Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 125 Background Determines Everything

After the "exclusive interview" was finished, Abby asked Ye Feng to treat her to dinner very bluntly, Ye Feng was speechless: I am working with you now, Miss?But there is no way, who made Abby a girl with a pretty good relationship with him?What's more, she is a beautiful woman. Basically, as long as she says she wants someone to treat her to dinner, the person who pays the bill will definitely be able to line up in the Rose Garden Arena from here.Ye Feng was not hypocritical, he directly took Abby to his favorite restaurant and had a big meal.

At the dinner table, Abby was struggling with a piece of steak and asked curiously: "The results of the first round of voting for next year's All-Star Game will be out in a few days. Why do I feel like you don't care at all?" Ye Feng said slowly: "How should I pay attention? Could it be that I can be selected as an All-Star in my rookie season? Don't talk about it, it's almost the same for me to participate in the Rookie Challenge, and the Rookie Challenge does not require fans to vote."

As a result, his perfunctory attitude was criticized by Abby: "What's wrong with a rookie? A rookie can't be selected as an All-Star? Your fellow Yao, isn't he the starting center of the Western Conference All-Star who snatched O'Neal when he first entered the league?" Why don’t you have any confidence? I see you, you just don’t take it seriously, why don’t you have any motivation?” Ye Feng rolled his eyes: “Please, is Yao’s experience something I can copy? ?Do you know what status he was in China before he entered the NBA? If it were me, hehe, do Chinese fans know that there is someone like me in the NBA? "

Abby had to admit that Ye Feng was right. A very important fact was that Yao Ming was a star trained by Chinese basketball, while Ye Feng had an American basketball background.Before participating in the draft, Ye Feng was only Mr. Basketball in California and won an NCAA championship at the same time, but Yao Ming has already dominated the entire CBA. At the age of 17, Yao Ming played his first professional game. In the last season of the CBA, that is, the 2001-02 season, he averaged 32.4 points, 19 rebounds and 4.8 blocks per game. Contributed 41.3 points, 21 rebounds and 4.3 blocks, leading the Shanghai Sharks to overthrow the rule of the Bayi Dynasty.

It can almost be said that Yao Ming was already the existence of Dugu Qiubai in the CBA back then, not to mention that he was the representative of that generation of China's "Mobile Great Wall". Do some business.At that time, the league launched online voting, so in the 2002-03 season NBA All-Star voting, Yao Ming won 128.6 million votes, ranking fifth in the league, second only to Kobe in the West, and forced O'Neal to the bench.Among the more than 100 million votes, Chinese fans contributed a lot.

But Ye Feng is different, he can't even be defined as "the second generation of stars". Back then, his father Ye Ning was more in the Spanish league, and had no impact on the CBA. If it wasn't for the national team training, maybe Many local stars will never see him.In this way, it is understandable that Ye Feng is not well-known in China. After all, his father did not become famous in China.What's more, he can't be regarded as a purely Chinese player now, or it can be said that he is a Chinese-American. With Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, the two pillars of the national team's insiders, both active in the NBA, there is really no need for Chinese fans to waste their votes in his body.

Faced with Ye Feng's explanation, Abby reluctantly accepted it, but she still maintained the attitude of a journalist who broke the casserole and asked to the end, and asked dissatisfied: "Can't you even canvass votes online? Let Chinese fans understand you It's not bad for a while, not to mention that you are a swingman, and you don't conflict with Yao's position, so it won't prevent you from continuing to choose Yao if they choose you!" Ye Feng thought for a while, but shook his head: "Forget it, I'll be silent Just take part in my rookie challenge, all-star voting, I’m sure there will be when I become famous in the future, maybe it’s a good idea for me to recommend myself to participate in the three-point contest and the slam dunk contest?”

Abby held her forehead, wishing she could beat up the lazy guy in front of her right now.I've never seen someone so inactive. You know, it's an All-Star. For many NBA players, this is already a big enough stage. This guy actually doesn't care about canvassing. That's really useless" No big ambitions" can be used to describe it.Ye Feng didn't care, he was still eating what was on his plate, as if just now Abby was just discussing with him that the one dollar on the ground was worth picking up.

Don't say that Ye Feng is indifferent to fame and wealth, in his opinion, these things are not worth discussing seriously, even if he is an All-Star, he can have more confidence when discussing contract extension with the team.His reasoning is very simple, as long as the game is played well, as long as the management is not blind, a player with good statistics, especially high-level statistics, will be offered a big contract. Of course, the maximum salary still needs to be fought for by oneself of.In that case, what does it matter if he doesn't make it to the All-Stars?He doesn't deny that it's an honor, but isn't it a bit too low-key to solicit votes for this?After I play it myself, I don't need to canvass for votes, I guess I can enter the All-Stars.

As for the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest, it's not impossible to participate, but this is not something that can be decided by oneself.Whether it is the skills challenge, the three-point contest or the slam dunk contest, only the defending champion will definitely be invited. Among the other contestants, the remaining places in the skill and slam dunk contests are entirely through self-registration and alliance invitations. If you sign up If there are not enough players, the league will refer to the performance of all players in the game, and then send invitations to some of the best players.In other words, if Ye Feng wants to participate, at least the alliance must issue an invitation.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, the only thing he's looking forward to in this season's All-Star Game is the Rookie Challenge, because it's the first time he's teamed up with his UCLA teammates after entering the NBA, and he presumably only needs to be the head coach of the first-year rookie team If the senior didn't have cramps and wanted to win the game, he would definitely put the three of them on the field at the same time.In Ye Feng's opinion, participating in those sub-events is not as interesting as the Rookie Challenge, reliving the feeling of fighting side by side with teammates during the NCAA period, and by the way, fighting against second-year rookies with those players who were opponents. Very exciting.

As for the All-Star Game?I'd better watch the superstars perform hard on the sidelines silently!
(End of this chapter)