Chapter 18 Jordan's First Dynasty
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Since officially participating in the Jazz rookie training camp, Lin Han has become the absolute star of this training camp, especially after coming here on the first day, he was completely out of here, such as Evan Myers, who is qualified to enter the NBA.
However, what made Lin Han a little embarrassed was that although he was very powerful in the Jazz rookie training camp now, not many people were willing to mingle with him. These rookies more worshipped him like a great god, which directly led to many powerful rookie players in the second position leaving the training camp for the next period of time.
According to others, after Lin Han came here, they basically couldn't have the chance to join the Jazz. It's better to take a while to take the draft in Auburn Hills on June 30, 1993. It might be better to try it out at other teams, so for the training camps held by NBA teams themselves, the flow of players is very large.
Of course, because of Lin Han's arrival, the players who left naturally had the first day to provoke Lin Han, and were severely hit by Lin Han. This guy was almost a dominant player in the training camp before. After such a player failed, he basically couldn't stay here anymore, so he naturally left in shame.
However, what comforted Lin Han was that although the players here were more or less rejecting a "popular" rookie like him, after staying here for three days, the team welcomed a rookie player who Lin Han was very familiar with, Lin Han's teammate in the genius training camp, Aron Williams.
After finishing the Supersonics trial, the inside came to the Jazz. According to Aron Williams, although the Supersonics lacked people in the interior, they already had a very clear goal. He had no chance to be selected by this team. Just like the shooting guards who left the Jazz not long ago, a rookie with "dominate power" like Lin Han appeared in the Supersonics training camp. So when Aron Williams heard from his agent that the Jazz was looking for high-quality inside players, he was also excited to come here.
"Lin, you have become the first guy among us. Now the Jazz has put all the focus on you. Even that guy Van Eksel is not as good as you."
In the Jazz training camp, Aron Williams was feeding Lin Han the ball. Looking at Lin Han who shot the basketball in his hand with an almost perfect Jordan-style jump shot again and again, Aron Williams said with some emotion. Speaking of which, their teammates in the genius training camp were really the brightest in Lin Han's future.
Of course, it is naturally impossible to count Hardaway as Hardaway and the other four people are not on the same level. Apart from Hardaway, Lin Han has now become the focus of the Jazz's four people. Two days after coming here, Aaron Williams could clearly feel that the focus of the Jazz's assistant coach Fier Johnson's work is on Lin Han's side. Although the team's head coach Jerry Sloan rarely comes to the team, every time he comes to the team, he only pays attention to Lin Han's situation. Others do not seem to be in the eyes of this Jazz head coach. Of course, this also allows Aaron Williams to gain some benefits. It can be said that if everything is normal, Lin Han doesn't even need to worry about whether he can enter the NBA. The Jazz may even use the first round signing to choose Lin Han.
Apart from Lin Han, Van Eksel is in the best situation for the others. The cancer point guard seems to be attracted by the Lakers' general manager Jerry West and is being inspected by the Lakers. As for another inside line, Antonio Harvey, this goal-board inside line like him, almost no one seems to be interested in it, and is still looking for teams to try out. Judging from the current trend, this inside line with a fate similar to his is probably difficult to be selected. After all, although there are still more than twenty days left before the draft, twenty days are actually not long, and the time left for them is not as much as they imagined.
“Being valued is also a very troublesome thing.”
After Aaron Williams finished speaking with emotion, Lin Han also shot the basketball in his hand again. Regardless of the posture or movement, Lin Han's jump shot was still very similar to Jordan, which made the Jazz General Manager Scott Rayden and assistant coach Fier Johnson, who had been observing Lin Han, extremely excited.
Lin Han came here and indeed received support from everyone at the top and bottom management of the Jazz. Whether it was the team's head coach Jerry Sloan, the team's general manager Scott Rayden, the team's assistant coach Fier Johnson, and other trainers of the team were very concerned about Lin Han. Even Lin Han's first professional training plan in his career was designed by these guys for many days. It can be said that these guys really did not regard Lin Han as an outsider.
Of course, it is impossible for the Jazz to support Lin Han so much. They hope that Lin Han can stay with the Jazz and no longer plan to try out for other teams. These guys even promised to choose him in this year's NBA draft, and try to use the team's first round pick to choose Lin Han. Even if they did not use the first round pick to choose Lin Han, the Jazz general manager Scott Rayden also promised that they would definitely give Lin Han the treatment of the first round rookie.
What is the treatment of a first-round rookie? It is naturally a so-called guarantee contract. In the current NBA, the starting salary of a first-round rookie is 600,000 US dollars. Therefore, even if Lin Han did not go to other teams to try out and the Jazz did not sign him, resulting in his ultimate defeat, he would get the Jazz's annual salary of 600,000 US dollars.
For Lin Han, this is a very huge **, so after thinking about it again and again, Lin Han finally chose to agree to the Jazz's request. Although he was unable to finally cheat Jerry West from the Lakers, it would be very good if the Jazz could really pay such a price for him.
Don’t think that the annual salary of 600,000 in NBA is a very low number. Jordan’s annual salary this year is only 4 million US dollars, and Pippen’s annual salary is only 3.5 million. Even the Jazz’s two leaders, Malone’s annual salary is 2.85 million, Stockton’s 2.2 million, Jeff Malone’s third leader, the team’s third leader, Jeff Malone, is 1.95 million, and the salary cap of each team in NBA is only 14 million.
Therefore, the Jazz guarantees that Lin Han’s annual salary will not be less than 600,000 yuan, although not much, but definitely not much. Moreover, the Jazz did not say that Lin Han will really have only 600,000 yuan in the future. If the Jazz chooses Lin Han with their No. 18 lottery, then Lin Han’s average annual salary will reach 800,000 yuan.
Of course, although the Jazz gave Lin Han a very good treatment, it also brought some trouble to Lin Han. For example, in recent times, many official players of the Jazz will come to disturb Lin Han, especially some official players who have gradually lost their position in the team, such as the team's substitute guard Jane Humphries. This 84 Golden Generation defender has performed terrible in the playoffs this season. He can only contribute 5 points per game, and his shooting percentage is even more than 30%.
When he was with the Bucks, he was able to average 15 points per game in the playoffs and had a shooting percentage of more than 50%. Last season, he signed a three-year, 5.5 million contract and then went straight to the Jazz. You know, this guy's annual salary ranks fourth in the team, only lower than the three leading players on the team. It can be said that after the Jazz reached the Western Conference Finals last year, he wanted to go further this season and poached him at a high price. But in the end he disappointed everyone.
Fortunately, although Humphries wanted to make trouble for Lin Han, after seeing Lin Han's performance in the team's matchup, the NBA84 Golden Generation defender was still timid and did not really take action.
Of course, when Lin Han stabilized with the Jazz, the time for the NBA draft was getting closer and closer.
This year's NBA Finals also came to an end on June 20. Although the Chicago Bulls encountered a tenacious blockade from the Suns led by Barkley, they finally killed the game with the team's substitute guard John Paxson with 3.9 seconds left to the end of the game. In the end, the Chicago Bulls defeated the Suns 4-2 at home and successfully defended their title, which also made their first dynasty.
As for Barkley, although the new regular season MVP performed well in this year's finals, his luck was too bad and he still failed to reach the top.
Chapter completed!