I’m Really Playing Basketball

Although Chen Xiao and Yao Ming did not lead the team in the 2011 Asian Championships, under the leadership of Arab League, the Chinese team still easily won the final championship with a complete victory record.

Regarding the current status of the six-time champion Chinese team in the Asian basketball world, it can be said that the Chinese team's participation in any Asian level competition is basically equivalent to Liu Huan's participation in Super Boy.

It's not the same dimension at all.

Even without Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, the level gap between the Chinese men's basketball team and other Asian teams is still visible to the naked eye.

With Chen Xiao's help over the years, the improvement in strength of the Chinese players who have participated in the Chinese training team has indeed been very obvious.

After all, Chen Xiao himself didn’t even know how many training experience cards he threw at the Chinese team. Even if they were a group of pigs, if they were thrown like this by Chen Xiao, they would become a group of ferocious ‘wild pigs’, right?

Even outstanding pigs such as Hua Tsai and Big Nephew can now compete with the top players of the US team in international competitions and perform.

Of course, Hua Tsai has been struggling in the NBA for several years now. He plays a good high-quality sixth man role in the Jazz. As a lottery player, he can grow into a high-quality sixth man for the playoff team. This growth is actually It's not bad, although it's a bit worse than his reputation as Chen Xiao II.

In short, now, as long as you can enter the training team of the Chinese team, with the help of Chen Xiao, each of you may become a talent.

The current Chinese team is a group of talents who have been trained by Chen Xiaote for who knows how many years.

Therefore, after the end of this Asian Championship, in the officially announced best lineup, not only the United Arab Emirates won the MVP, but there were also four players from the Chinese team in the first team. Except for Haddadi at the center, the other positions were all the same. They are all players of the Chinese team.

It may be embarrassing to say it. In recent years, the Chinese team's perimeter has really exploded, but the position of center is indeed somewhat lacking.

Most of the current center players in the Chinese team who can succeed Yao Ming are tall and lacking in dexterity and skills, and their golf IQ is quite poor.

It was originally more difficult to train centers in the basketball world, but now there are no good prospects. No matter how many experience cards Chen Xiao throws, it seems like nothing.

Of course, it is not completely wasted. After all, although their strength has not grown by leaps and bounds like the Chinese outsiders, they have still grown and improved.

At least, although it is not as good as Haddadi, it still did not blow Haddadi away.

It is precisely for this reason that when Chen Xiao left the Chinese team, he also knew that the current focus of the Basketball Management Center and the national team in the next stage is to find a center candidate who is truly worthy of training.

Like Yao Ming, a player who is tall, agile, skilled, and tough enough.

Chen Xiao and Yao Ming have both stated that they will retire from the national team at the same time after the 2012 Olympics. The national team is currently experiencing a blowout on the outside. Chen Xiao can make up for it a little bit, but Yao Ming's position is really not good.

The meaning of the national team is whether the national team will continue to maintain its dominance in the basketball world after Chen Xiao and Yao Ming retire. This is secondary, because no one is stupid. Without Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, they would have nothing to do with the United States. Team competition.

After the retirement of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, the Chinese team will have to defend its honor for a long time in the future and not fall from the first place in the world to the third place in the world.

Maintaining first-class status has become the biggest goal of the men's basketball team in the next few years, or even ten years.

This is first-class, not first-class in Asia, but first-class in the world.

To be honest, even with Arab League and a group of good outsiders, this task is not easy.

After all, a world-class team must reach the semi-finals of major competitions such as the World Championships and Olympic Games, otherwise it will be like a ghost.

To be honest, if it weren't for Chen Xiao and Yao Ming and the Arab League, the national team would really not dare to shout such a slogan.

It can only be said that in this Asian Championship, the United Arab Emirates did give the Chinese team a big surprise. Not to mention other games, let’s talk about the final of the Asian Championship. Facing Jordan, the United Arab Emirates scored 25 points and 16 rebounds. 6 blocks, completely dominating opponents on both offense and defense.

In the international arena, the UAE is more stable than the NBA.

It has to be said that the UAE's style is indeed suitable for major international competitions. In the NBA, the UAE's defense is definitely not as exciting, and the offense is not so powerful.

After celebrating with the Chinese team at the end of the Asian Championships, Chen Xiao said goodbye to the Chinese team and returned to the United States.

When Chen Xiao returned to the United States, there was no news about the Asian Championships in the NBA. Chen Xiao's appointment as assistant coach initially attracted attention, but now, the entire NBA is hyping the super performance of many players next season. The problem with big contracts.

For example, Chen Xiao's unprecedented five-year, 202 million super contract.

Another example is Tyson Chandler's four-year, 116 million super contract and so on.

Many experts and celebrities are crazy about Chen Xiao on TV and in the media, saying that this group of players has caught up with the good times.

Especially former Bulls star Pi Erye.

Crazy vitriol every day.

For example, when Tyson Chandler signed with the Knicks, Pi Erye directly said: "Twenty years ago, I could not have imagined that a player like Tyson Chandler could receive 30 million from the NBA every year. A US dollar contract, if he is worth 30 million, then I am worth 60 million!"

There is really no way around this. How could there not be jealous people in this world?

What's more, there are so many players like Tyson Chandler whose strength does not seem to match their annual salary. If you want to say that those NBA seniors are in a good mood, it would be strange.

However, although Chen Xiao is often brought up as an issue, Chen Xiao's first-year NBA salary has not been hacked. Even because of big contracts that are not in line with the strength of Tyson Chandler and others, Chen Xiao's salary has even been reduced. The contract looks like an incredible value.

In fact, the contracts signed by Chen Xiao, Wade, Yao Ming, Luo Ge and others this year are considered to be very valuable.

Wade, Yao Ming and Luo Ge all chose to cut their salaries for the needs of the team.

Otherwise, Chen Xiao would not be allowed to become the only Mr. 200 million contract.

It's not that Chen Xiao has never thought about cutting his salary. To be honest, he doesn't have that much desire for money now. He has no shortage of it. However, both Boss Qiao and the NBA rejected his idea.

Because he is different from Wade, Yao Ming, Luo Ge and others.

He is the number one player in the NBA, the face of the game.

Of course, if he wants to forcefully choose to cut his salary, that's okay, but in the Bobcats, it's really not necessary. The Bobcats actually have room to attract people.

Moreover, it can be seen from David Stern's lobbying of him and the "Durant Clause" in the new collective bargaining agreement reached between management and players that the league intends to break up the NBA's super teams.

By the way, the Durant clause means that after a player completes his rookie contract, he can receive a salary that accounts for 30% of the team's salary cap (a 5% increase from the old contract) when signing the second contract of his career. maximum salary contract.

However, this Durant clause has a very strict entry threshold, and any one of the following three conditions must be met during the rookie contract.

The first condition, and the most difficult one, is to be elected regular season MVP in the first four years of the rookie contract.

The second condition is that the rookie has four years and is selected into the starting lineup in the All-Star Game twice.

The third condition is that the rookie is selected to the best team of the year twice in four years, and can be selected for the first, second or third team.

Because this new collective bargaining agreement is a new contract implementation after 2011, it starts with the 2007 rookie class.

So far, the only players who meet this condition are Durant and Rose.

Originally, the contract Durant signed with the Bucks was a five-year, $128 million contract. However, because of Durant's clause, his contract was automatically upgraded by the league to a five-year, $1.45 million contract.

To be honest, you have to ask Durant if he is willing to take the extra salary of nearly 20 million. Although he says why he doesn't want his own money, he must be murmuring in his heart.

Wouldn't it be nice to spend some money every year to sign a capable role player?

The reason why the league did this in this new collective bargaining agreement is to prevent outstanding young players from getting together on a certain team in the future.

After the emergence of the Durant clause, it is basically impossible for a team to have two young players of the same level as Durant or Rose at the same time.

At the same time, this can also be regarded as the league's praise for the contribution of players of Chen Xiao, Durant, and Rose's level to the league.

Although Chen Xiao and the others may not want such praise from the alliance.

Historically, Durant's contract with the Thunder in 2011 was automatically upgraded by the league and he became the first player to enjoy Rose's clause. It was precisely because he received these millions more every year that he permanently lost his Third brother.

This is not something he can decide, he has nothing to do, and he doesn't want to upgrade, but the alliance automatically upgraded.

Therefore, it is difficult to say what impact the Durant Clause will have on the future of the NBA.

Maybe this clause will make the NBA more interesting and suppress the top teams. However, similarly, this clause may not be so friendly to many teams in small cities.

Perhaps, a team in a small city that is unwilling to invest heavily will no longer be able to change history with a divine draft in one or two years.

Suppress the top and sacrifice the bottom, vigorously cultivate the middle-level teams, and increase the competitiveness of the entire league.

All I can say is, it’s you as expected, David Stern.

The NBA has been so successful, but you are still struggling like this.

By the way, in line with this regulation, the new labor agreement has updated the concept of super luxury tax. At the same time, the original luxury tax is no longer a 1:1 ratio.

Not more than 5 million, the ratio is 1.5, not more than 10 million, 1.75, not more than 15 million, 2.5, not more than 20 million, 3.25.

If it exceeds 20 million, it is 3.75+0.5 per 5 million. If your luxury tax is 30 million, it is 3.75+0.5x2=4.75.

In other words, if you exceed the luxury tax line by 30 million, you will no longer have to pay a fine of 30 million, but 140 million.

This is still an ordinary luxury tax. If it is the new concept of super luxury tax... it will be even more terrifying.

According to the new super luxury tax concept.

If a team has exceeded the luxury tax threshold in any three of the past four years, and if they exceed the luxury tax threshold again this year, they will pay taxes at the super luxury tax rate this year.

On the basis of the luxury tax rate, add 1.

The same is 30 million, then the tax payment becomes 4.75+0.5x2=5.75x30 million=172.5 million.

Who can afford such a luxury tax for an average team?

Even big-city super teams like the Knicks and Lakers can't stand it.

No rich man really treats money as paper.

The league's salary cap this season is more than 94 million, and the luxury tax trigger line is 114 million. The Bobcats' contract for next season is just close to 114 million, not exceeding the line, but only a little short of it.

This is due to the fact that Chen Xiao's starting salary does not exceed 40 million, and that the base salary is the base salary, and most of the players such as Rose, Cousins, DeRozan, and Jimmy Butler are rookies.

There is no way, Chen Xiao, Roy, Granger, and David West. Although Roy, Granger, and David West have all received salary cuts, the total contracts of the four of them are still a huge sum. number.

Therefore, this is why after Chen Xiao returned to the NBA, many experts and media in the league were hyping the league's salary issue next season.

Because, even judging from the current situation of the Bobcats, judging from the league's new labor agreement, the Bobcats can only last one season next season.

Because Rose will automatically be renewed with Durant's terms next season, Rose's contract will reach an annual salary of nearly 30 million by then. At this time, Rose's annual salary is only 5 million.

That is to say, for the same lineup, Rose's usage cost increased by 25 million.

Not to mention that Chen Xiao's salary will also increase, Roy and Granger's will also increase, and the contract salaries of the Bobcats' rookie players will also increase year by year.

If the Bobcats want to keep the original team, then next season, the Bobcats' salary will increase by between 45 million and 50 million.

Even with the lowest luxury tax of 45 million, the ordinary luxury tax, this fine easily exceeds 200 million US dollars.

Historically, the Warriors exceeded the line by 39.3 million and were fined 176 million. The Bobcats really wanted to exceed the line by exceeding 45 million. This is a simultaneous surge in the total number and coefficient. If they can't stop at 200 million, they will go for 300 million. rhythm.

Therefore, many people say that next season will be Rose's last season with the Bobcats.

This is not unreasonable, it should be said that it is very reasonable.

No matter how rich Jordan is and no matter how short the Bobcats are, they can't withstand such punishment from the league.

In fact, the Bobcats are not the only team that is troubled by the league's new luxury tax. The Heat are also troubled by this problem. Even if Wade and Yao Ming cut their salaries, both of them still have a base salary of 70 million, plus 20 million Anthony.

In fact, not to mention next season, next season, the Heat will have already exceeded the luxury tax line, and exceeded it by a lot.

Experts have calculated that the Heat will pay a luxury tax penalty of 110 million next season.

So, the Heat will compete next season, but what about the next season?

According to many experts, the Heat want to maintain the Big Three structure of Wade, Yao Ming and Anthony. In the future, other players can only be rookies and veterans with basic salaries.

Therefore, many people say that the league next season will be...

"Twilight of the Gods!"

Bobcats, Heat, Lakers, such god-like teams will only exist next season, and they will never exist again!