Chapter 894 893. All-Star Starting Lineup Announced
When it comes to rebellion, if there is a leader, there will often be a hundred responses.
Last summer, because Liu Mang was going to play in the Olympics, all the summer banquets that were previously agreed upon were cancelled. Now it has become a reason for a group of people to "throw a tantrum" and ask for a banquet.
Of course, it was mainly because the group last year had dispersed, so the old players who stayed on the team did not mention the party.
Under the "excitement of the crowd", Liu Mang had to put the overall situation first. He just paid a fine of more than 20,000 US dollars yesterday, and today he had to write a verbal check, and it was a check that he had to do as the boss.
After throwing a handful of money, Liu Mang's revenge was burning!
"Tracy, we have been teammates for so long, and you haven't treated us yet. I heard that you got a contract extension of 100 million yuan. I treated my teammates to drinks during the All-Star Weekend. Shouldn't you pay for the money to play tonight?" Liu Mang was afraid that others couldn't hear him, so he shouted. If he was given a loudspeaker used by the urban management, Liu Mang would definitely turn it up to the maximum power!
McGrady didn't expect Liu Mang to be so insidious. Seeing a group of teammates with shining eyes, he wanted to drag Liu Mang to pieces!
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During the consecutive home games a while ago, McGrady met with Schwartz several times. Schwartz could not get along well in the agent circle for more than ten years because he was too honest, but he was able to stand up later because of his honesty.
McGrady was hurt after being cheated by his former agent. That was an old friend of his and Duncan who had worked together since they just entered the NBA. So he didn't ask the new agent to sign a big contract. Anyway, he would get the maximum salary wherever he went, and the shoe endorsement was also lifelong. He didn't expect the new agent to help make money, as long as he honestly took the commission and handled the chores.
Therefore, the extremely honest Schwartz was recognized after meeting McGrady four times, and McGrady successfully joined Liu Mang's agency.
Schwartz immediately started to negotiate a contract extension with the Hawks management.
McGrady's contract extension is only for six years at most. Although he is also a veteran in his eighth season, his bird rights are only five years including this season. They are recalculated from the Magic period, and he cannot use the designated veteran clause, which is a clause that veterans who have played at least seven seasons without interruption of bird rights can sign a maximum seven-year contract.
McGrady can use the maximum 35% of the salary cap as a starting salary, but he cannot sign a seven-year contract like the blacksmith, but a six-year contract.
Basically, players in their twenties and twenties want to sign a six-year or seven-year contract, so that they can have the opportunity to get another maximum salary before retirement. Not to mention players in their twenties and twenties. They sign as long as they can. Who knows if their status will collapse after they are over 30? By then, the three or four years of the final contract at the end of their career may not be as much as the one-year contract when they were at the maximum salary.
Schwartz proposed a six-year contract to McGrady, and McGrady agreed. The details of the contract are being negotiated. Anyway, the time for early renewal has passed. Let's talk slowly and reach a verbal agreement. The renewal can be announced after the finals.
Of course, there are exceptions. Last summer, Cuban told Nowitzki to renew his contract for four years in advance with a maximum salary, and then give him another four years of maximum salary after five years. Nowitzki signed because he believed it.
On the Spurs side, Popovich told Duncan, who had opted out of his contract, to renew his contract for six years instead of seven years to make a veteran contract, to give the team more salary space, and to wait until he was 34 years old before signing a long-term contract. Duncan also signed this six-year, 106 million contract, which was more than 6 million short of the maximum salary, but whether the master of psychology believed it or not was another matter.
As for McGrady's contract renewal, the Hawks were eager to reach a verbal agreement to sign a maximum salary immediately, but McGrady had his own considerations, so he planned to confirm the contract after the season. This delay made the 23rd of the early renewal pass.
Well, both sides couldn't be impatient, so they talked slowly.
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After blackmailing the two big guys, the Hawks players gathered in the lounge, waiting for the starting lineup of the All-Star Weekend game, which would be broadcast live by ESPN, T.N.T and other TV stations.
This year's All-Star Weekend was held in Denver, so the Eastern Conference was the visiting team. When the vote ranking for the first position of the Eastern Conference All-Star starting lineup was announced, Kwame Brown jumped up!
Kwame Brown won 2.21 million votes, beating O'Neal's 2.15 million votes, and became the starting center of the Eastern Conference All-Stars.
All teammates went up to congratulate him, but after Kwame Brown jumped up, he cried out in excitement.
This moment was like heaven after a nightmare for Kwame Brown. The Wizards period was a nightmare, and the Hawks period was heaven!
Now, Kwame Brown has become an All-Star starter. Kwame Brown, who has signed a "potential star" endorsement contract with Nike, has a clause in the contract that after becoming an All-Star starter, the contract will automatically upgrade to 15 million for 3 years. Nike had given up long ago, but Kwame Brown is not at a disadvantage for a potential star endorsement of 450,000 US dollars a year. After all, he is a fake No. 1 pick who is famous because of Jordan.
Now, after nearly four years, Kwame Brown has finally fulfilled people's expectations when he entered the NBA!
He became an All-Star starter, and his contract will definitely be much higher than the middle class expected by experts and media.
It is true that Kwame Brown has a good market, but his market price is not high. No one knows how he can play without Liu Mang and McGrady. There are many centers with this kind of physical fitness who perform well when they meet good passers, but they change teams and sign big contracts and their performances collapse directly.
Looking at Kwame Brown's tears, his teammates knew they were tears of joy, so they didn't comfort him, but instead sent out congratulations.
Kwame Brown cried for a while and rushed over to hug Liu Mang: "Boss, wuwuwu... Boss, thank you so much... wuwuwu..."
"Get out of here! It's disgusting! Your tears,...%￥...% your snot! Get out..."
"Boss..."
"Get out of here!"
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It was hard to kick Kwame Brown away, this guy is so disgusting!
Liu Mang's mission to help Kwame Brown become an All-Star starter was also completed. Kwame Brown hugged Liu Mang so excitedly because he was ready to follow Liu Mang from the bottom of his heart.
When Liu Mang went to change the training clothes that Kwame Brown had soiled, he felt something was wrong. After thinking for a while, he realized that because of Kwame Brown's crying, his teammates had forgotten that Kwame Brown had promised to buy gifts for everyone during the All-Star weekend!
What a despicable high school student! High school students are really not easy to deal with!
In addition to Kwame Brown, Liu Mang and McGrady from the Hawks were also selected as All-Star starters as expected.
McGrady ranked second in the league with 2.79 million votes, first in the Eastern Conference, and another All-Star starter... Carter was eliminated. Grant Hill squeezed out Carter, whose popularity continued to decline. Hill got 2.44 million votes, and Carter got 2.31 million votes. Hill, who was getting better and better, counterattacked.
Speaking of which, Hill was not a counterattack. In the season when Jordan returned and won 72 wins, Hill defeated Jordan and won the All-Star vote. It was just that he played well and the old fans came back.
Carter should have been as popular as Hill, but people only remember that Carter was a dunker, but did not notice that Carter is now the shooting guard with the most offensive means in the league.
McGrady was already popular, and with Liu Mang's help, his popularity has become even higher. The key is that there are black fans who want to see that Liu Mang is not the most popular player in the team, and deliberately vote for McGrady instead of Liu Mang.
Liu Mang finally received 2.62 million votes, ranking first among Eastern guards, and Iverson received 2.49 million votes, ranking second among Eastern guards.
In the West, Yao Ming became the second All-Star vote king to break through 3 million votes, with 3.37 million votes, and the difference between him and the second place was more than 2.6 million votes. The second place was Wang Zhizhi, whose ranking was rising, with only 730,000 votes.
In terms of Western forwards, Garnett and Duncan both received more than 2.3 million votes and continued to dominate the starting position. In terms of guards, Nash counterattacked Francis at a critical moment! Kobe ranked first among Western guards with 2.51 million votes, and Nash surpassed Francis with 1.73 million votes, surpassing Francis with 1.69 million votes, and was selected as an All-Star starter for the first time in his career!
Mainly relying on the game that defeated Liu Mang, Liu Mang could only say sorry to Francis, and he didn't want to!
But there was no way, the Suns played too horribly in that game, there was really no way.
Liu Mang mourned for Francis for a moment, but since Francis played so well this year, it shouldn't be a problem for him to be selected as an All-Star reserve. The outside line of the West is much weaker than that of the East.
After the All-Star starters came out, the Hawks players discussed who in the team had the chance to be selected as an All-Star reserve.
Liu Mang changed into a clean training suit and found a half court to train while criticizing Kwame Brown. After the morning training and tactical meeting, he had to take Alexia to the hospital for a check-up at noon.
Just when Liu Mang was criticizing Kwame Brown, maybe a fat guy in Miami also saw the All-Star votes, and the system prompt came!
"Ding... Avengers series mission: The anger of the great shark is triggered..."