NBA: Peak Thompson starts

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Although there is a lot of criticism from the media.

But after Lin Tao was selected, he didn’t have much time to pay attention to the media.

He’s busy.

Lin Tao first went to the Knicks office and signed a 4-year (2+1+1) $15 million rookie contract with them.

The starting salary of this contract is $2.87 million, which increases every year, and New York State taxes are very high, and after reasonable tax avoidance, it will be a little more than half.

Under the existing collective agreement, the size of the first four-year contract is basically limited, Lin Tao does not like this way of signing, the time is too long, the next few years will definitely suffer, but this is the rule of the NBA.

The salary is not too high, and Lin Tao can only make money by endorsements.

Schwartz also received a lot of endorsements for Lin Tao.

Armani, L’Oréal men’s perfume, KFC…

These products all want to hit the domestic market in the second half of the year.

After shooting advertisements for them and opening a wave of spokesperson product introductions, Lin Tao got on a plane in Las Vegas.

Go there to fight the summer union.

Basketball is his job, and Lin Tao himself attaches great importance to the summer league.

Before participating in the summer union, D’Antoni also specially called Lin Tao and said not to mind the fishing boat in the unexpected world.

Lin Tao is very confident: “As long as you give me the ball, I will shut everyone up!” ”

D’Antoni said: “Summer league is a great opportunity for you to prove that I will let Miller give you plenty of playing time and tactical opportunities. ”

Miller is an assistant coach for the Knicks, he leads the team to play in the summer league, and the high pick rookie has such treatment, and the head coach will specialize in training.

Lin Tao thanked D’Antoni for his care.

But I am not very optimistic about this approach.

Even with the hood of the manager, marginal players do not necessarily give up the opportunity to perform easily in order to survive.

There are many marginal players in the summer league who will rely on this short game to get the opportunity to get an NBA contract, and Lin Tao himself is not very strong in ball handling.

If these people have not passed the ball to Lin Tao, and only think about brushing the data themselves, there will be trouble.

If the summer union does not perform well, I am afraid that the fishing boats in New York will not let go of the criticism of Lin Tao by then.

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There are now three officially recognized by the NBA: Utah Summer League, Orlando Summer League and Las Vegas Summer League, which together make up the NBA Summer League.

With EA Sports’ sponsorship, the Las Vegas Summer League expanded to 22 teams.

Summer League rules are somewhat different from the NBA regular season.

For example, a single quarter is only 10 minutes, and overtime is only 2 minutes.

The team starts making free throws after accumulating 10 fouls, or after receiving 2 fouls in the last two minutes

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The format is that each team plays a preliminary round first, uses points to decide who advances, and then two or two places are eliminated in a single match.

It’s very similar to the World Cup in football.

All competitions end almost within 10 days.

The first role of the summer league is to provide a platform for those who are undrafted and marginalized players, and many undrafted and marginalized people rely on the summer league to get an NBA guaranteed or non-guaranteed contract.

Then the second role is to give NBA rookies the opportunity to adapt to the professional arena in advance.

Some rookies will finish their professional careers here.

July 9.

Lin Tao rushed to the training arena in Las Vegas to join the team the day before the start of the summer league.

Lin Tao was the last member of the team to return, but no one would say anything about him.

Assistant coach Miller is the Knicks’ interim coach for the Summer League.

In this Knicks team, in addition to Lin Tao, the No. 6 pick, there is Joe Crawford, who was selected by the Lakers with the 58th pick in the second round.

Joe Crawford didn’t sign up, so he was invited by the Knicks to come to the summer league.

There is also Ewing Jr. who was drafted and a bunch of unknown players.

The highest status of this team is No. 6 show Lin Tao, and everyone else has not yet got an NBA contract, but has a dream of entering the NBA.

The dressing room was quiet, and Lin Tao sat in front of his wardrobe and began to prepare.

Summer league will be different from the NBA team’s locker room, and there is too much competition among players here.

After Lin Tao appeared, from time to time, these people’s eyes would sweep Lin Tao, and there was envy and jealousy in these eyes.

As the No. 6 pick, after Lin Tao entered the NBA, his status on the team was already doomed.

Because of his skin color and playing style, Lin Tao is difficult to be respected by these players.

Why can a guy with yellow skin who can only shoot three points get a guarantee contract with a total value of more than 10 million?

Many players also think that they are no worse than Lin Tao.

After Lin Tao put on his sneakers, someone from the medical team came to ask about his physical condition, and temporary coach Miller also came over to chat with Lin Tao.

All this treatment has turned the players who were originally just a little envious into jealousy.

The treatment is too special.

Lin Tao didn’t care about the eyes of the surrounding players.

The presence of a status gap in one place will certainly cause these contradictions.

If the surrounding are all newcomers such as Wei Shao, Love, Ross, etc., the atmosphere in the locker room will be completely different and happy.

Lin Tao is not a 19-year-old child, he understands this, and after he copes with Miller, he sits quietly and closes his eyes to rest.

However, there are always some people with lower qualities who are not very conspicuous.

A small black guard named Douglas swaggered into the locker room and said in a ducky voice: “I heard that our first game opponent is the Chicago Bulls, and the opposite Derrick Rose is this year’s champion, I wonder if our No. 6 pick can beat him?” ”

After saying this, Douglas also came over and sat next to Lin Tao, put his hand on Lin Tao’s shoulder, and pretended to be familiar with Lin.

This guy had a little peculiar smell on him, Lin Tao immediately stood up and dodged away, it was too disgusting.

It’s not the smell of sweat, but the smell of body and perfume.