The NBA started with helping Iverson win the championship

Chapter 88 Stern's scalp tingling

"The future is promising!"

"Sun Yue scored in double figures for the first time tonight, showing us an amazing three-pointer."

"I believe it won't take long for him to become a player of Prince's level."

Zhang Weiping was in the commentary room, and when he saw Sun Yue's performance tonight, he made a fuss about it.

The fans were speechless.

Who doesn't eat dumplings during Chinese New Year?Sun Yue might just be lucky tonight.

As for becoming a player at the level of Little Prince Prince, Sun Yue has a long way to go.

Prince knows more than just three-pointers and defense.

His breakthrough ability and CIC are quite lethal, and now Sun Yue can't keep up with his flattery.

It is reasonable to say that the future can be expected. In theory, every NBA player has a promising future.

Zhang Weiping said a total of three sentences, two of which were very unreasonable.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

Sun Yue was on the phone, speaking in Chinese, and Li Xun guessed that it might be a friend from home who congratulated him.

Scored 12 points in a single game, just like a small star.

After chatting for less than a minute, Sun Yue became helpless.

"You and my mother are both important."

"What? Who will save if they all fall into the water? Of course I will save them all!"

Li Xun suddenly started gossip, Sun Yue is calling his girlfriend?
And still facing the eternal unsolvable problem of men?

He couldn't help pricking up his ears, wanting to hear how Sun Yue would answer.

"Dad, can you stop talking about these things?"

Sun Yue hung up the phone speechlessly.

Li Xun was full of question marks, this...

"Uncle's mentality is quite young, isn't it?" Li Xun pursed his lips and smiled.

"Cough, forget it."

"The old couple are arguing."

Sun Yue waved her hands helplessly and smiled wryly.

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Eight o'clock the next morning.

In Stern's office, three people looked solemn.

One is President Stern, and the other two are Vice President Xiao Hua and Chief Operating Officer Tan Huimin.

Tan Huimin has an Asian face and a slight Chinese blood in his body.

"Adam, have you sorted out the information I asked you to sort out?"

Stern asked Xiao Hua in front of him.

Xiao Hua quickly handed over a document.

There are only two A4 sheets in the file, and one is the complete free agent list for this offseason.

The other is a list of players whose contracts expire for the Pistons this year.

Obviously, the three of them with the most power in the NBA, what they discussed today has a lot to do with the Pistons.

The reason is that the old man, Stern, has little sleep and thinks wildly at night.

After thinking about it, I thought of the Pistons, and thought of Li Xun.

Then he suddenly realized an extremely terrifying thing, which kept him up all night.

Before dawn, he called Xiao Hua and Tan Huimin and asked them to come to his office.

It is well known that Li Xun will sign a new contract after the end of this season.

He will stay in the Pistons almost 100%, which is also a certainty.

What Stern found terrifying was Li Xun's salary for next season.

According to the current maximum salary regulations, the maximum starting salary for players under six years of age is 25% of the salary cap.

The team's salary cap this season is $5800 million, and next season will be around the same amount.

In other words, if Li Xun signs a contract for five years, the annual increase will be 8%, and at least he can sign a contract of 8000 million for five years.

It's a pity that Li Xun's situation is special after all, and he has to consider the Arenas clause.

The terms of Arenas are more complicated. To put it simply, if the Pistons have a salary cap of 1600 million next season, Li Xun can sign a five-year contract of 5 million.

It looks like it's no different from a normal contract.

The horror is that in the first two years of this contract, Li Xun can only get the average salary of the league.

The average salary next season is around 450 million.

In other words, the salary of Li Xun's contract is only 450 million in the first year, and the salary increases by 8% in the second year, which is less than 500 million US dollars.

The remaining 7000 million annual salary will be distributed to Li Xun at an annual rate of 6.9% in the next three years.

Next year, a player of Li Xun's strength will only get 450 million US dollars, which means that the Pistons have a sky-high salary space to sign up.

That's why Stern can't sleep at night.

He began to check the list of players whose contracts with the Pistons expired.

Rashid's 1400 million annual salary contract expires, Iverson's 2100 million annual salary expires, and there are other odds and ends, almost 400 million.

Stern's scalp tingled as he watched.

Dude, this cap space for the Pistons next year is outrageous.

The contracts of both Hamilton and Prince are around 1000 million, Kwame Brown's is 400 million, and Li Xun's is 450 million.

Counting the low-paying contracts of Jordan, Efflalo and Sun Yue, the total is less than 3500 million.

The Pistons are not a stingy team. Their total salary expenditure this season has reached 7100 million.

If the new season still maintains this total salary expenditure, it means that they can spend at least 3600 million in the free market!
What is this concept?
At least enough for the Pistons to introduce two Granger-level first-line stars!
Stern is actually too optimistic.

Because Granger's rookie contract ends this year, the next contract he signs with the Pacers is only an outcropping of 1000 million annual salary.

The Pistons could even bring in three Grangers!
Although starting from the third year, Li Xun's salary will increase significantly.

But for at least the next two years, the Pistons will completely dominate the league.

Stern, who has been striving for the balance of the alliance, absolutely cannot tolerate this kind of thing happening.

He quickly checked the list of complete free agents compiled by Xiao Hua.

Ben Gordon, Artest, Ariza, Barnes, Andre Miller, etc. are completely free agents.

Stern's heart skipped a beat when he saw it.

In this completely free list, there are many big fish, and all of them are very cost-effective.

The Pistons have enough cap space to sign all of these guys.

Especially Andre Miller, an old point guard with good immediate combat ability, is very suitable for the Pistons who lack point guards.

The key is still cheap, it should be able to win under 1000 million.

The Bulls' Ben Gordon is also cost-effective, and he should also be able to sign with an annual salary of 1000 million.

What Stern didn't know was that under normal circumstances, the Pistons signed Ben Gordon with an annual salary of tens of millions this offseason.

And Artest.

This defensive small forward, after arriving at the Pistons, the Pistons' front-back line defense has become an impregnable wall.

Stern can't imagine who can break through the perimeter iron gates of Li Xun and Artest in today's league.

However, Artest is unlikely to go to the Pistons because of the Palace of Auburn Hills.

Stern didn't dare to be sure, because no one could explain the brain circuit of a person like Artest.

Under normal circumstances, Artest fought Kobe Bryant in the playoffs, so he went to the Lakers.

Trevor Ariza and Matt Barnes are cost-effective 3-D championship pieces.

And that's not counting some of the restricted players Dumars may have manipulated or simply traded.

Signing these free agents, plus the players in the Pistons' original lineup, their tradable chips will be amazing.

Big Three?Stern doubts that Dumars can produce a Big Four.

And it's not the old giants like Lukai, at least two of them are peak giants in the prime of life.

So other teams still play wool?The championship is still in suspense?
Now Li Xun has led a group of old, young and weak players to kill the Cavaliers when Iverson and Hamilton are injured.

The Pistons have initially shown their dominance.

If this makes them strengthen so desperately, next season will definitely become the least suspenseful season.

(End of this chapter)