The Warriors renewed Jordan Poole's contract in advance for $140 million in 4 years, and the details of his contract were also announced. Poole's base annual salary for the 2023-24 season is 27.45 million, and the basic annual salary for the next three years is 29.65 million, 31.84 million and 34.04 million.
The contract also contains a prize money of 17 million, which will be shared over each season, averaging $4.25 million per season. These include a team incentive bonus of 1.25 million and a personal incentive bonus of 3 million.
The team incentive bonuses are:
The Warriors reached the Finals with 250,000,
Reached the West End Finals 250,000,
Enter the second round of 250,000,
Enter the first round of 250,000,
At least 52 wins in the regular season with 250,000.
The conditions of these incentive bonuses were all met by the Warriors last season.
The other $3 million is Poole's individual incentive bonus, specifically:
Selected for the best team of 500,000,
Best defensive team 500,000,
MVP has 1 million,
Best Defensive Player 1 million.
Motivating Poole with MVP and best defensive player of the highest standards also speaks volumes about the very high expectations that management has for Jordan Poole.
Poole has not won any previous awards. Getting on the defensive team and being a defensive player in particular is a very challenging job for Poole.
Poole is one of the few players in NBA league history to receive a 100 million yuan contract as a substitute and be given a heavy trust in the team's future.
He's very strong now, last season, his combined ball ability and free throw ability are almost equal to Curry's, and the creativity of the offense is always an eye-opener. But he's still far from the level of an All-Star player.
But he has yet to prove himself to be a good defensive athlete and is not in good shape enough to face tough physical confrontation in the playoffs.
These weaknesses of his were exposed in this year's finals.
In the six matches of this year's finals, Poole's playing time from the first game to the sixth game was 25 minutes (loss), 22 minutes (win), 24 minutes (loss), 20 minutes (win), 14 minutes (win), 17 minutes (win), and as the game progressed, his task on the field became very simple: scoring.
Payton played only five Finals, playing 25 minutes (win), 11 minutes (loss), 9 minutes (win), 26 minutes (win) and 20 minutes (win) from the first game to the sixth game.
In Poole's two longest-running Finals, the Warriors both lost. This is certainly not enough to say that Poole is a bad player, because the data sample is small and does not prove that the two must have a strong correlation.
But admittedly, there are times when Kerr prefers to use Gary Payton II — an offense that basically satisfies the requirements, but the defensive end doesn't disclose players (which is why the media reports that some of the Warriors felt a sting after Payton left).
Since the game against the Lone Ranger G3, Poole has never scored 20 again. It's not that his scoring ability is not strong, in fact, since the game against the Lone Ranger G3, Pool's score has never been higher than 20. It's not that his scoring ability is not strong, it's that he can't get enough playing time because of his shortcomings.
In this year's playoffs, Coach Cole gradually made it clear through adjustments that he had Poole play the role of a pure scorer, and Poole adapted to the role and completed his task efficiently.
In the final three games of the Finals, Poole made 13, 8 and 12 shots in less than 20 minutes.
Kerr should have said something like this: "Use your offensive talent" and chase dreams to help you defend yourself, or, "Shoot them", Wiggins will give you some help on the defensive end.
Steve Kerr hid him behind Curry, Thompson, Wiggins, Green, and Payton Jr., and Poole played to his genius offensive talents without having to worry about being replaced for making a defensive mistake — many players aren't as lucky as Poole because they don't have defenders like Wiggins, Dreamcatcher, and Payton Jr. around. Hiro, who is often compared to him, can only sit on the bench and watch his teammates play in some key games.
It remains to be seen whether Jordan Poole will be able to take over the baton of Stephen Curry and others in the next four years, elevate his strength to the top of the league while continuing the Warriors dynasty.
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