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Chapter 153 Let's take advantage of the injury to make a movie (today's second update)

After returning home, Wang Dalin immediately called Li Ning and told him about the Pistons' intention to cooperate with "Li Ning".Li Ning was also very interested in this, so he asked for Dumas' phone number from Wang Dalin and went to talk to him in person.

Just after hanging up the phone, Schwartz called again.

"Wang, you should be free for the last two weeks, right?"

"Yes, what's the matter?"

"Do you know John Schultz?"

"I don't know, who is he?"

"Well, he is a director in Hollywood, and it's normal that you don't know him... That's right, Director Schultz wants to invite you to play a guest role in his new movie "Little Devil's Shoes", and I'll help you agree!"

"Ah? You agreed for me? Didn't you? I don't know how to act. Why do you help me with this kind of work? If I don't act well, wouldn't it be embarrassing?"

"You don't have to worry about this, because you are playing yourself in the film... He also invited Jason Kidd, Allen Iverson, Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Nash, and Chris Webber. Your scenes can be shot in a day at most, and he even offered you a salary of 100 million dollars. Do you think I should agree?"

"Is 100 million US dollars so much? Well... this one can have it!"

……

After hanging up the phone, Wang Dalin was still quite excited.

Although "Little Devil's Shoes" is not well-known in China, Wang Dalin was a fat nerd and a veteran basketball fan in his previous life, so he really watched this rather funny family movie.

The movie itself is about basketball. The story tells the story of 14-year-old Kevin and his friends living in an orphanage. One day they received donations from a group of philanthropists, including a pair of basketball shoes with "MJ" written on them.

Kevin believed that this was a pair of shoes worn by Jordan when he was a child, and he couldn't put it down.But Ax, the troublemaker, grabbed the sneaker and threw it over the wire.

It was rainy and windy that night, Kevin secretly climbed up the big tree to take off the shoes, a thunder shot down both Kevin and the sneakers, but fortunately, Kevin was not injured.

Putting on his beloved sneakers, Kevin and his friends went to the "Gund Stadium" to watch the Cavaliers' game.

Due to the low attendance, the general manager of the Cavaliers came up with the idea of ​​letting the famous player Tessie (a fictional character of course) interact with the audience to drive the atmosphere. Kevin was the lucky one who was invited to the stage to compete with Tessie.

Facing the idol in his heart, Kevin was very excited... He thought it was just an ordinary stage performance, but it was unforgettable for Kevin, Tessie and all the audience present at that time.

Kevin, wearing Jordan basketball shoes, broke through Tessie's defense three times and made three shots. He even jumped directly from the three-point line for a two-handed slam dunk, which is simply incredible!
The general manager of the Cavaliers found Bitman, Kevin's guardian, and signed an agreement with him to let Kevin join the Cavaliers, and Bitman earned a lot of commissions from it.

Kevin began to participate in various games with the Cavaliers. Not only could he mobilize the atmosphere of the team, but he could also perform extremely well on the court. The attendance rate of the Cavaliers at home was greatly improved. This 14-year-old boy quickly became a hot superstar in the NBA...

Although the audience of this movie is relatively young, Wang Dalin thinks it is pretty good. In his previous life, he also dreamed that if he had such a magical pair of basketball shoes, he would be able to play in the NBA... Now he has a more powerful "hooking system" than basketball shoes, and he has already fulfilled his wish to play in the NBA. If he can act in such a movie again, it will be a very rare life experience.

The movie was shot in Cleveland, after all, the protagonist Kevin in the movie joined the Cavaliers!
Wang Dalin, Iverson, Webber, and Kidd have very few roles, and his role is as follows-in the game between the Pistons and the Cavaliers, Wang Dalin broke into the basket and was about to make a strong dunk, but the protagonist Kevin directly gave him a big cap from behind, leaving him in shock.

Of course, there is another scene where Wang Dalin had to stop Kevin in the player tunnel after the game, just to get him to sign his jersey.

Here Wang Dalin has a line - "Kevin, you are the only one who can block the 'Vulcan' dunk, so I hope you can leave your signature on my jersey!"

When he said this, Wang Dalin would specifically point to the basketball shoes on his feet, which are the "Vulcan II" that "Li Ning" will launch soon. In the film, there will be a close-up of his sneakers that lasts for more than 1 second.

One more thing, because of Wang Dalin's cameo appearance in this film, Schwartz contacted "Li Ning" to sponsor the film with 100 million US dollars. Otherwise, how could he get such a high salary if he only made a cameo appearance?
Wang Dalin thinks this line is very cool. It can not only bring out the strength of the actor Kevin, but also indirectly promote his "Vulcan II" basketball shoes. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Only Wang Dalin, who "brought funds into the team", is eligible to enjoy this treatment. Iverson, Webber, and Kidd don't have so many shots.

After coming to the crew, Wang Dalin first expressed to the director John Schultz that he might not be able to do too drastic actions due to his injuries. For example, the script required him to do a one-handed snap button, and he was very worried that his injuries would aggravate.

Director Schultz was very talkative, and immediately changed the scene to Wang Dalin being blocked by Kevin when he made a jumper, which was much simpler.

The young actor who plays the male lead Kevin is named Lil Bow Wow. This is not an unknown kid. His current reputation is no less than that of Wang Dalin, an NBA star.

Lil Bow Waugh was born in Columbus, the capital of Ohio, USA in 1987. When he first learned to speak, people found that he always liked to rhyme and was full of rhythm.So at just six years old, Lear started his rap career.

When he performed for the audience, he was greatly appreciated by "Snoop Dogg" who has the reputation of "American Rap King" and "West Coast Rap Godfather". Under the promotion of this famous rap star, Lear's name was quickly known by everyone.

He began to participate in the recording of many albums, such as the album "Doggystyle" of "Snoop Dogg" and the original soundtrack of Will Smith's blockbuster film "Wild Storm". His name appeared in many influential magazines, and his photos also appeared in major media.

In 1999, he was appreciated by another gold medal producer, Jermaine Dupree. Dupree was very surprised by his potential, so he set out to make him an idol-level rap star for young people.

During this process, Lear's mature and professional attitude in his work once again amazed the gold medal producer.

In terms of age, Lil is only 5 years younger than Wang Dalin, but he is really mature, like a young adult, and he has no stage fright in the face of an NBA star like Wang Dalin...Of course, Lil asked him for an autograph the first time he saw him.

The role of Wang Dalin is very simple, but it is still quite troublesome to shoot. After all, there are thousands of extras playing the audience in "Gund Stadium".

In addition, since Big Ben, Billups, and Hamilton did not come, for the authenticity of the film, the actors who played other Pistons players basically could not give frontal shots.

Wang Dalin put on his No. 8 jersey and came to the field. Following the "Action" from Director Schultz, Wang Dalin immediately dribbled the ball to within the three-point line and made his iconic pull-up jumper. Then Lear, who played Kevin, was hoisted high by Wia and gave him a big cap.

"Cut!"

"Very good, Darling Wang, I really didn't expect your acting skills to be so good!" Director Schultz gave Wang Dalin a thumbs up with a smile.

Wang Dalin couldn't help feeling a little hot on his face, and he could only smile embarrassingly.

That's it?

How good is your acting skills?
I just made a shot. In which game do I not shoot like this?
Hmm... I jumped a little lower than usual today, mainly because I was afraid of getting worse!

When Lier landed on the ground, the staff hurriedly removed the wire on him. Next, they will take two shots. One is Lier dribbling the ball and rushing to the frontcourt, and the other is a close-up of Wang Dalin's black face with a question mark.

Lear's dribbling movements are quite skilled, so he naturally took this shot easily, but it was not so smooth when shooting Wang Dalin's close-up shot.

"Wang, you have to show a very surprised expression now, understand?"

After being NG twice, Director Schultz had no choice but to go up to give Wang Dalin a lecture with patience, and even demonstrated to him several times with an exaggerated expression.

For this, Wang Dalin couldn't help feeling extremely ashamed...

Isn't it just a black question mark face?

How familiar was I with Nick Young's expression in my previous life?

I shouldn't act badly, right?

Finally, after more than a dozen times of NG, Wang Dalin finally showed a perfect black face with a question mark, and this shot was finally over.

Director Schultz wiped the sweat off his brow, and said weakly: "Now let's take a shot, the conversation between Darling Wang and Kevin in the player tunnel..."

It is conceivable that this scene was shot many times, and after wasting countless films, all the staff members of the crew finally sent away the "God of Plague" Wang Dalin with a happy smile.

Wang Dalin also felt very ashamed. He was not a novice with no filming experience. He had already filmed commercials several times during this period of time. However, commercials are different from movies. Movies undoubtedly have much higher requirements for actors to perform.

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With Wang Dalin missing due to injury, the life of the Pistons began to be difficult.

They first lost at home to the Eastern Conference Heat on December 12, and then suffered a disastrous defeat in an away game against the Spurs on January 30.

85:97, just looking at the score, it seems that the Pistons didn't lose a lot. In fact, the entire fourth quarter of this game has been reduced to garbage time... If the Spurs didn't want to fight at all in the fourth quarter, they would have lost by at least 20 points.

In this game, Duncan scored 20 points, 15 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks in only three quarters, almost blowing up the entire interior of the Pistons by himself.

Big Ben's defense is indeed strong, but he has nothing to do with Duncan, the number one power forward in NBA history. He even paid 5 fouls and couldn't stop Duncan from cutting melons and vegetables in the penalty area.

On the morning of January 1, the league just announced the results of the second round of the All-Star voting. Wang Dalin continued to top the list with 2 votes. Vince Carter, who was ranked No.17802873, only had more than 2 votes, less than half of Wang Dalin's votes.

The ability to get so many votes from fans is naturally because the All-Star voting page of "Sports Weekly" is still going on. A large number of Chinese fans' votes generally fly to the NBA headquarters, which makes David. Stern and other league executives can't help but have a headache.

If things go on like this, there will be no suspense for Wang Dalin to become the All-Star vote leader this year, and his total number of votes will also reach an unprecedented new height.

David Stern was indeed somewhat unexpected, but at this time he has not restricted the voting of Chinese fans like later generations, so the published data is definitely true.

Precisely because Wang Dalin's number of votes couldn't be more real, the vast majority of American fans think that this is absolutely not true, and they don't want to believe that Wang Dalin can really get such a high number of votes.

This matter was fueled by the media and quickly fermented. A large number of New York fans took to the streets. They came to the downstairs of the NBA headquarters building and held signs to protest the league's falsification of the All-Star voting.

Later, Mark Tatum was ordered to deal with the matter when he was in danger. He ordered people to pack the piles of ballots directly into a cart, and then pushed them in front of these emotional fans.

In the face of such ironclad evidence, the fans who caused trouble were dumbfounded, and most of them showed ashamed expressions on their faces.

However, the major media in the United States still did not let go of the news, they chose to continue to hype, this time they directly turned their finger on the Chinese fans.

"Yes, there are more than one billion Chinese people. It is normal for them to have a lot of fans, but is this fair to us American players?"

"Although Wang Dalin's performance this season is worthy of being selected to the All-Star team, but he is not yet 20 years old. Is it reasonable to get so many votes?"

"When Kobe was selected to the All-Star starting lineup at the age of 19, his total votes were only 395686!"

When the media conveyed such a concept to the public, they became more and more noisy about the All-Star voting. Except for the city of Detroit, fans all over the country expressed their dissatisfaction.

Before Chairman Yao landed in the NBA, and before the NBA league opened the Internet voting window, Wang Dalin took the lead in becoming the public enemy of the United States on this issue.

However, Wang Dalin is not very concerned about this matter. For him, how many votes he gets is far less important than the current record of the Pistons, because their losing streak is not over yet.

On January 1, the Pistons played back-to-back at home against the Rockets in the West this season. Carlisle and all the players of the Pistons had high hopes for this game. After all, compared with those strong teams, only the Rockets seemed to be a little better.

But the result of the game disappointed everyone, 88:81, the Pistons lost again!
The shooting percentages of the two sides are actually similar, the Rockets 41.7%, the Pistons 40.5%, but the Rockets grabbed 48 rebounds, while the Pistons only grabbed 37, especially the offensive rebounds. They were completely blown by the Rockets 10:20.

How could it be possible not to lose after playing like this?
Wang Dalin sat on the sidelines and cheered for his teammates all the way, but the result of the game made him very hurt... Big brother, second brother, what are you doing?Why do you all become CBA teammates when I'm not here?
1月5日，活塞队坐镇“奥本山宫殿”迎战骑士队的挑战，这场比赛中王大林的两位“义兄”大本和比卢普斯终于双双发威，其中比卢普斯砍下27分4篮板11助攻1盖帽3抢断，而大本则砍下13分20篮板4助攻5盖帽2抢断。

汉密尔顿也有不错的表现，他全场16投9中砍下23分5篮板3助攻2抢断，这场比赛活塞队自然赢得毫无悬念，最终比分91:101。

Since scoring 12 points against the Sonics on December 22, this is the first time the Pistons have scored more than 124 points in a single game. Carlisle and the players finally breathed a sigh of relief... During this period of four-game losing streak, everyone on the team was under tremendous pressure. It was hard to win a game, and I hope this situation can continue.

But the good times didn't last long. On January 1, the Pistons challenged the Western powerhouse Timberwolves away, and they lost again in this game.

In terms of the process of the game alone, the Pistons players actually played very well, especially Billups and Hamilton showed strong firepower on the offensive end, and the second team led by Williams and Atkins is not inferior to the Timberwolves.

However, Big Ben was at a disadvantage in the matchup with Garnett. The historical power forward who was about to enter the peak of his career scored a large triple-double with 31 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists. Moreover, the "Wolf King" also sent 3 steals and 5 blocks, completely dominating both offense and defense.

Rebounds once again became the key reason for the Pistons' loss. They only grabbed 30 rebounds in this game, while the Timberwolves grabbed 44!
In the end, the score of this game was 102:109, and the Pistons were not wronged at all.

On January 1, the Pistons returned home and played back-to-back games. Their opponent in this game was the Lakers, who are currently ranked No. 8 in the Western Conference.

It has to be said that this is a game with great disparity in strength, and the final result is just like the analysis of the major media before the game. Without Wang Dalin, the Pistons have no resistance against the Lakers.

奥尼尔只打了三节就轻松砍下28分10篮板5助攻3盖帽，而湖人队另一名当家球星科比则砍下了25分8篮板6助攻3抢断2盖帽的全能数据。

121:92... Prior to this, the Pistons only lost one game at home to the Rockets this season, and they only lost 7 points in that game. This 29-point massacre is undoubtedly the biggest defeat the Pistons have suffered this season!
Wang Dalin has been actively recovering. He has started training with the ball now. He will go to the hospital for a re-examination on January 1. As long as the re-examination is in good condition, he can return in the game against the Hornets at home on January 10.

As for the away game against the Celtics on January 1, Carlisle does not plan to take Wang Dalin there.

This kind of back-to-back match is enough for Wang Dalin who is just about to come back from injury...

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