Volume 1: A rookie who breaks into the basketball world Chapter 28 This is called professionalism
"Bill, don't sign it yet. The endorsement fee has doubled but it's not that high. You still want to sign a long-term contract... I'm not in a hurry to sign a sneaker endorsement for now."
"Jace, you play for the Trail Blazers, and your commercial value in the U.S. market has been greatly affected. The current offer is too low. If you only sign for one year, we can accept it. We don't need to consider a long-term contract. And now your commercial value has begun to increase. I think we can be patient... our handsome guy."
Liu Xiu was a little surprised that this serious old man could actually joke.
Public opinion changes so quickly that Liu Xiu feels like we are in the Internet age.
He didn't want to become famous just because of his face, but his commercial value has increased... ah... it smells so good...
But I still have to remind him: "Bill, please pay more attention to the endorsement contract. Don't forget to check your email. It would be bad if you missed the offer negotiation."
"Haha, I won't forget it again... Thank you so much, I almost missed the time to notify the Heat to exercise Carter's player option..."
Bill Duffy on the other end of the phone laughed, but he was extremely scared in his heart.
Earlier, after the draft ended and Liu Xiu signed a 4-year contract with the Trail Blazers, he asked, "Bill, the contract option expires today, right?"
Hearing this, he suddenly remembered that Anthony Carter's player option for the last year of his contract with the Heat had not been exercised!
Anthony Carter's final year contract salary is $4 million. He definitely shouldn't have gotten that kind of salary based on his average of 4 points and 4 assists per game last season. If he really forgets to notify the Heat in writing or by email to execute the contract, then Bill Duffy will face two choices.
One is to lose money, $4 million. Even for a top agent like him, $4 million is like cutting his flesh.
If you don't pay compensation, you may have to face a lawsuit. This is 4 million US dollars.
He quickly submitted the option to exercise the contract to the Heat before June 30 , avoiding losses and potential troubles.
At the end of , Bill Duffy asked, "By the way, Jess, those media are deliberately misleading public opinion. Don't we really need to clarify it?"
A lazy question came from the other end of the phone: "Will clarification be useful?"
"Uh..." Bill Duffy replied painfully, "I guess it's useless. You're a Trail Blazers player."
"Yes, so don't worry about it. It's actually quite good this way. Reporters are all discussing things off the court. No one is paying attention to how I play. And it just so happens that I'm not that good at playing. The pressure on me on the court will be much less, and I can slowly grow and improve..."
"You won't make any progress if you train more... Hey hey hey hey... This kid hangs up on me every time he mentions this!"
Bill Duffy was about to grumble a little when he heard a beep on the other end of the phone and had to give up.
After hanging up the phone, Bill Duffy thought about it and called his secretary in.
"Tom, please help me hire a secretary. The weekly salary is 700. She doesn't need too many abilities. She just needs to be careful, punctual, and able to remember things."
When Secretary Tom heard that they were going to recruit a secretary, his heart skipped a beat. Something bad was going to happen!
But when he heard about the salary and job requirements, Tom showed an expression that every man would understand: it felt like this was really rare!
Tom immediately agreed and went to work.
It is not easy to hire a full-time secretary at a weekly salary of $700. However, it is very easy to hire a beautiful secretary who is careful, punctual, and able to remember things...it is not like they can only earn a basic salary.
Two or three hours later, Tom brought back a hot, sexy white female secretary in her 20s. After completing the entry procedures, he took her to the office of his boss, Bill Duffy.
Whether you can get the job depends on whether your boss is satisfied.
Bill Duffy looked at the skirt that was split to the hips and was a little confused - "Do all female secretaries dress like this now? Oh, yes, Alexander's secretary also dresses like this."
It's normal for Bill Duffy to feel out of date in terms of dressing and fashion aesthetics when he's in his 40s.
Bill Duffy took a look at the entry form, 26 years old, high school dropout... He nodded with satisfaction. For these jobs, a junior high school or high school education is enough, and the ability to read is enough. He signed and stamped, completing the entry procedures.
Tom took the completed entry form, winked at his boss, left the office and went to the human resources department.
Bill Duffy was confused by this look. At this time, the female secretary walked around the inside of the desk and said in a gentle tone: "Boss, what should we do now?"
Young people who love to work, Bill Duffy likes it!
Even though I didn’t even graduate from high school, it doesn’t matter. Working hard and being an honest person are what’s most important.
Bill Duffy took out the information he had sorted out an hour ago. "This is my scheduled itinerary. Please remind me before each trip. I will ask you when I need to confirm whether I have working time. Please go to Tom as soon as possible to learn about our company's business, the signing date, negotiation date, contract execution date of our athletes, etc. You need to remember them. These are the job contents. It shouldn't be difficult, right?"
The female secretary thought about the job content and nodded, it was indeed simple.
"Come on, work hard."
Bill Duffy stood up, patted the new secretary on the shoulder, picked up the packed folder, and left the office.
Tom was waiting outside the office. He knew that there would be contract negotiations for their undrafted players in the evening. The Nets only wanted to give them non-guaranteed contracts, and their goal was to convert the non-guaranteed contracts into partially guaranteed contracts.
Tom was teasing an intern who had just graduated from college when he suddenly saw Bill Duffy coming out of the office. He asked in surprise, "Boss, so soon?"
Bill Duffy felt something was wrong, but he didn't know what it was, so he could only respond, "I'm always quick on this kind of thing, efficiency is the most important thing, let's go ."
"Efficiency is the most important thing... The happiest time is only a few seconds, so we only need those few seconds?"
Tom was stunned for a moment, then quickly ran back to his office, packed his things, and followed his boss out to work.
On the other side, the female secretary looked at the schedule that needed to be sorted out, thought about the work content, and the boss patting her on the shoulder like an elder to encourage her... "I... accidentally started working with my legs closed?"
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Liu Xiu didn't know that his agent had accomplished an achievement of persuading someone to become a good person... At around 4 p.m., he came to the training ground of the Pepsi Center in Salt Lake City and began warm-up training under the camera lenses carried by the trainers.
It wasn't the first time the trainers had seen this, but they continued to talk about it. Before the other players arrived, all the trainers surrounded Liu Xiu who was warming up.
"Jace's warm-up is so professional. I can't even design a warm-up training plan specifically for him."
"That's right. Jace has a good memory, too. He warms up very well, from joints to muscles... and controls the range of motion very well, avoiding unnecessary physical exertion."
"Yeah, Jace's warm-up is really amazing. The purpose of warm-up is to activate the body and avoid injuries. He almost achieved the ultimate... But I went to Syracuse University and communicated with their trainers. They are not so good. I wanted to learn from them..."
"I heard that Jace made his own adjustments based on the warm-up plan from the Syracuse University trainer. I talked to him in Orlando and wanted him to help others make training plans, but he wouldn't..."
"It's not that he doesn't know how to do it. Maybe he just understands his body better and is more willing to think about ways to warm up better and reduce the risk of injury... With his lazy personality, he must think that getting injured is a very troublesome thing."
A group of trainers were chattering around Liu Xiu, and when they talked about this, everyone couldn't help laughing.
The trainers like Liu Xiu very much. Liu Xiu doesn't do much about training and can afford to take jokes. Moreover, if Liu Xiu doesn't need training, then it's fine. As long as he trains, as long as he knows how to do it, he will be very professional.
Just like the current warm-up training, you can film it and study it as a teaching template.
Actually... Liu Xiu just followed the warm-up training given by the system and did the movements and exerted strength...
Now, while he is warming up, there is a small three-dimensional image in front of his eyes that only he can see. The warm-up movements he is doing are the same ones just done by this small three-dimensional image, and there is also a completion prompt.
He has done this many times, and basically every warm-up movement has a completion rate of over 90%, from the standard degree of movement to the comprehensive completion of force.
Therefore, it gives trainers a sense of déjà vu of a "teaching template".
Not only did the trainers admire Liu Xiu's warm-up training when they saw it, but the coaches also admired it when they came to the training ground... and they were also annoyed.
Liu Xiu's training completion rate and movement standards are very high, which means that the training efficiency will not be low.
But this guy is just too lazy!
Liu Xiu has many minor flaws, but in the eyes of others on the team, he has more advantages.
Otherwise, the coaching staff of Syracuse University and the Trail Blazers would not pay more and more attention to him.
Compared to Liu Xiu's advantages, being talkative, worthy of a beating, and lazy... are just minor flaws... Laziness may be a more serious problem, but even though he is so lazy he is still making progress, what can you do?
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At 6:20 in the evening, the two teams, the Trail Blazers and the Lakers, had already entered the Pepsi Center in Salt Lake City, a medium-sized indoor basketball arena with more than 5,000 seats.
On the Trail Blazers bench, Kevin Pritchard was making final arrangements before the game.
Liu Xiu listened to the tactical arrangement. It was very simple and could be described in one sentence - all the college students would play around the three rookies.
When training this style of play these two days, Liu Xiu, Travis Outlaw and Matt Carroll were very surprised at first.
They truly understood why the Rocky Mountain Summer League is known as the "best league for rookies to level up."
There's nothing interesting about tactics. The coaching staff is emphasizing them to the college students to prevent them from having nothing to do and looking for things to do.
However, such problems may occur in other teams, but within the Trail Blazers... no matter what the college students think, no matter how much they want to resist, as long as they see Liu Xiu's face with a gentle expression and a hint of smile, they will lose the courage to resist.
The scene of Liu Xiu knocking down Ivan Dixon without even taking a breath is still vivid in my mind...
Liu Xiu's attention was focused on his opponent.
"Luke Walton, a second-round pick, Amy Udoka, an undrafted player in 2000 who has never played in the NBA, but is still considered a rookie, Brian Cook, the 24th pick in the first round... How many coaches did the Lakers select?"