After the confession failed, I went to the NBA to play and lose weight

Chapter 15 Li Chengming and the men's basketball team
"Our country's rookie star shines in the Orlando Summer League!"

"In the Orlando Summer League on the morning of July 7, Beijing time, Li Chengming, who represented the Magic, scored 8 points and 24 assists, helping the team defeat the New Jersey Nets..."

"Li Chengming is the No. 60 rookie in the second round of the NBA this year. He was studying in a university in China. He was invited by the Magic to go to the United States to participate in the trial training. He left a deep impression on Ortis Smith, the general manager of the Magic. Impression, contributed to his selection of Li Chengming in the draft..."

"Li Chengming's father said that Li Chengming has been in contact with basketball by chance since preschool, and has been playing for 12 years. Although due to physical reasons, he looks like a 'little fat man' who doesn't like sports (Mr. Li's original words) ), but he never gave up his hobby.

"Now, this hobby will finally become his career..."

At the end of the game, it was the morning in the country. Because of the news from the frontline reporters, various reports were released soon, revealing the much-anticipated information about the mysterious last rookie Li Chengming.

Originally, many people took this as a joke, and had no expectations for Li Chengming, and there were conspiracy theories that they thought it was a deliberate hype.

Unexpectedly, Li Chengming actually performed well in his first appearance in the summer league and became the backbone of the team.

There are still a lot of pictures from the game scene. Although I can't watch the video, but watching some of Li Chengming's wonderful performances from the pictures, people can still feel the weight of this young man.

"Fuck, this size!"

"So what this story tells us is that exercise really can't lose weight."

"I'm curious about how he plays with his size. I think it's hard for me to turn over if I'm like this."

"It's obviously different, okay? Look at his wingspan, jumping, and although he is really fat, he still feels quite strong-is this the physical quality that a yellow race can have?"

"My little brother doesn't quite understand, is there anyone who can educate me about the gold content of the Summer League?"

Someone replied: "The summer league actually doesn't have much gold content. NBA teams train rookies. There are also some free agents and undrafted players. If they can make the team look at them, they can get a contract. If it’s not good, then you can go home as soon as possible, and you will definitely not be able to play in the NBA.”

"Let's put it this way, those who can perform well in the Summer League may not necessarily be favored by NBA teams, because rookies are more concerned about potential, but like Li Chengming, who performs well and is very young, it shows that With both talent and immediate fighting ability, the team will definitely pay attention to it in the future."

Some people couldn't help wondering: "If this is the case, then why did Li fall to the bottom of the list before he became famous and was selected?"

"This... I heard that only the Magic team sent him a trial training invitation, and then there may have been some promises there, and he didn't go to other teams..." This is the Orlando who posted during the previous game He was also inexplicably excited during this period of time, surfing all the time.

Previously, the forum officials took advantage of the popularity of his post to intervene in time to stir up a wave, which made many people in the forum already psychologically prepared for Li Chengming's external image.

However, seeing the clear photos and detailed weight information, it is still staggering.

Then because of this, someone directly put the title of "domestic O'Neill" on Li Chengming's head.

Of course, this is not a compliment, not even a compliment. It may also stem from the disgust of fat people in many people's bones.

Even many obese people themselves resist obesity. Although obesity itself is not a disease, it sometimes becomes a "pathogen". Moreover, being too fat can easily make people feel greasy, as if they think of fat when they see fat. Like oil, the appearance is not very good.

If Li Chengming wasn't two meters tall, he might look even scarier. Of course, if he wasn't, he wouldn't necessarily be as heavy as he is now.

Of course, some people also discussed the topic of Li Chengming and the national team.

Because judging from the data, it is obvious that Li Chengming still holds a domestic nationality, so he is still a native of Hua, and of course he is also eligible to join the men's basketball team.

Just why didn't the national team recruit him?

Of course, news about him in China also leaked out, including his family relationship, his school and so on.

At this time, Li's mother, the teacher and the students were all interviewed and asked about Li Chengming's situation.

The school leaders are even frequently asked why such basketball talents were not sent to the national team in time, because the performance of the men's basketball summer league was not very good before.

But what can they say?

They are also very ignorant!

……

This year's NBA Summer League has a total of three games, namely Orlando Summer League, Rocky Mountain Summer League and Las Vegas Summer League. The first two of them are six or seven teams, but Las Vegas attracts 22 teams, including China's national team.

Because next year will be the Beijing Olympics, in order to prepare for the Olympics, the men's basketball team announced a "luxury lineup" list in March, including the most powerful basketball players in China at that time, including the older generation Wang Zhizhi, the mainstay Yao, There are also rising stars such as Kong Tianyi and others.

At the beginning of May, the final roster was determined, and there was also a training camp. Except for Yao, basically everything was in place, and then with this lineup, after the four-nation game in June, he came to the United States to officially participate in the summer league in July.

In addition to Li Chengming, the three Chinese nationals selected in this year's draft, Kong Tianyi and Sun Dasheng all joined the men's basketball team to compete in the Las Vegas Summer League.

There is still time before that. The men's basketball team will play against the U19 of the United States in Dallas. The American team has young talents such as Stephen Curry, Michael Beasley, DeAndre Jordan and Patrick Beverly. The men's basketball team lost with 24 turnovers.

Of course, it's not shameful not to beat the US team, even if it's just the youth team.

Afterwards, in the second game against Big Zhi's "old team" Mavericks, they fought hard until the last moment, but they were overturned. The small man on the opposite side, Jose Barea from Puerto Rico, was omnipotent.

After the two-game losing streak, the men's basketball team arrived in Las Vegas. The Summer League here started a day earlier than the Orlando Summer League, so there was a men's basketball game the day before, against the Grizzlies.

In that game, the coach Jonas did his best, and Dazhi and Ah Lian started as partners, with Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng and Liu Wei.

最终男篮以77：86遗憾输球，大郅全场18中11拿下27分，阿联15中7得到23分，两人合砍50分，外加14次犯规（夏联个人10犯才罚下）。

The starting point guard Liu Wei only played for more than 8 minutes, most of the time was controlled by Sun Dasheng. In fact, the men's basketball team has an advantage in size.

Of course, the opponents of the Grizzlies are not weak. Last year's two first-round picks, Rudy Gay and Kyle Lowry, the template McGrady, and this year's No. [-] pick, Oden's backcourt partner Mike Conley was all there.

Even Terrence Kinsey, who didn't know who came out of that corner, scored 20 points, and the men's basketball team was basically suppressed throughout.

Then the next day, Li Chengming led the team to victory...

Although not many people have watched these two Summer League matches, but there are video materials, and you can see how Rudy Gay used his talent to wreak havoc.

This makes people think that if Li Chengming is in the national team, not only can he guard Gay, but at least he can form a mutual explosion with him, right?

Although the two have never fought before, it's really hard to say who is stronger, but with Li Chengming's size, strength and style of play, Gay will definitely have to suffer.

(End of this chapter)