I'm king in the basket

Chapter 614
New Orleans
The 2016-17 NBA All-Star Weekend was held here, which is a feast for fans.

The stars of each team gather together to perform with each other, and the rookies will go all out in the Challenger League in order to gain a position.

It's just that in recent years, stars have become more and more perfunctory.

The All-Star Game has become tasteless because everyone is shooting three-pointers.

All kinds of long-distance three-point strikes can't help but give fans a headache, and there is also a not-so-intense defensive breakthrough.

Do they really think that fans like to see player A break through the defense and player B who is as airy as the air is better off with an unobtrusive dunk?

LaVine saved the slam dunk contest in the past two years, but that's all. The All-Star Game is still very tasteless.

Fans began to miss Li Xing, who was very serious in the All-Star Game. He would block opponents in various ways during the All-Star Weekend, forcing the opponent to play seriously.

Li Xing and his teammates got off his special plane.

Yes, this time in New Orleans, the Raptors took Li Xing's special plane.

Salary limited Zou Qi's imagination. When they came to the private jet, which was far more luxurious than the team's special plane, boarded the plane, and saw a series of high-end equipment and better services than the team's special plane, they were all amazed. shocked.

Some people even suggested that it would be good to take this plane for away games in the future.

This is naturally unrealistic, but it does not prevent everyone from expressing contempt for Li Xing, a local rich man.

Such a good plane is usually hidden away. If it weren't for this All-Star Weekend, everyone would really not know that Li Xing has a plane under his name.

Li Xing and his teammates came to the reserved hotel together.

Then there are various activities.

By Li Xing's side, his teammates have gained a lot of glory. Needless to say, Zou Qi is a signed player under the name of Nike. DeRozan and Dragic have their own endorsements.

They all have things to do before the game starts.

Li Xing and Zou Qi are both the spokespersons of Nike, but his status is far higher than that of Zou Qi.

Two yellow men, both insiders, a company, Nike will not let this boo head go.

On the same day, Li Xing and Zou Qi did some public welfare activities, which did not end until the evening.

Also on this night, the Rookie Challenge of the All-Star Weekend kicked off.

Zou Qi and Brogdon, as representatives of the Raptors, were selected for the Rookie Challenge.

The first season of the 16th rookie generally performed poorly. The champion Lang Ben Simmons was reimbursed for the season. Although Ingram had a lot of playing time, he lacked immediate combat power. Jun can only play as a substitute, and Bender is a complete parallel importer.
At first glance, all the lottery picks performed poorly. On the contrary, Brogdon, the second-round pick, played the role of an assaulter in the Raptors. Performance: 12 points and 4 rebounds per game.

If you don't count the repeater Saric, Brogdon is the number one favorite for the Rookie of the Year this season.

A second-round pick, averaging 12 points and 4 rebounds per game, turned out to be the number one favorite for Rookie of the Year?
From this alone, we can know how bad the rookie season of the 16th-level rookie is.

That night, Brogdon was also the leader of the 16th-level rookies. He was very confident on the court and dared to compete with the 15th-level masters.

But talent is still far behind.

Li Xing sat behind this group of rookies, and his seat was next to Zou Qi.

Zou Qi is a substitute, he is waiting for the opportunity to play.

Li Xing kept talking to the head coach of the international team.

"Larry, why don't you try it on JO? He won't let you down."

Li Xing called Zou Qi openly.

The coach named Larry is miserable, and the international team is also a bunch of big names. Zou Qi's selection to the international team is already a concession made by the NBA to cater to the Chinese market because he is Chinese.

Now let him play in the stalemate?
Larry didn't think it was a good idea, and his reasoning sounded reasonable: "No, JO isn't strong enough to fight anyone else, and I don't think it's a good idea to put him on."

"Dude, don't you ever watch the Raptors? He's as good as anybody on the floor. Well, you put him up there for a few minutes, and if he doesn't play well, you take him out, I promise. Don't talk, OK?"

After all, Li Xing gave Larry a playful look.

Don't get me wrong, Li is not trying to sell his lust. If you read the previous chapters, you will know that in addition to picking up girls, the playful eye can also make others feel good, especially when persuading.

Li Xing's face is too great, even if he doesn't use his playful eyes, Larry will eventually replace Zou Qi.

Now the game on the court has just played for 4 minutes. In order not to attract attention, Larry called five names in a row, including Zou Qi. .

Sure enough, his actions aroused praise from the narrator.

"It's a great arrangement to make sure everyone gets their fair share of exposure time."

"It may not be fair to the better international players, but it's certainly a move that will bring everyone into the game, well done!"

Who are Zou Qi's teammates?Porzingis, Embiid, Towns, Jamal Murray.Mudiay.Jokic
Beside these great gods, he is like a speck of dust.

As Larry said, if it weren't for the Chinese market behind him, he wouldn't even be eligible for the international team.

And now, he's up against a group of players who are considered future All-Stars.

"Xiao Zou, don't hesitate, do what you are good at, and don't think they are better than you, I don't think so!"

Li Xing cheered Zou Qi on the sidelines.

Li Xing's encouragement to Zou Qi also fell into the ears of others, especially those on the US team.

They all cast unkind looks at Zou Qi.

Li Xing is very strong, they can't help it, but Zou Qi is much easier to deal with, they can definitely make this thin Chinese suffer in front of Li Xing.

Everyone on the US team is trying to do this, and Zou Qi receives a pass from Porzingis.

Then, without passing the ball, he jumped up and shot from outside the three-point line.

Not in.

"It's too tight." Li Xing said.

No one accused Zou Qi of being selfish, this is the self-consciousness that everyone playing should have.

Although the people around you are teammates, they are all just for performance. Those who stop you from performing are enemies.

On this stage where self-expression is the main thing, there is no concept of teammates.

Okafor of the US team had a long-lost reunion battle against Zou Qi.

Okafor has been a genius since he was a child and was selected for the US youth national team at all levels, while Zou Qi is a rare young talent in China in recent years, leading the national youth team to many international competitions.

The two had fought against each other when they were in the youth team, and now they meet again in a different place, which is also quite interesting.

Okafor's offensive style is the one that Zou Qi hates the most.

Low post attack, many footsteps, comprehensive offensive means.

In a few seconds, Okafor penetrated Zou Qi's defense.

Then, Porzingis, who was once known as the Latvian White Zouqi, played for Okafor, and won a sigh of relief for Zou Qi.

But Zou Qi wanted to find himself back, so he blocked Ingram after half a minute, and then counterattacked.

"Pass the ball!"

Li Xing shouted from the sidelines.

Perhaps hearing Li Xing's call, Exum made a good pass to Zou Qi and helped him score the first goal of the Rookie Challenge.

"Larry, am I right? He's pretty good!"

Just as Li Xing wanted to speak well of Zou Qi in front of Larry, Okafor used his footsteps to penetrate Zou Qi's defense in the blink of an eye.

"you sure?"

Larry looked at Li Xing with a smile.

Li Xing blushed, and shouted to the field: "Who the hell, can you stop swaying around in a low position all the time, it makes me dizzy, do you want to die?"

In order to protect the calf, someone no longer cared about his identity, and directly threatened the ignorant rookie outside the court.

Okafor did not expect that Li Xing would do such indecent things regardless of his own status.

Thinking that after the All-Star Weekend, the first regular season game will be against the Raptors, Okafor fell into deep thinking.

Very simple multiple choice question: Do you want to be a hero or a coward?

Okafor chose to focus on the present, he wants to be a hero.

In the next few minutes, he overwhelmed Zou Qi's defense.

Li Xing's remarks angered the US team. They didn't care that this was an exhibition game, and they didn't want to perform on their own. They shared the same hatred and kept feeding Okafor the ball.

Li Xing did not expect that his words would bring such a disaster to Zou Qi.

Larry is a good guy, he replaced Zou Qi before he was psychologically shadowed by Okafor.

Zou Qi's defense was not that bad, but Li Xing put too much pressure on him.

Li Xing also knew that what he did just now was a bit too much.

"You played well, don't be sad." Li Xing said.

"Hmm..." It was Zou Qi's turn to think deeply.

Li Xing did bad things with good intentions. Okafor's blow to Zou Qi became the focus of fans' discussion, but the advantage of the international team was magnified later.

The U.S. team is extremely talented, all of them are jumpers, but the international team has too much inside advantage.

Embiid, Towns, Porzingis, and Jokic are all on the same team, and they don't have to play at all.

In the second half, the four major insiders worked together, directly blowing up the insiders of the US team and establishing an advantage enough to win.

Zou Qi played again in garbage time, scored 5 points and 3 rebounds, which can be regarded as leaving his footprints in the Rookie Challenge.

That night, Li Xing and other teammates called Zou Qi out to eat outside and enlightened him.

The scene felt familiar to Middleton.

Yes, the same way he screwed up the [-]-point shootout.

But the last time he cheated himself, but today's is completely a man-made disaster.

Li Xing was very guilty, and didn't know what to say to Zou Qi, so he kept adding food to him and asked him to eat more, as if eating a little more would make him feel better and forget about today's game.

(End of this chapter)