Nesterovic, the No. 16 rookie selected by the Knicks last year, reported too late this season and could only sign a short-term contract with the team. This offseason, the team officially signed him to a four-year, first-round rookie contract.

Li Wei himself also signed a contract with the team, anyway, there are vacancies in the squad, and he is idle.

So how big is Coach Lee's contract?

The longer you play in the NBA, the higher the base salary will be, which is a preferential treatment given by the league to veteran players. Under the current NBA's collective bargaining rules, second-year Li Wei's minimum wage this season cannot be less than $460,000. If you are a veteran who has been in the league for more than 10 years, the minimum salary for this season will be $1 million.

In addition, in order to avoid teams not giving veteran contracts in order to save money, the league also stipulates that the team's basic salary is signed with veterans who have been playing for more than 4 years, and only the basic salary of the players who have been playing for 4 years only needs to be paid, and the rest is paid by the league.

For example, if Herb Williams does not retire and renew his contract with the team's base salary, then as a veteran of more than 10 years, his salary must be at least 1 million. But the base salary of the fourth-year player in the 99-00 season is 510,000, and if the Knicks pay the salary, they only need to give him 510,000, and the other 490,000 will be paid by the NBA league.

Of course, Li Wei signed a one-year contract with a base salary, so the annual salary of the Knicks coach is $460,000!

"Cui Rong, I really worked for you for nothing!" Li Wei sighed.

Xia Cuirong chuckled: "Husband, with your height, the annual salary of 460,000 yuan is less?" ”

Li Weidao: "You can't measure me by the value of the player, among the head coaches in the league, I have the least number, and I am still the champion coach!" ”

Li Wei still positions himself as a coach rather than a player, he loves basketball and likes to play, but he thinks it's good to show off garbage time like this, the Knicks have too many talents, and they usually just need to be a good conductor.

It's not in his scope to really play against those beasts, after all, he can't even reach 1.7 meters!

But just because he doesn't think about it doesn't mean that others don't think about it.

D'Antoni took his team of point guards and played well in the summer league. Soon after, he returned triumphantly with a thick stack of inspection reports in front of the rest of the Knicks coaching staff.

Byron Scott flipped through his inspection report and exclaimed, "Is there any mistake that you think Earl Boykins is the best of these point guards?" ”

D'Antoni said: "Is there any problem? ”

Byron Scott said: "He is only 1.65 meters tall, and he will be beaten by others on the field!" ”

That's the question of coaching style. D'Antoni likes to attack, so he thinks that Boykins, who is fast and can shoot suddenly, is the best, but Byron Scott is more inclined to defend and shakes his head when he sees Boykins' height.

"I really think Boykins is the best of these point guards," D'Antoni said. ”

Byron Scott said, "Ridiculous, ridiculous. If we sign Boykins, then it would be better to just let Coach Lee go on himself, they are about the same height, and technically Coach Lee is much better than Boykins. ”

The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, and D'Antoni's eyes lit up: "Don't say it, Coach Li may really be able to play as a substitute in our team, have you noticed that his organizational skills are no worse than Nash?" ”

"Organizational skills?" Byron Scott raised an eyebrow, then nodded approvingly.

Li Wei now often participates in the team's training matches, and because of his short stature, he hardly shoots, passes the ball all the time, and often passes good balls!

Many people think that Li Wei is a coach, so he plays like this, but they don't know that this is a habit he has developed for many years!

In his previous life, Li Wei had no range at all, and he had been playing a defensive back, and his biggest role on the field was to pass, so when attacking, all his thoughts were on passing!

Passing ability is an innate ability, some people have played basketball all their lives and don't know how to pass, but some people are natural playmakers!

Li Wei is the kind of person with a very outstanding sense of organization, otherwise he would not have occupied the position of the main point guard in the class at 0 range, and played until graduation, and was nicknamed Rajon Rondo!

Later, when he worked in the hospital, he was also a coach and playmaker, and he could always lead the team to defeat the strong with the weak!

The only fly in the ointment is that he is always put three meters by others! |

The point guards are all getting older and more demonic, and Li Wei, who has experience in his previous life, has absolutely nothing to say about his consciousness, and one of the highlights of the Knicks' training game is that he and Nash are competing!

And Li Wei's passing has another advantage, that is, there are very few mistakes.

In his previous life, his cerebellum was underdeveloped, not only did he not shoot accurately, but the error when passing the ball was actually relatively large. In order to be able to pass the ball to the right person, he put a lot of effort into it.

In this life, after the problem of the cerebellum is solved, Li Wei's passing has become more accurate than in his previous life, and his ability to control mistakes is also historic!

D'Antoni said: "In addition to his organizational ability, his projection ability is also completely crushing Boykins, but he can't break through, not to mention the defense, he is short like this, whoever is on is missing, there is not much difference!" ”

Byron Scott said angrily: "You also know that they are leaking when they go up, and they are still talking about this?" Don't look at Boykins, let's pick someone else! ”

D'Antoni said, "Hey, Boykins is the best one!" ”

Byron Scott said: "I don't agree with you at all, as we said, Coach Lee is better than him!" ”

D'Antoni said, "Well, let's call the others and evaluate it together!" ”

While the Knicks' assistant coaches were in a meeting, Li Wei was playing bullfighting with general manager Dennis Johnson at the training ground.

Standing at 1.93m tall and physically tough, Dennis Johnson has been named to the NBA's All-Defensive Team nine times in his career, including five of them as a first-team player.

How scary is a nine-time All-Defensive Team selection?

Let's just say that the only player in the league who has been selected more times than Dennis Johnson is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and there is no other one!

In his previous life, only Pippen, Duncan, Garnett, Kobe Bryant and other four people could surpass his record!

Chris Paul may be able to surpass that record, but as of the 16-17 season, Paul is a nine-time All-Defensive Team selection, the same as Dennis Johnson. LeBron James and Tony Allen are selected six times, and the rest are even more out of reach.

But now, Li Wei shook off the former superstar and defensive titan with a feint, and then stood outside the three-point line and raised his hand to shoot!

Bang!

A three-point shot into the net!

"Haha, Dennis, you're losing again!" Li Wei laughed.

"How can this be reasonable, Jordan couldn't have scored like this on my head back then!" Dennis Johnson was so tired that he gasped, "If I were 10 years younger, I would have prevented you from even finding the basket!" ”

Li Wei said: "I believe this, but it's a pity that you are no longer young!" ”

Dennis Johnson said, "Who says I'm not young? I'm not 45 yet, okay! Come on, let's go on, I don't believe you can win! ”

KC Jones came over at this time and said, "Dennis, are you bullying David again?" ”

Dennis Johnson roared angrily: "What do you call me bullying him, it's clear that he bullied me!" This kid's speed is getting faster and faster now, my old arms and legs can't keep up at all, he always shoots in my face, and he is very accurate, depressed to death! ”

"Hahahaha!" KC Jones laughed.

Dennis Johnson said, "What are you laughing at? Don't believe you're defending yourself! ”

KC Jones shook his head and said, "You, I'm 67 years old, you asked me to defend him?" Forty years ago, I could have given it a try! David, everyone called to your conference room, Mike is back. ”

"Okay." Li Wei nodded, casually tossed the basketball to a trainer on the sidelines, and then walked to the conference room with Dennis Johnson.