0493 I'm Bringing My Talent to Golden State
The roster is confirmed, and the Kings only need to wait for the new season's salary cap to be announced before they can officially sign Curry and others.
The team's focus shifted, and the commercial department made every effort to sell tickets for the new season and various peripheral products. As a result, all tickets were sold in half an hour, and the first batch of Curry jerseys customized in advance were sold out in total in total.
In the basketball department, Mike Brown was listed as the coach of the summer league and began to lead the team to train and run in. Su Yang specially assigned a task for LaVine - leading the team to win the summer league championship, and personally won the MVP, and denied Antetokounmpo and Covington's request to participate.
Su Yang knew that the two wanted to play more games, but the income they made was very low when they played Xia Lian. It was better to keep training step by step.
Early in the morning of the Fourth, Jokic's team arrived in Sacramento, and Su Yang personally went to the airport to greet him, demonstrating his importance.
Jokic, who has not lost weight, is too fat. Su Yang told Sam Sinki, who is traveling with him on the spot: "Add a weight loss reward clause to Jokic's contract. As long as the season ends, the weight can drop to 115 kilograms, and the reward is 500,000 US dollars."
I deliberately let Jokic team hear that even if you don’t play a game in the new season, you can get $500,000 by just losing weight.
Jokic was stunned when he heard this and said for a while: "Boss, if you set up a contract like this, I can only say goodbye to Coke."
Su Yang smiled and said, "Your contract will have this reward clause every year. It is very important for you to maintain a healthy weight..."
Five hundred thousand is a drizzle, especially Jokic's rookie contract for 4 years and $5.55 million, which is almost equal to the bargain price.
This time, Jokic was brought to the United States in advance, and the biggest expense was to buy out his original team's contract and RBI fees.
While everyone was chatting and laughing, they rushed to the small villa near the training base and helped to move their luggage in. Su Yang told Jokic again: "This villa is the team's asset. You have Giannis as your neighbor. You have prepared a lot of daily necessities. Don't worry about trivial matters. You will be an MVP-level player in the future. Don't waste your talents. Start training seriously from tomorrow and don't let yourself down..."
Jokic Zheng made a promise and then asked: "Before, the scout told me that you will let me adapt to a season first and I will completely obey the decision, but if there is garbage time, can I play on the court? I want to experience the NBA game as soon as possible..."
"sure…"
Su Yang nodded: "I said that mainly because I am worried that you are too big, the confrontation is too fierce, and you are prone to injury. If you can quickly enter a healthy state and be able to make full use of certain technical means, there is no problem with the on-the-scene battle. It is not only garbage time, but regular time, everything depends on your progress speed, don't be too impatient, the road ahead is still long."
At noon the next day, the king held a press conference for Jokic at the training base, and more than 30 media outlets were present to report.
Su Yang and Hinki attended the event together, and the camera shot. The 19-year-old Jokic had never seen a big scene before and was very excited.
Hinki briefly introduced Jokic's situation, and espn's team reporter Lindsey followed up with a question: "I heard that you value Nikola Jokic very much, and even regard him as one of the team's future cores, and do not hesitate to go to Serbia to negotiate one month in advance?"
Su Yang took the microphone and replied: "I want to say that again. I am very serious every time. I hope this time you don't think I'm bragging randomly... Jokic is a future MVP-level player, and it is worth it for us to put in more effort for him..."
The reporters laughed when they heard this, Curry was MVP, Antetokounmpo was MVP, Jokic was MVP, and San MVP?
The last time the three MVP team appeared was the Thunder. The Kings' lineup this time is more reasonable. Are they planning to establish a dynasty?
Jokic had a calm expression on his face and thought to himself: I have checked the news before. Not every rookie in Boss Su praises MVP. His current teammates Zach Lavine, Cole Aldridge during the Thunder, and Jay Michael Green during the Lakers, didn't say that he would get MVP. That means I'm different from them. I didn't expect that I was so powerful, hehe.
The press conference was soon finished. Su Yang took Jokic to visit the locker room, then took out a thick tactical manual and said: "You will first understand the team's offensive system when you position the offensive axis on the court in the future. I will inspect it in August..."
"I need to recite it all?" Jokic showed a little panic on his face, and he returned to calm in the blink of an eye, not as if he was worried.
“No need to remember all the details…”
Su Yang waved his hand, "We focus on dynamic attacks. Just figure out the internal logic. When I inspect, I will not let you memorize tactics, but watch videos to let you make the most efficient choices, so you also need to understand the technical characteristics of your teammates."
"Okay, a little challenging..."
After visiting the locker room, Su Yang took Jokic to meet Curry, Antetokounmpo, Cousins and others who are training.
Curry has not signed the contract yet, but has bought a house in Sashi City. Recently, he has been going to the training base to adapt in advance.
For Jokic's joining, except for Cousins, who is sensitive, everyone else expressed 100% welcomed him. However, Cousins was more worried about Jokic's weight and said bluntly: "You are dozens of pounds heavier than me. Can you keep up with the defender's singles?"
The words flew out, and everyone felt embarrassed. Jokic shrugged with a smile: "The coach will definitely arrange for assistance, right?"
When Su Yang heard this, he thought of the scene of Paul's military training, and smiled and said, "It is more feasible for you to play a response ball on the offensive end."
The content of the press conference was soon reported, and many fans discussed whether Su Yang was crazy. He just found a player from the European League and was at the MVP level. It violated the objective laws of basketball and seemed to be blind in other teams.
The celebrity Barkley commented on the TNT program: "After hearing Su Yang's remarks, I specifically asked someone to check the data of Nikola Jokic in the Adriatic League Mega Leks team, but it has not reached the MVP level. Just imagine an overseas ball. If he cannot dominate the league where he is, how will he rule the NBA? You must know that Yao Ming could dominate the CBA back then..."
O'Neal, who participated in the TNT program, echoed: "Please don't compare my brother Yao Ming. I think that's just Su Yang's personal preference. He likes the center player who floats on the outside, the Trail Blazers Channing Fry, Kings Cousins and Jokic all have the same style. I think he is trying to drive the league trend and want to weaken the confrontation of the game and reduce the job opportunities of big men."
Su Yang ignored O'Neal's argument of heartbrokenness and only replied to Barkley, betting that Jokic would get MVP within ten years.
Win or lose is not important, it mainly makes fans and celebrities hotly discuss it, bringing more motivation to Jokic and accelerating progress.
On July 10th, the league and major teams completed settlements in all income and expenditure in the 13-14 season, and the salary cap was announced in the 14-15 season, with a total amount of US$63.065 million, with a salary cap rising 7.5%, while the luxury tax collection line was set at US$76.829 million.
The league also announced the specific amount of the middle class contract, of which the full amount is $5.305 million, the mini middle class is $3.278 million, the space middle class (for teams with cap space) is $2.732 million, and the poor line is $56.759 million.
The window for free agent signing and team trading opened. Su Yang and Hinki signed Curry, Evan Turner, and Bazemore in succession, and then reported to the league, approved the salary space has exceeded the salary cap, and then signed Dream Green and Whiteside with the base salary, and signed Thomas Jr. with the middle class special case, and signed Raven, Grant, and Jokic with rookie.
After two days of back and forth, all of them were finally settled. The main team of the King's 14-person Congress was officially formed and was just waiting for takeoff.
On the evening of the 12th, there were no signs, LeBron's team announced that they would join the Golden State Warriors next season through Sports Illustrated.
LeBron then confirmed through Twitter reposting, and related discussions topped the hot searches in three minutes, and related operations in the free market exploded.
Chapter completed!