This price doesn’t refer to his salary. Even if he doesn’t renew in advance, with his ability to average 20+10, he can get a million-dollar salary anywhere.
Price refers to trade value.
If he didn’t renew in advance, and it’s a contract year this season, if he requests a trade, his trade value would quickly drop like Ray Allen’s.
But since he renewed, his trade value is completely different, even if he requests a trade, his trade value would still be very high.
His playing style, as long as he doesn’t encounter injuries, even in the last year of the new contract at 35 or 36 years old, he’s confident he can maintain averaging over 15 points.
From his manager, he learned that when the Wizards inquired about the Bobcats at the start of the season, the asking price was Felton or Rondo, plus Millsap, Mike Miller, and draft picks... it’s not unreasonable to use a forward in his prime averaging 20+10 for these pieces, but it was unacceptable to the Bobcats and was immediately rejected with no further offers made.
Unlike Nash, who thought he would fight for a few more years and if he couldn’t win a championship, he would bandwagon, Jamison in this position wants to bandwagon now, so he really regrets renewing last season.
But at that time, how could he have expected the Great General, who was only 25 then, and had just been selected to the All-Star for three consecutive years and would surely make the All-NBA for three consecutive years, would just retire?
Bandwagoning, Jamison doesn’t resist it at all. Originally, in the 2011-2012 season, at 35, he averaged 17.2 points, and after his contract expired in the summer of 2012, many teams offered him, with the highest being 2 years for 15 million, but he ultimately chose a one-year minimum salary to join the Lakers and bandwagon on the Four Giants... Before the new contract even began, he had already earned over 100 million, at this stage he wants to compete for a championship with a strong team...
As for Zhang Yang, he didn’t know yet another person was eyeing him.
He’s very excited now, the 13th time this season with 40+ in a single game, surpassing McGrady, and reaching third among active players!
The top two are Kobe and Iverson.
Iverson has had at least 15 games of 40+ in a single season three times, the highest being in the 00-01 Iron Blood era with 17 games of 40+, after the Iron Blood era ended, he had 16 games with 40+ in the 04-05 season, and 15 games with 40+ in the 05-06 season.
Kobe had more than 15 games of 40+ in a single season in three seasons as well, with 19 times in the 02-03 season, and 18 times in the 06-07 season.
The highest was the 05-06 season with an average of 35+ per game, with 30 games scoring 40+, ranked second in the Modern Basketball Era, the first being the 86-87 season by Jordan, averaging 37+ with 37 games scoring 40+.
Iverson never had a season with more than 20 games scoring 40+, partly due to frequent injuries, in his four highest scoring seasons, he missed about ten games, only had a full season in 02-03, and he might complete this season, but by now Iverson is no longer The Answer.
Exceeding Kobe’s 18 times, 19 times, is not easy.
Zhang Yang’s 13 times of 40+ this season, counting tonight, 7 times were in the last month, while in the previous two months combined, there were only 6 times, because the team needed him to score this month, he must shoot, even if his shooting percentage drops.
Moreover, his attempts in the early season were a bit too much, as the team’s offensive system was still being adjusted, and it required him to shoot a lot.
Now the offensive system is gradually improving, with the new core in place, after the All-Star weekend, his shot attempts should decrease, getting 2-3 times with 40+ in a month would be considered a lot... but he doesn’t mind this, with the system improved, he can score more easily, be more efficient, have more stamina to invest into single defense and double-teaming, enhance team defense slightly.
But aiming for Iverson’s 16 times, 17 times, is possible!
Zhang Yang helped Court TV come up with a documentary title—Writing a New Basketball Answer, Starting with Surpassing The Answer!
After resting for a night in the Washington D.C. area, he woke up at noon the next day and put aside the matter of ’Writing a New Answer’, he didn’t have the time to think about these, he had to soon return to Charlotte, with a back-to-back home game against the Green Army that night.
There are 6 games left in the early season, the record must hold on, can’t be surpassed by the Pistons!