After signing Bogut, what Deng needs to consider is the contracts of Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian.
The contracts of Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian were signed in the summer of 2011 and will end next summer. Yao Ming will earn 20 million and Yi Jianlian 5 million annually next season.
In the past two years, Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian have both won two championships with the Warriors and earned a lot of money.
Of course, Yao Ming's role is much greater than that of Yi Jianlian.
Especially Yao Ming after practicing three-pointers!
If the opponent is a traditional center, then Yao Ming can pull out and throw a three-pointer. If the opponent has a three-point power forward, Yao Ming can go to the low post to provide support!
It can be said that Yao Ming is a perfect fit for the current Warriors lineup, and there is no substitute at all!
In addition, they are all Chinese. If possible, Deng Fang will keep Yao Ming with the Warriors, just like Curry!
But the system didn't allow it, and Deng Fang had nothing to do.
After next season, which is the 14-15 season, the Warriors in history have won the championship.
Therefore, the system requires that the Warriors lineup in the 14-15 season must be the same as in history. Even if there is a difference, there can only be one or two role players.
It is for this reason that Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian will leave the Warriors once this season is over.
So how to deal with the contract between the two is Deng Fang's biggest headache now.
We can't treat the two of them badly, and we can't let the Warriors' salary space be locked up, which will affect subsequent trade signings. This is a difficult problem.
After thinking about it for a long time and consulting the system, Deng Fang finally gave instructions to General Manager Tim.
First, the Warriors signed an early contract extension with Yao Ming. The contract will start from the 2014-15 season and will be worth 20 million per year for a total of four years.
The annual salary of this contract is not high for Yao Ming, but it is interesting enough.
If he breaks out of his contract and joins another team, given Yao Ming's strength, he should be able to get a contract worth more than 25 million.
But Yao Ming doesn't care too much about money, because he knows that most of the credit for his second spring in the NBA lies with Deng Fang.
I had already retired at that time, but Deng Fang came to find me and persuaded me to come back.
If it weren't for Deng Fang, I would probably have started the life of a female omen!
More importantly, Yao Ming cares about more than just money!
What is the biggest temptation to stay with the Warriors?
champion!
Many players have said that the feeling of winning a championship and holding a trophy is addictive!
After winning one championship, you still want to win the second one!
This is a common problem among humans!
What's more, the Warriors have such a good lineup. Who knows if without Curry and Klay's attraction and restraint, he will be able to perform as well as he does now in other teams?
This kind of thing happens often.
So even if the annual salary offered by the Warriors is less, Yao Ming still wants to stay.
In fact, the price offered by the Warriors is not low because Yao Ming is already quite old.
Yao Ming was born in 1980 and was 33 years old in the summer of 2013.
Including the last year of the existing contract, Yao Ming will be 38 years old after four years of the new contract!
At the age of 38, he can still get 20 million a year. This is a very generous contract!
So Yao Ming would not disagree and he was very happy to sign the contract!
After signing a contract with Yao Ming, Deng Fang instructed Tim to sign a similar contract with Yi Jianlian.
Still four years, 8 million per year!
Like Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian also readily signed the contract.
Since the two can only play for one season with the Warriors, why did Deng Fang do this?
Not for anything else, just to compensate the two of them some money!
This money is given to everyone, why not give it to your own people?
What’s more, all the money doesn’t have to come from your own pocket!
Why?
Because there is insurance!
Player health insurance!
Once two people are unable to play due to injury, their wages will be covered by the insurance company!
There are a lot of such insurances in the NBA, and almost every athlete has one, especially big-name players.
NBA basketball games can be said to be one of the most tense and intense sports in the world. With high-intensity confrontations, players are also very likely to be injured.
The team finally signed a big-name star. How unlucky would it be if he was injured for the season?
It would be even more unreasonable if a big-name player retires due to injury!
Even if you are not a big-name player, missing too many games due to injury will have an impact on the team's record.
Because the number of players in a team is limited, just those few!
But that's not all. For a guaranteed contract, even if the other party cannot play, the salary that should be paid cannot be less.
Not only losing players, but also having to bear the burden of wages, this is a huge challenge for NBA teams.
Therefore, the NBA also has player injury insurance.
As the world's largest basketball league, how much is the amount of sky-high insurance for players?
The insurance purchased by the NBA for players is called "temporary disability insurance", which is insurance for players who lose their ability to work due to accidents and diseases. In English, it is Temporary Total Disability ID insurance.
Under this insurance system, each NBA team can purchase insurance for the five highest-paid players on the team. When a player is unable to continue playing for the team due to injury or illness, the insurance company will pay part of their salary.
So what are the specific triggering conditions? For the NBA, it is 41 games, which is half of the 82 regular season games per season.
If a player misses 41 consecutive games, starting from the 42nd game, the team only needs to pay 20% of his salary, and the remaining 80% will be paid by the insurance company.
Moreover, these 41 games can be calculated cumulatively from the previous season and do not have to be limited to one season.
For example, Bosh was diagnosed with a blood clot disease in 2016. He missed a total of 29 games that season. The next season, after Bosh missed 12 games, he reached the trigger point of TTD insurance.
After that, the Heat only need to pay 20% of his salary.
As for the premium paid, it is generally 1.5% to 5% of the player's salary. The higher the player's salary, the higher the premium paid. This is easy to understand.
However, will NBA teams find it too expensive? Of course not! After all, insurance is just in case, and spending a small amount of money can buy peace of mind.
Compared with the player's salary, the insurance premium is nothing.
However, since the NBA's injury insurance is so good, does it mean that as long as it insures those stars who are prone to injury, it will eliminate worries?
Sorry, insurance companies are not that stupid.
Because every year, all teams will submit a total of 150 people's insurance lists to the insurance company, and the insurance company has the power to cross out 14 people's names from them.
These 14 players are, of course, players with hidden dangers of injuries and "records" of consecutive serious injuries.
Therefore, players who have been reimbursed for three consecutive seasons will definitely not be able to buy this insurance. Another example is an old player who has just signed a $200 million contract, and the probability of being "rejected" will be very high.
There is nothing the insurance company can do if it introduces such regulations, because if you insure someone like that, you are bound to lose money.
Moreover, there will be NBA teams that choose to take advantage of the loopholes. They will inflict minor injuries on their players, and they will be sick and not play, so that they can pass all the wages to the insurance company.
The more famous one is Grant Hill of the Magic. After he joined the Magic, he was constantly injured and had to be paid by the insurance company for three consecutive years.
There was even one season when Hill had clearly recovered, but the Magic refused to let him play in order to get the insurance company to pay his salary.
It was only then that insurance companies began to "deny insurance" for some key players.
