Chapter 538: Joining the Chinese Men's Basketball Team?
In the 1995 NBA Draft, the Lakers used the No. 28 pick in the first round to select Teyus Edney of UCLA University, a choice that Lin Han was very satisfied with.
In addition to Tejus Edney, the Lakers drafted a guard in the second round, Chris Kyle.
Chris Kyle is also the 14th man on the Lakers' roster.
As a second-round pick, Chris Kyle signed a $200,000 non-guaranteed contract for a one-year period.
The fourteenth man on the Lakers' roster isn't a player Jerry West is focused on.
He was chosen just because the Lakers' lineup needs to have such a 1.96 meter shooting guard as a backup.
If suddenly the Lakers don't need a backup guard like that, he's going to be cut at any time.
As the favorites for next season's championship, the Lakers' 15-man roster is highly sought-after.
Before Mutombo and Joe Dumas came to the Lakers, these veterans had their eyes on either the Rockets or the Bulls' roster.
Now, the Lakers' roster is just as sought-after.
In the eyes of many veterans, the Lakers still have two spots available, one of which is Chris Kyle's spot.
However, for these remaining veterans who came to hug their legs, Jerry West and Lin Han are quite conservative.
The Lakers now have a full range of major rotation players, and these veterans who come to hold their legs are average in strength, and they themselves don't think they can contribute anything to the Lakers.
Those veterans with strength, seeing that the Lakers' lineup is already in order, will naturally go to other championship favorites to hug their legs, and it is better to be able to play than not to play.
Therefore, the last remaining veterans are actually not much help to the team.
These veterans may not be as effective as Chris Kyle.
Chris Kyle's other skills and abilities are not to mention, his body is still very strong, and he can throw three points.
If you really stabilize your defense and three-point practice, you might be able to become a good 3D.
As for whether it can be refined, then don't care, just have this potential.
Chris Kyle is a future investment for the Lakers, he has good physical talent and can shoot the basketball, even if he is a player, he has never been counted on.
If they can practice it in the future, the Lakers will earn it, and if they can't practice it, they will just throw it away, and it will be a second-round show.
The Lakers' No. 14 and No. 15 positions, which are being targeted by veterans who are not capable, actually have special uses.
The fourteenth seat is to invest in the future, while the fifteenth seat is set by Lin Han.
"Brother Jian, Battle's matter is a trivial matter, I will definitely not shirk if I can help, you take him to play the Asian Championships well, he comes to the Lakers, I will definitely take good care of him, what kind of person am I, Brother Jian is not clear"
Hanging up the call from Ma Jianyuan across the ocean, Lin Han always had a smile on his face.
The Lakers' No. 15 spot was given to Battle, who came to the draft this year but was undrafted.
Since Ma Jian's success in the NBA and earning money in a year that domestic players can't earn in their lifetime, almost everyone in China, as long as they are of the right age, has signed up for the NBA draft.
Whether you can be selected or not, that is secondary, the important thing is that if you participate in the draft, even if you are not selected, you are eligible to enter the NBA.
With this qualification, there is a qualification to go through the back door.
Ma Jian is now the man of the year in the national team, and no one knows about Ma Jian's success history.
If it weren't for Lin Han's support, Ma Jian would have been able to mix so well?
Those domestic players all want to get such an opportunity to be promoted by Lin Han.
They are just older, if they are younger, I am afraid that they will be like Wang Zhizhi and stay by Lin Han's side directly to receive guidance.
They envy Ma Jian and want to replicate Ma Jian's path to success.
But for Wang Zhizhi, they can only look up.
This is the Warriors' lottery pick with the No. 12 pick they received from Seculi from the Mavericks.
And the contract signed with the Warriors is a huge contract of 3 years and 3.6 million US dollars.
The national players envied Ma Jian and Ma Jian, and felt that they could replace Ma Jian, as long as they licked Lin Han well enough.
But for Wang Zhizhi, these national players even put him in the same position as Lin Han.
will definitely not treat him as a young player, it is best that Wang Zhizhi can grow into an all-star or superstar like Lin Han.
In this way, Wang Zhizhi's side also needs to be equipped with bodyguards waving towels, won't they have a chance?
The NBA is the dream of all basketball players, even if it is removed.
Battle's two-year, $400,000 contract is also coveted.
As long as you are taken to the NBA by Lin Han or the future Wang Zhizhi, you can directly buy several houses in BJ.
The fifteenth position of the Lakers, Lin Han deliberately stayed in order to ensure his influence in China.
He has always thought that he is a Chinese, but his current nationality is indeed American.
With his influence, it doesn't matter if he is not a Chinese, but in order to make himself more sought after and respected in the country.
He needs to maintain an image of working hard to fight for the interests of his countrymen abroad.
An image that is developed by itself, but will never forget its roots.
For now, his image has been doing well.
From taking care of CCTV's film crew to taking care of Ma Jian, teaching Wang Zhizhi to now the news of signing Battle that is widely reported in China, his shadow is behind it.
Judging from the news collected from Sister Sandrine, the degree of positive coverage of him in China can almost be equated with 100%!
Perfect, no faults!
As for why he chose Battle, he didn't care.
Whoever Ma Jian recommends to him, he will sign.
As long as he is a national player, as long as his behavior of meddling in team building does not make people feel ugly, it doesn't matter who he signs.
In this way, those national players who can't come to the NBA, even if they want to hate, they won't hate him, hate Ma Jian.
With Ma Jian blocking the gun for him, he just needs to be the one who stands tall.
Besides, Ma Jian would not feel that he was being used to block the gun, but would only feel that he had become the leader of the national team now because of him.
Everybody wants to be on good terms with him, and everybody wants to have a good relationship with him.
After the Los Angeles Lakers signed Battle for the last spot on the team's roster, the Lakers' roster was completely complete.
Centre-forwards: Mutombo, James Edwards, Aaron Williams, Antonio Harvey, Battle
Power forwards: Rodman, Mark Bryant
Small forwards: Eddie Jones, Wilkins
Shooting guards: Lin Han, Joe Dumas, Chris Kyle
Playmaking defenders: Magic, Scott Skells, Teyus Edney
Compared with last season's Lakers' overstretched staffing, this season's Lakers' roster thickness has improved a lot.
Even if Battle and Chris Kyle don't need it, the other thirteen can be in the rotation.
"Perry, are you really not going to China with me?"
"No, I want to keep training"
It has to be said that Hardaway is really a training maniac right now.
Talented, handsome, and willing to work hard, such a player deserves to succeed.
As an opponent and a good friend, Lin Han is extremely looking forward to his changes next season.
During the time he spent training with Hardaway, he was well aware of the changes in Hardaway's offensive skills.
A talented player like Hardaway has different skills from ordinary players, and their skills are all with their own natural attributes.
In terms of turning and leaning back, there are many outside players who play professional basketball who will turn around and lean back.
But this skill can be evaluated as bronze, not even one percent of these people.
Silver, one in a thousand.
Gold-level, even in the history of the NBA, there are only a dozen or dozens of them.
And what about the Purple Gold level? Calculated in terms of the number of pieces.
What about the purple level? Just Jordan one!
Why is that?
Is it that others are not trying hard enough?
No, it's talent, and the level of talent determines the potential of offensive skills.
If you don't have enough talent, even if you are asked to learn, you won't be able to learn, you can only look like it, in essence, the effect of the skill will be completely different.
In Lin Han's cognition, the pictures of Kobe Bryant when he was teaching him to turn his back and lean back made him know very clearly that Kobe Bryant is a very, very hard-working player.
Even the degree of development to turn back and lean back almost to the extreme.
But why is there still no way to turn purple with this skill?
The innate talents such as the arm span and the air stagnation required for the skill of turning back and leaning back are lacking in Kobe.
And Hardaway, in terms of talent, is definitely top-notch!
So, when he worked hard to develop his offensive skills, and after integrating his talent into his offensive skills, his offensive skills were almost soaring at the speed of the naked eye.
It may be an exaggeration to say that Hardaway's offensive skills are all golden, but it's actually about the same.
His talent, in attack, simply allows him to have no dead ends!
After a two-month intensive training with Hardaway, Lin Han started this year's trip to China and Asia in mid-August.
This time on the China trip, Lin Han was accompanied by Adidas' newly signed 1995 champion show Garnett.
This year, the Timberwolves drafted Garnett, who is a high school player, with the No. 1 pick.
Garnett has been training with the Lakers, and his popularity in China is still very good.
After all, Garnett doesn't know how many times Garnett has been on the hottest show in China, the forefront of the NBA.
And Garnett is very keen on things like being interviewed on TV, and he always likes to get around Lin Han and Wang Zhizhi when he has nothing to do.
So, in terms of the popularity of the Celestial Empire, Garnett is definitely an All-Star level.
Moreover, the title of the draft champion naturally makes Chinese fans feel good.
"I already have so many overseas fans now?"
Garnett, who got off the plane with Lin Han, was a little incredible.
"Kevin needs to get used to everything he needs to be a star"
Lin Han patted Garnett on the shoulder, and led him to board the RV that Adidas had prepared for them amid the shouts of the fans.
On this trip to China, Lin Han and Garnett will take a circle around Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and will pass by some other cities with Adi or Miracle stores in the middle.
In BJ, Lin Han and Garnett also met old friends, Wang Zhizhi and Ma Jian, who are training with the national team, and Battle, the Lakers' newly signed undrafted rookie.
Battle, is a rather burly insider.
With his figure, Lin Han felt that the Lakers' 400,000 yuan in 2 years was worth it.
Maybe in the finals against the Magic, against that dead fat man, Battle can use it.
It seems that Ma Jian is not abusing his trust.
Although Ma Jian has been using his influence to fake the tiger, he is not without things.
On this trip to China, Lin Han and Garnett stayed in BJ for almost a week.
In addition to meeting these old friends and promoting the store platforms in various places of Adidas and Miracle.
Mainly by a lot of big leaders.
There are even some super leaders among them, hoping that he can join the Chinese men's basketball team.
Lin Han has always been hesitant to join the Chinese men's basketball team.
If he hadn't gone to the other world of the godfather of that dynasty, he wouldn't have hesitated.
But after knowing the deeds of that coach Z, his shock was really a little big.
That Z coach can lead a group of Chinese players to defeat the powerful and unbeatable Dream Team, establishing his status as the god of basketball coaching.
So why can't he?
In the world of the godfather of the dynasty, Coach Z is simply using the Dream Team as a machine to brush up his reputation.
And what about him?
If he just joins the Dream Team and becomes a member of the Dream Team, even if he wins the Olympic Games in 1996 with Dream Three, it will only be a copy of what Jordan has done before.
Moreover, in 1997, the NBA had to line up the top 50 superstars in NBA history, if he could lead the Chinese team to defeat the Dream Team in 1996.
The Olympic championship is not an NBA honor, but it will also add points to him, right?
Moreover, the strength of the Chinese men's basketball team does not seem to be bad, and the 1994 World Championships was the quarterfinals.
In short, he was not prepared to think about this matter before, because it was not necessary.
But now, in terms of his ambitions, he really needs to think about it.
Therefore, after finishing the trip to China and Asia, Lin Han deliberately stayed in Seoul to watch the men's Asian Basketball Championships.
And it's not about watching a game, it's about following the Asian Championships!
For Lin Han's abnormal behavior, the whole of South Korea went crazy.
South Korean media even reported that Lin Han may be inspecting the South Korean national team.
In the end, with the blessing of Lin Han, the Korean team went all the way to the final of the Asian Championships.
In the end, he was abused by the Chinese team led by Wang Zhizhi for 30 points.
Wang Zhizhi, who has been training with the Lakers for a year, returned to the Asian Championships, which is no different from adults beating children.
Finally, Lin Han was also invited by the organizer of South Korea to present the award to the champion as a guest of honor.
After the awards, Lin Han also invited the Chinese men's basketball team to Los Angeles to train with the Lakers, which made the South Korean team on the side want to cry with envy.
Genius one second to remember the address of this site:. Mobile version reading URL: m.