NBA: Being criticized for half a year at the beginning

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On July 7, Tang Yu led a group of rookies to train hard. After participating in the Asian Championships, A-Lian was immediately called back to Houston by Tang Yu to participate in the training camp.

Curry and Harden have made obvious progress. The figure of the elementary school student Curry has obviously become stronger, and Harden's core strength has also made great progress.

Tang Yu saw that the talent value realization ratio of these two people has increased a little, Harden has reached 76/95, and Curry has increased by 3 points, which is now 74/95.

Compared with these two rookies with abnormal talents, other Rockets rookies have not improved.

This also made Tang Yu depressed. Is it because other people are not working hard?

He watched these players train every day, how could he not work hard, but it was depressing enough that his ability value did not increase in 10 days.

On this day, Tang Yu was training with these rookies, and Sam Hinkie walked into the gym with a tablet computer.

"Hi Sam, what's wrong? Is there anything you can't handle?"

Sam Hinkie handed the tablet to Tang Yu.

"The Boss Alliance has just announced the salary cap and luxury tax starting point. This is our player salary this season, and there are ticket pricing and other peripheral pricing issues."

Tang Yu looked at the table made by the Rockets general manager, which was very professional and clear at a glance, especially the tickets and merchandise on sale were very detailed.

Which food is selling well, which price tickets are more popular, jersey sales, etc.

The league has announced the salary cap and luxury tax starting point for the new season.

The salary cap for the 09-10 season is 57.7 million US dollars, and the luxury tax line is 69.92 million US dollars.

Any team with a total salary exceeding this number will have to pay 1 US dollar in luxury tax for every extra dollar spent.

The salary cap for the 08-09 season is 58.68 million US dollars, and the luxury tax line is 71.15 million US dollars.

Although the league's revenue increased by 2.5% compared to last season, the constraints of the labor-capital clause still led to a reduction in the salary cap and luxury tax.

This is mainly due to the global financial crisis that led to a decline in the league's total revenue. The authorities must strictly limit and control the spending of each team, so the luxury tax threshold was lowered.

Tang Yu was depressed. Is he short of money? But it's okay. He has many young players now, so he should not be at the point where the luxury tax is levied.

With the announcement of the salary cap and luxury tax, the teams in the league immediately began to fight in the free market.

Looking down, we can see the current player salaries of the Rockets.

Yao Ming has two years left on his contract, 16.38 million and 17.69 million;

Carter and Yao Ming both have two-year contracts, 16.1 million this year and 17.52 million next year;

Curry 3.98 million, Harden 4.85 million, Battier 7.65 million, Scola 3.4 million, Ibaka 1.25 million, Lowry 1.86 million, Beverley 1.68 million, Jordan 850,000, Tielin 1.52 million, Uncle Mu 1.35 million, Iverson 4.5 million, Yi Jianlian 3.11 million, Carroll 2.78 million.

The Rockets' total salary is 7,126 tabuli, 134 tabuli more than the luxury tax. Tang Yu took a look and thought that this little money was nothing.

Looking down at the cost of the team's ticket prices and commodity prices, Tang Yu didn't seem too expensive, but in line with the purpose of benefiting the fans, he still gave orders to Sam Hinkie beside him.

"Sam, lower the prices of all goods by another ten points. As for tickets, increase the price of front row tickets and lower the price of the mountaintop area."

Tang Yu thought about it again.

"By the way, we will draw four lucky winners on the spot for each game, and each of them will be awarded $10,000. If the team wins, two more will be drawn after the game."

Sam Hinkie was stunned. He had never seen such a boss before. He had to give out 200 daburi this year. He was about to remind Tang Yu, but Tang Yu started again before he could speak.

"Set up two square formations behind the basketball hoops on both sides of the court. I need some passionate fans to create the most terrifying home court in the league. Fans who participate can get discounts on tickets and tickets for player meet-and-greet days."

Well, Sam Hinkie won't say anything. It seems that the Rockets boss is really rich and stupid. It's no wonder that he gives money to employees when he disagrees with them.

"Anything else, boss?"

"Of course Sam, I'm also planning to change the name of the Toyota Center. How much will we have to pay for breach of contract?"

"Boss, we don't have to pay anything. Now the Toyota Center is completely yours. The 2 billion you paid has already bought out the cooperation with Toyota Group."

No problem. I spent 2 billion to buy the ownership of the arena. It should be renamed. The name of the Toyota Center is very simple and unpleasant!

"Well, make a public announcement.Go, Toyota Center will be renamed Dynasty Arena! Isn't this a domineering name! "

Sam Hinkie's face changed. It was estimated that only his boss could come up with such a greedy name.

"Good name, boss. I think this name fits our team's team-building ideas very well!"

Tang Yu was very comfortable with this rainbow fart and handed the tablet back to Sam Hinkie.

"The last thing, buy a Patek Philippe watch for all the players and give it to them as a gift for the new season! "

Tang Yu did this for a reason. He bought a watch for playing mahjong, not to mention that if his team wants to win the championship next season, the right time, right place and right people are all indispensable!

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Odom, who is about to turn 30, reached a 4-year, 3,300-dollar contract extension with the Lakers on July 7. If nothing unexpected happens, this is Lama's last big contract.

The next day, the Lakers signed and then traded Trevor Ariza to the Timberwolves, and at the same time, the Lakers got Artest. The Lakers also signed with the team's spring guard Shannon- Brown completed the contract extension.

Ben Gordon signed a 5-year, 5,800-dollar contract with the Detroit Pistons, with a 13-year player option and expiring in 14 years.

The Mavericks then successfully signed the "Polish Hammer" Gortat, and they also reached a 3-year, 2,500-dollar contract extension with Jason Kidd;

On July 10, the Dallas Mavericks (now the Dallas Mavericks, for convenience, the name of the Mavericks will be used in the future!) and the Raptors planned a four-party big deal.

The Mavericks sent Jerry Star The Raptors sent Marion, Humphries, Nathan Jawai, a 2016 second-round pick and some cash to get Turkoglu, who was signed and traded by the Magic. The Turkish contract is 5 years and 5,300 taurus. The Memphis Grizzlies got Stackhouse, but then cut him. The $2 million spent was provided by the Mavericks, and the Mavericks also had to pay the Grizzlies. Bears received about 3 million in cash.

The Magic received a trade exception and some cash from the Raptors.

Then the league heard another earthquake-level deal, the Phoenix Suns sent Shaquille O'Neal to the Cavaliers in exchange for Ben Wallace, Sasha Pavlovic, a second-round draft pick in 2010 and $500,000 in cash.

The Big Shark swam back to the East to join forces with 'Little Emperor' James to challenge the championship.

'Lone Wolf' Marbury ended his NBA career and joined the CBA Shanxi team across the ocean!