Chapter 51: Adjust Your Mindset
After leaving the press conference, Coach Frank looked a little irritable, and when he was about to return to the locker room, he finally couldn't hold back, "Ye, are you really ready to leave the Pacers after this contract ends?" Going to Houston? Or New York? ”
"Coach Frank, of course I'd like to continue playing with the Pacers, but you know, we're so good right now because I'm on a base salary contract and I'm doing the job as a max paid player, can you promise to give me a max contract after my contract is over, and then I can keep the roster like I did this year? But I promise, as long as I'm still with the Pacers, I'll do my best to bring championships to the Pacers, and then things will come later, things are always changing, aren't they? ”
"You're right, I can't promise you anything, so let's do our best to win the championship in the next two years." Coach Frank also understood what Ye Xuan said, so he said these two words, then patted Ye Xuan on the shoulder, turned around and left.
Ye Xuan could only shrug his shoulders helplessly, then went back to the locker room to get his luggage, and then went to gather with the team and take the bus to the airport. The Pacers players on the plane were probably also crazy tired in the locker room, so they all leaned back in their chairs to listen to the song and rest. After arriving in Indiana, everyone made an appointment for Ye Xuan to have lunch the next night and then dispersed.
When he returned home, looking at Shen Wei, who was helping him with clothes and pouring water, Ye Xuan couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Do you really want to leave Indiana?" Shen Wei also sensed that something was wrong with Ye Xuan, leaned on Ye Xuan's arms and asked, "Did something happen?" Why don't you seem happy? ”
Ye Xuan hugged Shen Wei, sat on the sofa and muttered for a moment, then asked, "Weiwei, if the Pacers give me a contract with the highest salary at that time, but the strength of the Pacers will not be as good as it is now, then should I accept the contract and stay to assist Paul George?" Or go to the Lakers to complete the agreement with Kobe? ”
"If you want to stay in Indiana, will you go out of your way to steal Paul George's central position? If you don't want to stay here as a second-in-command and don't want to steal Paul's central position, you might as well make good memories for the team and leave. ”
When Ye Xuan heard this, he nodded heavily, and Ye Xuan, who had untied the knot in his heart, was no longer depressed, and then suddenly changed his painting style, and hugged Shen Wei horizontally, "The Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold, let's not waste time on these troublesome things." As he spoke, he walked straight to the bedroom, and suddenly the room was filled with the sound of joy.
The next day, Ye Xuan got up early for strength training, on the one hand, in order to adapt to Artest's physical talent as soon as possible, and on the other hand, to strengthen his ability to fight. Back home, Shen Wei had already prepared a meal and waited for him, and after eating, Ye Xuan checked the salary of the walker on the Internet.
Paul George has a 5-year $90 million contract that was only signed this season, Roy Hibbert has a 4-year 58 million contract, and David West has a 3-year 36 million contract, and the three of them occupy about 44 million salary space, and George Hill's 5-year 40 million and Scola's 3-year 13 million have basically locked up the salary space, not to mention offering themselves a contract with a maximum salary, even if it is a full middle class, it may not be able to give it.
"It looks like the idea of staying with the Pacers has basically been shattered." Ye Xuan couldn't help sighing, although he had decided not to renew the contract last night, Ye Xuan still had the idea of dual-core peaceful coexistence to establish a dynasty, but now it seems that the walkers really don't have their own place.
Shaking his head, not thinking about these annoying things, Ye Xuan first took Shen Wei to buy some daily necessities, and then prepared to go to the stadium to meet with the other teammates of the team first. After coming to the stadium, I looked at Solomon Hill, who was practicing, and couldn't help but be stunned, looking at Hill like this, he had obviously been practicing for a while. So Ye Xuan walked over and beckoned, "Hey, Solomon, why are you still practicing now, have you had lunch?" ”
"Oh, Ye, why are you here, I've already had a nutritious meal in the team cafeteria." When Ye Xuan heard the nutritious meal, he couldn't help but feel sick to his stomach, on the day he came to the walker, Bird took him to eat the nutritious meal after his body was finished, and the taste really made Ye Xuan feel a chill when he thought about it now. Since then, Ye Xuan has never gone to the team restaurant to eat.
Seeing Ye Xuan's expression of eating, Solomon Hill also laughed, "Ye, I know that nutritious meals are more unpalatable, but you don't have this kind of expression, and nutritious meals are helpful to our bodies, which can help us quickly recover our physical strength and even improve our physical fitness." Ye Xuan didn't argue, after all, as a foodie country, he couldn't talk about such a profound thing as taste with these foreigners who only knew how to eat pizza burgers.
So Ye Xuan didn't say much, picked up a basketball and threw it, and the basketball went directly into the basket. Solomon Hill on the side was also stunned, and then said, "Wow, how do you practice shooting, although I have seen you do this more than once, but every time I see you hit this kind of ultra-long three-point so easily, I still can't help but sigh." ”
Ye Xuan looked at the hard-working young man in front of him (in fact, you are younger than others), and then said, "Probably because I practice more, and our Asian hands are generally softer, just like your body is stronger, this is probably a racial talent, right?" I don't know very well. Seeing that there was no one else on the sidelines, Ye Xuan trained with Solomon Hill, and while training, the two joked at the same time, and they became acquainted after a while.
Originally, Ye Xuan didn't play with everyone much in the team, and even if he went out together, he would mix with the main players, so Ye Xuan really didn't pay much attention to marginal people like Solomon Hill. But now that he got to know him, Ye Xuan found that this person was simply a weakened version of Lance Stephenson, with the same excellent defense, the same tough guy style, and even the same comic attributes.
The two trained for a while, and the other members of the Pacers also came over one after another, some people saw that there were people training on the field, and they couldn't help but come over to participate, while some people sat on the side and chatted, after a while, almost all the team members arrived, and everyone set off to Shen Wei's restaurant for a big meal, although because there was a game the next day, so everyone did not drink, but the authentic Chinese food still made the Pacers feast.