NBA villain

Chapter 39 The Streets of Orlando
"Hello."

"Hello."

Cai Nan showed a professional smile, reached out to shake hands with Yang Di, and then made a gesture of please sit down, and the two sat down together.

"Mr. Yang, I have been dating you for a long time, and today I finally met the Lord."

Yang Di laughed and said, "I'm just an unknown young player, so it's hard for you to keep contacting me for interviews."

"Your reputation is not small at all. Maybe in the United States, more fans focus on high-ranked rookies, and more Chinese Americans focus on Yao Ming, or Wang Zhizhi, who is helping the Clippers in the summer league, or is helping the Spurs. Battelle who played in the summer league, but in China, the number of fans who like you is growing at an alarming rate." Cai Nan said seriously, obviously not agreeing with Yang Di's view that he is not famous.

"Call me Yang Di or my nickname Dick Yang, Mr. Yang feels weird."

"Hahaha." Cai Nan laughed loudly, he suddenly remembered that the mature young man in front of him had just celebrated his 19th birthday, and it seemed inappropriate to call him Mr. "Is Dick Young your nickname? "

"Yes, I'm in the United States, that's what they call me, it sounds pretty cool."

Cai Nan suppressed a smile. This nickname is cool, but it seems a bit dirty. If it's not the problem of pronunciation, I hope it's because he thinks too much.

"Where are you from?"

"Me? I'm from City N."

"City N, you can be regarded as a person from Jiangbei. I am from the north. I have been to your city once. It is very clean."

Yang Di said: "But I haven't been to the city a few times. I grew up in the countryside."

Cai Nan took out his interview book professionally, quickly took notes on it with a fountain pen, and asked, "Did you start playing basketball when you were young?"

"Well, it's okay, I was exposed to basketball when I was in elementary school."

"You are so tall, didn't you enter the sports school?"

Yang Di said with a wry smile: "Sports school, I must have entered it. When I graduated from junior high school, I went to the sports school. At that time, a relative said that it would be very good to be a physical education teacher."

Cai Nan asked: "Then why did you come to the United States later? According to normal logic, it shouldn't be."

"Uh, this..." Yang Di hesitated, not knowing how to answer.

"Is there any inconvenience?"

Yang Di thought about it for a while, and then said: "Actually, it's not inconvenient. At that time, I went to the sports school, and I didn't get along with one of the classmates. Later, when we had a conflict, we called that classmate Get beat up and get kicked out of school."

Cai Nan was taken aback for a moment, then laughed loudly: "Hahahaha, so you were expelled from the sports school?"

"Yeah, it's embarrassing."

"It's not embarrassing. What's embarrassing now is the expulsion from your sports school. You are now a quasi-NBA player. You will definitely enter the NBA in the future and even have a chance to be selected for the national team. If you are expelled for fighting, your school will definitely be criticized. .” Cai Nan said with a smile.

Yang Di waved his hand: "I don't want them to criticize or criticize, it's just that the kid's relative was the school leader at that time, so he was expelled. If it's a normal school, it's okay to fight, at most Reporting criticism is not."

"So that's the case," Cai Nan nodded, thoughtfully, and then continued to ask: "Then how did you come to the United States?"

"The conditions in my family were not good. I also faced the problem of getting out of school to find a job. A relative introduced me to work in a multinational construction company, and I came to the United States immediately."

After Yang Di opened his mouth, he suddenly recalled the loneliness when he first came to the United States: "It's really hard to describe."

The sunlight outside the window shone through the glass, and the aroma of strong coffee permeated the whole room.

……

There are many pedestrians on the streets in the afternoon. It is the peak tourist season, and tourists from all over the world come to the city of Orlando.

Yang Di bid farewell to Cai Nan, walked alone on the street, and came to the central park of the city. Then he found a clean place on the lawn under the tree and sat down, leaning his back on the trunk, and the leaves danced in the slight wind.

Yang Di thought about things quietly.

Daily training is still a way to improve one's attributes and abilities, and competition is a way to steadily obtain villain values. After entering the NBA, the training will definitely be more scientific, and it will definitely be easier to complete the training requirements than before. The only problem Yes, how to guarantee your playing time.

After all, I am not a high-ranking rookie. If I want to get a stable playing time, I must first get the head coach.

But I didn't expect that the head coach changed when he first came to the team, Stan Van Gundy, I don't know what kind of personality and preference this coach has.

Odom, Brian Grant, and Haslem, who just joined the team like him, now have several people at the power forward position. Counting the 48 minutes of a game at one position, the competitive pressure It's simply too big.

And the most important thing is that, regardless of the first two, Haslem has something that Yang Di can't compare to. Yang Di put himself in the position. If he is the head coach, he would definitely prefer to use Haslem at present.

"Hey, what a hassle."

……

The summer league is going on very fast. In the era when the Internet was not well developed, most of the fans who wanted to get advice could only use traditional media such as newspapers.

There are 10 teams participating in the summer league in Orlando, and another team is participating in the summer league in Las Vegas.

The summer league is not an official organization, and the teams and clubs that are nearby to participate in the competition are connected. The competition is basically over in late July.

In one of the games, Yang Di met the Cavaliers led by the new champion James.

Wade put all his strength into this game and bombarded the Cavaliers wildly. In his good physical condition, no one could prevent his breakthrough, and James was equally terrifying, crushing the Cavaliers many times. Breaking through and rushing to the penalty area, carrying the defender to score the ball, it is very difficult for Yang Di to make up the defense.

Yang Di was frightened by the terrifying talents of these two people. The physical fitness talents of these two people are at least S level.

It's a pity that the assistant coach didn't give them much time, and more time was given to players like Yang Di and Haslem who have the opportunity to enter the NBA and need to perform on the court.

Yang Di found that Haslem kept silent and was willing to do anything on the court. He was very focused in the game and even beat James several times head-on. He really regarded himself as an iron man. From a point of view, he and Yang Di are the same kind of people, which makes Yang Di feel good. Even if he is a competitor, he is also a respectable opponent, isn't he?
At the end of summer league, Pat Riley found Wade and Yang Di.

According to the drafting rules of the rookie contract, the Heat gave Wade a four-year rookie contract of $4 million, of which the two years before and after were team options, which is the legendary 1234.39+2+1, and gave Yang Di a The standard second-round pick contract is $1 for 2 years, of which $99 in the first year, $37 in the second year, and the second year is a team option.

Yang Di frowned and signed the contract, ignoring the excited yelling of the agent.

What he knows is that in the current NBA, the second-round picks are basically at this price. This contract is stipulated by the NBA. In other words, any agent who comes here will not win for Yang Di. low price.

Then he thought again, if the 99 U.S. dollars is converted into RMB, it would be nearly 800 million. In an instant, his heart became hot again, and he put aside the hidden ambitions that he hadn't even discovered. .

A few days later, the Heat signed free agents Ralph Alston and Udonis Haslem in addition to the two draft picks.

Among them, Ralph Alston has a basic salary of 69 a year, and Haslem has the same contract as Yang Di, which is 2 US dollars for 99 years, and the second year is a team option.

(End of this chapter)