Chapter 821 (1/2)

In the summer of 2014, compared with previous years, it was extraordinarily human.

First of all, Randolph took the initiative to cut his salary by 6 million in order to retain the team's championship framework.

Just when people thought the six million prize was tough enough, Dirk Nowitzki came up with a tougher one.

Nowitzki, who was able to earn 22.72 million a year in Dallas last season, decided to take the initiative to reduce his salary so that the Mavericks have room to operate in the free agent market. He signed a new contract with the Mavericks, only 7.97 million a year!

Originally, Kuban offered Dirk a $20 million a year contract. After all, Dirk still averaged 21.7 points, 6.2 rebounds, 49.7 percent and 39.8 percent of three-point shots last season.

Although he is old, he is still an indispensable part of Dallas Mavericks.

However, Dirk refused Kuban's package, and he had never been a manager. He bargained with him for the first time. Of course, unlike other people, Dirk didn't bargain for a higher salary. Instead, he hoped that Kuban would give him less.

In the end, there was a contract for just $7.97 million.

7.97 million a year, which is undoubtedly seriously inconsistent with Dirk's ability. He reduced his salary by 12 million dollars, twice that of Randolph!

You know, even Garnett, who doesn't have a lot of fuel in his tank, just signed a contract with the nets that doesn't have 12 million yuan in a year.

Dirk's 7.97 million makes people feel strange.

However, these do not conform to the laws of business, do not meet the business standards of things did happen.

Randolph, Nowitzki, including Duncan, who took the initiative to cut his salary last summer, have all told us that NBA is far more than business.

Of course, those who are willing to reduce their salary and stay in the original team are only a small number of people. Most of the players in the free agent market still make choices that are more in line with business rules.

On July 12, 2014, a month after the Miami Heat failed in the finals, LeBron James ended the biggest suspense of the summer.

James rejected the heat's five-year deal with Pat Riley and chose to return to Cleveland to sign a two-year 1 + 1 contract with the Cavaliers of 42.18 million.

In a flash, the news of Randolph and Nowitzki's salary cuts was suppressed by James. No one thought that, in Miami for four consecutive years to reach the finals, in the case of being able to fight with his good brother, James actually chose to leave again!

”I was a kid from Northeastern Ohio until nobody cared where I was playing. This is where I come out, where I run, where I cry, where I bleed. It always has a special place in my heart. I'm more connected to northeastern Ohio than basketball, which I didn't realize four years ago, and now I do

This time, although James didn't do any live coverage of the United States, he still published a seemingly touching text on social media.

Four years ago, he was extremely angry about James' departure, and even ”retaliated against the society”, which made Paul and Kobe's possible Cavaliers boss Gilbert upset. After learning that James was back, he immediately licked it up, ”welcome home, King James! I'm happy for the fans and the people in Cleveland and Ohio, no one deserves a championship more than them

Although he has already experienced it once, watching James and Gilbert sing each other on social media, link thinks that this is really a nonsense farce, which is even more unreasonable than Randolph's 6 million salary cut.

Home basketball? Entanglement? For Cleveland?

Link doesn't dare say that these are fake, but these are by no means the main reason why James went back to Cleveland.

James's main reason for coming back to Cleveland is simple - the heat can't beat link any more, and they have to find stronger and younger helpers to beat link and Grizzlies.

However, this most real reason is packaged in such seemingly tall words as ”hometown basketball”.

Fans are not idiots, they know better than anyone else. Miami fans, in particular, have finally experienced the feelings of Cleveland four years ago.

So what happened in Cleveland four years ago is now happening again in Miami.

Extreme heat fans burned James's No. 6 Jersey in the street, burning the Jersey and abusing it. At this moment, they think James ”betrayed” himself.

In addition, on North 29th Street near Miami Avenue, a giant fresco of the heat family photo shows James's face blackened by fans.