"It's amazing that Vivek Ranadave would allow his daughter to mess around with the management of the team, and we should probably be thankful that this is a three-year, $25 million contract, not a one-year $25 million contract."

"Fake, how can I fall in love with a Chinese man, my bed kung fu is a hundred times better than his, and I only need 10,000 US dollars."

"What a smart guy (angry expression) to start dating the new boss's daughter so early."

Isaiah Thomas, who was sitting in front of the screen, laughed happily as she watched the shouting and scolding in the news comment section.

"Hmph, damn Chinese boy, I don't believe that the team will give you a big contract that has nothing to do with that woman, even if you enter the starting lineup temporarily, as long as you can make the coach feel uncomfortable, plus you can't get the support of the fans. I'm going to get the starters back. ”

Li Tian's "soft rice incident" continued to ferment, which made Isaiah Thomas, who single-handedly planned, extremely happy.

Originally, after Li Tian signed the contract, many expert reporters said that Li Tian's contract renewal was too big, which would take up too much salary space for the team in the third year, which may affect the team's recruitment and may make the team pay luxury tax. Now, the news that Li Tian got a big contract because of his close relationship with Ajiali naturally made many fans believe it.

Although some fans admired Li Tian's performance last season, there were also many Kings fans who expressed their disgust with Li Tian because of this incident.

After the news was reported, Li Tian and the king both explained, which once made some fans wonder if someone was nauseous and slanderous, but at this time, a reporter investigated and found that Li Tian's agent Pete Smith was buying a property for Li Tian, and the location of the property was very close to the location where Ajiali now lives, so things continued to ferment.

Now, it's not just Kings fans who pay attention to this news, after other media websites follow up on the report, many fans of other teams know that the Kings have a player who "eats soft rice".

"Lee, actually, it's probably not exactly bad news right now, as a star you need attention, and obviously, now you're in possession, even though it's negative."

Li Tian listened carefully to Pete Smith's words, and then Pete Smith continued: "However, if you can perform well on the court, all these negative, questioning opinions will disappear, and your attention will be retained. In the NBA, there are a lot of stars with more negative press than you, and there are superstars among them. But who cares about the negative press off the field when a player is doing well? What the fans want to see is a great performance from the players on the pitch, it's as simple as that. ”

"If you can do well on the pitch and you can fight back against those doubts, you know what I mean?"

"Of course!" Li Tian nodded, of course he understood, didn't the outside world question that he was not strong enough to get a big contract and couldn't start? Once you have a good performance on the field, it is a complete slap in the face, and these views are self-defeating.

As for Pete Smith's previous words, Li Tian also heard what the other party meant, Pete Smith hoped that he would stop paying attention to those outside voices, and if things fermented, they would continue to ferment, and all he had to do was to focus on the training in the training camp.

Li Tian listened to it and did the same, in addition to making a phone call with Annette to explain what happened, Li Tian threw himself into the training camp.

In fact, Li Tian didn't explain to Annette at first, and he didn't realize it, and when he found out that Annette hadn't contacted him for a few days, he took the initiative to call Annette.

Annette, who was still giving birth to Li Tian, was angry when she heard that Li Tian had been slandered, and she stood beside Li Tian and began to count down those media reporters.

After explaining to Annette, Li Tian was no longer bothered by those gossips, he knew that what was going on the basketball court was still based on the performance in the game.

Preseason is part of training camp, and for the Kings, it's a great opportunity to familiarize themselves with their new tactics. So in the preseason, Adelman didn't care too much about winning or losing the game, but kept practicing various tactics.

In such a situation, the playing time of each king was extremely inconsistent, and sometimes the players only played one or two rounds on the court, and Adelman replaced the players in order to practice another tactic.

Therefore, in the preseason, neither Cousins, Evans, nor Iguodala, who were the absolute main players of the team last season, played too good statistics, and Li Tian did the same.

In a couple of preseason games, Li Tian didn't start every time, Adelman also tried to put Thorton or Thomas in the starting lineup, and Hayes and Robinson on the inside also tried to enter the starting lineup.

In the preseason, Li Tian didn't play too hard, he was seriously studying and practicing the team's tactics, so that he could better integrate into the team's tactical system, and he was also waiting and accumulating energy, waiting for the regular season to start responding to all the doubts.

The numbers are not impressive, and the performance doesn't seem to be too good, which naturally can't make the outside world skepticism disappear.

When ESPN took stock of the team's operations this summer, the Kings were given an A, and then wrote this paragraph on the evaluation.

If Li Tian had not been given a three-year, 25 million contract for the sophomore, the Kings would have been rated A+ this summer, and hiring back Rick Aardman was the first step, and in terms of players, they retained Terrick Evans, traded Andre Iguodala, who was excellent on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends and could help the team solve the problem of organizing offense, and after the start of the preseason, the Kings renewed DeMarcus Cousins for 4 years and 62 million.

However, it is still the same issue that many people have talked about, a three-year, $25 million contract is a huge risk for a sophomore player who has only played half a season, and a large salary in the final year will squeeze out the team's salary space. It was previously reported that the daughter of the king's new boss was behind this contract, and if that was the case, it would not be a surprise.

Of course, even so, the Kings were able to achieve an A in my rating, and the rest of their operations were fantastic! ”

Coincidentally, when another media took stock of the season's garbage contract, Li Tian was impressively listed.

"If it's just $5 million, the last year's draft pick probably wouldn't need to be on this list, but given the $25.36 million he needs to take away from the Kings over the next three years, we have to count him. Looking at the performance of another yellow-skinned player, Jamie Lin, with the Rockets, the Kings' management may be more aware of their mistakes, and like Jamie Lin, Li Tian only played less than 40 games last season, and it is difficult to hope that he can grow into a top-paid player in the next three years. ”

The undisguised disparagement of these media has made many Kings fans worried, and no one wants their team to have a garbage contract. Especially after the change of owners, management, coaching staff, coupled with the addition of reinforcements this season, Kings fans are full of anticipation for the future of the team.

And this kind of depreciation also annoyed the fans who support Li Tian, who averaged nearly 15 points per game, Li Tian only received 5 million US dollars this season, but was rated as a garbage contract by those media reporters, two years later? Two years later, who can say that Li Tian will not perform better?

"This group of guys will only talk about the lack of play last season, Li Tian come on, perform well, and slap them in the face!"

"What kind of bullshit expert, Li Tian was eaten by them as shit when he scored so many points last season?"

"Look at the depreciation, look at the depreciation, I'll sit and wait for Li Tian to slap his face!"

Training! Training! Li Tian also read these demeaning reports word for word, which made his heart hold back the fire, and he also turned all this anger into motivation, he was constantly making himself better, just waiting for the outbreak after the season arrived!

In Li Tianfa's ruthless training, time passed little by little, and the regular season finally arrived!