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Chapter 118 Influence

Who doesn't eat dumplings during Chinese New Year?

Qin Fei thought that I had been lying down for almost a month, and it was finally his turn to explode!

He is indeed in good shape today. He has been in a good mood since he played against the Knicks that drafted him. Seeing his personal data getting better and better in this game, he feels very comfortable.

"How much more points do you want that nasty rookie to score on your heads?"

Oakley finally couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted loudly, aiming at Qin Fei.

Qin Fei felt that everyone in Nix looked at him differently, and was immediately dissatisfied: "Look at what I'm doing, it's not me."

It became very difficult for Qin Fei, who was under the "key" marking of the Knicks, to score, but at this time the rest of the Sonics felt much more relaxed. For example, at the end of the third quarter, when Payton was partnering with Qin Fei, he shot from inside and outside, and quickly led the Sonics to a small climax, pulling the score to double digits.

"It turns out that there is still such a big gap between us and the top teams in the league."

The fans were immediately disappointed. The five-tiger generals lineup that Xia Tian brought up did not seem to be as strong as imagined.

"Any lineup needs running-in. Didn't Jordan not win the championship in the first season of his comeback?"

There are also rational fans who say that the team is okay, at least it has been able to wrestle with strong teams.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, George Karl did not replace Qin Fei, but replaced Snow.

Before Snow went on stage, he had a look of resentment.

"I feel that my playing time seems to be less than you, and your status in the mind of the coach has skyrocketed"

Qin Fei frowned.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

"Be more confident next time and remove the "as if""

Snow rolled his eyes angrily, and made up his mind not to pass the ball to Qin Fei.

As soon as he came on the court, he saw Qin Fei holding the Knicks' backup guard and asking for the ball, so he had no choice but to pass the ball over.

Qin Fei received the ball, turned his back and dribbled through.

He seldom played singles on the court. Today he was in a good state and only tried a few more times. He didn't expect the effect to be so good, and he made a breakthrough in an instant.

The two confronted each other and walked in, and Oakley saw the opportunity to double-team Qin Fei.

"Clap~"

The backup defender rashly reached out and hit Qin Fei.

"beep--"

The referee blew his whistle and called a shooting foul.

Hey, it's not easy.

Qin Fei's arms were red, and he finally got a foul.

Oakley was still not satisfied, and said to his teammates: "You shouldn't have fouled, we could have defended the ball."

The backup defender also felt that he was wronged. His hand was there just now, and he was thrown off his feet. He didn't know whether he hit Qin Fei or Qin Fei touched him.

This incident was due to the wrong timing of his reaching out, if you want to reach out, you should do so earlier, as it is easy to have problems in the middle of the action.

Qin Fei walked to the free throw line to make a free throw.

He pricked up his ears to listen, and actually heard some hissing.

Huh?

He blinked. This should be the first wave of boos he received in the NBA, right?

Sure enough, he played badly before, and people didn't bother booing him, but he played well today, is it obviously different?

"clang--"

First penalty missed.

The fans thought their boos had an effect, and suddenly they became louder.

Qin Fei adjusted his breathing, and hit the second free throw steadily.

Next to head coach George Karl, assistant coach Bob Withey was filled with emotion.

"George, Qin's progress is too fast. When I was in the summer league, I was still worried that he might not be able to adapt to the rhythm of the NBA for the time being. But looking at it now, he is already a qualified professional player."

George Karl nodded, Qin Fei's progress speed is indeed very fast

"His shooting stability and self-confidence are not enough now. If his shooting improves later in the season, he seems to be more suitable than Jose."

Halfway through Bob's words, he immediately received a warning look from Carl.

He immediately held back a word and turned his head to look. Fortunately, Jose Hawkins was sitting far away, chatting with Camp with a smile on his face.

Although such words are likely to cause instability in the team, Bob feels that he is right.

Well, it's not his turn to think about the team lineup, it's George's business.

Bob just felt a little pity that Qin Fei was selected by the Knicks after falling to the [-]th pick. A talent like Qin Fei should be a talented player in the top ten picks!

Fortunately, the Knicks' uniform team was all blind, so they sent Qin Fei to Seattle.

Bob has a feeling that it won't be long before Knicks fans will start bombarding the management

During the sideline cheers and cheers of Julie and Mandy, Qin Fei showed his might and scored a career-high 19 points when he came off the court.

With 9 points in the first half and 10 points in the second half, the scoring is relatively even.

But the Knicks didn't play with the momentum they should have, and they did things hastily and lost the game.

At this level, of course, no matter how embarrassed it is to say that it is going to compete for the championship, the team has found a reason for itself to have a "run-in period". Anyway, the season is still long.

The media in New York wrote a lot about Qin Fei's performance.

"A famous player, in the face of the New York Knicks, played 21 minutes, scored 19 points, 3 rebounds and 2 steals, and Irvin Johnson, who completed the deal with him, only got 11 minutes of playing time and only got 2 points and 2 rebounds. I have to say that this is the worst operation of the New York management this summer."

There are definitely a lot of vicious media in New York, and there are a lot of people who criticize whenever they have a problem.

On the whole, New York's summer operations must be positive, but this incident seems to have ruined a summer of hard work.

This made the entire New York uniform group furious, and asked Van Gundy how he lost to the Sonics overnight.

"I have to win the Supersonics in the future, there is no reason!"

This is a death order for Van Gundy, and Van Gundy is also very depressed, "I told you at the beginning, pick the inside line slowly. No one listens to me. Now it's all right. The inside line is crowded and I blame me for not giving new players a chance. Anyway, I am responsible for it?"

This night was Qin Fei's highlight battle. Qin Fei, who scored 19 points, pushed his position on the rookie list up several places and directly entered the top ten.

The competition for the rookie list in 96 was very fierce.

In addition to the well-known Iverson who averaged [-] plus points per game and topped the list, there are quite a few rookies averaging [-]+ points per game. Camby, Raheem, Ray Allen, Walker, and Kiedles all scored more than [-] points per game.

Although Qin Fei had a high score in this game, his overall score was still low, with an average score of only single digits, which was not comparable to these top rookies. Being in the top ten was a great promotion.

In this wave of promotion, more fans learned that the Seattle SuperSonics had an 18-year-old rookie who scored 19 points in one game.

At the same time, on the other side of the ocean, more people learned that there is still such an outstanding young and handsome Chinese player fighting in the NBA.

The number of fans increased rapidly, and many people talked about it. Many people began to pay attention to basketball and the NBA.

This should be the first wave of influence Qin Fei has had after playing basketball, and it has an impact on ordinary fans who have a huge base and have not yet been tapped.

The second wave of influence is the impact on domestic professional players.

During this period, the CBA had just started, and the wages of players were relatively low. Qin Fei played in the NBA, and one of the things that was widely publicized was his salary.

And the media likes to exaggerate so much that they don't even remove taxes.

So after including the sneaker endorsement fee and converting the exchange rate, they calculated that Qin Fei could get about 500 million yuan a year.

Playing can have this income?Some national players who played against Qin Fei were really moved.

In the CBA in the 90s, the wages of players were very low, probably only a few thousand yuan a month; with the growth of the league and the increase in advertising revenue, the bosses made money, and the contracts of the players gradually increased;

And Qin Fei's income of 500 million yuan, calculated to earn more than 12 yuan a day, is simply incomparable.

So under the double temptation of "playing in the NBA to prove yourself" and "making more money", some unexpected changes are happening quietly.

(End of this chapter)