NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 13 What the hell? Chinese Americans playing in the NCAA?

The capital of China, the headquarters of Sports Weekly.

Su Qun came to the office early, and after making a cup of instant coffee as usual, he turned on the computer at his desk, logged on to the Internet, and looked through the latest news about the NBA.

Since Yao landed in the NBA as the No. 1 pick last summer, the NBA's domestic influence has begun to become more and more important. Su Qun, who is mainly responsible for the basketball section, will pay attention to the American NBA on the other side of the ocean for the first time every day. What news.

Being proficient in English is considered to be the biggest advantage and reliance of the early batch of basketball commentators, including Su Qun, Yu Jia, Wang Meng and other well-known basketball commentators. In the early days, they accumulated experience and popularity in NBA commentators or interviews, and only then gradually became famous. status and reputation.

In 03, Su Qun was still working in the basketball department of Sports Weekly. Although he already had the idea of ​​​​hopping to start his own business, he could only continue to stay here before the time was ripe.

March is already the final sprint stage of the NBA regular season. In order to enter the playoffs or maintain the current ranking, each team goes all out in the game and does not dare to neglect at all, so they often have wonderful personal performances. Be in the news.

Su Qun took a sip of coffee and frowned slightly while watching the news on the Internet.

"They lost again... The Rockets are in a bad situation and are very likely to fall out of the playoffs."

Dayao's Houston Rockets are currently working hard for a spot in the playoffs, but their competitors are very strong. It is Dayao's biggest opponent for winning Rookie of the Year this season, Amare Stoudemire. The Phoenix Suns.

The records of the two teams are currently tied, ranking eighth and ninth in the Western Conference. Originally, the Rockets were ranked slightly higher than the Suns.

But just yesterday, the Rockets lost to the Sacramento Kings in an away game, but the Suns won. Due to the ebb and flow, the Suns successfully surpassed the Rockets and ranked eighth in the Western Conference.

The March schedule is coming to an end. The Rockets' opponents in the remaining games are not weak, and there is a high possibility of being stuck outside the playoffs.

As a Chinese and a die-hard supporter of Dayao, he certainly hopes that Dayao's Rockets can enter the playoffs, so that Dayao, as an NBA rookie, can directly enter the playoffs, which can be regarded as bringing glory to the country!

"Is there any other news..."

Su Qun scrolled the mouse wheel with his fingers and his eyes paused slightly.

"NCAA? Speaking of which, the NCAA in the United States seems to have a saying of March Madness. It seems that the finals are more popular than the NBA. And in this year's draft, there seems to be a very popular player named James. It is said that he is the most promising to surpass Jordan's superstar, he should also participate in the NCAA, right?"

With Dayao joining the NBA, American basketball has become more and more famous in China. However, this was only 2003 after all. Due to the limitations of the media of information dissemination, many things were not so convenient and fast to be introduced into the country.

Just like James, he has not officially announced his participation in the 03 draft at this time. As a high school student, no matter how highly respected he is in the United States, his popularity in China is still approximately zero. Without careful investigation, he is not even I know that James cannot participate in the NCAA as a high school student.

Of course, the Internet has begun to be widely used in 03. As long as James is elected as the NBA No. pick, his story will quickly become known.

In fact, when Su Qun remembered this, he just did a little research online and figured it out.

"An 18-year-old high school student can actually be so popular. It seems that James is really good... I can use him as a theme to write about the American NCAA competition and draft system."

At this moment, an inconspicuous piece of news caught his attention.

"NCAA Sweet 16 Team Profiles."

<divclass="contentadv">Su Qun only glanced at it roughly, but saw a name in it very keenly.

Marquette University center, Chong Wang.

"Wang Chong? Wang Chong?"

A very familiar name suddenly appeared among the names of a group of Americans, which made him stunned for a moment.

"Marquette center?"

He quickly clicked in and took a closer look and found that it was a 2-year-old American Asian center with a height of 08 meters.

There is very little introduction to Wang Chong in the article. It only says that he is the main center of Marquette University and reached the top 16 with the team. Instead, it praises a junior player named Wade and speculates that Wade will join the NBA. If he were drafted, he would definitely be selected in the lottery.

Su Qun was not interested in Wade, but was full of curiosity about Wang Chong, who only had one name, height and wingspan.

Da Zhi, Battelle and Yao successively landed in the NBA, which made domestic basketball people deeply realize the huge gap between China's basketball level and that of the United States. Although Wang Chong is just a little-known ordinary player in the NCAA, he is indeed his first Once I see an Asian face, I can tell from the name that Wang Chong is definitely of Chinese descent, not Japanese or Korean.

If he can join the NBA through the draft after playing in the NCAA, he will definitely attract a lot of attention in the country.

In the 03 draft, because of the successful case of Dayao, China sent another high-quality domestic talent center Xue Yuyang. It is hoped that more Chinese players can play in the NBA to hone their skills and grow. This shows that the country value such talents.

"We have to find a way to get in touch with this Wang Chong and get him an interview material!"

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Wang Chong, who was far away on the other side of the ocean, had no idea at this time that someone in the country had already noticed his existence.

After all, this was 03, not 13. He only played in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, not the much-anticipated NCAA finals. Let alone TV broadcasts, there wasn't even much written news. How could anyone notice him?

But even if he knew, Wang Chong wouldn't be very happy.

In fact, at this time, he was somewhat grateful for his identity as a Chinese American after time travel. In this era, this identity can really save him a lot of trouble.

After all, the Basketball Association at this time was not so easy to meet. Even a man as influential as Yao had to rely heavily on the economic team to successfully land in the NBA. In order to play in the NBA, he did not hesitate to pay the Basketball Association every year. It took a huge sum of money to buy his freedom.

The policy of domestic athletes determines that the freedom of players is not determined by themselves. The most typical case is Da Zhi, who was banned for several years just because he wanted to stay in the United States to receive professional training and win an NBA team contract. , until he finally bowed his head and admitted his mistake before returning home.

Now that he is a Chinese-American, he is not affected by the country's system, which is definitely a good thing for Wang Chong.

And when he becomes famous in the future and has a huge influence like Dayao, he can choose to return to Chinese citizenship to win glory for the country. For example, during the 08 Capital Olympics, by then he will be the one the Basketball Association needs to curry favor with. An uncle, not a little person who is bossed around by the other party.

Wang Chong felt that that day would not wait long.