Time flies. After Li Liang signed with the King in mid-August, the free market was full of enthusiasm, and the big contracts were almost as expensive as money, making a group of lucky players and agents rich.

The Kings won Li Liang for 100 million, which was a huge profit.

Look at other teams.

The Grizzlies signed Chandler Parsons for 98.5 million in four years.

Al Horford, 11.3 billion in 4 years.

Hassan Whiteside, 98 million in 4 years.

Drummond, 1.3 billion in 5 years.

Leon Anderson, 80 million in 4 years.

In comparison, Li Liang's contract is too cost-effective, and the King's management and boss are both smiling.

Not only that, Li Liang's arrival really changed Rondo and wanted to continue to cooperate with the Kings.

So, Rondo accepted the Kings' four-year, full middle-class contract of 25 million.

In terms of money, Rondo must have lost money.

The Bull gave a two-year contract, with an amount of more than 20 million.

Moreover, the 16-year middle class contract is calculated based on the average league salary last season.

Therefore, if Rondo signs another contract next year and uses the middle class, the contract can be close to tens of millions per year.

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

However, for a player like Rondo, victory is often more important than money.

After all, he started very well and he was not convinced by anyone. In addition, Cousins ​​and Li Liang are both juniors from Kentucky, and their relationship scores have been greatly increased.

Moreover, the King is willing to give a long appointment, which is also very important for the players.

Due to Rondo's personality and injuries, many teams no longer dare to submit Rondo's contract of more than two years.

Working in one place with peace of mind is what most players pursue, after all, there is life besides basketball.

The nomadic people like Li Liang, the Xiongnu Chanyu, are really strange among the strange ones.

In addition to Rondo, the King also has two very cost-effective contracts.

One is to use the team's last space, sign Eric Gordon 48 million in four years and 48 million.

The Kings' rival is the Rockets.

The Rockets gave a higher contract price, with 53 million in four years, which is 5 million more than the King's contract.

However, after weighing the trade-offs, Gordon still chose to sign a contract with the King.

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

Gordon was willing to give up 5 million for the sake of the championship.

Moreover, Gordon suffered from injuries in previous seasons.

According to internal rumors in the league, playing basketball with Li Liang will help you get good health.

I don't know how this rumor came out.

But in four years, the players around Li Liang had never suffered much injury except for the ruptured Achilles tendon in the first year of Kobe's finals.

Maybe this is the real chosen person, the glory of health is shrouded in all directions.

After Rondo and Gordon successfully signed the contract, Li Liang did not hesitate to give out the bruises and damage pills and add them to the usual drinks, so that Rondo and Gordon could drink them.

As a result, the two of them had diarrhea the next day.

The hero couldn't stand the three sperm and lay in bed for two days without getting any water.

Gordon and Rondo’s two backcourt signings should be said to be very critical and important.

Both contracts have a very high cost performance.

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

He is a typical player who is more powerful than fame.

Moreover, both of them have excellent offense and defense, and are both players who can play tough battles in the playoffs. They can be said to be very good two signings.

For the king, if Li Liang had not been used as bait, neither of them would be able to take any of these two people.

And Li Liang's attraction is more than that.

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

In September, the Kings announced that they would sign veteran David West with a veteran's basic salary.

West followed the Spurs last season and returned in vain in the playoffs, he decided to follow Li Liang!

In this way, Cousins' substitute problem was solved.

In mid-September, when the training camp was about to open, the King signed Li Liang's old classmate, Terence Jones.

This is a friendly signing.

After finishing his rookie contract with the Rockets, Jones only received a quote contract, and the Rockets no longer have any interest in this soft power forward.

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

So, Terence Jones, who once asked Li Liang to be a substitute, carry a bag and hand over towels in college, completely became Li Liang's younger brother.

It is really one time and another, thirty years from Hedong to Hexi.

Terence Jones is very happy to play with so many Kentucky classmates.

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

In this way, the Kings' training camp will be opened in October.

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

To be honest, this lineup is not much better than the Pacers back then.

If you want to improve, it is that Li Liang's strength is stronger than two years ago.

And it's much stronger.

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On October 3, just the day before the Kings training camp opened, the league held a press conference to announce a new rule to the outside world.

The new provision is to add new terms to the 2011 version of the labor and capital agreement.

The outline of the new terms is: "A player who has won any honors of VP, FVP, Best First Team in the last season will not be allowed to sign a contract that is significantly lower than the market price in the contract signing of the following year."

To put it bluntly, this strange clause was specially formulated by the alliance 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 market is a big example of this.

Originally, the market opened in July, and the trading market should have been booming.

But it is because everyone knows that there is Li Liang, a product that obviously does not conform to market rules and makes money by signing in, so everyone is waiting for the price.

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

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

However, in order to prevent problems, the alliance still issued this clause specifically targeting Li Liang, which was later called the "Bruce-Li clause".

This strange clause completely violates market freedom, because in the past, no one would have used the pole to sign a short-term small contract after obtaining major honors such as VP, which completely violates market laws and human nature.

So much so that more than a year later, he was called "the undercover agent who came from a socialist country and disrupted our free market by the new US president, a real estate tycoon who knew everything."

This "Bruce-Li" clause affects not only Li Liang, but also makes other stars who want to learn from Li Liang and jump back and forth repeatedly lose their chances.

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

Now the team balance of the entire league has been severely damaged.

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

No one can fight.

This year the league holds the All-Star Game, and the Eastern Conference's lineup will inevitably be extremely shabby.

Unless there will be any big deals during the season, let the Eastern Conference star lineup be more fulfilled.

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

In the past, fans often stood at the team's perspective and spoke for the team.

After all, this league is a league composed of 30 bosses. No matter how powerful the stars are, they are essentially employees.

All public opinion propaganda is biased towards the team.

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

James was almost hacked to carbon at that time, and domestic and overseas media unanimously criticized James.
To be continued...