enjoyebooks Chapter 478 Putting the thorns on the shelf
Chapter 478 Putting the thorns on the shelf
Chapter 478 Putting the thorns on the shelf
Westbrook was in a bad mood. After losing the finals, he wanted to get drunk with Xie Kai. Unfortunately, this good brother was not in Los Angeles, but was preparing for the Olympics in China.
"Kane, when can we meet?" Westbrook sent a message to Xie Kai.
Xie Kai replied: "It's the Olympics!"
Westbrook is on the final roster of the U.S. men's basketball dream team.
After the NBA finals, the management of each team is preparing for the next season.Those who have a pick in their hands go to inspect and try out rookies; those who have salary space flirt with those big-name free agents.
For Xie Kai's home team, the Grizzlies, they have a No. 25 pick in the first round.This kind of pick in the second half of the first round is actually not of much value.In the NBA, the value of one lottery pick is often even more than two first-round picks of 1-25.
The Grizzlies are not confident enough that they can use the No. 25 pick in the first round to select a player like Xie Kai. This possibility is almost zero.
However, if you can use this pick to select a qualified rotation player, it can supplement the weak bench and optimize the team's salary space.
We all know that the rookie contract bonus is a very important part of a team that does not have enough salary space. Since the Grizzlies renewed the contracts of the White Bears and Xie Kai last summer, their salary pressure in the new season is still quite high. Potentially a hefty luxury tax.
For Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace and his front office this summer, the task remains daunting.They don't need to pay attention to the big fish in the free market, because they simply don't have the space to sign them.One of their biggest headaches right now is dealing with Rudy Gay.
The conflict between Rudy Gay and the Black Bears and Xie Kai was the main reason why the Grizzlies were swept by the Spurs in the playoffs of the just-concluded 3-2011 season.
With Rudy Gay on one side and Xie Kai and the Black Bears on the other, this is not such a difficult question for the Grizzlies.
Black Bear and Xie Kai are the core of the team's internal and external offense. With these two, the Grizzlies reached the Western Conference Finals.Although Gay is also a powerful striker, he still cannot be compared with these two.
So if the Grizzlies want to compete for the championship next season, they must deal with Rudy Gay.
But the problem is that Rudy Gay is not easy to deal with!In 2010, he signed a five-digit $5 million maximum salary contract with the Grizzlies. Although this contract is only 8230 years old, it is still huge enough for those teams that are interested in signing him but lack salary space. Choose to give up.
Gay's contract is not yet a junk contract, but it still has a premium.He's only 26 years old, he might not even be in his prime, and he was healthy last season.
The healthy Gay has the top physical fitness of the league's wings and has a very good singles ability.This is attractive to those teams that are indeed stars and have enough salary space, but it is impossible for such a team to use their future assets to make a deal with the Grizzlies.
Because Gay's contract is large (4200 million left), if balance is needed, the Grizzlies will look down on those rubbish contracts, and bad teams are unwilling to pay for future assets.
This is one of the reasons why Gay is difficult to be successfully traded.
There is another reason for the infighting of the Grizzlies. The whole league and even the whole world know it. Others are not in a hurry, but you are in a hurry.In the negotiations, the Grizzlies are the weak side, and it has become more difficult to obtain more positive assets.
But in any case, no matter how difficult it is, the Grizzlies will work hard to trade Gay. In order for the team to return to the championship, and to give Xie Kai, the Black Bears and the fans an explanation, this deal must be completed.
The Grizzlies have put Gay on the shelf and are ready to accept offers from interested teams.Regarding these, Guy himself knew, and Xie Kai and Hei Xiong also knew.
Gay was very dissatisfied with the Grizzlies' plan to trade him. He wrote on his social media: "It is impossible for a fatuous team to win the championship!"
Once this tweet was published, it immediately attracted a lot of attention.Many people left messages below, and the amount of forwarding has surpassed those of the top superstars on Twitter.
Some good people also deliberately @Grizzlies, Chris Wallace and others.
Of course, the more conflicted Gay is with the Grizzlies, the worse his trade value becomes.He also understands this truth, but he doesn't care anymore, you have the guts to lay me off!He knows that his contract is very big, and it is impossible for the team to buy him out or lay him off.If they really do that, his own interests, which have a fully guaranteed contract, will not be affected much.
As for being traded, where the trade goes is beyond his control, so he doesn't care if what he says will annoy the team.
Where is Guy going?This drama will be one of the highlights of the 2012 offseason, and those interested will want to know how it will end up.
But everyone also knows that if you want to trade Gay, it is probably not something that can be done in a short while.Some media even predict that once the Grizzlies cannot trade Gay, they will even choose Xuezang, a small forward with super scoring ability.
On June 6, the 29 NBA draft was held at Madison Square in New York. The Grizzlies, with the No. 2012 pick in the first round, chose Tony Roten, who graduated from the University of Washington.
Roten is a 198cm tall scorer at the No. 2 position. Obviously, the Grizzlies selected him to enhance the team's outside scoring ability.You must know that in the past season, their outside scoring ability was indeed not very ideal.
After the draft, the owner of the Grizzlies, Robert Pera, said in an interview that once the team needs to pay a luxury tax because of signings, he will not hesitate to support Yunyun.It means that he is willing to spend money to win the championship.
As soon as this remark came out, the management players of the Grizzlies did have more expectations for the team's new season. After all, if the team does not want to pay the luxury tax, it is difficult to renew the contract and sign in.
If the Grizzlies don't trade Gay, if they want to renew Arthur and Speights, they will need to pay the luxury tax, which is extremely detrimental to them.Gay didn't play a big role last season, and his salary of nearly 2000 million severely restricted the team's signings.
The Grizzlies are not a wealthy team, and their owner Robert Pera is not that generous, so when he said he was willing to spend money for the team to win the championship, it still made the whole team feel excited.After all, in today's NBA, it is really difficult for a team in a small market to win the championship if they refuse to pay the luxury tax.
(End of this chapter)