This matter is actually good for the team and the players, and both should pay for it.
After curing the disease of the star player, the team can play more home games and make a lot more money.
Each game in the second round of the playoffs alone generated three to four million US dollars in arena revenue!
This doesn’t even count the broadcast revenue!
Playing one more round will result in at least 2 more home games, and usually 3 more!
That’s an income of nearly 10 million!
Therefore, the team does not lose money.
However, players make more money in this regard!
If a player heals his injuries, performs better, and becomes more popular, it will be of great benefit to his next contract and off-field income.
Especially a giant like James!
What Chaoju cares about most is popularity.
The most important factor in popularity is performance on the court.
If the disease cannot be cured, the performance will definitely be sluggish.
Except for die-hard fans, most fans don't care what your reasons are.
As long as you can fight, it's no problem!
Moreover, being cured of the disease is not only about performing well on the court, having a good body is the most important thing for everyone.
Especially a star like James who is not short of money.
If you were a rich man like Bill Gates, who could recover from an illness in a short time without any sequelae, he would probably be willing to pay 100 million at a time!
No matter how much money you have, it's useless if you don't have good health. Sooner or later, the money will belong to others!
It is for these reasons that both the Jazz and Okur made concessions, each paying half.
Of course, Deng Fang also gave some reasons.
James and Okur are different.
Okur's ability to play on the court will definitely help the team win, but the impact will not be huge.
Okur's status in the Jazz is only ranked third or fourth, and his popularity is also average.
His playing on the court does not have much significance for the Jazz to increase revenue from ticket sales.
So you only need to spend half of Okur's annual salary to treat him.
But James is different.
James is the absolute core of the Cavaliers, and his performance is completely different whether he is in the Cavaliers or not.
With James in the Cavaliers, they are a championship contending team.
Without James, the Cavaliers are a team competing for the No. 1 pick!
With James playing, the Cavaliers can not only win a few more games in the playoffs, but they can also sell tickets for a lot more money.
Not to mention the broadcast costs.
Therefore, James needs to increase the cost ratio for his treatment.
Because your rewards are more!
As for why it is 10 million, it all depends on your mood...
It's better to give an explanation than not to give one.
How dare you refuse treatment without giving me a reason?
And Deng Fang’s reasons are also reasonable.
In fact, the Cavaliers' biggest concern is not money, but whether James will stay or leave.
There is no problem in spending money to treat the core players of the team.
Especially a giant like James.
Unlike Okur, a superstar like James is completely priceless.
You can't even buy it with your money!
It is for this reason that the team will give the stars some privileges and try their best to meet the stars' requirements.
Spending money is no problem, the question is whether you will stay after the disease is cured!
James is in a contract year this summer, and so far he has never promised not to leave!
Although James said in an interview with reporters that he will always be a child of Cleveland and will never leave.
But every time the Cavaliers proposed to renew his contract in advance, James found various reasons to refuse!
We are all adults and no one is stupid.
What he said during the interview was almost equivalent to farting.
The best thing in this world is reason!
Or rather an excuse!
As long as it's not an official press conference, it's useless to say anything!
I said I wouldn’t leave, but things have changed!
I say I'm a kid from Cleveland, but that doesn't mean I won't leave!
I'm gone, but my heart is still in Cleveland!
Hometown is important, brothers are even more important!
Don’t you know the value of friendship?
We play brother basketball!
Sincerity in hometown is precious, but friendship is even more valuable.
If you are the champion, you can throw away both!
Fans are easily fooled, but team general managers and owners are not!
They have been in the NBA for many years, and they are all good people!
Especially the Cavaliers, who were beaten by Boozer a few seasons ago!
They all made verbal promises at that time, and they didn’t just fall out with each other!
If you don't even give a verbal promise, who will believe it?
If I cure your disease but you leave, then am I not a fool?
Spend money to do things for your opponents?
Isn't that being an enemy?
Isn't this the stupidest thing in the world?
Therefore, the Cavaliers are negotiating with James' agent. The main question is not about money, but about James' stay in the summer.
If James can renew his contract in advance or make a commitment to stay, the Cavaliers can afford to spend any amount of money on treating him.
But if James doesn't commit to staying with the Cavaliers, then each side will have to pay half of the money.
At least James has to bear part of it.
In fact, the Cavaliers are also using this opportunity to test James' true intentions.
The Cavaliers have good ideas, but James doesn't care at all.
Stay or not?
See you this summer!
Give a promise?
Why bother?
I am a kid from Cleveland, we have such a good relationship, why do we need a commitment?
Then let James pay half of the money?
No need to discuss this!
There are no doors!
How about signing an agreement in which the Cavaliers pay all the money first, but if James leaves in the summer, half of the money will be compensated to the Cavaliers?
impossible!
Not consider!
The general manager of the Cavaliers was helpless, hung up the phone and ran to report to his boss.
Of course, he was scolded and walked out dejectedly.
Of course the boss disagreed!
10 million US dollars is not a small amount for anyone!
What's more, judging from the current situation, James is likely to leave!
What a waste of money at this time!
Although you can make more money by curing James' disease, you must know that in order to find helpers for James, the Cavaliers' salary is already fifth in the league!
The Cavaliers are not a big-market team like the Lakers.
The boss paid the players a salary of more than 80 million!
We didn’t make it to the finals last year, and now we’re only in the semi-finals!
The boss buys the team to make money, not to do charity!
The boss disagreed, so the Cavaliers general manager had no choice but to talk to Deng Fang again.
Of course Deng Fang would not let go.
The general manager of the Cavaliers is like a frustrated little daughter-in-law who is kicked around and unable to express her suffering.
Fortunately, the Cavaliers have four days of rest after the last game, and the Cavaliers general manager still has time to bargain with Deng Fang.
Deng Fang didn't care.
The price is indispensable.
Not a penny less!
The Cavaliers have no choice and will definitely agree.
If the Cavaliers don't spend this money, it will be equivalent to driving James away directly!
James is worried and has no excuse!
Look, if I play for you and I can cure my disease without spending any money, is it possible to stay in a team like this and win the championship?
I don’t have a championship yet, do you know?!
Isn’t it chilling for the knight to do this?
I don't want to leave either!
I was forced to leave!
So even if there is only one point of hope for James to stay, the Cavaliers will have to spend this money!
As for when the treatment will come, it depends on when the Cavaliers become anxious.
