start with scouting

Chapter 608 Carve love on the floor

The king's championship celebration lasted a day and two nights.

The championship parade was held again. Crowds could be seen everywhere in the city of Saskatchewan. It lasted for five days, like a carnival.

On the sixth day, Su Yang was free, so he put down his work and took Jiang Ruolan to hike in the Rocky Mountains, see the famous Big Rainbow Hot Spring, go to Florida's Sea Turtle National Park, and finally fly to Alaska to photograph the Northern Lights beautiful view.

NO.20 At eight o'clock in the morning, Su Yang finished his vacation, returned to the office of the training base, and began to deal with off-season related work.

Pour a glass of boiled water, log on to Weibo, Twitter and Hupu to see what fans and media at home and abroad are talking about.

"In all fairness, Paul George played better than Curry in the fifth game, and his performance in the previous four games was also more stable. Compared with Curry's awesome three games and two hip games, he is more worthy of FMVP. Even if he doesn't, he shouldn't. Only two votes!"

"I thought that LeBron entered the NBA as the No. [-] pick in high school, and his career was like Duncan's. He could threaten Jordan's No. [-] position in history. Who would have thought that the script he got was actually Elgin Baylor's copy. In the end, he may become Karl Malone, and according to the theory of parallel universes, he should have better results in other earth planes."

"Curry has two consecutive MVPs and FMVPs, four championships, what kind of honor does he need to surpass the magician?"

"WOJ's latest news revealed that the Trail Blazers are preparing to hit hard in the off-season. Its general manager Neil O'Shea has promised the board that he will introduce a strong assistant to Lillard. The goal is the Kings player Evan Turner. The offer is 4 7000 million a year."

"The NBA's new broadcast contract with TNT and ESPN is about to take effect, with a value of up to 9 years and 240 billion U.S. dollars. According to the calculation of salary expert Mark Vogel, the salary space of the NBA's new season can reach at least 9400 million U.S. dollars, which means that the NBA will generate A lot of big contracts also means that this year's competition will be very crazy, but unfortunately there are not many big fish."

"According to the team reporter's report, the Warriors will give up the renewal of Harrison Barnes, and instead sign a strong point guard who can shoot and defend. The current candidates include Rondo, Conley, and even Stephen's brother Seymour. Scully..."

The general browsing is average, there is nothing new, the most memorable point is that the Blazers will charge a high price to grab Turner.

Turner is a good player.

It's a pity that there is not so much space left, and it is also highly replaceable. The main reason is that its three-point shooting rate is far inferior to Covington. Otherwise, you can wait and see. Opportunity to win an annual salary of 1000 million.

Whether Covington can stay is hard to say.

"I didn't expect that when I became the boss, there were still so many uncontrollable things, and the champion team just fell apart like this..."

While thinking about it, Su Yang recalled the speeches of the players at the championship award ceremony, and silently sighed with emotion.

But after thinking about it again, every player can start a new life. As long as they don’t get mixed up to cheat medical insurance like Tony Allen, it’s a good thing. There is no need to be sad or sad. Maybe they can reunite in the future, like Turner A guy like that can be a teaching assistant.

After much deliberation, I decided to do something to commemorate the fellows who fought together in the form of winning video and group photos.

It would be nice for Mr. He to print the nickname ID of each fan, but that’s because there are millions of people, and it’s related to switching to NBA players. It’s not too grand to retire all the jerseys, and it’s not too shabby to just leave them on the website. Historical statistics, then compromise consideration, simply imitate the Mavericks, engrave the names of those players who have played for the Kings on the center floor of Golden No. [-].

It can also create a sense of historical heritage.

Starting from the Rochester Royals in 1948, including the Cincinnati Royals, the Kansas City-Omaha Kings, the Kansas City Kings, and the Sacramento Kings, there are probably hundreds of people, which is definitely good news.

After making up his mind, Su Yang dialed the number of the business executive, and Chris Granger knocked on the door to enter the boss's office.

Just a simple greeting and get straight to the point.

After elaborating on the idea of ​​recording players' names, Su Yang added: "We can also make some related peripheral products such as commemorative T-shirts, sweaters, and ball caps. We can think about how to sell them. Remember to seek authorization from those players. They split the money."

Granger showed hesitation: "This matter is very troublesome. Some players have passed away, and the right to use their names and portraits..."

Su Yang waved his hand: "The key point is the form, the content is not so critical, we don't engage in difficult authorizations, and we don't need to talk about players who want high prices. We only need to win some players who are easy to get, so that fans can feel the historical inheritance. , the key work is publicity, anyway, the relevant videos are also well done, which is equivalent to advertising to establish an image, and making money is a secondary, long-term thing..."

The core is to make the Kings appear humane in this highly commercialized league and can warm many fans.

"Understood! Boss, you are amazing!"

Granger suddenly realized, and turned to leave the office to start processing. When he went out, he happened to meet Sam Hinkie who came over to discuss.

"What is he happy about?" Xinji asked with a casual smile.

Su Yang briefly recounted, and Xinji chatted about his previous travel experience, and then began to report on his recent work plan.

"According to the content discussed with you before, our next focus is the draft and the free market. In the draft, we first conduct rookie inspections, talk with players and their agents, make draft commitments depending on the situation, and invite undrafted picks to participate in training. Camp and summer league, and the free market, first to free up salary space, then discuss re-signing the contract with Thomas Jr., then discuss Covington’s contract renewal, and finally recruit in the free market. Most of these tasks require you to negotiate Talk about feelings..."

Su Yang shook his head and chuckled when he heard the words, Xin Ji was right, he needed to work hard to talk about the relationship, otherwise some things would be difficult to deal with.

Including Antetokounmpo's early contract extension, the finals performance that almost took away the FMVP, at least 2000 million US dollars.

Fortunately, the workload is relatively small. For example, Covington's contract renewal and Thomas Jr.'s re-signing of the contract have already had preliminary communication.

"What about our cap space situation?"

Hinkie opened the folder casually, but just glanced at it, and said backwards: "According to your previous assumption, if you can get Thomas Jr. to re-sign the contract for 1200 million, and keep Covington for 1500 million a year, then count the exams. Singh’s $1696 million, George’s $1831 million, Giannis’ final year rookie contract of $401 million, and the contracts of Curry, LaVine, and Grant, we will use up $9041.83 million in salary space. The salary cap for next season is 9414.3 million US dollars, with about 372 million US dollars to recruit players in the free market, basically only the basic salary..."

Between words, Su Yang silently nodded in response.

The salary space of 372 million US dollars is still the situation where Thomas Jr. and Covington lowered their salary and signed contracts. It is also the last year of Antetokounmpo's rookie benefits.

According to the previous labor-management agreement, the luxury tax will also depend on the number of consecutive years, and the more consecutive years it exceeds, the more it will be paid.

Therefore, it will be very important not to pay the luxury tax next season, that is, the 16-17 season, and heavy penalties can be postponed.

Fortunately, with Brother Antetokounmpo's bird rights, he can renew his contract without worrying about not being able to stay, it's just a matter of money.

"$372 million, if I want to get the right players, I have to do it myself..." Su Yang's mind quickly flashed a low-salary high-powered player. Luke Mbah a Moute is one, and the former Kings general James Johnson can also do it. Consider re-signing.

But Mbah a Moute cannot contact in advance, otherwise the agent of the other party will feel that there is a market, and it will be more difficult to sign a contract at a low price.

"We need to find more suitable players in the draft, and some of them need you to negotiate in person..."

Hinkie flipped through the file again, "These players will come to the Kings for trial training recently, I suggest you take a look."

Su Yang glanced at the names of Brogdon and others, nodded in agreement, and then said: "There are more guards this year, which may lead to the loss of some guards with potential. We must also focus on the market for losing draft picks..."

Many of the undrafted picks in 16 can be observed in detail for three or four years, such as Caruso, Yogi Ferrell, Daniel House, Bryn Forbes, Van Jordan Van Vleet, and Kudos. Damien Lee, the brother-in-law in the movie, has a lot of options anyway.

"Let this guy come for trial training, and promise him in advance that if he loses the draft, he will sign a contract with him..." Su Yang put his finger on the head of Dorian Finney-Smith, "He is good at grabbing offensive rebounds, and he can also be very good. limit James Harden."

"Okay, let's see Brogdon's trial training first?"

(End of this chapter)