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On January 23, tomorrow is the time for the training camp to begin. Pierce came to Zhang Hao's house early today and happened to meet Zhang Hao who came back from a morning run.

Pierce has been to Zhang Hao's house in the past two days. Zhang Hao has been training at home these two days and has not gone to the Lakers training hall. Pierce, who is usually too talkative, has been quiet these two days and has not disturbed Zhang Hao's training. She stayed alone and was just training silently.

Before, Zhang Hao didn't know why McGrady in the original time and space quarreled to leave the Magic in the 2003-2004 season.

The reason the media discovered was that the Magic sent away Mike Miller, the best friend of McGrady, and even if the teammates they exchanged were Drew Gooden, who was more powerful and needed by the Magic, McGrady still didn't want to stay in the Magic for a day.

Now, Zhang Hao has learned this feeling.

This morning, the Lakers notified Jason Williams before deciding to offer him a contract worth more than $35 million.

He did not respond to the Lakers' decision at that time, and said he knew it and hung up the phone.

However, compared to McGrady's situation at that time, although Zhang Hao had negative emotions, he was not as strong as leaving.

The strength of the team is very important. McGrady was in a super bad team at that time. Grant Hill was reimbursed for many years. Duncan agreed to have not come. McGrady was forced to open business and become a superstar. As a result, her best friend was sold by the team...

Compared to this, Zhang Hao's situation is much better, so he chose to calm down at home.

While having breakfast, Pierce couldn't help it and asked in a heavy tone: "Aix, do you want to leave the Lakers?"

It's been three days, Zhang Hao has been waiting for three days, and this guy finally asked.

Before Zhang Hao could answer, Pierce continued: "I can understand your mood, so no matter what decision you make, I will choose to support it."

Still, before Zhang Hao answered, Pierce's style suddenly changed!

"No matter what, my basketball creed is to become the best player in the history of the Lakers! To become the soul of the Lakers! If you leave, wait on the court for the sanctions of the Lakers led by me!"

“…”

Zhang Hao was speechless, he didn't say a word! Pierce finished everything!

It seems that this middle school friend has been so tired after two days of holding it in.

Unlike Zhang Hao, Pierce doesn't care about the "teammates" aspect, but just that Pierce's relationship with him and Zhang Hao will not change just because of whether he can continue to be a teammate.

On the contrary, Pierce cared more about Zhang Hao's feelings.

So, Pierce waited until he felt that Zhang Hao should be able to make a decision calmly, but when he shut up, he could close it for two days. Once his mouth was opened, he couldn't control it.

Seeing that Pierce finally finished speaking, Zhang Hao replied: "I didn't say I was leaving."

"Ah? Then why haven't you been to the stadium these two days?"

"It's too noisy to try out after Jason left the team, it's so noisy that it affects my training."

"Is this... like this?"

“Have you eaten breakfast?”

"I've eaten it, this porridge is delicious! This is pork, right? What's this black one? I'll ask my mother to help me with it when I go back."

"Uh, you'd better not know. Let's go to the stadium. The logo man asked me to talk, and he would definitely call you."

"Hey, I didn't tell you to call me to go with you! How did you know?"

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Zhang Hao on the opposite side looked calm, but the logo man was not so calm.

It happened to be ten years ago that he had built a team that won't defend his title successfully after two consecutive championships. After two consecutive championships, although the Magicians, Byron Scott and James Worthy were at their peak, he did not win the championship in the next three years.

There are many reasons. The logo man has summarized a lot of experience, but this time the two consecutive championships came too quickly like a tornado...

The main reason is that he has never met a player like Zhang Hao. Even though he is scheming, he still doesn't know how to speak for a while.

It’s better to say that Zhang Hao and Jabbar are similar. Apart from being cold, they are not liked at all. Zhang Hao will hardly get angry when making decisions. Jabbar is withdrawn, and Zhang Hao is purely calm.

So, today the logo man called Silver Foxes, Pierce, Magicians, and James Worthy. If Byron Scott had not been to the Nets as the head coach, Byron Scott would have also called Byron Scott. In addition, in order to show the team's importance, except for Old Bass, Jenny Bass, Jerry Bass, Johnny Bass, Kupcheck, Antoine Kyle... and other team leaders have come.

However, after coming in and sitting for a long time, Zhang Hao just greeted each of them one by one, maintaining the etiquette as always, but after saying hello, he sat there without saying a word.

If Zhang Hao gets angry at this time, the logo man feels it is easier to deal with and it will be easier to solve the current dilemma.

But Zhang Hao didn't say anything, and the logo man didn't know where to start.

Thinking about logo men, I feel that life is hard. After two consecutive championships, Kenny Anderson and Jason Williams, who are in their year of playing, both have doubled their value, and the increase in market prices is not enough to describe it as exaggeration.

But such an exaggerated salary increase is really a team to pay for. The news from the logo man got from his relationship network that if the Celtics did not take action in advance, the Bulls and the Pistons might provide a three-year contract offer of about 50 million.

Jason Williams' rebounding scrambles like Rodman's inside line. It's also valuable at the age of 30. Teams who want to train a shooting-type outside line like this inside line. The quotes given by other teams are not as high as the Nets, but the total price is also around 40 million.

If Doug Christie did not choose to execute the player option after the draft, Doug Christie's market price would be around $8 million for about a year.

Their main players of the Lakers were all at the beginning of the team's salary cuts, and they signed short contracts. Now salary issues are emerging...

Obviously, there are factors that other teams don’t want to see them continue to win the championship, from modifying the rules to poaching players whose contracts expire at high salaries…

Look, Zhang Hao didn't go to the stadium for training for two days, and some media were hyping Zhang Hao because their Lakers did not leave Zhang Hao's two old teammates, which aroused Zhang Hao's dissatisfaction.

There was no way, the logo man could only take the initiative to speak: "Aix, Kenny and Jason, their value is very high now. We can't give them such a high salary now. If they are left behind, our salary situation will be very bad."

After the logo man finished speaking, Zhang Hao nodded: "Mr. West, from your perspective, I can understand why you made this choice."

This answer... the logo man continued: "We have long-term plans for the future of you and Shaq's duo. In order to create a better environment for you, we will often give up some things..."

"Mr. West, have you calculated how much my salary and Mr. O'Neal are combined?" Before the other party answered, Zhang Hao continued: "This season is 30 million, and next season is 34.34 million. The schedule of this season has been reduced by nearly 40%. It is already difficult for the salary cap to maintain this year's level. In the 00-01 season, the salary and I and Mr. O'Neal are combined 39.58 million. I think Mr. West, you can understand what I mean."

The logo man suddenly understood something...

Since luxury tax is a new rule, almost all team management cannot really judge what this rule represents before it starts to work. When considering the impact of luxury tax, everyone is thinking in a bad direction, even the logo man is the same.

Thinking of this, the logo man suddenly realized! He began to be upset that he had not renewed his contract with Jason Williams for 36 million in 3 years or 36 million in 4 years.

Just as the logo man was about to say something, Jim Bass jumped out.

Jim Buss said strongly: "It is precisely because you and O'Neal's salary are too high that we cannot renew our contract with Anderson and Williams. If we renew our contract with both of them, our luxury tax will not be controlled!"

When the logo man, magician, Johnny Bass and others heard this, they were scolding in their hearts!

"What does it have to do with me if I can't control the luxury tax? The only thing I need to care about is whether I can help the team win and whether there is a better chance to win the championship."

The logo man wanted to stop Jim Bass and stop the boss's stupid son from continuing to speak, but he still couldn't stop him.

Jim Bass responded: "If we hadn't traded you from New Jersey, you wouldn't have a chance to compete for the championship!"

Zhang Hao was amused when he heard this: "Boss, I had defeated Jordan before I came. Where are you?"

As soon as Zhang Hao's "temptation" came out, the logo man was desperate.

The magician sat next to him, and Zhang Hao still said such things. Except for Jim Bath, everyone else here understood that Zhang Hao looked calm now, but in fact he was already angry.

Logo men's brain teaser, said from a different angle: "Aix, the most important purpose of our reduction of salary is to provide you with the largest contract in the summer of 2001..."

Before the logo man finished speaking, Jim Bass snatched the conversation: "That's right, if we hadn't given you a higher salary than Garnett, our operations wouldn't be subject to so many restrictions! Anderson and Williams don't have to leave!"

Now, the logo man is completely out of temper. The boss’s stupid son is wrong!

It is already obvious that Zhang Hao just wants to hit the team managers, hoping to gain more say through this contract renewal.

And Zhang Hao is right. In the next three years, Zhang Hao and O'Neal's salary will basically fill the salary cap. Kenny Anderson's contract is too big, and there is no way. After the new version of the labor-management agreement is released, those superstars of 7 years of football age will not get such a high salary as Kenny Anderson under the current salary cap.

Moreover, they tried to stop the loss to the maximum extent and chose Pierce, Zhang Hao's friend, and had already settled the matter.

This time, Jason Williams did not renew his contract, and it was indeed a problem with their operations. Jason Williams was let go this time. They wanted to sign back a substitute with an annual salary of tens of millions of yuan in the future and could not sign back.

The logo man was still brainstorming and what to say. The Magician and others who came to help did not expect the situation to become like this. They had a good talk, but for the team management, the star was dissatisfied with it, and because of the reason they wanted to hit the management, they just wanted to endure it.

Originally, the Magician and others thought that as long as the management surrendered, it would be fine. Jim Bass was better and directly pushed this matter to another level.

Now I don’t know where to start if I want to ease the situation!

At this time, Zhang Hao asked a question: "Mr. West, do you think I really care so much about whether I can get the highest salary?"

The people at the scene were stunned when they heard this.

The character is very important. The stone Buddha does not lie.

Logo man, Kupchek, Jenny Bass and others remembered the previous year. Before the start of last season, Jim Bass made a constructive opinion. Zhang Hao may not have too high salary requirements.

"You are always self-righteous, you always think what I will do. Why don't you come and ask me directly what I think? Do I give you this little salary?"

"I'm worried that I need to pay too much luxury tax, so I'm just giving me an ordinary maximum salary? You have to renew my contract with me in advance and wait until the suspension is over before renewing my contract with me. I have 6 years of football and my starting salary is only 9 million, right?

If necessary, I am willing to sign a lower contract, even at the peak of my career. If you give me the highest salary in a year when I am about to retire and let me retire with great face, then I will be very happy...

But you never asked me what I thought.”

This is the first time that the Lakers management and celebrities have heard Zhang Hao say so much.

But at this time, they didn't feel relieved at all when they saw Zhang Hao's calm expression.

The logo man even put his help look on Pierce, but Pierce just looked at it without any reaction.

Pierce was almost writing on her face that all my decisions to support Aix were to support her.

For some reason, now, the logo man, the magician and others have no idea of ​​being angry with the boss's stupid son, and they all look at Jim Bath with the look of looking at the fool.

"Since that's the case, I will tell you what I think I don't like money, I'm not interested in money."
Chapter completed!