On June 26, 2009 local time in the United States, the 2009 NBA rookie took a jersey makeup photo, and the new champion Wu Huang appeared in a Knicks jersey, and his jersey number was still the No. 14 that has been used in high school and college.

As the rookie with the highest appearance among this rookie, a makeup photo made Wu Huang climb on the cover of Time magazine, which shows that after Wu Huang became the champion and joined the Knicks team, his personal fame has grown explosively. That's the perk of playing in New York, where the Knicks are one of the most recognizable NBA teams in the world, no matter how bad their record is.

Wu Huang had been living in the hotel all this time, and he wanted to find an apartment near "Madison Square Garden", which was locked in the vicinity of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.

His agent, Brandon, didn't feel the need to buy a house here, after all, the gym wasn't in Madison Square Garden. On top of that, housing prices in this area are too expensive, the average price of a three-bedroom or larger apartment is $3 million, his career has just begun, and the NBA team salary is only paid once every six months, and it is basically impossible for him to spend three or four million dollars to buy a house at once now, without the support of a sneaker contract behind him.

Manhattan has always ranked among the highest in the world in terms of housing prices, and it is impossible to think that Wu Huang wants to buy a three-bedroom apartment here without $3 million in his hand and with cash. If the location is in neighborhoods like Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue, many of the more well-known apartments here are more expensive, and most of Manhattan's apartments are cash deals, some refuse lawyers, some refuse fashion professionals, many refuse entertainment stars, and there are many rules.

Wu Huang's luck is better, he is now the hope of the Knicks, and his background is also good, so most apartments will not refuse him to move in. However, after a round and turn, Wu Huang finally gave up on his plan to buy an apartment. Instead, he rented a 3-bedroom apartment on Fifth Avenue for $25,000 a month, with an apartment area of 210 square meters.

The apartment will be a temporary residence for Mr. Wu for the next two years, when he plans to buy a mansion in New Jersey, just across the river from New York, instead of living in a crowded and ridiculously expensive downtown area. It's like Brandon said. It really doesn't make sense for him to buy property here, unless people are stupid and have a lot of money.

Wu Huang's apartment is less than a kilometer away from Christine's apartment, and living here is very convenient for him to go to his sister-in-law's house to fertilize and water. In addition, there is also a news that I don't know if it's good or bad, as soon as the summer vacation arrives in July. Taylor Swift, who was unhappy, also went to New York to rent an apartment, which was called because he had a lot of work in New York, but the effect was that Wu Huang's one two-eight was not enough immediately, and he often had to use some props to successfully defeat one against two.

"Looks like we're going to have to figure out a way quickly." In a private meeting with Christine not long ago, Wu Huang actually met his rival in her apartment, that is, the British girl. After Emperor Wu was taken aback and a little embarrassed, he suddenly had some obscene countermeasures in his heart.

On July 1, the NBA's summer transfer market officially launched, and from this day onwards, all free agents and restricted free agents in the league will be able to contact other teams. Teams in the league can also start renewing players, making free agents for other teams, signing rookies, and so on, and the next two months will be the busiest for each team's management.

At 0:01 a.m. on July 1, the New York Knicks immediately sent Brandon the rookie contract that had been prepared for a long time.

Wu Huang learned the news before holding Taylor Swift into the bed, of course he knew that this was an attitude expressed to him by the team, and it was a manifestation of the importance attached to him, but he was still quite satisfied with the team's operation.

The Knicks' rookie contract for Wu Huang is 4 years and 22.88 million US dollars, including 16.08 million US dollars for the first three years, the salary for these three years is a guaranteed contract, and the fourth year of the contract is a non-guaranteed contract, and the Knicks have the right to exercise the team option. Early termination of a player's final year of contract.

Under the current collective labor contract, agents can only earn up to 3% of their employer's contract, which means that even Brandon Moretz, Wu's agent, will only earn about $500,000 in the first three seasons.

Wu Huang and Brandon actually don't look at the salary of the rookie contract, they are interested in various commercial endorsement contracts. That's the bulk of their income for the next four years.

In the past two days, Wu Huang has been busy moving and AC two sisters, but also met several main players of the team, among which the meeting with David Lee was specially introduced by the team manager Downey, it seems that the Knicks do not want to let go of the interior core, but they are afraid that their team building cornerstone and the interior core will be unhappy when they meet for the first time. It's one of the worst things that can happen on an NBA team, but it's a regular occurrence.

As we all know, most of the players in the NBA are difficult to get along with, or they don't stand in the world at all, and the more star players are, the more difficult they are to serve on weekdays. In fact, to put it bluntly, many players are simply brainless, and fans can often see some stars being swept away by the team without hesitation after a major injury, without saying anything about humanity. This can't all be blamed on the indifference of the NBA team, it's really that these stars have offended too many people before, and people naturally won't tell you anything when you're down.

Wu Huang is very different from these players, don't look at him often seems a little arrogant, and sometimes he will put on a show, but he has an extremely good grasp of the "scene" and "feelings", which can be seen from his previous disregard for his own interests and still participating in the China tour of the University of Southern California, those who should give face, should be given, he will never fall.

The Knicks' first meeting between the two most important players of the season was very harmonious, and Wu Huang can be said to have given the senior enough face, but don't think that he will give up his core position just like that, these are two different things.

Donnie Walsh is more and more satisfied with Wu Huang, don't look at him as the team manager, in charge of everything and trading power of the team, as if he has the power of life and death of the players, but in fact, those real stars are not controlled by him at all, so most of the big-name stars he has come into contact with in his career do not respect him at all.

But Wu Huang is different, although Downey sees a greater conceit and pride in this Chinese player, but he does not see that kind of empty eyes and rudeness.

Donnie Walsh knew it was important, and even Jordan couldn't do it when he first entered the NBA. And the even better news for the Knicks is that David Lee also has a good impression of Wu Huang, and the short center is also not the kind of person who is difficult to get along with, so the first meeting between the two was very pleasant, and they talked about a lot of things outside of basketball.

This situation is very understandable, Wu Huang and David Lee are in different positions, one of them is inside, the other is outside, this combination is the most reasonable combination of NBA teams, so there is not much contradiction between the two in the first place.

Wu Huang is willing to have an interior partner with excellent offense, which can make his assist count more beautiful, and David Lee can also get better scoring statistics under Wu Huang's feed, if the two work together, it will be a win-win result.

"The most important thing is that your girlfriend is good-looking, and I have made up your friend." Wu Huang secretly thought in his heart that David Lee's girlfriend was Miss World of Polish descent and looked quite good-looking, so this friend was very worth befriending.

On July 5, just days after Wu Huang and David Lee met, the Knicks signed a one-year, $8 million contract with the latter.

David Lee actually wants to sign a long-term contract with the Knicks, but the Knicks are still fantasizing about a crazy summer next year, so they persuade David Lee to wait a year first, when they can catch a big fish first, and then sign him with a salary cap on Larry Bird's terms.

This promise from the Knicks is actually a loft in the sky, and who knows what will happen next summer?

David Lee is definitely not stupid, he would agree to such a one-year contract, in fact, he thinks that if he signs a long-term contract now, he may be difficult to get an annual salary of tens of millions. But if he can play 20+10 data this season, even if the Knicks regret not giving him the maximum salary next year, he will not get a too low contract if he goes to another team.

On July 6, the Knicks signed a two-year, $4 million contract with a player option for the second year.

Channingfrye is 210cm tall and will be his fifth NBA season this season. Frye had previously spent two seasons with the Knicks, averaging points per game when he was with the Knicks, and Frye had been with the Trail Blazers for the last two seasons, but during his time with the Trail Blazers, Frye was not taken seriously by the team due to the reduced playing time he received, and his stats declined, and he averaged only points per game last season.

This signing is easy to understand, the Knicks' interior line now has no other available people except David Lee, you can't expect Milicic to suddenly have a big explosion, right?

Channingfrye is a run-and-jump athletic interior player with a precise three-point shot, and although his defense and rebounding are poor, he is the best player to play D'Antoni's bombardment tactics, and this trade can improve the Knicks' offensive speed and firepower, a typical D'Antoni-style signing.

One more thing, the Knicks will be playing in the Summer League in Las Vegas this year, and they have a total of five games, the first of which is scheduled for July 14.

Although Wu Huang is the champion, the champion of the past years will participate in this event, and Wu Huang will naturally be no exception, otherwise the management and fans of the Knicks will not have a bottom in their hearts.

Now all kinds of experts and media think that Wu Huang should not be a parallel import, but as long as he does not prove himself in the NBA for a day, everyone is still up and down in their hearts, although this summer league is not an NBA game, but it can also be seen how a player's quality is, so this is the first test for rookies this year. (To be continued.) )