I'm the boss in the NBA

Chapter 217 The Unrecognized Dayao

Su Yi stayed in New York for two days, and waited until June 6th to pick up Dayao's family at the New York airport.

After settled Dayao's parents in the hotel, Su Yi was going to take Dayao to his parents' home in New York, accompanied by Dayao's manager, Mr. Zhang.

New York is the home base of Su Yi's mother. Originally, he thought about playing in New York, so that he would be closer to Ms. Wang, but that didn't work out. The New York Knicks only got the 6th pick in the first round. , and Su Yi is not familiar with James Dolan, it may be difficult to persuade him to delegate power and let him participate in transactions such as the draft.

Considering the chaotic state of the Knicks that Su Yi had heard about in the future, he had better not go into that muddy water.

The convoy stopped in front of a single-family villa with a large area. After getting off the car, Dayao felt a sense of luxury.

Dayao didn't feel too strange either, how could the Su family, who can buy a big NBA team and have a fortune of billions, not be extravagant.

Surrounded by trees, there is a crystal clear swimming pool and a private tennis court in the middle of the lawn, and more than a dozen bodyguards in black guard the villa around.

Mr. Zhang, who came here with Dayao, has also lived here for several years, so he naturally knows how exaggerated the value of the house located in the area between Fifth Avenue and East River in the Upper East Side of New York is, which can cost tens of millions. A top celebrity residence!It's not something ordinary people can buy.

He originally wanted to make a decision, the salary is basically fixed, but Dayao can still make some promises in terms of the Rockets getting more possessions, a higher status, etc...

Looking at it now, I should give up these unrealistic thoughts as soon as possible. It is as simple as crushing an ant to death by such a big man who crushes his little manager to death. Don't affect Dayao just because you don't hold back your words.

Mr. Zhang still values ​​Dayao very much. It can be said that he grew up watching Dayao. When Dayao was 16 years old, he had already discovered Dayao's talent.

At the beginning of 1996, Dayao, who was just in his early 15s, was already a big man with a height of 2 meters. His biggest dream at that time was to have a pair of 10-size sneakers of his own. To satisfy his dream, he can only borrow shoes from Sister Zheng of the women's basketball team.

Later, it was Yao’s mother who remembered Yao Ming’s cousin Angie’s family in the United States, so she came to ask her for help. Angie’s boyfriend is Mr. Zhang. In the end, this shocked Mr. Zhang, thinking that this kid was born to play basketball.

Later, Mr. Zhang asked someone to help Yao Ming find a pair of old-fashioned large-size shoes in Nike's warehouse in St. Louis. They were white and cost $92.

This is also Dayao's first pair of Nike sneakers.

At that time, Mr. Zhang had the idea of ​​taking him to play on the other side of the ocean, and was even willing to contact the school for Dayao.

But Yao Ming’s dream at the time was to enter the Sharks senior team as soon as possible, and then be promoted from the second division to the CBA, and then enter the national team, and be teammates with Wang Zhizhi, to win glory for the country, so after thinking twice, he still rejected Mr. Zhang’s offer Good intentions, but did not cut off contact with him.

It wasn't until Dayao achieved results in the Shanghai team in the past two years that Mr. Zhang, as Yao's agent, began to go around lobbying for Dayao to participate in the NBA draft.

From a distance, I saw a middle-aged man who looked like Su Yi appear at the door of the villa, and then a middle-aged Chinese lady also came out.

"Dayao, Mr. Zhang, this is my father, Su Jianguo, who is also the general manager of the Rockets, and this is my mother, Catherine Wang, the actual controlling shareholder of the team."

"Mr. Su and Ms. Wang, I am very glad to meet you two. I have known you for a long time, and it is a pleasure to meet you! I am Dayao's manager, and I am Zhang XX..."

Manager Zhang went over to say hello, as if he had met the leader.

"This is Dayao. He's really tall. My height can't even reach his shoulders. Unfortunately, he's just a little thin! The muscles aren't strong enough! Also, the arms and calves are too thin. The body proportions It’s too uneven, like a big bamboo pole, if O’Neill bumps into it, wouldn’t his tiny arms and legs be useless!”

President Su ignored Dayao and Manager Zhang, and just touched Dayao's body here and there, as if he was picking something, and kept pointing out his shortcomings, saying the same thing clearly and logically.

"Xiao Yi, you always tell me how powerful he is, but I don't think he is anything but tall. Can he guard the Rockets' inside line with his physique? Don't choose a parallel importer! Then we But you will lose a lot, so don't think about it..."

President Su turned back and pulled Su Yi to ask, he was worried that he would lose his son and lose his army if he chose a parallel importer!

"Don't worry, Dad, muscles can be developed, but it is very rare for such a tall man to maintain a very good shooting touch. When he develops his muscles and puts on a little weight, I dare say he Will be the strongest center under O'Neal."

Seeing Dayao's complexion, Su Yi hurriedly pulled his father away, and explained to him that in his previous life, Dayao gained weight but caused injuries. If moderate weight gain could solve Dayao's hidden dangers of injury.

"That's it, then I can rest assured." Under Su Yi's persuasion, Manager Su finally gave up the idea of ​​canceling the transaction.

"Aha, that Dayao, I was just joking with you just now, you are welcome to come to my house as a guest, Xiao Yi, don't be dazed, bring the guests in!"

President Su changed his face, as if he wasn't the one who commented and complained that Dayao was not strong enough just now.

"Haha, you can rest assured to stay in our Rockets, we will definitely train you well, I have already arranged for the two old guys Olajuwon and Ewing, if you don't train you to be the backbone of the Rockets, I will If you don’t agree with them leaving the Rockets, and don’t cultivate a successor for me, then don’t think about retirement.”

After drinking for three rounds, the three members of Su Yi's family and Dayao became acquainted a lot, and President Su also began to run the train with his mouth full. He did talk to Olajuwon and Ewing about training Dayao, but that was After repeated requests from his father and son and the offer of assistant coaches and high salaries, they agreed.

Otherwise, they would all be thinking of retiring after they have achieved great success, and now they can only be allowed to play as players for another year, bring Dayao with them, and then they will enter the coaching staff of the Rockets, and in the future, they will enter the management team Chance.

Su Yi didn't say anything, he couldn't slap his father in the face in front of Dayao!
Seeing his father and Dayao sitting on the chair chatting about some anecdotes about Shanghai, and hooking their shoulders together as if they were very acquainted, Su Yi finally heaved a sigh of relief. He was worried that his father would bring up the old story again, and he was saying that he would cancel it. It's a deal.

(End of this chapter)