There is no salary limit for the second-round pick, but in fact, the general team will only give the base salary, because this involves the issue of the team's salary cap, take the Spurs as an example, they have not signed anyone in the free market now, but they have exceeded the salary cap, and if they want to sign Tang Tian, they can only use a special case.

There are the middle class exception (owned by teams that do not exceed the luxury tax, and the team that exceeds the luxury tax has a mini-middle class exception), the biennial exception, and the base salary exception.

The mid-level exception for the Spurs will definitely be reserved for free agency, and as for the biennial exception, the hard salary cap will be triggered (the luxury tax must not be exceeded at any time during the season), and the Spurs will not necessarily use it, so in the end they will have to use the base salary exception.

The so-called special case of the base salary is that the team that exceeds the salary cap has no space to sign people, and a special case of signing the base salary is given, and the maximum number of years is two years, and the salary of the two years is the basic salary of the current year.

The salary in the first year is 470,000, 760,000 in the second year, and 1.23 million in the second year, this is the contract signed by Spurs and Tang Tian.

Tang Tian quickly signed the contract.

"Welcome to the Spurs." Although Buford was a little unpleasant in the negotiation, he was a professional manager after all, and after signing the contract, he stretched out his hand to Tang Tian and said.

"Thank you." Tang Tian also smiled and got up to shake hands with Buford, who is the general manager of the Spurs, and there is no need to stiffen this relationship.

"I'll take you around." Vicky looked at Tang Tian and said.

"Greg, I'll take him." Buford said and stood up, and Vicky had already taken Leonard and Joseph out for a spin in front of him.

"It's okay, I'm just talking to this kid." Vicky said as he stood up.

The two came out of the office.

"Are you that confident in yourself?" Vicky didn't say anything inside, and asked when he came out.

After all, Vicky has been working in the league for more than 20 years, and he can see what Tang Tian is thinking at once.

"Yes, I'm confident in myself, old man." Tang Tian replied with a smile, he also knew Wei very well, so he didn't mean to hide it at all.

Vicky was stunned for a moment, stopped to look at Tang Tian, and then laughed.

"You're really funny, even more fun than that cold guy at Leonard." Vicky said with a smile.

at≈ap; ap; The T Center Arena is significantly larger than the previous Lung Center Arena, the home of UConn, or this is not just a stadium, it has quite a lot of supporting facilities, there are 32 lounges for spectators alone, and there is also the most complete restaurant in Texas, barbecue, pizza, sandwiches, and hot dogs.

"I like it the most, because this year I have a new manual shoe shine service, so I can sit here and wait for them to polish my shoes before going into the locker room." Vicky said with a smile.

Tang Tian was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and sure enough, Vicky was a weirdo, and his focus was different from most people.

As they spoke, they made their way down the hallway to the home team's dressing room.

Push the door in, and the Spurs locker room comes into view.

A room of more than forty square meters, one by one cubicle against the wall, there is an ordinary chair in front of the compartment, most of each compartment is suspended, only there is a small cabinet in the upper right corner, and there are two clothes racks hanging on the top, and the names of the players are on the clothes racks.

Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker, Danny Green, Richard Jefferson, DeJuan Blair......

There are no massage chairs, no widescreen TVs, not even sofas.

To be honest, this locker room is really a bit "low-key", similar to Tang Tian's previous university locker room at UConn.

However, after entering, Tang Tian was quickly attracted by a proverb hung in a black frame on the wall in front of him.

"When everything seemed to be to no avail, I went to see a stonemason knocking stones. He knocked 100 times in a row, and the stone still didn't move. But when he struck the 101st time, the stone was split in half. But I knew that it was not the final blow that cracked the stone, but the result of a hundred previous blows. ”

In the lower right corner of this passage is a signature, James Reese.

The general meaning of this sentence is perseverance, the meaning of water drops, encouraging people to persist in doing one thing, and there will always be a day when they will succeed.

After reading this sentence, Tang Tian suddenly felt that this locker room really had the style of the Spurs.

Low-key, gritty, that's always seemed to be the label for the Spurs.

"There are only two pre-season games this year, and you and Leonard and Joseph will get a chance in those two games and play well." After looking at the arena, Vicky finally said to Tang Tian.

He should have said this to Leonard and Joseph as well.

"I will." Tang Tian nodded.

He lost weight as a swingman, and the competition was still fierce with the Spurs.

At the small forward position, starting Richard Jefferson, Leonard, who is likely to be the first substitute, and James Anderson, the team's No. 20 pick last year.

At the shooting guard position, Ginobili was the starting liner, Danny Green was on the bench, Gary Neil, who was one of the main rotations last season, and Corey Joseph, who joined him.

Vicky made a point to say this, indicating that he values these two preseason games very much.

After signing the contract and visiting the arena, Tang Tian's first day with the Spurs was basically over, but he left AT≈ ap; After the center of the stadium, I put my luggage in the hotel and went to see the house with the agent non-stop.

Playing in the NBA is actually similar to going to work, teammates are together during the game, but before the game starts and after the game, it's their own lives.

The team will not provide three meals and there will be no accommodation.

San Antonio is the second-largest city in Texas, but it's still a lot calmer than Houston.

Tang Tian finally chose a single apartment not far from the riverside pedestrian street, although the price is a little expensive, but open the window to see the San Antonio River and a piece of greenery, the environment is very good, and there are supporting parking spaces.

The krypton gold system only consumes krypton gold value, and it will not really be less money, unlike other rookies, after signing endorsement contracts one after another, he now has more than 1.5 million cash in his hand, which is just a drop in the bucket for him.

(Note: Except for some highest-paid players who can advance their contract salaries in advance, most players receive their contract salaries on a monthly basis, and the 1st and 15th of each month are the league's salary payment days, but players can also request that January be paid to one day.) ）

After renting a house, Tang Tian's next plan is to buy a car.

When he was in New York before, because the training place was only five or six kilometers away from where he lived, he could run there as a physical training, but here it was one or twenty kilometers, and he couldn't afford to run like this every day.