The Golden Invincible of Basketball

There is no salary limit in the second round show, but in fact, the general team will only give the base salary, because this involves the issue of the team ’s salary cap. Take the Spurs as an example. They have not yet signed for the free market, but they have exceeded the salary cap Want to sign Tang Tian can only use special cases.

Exceptions include middle-class exceptions (owned by non-luxury tax teams, and ultra-luxury tax-owned teams with mini-middle-class exceptions), biennial exceptions, and basic salary exceptions.

The middle-class exception Spurs must be used in the free market. As for the biennial exception, it will trigger a hard salary cap (the luxury tax must not be exceeded at any time during the season). The Spurs may not use it, so in the end they can only use it. Use the base salary exception.

The so-called special salary exception is that a team with a super salary cap has no space to sign a person. Given a special exception for signing a basic salary, the maximum period is two years, and the two-year salary is the basic salary of that year.

The salary of 470,000 in the first year, 760,000 in the second year and 1.23 million in the second year, this is the contract signed by the Spurs and Tang Tian.

Tang Tian soon signed the contract.

"Welcome to join the Spurs." Although Buford was a bit unhappy in the negotiations, he was a professional manager after all, and he reached out to Tang Tian after signing the contract.

"Thank you." Tang Tian also smiled and got up to shake hands with Buford. Buford is the general manager of the Spurs. There is no need to froze this relationship.

"I'll take you around." Popovich said looking at Tang Tian.

"Greg, let me take him." Buford said, standing up, and Popovich had already taken Leonard and Joseph out and turned around.

"It's okay, I happen to have a chat with this child." Popovich said already standing up.

The two came out of the office.

"Are you so confident in yourself?" Popovich didn't say anything in it, and asked when he came out.

After all, Popovich has been in the league for more than 20 years, and Tang Tian can see what he thinks.

"Yes, I'm very confident in myself, old man." Tang Tian smiled back. He also knew Popovich very well, so he didn't hide anything at all.

Popovich froze, stopped to look at Tang Tian, ​​and then laughed.

"You're really funny, Leonard's cold guy is funny," Popovich said with a smile.

The AT & amp; T Center Arena is significantly larger than the previous XL Center Arena, home of the UConn, or this is not just a stadium, it has quite a lot of supporting facilities. There are 32 restaurants with the most complete Texas food, including barbecues, pizzas, sandwiches and hot dogs.

"My favorite place is this year. The stadium has added a new artificial shoe polishing service this year. I can sit here and wait for them to help me finish my shoes and then enter the locker room." Popovich said with a smile.

After listening to Tang Tian for a moment, Sure enough Popovich was a weirdo, and his attention was different from most people.

They talked through the corridor to the home team's locker room.

Pushing the door in, the Spurs locker room came into view.

A forty-story flat room with compartments next to the wall. There is an ordinary chair in front of the compartment. Most of the compartments are suspended, and there is only a small cabinet in the upper right corner. There are two clothes racks hanging on the top, and on the clothes rack are the names of the players.

Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker, Danny Green, Richard Jefferson, Juan Juan Blair ...

No massage chairs, no widescreen TVs, and even no sofas.

Honestly, this locker room is really a bit "low-key", similar to Tang Tian's university locker room at the University of Toronto before.

But after entering, Tang Tian was soon attracted by a motto hanging in a black frame on the wall in front of him.

"When everything seemed to be of no help, I went to see a stonemason knocking on the stone. He hit it 100 times in a row, and the stone remained motionless. But when he knocked 101st time, the stone broke in half. But I know, let the stone The crack was not the last blow, but the result of the first 100 blows. "

In the bottom right corner of the passage is a signature, Jacob Reese.

The general meaning of this sentence is that it means perseverance and permeation. It encourages people to persist in doing one thing, and there will always be a day when they will succeed.

After reading this sentence, Tang Tian suddenly felt that the locker room was really Spurs-style.

Low profile and tough, which seems to have been the label of the Spurs.

"There are only two preseason games this year. You and Leonard and Joseph will get a chance in these two games and perform well." 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 loses weight as a forward swingman, but the competition is still fierce in the Spurs.

The small forward position, starting with Richard Jefferson, is likely to be the first substitute for Leonard, and the team's No. 20 show last year, James Anderson.

Shooting guard position, the starting strength of Ginobili ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ substitute Danny Green, Gary Neal, one of the main rotation last season, and Corey Joseph joined with him.

Popovich said this deliberately, indicating that he values ​​these two preseason games.

After signing the contract and visiting the stadium, Tang Tian's first day trip to the Spurs was basically over, but after leaving the AT & amp; T Center Arena, he left his luggage at the hotel and went nonstop with the agent Look at the house.

Playing in the NBA is actually similar to going to work. Teammates are together during the game, but before the game starts and after the game, they are their lives.

The team will not provide three meals and there will be no accommodation.

San Antonio is the second largest city in Texas, but it still looks much calmer than Houston.

Tang Tian finally chose a single apartment not far from the riverside pedestrian street. Although the price is a bit expensive, you can see the San Antonio River and a green shade when you open the window. The environment is very good, and there are parking spaces.

The gold system only consumes the gold value, and it will not really lose money. Unlike other rookies, after signing endorsement contracts one after another, he now has more than 1.5 million cash in his hands. This rent is for him It's just nine cattle and one hairless.

(Note: Except for some top-paid players who can advance the contract salary in advance, most players' contract wages are received on a monthly basis. The 1st and 15th of each month are the paydays set by the league, but players can also request Focused 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 over as a physical training program, but if there were one or twenty kilometers here, he could not afford to run this way every day.