start with scouting

Chapter 488 I want to bring my talent to Golden State

The roster is confirmed, and the Kings only need to wait for the announcement of the salary cap for the new season before they can officially sign Curry and others.

The focus of the team's work shifted accordingly. The commercial department was trying their best to sell new season tickets and various peripheral products. As a result, all the tickets were sold out in half an hour, and the first batch of pre-customized Curry jerseys, a total of [-] pieces, also quickly sold out.

In the basketball department, Mike Brown was listed as the coach of the Summer League and began to lead the team in training.Su Yang specially assigned tasks to LaVine-lead the team to win the summer league championship, and personally won the MVP, and by the way denied Antetokounmpo and Covington's request to participate.

Su Yang knew that the two of them wanted to play more games, but the benefits of going to the Summer League for the two of them were very low, so it was better to keep training step by step.

On the early morning of the [-]th, Jokic's team arrived in Sacramento, and Su Yang greeted him at the airport in person, showing how much he attached importance to it.

Jokic, who has not yet lost weight, is too fat. Su Yang told Sam Hinkie loudly on the spot: "Add a weight loss reward clause to Jokic's contract. As long as the weight can drop to 115 kilograms after the end of the season, he will be rewarded with 50 pounds." Ten thousand U.S. dollars."

Deliberately let the Jokic team hear that even if they don't play a game in the new season, they can get $50 just by losing weight.

Jokic was stunned when he heard the words, and said for a while: "Boss, if you set up the contract like this, I can only say goodbye to Coke."

Su Yang said with a smile: "Your contract will have this bonus clause every year. It is very important for you to maintain a healthy weight..."

50 is just a drizzle, especially Jokic's rookie contract of 4 million US dollars for 555 years, which is almost equal to the price of cabbage.

This time, bringing Jokic to the United States in advance, the biggest cost is to buy out his original team contract and management fees.

While chatting and laughing, everyone rushed to the small villa near the training base and helped move the luggage in. Su Yang told Jokic again: "This villa is the property of the team. You have Giannis as your neighbor, and you have prepared a lot of daily necessities. , don't worry about trivial matters, you will be an MVP player in the future, don't waste your talent, start training hard from tomorrow, don't let yourself down..."

Jokic solemnly nodded his promise, and then asked: "The scout told me before that you will let me adapt to the season first. I completely obey the decision, but if there is garbage time, can I play? I want to experience the NBA as soon as possible. Contest…"

"sure…"

Su Yang nodded: "I said that mainly because I was worried about being too heavy, too fierce confrontation, and easy to get injured. If you can quickly enter a healthy state and make full use of certain technical means, there will be no problem entering the battle, not only Garbage time, regular time is also fine, everything depends on your progress speed, don't be too impatient, there is still a long way to go."

At noon the next day, the King held a press conference for Jokic at the training base, and more than [-] media outlets attended to report.

Su Yang and Hinkie attended together, and the camera clicked. The 19-year-old Jokic had never seen a big scene and was very excited.

Hinkie briefly introduced Jokic's situation, and ESPN team reporter Lindsay followed up with questions: "I heard that you value Nikola Jokic very much, and even regard him as one of the core of the team's future. Go to Serbia to negotiate?"

Su Yang took the microphone and replied: "I want to say that again, I am serious every time, I hope this time you will not think I am bragging... Jokic is a future MVP player, we pay for him It's well worth the extra effort…”

The reporters laughed when they heard the words, Curry is the MVP, Antetokounmpo is the MVP, Jokic is also the MVP, three MVPs?

The last time there were three MVP teams was the Thunder. The Kings lineup is more reasonable this time. Are they going to build a dynasty?
Jokic has a calm expression on his face, thinking: I checked the news before, and Boss Su does not praise every rookie as MVP. His current teammate Zach LaVine, Cole Aldridge in the Thunder era, and the Lakers During the period, JaMychal Green never said that he would win the MVP, which means that I am different from them. I did not expect that I would be so good, hehe.

The press conference ended quickly, and Su Yang took Jokic to visit the locker room, then took out a thick tactical manual, and said: "In the future, you will position the offensive axis on the court, and first adjust the team's offensive system." Understood, I will investigate in August..."

"I need to memorize them all?" Jokic showed a little flustered face, and he regained his composure in the blink of an eye, as if he wasn't worried.

"Don't have to remember all the details..."

Su Yang waved his hand, "We focus on dynamic offense. You just need to figure out the internal logic. I won't let you memorize the tactics when I inspect, but watch the video and let you make the most efficient choice, so you also need to know your teammates. technical features."

"Okay, a bit of a challenge..."

After visiting the locker room, Su Yang brought Jokic to meet Curry, Antetokounmpo, Cousins ​​and others who were training.

Curry hasn't signed a contract yet, but he has already bought a house in Saskatchewan, and recently he has been running to the training base to adapt in advance.

Regarding the addition of Jokic, except for the sensitive Cousins, everyone else is 100% welcome, but Cousins ​​​​is more worried about Jokic's weight, and bluntly said: "You are dozens of pounds heavier than me. Can you keep up when it comes to guard singles?"

The voice flew out, and everyone felt embarrassed. Jokic shrugged with a smile: "The coach will definitely arrange for defense, right?"

Hearing this, Su Yang thought of the picture of Jokic in Paul's military training, and said with a smile: "It's more feasible for you to respond to the ball on the offensive end."

The content of the press conference was soon reported. Many fans discussed whether Su Yang was crazy. Just finding a player from the European league would be MVP level. That violated the objective laws of basketball. .

The famous Barkley commented on the TNT program: "After hearing Su Yang's remarks, I asked someone to check the data of Nikola Jokic's Mega Leks team in the Adriatic League. It has not reached the MVP level. Just imagine How can an overseas player rule the NBA if he cannot rule the league he is in? You must know that Yao Ming was able to rule the CBA back then..."

O'Neill, who also participated in the TNT program, echoed: "Please don't compare my brother Yao Ming. I think that's just Su Yang's personal preference. He likes the kind of center player who floats on the outside. Blazers Channing Frye, King Cousins ​​and John Keech is all about that, and I think he's trying to drive the league, trying to make the game less competitive and less big man jobs."

Su Yang ignored O'Neill's criticism and only replied to Barkley, betting that Jokic would win the MVP within ten years.

It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, the main thing is to let the fans and famous players discuss it, give Jokic more motivation and accelerate his progress.

In a blink of an eye, on July 13th, the league and the major teams completed the settlement of the 14-14 season's income and expenditure, and the 15-6306.5 season salary cap was announced accordingly. $7.5 million.

The league also announced the specific amount of the middle class contract, of which the full amount is $530.5 million, the mini middle class is $327.8 million, the space middle class (for teams with salary space) is $273.2 million, and the poor line is $5675.9 million.

The free agent signing and team trading window opened accordingly. Together with Su Yang and Hinkie, they successively signed Curry, Evan Turner, and Bazemore, and then reported to the league that the approved salary space had exceeded the salary cap. Lie signed with Dream Chaser Green and Whiteside, and used the middle-class special case to sign Thomas Jr., and used rookie Lie to sign LaVine, Grant, and Jokic.

After tossing back and forth for two days, everything was finally done, and the main team of the king's 14-man team was formally formed, just waiting to take off.

On the night of NO.12, without any warning, the LeBron team announced through Sports Illustrated that they would join the Golden State Warriors next season.

Afterwards, LeBron retweeted the confirmation, and related discussions reached the top of the trending searches in 3 minutes, and related operations in the free market exploded.

WOJ followed up and broke the news: The Millsap team is discussing the possibility of joining the Golden State Warriors, as well as Darren Collison.

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