Zhang Yu admits that he was touched by the words of Isiah Thomas, a former Hall of Famer who is also the team's general manager and coach, who personally persuaded him to join the team, and that he was satisfied with the courtesy and felt that he was respected enough.

Having said that, the Knicks even have the general manager and coach to be lobbyists in person, but Miami, Timberwolves, Seattle, and Bulls are not even visible, making him feel that these teams do not value him as much as the Knicks.

Although the Knicks' owner and manager are well-known in the NBA, this respect is enough for him to choose New York.

Gifts are still exchanged, and the other party has already given enough, and he also has to show something.

Zhang Yu also promised Isiah Thomas that he would go to New York for a tryout first, and as for whether to try out alone, he would have to think again. Because Fagan disapproves of him being too proactive, going to a few more teams for tryouts will make the Knicks value him more.

He thinks that Fagan's words make sense, and there is a saying in China that doesn't say that what you can't get is the best? It seems that this is what I said, in short, I can't make the Knicks feel that I am too proactive, and that will not be worth it......

In the blink of an eye, the time has come to May, the NBA regular season has all ended, the strong teams have entered the playoffs in the fierce battle, and the bad teams are about to usher in the moment of harvest.

The New York Knicks have only won one game in the last two months, and it can be said that they don't want to be a little bit of a champion sign, and they are all lost!

This approach of the Knicks was criticized by the media in the United States except New York!

However, the bonus is that they finally surpassed the Seattle SuperSonics to become the second-to-last depositors in the league, with a 19.19% chance of winning the top pick, and a 50% chance of top-three picks.

The Miami Heat is second only to the Knicks at the bottom at this time, and the Knicks are too late to be embarrassed, and the Heat has been rotten for a whole season, which makes the Knicks, who are in the back of the road, unable to catch up......

Although he did not win the first place, the New Yorkers have unprecedented confidence in their selection of Zhang Yu at the moment. Because everyone knows that if the Miamians draw the top pick, they will never pick a player who conflicts with Wade's position. So recently, rumors about Zhang Yu and the Knicks have been all over the newspapers and magazines in New York, and needless to say, these must have been instructed by the Knicks in private.

On May 10, when NBA Vice President Adam Shaw announced that the New York Knicks had won the No. 1 pick, the whole New York City fell into a frenzy!

A large number of Knicks fans took to the streets to celebrate the team's good luck, and celebrities in New York reposted the news on fcebooks and blogs, and some Knicks fans have even posted photos of Zhang Yu wearing Knicks jerseys in advance to the official forum.

Knicks fan, Spike Lee, lit his neighbor's car and later announced that it was to welcome Zhang Yu, who he couldn't wait to see in the Knicks' No. 14 jersey.

Everyone originally thought that this unsober guy was going to face prison now, but the strange thing is that his neighbor didn't care about it, not only did he not hold the Knicks number one fan responsible, but even took a selfie of the car wreckage and posted it to the Knicks' official forum to show off!

Isaiah Thomas finally let out a sigh of relief when she heard Vice President Adam Shaw pronounce the name of the Knicks.

This year, the team has set the worst record in history in order to obtain a high draft pick, and with his countless stupid trades over the years, if he can't bring Zhang Yu to the Knicks, he will have to resign next season.

Zhang Yu had already returned to China at this time, and in addition to signing several commercial contracts, he mainly came back to participate in the training camp of the Chinese team.

First of all, China Mobile, which has been picking on the door, bid an unprecedented endorsement fee of 10 million a year this time, and signed a five-year contract with Zhang Yu in one go. Zhou Jielun's previous endorsement fee was only one million in the first year, rose to three million in the second year, and only reached five million in the third year.

Mobile directly threw Zhang Yu out a high endorsement fee of 50 million yuan for five years this time, but he was actually scared by Nike's generosity! You must know that the huge endorsement fee of 110 million US dollars in seven years has caused quite a stir around the world!

Zhang Yu surpassed LeBron James in one fell swoop to become the rookie player with the highest endorsement fee, which is a very glorious thing for China, and basketball reporters now feel that their waists are stiffer when facing their American counterparts, so that more than a month has passed, and the domestic media is still reporting on it.

Lenovo also offered a $5 million a year endorsement fee to invite Zhang Yu, but he put it on hold for the time being. Listening to Fagan, his agent team is currently talking to Samsung about "endorsement", and the other party has bid $35 million for five years, but Fagan still refuses to agree, and is still asking for a sky-high price.

Zhang Yu weighed between the two and felt that in the case of the same, he still gave priority to domestic enterprises. So he directly offered Samsung a sky-high price of $45 million for five years, and for Lenovo in China, his asking price was $35 million, which is the same as Samsung's current bid.

In his mind, Lenovo is also one of the world's top 500 companies, if it is really much lower than Samsung, it is doubtful of his value and looks down on him for being worth so much money, so he can't be blamed for being unpatriotic.

Zhang Yu returned to China on April 25 and is participating in the first four-week training camp in May, and the second phase will wait for Yao Ming to return to China in mid-June, and then conduct a final run-in training.

Space Yi and Sun Dasheng participated in the first training camp with him, and one of the teams of the two did not enter the playoffs and went home to fish early. One has not officially entered the NBA, but I heard that Sun Dasheng has secretly hooked up with the Lakers, and he will enter the NBA like him after the Olympics. At that time, the Chinese in the NBA will reach an unprecedented four, and there are also four players in different positions, and domestic basketball fans are crazy when they think of this!

These two are still very polite to Zhang Yu, although Zhang Yu has not officially entered the NBA yet, but in fact, he is already the champion of the king, it is not an exaggeration to say that at this moment his fame is almost greater than the entire Chinese team except for Yao Ming.

Head coach Younas also attaches great importance to Zhang Yu, and uses him as an outside core in training.

Zhang Yu was originally worried that without Yao Ming, the old fritters of these national teams would give him a dismount or something, but it turned out that these old guys had a good attitude towards him, even some players in the same position did not show an untimely attitude.

It seems that fame really determines status, but he saw that although Sun Dasheng is already half a player of the Lakers, Liu Wei, the team's starting point guard, has a bad attitude towards him and is very excluded!

On the contrary, Li Nan, who is in the same position, can be said to take very good care of him, Wang Shipeng was not as friendly as Li Nan because the main position was taken away by Zhang Yu, but he didn't trouble him.

Zhang Yu and the team trained for two weeks, and found that the strongest in the team was not Space Yi, who had been training in the NBA for a year, but Wang Zhizhi, who was already young.

At the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, he was the first person in Chinese basketball, and his strength should not be underestimated. His inside footsteps are far stronger than Space Yi, and even if he has projection ability, Space Yi has no advantage. Maybe he is stronger than Wang Zhizhi, only the physical element zhì. But it's a pity that he obviously won't make full use of his strengths, and he was frequently beaten by Wang Zhizhi, who was already a floor streamer, in training matches!

During the two-week training camp, Zhang Yu's strength completely calmed down a group of old fritters of the national team who didn't know much about the NCAA, these old fritters thought at first that a college league was about the same level as the CBA, but in fact, the CBA was really much worse than the top 16 teams.

After Zhang Yu understood the strength of his teammates in the national team, he felt that if Stanford University added him, he might not be able to defeat the Chinese team without Yao Ming.

Due to the preparation for the Olympic Games, Zhang Yu has not poured out time to go to the Knicks for trial, the Knicks are very understanding, specially communicated with the Basketball Association, and sent an accompanying team of seven or eight people including trainers and masseurs to follow Zhang Yu throughout the training.

In terms of individual training events, Zhang Yu does not train with other teammates, but directly trains with the Knicks trainer alone.

Although it is not yet the time for the official draft in June, the Knicks have already regarded Zhang Yu as the core of the team with the top pick, and they have not even invited Rose, Beasley and others to come to the trial, so they will wait for the draft in June to take a formal charter to remove Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu also reciprocated the favor and announced that he would not accept trial invitations from other teams, which was tantamount to announcing that he would not marry the Knicks!

Zhang Yu was so unscrupulous in the training camp, but the Basketball Association agreed to this seemingly offensive request. Zhang Yu feels that this is because of his good relationship with the Basketball Association. Since Yao Ming signed a new contract a few years ago, he no longer gave the Basketball Association the original 40% share, and the Basketball Association had a lot of opinions about it in private, but he didn't dare to argue with Yao Ming, who was in full swing, so he could only endure it.

Due to his sudden rise, now as the unanimous successor of Yao Ming of the Basketball Association, he is very cooperative in terms of salary sharing, and secondly, he is strong and young...... The Basketball Association has now gradually tilted its resources to Zhang Yu, and China Mobile's endorsement is just the beginning, and our state-owned enterprises are very wealthy......

In June, Zhang Yu completed his first training camp with the national team and returned to the United States to participate in the Knicks.

It turned out that after Isaiah Thomas became the general manager of the New York Knicks, his personal image plummeted, and the Knicks were made miserable by him, with a super high salary but it was difficult to even enter the playoffs, so the Knicks did not renew his contract after the contract expired.

However, this year he brought Zhang Yu, who directly announced on his blog that he was impressed by the smiling assassin to choose the Knicks, which forced Dolan to give Thomas an extra two years of contract.

In fact, as the owner of the team, Dolan was attacked by fans more intensively than Isiah Thomas. Everyone knows that the reason why the Knicks have become a laughing stock in recent years is that there is such a boss who is rich and stupid is the culprit, and the Knicks are made like this, not just because of Thomas.

Zhang Yu is very good on the side of the Knicks, with a bare foot of 200cm, an arm span of 215cm, and a weight of 200 pounds. The vertical take-off height is 92cm, and the run-up take-off height is 98cm. The 3/4 half-time sprint was 3.18 seconds, and the baseline switchback ran 11.40 seconds. 84 kg bench press - 0, Zhang Yu is the same as last year's best rookie Durant, the weakness in strength is very obvious, but considering Zhang Yu's age, strength can be practiced sooner or later.

After the flank ended, Knicks owner James Dolan entertained Zhang Yu at his home.

Zhang Yu didn't know that the Knicks were so desperate to pursue him, not because Thomas took a fancy to him, but because their boss liked to watch Zhang Yu play.

His all-around offensive skills, picturesque jump shots, domineering iron elbows, one-hit black feet, crushing trash talk, handsome appearance, and a huge Chinese market behind him...... Dolan, the eccentric and bizarre boss in the NBA, has been in love with this little guy from China since the World Youth Championships, and had the idea of bringing Zhang Yu to "Madison Garden Plaza" at that time.

Zhang Yu later came to the United States to play in the NCAA, and the Knicks were also the first team to pay attention to him, which was also instructed by Dolan behind the scenes.

The Knicks were the team that Zhang Yu had the most contact with during his time in the NCAA, which is why Zhang Yu finally chose the Knicks.

With the boss in his hands, he is the boss of the team, and he can become a superstar like LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.

The meeting with Dolan that night made Zhang Yu realize the stupidest boss in the NBA for the first time. And Dolan did not disappoint Zhang Yu, and now that the draft has not started, he began to find a house for Zhang Yu in New York, and also let Zhang Yu see what it means to be wronged.

Dolan has a 170-square-meter luxury apartment on the Upper East Side in the best part of Manhattan, which normally sells for $3 million, but James Dolan minus $1 million and sells it to Zhang Yu for $2 million.

Zhang Yu sighed in his heart: "What a good boss! Why do they all call him brain-dead? ”