I’m Really Playing Basketball

Chen Xiao dislikes Zhan’s mother very much.

This is a woman who brings a lot of embarrassment to Xiao Zhan.

But it is undeniable that for Xiao Zhan, Zhan's mother is a very great woman.

In 1984, Gloria gave birth to James when she was only 16 years old. Since her biological father, Anthony McLeod, had several criminal records and was unwilling to assume the responsibility of being a father, Gloria raised James alone. The situation in Xiao Zhan's family was very bad at that time, but she still insisted on raising Xiao Zhan.

Not only that, she has also been giving Xiao Zhan the best material and other support during his growth, and has done everything a great mother can do.

However, everything changed after Xiao Zhan became famous.

As we all know, because of her, Xiao Zhan had to give up his favorite university and enter the NBA early.

As we all know, LeBron James has a mother who knows how to use her son to enjoy himself.

It’s no secret that LeBron James has a stamp-collecting mother.

To be honest, Chen Xiao has been with the Cavaliers for two years and has such a good relationship with Xiao Zhan. How could he not have heard some rumors about Xiao Zhan's mother.

Not just him, many players on the Cavaliers know it.

After all, Cleveland is just that big, and many of the Cavaliers players are also veterans of the H court. When everyone shares the same venue, they will always run into each other.

Many Cavaliers players privately said that Xiao Zhan's mother had more fun than they did.

Just out of concern for Xiao Zhan's feelings, no one said anything.

And this is why when Xiao Zhan's mother later joined the Cavaliers, the Cavaliers players were so embarrassed.

It's just that no one really expected that James' mother would actually play by James' side.

Even Goodwin Jr., one of James' agents, fell asleep.

This is much more embarrassing than the embarrassment brought to Xiao Zhan by constantly collecting stamps outside.

Seriously, if your manager, one of the closest people around you, sleeps with your girlfriend, how can you face him?

The relationship is messed up.

Therefore, anyone with a certain bottom line and a certain IQ would not do such a thing, which would embarrass his son.

Now that Gloria has done something like this, James has no choice but to fire Eric Goodwin's brother, Aaron Goodwin.

Even if he does this, it will bring him a bad reputation.

Let's just say that as an agent, Goodwin is qualified. In terms of securing commercial interests for Xiao Zhan, he has brought him 130 million US dollars in business income in the past two years, including the well-known 90 million from Nike. .

Although Goodwin's excessive pursuit of commercial interests troubled Xiao Zhan, as an agent, it is his duty to strive for the maximum commercial interests for his players.

Therefore, even if Xiao Zhan was dissatisfied with Goodwin for pursuing business too much, he never thought of firing him.

In fact, this time James was so angry with Goodwin because of his mother's affairs, and his dismissal of Goodwin caused a huge uproar in the American agent circle.

In the end, James was forced to use his classmates and friends to form an agent team.

Those big-name Jingjia people were very dissatisfied with James' behavior.

The person who slept with your mother was your agent's brother. Why did you fire your agent who was doing such a good job?

Don’t you treat our agents as human beings?

Of course, this is something for the future.

For now, after what happened to Xiao Zhan, Chen Xiao immediately called Xiao Zhan and comforted Xiao Zhan.

This matter is indeed embarrassing for Xiao Zhan, you can just bring yourself into it.

Chen Xiao is an orphan. Even if there is no scene that can be brought into the situation, he still finds this embarrassing.

But what pleased Chen Xiao was that Xiao Zhan was indeed very angry.

But after being angry, he quickly adjusted his mood: "Maybe this incident is not all bad for me. This incident allows me to better control my career. This incident also It allows my mother and their influence on me to decrease, and I can have more time to engage in basketball instead of business activities. After all, I am a player, not a businessman."

Chen Xiao knew that this was Xiao Zhan's joy in suffering.

However, Chen Xiao is still very happy that Xiao Zhan can have such an idea.

A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise.

Of course, as long as you know this in your heart, it is impossible for Chen Xiao to say it.

Xiao Zhan can only think about this, no one else can say it.

Chen Xiao could only comfort but couldn't say anything bad about Gloria.

After all, he and Xiao Zhan are friends, and Xiao Zhan and Gloria are mother and son. This is their family matter.

As long as Xiao Zhan can handle this matter well and not affect himself, Chen Xiao will be relieved.

"Xiao Chen, we have already traded this year's No. 1 pick. We made a deal with the Bulls and the New York Knicks and traded the No. 1 pick to the Bulls. The Bulls sent center Curry to the New York Knicks. We He will receive the Bulls' No. 12 pick this year and the New York Knicks' unprotected first-round picks in 2009 and 2011."

Historically, the New York Knicks gave the Chicago Bulls two years of unprotected first-round draft picks in order to acquire Eddy Curry.

But now, the Knicks are still taking action against Curry.

However, this is normal. Curry is less than 23 years old now. As a center, he is very imaginative at this age, and his performance with the Bulls last season was also very imaginative.

As a substitute for Big Z, he can actually contribute 16 points per game while playing 28 minutes per game, and his shooting percentage is as high as 54%. This data is very impressive.

At the very least, the New York Knicks feel that they have made a profit by trading two future draft picks for Curry.

After all, with Marbury, Alan Houston, Crawford and Shark Curry, the rise of the Knicks is just around the corner. By that time, Shark has grown into Shark, and Crawford has grown into a real Kobe. , the Knicks will have their own OK combination, coupled with a group of strong players such as Marbury, the Knicks are definitely in a situation of flying dragons riding on the face, and they cannot lose at all.

Therefore, the 2009 and 2011 draft picks are not valuable at all to the Knicks.

In fact, not only the Knicks felt this way, but also the Bulls and Cavaliers. The Knicks' draft pick might not be valuable at that time, so the Bulls gave this year's No. 12 draft pick to the Cavaliers.

After all, the general managers of the two teams are brothers, and we cannot let brothers suffer.

Chen Xiao was not surprised at all when he heard Xiao Zhan say that the Cavaliers' No. 1 pick was traded to the Bulls.

The general managers of the two teams are brothers. If their own family can't satisfy themselves with such high-quality goods, how can they be traded to others?

What's more, there are players who are very attractive to the Bulls this year.

Deron Williams!

As a player who graduated from the University of Illinois, Deron is very attractive to the Bulls.

Especially in this year's Bobcats training camp, Deron performed very well.

If Bogut's draft prospects dropped off a cliff because of being beaten by Chen Xiao, many people are wondering whether Bogut's offensive and defensive skills will not be used in the NBA, so don't think about being the number one pick.

While Bogut's draft stock is plummeting, there is one person whose draft stock is rising strongly, and that is Deron Williams.

Because in a one-on-one match at the Bobcats' draft training camp, Deron Williams almost dominated the Bobcats' second-in-command Chris Paul. This shocked all the rookies, media reporters, and draft experts at the time. .

Chris Paul is certainly not a star point guard right now.

But he is still the second in command of the Bobcats, last season's Rookie of the Year, and a point guard who averaged 16+6 per game.

Moreover, Deron suppressed Chris Paul. This was not an underestimation of Paul, because later Paul refused to accept and played with Deron several times. Deron was the winner in most cases, which is amazing.

I didn’t expect that in this small draft year, there would be such a real dragon!

Xiaopao was quite embarrassed about this matter, and was often laughed at by Chen Xiao, Xiao Tiantian and Xiao Zhan.

Xiao Tiantian even laughed and said bluntly: "Chris, you want to learn how to pretend to be B, but if you fail to pretend to be B, you will be beeped, hahahaha!"

Xiaopao was really holding back his grievances.

Aren't you stimulated by Xiao Chen's invincible loneliness?

He also wants to be invincible.

But……

Damn it!

"Just wait, one-on-one is not a competition, watch how I torture him in the NBA, you all just wait for me!"

Chen Xiao, Xiao Tiantian and Xiao Zhan believed that Xiao Pao was going to the NBA to abuse Deron. After all, they knew Xiao Pao's strength.

Very strong, very good.

Deron should be beaten back by the cannon during the game.

To be honest, among the four brothers, Xiaopao's luck has always been quite bad.

This time, I finally wanted to show off, but it actually became a stepping stone for others.

In short, Deron's current draft price has soared due to the fact that Paul was beaten in a one-on-one match at the Bobcats training camp.

Coupled with the fact that he is from the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bulls are interested. It just so happens that the Cavaliers have the No. 1 pick. Isn't this a coincidence?

In short, this draft year is obviously different because of the emergence of Deron, a real dragon.

Deron is not comparable to Bogut before. Bogut was really blown out by the media. In a young draft year, if you want to get attention, you must have a representative, right?

In this way, Bogut was dubbed "Cy Duncan" by them for attention.

But Deron, he didn't just blow it, he really played it.

Therefore, when Deron became the most popular rookie in one fell swoop, some people started to feel more pressure.

Of course, Chen Xiao doesn't know this now.

"Xiao LeBron, now the Cavaliers have three unprotected first-round picks from the Knicks in 2007, 2009 and 2011."

"yes."

Hearing what Chen Xiao said, Xiao Zhan was a little dumbfounded. The Cleveland Cavaliers were just like the New York Knicks.

Of course, if Xiao Zhan knew about the Nets and Celtics in later generations, he would definitely call them experts.

In the 2005 NBA Draft, in front of the small round table (little green room) in the draft, the table that attracted the most attention was not Deron's small round table in the center.

When Chen Xiao, Yao Ming, Bage, Wang Zhizhi, and Yi Jianlian appeared here hand in hand, the small round table by Zhu Fangyu in the corner was the focus of the entire draft.

Zhu Fangyu is one of three Chinese players participating in this year's draft.

Sun Mingming and Tang Zhengdong were not invited by Little Green Room.

The main reason is that Datang's games are mainly in the CBA, and it has basically never played in international games, so it is not recognized enough.

And Sun Mingming...

This compatriot Chen Xiao is not familiar with him, and it seems that someone is pushing him to be comparable to Yao Yao.

Chen Xiao heard some news about him and his agent was very knowledgeable, such as...

Sun Mingming's agent, Charles Bonsinauer, said in an interview about his relationship with Yao Ming: "It may take him a year or a year and a half to reach the NBA level. But he needs to enter the NBA for training, so we He needs to find an NBA team to help him grow. His room for improvement is endless."

Driven by this agent, Sun Mingming has been very popular in the United States recently. Because of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, many people are looking forward to what will happen to the tallest person in the world playing basketball.

Even the Los Angeles Post and many American television stations interviewed him.

For a time, his voice was even the highest in this draft.

Dayao is very generous towards this compatriot's popularity.

However, Dayao is not so comparable. The behind-the-scenes promoters seem to think that he is taller than Yao Ming, and if he is Chinese, he can enjoy the dividends of Chinese basketball development. As long as he has these two labels, he can be listed in the draft. The conference was a success.

Obviously, NBA officials still weighed him and did not invite him to the Little Green Room.

This year, three Chinese draft players were invited, only Xiaozhu.

After all, the 22-year-old Xiaozhu is also well-known now. He is the No. 1 small forward in Asia, the runner-up of the World Championships, the Diamond Cup champion, and the Olympic champion. As high as 66%, the three-point shooting rate is as high as 43%.

This data, tsk tsk.

It’s no problem at all to say that Xiaozhu has now cleared the CBA.

Among the students Chen Xiao taught in the national team, Xiaozhu learned the best.

Let me tell you, Xiaozhu studied with Chen Xiao for a summer at the World Championships, and in the following CBA he was able to average 23 points and 2.5 steals per game, with a shooting percentage of 65%.

In fact, what Chen Xiao didn't know was that in the history of Xiaozhu, without Chen Xiao's intervention, in the 2002-2003 CBA season, he averaged 22+2 steals per game and a 64.98% shooting rate.

Chen Xiao's intervention made Xiaozhu's strength more stable and less erratic.

After all, Xiaozhu's golf IQ is very high, and Chen Xiao's experience cards are not in vain.

The current Xiaozhu is very good in defense and ball control.

The current Xiaozhu is indeed like a BUG in the CBA.

The current Xiaozhu can actually produce even crazier statistics.

The number one small forward in CBA and Asia is well deserved.

Of course, the achievements of the CBA and Asia are a reference for the NBA. What is truly valuable to the NBA is the performance in the international arena, especially the Olympic Games.

In short, because of his outstanding performance in the international arena, Xiaozhu was initially recognized by the NBA and became the fourth player invited by the NBA Small Green House after Chen Xiao, Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian.

As a rookie, Xiaozhu was able to have so many NBA big guys come to help him, which really made the other rookies here jealous.

"That's Wonder Boy and the Great Wall of China!"

"They are one of the hottest players in the NBA right now!"

"In the history of the NBA draft, I am afraid that the lineup that is higher than this lineup is last year when Chris Paul participated in the draft, the lineup of Wonder Boy, LeBron James and Anthony!"

Facing the envious looks around him, Xiaozhu felt a little embarrassed.

"Brother Chen, Brother Yao, Brother Ba, Brother Wang, and Ah Lian, thank you so much."

"Little Pig, the best thank you to us is to play a good role in the NBA."

"Brother Chen, I can!"

At this time, Xiaozhu was really passionate.

After all, Xiaozhu has never been severely beaten by Chen Xiao in these years.

At the World Championships, he became famous by beating Pierce twice in 2+1, to the super marksman and super bodyguard next to Chen Xiao in the Olympics, Xiaozhu has really not suffered any setbacks in these years.

However, the NBA is completely different from other games.

Chen Xiao and Dayao looked at Xiaozhu, who was full of enthusiasm at this time, and smiled in tacit understanding. After looking at each other, no one was a little bit embarrassed.

There is no preaching that is better than realizing it yourself.

Ah Lian understands it very well now.

During his one-season substitute career with the Jazz, Alian became much more mature.

I heard that Jerry Sloan has promised to start for him next season.

"I wanted you to play the starting power forward last season, but prematurely let your immature body fight against NBA-level players when you don't have enough confrontation ability, which is a huge damage to your body. Now , your physical confrontation has improved, and you are adaptable enough to the NBA's confrontation. Next season, it is your time to show your talents to the entire NBA."

To be fair, Coach Sloan is still okay.

It's not unreasonable for Malone and Stockton to be at the top for so many years.

Historically, Malone had no injuries in his career before leaving the Jazz.

But once I left the Jazz...it was a bit miserable.

Therefore, although Sloan is an iron-blooded coach, he is different from Thibodeau, Fan and others who are also iron-blooded coaches.

The UAE has grown steadily and steadily under Jerry Sloan.

While Chen Xiao and Xiaozhu Dayao were chatting, David Stern walked up from the backstage amidst the boos of the New York fans.

Looking at the young man at Zhu Fangyu’s table in the corner, who was known as the ‘precious beast’, the smile on David Stern’s face was particularly bright.

“You see him here every year.”

At this time, David Stern was lamenting in his heart that Chen Xiao had a wide range of friends.

Therefore, many people say that Chen Xiao will be the best candidate for the next chairman of the NBA Players Association.

The election of the players union president will be held just after the draft. Pistons head coach Michael Curry's term ends. Chen Xiao, Antonio Davis, Derek Fisher, and Bowen will compete for the chairmanship.

After looking away from Chen Xiao, David Stern said a few more words before opening his first envelope.

At this time, Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan was extremely nervous in front of the TV.

The Jazz have the third pick in this draft, and they want to get Deron.

Originally, it should be stable.

The Cavaliers have James, Mo and Hardaway, and they don't have much desire for the point guard position.

And the Grizzlies with the second pick, because the Grizzlies have Kidd, also have no pursuit of Deron.

Deron will definitely be selected by him with the third overall pick.

But Deron suddenly exploded in the past two days. To be honest, he really caught Sloan by surprise.

By the time he and the Jazz reacted, it was too late. They requested an upward trade from the Cavaliers, but the Cavaliers told them that their draft picks had already been traded away.

To be reasonable, Jerry Sloan can think of where the Cavaliers' draft picks have been traded.

The NBA is now the general manager of a pair of brothers, the Bulls and the Cavaliers.

"In the 2005 NBA draft, the first pick in the first round, the player selected by the Cavaliers is the point guard from the University of Illinois, Deron Williams!"

When David Stern was the first to read his name, there was no surprise on Deron's face, only excitement and joy.

A big city + the location of your own university + number one.

To be honest, Delong felt that his life was really complete at this moment.

For him, this is absolutely the perfect draft.

So when the point guard gave a speech on the court, even Chen Xiao thanked him.

Damn it, boy, I'm afraid you haven't seen the expression on Bogut's face that the whole family died at this time.

Of course, Deron simply ignored a loser like Bogut at this time.

Instead, he enjoys the glory of being the top pick.

In front of the TV, Jerry Sloan kept shaking his head and sighing.

At this time, the draft was continuing.

"In the 2005 NBA draft, the second pick in the first round, the Memphis Grizzlies selected a power forward from UConn, Charlie Villanueva!"

The first surprise of this draft was born.

Villanueva was not as excited as Deron, but he was still very excited. Because he missed team training to participate in the draft, he was still under a lot of pressure. Many people doubted his professionalism.

Unexpectedly, not only did his pick not drop, but he counterattacked!

Jerry West watched the excited browless young man on TV with a silent expression on his face.

Because what he wanted most was the Chen Xiao who flashed by on TV.

It's a pity that we lost to Jordan and Bobcats in the end.

It’s hard to calm down. It’s hard to calm down.

"With the third pick in the first round of the 2005 NBA Draft, the Utah Jazz selected point guard Raymond Felton from the University of North Carolina!"

Unable to get Deron, Sloan had no choice but to choose Felton.

This was also an accident.

When the Jazz selected Felton, the cameras were frantically looking at Marvin Williams, Bogut and Gerald Green.

These three, are they really in doubt in this draft?

The three people caught on camera were indeed extremely nervous at this time.

And now Bogut is nervous and hates Chen Xiao even more. He was originally the number one pick!

Soon, only two people were left in the tense trio.

Because with the fourth pick, the Hawks took Marvin Williams.

Although he didn't become the top pick or the top three pick, the fourth pick is not bad.

After the Hawks, the New Orleans Hornets picked Channing Frye with the fifth pick.

With the sixth pick, the Seattle SuperSonics selected a local Seattle player, talented high school student Martel Webster.

The seventh pick is Yaroslav Korolev, the white Russian small forward of the Los Angeles Clippers. After Kirilenko’s success, Russian players are also quite popular now. Although they are not as popular as Chinese players, they have also become more popular. Gotta be popular.

From this we can see how important a leader is to a sport.

Yaroslav Korolev is only 18 years old this year and is known as the next Kirilenko. The Clippers believe that this is the answer to their small forward position.

After Jaroslav Korolev was drafted, Bogut and Gerald Green continued to be nervous.

Half of the people in the little green room have left.

At this time, with the eighth pick, the Golden State Warriors selected power forward Ike Diogu with the eighth pick.

Gerald Green and Bogut, the two former favorites for the No. 1 pick, the No. 1 high school student and No. 1 college student, are now completely panicked.

Another little green house left, but it was not them.

Will it be the Bobcats? !

Gerald Green is looking forward to it.

Even Bogut is looking forward to something.

If the Bobcats do draft me, I'll forgive you!

Bogut felt that if he could really be teammates with the Bobcats, it would be okay.

And soon, under the expectant eyes of Gerald Green and Bogut, David Stern opened the ninth envelope.

In fact, not only Gerald Green and Bogut were looking at the envelope in David Stern's hand at this time.

Because this is the choice of God Eye Jordan!

Magical Jordan has never failed before. Who will he choose this time?

"In the 2003 NBA draft, the Charlotte Bobcats selected center Andrew Bynum from St. Joseph High School with the ninth overall pick!"

When David Stern pronounced the name, there was silence.

Because there is no player named Bynum now, this little Eddie Curry who was brutally abused by Bogut in the Bobcats training camp, the little shark, was not invited to the small green room at all, and the draft pick is predicted in the first round Later section.

But now...

"Jordan actually chose Bynum with the No. 9 pick?!"

Seriously, this choice is very Jordan-esque.

It's always so unexpected.

But, if these people knew that this candidate was chosen by Chen Xiao, would they be even more surprised.

In short, this controversial choice made the scene noisy after a while of silence.

And Barkley even shouted directly: "My guess is correct. Michael tricked Boy Wonder to the Bobcats to prevent Boy Wonder from surpassing him in the history of the NBA!"

"Michael is making trouble, choose Bynum, why not choose Bogut?!"

Now that Barkley has mentioned it, it is obvious that Bogut must be the most uncomfortable person in the world at this time.

The person who was tortured by his own blood is now elected away, and he is still publicly executed in the little green house?

At this time, Bogut's heart was already bleeding.

In short, the 2005 NBA draft has been full of surprises from the very beginning.