Entertaining Children

It is indeed not easy to be a professional athlete, but Zhou Zhihao knows that Xiao Yao's physical fitness is not inferior to professional athletes based on the countless fights with Xiao Yao in the boxing ring over the years. Zhou Zhihao dare not say whether Xiao Yao can play professional basketball, but if Xiao Yao switches to boxing or kickboxing, Zhou Zhihao knows that he is definitely a professional player.

Over the years, Xiao Yao has made up his mind to do very few things that he failed to accomplish. For more than a year, Zhou Zhihao felt that Xiao Yao could get a professional contract anyway, so he just verbally stimulated Xiao Yao. If you really want to bet, he will never do it.

What Zhou Zhihao didn't know was that for more than a year, before the new season next year, it was just Xiao Yao's backup choice for himself. What Xiao Yao is thinking about is to get a professional contract before this year's new season. For this reason, Xiao Yao also made preparations.

Generally speaking, professional players train in clubs and teams, but some stars also have their own private training teams. Although Xiao Yao is not even a professional player, in order to get a professional contract before the start of this year's new season, he also decided to form his own private training team.

Xiao Yao is not short of money, and he also has acquaintances in the professional field of basketball. For this private training team, he naturally wanted to find the top ones.

Top personal coaching teams generally serve top stars. The United States is recognized as the overlord of the basketball world. The world's top basketball stars are in the NBA, and the world's top basketball coaches and trainers are also in the United States.

When Xiao Yao was in Italy, he contacted Evans, whom he had met in exhibition matches, and asked him to help him find candidates for his personal training team. Evans was an NBA All-Star player and a top basketball star. After retiring, his work has always been related to basketball, so he is not only familiar with the American basketball circle, but also has a close relationship. Among the people he knows, there must be no shortage of talented personal training team members who are unemployed.

Hearing that Xiao Yao was going to switch to professional basketball, Evans was both surprised and excited. He was very interested in this matter, and he was very concerned about it, and soon connected him with several top professionals in the industry.

The private training team serves Xiao Yao, and Evans is just an intermediary introducer, and cannot sign an employment contract with them on behalf of Xiao Yao. Whether Xiao Yao and them can reach a cooperation and form a team can only be decided after the two parties meet and contact each other.

The day after Xiao Yao's wedding, after announcing to his relatives and friends that he was going to play professional basketball, he took Sun Tingting to the United States to meet the personal coaching team that Evans helped him find.

Choice goes both ways. Xiao Yao wants to see the personal trainer team, and the people in the personal trainer team also want to see Xiao Yao.

After listening to Evans introduce the resumes of these people and knowing which basketball superstars of the NBA they have coached or served respectively, Xiao Yao has no doubts about them.

On the contrary, those few did not directly approve of Xiao Yao, but asked Xiao Yao to do some tests according to their requirements. They have to read the test results before deciding whether to accept Xiao Yao's employment and cooperate with Xiao Yao.

These few used to guide or serve the top stars of the NBA. Now they are unemployed, not because they can’t find a job, but because they don’t want to work for the time being or they haven’t met their favorite employer. People of their level, the average NBA star may not be able to invite them. They were willing to meet Xiao Yao because this matter was special enough.

It is a very interesting and fulfilling thing for them to train an amateur player who has not undergone any systematic training and has become an outstanding professional player. This amateur player is also a well-known entertainment star, and he does not lack the attention of the media. If this matter is done, the impact will definitely be large, and it will be even more attractive to them.

Of course, there is a prerequisite for this matter, that is, this matter must be able to be done. And this is done, not just for amateur players to get professional contracts. According to their standards, even if a player can't become an All-Star, at least he must be a regular starter of a top league team to do this.

Although they have guided and served top players before, they also know how difficult it is for professional players to gain a foothold in the top league, and how difficult it is for amateur players to switch to professional. After playing in the top league, it must be even more difficult to be the main starter of a team. Ordinary amateur players probably couldn't do it, and it was because Evans said that the employer was Jan Xiao that they were willing to try and meet Xiao Yao.

As one of the co-MVPs of the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game a few years ago, Xiao Yao is not unknown in the American basketball circle. At least many people know that such an acting star plays basketball very well. Chinese star. Several of them also have an impression of the name Yang Xiao.

When Evans approached them, he not only showed them the video of Xiao Yao's participation in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game that year, but also showed them Xiao Yao's participation in the Charity Celebrity Game in Huaxia and the Huaqiao National Basketball Association earlier this year. Game video of the Basketball All-Star Celebrity Game. As professionals, they not only felt that Xiao Yao's performance in these three games was very good, but also saw that Xiao Yao didn't seem to do his best in these three games.

This failure to do his best does not mean that Xiao Yao deliberately hides his strength to play master ball. Xiao Yao must have gone all out in dealing with many rounds and many balls, otherwise it would not have been possible to score so many points and assists and win three MVPs. This failure to do his best means that Xiao Yao did not give his best throughout the game.

The three games are all star exhibition games, and it is normal for them not to perform at their full strength. The problem is that Xiao Yao did not give full play to get that kind of data. If the whole show did his best, what kind of result would it be? Although those three games were amateur or non-professional games dominated by amateur players, and Xiao Yao's opponents were basically amateur players, with limited reference value, they still saw Xiao Yao's huge potential to become an excellent professional player.

However, a game is a game after all, let alone a so-called exhibition game. After meeting Xiao Yao, several professionals still asked Xiao Yao to do some tests according to their methods, so as to understand Xiao Yao's basketball skills, understanding of tactics and physical fitness more comprehensively and in detail.

For this request, Xiao Yao did not reject it, and readily agreed to several people to do the test they requested.

The test took a total of two days, and the result not only satisfied several professionals, but even surprised them. Of course, it was the kind of surprise and surprise that was better than they expected.

Both parties are satisfied, the next step is to sign the employment contract.

These professionals each have their own professional fields, and they work together in the team, each responsible for different aspects. There are technical coaches in charge of action technical guidance and tactical explanations, data analysts in charge of video and data analysis, physical trainers in charge of physical fitness and strength training, nutritionists in charge of daily dietary nutrition to regulate the body, and in charge of sports injury treatment and post-exercise muscles Physician and therapeutic masseuse for recovery from fatigue. In the contract provided by Xiao Yao to them, the responsibilities, rights and remuneration of each person are different, but the duration of the contract is the same, which is a three-week short-term contract.

What Xiao Yao meant was: After the contract is signed, he will conduct a two-week special training in the United States with their guidance and help, and then he will participate in a trial training for a professional basketball club. If he passes the trial training and gets a professional contract, he will sign a long-term contract with them, and they will become Xiao Yao's long-term private team. If the trial training fails, whether it is Xiao Yao's problem or not, it means that the cooperation has not achieved good results, so...

Players in the NBA have short-term contracts of more than ten days, and a three-week short-term contract is not unthinkable for these people. It was the first time for Xiao Yao to deal with them, and this kind of result-only approach was also a normal thing in the thinking of Americans who valued interests more. If you can't become a professional player, you have to sign a long-term contract with them and support a group of them, that is a fool with a lot of money.

After the two parties signed the contract, Xiao Yao had his own personal training team. Next, there will be a two-week special training.

In response to Xiao Yao's situation, the training team formulated a very detailed and seemingly harsh training plan for Xiao Yao's two-week special training, and Xiao Yao gritted his teeth and persisted. And the effect of the two weeks of special training is quite obvious.

As Xiao Yao's "newly married" wife, Sun Tingting has been training with Xiao Yao during this time. Even if Sun Tingting is not a basketball professional, even if Sun Tingting is with Xiao Yao every day, she can clearly feel the changes in Xiao Yao in the past two weeks.

After the two weeks of special training, Xiao Yao is ready to take the training team back to China to participate in the trial training of professional clubs. This was originally agreed with the training team when the three-week short-term contract was signed, but on the eve of Xiao Yao notifying the training team that he was going back to China, the training team had other ideas.

"Do you have to go to China's club for trial training?" Technical coach Daniel Williams asked: "Although this year's NBA draft has ended, there are still about ten days before the start of the season. Sign a free agent. We can recommend you to the NBA team with Evans, and directly contact an NBA team to let you try out. With your ability and our reputation in the US basketball community, you It’s not like there’s no chance of getting an NBA contract.”

"Maybe it is possible." Xiao Yao said, "However, although there are still about ten days before the start of the season, the main framework of the players of the American professional basketball team should have been completed. Even if I can get a professional contract, Leaving aside the length of the contract, I think it will be difficult for me to get a lot of playing time in a short period of time, maybe I will be transferred to the Development League, and I will even have to fight for playing opportunities in the Development League.”

"It's not impossible," Daniel Williams nodded, and continued, "But this is a test and stage that many players have to go through. Could it be that if you go to a Chinese team, you can start directly? I think you probably still have to go through that stage."

"It's not the same," Xiao Yao shook his head. "The chance of being the starter is very small, but it's not impossible. More importantly, my reputation and influence in the United States cannot be compared with my reputation in China. So the opportunities I can get in the Chinese professional team, at least the early opportunities, are different from the opportunities I can get in the American basketball team."

"In Huaxia, there are really quite a few people who will buy tickets just to watch me." Xiao Yao continued, "As long as a team in the Huaxia Basketball Team signs me, it is unlikely that they will keep suppressing me from playing. Because the media and the public will criticize the team for signing me as pure hype, just to deceive the fans and my fans to buy tickets. The Chinese NBA does not have a development league for the team’s decentralized players to test and exercise, so at least at the beginning of the season, I will definitely be able to If you get a certain amount of playing time in the league, you will have opportunities to perform."

"But in the final analysis, players still need to be strong enough to gain a foothold in the team." Daniel Williams said, "With strength, even if you can't play in the early stage, you will wait for the opportunity later. Without strength, even if you play in the early stage If you don’t perform well, you won’t have a chance later on. Fans and fans like you, but if you don’t perform well, the team has a reason not to let you play. Even if the team sends you to play, the fans will boo you , ask the team to reduce or even deprive you of playing time."

"That's the reason." Xiao Yao nodded, "However, I think that in addition to one's own strength, the path and process of career development are also very important, and the improvement of one's own strength is also related to the development path and process."

"For example, Yang Chen," Xiao Yao gave an example, "I think if he hadn't played in the Chinese NBA for two years, won the championship of the Chinese NBA, the MVP of the regular season, and the MVP of the finals, he might not have Becoming the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. Not the No. 1 pick. Maybe he won’t have so much playing time in the early stages of entering the NBA, and he won’t become the main force or even the core of the team so quickly, and he won’t become a great star in the Hall of Fame in the end. So, I think starting with the NBA is a better choice."

"Yang Chen?" Daniel Williams thought for a while, then nodded unconsciously, "What you said also makes sense."

"Yang..." Daniel Williams spoke again, and suddenly smiled, "Ha, Yang, your name is also Yang, and you and Chen have the same name."

"No, Chen's name is Chinese, so his Chinese name is Yang." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "And my Chinese name is "yao", and Yang is the English name I chose myself."

"You named yourself Yang in English? Is it because of Chen?" Daniel Williams said with a smile, "You regard Chen as your idol, have you already planned to follow the path he walked in the past?"

"No!" Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "Chen's parents are both professional basketball players in Huaxia. Acting. Let me tell you a secret. When I was five years old, Chen once wanted to send me to receive professional basketball training, but I refused. Although I also liked basketball at that time, I also liked many other things. I never thought about being a professional basketball player."

"What a pity!" Daniel Williams shook his head and sighed, "If you had accepted Chen's suggestion back then, maybe you don't need us now, and you would have already become the main force in the NBA team."

"Maybe, but I don't think it's a pity." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "There is no doubt that Chen is a great player. But because I rejected Chen when I was young, now I have no professional and systematic basketball training. If I can achieve what Chen has achieved in basketball, then I will be a greater player than him."

"I like that you think so!" Daniel Williams laughed, "I think I like you even more. Let us work together to make you achieve this goal! Just as you said, let's go to the Chinese NBA team tryout!"

"No problem, let's do it!" The others also nodded in agreement.

"You will like Huaxia, believe me!" Xiao Yao laughed.

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