At 2 p.m., a new version of the labor-management agreement was reached, and both the player union representatives and the league officials announced that the NBA will resume operations soon.

A new labor-management agreement was announced, including a share ratio and a new contract system...

The salary cap, luxury tax line, etc. were announced on the NBA official website at the same time. It is obvious that the NBA official has been waiting for the conclusion of a labor-management agreement.

Bill Duffy, who was taking Yao Ming to a speech event in San Francisco, immediately took his team to spend $22,000 to make a charter flight to Memphis without thinking about delaying for a second.

Before receiving the email from Fisher, the player union, when the news of the NBA's suspension came out, Sun Ce received a text message from Bill Duffy, waiting for Bill Duffy to bring people over.

At 5:30, Bill Duffy arrived at Sun Ce's house, and Sun Ce and his agency team had a final discussion.

Before boarding the plane, Bill Duffy and his team had already obtained the specific content of the new version of the labor-cap agreement, salary cap and other detailed discussions on their work in the new season. They had a meeting on the plane to study it, and calculated what Sun Ce could use.

New terms, the highest salary you can get.

The terms of the rookie renewal have undergone major changes in this labor-management negotiation.

Two of the terms of the changes are directly related to the Grizzlies.

The first one has a direct relationship with Sun Ce - the 2011 version of the rookie player renewal clause.

The salary of the first round rookie, born in 1995, is strictly linked to the salary cap, has not changed. The second round rookie can freely agree on salary without the team having salary space and the maximum length of no more than 4 years has not changed.

The matching rights of the parent team have not changed. The second round pick with a first-round rookie and rookie contract for at least three years has the absolute matching rights, and the original Arenas clause has not changed.

But on this basis, the terms of renewal after the expiration of the rookie contract have changed.

The renewal model of ordinary players’ rookie contracts expire and the expiration of contracts remains unchanged, but very outstanding young players have incentive clauses after the expiration of rookie contracts.

And there are additional terms for second round picks who only signed a two-year rookie contract.

Sun Ce looked at the new version of the second round rookie renewal terms copied in popular language by Bill Duffy. This look... isn't it the original Ross clause second round pick version? And it's almost impossible to trigger that kind.

The specific content of the supplementary terms for the second round pick renewal clause, Sun Ce looked at it roughly: If the second round pick only signs a two-year rookie contract, he will be selected as the All-Star starter or best team at least once in the rookie contract, mvp,

Best defensive player, if you renew your contract with your parent team after playing the rookie contract, you will get 1 year of virtual age and can trigger incentive clauses.

The player can also give up his virtual age and accept quotes from other teams. If you choose to sign first and then change, the player also needs to actively give up his virtual age. Once you actively give up his virtual age, you will no longer have it, and the parent team will continue to retain it and renew it first.

The contract right must be renewed under the terms of Arenas.

If a rookie in the second round signs a contract of at least three years, it will be consistent with the conditions for renewal of the first round pick, and the same is true for triggering the incentive clause.

Sun Ce felt that this rule change was a clause established for him alone. Throughout NBA history, no one could do it except him to trigger it. As for the next ten years he knew, no one could trigger it.

But this is obviously a good thing for him!

Moreover, in addition to having one year of virtual age when renewing the contract, he can renew his contract on the hat like a player with bird rights for three years, he can also trigger incentive clauses!

Contents of incentive clauses: In the rookie contract, you will be selected for at least two All-Star starters or best teams, or you will get the regular season MVP, and you will need to not change the team in the rookie contract. After executing the rookie contract, you can pay NBA salary

The starting salary is renewed with 30% of the starting salary. If the contract has been renewed in advance, you can also agree to a salary increase.

This is a clause specifically for signing a second round pick with a two-year contract, because a second round pick with a three-year contract has the right to bird right.

Sun Ce felt that this incentive clause might trigger only him, Mr. Sun, Ross, Evans, Durant, and Griffin, and it was unlikely that others would be.

He can already trigger this exclusive clause. He currently has one year of virtual football age, won MVP last season, and was selected as an All-Star starter for two consecutive years.

Ross was selected as an All-Star starter last season and his popularity was at its peak. There was no problem with being selected as an All-Star starter in the last year of his rookie contract.

Griffin still has two years of rookie contracts. With his popularity, he is likely to be selected as the All-Star starter next time.

Evans is likely to be triggered by the best team. In the next two years, Evans in the 76ers will likely be selected for the best team.

Durant has been selected for the first franchise twice in the 2009-10 season and 2011 season. Although he had renewed his contract in advance as early as the 2009-10 season, he can agree to a salary increase with the Thunder.

Another clause, Sun Ce, looks very interesting, and it is related to Jason Williams, who has announced his retirement after the suspension.

Because the Grizzlies used cash to buy the Magic's second-round draft pick last season, and then used this second-round draft pick to trade to get Jason Williams. This magical operation with a lot of imagination is considered an empty trick to exploit the NBA rules

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This matter is not big, but it is not small. The NBA's trading system does not allow cash to buy and sell players.

Therefore, a new clause was added to the official NBA rules, which was to prohibit the purchase of draft picks from using cash before the new season trading deadline after the draft ended in the previous year.

This clause is not very practical. For example, a team last season only had US$2.2 million in cash that could be used in transactions.

However, in order to plug this loophole, NBA still provides restrictions to avoid some special circumstances

It's just like when Daz was traded to other teams and refused to report it, and finally returned to the Cavaliers and signed a new contract and NBA gave restrictions.

The other changes in terms have little impact on Sun Ce, and Sun Ce is more concerned about his salary.

Sun Ce looked at the salary cap, which cost more than 60.39 million US dollars.

The new version of the labor-management agreement was reached, and the share ratio was eventually reduced, with a maximum of no more than 53%, and a flexible share of 47 to 53%.

Why didn’t Bill Duffy, a senior agent with more than 20 active players, receive news of the labor-management agreement in advance?

Because the labor-management agreement was passed very suddenly! It was basically considered that the player executives would compromise, so Fisher sent an apology email to all the players registered in the Player Union.

Many players can no longer afford to delay. Last season, nearly 70 players who played in the NBA left. The NBA went to play overseas, including the Nuggets' best sixth player, Wilson Chandler, is a fan.

People with big money have paid advances in advance almost every season and joined CBA early.

Even Kobe and Sun Ce received a offer from CBA, and some local sponsors of the team wanted to give Kobe $20 million and Sun Ce a salary of $18 million.

Under such pressure, the big guys of the Players' Union could no longer bear it. They were not short of money, but they were almost in trouble and could only agree.

It seems that 53% of the share is only four percentage points lower than the previous 57%, but through Bill Duffy's analysis, Sun Ce learned what this means, that is, if it is true

There are many bosses who are stingy, and all players can only get at least 47% of the total annual income of NBA.

And the maximum is only 53%, and the custodial salary of players has also increased from the previous 10% to 20%. The excess will be deducted from all players' custodial salary in proportion.

Remaining salary.

In other words, the bosses won in the end.

However, there is a good news for players who already have contracts, that is, the previous contract will not be reduced in proportion to the original contract salary because the share ratio is reduced.

It's just that the salary cap of more than 60 million... is a bit different from Sun Ce's impression. He remembers that the salary cap of NBA exceeded 60 million in 2014, three years ahead of schedule. At that time, it was called epoch-making by some unreliable media.

One year, the salary cap was more than 90 million in two years.

The salary cap is about one million higher than the estimated 59 million yuan, which is definitely a good thing for Sun Ce, making up for the loss of the reduction in the salary increase ratio in the new labor-management agreement.

In the previous labor-management agreement, the annual salary increase of players without bird rights can reach 10% in the contract, and the annual salary increase of players with bird rights can reach 12% in the contract. Now the maximum is 8% in the contract,

The maximum of 10% of bird rights is to be calculated based on a starting salary of 20 million yuan, and the salary will be reduced by at least US$400,000 per year from the second year.

Sun Ce, Bill Duffy, Bill Duffy's lawyers, finance, etc. discussed for half an hour. At 6 o'clock in the evening, the phone rang when NBA officially resumed operations.

Sun Ce took out his cell phone and called by the team boss. It was 18:00:03. In other words, the team boss Robert Pera had already prepared to call the phone. It was just six o'clock.

The dial button was pressed immediately.

Sun Ce answered the phone and made an appointment to see you in the FedEx Stadium one hour later.

Bill Duffy also received a call, which was called by team general manager Chris Wallace, and the agreed time was the same as Sun Ce.

Finally, after briefly discussing how to negotiate, Sun Ce's domestic agent He Zhengkai and the lawyers he brought, Bill Duffy's finance and lawyers were all preparing.

Bill Duffy asked Sun Ce: "Noah, we really want to renew the contract like this? I won't say the term. Is that really good?"

"Doesn't NBA have any provisions that such terms cannot be included?" Sun Ce asked with a smile. He likes such terms very much.

"No, they are happy to see that all the bosses of small city teams will not refuse, and the bosses of big city teams will not dare to jump out and say something wrong, but for us, for you... Of course, your public opinion

The evaluation will be better because of this.”

"That's all right? I like to have a beginning and an end in my work!"

"Okay, I know that even if you ask you again, you will not change your mind. What I admire most is your character, but the people in the team asked me to persuade you to cancel..."

Sun Ce listened to Bill Duffy's words, saying something was good, but why did he feel that he was scolding him?

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Sun Ce is waiting for Bill Duffy to come at home. After the NBA resumes operations, the Internet has been blown up in the 4 hours after the team contacts him!

The shutdown is finally over! NBA is finally back!

Fans are very interested in understanding the specific agreement reached by NBA, see what changes are there, and see how much impact these changes will have on NBA.

Of course, the media agreed to their preferences. A large group of experts began to analyze various terms. Major portals and forums were occupied by analysis posts, and fans were also very enthusiastic about discussing.

Most of the terms are actually weakening the treatment of players, such as the maximum contract is reduced from the previous 6 years to 5 years, and the salary increase in newly signed contracts is reduced...

The players are considered "victory" because they have kept the salary cap system, and they are still soft, which means they can renew their contracts using various terms and conditions, and there is also a flexible share ratio.

Such a flexible salary cap makes it even less likely that players who can get high-paying salary will be reduced and renew their contracts. After all, the share is reduced. Who knows whether the total salary of players will exceed 53% of their total income?

Also, the Arenas version of the amnesty clause was born, and each team had the full effort to lay off a player and remove his salary from the total salary, which was limited to the contract signed before the signing of the new labor-management agreement.

Most of the terms have not changed much, but as long as there is analysis, there are still many people discussing it. After all, the last labor-management agreement was reached in 2005. Most fans have long forgotten what terms the labor-management agreement has, and many fans are 05.

I started watching football after the New Year and the discussion was very hot.

The most popular one is the change in the terms of the rookie renewal!
To be continued...