The playoff trip of the Lakers has come to an end, but the summer war has just begun. The first big problem facing the Lakers is whether to leave Reeves and how to stay Reeves.
One of the first media people who liked Reeves in I am discovered his special talent in dominating the ball and his great supplement and value to James before Wei Shao left the team. As Wei Shao was replaced and James was injured for a long time, Reeves’s underestimated value became more prominent. Therefore, I can’t help appreciating him and explaining his value in the live broadcast. In this way, I was ridiculed as the biggest “Reeves blowing” and deserved it.
We can compare the performance of Reeves before and after Wei Shao left the team. Before leaving the team, Reeves played 38 regular season matches, starting 12 times, with an average of 10.7 points, 2.2 assists and three-point shot percentage 37 percent; from February 11 to the end of the regular season, Reeves played 26 games, starting 10 games, rising to 16.4 points, assists 5.1 times, and scored 44 percent in three points; In addition, during the whole month from February to March, James suffered 13 consecutive injuries. During this period, Reeves’s score rose to 17.8 points, assists rose to 6.0 times, and three points were%.
His value was further proved in the playoffs. The playoff rotation team was shortened, and the proportion of James holding the ball increased significantly. There were many people in the team. Reeves averaged 16.9 points in 16 playoff games, 4.6 assists and 44.3 percent of three-point goals. His performance in the three rounds was very stable. In the first round, he made great contributions to the grizzly bear, rising to an average of 21.3 points for nuggets, scoring 14 points in three points, and hitting 56 percent.
To sum up, Reeves has several benefits: first, with excellent vision and calm judgment, the high IQ of basketball makes him outstanding in controlling the ball; Second, during the journey, Renqiu has the first-class combination ability and is good at making fouls with his body. As long as he breaks through, he will never return empty-handed and can break the ice at the critical moment. Third, he has been used as 3D since he started his debut, there is no weak ring between defense and three points.
By the way, I have always written his name as “Reeves” instead of “rivers” on the Internet, because Lao Li has a son named rivers, they have the same name “Austin”, but Rivers English Rivers, Reeves is Reeves. Even in terms of rank, they should not share the same translation name.
You may say: Reeves still doesn’t stay? How about saving money? That’s right, Reeves will be the biggest target for the Lakers this summer. However, it is not so easy to stay, not so simple as being stingy. How much is this Reeves worth? How much does the Lakers pay is not stingy?
Due to the restriction of the “arenas clause”, the Lakers have no initiative to stay in Reeves. Any team that likes Reeves and has enough salary space, you can offer a price that makes the Lakers unable to match. Therefore, in the end, no matter what decision the Lakers make, I will understand.
First of all, we must figure out a concept, that is, “Arenas clause”, and regarding this strange clause, we must first ask Lin Shuhao. In 2012, Lin Shuhao, who was popular all over the world due to the performance of “Linsanity”, faced the same embarrassing situation as Rives in summer: they were all off talent shows, and they were all make a great coup, the second grade ends and the third grade becomes a restricted free agent. Competitors can use the “arenas clause” to give the price that the mother team cannot match.
The origin of the “arenas clause” is as follows:
In 2001, the Warriors chose arenas in the second round and became a restricted free player in 2003. Warriors could only match the highest price of “early bird special case”, which was about $4.9 million at that time. The Washington Wizards quoted Arenas for 6 years and 60 million years. In the first year of 8.5 million, the Warriors only had a special case of early bird, and there was no way to match it. Finally arenas grew into an all-star in Washington.
In order to protect the mother team’s use of unknown but outstanding players, this loophole was partially blocked in the labor negotiations in 2005, but it was not completely solved.
The new rules stipulate that the first-year quotation given by competitors should not exceed the non-tax middle-class exception, so that the mother team can match, whether using early bird exception or non-tax middle-class exception. The second year’s quotation is also restricted, and the salary increase can only be 5% of the standard. In the third year, the price can be raised significantly, and in the fourth year, the basic salary can be increased by 4.5 percent in the third year.
How much salary increase can be achieved in the third year depends on the salary space of this team. As long as the average price for 4 years is under the salary cap, and the quotation for the first two years meets the restrictions.
Reeves would have been playing with these players all the time.
With the current Scout system, there won’t be too many fish missing the net. Players like Reeves will not appear every year. However, once they meet, teams with unique eyes like Lakers and Warriors will be embarrassed.
Take Reeves as an example. According to this year’s non-tax middle-class quota, competitors can give a total of 23 million in the first two years. Of course, the Lakers can also give it, but in the third and fourth years, the opponent can give more than 3700 WanHeDa more than 3800 million, as long as the team has nearly 25 million space, because the total contract value is almost 25 million on average.
Reeves is not worth 25 million? I think it is worth it, but the abnormal regulations made by the “arenas clause” will make the Lakers very difficult in the next two years, because the Lakers at that time were still a blank sheet of paper, but you have to put in a contract with an average of 38 million two or three years in advance. What do you want Pelinka to do? Two years later, James still didn’t know whether to play or not. He didn’t know who was the core of the team, and he didn’t know who the coach was. The point is, no matter how good Reeves is, he is not the cornerstone of the team, not the signature star.
Therefore, this has nothing to do with not being stingy, but is inconsistent with the development goal of a team and whether it violates the basic principles of running a team.
This is not even decided by Reeves himself. If a team wants to come up with a price that makes it difficult for the Lakers to match, he will have no other choice but to leave the Lakers.
Lin Shuhao knew this very well. In 2012, he and Rives had a very similar situation. They all made a reputation in a super big market. It seemed that they were a little worse to become a signboard player, the second grade is promoted to the third grade, and the choice is not in your own hands.
After Lin Shuhao became famous, he signed a contract with the Rockets for 25.12 million years in the summer of that year, including 5 million in the first year, 5.22 million in the second year and 14.9 million in the third year. The rocket robbed people at a high price and Lin Shuhao turned around, which once made Anthony very angry.
Many years later, the truth gradually became clear. In fact, Lin Shuhao only received the quotation from the rocket. At that time, he had talked about 28 million years, of which more than 5 million yuan per year for the first two years, almost 9 million a year in the last two years. However, after Lin Shuhao arrived in Houston, the Rockets suddenly changed the quotation from 4 years to 3 years, and it rose sharply in the third year. The contract signed by Lin Shuhao made New York unwilling to match, because the high price in the third year would cost New York more than $40 million in tax.
Three years ago, Lin Shuhao even revealed the details of the signing at that time, which made people very embarrassed about the shrewd rocket manager and Lin Shuhao’s helplessness as a player–
I am not sure whether I have talked about the following publicly, because I only got an offer for one contract and did not get an offer from any other team. Let’s put it this way, I had to find a contract from someone, so I remember when the rockets came to quote, it was absolutely true that I was just getting on the bus after training, and then I received a call from my agent, I told him, can you tell the Rockets to lower the quotation a little? This is too high. Can you tell anyone to lower the quotation a little, because I especially want to go back to New York, I hope New York can match it. The time I spent there, the relationship with the fans, everything was too special for me. I just wanted to go back to New York. Where was my heart all the time.
So I called my agent and said, hey, find a way, let’s get out of Houston and give me a contract that is not that good, then there is a way to match New York. But he said, we can’t do it, that’s the last offer of the rockets, and we talked to them for a week, two weeks, three weeks, we can’t go anywhere, this is the only quotation you get, and you have to sign it.
So I remember signing it. Of course, I have to make it clear that this is not disrespect for the Rockets. At that time, I knew nothing about the team and the city. I only knew New York, so I was quite embarrassed at that time. I mean, since we want to sign this contract, we have to find some ways, for example, to reduce the price and the number of years. No matter what method is used, how can it be convenient.
Therefore, this was not the “poison pill plan”. I thought so at that time, but obviously it didn’t succeed in the end. But in my heart, I just thought: Well, I still hope New York can match and there will be opportunities.
The 72 hours were really tough.
Lin Shuhao said that the “poison pill plan” is actually a special term in the financial sector, which means that if a company encounters malicious acquisitions by other companies, it will actively increase its holdings at a low price, in order to increase their own equity and avoid being annexed. Lin Shuhao wanted to sign with the rockets at a low price to match New York. His mood was understandable, but the purpose of the rockets was to grab Lin Shuhao. As for how to use and how long to use, that is another matter.
In fact, Lin Shuhao was replaced by the Rockets to the Lakers two years later. Several years later, due to injuries, “Linsanity” was difficult to continue in NBA.
Like Lin Shuhao, Reeves is also a relic left out by the Scout system. He is excellent, but it is not enough for the Lakers to turn him into a signature star.
Lin Shuhao had huge market value support in New York. As long as the rockets were not too much at that time, New York would definitely match. Reeves is also very popular in the Lakers, but it is far from the market value of “Linsanity.
When Tencent and I broadcast the Lakers warriors live in Los Angeles, no one in China asked for surrogate shopping Reeves’s No. 15 jersey. At the airport, there are James and eight villages, but there is no Reeves. When I bought James’s shirt for my friend before the match, his number 15 was also hung in the fan shop. But he played G6 very well. I was just joking with Wang Zhaofeng, saying that Reeves’s jerseys would be sold out now. You only bought 8 pieces, there are a lot of people who come to WeChat to buy on behalf of us here. Helpless, because we still have more than half an hour of live broadcast in the venue after the game, when we go again, the fan shop has already closed, and there is no Lakers game, and we will never open the door. Later, Zhaofeng was asked to go to the fan shop in the training hall, and No 15 of Reeves was found.
According to a salesman, Reeves doesn’t know where he is next season, so he won’t produce too many jerseys and will smash them when he can’t sell them.
I don’t know how to explain this to my relatives and friends in China. I have been distressed for a long time, so I have to write this article with more than 3,000 words. I hope everyone can understand this young man’s situation.
