The time came to July 1, the door of the NBA free agent market officially opened.

Howard's whereabouts are still the focus of everyone's attention, but this is obviously not a matter of overnight.

Like the court drama, the odds will be twists and turns.

Even because many teams with space are waiting for Howard's choice, there are not many signings after the free market door opens this year.

The first player to reach a contract extension is a bit surprising.

Yi Jianlian and Mavericks reached a 2-year, 5 million oral contract extension, of which the second year is a player option.

Yi Jianlian successfully stayed in the NBA with his outstanding performance for half a season, and signed a 1 + 1 contract, which also shows that he is now very confident in himself.

"Germany Yi Jianlian" praised the signing at the first moment.

This shows that Yi Jianlian's performance last season was also recognized by his teammates.

Over the next few days, small signings were concluded in the free market.

The Hornets renewed Eric Gordon, the Nets renewed Gerald Wallace, and the Timberwolves issued a four-year, 45 million offer to restricted Batum.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly way.

But when the free market arrived on the fifth day, the Rockets suddenly jumped out and caught everyone's attention.

They quoted the Knicks' Jeremy Lin for a 4-year, 2880 contract.

This is a very special contract.

As early as 2003, the rules of the alliance were still not fully regulated.

After being a second-round pick, Arenas received a six-year, 65 million offer from the Wizards after his two-year rookie contract with the Warriors expired.

At that time, the Warriors had already exceeded the salary cap, and they could only give Arenas a renewal contract with a starting salary of 4.9 million.

The gap between the two contracts is so big that the Warriors can only watch Arenas, who has become a quasi-all-star, leave Washington.

This caused the Warriors to suffer huge losses at the time and fell into a very long period of turbulence.

Since then, the league has introduced the famous "Arenas clause."

Arenas terms stipulate that in the NBA's restricted free agents played for 1-2 years, other teams' invitation contracts, the first year's salary must not exceed the middle class terms of the year.

In this clause, it is also stipulated that the salary of the second year is subject to a maximum increase of 8%.

The third year's salary can be greatly increased. It can be the highest salary that the team can implement the option, and it is not subject to the average salary rule.

At the same time, the salary provided in the contract must be guaranteed and not include any other form of bonus.

And if the increase in the third year exceeds the 8% standard, the league will set an additional limit for the team: In order to be able to determine the maximum salary that the team can pay, they not only confirm whether the first year's salary meets Standard, they must confirm that the average salary throughout the contract period is lower than the maximum salary.

Arenas clause is very long, probably means that the first two years can only be a middle-class contract, but the third year can directly provide a maximum salary.

However, when making this offer, you must have sufficient salary space, and the average annual salary cannot be higher than this space.

For example, if a team has a space of $ 8 million from the maximum salary, then it must guarantee that the total contract amount for 3 years does not exceed 24 million, 4 years does not exceed 3,200, and 5 years does not exceed 40 million.

If the space is 11 million, the maximum contract can only be 55 million in 5 years.

The Rockets contract for Lin Shuhao is a contract within 3200 for 4 years.

Five million in the first year and 5.4 million in the second. The average annual salary in the next two years is 9.3 million.

The Knicks quickly matched.

General manager Glen Wald has publicly stated that the Knicks will match any offer on Jeremy Lin.

The meaning of this sentence, "Lin crazy" is an integral part of the Knicks.

The NBA is a commercial league. At the time, Yao Ming helped the Rockets ’poorest bosses explode by a factor of ten. The Chinese market has attracted many teams.

After Lin Shuhao played Lin crazy season, the Knicks management said such words, obviously aimed at the huge Chinese market.

But not long after the Knicks matched the contract, the Rockets opened another three-year 25.1 million contract.

This contract is similar to the previous quotation contract, but the difference is that this is the largest three-year quotation contract that the Rockets can offer.

Jeremy Lin's third-year contract will reach its maximum salary of 13.8 million!

What is the concept of 13.8 million at this time?

Also at the Knicks, Tyson Chandler, who just won the best defensive player last season, will earn 13.6 million in the new season!

Just reached a contract extension with the Thunder. One of the team ’s four youngest Ibakas, the first year the new contract came into effect, the salary was 12.25 million!

And even the absolute core of the Pacers last season, All-Star Danny Granger, his contract salary next season is only 13.69 million!

Jeremy Lin's performance last season was crazy enough, but renewed him at the maximum salary, and he must shake hands when he agrees.

Originally, the huge Chinese market behind Jeremy Lin could make the Knicks, who had always been rich, never hesitate.

But the Knicks have now renewed their long-term contracts with Anthony, Stoudemire and Chandler.

If it matches Jeremy Lin's offer again, then in the 2014 ~ 2015 season, the team's salary space will be directly blown up.

Then it is not a question of how much luxury tax to pay.

In the end, the Knicks chose to give up the match and watched Jeremy Lin dig in for the Rockets.

The Rockets traded Lowry before, and Dragic, who became a free agent, also just chose to sign the Suns, and Jeremy Lin is a great complement to them.

However, this is not the end. After getting Jeremy Lin, they gave the Bulls' backup center, Omer Asik, the same contract.

Asik averaged 3.1 points and 5.3 rebounds per game in the Bulls last season. As a backup center, he performed well in limited minutes.

The Bulls also gave up matching.

They have more salary space than the Knicks, and it is impossible to match such a contract for a role player.

So, relying on Arenas terms, the Rockets empty gloves to the White Wolf, and immediately put their starting point guard and center together.

Darrell Morey also became the focus of the league for the two contracts. UU Kanshu www.uukazanshu.com

"This is a poison contract."

After the two signings were reached, ESPN columnist Chad Ford immediately commented.

"The original intention of the Arenas clause is to help the mother team to retain players, but many people may not notice that the clause has an additional condition in order to protect the interests of the players: after quoting the team's success, the players will only occupy the average annual salary of the contract space.

What does it mean?

Take Jeremy Lin, for example, he will only occupy about 8 million salary space in the Rockets each year, but in the Knicks, he will occupy the Knicks salary space of 13.8 million.

Such a contract will make it difficult to trade.

So for the mother team, this is a cup of poisoned milk, leaving the team behind will be completely unbearable salary pressure in the third year of the contract. "