Li Forest is actually a little strange about some of the rules of the NBA today, for example, he is obviously a player selected by the Thunder, but he signed a "10-day short contract" instead of a non-guaranteed contract for the second round.

Obviously, in the memory of Li Forest's previous life, the NBA only allowed the team to sign a "10-day short contract" player after January 6 of each season, but in this life, he signed a "10-day short contract" with the team in early November.

It seems that some of the NBA's signing rules are different from the previous life, and you will have to hire a professional agent in the future.

Otherwise, if you apply the rules of the previous life here, you may suffer a big loss, although in Li Linlin's two memories, the signing rules are roughly the same, and some places are different, but when it comes to the contract, it is still necessary to be insured.

Lee Forest followed general manager Sam Presti to his office.

The two sat down facing each other at their desks.

Sam Presti was the first to speak:

"Lee, given that you've shown a high level of competition in training and games during your 20 days here, Coach Brooks and I are very optimistic about your future, so we decided to sign you and hope you can help the Thunder in the next games."

"Well, Coach Brooks has also helped me a lot during this time, and I am very grateful for his guidance."

"Okay, here's a guaranteed contract of $800,000 a year, are you willing to accept it? If you do well in the future, the contract price will increase when you renew your contract next year. ”

The Thunder team is very picky now, after all, the team that can force Harden away because of 5 million, the local tyrant has nowhere to go.

800,000 US dollars a year, full protection, the state tax rate of Ohlahoma is in the middle of the United States, and then after deducting other taxes, there will be about 520,000 US dollars left in your hands, well, Li Linlin thinks it's okay.

"Okay, so can I advance a portion of my salary?"

Li Forest gave up his plan to negotiate an increase in wages, even if he added it, he couldn't add much, he didn't have an agent, and he was not proficient in the negotiation of wages.

The salary advance is really tight recently, and now I need to rent a house in another place and buy a scooter.

In addition, if the lion opens his mouth carelessly, it will leave a bad impression on the general manager and the head coach, and now the team is not as generous as the future bosses, as a marginal person, it is better to be a little self-aware.

Although later Mike Conley can get a contract of 30 million per year, in the current era, Kobe Bryant can't get such a high salary.

What I need most now is playing time, so that I can complete the task, get experience points, and then improve my ability, and if my ability improves, the big contract will naturally come in.

As for finding a broker, you can only look at it first.

NBA players need to pay 4% of the player's salary when signing an agent, and about 20% for advertising contracts.

Although it may seem like a lot, a great agent can help you get a contract that is far beyond your strength, such as Parsons.

Of course, a bad agent can make you miserable.

For example, the later Rockets Motai Yunes and Duncan's agent completely drove the player to death.

…… Faced with Li Linlin's request for a salary advance, Presti replied: "OK, of course!" Wait a minute, you go directly to the finance, I will say hello to the finance, and in addition, you are welcome to officially become a member of the thunder. ”

Sam Presti is very generous, anyway, the money for the full guarantee contract must be given in full, and there is not much problem in giving a part in advance.

He won't tell Li Forest that because of the mistakes of the Thunder team management, the SuperSonics plan to sign a non-guaranteed contract with him was shelved, which also caused him to miss the time for the Thunder to sign, and finally he could only find an excuse to sign a "ten-day short contract" with him.

There is no such thing as fairness or unfairness, and if Li Forest is not left behind, then the mistake is a mistake.

And he stayed, and when Presti gave him the contract, he directly skipped the minimum annual salary and gave him a slightly higher salary, which was also slightly compensatory.

Presti wouldn't tell Lee Forest about that, so it's hard to say anything like that. If you sign a non-guaranteed contract, you may be laid off, and you may only get $100,000, and then disappear from the NBA.

According to the relevant regulations of the NBA, the date of salary payment by the league is the 1st and 15th of each month, starting from November 15 of each year, players who sign a contract under the latest collective bargaining agreement will receive 24 salaries a year by default, and if the player's salary exceeds the league's base salary, he can negotiate with the team to receive the salary for the whole year in 12 installments in 6 months, or 36 installments in 18 months.

However, if you are fined for missing training, you will be fined for technical (malicious) fouls, you will be fined if you are expelled from a game, you will be fined if you are sent to refuse to go to the development league, and even more seriously you will be banned, and every time a player is suspended (including preseason, regular season and playoffs), 1/110 of the total annual salary of the year will be deducted, and the "income" from these fines and bans will be used for charitable activities through the league and the players' union.

In addition to regular season paychecks, there are many other ways NBA players can receive their salaries.

For example, Kobe Bryant in Lee's memory received nearly $20 million from the Lakers account in 2013, which is 80% of his last contract, and according to NBA regulations, players can receive the largest percentage of their salary in advance.

In the summer of 2014, Anthony and the Knicks received $62.03 million early in advance after signing a five-year, $124 million contract.

Of course, all this is premised on your ability to earn the trust of your boss.

..... All this is still far from Li Forest.

After a while, Presti opened the door and took the freshly printed contract from the assistant.

Presti gave the contract to Li Linlin, Li Linlin checked it, the contract was all in English, and he was not a fool in the United States for more than three years, at least he could understand it.

After reading it twice, the content was fine, so Li Linlin solemnly signed his name on the contract in duplicate.

"Lee, this is your first professional contract, come, let's take a group photo."

“OK”

Subsequently, Presti called the assistant from the door, the two shook hands, and the photo of the contract was kept, and the photo was quickly uploaded to the official website, which was officially announced, no press conference, it was as simple as that.

......

With the signing of the formal contract, the official website was announced, and the local media began to report it.

"Welcome to the Ohlahoma City Thunder with a new member, guard Li Forest from China."

Underneath the huge headline is Lee's biography, which devotes a lot of words to his performance on the day of the game against the Lakers.

Soon, the domestic sports media also inquired about the relevant information.

Li Linlin became the fourth Chinese to play in the NBA.

"Who is he?"

"A 25-point contract is locked in a single quarter."

"The Chinese guard who was shaken by Kobe Bryant signed for the Ohlahoma City Thunder."

Netizens and the media continued to break the news, and one news after another began to come out.

Domestic media have also begun to pay attention to Li Linlin, and some relatively large sports media have begun to send reporters to Ohlahoma City, after all, Li Linlin is now an official NBA contract worker.

At the moment when Li Linlin's contract was signed, the system also "ding", but Li Shulin was still immersed in the joy of signing the contract and didn't realize it.

After signing the contract, Li Linlin first went to the finance side and received about one-third of his salary, 170,000 US dollars.