Coach, I don't want to retire yet

Chapter 652 The precarious NBA!

Chapter 652 The precarious NBA!

There is a reason why Yao Ming and McGrady rejected so many NBA teams and chose to go to the Toronto Raptors.

Because as long as Yao Ming and McGrady join the Toronto Raptors, they will get shares of Maple Leaf Sports Group, the owner of the Toronto Raptors, when they retire. The two will get 1% of the shares after one year of service, 2% for two years, 5% for three years, and 10% for five years. If they win the championship or other honors in the league, the increase in box office and attendance will be calculated separately. Yao Ming and McGrady can get up to 25% of the shares of Maple Leaf Sports Group.

This is a very attractive bet agreement. Thanks to the rapid development of the NBA, the Toronto Raptors now have a market value of 20 billion US dollars. 25% is 5 million US dollars. Although this is the highest gain and it is difficult to get the full 25%, it is still a very large number.

However, with Yao Ming and McGrady, the Raptors' market value may instantly soar from 25 billion US dollars to more than 40 billion US dollars. To be honest, it is really hard to say who makes the profit.

So far, it's a win-win deal.

Seeing the success of the Bobcats, the Raptors also want to leave their own memory in the NBA and want to make Yao Ming and McGrady their own totems. The success of the Bobcats can be said to have provided an example for many small teams in small cities in the NBA to become more successful.

If you want to make big money, you have to win the NBA championship and have popular players and coaches.

If the Bobcats can do it, why can't the Toronto Raptors?
Charlotte, where the Bobcats are located, is a big city that looks like a small city. It's not that Charlotte doesn't have a basketball market, it just doesn't have an NBA market.

So, when the Charlotte Bobcats opened up the basketball market, it went from a small market to a big market.

And Toronto is very similar to the Bobcats in some ways.

Because Toronto is not a real small basketball city. It has a large Chinese population. Yao Ming and McGrady are extremely popular in Toronto. In addition, Nash is very popular in Canada. It can be said that as long as the combination of Nash and Yao McGrady is successful in the Raptors, then the Toronto Raptors can directly reap the entire Canadian basketball market. This is a national basketball market, and it does not even count as an overseas basketball market.

As long as the Raptors can succeed, everything will go smoothly. With the popularity of the NBA in the future, it is not impossible for the Toronto Raptors' market value to exceed 100 billion, billion or even billion.

What’s the point of paying 25% of the shares if you can get Yao Ming and McGrady?
This is definitely a win-win decision for the Raptors.

The Raptors, Yao, McGrady and Nash hit it off right away. It can be said that this perfect match made the fans in Toronto and Canada extremely happy.

After Yao and McGrady announced that they would join the Raptors, Toronto's jerseys were sold out immediately.

Yao and McGrady's popularity, prestige and influence in today's NBA are absolutely second to none, especially after Kobe's retirement. Perhaps no one can have greater popularity and influence than them in today's NBA.

Of course, Jordan's theory is definitely an exception, and Du Kang's theory is also an exception.

Also, Nash's popularity is extremely high, so the Raptors paid a very high cost to recruit Nash.

Nash also has an incentive contract with the Raptors. As long as he leads the Raptors to the finals, he can get 1% of the shares. If he can win the championship, he can get 3% of the shares. Depending on the number of years he coaches, Nash can get up to 5% of the team's shares.

Nash also became the second active head coach, besides Du Kang, who can own shares in the team.

Of course, Nash has not yet acquired his shares, but overall, the Toronto Raptors' ambitions are clear.

Moreover, the Toronto Raptors are now indeed qualified to have such ambitions. After acquiring Yao Ming and McGrady, plus Chris Paul, the team already had three superstars. In addition, they sent Leonard to the Celtics and got the 2016 NBA draft pick from the Nets. The Raptors' future is very bright. Don't forget that the Raptors have a lot of salary space this summer. In addition, the salary space skyrocketed in 2016. Paul, Yao and McGrady are relatively child labor contracts. The Raptors can even take a maximum salary of 4000 million US dollars. Therefore, after acquiring Yao and McGrady, the Raptors, according to McGrady's instructions, went directly to the Thunder to dig Carter and Durant.

The Raptors want to recruit both Carter and Durant.

Durant was a Raptors fan who supported Carter and McGrady when he was a kid.

Carter is a legend of the Raptors. He certainly has no objection to wearing the No. 15 jersey of the Raptors again. After all, Carter also hopes that his jersey will be retired over the sky of Toronto.

Carter has also reached this point in time.

I would definitely be willing to retire one more jersey.

And Carter does have feelings for the Raptors.

If they can really get these two, the Raptors will instantly become a contender for the NBA championship.

According to many insiders, Carter directly accepted the Raptors' invitation.

And Durant has no objection to joining the Raptors and being teammates with Yao, McGrady and Carter.

Because McGrady promised Durant that Durant is not only the future of the team, but also the present of the team. This is a direct promise to Durant. Although the leaders of the Raptors are Yao and McGrady, Durant is the team's star player and resource owner.

Durant must be very excited.

After wasting nine years with the Thunder, Durant now wants to find a strong team to exact his revenge.

The Raptors, with Yao Ming, McCarty and Paul, are indeed a team that suits him very well.

As long as he goes to the Raptors, he will instantly have a perfect team tailor-made for him.

Durant was very tempted, really very tempted. Even more tempted than Durant was Durant's agent. Because after Durant entered the free market, many teams were interested in Durant, but the only teams willing to directly offer Durant a maximum salary of 4000 million were the Thunder and the Raptors.

This is very embarrassing. Durant's Achilles tendon has always had problems. It is really hard to say how Durant has recovered after the Achilles tendon surgery.

As the New York Knicks management said in an interview with the media, their biggest goal this summer was to get Durant, but after knowing that Durant had injured his Achilles tendon, they have now lost interest in Durant.

"From the historical experience of the NBA, players with ruptured Achilles tendons have already lost the chance to become a superstar. Even if Durant ruptured his Achilles tendon, he would only be a Nowitzki. This is too much of a disrespect to Nowitzki and too much of a respect to Durant."

Even if the Achilles tendon is not completely ruptured, this injury is still a major blow to NBA players. Not to mention the New York Knicks, even Durant himself is not very confident that he can recover.

This is also the reason why Durant was very tempted by the Raptors' invitation, but was hesitant and did not accept it directly.

"If there's anyone in this world who can fix my Achilles problem, it's probably Coach D."

As soon as Durant finished speaking, his agent immediately understood what was happening.

Yes, KD is waiting for Coach D's invitation.

But the problem is that the current Bobcats don't really have a small forward. Thabeet has left, but Beasley is no worse than Thabeet.

In addition, the Bobcats also have Grant Hill, Marion, and Ding Yanyuhang, none of whom have left or retired.

He wants to go to Coach D's team, but he doesn't want to be a substitute on Coach D's team.

At this moment, the Raptors are the protagonists of the entire NBA. No one would have thought that during this period before the draft, the most popular team would be the Raptors.

As the new champions, the Bobcats are actually brewing a lot of things at this time.

There are also many storms lurking inside.

"Du, big news, Popovich announced that he will leave the Lakers head coach position and return to the Spurs to continue serving as the team's head coach!"

Du Kang actually knew in advance that Popovich was leaving the Lakers and returning to the Spurs. Both Popovich and Uncle Jim told him last night.

He even knew more, that is, Popovich also told Duncan, Parker and Ginobili about this.

The meaning is already very clear.

Popovich certainly hopes to return to the Spurs to reorganize GDP.

Take back what you once lost.

Popovich hopes that Duncan and others will not tell Du Kang, whether they agree or disagree.

This is not Popovich's backstabbing, but Popovich does not want to lose face. GDP has followed him for so many years. If he disagrees, he will lose face. So many years are not as good as one year of Du Kang. Popovich said that whether he agrees or disagrees, don't tell Du Kang. This is actually a very pessimistic feeling. GDP is likely to disagree.

But the three GDPs told Du Kang about this. Whether it was Duncan, Parker or Ginobili, they couldn't keep this from Du Kang.

Du Kang was naturally moved by the honesty of the three GDP members.

"Tim, Tony, Manu, follow your heart. I will support you no matter what decision you make."

Du Kang's words moved GDP so much. Let's put it this way, with GDP's character, given the favor Du Kang had given them this season, as long as Du Kang said a word, not to mention Popovich, even their father couldn't take them away.

This is also the reason why Popovich felt that if he talked to Du Kang, there was a high probability that he would not get the GDP.

"Compared to the coach, Popovich is still not generous enough."

Parker looked at Du Kang with emotion. Coach D never thought of using his kindness to them to kidnap them.

They respect Coach D, they respect Coach D immensely, even more than Popovich.

However, no matter how good or powerful Coach D is, and no matter how much respect they have for Coach D, Popovich is always the most special one in their hearts, and the Spurs are always the most special team in their hearts.

Du Kang has a system, so of course he knows how the three people feel at the moment. What he said was actually to encourage them to follow their own inner choices and not do anything that would make them regret for the rest of their lives because of him.

"In the Bobcats, I can restore you to your peak, but I can never truly make GDP shine again."

Du Kang said this very frankly.

In the Bobcats, Duncan is undoubtedly the core.

But Parker and Ginobili are not.

GDP can only be a surprise weapon in certain situations. GDP is not everything for the Bobcats, nor is it even their conventional weapon.

Forcing GDP to stay in the Bobcats as a surprise weapon at special moments is an insult and a waste of GDP.

"Having you is one of my greatest happiness as a coach."

Looking at the sincere smile on Du Kang's face, the three GDP members, who were originally moved, now had even more moving expressions on their faces.

"Coach, it is our greatest luck to be able to play under you!"

At this moment, whether it is Duncan, Parker or Ginobili, they all know why none of the players who left Coach D said anything bad about Coach D, and even those players who were not very happy when they left did not have any resentment towards Coach D.

As long as you have actually played under Coach D, you will never hate a head coach like that.

After leaving Du Kang's office, the faces of the three GDP members were still filled with emotion.

It was hard to calm down and he had a lot of things to say, but in the end he couldn't say them to Coach D. Finally, Parker could only sigh as he walked out of the office.

"Compared to Coach D, Pop is really far behind."

"I think Popovich shouldn't be compared to Coach D. It's not fair to Coach D, and it's not fair to Popovich either."

"..."

Hearing these words from his two friends, Duncan wanted to say something for a moment, but in the end he sighed and hesitated.

"But, he is Bobo."

After Duncan finished speaking, Parker and Ginobili both smiled.

Yes, he is Bobo.

A dog does not mind a poor home.

They never disliked Popovich, nor did they dislike the Spurs.

Just when the Raptors were killing it all, the league once again broke out a shocking piece of news.

"The Bobcats thank GDP for his service to the Bobcats and wish them all the best in the future."

"GDP returns to the Spurs, Coach D's Bobcats will disband after winning the championship!!!"

The successive departures of Thabeet and GDP instantly brought the Bobcats back into the limelight of the entire NBA.

And, this is not the end!
"The Dallas Mavericks invited Jason Kidd to be the team's head coach and re-signed the team's legendary small forward Marion from the Bobcats!"

With the departure of Kidd and Marion, the Bobcats' 15-man roster that won the championship last season was suddenly missing six players.

Jordan, Rose, Beasley, O'Neal, Myles Turner, Norman Powell, Ding Yanyuhang, Grant Hill, Batum.

The Bobcats were down to nine players.

and!

"Coach, I want to be a starter for the Clippers, be a core player, and become an All-Star!"

Batum looked at Du Kang anxiously.

He can feel his growth with the Bobcats this season.

It is precisely because of this growth that he hopes to take his career further.

He was really afraid that the coach would disagree. If the coach disagreed, he was willing to sacrifice his own honor for the coach and the team.

He shouldn't make such a request now that the team is in a precarious situation.

and so……

"Coach, if..."

Batum hadn't finished speaking when Durant smiled and gently interrupted him.

"Go ahead, Nikolai."

what? !

Batum couldn't believe his ears, he thought he had heard it wrong.

"Nicholas, you are right. You deserve more now."

"Coach, you..."

Looking at the smile on Du Kang's face, Batum was deeply moved.

“Thank you, Coach…”

(End of this chapter)

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