Jeff Hornacek was also apparently surprised as to why Roy was in the training gym.

The new Knicks coach wasn't going to come over today, and he left the free agent tryout entirely to his assistant coach Kurt Rambis.

He will only wait until tomorrow when the official summer league kicks off to show his face at the earliest, and see how many of these "wandering players" on the team who are running around to make a living can be used.

But Roy is clearly not in the category of this "wanderer", he is this year's rookie and the team's future focus to develop, and he should appear in the team's preseason game in October, not with these NBA fringe people now.

But coincidentally, this old and young generation of scoring guards met like this.

"Hello, Mr. Hornacek, I think you're the new head coach of our team, right?" Roy was the first to greet Hornacek.

A few days before the draft, Hornacek was officially announced as head coach of the New York Knicks, but since Roy had not been drafted by the team at the time, it was also the first time he met the white head coach.

"Hello, Roy, congratulations on being a part of the New York Knicks."

Hornacek was also very polite, saying that he shook hands with Roy, and his question immediately came, "Why are you here today?" Could it be that the team has arranged for you to come to the Summer League? ”

"General Manager Mills has informed me that I will come to full team training today, is there any problem?" Roy had already sensed something was wrong, and he was at the right time to ask Hornacek head coach to confirm the matter.

"Oh, so Steve asked you to come...... That's fine, maybe he's looking for you. If you don't mind practicing with these guys, you can spend a few days in New York. Hornacek finished and glanced meaningfully at the pitch.

The black, white and white, young and old players fought desperately against each other on that field.

These players are either NBA "old partisans" who have been on the fringes of the NBA for many years and live on short-term contracts, or they are their own players who have lost the draft or are old.

Every year, there are at least three to four hundred such players, and in between breaks in foreign leagues and domestic leagues, they return to the NBA and go to various teams for tryouts with the help of their agents, hoping to get an NBA job contract through their own efforts.

Speaking of which, each NBA team can register 15 regular players with the league, and can also make substitutions if there are injuries during the season.

At present, there are 12 players with contract protection in the New York Knicks, namely: Carmelo Anthony (small forward, annual salary of $24.56 million), Joji Noah (center, annual salary of $17 million, new signing), Contney Lee (shooting guard, annual salary of $11.24 million, new signing), Lance Thomas (small forward, annual salary of $6.19 million), Brandon Jennings (point guard, annual salary of $4.84 million, new signing), Roy (shooting guard, annual salary of 4.74 million US dollars, Rookie), Kristaps Porzingis (power forward, $4.32 million), Kyle O'Quinn (power forward, $3.9 million), Sasha Vujacic (point guard, $1.41 million), Willy Hernangomez (center, $1.38 million, rookie), Derrick Rose (point guard, $1.32 million, new signing), Justin Holiday (shooting guard, $1.02 million, new signing).

In addition to these players, the team has three positions to sign, which means that these 20 or so players are competing for the three spots in the NBA.

Obviously, the competition is fierce and brutal, and it's thankful to be able to expect nothing to learn from training with such "barefoot" players, and to be able to guarantee that you don't get injured.

What do you call me to do in this kind of dragon suite competition? Roy was even more confused.

He was at a loss as a white-haired black man walked slowly, and Roy recognized the face.

This black man is none other than the team's general manager, Stephen Mills, and when he saw Roy, he politely extended his hand to greet him, "Hello, Roy, welcome to New York, I'm Steve Mills, the team's general manager." ”

That's right, he's Mills, the general manager of the Knicks, and that's when that interview asked him, "If you're going to die tomorrow, how do you want to die?" "The weirdo of the problem, who is also him, tricked himself into this trick training camp.

Roy muttered and complained in his heart, but his face was very respectful, and he also extended his right hand to Mills, "Hello, Mr. Mills, I'm Roy." ”

"Roy, first of all, welcome to the New York Knicks. Secondly, I'm glad you're here for this Summer League. You may wonder why you were invited here, but I think you also know that I didn't participate in this year's draft, and I was very one-sided about you before. But since Phil has made a decision, then I can only respect his choice, so I asked you to come here today to further investigate your ability, I don't think you mind. ”

Mills exposed his dissatisfaction with Phil Jackson in just a few words, he meant that Roy you were chosen by the "Zen master", I was not optimistic about you at the beginning, but since you are here, then I have to inspect the goods, in case the "Zen master" chooses parallel goods, then it will be ...... Great!

What a shady guy, Roy saw through Mills's mind at once, and because he hated Phil Jackson, he hated Wu and Wu for pulling himself in.

"Well, Mr. Mills, then do what you want, I've been practicing this summer anyway, and I don't have anyone to fight against me."

Roy's answer was very coquettish, and as soon as he said this, it naturally made those desperate free agents very unhappy.

They had no contract guarantee and had to fight for their lives to make a living, and now a yellow-skinned boy from China was ashamed to say that he lacked opponents, and as soon as Mills relayed it, those free agents immediately became excited.

They are all eager to compete with this year's Tanhualang, as the fringe of the NBA, they have played professional basketball for several years, to say the least, and they must be the most dissatisfied and jealous of those newcomers who have big contracts and do not know the height of the sky.

At this time, Roy wants to find someone to practice, and they all take the initiative to ask for war without exception, thinking that if Roy can be pulled off the horse, not only will there be great hope for signing a guarantee contract, but also in front of the media.

Mills was also secretly happy, he thought to himself that Roy was still a stunned young man, and he actually fell into the trap he designed so easily, he could have completely ignored his own request to go back on vacation, after all, this summer league did not need players with guaranteed contracts to participate.

Now that he's happy to fight, he has to find a suitable opponent.

These battle-hardened "old fritters" are still no problem against a rookie, right? Even if Roy is super capable, does he have enough body and experience to face the onslaught of the "old birds"?

Mills swept around and immediately had an idea.

"Lester, you can come and practice with our Tanhualang."

The Leicester in Mills' mouth is the two-time CBA foreign player MVP winner who has played for the four teams of the Chinese CBA League: Qingdao team, Guangdong team, Xinjiang team, and Liaoning team, and Lester Hudson, nicknamed "Ha Shen".

The dark-skinned Hudson was drafted by the Boston Celtics with the 28th pick (58th overall pick) in the second round of the 2009 draft and briefly played in the NBA as a water cooler keeper.

But as ill-fated as he finished, his career began to turn upside down after finishing his job as a water cooler keeper for the "Green Army", and he played in various leagues and played for many teams. In the end, he found his value in China, in the CBA league, championship, MVP, steal king, all-star, Hudson found the feeling of being a star in the Chinese arena.

But even in the CBA, Hudson wants to challenge the NBA the most, and after a brief spell with the Los Angeles Clippers last year, he wants to stay in the NBA this year, so he came to New York to participate in the Knicks' tryout.

Let him be a Chinese expert to deal with another Tanhualang from China, that is really the best choice.

Mills made up his mind, and Hudson leaped out, ready to teach the arrogant Tanhua in front of him a lesson......