321 million super maximum salary? From the second to the boss, the strong team of the Big Three! It s hard for you to win the championship

From the offseason to now, a series of operations of several teams seem to be a bit fascinating, one is the magic. In order to get Bain, the Magic actually paid 4 first-round picks. Although Bain's attributes meet the needs of the Magic, this is a little too expensive. In addition, the Magic Draft also reached a deal with the Celtics before the Magic Draft, and used 4 rotations to get a second round of the Celtics (the 32nd draw this year). It seems that the draft picks are not worth much in the Magic, and they began to sell them wildly, with the purpose of improving their combat effectiveness in the short term. In contrast to the Magic, the Nets are now stocking up a large number of draft picks, and they are all in their hands and used by themselves. At this year's draft, the Nets selected 5 players in the first round and were ridiculed by other NBA executives. After all, you usually stock up on a lot of draft picks for big deals. Unexpectedly, the Nets chose them all, and their reconstruction plan in the future is not clear.

In addition to the Magic and the Nets, the Suns' management was also fascinated. They finally chose to send Durant to the Rockets, but they got very few chips, only Green + Dillon, 1 first round + 5 second rounds. Green is also generally considered a negative asset, but the Suns are very confident in their lineup and plan to form a terrifying double gun for Booker + Jaylen Green. Everyone knows that the Suns this season actually lack qualified starting inside players. During this period, the Suns have crazily harvested inside players. They first got Mark Williams from the Hornets through trade, and then signed center Kaman Maluach from South Sudan with the No. 10 draw. The power forward Fleming was selected with the first pick in the second round. Now the Suns can play mahjong in the interior. In addition to the newly introduced three players, they originally had four centers, Richards, Polpoel, Plumley and Iguodaro.

In this way, the Suns' lineup will become very deformed next season. The three defenders Booker + Jaylen Green + Bill feel a bit funny. After all, the three giants of Booker + Durant + Bill all ended in failure in the past two years. Moreover, Durant was replaced by Jaylen Green. Green is also a player who likes singles and mainly scores. He basically does not have the ability to organize and connect. His scoring efficiency is much lower than Durant, and his defense is not good. It is hard to imagine what kind of results the Suns can achieve with such a giant. In addition, although the Suns have now stocked up a large number of inside players, they are both equally affected and have no clear core point. I don’t know who to start. It is expected that they will clear out some inside players in the future and further optimize the lineup.

When Durant left, Booker was promoted to the team's leader again. The Suns will build an ideal lineup around him, and Booker also has a certain say in the team's management decisions. According to ESPN famous reporter Brian Windhorst, Booker is expected to sign a huge contract renewal with the Suns in the next 10 days. The Suns will offer a two-year, early renewal of $149.8 million. Once the contract renewal is reached, his contract will be extended to 2030, with a total amount of $321 million, of which the annual salary for the last season is as high as $75.1 million, which will become the first contract in NBA history with an annual salary of more than $70 million. You should know that in the era of the Heat Big Three 15 years ago, the average annual salary of the three James, Wade, and Bosh was less than 20 million.

So is Booker worth such a high super maximum salary? From the perspective of the Suns, it may be worth it. After all, Booker is one of the few players in the active league and is still the leader of one player and one city. He has played for the Suns for up to 10 years and led the team to the finals with Paul in 21 years. Now Booker is at his peak in terms of age, only 28 years old. However, judging from the ability and performance in the past two years, this contract extension may not be that worth it, because Booker has made significant regressions in the past two seasons. The 23-year playoffs was Booker's highest bright period. At that time, he averaged 33.7 points, 4.8 rebounds, 7.2 assists per game in two rounds of series, shooting 58.5% from the field and 50.8% from three-pointers. Jordan was just the case. However, in the next two years, Booker was on the decline.

This season, Booker averaged only 25.6 points per game and shot 46.1% from the field. Both data are the lowest since the 17-18 season. His style of play is not as elegant as before. Two years ago, Booker was able to score in all kinds of high-difficulty and strong shots. Now it is rare to see that he has such a shot. With Durant leaving, Booker's tactical status will significantly improve next season. I wonder if he can recover in his performance. Of course, with the Suns lineup, it is extremely difficult to compete for the championship. Not only does the lineup structure still have a lot of room for improvement, Jaylen Green can play, and whether Booker's condition will rebound is a problem. The key is that there is a more difficult Bill. You know, Bill is not within the Suns' team building plan, but he has the right to veto the transaction, so he doesn't know what the Suns do to him.