Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 260 Arrive in the capital
After circling in the sky for a long time, the plane finally landed slowly on the runway.

The cabin door opened, and Frank was the first to walk out of the cabin. Looking around, everything was so strange and familiar.

It was too late to feel emotional, not far away, a group of people had already been waiting there, holding a banner with Chinese characteristics, writing in Chinese and English: "Welcome to the Golden State Warriors of the United States to visit."

The leader was a rich-looking leader, and a middle-aged man with a height of 1.9 meters stood beside him. Just by his figure, he knew that he must have played professionally.

Seeing this familiar but young face, Frank almost laughed out loud.

On the other side, seeing Frank coming down first, the leading leader hurriedly stepped forward to shake hands with Frank, and said, "Hi, I am Li XX from the National Sports Commission. You are very welcome. You have traveled a long distance and worked tirelessly to come. Arriving in the capital is a testimony of the friendship between our two countries, and it is also a grand event for the exchange of sports between our two countries."

After the leader finished speaking, the big middle-aged man hurriedly prepared to translate, "Hello, Mr. Frank, this is Director Li of our National Sports Commission..."

After the translation was finished, Frank began to act aggressively, ah no, and began to reply in Chinese: "Hello, Director Li, hello, Comrade Zhang Bulan Ente Weiping, I am Frank, the owner of the Warriors, and I am very I like Chinese culture, and I am honored and excited to come to the capital to communicate with outstanding players from your country.”

Director Li and Zhang Weiping were shocked when they heard Frank's answer. Isn't this speech too standard?

"Heh, heh heh, heh heh heh, Mr. Frank speaks Chinese really well! If you don't tell me, I really think I'm from China!"

While the few people were exchanging greetings, Li Weisi and other players, Nelson and other coaching staff members also got off the plane one by one, and came to stand behind Frank looking around.

This time the Warriors players came to China, a total of 12 people, Larry Smith and Ben McDonald did not come.

Everyone in the rookie training camp heard that they were going to play in Huaxia, and everyone expressed their willingness. After all, not only the board and lodging are all included, but Frank also gives extra money, so why not do it?

Rodman was the most excited. He even said, can I go to Shaolin Temple to learn Kung Fu?
As for the others, Ma Long was originally on vacation, but when he heard that there was money to take, he immediately decided to come over without any hesitation, as if he fell into the eyes of money.

And Whitehead's recent situation is similar, and he wants to earn a little bit before retiring.

As for the coaching staff, only Nelson, Stan Van Gundy and Bob Lanier came.

After exchanging pleasantries, Frank introduced his coaching staff and players to everyone, and then they drove to Jianguo Hotel together.

Since the opening, the number of overseas tourists has increased dramatically. In 76, Beijing received less than 2 people. By 80, it had exceeded 28.

At that time, there were only 11 foreign-related hotels in Beijing with good facilities for receiving overseas tourists, with less than 5000 rooms.

Except for the east building of the Beijing Hotel, these hotels were all built in the 50s, with aging structures and outdated equipment. Often, 20% of the rooms are out of service for maintenance. In fact, there are less than 4000 rentable rooms.

In order to deal with the shortage of hotels that seriously affected the tourism industry, Jianguo Hotel came into being. This is the first Sino-foreign joint venture hotel in the country. It has only been built for 5 years, and everything looks so brand new.

Of course, for the Warriors players who are used to living in four-star and five-star hotels, the Jianguo Hotel is not particularly good, but at least they can live in it, so that they will not be dissatisfied with the accommodation.

Flying all the way from Auckland to the capital, it took a full 12 hours of flight, and because the arrival in the capital was in the morning, but on the plane, the players generally did not have a long rest time, resulting in exhaustion after arriving at the hotel.

Therefore, after entering the hotel, they all fell on the bed and couldn't get up. They slept until lunch, and then got up from the bed one by one.

Li Weisi was different from them, he had expected jet lag long ago, so he didn't chat with other people on the plane, but took the time to sleep, so when he arrived in the capital, he was in good spirits.

Therefore, after being arranged into the hotel, Li Weisi asked Zhang Weiping beside him: "Hello, Coach Zhang, I would like to ask, where is our training place?"

At this time, Zhang Weiping was still serving as the deputy coach of the national team, which was also an important reason why he was sent here.

Even though Zhang Lili later became a commentator, he didn't talk about tactics at all during the commentary, and he was full of "Hey, he really dared to shoot", "Oh, it's bad", "Playing with him", but his own basketball level is quite good. High.

As the main second center (power forward) of the national team in the 70s, he has solid footwork, rich offensive skills, and accurate mid-range jumpers. He is known as the "magician under the basket".

After retiring, he entered the Beijing Institute of Physical Education to study, and began to serve as a coach in 83, first as the coach of the Beijing Youth Team, and then joined the national team coaching staff after 85, which can be described as smooth.

"Oh, the training place is at the Beijing Institute of Physical Education! It's quite far away, so you guys should take a good rest today, and I'll take you there tomorrow!"

"No, I've already rested on the plane. I asked about our itinerary today. Except for dinner, the rest of the time is rest, so I should be able to go to practice, right?"

"Of course, of course!" Zhang Weiping felt very emotional in his heart. Looking at his awareness, it's no wonder he played the ball so well. He deserved to be a star just because of his hard work.

After talking with Frank and Nelson, Li Weisi followed Zhang Weiping to the gymnasium of Beijing Sports University.

Since the school was on holiday at this time, the school's arena was also empty, Zhang Weiping decisively let Li Weisi in after practicing with the school.

Li Weisi didn't care about the surrounding environment. When he came to the arena, he put down his backpack, put on his jersey, and began to warm up.

Zhang Weiping stayed on the sidelines all the time. After all, the foreign guests involved, if he left and left Li Weisi here alone, he couldn't afford to take care of what happened.

At first, he didn't care about it, but when Li Weisi started training, he was gradually attracted by Li Weisi's training.

All kinds of novel training methods and training movements are overwhelming, some of which he doesn't even know why Li Weisi did this, all the training reveals the word "professional".

This made Zhang Weiping very emotional. Compared with the backward training mode in China, Li Weisi's training is undoubtedly more scientific. Apart from feeling the gap between the two sides, he became curious about American basketball.

For a long time, like other people in China, he knew that American basketball is great, but why he is so good, and what is worth learning from it, but he didn't know much about it. This made Zhang Weiping feel that he seemed to be able to do something.

(End of this chapter)