Chapter 297: Jordan announced his retirement

Just sent away Lao Sa, Richard was thinking about whether to look for Rashid or Lao Curry to talk about contract renewal.
As a result, Zhang Weiping hurriedly walked into Richard's office.
"Richard, guess what?"
"Jordan just announced his retirement..."
"Good news! Absolutely good news, our championship this year has not run away!" Zhang Weiping was all smiles.
In Zhang Weiping's view, this is undoubtedly good news. After Jordan retired, the Bulls are still "Mao"...
Besides the Bulls, who else in this league can stop the pace of their Blazers winning the championship? !
No, absolutely not!
Originally Zhang Weiping predicted that Richard should be like him. After hearing this news, he was very happy, but Richard was quite calm.
There is no joyful expression on the face...
He was not surprised that Jordan retired!
Jordan announced his retirement at this point in time. According to Richard, part of the reason is threatening the alliance.
The splendor of the alliance today, which has at least 30% of the credit should be attributed to Jordan!
When Jordan retired for the first time, it was Stern who invited him back. In addition, he also formulated a rule for Jordan, also known as the "Jordan Regulations"...
Each team can designate a player with the highest salary, and the salary is not included in the salary cap.
This gives Jordan the opportunity to get an annual salary of 30 million, otherwise, the salary cap was only more than 20 million before, how can Jordan get an annual salary of 30 million.
Later, Reggie Miller also benefited from this regulation, and signed a contract with the Pacers with an annual salary of 10 million, becoming the highest paid player in the league except Jordan.
Now that the season is over, negotiations between the nba management committee and the player union are about to officially begin.
Jordan jumped out and announced his retirement at this point in time, which could not be without threat of alliance...
It's just that this time Stern is obviously impossible to give up the bottom line because of Jordan, because more than half of the teams in the league are currently losing money...
Jordan, Reggie Miller, O'Neill and Garnett have a rather bad head, especially Garnett, which can be said to be Stern's determination to make the top salary.
In October 1997, before the start of the regular season last season, the Timberwolves and Garnett renewed the six-year super contract of $126 million in advance without completing the rookie contract.
The huge contract of 21 million per year on average makes Stern unable to sit still.
A newcomer to Garnett gets such a terrible contract, what about other newcomers? With millions of contracts, can they still see it?
There will definitely be situations where prices are driven up, players are getting higher and higher salaries, and the team is losing money more and more!
In the long run, the nba alliance is completely finished...
After all, the team is at a loss, how can the bosses support it? To know that many team owners, their only industry is the team. If the team loses money, they will not be able to make ends meet. It will not be a problem to insist for a year or two. If the time is long, they will be completely cool...
Therefore, Stern has made up his mind this time to introduce a top salary.
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"How do you seem to know this in advance?" Zhang Weiping asked suspiciously.
Richard smiled and waved his hand: "I don't know, but I can probably guess it. By the way, Lao Zhang, you can help me contact Dell. In the afternoon, I am going to meet him and talk about renewal."
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Originally Richard was thinking of talking to Rashid and Old Curry about renewal of contract after Jordan announced his retirement.
After all, Jordan retired. The Blazers are the top seed in this league. At least in the current situation in the West, no team will pose too much threat to the Blazers.
The East side, at best, is a New York Knicks, and they have no threat to the Blazers.
In this case, the Blazers have too much chance to win the championship, which is also very beneficial to the player's renewal.
Especially like the old Curry, a veteran with no crown in his career, he is expected to be happy to stay with the Blazers...
In the afternoon, Richard met old Curry in the office.
"Old man, now it's time for us to talk about contract renewal." Richard said with a smile.
"I thought the Blazers were going to give up on me, and were preparing to find a home on the free market..." Old Curry also laughed.
He really didn't expect Richard to take the initiative to find himself to talk about contract renewal.
Last season, Old Curry played more times. In the season just ended, because of the joining of Wu Sheng Jackson, Old Curry's playing time has further declined. It is the player with the least playing time in the backcourt of the five Trail Blazers.
It can be said that there is no old Curry, in fact, it does not have much impact on the Trail Blazers' backcourt strength. After all, the old Curry’s defense is not very powerful. It is at least worse than the other four backcourts. A grade.
In this case, he feels that the Blazers should give up on themselves. After all, the Blazers have five picks in their hands. In the next draft, choosing a backcourt player can easily replace the old Curry. position.
But Richard now took the initiative to find himself to renew the contract, which made the old Curry a little excited.
If he can stay with the Blazers, he naturally doesn't want to switch to other teams. Let's not say that staying with the Blazers can have a great chance of winning the championship this season. It's just a move. It also makes old Curry a headache...
If you want to change a team, you have to move home once. He is a family man and hopes to be with his wife and children.
"You are the oldest player in our backcourt. Those young people still need your advice. We naturally have to find a way to leave you." Richard said with a smile.
"For the amount of the contract, let's not talk about it today~EbookFREE.me~ This time you will go talk to Orch."
Old Curry nodded, he was well aware of the current dilemma of the Blazers.
The dilemma of the Trail Blazers is different from other teams. The other teams are worried about the lack of strength in the team, and the Trail Blazers are worried about too many strong players, and will renew the contract next year...
Even if Lao Sa left, he made a lot of salary space for the Trail Blazers, but when the contract is to be renewed next year, it will still be stretched.
At least Daben, Xiaoao and Kobe have to renew their contract. The Blazers can't swallow them all.
So this season, the Blazers can only be cautious and cautious, and try not to sign long-term large contracts as much as possible to prepare for the next season.
Old Curry is well aware of these circumstances, and he is well aware that the Blazers are unlikely to provide themselves with too high a salary.
However, he didn't expect the salary to be too high. He looked at the veteran who was almost 35 years old, and he has always been a substitute. It is not realistic to want a high salary. Bishop of the Devil