Of course, the Rockets are bound to win, and the Knicks have repeatedly emphasized in public that no matter what contract their opponents offer, they will match it.
The Lin whirlwind caused by Jeremy Lin is still of great benefit to the Knicks' market!
However, after several days of consideration, the Knicks finally gave up on Jeremy Lin and did not match the Rockets' contract.
Why did the Knicks give up on contract matching?
Why did the Rockets' contract offer cause so much trouble to the Knicks?
Because the three-year, $25 million contract offered by the Rockets to Jeremy Lin was a "toxic contract" and its salary structure was quite strange.
In this offer contract, Jeremy Lin's annual salary in the first year is US$5 million, the second year's annual salary is US$5.225 million, and the third year's annual salary is US$14.8 million.
Generally speaking, player contracts increase year by year or are the same every year. There are very few contracts that suddenly increase like the Rockets!
Once the offer is matched, the Knicks will spend not just $25 million more in the next three years, but a terrifying $95 million!
For the Knicks, Jeremy Lin's annual salary for the first two years is acceptable.
The Knicks will definitely have to pay luxury tax in the next few years. In the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons, the league's luxury tax will still implement the "1-for-1 penalty" plan. The amount of luxury tax that exceeds the threshold is the amount of luxury tax that must be paid.
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In other words, if the Knicks match the quoted contract, they will pay Jeremy Lin an annual salary of US$10.225 million in the next two seasons, plus the same luxury tax, for a total expenditure of US$20.25 million.
This amount is not small, but considering Jeremy Lin's market value, it is still acceptable.
What is difficult for the Knicks to accept is that Jeremy Lin's annual salary will soar to US$14.8 million in the 2014-15 season. What's even worse is that starting from the 2014-15 season, the league will implement a "super luxury tax", and Jeremy Lin's high salary will make it difficult for the Knicks to accept it.
The Knicks are under huge salary pressure!
In the 2014-15 season, the total salary of Stoudemire, Anthony, Chandler, Novak, Camby, Kidd and Felton will exceed US$76 million. If Jeremy Lin's US$14.8 million is included, it will reach US$91 million.
Ten thousand U.S. dollars.
At this time, the Knicks have only 8 players, and at least 5 more players need to be added. Even if the annual salary of these 5 players is between 1 million and 2 million US dollars, the Knicks' total salary will be close to 100 million US dollars.
US dollars, even more than 100 million US dollars!
This means that the Knicks' total salary in the 2014-15 season will exceed the luxury tax threshold by about $30 million.
According to the super luxury tax payment method, if it exceeds the luxury tax threshold of US$30 million, the Knicks will spend US$84.83 million just to pay the luxury tax in the 2014-15 season!
Without Jeremy Lin, the Knicks would have paid $56.13 million less in luxury tax in the 2014-15 season. Including annual salary, the Knicks would have saved $70.93 million a year.
This is not a small number!
If he were an All-Star, it would be acceptable to spend so much money, but for Jeremy Lin, it's not worth it.
After several weighings, the Knicks chose to let go.
This should be a wise choice for the Knicks. After all, in the Knicks' current system, once Anthony and Stoudemire return, Jeremy Lin will not have so much ball rights, and his performance will not be as outstanding as last season.
In the end, the Rockets signed Jeremy Lin as they wished. They also have a guard with both strength and popularity who can continue to harvest the domestic market after Yao Ming.
After getting a taste of the sweetness from Jeremy Lin, the Rockets repeated their old tricks and made an offer to Bulls center Asik. The price was US$25.1 million over three years, which was exactly the same as the offer made to Jeremy Lin - both were in the previous two years.
5 million and 5.2 million US dollars, and suddenly increased to 14.9 million US dollars in the third year.
Obviously, the Rockets waived Joel Ruhl and Jerome Jordan before to clear the way for signing Asik, and this "poison pill" contract really caused the Bulls a headache.
If the Bulls match this contract, they will face the same dilemma as the Knicks in the 2014-15 season - the team will have Derrick Rose with an annual salary of 18.9 million, Joakim Noah with an annual salary of 12.2 million, and Joakim Noah with an annual salary of 16.8 million.
Wan’s Carlos Boozer.
Considering the punitive nature of the luxury tax in the new version of labor terms, the Bulls could only reluctantly give up Asik.
Facts have proved that the Bulls were right to do this.
The reason why the Rockets dare to do this is mainly because their team has no star players and no salary pressure.
What if Asik is a high-quality insider and plays well?
Then you’ll make money!
It doesn't matter if you can't play, the team's salary space has to be filled anyway, so it won't be used in vain!
Having cap space is so capricious!
This is also why Deng Fang cares about the team's total salary.
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Soon, the bustling offseason came to an end and the trading market became calm.
Although the trading market is very busy, most players and coaches are still quite idle.
The offseason is the only time that professional players can truly relax, so no one will miss this opportunity to have fun.
Travel when you should travel, vacation when you should, look for a female supporter when you should, and accompany your baby when you should!
However, happy times always pass quickly. More than two months later, preparations for the new season began and the training camp was officially held.
The Warriors did not advance their training camp this year. On the contrary, they postponed it for a few days.
Deng Fang is still very confident in the strength of the Warriors.
No matter how other teams change, the core of the Warriors remains the same, and that's enough.
As for replacing one or two role players, that's not a big deal.
In addition, three consecutive years of trips to the Finals have taxed the Warriors' main force, so they should take more rest.
Especially for Curry, although Deng Fang was able to cure his injuries, his physical fatigue still couldn't be solved.
The end of the training camp was the preseason. The Warriors didn't exert much effort and gave the three rookies a lot of time to train, but they still achieved a complete victory!
Barnes is both offensive and defensive, and has the ability to start. Middleton is very accurate in three-pointers and his defense is not bad. Not to mention Green's defense. He has been practicing three-pointers for a whole summer and his performance is even better.
The difference between the Warriors and other teams is that other teams have close to 20 players in training camps. An important task of the game is to examine marginal players in order to decide the team's roster.
The Warriors don't need it. Their roster has long been determined. There are 14 people, no more, no less!
Moreover, Deng Fang clearly told the players at the beginning of the training camp that we are all the candidates for this season, and there will be no reduction in numbers, and there is little possibility of additions!
With a head coach like this, the Warriors' military morale will certainly be much more stable!
He won’t leave, his contract is guaranteed, and he has the best chance of winning the championship. What’s left?
Train hard and fight with all your strength!
Whoever plays well will have more playing time, and how good can he be!
