The Point Guard is Here

(This twist is sudden, for you. But I really don’t want to limit the word count. I have to start the real plot. To be honest, I scrapped several beginnings of this chapter, and finally decided to write it this way.)

On the evening of September 15, 2003.

Fan Xi was lying quietly in the attic of the castle. Fan Xiaohua was fanning him next to him. LeBron James, this year's number one pick, stood in front of Fan Xi with great satisfaction. The former little brother was now half a head taller than Fan Xi. , this little emperor who is called the Chosen Son by the league... and will definitely inherit the NBA rule in the future is thinking about his career.

Fan Xi half-squinted his eyes as he recalled his past career.

Seven years passed quickly, and all of his $135 million had been put into his pocket.

However, his reputation stagnated during this time.

In 1997, he led the team to five games with the Seattle SuperSonics and lost that series 4:1. That season, another group of Western Conference semifinals was the Lakers versus the Jazz, and the young Lakers lost to the Jazz. The Jazz then defeated the SuperSonics, but in the finals, the Jazz lost to the Chicago Bulls with a score of 2:4, completing Michael Jordan's fourth championship.

After the end of the season, Fan Xi practiced hard for a week and finally got enough 500,000 iron value. He exchanged it for a mid-range jumper, but this was only an ordinary confrontation level.

The new blacksmithing value has been directly inflated to 5 million.

This was an amazing challenge for him.

98 years.

Fanci increased the number of individual singles in the regular season, but at this time Barkley and Chris Mullin were getting older. Mullin even retired for the season before the playoffs...and returned to the place where he made his fortune the following season. Golden State Warriors and retired there.

This season, the Clippers defeated the San Antonio Spurs in the first round. Tim Duncan, the strongest rookie who broke into the top five in the MVP voting in his rookie season, performed very well in this series, but then he was injured.

This has led many people to say that the Clippers just picked up a series victory.

Then in the second round, the Clippers lost to the Lakers 3:4 in the increasingly fierce Los Angeles Derby. Kobe Bryant's buzzer beater at a critical moment, but countless replays after the game proved that it was only 2 points on the three-point line.

But the league will not give them a chance to play overtime again.

The Lakers were defeated again by the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference Finals.

The Utah Jazz were defeated by the aging Bulls in the Finals, and even succeeded in Michael Jordan's shot of the century.

Jordan won his fifth career championship. Later, he announced his retirement for the second time. The Bulls have not completed their second dynasty, and their players have also fallen apart. Pippen, Kerr, Longley, Rodman and others have all changed careers, and they have entered a long period of depression.

At the same time, the league entered a lockout due to the contracts of Kevin Garnett and others.

After the lockout was finally resolved, Fanxi discovered that Charles Barkley, who had returned from the lockout, was as fat as a ball, and the other players were not in very good condition either. After all, the water in Los Angeles is too nourishing.

In addition, a group of superstars like Vin Baker and Shawn Kemp were directly eliminated.

This also means that the superstars of the 1996 golden generation will make their full appearance on the stage.

This season, the Clippers still stopped in the second round. Fanshie has improved every year in the past two years, but the extent of improvement is no longer as exaggerated as his rookie season and second season.

At this time, those medal players began to show their brilliance.

Ben Wallace broke out in an all-round way this season. In the second round of the playoffs, he carried Tim Duncan and David Robinson, and even had the feat of knocking Robinson directly out of the air.

But in the end, it was difficult for two fists to defeat four hands. The Spurs' twin towers had the last laugh, and they defeated the young Ben Wallace and O'Neal Jr. And, defeated the Knicks led by Patrick Ewing in the finals.

Second-year freshman Duncan lifted the Finals MVP trophy. Although he did not break Fanci's record as the youngest Finals MVP, many people believed that he ended the era of the top four centers.

The future will belong to him and Shaquille O'Neal.

After this season, the Clippers have undergone a major overhaul.

Ben Wallace was lured to Detroit by the Detroit Pistons on a four-year, $50 million contract.

O'Neal Jr. was also poached by the Indiana Pacers for $70 million over five years.

Originally, Fan Xi thought that at least one could be left behind.

However, Elgin Baylor persisted in chasing the draft picks, and ended up in vain.

Because of this, Fanci was called a cancer of the Clippers by the basketball media. Because the league strictly implemented the new salary cap agreement after the suspension season, Fanci's super salary squeezed the team's space.

Even if Charles Barkley retires because of this, it still doesn't solve the problem.

What is completely different from the disintegration of the Clippers' lineup is that... the Lakers exploded quickly, and Phil Jackson arrived in his close Los Angeles after leaving the Bulls.

The news of his flirtation with his boss's daughter, Jenny Bass, once pushed Fanler out of the headlines.

Before this, it was Fan Le and Jenny Buss who flirted with each other.

Kobe Bryant fully matured this season, and O'Neal's dominance reached its peak. As a result, the OK combination that swept the league was born this season.

They won the championship in 1999-00, the championship in 2000-01, and the championship in 2001-02.

In the past three years, the Clippers, who are short of major generals, have been in the first round.

Fan Xi has averaged 21.6 points, 11.3 assists and 5.1 rebounds per game in the past three years, and has entered the top ten in the regular season MVP rankings every year.

However, he is no longer the brightest star.

Seven years ago, he, Anfernee Hardaway and Grant Hill were the brightest new stars. But now, people are crazy about Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady...

Fan Xi's name is still ranked relatively high, but some people still say that he is overpaid and incompetent. Some even think triple-double king Jason Kidd has surpassed him.

But think on the bright side. Compared to Anfernee Hardaway and Grant Hill, who were equally star-studded back then, Fanci is at least still active in this league.

The most important thing in the summer of 2002 was that Yao Wei joined the NBA and he became the NBA's No. 1 pick. His collaboration with Fanci in the 2000 Olympics had NBA scouts salivating.

Although the trend of the league has changed greatly, and the commercial value is driven by this group of star-studded guards, the mainstream view within the league is still that whoever gets the center wins the world.

Yao Huang played well in his first season, and his regular season data were better than Fan Xi's regular season data in his first season. He also blocked several of O'Neal in the duel with O'Neal, making O'Neal furious.

Then, something bad happened to Kobe.

Because of this incident, the conflict between Shaq and Kobe further intensified.

This also led to their loss to the Spurs led by Tim Duncan in the Western Conference semifinals. After the Spurs defeated the Lakers, they also defeated the Dallas Mavericks. In the end, he faced Jason Kidd, the league's triple-double king and the NBA's number one point guard, in the finals.

The Nets were ruthlessly defeated.

call!

This was a failed season.

The Clippers didn't even make the playoffs. This was the first time in Fanci's career that they didn't make the playoffs.

He seemed to have reached the lowest point in his life.

This past season was a painful memory for Kobe Bryant.

The same is true for Fan Xi.

His block on Michael Jordan in the All-Star Game was considered disrespectful by some fans, and they said he messed up Michael Jordan's retirement performance.

There are also many problems within the Clippers. The focus of the problem is...the dispute between Uncle Fanle and Aunt Madonna has continued.

Just like every man and woman entering into a marriage, quarrels are inevitable.

The quarrels between celebrities are even more explosive.

It was hard for Fan Xi to be in the middle, so he had to take Fan Xiaohua to his residence.

In the end I chose the No. 23 jersey.

LeBron James suddenly turned around and said to Fan Xi. This big boy, who is called the next ruler by the American media, is still full of awe for Fan Xi.

Although he has been wearing Fanshi's No. 30 jersey in high school to show respect for this brother who is both like a father and an elder brother.

Nike wants me to do this. LeBron James said: They said that Michael Jordan has just retired, Kobe's image has been damaged, and both the brand and the league need a real successor.

Fan Xi nodded.

He recognized this view.

Although Fanci is the only person to defeat Michael Jordan in his glorious career, Fanci is far inferior to Jordan in terms of his current reputation on the court. Moreover, Fan Xi does not need a successor.

on ESPN's rankings.

Fanshie is the 17th-ranked superstar in the league today.

In front of him are not only Shaquille O'Neal and Tim Duncan, two phenomenal superstars who dominate the league. There are also Garnett, Webber, Iverson, Tracy McGrady, Nowitzki, Vince Carter, Jason Kidd and so on...

Even the former younger brother Ben Wallace was ranked 16th because he averaged 16.5 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per game last season and was elected as the rebounding and block leader. He also won the best defensive player and the best defensive team. .

He successfully shouldered Fan Xi's expectations.

Mark Zhang walked up from behind. As Delphine returned to Europe in early 1998 and gradually accepted the huge business empire, Fanxi formed a new brokerage team.

Mark Zhang, who was recruited from Wall Street, became the core of this team. He was responsible for Fanxi's business docking and some investment work.

His most famous act is to help Fan Xi make a fortune in the stock market during the Internet bubble at the end of the last century. Many people call him Fan Xi's savior. If he had not made that money, Jack might have invested randomly. It was already bankrupt.

But in fact, Mark Zhang knew very well that he had always acted according to Fan Xi's instructions. And according to the original shares of several major Internet start-up companies currently held by Fan Xi, once listed in the future, the number will definitely reach astonishing numbers.

Moreover, the real estate that Fan Xi accumulated in the country in the mid-1990s is showing vigorous vitality.

He was very sorry to say why he didn't invest with Fan Xi in the first place.

Fan Xi once warned him: It’s not too late for you to invest now.

But Mark Zhang feels that the risk is still too great, and the theory of China's collapse has always been lingering in the minds of senior Chinese like him.

Thoughts determine destiny. .

But Fan Xi usually calls him: Chief Ma.

Also, the brokerage team he is responsible for is called: Economic Section.

In order to be more down-to-earth, Tom, a native New Yorker, is called Tang Fuke.

Tom is currently working hard to become a chief section officer. He does not expect to be close to the status of section chief Ma, but he wants to have the same level as Mark Zhang. It doesn't necessarily require a leadership position.

Fan Xi thinks he is very wise.

Just like Laoiot, Laoiot has gone crazy in order to truly become a leader in the past two years. He reads aloud from a book of leadership quotations every day, and vigorously criticizes Fox's decadence in the locker room.

This is probably the reason why Fox later went to the Lakers next door.

Boss, someone is coming from New York.

Mark Zhang said respectfully to Fan Xi: They showed great sincerity.

Fan Xi nodded.

James Dolan finally killed his father this past summer, and he is now solely in charge of the family. From the day his father entered the box, he kept calling Fan Xi, hoping that Fan Xi would come and help him.

Ever since the Knicks counterattacked the Heat and reached the Finals, their performance has been worse year by year.

Now they are leaderless.

James Dolan really hopes that Fan Xi will go over and give him a hand.

Fan Xi stood up from the recliner and stretched his body.

In the past seven years, he has not slackened for a moment.

Although the redemption speed of his various physical talents is slow, over time, it is not small.

As for the iron value of 5 million, in the season just past, Fan Xi frequently performed one-on-five, and now it is only 200,000 short.

200,000 was a very astonishing number in the past.

But now, it seems that's all.

After all, the debt of 5 million was borne.

Did James Dolan come here on his own? Fan Xi asked him.

Yeah. Section Chief Ma nodded.

Fanxi said, then go and meet him.

Then Fan Xi asked Chief Ma: What happened when Britney and Kate Winslet got into a fight backstage at the Oscars the day before yesterday?

Section Chief Ma quickly made a headache gesture: I don’t know anything.

James on the side smiled foolishly.

When he was young and frivolous, he once said that he wanted to drink Britney's foot washing water.

However, since he learned about the relationship between Big Brother Fanci and Britney, he said that he was not worthy.

Britney is another truly global icon after Madonna and Jackson. The influence is amazing, especially after Fan Xi helped her get rid of the control of her agent and father, she is now on full fire.

Even the Oscars asked her to be the host.

Jack, do you think I can win the Rookie of the Year award in the new season?

James asked Fan Xi as he walked. .

Fanci said: Do you think Carmelo Anthony is a threat to you?

Carmelo Anthony is called James' lifelong enemy by the media. They actually fought against each other in high school. However, Anthony is 1 year older. He entered the NCAA early and then led Syracuse University to create unprecedented miracles. As a freshman, he led Syracuse University to the NCAA Finals, won the championship, and received an MOP himself. It can be called the first miracle in the history of the NCAA.

Therefore, the media now always compares James and Carmelo Anthony.

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