Because of the popularity of winning the league championship ten years ago, in order to protect the interests of the home team, the league specially introduced the rookie clause and named it the Ross Treaty. The details are as follows: if a rookie player can be selected into the best team twice, the All-Star twice or the MVP of the year during the performance of the rookie contract, then he can sign a super top salary with the team accounting for 30% of the salary cap after the rookie contract ends. Because only Ross in the NBA met this standard at that time, the league decided to name this clause Ross Treaty.
Starting from 1 1, the Ross Treaty was triggered by only seven players because of the high threshold. They are Durant, Ross, Griffin, Shao Wei, George Lillard and Dancis. Now, Tatum is likely to trigger the Ross clause in the future. Do you know who was the first person to contact this treaty?
Because he entered the league late, the first player to enjoy the Ross Treaty was not himself, but kevin durant of Thunder. Durant broke out suddenly in the season of 10- 1 1, and entered the first team of the best team for two years in a row, so he got a five-year 85 million salary contract in the offseason that year and became the first beneficiary of the Ross Treaty. It is worth mentioning that the Ross Treaty unlocked by kevin durant earned an extra salary of12.5 million US dollars, which caused considerable salary pressure on Thunder. Shao Wei around him also unlocked the Ross Treaty, and Shao Wei chose to give up the travel right of the Ross Treaty in order to keep Harden and Ibaka. If Durant had abandoned the Ross Treaty like Shao Wei, Thunder could have kept Harden, and now the alliance pattern has changed a lot.