The China Power of NBA

"Boom, boom, Bai Xiaofei, open the door."

"Who."

"Can't you tell who my voice is?"

The voice outside the door was low and slow.

"Squeak," the door opened, and Old Fu walked in. He was wearing a gray baseball cap and white casual clothes, with his hands behind his back, and walked in. The room was messy, and the ground was cleaned , was strewn with torn confetti, Lao Fu looked down at the headline of one of the newspapers.

Poor performance again, Bai Xiaofei became a lamb to be slaughtered again!
Bai Xiaofei sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the blue sky outside the window, his eyes glazed over. Indeed, the overwhelming pressure made the young and fragile Bai Xiaofei unbearable.

Old Fu put his hand on Bai Xiaofei's shoulder and said,

"What are you thinking?"

Bai Xiaofei turned his head, looked at Old Fu, forced a smile from the corner of his mouth, and then shook his head lightly. This Bai Xiaofei, who can talk and break and make trouble on weekdays, is completely different.

"It's just a game, so why take it too seriously." The old Fu couldn't bear it, and comforted him. Bai Xiaofei was selected directly from the CUBA freshman year, and he had never even played in a real professional league in China. It is indeed a bit uncomfortable to pull him to the height of the NBA.

"It's not that I take it to heart," Bai Xiaofei said, "but those people sitting on the sidelines always take it to heart."

"What does that have to do with you?" Old Fu said as he sat gently beside Bai Xiaofei, "They think about them, talk about them, and none of this will interfere with your performance on the court, even if they say what you say is worthless. , so what? You are still you, you who haven’t changed at all, they make a living by writing these things every day, if you take it to heart, you will lose.”

"That's what I said, but..." Bai Xiaofei sighed softly, looked at Old Fu, and said, "Director Fu, I have something to tell you, I hope you won't be angry after listening."

"Say it, but don't say you want to go back to China."

"I don't want to participate in tomorrow's game." Bai Xiaofei spit out these words lightly.

Old Fu looked at Bai Xiaofei suspiciously, and said, "You have to understand that if you don't participate in the competition tomorrow without a reason, your contract will be terminated early. What is the difference between this and returning home?"

Bai Xiaofei lowered his head, twisted his hands tightly together, and did not speak.

"You know what you're thinking," Old Fu said softly, "If you don't participate in the competition, no one will criticize you, right?"

Bai Xiaofei nodded slightly.

"You are wrong, Bai Xiaofei, if you quit at this time, you will become a deserter from a loser, for those bad words, it will always exist in the outside world you closed, you just choose to listen And not listening, you're just running away, you're just pretending it doesn't exist, but in reality it is."

Old Fu was silent for a while, then picked up a thick book from his hand and handed it to Bai Xiaofei, saying,
"This is a gift from me."

Bai Xiaofei looked up and saw Old Fu's kind father-like eyes. Tears rolled in Bai Xiaofei's eyes. Bai Xiaofei blinked hard, trying to suppress the tears that were about to flow, and then took the book that Old Fu handed over with both hands. .

""The Shawshank Redemption"?"

Old Fu nodded lightly and said, "It's a good book, I suggest you read it, Stephen King's works."

"The thing I hate the most in my life is reading." Bai Xiaofei casually put the book beside the pillow.

"I understand your thoughts and respect your choice. I suggest you take a look at this book," Lao Fu brought the book back to Bai Xiaofei and said, "I suggest you calm down and read this book. It's just a novel, it's just telling a story, but you can find the answer in this book to the confusion, struggle, hesitation and helplessness you are experiencing now."

Bai Xiaofei raised his head and looked into Old Fu's eyes. Although Old Fu was old, his eyes were still very sharp and firm, which made Bai Xiaofei inexplicably summon up unprecedented courage.

"This book mainly tells about a banker named Andy, who was wrongly imprisoned for an inexplicable murder of his wife. In prison, he was subjected to inhuman abuse, imprisonment and beatings, but he never gave up. Freedom and hope, he has been in prison for 20 years, he has always insisted on his dream, and finally got the freedom he dreamed of, in the last letter, he said a word, Hope is a good thing, Maybe the best of things, And no good thing ever dies. (Hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing in the world, these good things never die). I hope you can seriously understand the meaning of this sentence, All the answers you want are in it.”

"Can't understand."

"I want you to study English hard. If you don't study hard, you will eat, eat, and eat all day long. When you escape back to the country, not to mention restaurants, even bun shops don't want to see you..."

……

The history of the Detroit Pistons is very long. The team was founded in 1941 in Fort Wayne, and joined the predecessor of the NBA, the BBA, in 1949. In 1957, the Pistons moved to Detroit and never left the city. Half a century has passed so far.

As we all know, Detroit is a "blue-collar city". Many craftsmen and petty bourgeois live here. The atmosphere of this city also makes the temperament of his team look angular. Since the team is located in this city, Pistons games are full of intense muscle confrontation, trash talking, all kinds of humiliation, and even some bad tricks. Half a century has passed, and the Pistons players have changed from batch to batch. It was passed down from generation to generation, and finally reached its peak in the famous, or notorious "Bad Boys Legion" in the late 90s.

Although the Pistons have a long history of team building, the first championship in the history of the team was in the 1988-1989 season. In this year, three people have to be mentioned. The first person is the team in 1981. The "Smiling Assassin" Isiah Thomas was selected with the second overall pick.In the season before the Pistons selected Thomas, the Pistons only achieved a record of 21 wins and 61 losses. However, when the Pistons selected Thomas this season, the face of the team changed. They won 39 games in the season. Thomas, who was still a rookie this year, averaged 17 points per game. , sent nearly 8 assists, also completed a total of 150 steals, and started the first of Thomas' 1982 consecutive All-Star selections. Thomas averaged more than 83 points per game from 1986-87 to 20-1984. . In the 85-13.9 season, he averaged 1989 assists per game to create an NBA record for assists in a single season until Stockton averaged 90 assists per game in the 14.5-1983 season.From the 84-1985 season to the 86-[-] season, he was selected to the All-NBA First Team for three years.

In the 1988-89 season, the Pistons were proud of the league with a record of 63 wins and 19 losses.The Pistons traded Dantley from the Dallas Mavericks in the middle of the season for Thomas' friend Mark Aguili. Although this transaction was controversial, the Pistons' offensive firepower continued unabated. Seven Pistons players averaged more than 7 points per game, all thanks to Thomas' selfless and wise organization on the field.The Bad Boys successfully broke through the obstacles of the playoffs, swept the Celtics in three games, bloodbathed the Bucks in four games, and reached the Eastern Conference Finals against the Chicago Bulls all the way.Detroit ended its battle after six games to meet the Lakers in the NBA Finals despite the Bulls' Michael Jordan.The Lakers, despite dominating the league for the past decade, were ill-prepared for this series: 13.5-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was ineffective, and two guards, Magic "Magic" Johnson and Byrons Kurt was both affected by a hamstring injury.The unstoppable Pistons swept the Lakers for their first NBA championship in history.

1989-90赛季中段他们打出一个25胜1负的冲击波并最终以59胜23负结束整个赛季的常规赛征程。他在面对波特兰开拓者队的比赛中场均得到27.6分和7.0次助攻。他们最终再度夺得了NBA总冠军，成为了自1968-69年的凯尔特人队以来第一支连续两年夺冠的球队，也是历史上第六支完成这一伟业的球队。托马斯被授予了总决赛MVP称号。

The second person who must be mentioned is Bill Lambiel. At that time, as long as he was mentioned, most players in the entire league would hate him so much. Look at the title given to Lambiel by others, the most rude in history The dirtiest player in history, under Lambiel's single-handed training, the Pistons became a feared "bad boy army" in the late 90s, and Lambiel was the unyielding member of the bad boy army The worst Bradboy, even Rodman, the weirdest big man in NBA history, was subdued by Lambiel and worshiped under him.

Regarding his despicable behavior on the court, I won't go into details one by one. In a word, Lambiel integrated boxing, elbow strike, knee kick, giant palm slap in the face and other martial arts movements into the NBA. He was the first of its kind in "fighting basketball" and became a master of the generation. At that time, people who wanted to beat him could line up around the world, but regardless of these factors, Lambiel is indeed a good center. Both were able to score close to 14+10. At the peak, they were able to score 17+13. The defensive end was deterrent enough, and the offensive end could shoot three-pointers. He once scored seven three-pointers in one game. Ball... Lambiel has been selected as an All-Star four times, and he is also a rebounding leader. He wears two championship rings. The number of rebounds in the history of the Pistons is N0.1, and he is also the fifth-ranked figure in the history of the Pistons. ...

The third person is Joe Dumars. He is a low-key player. He was selected as an All-Star in his fourth year in the league. It is Isaiah Thomas, but obviously, if you want to win the championship, one person's strength is far from enough, so Dumars came.

From the time Dumars came to the league in 1985 to the Pistons' first championship in 1989, Dumars averaged 9.4 points, 11.8 points, 14.2 points and 17.2 points per game. The role is getting more and more full, and his defense is also steadily improving. In the playoffs of the Pistons' first championship, it was Dumars who directly defended Jordan. Although he could not completely restrict Jordan, it also made the basketball god This trip to the playoffs became his worst efficiency in all the series. Many years later, Jordan himself admitted that Dumars is the player who has done the best defense of himself in history.In the later period of Dumars, the strength of the Pistons gradually weakened. Thomas and Lambir gradually aged until they retired. The meritorious coach Chuck Daly resigned, and the Pistons fell into a new round of trough. Len Houston, Lynch Hunter joined, and Dumars took on the task of training newcomers on his right shoulder. After the end of the 1999 season, Du Spurs announced his retirement. During his 14 years of effectiveness for the Pistons, he played a total of 1,018 times , made 990 three-pointers, all of which are team history records. At the same time, he is also on the four historical data of total points (16,401), assists (4,612), steals (902), and playing time (35,139 minutes) Ranked second (behind Isiah Thomas), he can be called one of the greatest stars in the history of the Pistons.

Afterwards, the Pistons began a full-court revival. Among them, the No.1 player to look forward to was Grant Hill. At the same time, Hill lived up to expectations. In his first year as a rookie, he averaged 1994 points, 3 rebounds, 19.9 assists and 6.4 steals per game. Shared the best rookie trophy. In the same year, Hill became the first rookie to be voted first in the NBA All-Star Game, overwhelming Shaquille O'Neal. As a rookie, the player who became the ticket leader in the All-Star Game.

In the second year, Hill once again overwhelmed Michael Jordan with averages of 20.2 points, 9.8 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 1.2 steals per game. Countless honors, but just can't lead the team one step closer to the playoffs. In the 1990-2000 season, the team management finally lost patience and traded Hill to the Magic for a large number of role players. Among these role players at the time, one person became the pillar of the Pistons' revival, and that person was Ben Wallace.