"Popovich is crazy, even if there are not too many good rookies this year, but the draft pick can't be wasted like this, this Mr. 0 was selected in the first round, and an Argentine was selected in the second round." If the Spurs' choice of Meng Xu in the first round brought a group of managers to the audience was just a surprise, the selection of Ginobili in this round brought them a shock, and to this day in the NBA there is still a lack of successful examples of international players, if Meng Xu played in the NCAA and is barely half of the American player, then Ginobili is a complete international player.

"Maybe this year's championship made him get carried away, he thought that he could play by picking a random player, and some of this year's Spurs have suffered."

This year's draft, as usual, ended in controversy again, and the end of the draft does not mean the end, this is just the beginning of the show. The day after the draft, the Los Angeles Clippers offered the New Orleans Hornets to trade Byron Davis, which was rejected outright by the Hornets. And this year's draft list Francis made a public statement that he would not go to Vancouver to play, hoping that the Grizzlies could trade themselves.

"Sister Hui, you got up so early." After being selected by the Spurs, due to being too excited, Meng Xu actually had insomnia, and he didn't fall asleep until 3 o'clock in the morning, and when he woke up, he found that He Hui had already made breakfast, bought a newspaper and waited for him at the table.

"I don't have the habit of sleeping in, go brush my teeth quickly, finish breakfast, and I'll accompany you to San Antonio." He Hui flipped through the newspaper as he stuffed a small piece of bread into his mouth and said casually.

"You're going with me? Don't you still have to revise your homework for graduate school? Didn't you hear from you last time that you had already applied for Harvard's graduate school in business? Looking at He Hui's serious appearance, Meng Xu asked with some surprise.

"After my deliberation last night, I decided not to take the graduate school entrance examination, I want to be your agent." He Hui put down the newspaper and said solemnly: "I have already called my uncle, and he fully agrees that I will be your agent, didn't you say that the Spurs have prepared a contract for you with an annual salary of one million dollars, this is not a small amount of money, in order to prevent you from using this money to spend all day and drink and fool around the world, so this money will be managed by me for the time being, there is a contract I drew up on the table, you can take a look at it first, you can sign it if there is no problem." ”

"Cough, cough, cough." Meng Xu, who had just taken a sip of milk, almost choked, picked up the contract on the table casually, and signed his name without looking at it: "It's no problem at all, but I don't know if Sister Hui has the qualifications of a player agent, I heard that the NBA also has relevant regulations for player agents." ”

"That's not something you're thinking about." He Hui took out a copy of the player's agent note and shook it in front of Meng Xu's face, and said with a smile: "I have already signed up for the agent exam at the end of the month on the NBA's official website. You don't sign the contract without carefully reading the contents, and you are not afraid that this is a deed of sale. ”

"Even if it's a deed of sale, I admit it, not to mention that I can sell it to Sister Hui, I won't suffer a loss, right?" Meng Xu said with a somewhat playful smile.

"Xiao Xu, you're on the headlines of the New York Times, take a look, it's very interesting." Just when Meng Xu was still joking, He Hui took out one from a large stack of newspapers and handed it to Meng Xu.

"Stupid or arrogant" first caught Meng Xu's eye with a big black bold title, originally Meng Xu thought that the New York Times would praise himself as the pearl of this draft, 29 rookies are not in line with their own strength at all, but I didn't expect to know that this is obviously hacking himself. Fortunately, Meng Xu's name appeared once from the beginning to the end, and the rest of the article was to discredit Popovich, it seems that New Yorkers still have a lot of grievances about this year's finals loss.

"This New York Times is really blind, even if it doesn't believe in my strength, it even suspects that I am Popovich's illegitimate son." When looking at the last paragraph of the report, "If it weren't for the fact that this player named Meng is Chinese, we really have reason to suspect that he is Popovich's illegitimate son, and Popovich is using this method to compensate his son for millions of dollars." Meng Xu also shook his head helplessly: "These unscrupulous newspapers." ”

"Haha, no, I'll laugh." Looking at Meng Xu's embarrassed appearance, He Hui covered his mouth and ran towards his bedroom, listening to He Hui's weird laughter, Meng Xu looked out the window with a resentful face: "New York, you wait for me." ”

Meng Xu's contract with the Spurs did not wait too long, on the second day when Meng Xu and He Hui arrived in San Antonio, on July 2, 1999, as Meng Xu's agent, He Hui signed a 2-year $3 million contract on behalf of Meng Xu and Popovich in the office of the chairman of the Spurs. The annual salary of $1.4 million in the first year and the annual salary of $1.6 million in the second year are basically the same as the contract of the No. 15 player in the first round, which can also be seen that Popovich is very generous to Meng Xu, even this year's rookie contract of the top pick Elton Brand is only 3 years and 11 million US dollars, as a rookie at the end of the first round, it is quite appalling to be able to get one-third of the salary of the first round of the first round, you must know that last year's No. 29 rookie Nazr Mohammed, The contract amount in the first year was only $600,000, less than half of Meng Xu's. After the signing of the contract between the two parties, the Spurs also invited local TV stations and several newspapers to hold a small joining ceremony for Meng Xu, Popovich and Meng Xu showed a bright smile, and jointly held up the No. 5 jersey to accept the reporter's photo, this moment will be forever recorded in the history of the NBA, and this special contract is destined to set off a storm the next day.

"Sister Hui, let's say, what you want, let's buy it." After the contract was signed, Meng Xu chose to directly receive all the salaries of this season, but after the vicious US imperialist government and the tax department of the Texas government, the salary of 1.4 million US dollars was only more than half of it, but looking at the large string of 0 in the bank account is also very pleasing to the eye. As for tax evasion or something, Meng Xu never thought about it, mainly he didn't dare, in a popular sentence in later generations, the three major acts of death in the world are one to be a hostage in Russia, one is to sell drugs in China, and the other is to evade taxes in the United States. There was once an underworld boss who couldn't even handle the FBI, but in the end he was planted in the hands of the Internal Revenue Service.

"$780,000, it looks like a lot, but it's not much, you have to stay here for at least two years, and we'd better buy a house closer to the club, so there's not much money left, and there's still a year's worth of expenses, so let's save some money." Looking at Meng Xu with an excited face, He Hui poured cold water on Meng Xu.