The China Power of NBA

After a lapse of three full months, Bai Xiaofei returned to his familiar home again, but felt that everything around him was so strange. When he opened the door, the corridor was empty, and Bai Xiaofei felt like a bird wandering here. Like a lonely ghost, Bai Xiaofei wore a white sportswear and walked to the door of the house. The anti-theft door was not closed, and it opened with a light pull. The inner door was only closed together. Bai Xiaofei gently pushed the door open again.

"Squeak~~~"

In the 19 years before he went to the United States, Bai Xiaofei had never felt that the door of his house was so dilapidated, and there was a piercing scream when he pushed it lightly.

The layout was exactly the same as before, but in Bai Xiaofei's eyes, it became colorless, empty and gray, the house was quiet, and in the middle of the hall, a black and white photo of his father in a formal suit with a smile on his face was framed on the wall. On the face, the face is serene, and there is kindness in the sternness.

Bai Xiaofei couldn't hold back his tears any longer, he burst down the embankment, walked to the front of the hall in two steps, knelt down on the futon with a "plop", and then kowtowed heavily.When Bai Xiaofei raised his head, at some point, his mother stood silently at the door of the bedroom, her thin body leaning against the door frame, covering her mouth with her hands, her eyes were very red, but no tears remained.

It's not that there are no tears, maybe they have dried up.

Bai Xiaofei buttoned three heads in succession, and the tears pouring from his eyes wet the futon under Bai Xiaofei's knees.

"You're back."

His mother's voice was so dry that it was hoarse, and Bai Xiaofei nodded slightly as he looked at his father's portrait.

"I told them not to tell you, but in the end, I still told you..."

"They did the right thing," Bai Xiaofei was heartbroken, but he was trying to suppress the sadness in his heart.

"Come back when you come back," the mother said softly, "Come back for a few days, pack up for a few days and leave."

"Where?"

Bai Xiaofei looked at his mother with some doubts.

"Go back to America."

"No!" Bai Xiaofei said firmly, "I've made up my mind on the way back. I don't plan to go back to the United States this time. I want to stay in China and stay with you all the time!"

"Son, you still don't understand," the mother sighed softly, her voice trembling, her eyes unconsciously resting on the portrait of her father, tears flowed from her eyes again,

"The past is the past, you have to think about your future..."

I don't want to write any more sad things.

In the few days when Bai Xiaofei returned to China, Lao Fu made another move and signed Zhaoqiang to the team with a basic salary, but before Zhaoqiang had time to celebrate, he was sent to the Development League for training by the team, so here is a popularization The NBA's development league, I believe many people don't understand this league.

NBDL is the second-tier league of the NBA in the United States, referred to as the Development League. It is responsible for delivering talents for the NBA and maintaining the status of the players. The players who play here are composed of two parts. One is rookies who have played in the NBA for no more than two years. Here you can get A lot of game experience. After all, it is better to play the game with the ball on the court than to sit on the bench. The team can observe the performance of the players here. The second is the marginal players who have no contract in the NBA and hope to play in the NBDL. His performance was favored by NBA teams.There have been many players who came out of the NBDL and finally made a name for themselves in the NBA. To name a few people we are more familiar with, for example, Ralph Alston, Chuck Hayes, Devin Brown, Jordan - Farmer, Chris Anderson, Smush Parker, Bobby Simmons, Marcus Fizer, JJ Barea, and "Ba Shen" Battelle, "Chinese Magician" Sun Yue, "Japanese Jordan" Tian Yongwota, "Korean Big Hippopotamus" Ha Seung-jin have also left their footprints in the NBDL, and the player who has been handed down the most is the No. 2009 pick in [-], Hakeem Thabeet .

Like the NBA, the NBDL, which was held only in the 2001-2002 season, also has its own All-Star Weekend, various MVPs, championships, etc., and even has the number of a retired player from the team, such as the JJ- Barea, January 2007, 1 Barea was sent to the Fort Warn Flyers by the Mavericks. In a loss to Idaho State, Barea scored 17 points on 24-for-18 shooting; beat the Dakota Wizards In the team game, he scored 43 points on 23 of 16 shots and scored more than 41 points twice in a row.In the other two games, Barea scored double-doubles with 40 points and 17 assists and 10 points and 25 assists. On January 11, 2007, he averaged 1 points, 29 assists and 31.5 rebounds per game and was elected the best player of the week in the Development League.Now the Fort Worth Flyers' No. 7.5 jersey has been retired to commemorate Barea's back-to-back 6.0+ feat.

Now NBA teams pay more and more attention to the training of the team's follow-up talents. Many NBA teams have signed a talent training mechanism with NBDL. As a result, many NBDL teams have become subordinate teams of NBA teams, such as the Houston Rockets. The affiliated teams Rio Grande Valley Vipers, San Antonio Spurs Austin Bulls, Sacramento Kings Reynolds Horns, Dallas Mavericks Texas Legends, currently NBDL has a total of Seventeen teams.

From a mechanical point of view, the same player cannot be sent down three times in a season. When the team is recalled for the third time, the team must provide a contract extension to the end of the season. There is no limit to how long you can stay in the Development League. During this period, the player's salary is still paid by his NBA home team.

Having said that NBDL is popularizing the summer league, many people can't tell the difference between the two. What is NBDL and what is summer league? NBDL is an organized and premeditated league like the NBA, but the summer league is just a city, a contest between several teams, or an exhibition game, and the time is relatively short, usually only lasting more than ten days. It is not a fixed number of teams, sometimes even go abroad to play a game with teams from other countries.

There is something to be said here. Fans all over the world can see that NBA President Starn attaches great importance to the Chinese market, so as early as 1996, the NBA promoted the Lakers to China. The national team came to a contest of real value. At that time, the US team had Kobe and Fisher who were fledglings. Now it seems that Kobe's current status as a master is really achieved by watching Los Angeles practice at four o'clock in the morning every day. Kobe made N walking violations in one game, and almost never made a COSCO shot above the free throw line. He hit a three-pointer with a straight head, and he scored 32 points in the game, almost blowing up the opponent Kobe. Kobe's current back turn, retreat step and backward jumper are quite like "Commander Hu" back then. In addition, Battelle's He also performed very well. He was the only player in the entire team who could compete physically with the US team. He was the backbone of the team at the time and sent out 5 blocks. Apart from these two, other players who participated in the game at that time were " Xiaoyao Wang" Gong Xiaobin, and Shan Tao who always shouted "Oh, I'm fucking", "Little Li Feidao" Li Nan, "God of War" Liu Yudong, "Liaoning Tiger King" Sun Jun, Zheng Wu, Li Xiaoyong , and the "Chasing Boy" Wang Zhizhi who had just debuted at that time, this is the game that is worth remembering by all fans. The start of that game opened the door to China's NBA.

Okay, let’s get down to business. Compared with NBDL, the players participating in the summer league are more complicated. The rookies who have just realized their life value in the draft but have not yet set foot on the NBA floor, those who are full of ambitions are ready to do it in the NBA. But there are undrafted rookies whose names are not pronounced in the draft, players who have potential overseas or who have proven their abilities, and of course, NBA free agents who have not yet received contracts.

Usually there are three venues for the Summer League, Chicago Summer League, Oakland Summer League and Las Vegas Summer League with the largest event. The process of the game is also open. There is no quota limit, you can play as you please, and the number of graduations is not 12 times, but 6 times. In this kind of game, the players play on the court, and the scouts and the managers of each team follow the market in the audience. Picking your favorite players like shopping for groceries, points, assists, rebounds, these statistics are not the most important, the most important thing is whether the players have what they need, so the summer league seems to be very relaxed, but in fact it is It's cruel, usually a team has fifteen players to participate in the game, but in the end no more than two people can actually get the contract, and all of them are still unguaranteed contracts that can be cut by the team at any time.

Okay, the last question, regardless of the NBA in the United States, which one is higher in the NBDL, the Summer League or the NCAA.

In terms of the perfection of the competition system and the consideration of data, the NCAA is undoubtedly the best. The ratings of the "March Madness" of its knockout rounds can even exceed those of the NBA games in the same period.

From the perspective of the average level of the players, the NBDL is slightly higher than the NCAA, because most of the players in the NBDL are rookies who have already received contracts and "veteran players" who have played for a long time on the field, but from the top 30 players The NCAA is slightly higher than the NBDL, because in the NBA draft, most of them are local American players, and the most important way for these players to get on the NBA floor is the draft. Tanhua, even some high-ranked or low-ranked players with strong immediate combat power, will become superstars as soon as they enter the NBA, but they will not play NBDL games.As for Summer League?That doesn't count at all, and the chances of participating players getting a contract are not as good as NBDL's free agents.

Well, this chapter covers NBDL and the Development League. In the next chapter, Bai Xiaofei will return to the NBA and start the mode of killing all sides!