From today on is the king

Chapter 1590 1589. Homecoming of Morning Mist

As Liu Mang and Xiao Loli said when discussing, many teams spoke out that night.

Clearly protest Pierce's use of the contract to threaten the team to make a deal!
This time, Hawks owner Price and Raptors general manager Ujiri protested the player's behavior.

The Eagles and Raptors protested this behavior, and there is a feeling that only state officials are allowed to set fire...

However, Price's transactions have always been nothing to criticize. The value of the chips in each transaction is actually higher than the players themselves. Who makes the Eagles have countless chips every year.

The Eagles are strong in drafting and have no illegal operations. There are also examples of failed trades. The acquisition of the Big Dog is a precedent. The trade to get Marion and Battier is not considered a success.

This time the Eagles traded for Milicic, and most teams actually support it in the short term.

If the Hawks maintain the structure of last season, it is almost certain that they will win consecutive championships, just like Pippen and Jordan, Liu Mang plus McGrady plus these role players, the next two years will not be a big problem. Even the Lakers, after the Hawks have already won the championship, it is difficult to hold back. On the contrary, it may cause the tragedy of Elgin Baylor...

At least from the perspective of the next two to three years, if McGrady and Kwame Brown are exchanged for one... there is no doubt that the Eagles will suffer. Even if they get three first-round picks, the Eagles will also suffer. The first-round picks of the Raptors in 10 and 12 are unlikely to enter the lottery, and even the top [-] picks are difficult.

The Hawks can only say that after McGrady is old for two or three years, it seems to be profitable. With Milicic, the Hawks are bound to make drastic adjustments. The stability of the Hawks will definitely decline. Only other teams have a chance to kill the Hawks, especially the Eastern teams are very happy to see this, which is also Ujiri's idea.

Just like after the end of the 95-96 season, if O'Neal agreed to sign first and then switch to the Bulls, the Bulls traded Pippen for O'Neal...Jordan and O'Neal, who had just finished his rookie contract, might not be able to defend the title.

Although everyone can see that O'Neal is [-]% better than Pippen, even O'Neal who has just finished his rookie contract is better than the peak Pippen...Maybe the Magic can't see it.

Therefore, no team criticized Milicic's forced palace this time. Milicic's successful forced palace gave other teams foreseeable benefits.

But Pierce has a bigger problem this time.

Imitating this kind of thing is not allowed by any team management!
And Pierce has a problem with one thing. Angie broke the news that Pierce asked to go to the Bulls...

Milicic just wanted to be traded away, and did not specify which team.

The Bulls management was also depressed. They didn't do anything, but they caused a lot of trouble, especially since they were about to lose Garnett, and now they have even more headaches.

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"I love you BJ..."

As soon as Liu Mang yelled these words, he was carried away by a group of special police officers.

Tens of seconds later, the Capital Airport fell into chaos...

"Ace, this is the imperial capital, you are very famous, you are more famous here than you are in Shanghai, don't mess around..." Director Zhang said that the egg hurts, although the egg is not very useful at this age, but it still hurts.

Every time the Chinese team participates in the Olympic Games, there is a team leader for each event in the Olympic Games. This year, it is their own country that hosts the Olympic Games. As an older generation of basketball player and No.1 in Asia that year, Director Zhang was awarded the team leader status without any suspense.

Therefore, it was Zhang who came to pick up Liu Mang today.

When Liu Mang returned to BJ, thinking that he would play the Olympic Games in his country in more than a month, he couldn't control his excitement all of a sudden, and roared as soon as he got out of the place where he picked up his luggage.

At this time, the imperial capital has already attracted the attention of the whole world. The most grand Olympic Games in history is not a joke. People from all over the world have gathered in BJ. People from other provinces and cities in China alone have millions of people rushing towards the imperial capital.

Only the Chinese men's basketball team has won medals in the three major Chinese men's balls, let alone the World Championships and Olympic medals. Only the basketball team has made it to the top four.

Now basketball is the most popular sport in China, and there is no such thing as one of them. Usually it’s okay. After all, they are not movie stars, singers and actors, and they don’t appear on TV every day like them.

But now that the Olympic Games are about to start, major TV stations have repeatedly replayed several matches of the Chinese team winning the World Championships in Japan two years ago.

For NBA fans, they know how much Liu Mang has created in the NBA, but for most Chinese who are not basketball fans, the world championship is king.

Originally, tens of thousands of fans crowded to the airport to pick up the plane. Under the guidance of the airport staff and special police, at least there was some order, but Liu Mang's yelling made the fans find him, and the yelling was the kind of words that could easily resonate...

In the end, a helicopter was temporarily transferred from the TV station, and Liu Mang and San Niu were sent to the roof of the square near the Olympic office of the Blue Association...

Fortunately, the security guards and servants came to the imperial capital two days ago to take care of the old couple in the courtyard, otherwise it would be even more troublesome.

Liu Mang is very painful, the two girls are speechless, but the little Lolita is very excited...

This experience is the first time!
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After going to the Blue Association to report, Liu Mang went home and went to sleep, feeling jet-lagged.

Liu Mang is okay, so are Little Lolita and the two cubs. Although the two girls look young, one is 29 years old and the other is 33 years old. The older Levia is okay, and Alexia has trouble with jet lag.

After resting at home for two days, on July 7th, Liu Mang returned to the national team to gather with his teammates.

When Liu Mang arrived at the training hall arranged by the Blue Association, the other 26 members of the training team had already arrived.

The national team now has four active NBA players.

Liu Mang, Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi... and Sun Yue who played 41 regular season games for the Rockets, these four are 100% sure to enter the national team, and prospective NBA player Yi Jianlian will definitely be able to enter the national team.

Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and Sun Yue returned to the national team on June 6, and the finals could only be watched on TV. Yi Jianlian even returned to the national team on May 1 to participate in warm-up matches with some countries in Africa and Asia.

Including Liu Mang, the training team has a total of 27 people. In fact, there are only 22 people competing for the remaining 7 positions.

If you want to gain respect, you must either rely on your strength or your relationship. Liu Mang's success in the national team depends on his strength, so he was able to return to the team more than a month later than others and still locked in an official spot.

The unprecedented MVP of the three world champions, unless Liu Mang kills himself, the position of the national team is very secure.

On the 5th, the leaders announced the games against the NCAA champions and runners-up on the 9th and 11th.

On the 9th, they played against the University of Kansas led by Mario Chalmers at Wukesong Stadium in the Imperial City. On the 11th, they played Darren Collison and UCLA led by five NCAA stars Yi Jianlian, Love, Westbrook, and Holiday at the Lujiazui Yuanshen Gymnasium in Shanghai, which is the home of the Oriental Sharks bought by Yao Ming.

Neither Liu Mang nor Yao Ming could play in these two games. Yi Jianlian represented the Chinese team when he played against the University of Kansas, and then represented UCLA to play against China...

It hurts Liu Mang to hear this arrangement. God knows what the leaders of the national team are thinking.

After the leader talked about what was there and what was not, the national team coach Silver Fox Harris arranged a training plan for the next three days and then disbanded.

Liu Mang is still very familiar with this national team. Except for the four fellows in the United States, the two pitchers Zhu Fangyu and Wang Shipeng are still there, and the three familiar faces Liu Wei, Du Feng, and Li Nan are also there, and the rest are unknown.

The head coach Harris renewed his contract in 06 until the end of the Olympic Games. The core lineup has not changed, and the head coach has not changed. Liu Wei feels that everything is back to the time when he abused Japan two years ago.

Everyone else is fine, mainly because seeing Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu, Liu Mang feels kind and safe!

Yi Jianlian is in charge of external communication, and Zhu Fangyu doesn't even need bodyguards...

"Bajie, Lianmei, I miss you so much, let's go shopping!"

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Zhu Fangyu and Yi Jianlian are so helpless, they are looking forward to Liu Mang's return, but when Liu Mang comes back, they really want to go back to two months ago, and hope that the day Liu Mang comes back will never come, even the Olympic Games will never come...

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Time passed quickly. From the 6th to the 8th, Harris took 27 members of the training team, tried many lineups, and selected two sets of players to participate in the warm-up match against the NCAA championship and runner-up.

The leaders of the national team attach great importance to these two games, and Harris also attaches great importance to them. As an American, Harris knows how powerful the NCAA champion and runner-up are.

However, when it comes to the game on the 9th, against the University of Kansas, even if the Chinese team does not have Liu Mang and Yao Ming, they will still play against each other.

It is true that the opponent has Chalmers, but on the Chinese team, apart from Yi Jianlian, who is also a top player in the NCAA, and Wang Zhizhi and Sun Yue, everyone else is the best player in each CBA team. Although Chalmers has an advantage against Liu Wei, it is really not that big of an advantage. There is still a gap between professional players and college students in other positions.

79 to 51, the Chinese team easily defeated the University of Kansas team.

It's easy to win. Speaking of it... the Chinese players always feel that it's not the case!

In these two warm-up matches, the players of the Chinese team all had the drive to kill the country and not want to embarrass the country!
On July 7th, the Chinese team moved to Shanghai, and the game became much more difficult.

Yi Jianlian went to the opposite side...

UCLA players really want to win, and Yi Jianlian really wants to prove the gold content of his NCAA championship. The UCLA Five Tigers performed extremely well, and the Chinese team is also fighting hard.

The score was 63 to 66 in regular time, and the Chinese team fell behind by three points, and they were dragged into overtime by Wang Shipeng's three-pointer at the buzzer!

Among UCLA's substitutes, except for Holiday, none of them are opponents of the Chinese team's bench lineup. After all, the Chinese team has gathered all the strongest players in the CBA.

But facing the four top players of Westbrook, Darren Collison, Yi Jianlian, and Love, the Chinese team lacked Liu Mang and Yao Ming.

This made many domestic professional basketball players see the gap between their own country and American basketball very intuitively. They are just the championship team of the university, and UCLA players are not the best individual performers in the NCAA this season. The best performers are Mayo and Beasley.
In the end it was Wang Shipeng!
It's Wang Shipeng again!
In overtime, the two teams scored 73 to 74, and the Chinese team was one point behind. With 3 seconds left, Wang Shipeng ran around the baseline to catch the ball and scored a three-pointer, helping the Chinese team beat UCLA 76 to 74!

Liu Mang and Yao Ming did not play in these two games, but both watched the game from behind the bench.

The more I look... the more helpless I am!

(End of this chapter)