This striker is a bit of a monster

Chapter 194 Gerald Wallace leaves the team in five years with 5 million

The summer trading period of 2007 is bound to be turbulent.

After the Rockets traded Juwan Howard as the first deal to open the free market, the free market was very lively in the next two months.

It's draft day.

In addition to the Seattle SuperSonics Ray Allen traded to the Celtics outside the shocking big melon.

There are also news like Landry being traded to the Houston Rockets that probably only Chinese fans will pay special attention to.

At the beginning of July, all the rookies signed contracts with their teams, and at the same time, the core of each team began to sign.

The Bobcats also reached an agreement with the team's two rookies in early July.

On July 7, Chauncey Billups stayed in Detroit with a five-year, 8 million contract.

Then it's magic time.

The Magic during the Hughes season is undoubtedly a more active team.

They first caught the third big fish in the market, another of the supersonic twins, Sharad Lewis.

Sharad Lewis also became the 10th billionaire in history.

The Supersonics adopted a sign-and-trade, and sent Sharad Lewis to the Orlando Magic. At first, it was a five-year contract of 5 million US dollars, but later it became a six-year contract of 9700 million US dollars, but the salary for the last season was partially guaranteed.

Then the Magic renewed the contract with the team's core center Dwight Howard in advance on July 7. The contract is 13 million plus incentives for 5 years, plus the team's organization power forward Turkoglu, so , The lineup of the peak Magic team during the Dwight Howard period can be regarded as completely defeated.

On the same day, the Nets and Vince Carter also completed a 5-year contract extension of 8000 million with the New Jersey Nets, of which the salary of 6600 million for the first four years is fully guaranteed.

And the Nets are also a prelude to disintegration. Jason Kidd has been put on the shelves by the team. Even if he cannot be traded away at the beginning of the season, he will be traded in the second trading window.

The Charlotte Bobcats, which lacked a stable point guard, had also inquired about Jason Kidd, but Jordan was still a little reluctant to part with Gerald Wallace, and the deal was naturally impossible to complete.

On the same day, the Dallas Mavericks retained veteran Stackhouse for 3 years and 2100 million.

Then, Mo Williams reached a 6-year $5200 million contract with the Milwaukee Bucks, and he will continue to play in the Bucks jersey.

On July 7, the Rockets recruited the Argentine player 'Diamond' Scola and signed a three-year contract of 18 million. In this way, the Rockets finally had a power forward who could barely see the past. up.

7 month 21 day.

Francis, who was bought out by the Trail Blazers, officially returned to the Rockets and signed a two-year contract with an annual salary of 240 million in the first year and 260 million in the second year, with player options in the second year.

And this is Boss Fu, who is no longer the boss of the team who covered Yao Ming back then, and has quietly transformed into a role player.

the next day.

Considering the need to take care of their daughter, the Jazz bought out Derek Fisher in a humane way, and Derek Fisher returned to the place where his dream started with a veteran's basic salary-the Los Angeles Lakers, with his good brother Kobe Bryant Te, fight side by side again.

No matter how you look at it, this is a super value signing.

Finally August 8st

The former Wolf King Kevin Garnett announced that he has officially joined the Celtics. He will take off the No. 21 Wolf King jersey and put on the No. 5 Hulk jersey.

The Celtics use Al Jefferson, Gerald Green, Ryan Gomez, Telfair and Ratliff, and the Celtics will also take two first-round picks in 2009 ( The protection of the top three picks in the draft), coupled with the method of supplementing the difference with cash, completed the deal for the Wolf King.

One for seven, plus cash!
The Celtics chose ALL.IN, and Angie made a super bold decision. This team, which had created countless dynasties, evolved from a bad team to a championship team for the first time in one season.

It's also an astonishing case.

As a result, the desire eyes of NBA general managers were also opened.

There are too many teams willing to fight to the death in free agency.

The Celtics, who have caught the two largest fish in the free market, are satisfied.

The Bobcats' third choice center, Jack Voskull, chose to leave the team. He went to the Milwaukee Bucks and got a one-year, $1 million contract.

The Charlotte Bobcats must find a replacement in free agency.

The Bobcats have also made trade moves, but in the free market, they were frequently blocked. Bickerstaff originally wanted to find Darko Milicic as a backup center with a small middle-class contract, but he expected The latter turned around and joined the Memphis Grizzlies.

The team's only successful signing so far is an extension with the team's sixth man, Matt Carroll.

The brilliant performance of this white scorer in the playoffs made him favored by Bickerstaff and Jordan, and he was the team's first contract extension target. Finally, he completed the signing of a 6-year middle class contract of 2690 million yuan, which is quite satisfactory. .

And after learning that Kevin Garnett could not be obtained, Zhou Lin no longer needed to worry about the possibility of being traded, and the next step the team began to focus on negotiating with Gerald Wallace and Emme Ka Okafor's early contract extension.

But at this moment, Zhou Lin is already in China, and he needs to cooperate with Anta in the commercial promotion of sneakers and some welfare undertakings, and next season, the "Control" II generation will be released soon, and the "Control" I generation has become It is now one of the mainstream domestic sneakers in China.

在8月3日，埃梅卡.奥卡福的提前续约完成，5年5500万，合同从08-09赛季开始实施。

He also became the owner of the largest contract in Bobcats history.

Now the Bobcats, as long as Gerald Wallace is renewed, they can basically stabilize the lineup of last season.

On August 8th, Zhou Lin suddenly received a message from Gerald Wallace.

'Guys, I'm leaving Charlotte, wish me luck'

It was midnight when Zhou Lin received this text message, and he was currently in a mountain village primary school.

Zhou Lin immediately called his agent.

"Probably so."

Thomas Jackson said: "Gerald Wallace's departure is also a benefit for you. You can no longer play as a fourth player."

"Which team is the Bobcats currently trading with?" Zhou Lin asked.

"The Portland Trail Blazers, or the Phoenix Suns." Thomas Jackson responded.

The player given by Portland is Zach Randolph, who played normally and basically averaged 20+10 inside bulldozers per game. The last keeper of Portland's "prison" selected Greg Oden. , and with LaMarcus Aldridge on the team, Zach Randolph will definitely become a player on the shelf. Zach Randolph is indeed a high-quality insider, but his thorny personality is a problem. Not many teams were willing to take him in, and the Bobcats were one of the few teams to talk to the Blazers.

As for the Phoenix Suns, it was beyond expectations, and what Zhou Lin didn't expect was that the bargaining chip given by the Suns was actually Sean Marion.

According to history, it is true that Marion will be with the Suns soon next season, and he will be sent to the Heat as a bargaining chip for O'Neal.

This transaction also caused the Heat to experience a brief period of glory, and announced the start of reconstruction.

Then the hackers left the Heat and went to the Mavericks, and finally followed Nowitzki to win the championship in the shrinking season.

However, the salaries of Gerald Wallace and the above two are not equal.

Zach Randolph is about 1200 million a year, and Shawn Marion is 1640 million a year.

The salary of Gerald Wallace in the contract year of this season is about 550 million US dollars.

It means that Gerald Wallace is not enough to trade anyone.

Thomas Jackson replied: "Sign first and then change, about 1100-1200 per year contract, 5-6 years contract, if it is for Randolph, basically just change it, if it is for Marion, I am afraid Plus the $590 million trade exception from the Hawks."

"Will he really leave?" Zhou Lin still asked in doubt.

Gerald Wallace is obviously on the rise, and his defense is good, which is also in line with the philosophy of head coach Bickerstaff. Isn't it the best to sign it directly and use it for the Bobcats? Quite a tacit understanding.

"It's a win-win!"

Thomas Jackson said: "You got a position, and he got a big contract. Even Gerald Wallace's contract will be bigger than he expected. This is a gift from the Bobcats."

According to the normal historical trajectory, Gerald Wallace will still play for the Charlotte Bobcats for many years, and finally won the reputation of 'Elvis Presley', but this year, the contract he signed should have a starting salary of 950 Ten thousand US dollars, only a 6-year contract of 5700 million.

According to Thomas Jackson's guess, Gerald Wallace's final contract will probably range from 5 million to 5500 million in 6 years.

It is much larger than the original contract in history.

"what happened?"

Zhou Lin's voice on the phone woke up Misha.

They are now working as volunteers in a Hope Primary School in China. Misha taught English for a day during the day and slept soundly. She was woken up by Zhou Lin's phone call and walked out.

"I was on the phone with my agent and woke you up."

"It's too quiet here." Misha pointed to the Chinese countryside where the surroundings were pitch black, with only electric lights on the eaves. The surroundings were completely silent, and if the voice was a little louder, it would appear very noisy.

"sorry."

Zhou Lin lifted Misha's drooping bangs and said, "I got some good or bad news, so I made my voice louder."

"What's the matter, the mood is very complicated."

Misha looked at Zhou Lindao.

Zhou Lin nodded and said: "Gerald may leave the Bobcats. He is my good friend and my respected elder brother. He helped me a lot in the first year of my career."

Misha frowned and said, "My God, how could they trade Gerrard away, he is a core member of the team."

Zhou Lin shook his head and said, "There is no absolute commitment in the NBA, and it is naturally impossible to have absolute loyalty. However, Gerald Wallace will probably get a job with an annual salary of about tens of millions if he leaves the Bobcats."

"Then you should be happy for him."

Misha said seriously.

"but……"

Zhou Lin couldn't explain clearly, so after thinking for a while, he said, "But, if it wasn't for me, Gerald Wallace might still be with the Bobcats for many years."

"You mean, the team wants to support you as an ace player."

Misha's eyes lit up.

"The positions of Gerrard and I still overlap a bit. With him, I can only play the fourth position or the third position as a substitute. With him gone, I can indeed play the comfortable third position, which I like, but... I might not be happy."

Zhou Lin said regretfully: "I think many things about me are contradictory."

"Maybe, if you are separated, you will each have a better career, and that's unknown."

Zhou Lin still remembers the scene of Gerald Wallace yelling at Chris Bosh in this year's playoffs, because he also suffered a technical foul. With him, he was like an extra layer of windshield Yu's shed, but at the same time, it also hindered his development, and now if he really left, the opportunity was left to himself, but Zhou Lin also needed to face the wind and rain.

The Charlotte Bobcats moved very quickly, much faster than Zhou Lin imagined, probably because the management of the Bobcats has been in contact with the outside world for a long time, but the news just came out.

At noon the next day, Zhou Lin got news from the United States. Thomas Jackson told Zhou Lin that Gerald Wallace had really left the team.

Of course, the team also politely gave Gerald Wallace a big gift, 5 million in 6000 years.

The annual salary is 1200 million.

Basically entered the league's maximum salary threshold.

According to his market conditions, if he stays in Charlotte, the contract he can get will be much smaller, basically around 5 million in five years to 4800 million in six years.

Therefore, Gerald Wallace is not at a loss, and the team he was traded to is also a strong team.

Phoenix Suns in the West.

Swapping clubs with 'Hacker' Sean Marion, the two also have a certain degree of overlap in style and function.

Of course, there is still a certain gap in the salary comparison between the two, so Charlotte gave a special case of 590 million to the Phoenix Suns, and the Phoenix Suns, who are aiming to compete for the championship, can use the 590 million to supplement the interior. , and the Phoenix Suns also found the former all-around small forward Grant Hill in the free market.

The two are the answer to the new Suns' striker.

And with the help of the sun doctor, whether it is Gerald Wallace or Grant Hill, they should be able to recuperate their bodies, which can be regarded as a benefit.

In addition to sending Sean Marion, the Suns also gave a second-round pick as a gift. This way, the transaction amount can be evened out.

"Congratulations, Gerrard, you have won a big contract, and I will treat you to dinner next time we meet."

Zhou Lin also called Gerald Wallace immediately.

"Zhou, you have to work hard, Sean, he is an experienced veteran and a frequent visitor to the All-Star, you can learn a lot from him, and grow into an All-Star player as soon as possible."

Zhou Lin smiled and said, "Why don't we meet the All-Stars?"

Gerald Wallace said with a smile: "Of course, but the regular season is faster. If we meet in the regular season, I will not show mercy."

"Good luck, brother."

"And you too, bro, all the best."

(End of this chapter)