In the Lakers draft office, everyone is sluggish.

Forget that there is a small broken ship next door!

They remember that there was a Jew in Houston and forgot that there was a Jew next door!

Looking at the two people on the stage on TV, one smiled like a chrysanthemum, the other had only handsome on his face, and no one spoke in the Lakers draft office.

Slowly, everyone looked at Little Bus.

No one expected that the wise advice of their small boss was the only solution to their draft.

If they want to draft Li Ao, they have to accept the stud when they receive a call from the Grizzlies......

Suddenly, the logo man thought of something, picked up his mobile phone and dialed an old friend's number.

After a while, the other side was connected, and he just said "I didn't choose it" and hung up in a hurry.

The logo man, who was still holding a glimmer of hope, confirmed that this draft was completely cold.

At the draft scene, after shaking hands with Stern and taking a photo, Li Ao came to the deputy stage for an interview.

"You were drafted with the 3rd pick, how are you feeling right now?"

"I'm glad I can continue my studies in Los Angeles."

"What else?"

"What else?"

"Like joining the Clippers, you have the confidence to be as ...... as you would with the Trojans"

"There's not much more to say."

“……”

After the interview, Li Ao returned to the chair and sat down, completely ignoring his image, leaning on the back of the chair casually, with a loveless face.

Mike Miller comforted: "Leo, don't be so frustrated, it's good that you're in Los Angeles, not Vancouver, and you've achieved half of your goal." ”

Liam echoed: "Yes, the general manager is a Lakers celebrity......"

Vivien also comforted: "At least the third pick has a higher salary." ”

"Los Angeles team + Lakers general manager, rounding up is equivalent to being selected by the ideal team, right...... Ignore me and let me die for a while. ”

The three of them saw Li Ao close his eyes, and they didn't know what to say.

The Clippers are a team that basically has no advantages to speak of, except for the benefit of being in Los Angeles.

No, even in Los Angeles, it has become a negative score, sharing a stadium with the Lakers, which is miserable to think about.

They couldn't even find any other words of comfort.

The same goes for Dean Teng and Henry Bibby, who, in their opinion, have a hellish start to the career of Li Ao, who was drafted by the Clippers.

Not to mention the old man, although his family has some shares in the Clippers, the last thing he wants Li Ao to go to is the Clippers.

…

After the draft, Li Ao, who has always been in the limelight, did not go to the group interview on the grounds of physical discomfort, and the Clippers wanted to meet immediately, but he also refused and went directly to the hotel.

I was not in the mood at all, he didn't even watch the draft after him, and closed his eyes the whole time.

What's interesting is that the live broadcast camera is given to Li Ao, who has been closing his eyes from time to time, which makes the fans in front of the TV happy.

Especially Indiana fans, not to mention how happy they are to see Li Ao drafted by the Clippers.

If they have the opportunity, they all want to congratulate Li Ao in person on being selected in the third pick, and they are very sincere congratulations.

Li Ao went back to the room and took a shower to calm down, he turned on the system screen, and felt that it was a miserable one.

The team interface has been refreshed.

It became the 'Los Angeles Clippers' and was to be signed.

It's not that he has to say that the Lakers have to be, the Bulls and Hawks are also very good.

Even if you find a commissary, you have to drive for half an hour to find Vancouver, and you can have a snowball fight.

What he thought at the beginning was that being selected by a team in the lottery area, as long as it wasn't the Rockets, Cavaliers, Mavericks, Celtics, any other team could be.

But the little broken ship was ignored.

What now?

He couldn't continue to play in the NCAA, and since he signed up for the NBA draft, he lost his qualification to participate in the NCAA competition.

He has already won the championship in college, and after making up his mind to leave, he does not have much nostalgia for college competitions except for the teamwork with his former teammates.

He thought of something, took out the laptop he borrowed from the aunt to play games, and checked it on the official website of the NBA.

Pregnant!

It really doesn't work, just refuse to sign with the Clippers.

Just now he remembered a clause and looked it up, which was similar to what he remembered.

This clause was a new addition to the '98 collective bargaining agreement, when a favourable clause of 'parent club right of first refusal' was adopted, balanced by two clauses favourable to the players.

Players who are drafted in the first round and do not want to go to that team can submit a formal application to the NBA and forfeit the results of the draft.

Although you can't play in the NBA in any way the following season after giving up, you can join any team as a free agent the following season.

The exception is that if the selected player is unable to join immediately due to the fact that he still has a contract, the team that selected him can apply to New York to retain the right to sign for a long time.

Players selected in the second round do not have this right and will have the right to sign for a long time unless the team gives up.

However, there is also a compensation clause in the second round - there is no salary limit, and if the team has salary space, it can theoretically get a rookie contract with a maximum salary of 25% of the salary cap, but no one has ever gotten it.

The clause in the first round, no one has used it until now, in 98, the NBA has experienced two salary surges, and the rookies in the first round can get 3 million US dollars in the worst 4 years, most of the NBA players are from the slums, and being selected is equivalent to becoming a rich man, and he has changed his life against the sky.

Li Ao decided, if he really can't do it, he will go back to college for a year, work hard, strive to get enough credits in his junior year, graduate early, and then go wherever he wants.

Plan to pass!

He felt that the advantage was still mine!

…

Li Ao turned on the system again, looked at the prompt after being selected again, and his mood was instantly different.

I didn't bother to look at the rewards before I saw it, and my eyes lit up!

"Congratulations to the host for being selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the 3rd pick in the first round of the NBA Draft, reward: 10,000 achievement points, I'm going longer (growth card), and 5 base attribute points."

The idea was clear, and his mind was lively, he asked a question in his heart, and the system answered.

This reward is a generic reward for the host to be selected in the first round of the NBA Draft, regardless of the pick.

If the host is selected in the second round, the reward is: 5000 achievement points, 1 random skill, and 1 random equipment. ”

The difference between the rewards of the first round and the second round doesn't seem to be much!

5 attribute points, and one each of skills + equipment, who is better, it's really hard to say.

The difference is probably the growth card, he issued a command, and the growth card description popped up.

"I want to be longer (growth card): one of the heights or arm spans, randomly increased by 10 centimeters, will grow in a natural way over a period of several months, and will not affect the aesthetics of the host's body shape to the greatest extent."

"I'm !!!"

Σ┗(＠ロ＠; )┛

乂 (д three Д) 乂

ヽ(≧≦)

God's Props!

Li Ao said that he was wrong, what is the difference between the first round and the second round.

The difference is very different!

He couldn't wait to use the card.

Ask him which place he wants to grow the most...... Of course, the leg length is 10 centimeters!

Who doesn't want to be a handsome guy with long legs!

The height is good now, don't grow taller......

"The host uses a growth card: I'm going to have it longer, random value...... 8. Random growth direction...... Arm span, congratulations to the host arm span will increase by 8 cm over the next few months. Note: This growth card does not affect the host's natural developmental potential. ”

ヾ(^^)

Li Ao raised his arms and cheered, and sang: "Safen Sweet Station, just faint and make a big bi, ah than a cha will......"

He was still a little worried when he used it, and if he grew a lot taller, it would have a great impact on his playing style, especially on shooting.

He has experienced this, when he was 17 years old, he grew 20 centimeters a year, and he directly changed the dunk when he played the dam ball.

However, when he was able to dunk rampant in the Computer Science College, he didn't have the idea of practicing shooting.

Arm span, he remembers that he now has an arm span of 217 cm and a length of 8 cm...... Dit! The hand is spread out and is about the same length as the little giant!

No, the little giant's arm span seems to be shorter than his height.

Li Ao is looking forward to the happiness of his arm span with the future champion.

After calming down and looking at the more than 90,000 achievement points, he felt that he had to continue to maintain the intensity of shooting training this summer, and improve his shooting ability while naturally increasing his arm span.

Arm span growth will also affect shooting.

But it's much better than an increase in height of 8 centimeters, the height has grown to 209 centimeters, and the impact on shooting is secondary, and the defensive end is completely finished, and basically has to be re-trained.

He switched to the main interface of the system and looked at another system prompt.

"The host has joined the NBA and the system evaluation report has been updated.

The host's personal evaluation report will evaluate the strength of all NBA players, and the comprehensive evaluation is based on the host's physical fitness, basic skills, and skills.

Other player evaluation reports, based on recent on-pitch performances, injuries, team factors, team-mate factors, etc.

NBA players are significantly ahead of NCAA players in terms of physical fitness, basic skills, and basic skills.

NBA games are very different from NCAA games, and there are certain differences in player ability determination. ”

This Li Ao has already thought of it.

Collegiate physical fitness player, Kenyon Martin, takes 20+10 like drinking water, averaging 3+ blocks per game.

But in the NBA, there is no ability to average two doubles per game, in most years it is the level of excellent starters, and at the peak of the all-star edge level, these two stages have to be foiled by Kidd, leaving Kidd, and immediately becoming an ordinary starter with an average of 12+6 per game.

And Eddie House, a player who scored 20 points in college and was considered a poor performer, is difficult to score 10 points in the NBA.

The most marginalized players in the NBA may have been the best college basketball players in a college, a city, or even a state.

It's understandable that he assesses differently than his opponents.

For example, a player who doesn't want to stay in the team and plays blindly is worse than the substitute, at this time, even if he has good physical fitness, basic skills, and skills, and has rich game experience, but when he plays, he is not as good as the substitute.

And a player who specializes in one aspect and is not strong in other abilities, but in a team that suits him, he can bring out his strengths, he performs very well on the pitch, and when he plays, he is a great player.

When he feels the strength of his teammates and opponents, what he actually feels is also the ability that the opponent has shown.

And his own evaluation report needs to show his true level in each aspect more intuitively, so that he can better understand what to improve.

Turning off the prompt, he looked at his two personal assessment reports.

University:

"Name: Li Ao, English name: Leo.

Age: 18 years old (August 1, 1981).

Height: 201 cm, Reach: 217 cm.

Weight: 94 kg.

Overall rating: 83.

Physical fitness: speed 89 (burst acceleration 86), strength 90 (explosive power 88), bounce 83 (speed 87), flexibility 92, physical strength 92......

Basic skills: 3-point 63 (NBA), 87 mid-range shots, 90 layups, 71 ......hook hands, 69 ball control, 83 passes, 87 step back, 88 lateral moves, 88 forward rounds, 73 step-overs, 75 turns, 75 stops......

Technique: 74 hook hands, 74 catch-and-turn shots, 71 stop-and-catch jumpers ......"

He is at the limit of the subject, relying on defense, mid-range shooting, scoring under the basket, and physical fitness, he has a comprehensive strength close to the NCAA first-class, and if he continues to play in college, with the right teammates and playing style, he will not play worse than those top players.

But the college competition is a thing of the past, and he looks to the new personal assessment report to the right.

"Name: Li Ao, English name: Leo.

Team: Los Angeles Clippers (to be signed).

Age: 18 years old (August 1, 1981).

Height: 201 cm, Reach: 217 cm.

Weight: 94 kg.

Overall rating: 74.

Physical fitness: speed 90 (burst acceleration 88), strength 83 (explosive power 79), bounce 84 (speed 88), flexibility 94, physical strength 88......

Basic skills: 63 three-pointers, 83 mid-range shots, 86 layups, 63 hooks, 61 ball control, 80 passes, 84 step backs, 84 lateral moves, 87 forward rounds, 68 strides, 69 turns, 68 emergency stops......

Technique: 65 hook hands, 69 catch-and-turn shots, 68 stop-and-go jumpers ......"

"Dick! Dream back to half a year ago! ”

Li Ao was a little sore, and he returned to the strength of the lower half of the good level.

However, it was actually better than he expected!

Speed, bounce, flexibility, actually go up instead of falling!

But the strength and physical strength have declined significantly, and there are only excellent and first-class levels, after all, all opponents are adults, and most of them are at the peak of their physical conditions at the age of twenty-five or sixteen.

Fortunately, I didn't use 3 basic attribute points to increase my strength from 89 to 90 at the beginning, otherwise I would have lost blood now.

Basic skills and technology, unsurprisingly all-round decline.

The least slipped was the defensive fundamentals.

But it's not so much a dip as a stronger opponent.

There are also factors such as game rules and changes in the specifications of the court.

Like the mid-range shot, although he has deliberately practiced in the past two months, a large area of the high post area has been added, which is farther than the previous NCAA three-point shooting.

How accurate he was before and how accurate he is now, how fast he ran before, how high he jumped, how strong he was, and the same is true now.

"It's okay, 6789, there are still four months to go, I just got 10,000 achievement points, and there are more than 90,000, practice hard in the summer!"

Li Ao turned off the system and prepared to take a shower and sleep.

I don't plan to use the 5 basic attribute points for the time being, and I'm not in a hurry to play the game.

In the past 10 months, he has trained and his physical fitness has grown naturally, just like in the past two months, according to the NCAA evaluation report, his strength has increased from 89 to 90, his explosive power has increased from 87 to 88, his explosive acceleration has increased from 85 to 86, and his bounce and speed have increased by 1 point.

Attribute points, if there is a condition to use it later, it is better to use it later.

…

The next day, in the morning, Li Ao participated in several NBA classes with other lottery players, and other inconsequential ones were finished in about ten minutes.

The tax section was talked about for two hours.

In order to show how strong the firepower of the enforcement officers of the Eagle Sauce Tax Bureau is, I watched the video of the enforcement for half an hour.

The tax rate varies from state to state, but the federal tax of more than 30% is the same.

Most states add up to 40%-45% tax rates that include some insurance stuff, and on top of that, 10% of the paycheck is held in escrow to a third party.

This is a new rule after the collective bargaining agreement of '98 set out the ratio of income between labor and management, if the final total annual salary of a player exceeds 55% of the NBA's annual gross income, the excess part will be deducted from the 10% salary of all players, and the rest will be returned to the player at the end of the season.

This Li Ao had already understood when he signed Schwartz before.

When he saw that state taxes accounted for less than a tenth of the taxes to be paid, he knew why Texas, even if free from state taxes, was not attractive to athletes.

At noon, Li Ao invited Aunt Assistant, Liam, Dean Teng, Henry Bibby, Schwartz, and the old man to have lunch together.

It can be regarded as a celebration of being elected to the Flower Show.

Schwartz mentioned that the Clippers wanted to meet in the afternoon, but Li Ao refused, and asked Schwartz to talk to the Clippers first, and he was going to go back to Los Angeles first.

Seeing that Li Ao's mood seemed to have recovered, Vivian asked, "Leo, why did you refuse to meet with them?" Even if you don't want to go to the Clippers, you can talk about trades, maybe they picked you to be a chip trade, or maybe they really like you. ”

Li Ao responded: "Let me rest for two days first, and now when I see them, I can't help but curse." ”

Vivien smiled and said, "You are such a gentle person, always thinking about others. ”

Liam, Dean Teng, Henry Bibby, Schwartz, Old Man: (O_o) ?????

Li Ao pursed his lips and responded: "In the end, they are just exercising their rights in the draft, just like Aunt Vivian, you said, they may really be optimistic about me and think that I am talented, theoretically this is a happy thing, of course, only theoretically." ”

Referring to the rights he should have, Li Ao turned his head to the agent and said, "Jeff! ”

"What's wrong?"

"The Clippers asked us to negotiate a contract, right?"

"That's right, if you don't want to go to this matter, you don't have to go, after you negotiate it, you think it's okay, just sign it."

"Can I make a contract condition?"

"It's okay to meet the conditions stipulated by the NBA, you talk about it first, I don't think it's compliant."

"The first one, I'm going to 1234567...... I need 7 season tickets for sideline seats. ”

"Ahem, ahem...... Watt? ”

(End of chapter)