48. No sense of accomplishment
Some of the helplessness after becoming an NBA player, Sun Ce, a quasi-player, has already felt it.
Being selected, of course, is something that almost every player does after being selected, and every team and agent has a day off on the 28th.
But after a day of rest, he was about to put himself into work, and on the afternoon of the 28th, Sun Ce signed a contract with Bill Duffy and became a player under Bill Duffy's agency, and immediately flew to Auckland on the morning of the 29th.
I don't even have time to go home and clean up my things, and time is already no longer my own.
However, this is not a bad thing for Sun Ce, the second-round pick is not like the first-round pick, which has a fixed two-year guaranteed contract, and if he doesn't get a contract in the summer league, he can only go back to school to continue his education.
After a night's rest, at ten o'clock in the morning on the 30th, Sun Ce followed Bill Duffy to Oracle Arena, the home of the Warriors.
Warriors assistant coach Keith Smart is already waiting for Sun Ce's arrival.
is completely different from the last time, to be selected and selected, Sun Ce's current status in the Warriors is no longer the same, and he is already a quasi-player.
Sun Ce felt the social sense of the NBA.
Smart greeted Sun Ce and Bill Duffy and led them into the training ground.
Warriors head coach Nelson Sr. was chatting with Stephen Curry, the team's newly drafted seventh-pick point guard, when he saw Sun Ce and Bill Duffy coming, he said a word to Curry and walked over to Sun Ce and his party.
Old Nelson and Bill Duffy are old friends, nodded as a greeting, and then said to Sun Ce with a smile: "Hello, Noah, I'm Don." ”
"Hello, I'm Noah, I'll take care of you more in the future." Sun Ce said and bent down slightly.
Old Nelson's first impression of Sun Ce was polite!
And the way of speaking is very distinctive.
"Please take care of it", this sentence old Nelson thought was very interesting to hear.
"Noah, you and Keith go for a physical test," Old Nelson was always succinct and started working after saying hello, "Bill, let's go to the office and talk." ”
Looking at Bill Duffy, who left with Nelson Sr., Sun Ce wished everything well.
This famous agent with a lot of energy personally brought him this second-round pick to work after the draft, which is the key to whether Sun Ce has a chance to stay.
After signing the contract the afternoon before yesterday, Sun Ce's player information officially landed on the official website of Bill Duffy's agency, and Bill Duffy also officially registered as Sun Ce's agent in the players' union and the NBA's official information database.
From the perspective of business value, Bill Duffy feels that Sun Ce has a higher potential for business value than Evans!
NBA stars are not simply strong and have high commercial value, there are many league mainstay types of all-star to three-team players, except for the regular sneaker brand to provide sneakers and a fairly low endorsement fee, there is not much commercial endorsement.
There are very few sneaker endorsement contracts with more than 3 million US dollars.
Some stars have strength, but their personality is not easy to attract fans, Bill Duffy has several players of this type under his hands, Evans's personality is too bland, there is not much emotional feeling, Bill Duffy judged from the beginning that Evans is the kind of star who can only make money from the NBA's salary.
Of course, no matter how high the endorsement fee of a star is, it is actually difficult to exceed the salary, except for a very small number of stars whose endorsement fee is higher than the salary.
But as a Chinese player, as long as he can enter the NBA, he has huge commercial value, in Bill Duffy's view, Sun Ce's positioning in the NBA should be to impact the rotation lineup, the NBA's salary may not be too high, but the commercial value potential is huge.
And the commission of commercial endorsements is higher than that of NBA salaries!
The premise is that Sun Ce can get a formal contract.
Two of Bill Duffy's major rookies signed this year were both drafted by teams in California, and Bill Duffy personally sent Sun Ce to Oakland.
Now there are some sponsors who want to take advantage of Sun Ce's popularity to find Sun Ce to endorse, but Bill Duffy is not in a hurry, and even the interview is being pushed back, and being able to enter the NBA is the most important thing.
On Evans' side, Bill Duffy is not worried about the contract at all, and when the Kings notify him of the past signing, he can just sign directly, and the rookie selected by the No. 4 pick is definitely going to sign.
Assistant coach Keith Smart went to ask the staff to rearrange the venue, Curry had just finished the test, and it was Sun Ce's turn next.
Taking advantage of this gap, Sun Ce leaned next to Curry, who looked disgusted, and hooked Curry's shoulder: "Stephen, we were really drafted by the same team, it seems that my brother really has to take care of you." ”
"How did I meet you again!" Curry looked at Sun Ce, who was hooking his shoulder, and said angrily.
"This is a predestined thing arranged by your God, what can I do?"
"Oh God, are you torturing me......"
Curry couldn't resist Sun Ce's shameless posture, and he was helpless.
The venue was quickly rearranged, and Keith Smart said to Sun Ce: "Noah, here, measure your height and weight first, and then go to warm up after ...... measurement."
"OK......" Sun Ce responded and said to Curry: "My brother went to the physical test first, and my brother waited for my brother obediently, and I will take you to eat snacks after the test." ”
Curry couldn't help it this time, and squirted: "Damn, you fuck me!" ”
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Angry to angry, Curry is still very interested in Sun Ce's physical and technical tests.
The main reason is that Sun Ce left too deep an impression on Curry, and he really went to find the video of the only game Sun Ce played and watched it.
Curry was impressed by the speed and ball quotient, especially the speed, which simply seemed to be faster than the Flash Wade and the Brazilian Lightning Barbossa.
This made Curry wonder how much better the nasty was than him.
Curry didn't dare to say anything else, and in terms of physical testing, there were few rookie outside players selected this time who were worse than him.
Sun Ce began to measure his height and weigh himself under the leadership of assistant coach Smart.
"192 centimeters? It's six feet three inches like me. Curry compared, although Sun Ce's bare feet were a little taller than him, but it looked similar, and Curry felt like he hadn't lost.
"Arm span 201 cm? What's the use of a hand length! Curry thought about his height of 1.9.5 meters and his arm span of 1.91 meters...... It feels so sad!
"Weighing 179 pounds, I am 173 pounds...... I'm going to have to build a little muscle. Curry looked at Sun Ce's weight of 81 kilograms and felt that his weight of 79 kilograms was indeed too thin.
In terms of height and arm span, Curry is a little envious of Sun Ce, his height and arm span are too good!
However, this made Curry look forward to Sun Ce's speed and bouncing physical test report, and the strength Curry didn't want to compare, hurting his self-esteem, he was a college student, and he definitely couldn't play Sun Ce when he played power.
Curry's main expectation is the bounce, which he is still very confident in, but it is also the reason for his low self-esteem.
His jump height is among the top few in this rookie outside line, with a vertical jump of 35.5 inches, which is almost 90 centimeters, and his vertical jumping is second only to Westbrook's 92 centimeters among the defenders in the lottery area, which is better than Harden and DeRozan, but it is limited to his reach...... A few days ago, the NBA rookie elite game dunked to the basket and almost fell into the.
Curry thinks that he should not be worse than Sun Ce in terms of bounce, and he should always have a little advantage.
Curry waited for Sun Ce to warm up and change into training clothes, during which the training ground rearranged the equipment for the physical test, Curry waited for an hour, and even Bill Duffy and Nelson Sr. came out to see Sun Ce's dynamic physical fitness test after talking about things.
After a few more minutes, Curry's eyes widened when he looked at Sun Ce's physical test!
Indeed, Curry is better than Sun Ce in terms of jumping, as he expected.
But......
"This guy runs so fast, why is the bounce so bad! What am I waiting so long for! ”
Bounce to defeat Sun Ce, Curry feels unaccomplished!