From sparring to superstar

Chapter 119 117. Skyrocket
“恭喜宿主击败灰熊队，本场比赛数据：41分5板7助攻1抢断6盖帽，奖励：880成就点。”

"Third pick:
The host blocked Stromile Swift twice in the game against the Grizzlies. Congratulations to the host for receiving the reward: 1000 achievement points. "

The next morning, after Li Ao woke up, he couldn't help but look at the two reminders after last night's game again.

41 points in a single game, so happy!
Although 29 votes last night was a bit too much...but it doesn't matter.

As the team's key rookie, what's wrong with daring to fight in garbage time.

He got up and checked the websites and forums of various media. No, they were all touting his 41 points, 6 blocks, and 4 times 5 data.

It wasn't Swift that he blocked the most shots last night, and he didn't care about this opponent later on. The one he blocked the most was Osella Harrington, one of the "Three Heroes of Texas", a backup center for the Grizzlies.

Osella Harrington was the first pick in the second round of the 96 golden generation. He has an active style of play and a strong body. The disadvantage is that he is only 206 cm tall and has average athletic ability.

Li Ao also saw a post analyzing the 10 blocks he got in two games, and came to the conclusion that he is very restrained by those insiders who are not fast and the scoring area is fixed under the basket, so many replies ridicule him for "bullying the old man".

But it's just a joke. He has received a lot of recognition for this aspect. Some people commented on his blocked shots. He greatly limited the easy scoring opportunities of the opponent's weakest scoring players. This can play a big role in the game.

After reading the news that made him happy for a while, Li Ao searched the Grizzlies fan forum to see more happy things.

Hey!
So lively!
He saw a lot of posts from Clippers fans thanking the Grizzlies.

And the Grizzlies fans are actually on the same side as their Clippers fans at this time!

When he was talking nonsense in an interview yesterday, the reporter really pretended not to notice that he was talking nonsense.

The phrase "I like a city with a comfortable environment" even the Clippers fans believed it.

According to the media survey conducted by Eagle Sauce, cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland are the cities most chosen by florists who come to North America to work.

Seeing the management of the Grizzlies being ridiculed by the crowd, Li Ao was in a happy mood.

He has no grievances with the Grizzlies, and he has never met with the Grizzlies management, and the other party did not invite him to try out, but after becoming a professional player, he understood why Dampier, Big Z, Jr. O'Neal, Ben Wallace and others played extraordinarily hard every time they saw Camby as if they saw their father and enemy.

Iverson is strong, and Raheem has a good personality. Isn't Camby the only top three pick that players in the same class are eyeing, especially players in the same position most want to blow up this No. [-] pick.

After reading the news until 7 o'clock, Li Ao went to the iron for more than half an hour, took a bath, cooked for the hospital assistant's aunt, and then accompanied her to read e-mail shopping magazines at the hospital assistant's aunt's house.

With the popularity of mobile phones, telephone shopping, the most popular shopping method in Jiaopenji, has been spread to Yedie Yingjiang. Li Ao remembers that this seems to be popular in China at this time, and a bunch of phone shopping programs with mixed dragons and snakes have emerged on TV.

After resting all morning and having lunch, Li Ao came to the Memorial Stadium.

This Saturday, Henry Bibby was very efficient and arranged training for Li Ao.

But today Li Ao is in the role of "defensive training partner", which is the condition he accepted from the middle-aged Sao Nan. His old teammates help him practice his running position, and he helps his old teammates polish their offensive coordination.

This year, the Trojans team has flourished and won five of the top 5 high school students in the United States in one fell swoop. The highest ranking is Gerald Wallace at No. 4, who is also the object of Henry Bibby's attention.

After the training started, under the leadership of Sam Clancy, the talented freshmen were eager to challenge Li Ao.

Especially Gerald Wallace, he ranks the highest, and I often hear his classmates compare him with Li Ao, but they don't think highly of him.

Although sports is not his favorite industry, he has been working hard for choosing this path. Although he and Li Ao are a freshman and a junior, they are only 1 year apart. He is very upset about being underestimated!
Then... In the training match, Gerald Wallace, who was facing Li Ao, suffered the biggest blow since he started playing basketball.

Breaking through and not moving, the opponent looked obviously thinner than him, and was indeed thinner than him, but he was much stronger than him!
Defensive skills, excellent awareness, and that exaggerated defensive coverage area...

After a practice game, Gerald Wallace, like Sam Clancy, crouched in a corner and drew circles.

It feels good to abuse food, but Li Ao is still worried that he will abuse his elementary school brother.

However, something unexpected happened to Li Ao. After resting for a while and doing a few sets of shooting drills, in the second team game, Gerald Wallace regained his strength and played harder on both ends of the offense and defense than before!

In the last training match, Li Ao ran and shot easily, but this time he encountered considerable resistance. Gerald Wallace chased him like a mad dog without the ball.

This made Li Ao very happy. He began to try to adjust the running rhythm, reduce movement, reduce unnecessary turning back and forth, increase circling piles, and increase the static confrontation separation space of standing timing...

Although Gerald Wallace worked very hard, after all, he had just graduated from high school, and without accident, he was hanged and beaten again.

At 5 o'clock in the evening, Li Ao ended the training contentedly.

In the evening, Li Ao invited the whole Trojan team to have a meal, which ended a pleasant day.

...

After a day's rest, Li Ao woke up at 4 o'clock in the morning on the 6th, and looked at the calendar by his bedside. There was a game today.

After playing the opening game away, the Clippers started playing the Grizzlies and played 5 consecutive games at the Staples Center, 4 home and 1 away.

At 7:10 p.m., Li Ao was standing at the entrance of the home team's players at the Staples Center.

He looked at the five starters on the opposite side, and it was another day of Zabel's villain in his heart...

Maurice Taylor was sent to the Rockets by the Magic in exchange for Dee Brown, who averaged 1.8 three-pointers per game last season.

At 7:[-] in the evening, the Clippers played against the Rockets.

Maggette was put on the starting position tonight, playing small forward, and Li Ao was moved to the shooting guard position, defending Mobley.

After the game started, the Clippers played against the Rockets.

In terms of overall strength, the Rockets are stronger. After the opening game, the Rockets exchanged Dee Brown, who they didn't need, for a striker who averaged 17 points per game last season.

Maurice Taylor is 206 cm tall and weighs 116 kg. He is very strong, has a tough style of play, and dares to fight hard. It just makes up for the shortcomings of Olajuwon's offensive avalanche inside and Barkley's retirement.

Odom was hammered by Maurice Taylor tonight.

But Maggette vs Francis, Li Ao vs Mobley, Jermaine O'Neal vs Olajuwon, Tianke!
莫里斯-泰勒今晚14投8中、外加8中5的罚球，拿到21分6板。

但弗朗西斯今晚13投4中只拿到12分7板6助攻。

奥拉朱旺虽然拿到12板2助攻1抢断3盖帽，但他篮板球多，是因为今晚两队篮板球加起来有115个，李敖今晚都从牲口一样的队友旁边捡到8个篮板球。

奥拉朱旺今晚9次出手，只进了1球，加上2中2的罚球拿到4分。

O'Neal only needs to stick to him, limit his short-range shots, and even give Olajuwon a chance to go inside. Their Clippers have a professional rookie who bullies the old man.

Li Ao blocked 3 shots tonight, two of which were contributed by Olajuwon, 'the bullying opponent is too weak'.

Mobley was also miserable. He was defended by Li Ao and scored 15 points on 6 of 16 shots.

The rhythm was too slow tonight. Mobley was restrained by Li Ao, but the slow-paced positional battle was restrained even worse.

However, Li Ao’s score tonight was also terrible. He had just scored 41 points, but he was targeted by the Rockets. He was as calm as ever.

表现最好的是奥多姆和小奥尼尔，前者13分20板3助攻、后者17分10板2助攻2盖帽。

At 9:51 in the evening, a slow-paced positional warfare offensive and defensive battle ended.

79 to 67, the Clippers defeated the Rockets and won two consecutive victories!
After the game, Li Ao received a game reward of 460 achievement points.

With such a low score, he can accept the fact that his scoring and assists are low. No one can score high all the time, even double figures are not bad.

But caps...

Tonight, he could already feel that the opponent's inside line was avoiding him, including Olajuwon, who stopped going inside after being capped twice by him.

From the team's defensive point of view, this is good, but I just enjoyed the joy of blocking 6 shots in a single game, and I cut half of them in the second game, and blocking shots will gradually become more difficult in the future.

But when he thought about it, it was something to be happy about. Relying on the preseason games of the Lakers and the regular season of the Jazz and Grizzlies, his reputation as a supplementary defense at the basket has been made, and the defensive deterrence has been raised, which is a good thing for the team.

...

With the Rockets gone, the Clippers got a day off.

This rest day, Los Angeles is very lively.

The Clippers and the Lakers are about to play against each other!
3场常规赛过后，李敖场均24.7分5.3板5.3助攻4.3盖帽，成为了目前的当红炸子鸡！

The most touted media have compared him with Shaquille O'Neal and David Robinson in his rookie season, saying that among rookies in the past 12 years, only Duncan performed better in his rookie season.

The Lakers were unwilling to deal with Stud's high-quality role player lineup for the second pick, so they were brought out to stir up speculation.

As for the fact that the Lakers have negotiated with the Magic to trade the No. 5 pick with chips that exceed the market price, it was selectively ignored by the media.

Under the hype of the media, the attention of all fans was attracted to this game.

Watch the fun, who doesn't love it.

However, the attitude of Los Angeles fans surprised NBA fans in other regions.

Speaking of the team, Clippers fans also feel that the Lakers are much better than them.

But Li Ao's personal popularity in Los Angeles is no less than the OK group!

Sports Illustrated conducted a random street survey in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. The favorite NBA players are O'Neal first, Li Ao second, and Kobe third.

Li Ao was also very surprised by this, because since the beginning of the summer league, he has often been asked by Lakers fans to sign autographs and take photos with him. At that time, the Clippers had clearly rejected the Lakers' trade offer, and Baylor had received an order not to answer calls from anyone related to the Lakers.

This is definitely not the effect that can be achieved by saying "OK combination is the best in the world".

To put it bluntly, after the Lakers won the championship last season, the players who praised the OK combination the most were the players from the Trail Blazers and Pacers, the two teams that were finally defeated by the Lakers.

And Li Ao didn't discuss the topic of the Lakers with others after saying "OK combination is the best in the world".

Li Ao couldn't understand why it was so popular in Los Angeles, so Li Ao didn't want to. It's not a good thing, who doesn't like being popular.

Today, Li Ao received good news, bad news, and good and bad news.

The bad news is that O'Neal has returned early and will participate in tomorrow's game.

With O'Neal's style of play, there is basically no need to expect the opponent to be absent for too long and be in a bad state.

Good and bad news - in yesterday's Lakers 97-92 win over the Jazz, Kobe Bryant, who scored 5 mid-range shots in the final quarter and led the team to victory with 14 points in a single quarter, slipped at the last moment, split a cross, and strained his crotch ligament. He will miss 4-6 weeks.

For the team, Li Ao thinks this is a good thing, OK does not fit, they have hope of winning.

But he regretted not being able to play against Kobe.

But there is that good news, and nothing else matters—Li Ao and Schwartz came to a manor in Los Angeles together, and met the man known as the god of basketball——Michael Jordan.

Sneaker endorsements are finally about to be signed!

As for the hook, after several months of pulling and pulling, he reluctantly offered a seven-year, $7 million contract.

As Li Ao showed his strength in the preseason, Schwartz ignored Hook's attitude, and Hook was willing to raise the price to tens of millions of dollars.

But just when Hook thought he could take Li Ao down due to bleeding, he encountered a backstab from the sub-brand.

Schwartz has been communicating with AJ for nearly a month, and the general direction has been negotiated, leaving Li Ao to discuss some details in person.

On the evening of November 2000, 11, fans were discussing tomorrow’s game between the Clippers and the Lakers, whether the Clippers could take advantage of Kobe’s injury and upset the defending champion, whether Spider-Man could cap O’Neal twice, and what kind of performance Spider-Man could play in the game against the Lakers. A big news diverted the attention of the fans.

Air Jordan president Larry Miller, chief spokesperson Michael Jordan and Li Ao held a press conference together.

On behalf of AJ, Michael Jordan announced that he has officially signed a contract with Li Ao for 7 years and 9800 million US dollars.

Larry Miller also announced that Jordan's exclusive designer, Trink Hartfrod, who created the AJ6 classic and popular boots for Jordan, will create exclusive boots for Li Ao within 3 years.

As soon as the news came out, it caused a sensation all over the United States!

(End of this chapter)