From today on is the king

Chapter 775
"Carl, are you really unwilling to play for another year?"

"No, I'm tired. If I can, I want my statue to stand with John. I don't want to do it again."

"Okay, I understand, I respect your choice."

"I promised John that I will come to help you guide your rookies next season and become a trainer to get a championship ring. Although there is no name, it is not bad."

"That's great..."

"..."

"..."

After chatting for a while and hanging up the phone with Ma Long, Liu Mang sighed.

Ma Long may have problems with his private life, his personality is not very good, and his character is not good... Uh... When Liu Mang thought about this, he seemed to think that Ma Long had nothing to praise except for his good basketball...

However, emphasizing feelings is one of Malone's strengths.

Because Stockton won the championship, Jazz fans were ecstatic. When Stockton proposed to erect a statue with Malone, Jazz fans did not object. The Jazz management was ready to wait for Malone to retire. After retirement, give him a retired jersey and a statue. Malone hurt the feelings of the Jazz fans. There is no problem with Sloan and the Jazz management. The fans did not object.

According to Malone, he is negotiating with the Eagles management to become part of the trainer team, guiding the Eagles players in the pick-and-roll training, and working with Stockton to guide the Eagles players how to maintain health and condition.

Malone chose to join hands with Stockton again, but retreated from the field to the sidelines.

Liu Mang sighed. This is the situation of people. If Malone came to the Hawks last season, the Hawks would not get Rasheed Wallace, the Pistons would not choose Bosh, and Milicic would not have such a good fortune.

And it will be even more difficult for the Eagles to play against the Pistons. If they can reach the finals, they may not face the Lakers but the Spurs.

Of course, facing the Spurs, maybe because of Malone, they will play very easily... Malone will not be without a championship, but will join hands with Stockton to win the championship and retire...

However, everything is already like this. It is a pity that only one of them has won the championship after 18 years of cooperation between the two evil spirits.

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After sighing for a while, Liu Mang said to his agent: "Jeff, let the management know. If Carl is not coming, I can renew my contract. You can talk about it. The longest option is 4+1 players."

"OK, I'm going to participate in the national team training camp tomorrow. Let's take a good rest today. The activities for a while are too tiring." Schwartz has no objection to signing for four years. After seven years of professional career, Liu Mang will be able to trigger the designated veteran clause and sign the largest contract. The NBA's income has increased year after year, and the starting salary will become higher and higher. Before the veteran clause is not met, it is the best choice for Liu Mang to sign a short contract.

Liu Mang's choice is the same as the choice of the 03 generation in the future, except that Liu Mang has only played for three seasons now, and the 03 generation signed a second contract after playing for 4 seasons, so Liu Mang's contract can be signed for up to 5 years.

What Schwartz reminded was that Liu Mang was too hardworking. Since Liu Mang will participate in the national team competition this year, it is an opportunity for Liu Mang to further accumulate popularity in China. Schwartz didn't even care about the rookies in the summer league, and stayed with Liu Mang the whole time. Only then did he know why the Eagles coaching staff complained that Liu Mang had trained too much.

It's just a desperate Saburo!

Training resumed on July 7st, that is, on the evening of June 1th in China. On July 6nd, I went back to China with my three girls. Due to the time difference, I happened to arrive home on July 30nd in China and stayed for one night. On the 7rd of BJ’s time, I left for Shanghai. I met James and started a promotional activity.

For the first time in China, James came with cheers.

After his rookie season, James' popularity in the United States was already extremely high. Due to the league's main promotion of his confrontation with Liu Mang, Kobe's popularity declined due to personal reasons, and Carter's popularity declined due to aesthetic fatigue and the loss of the slam dunk contest. James, Liu Mang, Iverson, and McGrady became the four most popular players.

James, who is a little bloated, thought that he was also very popular in other countries. When Nike asked him to follow Liu Mang as a side coffee, he was still dissatisfied. Isn't it just a dollar for the endorsement fee?

As a result, when we arrived at Shanghai Railway Station, we found that they were all coming to see Liu Mang. For an event, tens of thousands of people crowded the streets outside the square. Thanks to Nike and the SH municipal department, no accident happened...

And James sadly found out that there are people who know him but don't pay much attention to his existence, all of them came to see Liu Mang...

Double MVP, people from their own country, fans naturally focus on Liu Mang.

James is strong, but just a rookie.

It’s just Shanghai Station. James heard that this place is near his hometown, and he thought it was because of this, but when he went to BJ, Chengdu, Wuhan... the farther the inland cities from the coast, the less people paid attention to him as a rookie...

The grief-stricken James vowed that one day he would kill Liu Mang in the playoffs!Then he went to be a sparring partner during Liu Mang's training...

Hearing Schwartz's suggestion, Liu Mang smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm better than everyone else, and that's my physical strength. That's the only advantage. By the way, Jeff, how about our nickname vote?"

Before returning to China, Liu Mang asked Schwartz and Chaoting TV to co-organize an event to give Eagles players nicknames according to their combinations. The collection was via text messages on the Internet and Chaoting Sports Channel. It started on July 7st, and the three-day collection time and seven-day voting time. Today is July 1th, which has ended at 7:7 noon. At the beginning, there are four domestic stations, one station in the island country, and one station in Singapore for a total of six promotional stations, and we have to keep training, and there is no time to care about this.

"Here, Ace, take your time. I'm going to contact the Eagles management first. Take a good rest today, and tomorrow we will go to the basketball management center together."

"OK."

Liu Mang opened the folder left by Schwartz, and there was only a piece of paper inside.

Liu Mang saw the combination of himself and Jason Terry, himself and McGrady, Jason Terry and McGrady, himself and Rasheed Wallace... the nicknames of various duo groups, some nicknames with discordant characters were directly kicked out of the candidate ranks, and these nicknames were quite harmonious.

Just, why is it a bit earthy?

The combination of Liu Mang himself and Jason Terry, ranked first, is the combination of six brothers.

Two people called six brothers?
The combination of Jason Terry and McGrady was nicknamed Fake Girls. It took Liu Mang a long time to realize that it was because McGrady's name was Tracy, which was a girl's name.

Liu Mang himself and Mai Di are okay, the combination of Maimang is taken from the needle point to Maimang, and it is also a combination of the two names and the Chinese translation.

The combination of Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace is also good. It is called the Bingdi combination. Liu Mang's English name is Bing, and Tianzun means emperor in it.

But every time I go to McGrady, the style of painting starts to change. The nickname of the combination of McGrady and Rasheed Wallace is probably from Sichuan, and it is called the spicy girl combination...

Liu Mang saw that his nickname was generally okay. Fortunately, he didn't deceive himself, but it seemed to deceive McGrady!McGrady has accumulated a lot of popularity in China when he competed for the scoring title in the past two years, so he is so popular.

Liu Mang hesitated for a moment, he couldn't let McGrady not know about it!We are all brothers, we can’t hide it from Maddie, so Liu Mang combined the English translations of these nicknames and the reasons Liu Mang guessed, as well as the data of the highest number of online votes with more than 15 votes, and the data of more than 7 paid votes from Chaoting Sports Channel into an Excel list, and sent an email to McGrady...

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On July 7, Liu Mang officially joined the national team!
Wei Yuanli, the director of the basketball management center, brought Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming, Battelle, Guo Shiqiang and other veterans who will definitely be selected for the national team to support Liu Mang.

With Yao Ming taking the lead in supporting him, Liu Mang with the title of NBA double MVP, plus Schwartz, an agent who had dealt with the Blue Association for a long time over Wang Zhizhi's issue and had enough experience to get along with the Chinese Basketball Association, Liu Mang didn't worry about anything about joining the national team.

Liu Mang only needs to be responsible for playing. This kind of performance of not causing trouble and not playing big names also made Wei Yuanli feel relieved. Unlike Cheng Lanxin who developed the CBA for the purpose of generating income, Wei Yuanli paid more attention to political achievements.

There is the core combination of Liu Mang and Yao Ming, high-quality role players like Wang Zhizhi who have gained a firm foothold in the NBA, and Battelle, a player with NBA experience. The current main lineup of the men’s basketball team is still composed of players from the older generation of Bayi Dynasty and Yao Ming’s Shanghai Sharks. The benefits are everything, all for honor!

The addition of Liu Mang is bound to occupy a position in the 12-man roster, but the older generation is almost certain to be selected for the 12-man roster and the 3-man waitlist, and the veterans of the national team who were squeezed from the 12-man roster to the waiting list are not dissatisfied. The Olympic waiting list is different from the NBA inactive list. If you are injured, you can only play with the remaining players. In international competitions, you can really play one against five. As long as there are people on one side, you must finish the game...

Moreover, the training attitude of the older generation of players is completely different from what Liu Mang imagined. In the morning, the Basketball Association announced the 21-man training list. In the afternoon, Liu Mang was dragged to the training ground by the group of seniors before 75 who wanted to see Liu Mang's strength...

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"Ace, come, let's play." Li Nan hooked Liu Mangde's shoulder enthusiastically.

"Well, good, what do you want to practice?" Liu Mang did not refuse. ,

"Compare one to three points! I may not be as good as you in other things, but I am still a little confident in three points, big pig, you come too." Li Nan laughed.

Zhu Fangyu expressed her despair when she heard the nickname Big Pig!He was too embarrassed to ask Liu Mang for his autograph.

"Okay." Liu Mang didn't say much.

Originally, Li Nan was worried that Liu Mang was playing a big role. After all, although Liu Mang was very popular, his reputation was very average. A womanizer, a shameless man, arrogant and domineering... were all Liu Mang's labels.

But Liu Mang didn't put on airs at all, and he didn't steal the limelight during the press conference. After the press conference in the morning, after lunch, when he asked Liu Mang to go to training together, Liu Mang didn't refuse, and he didn't mean to play big names. Li Nan's impression of Liu Mang suddenly increased.

This is a very interesting mentality of human beings, that is, when the expectations for a certain event are placed infinitely low, as long as the event is still normal, you will feel that the ending of this event is great.

Liu Mang is just a very normal performance of a junior entering the national team. In the eyes of the seniors, he is full of favor.

Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi, two active NBA players who knew how much Liu Mang could do, were relieved to see that Liu Mang got along well with the older players.

Liu Mang did not refuse. He also wanted to see the strength of the national team players, but the system started to upgrade after he joined the national team in the morning. It would take three days to adjust to the international league mode and calculate the strength of the players according to the international rules.

To join the national team, Liu Mang also got to know this group of teammates who had never known before, and asked Schwartz to find as much information as possible on the players who might eventually stay in the national team to play in the Olympics. He learned that before him, the two best three-pointers in the Chinese men’s basketball team, one is the 30-year-old CBA history three-pointer Li Nan, and the other is the new CBA three-pointer. In the starting lineup, Zhu Fangyu relied on his dominant performance in the CBA, and was basically the starting candidate for the small forward position.

The two strongest three-pointers in the CBA want to challenge the NBA three-pointer.

Therefore, Liu Mang did not refuse the two's invitation to fight, and was going to try three points.

Li Nan and Zhu Fangyu, in Liu Mang's view, these two are the key players to receive the pass from him and Yao Ming. The other is of course Wang Zhizhi. Not surprisingly, Liu Mang thinks that the five of them will be the starters in the Olympics.

"Oh oh oh oh..." Zhang Jinsong, the most active power forward in the national team all the time, jumped out, screamed strangely, and then said excitedly: "The three-point showdown between the NBA three-point champion and the CBA two-time three-point champion, I will be the referee. In 100 seconds, the one who makes the most three-pointers wins."

All three said OK, full of fighting spirit.

Li Nan didn't want to embarrass the older generation of players, so he was going to challenge Liu Mang from his strongest aspect, so that Liu Mang also knew what they were good at.

After changing into the national team training uniform, after the warm-up, the first one to shoot was Li Nan. His shots were very standard and his shooting speed was very fast. He was nicknamed Xiao Li Feidao. When he received the ball, he threw it out with a swish. The average shot time was about 1 second, and the final score was 71 hits!
Liu Mang was dumbfounded!
100 seconds to shoot, 71 shots?
For a period of time, Li Nan scored more than 30 shots in such a fast manner, and other teammates watching the game were counting loudly!

Then there is Zhu Fangyu, who is even more accurate than Li Nan... 100 in 75 seconds!
Hey, hey, Liu Mang looked at these two people and felt like he was dreaming...

Seeing Li Nan and Zhu Fangyu clapping hands to celebrate, Liu Mang finally felt the feeling of being targeted!

The two had discussed it in advance, and they may have practiced countless times!Just for this moment!
However, it is unscientific!
How can it be so accurate?If you can be so accurate, why do you still play CBA? How could there be unlimited outside shots in the Olympics?

Liu Mang didn't understand.

Originally full of confidence, Liu Mang now feels that he is about to lose face...

Amidst the booing of others, Liu Mang walked to the top arc of the three-point line... Wait... Liu Mang feels the feeling of standing here, why is it so wonderful?
After receiving the ball, Liu Mang had a chance to make a trial shot. Next, Liu Mang needed to call the password, which was "ball". Once he called, the staff of the national team would send him a ball.

Liu Mang hesitated for a moment, thinking that this feeling was too amazing, so he followed his senses. Under the gaze of others, there was no such thing as Li Nanhe jumping up to shoot. If he jumped up and shot a jumper, the speed of the sky was [-] or [-] seconds, and the hit rate could not be guaranteed. Liu Mang just bent his knees and threw the ball out.

Seeing the ball fall into the basket, Liu Mang breathed a sigh of relief, it really did!

Liu Wei completely forgot that FIBA's three-point line is far from the NBA's. This top arc is the feeling of standing far away for a free throw!It is relatively easier to practice, of course, it means that the training performance is much easier to practice, because the three-point line is much shorter, and the shooting space will be smaller during the game, and it will be relatively more difficult to shoot three-pointers accurately!
Seeing Liu Mang standing up and shooting, Li Nan and Zhu Fangyu's heart skipped a beat. They also understood that in Liu Mang's basketball world, the three-point line is only a little longer than the free throw line!

Then, the scene became completely silent, except for Liu Mang's constant yelling of "ball ball" and the sound of "snap" when catching the ball, the sound of the ball hitting the basket or passing through the frame, the sound of the ball falling on the floor, and the sound of the national team staff picking up the ball and throwing it into the basket.

For jump shots, Liu Mang's current limit catch jump shot speed is [-] seconds, but if he throws non-stop at the free throw line and doesn't need to think about missing free throws, he will lose one point, so the speed is fast!
The hit rate is not as good as those two guys, but Liu Mang can throw two in a second!Seeing the mouths of the people around them open their mouths and talk in silence!

(End of this chapter)