Veteran free agent: A player who completes his contractual obligation to his team and becomes free to sign with any NBA team, as per terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

自由球员老兵(veteran free agent)：完成了球队里的合约，球员可以随便跟任何一支NBA球队签合约，如劳资协定里的条例规定。

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But I think it's one of those things that you learn as you become more of a veteran player, to kind of get that hand out there when you see the ball, when you're starting to get really close to the end of the real estate.

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As a younger player, Nielsen often watched highlights of NHL games on television and saw veteran forward Alex Kovalev use a similar technique on breakaways, and he's happy to confess to plagiarizing Kovalev.

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