Chapter 683: Famous Street Stadium
Tang Shuai didn't pay too much attention to it like last year, but devoted all his time to the training hall. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Whatever the Lakers want to do in this free agent market, he'll know by the end of the day, and all he's going to do now is put his energy into training and wait until the new season starts before he can lead the team far.
The NBA's free agent market opens on July 1, but signings won't officially begin until after the 9th, and until then there will be only verbal signings.
After the opening of the free market, some of the original little changes were immediately agreed verbally, such as Wiggins, Gobert, Lowry, Hayward have all renewed contracts with the home team, these core players who led the team to the playoffs last season, and are also the players with the least variables in this wave of free agents.
After the first wave of signings, the free agency market went into a period of silence.
The big fish in the free market have not moved, and even James, Durant, Curry, these top superstars who are not very variable are still in an unsigned state, but the managers of many teams have no intention of chasing, James's contract has always been signed last, and Durant and Curry are because Iguodala's contract expires, and the three of them need to renew their contracts at the same time, and they need to negotiate on salary distribution.
In contrast, Westbrook, Paul, and Griffin are the big fish that teams in the free market are chasing.
The Clippers fell to the Western Conference semifinals again, and with Paul and Griffin's contracts expiring at the same time, they finally reached a crossroads where they had to make a choice.
Although Tang Shuai is training, he is also in contact with Paul and Griffin privately.
At this time, he suddenly felt that the team had provided him with a lot of convenience by cutting Deng and trading Mozgov, at least, it was not impossible for one of Paul and Griffin to join the team.
However, this is limited to verbal communication, after all, Paul is 31 years old, and he is old enough to sign his last big contract, and Griffin, who is in his prime, obviously has his own considerations.
It was also during this time that his training reached a bottleneck.
Originally, in the setting of the packaging system, training is limited to the upgrade of the packaging system, to put it bluntly, the existence of this system is more about exercising the memory of the body and muscles, which is to be strengthened by playing games, and when it comes to a certain stage, the upgrade is a natural thing.
However, it was now the offseason, and it was too early to organize his teammates to train, so after observing a lap, he finally set his sights on the street courts in New York.
Although the level is uneven, he went to the street court when he first participated in the draft, and there are still many players with outstanding unilateral strength, and in fact, there are many players who stay in the United States and will also use the street court to maintain their form.
He didn't call Duffy, and went to Rock Park alone.
Unlike when he came as a rookie, his arrival caused a commotion among the players in the park.
At this time, he is no longer the young man. All-Star Game MVP, the youngest MVP, single-core elimination F4, even if he is a yellow-skinned Chinese, his popularity in the United States has reached a kind of peak.
His arrival is the same as James and Kobe Bryant coming to play on the street court.
Locke Park suddenly fell into a scene of empty alleys, where there was no place to put your feet after a siege outside the first floor.
Fortunately, after Tang Shuai's reminder, the crowd slowly returned to order, but the stands of the main stadium of Rock Park had already been occupied.
Tang Shuai was naturally invited to play on the home court.
When he was brought to the main stadium and looked at the small but excited crowd on either side, he felt weird.
The last time he came, he was just a spectator, watching Alston and Wade play on the court, but he didn't expect that in less than two years, he has become a more dazzling star than Wade was at the beginning.
Just like Wade and Butler last time, the players who can play on the home court are more or less powerful, in addition to some streetball masters, including Stephen Jackson, Nate Robinson, who want to play but don't have the team yet, and even he saw the former Knicks head coach Fisher, I heard that he was actively training to come back, it seems that it is true.
In addition to this, he also met a man he knew, Ismael Smith, whose former teammate turned out to be on the field.
Smith looked very excited, and the two of them inevitably had a conversation.
Their encounter was an unexpected encounter.
After the teams on both sides were divided, the confrontation between the two sides began with the enthusiastic cheers of the audience.
Unlike in the NBA, there are no referees in the game here, and some unconventional street ball moves are allowed, so it is quite a challenge for Tang Shuai.
Tang Shuai and Smith were on one team, while others like Jackson, Robinson and Fisher were on the other team.
After the game began, it was not Tang Shuai or other NBA players who fired first, but a street player named Jeremy Pitt, whose fancy dribbling drew cheers from the spectators on the sidelines, and some unconventional movements made Tang Shuai look very uncomfortable.
After scoring consecutive points in the opening game, after leading the team to play an 8-2 attack wave, in an attack, Pitt used unconventional moves to pass Tang Shuai and scored on the inside lever, which immediately attracted excited screams from the audience on the sidelines.
Despite their popularity, street players still have a lot of home-court advantage on street courts.
Pete also seemed very excited, and after scoring the goal, he did a series of cool moves of street ball players, full of showing off and provocative.
Tang Shuai was also successfully aroused.
Originally, defense is not what he is good at, and it is reasonable for you to score a few goals, but if you pretend to be forced like this, it is no wonder that he is not surprised.
He got to the front court, beckoned Smith to feed him, and he started playing Pete with the ball in his hands.
Originally, there was a physical gap between street players and professional players, and Tang Shuai had the power of the bus, so Pete couldn't stand it at all.
Hold the ball and hit it a few times, turn around and shoot backwards, and hit it steadily.
That's not all, waiting for the attack on the opposite side to defend it, Tang Shuai is still playing in the same way, and he is still leaning back.
Pete couldn't help it.
Tang Shuai seemed to have forgotten other offensive methods, so he used his back to eat, and when he scored the fifth goal in a row, the fans on the sidelines couldn't bear to look at it.
"Don't do that, you're going to make him give up basketball." Someone couldn't help but shout with sympathy.
Tang Shuai didn't hear it, and continued to fight ruthlessly.
The idea in his heart is simple, doesn't he like to pretend to be forced, then he pretends to be forced, and he has to pretend to the end.
Here, Pete finally seized an opportunity, Tang Shuai came later, and slapped his shot out of the field.
The audience on the sidelines covered their faces, and they couldn't bear to watch it.
The last good street ball game turned into Tang Shuai's one-sided ruthless crushing, and it was ruthless at all.
At the end of the game, Pete was like a person who had been put down from the gallows, sweating like rain, and with a blank face, he had really lost interest in basketball.
This stop also made Tang Shuai famous in the street court.
However, what these viewers never expected was that this was just the beginning.
In the next week, Tang Shuai appeared in Rock Park every day, and like a picky eater, as long as anyone defended him, he would ruthlessly blow up, even if one day his opponent was Tobyles Harris, who also played in the NBA, he also blew the opponent's underwear left, and it was just a move, that is, he turned around and leaned back with his back.
After the week was over, Tang Shuai finally finished this trip to the street court, and he was completely famous on the street court.
Some viewers named him "The God of Death" or "The Reaper of Death", which means that as long as he becomes a player who is in the opposite position, he will be blown up.
Tang Shuai saw all this, but he didn't say anything.
He didn't come to the street court to get a slogan or make a name for himself on the field, he did it all just to improve his skill set, nothing more.
Of course, he couldn't explain this.
By the end of his trip to the street court, he could feel that his proficiency in the back-to-back and turn-back techniques had reached a critical point, and that with one more high-level match, both skill packs would likely be upgraded to the normal version.
He was still looking for such an opportunity, and it was at this time that the free agent market finally reached a climax again after another week of silence, as the "July freeze" was coming to an end.
On this day, a particularly important rumor spread.
Griffin has reached an agreement with the Thunder to sign and is likely to join forces with Westbrook next season.
This rumor can be said to be shocking, because it involves the final decision of two big fish.
If Griffin and the Thunder reach a sign, then Westbrook is likely to renew his contract with the Thunder, and as for the Clippers who lost Griffin, they will do their best to keep Paul at all costs, which means that the three biggest big fish of this summer are finally decided.
This is absolutely bad news for a team like the Lakers who have broken up the roster and are ready to make a big splash in free agency, which means that they have prepared for a good game, but in the end they have to find some second-rate players to patch it up.
It's absolutely devastating, especially for a team like the Lakers who also made it to the Finals last season.
Although Tang Shuai did not participate in the team's recruitment, he couldn't help but feel worried when he heard the news.
Last season, he was already a father and mother, and now that Gasol is a year older and Deng has been cut again, how can he play next season?
But just when he was worried, the day after the rumor came out, an even more exciting news completely shook him, and at the same time made the alliance fry. (To be continued.) )