that Yao Ming might test the waters of the free market after the rookie contract ended, but he estimated that the Rockets would use the parent team's matching rights to forcibly keep Yao Ming .

  I didn't expect that before the last year of the rookie contract, the Rockets traded Yao Ming!

  The value of the rookie contract is bound to be affected when there is only one year left in the trade.

   You can refer to Chris Webber, the No. 1 draft pick in the 1993rd. Webber only signed his rookie contract for two years. After the rookie season, Webber was clamoring to leave the Warriors.

   Liu Xiu immediately called Yao Ming, who confirmed the news.

  Because the Rockets have done a good job in domestic publicity, a bunch of domestic media are now besieging Yao Ming. Yao Ming is busy now, so he didn't chat with Liu Xiu much.

   Liu Xiu didn't ask any more questions. He turned around and called Bill Duffy, confirming that this was the trade that Yao Ming applied for.

  Bill Duffy, as Yao Ming's agent, is too busy at this time, and has no time to chat with Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu can only gossip with his girlfriend and sister and analyze it blindly.

Yao Ming can enter the free market as a restricted free agent next summer, but no matter what contract other teams give, the Rockets can match and keep Yao Ming, and the Rockets can give the highest annual salary increase of 12%, there is an absolute Priority renewal right, this is the parent team matching right.

   Of course, since the labor-management agreement gives the team the right to match the rookie's home team, it also gives the player the right to resist - signing the qualification clause.

   That is, after the rookie contract ends, the restricted free agent can choose to sign a one-year contract. This one-year contract is also called the home team contract, and the salary is 125% of the previous year.

   After signing the qualification contract, the player will also get a power-overlord clause, that is, the right to veto the transaction. The parent team will lose the right to trade the player with the qualification contract in the new season, unless the player agrees to accept the transaction.

   Of course, this is the power gained by the player losing a lot of salary, and if he encounters a ruthless team, maybe the player will be hidden for a year, then the player will basically be useless.

   In the end, Liu Xiu's family came to a conjecture that they felt was reliable - the Rockets did not dare to completely tear their faces with Yao Ming, at least not on the public level.

   That's why the Rockets chose to trade before people found out that they had an irreparable rift with Yao Ming!

  …

   Carter and Ben Wallace are going to join forces with Yao Ming!

After the news of    was exposed, people in the basketball circle, like Liu Xiu, were all attracted by this matter.

With   Hamilton as the core chip, it was determined that Carter and Ben Wallace would not move!

As for why Billups has not been noticed... He has not won the FMVP, and he has not led the team so conspicuously. At present, in the eyes of people, he is just a starting point guard with an average of 14 points and 5 assists per game, and he cannot be regarded as such. For 'core chips'.

   Carter, Ben Wallace, Yao Ming, this core trio, in the minds of fans, is enough to compare with the three best lineup of the Blazers' Liu Xiu, Ray Allen, and Randolph!

  The media are hyping and digging into the details of the deal, fans are talking, Yao Ming's friends are speculating... NBA officials don't know what to do now.

   Generally speaking, two teams apply for a trade, salary matching, contract compliance, and the league review is very fast, but this time it was delayed all morning.

  David Stern called Houston, and after repeatedly confirming that the other party wanted to trade, he was still hesitant.

   There are many jokes, and it can be seen that David Stern does not want Yao Ming to go to Detroit, and has been fighting the fire.

   And David Stern really doesn't want Yao Ming to go to Detroit. It's not about the size of the Detroit market. The US market doesn't need Yao Ming. He is worried about affecting the Chinese market.

  The other vice president listened to the boss's concerns and jokes. After a long silence, he said, "Boss, Detroit and Houston, is there any difference in the eyes of Chinese fans?"

  David Stern was enlightened when he heard the words!

Yup! Where is Yao Ming, that team will become the home team in the eyes of Chinese fans, does it have anything to do with which team and which city it is in?

   After thinking about it, David Stern remembered that Liu Xiu was so popular after joining the Trail Blazers. Is it the city of Portland or the team of the Trail Blazers? Not at all, but individual performance and team performance!

  Individual performance Yao Ming had, but the team's performance was hindered by the Rockets' stingy operation.

  David Stern has really disliked the Rockets' operation in the past two years, but there is no way, it is a big city anyway.

   Now that the trade applications have been exposed, even if the trade fails, the Rockets’ influence in the Chinese market will inevitably suffer…

  David Stern no longer hesitated, he stood firm, and said to the two vice presidents: "It seems that the great car capitals of the world will return to their glory!"

   After that, sign and seal the transaction application...

  …

The attention of the entire basketball world is focused on Yao Ming's transaction. The NBA's official website has not updated the transaction dynamics for a long time, and the media has also declined to interview the NBA official. This development can not help but make the media and fans wonder for a long time. Is this transaction necessary? What happened?

  Most of the people are melon eaters. It’s not too big of a deal to watch the fun, and they want to go wrong.

  Especially the fans of the major championship teams in the East, many people went to church to pray that the trade failed.

   But God has been so busy in the Middle East all these years, that he has no time to take care of them.

   On September 30, 2005, at 7:00 pm, the NBA official website updated several new transaction information. Today, there are a total of 3 transaction applications, all of which have been suppressed, and now passed together.

  What people care about the most is, of course, the Yao Ming deal.

  The transaction details have finally been revealed!

The Pistons sent Richard Hamilton, Darius Myers, Danny Granger, three first-round picks in 2010, 2012, and 2014, plus Danny Granger, a draft pick returned from this year's first-round trade. The rights to swap two first-round picks in 2013 and 2015 were traded from the Rockets to get Yao Ming, and at the same time they ate two expiring contracts of Clarence Witherspoon and Bob Sulla.

It is worth mentioning that the combined salary of Witherspoon and Bob Sura in the new season has reached 9.87 million US dollars, but both of them are determined to be unable to continue playing in the NBA due to injury. It is reported that the Rockets originally planned to, If you can find good and cheap players in the training camp, they will be cut. If not, they will be used to occupy the position, and there is no need to spend extra money to sign.

  How to say, most people's first reaction when they see this deal is that both parties lose money!

  The Pistons traded Yao Ming for more than the Heat got O'Neal!

   And the Lakers lost Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe, the Rockets lost Yao Ming, and it's not easy to get change back...

   Including the draft picks used to trade Carter, the Pistons did not have the power to decide their first-round picks until 2015! Even-numbered years are other people's draft picks, and in odd-numbered years, the other party has to decide whether to exchange draft picks.

   As for the Pistons eating nearly $10 million in junk contracts, making all the remaining players in the Rockets look like 'high-quality assets', it's not a big deal anymore.

After the deal, Pistons general manager Joe Dumars said in an interview: "I believe we will be championship contenders for the next five years, Yao Cai just turned 25, and we will have the best center in the league for the next ten years. He's my contemporary Sabonis..."

Sabonis is a giant center that is talked about by current NBA fans. Sabonis, who came to the NBA after 30 years old, was dragged by injuries. At the age of 33, he could still average 16 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists per game. Performance, and finally played until the age of 38 and a half to retire from the NBA.

Yao Ming's latest physical test report is too similar to Sabonis, 220+ cm tall, Yao Ming 226 cm, Sabonis 221 cm, Yao Ming 134 kg, Sabonis 132 kg, Yao Ming has better mobility and personal offensive ability, Sabonis has Better defense, better passing vision and passing accuracy…

   Even if Joe Dumars tried his best to convince everyone to approve the deal, for now, the controversy is still huge.

  Because things are not so simple, Carter's contract expires in the 06-07 season, then the contract extension will definitely still be a maximum salary, and Ben Wallace's new season is the contract year, and Yao Ming is also the contract year.

   It may not be a problem to renew the contract, but where will the three max salaries come from?

Because Milicic was traded out early, and now he is playing in the Raptors, he has the potential to become a super center. The Pistons have been criticized for trading Milicic back to Carter... The media is like this, they will not care about the original Milicic Cic didn't play under Larry Brown, and Milicic played in other teams because Joe Dumars made a bad trade.

   Now add a trade back to Yao Ming…

  ESPN Sports commented on the operation of the Pistons this time-Joe Dumars used the fortune of the Pistons in the next ten years to make a big bet with a high probability of failure!

  …

   Really went to the Pistons. Liu Xiu called Yao Ming to congratulate him. The other party was still busy and had no time to pay attention to his warden. The warden was heartbroken.

   Liu Xiu has been paying attention to this matter and saw the change in public opinion. When the transaction was first exposed, the fans of the Eastern Championship contenders shouted to crush the fall.

   But after the transaction was completed, a bunch of remarks mocking the Pistons' operation ruined the future.

   The Rockets who were also scolded for their wise operation, whether in China or in the United States, were overshadowed by the sound of mocking the Pistons.

   Liu Xiu pondered that the Rockets were really willing to spend money in order to keep the title of 'Yao Ming's parent team'!

   Co-author is reluctant to give Nash tens of millions of annual salary and reluctance to pay luxury tax, because the money is spent on bribes?

   Liu Xiu is not worried at all about whether Yao Ming can go to the Pistons and develop better.

As long as you leave the Rockets, even if it is used to change Garnett alone, and go to the Timberwolves to work hard alone, it is better than the Rockets. Although the Timberwolves have a narrow vision, at least they are willing to give money to the star, and they will attack decisively if they have the opportunity. Willing to spend money.

   Also, the Pistons spent so much money to trade Yao Ming back, they must be treasured as a treasure.

As for the press release that suddenly appeared and convinced most people who didn't know the truth, it said that the Pistons could not pay three max salaries, and that Carter, Ben Wallace, and Yao Ming, who had been transported from the team for ten years, had The combination can't hold... Liu Xiu really hopes that...

   At the same time that Yao Ming is out of the sea of ​​misery, Liu Xiu is also under pressure!

   (end of this chapter)