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Duffy nodded, simply walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, and said: "Gong Luming seems to want the high-level executives to fulfill some of their previous promises, but because there is no written agreement, the high-level executives seem to want to repay the debt?" ”

As he spoke, he moved out of the tablet, handed it to Tang Shuai, and continued: "This should be the verbal agreement, a monthly salary of 150,000 yuan, and a reward of 2 million yuan for winning the championship, all of which are gone now." ”

What Duffy showed Tang Shuai was the media breaking the news, but the person who said these words was Gong Luming himself, and it should be a matter of eight or nine.

Tang Shuai couldn't help but sneer after reading it: "These people really dare to do anything." ”

"Now I should be glad that you are not a player in the Chinese basketball system, otherwise, I would not have done anything about these things." Duffy suddenly said with a wry smile.

Tang Shuai smiled, suddenly remembered something, and then asked, "By the way, no one in China has contacted you?" ”

After meeting Gong Luming last time, he still had a very good impression of this amiable old coach, and he was still very willing to play for his country without affecting offseason training, after all, as a Chinese, it is always proud to have the opportunity to play for his motherland.

Now Gong Luming has encountered this kind of problem, and he doesn't know what will happen to the Olympics.

"Not yet, but I think it shouldn't be far away, if this kind of news breaks out, it means that the training camp of the Chinese national team should not be far away." Duffy said inferredly.

"Well, that's fine, if I contact you. Other things can be discussed later, but the premise must be that Gong Luming is coaching. Tang Shuai said simply.

Tang Shuai said very simply, Duffy was stunned for a moment after hearing it, and looked at him with some uncertainty: "Why do you want to do this?" ”

"You don't really understand it, just say that." Tang Shuai didn't mean to explain more, there were too many factors involved. But he is absolutely right to do this, China finally has a coach who is dedicated to basketball, if he is unloaded and killed after becoming famous, it will really hurt the hearts of all basketball fans, he was not able to intervene in anything before, and now that he has this opportunity, of course he has to do it.

"Well, I don't know why, but I'm sure you must have your reasons." Duffy didn't ask again. Get up and continue to tidy up.

It was almost cleaned up, Tang Shuai was also tired, and he fell asleep soon after lying down.

When he got up the next day, Duffy had already called the moving company in advance and threw the things into the car, even if the task was completed, as for Su Mei, because he had not been in the United States for a long time. It's a lot of clothes, and it's much easier to move.

Half a morning. After moving the things, he and Su Mei went to the furniture market to order some furniture, so that their nest was officially completed.

However, after the completion, they had no time to warm up for the time being, and the NCAA division game was hot, and Su Mei rushed back in the afternoon. He himself also promised Booker to take him to training, so as soon as it was done, after he sent Su Mei back to UCLA, he rushed directly to the arena.

He drove the car to the basement and parked, and he followed directly to the second floor of the gymnasium.

I was just about to take the phone and call Booker. I heard a "bang" sound from inside the training hall.

Hearing the voice, he put away his phone and muttered in his heart, "Mom. Yes, Devon, this kid is flying, and he told me a few minutes ago that he just went out, and he arrived at the tavern in a blink of an eye, and the speed is okay! ”

He walked into the training hall with a smile and shouted directly: "Devon! ”

But when he finished shouting and saw the people in the stadium, he was stunned for a moment.

The person who was training in the training hall was not Booker, but Green, who had just been traded to the team!

Hearing Tang Shuai's shout, Green stopped, stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat on his head, and said with a smile: "Don? Morning. ”

Green was covered in sweat at this moment, and his training clothes were wet from his body, and it looked like he had been training for a long time.

"Morning." Tang Shuai came back to his senses for a moment, and then said hello.

"There is no training scheduled for the team today, why did you come over?" Green, who is still the more talkative type, asked.

"Didn't you come here too?" Tang Shuai replied, because of Stephenson's matter, he still couldn't help but resist Green.

Green had a wry smile on his face and said: "I'm not in good shape, so I have to adjust back as soon as possible in order to integrate into the team sooner. ”

After listening to Green's words, Tang Shuai suddenly felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Green actually played very hard, and his condition was not bad, and he didn't play entirely because of his teammates' prejudice against him, if it was him, it is estimated that he would have fallen out a long time ago, but Green turned around and still found the reason in himself, and took the initiative to practice to find the state, is this the difference between an old player and a new player?

"Don! Why did you come so early?! Just then, Booker appeared at the door of the training gym.

"Jeff, you're there too." He followed and saw Green on the side.

"Hey, Devon." Green greeted with a smile.

"Let's start training." Tang Shuai said directly, maybe Green's approach made him a little confused, so he simply started training directly.

"Well, then I'll practice too." After Green finished speaking, he turned around and went back to shooting practice.

After Stephenson was traded, Booker naturally became the team's No. 1 backup player on the shooting guard, which gave him a big opportunity.

Tang Shuai is biased against Green, but he will not have it against Booker, and he also hopes to upgrade the weakened skill package to the normal version earlier.

It's just that the process required in the middle of this process was a little unexpected for him.

It only took a dozen games to upgrade the blue old version of the bus power pack to the purple weakened version of the power pack, but after that, the other purple skill packs were useless for most of the season.

It seems that this skill needs to be similar to a "training degree", and it only needs to be used continuously in training and competitions in order to complete the improvement as soon as possible.

That's why he's training more often and more intensely. Packing is a great way to improve your strength, but it takes opportunity, and training can be done at any time.

The day's training passed quickly, and Tang Shuai didn't leave the training hall until more than 8 o'clock in the evening, and Green also happened to practice at this point.

People's prejudices change with what they encounter, after seeing Green's hard-working attitude towards training. Tang Shuai's opinion in his heart naturally changed.

Maybe not everyone will like hard-working people, but no one will hate.

"The environment in Los Angeles and Memphis is much different, and after this training, it feels like taking a shower." Green wiped his sweat with a towel and said with a smile.

"Los Angeles is in southwestern California, coastal cities, Memphis is in Tennessee, inland cities, and the humidity in both places is definitely very different." Tang Shuai said. He has been in Los Angeles for more than half a year and has learned a lot about some of the geography of the United States.

"yes, when I was traded from the Thunder to the Celtics before, I couldn't adapt to it like this." Green said as he wiped his sweat with a towel.

Oklahoma City is inland, Boston is on the northeast coast, and the two places where Green was traded this time are very similar to the previous ones.

"So to speak, I'm from China in the United States. Isn't it harder to adapt? Tang Shuai asked rhetorically.

"Ahaha, that's right. Although I have never been to China, I used to know from Kevin (referring to Durant) that it is a very beautiful country, and I will definitely visit it once in the future. Green said with a smile.

"When the time comes, I can find you a tour guide, so that you will not be slaughtered as a pig." Tang Shuai said with a smile.

With the topic, the two of them chatted completely and went back to the locker room. Booker went to take a shower first, and the two of them sat down on a stool to rest.

"When did you come here?" Tang Shuai got up and took two bottles of drinks from the closet, threw one to Green, sat down and asked.

"In the morning." Green took the drink and said with a smile.

It was the same as Tang Shuai expected. He opened the drink and took a sip, then said, "Then you practiced for a day?" Pretty tired, right? ”

"I'm used to it, if you don't practice it, I won't be used to it." Green said with a smile.

"You do that in Memphis?" Tang Shuai looked at Green in surprise.

"Well, the habit I developed in Boston, I used to think that I was very talented, but then I slowly realized that only hard work can ensure that I will not be eliminated." Green smiled bitterly, picked up the drink and took a sip as he spoke, and it could be seen that from the three young people in the past to the present, he has learned a lot and grown a lot.

Tang Shuai nodded, there are only 30 teams in the NBA, and there are only 450 people when they are full, but there are so many people all over the world who want to enter this league, not to mention the annual draft, and it is indeed a very difficult thing for most people to stay in this league or even go further.

After chatting with Green for so long, Tang Shuai's original prejudice against him has basically disappeared, and that prejudice is groundless, trading Stephenson's **** has nothing to do with Green, and even for Green it is cruel, after all, he has to start adapting to a new environment and a new life.

"Are you still talking?" Booker came out of the shower at this time, and saw that the two of them were still lying down like big men and didn't move, so he couldn't help but say.

"Let's go, take a shower!" Tang Shuai got up from his seat, took his clothes and went into the rinse room.

Green followed suit.

After winning the Nuggets, the Clippers improved their record to 34-18 and remained in fourth place in the West, but if they want to take a more advantageous initiative in the playoffs, they must push upwards or face the invincible Warriors in the second round.

The team's next opponent is the Mavericks.

The Mavericks' record is not much different from last season, they are still a playoff team, but they are still a playoff team in the bottom half of the league, and because of Parsons' injury, the team has not been doing well recently, and has fallen to eighth place in the West.

Obviously, they don't want to run into a team like the Warriors in the first round, so they're going to play it every game.

Before the game against the Mavericks, Don Shuai had a private chat with Paul for a while, and just after their exchange, the Clippers ushered in their third intra-team meeting. The focus of the meeting was naturally related to Green, a new recruit.

Like the original meeting for Tang Shuai, this time the players' meeting was still attended by the team's core and rotation players, the only difference was that Green replaced Stephenson.

Presiding over the meeting is still Paul, the team's boss. and locker room leader Pierce.

When I entered the conference room, many of the players looked at me and I looked at you, and they didn't know what the purpose of this meeting was.

"Guys, this morning, Don came to me for some words, I think he made a lot of sense, and now I want to discuss what he said, Don." After Paul finished speaking, he directly called Tang Shuai.

Spent most of his season with the Clippers. With the increasing status of the team, Tang Shuai's voice in the team has gradually increased, he nodded and stood up, and the other players all looked at him.

"Brothers, this is the third time we've had a players' meeting, and if I'm not mistaken, the first two times were related to me, and the last time everyone was upset about me. Since then, I knew that the team was a different kind of warm place. Although it is a foreign country for me, it is more like a warm home, and you are like my family. ”

Tang Shuai did not mention the content at the beginning, but used a very emotional rendering sentence as the opening remark.

Sure enough, Tang Shuai said these words. There were faint smiles on the faces of the players.

"Everyone should know that I have a good relationship with Lance, and I can even be said to be like brothers, and I remember that Lance said that the two of us are the Los Angeles bandits, although this is a bit funny......"

"Haha~" Tang Shuai's words caused his teammates to laugh.

"But we do get along. Unfortunately, at the trade deadline three days ago, something happened that none of us expected, and he was traded to Memphis ......"

At this point, the smiling faces of the players gradually retracted, and their faces were a little sad, and it was clear that Stephenson's being traded was not something they wanted to see.

"Memphis, an inland city, Jeff told me that the air is a bit dry, maybe you have to put on some moisturizer or something when you go out, I think Lance must not like this ......"

The teammates laughed again at Tang Shuai's dry humor.

"Don has a very good oratorial talent." Paul then turned to Pierce and said.

Pierce smiled and nodded.

"To be honest, when Lance was traded, it was like losing a friend all of a sudden, and I felt very uncomfortable and frustrated, and that emotion was built up in my heart until Jeff arrived." Tang Shuai said and glanced at Green.

The others also looked at it unconsciously.

Green looked a little caught off guard at this moment, looking at the eyes of so many people, and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"It's a negative emotion, and when I express it, he's naturally negative, and as a result, Jeff becomes the recipient of this negative emotion, and I refuse to contact Jeff, and I don't even take the initiative to pass the ball to him on the field, and I want to say sorry to Jeff here." Tang Shuai said and bowed deeply to Green.

The players are messy, and Tang Shuai is not the only one who is prejudiced against Green, if you really count it, everyone else has it.

Green also looked at Tang Shuai with a surprised face, he didn't expect Tang Shuai to do such a thing in front of so many people.

"Luckily, when I came to the stadium this afternoon to train, I met Jeff, who had been training all morning, and when I asked him why he was training harder, he said, 'I'm not in good shape, so I want to integrate into the team earlier. I have to adjust as soon as possible', I didn't react at the time, but my real reaction at the time was that I realised that I had made a mistake and that I had no reason or right to treat a player who worked so hard, and that the Lance trade had nothing to do with Jeff, but I put that negativity on him. ”

Tang Shuai's words made everyone else silent, it was obvious that he had taken these words out of his heart, and the others also listened to them.

Green stood up at this time and said, "Don, it's actually okay, it's a normal thing......"

"No, maybe everyone thinks differently, but for me, if I do something wrong, I have to have the courage to take it, rather than making it like a calendar, turning it over and never looking at it again." Tang Shuai said with blazing eyes. Dare to admit if you do something wrong, this is much braver than a brawl on the field.

"Jeff, I'm sorry, I didn't pass on such a good opportunity to you in the last game." At this moment, Smith suddenly stood up and said. Speaking of relationships, the relationship between Smith and Stephenson is also good, but it is far from being as good as the relationship between Tang Shuai and Stephenson, Tang Shuai can be forgiven as a brother, and he has no reason to be prejudiced anymore.

"Me too, I didn't even follow the coach's instructions to block for Jeff." Brewer followed suit and stood up.

"Me ...... too"

……

"Josh, Corey......" Green shuddered slightly, having been traded so many times and had been isolated. But no team has ever said that there was a separate meeting of players for something like this, and that they were apologizing to him.

"I said we are a family because we can be honest with each other and really trust each other, so we are here to say that in the future games, we will definitely treat you as a real family, and we will become invincible." Tang Shuai said in an accentuated tone at this time.

"Thank you. Thank you......" Green's eyes were a little red at this time, "We are a family. ”

"Papapa~"

Pierce reached out and applauded.

Then came Paul. Everyone else applauded.

Green's body trembled slightly, and it was clear that this time the players' meeting was a success.

The most feared thing between people is suspicion, it is like a thick layer of window paper, which will bring a lot of negative and unexpected things, but when this layer of window paper is pierced. Everything will develop in a positive direction.

After the players' meeting, the players happily went to the training hall.

At this time, the players completely regarded Green as a teammate.

The full-court confrontation, the substitute team and the starting team began to meet on the field.

"Jeff!" In the first round of the starting team's attack, Brewer took the initiative to shout. Shouting at the same time followed by a block.

Green followed Brewer's block and successfully ran out of the gap, and at this moment, Tang Shuai, who was holding the ball on the outside, saw the opportunity and threw the ball over with a flick.

Green received the ball and had a perfect open opportunity, followed by a mid-range shot.

The basketball crossed a perfect arc in the air, and fell steadily into the basket with a "boom".

"Perfect shot!" Little Jordan yelled at his big mouth.

Looking at this scene on the field, Cassel, who was studying with a tactical board, raised his head, and when he saw Brewer turn around and high-five Green, his eyes widened, and he turned to Billups next to him and said, "Did Jeff score just now?" ”

"Well, the pick-and-roll from Corey, the assist from Don, and, Jordan Jr.'s celebration." Billups said with a smile.

"This ...... What happened? Cassel looked puzzled, he was having a headache about how the players would accept Green, but he didn't expect that after this night, they would all cooperate.

Billups shook his head, but immediately smiled and said, "Isn't that a good thing?" ”

Cassel was stunned for a moment, then smiled.

On February 24, U.S. time, the Clippers welcomed the challenge of the Dallas Mavericks at home.

The Clippers continued to play the same starting lineup as they did in the previous game, with Green replacing the injured Greenfin as the team's starting power forward.

The Mavericks' starting small forward Parsons was sidelined due to injury, and he was replaced by this year's rookie Justin Anderson, a junior from the University of Virginia who was picked by the Mavericks with the 21st pick in the first round and was particularly good at rebounding.

In addition to Anderson, Matthews also missed this game due to injury, and he was replaced by Barria, and the rest of the Mavericks remained on the same lineup as they have since the start of the season, with veteran drivers and Zaza Pachulia on the inside and DeLong on the outside.

The game between the two sides was quickly underway, and the Clippers got their first chance to attack.

The first tactic is almost the same as in training, except that the person who blocks and dismantles is replaced by Jordan Jr., Green successfully has an opportunity to shoot in the open position with the help of Jordan Jr.'s blocking, but the person who passes the ball is Paul, compared to Tang Shuai, his pass is obviously faster and more accurate, and Green shoots directly after receiving the ball.

As perfect as the training curve, the basketball is like a positioning device, and after a perfect arc in the air, it falls steadily into the net bag with a "boom".

"Perfect jumper! New signings from Los Angeles, Jeff ~ Green! Mike Smith, the Clippers' on-site commentator, shouted.

"Looks like this group of lads is really fine." Seeing this kind of cooperation in the official game, Cassel nodded with satisfaction, he arranged such a tactic in the opening game, just to see how Green was in relationship with other people, and now it seems that this is not a problem at all. (To be continued.) )