Forty-Eight. No Sense of Achievement

Sun Ce, a prospective player, has already felt some helplessness after becoming an NBA player.

Being selected, of course you have to cheer up. This is something that almost every player will do after being selected. All teams and agents have a day off on the 28th.

But after a day's rest, he was about to start working. On the afternoon of the 28th, Sun Ce signed a contract with Bill Duffy and became a player under Bill Duffy's agency. On the morning of the 29th, he caught a plane and arrived in Oakland.

I don't even have time to go home and pack my things, the time has already begun to not belong to me.

But this is not a bad thing for Sun Ce. The second-round pick does not have a fixed two-year guaranteed contract like the first-round pick. If he fails to get a contract in the summer league, he can only go back to school to continue his studies.

After a night of rest, at ten o'clock in the morning on the 30th, Sun Ce followed Bill Duffy to the Oracle Arena, home of the Warriors.

Warriors assistant coach Keith Smart is already waiting for Sun Ce's arrival.

The treatment is completely different from the last time. Sun Ce's current status in the Warriors is different, and he is already a prospective player.

Sun Ce felt the social sense of the NBA.

After Smart greeted Sun Ce and Bill Duffy, he led them into the training ground.

Warriors head coach Nelson Sr. was chatting with the team's seventh pick point guard Stephen Curry. Seeing Sun Ce and Bill Duffy coming, he said something to Curry and moved towards Sun Ce and his party walked over.

Old Nelson and Bill Duffy were old friends, and they nodded their heads as a greeting, then smiled and said to Sun Ce: "Hi, Noah, I'm Tang."

"Hi, I'm Noah, I'll trouble you to take care of me in the future." Sun Ce said and bent slightly.

Old Nelson's first impression of Sun Ce was polite!

And the way he speaks is very special.

"Please take care of me", Old Nelson found this sentence very interesting.

"Noah, you and Keith go for a physical test." Old Nelson, who has always done things concisely, started to work after greeting, "Bill, let's go to the office to talk."

Looking at Bill Duffy who left with Old Nelson, Sun Ce hoped that everything goes well.

This well-known agent with great energy personally brought his second-round pick to carry out post-draft work, which is the key to whether Sun Ce has a chance to stay.

After signing the contract the day before yesterday afternoon, Sun Ce's player information officially landed on the official website of Bill Duffy's agency, and Bill Duffy also officially registered as Sun Ce's agent in the official information database of the players union and NBA.

From the perspective of commercial value, Bill Duffy thinks that Sun Ce has higher commercial value potential than Evans!

NBA stars do not simply have high commercial value because they are strong. There are many players from the All-Star to the third team who are the mainstay of the league. Except for the regular sneakers provided by a certain sneaker brand and a fairly low endorsement fee, there is no Too many commercial endorsements.

Sneaker endorsement contracts rarely exceed $3 million.

Some stars have strength, but their personalities are not easy to attract fans. Bill Duffy has several players of this type. Evans' personality is too plain, without much emotion. Bill - Duffy judged from the beginning that Evans was the kind of star who could only make money off an NBA salary.

Of course, no matter how high the star's endorsement fee is, it is actually difficult to exceed the salary, except for a very few stars whose endorsement fee is higher than the salary.

But as a Chinese player, as long as he can enter the NBA, he has huge commercial value. In Bill Duffy's view, Sun Ce's position in the NBA should be to impact the rotation lineup. The NBA salary may not be too high, but the potential for commercial value is huge.

And the commission for commercial endorsement is higher than the commission for NBA salary!

The premise is that Sun Ce can get a formal contract.

The two important rookies signed by Bill Duffy this year were both selected by the California team. Bill Duffy personally sent Sun Ce to Oakland.

Now there are some sponsors who want to take advantage of Sun Ce's popularity to seek Sun Ce's endorsement, but Bill Duffy is not in a hurry. Even the interview is postponed. The most important thing is getting into the NBA.

For Evans, Bill Duffy didn't worry about the contract at all. When the Kings notified him to sign in the past, he could just sign the contract. The rookie with the No.

Assistant coach Keith Smart went to ask the staff to rearrange the field. Curry had just finished the test, and it was Sun Ce's turn.

Taking advantage of this vacancy, Sun Ce walked up to Curry who was looking disgusted, and hooked Curry's shoulder: "Stephen, we were really selected by the same team. It seems that my brother really has to take care of you."

"Why did I meet you again!" Curry looked at Sun Ce who was hooking his shoulder and said angrily.

"This is a doomed thing arranged by your God. What can I do?"

"Oh God, are you torturing me..."

Curry couldn't resist Sun Ce's shameless posture, and had nothing to do.

The venue was quickly re-arranged, and Keith Smart said to Sun Ce: "Noah, here, first measure the height and weight, and warm up after the measurement..."

"OK..." Sun Ce responded, and said to Curry: "My brother is going to take the physical test first, and my brother is waiting for my brother obediently. After the test, I will take you to have a snack."

Curry couldn't bear it this time, and sprayed: "Damn it, get out!"

...

Be angry, Curry is still very interested in Sun Ce's physical and technical tests.

The main reason is that Sun Ce left a deep impression on Curry. He actually found the video of Sun Ce's only game and watched it.

Curry was impressed by the speed and golf quotient, especially the speed, which seemed to be faster than the Flash Wade and the Brazilian Lightning Barbosa.

It made Curry wonder just how much better the bastard's grades were than his.

Curry dare not say anything else. In terms of physical testing, there are not many rookie perimeter players selected this year who are worse than him.

Under the leadership of assistant coach Smart, Sun Ce began to measure his height and weight.

"192 centimeters? I'm six feet three inches like me." Curry made a comparison. Although Sun Ce's bare feet were a little taller than him, they looked similar. Curry felt that he hadn't lost.

"A wingspan of 201 centimeters? What's the use of long hands!" Curry thought about his height of 1.91 meters and a wingspan of 1.91 meters... felt so sad!

"I weigh 179 pounds, and I'm 173 pounds...I need to gain some muscle." Curry looked at Sun Ce's weight of 81 kilograms and felt that his weight of 79 kilograms was indeed too thin.

Curry is a bit envious of Sun Ce's physical fitness in terms of height and wingspan. The height and wingspan are too good!

But this made Curry look forward to Sun Ce's physical test report on speed and jumping. Curry didn't want to compare strength. It hurts his self-esteem. He is a college student.

Curry is mainly looking forward to bouncing. He is still very confident in this regard, but it is also the reason for his inferiority complex.

His jumping height ranks among the top few outsiders in this rookie class, with a vertical jump of 35.5 inches, almost 90 centimeters. Among the defenders in the lottery zone, his vertical jump is second only to Westbrook's 92 centimeters, which is better than Harden's. , DeRozan are strong, but due to the wingspan... A few days ago in the NBA Rookie Elite Game, he dunked on the neck of the basket and almost fell to the ground.

Curry feels that he should not be worse than Sun Ce in terms of jumping, and he should have an advantage.

Curry waited for Sun Ce to warm up and change his training clothes. During this period, the training ground rearranged the equipment for the physical test. Curry waited for an hour. Even Bill Duffy and Nelson finished talking and came out to see Sun Ce's dynamic body. Here comes the quality test.

A few minutes later, Curry's eyes widened when he watched Sun Ce's physical test!

Indeed, Curry is better than Sun Ce in terms of jumping, just as he expected.

but……

"This guy runs so fast, how can he bounce so badly! Why did I wait so long!"

Bounce defeated Sun Ce, Curry felt no sense of accomplishment!