Healing Basketball

Chapter 28

"Bill, don't sign for now, the endorsement fee is doubled and it's not that high, and I want to sign a long-term contract... I'm not in a hurry to sign a sneaker endorsement."

"Jess, you play for the Trail Blazers, and your commercial value in the US market has been greatly affected. The current offer is too low. If you only sign for one year, we can accept it. We don't have to consider a long-term contract.

And now that your commercial value has started to increase, I think we can be patient...our handsome guy. "

Liu Xiu was a little surprised that this old and serious man could actually make jokes.

The rapid change of public opinion made Liu Xiu feel a little bit like the Internet age.

It's not what he wants to become popular by relying on his face, but his commercial value has risen...ah...so sweet...

But I still have to remind: "Bill, pay more attention to the endorsement contract. Don't forget to check your mailbox. It would be bad if you missed the offer negotiation."

"Haha, I won't forget again... I really want to thank you very much, I almost missed the time to notify the Heat to implement Carter's player option..."

Bill Duffy on the other end of the phone laughed, but was terrified in his heart.

Before the draft, after Liu Xiu signed a 4-year contract with the Trail Blazers, he asked, "Bill, the contract option expires today, right?" '

Hearing this, he suddenly remembered that the player option for the final year of Anthony Carter's contract with the Heat was not implemented!

Anthony Carter’s contract salary in the last year is 400 million US dollars. With his average performance of 4 points and 4 assists per game last season, he definitely can’t get such a salary. I really forgot to notify the Heat in writing or email to execute the contract. Bill Duffy There will be two choices.

One is losing money, 400 million dollars, even for a top broker like him, 400 million dollars is equivalent to cutting his flesh.

If you don't pay, you may have to face a lawsuit. This is 400 million dollars.

He hurriedly submitted the option to the Heat to execute the contract before June 6, avoiding losses and potential troubles.

At the end of the chat, Bill Duffy asked: "By the way, Jess, those media are deliberately leading wrong public opinion. Don't we really need to clarify?"

A lazy rhetorical voice came from the other end of the phone: "Is clarification useful?"

"Uh..." Bill Duffy replied in pain, "I don't think it's useful, you're a Trail Blazers player."

"Yes, so don't worry about it. In fact, this is very good. The reporters are all discussing things off the court. No one pays attention to how I am playing. It happens that I am not playing very well. On the contrary, the pressure on the court will be much less. It's okay. Slowly grow and slowly improve..."

"If you practice a little more, you won't make any progress... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, hang up on me every time you mention this!"

Just as Bill Duffy was about to chatter, he heard a 'beep' on the other end of the phone, so he had to give up.

After hanging up the phone, Bill Duffy thought about it and called the secretary in.

"Tom, help me recruit another secretary. The weekly salary is 700. You don't need much ability. You just need to be careful, punctual, and able to remember things."

When Secretary Tom heard that he was going to recruit a secretary, his heart skipped a beat. Something was going to happen!

But when he heard the salary and job requirements later, Tom showed an expression that any man could understand, feeling really rare!
Tom immediately complied and ran to work.

It is not so easy to recruit a full-time secretary with a weekly salary of 700 US dollars, but it is very simple to recruit a beautiful secretary who is careful, punctual, and can remember things... People don't only earn a basic salary.

Two or three hours later, Tom brought a hot, sexy white female secretary in her 20s back, completed the entry procedures, and brought her to the office of the boss, Bill Duffy.

Whether you can enter the job depends on whether the boss is satisfied or not.

Bill Duffy looked at the skirt that was slit to the hips, and was a little dazed—'Are all female secretaries dressed like this now?Oh, by the way, Alexander's secretary is also dressed like this. '

In his 40s, it's normal for Bill Duffy to feel outdated in terms of dressing and fashion.

Bill Duffy looked at the entry form. He was 26 years old and dropped out of high school... He nodded with satisfaction. For these jobs, junior high school and high school education are all that is needed, as long as he can read and write, sign and seal, and complete the entry procedures.

Tom took the completed entry form, frowned at the boss, left the office, and went to the personnel department.

Bill Duffy was baffled by this look. At this time, the female secretary walked around the desk and said in a soft tone: "Boss, what are we going to do now?"

Young people who love their work, Bill Duffy loves it!

Although I haven't graduated from high school, it doesn't matter. Work hard and be an upright person, which is the most important thing.

Bill Duffy took out the information he had sorted out an hour ago: "This is the itinerary schedule that I have already confirmed. You remind me before each trip. I need to confirm whether there are working hours in the future. I will ask you all the time.

You go to Tom as soon as possible to learn about our company's business, our athletes' signing days, negotiation days, contract execution days...etc, you need to remember.

That's all the work content, shouldn't be difficult, right? "

The female secretary thought about the content of the job, and she nodded.

"Come on, work hard."

Bill Duffy got up and patted the new secretary on the shoulder, took the folder he had packed, and left the office.

Tom is waiting outside the office. He knows that there will be contract negotiations about the undrafted pick under his hand at night. The Nets only want to give non-guaranteed contracts. Their goal is to convert non-guaranteed contracts into partially guaranteed contracts.

While teasing the intern who just came out of college, Tom suddenly saw Bill Duffy coming out of the office, and asked in astonishment, "Boss, so fast?"

Bill Duffy felt something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong, so he could only respond: "I've always been fast in this kind of thing, efficiency is the most important thing, let's go."

'Efficiency is the most important... the happiest time is only a few seconds, so only those few seconds are needed? '

Tom was stunned for a moment, and quickly ran back to his office, packed his things, and went out to work with his boss.

On the other side, the female secretary looked at the itinerary that needed to be sorted out in front of her, thought about the work content, and the boss patted her shoulders to encourage her like an elder...'I... I accidentally started working with my legs closed? '

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Liu Xiu didn't know that his manager had completed an achievement of persuading people to be good... At around 4:[-] p.m., he arrived at the training ground at the Pepsi Center in Salt Lake City, and started warm-up training under the cameras carried by the trainers.

It was not the first time for the trainers to see it, but they were still talking about it. Before the other players came, all the trainers gathered around Liu Xiu who was warming up.

"Jess's warm-up is too professional. Let me create a warm-up training plan for him. I can't do it so well."

"That's right, and Jess's memory is also very good. His warm-up rhythm is very good, from joints to muscles... and the range of motion is well controlled, avoiding unnecessary physical exertion."

"Yeah, Jess's warm-up is really good, activating the body and avoiding injuries. The purpose of the warm-up is these two things. He almost did it to the extreme... But I went to Syracuse University to communicate with their trainers, and they are not so good. At this level, I originally wanted to learn from them..."

"I heard that Jess adjusted himself based on the warm-ups planned by the trainer at Syracuse University. I talked to him in Orlando and wanted him to help other people with training plans, but he wouldn't..."

"It's not that he can't, maybe he just knows his body better, and he is more willing to use his brain to think of ways to make his warm-up better and reduce the risk of injury... With his lazy character, he must think that injury is very troublesome. .”

A group of trainers were chattering around Liu Xiu, and when the chat came to this point, everyone couldn't help laughing.

The trainers like Liu Xiu very much. In terms of training, Liu Xiu doesn't have much to do, so he can take jokes, and Liu Xiu doesn't train, as long as he trains, as long as he knows how, he is very professional.

Just like the current warm-up training, it can be used as a teaching template to be photographed and studied.

In fact... Liu Xiu just followed the warm-up training given by the system to do movements and exert strength...

Now, as he was warming up, there was a small three-dimensional image in front of him that only he could see. The warm-up movements he did were just done by this small three-dimensional image, and there was a reminder of the completion.

He has done it many times, and basically every warm-up movement has a completion rate of more than 90%, from the standard level of movement to the comprehensive completion of exertion.

Therefore, it will give the trainers a sense of "teaching template".

Not only the trainers admired Liu Xiu's warm-up training, but the coaches also admired Liu Xiu when they came to the training ground...and it was very painful.

Liu Xiu's training has a high degree of completion and movement standards, which means that the training efficiency will not be low.

But this guy is just too lazy!
Liu Xiu has a lot of small problems, but in the eyes of other people in the team, there are more advantages.

Otherwise, the coaching staff of Syracuse University and the Trail Blazers will not pay more and more attention to him.

Compared to Liu Xiu's advantages, talkativeness, lack of spanking, laziness... etc. are just minor problems...Laziness may be a little more serious, but he is still making progress because of his laziness, what can you do?
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At 6:20 in the evening, at the Pepsi Center in Salt Lake City, a medium-sized indoor basketball court with more than 5000 seats, the Trail Blazers and the Lakers have already entered the game.

On the Trail Blazers bench, Kevin Pritchar is making the final arrangements before the game.

Liu Xiu listened to the tactical arrangement, it was very simple, one sentence can describe the tactical content - all the college students played around their three rookies.

When training this style of play these two days, Liu Xiu, Travis Outlaw, and Matt Carroll were surprised at first.

They really learned why the Rocky Mountain Summer League is known as the 'best for rookie leveling' league.

Tactics are nothing to listen to. The coaching staff is emphasizing it for those college students to prevent them from finding work when they have nothing to do.

However, other teams may have such problems. In the Trail Blazers team... don't care what the college students think, don't care how much they want to resist, as long as you see Liu Xiu with a gentle expression and a hint of a smile face, he lost the courage to resist.

The picture of Liu Xiu knocking Alvin Dixon down from his uniform without even taking a breath is vivid in my memory...

Liu Xiu's attention was on his opponent.

"Luke Walton, second-round pick, Amy Udoka, undrafted in 2000, has never played in the NBA, and is considered a rookie, Brian Cook, 24th pick in the first round... This is the Lakers draft How many coaches have you hired? '

(End of this chapter)