I have a lot of skills in the NBA

Chapter 47 The Insidious Rivers (please collect, please recommend tickets)
Li Yang became the NBA rookie from China with the highest draft pick after Yi Jianlian. This news immediately occupied the sports headlines of major news websites.

Many Chinese fans are ready to regard the Los Angeles Clippers as their home team in the new season. As for the Mosaic Rockets, they are directly left behind by the fans and discarded like shoes.

Even CCTV [-] is planning to increase the number of broadcasts of the Clippers' games in the new season.

At this time, China, the Basketball Association.

On the second day after the draft, as soon as he went to work in the morning, Chairman Yao called Li Jinsheng, Gong Luming, Ah Dijiang and other senior officials of the Basketball Association to the office.

"Sit down." Yao Ming waved his hands at them, and he said straight to the point: "How is it? What do you think about Li Yang's entry into the national team?"

"All the colleagues in the association who can be contacted have been contacted. Basically, there is no problem. Most people agree that Li Yang will join the national team." Li Jinsheng was the first to stand up and say.

Then there is Gong Luming: "We have also contacted influential people from all walks of life. It is very good. 90.00% of them support Li Yang's joining the national team."

"Yeah." Yao Ming nodded at Gong Luming, and said with satisfaction: "Since the comrades in the association, people from all walks of life in the society, and the news and public opinion have also unanimously called for him to enter the national team, then we have passed this agenda."

"Do you have any opinions?" Yao Ming asked again.

"Agreed." The voice fell, and everyone nodded.

Soon after, Chairman Yao of the Chinese Basketball Association sent a congratulatory message to Li Yang, and sent a sincere invitation to Li Yang, asking if he would like to join the national team.

Although the basketball association has achieved initial results under Chairman Yao's drastic reform, there are still many bad habits that have not been changed, and Li Yang still has many concerns.

Because they are not athletes registered by the Chinese Basketball Association, the Basketball Association can't force them to recruit people. Now that the Internet is very developed and information spreads quickly, if they dare to have a confrontation with Li Yang, if the news gets out, they will probably be sprayed to death by Chinese fans.

Li Yang clearly expressed his concerns to Chairman Yao and his idea of ​​adapting to the NBA in advance by participating in the summer league. Chairman Yao understood and supported Li Yang's decision, and said that he would resolve Li Yang's concerns immediately, and at the same time ensured that the national team quota could wait for him to come back.

Only then did Li Yang feel relieved. Since Yao Ming took office, the Chinese Basketball Association has indeed changed a lot and is gradually recovering.

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Los Angeles, located in the southwestern part of California, is the second largest city in the United States, the largest metropolis in the western United States, and the largest seaport city in the United States. Its GDP ranks second only to New York and Tokyo in the global city rankings, enjoying the reputation of "City of Technology" and "City of Angels".

The NBA's mighty Los Angeles Lakers play their home games at the Staples Center Arena in the city center. Sixteen championship banners are hung above the arena.

The destination of Li Yang and Duffy's trip was the Staples Center. Unfortunately, it was not the Lakers, but its fellow Clippers.

Compared with the glorious history of the Lakers, the fellow Clippers are nothing short of a difference.

But since Blake Griffin was picked with the No. [-] pick in his hands, the team gradually began to improve.

Especially after the trade for Chris Paul, the league's No. [-] point guard at the time, the Clippers, led by these two carriages, quickly jumped from a small team to a strong team in the West.

Under the leadership of the champion coach Doug Reeves, he has launched an impact on the championship trophy, the O'Brien Cup, for several years, but he has never been able to break the curse of the Western Conference Finals and has been rejected by the Western Conference Finals every year.

This made the team's management completely lose their patience, sent the team's core Chris Paul away, and started the reconstruction work. The "lobby city" of the year has become an "empty city".

All in all, when Li Yang participated in the Clippers' trial training, the Clippers' players had already gone on vacation, and the team didn't even make it to the playoffs this year.

The Clippers share the Staples Center arena with the Lakers, and their office is also located in the arena. After Li Yang and Duffy arrived, they walked into the office led by the staff.

The main purpose of their coming today is to finalize the contract and determine matters related to the summer league.

In the office, the Clippers' general manager Dave Wall, the team's head coach Doug Rivers, and the team consultant, the famous logo man Jerry West, have been waiting for a long time.

Seeing them coming in at this moment, Reeves just raised his eyes, his eyes were indifferent, and he didn't mean to get up to greet them.

Everyone is used to calling Rivers "Doctor (DOC)", in fact, this is not Rivers' real name, but derived from his nickname.

Rivers, whose real name is Glenn, wore a "Dr. J" Irving jersey at a basketball summer training camp at East Proviso High School in Illinois, so his coach Rick Majelus jokingly called him "DOC," a nickname he later dubbed.

On the contrary, the team's general manager, Dave Wall, and the logo man immediately greeted them with a smile on their faces after seeing them come in.

"Yang, you are finally here!" Dave Wall said excitedly.

"Hey, Dave, nice to meet you so soon." Li Yang also responded politely.

"Come on, sit first." Dave Wall guided them to sit down, turned around and asked the assistant beside him to pour a cup of coffee for the two of them. It was obvious that he attached great importance to Li Yang.

"Ahem..." At this moment, Reeves coughed twice, and said first, "Let's get straight to the point, let's discuss the contract first."

Before Li Yang's butt was hot, he got up again to get the contract.

"No hurry, no hurry." Wall stretched out his hand to stop Li Yang, and said without turning his head, "Doug, they have just entered the door, and they haven't come to taste the coffee yet. Let them have a rest first. The contract is not urgent at this time, we will talk about it later!"

"Why don't you sign with them? I still have a lot of things in hand, so I'll leave first." Reeves' face was livid, and he was about to get up and leave.

Li Yang and Bill Duffy were almost taken aback. Did this guy eat gunpowder? His temper was so hot early in the morning!
No one expected that Rivers would make such a move at this time!
"Don't go! Doug! You still need to close this contract!" Wall seemed to be prepared in his heart, and he didn't see any embarrassment in him, so he just stood up with a smile and stopped him.

Turning his head to look at Ye Qiu and Bill and Duffy, he looked like a good old man, and explained patiently: "It's okay, menopausal temper is a little hot, Bill doesn't mind, it's not against you." There was no embarrassment in his expression.

Wall turned around at this time, smiled and said to Rivers: "Doug, don't be impatient. You are the team's operations director. You didn't read this contract. I have no right to sign it alone."

"You also know that I'm the director of team operations." Reeves sat back down again and said impatiently, "If that's the case, then hurry up and sign."

Li Yang and Duffy looked at each other at this moment, and the two immediately understood. The relationship between the two seemed a little delicate. Li Yang immediately made up for the drama of the team's high-level struggle for power, and he became a pawn in the game between the two big bosses.

Duffy stood up at this moment and said: "Two, my client is still a prospective college student in China. He may have to go through some formalities in China. We can discuss the details of the contract now. When he goes back and completes the formalities, it will not be too late to discuss the signing."

Reeves frowned and looked at Bill Duffy, reached out and tapped the contract on the table and said, "Bill, we are old acquaintances, here is the contract, take it over and read it first, and sign if there is no problem."

Duffy wasn't dissatisfied with Reeves' indifference. As a top professional agent, he had never seen such a big storm. He had seen through this little trick of Rivers a long time ago. He reached out to take the contract with a smile on his face, and looked at it carefully.

The office suddenly became quiet, except for Duffy's "swish" sound of paper rubbing against each other when he was flipping through the contract, and the sound of others swallowing coffee.

(End of this chapter)