The Road to Stardom: Start as a Slam Dunk Master.

Chapter 193 Departure—Seattle

Ever since that intra-squad game, Lin Dong's life with the Sharks has been quite relaxing and enjoyable.

Regular players such as Yao Ming and Liu Wei could see his potential and intended to make friends with him. From time to time, they would take Lin Dong to the Magic Road to hang out, taste delicious food and chat after training.

Lin Dong and Yao Ming have similar values, have the same goals, and even have the same desire to pursue the NBA.

What's more important is that both of them realize that the other will be their strongest support in the future in the national team and when facing powerful enemies in the world. Therefore, the desire to have a good relationship is also their common aspiration.

In this way, the relationship warmed up quite quickly, and with Yao Ming's emotional intelligence, it was obvious that the young man in front of him had an inherent edge and domineering spirit.

Such people will not stoop to others.

Therefore, even though he is older, whenever Lin Dong calls Brother Yao, Yao Ming will jokingly ask Lin Dong to call him Dayao, saying that calling him brother makes him look older.

Yao Ming is an extremely thoughtful person. He knows that with Lin Dong’s character, he may not care about such a title, but other people around him do. If Lin Dong gets used to calling Yao Brother Yao Brother, over time, in the national team, Or maybe the outside world will spread rumors that Yao Ming is the boss and Lin Dong is the second.

This is fine now, and it may be fine in the next two or three years, but what about three to five years from now? What happens when Lin Dong truly realizes his talent and becomes a giant?

Then this simple "Brother Yao" might become a trigger for interested people and the media to label them randomly and sow discord. On the contrary, it would affect the relationship between the two and their future tacit understanding.

It's best to nip things like this before they happen.

As a result, Dayao and Xiaolin became the names the two called each other.

The two usually talk about the NBA and American basketball the most, and Yao Ming obviously has a deeper understanding of this than Lin Dong.

He had played against the U.S. team before when he was in the National Youth League. More importantly, he had also participated in several Nike summer camps and training trips to the United States. Yao Ming also has more knowledge about the members of the U.S. team at this Nike Summit. Learn more.

"I don't know much about Kwame Brown, the No. 214 high school student in the United States today, but I know another one, Tyson Chandler." Yao Ming said: "I played with him at the Nike training camp the year before last, 108 Centimeters, kg weight, inside gate, his strength is not much worse than mine, he can match up, and his athletic ability is quite strong, but in the eyes of the American media, he ranks below Kwame Brown... This may give you a reference .”

Many Chinese people tend to regard Dayao as the favorite of this era, but in fact, his achievements as the favorite were achieved after he went to the NBA and relied on efforts that surpassed ordinary people and even surpassed all his peers around him.

Before that, although Dayao had already killed everyone in the CBA, he did not have many advantages compared to the young American players of his generation. In fact, in his rookie season after joining the NBA in 02, he was beaten in various ways. Being able to get the No. 02 pick despite being a tough coach is certainly because the overall level of the draft is not high enough. On the other hand, it is hard to say whether any Rockets executives are considering the Dragon Country market.

Therefore, using Dayao at this time as a reference board is of great reference significance to Lin Dong.

Don't look at the fact that he swept the Rigao League before, and even defeated the Sharks with Zhu Fangyu and other motley crew after returning to China.

But regardless of each other's positions, what he can do at the 3rd position is probably similar to what Dayao can do at the center position now. It can be said that the two are of equal strength.

Dayao claimed that Chandler was on the same level as him. Although he was being self-effacing, it at least proved that Chandler and Dayao were on the same level at this time. Chandler was also evaluated as the best player in this period. Under Kwame Brown, Kwame Brown almost became the most famous parallel No. 1 pick in American history. Even Yao Ming was abused in various ways in his rookie season. The NBA's best rookie that year was also selected by the ninth overall pick. Amare takes it...

These are actually enough to prove that it was the right choice for me to go to the NSAA to practice for one or two years before landing in the NBA.

It seems that I have had a smooth journey, and I have been invincible all the way, but in my current state, I really don't have the ability to stir up trouble in the NBA.

However, speaking of the American team at this Nike Summit, it is really difficult to deal with.

Chandler, who is not much worse than Yao Yao, Kwame Brown, who is rated higher than Chandler, plus James, Wade, Bosh, Anthony, whom I am more familiar with... This lineup can almost form an American team. The Olympic dream team is out.

For this reason, Lao Li has placed a bet on himself that can be regarded as his entire future. Frankly speaking, Lin Dong himself has nothing. The worst thing is not to return to China first, but it is okay to study abroad at NSAA at his own expense, but he really secretly feels for Lao Li. Li sweated.

Lin Dong clearly remembers that in the history of his world, the Nike Summit from 01 to 03 was suspended. Therefore, the current American team, which can be said to be the strongest lineup in the history of the Nike Summit, is actually not historically exist.

Therefore, even as a time traveler, I have no idea what will happen at this Nike summit, who will be participating in the international team, and how terrifying the American guys will be.

At the same time, in the historical CBA season of 00-01, the Sharks actually lost to the Bayi team of Wang Zhizhi and Liu Yudong in the finals.

But now that Wang Zhizhi has gone to the NBA a year ahead of schedule, Liu Yudong, who leads the single-core team, will most likely not be a match for the Sharks. After Yao Ming completes his "win agreement" with the Sharks, coupled with Lao Li's operation, he may also be better than the Sharks. Historically, he entered the NBA one year early, and even with Yao's pick, if he went to the draft this year, he would still be quite competitive against Kwame Brown and Chandler.

Therefore, the No. 1 pick and even the No. 2 pick will not be the Rockets that fans in Dragon Country are familiar with...

It seems that the world has quietly changed greatly because of his involvement with the Slam Dunk character.

As early as last year when I traveled back in time, the butterfly of fate had already flapped its wings.

What will the future of history look like?

What will happen to the NBA and world basketball landscape in the future? These may no longer be the history that I am familiar with.

Lin Dong thinks this is really something worth looking forward to.

In addition, after the team game, the system points reached 99, which is also something that bothers Lin Dong a little. He made excuses to challenge Dayao in a one-on-one match after the game in the team, but the system's duel decision was not triggered. Even when he challenged Liu Wei and other Sharks players to a duel, it was not triggered.

In retrospect, after I triggered the judgment when fighting Fujima, I would no longer be rewarded with points when fighting Fujima in the future.

And he had already played against Dayao in the intra-team competition, so he could no longer gain duel points from him.

As for the other substitutes of the Sharks, they are not good enough and have no influence. Naturally, there is no triggering system.

It seems that the system is still very stuck in this area, but looking at the shiny 'McDavid Original Knee Pad' in the mall, it is only 1 point away from getting it.

This made Lin Dong feel very anxious, and it was really difficult for him to deal with this obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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3 month 29 number.

The Sharks had already passed the first round of the playoffs with a big score of 3:0 a week ago. The next thing to prepare for is the bo5 semi-finals with Guangdong Hongyuan the day after tomorrow.

Both sides were Lin Dong's current acquaintances, but they had no chance to watch the match.

The one-and-a-half-month trial training with the Sharks has ended, the call from the Nike Summit has arrived, and it’s time to leave.

According to the official announcement from the Nike Summit, on April 4, all invited international players will report to Seattle. The Seattle Supersonics Arena will provide all the needs for international team members including food, accommodation, training grounds, etc. At the same time, Jonas Kazlauskas, who was named the best coach in Europe last year, was invited to become the head coach of the international team this time and will be responsible for the training, competition, etc. of the international team at the SuperSonics Arena. All matters.

Lin Dong had packed his bags early in the morning on the 29th. When Yao Ming, Liu Wei and He Ning sent him to the airport, the group of people naturally gave him all kinds of encouragement and blessings.

Arriving in Yanjing at 10 o'clock in the morning, I went to the Basketball Association to report, and Lao Li negotiated.

Of course, I didn't put too much pressure on him, and I didn't talk about topics like that he had to win, otherwise he would be under great pressure at home. It was just a very ordinary explanation of the process and care and encouragement.

Lao Li obviously also knows that this American team is very strong, but now that the bet has been placed, what is left is natural trust. Putting too much pressure on Lin Dong at this time is obviously not a good thing.

This time, because the international team was led by Yunus, people from the Basketball Association did not go with them. They only sent one reporter with the team, and they did not go with Lin Dong and the others. Only Lin Dong and Zhu Fangyu arrived in Seattle one day early, 2 Just go directly to the SuperSonics Arena, there will naturally be people there to receive you.

When the Basketball Association finished all the formalities and came downstairs to the lobby, Zhu Fangyu and Wang Shipeng, who came to see him off, were already waiting there.

Guangdong Hongyuan had previously approved Zhu Fangyu to leave the team to attend this Nike Summit, also for the purpose of advertising for his own team. However, because there were still semi-finals, Wang Shipeng had no chance to see him off.

In the evening, Sun Yue was called, and the group naturally celebrated. Lin Dong had already obtained his driver's license, and he drove out the Lamborghini on a whim, which made Zhu Fangyu and Zhu Fangyu look straight in the eyes.

"I only said that your home has a courtyard house, but I didn't say that your home also has a Lamborghini!"

"Holy shit, this is a GT?!" Sun Yue knew more about cars, his eyes were shining brightly: "It's still a new car, my God, you've only run 18 kilometers? Brother! My brother! Let me play with it. Huh? I'll help you run it in, so it will drive better!"

"Get out of here, I've only opened it once."

"Brother Lin~~If you go to the National Youth Training Team in the future, I will cover your socks and underwear!"

"I have hands."

"Who would dislike an extra pair of hands..." Sun Yue smiled.

After all, this is a new car that I just got and played with once, and finally it was borrowed by Sun Yue...

I love cars, but Lin Dong has never cared much about these external things. We have become brothers and friends, and they only have one car.

Besides, he didn’t plan to keep the car and sell it, so it was just sitting idle in the Sanlihe Community.

They only stayed in Yanjing for one night. Over in Seattle, Yuya had already called each other three times a day and was looking forward to it. Lin Dong and Zhu Fangyu bought tickets for the early morning of the 30th.

But when I got on the plane excitedly, I suddenly remembered.

I went there two days in advance with the intention of having a tryst, but there was Lao Zhu next to me who was eager to go there... Where should he stay at night?

"..."

Lin Dong watched Zhu Fangyu happily rush onto the plane, happily help him put his luggage on the flight rack, and then happily chat with him about American customs. Suddenly he felt a little headache.

Baimi...sure enough, there will be a sparseness in the end!

(End of this chapter)