After a full three months, Bai Xiaofei returned to his familiar home, but he felt that everything around him was so unfamiliar, pushing the door open, the corridor was empty, Bai Xiaofei felt like a lonely ghost wandering here, Bai Xiaofei was wearing a white sportswear, walked to the door, the security door was not closed, it opened with a light pull, and the inner door was just closed, Bai Xiaofei gently pushed open the door again.

"Squeak~~~"

In the nineteen years before he went to the United States, Bai Xiaofei had never felt that his door was so dilapidated, and when he pushed it gently, there was a piercing scream.

It was still exactly the same layout as before, but in Bai Xiaofei's eyes, it became colorless, empty gray and white, the home was quiet, in the middle of the hall, his father was dressed in formal clothes, and the smiling black and white photo was framed on the wall, his face was serene, stern and kind.

Bai Xiaofei's tears could no longer be suppressed, he broke the embankment, walked to the front of the hall in two steps, knelt on the ** with a "poof", and then kowtowed his head heavily. When Bai Xiaofei looked up, I don't know when, her mother stood silently at the door of the bedroom, her thin body leaning on the door frame, covering her mouth with her hands, her eyes were very red, but there were no tears left.

It's not that there are no tears, maybe they've dried up.

Bai Xiaofei's three heads were buckled in a row, and tears surging in his eyes wet the ** under Bai Xiaofei's knees.

"You're back."

The mother's voice was dry to hoarse, and Bai Xiaofei looked at the portrait of his father and nodded lightly.

"I told them not to tell you, but as a result, I told you anyway......"

"They did the right thing," Bai Xiaofei was grief-stricken, but he was trying to suppress this sadness in his heart.

"Come back, come back," said the mother softly, "come back for a few days, pack up for a few days and leave." ”

"Where are you going?"

Bai Xiaofei looked at his mother with some confusion.

"Back to the United States."

"No!" Bai Xiaofei said firmly, "I have thought about it on the way back, this time I come back, I don't plan to go back to the United States, I want to stay in China and accompany you all the time!" ”

"Child, you don't understand yet," the mother sighed softly, her voice trembled, her eyes unconsciously rested on the portrait of her father, and tears flowed out of her eyes again, "the past is over, you have to think about your future......"

I don't want to write about something too sad.

In the past few days after Bai Xiaofei returned to China, Lao Fu made another move and signed Zhaoqiang into the team with a basic salary, but before Zhaoqiang had time to celebrate, he was sent to the development league by the team for exercise, so here is the popularization of the NBA's development league, I believe that many people do not know about this league.

NBDL is the second-tier league of the NBA in the United States, referred to as the Development League, responsible for the NBA to send talent and maintain the state of players, the players who play here are composed of two parts, one is a rookie who has played in the NBA for no more than two years, and you can get a lot of game experience here, after all, it is better to play the game on the court than to sit on the cold bench, the team can observe according to the performance of the players here, and the other is the marginal players who have no contract in the NBA, I hope to play well in the NBDL and get the favor of NBA teams. There have been many players who have come out of the NBDL and eventually made a name for themselves in the NBA, to name a few of the people we are more familiar with, such as Ralph Alstom, Chuck Hayes, Devon Brown, Jordan Famar, Chris Anderson, Smush Parker, Bobby Simmons, Marcus Fetzel, JJ Barria, and "Ba God" Battle, "Chinese Magician" Sun Yue, "Japanese Jordan" Tian Yong Wota, "Korean Big Hippopotamus" Haseung Jin has also left his mark in the NBDL, and the player currently with the highest ranking is the 2009 top pick, Hakim Tabitt.

Like the NBA, the NBDL, which only started in the 2001-2002 season, has its own All-Star Weekend, various MVPs, championships, etc., and even has the number of a player who retired from the team, such as the aforementioned JJ Barria, on January 17, 2007, Barria was sent to the Fort Warn Flyers by the Mavericks, and in the loss to the Idaho team, Barria shot 18 of 24 and scored 43 points; He scored 41 points on 16-of-23 shooting against the Dakota Wizards, scoring more than 40 points on the second straight run. In the other two games, Barria had a double-double, with 17 points and 10 assists and 25 points and 11 assists. On January 29, 2007, he was named the Development League Player of the Week with an average of 31.5 points, 7.5 assists and 6.0 rebounds per game. Now the No. 11 jersey on the Fort Worth Flyers has been retired to commemorate Barria's back-to-back 40+ feat.

Nowadays, NBA teams are paying more and more attention to the cultivation of follow-up talents, and many NBA teams have signed a talent training mechanism with the NBDL, so many NBDL teams have become subordinate teams of NBA teams, such as the Houston Rockets' subordinate team Rio Grande Valley Vipers, the Austin Bulls of the San Otonio Spurs, the Renault Horns of the Saramento Kings, and the Texas Legends of the Dallas Mavericks, and there are currently a total of seventeen teams in the NBDL.

Mechanically, the same player cannot be sent three times in a row in a season, and when the team is recalled for the third time, the team must provide a contract extension until the end of the season, but there is no limit to how long the player can stay in the development league at a time, during which time the player's salary will still be paid by his NBA parent team.

After talking about the NBDL popularizing the summer league, many people can't tell the difference between the two, what is NBDL and what is the summer league? The NBDL is an organized and premeditated league like the NBA, but the summer league is just a city, and the competition between several teams, or exhibition games, is relatively short, usually only lasting more than ten days, and the teams are not fixed, and sometimes they even go abroad to play a game with teams from other countries.

Some of this has been said, fans all over the world can see that NBA President Starn attaches great importance to the Chinese market, so as early as 1996, the NBA pushed the Lakers into China, and the Chinese national team at that time had a real value competition, when the American team had the fledgling Kobe and Fisher, now it seems that Kobe's current god status is really by watching Los Angeles practice at four o'clock in the morning every day, and Kobe Bryant had N walking violations in that game, The mid-to-long range shot above the free throw line was almost never thrown, and was blocked several times by the Chinese team, and the guard of the Chinese team, Hu Weidong, performed extremely well, and repeatedly pulled out three-point shots on Kobe's head, he scored 32 points in the whole game, almost beating the opposite Kobe, Kobe Bryant's current back turn and retreat step back jumper is quite like the fan of "Commander Hu" back then, and Battle's performance is also very good, he is the only player in the whole team who can fight with the American team, the pillar of the team at that time, sent 5 blocks in the whole court, In addition to these two, there were also "Easy King" Gong Xiaobin who participated in this game at that time, as well as Shan Tao who always shouted "Oh I fuck" in his mouth, "Little Li Flying Knife" Li Nan, "God of War" Liu Yudong, "Liaoning Tiger King" Sun Jun, as well as Zheng Wu, Li Xiaoyong, and Wang Zhizhi, who had just debuted at that time, this is the game that is worth remembering for all fans, and that game started, opening the door to China's NBA.

Well, let's get down to business, compared to the NBDL, the players who participate in the summer league are more miscellaneous, the rookies who have just realized the value of their lives in the draft but have not yet stepped on the NBA floor, those who are full of ambition to do a big job in the NBA but no one pronounces their names in the draft, players who have potential overseas or have proven their ability, and of course, NBA free agents who have not been contracted for the time being.

Usually the summer league has three venues, the Chicago Summer League, the Oakland Summer League and the Las Vegas Summer League, the largest event, the process of the game is also open, compared to the NBA regular game 12-player limit, the summer league is not limited to the number of places, casually, the number of times the graduation is not 6 times, but 10 times, in such a game, the players play on the court, the scouts and the managers of each team are off the stage like buying vegetables in the vegetable market to select their favorite players, score, assist, Rebounding, these statistics are not the main thing, the most important thing is whether the players have what they need, so the summer league looks relaxed, but in fact it is very cruel, usually a team has fifteen players in the game, but in the end there are no more than two people who can actually get a contract, and they are all non-guaranteed contracts that can be cut by the team at any time.

Well, one last question, leaving aside the NBA in the United States, which level is higher in the NBDL, Summer League or NCAA.

In terms of the perfection of the competition system and the consideration of the data, the NCAA is undoubtedly the best, and the ratings of its knockout game "March Madness" can even surpass the NBA games of the same period.

From the average level of the players, the NBDL is slightly higher than the NCAA, because most of the players who play in the NBDL are rookies who have been contracted and "old oils" who have played on the court for a long time, but from the top 30 or top 20 players, the NCAA is slightly higher than the NBDL, because in the NBA draft, the vast majority of them are American players, and the most important way for these players to step on the NBA floor is the draft. Even some high-pick or low-pick players who are very strong on the fly are superstars as soon as they enter the NBA, and they don't play NBDL games. As for the summer league? That's not even a big deal, and the odds of a player getting a contract aren't as good as NBDL's free agents.

Well, this chapter popularizes the NBDL and the Development League, and in the next chapter, Bai Xiaofei will return to the NBA and start the mode of killing all sides!