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Chapter 77 Free Market Reveal (36)

The name of the press conference held the next day is very interesting, called "campus basketball experience exchange meeting".

However, an experience exchange meeting unexpectedly attracted the gathering of well-known domestic media in the audience. The huge press hall was full of media people with signs on their bodies and obvious characteristics of reporters.

If it is a passer-by, it must be very confusing. The standard of this exchange meeting is so high? CCTV, newspapers and periodicals with the central prefix have all come.

But the naming and organization methods have their own reasons. After all, as a pure Chinese, Chen Xiao, logically speaking, would never announce that someone of his own would represent the national team.

Therefore, as a witness of the advanced campus basketball culture and a practitioner of campus basketball experience, Chen Xiao was invited as the main guest of this field to attend the meeting called the exchange meeting, which is regarded as a conference.

The opening is naturally, so and so, so and so give a speech.

Then Chen Xiao, who studied at Duke and returned with the scriptures, gave a speech.

Briefly talk about the unforgettable Duke experience, Duke's profound basketball culture, and the fanaticism of the NCAA.

Soon the content of the experience exchange was hastily ended, and it came to the actual stage of the press conference.

When Chen Xiao took over the "13" jersey from the smiling Yao Ming, it also pushed the atmosphere of the audience to a climax.

The media in the audience didn't need to ask Chen Xiao whether you will participate in this year's Olympics. Once the national team jersey is released, it's not a lice on a bald man's head-it's obvious.

The picture of the two holding the No. 13 jersey at the same time also made the front page/sports headlines of many newspapers on the second day.

When it came to the questioning session of the media reporters, they naturally also asked about the meaning of choosing No. 13.

"No. 13 is my favorite number. I won the NCAA championship wearing this number at Duke. I hope wearing this number can bring more honors to the national team.

Thanks to Yao Ming for attending this press conference in person. He is my role model. I will try my best to learn from him and live up to the expectations of the fans. "Chen Xiao answered the question from the newspaper with the central prefix in a well-regulated and confident manner.

Facing the upcoming London Olympics, the following reporters also asked Chen Xiao about his outlook for the Olympics.

"As far as I am concerned, I hope to play well in every game. The whole national team is not in my consideration for the time being. All I can do is to obey the coach's arrangement and be myself." Chen Xiao replied modestly.

Although a normal person will feel that he has won a lot of honors in the NCAA, Chen Xiao, who won the Bobcats as the No. 13 pick, will be Yao Ming's successor and the future leader of the Chinese team.

But as a rookie, Chen Xiao can't just put himself in the position of the boss of the team.

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The true press conference ended successfully.

He politely declined the commendation conference that his hometown city wanted to hold for him, and rejected a series of interviews and TV programs through the Basketball Association and the management team. The next day, Chen Xiao came to the men's basketball training base that was preparing for the Olympics.

As soon as he got out of the car, he saw Xiao Li Feidao waiting at the door. Seeing this face, Chen Xiao unconsciously felt "diamond horns".

After saying hello, he followed into the base.

Naturally, Chen Xiao came alone for the training camp. With the opening of the off-season free market, as the agent of Deron Williams, one of the big fish this year, Schwartz has already rushed back to Beimou to deal with the signing and trading of other players. At the same time, Chen Xiao's sneaker contract has reached a critical moment of negotiation.

Walking into the indoor gymnasium, Chen Xiao saw Yi Jianlian, Da Zhi, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng, Sun Yue and other familiar faces.

The head coach Deng Huade was very enthusiastic and took the initiative to give Chen Xiao a big hug.

Lao Deng was still straightforward. He told Chen Xiao that he had followed Chen Xiao's games early on and fully understood Chen Xiao's style of play and characteristics. Next, he would use the limited training time to let the team cooperate with Chen Xiao to play.

The coach is proactive, and the old teammates are a little awkward.

After all, a newcomer who was unknown half a year ago suddenly jumped up and became the recognized new core of the men's basketball team, which still made the old teammates who were still stuck in the Dayao era feel a little awkward.

Especially the Arab League, who became the leader of the men's basketball team for a short time, has not passed an Olympic cycle, and has become Mrs. Niu since childhood.But in fact, since his defeat at the World Championships in 2010, Ah Lian has already felt the hardships of the Yao queen who has no shelter from the wind and rain. In fact, he has not resisted Chen Xiao's strong joining in his heart, as long as Chen Xiao lives up to his name.

In the next few days of the training camp, Chen Xiao's strength convinced all the old players. As the saying goes, the strength of competitive sports is the king.

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July is a hot season.

The free market of the NBA offseason officially kicked off.

Just as Chen Xiao was sweating profusely in the men's basketball training camp, confronting the national players, many major events in the future league occurred at the beginning of July.

As the two most anticipated big fish in this year's free market, the fate of Deron Williams and Dwight Howard has attracted the attention of the entire league.

Deron is ambiguous between the Nets and the Mavericks, and Howard, who has declared that he does not want to follow O'Neal's footsteps, is more likely to go to the Nets. Some experts believe that these two big fish may swim to the same sea area.

The Nets are the most active team after the opening of the free market. When Deron did not make a statement, the Nets first spent 4 years and 4000 million to retain the first-round pick of this year (No. 6, the Blazers used this pick to select Lillard) in exchange for Elvis Presley.

Finally on the 5th, Deron officially stated his position to stay behind, the Nets gathered two kings and one fat, and the "Big Three" took shape.

Just after Deron stated that he would stay with the team, another point guard in the market also made a decision. Nash first signed and then joined the Lakers.

The Big Three are an eternal topic this summer. The Big Three of the Celtics, who have been fighting together for five years, became history this summer. Ray Allen, under the solicitation of the Heat with the chance to win the championship, "will use rings, golf and sunshine to end his career." He chose to accept a mini-middle-class contract and join the defending champion Heat.

And Jeremy Lin, who sparked "Linsanity" this season, has also met with the Mosaic team in Houston. According to "Houston Chronicle" expert Fagan, the Rockets offered him a contract with an average annual salary of around 800 million dollars. The "New York Post" stated that this contract is a four-year contract with a total price of 3000 million. The first two years were around 500 million, and the last two years will reach tens of millions. It can be called a "poison pill" for the Knicks.

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