roccoschili Chapter 165
Chapter 165
It has to be said that Han Yinzhi's influence in the Huaguo basketball circle is really terrifying. After he left home to visit the Sports Bureau, Li Kaiming, who had been planning with great fanfare by the Huaguo Sports Bureau, was temporarily gone after Han Yinzhi's operation. Of……
In addition, Han Yinzhi also mobilized his contacts in the field of basketball media and began to broadcast to fans across the country.
"To design foreign players is to cut oneself off from the Chinese people!"
With such a big hat on, even if the current officials want to improve the performance of the national team, they have to weigh again and again, whether their necks are hard enough, and whether they can afford to wear this high hat...
The vigorous planning operation died down under the nonsense of people like Han Yinzhi, and has never been mentioned since then.
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What happened in Huaguo, apart from the subsequent publicity effect is still fermenting, most of the news circulation is still at the upper level, and some fans at the bottom level originally disapproved of Li Kaiming's planning, so Han Yinzhi's activities have not yet caused large-scale publicity. Discussion, of course, will not reach America.
The American time at this time also came to the local Saturday, which is October 10th.
After the Wizards rested overnight in Cleveland, they chartered a direct flight to Chicago, a large city in eastern America, early the next morning.
It's their third preseason game, and third in a row, on the road, and it's back-to-back games.
Originally, according to the arrangement, back-to-back games should be rushed to the away game on the night after the game. However, due to the sudden change of the weather in Cleveland after the game, the airport notified the team that the weather was too bad and there were no conditions for flights to take off and land. Therefore, the Wizards Had to stay another night in Cleveland.
After arriving in Chicago, the Wizards will face the Bulls led by Li Kaiming's senior, Derek Rose, at the basketball god's home court.
As soon as the game against the Cavaliers ended, Li Kaiming received a text message from his old senior Rose.
"Li, tomorrow is the first match between you and me in the NBA. Senior, I will take good care of you!"
Li Kaiming is not an idiot, so he can naturally read what Rose meant by taking care of him. After seeing the content of the text message, his eyes also burned with fierce fighting spirit!
If you want to fight, then fight!
Originally, Li Kaiming would not be merciful just because the opponent was a senior, but now that he saw Rose's gauntlet, he had already made up his mind that he would treat his good senior to a few hot pots during the game tonight!
The time soon came to [-] pm, and the Wizards took the team bus prepared by the league from the resident to the United Center, the home of the Chicago Bulls.
Before the car arrived at the arena, Li Kaiming had already seen the behemoth not far away through the car window.
Although there are other decorations on the arena, the main body still presents a cylindrical shape with a round arched top, which is a very classic arena shape.
When the car passed the east gate of the United Center, Arenas beside Li Kaiming suddenly poked him with an elbow, and then pointed to a black statue at the entrance of the arena.
"Look, Lee, that's the statue the Bulls built for Michael Jordan!"
When he said this, there was envy in Arenas' eyes and tone.
Li Kaiming looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a huge black statue surrounded by a circle of hexagonal railings in an open space in front of the arena entrance.
The statue has a cuboid base covered with black marble tiles with Jordan's name written on the side facing them, along with two rows of numbers 1984-1993 and 1995-1998.
Anyone familiar with the NBA knows that this means Jordan's two careers with the Bulls.
In fact, if you look closely, the surface of the statue still has the luster of copper, which should be the color of copper, but the color is too dark, and it looks like black from a distance.
Jordan in the statue is in a posture that everyone is very familiar with. He is wearing a No. 23 jersey, with his legs spread apart, and he is holding the ball in his right hand and making a one-handed snap!
That's right, it's the logo of Air Jordan!
The emergence of Jordan made both the NBA and Nike embark on a glorious path. He broke the previous iron law of the NBA that only the core of the team can be built with the inside line, and took a different path.
To this day, AJ has also become the most appealing golden sign under Nike, which can bring hundreds of millions of dollars in income to Nike every year!
It can be said that as a player, every achievement of Jordan is the goal pursued by the players throughout their life.
Of course, the All-Star three-point contest record doesn't count.
So it is understandable that Arenas envied Jordan.
Li Kaiming just glanced at the statue, then turned his head away and stopped looking at it.
He, Jordan, has a relationship with me, Li Kaiming!
Besides, the current Li Kaiming also has the confidence to let a certain team erect a statue for him in the future!
If Jordan can do it, I, Li Kaiming, can do it too. If Jordan can't do it, I can do it too!
Li Kaiming closed his eyes, leaving only Arenas next to him, still staring at the receding statue...
Before the start of the game, it was still the traditional pre-match press conference. Li Kaiming still participated in it today, and then answered a few questions.
It's not good if you don't attend the press conference all the time, it will give the impression that reporters are playing big names, and some petty-minded people will make up black material about him if they are not allowed to go back!
The interviews before the game consisted of just a few sentences. Li Kaiming could already think of what those reporters would ask. It was nothing more than how he would face the Bulls' targeted defense and how he would view the first matchup with Rose...
So he is also very familiar with dealing with it, and he already has the aura of a press spokesman.
At 07:30 in the afternoon, after an hour of warm-up, most of the fans at the scene were already in place.
Relatively speaking, Chicago's enthusiasm for basketball is still very high. After all, it is a basketball god team, and the people here also maintain their love for basketball.
The United Center can accommodate more than 20000 people when a basketball game is held, and more than [-]% of them are basically seated tonight!
During the training, Ross also took the initiative to chat with Li Kaiming, and Li Kaiming also respected this old senior. After all, before the draft, Ross did not give him less guidance.
The warm-up session is over, and the starting lineups of both sides are ready on the big screen in the arena.
Chicago Bulls, point guard Derrick Rose, shooting guard Gisbergs, small forward Luol Deng, power forward Taj Gibson, center Joakim Noah.
Washington Wizards, point guard Gilbert Arenas, shooting guard Nick Young, small forward Al Thornton, power forward Li Kaiming, center Andrey Blatche.
The Bulls made a big trade in the offseason, acquiring Carlos Boozer and Ronnie Brewer from the Jazz.
These two players are not first-tier stars in America at all, but they have a reputation that is not weaker than that of first-tier stars in China.
Especially Boozer, the inside combination formed by him and Okur has defeated the Rockets led by Yao Ming for several consecutive years, and some even gave Boozer the nickname "Yao Ming's Nemesis".
If you want to ask which player Huaguo fans hate the most, then Boozer said that no one dares to call the number one the second.
Of course, neither Boozer nor Brewer could play in this game. Boozer had surgery in the offseason and is still in the recuperation stage. Otherwise, with his averages of 19 points, 11 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game last season, how can he Maybe back up Gibson, a rookie who's only been playing for a year?
So after learning that Boozer will not play, some Chinese fans also lost interest in this game.
They originally wanted to see how Li Kaiming would behave in the face of Boozer, but they didn't expect that the two of them would never meet.