Chapter 518: A Summer of Chaos
After Lin Yi and Paul watched the draft together for 12 years, the Knicks' first operation in the summer also followed.
For the Knicks, there is nothing more important than renewing Lin Yi's contract in advance. According to the terms of Lin Yi and Rose, Lin Yi will be able to get a share of the team's salary cap in this early contract renewal. 35% of the maximum salary contract.
How exaggerated is this contract?
You know, if it is at a time when the salary cap will rise sharply in the future, Lin Yi's contract is equivalent to Curry's 200 million contract.
The contract extension between Lin Yi and the Knicks on Twitter immediately attracted the attention of countless people. Most of them came to watch. After all, after the 98/99 NBA season was suspended, Lin Yi was still the first rookie contract in the NBA. A player who got a contract worth over 100 million yuan at the end.
The remaining four members of the top five in the 2009 class were seriously stimulated. Curry will renew his contract with the Warriors in advance this summer. The Warriors will give him a maximum salary of 25% of the team's salary, although Curry feels that he has made a lot of money. However, the contract with Lin Yi is still incomparable.
And Griffin was selected as an All-Star for two consecutive years and completed the "Ross file" of Lin Yi and Rose's terms. He will sign the 5-year $95 million contract with the Clippers just as Lin Yi remembers. , Accounting for 30% of the team's salary space, a long-term contract that took effect in the summer of 2013.
DeRozan also completed an early contract extension with the Raptors. Of course, he envied Lin Yigui and envied Lin Yi. Many rookies and second-year players expressed on Twitter that the "Lin Yi file" of Lin Yi and Rose's terms, The concubine really can't do it!
Because he was elected MVP in the first four years of his rookie contract, was selected to the first team of the year twice, and was selected to the All-Star Game lineup twice at the same time. Even if these rookies have all kinds of dreams, Don't dare to go crooked!
Lin Yi is so fucking perverted!
So without Lin Yi's knowledge, he silently pierced the hearts of many people.
As soon as rookies in the future NBA hear about "Lin Yi's privilege", they will hate Lin Yi so much!
This kind of feeling that I have drawn a cake for you, but you can't eat it anyway, is really uncomfortable!
The new contract between Lin Yi and the Knicks will also take effect in the summer of 2013, with a total value of 1.8 billion US dollars and a total period of 5 years, the last year of which is a player option. Yi's new contract will hold deal veto power.
Originally, Knicks general manager Donnie Walsh strongly opposed giving Lin Yi the right to veto the trade, but soon Knicks owner James Dolan hurled insults at him. In Dolan's words: What do you want? Bicycle? Lin Yi will give you whatever he wants. If I can, I can't wait to give him a contract of 5,000+ per year, so that he can sign a lifetime long-term contract with the Knicks!
You know, although the Knicks failed to win the championship in the 11/12 season, the market value of the Knicks has exceeded the $5 billion mark. For Dolan, Lin Yi, a cash cow, is equal to the future of the Knicks. Dolan also made money when it was bad, but who would think that he made less money?
And as long as the Knicks can keep Lin Yi, they will be a strong contender for the championship every season.
Being able to gain both fame and fortune, such a good thing, how could Dolan be reluctant to give up a small transaction veto?
There is no harm if there is no comparison. At first, Silly Fen wanted to show off his big contract, but after seeing the results announced by the Knicks to renew the contract with Lin Yi, Griffin silently quit the group chat, and then changed hands to an NBA sports company. The supply store bought 20 pieces of Nixlinyi's ball uniforms and burned them all!
The reason why Lin Yi chose the last year as a player option in this contract extension is because he knows that the NBA's salary space will increase significantly in the future. If Lin Yi jumps out of the contract at that time,
If the Knicks renew his contract, Lin Yi will earn more.
In addition, the Knicks also completed a four-year 12 million contract extension with Livingston. Although "Karen Karen" missed many games this season due to injury, the Knicks are still very optimistic about what he can do for the team after returning from injury. contribute.
Lin Yi knew very well that Livingston's fate was bad, and after a year or two passed by, his resistance to fuck would slowly fill up.
And after Billups' contract expired, "Big Heart" also specially invited Lin Yi to a meal, not to renew the contract, but to bid farewell.
"Lin, the Los Angeles Clippers invited me with a one-year contract of 10 million. I want to leave New York." Billups's career trajectory has also changed. But now, because of the Clippers' usual boss Lupus, he has changed from a backward post to a big one who can make a lot of money when he is about to retire.
Paul did not go to the Clippers, the Clippers have ample salary space, and Bledsoe needs a mentor to train, so digging Billups is completely ok for the Clippers. Lin didn't want to pay the luxury tax, but he also didn't want to be fined for not making the salary up to par.
Back then, Sterling deliberately mocked Dolan for this matter.
Billups knew that it would be difficult for him to return to the top after this injury. "Big Heart" didn't want to cheat the Knicks, so he decided to go to the Clippers to retire.
In the past two years with the Knicks, Billups won a championship with the team, and his career has been completely consummated. Billups also has many friends in Los Angeles. This time he went to Los Angeles, in Billups’ own words. , Finally earn some money for milk powder and run away.
Lin Yi sent Billups his blessing, because this was Billups' own choice, and Lin Yi could only choose to respect it.
"Chauncey, I hope you can have a wonderful season with the Clippers." When saying goodbye, Lin Yi Billups said.
In this way, Billups came to the Knicks in a low-key way, and finally left the Knicks in a low-key way, but New York fans will not forget him, because the championship banner in the 10/11 season has Billups An indispensable part of the credit.
Before starting to roil free agency, the Knicks had trouble with their own extension as the Knicks faced vicious competition
The Sacramento Kings offered Knicks restricted free agent Hassan Whiteside a three-year, $24 million contract.
As the saying goes, there are policies and there are countermeasures. In order to counter the NBA's Arenas clause, poison contracts will become common in the summer of 2012.
The offer that Da Baibian received this time is a poison contract. In the first and second years, Da Baibian's salary is 5 million U.S. dollars, and in the third year it is 14 million U.S. dollars!
The most famous case of such a contract is Lin Hao in Lin Yi's memory. The Knicks can't match Dabaibian's contract. After the contract extension, the Knicks don't have enough salary space.
And Dabaibian himself was also moved. After all, there is no player who doesn't want to make more money. Lin Yi thinks that the Kings team is poisonous. He believes that the Knicks rookie must be good?
Sorry, the Kings really think so, because Tristan Thompson played well in the Kings in the 11/12 season, averaging 8 points and 8 rebounds per game.
Originally, Lin Yi thought that the Knicks could take advantage of Dabai Bian, but he didn't expect that the king's wave of poison contracts would directly defeat the Knicks.
Because there is no problem that the team's salary will not be enough in the third year when the king digs the white side, the king's current salary is empty.
Whiteside's heartbeat is too normal. He also has a championship ring. In the Knicks, he can only continue to be a substitute for the boxing champion, and the King has promised that he will be given more playing time.
The Knicks have a headache because where can they find a reliable center at a time like this?
Don't look at the long summer, in fact, the most critical part of the arms race of the nba teams is at the beginning, because after the good fish are caught, the rest will be rotten fish and rotten shrimp
Lin Yi found that while he was dismantling other teams, other NBA teams were also thinking about how to dismantle the Knicks.
And just when Lin Yi and Javier Stanford were worried about the Knicks' backup center, as July progressed, those deals and signings that changed the game came one after another!
ps: The fourth update!