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

Chapter 76 Back home (22)

But the days without competitions are quite boring for Li Chengming.

In the past, it was either training or games, and it was indeed a bit monotonous, but now in order to adjust his physical fatigue, he decided to rest and recuperate for two days without touching the ball at all under the advice of the team doctor. Instead, Li Chengming felt as if he had nothing to do.

In particular, he suddenly realized a problem.

"I don't seem to have visited Orlando well..."

Not to mention Orlando, he hasn't even been around here.

For example, I haven't been to a supermarket, I haven't bought things in person, and I haven't contacted more people.

For example, the meal was handled by the father at the beginning. After the start of the new season, they didn't have much time to stay here, so they either went to McGilton's house to have a meal, or they ate outside.

Li Chengming's contact with the most on weekdays is not the team's colleagues, including players, coaches, etc., or all kinds of fans who meet by chance.

Of course, there is also a neighbor's family.

The most important thing is that for him, most of them have faces of foreigners. Li Chengming feels that he may have mild face blindness, and he is not able to distinguish them in this respect.

Even for someone like Van Gundy who can meet almost every day, Li Chengming often confuses him with a doorman in the arena. The two really look alike. Fortunately, he hasn't called him a miss, because they are waiting for each other. Call yourself first, so that you will definitely not make a mistake in judgment.

"Then you mean, you want to go out?"

"Uh, can't you?"

Father Li shook his head and said, "It's not impossible, it's very bad."

"Ah?" Li Chengming said with a bitter face, "Why?"

"What do you say?"

"Is this the trouble of being famous?"

Father Li said with a chuckle, "You boy, do you know that it is very embarrassing for you to say this in China."

Li Chengming scratched his head, he couldn't laugh, he swallowed his tears.

Father Li thought for a while, and then said: "Actually, it's not impossible. I'm exaggerating. I've observed that other members of the team travel without any problems, but it just attracts a little attention..."

In fact, this is nonsense, a two-meter or even two-meter-one big man walking on the road, standing out from the crowd will more or less attract people's attention.

Ordinary stars can still hope to avoid being tracked by the outside world by disguising themselves, but for a group of basketball stars who are too prominent, as long as they are not the kind of fringe people who haven't played a few times in a season and don't even care about drinking fountains , it will be easier to recognize locally.

Not to mention that Li Chengming is indeed hot right now. It's hard to say in the United States, but in Orlando, or in Florida, he can be regarded as a popular fried chicken.

"However, you still have to plan your itinerary, and you can't run around."

"How boring is that?"

"If you really get stuck, you think it's interesting?"

Father Li's statement is of course an exaggeration. After all, I haven't heard of any star being blocked outside, whether it's basketball in the United States or football in Europe.

Maybe it's because the land is vast and sparsely populated, so there are few big scenes with huge crowds?
But when they actually came out, they found that there was no scene of being blocked at all. There were indeed many people paying attention to him, and of course there were some who wanted to sign autographs and take photos, but most of them would not choose to come.

Seeing this, Li Chengming naturally seemed a little disappointed, "It seems that I am still not famous enough!"

This scene was far from what he had imagined, and to be honest, he was a little disappointed.

Father Li laughed and said: "You are such a cheap brat, didn't you wish that no one would know you before?"

In fact, Li's father thought about it, and felt that this was normal. They had thought too much before, and many fans might not be able to recognize Li Chengming immediately after he left the arena.

In other words, there are recognized ones, but they are not sure.

Just like how they look blind when they look at foreigners, American people also look blind when they look at them. Li Chengming is not the one with a particularly outstanding appearance-whether he is good-looking or ugly, he is just plain. appearance.

Of course, face blindness is definitely not so blind that the aesthetics are reversed, and squinting eyes are regarded as beautiful women, and big pie faces are regarded as handsome men.

"Okay, this is just right, let you relax and no one will disturb you."

Li Chengming's mentality adjusted quickly, and he immediately stopped thinking about these things.

But after a while, he suddenly said: "It would be great if my mother was here..."

Father Li pondered for a while and said, "Let's wait for the winter vacation, when she is free, see if she wants to come over. I'm afraid she will vomit on the plane..."

Li's mother gets motion sickness and seasickness in almost all long-distance transportation except private cars, and she doesn't feel too good after flying in a plane, so if it's just to come and see them, it's not necessary to get together for two days, you still have to wait until the holidays when you have time. .

Li Chengming nodded and stopped mentioning this matter.

……

December 12th is Friday, and the working day of the week is over, so the game at night seems to be more lively than usual.

After experiencing a wave of five consecutive away, the Magic finally returned to the home court, which also brought more enthusiasm to the local fans for watching the game.

Although the previous home games were always a bit of a problem for them, but the away game is so hot, they won't lose again when they return to the home game, right?

The opponent in this game is the Pacers, which is also a team that is striving to enter the playoffs. Its strength is not weak, and there is a possibility of overturning in a real fight.

Of course, there is a saying called "NBA has no underdogs". The main reason is that players who can gain a foothold in the NBA are hard to say how bad they will be. Once the state comes, once the defense can't be restrained, the opponent will feel like playing Come on, even if it is the first player in the league, it will also lose.

This is why, let alone wanting to win 70+ games, even 65 games are very difficult, and it is one of the few in history.

Once this kind of team appears, the possibility of establishing a dynasty is very high, such as the Bulls who won 72 wins in the second year after 69 wins.

The Magic are not even close to 60 wins. According to the progress of this season, the early stage will be relatively tight and the mid-late stage will be relatively loose. Then there is still great hope of winning 50+ games this season. In fact, as long as they can stabilize their The top four can hold the home court advantage in the playoffs, which is very beneficial to enter the second round.

No matter how lively the outside world says, the team still has a sense in their hearts and will not float to the sky all at once.

So this time facing the Pacers, Van Gundy was not careless at all, and still put on a regular lineup, but according to the opponent's state, he will choose to adjust at any time.

Although it was criticized for its lack of on-the-spot response, but in the case of preparation in advance, it is still possible to prevent some opponents from the opponent.

CCTV chose to broadcast this game, and it was still the classic commentary by Director Zhang and Director Sun.

Director Sun first briefly introduced the situation of the two teams, and then talked about Li Chengming.

"Today is Li Chengming's No.20 official game in the NBA. At present, Li Chengming is ranked No.2 in the rookie list, second only to Durant of the Supersonics, and his scoring average in the team is also the highest. Ranked fourth, in front of the three stars in the team are Howard, Lewis and Turkoglu."

This vague implication is that Li Chengming is now equivalent to the No. [-] player of the Magic team.

But it's not wrong to say that. After all, judging from the last ten games, Li Chengming's tactical priority in the team is actually higher than that of Nelson. If he is with a substitute lineup, he has no suspense. The core, the whole team began to play around him.

The key is that until now, he has only had one or two bad performances, which is very rare among rookies. After all, Durant often has iron feasts, not to mention the team's victory or defeat.

(End of this chapter)