soul ball god

Chapter 296 The Unexpected Participant of the Slam Dunk Contest

As Lin Fei said, the end of the 33-game winning streak has helped the Clippers unload a huge burden. Although there are many veterans in the team who help young players relieve pressure from time to time, the negative effects brought about by the continuous winning streak The impact is still obvious. While enjoying the honor of winning streak, they are also suffering from the test of inner pride and pride. When the winning streak is ended by the Celtics, everyone feels like a big stone has fallen in their hearts.

The next performance of the Clippers did not disappoint the supporters. Although they suffered two defeats in January, the Clippers still played according to their own rhythm. The two lost games were lost to the Golden State Warriors, who were not very strong inside, in early January, and the other was lost to the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference at the end of January.

The strength of the first game is entirely due to the fact that the Warriors are completely crazy. No matter how many people are defending, they can send the ball to the basket. The Warriors made 54 three-pointers in the game, reaching half of the total number of shots. The madness can be imagined, and that night, the goddess of luck lay on the Warriors' big bed and enjoyed it. The Warriors scored 28 three-pointers and broke the league's single-game three-point record in history. Unfortunately, the Clippers became up background.

The second defeat was almost the same as the first, but the difference was that the Warriors relied on the overall madness while the Nuggets relied on the madness of Melo Anthony and Flounder Billups. Anthony scored 38 points in 48 shots. The third highest score in his career, and Billups also contributed 32 points. The two teamed up to contribute a terrifying 80 points. Anthony even completed a three-pointer at the last second before the end of the game. Lin Fei The two-point lore in the previous second became useless.

And for more than a month, Lin Fei still continued his stable performance, contributing triple-doubles from time to time so that he always overwhelmed James in the triple-double list.

It also firmly occupies the first place in the list of most valuable players in the regular season. Although James has been eyeing him, he has not been able to drive Lin Fei off the media rankings and can only be ranked second for a month. After winning the MVP of the month for two consecutive times in November and December, he won the MVP of the month again, becoming a rare player of the month for three consecutive championships. According to this momentum, Lin Fei is likely to win the professional The most valuable player award in the regular season for the first time in his career, and if Lin Fei wins the MVP of the season after the end of the season, Lin Fei, who was born on December 1988, 12, will break the record in NBA history at the age of less than 25 years and 21 months. Young MVP record.

26.5 points (fifth in the league), 5 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 6.5 steals (third in the league), 2.3 blocks (first in guards), 3 turnovers, 1.4% shooting (third in the league, first two They are Lin Fei's own teammates Tyson Chandler 1.8% and Shaquille O'Neal 60.8%), and the three-point shooting percentage is 3% (first in the league, and behind Lin Fei is the player who played for the Quick last season. 68.8% of Steve Novak who joined the Suns in the new season), and his free throw percentage was 67.9% (second, the first is former teammate Novak)

This is the average data that Lin Fei has played in 47 games as of the beginning of February. Compared with the first month, Lin Fei's data has improved significantly, especially the data of rebounds and assists. The increase in turnovers is also due to Lin Fei produced too many passes with the ball.

This kind of data is beyond the imagination of most people. A rookie who can only shoot has grown to his current state in less than three years. Even Kobe, who is most familiar with Lin Fei, is amazed at Lin Fei's progress.

In terms of scoring, although Lin Fei is only ranked fifth in the league and averaged only 26.5 points per game, no one dares to deny Lin Fei's scoring ability. After all, the Clippers have many players who can score, so Lin Fei's scoring data is not high. Naturally, when people discuss the league's scorers, Lin Fei has never been in the top three.

People have become accustomed to Lin Fei being on the headlines of magazines. Now they are more discussing about Lin Fei's future. The American media look at Lin Fei's future more rationally. The historical status has been raised to the top ten shooting guards in history. After all, Lin Fei now has too many powerful teammates, and when Lin Fei personally led the team, although his personal data was excellent, the best record of the team was to stop in the Western Conference semifinals, so this kind of recognition It has been recognized by many people.

On the contrary, the Chinese sports media on the other side of the ocean are advocating that Lin Fei is approaching the No. 1 flying man in history, and even cite the reason that Lin Fei's three-pointers are better than Jordan to explain Lin Fei's status.

Lin Fei naturally ignored these compliments, and still maintained a normal heart to take the daily training seriously.

After the fourth round of voting for the upcoming 2010 Dallas All-Star Game, Lin Fei has already approached the new All-Star voting record he created last year. No one doubts that Lin Fei once again broke his personal All-Star Game vote record. Although many people would sarcastically say that there are many Chinese people, more people see Lin Fei's influence.

While his influence has increased, Lin Fei's commercial value has been soaring all the way. Compared with last season, Lin Fei also instructed Bob Pelinka to not accept many sponsorships. This season, Lin Fei has also relaxed this requirement. It is better to maintain a stable mentality under the media's publicity, and more importantly, the contracts given by the merchants are getting bigger and bigger, and no one will refuse the money sent.

The world's most expensive luxury car, Bugatti Veyron, belongs to German Volkswagen, and Lin Fei signed a huge contract that everyone envied. This contract will bring Lin Fei [-] million US dollars in income within five years. , and Lin Fei will get a Bugatti. Will be taken back by Volkswagen.

This eye-catching big contract signing day was held on February [-]th, the most traditional festival in China, the Spring Festival. On that day, Lin Fei came to the signing ceremony in the latest Bugatti Veyron Ultimate Aero TT sports car. Of course This was all arranged by Volkswagen, and Lin Fei attracted the attention of all the media as soon as he got out of the car.

This car is also the first sports car that Lin Fei endorsed for Bugatti Veyron.

The Ultimate Aero TT with its 6.35-liter V8 set a speed record of 256 mph, and Volkswagen's advertising slogan for the world's fastest sports car is Lin Speed.

On the day of signing, only 99 units of the world’s fastest and most luxurious Ultimate Aero TT sports car with a price of 108 US dollars were booked in one day, which made Volkswagen satisfied. Among them, there are 800 reservations from China, and 0 reservations from Los Angeles, Lin Fei's main battlefield.

This achievement makes Volkswagen very satisfied. They have been shipping the second batch of Ultimate Aero TT globally in half a month. On the day of the signing ceremony, Lin Fei’s advertisement for Ultimate Aero TT was also released for the first time.

When Lin Fei passed one player after another with swift speed on the court, Lin Fei suddenly turned into Ultimate Aero TT, passed one obstacle after another with lightning speed, and finally passed the drift without slowing down at the moment of sprinting When the road on the cliff reaches the top of the mountain, Ultimate Aero TT turns into a picture of Lin Fei dunking the ball into the basket. The whole advertisement looks very rhythmic, and the audience can't help but be brought into it to feel the extreme sense of speed .

In addition to Volkswagen, Lin Fei has five contracts with an annual salary of 1000 million yuan, and nine contracts with an annual salary of more than 500 million yuan. The advertising endorsement fee alone makes Lin Fei's annual income reach [-] million yuan, becoming the successor to Tiger Woods. Afterwards, another player who endorsed over [-] million yuan in advertising, Lin Fei ranked first in the Forbes most valuable entertainment list, which shows the horror of Lin Fei's commercial value.

The performance of the Clippers in the February game was still stable, and Lin Fei was also successfully shortlisted for the Western All-Star starting lineup, and successfully broke the All-Star voting record he created last season.

Moreover, Lin Fei was shortlisted for the three-point shooting competition for the third consecutive year, but Lin Fei politely rejected the skill competition. He didn't want to be so busy as last year that he vomited blood and didn't even have time to rest.

However, many fans feel very sorry, thinking that it is not good for Lin Fei not to participate more. In the number of All-Star activities you think Lin Fei should participate in initiated by ESPN, the slam dunk contest has always been the most among the major individual events of the All-Star. As high as 44.2%, but most people choose this option with a playful mentality. Although Lin Fei also contributed some wonderful or unforgettable dunks in the game, Lin Fei gave the impression that he was far from dunking. The big game is still far away, but some people have this idea in mind, such as David Stern.

"Nate, what do you think about arranging Lin to replace the injured Shannon Brown in the slam dunk contest?" David Stern tapped his fingers on the desk, the eyes behind the glasses gleamed with money, and in front of him The highlights of Lin Fei's dunks cut out by league officials are playing on the computer screen.

"Mr. President, I think Lin's influence can greatly increase the ratings of the slam dunk contest, but to be honest, I have the impression that Lin is not good at dunking." David Stern's assistant Knight replied honestly.

"I also think that he is not good at dunking, but it turns out that Lin is not bad at dunks. This is a dunk collection I just had someone cut out. I am going to push it to the official website to warm up. After all, people's impression of Lin is similar to ours. , if we directly launch those damn media, they will definitely say that we squeeze the value of Lin as much as possible." David Stern said, linking the computer to the projector in the office.

Knight turned around and looked at the video on the projector, which quickly played Lin Fei's dunk highlights, from the very beginning of his rookie season, he dunked Timberwolves center Ratliff, to the free throw line at the Wakovia Center with a one-step Tomahawk dunk, The dunk of Stephen Jackson, the first gliding dunk in Dallas, the dunk of David Lee at Staples... to the recent dunk of Anthony, every dunk shot gave Knight a huge impact.

If you just look at this highlight, Knight will definitely think that Lin Fei is a dunker, but in fact Lin Fei is not like this in the game.

"How do you feel? Besides this, I'm currently arranging the editing team to screen Lin Fei's top ten dunks and top ten violent dunks, and prepare to release them one after another." David Stern's mouth was full of smiles.

"It's a very good video. After watching it, I thought Lin was a dunker." Knight expressed his feelings in this way.

"So why not? Besides, Shannon's injury just gave us a chance, didn't it?"

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"Lin, I have some news for you." Bob Pelinka's voice came from the other end of the phone.

Hearing Pelinka's voice sounded very good, Lin Fei couldn't help but said with a smile, "Is there another big contract coming to your door?"

"Lin, have you fallen into the eyes of money? You have earned a lot this year. It is not a contract but a piece of news, but it is not confirmed yet. It is said that you may replace Shannon in the dunk contest."

"Slam dunk contest? Am I sure my ears are fine?" Lin Fei's suspicious tone got into Pelinka's ears.

"Your ears are fine, but it hasn't been confirmed yet. It's just the meaning revealed by the relevant people. David Stern personally benefited, hehe." Pelinka's voice was very treacherous, because David Stern The care of Lin Fei represents that Lin Fei will have a lot of money in the future.

"Well, asking me to participate in the slam dunk contest is just a joke." Lin Fei was not confident in his slam dunk.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Fei habitually clicked on the webpage.

The first video column on the homepage of the NBA official website is "Lin Fei Furious Highlights".

Lin Fei subconsciously clicked in, and the video soon appeared in front of Lin Fei after buffering.

"I can buckle like this?" Lin Fei himself had doubts about himself.

The release of this Lin Fei dunk video was quickly reposted by netizens frantically.

"Extractionism in the NBA" – Los Angeles Times op-ed.

As a supporter of the Los Angeles Clippers, Mark Liber got this article from the video of the nba launching Lin Fei before the All-Star break. The article bluntly said that David Stern did everything he could to squeeze Lin Fei value.

Soon, relevant sources revealed that Lin Fei would replace Shannon Brown in the dunk contest.

"Is he going to make a fool of himself?" Nate Robinson, who participated in the slam dunk contest for the fourth time, commented to the media when Lin Fei might participate in the slam dunk contest.

On February 2th, three days before the Dallas All-Star Weekend, the league officially announced that Lin Fei would replace Shannon Brown in the dunk contest.

The official announcement of this news completely pushed Lin Fei into the focus position.

On this day, the Clippers beat the Minnesota Timberwolves with 22 points. Lin Fei had six dunks in the game. It was the first time in nearly three years that he dunked more than three times in a game. Proving to everyone that he is not incapable of deduction.

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[PS: Another superstar soul will appear in the dunk contest!Everyone can guess... guess right... well, no prize.Finally, thank you for the monthly ticket! 】

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