Rookie against Jordan, I became the god of basketball

Chapter 22 David Stern's Concerns
"The highest score in a single game in the NCAA?" Jeff Brown hesitated and replied, "I remember it was 100 points, no, it seemed to be 138 points or 128 points, um, I can't remember."

Lu Feng: "..."

Sorry to bother you.

The next afternoon, Lu Feng took Zhang Weiping to meet Lynn Nance.

After Lynn Nance learned about the situation, he recruited Zhang Weiping into the team without even thinking about it. After two sentences, Zhang Weiping became the new assistant coach of the Huskies.

"There is no problem with the basketball exchange, I just talk to the school management!"

It was still at the end of the honeymoon between the two countries. Lin Ennan didn't think that there would be problems in the basketball exchange. The leaders of the University of Washington were also happy to do so. In addition, after getting to know Lu Feng, he also had a deep understanding of the Chinese athletes. I'm interested and want to meet you.

After getting the school's approval, Lynn Nance made another call to NCAA officials.

"Zhang, you can take the video back with confidence, but you have to wait a few days before you leave. The NCAA will bring the video playback license over."

After working for two days, Zhang Weiping found that the development of the matter was better than he expected. Not only could he bring back the news, but he could even bring back several videos.

"In addition, Zhang, your teaching assistant salary is not for nothing. Don't forget to help me see if there are any good seedlings in your country, and ask them if they are willing to come to study abroad. The school and I don't mind giving out a few more scholarships. .”

Seattle is the city with the third largest number of Chinese Americans in the United States, second only to San Francisco and New York, and most of the Chinese have savings in their hands. At this time, Japan and South Korea have a large number of immigrants and students. These two countries are also rich. Both UW and Lynn Nance felt the benefits of having a Chinese on the team.

With the videotape, the interview script recorded in the notebook, and the letter written by Lu Feng to his family, Zhang Weiping left the University of Washington with a flushed face.

After Zhang Weiping left, Lu Feng's life returned to ordinary life again... Well, it's not that ordinary. More and more interviews and filming made Lu Feng feel a little uncomfortable.

During this period of time, his biggest insight was that the NCAA really doesn't treat students as human beings!
He has less and less time for class and practice. Most of the time he is either interviewing or on the way to interview. In addition, he has to shoot various magazines and advertisements.

It is worth mentioning that Lu Feng and his roommate Jeff Brown went to shoot the cover of Playboy together.

The United States has proved with countless cases that their noble character will never use child labor, whether it is in the entertainment industry or the sports industry...in any circle, as long as they do not pay, it is not considered child labor!

The University of Washington has decided to make up an athletic scholarship to Jeff Brown, and the Huskies have become a strong team with three scholarship players at the same time.

In addition, Lu Feng heard from the student union that Jeff Brown is likely to receive an academic scholarship, and the reason for not making up this year is that the quota is full.

A while later, UW played two more games and won easily.

After 7 games, Lu Feng's average data per game has also come to horror. He averaged 40 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists per game, shooting 66% from the field, 50% from the three-point range, and 100% from free throws without missing a ball. Rate!
While Lu Feng's horrific data caused heated discussions across the United States, it also attracted more and more people's attention.

In the two games after the victory over LMU, although they were played against some big teams, the scene was full of fans and scouts from various NBA teams, and even the vice president of the NBA came once.

Lu Feng also noticed that in recent interviews, reporters asked him whether he would participate in the draft more and more times.

He knew why, the hot man made a move!
That's right, it's him, it's him, it's him, NBA Commissioner-David Stern!

Indeed, as Lu Feng expected, the recent change in the direction of the media is indeed the work of David Stern.

In the current draft list predicted by various media in the United States, Lu Feng is a stable prediction of the top three picks, but the problem is that Lu Feng is only a 16-year-old freshman.

In this era, outside players generally stay in college for 3 years or more, and there are only a few like Maggie who only study for two years.

David Stern knows very well how crazy American universities will be in order to keep students in the NCAA!

In order to retain talented players, the coaches and school management went to the students' homes to lobby again and again during the holidays, fooling their parents who are not smart enough, and the coaching staff worked with the school management to do ideological work for the students.

What's even more disgusting is that the NCAA also stipulates that players are not allowed to contact NBA teams in any way during their college years. For this reason, the NBA has no way to win the NCAA. The NBA team management wants to meet with NCAA players or parents. It's like playing guerrilla warfare. of.

Since becoming the president of the league, David Stern has hated the NCAA league's behavior of forcing talented students to stay.

Michael Jordan studied in college for 3 years, and Larry Bird studied in college for 4 years. Whenever David Stern thinks of these, he can't help gnashing his teeth.

Fortunately, according to David Stern's observation, although Lu Feng is only 16 years old, he has his own ideas. There was no contact with his family either.

But David Stern felt that this alone was not enough, so he did not hesitate to signal the various media cooperating with the NBA, and reminded Lu Feng in the interview: "Hey, man, it's time for you to go to the NBA. You can't stay in college." suits you!"

At this time, the NBA is not yet the Nike league. In this era, it is impossible for Nike to have the influence of later generations. Jordan has not won the championship yet!
Although there is no Nike, the NBA is not so clean. At this time, although the NBA league is not the Nike league, it is an undisputed media league.

But it is different from the situation where the NBA is completely controlled by Nike in the future. At this time, the NBA and the media are more of a cooperative relationship. The media affects the NBA, and the NBA can also affect the media in turn.

David Stern can do more than hint in interviews, such as…

"Of course I like Seattle, it's one of the quietest and cleanest cities in the United States, and Seattle's urban greening is doing very well, I like that!"

"Draft? I haven't decided yet, but I'm already preparing. Although I'm only 16 years old, I definitely have the strength to play in the NBA. I'm sure!"

"You know, I'm an international student. At first I came to the University of Washington to study, not to play. I never thought that it would be like this after I came to the United States. I still need to find opportunities and A decision can only be made after family discussions.”

After realizing David Stern's intentions, Lu Feng did not rush to make a promise, but he was also willing to give the other party some hints in the interview, and he didn't know if David Stern could understand it.

In my memory, this year's Seattle SuperSonics did not do badly, but they miraculously won the second pick. It is not impossible to do it again in this life.

Ever since the New York Knicks miraculously won the No. [-] pick and won the gorilla Ewing, there have been more than a year of controversy about the NBA draft black box operation.

In order to save the image of the league, David Stern decided to change the way of draft lottery to prevent NBA teams from doing badly, but the effect is not obvious. The teams that should be bad are still doing badly. There are more and more "shady stories" about the lottery.

But David Stern figured it out. Since you are openly showing off, the big deal is that I am the same. I just see the bad team clearly. Do you have a solution?
The current Seattle Supersonics is the team that Lu Feng wants to go to the most. The team is full of young people, the team has a good reputation, the salary space is healthy, the coach is open, the management is poor but willing to spend money, and it is still a Seattle team. Team.

After returning from the road for a few days, Lynn Nance announced to the Huskies the next opponent - the LSU Tigers!
The next game will be another one of the Huskies' few home games, at the Heck Edmondson Arena.

As a well-recognized strong team, the Huskies have no shortage of invitations. They have only played 2 home games since the start of the game. Most of them went to the away game to help the team sell tickets to increase their popularity. This is also one of the unspoken rules in the NCAA.

After the Washington Huskies won 7 consecutive victories, Lynn Nance believes that the current mainstream short fast-break teams will not be the opponents of the Huskies at all. To be more precise, they are not the opponents of Lu Feng. He just needs to make way Feng can do it.

So after two big wins, Lynn Nance decided to let the team try to play other styles of teams.

The first ones he considered were the Duke Blue Devils and UNLV, but UNLV didn't want to meet the Huskies in advance and rejected Lynn Nance's invitation. March Madness is the real battleground for the two teams.

The Duke Blue Devils agreed, but asked the Huskies to play an away game, because the location was too far away, and Lynn Nance didn't want to run that far, so he settled for the next best thing and chose the LSU Tigers.

Although the LSU Tigers are also a fast-break team, they have a double play against the trend, and LSU's perimeter is not weak. There is Chris Jackson, the perimeter player who is currently considered by the media to be the third strongest perimeter player in the NCAA.

Chris Jackson, a sophomore, is a player with a different style from Lu Feng and Kimbell. He is more like a Reggie Miller-style shooter, and is considered by the media to have a shooting ability second only to Lu Feng.

In addition, LSU also has a sophomore former All-American five-star high school insider, 7-foot (213cm) Stanley Roberts.

The other is Shaquille O'Neal, a freshman who has received much attention since high school.

LSU averaged 92 points per game in the previous games, and could limit opponents to 81 points. The inside guard is extremely strong, and it is one of the teams with the strongest inside defense in the league.

The match against LSU will test Lu Feng's attacking ability extremely. He is very satisfied with Lynn Nance's choice, because he is also very interested in LSU.

Not only because he finally had the opportunity to use these weapons that he has been practicing more, but also because he is very curious about LSU players.

Big Shark and Curry templates, I can finally meet them!

On December 12st, at the Heck Edmondson Arena, the strong match between the Huskies and the LSU Tigers officially started!

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