Chapter 1320

Xiao Yao flew back to China with a private training team from the United States. After only one day's rest, he went directly to the East China Sea Sharks trial training team that Chen Yang contacted for him.

As early as not long after Chen Yang returned home, Xiao Yao contacted Chen Yang and formally replied that he was willing to try professional basketball and asked Chen Yang to help contact the team for trial training.

Chen Yang's first thing after returning home is to summarize the performance of the Chinese men's basketball team in this world cup. Before the conclusion meeting of his national team was over, he received a call from Xiao Yao, saying that he was willing to switch to professional basketball. Chen Yang felt that this was a rare piece of good news in his depressed mood during the summing up meeting.

It was Chen Yang who bewitched Xiao Yao into playing professional basketball. Of course, he was very concerned about it. As soon as the summing up meeting was over, Chen Yang started to do it.

First of all, Chen Yang has to choose the right team for Xiao Yao.

Although Xiao Yao often plays guard when attacking and plays inside when defending in several performance games, he seems to be competent from the inside to the outside and from position 1 to position 5, but that's because all or most of the players in the performance games are amateurs. Xiao Yao's height has an advantage among ordinary people, so it seems that he can play in any position. When it comes to professional sports, Xiao Yao is less than 1.9 meters tall, so it is absolutely impossible to play inside and attack. Basically, only the guard can play.

A team cannot have only one player in one position. Any player who wants to play must face the competition of the same position players in the team. Then whether a player can play or not is closely related to the situation of the players in the same position in the team. Chen Yang's position for Xiao Yao is a guard, so it's more likely for Xiao Yao to move the team and get a professional contract through trial training when he goes to those teams with weaker strength on the guard line.

The second step is to select the team that has signed Xiao Yao.

This space includes player quota space and team salary space.

There is a limit to the number of players in the first team of the Chinese basketball team. Each team can only have 18 players at most. Although some Chinese professional basketball teams also have their own youth teams, there is an age limit for the players of Chinese professional basketball team. They can't be more than 23 years old. Xiao Yao is 24 years old, over the age limit of the youth team, to sign can only sign the first team.

According to the rules of China Vocational basketball team, the number of players that each team can play in each game is 12, which should be submitted at the pre match joint meeting on the morning of the game. In other words, although the number of first-team players in the team is 18, only 12 players can sit on the bench in each game, and there will always be some players who can't play. This has also resulted in that although the team will basically fill up 18 players when submitting the list of first-team players before the start of the season, there will be some "make up" personnel in some teams who can't basically enter the 12 player list.

Different from the previous CBA Players registration deadline and publicity date in September, the deadline for the submission of the first-team player list of the world's China professional basketball team is at the end of October before the start of the season. It is still more than a month before the start of the new season, and it is far from the deadline for the team to submit the list of first-team players. Although the draft conference has ended long ago and many major player transactions have been completed, the transfer period of China Vocational basketball team is linked with the submission of the first team list. If the player list is not submitted, the team can sign players.

Even at this time, the lineup configuration of many teams has been basically completed, but because some teams have "make up" players, there will still be room to sign Xiao Yao.

As for salary space, it refers to the team salary cap. The so-called salary cap refers to the upper limit of the total salary paid by the League to all players. However, this does not have much influence on Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao has never played a professional game before. If the team that signed with China professional basketball team is a rookie, the team can only sign a rookie contract with him. League Rookie contract salary cap is also stipulated, the amount of course is not high, most of the team's salary space to sign a rookie contract is no problem.

After a selection, Chen Yang chose several Chinese professional basketball teams that he thought were more suitable. He personally contacted the management and head coach of the team, revealed to them Xiao Yao's idea of changing his career to play professional basketball, and asked them if they were willing to accept Xiao Yao's trial training.

In Chen Yang's opinion, encouraging Xiao Yao to play professional basketball is actually a whim he came up with, which seems to be some "whimsical" idea. After all, Xiao Yao has not undergone any systematic and professional basketball training, and he is 24 years old. The team can't sign a youth team contract with him, but can only sign a first-team contract with him. It's not that Chen Yang thinks it's impossible for Xiao Yao to go to the professional team for trial training, but at least it takes him a lot of words.

But what he didn't expect was that before he had time to "persuade" them, all the teams showed great enthusiasm and said that they could arrange Xiao Yao for trial training.

In fact, as an entertainment star, Xiao Yao's popularity and topicality in China are very high. As one of the most closely related entertainment stars between China and basketball, Xiao Yao is also well-known among Chinese basketball fans. Most of the time, popularity and topic can be transformed into benefits.Of course, it doesn't mean that any entertainment star can bring great benefits to the team just by going to the trial training of professional teams.

First of all, Xiao Yao is really good at basketball. With the performance of three MVPs in three performance competitions at home and abroad, Xiao Yao's voice of playing professional basketball has not completely disappeared. Of course, these are not the polite remarks of basketball professionals or some players, but in the eyes of many basketball professionals, Xiao Yao at least seems to have the foundation and possibility to play a professional game through trial training.

Secondly, different from some idol stars who are ridiculed by fans for being set up by basketball players and playing basketball enthusiastically, Xiao Yao is a serious and good player of Chinese basketball fans. In addition, Xiao Yao has taken publicity photos for the National Men's basketball team and women's basketball team, written and sang the theme song for the league, and actually done a lot for Chinese basketball. His image and reputation among Chinese basketball fans are very good.

Although some people still say that it's hype for him to go to the trial training of a professional team, even if he doesn't pass the trial training in the end, the fans and the public will be much less disgusted with it than the ordinary entertainment stars.

However, shortly after the world cup, especially when some netizens on the Internet criticized the national team, they brought Xiao Yao's comments. It is easy for some people to interpret him as disdaining or even disdaining the backcourt players of the national team who did not perform well in the world cup, which may cause some players, fans and even some basketball fans The disgust and disgust of professionals. The clubs that accept Xiao Yao's trial training will inevitably be affected by some negative effects.

However, compared with Xiao Yao, the "star player", which can bring about the positive effects in terms of ticket sales and sponsorship, and in terms of improving the team's popularity, this negative effect is not so important.

In general, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages of signing Xiao Yao. Of course, the premise is that Xiao Yao can really play professional games and the team can really sign him.

What Chen Yang said is trial training, not forcing the team to waste a quota and a salary to sign Xiao Yao directly. Xiao Yaoxing or not, these professionals can judge by trial and training. Since the initiative of signing is in the hands of the team, Xiao Yao is at least worth giving them a trial training opportunity.

Now it's very close to the start of the season. It's a little troublesome for the team to arrange trial training again. But considering the great tangible and intangible value Xiao Yao's signing can bring to the team, it's just for this possibility, and it's also worth the team to arrange a trial training for Xiao Yao temporarily.

Therefore, Chen Yangyi said that the clubs were surprised and all expressed their willingness to let Xiao Yao go for trial training.

Trial training takes time. Generally speaking, it takes at least one week for a player to try out in a team. Chen Yang has contacted several teams, they are willing to let Xiao Yao go to trial training, but Xiao Yao is impossible for every team to go to trial training once.

Chen Yang knows that Xiao Yao's wedding can't be cancelled, and the trial training must wait until after the wedding. After Xiao Yao's wedding, there are still about three weeks before the start of the new season. Chen Yang originally planned to arrange trial training for three teams for Xiao Yao, but after contacting Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao told Chen Yang that he would return home about 10 days before the start of the new season and only planned to go to trial training for one team.

Xiao Yao tells Chen Yang about going to the United States for about two weeks of special training after the wedding. Chen Yang heard that Xiao Yao was going to the United States to find professionals for special training, so as to try training in a better state, and he had no opinion.

Although more trial training for several teams may lead to more signing, generally speaking, after the trial training for one team, they will not go to another team for trial training. It is also a normal practice for Xiao Yao to concentrate on preparing for a trial training.

Chen Yang sent Xiao Yao the information of several clubs willing to let him go to the trial training. He also introduced and analyzed the information and made some suggestions. But in the end, Chen Yang didn't take over the job and let Xiao Yao make up his own mind.

Chen Yang contacted several teams, including his former parent team, Donghai sharks, but Chen Yang suggested that Xiao Yao's trial team was not the sharks, but the other two teams. Chen Yang suggested that Xiao Yao go to the trial training of two teams, one is the guard line strength is relatively the worst, one is the team's overall strength is relatively the worst. The reason why Chen Yang suggested these two teams is that it is relatively easy for Xiao Yao to obtain stable playing time and starting position in the short term, and that Xiao Yao is more likely to become the core player of the team in China in the medium term.

As a result, Xiao Yao did not listen to Chen Yang's suggestion, but chose to go to the East China Sea Sharks for trial training.

Of course, Xiao Yao chose the East China Sea Sharks for trial training not because he was Chen Yang's former parent team, nor because the team had invited him for trial training a few years ago, but simply because the East China Sea Sharks were in Shencheng. Xiao Yao's company and studio are all in Shencheng, and his married residence is also in Shencheng. He chose Donghai shark just because he didn't need to move, which would reduce a lot of trouble.

Chen Yang didn't agree with Xiao Yao's choice, but he didn't persuade Xiao Yao to change his decision after he heard that Xiao Yao was going to take advantage of the former all star relationship of NBA and found a top trainer in the United States to set up a personal training team to train him.After returning home, Xiao Yao went to the sharks for trial training according to the arrangement of Chen Yang and the sharks.

Xiao Yao didn't want to make a lot of noise in the trial training stage. Originally, he wanted to wait until he passed the trial training and officially announced when he signed the contract, so he asked the sharks to keep his trial training as secret as possible and not to inform the media.

After listening to Chen Yang, Xiao Yao had a trial training in the United States for two weeks after his wedding, and the sharks did not doubt Xiao Yao's determination to play professional basketball and sincerity. The sharks didn't want Xiao Yao to think that it was pure hype for them to let him come for trial training. They also wanted him to see the purpose and sincerity of the team to let him come for trial training and sign a contract, so they agreed.

Just did not expect, a club "internal staff" or the news ahead of time exposed out.

Xiao Yao knows the news value of his career change to play professional basketball, and his request is to keep it as secret as possible, so he has no intention to investigate after the exposure of the matter, and does not ask the shark club to track down the "internal staff" who disclosed the information, and continue the trial training step by step according to the trial training process of the shark team.

After Xiao Yao's trial training in a professional club broke out, many media asked for an interview. Xiao Yao himself is busy with trial training, so he has no time to be interviewed. The responses of Xiao Yao studio and the sharks are very official, and the reporters don't think there are many attractive concerns. Therefore, while excavating the real reason why Xiao Yao intends to change his career in professional basketball, many media also put forward the requirement of entering the field to shoot Xiao Yao's trial training process for reporting to the sharks.

Many teams have media open hours for training, and it's not that there are no training videos on the Internet and media. Although the players' trial training is different from the team's training, considering Xiao Yao's star status, it doesn't seem impossible.

If Xiao Yao's information is exposed before he comes for trial training, the media reporters will put forward the request to enter the field for shooting. Maybe the sharks will allow the media reporters to enter the field for shooting after asking Xiao Yao's own opinions. But the media got the news that Xiao Yao had been training for two days. Just with these two days of trial training, the sharks did not ask Xiao Yao's opinion. First of all, they did not agree and directly refused the media's request.

General players to the team training, the first thing to do is physical examination, and then physical examination. Some physical examination items are also carried out together during physical examination. After Xiao Yao finished the physical examination and physical test, the results surprised the management and coaches of the shark team. In addition to Xiao Yao's performance in the next two days of training, the coaching staff of the sharks basically identified Xiao Yao as a "monster", a monster that the team can use as a secret weapon at the beginning of the new season.

Since it is possible to be used as a secret weapon for the team in the new season, the team will not allow Xiao Yao's trial training to be seen by other teams and let Xiao Yao's situation be known by others in advance. Therefore, the shark team not only refused the request of media reporters to come in and shoot reports, found and handled the staff who leaked the information, but also strictly controlled the training site, strictly ordered the staff of the club not to shoot the video of Xiao Yao's trial training without permission.

Even if Xiao Yao is a star, the team has no obligation to disclose his trial training process to the public. The sharks did not agree with the media reporters to enter the shooting, and there was no way for the media reporters.

Xiao Yao's trial training video can't be captured, but Xiao Yao's trial training of professional teams has been confirmed by all parties, and this topic has been on the hot search for several days, and it continues until the end of Xiao Yao's trial training.

A few days later, while the media and the public were waiting for the news of Xiao Yao's trial results, the sharks officially announced that they would hold a news conference to sign a contract with Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao has never played a professional game. He is not the top pick in the draft. He is not a star player in the league. Signing Xiao Yao is just a rookie, not a heavyweight signing. It seems to be a bit of a fuss to open a conference for a rookie player. But considering Xiao Yao's popularity, especially the popularity of the recent incident, it seems to be a normal thing for the sharks to open this conference.

When the sharks informed the media that it was a signing conference, it means that Xiao Yao has passed the trial training, which is no suspense, but the media present at this conference is still far more than the sharks had expected.

Xiao Yao's signing with the sharks is a sports event, which should be concerned by the sports media. The sharks only informed some familiar sports media. However, due to Xiao Yao's identity, many entertainment media who heard the news on the day of the press conference also came uninvited and asked for admission to interview. After discussing with Xiao Yao, the sharks let in all those who came.

The process of the press conference is relatively fixed. At the beginning of the host's introduction, the general manager, head coach and Xiao Yao of the shark team spoke respectively, and then the two sides signed the contract. After the signing of the contract, there was also a session where the general manager of the team and Xiao Yao took photos together with a shirt printed with Xiao Yao's name and the number of the shirt they would wear in the team. But because there are a lot of reporters here today, and they are eager to try, there are obviously a lot of questions, so today's press conference has a reporter's question session, and the session of holding the shirt for a group photo is put at the end.Whether it's sports media or entertainment media, the most concerned is of course the reason why Xiao Yao suddenly changed his career to play basketball. At the beginning of the question session, the question was thrown to Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao naturally won't tell the story of Chen Yang's bewitching him. He just says that he wants to try the experience of a professional athlete.

Next, there are many problems about the performance of Xiao Yao's trial training, which are mainly for the team. The general manager and the coach of the team were asked a lot of questions. However, for these questions, the team has been prepared for a long time. Even for the question of whether Xiao Yao is interested in Xiao Yao's fame and influence as an entertainment star, the team's answers are not easy to find out.

After nearly an hour of media questioning, the press conference finally came to the last item.

When Xiao Yao and the general manager of the team held up the No. 23 shirt he was going to wear in the team to face the media, the flash light on the scene immediately lit up.

"This is the beginning of a new journey." Facing countless reporters holding cameras below, Xiao Yao, who kept smiling, breathed in his heart and said in secret.

(end of the book)