NBA: Start by torturing Jordan and add points to upgrade

Lin Tian was ultimately unable to escape the clutches of old Nelson and promised him that he would have at least one month to join his summer special training to help Stoudemire, Anthony and others improve and progress.

But other than that, Lin Tian's offseason this year was quite relaxing.

This year, he had no national team mission and he never attended Asian competitions. The copyright of the Produce Camp that he and Dolan created was sold earlier this year, allowing Lin Tian to make a lot of money again.

Of course, Dolan also wants to try something similar, such as singing and dancing in the same mode or some other gimmicks.

But those have nothing to do with Lin Tian, ​​well... not completely unrelated.

The money that should be paid cannot be less than a penny!
Copyright fees must be paid.

In addition, Dana White hopes that Lin Tian will guest-star in two more games to stimulate the UFC, which is now developing rapidly and has become one of the mainstream fighting leagues in the United States.

Lin Tian, ​​who has won an Olympic championship and defeated Tyson, still has a large number of die-hard fans in the fighting world. Especially with Lin Tian's identity as a cross-border superstar, many fighting fans are looking forward to Lin Tian going to UFC to fight a few matches with the top masters there.

As for Lin Tian’s response?
No, no! You are so old, and you are still competing with young people for jobs. Now your arms and legs are old, what if you get injured?
Especially since Mr. Lin now has a 100% winning rate and he even defeated Tyson. He doesn't want to break his perfect record in his fighting career.

Just leave it at that!
But after all, it is his own business. Lin Tian is too lazy to go on stage now, but if he is asked to stand on the stage, cut the ribbon, shoot two commercials or something like that, then there is absolutely no problem. He must show his support!

After all, you are making money for yourself!
In addition, Pelinka also said that Lin Tian must continue his world tour this year. On the one hand, it is to increase the sales of sneakers and increase popularity. On the other hand, some business cooperation has expired and Lin Tian has to show up so as to renegotiate the details of the cooperation.

In addition, the Laureus Awards, which are becoming more and more formal and influential, have been changed to be held in June this year. They have postponed the date specifically because they hope that Lin Tian, ​​the first Grand Slam winner, will show their support and present them with several certificates as a special guest.

Although it sounds very unprofessional to postpone the event just for one person, the sponsor is a big moneymaker after all, so Lin Tian must go to the award ceremony.

Especially, they have a new endorsement contract to discuss with Lin Tian, ​​so how can I not go if they are giving me money?

I heard that this year's awards ceremony was held in Estoril, Portugal?

I don’t know if I’ll have the chance to meet the famous Cristiano Ronaldo in the future. If I do, Lin Tian will definitely encourage him and say, “Good boy, I believe you can become the GOAT in the football world.”

Well...if you have the chance, go to Barcelona and see if you can meet Yosi, and then persuade him or just go to neighboring Japan to become a citizen, it will be more suitable for you than Argentina.

Or maybe you can meet Benzema, Ribery, Xavi, Neuer or someone like that by chance and get a glimpse of the GOAT of football?

I'm counting on all of you to be the GOAT!

Anyway, this thing is not valuable, so just wholesale it.

Finally, take a world tour, happily exchange souls with your friends, and infuse some source of life?
Lin Tian suddenly felt that this off-season, which was longer than almost all of his previous seasons, seemed to be really relaxing.

However, Lin Tian has always been too lazy to think too much. He slept and played in his New York apartment for several days, giving himself a good rest.

It is worth mentioning that the Olsen sisters, who had completely ignored themselves after the All-Star Game, contacted Lin Tian again. Both sisters acted as if they had no idea of ​​the other's existence and appeared at completely different times.

Even every time Lin Tian asked, "How are your sisters doing recently?", the two girls would get angry, and then tell Lin Tian angrily: Elizabeth is not studying well, and as her elder sister, I am heartbroken.

Poor Elizabeth, her sisters didn't take her with them when they were happy, but she was the one to take the blame when things were going well.

Of course, in just these few days, Lin Tian didn't do anything to force the two of them together and then create another great unity of life. This kind of thing still needs to be done slowly, there is a long way to go!
If you make someone angry, won’t you lose one... no, two bits of happiness in the future?
Lin Tian stayed in New York for more than half a month. It was not until late June that he finally decided to move around.

By this time, this season's NBA has officially ended.

Lin Tian really didn't bother to worry about who won the championship before, but now when he arrived at the airport and saw the huge poster hanging at the airport with Billups holding the FMVP trophy, and Big Ben, Hamilton and others standing beside him just as happy as children, he finally realized that it was the Pistons who won the championship. As for the score?
Let’s talk about it next season. Lin Tian is too lazy to care about it now.

At the same time, the NBA lottery and draft were also completed during this period.

The 30-win Bucks became the biggest winner, surpassing a number of "strong" opponents with only more than ten wins and getting the No. pick! If it weren't for the injuries, this team would have a chance to make the playoffs, and suddenly got the hope of rebuilding!
The team that got the second pick became the Bobcats, the third pick was taken by the Hawks, and the next ones were the Hornets and Warriors. These five teams also became the top five teams in this season's draft rankings.

As for the final draft results, the Bucks with the first pick selected a dead man from Australia, the Bobcats who were in urgent need of a point guard to team up with Okafor selected North Carolina genius Raymond Felton, the Hawks took Marvin Williams nicknamed 'the landlord', the Hornets with the fourth pick took Deron Williams, and the Warriors with the fifth pick selected the small guard Chris Paul.

Further on?
Lin Tian didn’t know what happened next.

Oh, no, I know one. Donnie Walsh called Lin Tian and told him that he had selected another guy who could fly and dunk at the end of the first round, which could be considered as a substitute for Lin Tian.

Nate Robinson.

After the 175cm dunk king, 'Potato' Webber, there is another well-known short man in the league.

The only difference is that unlike Webber, Boykins and other famous short players in the league, other short players make a living by organizing offense and passing the ball.

And Nate Robinson relies on scoring!
He is a scorer with little playmaking ability.

Although he is short in stature, he has strong impact, good physical confrontation, explosive jumping ability, a good shot, and a complete lack of defense.

It matches the style of the Knicks quite well.

As for why Lin Tian only knew the situation of the top five picks, it was because Jordan called him again.

Jordan asked Lin Tian who he would choose.

Lin Tian told Jordan without hesitation: "Paul! Choose Chris Paul!"

Then Jordan told Lin Tian without hesitation: "Haha! I have already chosen. I didn't choose Paul. I chose Felton. He is my junior. He will be the best point guard of this class. He and Okafor will be able to lead the team into the playoffs next season!"

"As for the Paul you recommended? He dropped to fifth place! He's no good at all. He's too short and can't defend. He'll be attacked as a loophole. I bet you that he'll be the weakest among the top five picks."

After hearing what Jordan said, Lin Tian couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, "You don't listen to my recommendation, why are you asking me who to choose?"

"I'm pissing you off! I want to prove that my vision is 100 times better than yours!"

Good, good, good, a hundred times, a hundred times.

Listening to Jordan's words, Lin Tian resisted the urge to continue attacking him, and instead said directly: "I bet Chris Paul can win the best rookie award, do you dare to bet?"

"I bet the best rookie will definitely not be Chris Paul!" Jordan was very smart this time. If it were the same him as before, he would definitely tell Lin Tian that he bet Felton would be the best rookie.

But after losing so many times, Jordan had learned his lesson.

Hehe, let me change the way I gamble!

I take 59 rookies and bet on one of yours, Lin Tian. How can I lose?

With a flying dragon on my face, how can I lose?

Then, Jordan waited nervously, for he was afraid that Lin Tian would hear the trap in his words.

"It's a deal, then let's do this. Tell me, what's the bet?"

"One hundred thousand US dollars!" Jordan directly quoted a sky-high price.

"Come on, we both have enough money, what's the point of betting 10 a year?" Lin Tian thought for a moment and said, "How about this, the loser has to wear the other person's sneakers and appear in the other person's sneaker advertisement. How about it? Do you dare?"

"Come on! I'm sure to win!" Jordan hung up the phone happily, thinking that he had a great advantage. Lin Tian also happily called AND1's advertising department and asked them to come up with a script with Jordan in it. There was no rush, as it would be needed in April next year.

Jordan thinks he has a big advantage? Lin Tian said: You can almost call GG!
After hanging up the phone, the super happy Jordan called Felton directly and said, "Brother, I'm optimistic about you. Come train with me in the summer!"

Felton: No problem! You are my God! When does it start?
Jordan: No. 26!

Felton: No problem! See you next month!

Jordan: Next month? I mean the 26th of this month!
Felton: Mr. Michael, but it's 6 o'clock at night on June 26th!

Jordan: You don’t have to come.

So, Felton's nightmare began on the night of the draft.

Of course, it has nothing to do with Lin Tian. He doesn’t care whether he will be directly defeated by Jordan or not.

Now, Lin Tian has to start his happy and leisurely offseason. How leisurely is it?
He was so leisurely that he hadn't even left for New York in the previous sentence, but in the next sentence he had already returned to New York.

Time... just flies so fast!

In the past month, Lin Tian has traveled almost half the world, from business activities to leisurely vacations, to a live performance at Lawrence, and he also extended and updated a series of endorsements. By the time he returned to New York, it was already mid-August.

After getting off the plane, Lin Tian only had time to return to his apartment in New York to take a nap. The next morning, he was dragged to the Knicks training hall by a call from old Nelson who couldn't wait.

He had been playing around for nearly two months and was so relaxed that even the muscles all over his body became a little bloated and his weight went up again, but it was not a big problem. For Lin Tian, ​​he would be able to get back to his peak shape in a month at most.

But it's not so easy for other players on the Knicks.

For example, Stoudemire, Anthony and others took a few days off after the end of the season and took a vacation for more than half a month, and then in August, they started training!

The Knicks' internal mini training camp has been underway for almost a week.

When Lin Tian arrived at the training hall, he was surprised to find that everyone was there!
Except for himself, all the other Knicks players are here!
How consistent are they?

Even Houston, who was ruled out for the season, was practicing shooting there. Even Ewing and Oakley, who retired a long time ago, were there to coach Stoudemire, Okur and others.

Damn it, if they are all in this order, doesn’t it make me, Mr. Lin, seem quite irresponsible and extremely lazy?

"Don't worry, no one thinks that your not coming is disrespectful to the competition or them. On the contrary, they hope you come a few days later, because then they can show you something completely different."

Old Nelson obviously saw through Lin Tian’s thoughts and explained to him.

At this moment, the players who were practicing hard in various places on the scene also saw Lin Tian and came over to greet him.

"I didn't expect you to come so early. I wanted to give you a surprise!" Xiao Si's mouth stretched all the way to his ears, and it was obvious that the training effect was quite good.

"Lin, do you want to fight me?" Anthony said excitedly, "I learned a new trick."

"Long time no see, Lin! How are you? Have fun in New York! You should have come here 8 years ago!" Ewing also grinned widely, becoming the least handsome person at the scene.

When Lin Tian saw old friends Nelson and Ewing gathered together, he immediately said, "Patrick, didn't you beat up that old man? He wanted to send you away back then!"

As soon as Lin Tian said this, the whole scene froze for 2 minutes. Everyone was stunned. No one could have expected that Lin Tian’s first words after coming up would be this.

"Oh, sorry I forgot, everything is fine between you two."

Lin Tian's second sentence managed to get the air flowing again, but old Nelson, who knew Lin Tian well, could guess with his knees that what Lin Tian said was definitely bullshit.

"Didn't Patrick team up with his friends to drive you away again? So the two of you are evenly matched and don't owe each other anything."

Awkward, super embarrassing.

Although old Nelson and Ewing no longer took what happened back then seriously, considering it as some unpleasant memories from their youth, it was still very unpleasant and uncomfortable to hear Lin Tian talk about it now.

It's like when you're 30 and you attend a primary school reunion, your classmates are talking loudly about the times when you wet your pants or shit your crotch.

Is this a big deal?
totally not!

But just talking about this thing makes people feel relaxed and happy.

"Shut up!" Old Nelson rolled his eyes, then decisively changed the subject, looking at everyone present and said, "Since everyone is here, how about a fight?"

"Come on, come on!" Ewing shouted quickly, "I'll be the head coach of the blue team!"

When Lin Tian was about to ask where the blue team, white team, and red team came from, Ward had already quite sensibly taken out a bunch of red and blue vests. It was obvious that this group of people had played a lot of training games during this period.

"Lin, Amare, Josh, Matt, Gerald, you five form a team." Old Nelson said quickly: "Melo, Mehmet, Michael, Charlie, Alan, you five form a team, let's start."

"I'll lead Melo and the others!" Ewing cheered, not hiding his desire for the position of head coach at all.

"This guy has always wanted to be a coach." Old Nelson did not shy away from saying, "He has been asking me to give him a chance. He is willing to start as an assistant coach."

"So what do you mean?" Lin Tian was very curious about old Nelson's choice. Would he give Ewing a chance?

After all, if Lin Tian remembered correctly, Ewing had always longed to be a coach and had been working hard.

However, the harder this guy works, the further he is from the position of head coach, and the harder he works, the fewer people want him to be a coach.

At first, he could be an assistant coach because of his fame, but soon he was reduced to a personal trainer. After delaying two potential new stars, Yao Ming and Bynum, no one wanted him to be a personal trainer anymore. He has no talent and is completely ignorant of the business.

More importantly, both Yao Ming and Bynum changed trainers later, one to McMillan and the other to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

And then?
They have become the number one center in the league.

As for the end of the story, Ewing can only coach in the Development League, and then go to the NCAA. As for whether he can make a name for himself in the NCAA, or whether he can make it back to the NBA...

Anyway, Lin Tian felt there was no hope.

If there is hope, he won't have to work hard for 30 years after retirement to only be able to find a job in the NCAA.

Well... these are all later stories. Now, Lin Tian has to change his clothes and see what his little brothers have practiced during the half month that he was away.

Let’s see what kind of progress can make them so excited!
"Coach, I want to play too, why don't you let me play?" Stephen Jackson, the team's starting shooting guard last season, opened his arms with an innocent look on his face.

"Get lost." Nelson was merciless. "Didn't you sign with the Warriors? Why don't you report to Golden State? You are shamelessly training here. I am not kicking you out, which is good enough. Do you still want to play?"

"Why don't you go to heaven?"

"But, coach, I want to play basketball!" Jackson had an aggrieved look on his face, and he was almost wearing long hair. He knelt on the ground, his face full of tears.

"Get lost!" Unfortunately, he was not facing Coach Anxi. (End of this chapter)