Las Vegas, the desert, Sun Ce carried the short-sleeved T-shirt he brought to Oakland and went to the arena with Curry to meet the team.

On the night of the 10th, after staying at a hotel in Las Vegas, Sun Ce realized how stupid he was.

"It's good to have you, Stephen, why is this place so hot during the day and so cold at night!" Sun Ce put on Curry's coat, turned on the air conditioner, and complained in Curry's constant white eyes.

In fact, if you want to say that it's really that cold, you can wear a jacket.

When Sun Ce and his teammates first arrived here during the day, the heat wave when they got off the plane was almost fatal, and a group of people rushed into the shuttle bus as if they wanted to be chased and killed, and the temperature reached 45 degrees at noon.

But in the evening, it dropped to 20 degrees, and after dinner, you can't leave the hotel at night because of safety issues...... After explaining the precautions to the two rookies and the two undrafted picks, Sun Ce and Curry returned to their double room, by which time the temperature had dropped to 12 degrees.

12 degrees Celsius is not a very cold temperature, but the temperature changes by more than 30 degrees in a day, which is unacceptable.

As the hot air of the air conditioner blew out, Sun Ce continued to complain: "Turn on the air conditioner during the day and the heating at night, Stephen, do you think it would be very profitable to come here to repair the air conditioner if I didn't get a contract?" ”

Looking at the embarrassed Sun Ce, Curry kept comforting himself: "I'm a big brother, I have to be patient, I have to be patient......"

In the morning, when he saw Sun Ce carrying a small schoolbag and going to school, Curry felt strange, he didn't even know the temperature difference between day and night in the desert area.

Although Las Vegas is a metropolis, it is still a desert area, Curry came here to play the high school all-star game after graduating from high school, but Sun Ce has never been here, Sun Ce consciously knows that there is a temperature difference between day and night in the desert, but he doesn't have the concept to play in the desert.

……

After resting for a night, Sun Ce still habitually got up early the next morning, Las Vegas in the morning was strangely cold, and the early morning in the casino was really not very safe, fortunately, the hotel had a gym.

Just after five o'clock, Sun Ce wanted to use the gym, and the hotel attendants were speechless, but during this time, the hotel had been contracted by the NBA and used as a place to stay for some teams in the summer league.

After running for an hour, Sun Ce felt energetic, returned to the room and took a shower, and Curry also got up at this time and went to have breakfast together.

"Stephen, Noah, are you getting up so early?"

As soon as they entered the restaurant, Anthony Randolph greeted the two warmly.

Sun Ce and Curry's movements were synchronized again, and after glancing around, they didn't see Watson, and it seemed that they could have a good breakfast.

Randolph looked at the movements of the two with some embarrassment, and it was true that the last time he asked Sun Ce and Curry to have lunch together, he made the two lose face.

But this time Randolph deliberately avoided Watson, he had long understood that Sun Ce and Curry would get up early and have been waiting here, and only got up to get things when they saw the two coming, looking like they had just arrived.

Curry felt that it was a bit inappropriate for people to greet him with such a reaction, and immediately responded, "Hey, Anthony, you're so early." ”

"Good morning." Sun Ce prefers this way of greeting.

Each took a little bit to eat, mainly eggs, milk, and vegetables.

It was just seven o'clock, and there were just three of them in the restaurant, and the others were waiters, so they found a table and sat down.

"How's it going to be tomorrow against real NBA players, are you nervous?" Randolph asked.

"I'm excited, I really want to play fast!" Curry showed his fighting spirit to his seniors.

"Uh......" Sun Ce wondered and asked, "Stephen, aren't you quite worried about losing to those first-round players?" ”

"......" Curry was speechless and asked rhetorically, "Aren't you excited to play games with NBA players?" ”

"No, I'm nervous."

“……”

“……”

Looking at the speechless two, Sun Ce smiled: "Just kidding, I'm also very excited, I want to see how well my strength can play when there are NBA players as opponents." ”

"Noah, you must be fine, you can score 21 points against Wade." Randolph spoke with praise in his tone.

"Yes, Noah, you have no problem, your skills will definitely be more powerful, your current breakthrough is better than mine, it must be no problem." Curry chimed in.

Sun Ce was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect the two of them to make such an evaluation.

Randolph is okay, Curry has been training with him for six days before, don't you know his level?

In fact, perhaps in the eyes of most of the management, Sun Ce just broke out that day, letting the management of each team know that there is such a person, but it is not without precedent, there have been many such examples before, temporarily finding a player from the development league to replace the injured player to play one or two games, and the result broke out, but in the end, the contract was given to the other party and the other party withered suddenly, and slowly the management of each team was very cautious about these players who broke out one or two games when giving contracts, not to mention the draft picks of two per year.

The veteran players have seen quite a few examples of this.

But Curry is a rookie and Randolph has just finished his rookie season, so they still maintain a "young mentality" relatively speaking, and they recognize Sun Ce's good game.

The reason why Randolph sees Sun Ce as a future teammate is because of that game.

Curry is the same, he wants to compare with Sun Ce in everything, just because Sun Ce has "proven" himself in the NBA, even if it is only one game.

In Curry's opinion, Sun Ce's skills are poor...... He watched the video of that game several times, and Sun Ce's skills in that game were also poor, and he relied on speed and ball quotient to play.

Especially for speed, Curry is actually very envious of a person like Sun Ce who is super top in a certain aspect of physical fitness, although it is easy to be restricted by eating all over the world, but people at least have a strong point.

Sun Ce's speed is his strength.

received an unexpected evaluation, and Sun Ce was quite happy, but it also brought pressure.

That is to say, some people have expectations for him, and that expectation is quite high!

……

After breakfast, they went back to their rooms to rest for a while, and at eight o'clock, they came to the conference room arranged by the league for their team.

At nine o'clock, the players arrived, and Smart arrived later and opened a PPT with a projector.

It has the names of four teams, the Bucks, Timberwolves, Knicks, and Warriors.

"The league just sent us the results of the random grouping, and we were placed in a group with these three teams, and we will play each of the three teams in a ......"

Smart gave a brief explanation and began to analyze the current summer league rosters submitted by the Bucks, Timberwolves, and Knicks.

Why is it at present, the players of these summer league teams may be signed by other teams after one game, of course, other teams with contracts can't sign, and the selected rookies can't be signed by other teams, and the other selected players have all got summer league contracts, and one of the terms is the right of first refusal to sign a training camp contract, that is, other teams have issued an invitation to a training camp contract, and the team that temporarily has this player can match.

There is also a salary for signing a summer league contract, which is higher than that of the development league, and each summer league contract player has a salary of six thousand dollars regardless of whether he has played all the games or not.

On the contrary, selected rookies like Sun Ce and Curry, as well as players with contracts, have no money to get.

Summer League was originally intended to give fans a few games to talk about in the offseason, with a certain salary, and those players who have a certain strength in the NBDL but are not confident that they can enter the NBA will also come to earn some money, after all, the salary in the NBDL is too low.

In Smart's introduction, Sun Ce and Curry, Chris Hunter and other pure rookies learned about the rules of the summer league, although they knew that there was a league before, they really didn't know the specific format.

The 22 teams competing in this year's Las Vegas Summer League are divided into five groups, with two groups of five teams.

The first place in each group will advance to the quarterfinals, and the remaining 17 teams will be ranked according to the points, the top three will enter the quarterfinals, and the rest will go to the qualifying round.

Anyway, each team has six games to play.

The format is simple and a bit confusing, after all, it's just a summer league, and it's good to have such a stable format.

However, the three opponents in the group stage, Sun Ce felt that it was a coincidence, and all three opponents had point guards who were selected in the first round!