On May 19, early Saturday morning, Li Liang woke up from his sleep, got up and almost hit the beam of the house.

Zhu Shu’s apartment is a loft, with the bed placed under the beam of the room, and it will hit her head if she is accidentally.

Last night, Bai Xiaoting took Zhu Shu to her aunt's house in Changdao and asked her to stay there for a short time. This attic is temporarily left for Li Liang and Wei Dazhi.

Li Liang felt very lucky to know these two friends when he was at home and friends when he went out.

As for those who hold their thighs like Wei Dazhi, they are still sleeping like a pig.

Li Liang pushed him and said, "Hey, get up, get up! Do you want to go to the training camp with me?"

As soon as he heard the three words of training camp, Wei Dazhi got up and said in a confused manner: "Training camp! Training camp! Set out!"

"Go out and put on your clothes first!"

It takes about an hour to drive from Zhu Shu's house to the training hall, and Li Liang must hurry up.

After breakfast, Li Liang put on his jacket and brought his own sneakers - a pair of Nike James' third-generation combat boots.

There is a taxi waiting downstairs. Li Liang contacted the car yesterday to prevent him from getting late from getting a taxi in the morning.

The training camp is located in the PNY Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and is the training ground and team office of the New Jersey Nets.

Of course, the New Jersey Nets will disappear in this league after the end of this season and the Nets will relocate to Brooklyn.

The naming of PNY (a technology company that makes electronic devices) will also be transferred to the Nets' new training hall and office space.

Li Liang still has an impression of the PNY Center.

Because in 2010, Chinese player Yi Jianlian went to the PNY Center for trial training and eventually joined the Nets.

In the summer of the competition, the training grounds for the US national team are often arranged here.

Li Liang hopes that this place can become his own blessed land, show his strength as soon as possible, and win the favor of the team.

The training camp is only two days, the 19th and 20th.

After that, the Nets will hold their own small training camp and select newcomers who they like in the training camp to participate.

By the end of May, the league will hold a lottery ceremony to determine the draft pick in the lottery zone.

After the draft pick is decided, the next big training camp will be held in Minneapolis.

Then by mid-June, the NBA will conduct a concentrated trial of rookies before the draft.

In terms of the quality of the rookie, the earlier the training camp starts, the worse the quality of the players.

Those NCAA famous figures, the popularity of the draft will not waste time in such training camps.

They all have to wait until the lottery ceremony is over, each team determines the ranking, and then go to each team to try out according to their own draft positioning, and finally participate in the NBA official training camp.

Therefore, training camps like the Rockets and Nets organize, if you have something to do, you might be able to catch two fish.

It is normal that you can't catch it, just look for the NBDL's small creator to be able to fight.

Having said that, such a training camp is very suitable for unknown people like Li Liang.

The competitors are not particularly strong, and all the scouts from 30 teams are present. Is there any stage that is more suitable for him than this?

After the Nets and the Rockets announced the relevant news, Li Liang contacted the Nets' deputy manager through Calipari's relationship, Bobby Max, the head of the training camp.

For Calipari's sake, Max agreed to Li Liang's trial application and asked him to come with a letter of introduction on the 19th.

In the taxi, Wei Dazhi opened the Nets' official website homepage with his mobile phone, clicked on the relevant information about the training camp, and indeed saw Li Liang's name - Bruce-Lee on the trial list.

"Hey, you really have your name, let me see the others..." Wei Dazhi felt a little excited when he saw his roommate's name appear on the trial list.

Wei Dazhi looked down and looked at the trial list several times, and found that there were no very famous players.

"What, what are these? I haven't heard of them any players!"

"Okay, I've seen all these people. In fact, they are very good in NCAA, but you just don't know."

After the list was posted, Li Liang did his homework and had a general understanding of the competitors participating in the training camp this time.

In addition to Li Liang, there were 28 people in this training camp. The best among these 28 people is the last level in the first round, and the rest are the second round and the undraft.

In Li Liang's opinion, there are several players with outstanding strength.

One is Jay Claude from Marquette University.

He is the Player of the Year in the Big East Division this year, averaging 17.5 points and 8.4 rebounds per game in the season, and is an outstanding player in the No. 3 position.

He overlaps with Li Liang in terms of position and can be regarded as Li Liang's competitor.

The second is Kyle O'Queen from Norfolk State University.

He is the best player and best defensive player in the Central and Eastern Conference this year, averaging 15.9 points, 10 rebounds, and 2.6 blocks per game.

In the NCAA competition in March, he scored 24 points and 14 rebounds in the second round, leading the team to eliminate the strongman University of Missouri.

Like Li Liang, he is a senior student, 22 years old this year, and is an older rookie.

Otherwise, with his performance, he would still be an inside player and would not have participated in such a training camp.

The third one is a player from France, named Aven Fournier. Li Liang has never watched him play and has no videos.

He just thought that this player must be good based on his feelings.

Not only because he is an international player, but also because he ranks first on the list.

The Nets' roster arrangement is roughly arranged according to the players' fame and strength, and it is so straightforward.

Therefore, with Li Liang's strength and fame, he can only be ranked last on the list.

Apart from being a champion member of the University of Kentucky, Li Liang's basketball resume is simply not worth mentioning in other aspects.

Although those who participated in the training camp belong to the middle and lower levels among the entire NBA rookies, they are top young people in the United States and around the world.

Thinking of this, Li Liang took a deep breath and felt a little nervous.

Although he has been tempered by [Almighty King] for more than a month, Li Liang has not played regular games.

He was mainly worried about injury.

The super newcomer is injured, the team will wait.

If Li Liang is injured, no one will look at him. Go home and sell tractors.

The car drove for an hour, and the road in New York was not blocked early Saturday morning. I crossed the Easter River, passed Manhattan, and then crossed the Hudson River to New Jersey.

Get off the elevated highway and enter the Sports Center in East Rutherford, which is the base camp of New Jersey-New York Professional Sports.

In the past, the New Jersey Nets' home court, the New York Jets' home court, the Metropolitan Life Stadium, and the New York Giants' training ground were all concentrated here.

To the northwest of the Sports Center, a brown and red building is the PNY Center.

I stopped the car and opened the door. Today's sunshine was very bright and the air was fresh. It was a good day to play basketball.

The parking lot outside the training center is full of vehicles, some of which are players, some of which are journalists, and some of which are scouts from 30 teams.

In the hall of the training center, Nets staff are receiving qualification review.

Li Liang reported his name, and the staff found Max.

Max is a middle-aged white man with a bald head. He is wearing a black sports T-shirt - this is the main color of the New Nets, with a pair of sunglasses on his nose.

Seeing Li Liang, Max pushed his glasses and said, "Bruce Lee?"

Li Liang nodded, took out the recommendation letter that Calipari wrote to him from his luggage bag and handed it to Max.

Max opened the envelope and glanced symbolically, pointed to the direction of the locker room in the arena, and signaled Li Liang to enter the locker room to change his clothes.

Then, Max went aside to work on other things.

Apart from asking for a name, he was too lazy to say something to Li Liangduo from beginning to end.

It’s not that Max is arrogant, but that he does have a lot of things to be busy with.

Max needs to coordinate the arrangements for 30 teams, 28 rookies, their agents, and many reporters.

It would be nice to point him to a small transparent person like Li Liang in the locker room.

Li Liang didn't think there was anything. The NBA is more realistic than any workplace in the world.

You are awesome in playing basketball, and the whole league and fans are surrounding you.

If you can’t play basketball, professional managers won’t look at you more, and fans won’t know your existence at all.

Li Liang went to the locker room, and Wei Dazhi got a temporary work permit because he followed Li Liang.

Because he does not have a press certificate, he can only stay in the stands to watch and take photos, and cannot interview or record videos.

When Li Liang entered the locker room, many rookies had already changed their clothes and prepared before the trial.

Li Liang glanced at him and could recognize a few, but he was not familiar with him. There were too many NCAA players.

If it weren't for the famous nationwide and frequent TV, many players would be relatively unknown, even if they were already well-known locally.

Li Liang is better because he has been in the NCAA Finals and has shown his face to get too much. The TV station has given him a close-up shot.

Especially with his black hair, black eyes, yellow skin, he is very eye-catching in the American basketball world where black people are the main ones.

So speaking of this, Li Liang is still a "famous" figure among these rookies.
To be continued...