On the plane, he had just found his window seat and sat down. A black man who was taller than him sat down next to him. When the black man saw his straight and slender legs and sportswear, his eyes lit up and he extended his hand.
"Hello, my name is Hassan Whiteside. Are you also a professional player?”
Tang Fei was a little surprised. He looked at him and found him familiar. He tried to recall for a moment, but replied calmly,""Tang Fei, you can call me Dunn. Yes, I'm a professional footballer.”
He remembered and was slightly surprised. He did not expect to meet her on the plane.
This was Whiteside, one of the inspirational upstart players who had been drafted by the Sacramento Kings and cut for lack of self-discipline. After wandering around for a few years, he returned to the NBA and took the top salary.
From the time he returned to the NBA and signed with the Miami Heat, it only took him two years to go from a base salary of 980,000 to a maximum salary of 98 million. His income had increased by a hundredfold.
What was an upstart? This was what a nouveau riche was like!
Even though 98 million wasn't earned in a year, it was close to 100 million dollars in four years.
"Hey, buddy, what a coincidence, me too! I'm a player on Team Tongxi and I plan to return to the NBA to seek opportunities.”As he spoke, Bai Bian was a little shy. He was afraid that Tang Fei would find out about his experience and felt very embarrassed.
"What a coincidence. Me too!" Tang Fei pretended to be surprised and shook hands with him again.
Since they were both going to the NBA to seek opportunities, the two of them had a common topic to talk about and began to get heated. The two of them chatted quite loudly, causing the surrounding passengers to complain. However, when they saw that the culprits were all tall and strong, they could only swallow their anger.
Bai Bian seemed to be a chatterbox because he met like-minded people. He was the one who started the conversation along the way. From Chinese delicacies to American women, as long as a man was interested in something, he had a lot to talk about. Of course, most of them talked about the NBA.
Fortunately, Tang Fei's English was pretty good, so he was able to handle the situation. Otherwise, he would have directly thrown the other party off the plane.
The plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport. As their destinations were different, they left their contact information and had to leave separately. Bai Bian's destination was to continue to transfer flights and fly to Chicago. He planned to participate in the summer training camp there and see if there was a chance.
As for Tang Fei, he flew directly to New York.
There was the most profitable team in the NBA, the New York Knicks, the famous home of the draft, and of course, there was also a team that was being formed, the Westchester Knicks, a subsidiary of the New York Knicks.
The NBPL was established in the 2001-2002 season. At the beginning, only eight teams from the southeastern part of the United States participated. They were from virginia, north carolina, south carolina, alabama, and glygia. The NBA Development League was a second-tier league in the NBA. It was the NBA's talent pool. Most of the players in this league had participated in the NBA draft or preseason games.
Any team in the NBA could choose players from the development league to enter the NBA, and they could also send their players to the development league to train. Generally speaking, the NBA League and the NBA teams had the same tactics and even defensive strategies. This was because the NBPL was a reserve of talent for the parent teams.
The NBA had produced many talents and contributed a lot of blood to the NBA, such as the Rockets players of the previous decade, Streetball King Rafer Alston, and Chuckle Hayes, as well as Lin Shuhao and Hasan Whiteside in recent years.
These players were first selected by NBA teams, then cut. After entering the NBA for a period of training, they were re-signed, and then they began to walk the path of counterattack.
In addition to these people, there were also players deliberately sent to the second-tier league by NBA teams, such as CJ McCollum, one of the Blazers 'backcourt double-shooters, and Zhou Qi of the Rockets.
Every season, more or less NBA players were honored to be signed by NBA teams. In recent years, dozens of NBA players were signed by teams every year. They would suddenly become millionaires or even billionaires from their original annual salary of 10,000 to 20,000 dollars.
Therefore, although this league was only a second-tier league in the NBA, it was also a training ground for famous NBA stars to fight monsters and level up.
After the new president of the NBA, Adam Silver, took office, he was ambitious and prepared to show off his skills during his term of office. Adding members to the NBA team was one of his major plans. He planned to have an NBA affiliate for each of the 30 NBA teams to build his own grand blueprint.
As the most profitable team in the NBA, the New York Knicks naturally responded to the call of the president and began to prepare to form a team. As the assistant general manager of the New York Knicks, Alan Houston was appointed as the general manager of the new affiliated team.
Houston had been ridiculed for many years because the Knicks had given him a ridiculous top-salary contract. He had been tormented and felt a little guilty. Therefore, after he retired, he entered the team's upper echelons and worked hard just to make up for it. The reason why he was appointed as the general manager of the new team this time was not only due to the appointment of some of the top management, but also the result of his self-recommendation.
The formation of the team was almost complete. The home stadium was set to be at the Westchase County Center Stadium. The name of the team had been gathered. At present, only a few players were needed to start preparing for next season's NBA League.
He was full of ambition and was ready to show off his skills. He wanted to give the injured and unstable Knicks some blood. For this reason, he had to work overtime to screen players with the coaching staff.
Ever since the news of the new team was posted on the Knicks 'official website, there was an endless stream of free agents who came to participate in the training camp. Unfortunately, most of them had limited strength and very few were satisfactory.
Houston and the coaching staff had a lot of players on hand, but very few were determined to sign them. Although the annual salary of NBPL players was very low, with the highest salary being less than 30,000 dollars, it was better to be short than poor.
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