Chapter 16: Contract

"Did Mr. Brown know about this?" After the initial excitement, Danny Ferry breathed a deep breath and asked with a smile.

"Oh, I haven't told him yet." Adam touched his head embarrassedly: "I forgot, I was so excited just now, otherwise I'll tell him now."

"No, you did a good job. Oh no, I mean there is no need for this, I can handle this matter." Danny Ferry said incoherently, and looked at Adam in front of him with an admiring smile: "I mean, Adam, you did a good job. If it weren't for you, we almost missed a real genius. Originally, this matter should have been told immediately, after all, he is the team's head coach. But now, he is actively preparing for the preseason, which is very important, so let's not disturb him with this kind of thing, just handle it."

After saying this, Danny Ferry said again: "Adam, I will record your performance. By the way, when was the last time you increased your salary?"

"Two years ago, sir."

"Oh, it's been two years. You've been doing well in the past two years. I think your salary should be raised a little, what do you think?"

"Of course, oh no, thank you sir! It would be great if that's the case." Adam said excitedly.

Then Danny Ferry smiled satisfied: "Very good, go call that little guy. Let me see this talented young man."

After watching Adam leave, Danny Ferry leaned back in the swivel chair and showed a proud smile. What an unexpected gain. Are the managers and scouts blind? With such physical fitness, unless you can't play basketball at all, it's worth the last first round pick. How could it fall to the end of the second round before being selected, and it's traded immediately?

No matter what, all in all, this is a good thing for Danny Ferry.

Think about it, when all the managers in the NBA were out of sight, Danny Ferry knew the talent with a keen eye and decided to sign a contract with an inside player with excellent physical fitness. What's more important is that this matter has nothing to do with him Mike Brown!

Even if this guy can really play, become the main force of the team, or even become a star, then he will have his own power in the team, and he will be even more up to date on the specific affairs of the team.

Although he is the general manager, Danny Ferry has no power. Many times he is just the boss's phone. Obviously, he cannot be satisfied with the current situation. His goal is to become a super big-name manager like Larry Bird!

Facts have proved that no matter what inch of land on Earth, even if it develops into outer space colonization in the future, it will not be able to change its fighting habits and will not be able to get rid of its talent for internal fighting!

He originally wanted to sign a basic salary contract as long as possible to ensure a long-term contract that would hold Zhang Kong's future in his palm, but he did not expect that Zhang Kong's final show at the end of the second round was so calm that he was not like a twenty-year-old man. Not only did he not sign the contract with himself quickly with his superb eloquence as he expected, but he calmly asked for a short contract.

This was beyond Danny Ferry's expectations.

In fact, although Zhang Kong is twenty years old now, before traveling through time, he was already an old fry. He was born in the Great Heavenly Dynasty, which has been passed down from ancient times. He worked as a small employee in the company for nearly ten years. He has seen many people of all kinds and has not mastered other skills, but the ability to observe words and expressions has been perfect.

As a professional manager, Danny Ferry's psychological quality is obviously not up to standard. Zhang Kong can guess what he thinks in his mind with just one glance.

Danny Ferry didn't know the reason, but she also understood that Zhang Kong was different from the young man who was 1920 years old and full of energy. Instead, she was quite calm, even a little terrifying. Danny Ferry, who knew what he had done wrong, could only admit defeat.

In the end, only one contract was signed that could not satisfy Danny Ferry.

The contract term is two years, with a salary of US$950,000 in the first year, 1.45 million in the second year, and the second year is the team option. The Cavaliers have priority renewal rights under the same conditions.

Zhang Kong is not good at economic matters, but he still carefully looked at the terms one by one, and paid close attention to Danny Ferry's expression. He wanted to judge whether there were any contract traps in this contract based on the changes in Danny Ferry's expression.

In fact, this contract is already very generous for rookies, especially for a second-round finale, with a salary of $2.5 million in two years, but many first-round picks cannot get high salaries.

Of course, this level of salary is not even a leg hair compared to LeBron's three-year, $12.96 million rookie contract.

However, considering Zhang Kong's identity as the end of the second round, this is even the largest contract that Danny Ferry can come up with within his own power. No matter how high it is, even if Danny Ferry wants to give it, Zhang Kong cannot get it. I have to mention the NBA salary limit order here, some people call it the "Robinson clause".

Glenn Robinson, nicknamed Big Dog, did two major things in 1994, one was elected as the No. 1 pick, and the other was asking the club for a contract of 100 million yuan.

In 1994, the Milwaukee Bucks selected Glen Robinson with the No. 1 pick in the draft, and the team was determined to hope that the super scorer could become the team's new leader.

But Glenn had a difficult problem for the team. He asked for a price all over the place, hoping to sign a 13-year contract worth $100 million in 13 years. At that time, the annual salary of NBA stars was not as high as it is now. Chicago Bulls small forward Scott Pippen had an annual salary of only $4 million, and Michael Jordan had an annual salary of only $5 million. Glenn's arrogant behavior was criticized by old seniors. After many negotiations, the Milwaukee people finally gave Glenn a 10-year contract of $68 million, which was already a sky-high price back then.

This incident directly led to the NBA's later salary cap order.

According to the terms of the league's salary limit order, Zhang Kong's maximum salary as a show at the end of the second round is this. Danny Ferry, who has been very thoughtful, has explained this to Zhang Kong and also promised Zhang Kong that as long as Zhang Kong performs well, he will definitely give him a more favorable contract after the first year.

After careful inspection, Zhang Kong finally signed his name on the contract.

"Damn, this guy is the hardest second-round pick I've ever seen in the past few years!" Finally signing the contract, Danny Ferry sighed in his heart and also put a slogan on Zhang Kong with a 'hard and difficult' slogan.

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Chapter completed!