35. ATM
The 7th is the day when the Los Angeles Lakers officially start the Las Vegas Summer League.
If the three games in Sacramento are foreplay, then the next ten days will be the highlight, the ten key days that determine what role Lin Feng will play in the new season.
Just last night, most of the verbal agreements in the league basically turned into reality, but Lin Feng has not yet received a contract from the Lakers.
Perkins comforted him not to worry. Based on his performance in the California Classic, he would at least get a minimum salary contract.
The Lakers have less than 15 players on their roster. Unless their executives have a short-circuit in their heads, they will throw away the last-round pick they spent $800,000 on.
"I have spoken to Johnson on the phone and he told me that Jenny flew to Las Vegas and she will watch all the remaining games live. To a certain extent, your performance in the next ten days determines the size of the contract."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Feng was still calm. He already considered himself a member of the Lakers in the new season. He might play in the third team at first, but he was confident that he would be on the bench or even start with James.
In order to add some luck to himself, he planned to use his morning break to scan the market tou zhu stations, and he might be able to find a lottery ticket worth millions.
Adoptive father Andrew's health improved, and he flew back to New York as soon as the summer league ended.
I talked to Evelin on the phone last night. She watched the previous three games of the Lakers and believed that her brother had a bright future.
Evelin told him that he would definitely become a superstar who shocked the league and would be the pride of Andrew's adoptive father.
Perkins boasted that his shot hit the front edge of the basket, but Lin Feng corrected that it was the back edge.
There are always arguments about this.
Driving around the city, there was no lively scene last night. It was just as quiet as an ordinary city. It was hard to imagine how crazy the young men and women walking on the street were after nightfall.
There seem to be very few websites in casinos because people choose to throw their money into the casino and control their own destiny.
It was not easy to find a lottery station, but it was crowded. Most of them were tourists from the accent. The small room was packed with people, and there was a long queue in front of the ticket machine, waiting to take away their lucky numbers.
Lin Feng wanted instant lottery tickets. Several uncles gathered there to play scratch-off tickets. It seemed that they were all unlucky. There were a lot of scratch-off lottery tickets in front of them.
"I told you that you won't win the lottery with this thing. It's better to go to the casino and play Bai Jia Le."
An uncle was discussing dejectedly. He all had tattoos. It seemed that the Harley motorcycles outside the door belonged to them. They might be members of a motorcycle gang, such as the Hells Angels of Canada.
Seeing Lin Feng come in, the uncles all looked at the big man in unison.
Lin Feng smiled at them, feeling like he had walked into a heavy metal bar. The uncles' jackets had Canadian maple leaf flags on their short sleeves, and they looked like they were a group of cyclists coming from afar.
After scratching a lot but not winning, the uncles were about to leave Tou Zhu Station and go to the casino to try their luck. As a result, Lin Feng discovered his good luck as soon as he sat down. The lottery ticket closest to him actually contained wealth.
At present, he still doesn't know which prizes those patterns correspond to, but he just saw similar patterns in the prize comparison chart at the door.
The instant lottery in Las Vegas is casino-style and completely different from that in Los Angeles.
Lin Feng subconsciously glanced inside the tou zhu station and found that the uncles just now were staring at him. He began to hesitate whether to wait until these guys left before scratching it open.
"Little brother, none of those lottery tickets can win. We have spent two thousand dollars and only bought a bunch of waste paper."
An uncle pointed to the pile of lottery tickets in the wastebasket and said.
Lin Feng smiled and told him in the past three seconds that the lottery ticket in front of him won the first prize, a total of one million US dollars.
The prizes for this scratch-off lottery called "Casino Style" are not high, but it is said that there will be ten first prizes in each issue, with a total value of up to 10 million US dollars.
He immediately bought the lottery ticket for twenty dollars. Should he sneak away or let the uncles understand that they were only twenty dollars short of one million?
Lin Feng chose the latter. He took out a coin from his jacket pocket and slowly scratched off the coating of the lottery ticket.
The uncles came over to watch with great interest.
When it was half-scratched, the uncle's blurred eyes became bright. When only the last pattern was left, the uncle's eyes began to shine, and some began to sweat.
When the last pattern was drawn out, the uncles couldn't sit still at all. This was a million dollars! After paying the tax, they could take away at least half of it.
The entire tou zhu station exploded. The veteran lottery players who had been stationed here all year round couldn't wait to rush up and scratch off the remaining lottery tickets. The motorcycle gang uncles were beating their chests and feet.
"Damn it! Who just said that this thing can't win the prize? Billy, is it you?"
"Hahaha, Michael, does it feel good to save twenty dollars?"
"Oh God, we were so close to getting a new motorcycle, damn luck!"
The uncles complained for a while, but overall they were quite rational. Maybe these people were not short of money and were just doing it for fun.
Lin Feng stood in a corner and accepted the cheers. Everyone at the tou zhu station came up to hug him, hoping for some good luck.
"Young man, you are really lucky. I have been buying lottery tickets here for five years, and I have never won a prize worth more than a thousand dollars. You don't look like a local, a tourist?" an old man said regretfully.
Lin Feng shook hands with him and said, "I'm from New York. I hope my good luck can be passed on to you."
The old man smiled and said, "Welcome to Las Vegas, you are so lucky."
After the owner of tou zhu station confirmed that Lin Feng had the first prize lottery ticket, he immediately called his advertising shop friend and said, "Doug, make me a banner right away. My store won one million! Yes,
Send it to me immediately!"
The uncles of the motorcycle gang quickly recovered their mood and went to have a drink at the bar outside to celebrate Lin Feng's good luck.
Lin Feng was very calm. He felt as if he was a thief stealing America's wealth, which made him slightly uncomfortable.
At this time, the store door opened, and the hot air from outside rushed into the room. A girl came in with a microphone in her hand.
Behind him was a strong man carrying a camera, and when he looked outside, he saw an outside broadcast truck with a news station stamped on it.
It seems that he is a reporter, and he is also a sports reporter. Lin Feng has an impression of this girl with long golden hair. He saw her during training at the Mark Center Arena and was interviewing an unnamed player at the time.
During the summer league, it seemed that they made a special trip to interview the NBA.
"Hi Gary? Is it really you?" The girl immediately beamed after seeing him.
As a sports reporter, you will never miss a spotlight figure like Gary Smith.
"Do you know me?" Lin Feng was curious.
Chapter completed!