From sparring to superstar

Chapter 116

After preparing for the game in the morning, Li Ao and Gentry accepted exclusive interviews from Xinhua News Agency and Chaoting TV before the lunch break ended in the afternoon and before the warm-up began.

Today's reporter is Xu Jicheng again.

In fact, many reporters rushed to do this job, but everything has a first-come, first-served basis. Xu Jicheng hooked up with Li Ao before Li Ao planned to enter the NBA.

Xu Jicheng first interviewed Gentry and asked a bunch of official questions, and Gentry answered carefully and officially.

When we arrived at Li Ao, Xu Jicheng asked: "Xiao Li Tanhua, do you have any goals for the upcoming new season?"

Xu Jicheng used Chinese, Gentry was also very curious after hearing the translation, the best rookie?Get a high score?Or a cap?
The Clippers are specially equipped with Chinese-English translators, mainly because Wally Walker thinks Li Ao's character is too difficult to figure out, just in case.

"I have only one goal, to work hard to win the championship." Li Ao replied without hesitation.

Anyway, he didn't say this, the domestic media has already written it, and the writing is even more outrageous than this. It is a proper sense of sight to surpass the magician with one championship, surpass Jordan with two championships, invincible with three championships, and carve a basketball player next to President Hill with four championships....

In this case, it is better to speak out your dreams, and there is no shame in saying your dreams out loud.

Gentry was so frightened that he fell off his stool after hearing the translation.

Just their Clippers?

Target championship?
I'm afraid I'm going to be laughed to death!
But their Spider-Man...seems to be serious!
At this moment, Gentry remembered when he was playing basketball when he was a child, he and his cousin David Thompson’s team was a group of kids who were still in elementary school, but they wanted to beat a group of sixteen and seventeen-year-old high school students and wanted to win the community championship.

Although he was brutally beaten in the end, the innocence of just wanting to win is very beautiful in retrospect.

Xu Jicheng was also shocked. Could it be that Tanhualang was limped by the group of reporters with cerebral palsy in China?

He'd risked the world's displeasure' and kindly reminded: "Your team may be a little too far away from this goal..."

Li Ao smiled and said: "I have this goal, and it has nothing to do with whether I can achieve it at this stage, right?
If the game is not for winning, and I don’t want to win to the end, what kind of game should I play? It would be better if I go to Hollywood next door and find a class. "

Although this is exaggerated, both Xu Jicheng and Gentry think it makes sense!

It is true that people can act in movies without playing basketball.

Can't grow too hot?

That's because those who are too tall are generally ugly.

But Li Ao is different, he is handsome!
And he has acting skills!

The small-budget crime film "Paranoid" released in the middle of the month with an investment of less than 200 million US dollars, relying on the marketing of Li Ao and the heroine's lace news, as well as the lingering scenes in the film, attracted many LSPs to buy tickets.

At first, it relied on the "hue" of Li Ao and Jessica to attract LSP, and then the word-of-mouth fermented, the content was really good, and the acting skills of the heroine and the guest male star were quite good.

Jessica has received a lot of praise for her acting skills.

Li Ao was praised for playing the scumbag to three points, and he deserves to be an experienced player.

Although the male protagonist's acting skills are not bad, but because of the many long shots, he overacted and performed mediocrely. He was overwhelmed by Li Ao's 10-minute scene.

In fact, the director originally wanted to give Li Ao a few shots at most, one or two minutes of footage, and if the performance was too stretched, he would cut that part directly, but in the end he used all the shots he took.

With this change, Li Ao has a lot of small money to take.

Although it was a cameo, he was a quasi-NBA player at the time, and there was a dividend agreement in his contract.

He didn't pay attention to the dividend agreement at the time, and he thought he only took one or two minutes of footage, which is the case for passionate scenes in crime movies, and it's not a restricted-rated movie, and the dividend agreement is that the box office must exceed 2 million US dollars before he can get money. Calculated based on a 500-minute shot, even if the box office is 2 million, he will only get about 600 US dollars.

But then the box office of the movie was not bad. Before leaving for Salt Lake City yesterday, Schwartz found him and calculated it with 10 minutes of footage. As of the box office of the day before yesterday, he could already get almost $10, which is already a lot of money.

Moreover, he heard that many countries are planning to import this movie. What surprised him most was that the imperial court was planning to introduce it... As for the thing he filmed, domestically!CCTV!Can it be played?
But he can't control it, just accept a small amount of money.

On Xu Jicheng's side, he also felt the feeling of "pursuing the purest dream" from Li Ao.

As an old reporter, in my cognition, sports and business have been integrated.

But Li Ao seemed so special...

At this moment, regardless of the purpose of work, the expectation of the national basketball, etc., Xu Jicheng came up with an idea-he just wanted to see how far Li Ao could go in pursuit of his dream!

...

At 7:40 p.m., at the Salt Lake City Energy Solutions Arena, the Clippers, who are playing away games, entered the arena first.

To give Odom a face, Li Ao chose to play first, and felt the atmosphere of the Jazz's devil's home court.

Just... average.

In the eyes of players who have played in the NCAA Final Four, this little booing is not a fart.

After Odom came out last, the boos turned into wild cheers.

In the past 12 seasons, the Jazz have won at least 10 wins in 50 seasons, and one of the two times they did not win 50 wins was a shrinking season.

Although they didn't win the championship, Shuangsha has a lot of fanatical fans in the local area after so many years of outstanding performance.

However, seeing the five starters on the opposite side, Li Ao: (￣ェ￣;)
Byron Russell, 30 years old, has a comprehensive evaluation of 78.

It may be that life is too stressful, and he looks old.

But he's already the youngest-looking Jazz starter.

The faces of the other 4 starters are covered with traces of time!

John Stockton, 38, overall rating 85; John Starks, 35, overall rating 79; Karl Malone, 37, overall rating 93; Alden Polynes, 36, overall rating 69.

Has there been an older starting lineup in NBA history?
Putting away distracting thoughts, Li Ao looked at the player detection reports of the Jazz's substitutes, and a strange color flashed in his eyes.

丹尼-曼宁77、唐耶尔-马绍尔80、杰奎-沃恩72、奥斯特塔格74……没其他综合评价过70的球员了！

As Li Ao expected, players at the 70+ level are also the mainstay in the NBA and the main substitutes for each team.

Their Clippers may be one of the best in the league in terms of the number of main substitute players.

It's just that their problem is that they only have one of the best main substitute groups in the league.

Gan!
However, the evaluation report of the Jazz's substitute players is higher than the scouts Li Ao saw on these people, but it also conforms to a sentence in the scout report-the Jazz's role players have average personal abilities, but rely on Shuangsha and Sloan's tactical system, and their specialties are very good.

This is the so-called system player, who is nothing without the system.

In the last ten years, the Jazz has been poached a lot, but the Jazz has no impact on the people who are poached, and another one will appear immediately after leaving.

Since Shuangsha can drive teammates to become better, Li Ao thought that he, Odom and O'Neal should be able to do the same one day, right?

At 9 o'clock in the evening, the Clippers' away game against the Jazz started.

The Clippers' starting lineup is still Greg Anthony, Piakowski, Li Ao, Odom, and O'Neal.

Polynis used to be a ruthless man who averaged 13 points and 12 rebounds per game, but the years make people old, and the high school students in Los Angeles bullied him to be old and weak.

O'Neal won the jump ball and the Clippers went first.

Li Ao rushed out immediately when the ball reached the highest point, and ran all the way to the opposite three-second zone... The ball didn't come, and his idea of ​​bullying the opponent failed.

When Greg Anthony reacted and wanted to pass the ball, Malone had already withdrawn to hold Li Ao.

Ma Long used small movements in the confrontation, exerting force to force Li Ao to stagger, and then pressed up and said: "You idiot, just push you once and it won't work... oh..."

Ma Long took a step back in pain. When he pressed on, the rookie actually raised his elbow to his stomach!

At this time, a big and tall man cut into the inside to receive the ball, and Ma Long moved up quickly, but he was a step slower.

O'Neal catches the ball and makes a layup!

Li Ao stretched his left arm and retreated in satisfaction. Although he didn't score, but he succeeded in the opening fast break. Is it because Ma Long is made of muscles?My stomach hurts.

Back in the backcourt, Li Ao saw Ma Long running over staring at him.

When Ma Long entered the three-point line, Li Ao greeted warmly: "Good evening, the overall runner-up."

Ma Long was extremely annoyed, but he held back for two seconds and didn't know how to respond, so he could only say angrily: "Shut up, rookie!"

"Yeah, I'm a rookie. I'm young. You don't even have a championship at your age. You still play basketball. Go back and deliver the letter. Maybe you can win the postman championship."

Hearing Li Ao's words, and the final frivolous ending, his teammates were not calm, and Ma Long was on the opposite side!

But they were not surprised.

Their Tanhualang Spider-Man is Yong!
Ma Long was so angry that his complexion was dark and red.

He wanted to use small tricks to intimidate the other party, Tan Hualang, but he was turned back.

He wanted to talk trash, but he couldn't answer back when the other party spat.

After being nailed to the pillar of shame by Pippen's trash talk that year, Malone was in pain and began to learn to talk trash, but he really didn't have the talent in this area, but he just wanted to talk.

Commonly known as food and love to play.

However, with his notoriety, young players dare not respond to his petty moves and trash talk, and he encountered a hard stubble tonight.

If you can't say it, let's not talk about it, let's blow up the opponent!
Stockton slowly advanced to the frontcourt, and the Jazz players also slowly moved their positions. With 10 seconds left on the offensive clock, Malone came to the top arc and picked and rolled with Stockton.

After disassembling, Ma Long received the ball on the left side of the three-second zone and made a breakthrough. Li Ao made it up. Ma Long's footsteps were not too fast, and he easily stopped the momentum.

in!

This rhythm, this timing, Li Ao praised: "It is worthy of being the overall runner-up, CIC is as accurate as the overall champion."

The joy of Ma Long's goal turned into anger in an instant. He followed Li Ao who was running forward, put his arm against the opponent, and sprayed: "At least I won the runner-up. What about you, a rookie!"

Li Ao was not afraid, he raised his arms up, the strength on the other side was really great!But he struggled to hold on, and said with a ferocious smile, "I don't have the ability to win the runner-up. I can only win the championship. I just got the MOP."

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This chapter is a bit short, I got up too late on Sunday, so I wrote more and more, Xiaofeng had breakfast and continued writing, and added more chapters in the afternoon or evening~
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