basketball kingdom

Chapter 5 The Wind Has Changed
Sometimes, things change unexpectedly, and this is the case now.

On the morning of the second day after Xu Tian accepted the Lakers' trial training, Li Lang turned on the computer, and the first message he saw was the news about the draft released by Yahoo Sports.

"WOJ: The Lakers tend to use the second pick to take D'Angelo Russell."

WOJ is translated into Chinese as Adrian Wojnarowski. In China, it is also called Woshen. It is praised by peers as the Michael Jordan of NBA reporters. It is the most reliable source of news in the NBA. In terms of draft news is an authority.

In the 11 draft, woj became famous in one fell swoop, and relying on his own strength, he made Yahoo Sports rank among the top sports media.

What's more, WOJ's news may be a step ahead of what you see, which can be seen from the words of an unnamed team manager, "I just signed a player. Before I could notify colleagues outside the door, I heard them cheering outside the office because they saw Woj just tweeted."

Li Lang clicked on the news to see what was written in it.

"On June 6, the famous reporter Adrian Wojnarowski revealed on the show that the Lakers tried out several rookies yesterday, and Jim Buss was very impressed with D'Angelo Russell's performance. The Lakers are strongly considering taking Russell with the second overall pick."

Seeing this, Li Lang didn't continue to read. Since WOJ has exposed this news, it shows that the Lakers really want to use the second pick to win Russell.In other words, Xu Tian's trial training yesterday failed to impress the Lakers management.

Since Xu Tian has received a lot of attention, it should be considered a big news that he was passed by the Lakers who had a solo trial training today.Thinking of this, Li Lang refreshed the webpage to see if there was any latest news.

A piece of news titled "Xu Tian's physical measurement data is falsified? He is far from as good as the data sheet." Li Lang caught Li Lang's sight, and he quickly clicked on it.

On June 6, Lubian News reported.Xu Tian from China, who was widely reported before, did not seem to perform well in the trial training. The Lakers executive Mike even said bluntly: "I saw Xu's trial training performance. It is not as good as the physical test data. Therefore, I have reason to believe that Xu's physical test data is watery. As we all know, it is impossible for Asians to have this kind of physical talent."

Li Lang didn't continue to look down, but clicked the cross in the upper right corner to close the news.Mike didn't watch the Lakers' trial training of Xu Tian at all, so the degree of reliability of this news can be imagined.

As soon as he closed the webpage, his cell phone rang. It was a call from Philip Saunders, the president of the Timberwolves. They had the No. [-] lottery.

Without any neglect, Li Lang quickly connected the phone, "Hello, this is Ruth Lee."

"Li, we have already decided to draft Karl-Anthony Towns. Cancel Xu Tian's individual trial training!" Sanders straight to the point explained the purpose of the call.

Sanders saw Xu Tian's report, and originally wanted to see Xu Tian's performance before deciding on a candidate, so he directly confirmed the No. [-] pick.

"Can you give Xu Tian a chance, at least watch his trial training, how about making a decision at that time?" Even if the other party's words are deadly, Li Lang still wants to help Xu Tian win, this is as a manager duty.

A reply quickly came from the other end of the phone, "No need, I wish you a smooth draft, goodbye!" After saying this, Sanders hung up the phone without waiting for Li Lang to speak again.

Li Lang sighed, threw his phone on the computer table, covered his face with his hands, he didn't understand why he took the job of agent.

Li Lang, who is completely uninitiated in this job, has no connections in the NBA, and many basic things are difficult to carry out. Coupled with the long-standing discrimination against Asians in the NBA, this difficulty has increased a lot.

Before he had time to sigh too much, Li Lang's phone rang again. It was the manager of another lottery team. The purpose of calling was also to cancel the trial training.

This phone call seemed to be a beginning. In the following time, Li Lang received calls from the managers of several other teams that Xu Tian hadn't had a trial training, and gradually cleared Xu Tian's trial training arrangements.

When the phone finally stopped ringing, Li Lang dug out Xu Tian's trial training plan and compared it with the names of the teams that had canceled the trial training that he wrote down on the paper. Finally, he found that Xu Tian had Not even a chance for a joint tryout.

……

Alice was watching today's sports news on the computer at the counter. The first thing she saw was Woj's report that the Lakers wanted to draft Russell, and she immediately felt cold.

After reading a few other reports, Alice could no longer sit behind the counter, got up and came to the door of the store, waiting for Xu Tian who was sure to come here.

Xu Tian added two more sandbags to his feet today and was running around Chinatown.

The scene of being blown up by Kobe yesterday was still replaying in his mind, which strongly stimulated his competitive heart.In order to get rid of this psychological discomfort, Xu Tian suddenly accelerated and launched a wave of sprints with all his strength.

Xu Tian knew better than anyone else that if he wanted to avoid this from happening again, he had to work harder to improve his own strength.

Xu Tian, ​​who was concentrating on exercising, didn't know that the various auras that surrounded him before were gradually dissipating.

When Xu Tian returned to the block where Li Lang's house was located, Alice immediately saw him, and saw that the sweat on Xu Tian's face was like the morning dew, continuously flowing to his chin.

"Xu, are you not feeling well?" Alice has seen Xu Tian who usually exercises, but has never seen him sweat so much, and is worried that there is something wrong with his body.

Before turning the corner, Xu Tian had just performed an accelerated sprint, and was panting heavily at this time, unable to answer Alice's question at all.She waved her left hand as an answer to Alice, and then supported her knees with both hands, trying to adjust her breathing.

Alice didn't rush to speak, but waited until Xu Tian's breathing gradually calmed down before saying, "Xu, I want to tell you some bad news."

Xu Tian straightened up, looked directly at Alice, and asked, "What's the bad news?"

"The Lakers are going to choose D'Angelo Russell with the No. [-] pick. You probably won't be able to go to the Lakers." Alice said this in a very low voice, and she didn't dare to look at the expression on Xu Tian's face.

Xu Tian felt a sense of loss in his heart, he let out a cry, but quickly threw away this feeling, and said, "It's okay! There are other workouts you can go to, not necessarily playing for the Lakers."

"Really." Alice looked at Xu Tian who was wiping the sweat with his right arm, and suddenly felt distressed, and only said one word.

Xu Tian could clearly feel Alice's emotional changes, smiled lightly, and jokingly asked: "If I go to another team, do you want to go to that city with me?"

"As long as you want, I will go wherever you go."

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Kobe finished the training that started at four o'clock, and was applying ice packs to several parts of his old injuries. At the same time, he looked at the mobile phone in his hand, saw the news that the Lakers were leaning towards Russell, and said, "Damn, what's going on? What's going on?"

In order to prevent frostbite, Kobe took off the ice pack that had just been put on, and then called Kupchak. Compared with Bass Jr., he still trusted Kupchak more.

"Mitch, how could it be D'Angelo Russell?" After connecting the phone, Kobe's first sentence directly asked his question.

"You know, Jim thinks D'Angelo is the next Curry."

"Didn't you guys see Xu's athletic ability?"

"I still like Xu quite a bit, but it doesn't matter what I say."

"Okay, I see." Kobe hung up the phone after hearing Kupchak's words.

Bryant hammered the seat next to him angrily. In the fight between Jim Buss and Jenny Buss, he already knew who to support.

Xu Tian waited until the sweat on his body was almost gone before he walked up the stairs leading to Li Lang's house.

Li Lang was looking through the phone book on his phone at this time. Most of the phone numbers on it were lawyer friends, and almost none of them worked in the basketball industry.This made him even more certain that it was a mistake to choose to take the job of Xu Tian's manager.

The sound of Xu Tian opening the door was heard clearly in Li Lang's ears.

Li Lang looked back and saw Xu Tian who entered the door, got up from the computer chair and walked towards Xu Tian, ​​while thinking about how to tell Xu Tian about the cancellation of the trial training.

Seeing Li Lang approaching, Xu Tian frowned tightly, as if he had something on his mind, he took the initiative to ask, "What's the matter?"

Li Lang stopped in his tracks, looked directly at Xu Tian, ​​and said sincerely, "First of all, I want to apologize to you. I shouldn't have taken over your manager's job."

"Why, why did you say this all of a sudden?" Xu Tian didn't know that all the teams had canceled their trial training, so he thought Li Lang was talking about the fact that the Lakers didn't like him.

"Because I have no connections, all the teams have canceled your trial training arrangements." Li Lang clearly stated the reason for his apology. As a lawyer, he doesn't like to beat around the bush.

Xu Tian froze for a moment, and suddenly felt a strong sense of loss in his heart, but he still said calmly: "This has nothing to do with you, you don't need to apologize. Apart from this, did they say why they canceled the trial training? "

"It should be because they saw the report from the roadside agency. They felt that you falsified the physical test data, so they canceled the trial training." Li Lang first answered Xu Tian's question.

Xu Tian couldn't bear so much information for a while, and couldn't turn his head around, and asked tentatively: "Do you even believe this kind of report? Is there any chance for joint trial training?"

Li Lang didn't speak, but shook his head in pain.

Xu Tian looked at Li Lang and opened his mouth, but he still didn't make a sound after all. He walked back to the room dumbly and lay down on the bed.

He didn't understand, how could things become like this?

(End of this chapter)