The rise of the NBA superstar

Chapter 12, Contract Signing
Li Senlin is actually a bit strange about some of the rules of the modern NBA. For example, he was obviously a player selected by the Thunder, but he signed a "10-day short contract" instead of the non-guaranteed contract for second-round picks.

明明在李森林前世的记忆里，每个赛季的1月6号之后的NBA才允许球队签订“10天短合同”的球员，而今世他却在11月初就跟球队签订“10天短合同”了。

It seems that some signing rules in the NBA are different from those in the previous life, so we need to hire a professional agent in the future.

Otherwise, if you apply the rules of your previous life here, you may suffer a big loss. Although the signing rules in Li Senlin's two memories are roughly the same, there are some differences, but when it comes to the contract, you still have to be on the safe side.

Li Senlin followed general manager Sam Presti to his office.

The two sat down facing each other on both sides of the desk.

Sam Presti spoke first:
"Li, in view of your high-level competitive performance in training and competition during the 20 days here, Coach Brooks and I are very optimistic about your future, so we decided to sign you. I hope you can help the Thunder in the next battle. the match of."

"Well, Coach Brooks has also given me a lot of help during this time, and I am very grateful for his guidance."

"Okay, here is a one-year guarantee contract of 80 US dollars, are you willing to accept it? If you perform well in the future, the contract price will increase when you renew next year."

The Thunder are very stingy now, after all, they can force Harden's team away because of 500 million, and the local tyrants can't go anywhere.

$80 a year, full insurance, Ohlahoma’s state tax rate is in the middle of the United States, and after deducting other random taxes, there will be about $52 left if you get it, uh, Li Senlin I think it's okay.

"Okay, can I advance part of my salary in advance?"

Li Senlin gave up on negotiating for a salary increase, even if it was increased, it would not be much. He did not have a broker, and he was not proficient in salary negotiations.

The salary advance is really struggling recently, and now I need to rent a house in another place and buy a scooter.

In addition, if the lion accidentally opens his mouth, it will leave a bad impression on the general manager and the head coach. Now the team’s salary for players is not as generous as that of future bosses. As a marginal person, it’s better to be a little self-aware .

Although later Mike Conley could get an annual contract of 3000 million, but in the current era, Kobe can't get such a high salary.

What I need most now is playing time, so that I can complete tasks, gain experience points, and then improve my ability. When my ability improves, a big contract will come naturally.

As for finding an agent, now we can only look at it first.

When an NBA player signs an agent, he needs to pay 4% of the player's salary, and about 20% for the advertising contract.

Although it seems a bit much, a powerful agent can help you get a contract far beyond your strength, such as Parsons in later generations.

Of course, a bad agent can screw you over badly.

For example, the later Rockets Motel Yunes and Duncan's agent completely put the players to death.

... Facing Li Senlin's request for an advance salary, Presti replied: "OK, of course! You can go directly to the finance department later, and I will greet the finance department here. In addition, you are welcome to officially become a part of the Thunderclap." member."

Sam Presti is very generous. Anyway, the full guarantee contract money must be given in full, and there is not much problem in giving a part in advance.

He would not tell Li Senlin that the Supersonics plan to sign a non-guaranteed contract with him was shelved because of the Thunder's management mistakes, which also caused him to miss the time for the Thunder to sign. short-term contract".

There is no such thing as fair or unfair in this kind of thing. If Li Senlin had not been retained, then a mistake would have been a mistake.

But he stayed, and when Presti gave him the contract, he skipped the minimum annual salary and gave him a slightly higher salary, which was also somewhat compensatory.

Presti will not tell Li Senlin about this, so it is hard to say this kind of thing.Even if you sign a non-guaranteed contract, you may be waived, maybe you will only get about 10 US dollars, and then disappear from the NBA.

According to the relevant regulations of the NBA, the dates for the league to pay salaries are the 1st and 15th of each month. Starting from November 11th each year, players who sign contracts under the latest labor agreement will receive 15 salaries a year by default. , If the player's salary exceeds the league's basic salary, he can negotiate with the team to receive the full-year salary in 24 installments within 6 months, or in 12 installments within 18 months.

However, if you are fined for absent training, fined for technical (malicious) fouls, fined for being expelled from the game during the game, fined for being sent down to refuse to go to the Development League, and more seriously suspended, any player is suspended for every game (including Preseason, regular season and playoffs), 1/110 of the total annual salary of the year will be deducted, and the "income" from these fines and suspensions will be used for charitable activities through the league and the players union.

In addition to the ways of receiving regular season salaries, there are many ways for NBA players to receive salaries.

For example, in Li Senlin's memory, Kobe took nearly 2013 million US dollars from the Lakers account in 2000, which was 80% of his last contract. According to NBA regulations, players can receive the maximum percentage of salary in advance.

In the summer of 2014, after Anthony signed a five-year, $5 million contract with the Knicks, he received $1.24 million in advance at one time.

Of course, the premise of all this is that you have the strength to win the trust of your boss.

All this is still far away from Li Senlin.

After a while, Presti opened the door and took the newly printed contract from the assistant.

Presti gave the contract to Li Senlin. Li Senlin checked it out. The contract was in English. It was not for nothing that he had been in the United States for more than three years. At least he could understand it.

After reading it twice, the content was fine, so Li Senlin solemnly signed his name on the contract in duplicate.

"Li, this is your first professional contract, come on, let's take a group photo."

"OK"

Afterwards, Presti called his assistant from the door, the two held hands, and a photo of holding the contract was saved. This photo was uploaded to the official website soon, and this was officially announced, there was no press conference ,It's that simple.

With the signing of the official contract and the official website announcement, the local media also began to report.

"Welcome to the Ohlahoma City Thunder to usher in a new member, guard Li Senlin from China."

Below the huge title is Li Senlin's personal introduction, using a lot of words to describe his performance on the day of the game against the Lakers.

Soon, domestic sports media also inquired about relevant information.

Li Senlin has become the fourth Chinese currently playing in the NBA.

"Who is he?"

"25 points in a single quarter to lock the contract."

"The Chinese guard who was swayed by Kobe signed the Ohlahoma City Thunder."

Netizens and the media continued to break the news, and one piece of news began to come out.

The domestic media has also begun to pay attention to Li Senlin, and some relatively large sports media have begun to send reporters to Ohlahoma City to station. After all, Li Senlin is now an official contract worker of the NBA.

The moment Li Senlin signed the contract, the system also "ding", but Li Senlin was still immersed in the joy of signing the contract and didn't notice it.

After signing the contract, Li Senlin first went to the financial side and received about one-third of his salary, which was $17.

(End of this chapter)