Chapter 426 Salary Cap Soars and No. 1 in the MVP Rankings

After defeating the Bobcats in an away game and ending all five away games in the Eastern Conference, the Supersonics, who left the Eastern Conference with a nine-game winning streak, caused a great shock in the league!

The Seattle SuperSonics have won nine consecutive victories, ranking third in the league, second only to the Suns and Rockets, two godlike teams that are still winning streaks. Who would believe this before the start of the season?

Before the start of the season, the Supersonics' strength list was once ranked last in the West!

But now?

Ranked third in the West alone!

The Lakers, Grizzlies, Nuggets, Spurs, Mavericks, Jazz, Thunder and other strong teams that were unanimously favored by media experts before the start of the season are all ranked below the Supersonics!

The Supersonics' schedule this season is really good. Every western team will have one or several East X-linked games in a season. The Supersonic's East X-linked schedule is the earliest.

In terms of the strength comparison between the East and the West this season, the East's x-link is for the Western team to win games, and the West's x-link is for the Eastern team to win.

With this five-game winning streak in the Eastern Conference, the Sonics' record is now 10 wins and 1 loss, can you believe it?

In the most fiercely fought Western Conference in history, the Sonics started with 10 wins and 1 loss, which is enough to detonate all public opinion!

Before the start of the season, because the Supersonics drafted Durant, many coconut fans were prepared not to watch the Supersonics games this season in order not to see Yes being abused too badly.

This led to a very serious decline in the ratings of the new NBA season.

Not to mention that it was cut in half, but at least the overall drop was 20%!

This also led to a stalemate in the negotiations between the NBA and Disney and TNT for broadcasting rights.

David Stern will not deny now that Yes has become the biggest bargaining chip for the NBA's next broadcast contract.

The stronger Yes is and the better his record is, the bigger the NBA's broadcast contract can be signed.

He has been rejecting Disney and TNT's 8-year $10 billion offer, and what he's waiting for is now!

Nine consecutive victories! Nine consecutive victories! Nine consecutive victories!

Seeing that the headlines on the front page are all the news about Yes and the Sonics' nine-game winning streak,

David Stern is very satisfied.

He knew that the supersonic record was enough to make Disney and TNT excited.

Before the start of the season, in order to lower prices, ABC and ESPN of Disney and TNT of the Turner Group crazily suppressed the Sonics, breaking the record of the weakest team in history, and the fifteenth in the western power list.

What now?

This is what you said yourself, the weakest team in history!

Yes, with what you call the weakest team in history, it is now ranked third in the Western Conference and third in the league. In the most intense Western Conference in history, there is no problem entering the playoffs.

So what else do you have to worry about?

Worried that Yes and the Sonics will not make the playoffs and you will lose a lot?

Now that you see Yes' ability to lead the team, do you still have such worries?

Even the Sonics this season can lead to what they are now, do you still need to worry about Yes making the playoffs?

"President, Disney and the Turner Group have already responded. They agreed to an 8-year broadcast contract offer of 12 billion U.S. dollars!"

The assistant who rushed in was very excited.

David Stern, on the other hand, had a calm expression.

On the surface, the wind is calm, but the heart is still very excited.

12 billion US dollars in 8 years!

Apportioned to each year, that is 1.5 billion US dollars!

The last broadcast contract in the NBA was 4.7 billion U.S. dollars for 6 years, 800 million U.S. dollars per year.

Compared with 800 million US dollars, 1.5 billion US dollars is an increase of 700 million US dollars every year!

According to the current labor agreement, the salary of the players accounts for almost 50% of the total income, that is to say, 350 million of the 700 million US dollars will be given to the players every year.

This year's NBA salary cap is almost 56 million U.S. dollars. With the extra 350 million U.S. dollars, the NBA's salary cap will reach a minimum of 68 million U.S. dollars in the next eight years!

$68 million salary cap!

Thinking of this number, David Stern really wants to laugh out loud now!

This is really thanks to Yes!

Before Yes appeared, he had already prepared to sign a broadcast contract of less than US$1 billion per year in the next few years.

Before Yes appeared, the popularity of the entire league was half-dead by the Spurs and Pistons.

The Spurs and Pistons are really drawing blood from the league.

Business alliance, business alliance, if the business alliance is going to die in the end, how can there be any fairness at all!

There is an old saying in China that goes well, be honest and know etiquette.

Everyone has been screwed so much that they don't even have food to eat. You still want to expect my uncle Si to be fair and just?

Uncle Si is indeed a man of brilliant personality, and he doesn't bother to engage in shady affairs behind his back.

Uncle Si's shady activities are done in an open and aboveboard manner.

And the shady scene of Uncle Si is not so dark.

But when the time comes, Joan of Arc will have nothing to eat, so Uncle Si can't guarantee it.

Uncle Si can not do it, see Uncle Si can retire.

Whether the subsequent successors will have no lower limit in order to increase their income is beyond the control of Mr. Si.

At that time, if you really want to blame, just blame the Spurs and Pistons!

No, teams like the Spurs and Pistons have ruined the commercial value of the league, and none of you can get away with it.

If it weren't for your incompetence, the Spurs and Pistons would not let the commercial value of the league be ruined like this.

To be fair, before Yes appeared, Stern was really ready to retire disheartened.

After he retired, regardless of whether there was a flood behind him, he had tried his best anyway.

Well now, the NBA's prestige has finally become solid because of Yes.

His NBA finally doesn't have to do that kind of loss of etiquette for the sake of eating!

If it wasn't true that there was no food to eat, who would want to eat those bad meals!

So, we all want to thank Yes!

This is really a sincere thank you!

After the Seattle SuperSonics ended five road games in the Eastern Conference, the road trip is not over.

On November 19, 2007, the Seattle SuperSonics came to Memphis as a guest.

This is the sixth game the Sonics have played in the last eight days.

Counting from the first game of the Eastern Conference road trip against the Pistons, the Sonics will play three back-to-back games in eight days.

After the game against the Bobcats, the Sonics players dragged their exhausted bodies from a lap in the east and flew to Memphis, a thousand kilometers away.

When they came to Memphis, except for Yeth, all other players in the Sonics looked exhausted.

Even for NBA players, it is still too difficult to play six games in eight days and three consecutive back-to-back games.

Compared with the recent exhaustion of the Sonics, the Grizzlies' recent week's schedule is quite easy.

Before the game between the Sonics and the Grizzlies, the Sonics were 10-1 and the Grizzlies were 6-3.

When the Sonics and the Grizzlies played against each other last time, the two teams had the same record of 3 wins and 1 loss, which means that in the recent period, the Sonics played 2 more games than the Grizzlies.

The two games may not seem like much, but if they are mixed in the dense schedule, it will be different.

Six games in 8 days and 4 games in 8 days are not at the same level at all.

The nine-game winning streak of the Seattle SuperSonics was finally ended by the Grizzlies.

The Sonics and the Grizzlies are similar in strength.

The supersonic speed can't stop the Grizzly from being tall, and the Grizzly can't stop Yesi from being fast.

In the last game, when the Sonics defeated the Grizzlies, it was Yeth's speed that suppressed the Grizzlies' height.

In this game, the Grizzlies still couldn't stop Ye Si's speed.

But the Grizzlies can block the speed of other players in the Sonics.

The rest of the exhausted Sonics couldn't keep up with Yeth's game rhythm in this game.

The Sonics played a bit out of touch in this game.

In the end, the Sonics lost to the Grizzlies 108 to 115 on the road.

In this game, Ye Si's touch value has recovered slightly. In the game, he scored 32 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists on 10 of 18 shots in the game.

Durant, another supersonic "one of the best stars in the NBA", made 10 of 30 shots in this game and only scored 28 points.

On the other side, the Grizzlies' Oden and Gasol both scored 20+10 in this game, and Carter also scored 20 points.

"Teacher, did you know that the league's salary cap will increase dramatically next season!"

After the game against the Grizzlies, Oden was very excited, but he was not excited about the game, but about the new broadcast contract signed by the league, Disney and the Turner Group.

Of course Ye Si knows about the sharp increase in the salary cap next season.

Next season, the league's salary cap will rise to at least $68 million.

This is good news for many teams.

Especially for a team like the Grizzlies whose stars are newly signed, this means a lot.

Gasol's original maximum salary contract plus four years left this year, and the contract between Carter and the Grizzlies also has four years left. The two people's previous contract was close to 30 million a year, which is not a big deal for the Grizzlies. small burden.

Now that the salary cap will rise sharply next season, compared to the salary space of at least 68 million, the contract of 30 million for the two is simply not worth mentioning.

By the way, plus Mike Miller's 9 million contract for three years, Battier's 6 million contract for four years, Oden's 5 million contract for four years, and the Grizzlies' five starting stars, in the next four years, the total The salary is only 50 million US dollars!

In other words, if the Grizzlies get it right, they will release the rest of the contract, and they can have up to $18 million in space to sign a superstar-level star.

This operating space is really too big.

With Jerry West's operational ability, there is no need to even think about it. In the next four years, the Grizzlies will be very strong, and they are likely to become stronger and stronger!

The Grizzlies are the biggest beneficiaries of the league's salary cap hike.

Just how big the benefit is, you can see the joy that Auden can't hide now.

Compared with the beneficiaries of the Grizzlies who have a large number of long-term high-quality contracts, the Sonics have a half-and-half profit and loss after the salary cap soared.

In the eyes of many people, Milicic's 5-year 60 million contract, which was somewhat worthless, has now become a high-quality contract.

But at the same time, the Sonics also need to deal with the renewal of people like Barea, Tucker, and Millsap.

However, as long as these people are still willing to stay in the Sonics, there will be no problem with the Sonics' contract renewal.

Sonics owner Bill Gates has no plans to set a salary cap for the team.

In other words, the supersonic luxury tax can be paid casually, it doesn't matter.

As long as these players are willing, they can all be kept at that time.

It is that after the salary space explodes, it is impossible to sign big-name players from the free market.

After the game against the Grizzlies, the Sonics finally ended this very torturous 6-game streak.

The record of the Sonics in 6 games is 5 wins and 1 loss. Overall, it is a very good record.

After losing to the Sonics, the Sonics' record is 10 wins and 2 losses, still ranking third in the West.

However, after losing to the Grizzlies, the Sonics' third position in the Western Conference is not so secure.

With the strong strength shown by the Suns and Rockets this season, it seems that other teams in the West can only compete for the third position.

Now both the Suns and the Rockets have won 11 consecutive victories!

The Suns are considered by league experts to be the pinnacle of NBA offense this season.

Even in the history of the NBA, that is the strongest offensive player.

As for the Rockets, this season is considered to be the ultimate defense.

The Rockets have one big and four small, and they have excellent defense. After losing weight, Yao Ming still doesn't suffer from single defense in the age when big centers lack O'Neal and he is old, but the help defense is not a little bit stronger.

Coupled with the assistance of Gerald Wallace, Artest, McGrady, and Roy outside, and defensive players Ariza and Hayes on the bench.

In the game between the Rockets and the Lakers before this season, the Rockets even played a tight defense against the Lakers!

No kidding, the Rockets used a full-court press against the Lakers with Kidd, Kobe, Turkoglu, Randolph and Bynum in the NBA!

The Rockets' defensive speed and defensive strength in that game covered a full 48 minutes. In the end, the powerful Lakers were abruptly dragged down by the Rockets.

Whether the Rockets' defense is the strongest in history is still unknown, but the Rockets' defense still seems to be growing.

November 21, 2007, the day the Sonics did not play.

Jess and the Sonics are now watching the Rockets play the Mavericks, the Suns play the Kings.

"The Suns' offense is really terrifying, and they scored 47 points in a single quarter!"

"Even if the king is not that strong, he is definitely not that weak!"

"And scoring more than 40 points in a single quarter has nothing to do with defense. The main reason is that the offense is too strong!"

"The Sun's offense has reached another level!"

"Is this the first free throw that Nowitzki missed in this game?"

"I don't know, this game is too intense. Nowitzki didn't even hit 50% of his free throws in this game!"

"Devin Harris is still so fast, and Roy finally made a breakthrough. However, this is Yao Ming's sixth block in this game, right?"

"30 points, 15 rebounds, 6 blocks and 4 fouls!"

"powerful!"

For a long time, supersonic assistant coach Scott Brooks said a strong word.

Ye Si also feels that the Rockets' defense is indeed strong.

The Rockets and the Suns defeated their opponents respectively, and their 12-game winning streak is still outstanding.

After these two games, Ye Si originally thought that Yao Ming or Nash would replace him in the first place on the new official MVP list.

Unexpectedly, after the new issue came out, he was still number one.

New York, NBA headquarters, president's office, David Stern is quite satisfied.

This counts as thanks.

It can also be regarded as encouragement.

Just this time, if you want to win the cup in the future, it's up to you...

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