Time flies quickly, after Li Liang signed with the Kings in mid-August, the free agency market went through a lot of heat, and the big contracts fell one after another as if they didn't need money, fattening a group of lucky players and agents.

The Kings won Li Liang for 100 million, which was simply blood-earned.

Look at the other teams.

The Grizzlies signed Chandler Parsons for 4 years and 98.5 million.

Al Horford, 113 million in 4 years.

Hassan Whiteside, 4 years 98 million

Drummond, 5 years 130 million.

Leon Anderson, 4 years 80 million.

In comparison, Li Liang's contract is so cost-effective that the king's management and boss will laugh crookedly.

Not only that, but the arrival of Li Liang really made Rondo change his mind and want to continue to cooperate with the Kings.

As a result, Rondo accepted a four-year, $25 million full-length contract from the Kings.

Pecunially, Rondo must have lost money.

The Bulls offered a two-year contract for more than 20 million.

And the 16-year mid-level contract is based on the league-wide average salary last season.

Therefore, if Rondo signs a contract next year, with the middle class, the average annual contract can be close to 10 million.

Now, he can only get a contract with an annual salary of more than 6 million, which can be said to have lost a lot.

However, for a player with a very high spirit, Rondo, victory is often more important than money.

After all, the starting point is very high, and no one is convinced, plus Cousins and Li Liang are both Kentucky juniors, so the emotional points have increased a lot.

And the Kings are willing to give them a long contract, which is also important for the players.

Due to Rondo's personality and injuries, many teams are afraid to offer Rondo a contract of more than 2 years.

Playing and working in one place with peace of mind is what most players are pursuing, after all, there is life in addition to basketball.

A nomad like Li Liang, the Xiongnu Shan Yu, is really a strange thing in a strange way.

In addition to Rondo, the Kings also have two very cost-effective signings.

One is to use the team's last space to sign Eric Gordon for 4 years and 48 million.

The king's rival was the rocket.

The Rockets offered a higher contract price of 53 million over 4 years, which is 5 million more than the King's contract.

However, Gordon chose to sign with the Kings after weighing it up.

The reason is simple, because with Li Liang here, the Kings have the hope of winning the championship.

For the sake of the championship, give up 5 million, Gordon is still willing.

Moreover, Gordon has been plagued by injuries in previous seasons.

According to rumors within the league, playing with Li Liang helps with physical health.

I don't know how this rumor came out.

But in the past four years, the players around Li Liang, except for the Achilles tendon rupture in the Kobe Bryant Finals in the first year, have really not been injured much.

Perhaps this is the true chosen one, and the radiance of health hangs all around.

And after Rondo and Gordon signed a successful contract, Li Liang also did not hesitate to donate the bruising pill and add it to the drinks he usually drinks, so that Rondo and Gordon could drink it.

As a result, the two had crazy diarrhea the next day.

The hero couldn't stand the three bubbles, and he couldn't get out of bed for two days.

The two backcourt signings of Gordon and Rondo should be said to be very crucial and important.

Both contracts offer a good value for money.

Although Rondo and Gordon are not top stars and basically miss the All-Star, they are very strong in their own right.

It's the kind of player who is more powerful than famous.

And the two are both good offensively and defensively, and they are both players who can play tough battles in the playoffs, which can be said to be two very good signings.

For the king, if Li Liang was not used as bait, they would not be able to take these two people.

And Li Liang's appeal doesn't stop there.

After replenishing the outside line, Divac also strengthened the inside line.

In September, the Kings announced the signing of veteran David West at a veteran base salary.

West followed the Spurs last season, and after returning to the playoffs without success, he decided to follow Li Liangchao!

In this way, the issue of Cousins' substitution was solved.

In mid-September, when training camp was about to begin, the Kings signed another old classmate of Li Liang, Terrence Jones.

This is a friendly signing.

Jones only got an offer contract after ending his rookie contract with the Rockets, and the Rockets have no interest in the squishy power forward.

Li Liang hopes to add another Kentucky member, by the way, to the end of the team's bench.

So, Terrence Jones, who once asked Li Liang to be a substitute, carry a bag, and hand a towel in college, completely became Li Liang's little brother.

It's really this time and that time, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi.

Terrance Jones was happy to be able to play with so many Kentucky classmates.

And to have a contract and continue to survive in this league is actually not easy for every ordinary player.

In that case, in October, the Kings' training camp will begin.

A new king with Leon, Rondo, Cousins, Gordon, and Guy as the skeleton was born in a very short time.

This lineup, to be honest, wasn't much better than the Pacers back then.

If there is any point of improvement, it is that Li Liang's strength is stronger than two years ago.

And it's a lot stronger.

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On Oct. 3, the day before the Kings' training camp began, the league held a press conference to unveil a new rule.

The new provision is the inclusion of new clauses in the 2011 version of the collective bargaining agreement.

The new clause outlines the following: "A player who has won any of the MVP, FMVP, or First Team of the Year honors in the previous season is not allowed to sign a contract with a team option for a significantly less than the market price for the following year." ”

This strange clause, to put it bluntly, was specially formulated by the alliance in order to deal with Li Liang and Li Liang's imitators.

After all, Li Liang's behavior in recent years has seriously disrupted the NBA player market.

This year's sluggish free market is a case in point.

Originally, the market opened in July, and the trading market should be prosperous.

But it is because everyone knows that there is such a thing as Li Liang, who obviously does not conform to the laws of the market and earns money when he signs in, so everyone waits for the price to sell.

If it weren't for the sharp rise in the salary cap this year, the teams were busy filling in the line, and the player market might have been even more bleak.

Now, Li Liang has finally settled down and signed a four-year contract.

However, in order to prevent trouble, the alliance still issued this clause specifically for Li Liang, which was later known as the "Bruce-Lee clause".

This strange clause is completely contrary to the freedom of the market, because in the past, no one would have gone on the pole to sign a small contract for a short period of time after winning big honors such as MVP, which is completely contrary to the laws of the market and human nature.

So much so that more than a year later, the new president of the United States, a real estate tycoon who knows everything, called it "an undercover agent who came from a socialist country and disrupted our free market." ”

This "Bruce-Lee" clause not only affects Li Liang alone, but also makes other stars who want to learn from Li Liang and repeatedly jump left and right lose opportunities.

As for ordinary players, it is impossible for anyone to refuse to sign a long-term contract.

Now the balance of teams across the league has been seriously disrupted.

After James joined the Warriors and Li Liang stayed in the West, the entire East was in a power vacuum.

None of them can fight.

This year, the league will host an All-Star Game, and the lineup in the East is bound to be shabby.

Unless there's a big trade in the middle of the season to flesh out the Eastern Conference's star roster.

Moreover, the spiritual and cultural influence brought by Li Liang is also huge.

In the past, on the issue of "team loyalty", fans mostly stood in the team's perspective and spoke for the team.

After all, this league is an alliance of 30 bosses, and no matter how powerful the stars are, they are essentially employees.

All the public opinion propaganda is biased towards the team.

This phenomenon continued for decades, until James decided to 1 and there was a big discussion.

James was almost blackened into carbon at the time, and the domestic and overseas media unanimously criticized James.

Many people say, "James has nothing to do with the number one in history from now on." ”

Whether James has anything to do with the all-time number one depends more on his on-court performance and the number of championships, and which team he goes to and who he plays with is not absolutely related.

Jordan didn't stay with the Bulls because he was loyal to the team, in fact he hated the Bulls management.

He stayed with the Bulls in part because he loved the city of Chicago and the fans here, people have feelings, but love rather than loyalty.

On the other hand, it is also for his personal consideration, there are good teammates in the Bulls, excellent coaches, the work environment that he is used to, and the salary is the highest, why doesn't he stay?

When he gave the second time, he didn't go to the Bulls, but to the Wizards, was it disloyalty?

When James made Decision 2, the opposition was much quieter.

And by the time he decided 3, there was no longer any dissent.

The reason is very simple, there is a goods in front of me who has already broken the word "loyalty" and stepped on the ground and crumpled it.

You are a business alliance, what kind of loyalty or disloyalty?

For the NBA, any cultural phenomenon is not the same thing as long as the fans don't take it seriously.

When fans saw the excitement of "disloyalty" in Bruce Lee, they began to hope that the league would change a little bit every year.

Nowadays, many team managers are trembling and trying to build a good relationship with the team's top stars.

Otherwise, they will really follow suit, and Leonard is the best example.

It is said that the Rockets have begun to have a headache this year and want to renew James Harden's contract early.

Because this summer, they didn't catch anything but one Leon Anderson.

He also smashed a salary cap with two years left on his contract, Dwight Howard.

This monster that Morey has been coveted for has become the number one big garbage contract because of injuries and changes in the league's tides.

The scary thing is that the signing of Anderson is still predictable that it will be a big garbage contract in the future.

It's really hard to say how much patience James Harden can spare for Houston.

After all, the eldest brother and the second brother have already fulfilled their dream of winning the championship, and he is still far away.