The Rest, Only Noise

Chapter 1083 Accidents happen every year, especially this year

July 2

The NBA has announced a four-year, $500 million cable contract with TNT and TBS.

Almost on the same day, the NBA and NBC announced at the same time that they had reached a four-year, $1 billion TV contract.

The news came as a surprise to many bosses, and it meant more dividends next year.

According to the old collective bargaining agreement, 50% of the two money went into the owner's pocket, and the other 50% belonged to the players.

In other words, dividing $750 million by 27 is roughly the NBA salary cap for the new season.

That's $25.5 million.

How much has this figure increased from last season? A full $7.5 million.

That means a lot of teams suddenly have the cap space to drop an Ewing.

Of course, the players union still has not reached a new consensus with the owners.

They are aggressive, showing the ruthlessness of striking if they fail to achieve their goals, demanding a change in the distribution of income, wanting to get a bigger pie, and abolishing the salary cap to increase the salary without a ceiling.

The most egregious one, they called for the abolition of the draft.

Because this is unconstitutional, NBA teams do not make any contribution to the NCAA. Why can they, according to their own rules, require these talents trained by American colleges and universities to join which team?

The demands of the players sound reasonable, but except for the first one, all of them are digging their own graves.

Today's trade union rights movement has completely turned sour.

The Bill Russells of the 1960s were designed to have enough security after retirement to not be dragged down by injuries that fell while playing.

Now, of course, NBA players who are millionaires per capita don't think they make more money. They just want to make more money, and the bosses won't agree.

As the Sports Illustrated reporter put it: "It's really a fight between millionaires and multi-millionaires versus billionaires."

Although the two sides could not negotiate and the union was clamoring for a strike every day, the operation of the offseason continued as usual.

In the offseason, players looking to find their next home stand in stark contrast to teams that focus on functioning and the two gangs on the negotiating court.

They give the impression that these two people have never been connected.

On July 3, a thunderstorm was thrown into the "fish pond".

The president of the Miami Heat proudly held a press conference, announcing to reporters: "We have reached a verbal agreement with Ralph Sampson!"

As soon as the news came out, it really fried the pot.

Reporters all over the country flew to Miami like scalded grasshoppers, wanting to learn more about the signing before details of the signing came to light.

On July 4, the two sides officially announced.

Sampson signed a three-year, $40 million deal with the Miami Heat, becoming the first player in league history to earn a salary of 10 million a year.

To ensure flexibility for Sampson's future, Falke asked for a player option to be added in the second year of his contract.

How dare Shafir refuse? This is Sampson. He rejected the Blazers and the Warriors and joined the Heat. This is completely condescending and "respectable."

Shafir believes Louie played an invaluable role in Sampson's signing with the Heat.

Because Sampson said to Shafir when he signed the contract: "I heard that you are a good friend of Coach Lu?"

Shafir laughed: "I'm probably Lu's best friend in the league."

"Say hello to Coach Lu for me, I think I'll love Miami."

"You're going to love it, especially the beaches and low taxes."

Shafir is grateful to Louis, and at the same time has a bigger plan in his heart.

Sampson isn't the only big fish this offseason.

And Wilson, Olajuwon, Drexler and Jordan.

Sampson alone is a bit unsafe, if there are two, it will be stable.

Due to the soaring salary cap in the new season, the Heat signed Sampson is completely naked.

This is a bonus brought by special times.

When Shafir pursued Wilson, he was rejected.

Wilson's team selection criteria are the same as Sampson's, and it must be a team that can make him the boss.

Now that Sampson is already in place, he is naturally not good to go to the Heat.

The experience of working with Ewing has cast a shadow on Wilson to some extent.

He felt that these big men were pretentious lunatics who were not easy to get along with.

How many eight years are there in life? He has spent eight years proving that he doesn't get along with Ewing, and he must not spend another eight years trying to get along with another person who may have a personality problem.

The Heat may be out of play.

The Pacers wanted to stabilize Manning by signing Wilson.

However, Wilson did not want to be teammates with the utilitarian inflated egomaniac Manning.

Because he just got rid of an inflated megalomaniac.

Only then could Wilson see the flaws in Ewing. When he was in the Knicks, because of Louie, he always had a "can get away, make do with it" mentality.

Now, the light over Ewing's shortcomings has become clearer as he leaves New York.

Although Ewing did appear to be a mature leader in the final year, it was his maturity that made Wilson realize that he was not a second-in-command willing to be subordinated after all.

He wanted to be the boss, so a conflict with Ewing was inevitable.

The conflict between the two of them almost destroyed the team the year before. It was a team that Louis built with all his might, and he couldn't let the other party's efforts go to waste.

So leaving was Wilson's only option.

Wilson also thought about playing for Louie forever, but the idea was naive.

Until he finds out Louie isn't planning to renew his contract with New York either...

Since then, Wilson has kept calling Louie about which team Louie wants to join.

Louie also knew that if he said which team he was going for, Wilson would immediately sign with his new team.

Doing so will inevitably give people a feeling of running with Wilson.

Louie didn't want to feel that way, especially from the New York side.

Therefore, Louis has not given a clear answer.

Moreover, he can't answer, because there really is no answer right now.

He doesn't like small city teams.

There are only a handful of teams in the big cities.

In addition to the Knicks, it seems that there is only Los Angeles?

Los Angeles has two teams, but Donald Sterling's boss is a nightmare for any management who wants to do it.

In other words, in the big city team, the only option is the Lakers.

If Louie can't come to terms with the Lakers, he'll really have to go to a small city.

The Lakers have made clear their interest in Louie.

Team owner Jerry Buss intends to play in the finale.

If Louie isn't interested in the Lakers, he'll sign before Buss's shot.

On the other hand, if he is still in a state of not being able to find a target when the Lakers take a shot, then Bass will have great confidence in opening a condition that other teams cannot match.

In Louie's eyes, choosing the Lakers would be more about family considerations than his career.

The first is that Lorraine's acting career won't be affected in Los Angeles, which is where Hollywood is after all.

Followed by his son Lu Wuxia.

If this kid wants to go further on the basketball road, he has to go out and see the vast world outside.

College basketball in New York City is undoubtedly stronger than in Los Angeles, but college basketball in California can take on the entire Midwest.

It's not that they often produce stars, but the overall quality is very high, which is very suitable for small players to level up.

For Louie, rebuilding the Lakers is not a difficult task.

They already have David Robinson and Scottie Pippen~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It's a little hard to get around these two, but what about Benj?

Thinking of this, Louis's thoughts were broken.

No, Robinson is okay to say, Pippen is better than Ewing in terms of character alone.

Crimson Ewing never turned down the game because Louie wouldn't let him play the key ball—and he wouldn't have dared to do so given Ewing 10,000 guts—while Pippen did.

He chose to do that for the same reason that Ewing fought Benj all over the place all those years.

He is the boss of the team, he should have this qualification and right.

When you feel that the key ball should let you shoot, as a leading player, what should you do?

James, who has been criticized for his penchant for passing the ball in key ball choices, did just that.

He smashed David Blatt's tactical board to get the **** ball into his hands, and then made that lore.

And Pippen never had the heart to bear that kind of pressure, he just complained, made trouble, and completely messed up the team chemistry.

No, can't let Benj go to the Lakers.

Louis thought so.

next day

The Los Angeles Lakers announced: "We have reached a four-year max contract with superstar Benjamin Wilson, and the Lakers Nation has ushered in a new king!"

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