Chapter 149 Proverbs in the Locker Room (2/10)
Chapter 149 Locker Room Proverbs (210)
There is no salary limit for second-round picks, but in fact, most teams will only pay the basic salary, because it involves the team's salary cap. Take the Spurs as an example. They have not signed anyone in the free market, but they are already over the salary cap. If you want to sign Tang Tian, you can only use a special case.
Exceptions include middle-class exceptions (teams that do not exceed the luxury tax, teams with super-luxury tax have mini-middle-class exceptions), bi-annual exceptions, and basic salary exceptions.
The Spurs will definitely use the mid-level exception in the free market. As for the biennial exception, it will trigger a hard salary cap (the luxury tax cannot be exceeded at any time during the season), and the Spurs may not use it, so in the end they can only Exception with basic salary.
The so-called special case of the basic salary is that teams that exceed the salary cap have no room to sign people. A special case of signing the basic salary is given. The maximum number of years is two years, and the salary of the two years is the basic salary of the year.
The salary is 470,000 in the first year, 760,000 in the second year, and 1.23 million in 2 years. This is the contract signed by the Spurs and Tang Tian.
Tang Tian quickly signed the contract.
"Welcome to the Spurs." Although Buford was a little unhappy in the negotiation, he was a professional manager after all. After signing the contract, he stretched out his hand and said to Tang Tian.
"Thank you." Tang Tian also smiled and stood up to shake hands with Buford. Buford is the general manager of the Spurs, so there is no need for this relationship to become stalemate.
"I'll take you around." Popovich looked at Tang Tian and said.
"Greg, I'll take him." Buford said and stood up. Popovich had already taken Leonard and Joseph out.
"It's okay, I just happened to chat with this kid." Popovich said and stood up.
The two came out of the office.
"Are you so confident in yourself?" Popovich didn't say inside, but asked after he came out.
After all, Popovich has been in the league for more than 20 years, so he can tell what Tang Tian is thinking at once.
"Yes, I am very confident in myself, old man." Tang Tian replied with a smile. He also knew Popovich very well, so he didn't mean to hide it at all.
Popovich froze for a moment, stopped to look at Tang Tian, and then burst out laughing.
"You're really funny, funnier than Leonard's cold guy," Popovich said with a smile.
The ATT Center Arena is obviously much larger than the XL Center Arena, which was the home of the UConn University before. In other words, this is not just an arena, it has quite a lot of supporting facilities, and there are 32 lounges for the audience alone. , and the restaurant with the most complete food in Texas, including barbecue, pizza, sandwiches, and hot dogs.
"I like this place the most. The arena has added a manual shoe shine service this year. I can sit here and wait for them to help me polish my shoes before entering the locker room." Popovich said with a smile.
Tang Tian was stunned for a moment after hearing this. Sure enough, Popovich is a weirdo with a different focus from most people.
While speaking, they walked through the corridor to the home team's locker room.
Pushing the door open, the Spurs locker room came into view.
A room of more than forty square meters, there are compartments near the wall, and there is an ordinary armchair facing the front of the compartment. Most of the compartments are suspended, except for a small cabinet in the upper right corner. , with two clothes racks hanging from the top, and above the clothes racks are the names of the players.
Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker, Danny Green, Richard Jefferson, DeJuan Blair…
No massage chairs, widescreen TVs, not even couches.
To be honest, this locker room is really a bit "low-key", similar to Tang Tian's college locker room at Kangda.
But after entering, Tang Tian was quickly attracted by a motto hanging in a black frame on the wall in front of him.
"When everything seemed to be going nowhere, I went to see a stonemason knock on a stone. He knocked 100 times in a row, and the stone still didn't move. But when he knocked the 101st time, the stone split in two. But I know, let the stone It is not the final blow that splits, but the result of the previous hundred blows."
In the lower right corner of this passage there is a byline, Jacob Reese.
The general meaning of this sentence is to persevere, the meaning of water dripping through stone, to encourage people to persist in doing one thing, and there will always be a day when it will succeed.
After reading this sentence, Tang Tian suddenly felt that the locker room really looked like the Spurs.
Low-key, tough, this seems to have always been the label of the Spurs.
"There are only two preseason games this year. You, Leonard, and Joseph will get a chance to perform well in these two games." After watching the arena, Popovich finally said to Tang Tian.
He should have said this to Leonard and Joseph.
"I will." Tang Tian nodded.
He lost weight and became a swingman. In fact, the competition in the Spurs is still very fierce.
At the small forward position, Richard Jefferson is the starter, Leonard, who will most likely be the first substitute, and James Anderson, the team's No. 20 pick last year.
The shooting guard position, the starting strength of Ginobili, the backup Danny Green, Gary Neal, who was one of the main rotations last season, and Corey Joseph who joined him.
Popovich said this specifically, which shows that he attaches great importance to these two preseason games.
After signing the contract and visiting the arena, Tang Tian's first day in the Spurs was basically over. However, after he left the ATT Center Arena, he put his luggage in the hotel and went to see the house with the agent non-stop. went.
Playing in the NBA is actually similar to going to work. During the game, the teammates are together, but before the game starts and after the game ends, it is their own lives.
The team will not provide meals and there will be no lodging.
San Antonio is the second largest city in Texas, but compared with Houston, it still seems much calmer.
Tang Tian finally chose a bachelor apartment not far from the riverside pedestrian street. Although the price was a bit expensive, you can see the San Antonio River and a green shade from the window. The environment is very good, and there are supporting parking spaces.
The krypton gold system only consumes krypton gold value, and will not really lose money. Unlike other rookies, after signing endorsement contracts one after another, he now has more than 1.5 million in cash in his hand. It's just a drop in the bucket.
(Note: Except for some top-paid players who can advance their contract salary in advance, most players’ contract salary is received on a monthly basis. The 1st and 15th of each month are the salary payment dates stipulated by the league, but players can also request Concentrate on one day in January.)
After renting a house, Tang Tian's next plan is to buy a car.
When he was in New York before, because the training place was only five or six kilometers away from where he lived, he could run there as a physical training, but here it is 10 to 20 kilometers, and he couldn't afford to run like this every day.