Chapter XXXVII

July and August are a valuable period of recuperation for NBA players, as the team's key players will spend more than a month on vacation to recuperate from the previous season, at least until late August. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

This refers to the main players of each team, and those who are fringe players, rookies, and free agents can't be so laid-back, and they still have to work hard in the summer, or they are likely to find a job in the new season and become part of the army of unemployed.

During this period, there will be teams to hold their own summer leagues, the more famous are the "Pepsi Summer League" hosted by the Orlando Magic and the "Rocky Mountain League" hosted by the Utah Jazz, both of which are used to show their skills for free agents or rookies, who have to do some confrontational training and games in the offseason in order to gain the trust of the team and impact the team's squad, and the NBA summer league and summer training camp were born.

However, the summer league is not officially organized by the NBA, it is usually a team that matches with nearby teams, and the participating teams are generally 4 to 8 teams, the time is about two to four weeks, and the rules of the game are the same as NBA games.

Summer League tickets are very cheap, usually a few dollars, and sometimes given to a nearby school or orphanage in the form of charity, which is an opportunity for many people to experience the NBA.

In the 90s, summer leagues were generally organized by teams in the same region, such as California, where the Lakers are located, where four teams would hold California summer training camps in Long Beach, mainly the Lakers, Clippers, Kings and Warriors, four California teams, sometimes inviting the Suns not far away.

In the summer league, the main players and main substitutes of each team generally do not participate, and they will take every time to rest. Those players who play in the Summer League are mainly fringe players of their own team, free agents, NBA Development League players, international players...... These people have only one goal, which is to use the summer league to earn trust, get a contract, or not get cut.

There are also some promising high school or college players who sometimes use summer league to prove themselves, which is good for their future draft, and it also leads to a lot of turnover in summer league, where a player can go to another place to play for other teams after playing on that team.

In addition, the summer league is also a testing ground for adapting to the new rules of the NBA, the league will use the rules of the new season in the summer league to experiment, and the referees will also get the opportunity to warm up, and many referees in the NBA are selected through the summer league.

Little did Zhang know that he would meet a Chinese in the summer league.

Ma Jian, the former mainstay of the Chinese national team, will represent the Clippers in this year's Long Beach Summer League, and Zhang will play against a real Chinese player for the first time. However, there was a gap between the status of the two from the beginning, after all, Zhang Zhu was a player who entered the NBA through the draft, and he was still a very high-ranking player.

Although Ma Jian has been training in the NCAA for three years, he still regrettably failed in the draft this year, and he participated in the summer league as an undrafted player.

Ma Jian and Wang Zhizhi, who soon logged into the NBA, can be regarded as the most tragic figures in the history of Chinese basketball, and Ma Jian is also the first to uncover the dark side of Chinese basketball.

China's sports world is a microcosm of China's dark side, and it will be the latest place to be rectified in the future, so there is no future for China in the next ten years by taking the road of sports.

Zhang Zhu doesn't know anything about China now, he doesn't even know that he has become the second selected Chinese rookie in the NBA, and the first Chinese American to actually log in to the NBA, he has unknowingly made history for the Chinese, and even the Chinese news network has once again named him.

However, China is still far away, and this year's "Long Beach Summer League" will start on July 20, and the Lakers' summer training camp will start even faster, starting on July 7.

Zhang Wei doesn't have much time to rest now, and he will join the training camp in a few days after signing his rookie contract.

There are two important training camps in the NBA summer, which are summer camp and preseason camp.

As the name suggests, it is a training camp held by the team before the summer league and preseason, but only the latter is officially recognized as a training camp, and the summer camp is not official.

Of course, there is also a kind of private training camp in the outside world, such as Jordan training camp, Abdul-Jabbar training camp and so on.

In the United States, there are quite a few small private boot camps of all kinds, and in a way, they are available 365 days a year!

However, these training camps require players to pay their own money to join, and the cost is very cheap, because these big names with their own names will also appear in the training camps, and participating in such training camps will give you the opportunity to train with NBA stars.

Zhang Wei is not interested in this, he does not plan to spend so much money to train with the so-called stars.

Now that he has officially signed a rookie contract offered by the Lakers, his contract is guaranteed for the next two years, but that doesn't mean that the money will be paid right away, and all sports industries around the world are paid in installments, not all at once.

Unlike European football, which is paid on a "weekly" basis, the NBA's default paydays are the 1st and 15th of each month. That is to say, the team will only start paying wages after the start of the regular season every year, the specific time is November 15, and then according to the player's existing contract, it will be paid in 12 installments for 6 months, so Zhang Fu can't get the money yet.

Zhang Mo had to go back to Australia to take care of the company after he signed the contract, and before leaving, he saw that the Lakers actively helped Zhang Fu deal with off-court chores, and he was very relieved.

The Lakers took care of Zhang Mao's off-court life in a meticulous manner, not only helping him find a luxury apartment not far from the training gym, but even temporarily transferring a scooter from the team for him to use.

Zhang Wei has already seen the apartment that the team has found for him, the area is about 80 square meters, it is a typical single apartment, the location is very good, the surrounding environment is beautiful, the security is good, it is a standard rich area location, only 15 minutes drive from the Lakers' training hall, it is a good transitional residence.

In this part of Los Angeles, the suburban housing prices are passable, but once you arrive in the city center, the housing prices are ridiculously high, but fortunately, the rent in this apartment is not high. In addition to the temporary apartment, Zhang Yi also has to buy a car to travel, otherwise it is inconvenient to buy something anywhere, and it will be very troublesome to live.

Zhang Wei really needs to thank Jeanne Buss, he doesn't know that this apartment is a property in Jenny Buss's name. After quickly dealing with the problem of accommodation, Jeanne Bass took him to quickly solve the problem of transportation. It can be said that if it weren't for Jenny Buss's help, he wouldn't have taken only three days to deal with all kinds of trivial matters off the court.

With the apartment and transportation all in order, the Lakers' summer training camp begins tomorrow, and his NBA career will begin in earnest tomorrow.

The night before he was about to embark on a new journey, Zhang Fu opened his attribute panel again.

The system turned on the "detailed attributes" query function when he participated in the joint trial, but this function can only be viewed, and there is still no increase in the function of ball skills, and Zhang Fu's growth in ball skills can only be through two ways: "real training" and "virtual training".

But this attribute query function can tell him where he needs to improve, which link is temporarily enough, and which link is already excellent. Don't underestimate this function, which can help him to carry out training in a more targeted manner, and can make up for the shortcomings of his weak projects in the most efficient way, which is not small at all.

In reality, the biggest problem for many players is that they can't see their own shortcomings, and this function can tell them where they have their shortcomings, which is of course a very useful function.

His little girlfriend's attributes are basically emotional, but his own attributes are just the opposite, basically no emotional attributes, but more game-related attributes-

Zhang Zhu: Age 18 years old, current girlfriend (1), *** times: 221 times, former girlfriend: 11 people, female Pao friends: 34 people.

Nickname: None, Stamina: 99, Class Attribute: 73, Prestige: 100, Active Buff: 1, Passive Buff: 0, Female Pink: 302, Equipment Card: 1, Card Library: 0, Star Card: 0, Shop Level: Level 1, Competitive Point: 6800 points.

"Hey, why is there an extra star card?" After Zhang Yu opened the system, he found a new function, what is this "star card"?

The rabbit butler is now becoming more and more like a pet, and he actually conjured a small pocket cot floating in the air next to Zhang Qi's bed, and when he heard this, he opened his rabbit eyes and lazily explained, "Congratulations, now there is finally a function that can work in the game." However, Star Cards are very hard to come by, and you'll need to complete milestones in a match, or create something amazing that the system recognizes, in order to be rewarded. Basically, the more amazing the milestones you complete, the higher the level of the star cards the system will give you, and the greater the effect of their bonuses.

The specific function of the star card is to give you a bonus to a certain ability, for example, some star cards can increase your three-point shooting rate, and some can increase your pass success rate, rebounding success rate, etc...... But you can only activate up to five Star Cards per game, and you have to unlock the card slots with Arena Points first, which also costs 10,000 points each, so you don't have a slot right now. ”

"I see! This feature doesn't seem to be very useful at this stage, and I don't even have a star card, so I'm not in a hurry to unlock the slots. After Zhang Fu learned about this new feature, he felt that he would not be able to use it in a short period of time, and the difficulty of obtaining the star card seemed to be very high, and the ghost knows when he would get the first star card, so this thing should be put aside for now.

Zhang Wei then opened his fan column, and the number displayed on it was 302 people, and the region was North America. It's a pity that due to the low prestige, the quality of female fans is temporarily more worrisome, and only three people meet the screening conditions, among which the highest dating rate is actually Jeanne Bass, and the success rate shown above is 33%.

"That's not that high!" Zhang Wei originally thought that this kind of mature woman was easier to use, but it seemed to be just his wishful thinking.

In the [BUFF System], because he did not become the top pick in the draft, he did not get the most precious Legendary-level BUFF, and could only activate the second-level [Leaderboard BUFF] first. When he has accumulated 20,000 competition points, he can go to the gambling machine to fight for the [Champion BUFF], which is his goal at this stage.

Zhang Yu mainly wanted to check his specific attributes this time, and he also noticed that his total ability value dropped from the previous 74 to 73, which was obviously due to the recent busy draft and dealing with a lot of off-court chores, which delayed training.

This also shows that his ability value is not static, and if he is lazy in training, his ability value will drop, which is a bit of a pain.

In the end, it took 50 competition points to endure the pain, and Zhang Yu finally knew his detailed attributes-

[Shooting]: Close shooting (65); Interfered close range shot (59); mid-range shooting (75); Interfered mid-range shooting (74); Dribbling mid-distance (72); Open three-pointers (45); Interfered with three points (42); 3-pointers after dribbling (41); Throwing (65); Drift shooting (69); back-to-back jumpshot (67); Back hook (48), free throws (75).

[Layup/Slam Dunk]: Layup on the spot (60); Driving layup (73); Layup technique (66); Interfered layup (70); Slam dunk in place (55); Breakout Slam Dunk (70); Slam Dunk Technique (58); Disturbed slam dunk (68).

[Technique]: Basketball IQ (78); Ball control (70); Weak-side hand dribble (55); Catch (72); Ball Protector (74); Vision (73); card slot (55); Cover (52); Running without the ball (54); Back Footsteps (74); Frame Footsteps (68); Passing accuracy (68); Passing IQ (71); Back-to-body control (69); Back to turn and break through (73); Stability (72).

[Body]: Strength (65); Speed (86); Dexterity (90); Explosiveness (90); physical strength (83); Bounce (82); reactions (93); Resistance to injuries (91).

[Defense]: Defensive Awareness (68); Joint Defense Awareness (73); interference shots (70); Low post defense (52); Defending with the ball (68); Defensive Capabilities (70); Fighting ability (72); Blocks (69), steals (68), fouls (65), control fouls (67); frontcourt rebounds (71); Backcourt rebounds (70).