Healing Basketball

   Chapter 8 8. Pioneers with deep pockets

   "Jess, I think we can apply for a trade, you don't have to go to the Blazers."

"Bill, you don't need to apply for a deal, I don't even have a contract, how can I apply for a deal? Are you threatening not to sign it? What if that boss of theirs doesn't make a deal? What do we do? We ask for a contract later? I don't want face... Don't worry, I Law-abiding foreigners."

  “…”

   At first, this kid heard the name of the Trail Blazers as eating Xiang, but now he is eager to try it!

  Bill Duffy wondered if he was afraid of breaking the law when you went there?

Fortunately, when Bill Duffy observed Anthony in the past season, he also observed Liu Xiu, who had suddenly emerged in the middle and late seasons of the season, and found that although Liu Xiu has a background in a school gang, he never caused trouble, but he was not afraid of trouble. He was very rigid. .

   The point of being loyal is somewhat similar to that of Anthony, so they can be mixed together.

  Uh... Loyalty? Bill Duffy feels less nervous.

   Liu Xiu and Anthony have a sense of loyalty, and they have a Mao sense of loyalty with the Blazers.

   At noon, the official NBA website has announced the trade between the Blazers and the Grizzlies.

  The Grizzlies sent Liu Xiu, the 13th overall pick in the first round, and veteran Wesley Persson, and Bunch Wells from the Blazers.

  How the Blazers lose in this deal. During the 2001-02 season, Bunch Wells averaged 17 points, 6 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.5 steals per game. He is only 27 years old now.

   Actually, the Blazers originally wanted a player, but they were slapped down by the logo man.

   The Blazers' operation, which was not unexpected, was scolded again.

   In the past two years, the Blazers have been scolded for both good and bad operations.

For example, in the summer of 2002, the Blazers introduced two high-quality point guards, Jeff McGinnis and Antonio Daniels. Judging from the strength of the trade at the time, the Blazers were profitable, but both of them were lost in the Blazers. The performance they played was far worse than the chips they gave away. When the core lineup was still at its peak, the strength of the reinforcements did not rise but decline.

   In the end, it naturally became a poor operation to be attacked.

   At two o'clock in the afternoon, Bill Duffy had already taken Anthony to complete the signing with the Nuggets, and now he took the 30% salary check drawn in advance with his relatives and friends to go again.

   Anthony's side went very smoothly. The Nuggets directly gave 120% of the maximum salary. According to the rules, the team can give the rookie's fixed contract 20% of the floating space.

   has come, Bill Duffy can only instruct Liu Xiu for a while what to say and what not to say when meeting with the Blazers.

  Bill Duffy brought Liu Xiu and his lawyer to the restaurant that he had made an appointment with with the Blazers. After chatting for a while, at 6 pm, a group of the Blazers came to the restaurant.

   After a wave of simple greetings, we went straight to the topic.

  Bill Duffy took over the contract handed over by the other party's lawyer. Instead of showing it to his own lawyer first, he opened it to look at the salary...

  ‘hair tree…’

  Although, Bill Duffy was less worried about Liu Xiu going to the Blazers.

   But who would be willing to send their players there?

   There's always a way, like nitpicking on salary.

  Although few teams can afford to fluctuate when giving rookie contracts, not every team is willing to increase their salary.

  Like last year, Bill Duffy tried his best to make the Rockets willing to give Yao Ming 20% ​​of his salary, initially only 10%.

   Therefore, Bill Duffy is ready to bite and must give 120% of his salary, and apply for a trade if not.

   This is a valid reason, much more useful than coercing not to sign a contract.

   But he just remembered now that the Blazers don't care about the 20% salary...

  The Blazers are the king of the luxury tax in the past few years since the luxury tax was introduced!

  The entire basketball circle knows that the Knicks have deep pockets, but that's because the Knicks are more famous because they spend a lot of money and have bad results.

   There are actually two other teams that spend as much as the Knicks, one is the Mavericks and the other is the Trail Blazers.

   The Blazers seemed to have arrived in a hurry. Liu Xiudu could see that the process was going very fast, and he hardly communicated with him. The head coach who seemed to be vicious told him to gather in Orlando on July 5th.

   Looking at the 30% salary of the rookie season that was withdrawn in advance... Each team will bring a check when signing a rookie that they value, and a rookie in the lottery is naturally a rookie that they value.

   NBA players are mostly poor before entering the NBA, and there are even those who cannot afford to eat if they are not selected.

  Liu Xiu naturally chose to withdraw when the other party asked.

The Trail Blazers have deep pockets, starting salary of $1.49 million, up 20%, starting salary of $1.78 million, with a 5% increase in the second and third years of the rookie contract, $1.87 million in the second year, and $1.97 million in the third year US dollars, the fourth year is an increase of 26.1% on the basis of the third year, 2.48 million US dollars.

Liu Xiu heard that Jarvis Hayes, the 10th pick in the first round of the Wizards, has a salary of $1.79 million, which is only $10,000 higher than his salary. The Warriors' Michael Pietro The salary of Nick Collison of the Sonics and the Sonics is 10 percent, which is lower than him.

   Thinking of this, Liu Xiu felt that the Blazers still had something lovely.

  ‘We are also NBA players now! rich! ’

  …

   The next morning, Bill Duffy took Liu Xiu to the VIP room of the bank and performed the operation that he had done with Anthony yesterday.

  Cheque cashing, taking a percentage, recommending a stable fund, informing the time and method of salary payment in the new season…

"My suggestion is that every time you get a salary, use the highest tax specification to buy a sum of money into those stable funds, and agree to pay it before next year's tax day... Anyway, Jess, remember to pay the tax Enough money!"

   "Don't worry, I'm a law-abiding foreigner."

How come    doesn't sound like a good person?

  Do good people repeatedly stress that they are good people?

Bill Duffy really doesn't want his players to go to the Blazers, but the situation has come to an end, and he can only accept this situation. No agent wants his players to go to the Blazers, but there are always so many dozen or so. Players are going not.

The selected rookies are easy to deal with. In two days, Bill Duffy arranged the three selected rookies, but the next thing is the busiest. There are still seven or eight undrafted drafts that have not been arranged. Every year, 10 or so players are signed and all of them can enter the NBA. In most cases, those who can eventually enter the NBA are selected.

   got things done on Liu Xiu's side, and Bill Duffy started busy again.

   At noon, Liu Xiu and Anthony, who had been having fun for two days, had a meal alone. Next, Liu Xiu will go back to Syracuse, and Anthony will go back to Baltimore to accompany relatives and friends, and will soon start a new life.

   They fought side by side on and off the court for a year. When the two decided to leave college and enter the NBA, they thought about what it would be like to part ways.

   But when we really parted, there really weren’t so many love between children, but more blessings for each other and expectations for ourselves.

  …

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Syracuse, a city in central New York State, also known as Yancheng, used to be a big city of salt industry in the United States. Now the salt industry has declined, but the consumption fields such as culture, education and tourism are very developed. Syracuse University in the core industry and education industry is a world university. The school's public management professional strength ranks first in the United States, and several majors such as architecture, tourism, and law are among the top ten in the United States.

  Like other wealthy cities in the United States, residents who have a little money will move from urban neighborhoods to suburbs.

In the past two years, most people can't afford it. Even if they make enough money, they can't afford it. After the Internet bubble crisis, a lot of money has been transferred from the stock market to the property market. In the past two years, house prices have gone up like crazy. .

   And Liu Xiu knew this was just the beginning.

  Liu Xiu looked at the house in front of him where he had lived for several months, including his original memory for three years... 'My cheap uncle is so lucky! ’

   A few years ago, the whole country was buying stocks. Countless people sold their real estate and fixed assets to buy stocks, and house prices plummeted.

   His cheap uncle also bought stocks, but after earning enough money to buy a house, he sold the stock and bought a house.

   Immediately after the dotcom bubble burst…

   When Liu Xiu heard about this for the first time, she sighed that even an ordinary person with no ambition can earn enough money for half a lifetime in a few months.

In the early 1990s, I picked up an American girl who traveled to China, got a green card and went to work in the United States. She didn't forget to take care of her sister's son. When Liu Xiu was in high school, she was busy helping Liu Xiu complete the admission to Syracuse University, and then she returned to school. Let Liu Xiu borrow for three years...

  Whether in memory or in personal experience in the past few months, Liu Xiu has felt a strong family affection in a foreign country.

   It's just that this family relationship is a little heavy now... 'I knew I wouldn't buy so many things. ’

  Liu Xiu is now in front of the villa, with a large bag hanging on her body, and it is not easy to put it down.

   Liu Xiu is very confused now, should he put things down and get the keys, or should he try harder?

   When I got off the bus just now, the driver finally hung something on him, now put it down... Take it slowly one by one for a while, how troublesome!

  The current Liu Xiu, affected by the lack of training, is getting more and more lazy... It's not that he doesn't want to do anything, but he always thinks about the best solution when doing things, and he won't force it if he can't think of it.

  'Your nephew is returning home...no, he passed the jinshi exam...not right...is your rich nephew no one greets him when he comes back? ’

   Liu Xiu remembers that he called his aunt!

   At this moment, the sound of 'dong dong dong dong' sounded.

  This running sound...not good!

   At the moment when the door was opened, Liu Xiutian threw things all over the place like flowers scattered, a loli flew up, and Liu Xiu skillfully caught it.

   "Your sister... No, this is my sister..."

After    Liu Xiu let out a sound, she looked at the large and small bags thrown on the wall and bounced into the yard on both sides, and suddenly became a little convinced of herself.

   Let him do it again, he really doesn't feel like he's re-engraving this rainy sky... It's scattered too evenly!

   "Brother is so stingy! Go to New York by yourself and don't take me with you!"

  Qing'er has an expression of "you coax me, ignore you".

  It's just...Liu Xiu was holding the back of the unlucky sister...Just now, it was too troublesome to carefully place a few pieces on the ground for a while, but now it's all over the place, and it's even more troublesome, so angry!

   This time we have to teach a lesson!

   "Okay, I'll take you with me next time I go out, come down quickly and help me get my things in."

"I do not want!"

   "Okay, I'll do it myself, fortunately I didn't buy those bottles and jars..."

   (end of this chapter)