Chapter 1481 NBA Inflation

Yang Cheng poured himself a cup of tea and asked, "The salary cap for next season should have come out, right?"

Xiao Hua hesitated for a moment, feeling that if he revealed it now, it shouldn't have too much impact. In addition, he was wronged first, so he had no choice but to tell the truth, "If there is no accident, the salary cap for the 16-17 season is 94.14 million U.S. dollars. Among them, the maximum salary is 29.65 million US dollars."

With Yang Cheng's understanding of the rules of the NBA game, he has his own understanding of how to control players' salaries. The maximum salary of a general star is calculated based on 10 years or more of NBA experience. After signing the contract, those with upper-middle strength can get an annual salary of 20 million, and countless contracts of 100 million yuan will be born.

But don't forget, these people have generally not played in the NBA for 10 years, and the next free market, that is, next summer, will be the eyes of the world, because including Chris Paul, Westbrook, Stephen Ku Long-established stars such as Ryan and Rose will all meet the conditions of playing in the league for ten years or nearly ten years. At that time, it is bound to be another exhibition show of sky-high contracts.

Yang Cheng couldn't help being a little distressed. Playing a team really burns money. For a person like him who maintains several clubs in different fields, these superstars are like swordsmen raised at home in ancient times. You don't have to do it, you can get the best resources and treatment, but at the critical moment, you may not be able to guarantee the safety of your family. What if the enemy is stronger?

It's not right to drive away, it's too cumbersome to keep it, and now he has finally experienced the feeling that Kroenke's wealth is similar to his own, but he still has the feeling of going his own way under the name of an iron cock. There are so many people scolding themselves, why bother to invest more money? It's useless anyway! Those who should be scolded will still scold you, and those who shouldn't be scolded will also look on the sidelines at your current changes because of what they did in the past, why bother.

Yang Cheng's feelings are very intuitive. The Nets have two superstars Paul and Wade. These two are veterans who have proven their strengths. It is absolutely impossible to keep them with affection and big cakes. , In addition to a top-level contract, the team also has enough championship background.

In other words, if you really want to keep them, it is not enough to keep only one, you must keep both, no, no, maybe there is a third one, Sean Marx and the others have mobilized their resources with all their strength, and they want to completely incarnate the Nets. Champion seed, how much should I spend then?

Thinking of this, Yang Cheng gasped.

He vaguely remembered that Curry, who had been holding cheap contracts before, had the opportunity to get a 5-year maximum salary contract next year, with an annual salary of more than 30 million U.S. dollars. It is the eighth year that Curry has joined the NBA, the ball age is 8-11 years, and the starting salary accounts for 30%. In addition, he has the Bird right, that is, the Bird right, and the parent team renews the contract, so the contract can be signed for the longest 5 years. Years, and the average annual salary increase is 10%.

The same is true for Durant. If he still signs a 1+1 contract with the Warriors this summer, he can jump out of the contract next summer. By then, he has played in the league for ten years. Then in the summer of 2017, when he renegotiates the contract, the maximum starting salary can account for 35% of the salary cap.

Also facing this situation is James, the number one player in the league today. According to the news from the Cavaliers, James is expected to continue to sign a 1+1 contract with the team, because he returned to the Cavaliers in the summer of 2014 to the summer of 2016. , LeBron has played for the Cavaliers for less than 3 consecutive years. If the past is not counted, he will automatically lose the Bird clause and cannot maximize his personal interests. He can only sign a contract extension with an annual salary increase of 4.5%.

However, if he jumps out of the contract again in 2017 and becomes a free agent, James will meet the requirements of Bird's terms. He can sign a 5-year maximum salary contract with the Cavaliers with an annual salary increase of 7.5%. $200 million contract, he has the potential to be the first Mr. 200 million, of course,

Yang Cheng couldn't remember the details of the final contract, but he must have signed it anyway.

All in all, exploding contracts one after another will become the norm in the league in the future. This is why Xiao Hua is still sitting on the Diaoyutai after doing so many crazy things. He has grasped the lifeblood of the NBA's basics. That is, the players' pockets. As long as the players make money, it seems that it doesn't matter how the game is and what the results are.

But Yang Cheng's position and height are naturally not comparable to ordinary players. He sees farther, and naturally smells a hint of danger. According to the usual logic in the financial market, after prosperity, everyone must collapse crisis, and a big crisis!

After all, at the moment when big contracts of hundreds of millions of dollars are frequently issued, the value of many players has far exceeded their real combat power. From a certain point of view, this is inflation!

Any fool knows what will happen if inflation continues to spread.

As a league without relegation, the reason why the NBA has been able to maintain the balance of strength of each team and establish a relatively stable ecosystem over the years is the double insurance of the salary cap and luxury tax.

However, with the implementation of the new broadcasting contract and the skyrocketing salary cap, this pair of insurance has become unbalanced. According to the laws of nature, once the ecological balance is broken, it will inevitably be the death of a certain type of species. Explosive growth, think about what the human world will be like if it is occupied by mice.

It is true that the increase in this round of salary cap is mainly due to the increase in the income of the entire league. When the cake gradually grows, both the boss and the players become the beneficiaries of the system.

This is indeed the case. In addition to the improvement of labor treatment, the market value and income of each team are rising steadily.

You must know that in 2014, when Ballmer acquired the Clippers, he spent a full US$2 billion. Such a price is absolutely unimaginable in the past. There are no less than 5, this is the most terrible thing, sometimes your social status is high, it is not necessarily a good thing!

The cake is getting bigger and bigger, the ambitions of all parties are also expanding, and the skyrocketing salary cap has created good opportunities for many teams to realize their ambitions.

Two years ago, if someone predicted that the Warriors would put together a lineup of the Big Four without exceeding the salary cap, such wild words would probably only lead to ridicule and ridicule.

But right now, if Yang Cheng didn't intervene, the Warriors would actually poach Durant into the formation, making up the most powerful lineup of the Big Four after the Lakers F4, and even worse, you know The strength of the Warriors' bench lineup is far superior to that of the Lakers at the time, not to mention that the Heat almost sold out the team in order to gather the Big Three. They didn't even have a decent center and point guard. If it weren't for the three superstars in their prime The strength is too tyrannical, and it may not even touch the paint of the championship trophy in the end.

And once the Warriors, a super battleship, set sail, a new round of arms race will inevitably start in the alliance, and more and more incidents of group reporting will even become mainstream.

The continuous grouping of big names will inevitably make the survival of small clubs more difficult, even if, in a short period of time, the league can maintain the operation of small teams by sharing the revenue equally.

But in the long run, the frequent outflow of talents from small markets to large markets will only make the entire league more polarized, which will seriously affect the performance of small teams.

On the other hand, as the situation of "more wolves and less meat" in the market intensifies, NBA players will have more and more choices.

And the endless stream of agents, big and small, will also take advantage of this opportunity to "drive up prices" as much as possible to benefit their own wallets and players, but for the bosses of the capital, their patience is limited after all of.

For example, Yang Cheng now, he has anticipated the crisis in advance, and almost instinctively raised a wave of dissatisfaction. He feels that the average salary level of the league five years ago is the most appropriate.

Patience has reached the extreme. Once the external asking price continues to exceed the expectations of the bosses, the old-fashioned topics such as revenue sharing and hard salary caps will be brought up again. According to the deadline set by the previous labor agreement, the alliance is likely to There will be another major shutdown.

There have been a total of 5 lockouts in NBA history, which occurred in 1964, 1976, 1994, 1998, and most recently in 2011.

The reason for the five lockouts is the same, that is, the old labor-management agreement expired, and the labor and management failed to negotiate a new labor-management agreement. To put it bluntly, the players want more money, and the team owner wants to pay less. For some money, when the two sides do not have a unified opinion, a strike is a natural thing.

And every lockout will cause heavy losses to the NBA team and the city where the team is located.

The lockout in 2011 directly caused the economic damage of the cities where many small teams are located, totaling billions of dollars.

With the lessons learned from the past, everyone's mentality will naturally be much more peaceful, although for Yang Cheng, the loss to him from the lockout is infinitely close to zero, because he not only eats with the Nets, but also Conrad, a big local tycoon, helps share the risk , once something goes wrong, both of them can withdraw at any time.

loss? Absolutely impossible, just earn as much as you can!

Of course, if this is the case, these Nets players will be out of luck.

But no matter what, the crisis is imminent, and the fox Xiao Hua keeps stumbling behind him, Yang Cheng said: I am too difficult, I can't live through this day.

Adam Xiao Hua saw Yang Cheng's face was cloudy and uncertain, he hesitated and didn't speak, he could only drink the country Z tea that he was not used to, bowed his head and remained silent.

This time, he ventured to Yang Cheng's office to meet. He had to get an acceptable result and go back, otherwise he would encounter the biggest crisis since he came to power.

The genius remembers the address of this site in one second:. Dengbi Novels mobile version reading URL: