Chapter 1252 1251. Storm Is Coming (4/10, Monthly Ticket Requested)
Chapter 1252 1251. Storm is coming (410 for monthly votes)
Liu Mang arrived in Miami on the morning of June 23. The three girls and two sons accompanied their parents to the villa they rented in Miami yesterday. Liu Mang took a break these days, accompanied his parents to see the sea and stroll around Miami. At the end of June, he will go to Europe for business activities, and then there will be six domestic stops for sneaker promotion and some other activities. During the rare few days of rest, he will have a good rest and play.
When Liu Mang was on vacation, the situation in the league had already been very chaotic. Major agents let their players who had the opportunity to opt out of their contracts opt out of their contracts. This summer is an opportunity to make a fortune!
After the Hawks won three consecutive championships, there will definitely be some changes in the team. This is foreseeable.
The changes in the Hawks will inevitably affect their strength. After playing in the finals for three consecutive years and the Eastern Conference Finals for five years, the physical fitness of the core players will definitely be affected. It is also difficult for new players to integrate quickly like in previous years. There must be more or less psychological resistance to the new players, and a running-in period is needed.
If the Hawks do nothing, other teams will be happier.
The atmosphere among the Hawks teammates is very good, but it doesn't mean that young players will not care about playing time and performance opportunities. It's okay in the first and second grades, but what about the third grade?
Rasheed Wallace has been a substitute, but Prince has been a starter since the third grade.
The issue of playing time may not affect the relationship between the Hawks players, but there will definitely be disagreements with the coaching staff.
These are 100% predictable things.
So whether the Hawks are sitting still or secretly making changes to the team, it is an opportunity for other teams to compete for the championship!
Therefore, all strong teams will start to strengthen, and role players who may have been able to get 3 million can get middle-class contracts.
And some teams that are ready to go, such as the Cavaliers, Bulls, Nuggets and other teams, will take advantage of the team's rookie bonus to recruit as many players as possible and not waste this good opportunity.
It is almost certain that there will be a lot of junk contracts this summer.
As an agent, it is definitely to help players get bigger contracts. As for whether it will become a junk contract... Which player doesn't like more money?
The league is bound to undergo dramatic changes, and the management of each team wants to make a fortune in this chaotic summer after the Hawks won three consecutive championships.
However, the storm is coming, but the trading market seems unusually calm.
Under this calm, there is a surging undercurrent. Most teams are actively seeking trades and actively communicating with their own players who have jumped out of the contract. However, whether it is the team's trades or the negotiations between the players who have jumped out of the contract and the teams, they are all limited to telephone negotiations, waiting for a team to make a decision first.
Only when a team gives a contract first and a team trades first will the calm before the storm be broken, and no one is willing to be the first to eat crabs...
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The draft is getting closer and closer, but the trading market has been very quiet, which is a headache for the so-called experts and the media. In addition to repeatedly hyping the topic of the Hawks winning the championship, it is really too depressing for these pen-wielding people to conquer the world.
Everyone can see that there will be a lot of trades this summer, and many players have opted out of their contracts. After the finals and before the draft, it is generally a high-incidence period for trades, but this year is even worse than last year. On June 24, there are only two days before the draft, and the draft will start on the 27th. Since the end of the finals, there has not been a single trade.
This makes the media very upset, there is no news!
They can only write something based on hearsay, but they can't see any substantial progress and can't attract the attention of fans.
Without attention, they have less money.
What can they do? They can only create news even if there is no news!
And if a new news wants to be interesting, it must be related to popular people or things, that is, to ride on the popularity!
On June 24, American Cable TV invited an economics expert to analyze the current NBA revenue. It just so happened that the 2006-2007 season was the season when the new version of the labor agreement began. From 2006 to 2011, the labor agreement did not change much in general. In terms of the league's total revenue sharing, the players' share was 55%, and the players still took the initiative. The big change was the length of the player's contract. In the new labor agreement, the length of the veteran's designated clause was shortened from 7 years to 6 years, and the maximum term of the ordinary long-term contract was also shortened to 5 years.
The main reason is because of the middle-class trap. Many teams signed six-year middle-class contracts, but they turned into garbage contracts. Now the maximum term of the middle-class contract has become 5 years.
After analyzing the new version of the labor agreement, we began to analyze the revenue and profits of each team. 17 teams are losing money. This is not a big news. At one time, 90% of the NBA teams were losing money. It was only with David Stern's single-handed reform that we have today's situation. Most bosses do not make money from team revenue.
In the just-concluded season, in terms of the team's net profit income, the Los Angeles Lakers ranked first, with a net profit of US$71 million and a total income of US$220 million. Yao Ming's joining the Lakers increased the total income from US$170 million in the 04-05 season to US$220 million, a surge of US$50 million, and the Lakers' net profit increased from US$40 million to US$71 million.
However, even with Yao Ming, the Lakers are not the team with the highest total revenue. The Knicks' total revenue reached 250 million... After paying 130 million in salary, more than 60 million in luxury tax, plus team expenses, the Knicks' net profit was as high as 40 million, ranking third in the league.
However, these two are not the focus of American Cable TV. The focus is on the team with the third highest revenue in the league.
The Hawks' comprehensive revenue from ticket sharing, live broadcast sharing, peripheral merchandise sharing, advertising sharing, etc. this season is about 160 million US dollars. Excluding player salaries, team staff salaries, team operations, taxes, etc., the net profit is 44 million US dollars! Profits surpassed the Knicks and ranked second!
American Cable TV focused on analyzing the Hawks. In the 2001-2002 season, the first year that Liu Mang joined the Hawks, the Hawks' total revenue was more than 79 million US dollars. Before Liu Mang joined the Hawks, the Hawks' total revenue in the 2000-2001 season was 49 million US dollars, with negative profits and a net loss of more than 15 million US dollars.
After Liu Mang joined the Hawks, he basically stopped the loss. In the 2002-2003 season, the second season after Liu Mang joined the Hawks, the Hawks' total revenue exceeded 100 million and began to make a profit. In the 2003-2004 season, the Hawks' revenue exceeded the Dallas Mavericks and ranked fourth in the league. In the 2004-2005 season, the Hawks' total revenue exceeded the Clippers by a large margin and remained third in the league.
In the season that just ended, the Hawks ranked second in the league with a net profit of 44 million US dollars, surpassing the Knicks!
And the net profit of 44 million US dollars is as much as the Hawks' revenue in one season before Liu Mang joined the Hawks!