From today on is the king

Chapter 1309. Chapter 1308. The Name of the Silver Horn King (710 ask for a monthly ticket)
October 2006, 10, the day before the opening day of the season.

In the ESPN Atlanta branch building, the two protagonists of tomorrow's NBA opening game in this city are recording an interesting program jointly created by Chaoting TV and ESPN.

"Welcome everyone to watch the special program brought to you by ESPN Sports Channel and CCTV Sports Channel. I am Liu Mang Ice-Liu, and today I am partnering with Dirk-Nowitzki." Liu Mang said the opening remarks in Chinese, and then turned to Nowitzki and asked, "Dirk, what kind of opportunity invites you to participate in our program?"

"Uh...it's not Ace, did you call and tell me that there is a program to be recorded today?" Nowitzki asked suspiciously.

"...It's recording now! Kaka, stop..." Liu Mang pointed to the cameraman.

Only then did Nowitzki remember what to say after the discussion, and quickly responded: "Oh, oh, because I love China, I like China very much, and I hope that Germany can also be invited to participate in the Olympic Games held by BJ in 2008, so I want to know more about China."

Nowitzki was a little excited. He seldom participated in such activities. It’s not that he didn’t want to participate. He didn’t like shooting commercials or anything, but he still liked being on TV, but no one invited him.

The director next to him is asking the producer: "Do you want to re-record?"

"No, that's it!" The producer immediately interrupted the director to interrupt the recording.

On the other side of the camera, Liu Mang saw that the recording did not stop, and immediately understood what to do, and said in Chinese again: "Okay, let's start again, 1.2.3, start, welcome everyone to watch the special program brought to you by ESPN Sports Channel and CCTV Sports Channel..."

Nowitzki was ready this time, pretending that nothing happened just now. After Liu Mang finished his opening speech again, he said again according to the script given: "Hello, China, I'm Dirk Nowitzki. The reason why I joined this show is because I love China...I want to know more about China."

"Thank you, BJ welcomes you, then Dirk, I'm going to ask you some questions that Chinese fans really want to ask you." Liu Mang flipped through the script, and there was no question that Chinese fans wanted to ask. The questions were all made up by Liu Mang himself.

Nowitzki became serious. The script in his hand was only about how to answer the opening remarks, and what he was going to ask later was said to be questions to Liu Mang from German basketball fans collected by the TV station in Germany.

Pretentiously flipping through the pages, Liu Mang asked, "Dirk, the fans in our country are very concerned about your question..."

Liu Mang stretched his voice as he spoke, and Nowitzki looked at Liu Mang more intently, anticipating what would be the problem.

Liu Mang was very satisfied with Nowitzki's reaction, and continued to ask: "...the fans are very concerned about whether your German team can make it to the Olympics? They are very worried that they will not see you in 2008."

Coming up is a crit!
Nowitzki felt stabbed in the heart, and the German team really couldn't move it!The German team won three games in the World Championships, with 2 wins and 3 losses in the group stage and 1 win and 2 losses in the ranking match. The German team ranked No.13 in the world...

With this ranking, in the European Division where there are so many strong teams, it is very difficult to enter the Olympics...

Nowitzki replied: "I will try."

I still have no confidence, but this is just Liu Mang's appetizer question. Nowitzki is waiting for the second question, hoping that the question asked by the "Chinese fans" will not be so heart-wrenching.

Nowitzki saw Liu Mang take out two big photos from the side of the chair, and was very curious, why do you need photos?
Liu Mang held back his smile and asked, "Next is a quiz..."

Nowitzki feels that the style of painting has changed a bit quickly. Just now, he was asking a heart-warming question. Why did he suddenly change to an intellectual question and answer?
Liu Mang continued to ask: "Excuse me, which of the two photos below is Dirk Nowitzki."

"?" Nowitzki was confused, looking at Liu Mang's opened photo, the first photo Nowitzki's eyes widened.

He saw in the photo a "he" with silver paint on his face, strange things on his head, and a "battle robe" standing on a big rock smiling!
Cosplay?

Or such a heavy-tasting Cosplay?

"Oh hoo hoo... this is..." Nowitzki firmly believed that he had never taken such a photo.

At this time Liu Mang opened the second photo.

Nowitzki immediately looked over. It was after Nowitzki defeated the Spurs in the last game of the second round of the Western Conference playoffs last season. He leaned his body excitedly, twisting the blue jersey with his right hand with his orchid finger, his eyes wandering, his blond hair scattered, and his devilish expression of arrogantly sticking out his tongue...

"NO..." Nowitzki yelled in despair. This was the pain of his life. When he saw this picture in the headlines that night, he was about to collapse...

Nowitzki is wondering whether the first photo is an "artistic photo" taken when he was drunk...

I was nervous when recording the program, but at first glance, I put it together with an unbearable photo of myself, and I began to doubt myself...

……

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"I'll call you, do you dare to agree?"

Nowitzki put the photo of the Silver Horn King next to him, and taught him several times with Liu Mang. He still said this sentence in very poor Chinese. This scene was broadcast on the "Basketball Park" program of the court sports channel on Friday afternoon on the 25th BJ time.

They really didn't notice before that when people's impressions of Journey to the West were limited to the CCTV version of Journey to the West, Zhang Weijian's version of Monkey, and Xing Ye's version of Supreme Treasure, there were not so many spoofs about Westward Journey...

Fans know Liu Mang too well, he firmly believes that Liu Mang fooled Nowitzki...

The original nickname given to Nowitzki by the imperial court was "German Tank", which sounds domineering. German tanks are very famous and once swept across the European continent.

But the German basketball team and the German chariot... It seems that they don't match, so!Nowitzki's nickname has changed...

Liu Mang accidentally opened the beginning of the nicknames of NBA stars full of local flavor in China...

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"Haha, Ace, thank you for letting me know that I have so many fans in China." Nowitzki was very happy. Fortunately, he didn't take the photo, it was a character from a mythological TV series.

In this way, Nowitzki will be able to accept it much more. With one unbearable photo, he doesn't want a second one...

Nowitzki finally knew his nickname in China, it turned out to be Yinjiao Dawang.

Similar to the word King, Nowitzki's current mood can be described in one word...he thinks this nickname is very foreign...

But...Liu Mang really didn't expect that Nowitzki would really become popular in the domestic basketball circle...

When he received invitations from Basketball Park and ESPN, he just wanted to tease the Silver Horn King...

(End of this chapter)