Updated: 2012-09-02

While the draft is in progress, the transaction is also taking place at the same time, because the rookie has not signed a contract at this time, and the only thing that is trading is the draft pick. If he signs, it will not be able to trade within at least thirty days, so the transaction involving rookies must be carried out as soon as possible.

The biggest deal is that the Seattle Supersonics, who have decided to rebuild, sent the team's boss Ray Allen to the Boston Celtics, while the Supersonics won Deronti West, Szebiac and this year's No. 5 rookie Jeff Green.

The New York Knicks and the Portland Trail Blazers made a deal. The Trail Blazers exchanged Randolph for Francis and Channing Fry, which was basically a bad deal. However, Randolph could still make certain contributions to the team, so the Knicks took advantage of Channing Fry.

After these transactions, the Spurs gave Stephen a contract of 1.25 million a year, so Stephen officially became a restricted free agent. The Spurs secretly opened a contract for Stephen for 39 million a year, which is the biggest number Stephen can get.

With the four contracts of Eric Williams, Matt Bonner, Jacque Vaughan and Stephen expiration, and Michael Finley has notified the team that he will jump into the existing contract and seek a long contract, so that the Spurs can lower their salary to the salary cap and then issue a maximum salary contract for Stephen.

However, Stephen has rejected this contract and decided to test the free agent market. Stephen has also jumped to become the largest restricted free agent in the offseason. After becoming a free agent, Stephen can contact other teams, and then other teams will issue contracts and the Spurs will choose whether to match.

However, this contract was not offered rashly. The team usually only offered a contract after reaching a verbal intention with the players. At the same time, if the Spurs matched this contract, then Stephen would still be a Spurs player, and the Spurs could not trade Stephen within three months.

If you want to reach a sign first and then exchange, the team with the intention cannot propose a contract, because if you propose to withdraw it, you will lose the qualification to sign first and then exchange. A team cannot resell free agents from other teams you have just signed, but can trade free agents from the team (including restricted free agents). At the same time, this player cannot use special terms such as middle-class special cases, injury special cases, and biennial special cases.

The signing and transaction of signing first and then exchange are integrated. If no transaction occurs within 48 hours after signing, the team does not want to trade the players, and the signing will be automatically cancelled, so once it is reached, it will be irreversible.

Since the league is still calculating the relevant income from last season, Stephen’s contract cannot be determined before the salary cap is released. According to the provisions of the Arenas clause, Stephen can only sign a four-year contract at most, and this four-year contract is composed of two parts.

The first part is the first two years. After the salary cap came out, the middle class special case this season was $5 million last season, and this season should be $5 million. This is the salary Stephen can get in the first year, and the second year is the salary in the first year plus an increase of 8%.

The second part is that after the salary cap comes out in the last two years, players with a salary cap of less than six years can get a maximum salary contract of 25% while players with a salary cap of seven to nine years can get a salary cap of 30% or a salary of 105% last season (both are big), and those with a salary cap of more than ten years can get a salary cap of 35% or a salary of 105% last season (both are big).

Although Stephen will not get this maximum salary in two years, it is determined based on the salary cap this season. According to the increase in recent years, it should be around 13 million US dollars. This is the salary in the third year, and the fourth year is the increase of the salary in the previous year plus 10.05%.

If calculated in this way, Stephen can get nearly 40 million US dollars in four years. Although it is not too high, this is because he only has two years of service. If he signs a two-year contract again, after the contract is completed, he can sign a six-year contract with his parent team or a five-year contract with other teams, and the starting salary will be much greater than the maximum salary determined based on the salary cap this season.

However, Stephen will not only need to work hard for at least two more years. This market situation comes according to needs, and it is difficult to say what the situation will be in two years. At the same time, the relevant revenue of the alliance cannot be in a state of growth all the time. If it declines, Stephen will also have to bear the price of the decline.

No one could issue a specific contract for Stephen before the salary cap came out, but this does not mean that they could not have early contact with Stephen. After Stephen became a restricted free agent, Stephen and Mordance received a lot of calls or faxes.

Stephen didn't receive much, only Coupard, Gerald Wallace, Yao Ming, and Mohammed. Modons was busy all night. Half of the league's teams, general managers, or heads of the player affairs department called Modons.

Some teams don’t have much thought about Stephen, but it’s not a mistake to communicate. Modangs also told them that their customers do not restrict the target team. If they want to fight for it, they have to offer conditions to negotiate.

Many teams can get a contract worth less than 40 million in four years. Even if they can't get it, as long as the Spurs can get it, they can discuss signing first and then changing with the Spurs. According to the performance of the Spurs and Stephen after winning the championship, the Spurs should not have left Stephen's determination to win.

If the trader is unwilling to play for the new team after the transaction occurs, the league president can suspend or impose financial punishment on the player. This is the Alonzo Moening clause. If the player still does not want to play for the team, the player must apply for retirement.

After retiring, unless he has passed the contract period he signed, he will not be allowed to play for other teams. As long as the Spurs do not force the intention of leaving Stephen, the opportunities for other teams are equal. After receiving this news, all teams have increased their efforts to pursue Stephen.

The first thing that came was Coupard, who had already gone to San Antonio, who was also commissioned by the team's head coach McDunleavy. He originally wanted to celebrate the championship with Stephen, but he didn't expect the head coach to call him over again.

However, he is obviously not qualified as a lobbyist. He just didn't advocate Stephen's visit to the Clippers. The boss is too stingy and is simply the most stingy boss in the league. In the past 25 years when he owned the Clippers, he has only entered the playoffs four times, with a total winning rate of over 30%. He lost 60 games in a single season for eight seasons, and has always been the last place in the salary and expenditure rankings.

It would be fine if he suffered here himself, but he would never bear to be able to suffer here, and such an indomitable team is not worthy of having a player of the boss. He was very sad when he said there, and Stephen said directly: "Are you afraid that after I come here, I will watch you train every day?"

I won’t say anything at all. After blinking two eyes, Koopard said to Stephen with a smile: “How could it be? Boss, I have been thinking about you day and night. I have always longed to be able to follow you like before, work hard under your guidance and education, and not waste time.”

"Then I'll come to the Los Angeles Clippers, or go to the Los Angeles Lakers, so that you can still follow me. Or after I go to that team, you ask the team for a deal, go to the same team with me, and look at you every day, what do you think?" Stephen didn't even miss his sweet words. Cooperd didn't look like a simple face, but he was actually extremely cunning.

Why didn't Stephen know what Coupard thought? He stayed very comfortable in the Clippers. Such an unenergetic team is very suitable for a player like him who is a slutty player. He is paid for millions of dollars, and then spends ten or twenty minutes every game. How comfortable it is to live like this. Coupard has no pursuit. For him, such a life is enough. He doesn't want to earn too much. He didn't teach him a lesson for Stephen, but his nature is like this. Just teaching a lesson is useless.

"Okay, boss, you go to the Lakers. Only such a team is worthy of you. The Clippers are not suitable for you." Cooperd smiled awkwardly, and then persuaded Stephen to go to the Lakers, as if he was receiving the Lakers' salary.

It is indeed very suspicious that Stephen’s appearance in Los Angeles is because many players like the teams in their hometown if they choose a team. Although Los Angeles is not Stephen’s hometown, it is the team where he worked for his college career. Los Angeles is a world-class well-known city with a prosperous place and his agency is also located here. It is normal for Stephen to choose this place.

However, some people may think that Stephen appears here, in addition to his home, the agency is also here, so it is not surprising that he appears here. It is not necessarily the case that he chose the Clippers or the Lakers. After Coupard's lobbying failed, McDunleavy personally called Stephen and introduced the current situation of the Clippers to Stephen, saying that the team lacked a core outside player. If Stephen chose the Clippers, he would definitely tailor a tactical system around Stephen.

Stephen politely said that he would consider it, and then hung up the phone. A team like the Clippers will never be among Stephen's considerations. He has no ambitions. Even if he can be the boss of the team here and have unlimited shooting rights, what if it is? Stephen doesn't have only such a little pursuit. In addition to his personal achievements, he also needs the team's honor.

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The protagonist will leave the Spurs, signing first and then changing. In this way, the target team does not require enough space. As long as the Spurs have space, it is enough. For which team to go to, please provide more reference opinions. I have carefully read all the articles published in the book review area.


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