Chapter 714

This is 2004.

Giving 6 million USD more a year, for free, this is a quite terrifying annual salary.

Of course.

Not everyone has such benefits, but there are strict restrictive conditions.

What?!

Prerequisites for enjoying the 【Su Yan Clause】: within the rookie contract. Get MVP + FMVP + AMVP + Rookie Challenge MVP, four different "MVPs".

Not necessarily in a single season.

But within the rookie contract period, one must get these 4 MVPs at the same time to enjoy the benefits of the 【Su Yan Clause】.

What does this mean?

Usually, rookies will sign a "2+2" contract with the team, which means the rookie contract is at most 4 years.

So if you want to enjoy the benefits of the 【Su Yan Clause】.

A player newly entering the league must get these 4 MVPs one after another within 4 years.

If you say the difficulty is high.

Su Yan completed it in one season.

If you say the difficulty is not high, in NBA history, no player has ever done it.

Su Yan is an undrafted player; after signing a "1+1" contract, he is now exercising his player option.

This means his next contract can get the highest-level max salary with the 【Su Yan Clause】 and within NBA rules.

First.

An annual salary of over 22 million in a season is not something an ordinary team can just offer.

Still taking next season as an example.

The player with the highest annual salary in the league next season is "The Big Shark" O'Neal, in the last year of his previous contract, which is also the year he gets the highest contract salary.

Next year, O'Neal's annual salary is 27.7 million, which is the league's highest salary.

You have to know.

After him, the second-ranked "Mid-range King" Allan Houston has an annual salary of only 17.5 million.

Directly a difference of 10 million USD.

So now, inserting Su Yan's 22 million, can you imagine how high this annual salary is?

Of course.

With Su Yan's ability, he matches this offer, and there are too many teams willing to give him this offer.

Of course.

Such as: Wizards, Hornets, Raptors, or Warriors, Trail Blazers, Jazz, etc., teams with records that are too bad and team markets that are also low.

Even if they give an offer, Su Yan won't go.

And teams like the Knicks, Nets, Lakers, etc., are teams with high market value.

But the players themselves occupy a lot of salary space, so the highest max salary they can give Su Yan won't be particularly high.

Generally, 60-something million over three years is the limit.

At most, it's the Knicks' 4-year 84 million USD; even so, the Knicks need to pay a high luxury tax.

It can be said that the cost is heavy.

Of course, if they can get Su Yan and continue to win championships for them, then nothing is a loss.

And the Bulls boss is not in a hurry.

Because of Jordan, they have also earned too, too much, and they haven't spent much money in these years of silence, so money is not a problem for them now.

So after waiting for everyone to finish their offers.

Bulls boss Jerry Reinsdorf directly gave Su Yan a super max contract for 5 years worth 130 million USD.

Don't look at future players' contracts that are easily two hundred million, or even three hundred million.

But in this current era.

Before Su Yan.

There was only Juwan Howard in '96, who once renewed with the Wizards for 7 years and 105 million, becoming the first 100-million-dollar man in NBA history.

This was still catching a loophole in the league's rules.

But even so.

It still took him 7 years to get 105 million, while Su Yan now gets more, 130 million, in just 5 years.

Su Yan's contract is much, much larger than Juwan Howard's.

He also became the 2nd player in NBA history to sign a 100-million-dollar contract.

Of course.

The reason Su Yan was able to get such a crazy contract is precisely because of the blessing of the 【Su Yan Clause】.

So much so that as soon as this news came out.

It shocked the league.

"How much? 130 million??? I... I didn't hear it wrong, it's 130 million, not 13 million?!"

"This is too crazy!"

"Can he get so much? I'm very curious?!"

"Originally, it was impossible to get it no matter what.

But first, Su Yan exercised his player option; second, he alone enjoyed the 【Su Yan Clause】 exception specially promulgated by the league for him.

Third, the Bulls boss who won the championship is in a good mood and earned a lot, and is also exceptionally generous to Su Yan.

With the blessing of the three.

Su Yan really got a super max contract worth 130 million for 5 years, which is the 2nd 100-million-dollar contract in history.

And their contemporary rookies.

Super geniuses like LeBron, Wade, and Anthony, their contracts don't even compare to a fraction of Su Yan's.

This is too exaggerated."

"Hahaha... with Su Yan's strength, I think he deserves this contract, but the amount is indeed staggering."

"I'm really envious!"

"22 million a year, only 5 million away from the first annual salary 'The Big Shark', and also 5 million ahead of the 3rd place 'Mid-range King' Allan Houston.

And this is only second-year Su Yan.

His annual salary is too exaggerated, it's really amazing!"

"I have a question, giving Su Yan such a high salary, don't they want to strengthen the team?!"

They won the championship this year, but there was a bit of luck involved.

If they don't strengthen... could it be they want to rely on Su Yan alone to play next season? That will tire him to death, and it's not necessarily stable."

"Uh... the situation seems to be about the same as what you said, but also very different.

First.

The Bulls' players are all young players, and as time goes by, they are all progressing rapidly.

In short.

Even without strengthening, next season's Bulls will be much stronger than last season.

Additionally.

The two people selected this year, Iguodala and JR Smith, seem to have pretty good strength, which itself is a kind of strengthening.

Really.

Give them another season of training, I'm sure... next season's Bulls will only become stronger.

Now that they are champions, they must also have the potential to win the championship next season, and the possibility of defending the title!"

"Most importantly, the Bulls have Su Yan; as long as he is there, everything is possible.

After all...

The further strengthening of various powerhouses in the East and West, to a certain extent, isn't it to snipe Su Yan!"

"Exactly.

The 'Flame Emperor' Su Yan who combines MVP + FMVP + AMVP + Rookie Challenge MVP + DPOY + NBA Championship + Olympic Gold Medal!!!"

"Who isn't afraid!!!" ===== CHAPTER 716 =====