Superstar Athletes’ Black Tech Systems

In the early morning of Saturday, May 19, Li Liang woke up from his sleep and almost knocked on the beam when he got up.

Zhu Shu's apartment is an attic, and the bed is placed under the beam, and if she is not careful, she will hit her head.

Last night, Bai Xiaoting took Zhu Shu to her aunt's house in Changdao, and asked her to stay there for a short period of time. The attic was temporarily reserved for Li Liang and Wei Dazhi.

Relying on parents at home and friends when going out, Li Liang feels very lucky to meet these two friends before graduation.

As for Wei Dazhi, who hugs his thighs, he is still sleeping soundly like a pig.

Li Liang pushed him and said, "Hey, get up, get up! Do you want to go to the training camp with me?"

Upon hearing the word training camp, Wei Dazhi got up and said in a daze, "Training camp! Training camp! Let's go!"

"Let's go, you're tall, put on your clothes first!"

It takes about an hour's drive from Zhu Shu's home to the training hall, so Li Liang must hurry up.

After breakfast, Li Liang put on his coat and brought his sneakers—a pair of Nike James III boots.

There was a taxi waiting downstairs. Li Liang contacted the taxi yesterday to prevent being late if he couldn't get a taxi in the morning.

The training camp, located at the PNY Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey, is the practice facility and team office of the New Jersey Nets.

Of course, the New Jersey Nets will disappear in this league after this season, and the Nets will relocate to Brooklyn.

The title of PNY (a technology company that makes electronic equipment) will also be transferred to the Nets' new training hall and office space.

Li Liang still has an impression of the PNY center.

Because in 2010, Chinese player Yi Jianlian went to the PNY Center for trial training and finally joined the Nets.

In the summer of the competition year, the training ground of the U.S. national team is often arranged here.

Li Liang hopes that this place can become his blessed land, show his strength as soon as possible, and win the favor of the team.

The training camp is only for two days, on the 19th and 20th.

After that, the Nets will hold a small training camp of their own, and select the favorite newcomers in the big training camp to participate.

By the end of May, the league will hold a lottery ceremony to determine the draft lottery pick.

After the draft pick is decided, the next big training camp will be in Minneapolis.

Then to mid-June, NBA officials will conduct a concentrated trial training for rookies before the draft.

In terms of the quality of rookies, the earlier the training camp starts, the worse the quality of the players will be.

Those famous NCAA figures and the favorites in the draft will not waste time in this kind of training camp.

They have to wait until the lottery ceremony is over and each team has determined their picks, and then go to each team for trial training according to their own draft positioning, and finally participate in the official NBA training camp.

Therefore, training camps organized by the Rockets and the Nets belong to casting a net if there is nothing to do, and maybe two fish can be caught.

It's normal if you can't catch it, so it's time to find immediate combat power for NBDL's trumpet.

Having said that, such a training camp is very suitable for an unknown person like Li Liang.

The competition is not particularly strong, and scouts from 30 teams are all present. Is there a stage more suitable for him than this?

After the Nets and the Rockets announced the relevant news, Li Liang contacted the deputy manager of the Nets, Bobby Marks, the person in charge of the training camp, through Calipari's relationship.

For Calipari's sake, Max agreed to Li Liang's application for trial training, and asked him to come with a letter of introduction on the 19th.

In the taxi, Wei Dazhi opened the homepage of the Nets' official website with his mobile phone, clicked on the news about the training camp, and saw Li Liang's name—Bruce-Lee—on the trial training list.

"Hey, I really have your name, let me see the others..." Wei Dazhi felt a little excited when he saw his roommate's name appear on the trial training list.

Wei Dazhi scrolled down and read the trial training list several times, but found that there were no well-known players.

"What, what, what are these? What kind of players are they, I've never heard of them!"

"Okay, I've seen all these people. In fact, they are very good in the NCAA, but you don't know it."

After the list was issued, Li Liang did his homework and had a general understanding of the competitors participating in the training camp.

Including Li Liang, there are a total of 28 people in this training camp. The best of the 28 people may be at the end of the first round, and the rest will be the second round and the undrafted picks.

In Li Liang's view, there are several players with outstanding strength.

One is Jae Crowder from Marquette University.

He is the player of the year in the Big East this year, averaging 17.5 points and 8.4 rebounds per game this season, and is an outstanding player at the three position.

His position overlaps with Li Liang, so he can be regarded as Li Liang's competitor.

The second is Kyle O'Quinn from Norfolk State University.

He is the best player and best defensive player in the Eastern Conference this year, averaging 15.9 points, 10 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per game this season.

In the NCAA competition in March, he scored 24 points and 14 rebounds in the second round, leading his team to eliminate the strong University of Missouri.

Like Li Liang, he is a senior. He is 22 years old and is an older rookie.

Otherwise, with his performance, he is still an insider, so he wouldn't be able to participate in such a training camp.

The third one is a player from France named Evan Fournier. Li Liang has never watched him play and has no video.

He just thinks that this player must be good based on his feeling.

Not only because he is an international player, but also because he is at the top of the list.

The Nets' roster is roughly arranged according to the players' fame and strength, and it's just so straightforward.

Therefore, with Li Liang's strength and fame, he can only be ranked last on the list.

Apart from Li Liang's title as a member of the University of Kentucky Championship, other aspects of his basketball resume are hardly worth mentioning.

Although the participants in the training camp belong to the middle and lower classes among the entire NBA rookies, they are all top young people in the United States and the world.

Thinking of this, Li Liang took a deep breath, feeling a little uneasy in his heart.

Although after more than a month of training in [Almighty King], Li Liang has never played a regular game.

He's mostly worried about getting hurt.

The super rookie is injured, the team will wait.

If Li Liang is injured, no one will even look at him, so go home and sell tractors.

The car drove for an hour, and there was no traffic jam in New York on Saturday morning. We crossed the East River, passed through Manhattan, and then crossed the Hudson River, arriving in New Jersey.

Get off the elevated highway and enter the Sports Complex in East Rutherford, the home of New Jersey-New York professional sports.

In the past, the Continental Arena, the home of the New Jersey Nets, the MetLife Stadium, the home of the New York Jets, and the training ground of the New York Giants were all concentrated here.

On the northwest side of the Sports Center, a brown-red building is the PNY Center.

After stopping the car, Li Liang opened the door. Today's sunshine is very good, the air is fresh, and it is a good day to play basketball.

The parking lot outside the training center is full of vehicles, some for players, some for reporters, and some for scouts from 30 teams.

In the lobby of the training center, the staff of the Nets will conduct the qualification review reception.

Li Liang reported his name, and the staff found Max.

Max is a middle-aged white man with a slightly balding head. He wears a black sports T-shirt-this is the main color of the new Nets-and a pair of sunglasses on the bridge of his nose.

Seeing Li Liang, Max pushed his glasses and said, "Bruce Lee?"

Li Liang nodded, took out the recommendation letter written by Calipari from his luggage bag, and handed it to Max.

Max opened the envelope, took a few symbolic glances, pointed to the direction of the locker room in the arena, and signaled Li Liang to go into the locker room to change.

Max then went off to work on other things.

Apart from asking for his name, he didn't bother to say a word to Li Liangduo from the beginning to the end.

It's not that Max is arrogant, but that he really has a lot of things to do.

The scouts of 30 teams, 28 rookies and their agents, as well as many reporters, all need Max to coordinate and arrange.

For a little transparent like Li Liang, it's not bad to point him to the location of the locker room.

Li Liang didn't think there was anything wrong, the NBA was more realistic than any workplace in the world.

You play well, and the league and fans surround you.

If you can't play, professional managers won't give you a second look, and fans won't even know you exist.

Li Liang went to the locker room, and Wei Dazhi received a temporary work permit because he was with Li Liang.

Because he does not have a press card, he can only stay in the stands to observe and take pictures, but cannot interview or video.

When Li Liang entered the locker room, there were already many rookies changing clothes inside, preparing for the trial training.

Li Liang took a quick glance and could recognize a few, but he was not familiar with them. There are too many players in the NCAA.

Many players would be relatively unknown if they weren't nationally famous and often on TV, even if they already have a prominent local name.

Li Liang is better than this, because he has been to the NCAA finals, and he has shown his face to get too many points, and the TV station has given close-up shots.

In particular, he has black hair, black eyes and yellow skin, which is very eye-catching in the American basketball world, which is dominated by blacks.

So speaking of it, Li Liang can be regarded as a "famous" figure among this group of rookies.

As soon as he entered the locker room, other people cast "friendly" glances at him one after another, and a few guys even raised their hands to greet him.

Li Liang stepped forward to shake hands with a few people who greeted him, bumped his chest, and then found a locker to change.

This is the case with the old blacks in the United States. People who know each other or not, like to call them brothers and sisters.

After changing into the training uniforms given to the players by the Nets, Li Liang moved his limbs. He felt that he had to say something.

"Hey, hey guys," Li Liang said loudly standing in the middle of the locker room, attracting everyone's attention, "I'm Bruce Lee from the University of Kentucky, and I'm very happy to join you in this training camp today. I want to say that I will definitely enter the NBA in the future, and I will wait for you there."

As soon as the words fell, the players in the locker room looked at each other and burst out laughing.

A few guys were laughing so brightly, it was like they were listening to a Jimmy Kimmel talk show.

"That's right, after all, you are the NCAA champion, the champion!"

"I still scored too many points in the finals, key points."

"Big Heart, Free Throw Line Killer!"

"Kentucky's champion!"

Faced with Li Liang's arrogant declaration, the rookies began to tease Li Liang as if they had found a breakthrough in the topic.

The originally dull atmosphere in the locker room suddenly became lively.

Li Liang didn't mind. He just snorted and said, "I hope you can understand that most of you here can't get into the NBA. You may go to Europe or China. China is my hometown. Good choice, good food, less competitions, more money. If you need to learn Chinese, you can come to me, and I will teach and meet, and it will be free within a week."

Li Liang's words were a little contemptuous, and the atmosphere in the locker room was a little delicate.

At this time, the staff who had been guiding in the locker room clapped their hands and said, "Okay, guys, don't waste your energy on your mouth, go to the court!"

Everyone set off to the training ground, and a bunch of words appeared in front of Li Liang: [Anger value +10, from Tony Mitchell], [Anger value +15, from Alex Yang], [Anger value + 10, from Kim English]……

Anyway, it's okay, just collect a wave of anger points, Li Liang thought so.