The happiest among them are the Knicks fans. Social media is full of messages congratulating Lian Dao on renewing his contract with the Knicks.
Even some social platforms, post bars, and forums are full of joy.
Although everyone had foreseen the renewal of Lian Dao before, they can only rest assured if they are truly safe.
As long as Lian Dao stays in New York, the Knicks will have a bright future.
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Shortly after Lian Dao returned to China, the NBA officially opened the summer free market signing window on July 1.
The Knicks have many restricted free agents, including Jeremy Lin, Danilo Gallinari, white wing Hassan Whiteside, etc.
Millsap's 3+1 contract only has the last year left. If Millsap has no intention of renewing his contract with the Knicks this year, he may have to watch him become a free agent next year.
The same is true for Jrue Holiday. His rookie contract expires next year. If the Knicks do not renew the contract this season, the team option will be exercised next season.
If the contract is renewed next season, something may happen.
Therefore, this is why Donnie Wash had such a headache when Lian Dao announced that his goal next season was to defend his title.
But the good news is that Jrue Holiday has no plans to leave New York.
After completing Lian Dao's contract extension, Donny Wash started the process of renewing Holiday's contract.
Finally, on the second day of the free market, Holiday announced that he had reached a five-year, $64.5 million contract extension with the Knicks.
As a championship point guard, this contract is not very high for Holiday.
Even if Holiday improves again next season, some teams will offer him bigger contracts.
The current Holiday is so much stronger than he was in the same year in history. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is directly beaten.
Different growth environments will have different impacts on players' future growth.
A championship team and a playoff team are two levels.
A playoff team and an ordinary team are two different levels.
An ordinary team and a bad team are two different levels.
How can the 76ers' growth environment be compared to that of the Knicks?
You must know that they are a championship team, and their competitiveness, training atmosphere, and competition intensity are not comparable to the 76ers.
Naturally, under the influence of this environment, Holiday must work harder, be more diligent, and make faster progress than in history.
NBA is cruel, NBA championship teams are even more cruel, they will not wait for a laggard player.
Only if you work harder to keep up with the team can you truly stay.
Catalyzed by this kind of environment, Holiday's progress every season can be described as rapid.
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The completion of Holiday's contract extension also made Donnie Wash breathe a sigh of relief again.
However, Jeremy Lin and Gallinari do not intend to renew their contracts with the Knicks.
Jeremy Lin has made his mark with the Knicks this season, and he also won a championship with the team.
But in the Knicks, he didn't get much of the ball. It can even be said that he could only serve as a substitute.
This is obviously something Jeremy Lin doesn't want to accept.
Therefore, after winning the championship, he also expressed his thoughts to Lian Dao.
Lian Dao also expressed support for this and sent his blessings.
There are still many teams in the league that want to sign Jeremy Lin, and the Rockets are probably the most willing among them.
However, the Rockets' first offer was a bit "toxic", a four-year contract of 28.8 million yuan.
The Knicks still chose balance as they have historically.
Historically, it was because the Knicks really wanted to keep Jeremy Lin, but now they are just helping him within a certain range.
For the Rockets, after sending away Goran Dragic and Kyle Lowry, they are in great need of point guards.
At the same time, the Rockets management believes that Jeremy Lin, as a Chinese-American player, will help the Rockets maintain the Chinese market.
You must know that Yao Ming's departure and the rise of the Knicks have caused the Rockets, which were originally the dominant player in the Chinese market, to rapidly decline in status.
Especially this season, the Rockets can be said to have plummeted.
Advertising investments by domestic companies and even Chinese businessmen in Houston and the Toyota Center have shrunk significantly.
Looking at the sharply shrunk income statement, Rockets owner Alexander felt heartache.
Therefore, for Jeremy Lin, the Rockets have the momentum to win.
In fact, the Knicks chose to balance and did not worry about the Rockets not following suit.
Even if the Rockets give up following the bet, this contract will not be a loss for the Knicks.
Especially the strength in the bench lineup has greatly enhanced the Knicks' lineup depth.
But how could the Rockets give up?
Sure enough, not long after that, the Rockets suddenly raised their offer and offered a three-year contract worth $25 million.
Once this contract was launched, it quickly caused a wave of publicity in the United States.
Even some media and professionals think this is a farce.
When being interviewed by reporters, Nuggets coach George Karl even bluntly criticized it.
"This summer has been a bit, I don't know how to put it, there's no better word than stupid."
Carl said.
"I think there seems to be a wild and out-of-control emotion spreading in this league."
According to Karl, the trade rumors that are most consistent with wild and out-of-control trade rumors are the Knicks, Rockets and Jeremy Lin.
The most outrageous thing is that this offer complies with league regulations.
Although the Rockets offered Jeremy Lin a "poison contract".
But this contract comes with the "Arenas Clause."
At the time, Wizards general manager Dan Fagan took advantage of a loophole in league rules and poached Arenas from the Warriors with a six-year, $64 million contract.
Because Arenas was a second-round pick and only played two years with the Warriors, it was impossible to trigger the Bird clause.
The Warriors are unable to renew their contract under the salary cap and can only watch the players they have trained being poached.
Therefore, in order to avoid a similar situation, the league introduced the Arenas Clause.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! There are actually two most critical things here:
First, for restricted free agents who have been in the league for 12 years, the salary in the first year of the invitation contract cannot exceed the full mid-level exception.
Second, the salary in the third year is allowed to increase significantly, up to the maximum salary the player could receive in the first year.
Nothing seems wrong with this.
The first point is to prevent an incident like Arenas from happening again, and the second point is to protect the players' due interests.
But there is a hidden bg inside.
The new version of the collective bargaining agreement that has just been implemented stipulates that for teams that offer invitation contracts, the salary space occupied by the contracts will be calculated based on the average.
In other words, if the Knicks finally choose to match the Rockets' offer, it means that Jeremy Lin can get 5 million and 5.2 million US dollars respectively in the first two years.
Then, it jumped to $14.8 million in the third year.
This number is more than U.S. national team center Tyson Chandler, and not much less than LeBron James's $19 million next season.
If the Rockets get Jeremy Lin, they only need to pay Jeremy Lin a contract of more than 8.3 million per year.
Therefore, this is why it is called a "poison contract".
It's because he took advantage of the loopholes in the new labor agreement.
The most important thing is that the Rockets and even some other teams in the league are trying every means to disgust the Knicks.
As long as they can weaken the Knicks' strength, they can do anything they can.
This is the hardship faced by becoming a dynasty team!
Donnie Wash was stunned when he saw the Rockets' offer, but then he smiled and shook his head.
Donnie Wash would never accept this offer.
Let’s not talk about whether this contract is reasonable or not, let’s just say that if the Knicks follow, then by the 2014-2015 season, the luxury tax the Knicks will have to pay may reach 90 million or even 100 million.
Even if the boss is stupid and has a lot of money, he can't afford to be such a spendthrift.
Therefore, Donnie Wash directly announced his withdrawal from the offer to Jeremy Lin.
In the end, the Rockets signed Jeremy Lin.
The Rockets not only did this when bidding for Jeremy Lin, they also used the same strategy when bidding for Omer Asik.
The Rockets offered Asik a three-year contract worth $25.1 million.
This made the bull feel as if he had eaten a piece of cock, and he was so sick that he felt like vomiting.
But there is no way, the Bulls' salary space does not allow them to match.
So the Bulls could only announce that they would give up matching the contract offered by the Houston Rockets for Omer Asik.
The Rockets took this opportunity to once again sign a blue-collar center with decent potential.
Asik is not very athletic and his running and jumping abilities are average, but his rebounding ability is excellent and he is a defensive inside man.
On the offensive end, he scores more in the penalty area and has basically no shooting range. His career free throw shooting percentage is only 55. He is a typical blue-collar player.