After the confession failed, I went to the NBA to play and lose weight

Chapter 2 To Orlando

"Are you really leaving?"

"Well, I've already decided." Facing his mother's question, Li Chengming nodded firmly.

He didn't know if it was because Liu Nayeon stimulated him more, or because the system brought more ambitions, anyway, he was looking forward to this trip now.

This year is 2007, and the NBA, like in previous years, will start the draft after the Finals.

This is also a big draft year. Popular rookies Greg Oden, Kevin Durant, Al Horford and others are all in this draft.

And the domestic players who will participate in the NBA draft this year are not only Li Chengming, but also Kong Tianyi and Sun Yue.

Kong Kongyi is also a popular rookie candidate, mainly because of the benefits brought by Dayao, not to mention that his personal talent is indeed very good, which has attracted a lot of attention.

Of course, there are also some factors that rely on the domestic market. After all, everyone knows that the NBA has been working hard to develop the domestic market these years. Dayao is a good start. The domestic media also believe that Yidi can succeed Dayao in the future and become The representative star of the national team and in the NBA.

As for Sun Yue, everyone knew that it was just an extra, and they didn't have much hope for him. The focus of attention was on Tian Tianyi.

Many domestic fans speculate whether he will be selected in the top three. The positions of Oden and Durant cannot be shaken. Horford should be able to move, right?

Anyway, with the help of the media to brag, domestic fans always have a kind of honey confidence in their players these days. They even think that Durant is nothing more than that. Our space and sky are not the limit. Where is Durant from the earth? Can it still compare to him?

On the contrary, when it comes to Dayao who is really strong enough, everyone always likes to pick and choose.

And Li Chengming was among them, so naturally he seemed even more inconspicuous, and no domestic media even followed him to report.

After all, he was not well-known himself, and this time he got a trial training invitation from the Magic through the system, and then came to participate in the draft at his own expense.

However, the popularity of the Magic in China is relatively average. At this time, there is no such developed media in the future. Most of the information that people want to know about the NBA can only be obtained from the official. Naturally, the official will not pay attention to Li Chengming, who does not know where he comes from. A rootless duckweed-like little guy popping out of the corner.

For this draft and even this trial training, Li Chengming himself is not very confident.

Although he abused the whole school in the university and won the class competition championship, everyone is very clear about the gap between the domestic university class competition and the NBA.

Let's put it this way, the NBA is undoubtedly the highest stage, followed by the NCAA, the European League, and then the Development League, followed by the CBA, regional leagues, and then the domestic Development League and college leagues.

The last is the class competition in the university...

Although Li Chengming dominated and relaxed in this shallow pool, but this time he crossed so many classes at once, he naturally didn't seem very confident.

Moreover, he was not a very confident person in the first place, so he decided to suspend his studies and go abroad this time, which was already a crazy decision.

Fortunately, his parents have always supported him, even though it was such a crazy decision, they decided to let him go and try, and his father also deliberately put down his work to prepare to take him abroad together.

Because of the nature of his work, Li's father has a lot of contact with foreigners, so he is naturally good at English, and also knows some Russian and French. Li Chengming has been influenced by him since he was a child, and he is not a problem in foreign language conversations, so the communication problem is first of all. If it is solved, it will definitely not encounter the poor communication problem of Dayao in the early stage.

But to get a foothold in the NBA, you will say that there are not enough tomatoes, you have to have real strength, and the more foreign players are, the more difficult it is to gain a foothold here, no matter where they are, they obviously pay attention to household registration.

Li Chengming first came to New York with his father. This year's draft will be held at the Knicks' home stadium, Madison Square Garden, and the rookies who want to participate in the draft will also come here to complete their personal information registration.

Of course, if you want to pass, there are conditions. As a foreign player, you must meet the conditions of being under the age of 23, having played in a professional league in the United States other than the NBA, or writing a letter to the league president's office by yourself or an authorized representative. Apply for election.

Dayao, Tiankongyi, and Sun Dasheng all participated in the election through formal channels, and for Li Chengming, it depends on the effect of the Magic team's trial training.

Only when the trial training impresses the managers and coaches can they spare no effort to select Li Chengming with the draft pick, and then Li Chengming can complete the task.

Of course, it's okay to lose the draft, as long as you can successfully sign a contract, you will be considered a success if you have a contract.

Li Chengming made a very low expectation in his heart, but the result still surprised him.

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"It seems that we have been busy this summer..."

The Orlando Amway Center Arena, the home of the Magic, is conducting a trial training. Apart from rookies, overseas players who have come back to look for opportunities, and free agents whose contracts have expired, are participating in the trial training.

Magic general manager Otis Smith joked with head coach Stan Van Gundy, then shook his head with a wry smile.

It can be regarded as having fun in bitterness, at least the team is in good momentum now, as long as they operate properly, there is a lot to do next season.

After Smith took over as the general manager of the team in May 06, under his operation, the team finally reached the playoffs last season. Although they were swept out in the first round, the team center Howard averaged 5 points, 15.3 rebounds and 14.8 blocks per game. , is the beginning of the show.

This season, he has brought in the former Heat coach Van Gundy who is idle at home, and at the same time he is ambitiously preparing to flex his muscles in the trading market.

This time the Magic did not pay too much attention to the Orlando training camp that is close at hand. On the contrary, after the training camp ended, they invited the players to try out because they did not have a good draft pick. Not that big anymore.

Rookies at the bottom of the ranking usually have a high probability of falling, including those free contract players. If you can miss one or two of them, that's fine.

They also didn't really expect to find real gold from these people. After all, people who couldn't play or lost always had various reasons. They talked about counterattacks, but those who were able to counterattack were still a minority of the few.

"Wait, why is there a player from Huaguo?"

At this time, Van Gundy, who was looking at the roster and comparing the faces on the field, suddenly exclaimed, which attracted Smith's attention.

Because of Dayao's relationship, the NBA still has a lot of interest in Huaguo players, otherwise Tianyi and Sun Dasheng would not have attracted such a high degree of attention.

Even if the strength is not enough, it is fine to choose it as a mascot to open up the Huaguo market. No one will think that there is too much money.

And it is even more special for Stan Van Gundy, because his younger brother Jeff Van Gundy is the head coach of Houston, and he just got out of class last month.

For this reason, Stan Van Gundy still has a good impression of the Huaguo player. If conditions permit, he would like to see how the Huaguo player named Yi is doing.

"Mr. Smith, this is the result of the physical examination..."

Some of the free agents have already passed the previous draft, and the data can be known. This physical test is naturally aimed at the rookies of this year. Although there are official data, seeing is believing.

Since the two of them became interested in the Huaguo player, they naturally paid special attention to his statistics:
【Name: Li Chengming

Height: 6 feet 7 inches (201cm)

Weight: 341.4 lbs (155 kg)

Wingspan: 7 feet 1 inches (216cm)

Standing touch height: 273cm
Vertical take-off: 82cm]

Of course, this kind of body side test is the most basic thing, basically static talent, but it can also be seen that this player's physical talent is not bad.

This also made the two of them have some expectations for this Li Chengming...

(End of this chapter)