The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

After the interview, Wang Xiao formally submitted an application for resignation to the Basketball Association.

In fact, not many people in the Basketball Association hope that Wang Xiao will continue to coach. Although he led the team to achieve unprecedented results, Wang Xiao has too much power. It's all about his words.

No leader would be happy to see a coach like this stay with the national team.

Strictly speaking, these are not basketball issues anymore, and Wang Xiao is incapable and too lazy to take care of them. Let this kind of issue be left to Yao, who will be the chairman of the Basketball Association in the future.

After all this was over, Wang Xiao was finally able to sneak home and rest for a while, but his rest time was only about two weeks.

As soon as the two weeks were up, he boarded a flight to Milwaukee in the United States non-stop.

The preseason of the new NBA season starts in early October. As the head coach of the team, it is inevitable to return to the team two weeks in advance to arrange various work matters for the new season. In fact, two weeks in advance is a bit late.

This year's Bucks don't really have much to worry about.

The team currently has a well-organized and strong lineup. In the new season, as long as the distribution of the ball is done well and the players are not troubled by injuries, the defense is basically no problem.

Last season, Durant took the initiative to defect completely disrupted Wang Xiao's team building ideas, and directly ushered in the finale of the league, which he never expected.

Having said that, of course, some work needs to be done.

First of all, the Bucks want to keep Durant whose contract has expired. Last season, the team led the team to win the championship under the leadership of Durant and was elected as the MVP of the finals. For a salary contract, the total amount for three years must be at least around 85 million, with an average annual salary of 28 million.

This is not a small amount, but the Bucks currently only have Klay Thompson with a big contract, and Durant's renewal is more than enough, unless the opponent himself is unwilling to stay in the Bucks, but this is impossible.

Durant, who has just won a championship and an FMVP trophy, is in the honeymoon period with the Bucks. As long as the money is in place, the contract renewal can be completed in minutes.

After the NBA’s new TV broadcasting contract came into effect, the salary cap began to skyrocket. Many high-priced contracts were born in July this year, the most famous of which was a five-year contract worth 153 million yuan signed by the Grizzlies and point guard Mike Conley in early July. USD maximum salary contract.

This contract broke many league records and became the largest contract in NBA history.

But it didn't take long for this record to be broken and refreshed by other players one after another.

In July 2017, Curry signed a new five-year, $201 million contract with the Warriors.

In the same month, Harden reached an early contract renewal agreement with a certain team. The deadline for the new contract was extended to 2023. The old and new contracts add up to 228 million in 6 years.

In September 2017, Russell Westbrook and the Thunder reached a contract extension agreement, and stayed with the Thunder for 5 years with 205 million US dollars.

By that time, Conley's 5-year 153 million contract would already be considered a relatively cheap contract.

For the Bucks, the skyrocketing salary cap has many benefits.

First of all, the soaring salary cap allows the team to have the capital to keep more outstanding players at the same time, and will not be forced to let go of too many powerful players like the Wizards.

Like Antetokounmpo whose contract expires next year, the team can stay with the maximum salary without even frowning. As for rookie contracts that expire later and will not be renewed until 18 years, Jokic and Embiid, It's a bit difficult, after all, these players need a maximum salary to keep them. If all five of them stay, then the salary of these five players alone will exceed 100 million yuan.

Wang Xiao will not consider the issue of Jokic and Embiid's contract extension. That will happen in the summer of 2018. The Bucks are a dynasty.

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In addition to Durant's contract extension, the Bucks' role players also need to be supplemented. After the end of the 2015-16 season, there are only 7 players in the Bucks team who still have contracts. Rand is only 8 people.

These 8 people are: defender Klay Thompson, Kyle Korver.

Forward Kevin Durant, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Larry Sanders, center Joel Embiid, Nikola Jokic, Zaza Pachulia.

In the next half month, Wang Xiao must complete the Bucks' lineup and assemble a roster of at least 12 people.

For Wang Xiao, this is not difficult.

It may be difficult to find some players who are suitable to start and have outstanding strength, but it is not too easy to find some role players who are on the bench and in garbage time.

Wang Xiao now has several suitable candidates.

The first person he asked his assistant to help contact was the former Wizards player, center JaVale McGee.

Among the centers who came out of the Wizards, McGee was the worst one.

At the beginning, McGee, like Jordan and Whiteside, received an annual salary of tens of millions. However, although McGee's talent is not inferior to Jordan and Whiteside, but because of attention deficit syndrome, he is very difficult to play on the court. It is difficult to concentrate for a long time, and he always does some mentally handicapped behaviors that are difficult for ordinary people to understand. This makes McGee have not made much progress in these years.

To make matters worse, due to injuries, McGee's bounce and explosion were also affected, which directly led to his layoff by the team.

McGee is now an unrestricted free agent, and is looking for a home everywhere.

It doesn't take much to sign McGee, a basic salary is enough.

Although the Bucks are not short of insiders now, considering Embiid's glass physique, hoarding more ready-to-combat centers will definitely not suffer.

What's more, Hao Peng will be in the NBA this season, and the Lakers with Hao Peng and Butler will rise at that time. If they catch another big fish in the free market, they may immediately become a strong team that stands out in the Western Division.

If the Bucks really meet the Lakers in the finals, Jokic's defensive level can only be regarded as mediocre, and he can deal with ordinary centers. He will be 100% blown up if he meets Hao Peng.

Sign McGee in case of emergency. Even if Hao Peng can't stop Hao Peng, it can still help share some firepower.

The second person Wang Xiao contacted was Fred Van Vleet, the Raptors guard who was later jokingly called Van Jordan.

Van Fleet is a rookie this year. He participated in the draft like Hao Peng, but he lost.

Originally, according to the historical trend, he would represent the Raptors in this summer's summer league, and then sign a two-year minimum salary contract with the Raptors because of his outstanding performance in the summer league.

It's a pity that there is Wang Xiao in this time and space.

When Wang Xiao led the Huaxia men's basketball team to the Olympics, he had already instructed the assistant coach of the Bucks to participate in the summer league to recruit Van Vleet to the team.

So the undrafted rookie became a member of the Bucks Summer League, and successfully got the Bucks' contract renewal commitment after the Summer League.

Since Wang Xiao was still in Rio de Janeiro at the time, the Bucks did not immediately sign the contract with Van Vleet, but waited for Wang Xiao to deal with it himself when he came back.