Chapter 915: New clause

Time passed quickly. After Li Liang signed with the Kings in mid-August, the free market went through a lot of enthusiasm. The big contracts were almost free of money, and a group of lucky players and agents were fattened.
The Kings won Li Liang by 100 million, which is a profit.
Look at other teams.
The Grizzlies signed Chandler Parsons with 98.5 million in 4 years.
Al Horford, 113 million in 4 years.
Hassan Whiteside, 98 million in 4 years.
Drummond, 130 million in 5 years.
Leon Anderson, 80 million in 4 years.
In comparison, Li Liang's contract is too cost-effective, and the king's management and boss have to smile.
Not only that, the arrival of Li Liang really made Rondo change his mind and want to continue working with the Kings.
As a result, Rondo accepted a 4-year, 25 million full middle-class contract for the Kings.
In terms of money, Rondo must have lost money.
The Bulls offered a two-year contract with an amount of more than 20 million.
And the 16-year middle-class contract is calculated based on the average salary of the league last season.
Therefore, if Rondo signs another contract next year and uses the middle class, the average annual contract can be close to 10 million.
Now, he can only get a contract with an annual salary of more than 6 million, which can be said to have lost a lot.
But for a player like Rondo, who is very high-spirited, victory is often more important than money.
After all, the start was very high, and no one was convinced in my heart. In addition, Cousins ​​and Li Liang were both Kentucky's younger brothers, and the emotional points increased a lot.
And the Kings are willing to give a long contract, which is also very important for the players.
Due to Rondo's character and injury situation, many teams have been afraid to give Rondo a contract for more than two years.
Working in one place with peace of mind is what most players pursue. After all, there is life besides basketball.
Like nomads like Li Liang, the Xiongnu Shanyu is really a strange flower among strange flowers.
In addition to Rondo, the Kings also signed two very cost-effective contracts.
One is to use the team's last space to sign Eric Gordon for 48 million in 4 years.
The King’s rival is the Rockets.
The Rockets offered a higher contract price, 53 million in 4 years, 5 million more than the King’s contract.
However, after weighing in, Gordon still chose to sign with the Kings.
The reason is simple, because with Li Liang, the Kings have the hope of winning.
Gordon is still willing to give up 5 million for the championship.
Moreover, Gordon has suffered from injuries in previous seasons.
According to rumors within the league, playing with Li Liang helps your health.
I don't know how this rumor came out.
But in four years, the players around Li Liang, except for the ruptured Achilles tendon in the first year of Kobe Finals, the others have really not suffered much injury.
Maybe this is the real man of heaven, with the brilliance of health enveloped all around.
After the successful signing of Rondo and Gordon, Li Liang also did not hesitate to dedicate the bruises pills and add them to their usual drinks for Rondo and Gordon to drink them.
As a result, the two had crazy diarrhea the next day.
The hero couldn't stand the three-pain, lying in bed for two days without getting it.
The two backcourt signings of Gordon and Rondo should be said to be very critical and important.
The cost performance of these two contracts is quite high.
Although Rondo and Gordon are not top stars and basically missed the All-Star, they are very strong.
A typical player whose strength is greater than fame.
Moreover, both offensive and defensive players are excellent, both players can fight hard in the playoffs. It can be said that they are two very good signings.
As far as the king is concerned, if there is no Li Liang as a bait, neither of them can win.
And Li Liang's appeal doesn't stop there.
After supplementing the outside line, Divac also strengthened the inside line.
In September, the Kings announced the signing of veteran David West with a minimum salary.
West followed the Spurs last season, and after returning from the playoffs without success, he decided to follow Li Liang!
In this way, Cousins' replacement problem has been resolved.
In mid-September, when the training camp was about to start, the King signed Li Liang’s old classmate, Terence Jones.
This is a friendly signing.
After Jones ended his rookie contract with the Rockets, he only got one offer. The Rockets have no interest in this soft power forward.
And Li Liang hopes to add another Kentucky member, by the way, to add to the end of the team's bench.
Ever since, Terrence Jones, who used to have Li Liang as a substitute, carry bags, and hand over towels in college, has completely become Li Liang's younger brother.
It is really now and then, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi.
Terrence Jones is very happy to be able to play with so many Kentucky students.
And to have a contract to survive in this league is actually not easy for every ordinary player.
In this case, in October, the Kings training camp will start.
A new king with Li Liang, Rondo, Cousins, Gordon, and Guy as the skeleton was born in a short time.
To be honest, this lineup is not much better than the Pacers of the year.
If there is any improvement, it is that Li Liang's strength is stronger than two years ago.
And it is much stronger.
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On October 3, the day before the opening of the Kings training camp, the league held a press conference to announce a new regulation to the outside world.
The new regulation is a new clause added to the 2011 version of the labor agreement.
The outline of the new terms is: "A player who has won any of the MVP, FMVP, and Best First Team honors in the last season will not be allowed to pay significantly lower than the market price in the signing of the contract for the next year. Signed a contract with a team option of less than three years."
This strange clause, to put it bluntly, was specially formulated by the Alliance to deal with Li Liang and his imitators.
After all, Li Liang's behavior in recent years has severely disrupted the NBA player market.
The stagnation of the free market this year is a great example.
Originally, the market opened in July, and the trading market should be booming.
But just because everyone knows that Li Liang is obviously not in line with the market rules, and the goods that he makes after signing in are available, so everyone is waiting for the price.
If it weren't for this year's salary cap soaring and the teams were busy filling in the line, the player market might have been even more bleak.
Now, Li Liang finally settled down and signed a four-year contract.
However, in order to prevent trouble before it happened, the alliance introduced this clause specifically aimed at Li Liang, which was later called the "Bruce-Lee Clause".
This strange clause completely violates the freedom of the market, because in the past, no one would go to the pole to sign a short-term small contract after winning the MVP and other big honors, completely contrary to the laws of the market and human nature.
So much so that more than a year later, the new president of the United States, a real estate tycoon who knew everything, called it "undercover from a socialist country that disrupted our free market."
This "Bruce-Li" clause affects not only Li Liang alone, but also makes other stars who want to learn from Li Liang and jump left and right to lose the opportunity.
As for ordinary players, it is impossible for anyone to refuse a long-term contract.
Now the team balance of the entire league has been seriously damaged.
After James joined the Warriors and Li Liang stayed in the West, the entire East was in a power vacuum.
No one can fight.
This year the league will host the All-Star Game, and the Eastern Conference's lineup is bound to be extremely shabby.
Unless there is a big deal happening during the season to enrich the Eastern Conference star lineup.
Moreover, the spiritual and cultural influence brought by Li Liang is also huge.
In the past, with regard to the issue of "team loyalty", fans mostly stood from the perspective of the team and spoke for the team.
After all, this league is composed of 30 bosses. No matter how good the stars are, they are essentially employees.
All public opinion propaganda is biased towards the team.
This phenomenon lasted for several decades, until James decided to have a big discussion.
James was almost hacked into carbon at the time, and both domestic and overseas media criticized James.
Many people say, "James has nothing to do with the first in history."
Whether LeBron James has anything to do with the No. 1 in history is more dependent on his court performance and the number of championships, and which team he goes to and who he plays with are not absolutely related.
Jordan didn't stay with the Bulls because he was loyal to the team. In fact, he hated the Bulls management.
On the one hand, he stayed with the Bulls because he loves the city of Chicago and the fans here. People have feelings, but love rather than loyalty.
On the other hand, it is also out of his personal considerations. With the Bulls, he has excellent teammates, excellent coaches, a habitual working environment, and the salary is the highest. Why doesn't he stay?
When he paid for the second time, he did not go to the Bulls, but to the Wizards. Is it unfaithful?
When James made decision 2, the voice of opposition was much smaller.
When he decided 3, there were no dissents.
The reason is very simple. There was a goods in front of him who had broken the word "loyal" and crushed it when he stepped on the ground.
You are a business alliance, why are you loyal or disloyal?
For the NBA, any cultural phenomenon, as long as fans don't take it seriously, it is not the same thing.
When fans saw the stimulus of "disloyalty" in Bruce Lee, they began to hope that the league could change a little every year.
Nowadays, many team managers are trembling and trying to get a good relationship with the top players in the team.
Otherwise, they will really follow suit. Leonard is the best example.
It is said that the Rockets have started to have a headache this year and want to renew their contract with James Harden in advance.
Because this summer, they didn't get anything except one Leon Anderson.
He also smashed a maximum salary contract with two years left, Dwight Howard.
The Warcraft that Morey wanted to get, because of injuries and changes in the league trend, has become the number one big contract.
The scary thing is that the signing of Anderson is still predictable, and it will be a big garbage contract in the future.
It's really hard to tell how much patience James Harden can leave for Houston.
After all, the eldest brother and the second brother have fulfilled the dream of a championship, and he is still far away.