NBA peak

Chapter 64 Tragic Siakam

After a few days of busy work, Ge Feng found a comfortable small house with two bedrooms and one living room as he wished, and then went to the 4S shop with Peier and picked up a red American SUV, Dodge Coupe.

Ge Feng chose a practical SUV with the largest space.

Ge Feng doesn't have that much money to consider supercars. The Dodge Coupe has a lot of space and is comfortable to drive. It is Ge Feng's best choice at present.

After renting a house and buying a car, Ge Feng left Pei Er to prepare lunch in the rented house, and then drove to the team gathering place by himself.

Since Ge Feng had to arrange his life in Canada in advance, Ge Feng came earlier than other players.

The Raptors' home court, there are only a few managers who are responsible for receiving players to practice in the arena.

Ge Feng went over to greet the two players who were playing.

One of them was the Raptors' assistant coach, Bell Baino.

Bell Baino recognized Ge Feng at a glance, and then said to the people around him: "Let's stop practicing today, I will take this newcomer to the management office to register first."

Ge Feng and Bai Nuo walked towards the management office together.

Bai Nuo didn't talk much along the way, and sometimes Bai Nuo didn't seem to hear the questions Ge Feng asked, which made Ge Feng a little embarrassed.

But Ge Feng didn't take it seriously, who made him a rookie.

The unspoken rules of old NBA players bullying rookies are an open secret inside and outside the circle.

Veteran players in the NBA will rely on their old players to sell their old players, asking rookies to provide them with various tricky services, otherwise they will never get a chance to catch the ball.

Rookies help old players look in the locker, lift shoes and so on, all of which are locker room secrets that can be seen everywhere in the NBA.

When James first entered the league, didn't he also provide Ricky Davis with shoes for a few months.

Ge Feng couldn't help but start to fantasize about how he would be treated when he joined the team.

The registration process was very simple. After Ge Feng showed the certificates required for his grade, the management staff asked him to go back and come back in two days.

Two days later.

In the locker room of the Raptors, under the leadership of DeRozan, the old players arrived very early.

Every year, the Raptors will have new players join. According to the usual practice, the old players must discuss in advance how to trick the newly joined rookies.

The Raptors' locker room is very ordinary, no massage chairs, no TV, no sofa.

In a room of more than forty square meters, there are many compartments near the wall, and there is an ordinary armchair facing each compartment.

Most of the compartments are suspended, except for a small cabinet in the upper right corner, with two clothes racks hanging from the top, and the players' names are on the clothes racks.

The Raptors, who have never won an NBA championship, have very shabby facilities in the locker room.

The locker room of the Duke Blue Devils is more luxurious than here, which shows how powerful the NBA is.

There are three empty positions in the cubicle, but the name on the wardrobe has not been torn off.

These three closets are naturally the cubicles that new players will use after the players are traded.

The names of many players in the locker room are familiar to everyone.

The magical superstar DeRozan, who is suffering from depression, is also the current top star of the Raptors.

DeRozan's good friend Lowry.

One of the all-powerful Thunder Four Young Masters back then, Tyrannosaurus King Ibaka.

The crazy kid on the Raptors' bench, Van Fleet.

And the Raptors' starting center Valanciunas and starting power forward Carroll.

Now, these old guys are sitting together and discussing how to rectify the newly joined Ge Feng and Siakam.

Ge Feng parked his car in the enclosed parking lot specially provided by the Aviation Center for Raptors players and staff, and then walked straight to the locker room.

Ge Feng was a little apprehensive, and hoped that DeRozan and those old guys would not kill half of his life.

When getting on the elevator, Ge Feng ran into Siakam who joined the Raptors with him.

"Hi, Siakam, I'm Ge Feng." After seeing Siakam, Ge Feng greeted him with a smile.

Siakam just looked back at Ge Feng, then rolled his eyes, without any response.

Siakam's skin was too dark. When he rolled his eyes, the whites of his eyes were like snow, which made Ge Feng almost unable to hold back his laughter.

Cough cough, shouldn't you be angry at this time.

When Ge Feng came to the United States, Ge Feng had seen Siakam's similar eyes too much, so no matter what others thought of Ge Feng, he didn't care.

However, Ge Feng was a little confused. He and Siakam were both rookies selected by the Raptors. It stands to reason that there is no one who looks down on the other.

Shouldn't they unite now and save themselves from being too hard by the old Raptors players?

Several reporters in the parking lot were capturing players entering the field. Siakam lowered his hat and walked past the reporters quickly.

This kid, he must be sick, right?
What is there to do to hide from the reporter who captured the entry? Does he still have a camera phobia?
Ge Feng slowed down his pace and asked the journalists who captured him to take as many pictures of him as possible.

In fact, what Ge Feng didn't know was that Siakam's draft pick was very close to Ge Feng's, and Siakam had specially trained in the Raptors.

During Siakam's trial training, he performed very well. Raptors CEO Timothy had promised Siakam that he would win him with the No. 27 pick in the first round.

Who knew that during the draft, the Raptors management suddenly changed their decision and took Ge Feng with the 25th pick.

The sudden return of the Raptors directly caused Siakam to fall out of the first round and become a second-round rookie.

Siakam has been declaring that he is not interested in other teams since he received Timothy's guarantee.

Therefore, other teams dare not choose Siakam, and Siakam has been waiting until the Raptors' No. 50 pick to win him.

The No. 50 pick is almost considered a rookie at the end of the second round. Such a rookie can't even get a basic guarantee contract in the NBA. He can only sign a 1+1 basic salary exception with the Raptors.

The special case of the basic salary means that when the team's salary exceeds the salary cap stipulated by the league, the team has no room to sign, and a special case of the basic salary will be given.

The special case of basic salary can be signed for up to two years, and the salary for two years is the minimum salary of the league that year.

Siakam can now get more than 40 U.S. dollars a year before tax, which has to be deducted according to the US tax law. Siakam's actual income a year is not even 15 U.S. dollars.

This is definitely the toughest contract in the league.

With $15 a year, basically only one cheapest trainer and one cheapest nutritionist can be hired.

According to the consumption of the NBA's usual games and training, an unqualified trainer is entirely likely to ruin the career of an athlete with great potential.

How can Siakam not be jealous of Ge Feng?

But this is the NBA, and this is the famous NBA business league.

In the NBA's management, there is no so-called human nature, what they value is only interests.

Siakam's lesson can be regarded as a reminder to Ge Feng. Living in the NBA, in addition to preventing injuries, you must also prevent conspiracies from the management.

Getting stronger and making yourself valuable is the eternal law of the NBA.

(End of this chapter)