Back in 84, he became Jordan’s lifelong enemy!

Chapter 67 Appreciation from a celebrity!
"Good evening, audience friends."

"Welcome to tonight's game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Phoenix Suns. These two teams have previously defeated their opponents and won a good start. Tonight is their second game."

“This is a powerful conversation!”

"Both teams made it to the playoffs last season, and the Suns even made it to the Western Conference Finals, but lost to the Lakers 2:4."

"Last game, SuperSonics newcomer Su Wen"

April 1984, 10, evening.

The game between the SuperSonics and the Suns is about to start on time.

At this time, the two sides were warming up on the court, and NBC's Bob Costas, as always, broadcast the entire highly watched game live.

He has always just sat alone in the studio facing the audience and talking. He rarely gets excited and gets carried away. He has always been known for being calm, rational and monotonous.

In addition to him and NPC, there are also Bob Neal and Rick Barry from TNS TV station to commentate on this game.

The reason why TBS TV station appeared is because of the handiwork of league president David Stern.

Stern realized the importance of live television when he first took office. This year he signed a two-year, $2 million television broadcast contract with TBS.

This is just Stern's first step in television broadcasting. Later, he will steadily increase the NBA's market value and brand image by changing draft policies, anti-drugs, and star-making policies, thereby increasing the league's ratings.

Over the next few years, his efforts paid off.

In 88, Stern signed two-year, $2 million contracts with TBS and TNT respectively.

In the subsequent 88/89 season, the NBA's revenue from ticketing and television broadcasts reached US$4 million. With the addition of advertising and related merchandise retail, the NBA's revenue reached a new height.

This is why Su Wen had to sign a four-year contract regardless of whether he was alive or dead, and refused to sign for one more year or one less year.

Because he clearly knows that in four years' time, the league's salary cap will increase tremendously with the increase in broadcast contract revenue. By then, his average annual rookie contract of US$100 million will no longer be enough.

At that time, we will enter an era where superstars earn an average of 400 to [-] million US dollars per year.

TBS, built in Atlanta in 1968.

It initially aired movies and TVB programs, competing with programs from local network affiliates to attract children and non-news viewers.

In the early 70s, Turner's station began broadcasting local sports events, including professional wrestling, baseball, basketball, and hockey.

Due to its success in the Atlanta television market, TBS began transmitting programs to television markets in other states, and later covered the United States via satellite for national audiences.

In the future, it will be acquired by Time Warner Group and become a subsidiary.

Bob Neal has always been a well-known host of the TV station and an old acquaintance of sports fans. He has always liked to commentate with well-known retired superstars in the sports world.

Tonight he brought in Rick Barry.

Rick Barry, the star of the Golden State Warriors, and his family will all be basketball players in the future.

Joan Barry, white man can fly Brent Barry, is his son.

In addition, his other three sons, Kuster Barry, Drew Barry, and Canyon Barry, are also among them, but they are not as famous as his two brothers.

Of course, no matter how famous Joan Barry and Brent Barry are, they are not as famous as their father.

Rick Barry worked in both the NBA and ABA in the early stages of his career, but both achieved success and led their teams to championships.

He was selected to the All-Stars 8 times, entered the All-NBA Team 10 times, and was only on the 2nd team once, and all the others were on the 1st team.

At the same time, he also won the scoring title, steal title, Rookie of the Year, etc.

He is regarded as a scoring machine.

After retiring in 80, he entered the commentary world and was signed by TBS this year.

"Rick, the game is about to start. What do you think of SuperSonics newcomer Su Wen?"

After Bob Neal introduced the lineups of both sides, he couldn't help but bring out Su Wendan because the latter was as tall as Rick Barry and played the same position.

"You know, in the last game, he actually scored 45 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assists and 4 blocks in his debut. He performed extremely well. This made me think of you for a while."

"You know, he was so good in his first year in college, averaging 33+ points per game, and in his NCAA career, he averaged 36 points per game, even better than him."

"You two should have something in common."

"My career debut was not that magical, Bob." Barry smiled, "I watched Su's performance in the last game, and I was amazed by his talent."

"I think if I had his talent back then, maybe I would have won more than just one championship."

"Haha." Seeing how humble he was, Neil immediately laughed and continued: "But the achievements you have made in your career are already beyond the reach of many people."

"But now it's the world of young people, Bob." Rick Barry lamented: "The league today is different from before, with talented and capable newcomers emerging one after another."

"Look, isn't the Su Wen you're talking about one of them?"

"Running fast, jumping high, explosive, and good both inside and outside." Barry said, carefully watching Su Wen warming up on the field, and sighed: "This is the first time I have seen a rookie with such outstanding talent."

"Just like when I first met Wilt, I was astonished."

Have you pulled out Zhang [-]?
You think highly of Su Wen!
Neil smiled and groaned, agreeing with what he said. Just as he was about to say something else, the situation on the scene changed. The buzzer suddenly sounded, and the game was really about to start.

The players from both sides came off the field, took off their team uniforms, exposed their jerseys, and then walked to their head coach and listened carefully to the tactics arranged.

The SuperSonics continued the starting lineup from the previous game without any changes.

So is the sun.

The team's star player, Larry Nance, is not allowed to start at the fourth position.

Like Rick Barry, he has achieved more in his career than his son.

Although he will become a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers like his son in the future, this is the core treatment.

He is 208cm tall. He is a guy with excellent physical fitness, quick movement, excellent shot blocking, excellent low-post skills, and a good basketball.

Since entering the league with the 81th overall pick in the first round of 20, he has performed steadily and made a big step forward every year. Last season, he averaged nearly 18 points per game, as well as 8.3 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.0 steals and 2.1 blocks per game.

In the last game against the Golden State Warriors, he didn't score much, only 14 points, but he made 11 of 7 shots from the field and had a very efficient 14 points, 11 rebounds, 3 steals and 2 blocks.

His inside partner is James Edwards, a 213cm tall guy who scored a game-high 30 points, 3 rebounds, 2 steals and 2 blocks in the last game.

This man will be a member of the Bad Boy Pistons' two consecutive championships in the late 80s.

In addition to the above two, the remaining starting lineup is:

No. 206, Alvan Adams, [-]cm;

No. 201, Alvin Scott, [-]cm;

No. 185, Michael Holden, [-]cm.

Seeing the two sides re-entering the field and walking to the center circle to wait for the ball, the audience fell silent from the originally noisy atmosphere.

"It's about to start!"

"I'm so looking forward to it. I've been waiting for this game for two whole days!"

"Su, I just want to see Su. I can't wait to see it every day, all day long!"

"God, may Sue be as good as the last one."

Since Su Wen's outstanding performance in the last game, the home fans have become more and more expecting and paying more and more attention to him.

There were even people who specifically came to the game just to see him, with Su Wen's look in their eyes.

One by one, they lowered their voices or prayed inwardly, just to see him continue his outstanding performance again.

Under the eyes of everyone looking forward to it, the two sides jumped the ball.

The Suns took the lead in grabbing the ball, with Michael Holden holding the ball into the frontcourt, while the SuperSonics took their positions and led their opponents.

Suvin stood in front of Alvan Adams, following step by step just like he did when he defended Dantley alone in the last game.

However, Adams is far behind Dantley. Not only is he not as short as the latter, he is also a guy who peaked at his debut and then his performance declined year by year.

This is a white player with average talent. He usually only serves as a blue-collar insider, and more often than not, he is a starter.

In other words, he is a pseudo-starter, and the real main force is still below.

Facing such a person, Su Wen didn't need to exert too much effort. He just followed and guarded and paid attention to the passing of the opponent's teammates.

Then the ball just passed.

The man in front of him only touched the ball once in the whole process, and immediately passed it out. The rest of the time, he was running with him.

The offensive end mainly depends on Chambers' opponent Larry Nance.

The latter received a pass from his teammate and planned to complete the final.

But at the beginning of the game, the physical fitness and excitement of both sides were still there. He couldn't resist Chambers, who was full of energy, so he had to make a feint, widen the distance between Chambers, and shoot from mid-range.

"Shh!"

Not bad, he scored on the first attack and opened the scoring for the team.

The Sonics received the serve, Brad Davis advanced with the ball, and Su Wenluo was in front of Alvan Adams.

Different from the defensive round, Adams' defense was poor. When Su Wen broke through with the ball, he passed the opponent in one step and quickly opened the distance.

After driving to the basket and facing Larry Nance's defense, Suvin made a no-look pass and sent Tim McCormick to the free throw line.

After receiving the ball, McCormick directly attacked the frame, but was violated by the opponent James Edwards and failed to hit the ball successfully.This also destroyed one of Su Wen's assists.

MMP!

"Swish!"

Although McCormick failed to put the ball into the basket, he stood on the free throw line and made two accurate free throws.

Looking back, Nance held the ball inside, feinted Chambers, and passed the ball when his teammate cut inside.

Alvin Scott caught the ball and shot, also hitting two points.

The Suns' offense started a little smoothly, but Lanny Wilkens on the sidelines was not so satisfied.

He made a gesture of strengthening defense to everyone in the field, and after seeing them all nodding to express their acceptance, he returned to his seat and sat down.

Behind him, Les Haberg sat.

The latter, in these two games, he sat in that position on time as soon as the games started. It was like he contributed an annual ticket to the team, arriving on time and leaving on time.

He just wanted to observe Su Wen's performance.

It’s about observing every scene!
Then, he saw Su Wen get screened by his teammates, break into the paint, use a fake fax shot to get rid of James Edwards who was coming up to fill the position, and hit a mid-range jumper.

He took off as fast as a cheetah, and with a tap of his foot, he jumped high into the sky, sitting down and shooting like Jordan.

"Shh!"

Sufficient jumping height allows him to look almost level with the basket and hit the ball accurately.

This was clearly seen by Rick Barry, who sighed: "Su's shot looks quite easy, but no one can guard such a simple jump shot."

"He moved too fast and jumped too high."

"Yes."

Bob Neal responded with a smile: "Since his debut, Su's shots have never been blocked. Whether he scores or not seems to depend on his touch at the time."

"You're right, Bob, he used his super talent to show a simple shot." Barry nodded in agreement.

On the Suns' side, in the next round of offense, the Sonics were finally willing to fight physically and strengthened their defense.

Except for Su Wen, Chambers and McCormick both provided strength to their opponents. Larry Nance was very uncomfortable being guarded by Chambers. When he shot, he missed the frame. .

The rebound was grabbed by Chambers and thrown to Brad Davis. When the latter wanted to accelerate, the Suns also took this into consideration and stepped forward to delay.

But Davis suddenly passed the ball diagonally forward on the other side. The next second, a figure came out from behind and appeared at the reserved spot of the basketball. He caught the basketball just in time. Then speed up and rush forward.

Behind him was Adams.

Unfortunately, he was separated by a long distance and could only watch the figure drive straight in and complete a layup.

Turning around, it was Su Wen.

After his first fast break counterattack of the game, he returned to the defensive end with a calm expression, as if he had just done something trivial.

Naturally, Adams would not bow down to Su Wenhua and said that it didn't matter, he would take action.

So, he took Su Wen and ran inside, looking for an opportunity to attack.

His teammates also turned around and came to cover, blocking Su Wen aside.

Then basketball came.

When his teammates saw that he was open, they immediately passed the ball over.

But no one expected that when Adams was about to catch the ball, Su Wen came out from the side and swatted the ball away. Then he accelerated to catch up with the basketball and saved the basketball that was about to fly out of bounds. Come back and run wildly downfield.

Michael Holden's return to defense was nothing short of unpleasant.

The moment he made a mistake in passing the ball, he was already ready to defend.

When Su Wen grabbed the ball, he also ran wildly into the backcourt and ran diagonally towards the path Su Wen wanted to pass by.

Who would have thought that when Su Wen met him, he suddenly turned around, dribbled the ball behind his back, and instantly shook him off cleanly.

"Bang!"

Once he stepped into the basket, no one could stop him from dunking.

Watching him leap high into the air and perform a one-handed chop with an extremely relaxed body, it directly aroused bursts of cheers from the audience.

In just half a minute, he scored two quick counterattacks in a row, and he personally defended this goal. The audience was all wet.

"Awesome, Sue! You're amazing!"

"He's simply the most valuable asset we got in the summer, he's just outstanding."

"It's exactly the same as the last game, he is still so sharp!"

Adams wanted to recover a goal, but he died before he could take action and died on the way.

The two sides continued to fight on both offense and defense. This time, Larry Nance's good partner James Edwards stepped forward and took action.

After being pushed out by McCormick, he suddenly made a turnaround, slipped into the basket, and after a friendly assist from Nance, dunked the ball into the basket.

Compared to the clumsy McCormick, Edwards is more flexible.

Just looking back, Brad Davis found Chambers with a sudden score and assisted the latter for a layup.

Chambers almost relied on Nance to complete the layup.

It was Chambers who scored in the next round.

He was already hungry for dunks. After a series of pick-and-rolls, he quickly went down, took the pass from Su Wen, jumped up, and carried Nance who took off late, and dunked successfully.

After landing, he glared at the opponent, full of momentum.

The two of them actually entered the league in the same batch and both played out, but Chambers's pick was higher.

In this game, they have a strong sense of competition, and no one will let anyone perform alone.

Just mention it.

This 81st draft is actually also star-studded. It may be worse than the 84 generation, but it is not weaker than the future 96 and 03 generations.

Many of this group of rookies are regulars on the All-Star roster, and Isaiah Thomas is also a two-time champion.

The only thing they lack is their reputation. They were overshadowed by the 84 generation, which makes their stars dim.

Mark Aguirre;
Isaiah Thomas;

Buck Williams;

Orlando Ulrich;
Tom Chambers;
Larry Nance;

Rolando Blackman;

Kelly Tripka.

Except for Ulrich, all of them have been All-Stars more than twice.

Even Danny Ainge, the future Celtics general manager, came from this class.

At the same time, Su Wen also has several teammates besides Chambers.

Danny Warness;
Frank Brickowsky;
Joe Cooper;
And Al Wood, who recently turned his back on the dark side, was picked higher than Tom Chambers and was picked by the Atlanta Hawks with the fourth overall pick.

To say the stars are shining is an understatement.

After Tom Chambers performed a dunk, he did not forget his friend from the same class. When he received the ball the next time and encountered Nance's stubborn resistance, he immediately rushed to Wood who was cutting inside and passed a ground pass. .

Wood caught the ball and made a jump shot.

"Shh!"

After making the shot, he immediately went to Chambers to give him a high-five to celebrate, with a bright look on his face.

Nance returned to the offensive end and was not to be outdone. He threw a long shot with his backhand and hit it.

But before he could take a breath, Su Wen received a pass from his teammate and suddenly passed a penetrating ball. He threw the ball out between Adams and Holden and sent it to Wood who cut inside again. The hunter followed the empty straight road ahead and stabbed to the end.

When he got excited, he also made a flying dunk.

"nice shot!"

When Su Wen saw him flying high in the air and scoring with a one-handed chop, Su Wen yelled at him to show his encouragement.

Unexpectedly, this boy was not greedy for credit. When he came back, he shyly replied: "It's you who passed it on!"

"No, you were in the right place!" Su Wen retorted with a smile.

"No, it's because you passed it accurately that I felt comfortable receiving it!"

"No, you moved accurately and that's why I got this assist."

"No"

"Shit! Are you finished?"

The two of them wanted to talk humbly back and forth. Chambers ran between them and couldn't help but interrupt: "Now is the game!"

(End of this chapter)