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The purpose of Zhou Qi calling him is also very simple.

Since he no longer has the chance to play in the CBA, he can only play overseas. When it comes to overseas, the first thing most people think of is the NBA, which represents the highest level of basketball.

But the problem is that Zhou Qi has tried to land in the NBA with the Houston Rockets before. He was selected by the Rockets with the 16rd pick in the second round in 43, but basically failed to get many playing opportunities and was eventually cut by the team.

Before calling Wang Feng, Zhou Qi's agent tried to contact several NBA teams, but with little success.

Although the Huaguo men's basketball team just won the Olympic gold medal by defeating the American men's basketball team not long ago, everyone knows that the one who really defeated the American men's basketball team is only Wang Feng with strong personal ability. But the overall strength still does not meet the high-intensity confrontation requirements of the NBA.

Zhou Qi's agent saw that there was no hope of joining the NBA, so he helped Zhou Qi contact other overseas leagues, including the European League, Turkey, Australia and so on.

Australia's league NBL has a team that is more interested in Zhou Qi and is willing to sign Zhou Qi.

The next home has been found, but Zhou Qi is still a little unwilling.

Although the Australian League is more competitive than the CBA, it will help him to get further training, but if possible, he still wants to play in the NBA as much as possible.

So after some deliberation and struggle, he still called Wang Feng.

Wang Feng's current status in the NBA is no less than that of LeBron James at his peak. Back then, James could make pure blue-collar player Tristan Thompson sign a five-year high-paying contract of 5 million US dollars, and he could also make JR. Smith signed a four-year, $8200 million contract.

Whether it is Tristan Thompson or JR. Smith, combined with personal data and field performance, the contract is a standard premium contract, but because of James' influence, the Cavaliers management still chooses to compromise.

Zhou Qi doesn't have too many extravagant hopes, he just hopes that Wang Feng can help him get a low-paying contract with the Cavaliers, or even a ten-day short-term trial contract, so that he has such a chance to show his ability in front of the team just fine.

Listening to Zhou Qi's narration on the phone, Wang Feng was silent for a moment, and then said: "You can buy a plane ticket that can come to Cleveland as soon as possible. look at yourself."

"Thank you, Brother Feng!" Zhou Qi was very excited. In fact, before making the call, he was not sure that Wang Fengfeng would not help. After all, the Cleveland Cavaliers were new to Wang Feng, and he pointed out the team's personnel issues as soon as he came. Scooting is also a relatively dangerous behavior for Wang Feng, and it is likely to cause dissatisfaction from both the management and the coaching staff.

Zhou Qi still underestimated Wang Feng's energy in the Cavaliers.

Not to mention the signing of a low-paid player, even if Wang Feng called the general manager this evening and said that he saw the head coach stepping in with his left foot when he entered the training hall this morning, which made him feel very uncomfortable. Maybe the Cavaliers will start interviewing for a new coach.

Well, it's a bit exaggerated to say this, and the behavior is a bit too arrogant, but this is just an example to describe Wang Feng's status and energy in the Cavaliers.

……

After hanging up the phone, Wang Feng shook his head slightly.

As far as he himself is concerned, he actually doesn't like this kind of behavior of going through the back door, but he still agrees with Zhou Qi. This is not out of consideration of the world, but based on the consideration of the future Huaguo men's basketball team.

After the Tokyo Olympics, the UAE is basically in a semi-retired state in the national team.

At the celebration banquet before, the Arab League vaguely expressed the idea of ​​handing over the captain of the men's basketball team to Wang Feng.

Once Ah Lian withdraws from the Huaguo men's basketball team, it means that the era of moving the Great Wall has completely become history, and Wang Feng will also lose the most stable and effective helper.

Looking at the new generation of Huaguo men's basketball players, Zhou Qi and Guo Ailun can be regarded as leading figures.

Wang Feng is very clear that Zhou Qi has a lot of black spots, such as being exposed by his teammates for playing big names, not serious in training, egg-filled cakes, Polish sixth man and so on.

But no matter what, it cannot conceal the fact that Zhou Qi is the most talented and most powerful player among the new generation of Huaguo men's basketball players.

This is a cruel fact, in sports, talent is always greater than hard work.

O'Neal is often criticized for not training seriously, and even being late and absent, but he is the top ten top superstars in history.

Jimmy Butler is the hardest-working player in the league, but his strength is often underestimated. He can be rejected by both teams if he wants a maximum salary contract, and Butler's talent is only comparable to that of Wiggins and the like. The talent comparison is slightly worse. Looking at the entire United States and even the world, his talent in basketball is also at the top level.

Compared with Butler, Zhou Qi's talent is obviously inferior by more than one level, but looking at the whole Huaguo, he can't find a second one.

Therefore, although he doesn't like Zhou Qi very much personally, Wang Feng still hopes to give Zhou Qi a push.

Zhou Qi can become stronger, and Wang Feng will not be so strenuous when participating in the national team competition. This can be regarded as helping himself. After all, the national team competitions, such as the Men's Basketball World Cup and the Olympics, as long as they win the championship system, there are also generous rewards.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Zhou Qi is worthy of this opportunity.

Wang Fengfeng gave Zhou Qi a chance, but whether he can get a contract with the Cavaliers depends on him.

During this process, Wang Fengfeng helped and even urged him to maximize Zhou Qi's potential.

If he can bear it with gritted teeth, it's fine to stay, but if he can't resist, and even feel that Wang Feng is deliberately making things difficult for him because of this, then there's nothing he can do.

If the mud can't support the wall, no matter what you do, it won't help.

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Two days later, Zhou Qi and his agent arrived at the arena of the Cleveland Cavaliers with excitement and apprehension.

"Hello, Mr. Zhou Qi, you have worked hard all the way. Let's take a good rest today. We have already arranged a trial training, which will start tomorrow morning."

When Wang Feng's compatriots in China came to the team for trial training, the Cavaliers management naturally paid enough attention to it, and arranged hotel accommodation and other issues in advance. There was a special person in charge, and the attitude was quite friendly.

Zhou Qi and the others naturally knew that the scouts had all of Zhou Qi's information, including the reason why the Rockets chose to lay off Zhou Qi.

"The body is too thin, the resistance is poor, and it is easy to get injured. It is difficult to adapt to the fierce physical confrontation in the NBA."

In the NBA, physical fitness is a key inspection item for many teams.

Don't always look at some ancient claims that the previous confrontation was much better than the present, and think that the current NBA confrontation is not good.

The so-called no, it is only in comparison.

The offensive rhythm in the small ball era is extremely fast. Under the fast-paced offensive and defensive transitions, each team pays more attention to the change of rhythm rather than the pressing and siege and muscle collision at the basket in traditional positional warfare.

But the times are constantly improving, and more reasonable training and diet plans will only make the players' physical fitness better and better.

During his two years with the Rockets, Zhou Qi failed to adapt to the fierce confrontation rhythm of the NBA. Therefore, the Rockets judged that he could not adapt to the NBA and was eventually waived.

The management of the Cavaliers does not think that Zhou Qi can adapt to the NBA now. Although it seems that Zhou Qi has been gaining weight consciously in the past few years, his weight has increased from 98.97 kg when he first participated in the draft to 113 kg. As a big insider with a height of 2 meters, his weight of 17 kg is still a bit light.

But how could Wang Feng not give him face?

As long as Wang Feng let it go, it wouldn't be a big deal to give Zhou Qi a basic salary contract to hang up.

It's no surprise that all NBA teams have one or two players who don't see much of an entire regular season.

But what surprised the Cavaliers management was that Wang Feng made a rather strange request.

"Don't leave any of the items that should normally be tried out, and arrange them all for Zhou Qi. I want to see the scout's evaluation of Zhou Qi."

Although they didn't understand why Wang Feng did this, the team still did it.

On the second day, while the players of the Cavaliers were conducting daily training, they would occasionally glance at Zhou Qi who was undergoing various tests on the other side of the court.

"That seems to be Zhou Qi, right? It's Wang Feng's teammate in the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team. The one who played for the Rockets for two years before being waived."

"Well, I seem to have a little impression. Although I haven't seen him play on the court, there are only a few Chinese people playing in the NBA. It can't be wrong."

Several Cavaliers players were discussing in low voices, but when they saw Wang Feng not far away, they immediately shut up wisely.

After Zhou Qi's round of testing, it took a whole morning.

The scouts of the Cavaliers were also quite efficient. Before noon, the physical test report on Zhou Qi was out.

"It's not bad, much better than expected." The team coach Bickerstaff praised again and again. "It seems that Zhou Qi has not been abandoned in the past few years in the CBA. This kind of physical fitness is better than many inside players in the NBA. I think he deserves a contract from the team."

"I think so too." General manager Altman also echoed: "Right now the team is strictly regarded as inside players only Kevin (Love) and Jarrett (Allen). A big post player to add height in the paint."

Wang Feng: "..."

It is said that American people are straightforward, and they talk about things straightforwardly, unlike Chinese people who talk about things in a roundabout way.

But how can these two old foxes look straightforward?

Obviously they don't like Zhou Qi at all, but because of Wang Feng, one said that Zhou Qi has improved a lot than before, and the other used the team's lack of inside players as an excuse.

The same goes for scouts.

According to the report given by the Cavaliers scouts, there is no problem with the physical test data, but in terms of personal point of view, Zhou Qi actually has good potential, and the possibility of becoming the team's inside defensive gate cannot be ruled out.

This is a bit too much.

Wang Feng is very clear about Zhou Qi's level. It is okay to say that he is the defensive gatekeeper of the CBA team. Want to be the defensive gatekeeper in the NBA?Unless he is also playing tricks like himself!

Wang Feng knew that the entire Cavaliers team was giving him a step down. As long as he borrowed the donkey and nodded, the team would give Zhou Qi a basic salary contract. not within their consideration.

A non-guaranteed basic salary contract is only more than 100 million US dollars a year, which is insignificant compared with Wang Feng's super maximum salary contract of nearly 4000 million.

But Wang Feng's purpose is not this.

The main reason why he asked Zhou Qi to come to the Cavaliers to test is to give Zhou Qi a chance to become stronger. If everyone just muddle along like this, Zhou Qi will not get the opportunity to exercise and grow at all, so what is the meaning of Wang Feng's half-day effort? What is it?
Shaking his head slightly, Wang Feng put aside the scout's report and said, "Arrange a practical test in the afternoon, and I want to try Zhou Qi's skills myself!"

Wang Feng's words made the general manager and the head coach stunned. They didn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in Wang Feng's gourd?

Did he test Zhou Qi himself, and then release the water to let Zhou Qi pass?
No need at all. None of them disagreed with Zhou Qi's joining the team. Could it be that Wang Feng wanted to further increase Zhou Qi's status and win a higher-priced contract for his teammates in the national team?

Under the unknown circumstances, the team still arranged the stadium in the afternoon according to Wang Feng's request.

Also in the training hall of the Cavaliers, all the Cavaliers players are training next door, and on the other side of the court are the team's management, dozens of members of the coaching staff, Wang Feng, Zhou Qi and Zhou Qi. broker.

"Zhou Qi." Wang Feng, who was wearing a training suit, looked at Zhou Qi with a calm expression and said flatly. "This is your first and last test, which will directly determine whether you can stay in the team."

As he said that, he took a basketball from the staff on the side, "I will attack with the ball 10 times, all of which are inside attacks. As long as you can defend me, you can get a contract from the Cavaliers." .”

Zhou Qi was stunned by Wang Feng's words.

There was an uproar among the players on the other side.

"It's exciting to watch!"

Many people showed excitement on their faces.

This kind of trial training method is not without it. If you want to test a player's offensive or defensive ability, it must be tested in actual combat.

In most cases, the team will organize a 5-on-5 game within the team, and then let the trial players join one side for inspection.

This kind of one-on-one, and a superstar of Wang Feng's level for the assessment is absolutely unique.

This excitement must be seen!

Soon, more people gathered around the trial training venue.

The head coach Bickerstaff glanced at the players, just about to yell at them and let them go back to training, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind.

"So that's the case. Wang Feng wants to prove to the whole team that Zhou Qi's joining is not a back door, but does he really have this strength?"

Bickerstaff couldn't help laughing inwardly.

Isn't this stealing the bell?