On July 4, 2016, the two bigwigs of the Lakers who had already gone out on a trip to prepare for the July 7 player clarification period and came back to do these things took Clarkson, Antetokounmpo, Whiteside, and Liu Ren to hold a press conference at the Staples Center!

The Lakers officially announced that they had reached a four-year, 44 million contract extension with Clarkson, with 11 million per year for four years, with no salary increase or salary cut.

signed a 5-year, 100 million early contract extension with Whiteside, effective from the 2017-2018 season, that is, until 2022, Whiteside's peak years are all Lakers players.

Antetokounmpo signed a four-year, 97 million contract extension with the Lakers, also from the 2017 to 2018 season, this contract has no other meaning, that is, it is two or three hundred thousand per year higher than Chandler Parsons.

The last contract extension is what people are most concerned about, the Lakers and Liu Ren reached a 3-year contract extension, and the starting salary is the highest 24.93 million that Liu Ren can get now, no way, who made him unable to trigger the Rose clause, in the case of less than seven years of play, he can only renew the contract for 3 years with a starting salary of 25% of the salary cap, totaling 82.5 million.

Liu Ren's contract is not bad, it is about the same as the contract extension reached by Westbrook and the Thunder, and it is already a top five salary in the league.

When I saw Westbrook get more than 80 million in three years, Liu Ren more than 80 million in three years, James more than 60 million in two years, and Conley's big contract of more than 40 million in the last year, those top-salary players who renewed their contracts last offseason felt ruined, and then their hearts were dripping with blood and their faces were stronger......

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Renewing a contract is a very important but not difficult thing.

That's how it was for Liu Ren.

There are only two conditions for Liu Ren to renew his contract, one is the maximum salary, which is no suspense, one has won the MVP, and he is still a double-team player last season, is it appropriate not to take the maximum salary, even if he is willing to accept the salary cut, but face is also very important, for example, Antetokounmpo is very unhappy with Chandler Parsons's strangely big contract, which is to be one million more than him.

At the level of getting the highest salary, in addition to the championship, what these players think about is actually face, and how to live well.

Otherwise, what are you doing with so much money, just playing? Or do you want to have a bunch of children like Marlon, Howard, and Kemp, and bring financial risks to yourself after retirement? Or go to gambling like Anthony Walker, indulge in nightclubs every day, and go bankrupt?

Therefore, players with brains would rather choose to make their lives better, and to fight for face with others, which is better than going to the lower half of their own body and the lower half of their lives.

After the contract was renewed, Liu Ren stayed at home for a few days, and on July 10th, he and Yao Ming went to Qingdao to participate in the national team training camp.

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When the big Lori's daughter Yuki Yuki was just born, she was like a wrinkled little monkey, in fact, every child was born like that, so Liu Ren never understood what kind of eyes those who saw newborn babies say they looked like their parents......

However, good genes are good!

Now the one-year-old mini Lori Snow Snow is so cute, Liu Ren holds the little Lori in his left hand every day, and the mini Lori in his right hand, it feels like he has the whole world!

Time flies quickly, four or five days after the contract is renewed, it has arrived on the 9th, and the plane will return to China early tomorrow morning to participate in the training camp in Qingdao.

The little girl and the big Lori were preparing all kinds of clothes for Liu Ren, and the living room was a mess.

"I said you guys, just bring two clothes, what am I doing with so many clothes as a big man." Liu Ren said speechlessly.

Following Liu Ren's expression, little Lori Betty and Mini Lori Xuexue also showed speechless expressions.

"You men, you just don't know how to clean up yourself, don't you know that this will make your girlfriend more face-saving! Look at you, you didn't shave your beard when you played in the playoffs, or Betty shaved it for you when she came to Cleveland, so I'm sorry, I asked a schoolboy to shave you! The chick said disgustedly.

At this time, a weak voice came: "Betty is willing to help her uncle shave ......"

"Little Lori: Shut up! This is helping you make your uncle a little more handsome, you know! The chick said.

"Why is my uncle so handsome, there are already so many big sisters who want to beat my uncle's idea!" Little Lori retorted.

"Your uncle...... "The chick was about to say something, but suddenly retched.......

Liu Ren was suddenly full of black lines: "Do you vomit when you hear this matter of Uncle Ben!" It's too much! ”

Xiaoniu also felt a little exaggerated and explained: "No, it may be that I have eaten something in the past few days, and I have had an upset stomach in the past few days and have been feeling nauseous." ”

Liu Ren didn't care about complaining, and hurriedly said, "Sick? You're like this, you're sick and busy all day long, what are you doing with so much money, and it's okay to make money with me, fortunately, it's not that I left to find out that you're sick, we go to the hospital now, sometimes a minor illness will drag something out! ”

The chick was teased again in an instant, but she was still very stubborn: "Why are you a big man mother-in-law, isn't it just that your stomach is uncomfortable......"

"Don't talk nonsense, go to the hospital!"

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A day later, a flight from Los Angeles to Qingdao Liuting International Airport was in first class.

A tall man surnamed Liu smirked like a mentally retarded, and the first class flight attendant lady felt panicked every time she passed by him, and the flight took more than ten hours, except for sleeping, she had always been smirking like a mentally retarded person.

The loss is that there are very few people in the first class from Los Angeles to China, otherwise this picture will definitely overwhelm everyone if it is filmed.

But people are in good spirits when they are happy!

If someone asked Liu Ren what was wrong, if he had epilepsy, Liu Ren would not be angry, because he kept muttering a voice that others couldn't hear: "My old Liu is going to be a father......

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In the early morning of the 11th, Liu Ren arrived at Qingdao International Airport, took his huge boxes, came to the passenger exit, and immediately saw several basketball center staff holding signs.

Liu Renyou has seen the photo of the person Yao Ming sent him to pick him up, named Lin Zhengdong, who is currently the head of the foreign affairs department of the Blue Association, and is the deputy director of the basketball management center and one of the more than a dozen vice chairmen of the Blue Association.

Liu Ren pushed his luggage and walked up, and the other party also greeted him.

"Director Lin, I'm tired of you, you can just call a staff member to pick me up." There is a taboo in the position of calling people, don't add that sub-word, Liu Ren still understands this.

"No, no, it's right that I'll pick you up, let's get in the car first, and it will be troublesome to be recognized by the fans in a while."

Lin Zhengdong said very reasonably, some people have already recognized Liu Ren, but they don't dare to confirm it, because Liu Ren walked out too naturally and looked too much like Liu Ren, but it gave fans a trace of doubt, and they didn't determine whether this was Liu Ren at the first time.

When they were sure that this was really Liu Ren, Liu Ren had already gotten into Lin Zhengdong's car and left.

It seems that the domestic tiger fight has really become strict, Liu Ren estimates that the vice chairman of the Blue Association has a car of three or four hundred thousand, and definitely no more than 500,000, that is, the kind of car that many middle-class families can save face but is definitely not extravagant.

Seemingly worried that Liu Ren, an NBA star whose family is said to be able to fill a warehouse, Lin Zhengdong explained: "This car is a special car allocated by the state to Chairman Yao in Qingdao, and Chairman Yao specially asked us to use this car to pick you up." ”

"I think it's a pretty good car, and no one would have guessed we'd be in it." Liu Ren said with a smile.

I don't know if Liu Ren is satisfied or dissatisfied, Lin Zhengdong continued: "The hotel we arranged for you is the best hotel in Qingdao, you won't stay with other players, don't worry about them disturbing you." ”

"Excuse me?"

It seemed that he wanted to laugh, but Lin Zhengdong still held back and explained: "...... When Chairman Yao first came to the training camp, everyone gathered around him to ask for autographs, and everyone around Parker to sign autographs when he played France in the Stankovic Cup last year......

"......" Liu Ren was speechless, he began to worry a little, what kind of teammates will he meet!

Seeing that Liu Ren had no more problems, Lin Zhengdong finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt a little aggrieved.

In the past, the Lan Association was all uncles! When do you need to talk to a player in a low voice!

However, the Blue Association is only the Blue Association after all, Lin Zhengdong can only accept his fate, and now it is not the era when the Blue Association can cover the sky with one hand, not only can it not control public opinion like the era when information exchange was underdeveloped at the beginning of the century, but even when they say something, the fans feel that it is wrong, and they have a purpose to have something ulterior to do.

And they don't have the ability to block anyone like optoelectronics, they can't let any TV station not allow the Lakers to broadcast the Lakers' game, the Lakers' game is the biggest financial way in basketball broadcasting, and he Lin Zhengdong is probably not far from Bu Cheng Lanxin's footsteps. They only have one place that can choke the players, that is, Cheng Lanxin once used the matter of not letting Liu Ren return to the national team, but people didn't care at all, and then survived Cheng Lanxin until he was dismissed, and Liu Ren was only 22 years old, Lin Zhengdong didn't have the confidence to survive......

In Liu Ren's speechlessness and Lin Zhengdong's recollection of the era when the Lan Association was dominant, more than half an hour later, they came to Jinsha in Qingdao.

It seems that the basketball management center really attaches great importance to Liu Ren, and the hotel where Liu Ren lives is the presidential suite of the Hilton Hotel on Golden Beach, which is known as a super five-star hotel.

Liu Ren was very satisfied with the arrangement of the basketball management center, and he was a little less satisfied, the treatment was much better than he imagined, and he was ready to live in the legendary ten-square-meter small single room for this training camp.

In fact, the funds given by the Sports Bureau have always been very sufficient, and the CBA has always been very profitable, and they have given a lot of funds, they attach great importance to face, and the national team athletes cannot disgrace the country when they go out, otherwise their black yarn hats will be gone.

As the hottest sport in China, the men's basketball team has always been one of the best in all sports, but every time the men's basketball team goes out for training, they look poor and sour, two people live in a standard room together, and the 2012 London Olympics Kobe Bryant and his family live in the presidential suite, and our national team knows where the money goes.

After putting the things away, Liu Ren immediately came to the national team training site with Deputy Director Lin Zhengdong Lin, about the specific content of the training camp, Liu Ren has communicated with Yao Ming, first to meet with his teammates, and then his own individual training, mainly physical recovery and finding feelings, after all, he has not touched basketball for more than a month.

This year, Rio will start at the beginning of next month, and after half a month of intensive training, I will go to Rio to reverse jet lag and adapt to the environment.

And there is no way to train alone, the difference in strength is really too big, after Yao Ming discussed with the coaching staff, only those few people will train with Liu Ren.