Chapter 54: Wizards

As expected by Wang Xiao, after more than ten minutes of discussion, the Wizards decided to hire Wang Xiao after the team boss finally made the decision.
The Wizards immediately drafted a contract and signed it.
This is a two-year contract with an annual salary of $3 million.
3 million, which belongs to the middle and lower level of nba coaches, not the lowest, but it is definitely not high.
As a coach in his early 30s without any NBA performance, Wang Xiao feels satisfied with such a salary.
As for the two-year period, I am afraid that the Wizards still don't believe in Wang Xiao, and worry that Wang Xiao has messed up.
The start coaching time specified in the contract is after the end of the 08-09 season, which means that the rest of the season does not require Wang Xiao to lead the team, but Wang Xiao’s trading decision is already on the day of signing the contract Executed.
After signing the contract, Wang Xiao returned to Harvard.
This season, the Wizards have basically missed the playoffs. Under Wang Xiao’s suggestion, the team decided to slap it in order to obtain a high draft pick. Under such circumstances, Wang Xiao is not suitable to expose in the media. Down, because the team still needs the current head coach to lead the team to lose.
They are ready to wait until the end of this season, then fire the current head coach, and then announce the news of cooperation between Wang Xiao and the Wizards.
So before this, Wang Xiao will also be a coach at Harvard.
Wang Xiao has handed over his work to Jack before, and Wang Xiao is not ready to take it back. Jack has done a good job these days, fully proving his ability to lead the Harvard school team.
As for the idle Wang Xiao, in addition to guiding the team in the general direction, the main energy is on the problem of studying the Wizards' roster.
To be honest, the Wizards' current situation... is not particularly ideal.
The salary cap for the 08-09 season was $58.68 million, and the trigger line for the luxury tax was $71.15 million.
The Wizards, as a team that has made the Eastern Conference playoffs for four consecutive years, can be regarded as luxurious in the team lineup.
Arenas renewed the contract with the team for 6 years in the summer of 2008 for $110 million. Now is the first year of the contract, with an annual salary of $14.65 million.
Followed by Arenas, is All-Star power forward Antoine Jamison, whose salary is 9.92 million.
Caron Butler 9.25 million, Ethan Thomas 6.86 million, Mike James 6.24 million, Brandon Haywood 5.5 million.
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The salary of the entire team adds up to 70.73 million US dollars, which is one step away from the luxury tax bottom line.
The contracts of Arenas, Jamison and Butler are all considered valuable contracts. After all, the three have performed very well in both seasons.
But the contract between Ethan Thomas and Mike James is a typical junk contract. These two players, Wang Xiao, didn’t even have any impressions. Looking at the performance of the previous season, it was nothing but a dead-end suit with no bright spots. Transaction value.
After several days of research, Wang Xiao found helplessly that the Wizards really attracted the bargaining chips, but these are Arenas, Jamison, Butler and Haywood.
Arenas is definitely going to leave. Wang Xiao can’t bear the gun door incident, especially Wang Xiao’s temper is not particularly good. When he encounters a sting like Arenas, in case he annoys the other party, others What if I shoot myself?
auzw.com He didn’t want to die before he could die.
Although Arenas was reimbursed for the surgery season, he didn't play much for two consecutive seasons, but the famous generals still have some trading value. The 26-year-old is at the peak of the player's golden age and just signed a big contract.
Wang Xiao feels that if Arenas is put on the shelf, even with one or two headings, there should be many teams interested.
What Wang Xiao wants most is undoubtedly the 2009 draft pick.
The 2009 Draft Conference is the best quality in the next few years.
Stephen Curry, James Harden, and DeMar DeRozan.
Wang Xiao now has only one possible future draft pick, which is not enough in his opinion.
Children only make choices, and I want them all!
Wang Xiao's goal is to rob both Curry and Harden to the Wizards!
In theory, this kind of "fuck" is absolutely feasible!
Whether it is Curry or Harden, the style belongs to the dual energy position. The former partnered with Monta Ellis when he first joined the Warriors, and the latter played directly for the Thunder for three years. There will be no conflict in style.
What is the biggest advantage of the traverser? Is a prophet!
Now that it is known that these two people will be Hall of Fame superstars in the future, how can Wang Xiao let it go?
As for DeRozan, it's like a spare tire choice.
Although this is also an All-Star player, he can average 27 points per game at his peak, which is much worse than Curry and Harden.
If you can't win both Curry and Harden as planned, then grabbing a DeRozan halfway is also an acceptable option.
When Wang Xiao was studying the roster, the outside world had not received any information, and everything was going on as usual.
Harvard continued to advance in the league, averaging 24 points per game while still not allowing opponents to score more than 70 points under their defense.
Corresponding to Harvard's winning streak, it was the successive defeats of the Washington Wizards of the NBA team.
This team that has entered the playoffs for four consecutive years seems to have lost its spirit after this year's core Arenas is reimbursed for the surgical season, although the other two stars in the team, Jamieson and Butler, can Contributing 22.2 points, 8.9 rebounds and 20.8 points and 6 rebounds, but still difficult to prevent the team's failure.
Many media believe that in this case, the Wizards coach should not be in charge of the upcoming get out of class, after all, his last term was expelled in the start of this season 11 games and 10 losses.
But the Wizards surprisingly did not do anything.
Instead of expelling the team's head coach, there is no big move before the trade deadline, just trying to "sexually" put a few junk contract players on the shelf and try to get rid of the burden.
"The Washington Wizards obviously experienced a very bad season. After losing their core team Gilbert, they completely lost their direction. This Eastern powerhouse has performed very poorly this season, but... Welcoming the rainbow, I believe that with the return of Arenas next season, the Wizards who maintain the current lineup will definitely return to the ranks of the playoffs!
This is espn's evaluation of the Wizards' trade deadline.
At this time, no one would think that in a few months, this strong team that many people think of a complete lineup will be broken by a ghost coach...