Looking for a house still has to be pushed back a little bit, because the door to the NBA free market officially opened on July 1.
At 10 a.m. on July 1, the Los Angeles Clippers held a small signing ceremony and officially announced that last season¡¯s MVP and two-time FMVP winner Wang Dalin had officially joined.
At this signing ceremony, another player signed with Wang Dalin to join the Clippers. He was Eddie House, Wang Dalin¡¯s best friend during his rookie season.
Wang Dalin and House haven¡¯t seen each other for a long time. The last time they met was at the Pistons¡¯ home game against the Heat on February 17.
House didn¡¯t expect that he could be teammates with Wang Dalin again. He seemed extremely excited. When taking pictures, he held his No. 55 jersey and almost burst into laughter.
Wang Dalin finally got his wish and wore the No. 7 jersey He had always worn the No. 8 for the three seasons before this. However, he still liked the No. 7 the most, but he had never been able to choose this number due to various reasons.
Although Kobe was his idol in his previous life, and there was nothing wrong with wearing his No. 8 jersey, deep down in his heart he still longed to be a "bad guy" like Kevin Durant, so he has always been obsessed with Du Xiaoshuai's basketball team. I have a soft spot for the No. 7 jersey from the Nets era.
And his current style of play and various skills are getting closer and closer to the peak "God of Death". Otherwise, why would the fans give him the nickname "The God of Death"?
If you include the blessing effects of many star skills, he is now even more terrifying than Durant at his peak.
"The outside offense is probably about the same, but Durant is definitely not as good as him in inside offense As far as Du Xiaoshuai's physical strength is concerned, it will not be considered first-class in the small ball era of later generations. There is definitely no one above 90.
After signing the contract, Wang Dalin and House had a sumptuous lunch together, and then the two of them found a housing agency to solve the accommodation problem first.
Eddie House didn¡¯t make much money in the first three seasons, and his commercial endorsements were meager, so he was not planning to buy real estate in Los Angeles.
The housing prices in Los Angeles, no matter how low they are, are still much higher than those in Detroit.
Wang Dalin spent US$500,000 on the villa along the Detroit River. The price is now estimated to have dropped below US$400,000Detroit¡¯s real estate environment makes me cry if I talk about it too much!
With House's net worth, it's not unaffordable to buy a three-bedroom house in downtown Los Angeles. However, he only signed a two-year, $1.575 million contract with the Clippers, and he doesn't know what he can do here. How long would he stay, so he decided to rent a house first.
This is the dilemma faced by most of the bottom players in the NBA On the surface, they all appear to be millionaires, but in fact, they only have so little money after tax, and it is difficult to buy a decent house.
House just wanted to rent a two-bedroom apartment in downtown Los Angeles. This request was very simple. The staff of the housing agency quickly selected several apartments for him and took him to see the apartment.
Wang Dalin was in more trouble. He followed the manager of the real estate agency to Beverly Hills to see several large villas, but he was not satisfied It's not that these houses are not good, it's because he is using future generations again. See things from a different perspective.
How can the common house design and decoration concepts in 2003 compare with those in 2021?
What's more, many of the houses in Beverly Hills are old houses from the last century, and some are even antique villas from the 1920s. Although their interior decorations are extremely luxurious, the exteriors do not look that good, and they are a bit dusty. sense of staleness.
Maybe foreigners and Chinese people have different aesthetic values. Anyway, Wang Dalin just doesn¡¯t like this kind of old house that looks old and it¡¯s not that big in scale, and it has to be made in the style of a European castle. Is it weird that it looks good?
He prefers mansions that look cool, just like the seaside cliff mansion where Iron Man was blown up in the Marvel movie, which looks full of modern technology.
In fact, there are many cool-looking houses in Beverly Hills, but most of those houses were built after 2010, and there were indeed very few at this time in 2003.
So he had to rent a small villa in the "flat area" of Beverly Hills. It is located south of Sunset Boulevard and the terrain is relatively flat. The housing prices are indeed much cheaper than those luxury villas halfway up the mountainside of Beverly Hills.
Just like the villa rented by Wang Dalin, it has a total of 2 living rooms, 1 dining room, 1 kitchen, 4 bedrooms, 1 study room, 3 bathrooms, with a construction area of ??more than 500 square meters, and an outside area of ??more than 500 square meters. The monthly rent for a 300-square-meter courtyard is only US$27,000.
¡°If you have to buy it, it¡¯s not impossible, the price is just over 2.8 million US dollars, but Wang Dalin doesn¡¯t think it¡¯s necessary.
&nbVarious ability values ??do not require much training at all. On the other hand, it is also because he feels that the level of the trainers and assistant coaches of the NBA team is already very good.
Now, as long as the system does not release and there are no temporary tasks, he can only rely on training to improve his ability value, so at this stage, he thinks that he should really find a high-level trainer.
As a senior fan, he knows a lot about famous basketball trainers in the United States, such as Tim Grover, Jordan's official trainer, Gannon Baker, who has served many NBA stars, and Eaton, who has trained stars such as Anthony and Paul. .LaVine and more.
Wang Dalin called Schwartz and put forward his request. Soon Schwartz sent him good news Tim Grover agreed to be his personal trainer!
If you want to say who is the best trainer in North American basketball during this period, it is estimated that everyone will say the same name - Tim Grover!
When he was Jordan's personal trainer, Jordan once said to him: "I don't pay you to train me. I just don't want you to train others!"
So when Jordan was still playing on the court, even in the first two seasons with the Wizards, Grover has always been Jordan's official trainer.
Now that Jordan has finally retired, Grover has naturally returned to his idle state, but with his reputation, he has been looking for a lot of NBA stars.
It is said that Kobe invited him to be his personal trainer a few days ago, but for unknown reasons at the time, he declined.
This time Wang Dalin contacted him, and he actually agreed immediately. It seems that the "God of Death" is still more prestigious than the "Black Mamba"!
Of course you get what you pay for. Schwartz has already told Wang Dalin the price of Grover. He demands an annual salary of up to US$1 million per year, and there will be absolutely no bargaining!
One million U.S. dollars is naturally a sky-high price for a struggling role player like Eddie House, but for Wang Dalin, it is just a drop in the bucket The signing fee given to him by Li Ning a few days ago alone was 3 million U.S. dollars. !
Wang Dalin called Kobe and told him the good news. Kobe was also very happy. Although Grover refused to be his personal trainer, now that everyone is training together, can't they just "fuck" the trainer openly? ?
So, on July 3, 2003, the first "Death Special Training Camp" officially opened (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com