Demps asks him to meet at the café.

"We can still sign a player in the team, do you have any suggestions?"

As soon as he sat down, Demps's words surprised Tang Tian.

"You said it, you want to talk about it when the team is in charge, that's it."

Seeing that Tang Tian was stunned for a moment, Demps explained with a smile.

Tang Tian nodded, he was really surprised.

He said it half-jokingly, thinking he would have to wait until he helped the team make the playoffs at the earliest.

Unexpectedly, Demps was looking for him at this time.

The Pelicans really surprised him time and time again.

"Here's the team's roster right now, you see."

Demps said, handing him the tablet.

The Pelicans now have a total of 17 contracts, 12 guaranteed contracts, and five non-guaranteed contracts.

Guaranteed contracts: Anthony Davis, Eric Gordon, Tang Tian, Aminu, Ryan Anderson, Aminu, Jason Smith, Rivers Jr., Anthony Morrow, Steensma, Akinsa, Jeff Vichy.

Non-guaranteed contracts: Brian Roberts, Darius Miller, Lance Thomas, Arinz Onuaku, Josh Childis.

Typically, a team will have at least 14 guaranteed contracts, one of which will be reserved for mid-season flexibility.

But the Pelicans only have 12 guaranteed contracts, which is a standard underdog composition, with large personnel fluctuations, and many need to compete for positions.

However, at this time, Tang Tian also knew why Demps would let him participate in the management decision.

Because, it really doesn't have much impact.

Now that the free market is almost over, all the people who can sign are veterans and newcomers that no one wants, and there is at most one more competition anyway.

It just so happened that this handy favor was also given to Tang Tian.

"Next is the list of free agents right now."

Demps continued.

Tang Tian slid down a little after hearing this, there were really basically no people who could use it.

Anyone who has some strength has already signed a non-guaranteed contract with the team.

However, in this list, Tang Tian saw a familiar name.

Charity, World Peace.

That is, the former Ron Artest.

He turned out to be a free agent.

"Ron hasn't signed since he was pardoned by the Lakers."

Seeing Tang Tian staring at Ci Shiping's name, Demps spoke, but he still preferred to be called by the old name.

That's right, Tzu Shiping has proven to be embarrassed last season, unable to shoot the basketball, and often being overtaken by slow defense.

And he still has an annual salary of more than 7 million in the Lakers.

The Lakers continue to challenge for championships in the new season, and they also signed Wright in the middle class, and pardoning him is expected.

"I suggest signing him."

Tang Tian raised his head and said.

"He? He can't play in the NBA right now, and his economic team has to keep his contract secure. ”

Demps was afraid that Tang Tian would not understand the situation, so he opened his mouth to explain to him.

"Dile, he should have some gas in the tank, and the main reason we signed him is that this team needs his toughness and dressing room leadership, and this team is missing that."

Tang Tian opened his mouth and said, if he remembers correctly, Ci Shiping has been playing with the Lakers for a year in the 16~17 season, and he should still be able to play.

Of course, the second half of what he said was the point.

This team has the same atmosphere as the Spurs, but that's clearly not right.

The Spurs have a lot of veteran players, and the team atmosphere has always been like this, but the Pelicans have a lot of fluctuations in players, and most of the players are young, which is certainly not good.

It takes momentum and enthusiasm for a young team to get results, just like Walker and him did at UConn.

Therefore, an igniter like Ci Shiping is much more useful than signing an unreliable potential newcomer.

Demps nodded, he should have adopted Tang Tian's opinion.

The Pelicans' training camp continues.

It was also at this time that Tang Tian discovered that in addition to Anderson, there was another person who was also very distinctive.

Ju Holiday .

To be honest, except for saying hello when they first came, Tang Tian and Holiday didn't speak.

This guy's personality is a bit similar to Leonard.

But it was not this character that caught Tang Tian's attention, but his behavior.

Except for the day of the training camp, Holiday was basically the first to come and the latest to leave.

This person's personality seems to be a bit of a combination of Leonard and Butler.

Speaking of which, as one of the all-stars with the weakest sense of presence in history, Tang Tian really doesn't have much impression of him.

But after a few days, Tang Tian found that this guy was really good.

Just like Leonard and Butler before him, because he is a hard worker, he is also interested in hard workers.

Just as training camp was underway, the Pelicans officially announced a new signing.

They agreed to a fully guaranteed one-year contract with free agent Tzu Shiping.

While it may seem like a one-off signing, the approach of Demps and Pelicans management shows an attitude.

Even if Tang Tian asked half-jokingly, they still counted.

This is a statement, and it is also telling Tang Tian that as long as you can help the team return to the playoffs or go further, we will give you what you want!

This signal is quite positive.

Just a week after the signing broke, Ci Shiping came to the locker room.

With a small head, a circle of beard, and a pair of slightly old headphones when he came in, coupled with that slightly vicissitudes of life, this is really difficult to correspond to the protagonist of the palace in Auburn Hills.

He's 34 years old, and he's coming to the end of his career for a physical-based defender.

After a brief greeting to the team, he took his headphones and hummed softly.

Judging from the content, it should be rap or something.

"Hey, Ron."

Little Rivers went up at this time and patted Ci Shiping on the shoulder to say hello.

Waiting for Ci Shiping to take off the headphones, he continued: "You have had this headset for too long, you should change it." ”

"Boy, didn't your dad teach you how to talk to people? These are Beats.By.Dr. Dre custom headphones, not the worthless thing you think they are, and call me charity, I'm not called Ron. ”

Ci Shiping spoke politely at all, and Little Rivers took a look and retreated.

The other people in the locker room also heard Ci Shiping's way of speaking, and they all frowned slightly, it was obvious that this way of speaking was a little incompatible with the Pelicans.

However, after Tang Tian heard this, he couldn't help but smile.

Ci Shiping changed his name, he was older, but he was still the ruffian player.

However, the way Rivers Jr. greeted him just now was really not very appropriate.

"Don, do you like rap?"

Just as he was laughing, Ci Shiping took the initiative to put down the earphones, then moved the stool to Tang Tian's side, and asked with a smile.

This Pelicans, he knew Tang Tian before, the Lakers and Spurs played in the Western Conference semifinals in the playoffs last year, and they were opponents.