Rebirth of Yidi Legend

Chapter 697 Reinforcement
It was Yi Jianlian's idea to let Downey renew his contract with James Harden in advance. Although he didn't want to interfere with the management's selection, James Harden was introduced by Downey on purpose at the beginning, and he has already successfully traded. Help Downey identify this guy early, he naturally knows what kind of combat power this guy with the ball can explode.

5 million in 7800 years is definitely not a loss!
After hearing Yi Jianlian's words, Downey naturally had to do it earlier, and the reason is very simple. Yi Jianlian's contract for the new season is the second year of his contract, which means that he may jump out of the contract after the new season next year.

So from now on, they will try their best to satisfy all of Yi Jianlian's ideas. After all, this can be regarded as building Yi Jianlian's team.

He wants to renew James Harden as soon as possible, so renew James Harden as soon as possible, this is no problem!

It’s just that James Harden didn’t know about his thoughts and Yi Jianlian’s opinions. When he heard that Downey had just signed him to the Knicks, he would immediately renew his contract in advance. James Harden said he was not shocked It is definitely impossible to be moved, and at this time, he has just been abandoned by the Thunder. Downey told him that mentioning the contract extension made him feel like he had met a confidant.

More importantly, the price Downey signed with him was not low. The Thunder were only willing to give him 4 million for 5400 years, an average of 1350 million per year, while he wanted 4 million for 6000 years, 1500 million per year. The five-year 5 million given by Ni is 7800 million per year!
It was 60 more than the annual salary he wanted!

Although it seems that 60 yuan per year is nothing, Harden knows that Downey's extra 60 yuan per year in this situation is to express his respect for himself!
So Harden nodded and agreed to renew the contract without any hesitation!

5 million in 7800 years, plus the last year of the rookie contract this year, a total of 6 years, which means that until 2018, James Harden will be a Knicks player.

This time is basically half a player's career!

But Harden doesn't care, even if he spends his entire career in this team, he will have no problem, because he feels the respect of the Knicks for him, which is the most important thing for him now!
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The news that James Harden completed his contract extension with the New York Knicks was also reported two or three days later, and no one thought that the five-year contract of 5 million was a bit too high.

After all, James Harden himself wants 4 million in 6000 years, and the fans don't think it's a big deal. Now it's just an extra 60 a year. For the fans, this amount of money is not too much.

And as the New York Knicks have won two consecutive championships in the past two years, fans are no longer belittling and ridiculing the Knicks management's deal. They are all willing to believe in the decision made by the Knicks management .

After all, this is the NBA!

As long as there are achievements, whether it is for the fans or the team's management, it will be beneficial and harmless, and everyone will understand the management's approach.

And when the team's performance is not good, no matter what the players selected by the management in the market at the beginning, or what the market was like at the time, everyone will say that they signed another bad contract.

These are real situations.

"James Harden is a good addition, but just one more James Harden in the lineup against the Lakers should not work? What I want to see is more additions!"

"For the Knicks, it would be disappointing if the only big deal this year was James Harden!"

"I hope to see the follow-up trade of the Knicks. Although they have won two consecutive championships, the new season is definitely the biggest challenge for the entire team. If it is only this level of reinforcement, it is obviously Not enough to see!"

It’s just that for Knicks fans, just one more James Harden deal is not what they want to see. What they want to see is more reinforcements and more changes. Until the paper strength of the Knicks can compete with the Lakers, instead of waiting for the game to come, they have to consider how Yi Jianlian has to perform before they can win.

to be honest!
They want to see the Knicks also build a great team!

It would be best to get another star!
And the current Knicks really need some big deals to complete better supplements. After all, in order to get James Harden, the Knicks completed a three-way deal with the Thunder and the Timberwolves. They sent David West And the Dragic Wizards got James Harden, and an extra head Armstrong.

It's just that James Harden may be able to make up for the vacancy left by Dragic, but Armstrong certainly cannot make up for the vacancy left by David West.

Moreover, the contracts of many players on the Knicks are currently expiring.

The current roster is not perfect, Downey is not in a hurry to make the next deal, but glanced at the entire roster: the current personnel on the guard are only: James Harden, Thomas Jr., and Pietrus. As for the small forwards, Yi Jianlian and Grant Hill are at the power forward position. Because of the departure of David West, only Armstrong, who was just traded, is left at the power forward position. The disease will not come back until January of the new season, and it is really worrying how he can recover after not playing for more than a year, so the fourth position must be supplemented.

There is Tyson Chandler at the fifth position, and he also signed two rookie centers this year, but the performance of these two centers in the summer league was not so satisfactory, and for this reason, Downey gave up signing these two centers. A center, in this case, the candidates for the center position also need to be supplemented!

"This year, the insiders need to be replenished!"

Last year, Downey's main problem was the outside line, but this year the Knicks' main problem has become the inside line. Of course, if Stoudemire is not injured, he doesn't need to worry about anything, but in the NBA, injuries are also part of the game. You can only go to the free market and need players who can use it!

There are still quite a lot of inside players in the free market this year, such as Garnett, Jeff Green, and Asik, all of which can be used.

But these players have their own problems. Garnett is too old now, and he has suffered frequent injuries in the past two years. These injuries have also made him look old. These are not good news!

(End of this chapter)