pinnacle of basketball

Chapter 410 Italian Golden Boy

The Dallas Mavericks have a tradition, that is, owner Cuban has a unique feeling for European players, Dirk Nowitzki, Doncic and Porzingis are all like this.

And this season, the Lone Ranger has brought this tradition to the extreme, forming a starting lineup of purely European players, including Italian player Cannavaro who participated in the Naismith training camp at the same time as Mu Chenfeng.

Cannavaro entered the NBA a year earlier than Mu Chenfeng. Before Cannavaro entered the NBA, he had already led AC Milan to win the European Club Cup. It was because of his strong performance in the European arena that Cuban, the owner of the Mavericks, took a fancy to his talent and went to Italy to lobby for him to participate in the draft. He promised that he would sign him with the No. 8 pick in his hand.

In view of the fact that the Lone Ranger has a glorious tradition of international players, Dirk Nowitzki, who is also a European player, also airborne in Italy as the general manager, and formed a "king bomb" lobbying group with Cuban, which made it difficult for Cannavaro to refuse, so he agreed.

Cannavaro, who shined in the European arena, performed amazingly in his first season in the NBA. In the first game of his NBA career, he handed over a quasi-triple double of 15+9+9, showing the fans his amazing comprehensiveness.

This battle can also be regarded as a reunion of old friends. Since the end of the training camp, Mu Chenfeng and the teammates of the international team have never seen each other again. I didn't expect that the reunion after a long absence would be in the NBA arena.

Knowing that Mu Chenfeng will come to Dallas with the Heat, Cannavaro has also made sufficient preparations. Previously, Mu Chenfeng's performance has attracted the attention of fans all over the world. Cannavaro also saw it. He is proud of Mu Chenfeng's progress, but his improvement in game skills is no worse than Mu Chenfeng.

Cannavaro is a typical European player with comprehensive skills and superb physical fitness. More importantly, his golf quotient is astonishingly high. He can always find ways to make his teammates better.

Since the start of the game, the Dallas Mavericks have achieved a record of 5 wins and 2 losses. In 7 games, Cannavaro has scored a total of 3 triple-doubles, ranking first in the league.

Cannavaro is not a player who focuses on scoring, but when the team needs him to stand up and take over the game, he can always perform brilliantly. This kind of performance is also the best response to Cuban and Nowitzki, and Cuban also intends to offer him a maximum salary contract. I hope that this rookie can be like Nowitzki, and live in Dallas forever.

In the warm-up training before the start of the game, Mu Chenfeng and Cannavaro met. The two walked to the center of the field and hugged each other. Three years ago, Mu Chenfeng used his ability to conquer Cannavaro. In the past three years, Cannavaro has always aimed at Mu Chenfeng. Now, the two finally met on the NBA court, which can be regarded as fulfilling the wish of "NBA goodbye".

As for the other three members of the international team, none of them left basketball, and they are all playing in the European League. In the season when Cannavaro won the European Club Cup, he defeated the Spanish Real Madrid team led by Puyol in the semifinals.

At this moment, Henry, Puyol, and Klose all sat in front of the TV early after learning about the broadcast of today's game, preparing to watch this wonderful game.

"You really did it." When seeing Mu Chenfeng and Cannavaro appearing on the TV screen at the same time, Puyol's eyes were a little moist, and the time flashed back to the scene where everyone parted ways three years ago. At that time, everyone agreed to meet in the NBA. Now only Mu Chenfeng and Cannavaro have achieved their goal of hitting the NBA, and both of them have mixed very well.

As a friend, I am really proud of such a picture.

When Mu Chenfeng and Cannavaro embraced, it seemed that nothing had changed, except that everyone’s faces had faded from their original innocence. Cannavaro was just 20 years old, and the beard on his face added to his maturity.

Cannavaro is the best-developed European player in the NBA. He is also known as the "Italian Golden Boy" and has become the hope for the rise of Italian basketball.

"We finally meet again." The two held hands tightly.

"Yes." Mu Chenfeng tried his best to conceal the excitement in his heart. Cannavaro has really changed. It is completely different from the feeling he gave people three years ago. Now he has a lot more confidence and his eyes have become firmer.

Before the game, Mu Chenfeng did his homework. He probably had some impressions of Cannavaro's performance in the past season, but after an offseason, Cannavaro's performance in the new season has improved a lot compared to the previous data, which is an all-round improvement of various data.

Mu Chenfeng had the opportunity to meet Cannavaro earlier, and the latter had the opportunity to represent the team in the summer league, but due to various reasons, the matter of playing early fell through, but it is not too late to meet.

It was Barrett who faced Cannavaro in the game, but under Mu Chenfeng's strong request, Barrett gave up the opportunity to face Cannavaro to Mu Chenfeng.

"You have to be careful, he is not at the same level as the opponents we met before." Wade stepped forward and reminded that the two had played against each other twice last season, and the only two played against each other. As a result, the Heat scored one win and one loss. Cite the youngest player to break a 65+ triple-double.

Barrett agreed with Wade's suggestion. Last season, Barrett only played against Cannavaro once due to injuries. As a result, Cannavaro's performance in that game was comparable to Barrett's.

Without Cannavaro, the Lone Ranger would win at least 20 games less, and the regular season would only be 82 games a season.

The role of "Golden Boy" Cannavaro to the Lone Ranger is self-evident, so he has to be targeted. Mu Chenfeng is certainly powerful, but the tail combination is not optimistic about him and Cannavaro.

(End of this chapter)