Ningbo Beilun, the training base of the men's basketball team.

Li Ke and the Great Sage reported one after another, but the difference was that Li Ke was still with Lu Ning, but the Great Sage was alone.

So Li Ke asked in surprise:

"Where is your agent?"

"Agent? It's in the United States."

"What are the Chinese agents doing in the United States?"

"I don't have a Chinese agent..."

“…”

Li Ke didn't expect that the Great Sage would not have a Chinese agent. Thinking from this perspective, it is understandable that the Great Sage's NBA career ended in a bleak manner.

The Lakers chose the Great Sage not only because of the Chinese market, but the Chinese market definitely accounts for a large proportion.

However, the Great Sage did not have a Chinese agent, which led to his business development in China being not very smooth, and it was not able to create value that satisfies the Lakers, and it was unable to encourage the team to interfere in the head coach's employment.

Phil Jackson is the kind of head coach who is not willing to use rookies. The Great Sage cannot get playing time, which further affects domestic commercial development, and becomes a vicious cycle.

"It is still very necessary for Chinese brokers. Domestic commercial development, American brokers are useless."

The Great Sage was stunned: "Then Brother Li recommends one to me?"

This expression was like Li Ke was trying to make him think...

Li Ke saw through the idea of ​​the Great Sage, and shook his head helplessly: "Lun Ning is actually good, but his focus is also in the United States, and it may not be suitable for you, so my suggestion is to ask Brother Yao, the system of Yao's team is more mature."

It wasn't that asking for his agency affairs in China!... The Great Sage knew that he had misunderstood Li Ke, and his face turned red the next second, and then thanked him very sincerely: "Thank you!"

Li Ke smiled and patted the Great Sage: "There is no need to say thank you. Just fight hard. If you can gain a foothold in NBA, that is what I want to see."

This is what he said, as if he had already gained a firm foothold in NBA.

The Great Sage didn't think it was wrong. Perhaps, in his heart, Li Ke was a few levels higher than him.

Li Ke took the lead and walked towards the base. He brought Lu Ning over to talk to the leader above.

He already knew the general process for this training camp.

As early as April, the CBA came to an end and the men's basketball team started training.

First, a group of CBA foreign players were organized and they were in seclusion at Beilun base for various training. They practiced for almost two full months. At that time, neither Yao or Li Ke received any notification from the Basketball Association. Instead, Lianmei and Dasheng were practicing with the team.

After that, the draft began, and the Great Sage took a long vacation and went to the United States to try out everywhere.

United Girl did not participate in the joint trial in Chicago, and when she arrived in the United States, she only participated in the trial training of a few teams such as the Warriors, Suns, and Lakers.

But compared with the Great Sage and Lianmei, Li Ke still admires the Great Sage more. At least, for the sake of the NBA, the Great Sage has been working hard and has not done anything wrong.

On the other hand, it’s better not to talk about Lianmei.

When Li Ke, Da Sheng and Lianmei were running for the NBA in full swing, the men's basketball team's training camp entered the stage of the open competition. They went to eastern Guangdong to play a four-nation match, with their opponents being Italy, Australia and Croatia, and Yao also joined the team at this time.

When the draft ended, the Basketball Association issued a notice to Li Ke.

The Great Sage and Lianmei didn't need to be notified. They had just taken leave to the United States. Once the draft ended, Lianmei, who was dissatisfied with the draft result, returned to China without any nostalgia.

Like Li Ke, the Great Sage set off and returned home after signing with the Lakers.

In the next stage, the men's basketball team will be in seclusion in Beilun for about a month of training, and then they will go to Macau to participate in the Stankovic Cup. The opponents include Slovenia, Angola, New Zealand, Venezuela and NBDL United.

Starting from August, the men's basketball team will go to Europe to train, fight against strong teams such as Germany, and participate in the Turkish Invitational.

Then it was September, and the Asian Championships began, which had nothing to do with Li Ke. The Basketball Association had confirmed that it would send a second team to participate.

Finally, October, the NBA preseason starts, and the men's basketball team will play against the Rockets and the Cavaliers respectively to end the training camp for this year.

Of course, there is still November, and according to the spirit of the General Administration of Sports to prepare for the 2008 Olympics, CBA will reduce the schedule, etc., but that has nothing to do with Li Ke...

Li Ke is preparing to play only the first two games of the Stankovic Cup and returns to the United States in August, because he has just signed with the Bobcats and needs to return to the team early to train.

He believed that the leader would agree to his leave request, because Yao Yao also asked for leave. Like him, he only played one Stankovic Cup and would not participate in the subsequent European training.

There is also Lianmei, which is even more outrageous. Li Ke heard from the Great Sage that Lianmei was about to come back and report it, so he turned around and returned to the United States.

Li Ke knew that he couldn't learn Lianmei.

Renlianmei has been training with the men's basketball team for more than two months in at least four, five and June. He has just arrived, so it is unrealistic to leave directly.

Soon, Li Ke and Lu Ning met with Li Yuanwei, the leader of the Basketball Association, the secretary-general of the Basketball Association, and the leader of the training team.

Li Ke also knows Li Yuanwei. In the most glorious era of the men's basketball team, Li Yuanwei was the boss of the Basketball Association, but his greatest contribution was not the men's basketball team, but the CBA League.

He has made great contributions to the commercialization of CBA. To some extent, he is considered David Stern of CBA.

However, due to excessive commercialization, the foreign players in the CBA League were in power, and young players had no chance. Some teams even completely gave up youth training, resulting in the men's basketball team's talent outage for about 10 years.

Although the blame was taken by Xin Lancheng, who later took office...

The leaders of the Basketball Association are different from the Football Association. They don’t have so many black spots. The biggest black spot is probably the training fee, but in terms of training fee, the Basketball Association has also taken the blame for the General Manager.

Training fees are the general requirement, and up to 50% of the players' personal income must be charged according to regulations.

The Basketball Association is quite humane, only 5%. Later, Yao Yao scored a score, but he refused to accept it.

So, from this perspective, the Basketball Association is quite easy to talk to.

Of course, maybe Li Yuanwei is easier to talk to.

An example that can be used as a supporting example is that in the incident of Dazhi's failure to return, Xin Lancheng was very wrong. Later, Li Yuanwei took office and urged Dazhi to return.

Sure enough, Li Ke and Lu Ning sat in front of Li Yuanwei, and after a few words, Li Yuanwei agreed.

"Yes, no problem!"

Then, it was like a leader talking, and he said a lot:

"Xiao Li, I support you athletes who go abroad to study abroad. I agree with Yi Jianlian. Let him go directly to the United States to practice, and there is no need to participate in the joint practice."

"If you say that, this is the first time you have come here. I will run in for half a month. Yunas feels that it's OK, and you can leave."

As we said this, the time shortened again, and it turned out to be half a month.

Yunas' satisfaction?

Li Ke felt that the problem was not big.

Yunas is a famous European coach, emphasizing skills and tactics and teamwork.

Li Ke is from NCAA, and his skills and team are much better than these "rough brothers" in China.

Not to mention, purely personal strength, he is also better than the outside of this group of men's basketball team.

After taking leave from Li Yuanwei, Lu Ning left. Li Ke and Yao and Lianmei are still different. Except for the men's basketball team, he has no other interaction with the Basketball Association.

Under the leadership of the staff, Li Ke quickly met the coaching staff of the men's basketball team.

Yunas, the European coach nicknamed Caesar, is the head coach of this training team and even the Olympic men's basketball team.

There is also Guo Shiqiang, the general manager of the Chinese coaching team.

As soon as he saw Li Ke, Yunas didn't respond much. He just said a few welcome words and asked Guo Shiqiang to take Li Ke to select jerseys and training equipment.

In comparison, Guo Shiqiang said a lot.

"I've heard of the famous name for a long time, Li Ke."

"Guide Guo was joking."

"No, absolutely not, you don't know, I have a little nephew who watched your game and went to the United States a few days ago."

"ah!"

Li Ke shouted in surprise.

Guo Shiqiang laughed: "Don't be nervous, I'm just going to play in the United States."

"Have you gone to the United States to play? How old is he?"

"Fourteen or fifteen? No matter what, I've gone to Chicago to study in high school. Like you, I mainly use basketball and supplemented with academics."

"So that's the case, Director Guo, then give me his contact information. I'll go back to the United States and have time and chances, so go and see him."

"Then the relationship is good!"

A moment later, Li Ke, who had already put on the men's basketball training uniform, appeared on the side of the training ground.

Yao Yao was the first to see Li Ke, or there were others who saw Li Ke, but they were not as enthusiastic as Yao Yao.

"Li Ke, I've wanted to know you for a long time!"

"Haha, Brother Yao, so do I..."

Is he... yes?

Li Ke thought, it seemed that he had the opportunity to go to Houston on his own initiative, but he had never been there. On the one hand, he was a little afraid of taking the initiative to go over. Brother Yao ignored him, which would be awkward.

But now, Brother Yao is like the rumored Yishao, approachable and enthusiastic...

"To be honest, I was preparing to go there during the NCAA finals and bought all the tickets, but unfortunately, I happened to have some minor injuries at that time..."
To be continued...