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

Chapter 9 Summer League
A week passed in a blink of an eye, and the reporters had been squatting for a long time, but they couldn't find Li Chengming and his son outside the Amway Center Arena, which made them wonder if there was such a person.

Have they all been tricked by the Magic?

Could it be that the person has actually returned to the country?

They didn't know that Li Chengming and his son were going in and out of the employee channel these days just to avoid being caught. Now is not a suitable time to face the media. Let's wait until the contract is confirmed to be signed.

Otherwise, there will be another turnaround at that time, and it will only attract ridicule.

This is Li's father's conscious protection of his son, and of course Li Chengming also listens to his father's arrangement.

He doesn't have an agent now, so his father has taken on the role of his agent. Once the matter on his side is settled, maybe he has to go back and quit his domestic job.

Fortunately, what he was doing was foreign trade work. He had dealt with a lot and learned by analogy. It is okay for Li's father to help Li Chengming negotiate contracts for the time being. At worst, he will ask a special lawyer to check it out.

In this way, the "secret training" continued for a week until the official start of the summer league. In the Amway Center Arena, when the first summer league game between the Magic and the Nets began, I saw the faces of Chinese people preparing to play on the sidelines. , the reporters in the auditorium became excited.

They are really our people!

"I'm at the summer league site, what do you want to ask?"

It was a period of great Internet development in China at this time, forums and post bars were popular, and netizens were also quite enthusiastic.

And because the domestic basketball fever brought by Dayao is in full swing, the attention of this draft is unprecedentedly high, and the news that three Chinese nationals were selected by the NBA at the same time spread quickly.

Needless to say, the other two, because Li Chengming was too mysterious, got as much attention as Sun Dasheng.

At least the reporters who came here to watch him were much more than those on Sun Dasheng's side, and the fans on the Internet were also eager to know the real news about him.

"Can I take a photo and see what it looks like?"

"OK! [Photo]"

"It's too blurry, I can't see anything."

"Actually, I can still see something. How does it feel? It's quite strong?"

"Fat is fat, this is obviously a fat man and not a muscular man."

"Fuck, I know this guy!"

"Fuck, this is my classmate!"

"Fuck, this is my son..."

"Mu Ma, I really know this one. It's from our school. He won the class competition before, and then he dropped out of school when he heard that his subordinate Hua failed to confess his love. In a blink of an eye, he actually went to the United States and joined the NBA."

"Correction, he was only selected, and he is not yet sure to join, maybe he will be laid off after a while."

"Fuck, is it true or not, such a lychee?"

"If I fail to confess, I will go to play in the NBA?"

"If this is true, it would be too awesome, isn't it true that the NBA will get in as soon as it says it will?"

"Can you tell me how this buddy is playing?"

"Anyway, he led a bunch of draggers and beat up our whole school, but I didn't expect him to play in the NBA. Oh, by the way, what LSS said is really right, he is really a fat paper."

"Is Luzhu still alive? Can you tell me about the performance in the game?"

"It hasn't started yet..."

"..."

Li Chengming naturally didn't know that he was being discussed by domestic netizens at this time. He was wearing a No. 60 jersey and was listening to the coach—to be precise, the arrangement of the assistant coach of the Magic team.

Although Xia Lian is not so formal and the jersey can be chosen at will, Li Chengming has already decided on the number he will wear in the future, which is the current number.

一般球员选择球衣号码都会有个出发点，这也算是一个噱头，比如说因为偶像的所以选同样号码的诸多3号，比如为了“从头开始”也为了打脸别人选择了“0”号，还有2*3=6、2=1+1，或是7＞6、24＞23这种代表着超越的想法。

Li Chengming originally thought that if he was selected by number 44, he would get a number of 404. Of course, it would probably not work. After all, there are only two digits, and it might become "04" by then.

He doesn't have a favorite star. After all, the NBA only looks at Dayao's team. If you insist on saying that it is Dayao, but the two are also of different types, so naturally they will not choose numbers to engage in "tribute",

But now that he was selected by the last place, it would be a good thing to choose the number of his own lottery directly, which is commemorative and can be regarded as an incentive for himself.

The first 59 are all waiting for me, let's surpass them all!

And he doesn't remember anything particularly famous about the number 60 jersey. If he typed it out, he would immediately become a representative of this number.

He doesn't want to be the second so-and-so, he just wants to be the first himself.

"...Okay, guys, play hard and work hard for your new contract!"

Finally, the assistant coach who arranged the tactics said this with a smile, which made everyone laugh.

Their opponent today is the Nets from New Jersey. Li Chengming will undoubtedly make his debut. His teammates are second-year students JJ. Marcin Gortat.

The remaining black buddy named Du Keze is an undrafted pick and serves as the point guard position, while Li Chengming is the third position.

The starting five of the Nets are two sophomores Josh Boone (center), Marcus Williams (point guard) and Sean Williams, who was selected by the Nets with the 17th pick in the first round this year Williams (power forward), leading two free agents.

The summer league is different from the official NBA games, and is more inclined to the NCAA rules, which are divided into two-stage games.

With the whistle of the referee, the game officially started. The opponent center Boone first dialed the jump ball in midfield, and the Nets got the first wave of offensive opportunities.

Gortat is a white player, and his dynamic quality is relatively average. However, in the previous training, Li Chengming felt that his inside defense is very good. He belongs to the classic blue-collar center, and he also has a little skill.

In terms of offense, they naturally tend to eat cakes, and their own offense is average. It may also be that they are newcomers and have not shown it. After all, they did not arrange a match for them during training, and it is difficult to see the strength of the game.

Including Li Chengming himself, he didn't show much skill, but he can satisfy the team with one-handed shooting.

At first, I was worried that Li Chengming's perfect performance in the trial training was supernormal, but judging by his shooting ability, even if it was still supernormal, it was satisfactory enough.

However, the core of the Magic's current lineup is undoubtedly JJ Redick. Although he is a shooter, he can accurately help the team on the offensive end with his accurate shooting ability and Gortat's screen. Open the breach.

If the opponent is not good at defending the pick-and-roll, then Gortat's roll can also give the opponent a head-on blow.

On the contrary, Li Chengming didn't show his talents in the previous training, and he didn't show any other advantages except shooting. So the assistant coach didn't give him any special arrangements except to let him open the space-he has a good three-pointer. Tactical play.

However, after the Nets opened with Boone's inside layup and made a layup, Li Chengming got stuck in the elbow and directly received a pass from Dukze on the Magic's side.

It's not that Li Chengming deliberately went there to occupy the space of his teammates, it's completely muscle memory.

After all, he played inside in college, and he was used to helping the team open the situation first in the low post. This game was the first official NBA game—at least for him, it was a bit too exciting.

Of course, the tactical skills of the teammates are good. Gortat is from the European League, Redick is also a college star, Augustin is worse, but he has also been trained in the Development League. Seeing him like this, he consciously positions himself to help him clear the weak side singles space to come.

In particular, Redick stood in a tricky position between Gortat and Augustine, and could take the cover and run at any time to make an opportunity, depending on whether Li Chengming had that vision.

(End of this chapter)