I have a lot of skills in the NBA

Chapter 37 The Actors Please Take Their Places (Please collect recommendation tickets)

After returning to the hotel to rest for the night, at six o'clock the next morning, Duffy called Li Yang, who was still asleep, to the office.

Li Yang rubbed his sleepy eyes, walked to the office in a daze, and saw Duffy was gnawing bread in his mouth, and his hands were typing on the keyboard in front of the computer, very busy.

"Are you so motivated every day?" Li Yang rubbed his forehead, looking like he was defeated by you, and then slowly approached Da Fei's desk, only to find that his manager was replying a letter to a man named Jerry West on Facebook.

"Jerry West? Why is this name so familiar? Could it be the Clippers' special advisor?" Li Yang looked at the familiar name and couldn't help muttering.

"Well, it's him." Duffy quickly swallowed the bread in his mouth, and explained while typing.

"...Are you communicating with the special advisor of the Clippers on Facebook?" Li Yang asked in surprise. Duffy was actually chatting with the NBA team executives?There is also such an operation!
After Duffy typed the last word and replied, he turned around and said, "Of course he is interested in you. I'm talking about golf skills, so he chased after me to chat!"

"interested in me?"

At this time, Duffy cut out the window of the computer taskbar, and the screen was full of Facebook and Twitter.

Li Yang took a few glances and found that they were all general managers or head coaches of various NBA teams.

Duffy went on to say: "After I recorded the video yesterday, I posted the video on Facebook and Twitter when I came back, and Art signed up the official accounts of these teams. Look, there are a lot of people chasing after me today to chat!"

The habits of Americans and Chinese are somewhat different. They don’t like instant messaging software, but like to use software such as Facebook and Twitter to communicate. Naturally, NBA teams also have official accounts, but this trick is really fast and effective.

"Rockets general manager Morey also sent us a trial invitation, but I rejected it." Duffy continued.

"Rejected?" Li Yang asked puzzled.

"Everything has two sides. Overseas players did not play in the NCAA. Scouts are not as familiar with them as American players, but this unknown represents curiosity. Curiosity can make people make risky decisions. Yi Jianlian, you are the player with the highest draft pick in China since Yao Ming, you should know?" Duffy said, looking at Li Yang.

Li Yang nodded, Ah Lian is the most popular basketball star after Yao Ming, how could he not know.

"Then you should also know the title of his chair man, right?"

Li Yang frowned, and said unhappily: "Duffy, this joke is not funny at all. Yi is a hardworking player. Although he is not very good in the NBA, you shouldn't insult him with such an insulting name."

"Sorry, sorry." Seeing that Li Yang was a little angry, Duffy quickly apologized.

Seeing that Duffy apologized so quickly, Li Yang knew that he was unintentional, so he said, "Go ahead and talk about you."

Ah Lian was one of the important clients of the agent Feigen back then, so Feigen's biggest purpose was to help Yi Jianlian earn more money, so his commission would be higher.

When Yi Jianlian first arrived in the United States in 2007, Fagan refused other teams the opportunity to watch Yi Jianlian's training, and did not allow Yi Jianlian to participate in the physical examination of the rookie training camp. He only arranged for Yi Jianlian to train with chairs in an arena in Los Angeles.

As a result, Yi Jianlian was kept a secret during the draft, and the outside world knew nothing about him. They could not see the true level of Yi Jianlian. They could only see a video of the confrontation between Yi Jianlian and the chair sent by Fagen.

"This ambiguous way, although it brought him the chair man, sorry, that's the bad name, but to a certain extent, it also covered him with a veil of mystery. In the end, Milwaukee didn't hold back curiosity and finally chose him. It can be said that this is a very successful draft operation."

Li Yang nodded thoughtfully. What Duffy said was indeed reasonable, but the so-called "studying a pit and gaining wisdom". Although Yi Jianlian has a high pick in the NBA, his performance can only be said to be unsatisfactory. Will the Americans make the same choice again?
He went on to say: "You are right, but it has been eight years. During these eight years, all the overseas players who have entered the NBA have performed unsatisfactorily. The curiosity of the managers of each team must have been almost exhausted, right?"

"You're right." Duffy agreed with Li Yang's point of view, but immediately changed the subject, "But the curiosity is still there, so we need to make a trade-off and show them part of it first."

"This kind of inseparable feeling can stimulate their curiosity the most, because they can't be sure how much potential the selected person has, but they are reluctant to miss it."

"This is the purpose of shooting that video yesterday?" Li Yang finally understood Duffy's fundamental intention.

"Yes, I believe that after today, your draft pick should be able to enter the list of major drafts smoothly, and may even enter the first round. A point guard with such accurate three-pointers, which team is not willing to take a gamble?"

Li Yang nodded. Duffy was right. In today's era where combo guards are rampant, a guard with three-point accuracy has an inestimable effect on the team.

Just like the league's current Warriors with three-point shooter Stephen Curry as its core, it has won two championships so far, and it is very likely to win a third championship again this year.

"But that's not enough." Duffy turned around and picked up the tablet from the desk, threw it to Li Yang, and said, "I've already found an actor for you. If you upload a video of you confronting him, then your ranking will be greatly improved."

Li Yang reached out to take the tablet handed over by Duffy, and opened it, and it turned out to be a player's profile.

Mike Conley!

Duffy went on to say: "Conley is well-known in the league for his good temper. He has won the NBA Sportsmanship Award twice. As long as you have a one-on-one match with him, and you can not lose in the one-on-one match, and then the video is inadvertently spread, then I believe that there will be many general managers of the team who can't sit still."

Li Yang frowned. Since he was a child, he hated cheating and lies the most. But soon, he was relieved. What he carries now is no longer his personal dream, but also the glory of the country. Therefore, he must know how to choose.

A draft pick in the lottery zone can ensure that the selected team pays enough attention to him, and he can have the right to speak. This is completely incomparable with the significance of the second round pick or even the end of the first round.

After thinking for a long time, Li Yang finally nodded and said helplessly, "What time is it?"

"It will take a while. Let those managers digest your previous video first. When they have almost digested it, the draft will be approaching. If you release a big news at that time, there will not be much time left for them to think about it." Duffy said confidently.

Li Yang nodded, returned the tablet to Duffy, said "I'm going to practice", turned and walked out of the office.

On the third day, under the lead of Duffy, he and Conley had a "closely matched" confrontation on the streets of New York. In this seemingly fierce confrontation, he and Conley can be said to be evenly divided, or even slightly better.

The duration of this video is not long, about 3 minutes. Although the video is short, it has a rich plot and a beginning and an end.

When he went to the New York street court to practice, he "met" Conley. The two disagreed and had a grievance duel. As a result, his performance was exceptional, which made even Conley, who is a point guard, look at him with admiration.

Li Yang really didn't expect that Conley would be such an actor with such excellent acting skills. They say that life is like a play and it all depends on acting skills, but he still couldn't imagine that a basketball star's acting skills are so proficient. It really is a master among the people!Fortunately, my brother is also an actor!
Originally, this was just a picture taken by a certain audience, but it was posted on the Internet inadvertently, and then spread to the hands of various managers.

This time, the entire circle of NBA executives was in chaos. This video was like a blockbuster that exploded out of nowhere, blowing them all into a coma.

"Isn't this player the same Chinese player who shot three-pointers in the video last time?" Knicks general manager Scott Perry looked at Li Yang, who was fighting with Conley in the video, with a look of surprise.

Not only him, but the general managers of many teams in the league are aware of this.

"Darrell, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, Li Yang really can't come to Houston to participate in the trial training, how many times have you called me and the result is the same, there are potential injuries?"

"Excuse me, Darrell, are you kidding me? My client is very healthy, and he is still training in the arena these two days. If there is nothing else, I will hang up first."

……

Duffy has been very busy all day, busy rejecting the invitation calls from the general managers of various NBA teams. Without exception, their purpose is to invite Li Yang to the team to participate in the trial training.

In terms of this kind of treatment, apart from those popular lottery picks in the first round, Li Yang is definitely the first one in history.

Li Yang was also sitting on the sofa at this time, looking at Duffy who was in high spirits and kept rejecting all kinds of phone calls from the general manager, his eyelids couldn't help twitching, the rejection was too straightforward, and he didn't spare any space in his words, it felt like the general managers were begging him to go to the trial training.

After finally waiting for Duffy to finish answering all the calls, he finally couldn't help but said: "Duffy, haven't we gone too far? Don't let the bamboo basket fetch water by then!"

Although he believed in Duffy's strategy, the callers were the general managers of various NBA teams after all. It was already a shame for them to call in person, but Duffy refused so thoroughly.

"Not at all. It's not many days before the draft. Didn't you see that the Warriors have reached the finals, the next Stephen Curry? Who knows!" Duffy was extremely optimistic.

When Li Yang saw what Duffy said, he could only shake his head helplessly, but he didn't say anything else. Since he chose Duffy as his agent, he would choose to trust him unconditionally.

(End of this chapter)