Chapter 161: The Players' Union
After the rematch, Jack hit one of two free throws after the opening game, and then Drod won a dunk after the Political Consultative Conference.
Narrowed the score to six points, but then immediately Jiang Yang assisted Ray Allen who hit a mid-range shot, and Tekruger caused a foul on Jr Giddens when he attacked, and he was not well defended by Jiang Yang today, but as long as he wanted to attack, Jiang Yang really couldn't stop him, of course, if Jiang Yang's physical fitness reached the S level, and the defense reached the limit of S-, hum...... You can't torture him! Turkoglu won't give Jiang Yang a chance now, and Jiang Yang didn't let him give him a chance, Ray Allen and Rasheed Wallace missed two consecutive successes, and the beneficiaries of these two times were Jiang Yang, the first ball Jiang Yang received Ray Allen's pass and hit a stop-and-go jump shot, and the second ball Jiang Yang received Wallace's pass and broke through to the layup directly.
Not only did he make a successful layup, but he also caused Banyani's foul, hit a free throw, and scored five points in a row!
Banjani on this side relied on his long range, and did not give the Celtics a good face, after scoring five points in a row, the two sides began to compete for defense, but it was the Celtics who eased up first, Jiang Yang, who had scored 15 points today, assisted Perkins again, the latter dunked successfully, and then Jiang Yang went off, Jiang Yang just got off the court, and Wallace blocked Bosh.
Glenn Davis also made consecutive kills inside, hitting all four free throws, and at the end of the third quarter, the Celtics still led by as many as 11 points at 78-67, and at the beginning of the final quarter, the Raptors began to attack under the leadership of Bosh.
With 5 minutes and 15 seconds left in the game, the score was 90-83 and seven points behind the Celtics!
And at this time, Jiang Yang also immediately came on the court, just on the court, Jiang Yang assisted Ray Allen on the outside to hit a three-point shot, although Belinelli also scored three points, but Jiang Yang immediately hit a three-pointer, and then began to press the game and time!
The Raptors scored a goal here, and Jiang Yang must return one! The fights are quite sharp, and they don't give the other party a chance at all.
With Ray Allen's attack in the final moments, the game was over with three minutes left.
In the end, the Celtics beat the Raptors 106-96 at home, with a 10-point advantage, and completed a two-game winning streak without Garnett, Rondo and Pierce! These two consecutive wins mean a lot! Seven players scored in double figures in this game, and Kyle's top scorer was Ray Allen, who scored a total of 23 points today and was the first firepower output point from the outside.
The second is Jiang Yang, who scored 18 points and added 10 assists, which was also his first double-double this season.
Perkins' 11 points and 10 rebounds were also conspicuous, Rashid Wallace 12 points, Tony Allen 10 points, Eddie House was also 10 points, big baby Glen Davis 12 points, and the performance was quite good, although the Raptors Bosh scored a game-high 25 points, but his teammates were too weak, the original champion, Banjani, seriously, he was not a parallel import.
Compared with Kwame Brown and Oden, Banjani is much better, but his offense is basically on the outside.
It's not iron-blooded at all, there is at least one player in a team who fights hard, but it seems that there is no one in the Raptors.
Jack had 14 points and 7 assists, and Turkoglu had 12 points, but he shot 12 and only hit 4, which was quite uncomfortable defended by Jiang Yang, he only hit two balls under Jiang Yang's defense, and spent the rest of the time throwing air balls.
Compared with the Celtics' bench trio scoring double-doubles, the Raptors' bench players are a little too ugly.
Three fives and one six, adding up to only 21 points from the bench, such a score...... Ay...... It's still playing the Celtics without Garnett, without Pierce, without Rondo.
If you wait until Garnett, Pierce and Rondo return, Jiang Yang and Rasheed Wallace are back on the bench.
At that time, it was estimated that the score was only ten points, at least on the books, Bosh was leaving, not vexatious!
After this game, Jiang Yang had a double-double, which was dazzling enough, so his hotness was still slowly rising.
Now many manufacturers are contacting Jiang Yang, and if they can't contact Jiang Yang, they will find Zhou Lu, anyway, they are digging holes, and they want Jiang Yang to wear their own sneakers or endorse their own products, a Yao name has made these guys make a lot of money, and Yi Di has also made a lot of money with the reputation of Green Arrow Company, and now Jiang Yang, the defender, has naturally attracted the attention of countless people.
Of course, big brands in the world, such as Nike, Adi, and Reebok, still don't look down on Jiang Yang!
The offer to Jiang Yang is similar to that of those rookies, they were all directly passed by Jiang Yang, and the domestic manufacturers can't give too much money, so Jiang Yang doesn't want to sign a contract for the time being, and now his most important problem is to join the players' union.
As mentioned earlier, after Jiang Yang came to the United States, he wanted to play in the Erie Seahawks, and the trials were passed, but he was rejected by the general manager of the Erie Seahawks because he was not a member of the players' union, in fact, it was not that they didn't want to sign, but they didn't dare to sign, if it wasn't for Jiang Yang to enter the NBA ball directly, there would not even be a non-NBA team in the United States willing to accept him!
So at first, Jiang Yang was not very satisfied with this players' union, but then slowly after he learned about this players' union, he found that this players' union may really be a good players' organization.
The players' union is not affiliated with any national or private organization, but is elected by all players in the NBA and even the United States to act as a bridge between players and teams.
Because I am afraid that there will always be some teams that will deceive the players, not give them enough benefits, not give them enough money, and then let them play and work hard, so the players' union stipulates that teams that are not professional NBA teams are not allowed to sign non-members of the players' union.
In the NBA, the main role of the players' union is to safeguard the interests of players, strive for the greatest rights and interests of players in the team, and work hard for players to have a good salary level and environment. At the same time, it maintains the communication and cooperation between players and owners, players and the league. It wasn't until he heard Garnett's explanation to Jiang Yang that Jiang Yang understood.
The president of the players' union, the vice president or something, are all elected by the players themselves, so there is almost no possibility of a secret surname, and the current president of the players' union is the Lakers' starting point guard, Lao Yu, Derrick Fisher.
The vice chairs are Durling, Morris Evans, Spurs' Roger Mason, Paul, Ratliff, Etan Thomas, and more.
It can be said that there are very few superstars who hold important responsibilities in the players' union, first, they feel that they don't have much time to take care of these things, and secondly, because they are a little too high-minded, such as Fisher, which is more than five million a year, and then earn this money, and Kobe is different, you let a person who earns 20 million a year, to care about the interests of a person who earns hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, it is almost impossible, he might as well train hundreds of shots by himself when he has that time.
Jiang Yang submitted an application to the players' union when he entered the Celtics, and it took more than a month to just walk down.
After beating the Raptors, the next day, Jiang Yang followed Zhou Lu and got into a car bound for New York.
Today, Jiang Yang and Zhou Lu went to the players' union to sign a contract, and used one percent of the team's salary each season for the operation of the players' union.
Early in the morning of July 3, after Jiang Yang and the others had breakfast, they drove to New York City with Zhou Lu.
"I didn't expect you to drive!" Looking at Zhou Lu sitting in the cab, Jiang Yang said with some surprise.
"The United States and China are the same left steering wheel, what will not be this!" Jiang Yang is somewhat famous now, so it's not good to take a bus, so before leaving, Jiang Yang borrowed a car from the team.
In the United States, cars are very cheap, and the driver's license test is basically a compulsory course for high school graduation.
So in the whole team, almost everyone has a car, even if it is a caddy, their salary can buy a car, and the car in the team, except for the bus, there is really no small car...... I heard Jiang Yang borrowing a car.
The person in charge of the team's logistics originally wanted to send a bus to Jiang Yang, but Jiang Yang considered that the bus would send two of him, which was really not good, so he refused and wanted a small car, and this time the logistics director of the Celtics was busy.
Finally found a Ford sedan in the team's warehouse, which looked like a Focus, but it was not clear what year it was produced, and the team originally wanted to send a driver, but after Zhou Lu said that she could drive, she drove directly.
But it will be opened, Zhou Lu does not have a driver's license in the United States, if he is arrested by the police, he will have the headlines tomorrow.
"It's snowing really hard outside!" Not long after the drive from Boston, it was snowing heavily.
After all, it is the northern side of the United States, and even if it is not as far as Harbin, this season is also the season of snow.
Looking at the goose feather snow outside, Zhou Lu complained a little, after all, on a snowy day, the car was even more difficult to drive than usual.
"I don't know when it's going to fall with such a big snow, snow is not the same as rain, and it won't rain when it rains, and if the snow is so heavy, it may have to go down one day!" At this time, Jiang Yang, who also saw the heavy snow outside, said helplessly, Harbin will snow heavily every year, this Jiang Yang has long been tired of seeing the taste, every time after the snow, the whole city is particularly buried.
So Jiang Yang doesn't like the rain very much, but Jiang Yang only has time today, if he doesn't finish things today, then Jiang Yang will have to wait until he comes back from his away trip, and then it will be half a month later.
"I hope there won't be a road closure with such a heavy snowfall, so let's come back!" Looking at the heavy snow, Zhou Lu hesitated, opened the accelerator wide, and rushed towards New York City.
After driving on the highway for about three hours, the two came from Boston to New York, and according to the head of the players' union, the two finally arrived at the office of the players' union in New York City.
Although their chairman is Fisher, running around in the sky, but their office location must always have a definite location, under the guidance of the staff, Jiang Yang and Zhou Lu took the elevator to the location of the players' union office.
The players' union rented a one-story office building in the heart of New York, and basically all the money the players paid was spent on the rent.
The rest of the money is basically used for the expenses of the staff, after all, they are not compulsory labor to work here.
"Hello, is there anything I can do to help you?" As soon as he walked to the door, the front desk at the door said to Jiang Yang with a smile.
"Oh, I'm Jiang Yang, I'm here to sign the contract!" Jiang Yang didn't say much, and directly explained his intention.
"Oh, Mr. Jiang Yang, hello, our business manager has been waiting for you for half a day!" Hearing Jiang Yang's words, the front desk was unexpectedly stunned for a moment, and then took Jiang Yang and Zhou Lu to an office in the office building with a smile on his face.
There was already a white man waiting for Jiang Yang and them here in the office, and as soon as Jiang Yang and Zhou Lu came in, the white man immediately stood up, and when he saw that the other party was a manager-level looking at him, he immediately took the initiative to come over to greet him, Jiang Yang still felt very good.
Later, he learned that there were no less than twenty such business managers in the entire players' union...... It is usually used to contact players, so the title of business manager is not an important title in the players' union.
"Hello, Mr. Jiang, my name is John Revere, you can call me John or Ray, I also know that you are very tired from Boston, let's just sign the contract straight to the point!" After saying this, the man named John took out two contracts from his drawer and handed them to Jiang Yang and Zhou Lu, Jiang Yang brought Zhou Lu here, it must not be said, this Zhou Lu is his agent, let the other party's agent read the contract, this is a very common thing, Jiang Yang and Zhou Lu both read the contract in front of them, but Jiang Yang looks at this thing is similar to reading a book from heaven, and Zhou Lu is more professional.
Before coming, Jiang Yang deliberately asked Garnett to borrow the contract and look at it, although Garnett said that all contracts are the same, but Jiang Yang was still a little uneasy in his heart, Garnett couldn't screw Jiang Yang, so he lent him it.
Then Jiang Yang showed it to Zhou Lu, Zhou Lu is worthy of being a professional, and he can almost remember it after watching it a few times.
Now she just took the contract in her memory and compared it with the contract in front of her, looked at the contract in front of her, Zhou Lu nodded lightly to Jiang Yang, Jiang Yang trusted Zhou Lu very much, and directly signed his name on the contract.
Watching Jiang Yang sign his name, the business manager named John was also relieved!
"Welcome to the Players' Union!" Looking at Jiang Yang in front of him, John stretched out his hand and shook Jiang Yang gently.
At this moment, Jiang Yang has officially joined the players' union and has become a member of the players' union.
"Now that we're done, let's take our leave!" Now that the matter of coming here is over, Jiang Yang and Zhou Lu are leaving, John also knows that it is snowing heavily, and Jiang Yang has to rush back, the Celtics are going to Miami to play away in the next few days, and they are not polite, and after sending Jiang Yang and them out of the building, they will go back.
However, it turns out that Jiang Yang is a bit of a back, when he used to be at home, he didn't come within half an hour of waiting for the bus.
Taking a taxi is at least half an hour, so unless someone is driving, no one will take the bus with Jiang Yang.
After coming to the United States, although Jiang Yang's bad luck was not brought to the court, it was still very accurate off the court!
"Tutu Tu Tu ...... "Inserted the key into the keyhole and twisted for a long time, this old Ford still only found the sound ......of the sudden burst, and the fire was not lit at all!" At this time, Zhou Lu and Jiang Yang's faces became ugly...... "Go down and push the cart!" Zhou Lu nodded with her small chin, and said to Jiang Yang from behind the car.
"Why am I pushing ......" Jiang Yang looked at Zhou Lu, although he knew that he was a man and had to push, but he was always uncomfortable when he was ordered by others, and now it was snowing heavily, and the ice on the road was slush, how dirty!
"Do you know how to drive?" In a word, Jiang Yang got out of the car in a gloomy manner...... Start cart ...... With his hands on top of the old Ford, Jiang Yang just exerted his strength! I only heard a click...... The back cover of the car was flattened by Jiang Yang...... "Oh my God, it won't be so unlucky!" "Looking at this old Ford, if nothing else, it shouldn't be able to drive away today.
If you can't push it away, then there is only one possibility, this grandson's tires are frozen~ Think about how you went upstairs with Zhou Lu for about an hour, and when you come down, the tires are frozen, which shows that the lethality of this car is really huge!
"Forget it, let's go take the bus!" Zhou Lu got out of the car, picked up his small bag, and followed Jiang Yang to the bus stop next to him, where there happened to be a long-distance bus to Boston, and Jiang Yang and they queued for ten minutes!
Finally arrived at them, just wanted to buy a ticket, the ticket window in front of them suddenly closed...... "New York to Boston snowing, there was a car accident just now, the police have closed the road, I want to take the train from New York to Boston today!" Seeing Jiang Yang standing there with a surprised expression, the black and fat female conductor said lightly.
"Won't you...... So miserable! After listening to the words of the female conductor, Jiang Yang could only cover his head helplessly now.
"On this day, it is estimated that trains and planes will not be able to go, forget it, stay here for a day!" Zhou Lu looked at the heavy snow outside, and estimated that this heavy snow would not stop until night, and now the only thing Jiang Yang and Zhou Lu needed to do was to find a place to live!
(To be continued)