Su Mei is right, there are indeed a lot of things to be busy after being selected. The next day, before he could recover from a night of hangover, he was woken up by Duffy, telling him to pack up and take an afternoon flight to Los Angeles.

He Tianju was still asleep, Tang Shuai didn't bother him, after leaving him a message with the hotel's pen and paper, he said hello to the front desk of the hotel, renewed the room fee for one day, and then rushed to the airport and rushed to Los Angeles with Duffy.

Los Angeles, located in the southwest of California, is the second largest city in the United States, the largest metropolis in the western United States, and the largest harbor city in the United States.

The home of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers is located in the center of the city, with sixteen championship flags hanging above the arena, and the Boston Celtics, the East giants, are two of the league's most famous "evergreen" teams.

The destination of Tang Shuai and Duffy's trip is the Staples Center, but not the Lakers, but its neighbor Clippers.

Compared with the Lakers' team history, the Clippers are obviously not enough to mention, but since 2009 with the No. 1 pick in the hand to select Blake Griffin, and in 2011 after trading to Chris Paul, who was already the league's No. 1 point guard at the time, it has quickly grown from a fish belly team to a powerhouse in the West, and its exposure has increased dramatically in the context of the rapid decline of the strength of the Los Angeles Lakers, and now under the leadership of championship coach Doug Reaves. It is on its way to the championship of the league.

When he first arrived in the United States, the Clippers were inseparable from the Rockets in the Western Conference semifinals, and the Clippers "starred" in his draft video with him was the Clippers' main point guard Chris Paul.

The Clippers share the Staples Center with the Lakers, and their office is also located in the arena, and when Tang Shuai and Duffy arrived, they were guided into the office by the staff.

Today's main task was to negotiate contracts and summer league related things.

There were several people sitting in the office, and Tang Shuai recognized two at a glance, one was the team's head coach Doug Reeves, the championship coach who was very impressed by his coaching during the Celtics, and when he saw them come in, Reeves just raised his eyes, and the other was Dave Wall, the team's general manager, who immediately greeted them with a smile when he saw them come in.

"Don, you're finally here!" Wall said excitedly.

"Hey, Dave, it's nice to see you so soon." Tang Shuai also said respectfully.

"Come, sit down first." Wall guided them to sit down, turned around and asked the staff next to him to pour coffee for the two, and it was obvious that he attached great importance to Tang Shuai.

"Ahem......" At this moment, Reeves coughed dryly twice and said, "Let's take a look at the contract first." ”

As soon as Tang Shuai sat down, he heard what Reeves said, and he was about to get up and go over to get the contract.

"No hurry, no hurry." Wall stretched out his hand to stop Tang Shuai, and said without looking back, "Doug, they have just arrived, let them rest first." ”

"Why don't you sign with them? I still have a bunch of things on my hands, so I'll go first. Reeves said as he stood up.

Wall turned around at this time and said with a smile: "Doug, you are joking with me, you are the head of operations of the team, you haven't read this contract, I don't have the right to sign it alone." ”

"You also know that I'm the head of operations." Reeves sat back down, looking a little impatient, and said, "Then hurry up and sign it." ”

Tang Shuai and Duffy glanced at each other at this time, and the two of them understood at a glance that the atmosphere in this office seemed to be a little wrong, and Reeves seemed to be a little bit of a fault with him.

Duffy stood up at this time and said: "Two, my client is still a college student in China, and he may have to go through some formalities in China, we can now negotiate the details of the contract first, and when he goes back to complete the formalities, it is not too late to talk about the issue of signing." ”

"You're Don's agent?" Reeves looked at him with a frown, searched in his mind for a while, and after confirming that he had never seen such a person, he reached out and knocked on the contract on the table and said, "The contract is here, you take it and look at it first." ”

Duffy didn't change his mood because of Reeves' attitude, he walked to the table with a smile, picked up the contract, sat down and took a closer look.

The office suddenly fell silent, save for the occasional "swish" sound from time to time as Duffy looked at the contract.

After about ten minutes, Duffy put down the contract, the original smile on his face was gone, and he said directly: "I want to know, why in Tang's contract, the salary for the first year is not 120% of the prescribed amount, but only 80%, and why the increase is not 10%, but 8%?" ”

Duffy asked two questions in a row, and with a hint of anger in his tone, he was clearly very unhappy with the contract.

"What's wrong with that?" Reeves looked up at Duffy.

"I've checked the information, and the average rookie contract has a salary of 120% of the required amount in the first year, and the increase is also 10%, so there can't be anything wrong with that, right?" Duffy asked rhetorically.

Reeves glanced up at Duffy, didn't answer his question, but said with a hint of contempt: "If I'm not mistaken, you should be the new agent this year, right?" ”

Seeing that Duffy didn't deny it, Reeves continued: "You may have to go back and check the NBA's contract regulations, which say that the team can sign 80%~120% of the specified amount with rookies, and the maximum increase is 10%, and in our contract, these two are not violated." ”

Duffy was silent, his face was very ugly, Reeves was right, but the rookie contract takes up too much space for a team, and any team would be so disgusting to take advantage of the rookie's hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary.

Duffy turned his head to look at Wall, and said in a somewhat unceremonious tone, "Dave, is the final contract at this time?" ”

Tang Shuai also looked at Wall, the conversation between Duffy and Reaves had made him understand the difference, and he also wanted to hear how Wall explained, after all, the general manager of the Clippers was him, not Reaves.

"That's what Doug insisted on, and I can't help it, but the contract is negotiable." Wall's face looked helpless.

Reeves insisted?

Tang Shuai turned his head to look at Reeves, his brows furrowed into big Sichuan characters, he didn't understand, the two of them had never seen each other before, why did Reeves target him so much?