The maximum maximum salary that can be earned if the rules allow.

As soon as Chen Mu said this, the shareholders were stunned, and then thought about it carefully.

"No problem, no problem!"

Make a decision on the spot!

"Thank you for believing in me, so let's do it, Stefansky."

Chen Mu "succeeded in his treacherous plan", laughed loudly, and gave a thumbs up to Stefansky.

Chen Mu is in the Philadelphia 76ers, and he has been playing for three years. After the end of the first season, Chen Mu signed a long-term contract with the team, a poison contract, which made Chen Mu's salary in the last year reach the 15 million mark.

At that time, Chen Mu's contract was of the nature of 2+2, with an average salary of about 5 million in the first two years and an average salary of about 15 million in the last two years, which was a typical poison contract. The reason why such a contract can be signed is because Chen Mu signed with the team as an undrafted player, and there are not many restrictions on rookie players, although it is not exact, but it is equivalent to signing a free agent.

Considering the speed of Chen Mu's progress, this contract is definitely worth it, and so far, the Philadelphia 76ers have paid Chen Mu about 25 million in salary. During this contract period, Chen Mu completed a super counterattack, from being drafted to a superstar, and winning the MVP.

The player option for the final year allows Chen Mu to jump out of his contract and seek his highest value.

And as an undrafted pick, the benefits of signing with the team are also reflected here.

Chen Mu does not need to pay attention to any rules and regulations related to the league's official rookies, as long as it does not violate the maximum salary requirement, Philadelphia can theoretically give Chen Mu any contract that Chen Mu wants.

According to Chen Mu's situation, as well as the current financial situation of the Philadelphia 76ers, as well as the league's salary cap regulations, the maximum contract that Chen Mu can get can be more than 15 million yuan.

But such a contract. Is it all Chen Mu needs?

Of course not.

"We should thank you!"

A shareholder representative smiled at Chen Mu: "If you weren't willing to sign a poison contract with the team, our salary space would have been locked up last year, and it would be difficult to renew Iguodala's contract with a contract of tens of millions." ”

"yes, yes." Another shareholder said: "If it weren't for you, we might have lost Andre by now, and the team lineup had to be polished from scratch, you are a favor to the team, and we should meet your requirements!" ”

"Well, I've discussed this matter with Chen."

Stefansky was very pleased with the reaction of the shareholders and nodded: "According to the collective bargaining agreement." Chen can sign a contract with us for up to 5 years, with an average salary starting from 15 million and finally rising to 20 million. Because he is not a serious draft player, the rules such as the increase limit on the rookie's second contract have nothing to do with him, and we can go directly to the maximum salary. ”

"In this year's draft, we have a top-10 pick, plus this rookie contract. There are other sporadic players with contract extensions and so on, and we are still optimistic about the salary space next year. ”

As he spoke, Stefansky took out a report and asked the staff to hand it to each participant. He continued: "Here's our expected salary space for next year, you can take a look at it and put forward any ideas now. ”

"Well, Andrei more than 12 million. Kyle is more than 5 million, Lowry and Darko are still a year away, and Deandre and Carney still have time to ......"

Shareholders frowned and looked at it. One of them suddenly realized that something was wrong and said, "No, Stefansky." ”

"How?"

"If that is the case, there will be no problem next year, we have enough space to offer Arun a contract. But the words of the year after that...... Many people need to renew their contracts, and when the time comes, the value will rise, and it is estimated that they will not be able to retain people! ”

As soon as the shareholder's words came out, everyone nodded frequently.

He is right, the reason why the Philadelphia 76ers' salary space is healthy is because Chen Mu held a contract that was much smaller than his actual value in the previous two years. Before his salary was about to skyrocket, he just made room for Iguodala.

But then, by the end of the 2010 season, Philadelphia will face a large number of players to renew their contracts.

Kyle Lowry, after the end of his current contract, a contract between eight million and ten million is expected. Here, Philadelphia has to lose a lot of salary space.

Dacomilisic, after the end of his current contract, a contract of 700 to 9 million is not too much. Here, again, is a big expense.

There are also Carney, Evans, Thaddeus Young, Jordan Jr. and others whose contracts will also expire next year or the year after.

If they want to retain their main core team, the Philadelphia 76ers will inevitably pay a large luxury tax, which is one of the last things that Philadelphia shareholders want.

If the team wins back-to-back championships, a certain luxury tax expense is worth it. But even so, it doesn't mean that the team can write a check without anything like Dallas or New York!

The team needs championship accolades to further boost popularity, increase the commercial value of the team, and make a lot of money. But it also needs to be considered rationally, and it is absolutely impossible to think of the NBA game as just a simple basketball game.

Business is business, and the truth on the NBA court may be forgotten by players with a straight temper, but management will never forget it.

Moreover, there are many doorways to renew a contract and other things, and the provisions in the collective bargaining agreement are very detailed. It's not that you Philadelphia 76ers, who you want to renew your contract and how much money you want to give, you can just write a check.

If certain conditions cannot be met, the league's collective bargaining agreement will generally tend to give priority to the team to ensure that the star is retained. As for the other role players, it won't be as much of an eye.

When the time comes, the team is bound to meet Chen Mu's needs as soon as possible. Down in the back row, Iguodala certainly couldn't move. These two internal and external cores are the box office and record guarantee of the Philadelphia 76ers in the next ten years.

And Chen Mu and Iguodala's contracts will increase over time. When Chen Mu's salary reaches the 20 million mark, Iguodala's salary will also approach 15 million. Together, the two will take $35 million from Philadelphia, and the rest of the money will have to sign at least eight to ten players.

Even the Philadelphia 76ers can see it every time. If you win a super rookie, you can't always use each other as a coolie. Sooner or later, people will have to sign big contracts, and they will be prosperous!

What to do then? Pointing at Chen Mu and Iguodala, the two beating people are twelve?

Or, if you want to let go of some players, who is the right person to let go? Now Philadelphia has all young talents on hand, and it is not cost-effective to let any of them go.

If Lowry also gets 10 million, Milicic gets 8 million, and Jordan Jr. also gets 10 million when he grows up, the team will still allocate a fart salary??

To stay competitive. To maintain the dynasty, previous examples, such as the OK combination, relied on the super deterrence of Kobe and O'Neal, and continued to attract "cost-effective" players, which lasted until three years.

The previous Bull Dynasty, if it weren't for Pippen's "self-sacrifice (fog)", would not have been able to complete two triple crowns.

The dynasty team did not die from internal and external troubles. Rather, he died by collective bargaining agreement.

This is also the original intention of the collective bargaining agreement, and the NBA does not want to see the situation of the Celtics dominating the NBA in ancient times.

If you want to find loopholes and opportunities, it seems that ...... I can only start from Chen Mu!

"So. I've consulted with Stefansky and I'm going to submit a proposal to the Alliance. ”

Seeing the concerns of the shareholders, Chen Mu was not in a hurry, and said indifferently: "My situation is very special. Losing the draft and becoming an MVP has never been done in NBA history, right? Since we're so special, can we get the league to give us a salary exception? In order to keep Philadelphia competitive, so that it will not sit on the league's most popular superstar in the future, but it will not be able to play a good record! ”

Damn, this guy is really shameless.

The shareholders were all amused by Chen Mu's shameless self-deception, looked at Chen Mu with a smile, and listened to Chen Mu continue to speak.

"I don't know the specifics of this, but Stefansky does. He said there have been similar exceptions, and in order to keep the league's best looking situation repeatedly, the league has a precedent of giving exceptions to a certain team and eventually promoting it. ”

"Chen is right, and you're all familiar with that exception." Stefansky nodded to the side and said, "Byrd Clause." ”

“…… Reasonable! ”

Stefansky said a word, and the shareholders immediately understood.

In the era of the NBA's black and white heroes in the 80s, the most popular superstars Bird and Magic gave countless wonderful games to the fans.

In order to keep this yellow-green battle for supremacy repeated and give fans the greatest excitement to watch, the league specially tailored a clause for the Celtics.

The Bird Clause, which is often referred to as bird rights.

At the time, Bird was on the verge of becoming a free agent, and with his strength and fame, countless teams wanted to sign him on a super contract. On the Celtics side, because there are already many historical-level players, the salary space is not enough, and they are overstretched for a while.

Thus, the bird right appeared.

Teams and players who qualify for bird rights can renew the contract of veteran players (who have played for the same team for more than three years) with certain increase rules, regardless of the salary cap. The release of this clause gave the Celtics a green light, Bird successfully stayed on the team, the yellow-green hegemony continued, and the NBA also entered its own super glory period.

Of course, in addition to bird rights, there are also details such as early bird rights, non-bird rights, etc., but they have little to do with the theme, so I will not repeat them.

In short, in order to keep the league games good and exciting, and to keep the alignment between superstars unfolding again and again, the NBA can be said to do everything.

Now, Chen Mu has appeared, opposite Bird in Philadelphia, who can become his lifelong enemy - magician?

"LeBron James."

Stefansky continued: "If the league wants to continue to watch Chen's drama against James, it is better to listen to Chen obediently and come up with the 'Chen Mu Clause'......!" (To be continued.) )

PS: Chen Mu's clause, it sounds like a cow fork!