Rockets officially announced multiple free signings, Stone s detailed operations are full

The Rockets have officially announced several free signings (renewals) in the past two days, of course, the largest signing is Jabbarry Smith's five-year, 122 million early renewal. Judging from the year and salary length of this contract, the Rockets are sure to make a profit. His new contract only accounts for 12.7% of the salary cap, which is far lower than the maximum salary. If you look at the specific distribution of contract salary in the past five years, you will find that the Rockets not only make money, but also have a lot of practical information.

Xiao Jia's contract is as follows: 23.64 million in the first year, down to 21.75 million in the next year, 23.64 million in the third year, 25.53 million in the fourth year, and 27.42 million in the fifth year. Smith's contract renewal has also become one of the few "hook-type" contract renewals in the NBA in recent years.

Theoretically, Xiao Jia's five-year 122 million contract was signed by the team for 12.5% of the team's salary space every year in five years (benchmarking against the Timberwolves McDaniels). But Stone made a move, and in this contract, Xiao Jia made an 8% salary reduction scheduling for the second year (the NBA contract states that the player's contract does not rise or fall by more than 25% per year). The team is preparing for the next 27-28 season. The

27-28 season is an extremely important year for the Rockets. Not only will this year be the first year of Amen Thompson's new contract, but also the first year of Durant's new contract. No matter how much Durant's "pay cut" (previously reported that he might have cut his salary), Durant's account for at least 50 million is basically a foregone conclusion. You can't ask KD to cut a salary of 20 million yuan. Xiao Jia's salary cut and renewal this year just happened to deal with the renewal of these two possible core players.

His salary this year is slightly higher than the standard contract's salary cap (14.29%), because the Rockets have no salary pressure this year. Although they have made many players of tens of millions of dollars to strengthen, the team is still lower than the first tyrant line due to proper operation. So this year is actually the "most expensive" year of his entire five-year contract.

In addition to the first year, Xiao Jia's decline in the second and third year was to deal with Durant's contract renewal. In the fourth and fifth years, Xiao Jia's contract was only higher than 12.5% of the salary cap. At this time, Durant is likely to have retired or been in his last year. According to Durant's current normal annual decline trend, it is highly likely that the Rockets' window period with Durant as the core has passed.

But then again, compared with Xiao Jia's salary increase at the current NBA salary cap, even if he signed a roller coaster contract, it is still very worthwhile. So from Xiao Jia’s contract, we can roughly see Stone’s idea in the next five years: take advantage of the current pressure of renewal and try to give young players more money and leave room to deal with various reinforcement issues in the two seasons of 27-29. If you can win the championship successfully in three years, Xiao Jia's contract will not affect the cornerstone renewal of Amen, and Stone has racked her brains.

In addition to Xiao Jia, the Rockets' other contract renewals are actually full of details. Tate's three-year contract has triggered the veteran's subsidy regulations (players who have played for the team for more than three consecutive years can get a subsidy of $370,000 in the league). The team gave up Aaron Holiday's 4 million team option and saved money by re-signing the basic salary contract. Stone has put a lot of effort into every operation this summer.