From sparring to superstar

Chapter 99 97. You just need to restrain yourself

The Lakers beat the Pacers 104 to 87 to win Game [-] of the Finals.

The displayed strength gap is very large.

The main reason is O'Neal. Without the restrictions of Weber + Divac, Sabonis + Pippen, O'Neal only made 6 of 1 free throws, hit 31 goals in 21 shots, and scored 43 points.

No foul from the Pacers could stop O'Neal from hitting the basket with a small hook.

Even if there are two people standing under the basket of the Pacers, O'Neal can chisel in and put the ball into the frame when he receives the ball.

'OK combination is invincible in the world', it's really here!

After the first game of the finals, Li Ao became the darling of Lakers fans again.

Lakers fans are very happy and proud to hear that Li Ao rejected all the team's trial training invitations in order to be selected by them with the 29th overall pick.

It's just that things are developing in an uncontrollable direction now, and they find that they may lose the greatest college basketball player in Los Angeles in the 21st century...

On Li Ao's side, he watched the live broadcast of the game between the Lakers and the Pacers.

But when I watch it, my mind keeps wandering.

How did things get to where they are now?
At the beginning, he and Schwartz just negotiated to reject the invitation to try out the second-round pick.

Then, decline invitations to multiplayer workouts from non-lotter teams and only accept solo workouts.

Then, they didn't even accept individual trial invitations from non-lottery teams.

And then, all the invitations to tryouts of the teams at the bottom of the lottery with their 9-13 picks were also rejected...

I was worried that the refusal of the trial training would affect the draft market. What if the Lakers didn't get the lottery pick?

But after discussing with Schwartz, Li Ao decided to believe in the promise of the logo man.

Angeles City, Los Angeles, how good it is to play here.

The 10th or 13th pick, the two felt that the Lakers would definitely get it back from the Magic, there was no reason, they just thought so.

But unexpectedly, the more they refused, the higher their expectations for the pick!
Anticipation alone is enough. Those high-ranking teams are becoming more and more interested in him. The Bulls with the 4th and 7th picks also sent them invitations for trial training, and they did it in one step. Instead of going through the process, he was invited to participate in the individual trial training session after the regular trial training stage.

Today, the most outrageous thing is coming, the Grizzlies seem to want to choose him too!

Although the Grizzlies haven't sent him a trial invitation, the Clippers called in the afternoon.

Schwartz thought that the Clippers wanted to select Li Ao with the 18th pick, but before he could refuse, Elgin Baylor quickly said that it was a separate trial training for the No. [-] pick.

This time, Li Ao refused.

When he refused, he felt very disillusioned. He was so arrogant that he refused the lottery?

If they are all Los Angeles teams, whoever goes to the Clippers would rather drop a few picks.

In other words, it has been more than a month since he announced his registration for the draft on live broadcast. He only participated in a Lakers tryout when he was expected to be in the last round of the first round. He did nothing else and went to school every day. Practice ball and play games and refuse to try out, refuse and refuse, and the pick has risen to the top three.

Li Ao fell into deep thought. If this trend continues, is it possible that he will eventually go to live with the lone wolf?
Then when the Nets traded Kidd, they sent him to Phoenix to bask in the sun with the lone wolf?

Why not fight every three days?
He shook his head frantically.

Not to not to be.

Kenyon Martin is one of the few draft leaders who won the John Wooden Award, the Naismith All-American Player, and the Associated Press All-American Player in the same year.

Not to mention this small year in the draft, if this year's Kenyon Martin is placed last year or the year before, he will also be able to compete for the No. [-] pick.

In the last ten years, the top picks that Kenyon Martin couldn't compete for were Duncan, Iverson, Big Dog, Webber, O'Neal, Big Mom, Coleman... Well, it seems that there are not many who have won.

But Kenyon Martin University's personal performance is really good for the No. [-] pick.

The number one pick must be Kenyon Martin, and Li Ao played for him.

If you can't figure it out, don't think about it. Li Ao reckons that he won't be able to get out of the lottery zone. If that's the case, why worry about it? It's already far higher than his original goal.

...

After sleeping, Schwartz drove Li Ao to Universal Studios Hollywood early the next morning.

Li Ao definitely didn't come here for tourism, otherwise he wouldn't be with his manager.

At the end of last month, a beverage company offered him a one-year endorsement contract of $50.

Li Ao is very excited, is this going to be rich?

But was rejected by Schwartz.

Schwartz said to him at the time: "We can't accept this contract. Although it is only one year, as long as we accept it, your endorsement price range will be fixed. It will be very difficult when we negotiate contracts with real big companies." Passive, don’t worry, several brands have already contacted me, but it’s just not time to negotiate the price.”

Li Ao felt that what Schwartz said was very reasonable, so he turned away the $50 in tears.

He found that his agent was very sensitive about money.

This is a good thing, anyway, he is the one who makes the big money.

But after all, I have to earn some extra money to subsidize my family.

So, Schwartz accepted a movie for Li Ao. IMG entered the sports world for a relatively short period of time and did not have as much energy as David Falcao, but it is very easy to find a job in the entertainment industry.

There is a 10-dollar reward for a guest appearance, and if everything goes well, it can be done in one day.

Li Ao heard that he was going to sell his lust, play a playboy, have a bed scene and an intimate scene, and he agreed on the spot.

What's wrong with dedicating yourself to art?
And the heroine happens to be Jessica, whom he has a close personal relationship with, so don't worry about her being too overgrown, but I'm a little worried about another actress who is playing a rival role...

On set, director John Duggan came to pick him up with three actors.

The three actors are the heroine Jessica, the hero Ian Gray, and Liz Caplan, one of the two actors who played opposite Li Ao.

Jessica is very familiar and knows everything.

The hero Ian Gray, Li Ao has an impression, I saw this face when I watched Game of Thrones 2, and now I am younger.

Liz Caplan will play Now Now You See Me 2 in the future. Li Ao watched this movie for Jay Chou and saw this face. She is much younger now, probably less than 20 years old, with a small face and big eyes , dressed in tea-like tea, should be today's filming costumes.

He was very satisfied, so he didn't have to worry about not getting his mouth shut.

The main reason is that the future Black Ugly Fish movie left him with a deep psychological shadow.

I met four people in total, only director Li Ao had never heard of it.

Before coming here, Schwartz gave him the director's information, and he had only heard of the name. He had never seen any of the films directed by this director.

Threesomes in Troubled Times, Dangerous Good Guys, Tricking... It's not a serious movie just by the name.

What's outrageous is that these movies are either youth movies or crime movies, that is, they play around the edges.

And they are all low-budget movies, the budget is so low that they have to solicit investment everywhere while filming.

The movie that Li Ao is going to make a cameo this time is called Paranoid, which means paranoiac and paranoid.

After exchanging pleasantries, Li Ao got his script, and the content of the shooting was very short - playing the heroine's ex-boyfriend, a bed scene with the heroine, an intimate scene with the heroine's best friend, and Liz played the best friend- Capan.

Then there was no role for him, and the male lead didn't share the same frame with him, so they came to pick him up just to ask for a group photo.

In addition to his script, there is also the outline of the whole story. Jessica played a sexy model in her true colors, found out that he was cheating on her best friend, ran away crying, met the male lead, walked out of the shadows under the comfort of the male lead, and the two together.

Who knew that the male lead was a married pervert who kidnapped the female lead and locked him up. In the end, the person who had always had a crush on the female lead rescued the female lead and brought the male lead to justice.

After Li Ao finished reading the script, director John Dugan said, "Don't be nervous, your role is very simple."

Li Ao asked: "I don't have a line?"

"You just have to act on the spot, what a rich, playful, sweet-mouthed man would say."

"Oh, it's a scumbag, how do you act this way? I have no acting experience."

"Trash man? The description is good, how to act... You can act in your true colors, but you have to be restrained, and there are cameras to shoot."

"..."

Li Ao: ○(╬￣亿￣╬)○

He clenched his fists.

What does it mean to be more restrained?What does it mean to act in your true colors?

The few people on the side couldn't help but laugh.

The director asked Li Ao to get acquainted with the two actresses who were playing opposite roles, and then took the male lead to another set, where the male lead still had scenes to film.

For Li Ao's role in this role, John Duggan really didn't care.

It was someone who was brought in temporarily by the management and said that they wanted to add some dramas. For the sake of increasing the budget, just add them, and perform whatever they want, and they may not necessarily be cut in when the time comes.

After the director left, Jessica said to Li Ao, "Wow, you're really here to film, and you're acting in your true colors."

"Aren't you acting in your true colors? Sexy model, tsk tsk, and sex scene, take it off?"

"This is a crime movie! If you didn't want to participate, the director temporarily added a sex scene for you, so you wouldn't have a role in Tuotuo. This time you are on top, if you want to take off you... Cough cough, I will show you mine Stills, you will know how good I acted."

Jessica was annoyed for a while and forgot that there was another actress beside her, so she quickly changed the subject, took Li Ao's hand, took out a stack of prepared still photos from her bag, and took pictures in Li Ao's hand.

Li Ao was also a little embarrassed when someone else was there. He pretended he didn't hear anything and flipped through the stills.

The first few photos showed beautiful looks, but in the later stage, when he was kidnapped and locked up, his image began to change gradually.

In the last few pictures, the pictures of being locked in the basement, the makeup is deliberately ugly, it really looks like the image of being locked in a dark basement, tortured and abused for a long time, you can see it through the photos The helplessness and fear in the eyes.

He muttered: "The acting is pretty good."

"Hmph," Jessica said proudly, "You said it before, I'm good-looking, good-looking, good at acting, I'm sure I'll be popular."

Speaking of which, Jessica was a little angry, and said mockingly: "In order to let you act in your true colors, the director temporarily found a beautiful actress. You have to restrain yourself and don't do anything shameful on the set."

"Oh? That means I created job opportunities for others? Oh, God bless, I did another good thing."

"..."

Jessica and Liz Capan, who was watching the show, were speechless.

Liz Caplan, who studied piano at the School of Music at Hamilton College, started filming two years ago by accident. She acted in a campus comedy TV series Freaks and Nerds, and then continued her studies. She is about to graduate this year.

Originally, her dream was to be a pianist, but after filming that TV series, she fell in love with the feeling of playing someone else, and decided to change careers.

But after Christmas, she came to Hollywood, and now half a year has passed, and she has not received any serious roles, such as passerby A, clerk B, deceased person C, background D who can't show her face...

Finally, two days ago, her agent told her that she had received a scene where she would show her face with lines, but it was an intimate scene.

She was so happy, the intimate scene is the intimate scene, at least she can show her face.

When she arrived at the crew yesterday, she was even happier when she heard that the opposite party was the new NCAA MOP. At least she was gnawed by a handsome guy.

Seeing her in person today, he is even more handsome than the one on TV, she thinks it's okay to go a few inches, let alone gnaw.

But now she thinks the same as Jessica - why isn't she dumb?
...

To play a scumbag, Li Ao said no.

But it doesn't matter, acting, he recalled those scumbags in the screen image in his mind, the "performer" drawn before began to work, and when it was filming in the afternoon, he immediately entered the state as soon as he hit the board, and Jessica lingered.

The lines, expressions, and body movements that I made up now made John Duggan, who was originally in the mood of taking a casual shot, shine brightly!
The key is that Jessica has good acting skills, and she has never been right before, but she can catch what Li Ao said, and her movements are well coordinated.

The two know each other well, and they are fully committed to each other when they do the actions, and they look like real couples.

At the critical moment, John Dugan yelled 'click', not because the shot was not good, but because one shot passed, and this is enough.

John Dugan is a bit regretful, he knew that he would make a film made by adults.

Change the scene, change the actress, and it's time for the next shot.

Although prepared to be gnawed, Liz Caplan is still nervous now.

This handsome guy is really good at it!
She could see that Jessica was really screwed.

What should she do?
However, it was different from what she thought. After the filming started, they were called "click" several times in a row. It was different from the one time just now. This time, Li Ao had always wanted to borrow a seat, but he had no experience. Cursed.

This little handsome guy can't touch her without touching her, what a gentleman!

That's not the case with Jessica just now!
She got angry, and when it was time to shoot again, she took the initiative to gnaw and pulled Li Ao's hand towards her.

This time it took two passes, the first pass was actually good, but John Dugan saw that Li Ao was passive, so he adjusted the relationship between the characters and became the heroine's girlfriend who took the initiative to seduce the heroine's ex-boyfriend, The logic made sense right away.

In one afternoon, Li Ao and Liz Caplan had a finale.

Jessica has to work overtime tonight. She gave Li Aoyun half a day to shoot, and she will naturally have to make up for it in the evening. The shooting location is paid by the day.

Li Ao was about to leave with Schwartz after thanking the staff, and Liz Capan asked him to have dinner with him.

Li Ao did not refuse. In one afternoon, after the commission, he still earned 7 dollars. Although he will have to pay taxes next year, it is still possible to buy a meal.

After Schwartz sent the two to the restaurant, he left in a sensible way.

Then, Li Ao and Liz Caplan ate from the restaurant to the hotel...

...

The finals are in full swing. At this time, a piece of lace news strongly entered the field of vision of basketball fans.

Li Ao, the newly promoted NCAA MOP who has become more and more popular in the draft, refused to participate in the trial training, but went to Hollywood to ask young actors!

When Li Ao appeared in Universal Studios Hollywood, he was targeted by the paparazzi.

Who makes him the hottest rookie candidate right now?
He and Liz Caplan ate at restaurants, went into hotels, and were photographed again.

So, he once again sparked controversy.

Can such a player play well in the NBA?

But there was a group of people who were happy—the Los Angeles fans, the Lakers front office.

Other media didn't report it, but the local media in Los Angeles reported it many times. After Li Aofeng finished three games, he resumed training after ten days. He had to practice for two hours after school every day. After the final exam, he didn't go to Participate in trial training, and spend almost every day in the Memorial Stadium.

But the Lakers fans didn't explain this time, and ran to the Internet to scold, trying to cool down Li Ao's overly hot draft market.

There are also fans with clear thoughts who have discovered one thing-Li Ao's dating partners seem to be 18 years old?
This topic also caused a small number of people to discuss it.

On Li Ao's side, he didn't wake up until almost noon.

He didn't expect that Liz Caplan, who looked gentle, was so wild. Although she didn't have that much experience, she had both skills and endurance.

It was almost dawn when he fell asleep, and his legs were numb.

It takes 250 achievement points to unlock Gunara Dark God's Dark Shield.

But after waking up, he saw Liz Caplan walking around the room, standing up for a while, and squatting down with his head in his arms.

"What's wrong with you, Liz? Didn't you shout that you were in pain before? Is this the way to treat it?"

Liz Capan really wanted to rush up but kicked... but couldn't get down, that face, that figure, she just looked at...

She looked away, implying that she could stop being obsessed.

She complained: "I've been in a gossip magazine before I've been in a movie magazine, it's all your fault!"

Hearing this, Li Ao probably guessed what happened, and was photographed again.

He said innocently: "Last night, you stood in front of the hotel and refused to leave. Is it my fault?"

Liz Caplan exploded on the spot: "You brought me to the hotel! It's over, my dream of being an actor is broken..."

"Uh...not necessarily, maybe your dream of being an actor finally has a way to go."

Liz Caplan was confused when suddenly her phone rang.

She picked up the phone, the agent called.

Soon, she understood what Li Ao meant.

After hanging up the phone, she picked up Li Ao's cell phone and dialed her number. After hanging up, she left a sentence "I have received a job, so I'm leaving first, and I will make an appointment for dinner next time when I have time" and left in a hurry.

Li Ao watched the other party pull up his pants and leave... Scum girl!
After a bit of slander, Li Ao got up to take a shower, went to the bank, and remitted some money to his parents, not much, 10 Ruanmei coins for each person... No, it was 20 for each mother.

He is finally making money!

He didn't care too much about the entertainment news again, and he's not a dwarf who relies on his girlfriend's fans for a living.

As time passed day by day, Li Ao returned to the life of training, training, and retraining, occasionally playing games, trial training, and really not going.

到了6月22号，随着湖人队在总决赛4比2击败步行者队夺冠、奥尼尔以场均38分16.7板2.3助攻2.7盖帽的表现拿下FMVP称霸NBA，NBA1999-2000赛季落下帷幕，人们的注意力开始从总决赛转移到即将开始的选秀大会上。

(End of this chapter)