Bishop of the Devil

"Carlisle, please inform the Timberwolves that we have accepted their offer. When the draft starts, I will tell them the rookie we want to select!"

Carlisle nodded. The Timberwolves' offer was extremely sincere. There was no need for the Trail Blazers to continue to rip off others. After all, Ryder was not wanted by anyone...

The Timberwolves were so anxious that they simply gave up the deal with the Trail Blazers, and Richard could only stare.

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This deal with the Timberwolves can be said to be a win-win situation!

The Timberwolves eliminated the instability within the team, stabilized military morale, and got good potential newcomers and immediate combat capabilities from the Trail Blazers!

But Richard got Ryder, a shooting guard who averaged nearly 20 points per game, and a high second-round draft pick, which he could use to make a big deal!

In this deal, the Timberwolves' annual salary for Leder matched the annual salaries of the three players offered by the Trail Blazers. Obviously, they had thought carefully before making this offer!

The NBA has a lot of trading restrictions. It doesn't mean that you can trade whoever you want. You must first meet the principle of salary parity, which is trade balancing!

Of course, this salary parity also depends on the situation. In the case of a single player transaction, salary parity does not necessarily need to be met. For example, a player worth $10 million trades a player worth $1 million, and the transaction is separate. This is It's feasible. The party that spends $10 million on a player can get a $9 million trade exception after the trade!

Fans will definitely be familiar with the trading exception, which was created under such circumstances!

And if multiple players are packaged and traded, the principle of salary parity must be met. The player salaries of both parties to the transaction must be consistent, and the fluctuation must be within the framework of 25% of the player's salary plus or minus 100,000!

For example, Leder's annual salary is three million U.S. dollars. The combined salary of the Blazers players who can match his salary ranges from 2.15 million to 3.85 million U.S. dollars!

The total salary of Corley, James Robinson and McGee totals 3.08 million, which obviously meets the trade balancing rules.

Draft picks, cash, etc. all have a value of 0 in the trade balancing rules and will not affect the trade balancing...

If you study this trade balancing rule carefully, you can actually find that there are loopholes in this rule. For example, in the deal between the Trail Blazers and the Timberwolves, they did not package it, but conducted a batch transaction, trading McGee for Leder. , this way the Timberwolves got a two million dollar trade exception!

Then the Timberwolves used the draft picks and a minimum-salary player to exchange for Corley and James Robinson respectively. In this way, the Trail Blazers also got a trade exception of almost two million US dollars!

Trading exceptions play a great role. For example, in the future trade between the Rockets and Magic regarding Tracy McGrady, this loophole was exploited. Various single exchanges were made, and both teams received a lot of trading exceptions.

It's just that the two million transaction exception is a bit too rare and generally doesn't have much effect, so Richard and the Timberwolves didn't take advantage of this loophole.

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This trade balance can be said to be simple or complicated, and ordinary fans don’t need to understand it...

Just like Takeshi Jincheng's surname is Jincheng, Yi Nengjing's surname is Yi Neng, and Yu Qian, who speaks cross talk, is the vice president of the Rock and Roll Association, and knows that these things are of little use.

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In this way, Richard's first transaction after entering the NBA was completed!

In other words, it was the first trade after time travel. After all, Richard had no chance to trade before in the NCAA...

Of course, although the two parties will finalize the contract, they are unable to sign a formal written contract because the trading market has not yet opened.

Even if the trade market opens the day before the draft, taking into account the July freeze period, the actual signing of this deal will have to wait until August...

Since the two parties did not sign a formal contract, but only made a verbal commitment, it was common for them to go back on their word in August.

For example, Jordan of later generations verbally agreed to Cuban to join the Mavericks, but when the freeze period ended in July, he regretted it...

It is indeed not nonsense to say that old teammates of the Clippers blocked the door for Jordan to switch to the Mavericks. However, in fact, the reason why Jordan continues to stay with the Clippers is that the salary offered by the Clippers is higher than that of the Mavericks...

Therefore, this person gave him the nickname "Qiao Shouxin".

So even if the deal is finalized now, Richard will not take it lightly and must be on guard against others. If the Timberwolves regret it, in that case, Richard will be very passive!

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In the next few days, Richard received a call from Philip Sr.

The phone call came to announce the good news...

The list that Richard kept when he left, in the end Brownie took the new assistant coach across the United States, and the harvest was pretty good!

Mike Bibby and Richard Hamilton willing to join Purdue University...

The Boilermakers, who originally only had a five-star lineup, regained their health instantly and became a seven-star team!

Richard was naturally very happy about this and praised the little brownie...

Purdue University is Richard's logistics base. He must always guard this three-acre land and strive to send new stars to the league every year!

He wants to create a direct team of his own in the NBA!

Sometimes, Richard was shocked by his huge ambition. A direct team composed entirely of all-star players? ! This is simply sensational!

But Richard knew that he could definitely do it!

In the All-Star Game of a certain season in the future, there will definitely be a grand event where more than half of the All-Stars are Richard's disciples!

Thinking of that spectacular scene, Richard trembled with excitement and clenched his fists involuntarily.

"Work hard! Sooner or later the day will come!"

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The team's trial training is proceeding in an orderly manner under the arrangements of Stevens...

But what made Richard a little angry was that he asked Stevens to send out trial invitations to the rookies who were predicted to be lottery picks, but the result was rejected!

Kobe refused the Trail Blazers' tryout without saying a word...

Peja also simply refused the trial invitation!

As for Nash, he refused rather politely, saying that he wanted to check the schedule and come if he had time...

Although Richard was a little angry about this result, it was understandable. After all, the draft pick held by the Blazers was only the 17th overall pick, and the people he invited were all predicted lottery picks. Will definitely focus on trying out teams with high draft picks!

Although O'Neal Jr., Richard's designated insider, did not refuse, his schedule has been scheduled for a month later...

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Originally, Richard wanted to take advantage of the trial training opportunity to get to know these future stars in advance, but now it's good that he hasn't met any of them...

As for people like Iverson and Ben, is it necessary for Richard to try them out? Of course not...

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Time flies so fast, and the finals are over in the blink of an eye!

Joe led the Bulls to defeat the SuperSonics led by Glove Payton and Rainman Kemp, and won the fourth championship of his career!

When Richard won his second NCAA championship before, he felt hesitant in his heart.

Part of the reason for the hesitation is actually Gang Leader Qiao...

The past two years have been the era when Leader Qiao ruled the league. After Richard entered the league, it was simply impossible to lead a new army to defeat the Bulls...

Unless the potential newcomers selected by Richard will directly gain their peak strength after joining Richard's team, in this case, Richard can assemble a five-star peak lineup to kill Joe's chance of leading the Bulls dynasty!

It's just an opportunity, but it's not 100% sure that we can kill the Bulls dynasty...

But this situation is completely a daydream!

Because of Joe's leadership, Richard did not set his goals too high after entering the league. For example, he would defeat the Bulls dynasty and win the championship in his first season...

He looks very brave, but in fact he is no different from a fool.

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In this era, the pressure the Bulls dynasty puts on other teams is basically equivalent to the four-star warriors of later generations!

This is a team that everyone thinks is difficult to beat!

When the four-star Warriors appeared in later generations, many fans said that the Warriors were too powerful and would make the NBA lose suspense and be detrimental to the development of the NBA!

And by the same token, in the era when the Bulls dynasty dominated the league, many fans were saying...

However, in fact, the NBA is still developing rapidly and has not been greatly affected. It makes more money every year...

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In the blink of an eye, time has entered June!

After more than half a month of hard work, the Bullets finally found a team willing to trade their lottery picks!

New Jersey Nets!

The New Jersey Nets hold the eighth pick!

Although Bullets general manager Ernie originally ordered Lynam to look for teams after the tenth pick to make trades, the result was a pain for them...

The bargaining chip used by the Bullets to trade the lottery pick is Parker, their current starting guard on the team!

Last season, he averaged around 18 points and 7 assists per game, which looks like he's not much worse than a flying car...

However, this player's appearance rate has been less than 50% in the past two seasons. Last season, he only played 30 games. In addition, Chris Webber played more than ten games and was reimbursed for the season, which made the Bullets very uncomfortable...

If Parker is reimbursed for the season again this season, the Bullets will have nowhere to cry...

If they continue to fail to make the playoffs, Weber and Juwan Howard will probably want to leave the team. What's even more frightening is that these two people are likely to leave the team together!

Because these two people played together in college, that is, the Michigan Five Tigers...

If one of them leaves, there is no guarantee that the other will not want to leave together.

So they didn't dare to take any more risks and could only focus on the speedster who was much stronger and had a much higher attendance rate!