The summer league is indeed quite different from the NBA regular season, but a lot can still be seen from the summer league, so after seeing such a comprehensive performance by Li Hao, many teams regretted it.
Especially for the Rockets, it's hard to say whether Li Hao can become the next Yao Ming, but he will definitely not become the next Sun Yue. As long as Li Hao can play a certain role in the team, it will be a sure-profit deal.
But Li Hao was not the most uncomfortable person for the Rockets, and they failed to form the Big Three. After James chose to return to the Cavaliers to play basketball in his hometown, Bosh chose to stay with the Heat with a maximum salary.
The Rockets are really stuck now. Love and the Rockets don't have enough chips, and others are not very suitable for the Rockets. Bosh is already on the market and is the best choice for the Rockets to form the Big Three.
In the past few days of the summer league, there has been constant news about the free market. Pau Gasol rejected the Lakers' more generous contract and chose to sign with the Bulls. Gasol wanted respect more than money.
In fact, it is understandable. Since entering the NBA in 2001, Gasol has earned hundreds of millions in annual salary in the NBA, and this is just the annual salary in the NBA, without other things. Don’t forget, Gasol is the face of Spain, so Gasol You are not short of money.
The Hornets want Jazz Hayward, and Boss Joe is very generous in offering a 4-year, 63 million contract, but the Jazz are unwilling to let him go. Hayward is a restricted player. As long as the Jazz choose to match, Boss Joe can only watch. With.
But in the future, Boss Joe still got Hayward, but at that time, Boss Joe quickly regretted it, because Hayward was not as good as Boss Joe thought, and was even a little poisonous.
Boss Qiao's ability to judge people is inversely proportional to his skills. How good his skills are is how bad his judgment of people is. Anyway, in Li Hao's impression, Boss Qiao has never done any business without losing money.
Back to the Lakers, after failing to pursue James, the Lakers stumbled on Anthony again. After a period of consideration, Anthony chose to renew his contract with the Knicks with a maximum salary.
Anthony's decision almost broke the Lakers' back. Anthony had already broken up with the Knicks before, and almost everyone concluded that Anthony would leave New York. As a result, the reverse happened.
In fact, Anthony's choice is understandable. Los Angeles is indeed no worse than New York, but the Lakers have such a great god as Kobe. Anthony has been the boss of the team since he entered the league. He is used to being the boss and naturally does not want to be someone's younger brother.
Anthony is still at the end of his prime and is not yet the veteran who will chase championships in the future, so the Lakers' failure is actually understandable.
It can even be said that as long as Kobe does not retire, there will be no superstars coming to the Lakers.
The Lakers' recruitment of superstars is destined to fail, but it is still possible to recruit ordinary players. After the Bulls signed Gasol, they pardoned Boozer. Then the Lakers won the bidding against the Rockets and Heat to sign the former All-Star.
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The signings of various teams in the free market are in full swing, and the Lakers players who have finished in Las Vegas have already boarded a plane back to Los Angeles. The Lakers will not play any more games until the start of the preseason in October.
This also represents a free time for the players, but most of them don't have leisure time on vacation. Of course, this does not include Li Hao and Randall.
Li Hao signed a 1+1 contract with the Lakers early and performed well in the summer league. Everyone can see that the Lakers will give Li Hao a certain chance next season.
As for Randall, there is no need to worry. As early as the second game of the summer league, Randall signed a 2+1+1 contract with the Lakers, and as the No. 7 pick in the first round, Randall I am also a key training target of the Lakers.
But this does not mean that the two of them can have a peaceful vacation. What is the NBA? It is the highest palace of basketball. The players who can enter the NBA are not geniuses among geniuses. It is no exaggeration to say that they are just any water cooler guardians in the NBA. They are unshakable main players in their respective national teams.
Therefore, if you want to gain a foothold here, you must have talent and work hard at the same time, and Li Hao is planning to use this holiday to continue to strengthen his strength.
But before the official start, Li Hao has other things to do, and that is to go back to China first. For this week's summer league, Holtz has already negotiated several commercial endorsements for Li Hao with the Yao team.
Li Hao is very popular now, but after all, he has never really played in the NBA, so the money will not be too much, but even this is a very considerable income for Li Hao, even far more than his current annual salary with the Lakers.
Li Hao knew his future very well, so he did not choose to sign long-term contracts with these commercial endorsements. All contracts were only for one year.
I can’t say how much it will double next year, but it is definitely possible to at least double it, so Li Hao is not in a hurry to sign a long-term contract.
In addition to ordinary commercial endorsements, several domestic sneaker manufacturers have also approached Li Hao. Compared with sneaker endorsements, Li Hao is now less anxious, and it is impossible for these manufacturers to offer high prices to Li Hao now.
"I should be able to come back by early August at the latest." Li Hao, who returned to Los Angeles, first had a phone call with Kobe Bryant. Kobe Bryant had promised Li Hao that the training team could be shared before the league started.
"That's good, we can go back to Los Angeles together then," Kobe said.
"Well, you are also going to China?" Kobe is probably the NBA star who goes to China most frequently. In recent years, I have been to China almost every year.
The NBA has been promoting globally, and China is a very important strategic location for the NBA. NBA stars come to China almost every year to participate in activities.
Just say that this year, in addition to Kobe, there are many NBA players coming to China. Of course, the one that Chinese fans are looking forward to the most is definitely Li Hao.
Li Hao is just a rookie now, but he is a Chinese. Coupled with his outstanding performance in the Las Vegas Summer League, Chinese fans have more expectations for Li Hao.
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On the afternoon of July 19, when Li Hao walked out of the Capital International Airport, as many as three-digit fans gathered outside.
This was something Li Hao didn't expect. Of course, he didn't expect that there would be so many people. Li Hao had thought about the situation where fans would pick him up at the airport, otherwise there would be no commercial endorsements coming to his door. But Li Hao didn't expect that there would be. So many people.
But no matter what, Li Hao was very happy to see so many fans coming to pick him up at the airport, so Li Hao did not leave in a hurry, but ran to sign autographs for the fans.
"Li Hao, will you join the national team?" Some fans couldn't help shouting while Li Hao was signing autographs.
There are many media coming to pick him up at the airport, but they have no chance to contact Li Hao to ask this question, but the fans will not care about this.
"As long as the national team is willing to recruit me." Originally, Li Hao's idea was to practice leveling first, but after seeing these fans picking up the plane, Li Hao changed his mind.
