Basketball: Man in 08, three months left before the Olympics

Cuban opened champagne.

Although the “Pei Yun Clause” was only reached orally and had not yet officially taken effect, he knew that David Stern’s personality was never a backslid.

Otherwise, he would never have been able to serve in the position of president for more than 20 years.

After some celebration, Cuban held a wine glass, put his arm on his shoulder, and said in his ear like an old friend: “I have prepared a temporary agent for you, these days, you will enjoy yourself in Dallas, what is it like to be in the spotlight!” ”

Kuban said while patting Pei Yun’s shoulder and showing a meaningful smile.

Pei Yun was a little confused, and Kuban looked at him and smiled again.

He went on to explain: “The temporary agent will give you some signing requests from other teams, and you can reach out to each team, and I think it’s good for you. ”

“In addition, I will equip you with some basic equipment, adapt to and enjoy life in Dallas!”

Pei Yun got the keys to a private small luxury villa and a sports car.

According to Kuban, it should be considered a loan to him.

In the evening, Pei Yun received an international call from Ei Xiaoqi, and after a sweet chatter, he ended his busy day.

After a lazy night’s sleep, it rained lightly in Dallas.

Pei Yun was contacted by the temporary agent, and several teams wanted to meet with him to talk about renewing his contract.

This so-called temporary agent is not one of the NBA’s professional independent agents, in the real sense, he should be just a “secretary” that Cuban puts by Pei Yun’s side to help him deal with complicated affairs.

Therefore, regarding the meeting with the team representative, the temporary agent also had to ask Pei Yun.

Pei Yun took Kuban’s suggestion, but he did not refuse and did not mind contact.

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Every offseason, when some players need to renew their contracts, the public relations of NBA teams will go out to lobby them to renew their contracts or make trades.

Or let some player whose contract expires not renew his contract and sign him again after entering free agency.

This year’s market is particularly lively.

A “giant fish” has become the focus of attention of major clubs, and they even want to try to sign him.

That’s right, this giant fish is Pei Yun, the young player of the Dragon Country who went against the sky in the Olympic Games, and he led the Dragon Country men’s basketball team to kill the Dream Eight team under almost impossible circumstances, and finally won the gold medal and won the double MVP.

For the local basketball culture of the United States, this is undoubtedly disgraceful.

But for teams whose business is the first purpose, this is undoubtedly the biggest business opportunity.

As we all know, Pei Yun is a lost player, and the one-year cabbage-price contract signed by the Mavericks with him has expired.

Since they are unsuccessful players, there is no guarantee for the players, so the parent team does not have any advantage clause in the renewal of the contract.

This gives other teams a chance!

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These days, Pei Yun is in contact with the management of major teams.

The New York Knicks say they have the biggest ball market and playing there will have unparalleled commercial value.

The Bulls, on the other hand, say they just picked the talent Derrick Rose in the draft, and if they go there, Pei Yun will form an invincible double backcourt with Rose, and the team will return to the new dynasty after the Jordan era.

The Cavaliers say they have the little emperor Lebraun James, join them and be able to compete for the championship immediately!

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As for the Rockets and Lakers, who do not have enough salary space, they also came to try their luck, and the advantage they gave was that there were Dragon Country players on the team, and Pei Yun could play with his compatriots when he got there.

Pei Yun contacted one by one, and sure enough, as Cuban said, these teams are very sincere, and some teams are even willing to sign Pei Yun with a “top salary”.

In 08, the top salary in the market was in the early 20 million, but Pei Yun only played for the league for one year, so his top salary could only be opened to a little more than 13 million.

But even so, it is still a big expense.

Pei Yun became a sweet potato, and various teams even began to use some “informal” means to win him.

What to invite female stars to “lobby”, what to give gifts in private …

The NBA system at the time was not very strict, but these contact rules were not allowed, and if they were exposed, the team would be punished, but they still enjoyed it.

However, a few days later, when the league announced the “Pei Yun Clause”, the major teams were dumbfounded.

The “Pei Yun Clause” stipulates that rookie players who win double MVPs in major international competitions can use this special clause to give priority to contract renewal, and can give a top salary that is not limited by the length of service.

And 30% of this maximum salary contract will not be affected by the salary cap.

As soon as this clause came out, other teams that still had illusions about signing Pei Yun shouted “it’s not fun.”

They bluntly said that the Mavericks “cheat” and reluctantly withdrew from the scramble.

Pei Yun officially renewed the contract with Maverick, and Kuban gave him a super large contract of 5 years and 100 million meters!

The total price of this contract even exceeds the contract that Novitzki signed three years ago.

In the first year, Pei Yun can get 16.5 million, and this year’s salary is only slightly lower than Nowitzki’s, which still becomes the second most single-year contract in the team.

It has to be said that Kuban opened such a large contract with great sincerity, but at the same time, it also has the nature of “gambling”.

After all, Pei Yun has only played one season in the NBA, and he struggled and was very uncomfortable in the regular season last season.

It’s just a few consecutive big hits in the playoffs, plus anti-sky performances on the international stage.

Although this situation is indeed against the sky, because the sample is not sufficient, the international arena is not an NBA arena.

The possibility of Pei Yun “falling” again still exists.

But Cuban is such a boss, for what he likes, he likes players, he never cares about gains and losses!

After the successful signing, the next step is the problem of building the Mavericks’ roster for the new season.

The team was going to be built on Pei Yun and Novitsky, so it was in the conference room at the American Airlines Center.

Cuban , Nielsen Jr., Carlisle and Pei Yun sat here and discussed together.

Originally, they were going to summon Novitsky, who had returned to Europe for a vacation.

But by this time, Nowitzki had already begun to enjoy fishing in the deep Bavarian stream, and for this meeting, he said from the phone: “Do it according to Pei’s wishes, he is one of the best conductors in my opinion, I believe him!” ”

In this way, the team construction is completely carried out around Pei Yun.

After several detailed discussions, some team building ideas and trading plans were raised.

First of all, by signing Pei Yun, the Mavericks’ salary has become very high, has exceeded the salary cap, and has a tendency to surpass the Knicks, the league’s first salary team.

However, Cuban does not care about this at all, and the luxury tax is paid casually, as long as it can be exchanged for a satisfactory lineup.

It is clear that in the new season, Pei Yun will definitely serve as the main point guard of the Mavericks, so there will be a surplus of point guards in the Mavericks’ team.

Jason Kidd, Devin Harris, Jose Barria.

All three players are point guard players.

Kidd is in the twilight of his career, his trade value is not much, and the team signed him just to increase the overall playoff experience.

Barria has just joined the team and has not played too well, nor has much trade value.

The only one with great deal value is Devin Harris.

The player, who the Mavericks hand-picked and developed in the draft after Nash’s departure, has been the Mavericks’ main point guard for the past few years.

He was gifted and skilled, and shined in the ’06 playoffs, limiting the Spurs’ long-known “French sports car” Tony Parker and becoming the “NBA’s fastest” player.

Although the Mavericks ended up in the Finals that year, Harris performed remarkably.

In the 07 and 08 seasons, Harris developed a new offensive technique with the ball, and his disguised dribbling shot was even sharper than Delon Williams!

It’s just that there was turmoil last season, and Harris had an injury, but it was not serious.

There are also many teams trying to engage with the Mavericks in exchange for Harris.

Another target that could be traded is Josh Howard.

The All-Star forward was Cuban’s most valued player, but his form declined last season due to a number of off-court factors.

However, he still has a lot of value in the trading market.

In addition, Jason Terry, Eric Dampier, these players also have good trade value.

Negotiations on a number of possible deals began immediately.

During this period, Cuban asked Pei Yun if he had any good suggestions.

Pei Yun said directly: “If I can, of course I recommend trading my national teammates Dayao and the UAE League.” ”

Kuban did not think about this, but the difficulty was very great.

Dayao is now the “No. 1 center in the west”, and its value is self-evident in this era of scarcity of center forwards.

Cuban had already moved the idea of getting him, but he also knew very well that if the Mavericks wanted to exchange these chips to Dayao, they had to trade Novitsky for one by one.

For the Kuban, this is impossible.

But since Pei Yun said so, Kuban knew that there must be some possibilities!

Pei Yun said: “I may be able to help a little, as for the rest, it depends on the management.” ”

Cuban expressed willingness to try.

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At this time, Dayao was still recovering in China.

On the other hand, it happened that the UAE had a new movement, and he was traded by the Bucks to the Nets.

After learning the news, the Mavericks immediately contacted the Nets.

Soon, the deal was closed.

The Mavericks sent Devin Harris to the Nets, who traded them for the UAE and some additions to the Equalization Trade.

On the other front, contact with the Rockets, the Rockets are not willing to let go of Dayao, maybe the Mavericks take out Novitsky, they are willing to consider it.

In short, they completed the first step.

Soon, the UAE came to Dallas to report for duty, and together with Pei Yun, formed the Dragon Kingdom duo.

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The news came back to China, and for a while, the fans of the forum and Tieba fried the pan.

“Lying groove, Pei Yunniu, the NBA also specially issued a ‘Pei Yun clause’ for him? Too TM to give the countrymen a long face! ”

“I also signed a five-year top salary directly, and the Cuban has money!”

“Such a bullish performance, the dream team has been blown up by him alone, and if it is not paid, other teams will definitely grab it!”

“Brother, do you know that special terms mother team can be renewed first?”

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“UAE joined Mavericks!!!!”

“Pei Yun and the UAE have fought side by side!!!”

“Our Dragon Kingdom trio, it’s almost Dayao, when will Dayao go to Dallas!”

“Kuban, don’t hesitate, just exchange Novitsky for one!”

“Change, hesitate what, Novitsky is too soft, the Dragon Kingdom trio can defeat the existence of the dream team, gather in Dallas, and the Maverick Dynasty begins!”

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Fans across the country have begun to “give advice” to the Mavericks on the Internet, but no matter how they come out, they have to change Dayao, and they can’t escape to take Novitsky to change.

Naturally, the news quickly spread to Dayao, who was still undergoing rehabilitation in China.

Today’s Dayao has been working hard in the NBA for seven years.

At the Rockets, he partnered with Francis and later Tracy McGrady.

No matter who he partners with, Dayao has always played hard.

However, although the Rockets have been able to make the playoffs every year for so many years, they have always been sad to get past the first round.

Every year, domestic fans have strong hopes for the Rockets and the pair, but when they finally break the playoffs, they can only sigh and look forward to working hard in the coming year.

However, in the efforts of Dayao year after year, injuries have gradually accumulated, and now he is no longer the tower under the basket.

Every time you attack and defend, you start worrying about your knees that are heavy day after day.

Especially in the knockout stage of the Olympic Games, Dayao did his best in almost every game.

He knows that such a high-intensity game will overdraw his fitness and most likely increase the risk of injury.

However, in that case, in the case of teammates, when Pei Yun was almost desperate to fight against the dream team, how could Dayao, who was the main center of the team, give up playing shoulder to shoulder with his teammates for his own personal reasons?

Especially later, when Dayao learned that Pei Yun’s return to the national team report was a direct request for “overlord leave”, which was very likely to affect his credibility in the NBA, he had more appreciation and respect for this talented compatriot.

Now Dayao, why don’t you want to be able to get together with Pei Yun and the UAE as fans say on the Internet.

This place is Houston, Dallas, even cold Minneapolis, desolate Salt Lake City…

It doesn’t matter where it is, as long as it’s them.

Then his career in a foreign country in the NBA will definitely shine with new colors.