The rest is just noise

Chapter 1,228 Please first understand the technique of falsely reporting your height.

While Louis and the Lakers were patiently waiting for preseason training camp to arrive, the Portland Trail Blazers announced that their contract extension with Alonzo Mourning had failed.

When Mourning left the team in Philadelphia, it was because he was jealous of the penny-dollar contract, so he wanted the 76ers to give him a super maximum salary of 120 million yuan over seven years.

The 76ers naturally refused, and the relationship between the two parties immediately deteriorated. Mourning was put on the shelf, and the Trail Blazers spent a lot of money to buy the deal.

In Pat Riley's view, Mourning's seven-year, $120 million contract extension is indeed a bit of a premium, but it is not unaffordable.

But that was before the league introduced luxury tax rules.

After the New York prodigal son made a fierce move to get 300 million in luxury tax for the Knicks, the situation has changed.

In fact, at the end of last season, Pat Riley submitted his resignation.

He believes that he can no longer bring any changes to the Blazers.

Paul Allen privately agreed to his resignation application, but hoped that he could persist until the team selected a new head coach and head coach. After all, although Riley has not made any achievements in the Trail Blazers over the years, he has already been all the future players.

The closest coach to success in the 1990s.

Even if the coach needs to be changed, he must be replaced by a well-known master.

As a result, after the GM summit, the league launched the "luxury tax" policy with great fanfare. Allen, who has always been sensitive to this, carefully compared the increase in luxury tax and the salary cap space, and directly put aside the matter of Riley's resignation.

He is only asked to control the team's total salary within 50 million.

It's not that Allen is reluctant to spend money, he just wants to see whether the money is spent in value.

If he can guarantee the championship, even if his salary exceeds 50 million, it is not impossible to grit his teeth and hold on for a year, but he doesn't see any hope.

If Mourning is given $120 million in seven years, Portland's salary for the new season will reach $66 million. Although it is not as outrageous as New York's $77 million, the luxury tax it can bring is also a terrifying giant.

Beast – that’s $185 million.

If the salary space is controlled within 50 million.

Assuming that the Blazers' total salary for the new season is US$49.99 million, then they only need to pay US$59.97 million in luxury tax.

Coupled with the team's salary, the operating cost for a season is about US$100 million.

This is still a transaction that cannot be repaid in any case, but it is within the affordable category.

It can be said that the super team is being destroyed.

The monster luxury tax will frighten owners who think they are rich.

And the disheartened Riley, oddly enough, stayed in Portland.

Paul Allen seems to have forgotten his resignation letter.

Riley did not apply a second time.

What's more terrifying than being denied is not being cared about. Riley can no longer feel the rich owner's desire for the championship. If his purpose is not to win the championship, but to keep the team competitive, then who is the coach?

The position is the same. With Jordan and Olajuwon, the Trail Blazers' results won't be much worse.

Riley's heart was full of unwillingness. He felt that he should not have such an ending.

Maybe that's why he didn't apply for resignation a second time. Anyway, he only had the last year of his contract left. Instead of giving up, he might as well give it one last try.

Louis, who caused the upheaval in the offseason, now looks back on the luxury tax policy and finds that the fines are too heavy.

The current luxury tax penalties are copied from those of the NBA in the future, but the league's revenue at that time was not the same as it is today.

However, without strong medicine, the super team cannot be contained.

The reason why the Knicks have such an outrageous luxury tax is mainly because Dolan is mentally retarded and does not understand the new rules and does not bother to understand them. In addition, the salary cap system is not perfect yet.

Although most things have been stipulated, the most critical point has not been stipulated, and that is the limit on the maximum salary.

The current annual salary leader in the league is still Ewing. His contract is 90 million for four years, with an average annual salary of 22.5 million U.S. dollars, which directly accounts for 2/3 of the salary cap. Today with the implementation of the luxury tax, Ewing

The contract is terrible.

According to normal development, the league's next plan should be to limit the maximum salary, but the next collective bargaining agreement negotiation will be in 1999.

It is unpredictable what kind of big contracts the league will produce in the next three years.

Mourning came to the free market and found that most teams had no room to sign him.

The only team that offered him a big contract was the Cleveland Cavaliers.

They gave Mourning a seven-year, $80 million contract that was the highest in team history.

This is far from the US$120 million over seven years that Mourning originally asked for, but he has no choice.

Mourning accepted the contract.

In fact, this is exactly what the alliance wants to see.

A young player as good as Mourning should have been the cornerstone of other emerging teams, not the third player in Portland.

The Knicks' sky-high luxury tax has woken up many people.

The Trail Blazers stopped their losses in time. As for the Heat, after a series of contract extensions, their total salary was also as high as 60 million. The terrible luxury tax figure made Arison jump and call Shaffier urgently, asking him to reduce the total salary to 50 million.

the following.

Now that all teams have finished their operations, how can we still suppress them?

Shafir was dumbfounded.

In order to get rid of the sky-high luxury tax, the Knicks will do all kinds of outrageous things in the future. This is a story for another day.

Louis, the initiator of the super team era and the end of the super team era, took stock of the Lakers' salary space.

Overall, their salaries are healthy.

There are only four big contracts in the team, namely Wilson for 4 years and 55 million, Ellis for 3 years and 12 million, Barkley for 4 years and 32 million, and Burrows for 5 years and 30 million. The rest are either rookie contracts or veteran minimum salaries.

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The total salary of the Lakers is less than 42 million, and of course they have to pay taxes, but compared to those super teams, their life is very good.

In early September, before training camp began, Louie convened the coaching staff.

New member of the coaching staff Alex Stevens has an official role.

He will become the Lakers' wing development coach and defensive coordinator.

Defensive coordinator is a professional title only in football. The defensive coordinator in football mainly manages the roster of defensive players, supervises assistant coaches, develops defensive game plans and guides players to defend during games. And Louis does not need Steven

Si takes on such a big responsibility, and his responsibilities mainly include two points: developing the rookie's defensive ability, and being responsible for recording the team's defensive data during the game.

This defensive statistic is very personal.

Louis asked Stevens to judge the defensive performance of the team's players according to his own standards.

Louis requires that the work must be detailed to the defensive data of each player and each game.

Starting from the new season, the Lakers will have the number of "excellent defense" and "poor defense" contributions by each player per game.

Although Louis does not plan to implement the Knicks' defensive philosophy in the Lakers, it does not mean that they will not defend, but the priority will be lowered. For rookies, defense is very important, and they can lay a solid defensive foundation early in their careers.

It will be of great benefit to their future development.

The weight of this job makes other members of the coaching staff find it unbearable.

If Stevens accepts, he will be the busiest person on the coaching staff. Not only will he have to record the players' defense during the game, but he will also have to re-watch the tape for comparison after the game, while also taking care of the wing players.

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Unexpectedly, Stevens agreed immediately.

After Stevens took over the job, Louis announced in public that Kobe Bryant and Liu Yuqing would be assigned to him.

He needs Stevens to take care of these two defensively.

"Put it on me," Stevens said.

Later, Louis looked forward to the new season. He believed that the Lakers will have great potential in the coming year.

The luxury tax has seriously shaken the dominance of super teams and caused many non-existent cracks within them. This is the Lakers' opportunity.

"It sounds like we have a chance to win the championship?" Nelson asked jokingly.

Bird joked: "Who says it's not the case? The most important thing this guy lacks is self-confidence."

"Of course, what can you do if you don't have confidence?" Louis finally said, "As for the preparations for the new season, I have asked Coach Zhao to prepare documents. You will go to him to get one later. The work in the new season will be very complicated.

It’s very heavy and I need your full support.”

After the meeting, Louis left Rick Carlisle and Mike Budenholzer alone to talk about the optimization design of the tactical details of "Beautiful Basketball". After a summer of painstaking research, Carlisle and Budenholzer each achieved results.

Louis was so pleased that he asked them to compile a report and discuss it at the next meeting.

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It has been a long time since Louis has been so serious about preparations for the new season.

Usually, he would leave these things to his people, but in the Lakers, he often has to do it himself.

As a "savior" who has yet to achieve any results here, Louis really needs to lead by example.

Moreover, the impact of the luxury tax on the league is far beyond imagination, giving Louis greater ambitions for the new season.

Then, the time came to September 10, which is the day when the preseason training camp for the new season begins.

After research by the coaching staff and management, everyone agreed that Palm Springs Resort is the most suitable location for training.

Therefore, the Lakers still chose to hold training camps at resorts as in previous years.

The coaching staff was in place a day in advance.

Early the next morning, players began to arrive at the resort.

The first player to join was Ben Wallace, who believed that this could show his attitude and make the coaching staff appreciate him.

In order to show his ambition, the naive Wallace actually took the initiative to ask Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for technical key points of the sky hook.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was so comfortable, didn't even look at him: "It's useless for you to practice this."

"Karim, Sky Hook is the most beautiful offensive move in history. Since you retired, no one has used it anymore. Don't you want to find a successor?" Wallace looked at him longingly.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar finally looked at him.

He estimated Da Ben's height and glanced at his little pig's trotter-like hands. This kind of person actually wants to be the successor of Sky Gou?

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sneered sarcastically: "Stop dreaming, you will never do it!"

"Why?"

"You just can't do it!"

At this time, the kind and righteous Coach Lu appeared: "Karim, why are you so cruel to the rookie?"

Jabbar snorted: "Because he is so stupid!"

"How stupid is he? Tell me."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said harshly: "With his height and his little hands that may not even be able to hold an egg, he told me that he wanted to learn Sky Hook and be my successor? It's simply ridiculous!"

Oben said unconvinced: "What's wrong with my height? No matter how bad it is, I'm still six feet nine inches tall!"

Even Louis couldn't bear it now.

Six feet nine? Is there something wrong with this person’s thinking? Where the hell did you get six feet nine?

"Ben, I suggest you first understand the technique of lying about your height, and then tell me about your six-foot-nine height!"

Daben walked away depressed.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar complained: "Six feet nine? I think he is even six feet seven!"

"Yeah, the rookies nowadays are really getting more and more messy. They lie about their height and don't know how to grow an afro. If he wants to grow an afro, I can barely calculate that he is 6 feet 8.

"What's the use of that? The height brought by the length of the hair is not the effective height!"

Louis smiled and said: "At least I can convince myself that at least the net height of his body has indeed been achieved."

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