From today on is the king

Chapter 1253 Chapter 1252. Ace is worth 1.6 million (510 asking for a monthly ticket)
According to the calculations of economic experts, some weird and miscellaneous fans can’t understand it but think it’s a very powerful calculation method. After calculation, Liu Mang has helped the Eagles earn a total of 1.1 million US dollars in net profit during his five seasons with the Eagles!

The main reason is that in the two years since Liu Mang’s second contract was implemented, Liu Mang’s profit as the main factor has reached 9000 million US dollars, which is profit, not income. Since Liu Mang joined the Eagles in his rookie season and helped the Eagles reach the Eastern Conference Finals, the Eagles’ income has skyrocketed because of Liu Mang.

At this point in the analysis, American Cable TV has thrown out a new point of view, which was not noticed by many fans before, that is, Liu Mang took too little money!

Liu Mang’s new contract has been in effect for two years, with a maximum salary, and the Eagles’ alternative operation allows Liu Mang, a second-round pick, to get a maximum salary after the end of his rookie contract. This is what Liu Mang’s fans like most about the Eagles. This operation of the Eagles has made Liu Mang’s income higher than that of Paul Gasol, who had the highest income among other players in 2001. The salary for the five seasons is the same, which makes Liu Mang's fans have a good impression of the Eagles.

This is a very successful team operation for the Eagles, which has been touted by experts and the media.

And it is difficult to replicate, and it is almost impossible for a second-round pick to resist the urge to get a higher salary to get another year's minimum salary and then try the maximum salary.

But this time, the American cable television station did the opposite and began to criticize this matter instead.

It's not the Eagles who are being criticized, the Eagles have already given Liu Mang the maximum contract within the rules, the thing being criticized is the league's salary system!

If you want to do something, you have to do something ruthless!
The economics experts of American Cable TV finally concluded: "Liu's current five-year contract does not match his due value at all. He should get 5 ​​million a year."

Liu Mang's 4+1 contract averages 3200 million per year...

In the history of the NBA, except for Jordan who earned 3000 million a year and 3300 million a year, there has never been a player with a salary of 3000 million. The highest is Kevin Garnett who earned 03 million dollars in the 04-2800 season!
Jordan’s big contract back then was not within the rules, but the Bulls applied to the league to give Jordan special treatment, and it was mainly because Jordan’s previous highest salary was only $400 million a year, which was really inconsistent with the value Jordan brought to the league. In the first ten years of Jordan’s career, including the first two years of his retirement, the highest salary was a “big” contract that added up to $800 million for two years. Most of the time, it was more than $100 million. An exception made Jordan directly renew his contract with $770 million on the salary cap for the first year, and the second year was increased by 3000% according to the rules...

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As soon as the news from US Cable TV came out, the top executives of the league were frightened.

This is purely intentional!

And... there must be some push behind this!
It was very simple to find out that Pacers general manager Larry Bird and Timberwolves general manager Kevin McHale had dinner with New York Knicks owner James Dolan, and the owner of American Cable TV was James Dolan!

Obviously, there are teams that want to divide the Eagles!
It seems that they are attacking the salary system of the league. In fact, those people are just trying to make Liu Mang dissatisfied with his salary. As the owner of the TV station, James Dolan needs ratings and attention, so he agreed to this plan. Anyway, it is a win-win situation.

It is impossible to change the rules of the league. If that is the case, it will become the same as football, without salary restrictions, and the NBA will not be the most relatively balanced league in the world.

But the fans can't control that much, and immediately started to complain about the league's salary system!

Finally, there was a breaking news, and other media began to follow suit, triggering greater public opinion.

The league is preparing for the draft. Originally, they planned to spend the last few days of the season happily. The executives are all preparing their summer vacation plans. Who knew that such a big event would suddenly appear, and David Stern couldn't calm down all of a sudden!

The top executives of the league held an emergency meeting that night to analyze how to deal with this matter.

The US cable TV station has captured the climax of the fans. After entering the Internet age, public opinion is too easy to be guided, and they have stirred up public opinion to the point where it is difficult to control!

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"Ace, do you think your current total contract value is too low and should be changed to 1.6 million?"

"Eh..." Liu Wei looked at the group of reporters in front of him, and didn't expect to take a vacation and make headlines while lying down!
Liu Mang didn't even know what happened. He didn't pay attention to the NBA these days. If he wants to rest, he should take a good rest. It hurts his head to pay attention to those things.

Liu didn't know what was going on until Schwartz called from his draft pick Adam Morrison and flew to Miami for an interview with Liu.

As an agent, Schwartz is very clear that the league's salary cap system is a very advanced system invented by David Stern. Without this system, the NBA would have been finished. If you look at the European football leagues, you will know that there are only a few teams making money in each league.

The NBA's salary cap system is the key to the free circulation of NBA players, otherwise it will really become a player sale.

It is impossible to change this system. Schwartz came to Liu Mang mainly to tell Liu Mang not to be too careless, and not to fight against the alliance on his own.

Liu Mang's evaluation is too high now, Schwartz is afraid that Liu Mang will not be calm, and really believes those nonsense.

Although Liu Mang is indeed worthy of a higher salary, but in terms of rules, Liu Mang has already gotten the most he can get.

"Stealing from the rich and helping the poor" is the meaning of the existence of the salary cap. Let those who should get more money distribute some money to ordinary players, and let teams that make more money distribute money to teams that don't make money. Only in this way can the NBA exist for a long time.

Liu Mang looked at the Sports Illustrated reporter in front of him, and was speechless. What he said was too direct, without any euphemism.

According to the calculations of some media, the Eagles may generate a total income of 3.2 million US dollars because of Liu Wei during Liu Wei's contract, which should be half divided with Liu Wei. The reporter immediately asked Liu Wei about this question.

Thinking of this, Liu Mang couldn't help but smile, making the reporter in front of him confused.

After Liu Mang finished laughing, he apologized, and then said, "1.6 million is too much. Michael only earned 9000 million in his lifetime. For me, I'm worth 1.5 million. 1.6 million is still too much."

(End of this chapter)