The first round of the NBA playoffs is coming to an end, and as most teams enter the "offseason" early, the relevant content about contract renewals has begun to break into the eyes of fans. After the Nuggets were eliminated by the Warriors, the news that Jokic was expected to win the first high salary in history spread, and in addition to him, there was a big contract that made fans talk about it. That's Pelicans player Zion Williams.
According to the analysis of NBA salary expert Yossi Gozlan, the "Fat Tiger" is eligible to sign with the Pelicans in the offseason, and the value of this contract is 185.7 million for 5 years. In addition, referring to various contracts in the past, the "Fat Tiger" can add some additional conditions, such as entering the best team, then the maximum can get 222.9 million US dollars for 5 years.
However, because the "Fat Tiger" has only appeared 85 times for the Pelicans since entering the league, there is no doubt about his personal talent, but the appearance rate is too low, you must know that after selecting him, not counting the playoffs, there have been 226 regular season games, it can be said that his appearance rate has just reached 30%. Based on this consideration, Yossi Gozlan said that the Pelicans will add some restrictions such as appearance requirements to Zion's contract.
So how likely is this contract to be realized? According to Fat Tiger's words in an interview, he himself said that if the Pelicans offered the contract, he would sign it immediately. His answer, in fact, is not too unexpected, fans have also ridiculed, as long as the "brain" is not crooked, will sign. But what kind of answer will the Pelicans give?
From this season's point of view, although the "Black Nine Miracle" was not completed, the team showed a spiritual outlook that won the respect of everyone. Ingram, who was spat on and could not stand up to the name of "Little KD", conquered the fans with one shot after another; the way "rookie" coach Willie Green encouraged the team was deeply admired by fans; Alvarado, who had a "thief" attribute from college, completely "out of the circle" in the series against the Suns, but he wrapped around Paul and tried to defend, which made people see the shadow of Caruso, Dela Verdovar and others.
Coupled with the addition of McClem and Valansunas, the Pelicans' lineup has a good competitiveness, even if it fails to cross the first round, but has a chance to enter the second round. Hayes and Nance in the No. 4 position of the team are role players after all, so the "Fat Tiger" staying in the team is still appropriate from the perspective of lineup configuration.
But it must be mentioned that the "Fat Tiger" during the recuperation of the body management, people more or less surprised, even if he can easily complete the crotch dunk during pre-game training, but in the long season, if you want to ensure the number of appearances and the length of playing, whether you can withstand and maintain health, it is really difficult to say.
Once pinned on high hopes, known as "Little James", before entering the NBA, he got an oversized sneaker contract, "Fat Tiger" has a bright future, but at least from the current point of view, his footsteps chasing James have been opened up, the only thing that is possible to catch up, may be the career salary. What do you think about that? Welcome to the comments section below to interact together.