I'm king in the basket

Chapter 261
"Larch, how long are you going to stay in China this time?"

Li Xing is not an ordinary person. As the most popular NBA player at the moment, all major schools have put on a big show.

In the United States, Li Xing faces all kinds of people from all over the world every day, but in China, the feeling is different.

"About ten days."

Li Xing's answer is enough to surprise people. You must know that his team announced long before the start that the global publicity campaign will not exceed two months, and it will take ten days in China alone. attention.

This is Li Xing's first day in China, and he quickly got into shape.

Various activities during the day and one-on-one interviews on national television in the evening.

The person sitting opposite him was also a well-known host in China. When he asked the first question, Li Xing answered him simply.

Just when he was about to continue asking questions, Li Xing interrupted him: "Excuse me, can I answer you in Chinese?"

Li Xing's words were like thunder, he said this sentence in Mandarin.

This made the earphone in his ear ready for simultaneous translation at any time a bit redundant.

Fang Hongsheng who was sitting in front of him was also shocked - isn't this guy a pure American?How can you speak Chinese so well?

No, he looks like a Chinese.
"Your Mandarin is great, who taught you?" Fang Hongsheng asked.

Li Xing smiled and said: "Although I am an American citizen, I have always known where my roots are. I have been learning Chinese for a long time. Seeing you, my efforts have not been in vain."

Not only was it not in vain
Fang Hongsheng dares to bet anyone with this month's salary that 95% of Chinese people can't speak Mandarin as well as Li Xing.

Like those with extremely serious accents, like Hu Jianren who never knew how to curl his tongue, and Cantonese who never knew the pronunciation of "z" and "s", etc., Li Xing did not have any similar problems.

He seems to have graduated from a broadcasting major, and his standard Mandarin is to die for.

In fact, Li Xing used to have an accent. In order not to arouse suspicion, he deliberately practiced for a while, and now he can hardly hear the accent.

"So, we can take this off."

Li Xing took off the earphones used for simultaneous translation, and Fang Hongsheng smiled: "It's much easier for me this way."

"Let's continue."

"Is there any difficulty in playing in the NBA as a Chinese American?"

Li Xing generally doesn't like to answer these official questions, and American reporters don't ask them, but in China, he has to adapt.

When he first heard this question, he suddenly wanted to talk nonsense like in the United States. Then he thought about the serious consequences that might be caused by doing so, so forget it.

Fang Hongsheng was half questioning and half discussing, and talked to Li Xing about the past few years in the United States.

When Fang Hongsheng asked about Li Xing's growth experience, he could only be vague.

Lacie Lee is set to be an orphan, and his growth experience is a typical "American Dream" story. Playing in the community, his height is getting taller and his talent is excellent, so he can only take the path of basketball, and finally changed his life with hard work .

Very typical American sports inspirational film script.

At the end of the interview, Fang Hongsheng asked a sensitive question: "If there is an opportunity in the future, would you like to play for the Chinese team?"

Li Xing smiled, neither denying nor affirming: "For me, this has always been one of the options. I have this plan, but the time is not yet ripe."

"Oh, so"

"No, don't jump to conclusions, don't be sure, I don't know what the future holds, maybe it will, maybe it won't."

Li Xing has the will to change his nationality to China, but now is not the time.

It is very simple to change the nationality to Chinese, as long as you invest a few million in the country, you can easily do it, but you need to think carefully about playing on behalf of the Chinese team.

If this matter is done well, it can help Li Xing accumulate popularity, but if it is messed up, it will also anger the world's largest fan market.

His identity is sensitive and special. He is American, but Chinese. He wants to play for the Chinese team. Now everyone does not know whether he said this casually or sincerely.

If he really chooses to be naturalized in the future, other people will make all kinds of speculations. If this degree is not grasped properly, everything will be ruined.

Li Xing's plan is to be naturalized first, and then represent the Chinese team in the competition.

The Asian Championships, the Asian Games, and the World Championships are all unnecessary. He only wants to play in the Olympics.

This is his plan, but it is hard to say how to implement this plan, at least he has taken a crucial step now.

This interview let fans across the country know that Li Xing is not only a yellow-skinned American, but also an American who has a Chinese heart and can speak standard Mandarin.

This episode will be aired in half a month.

The TV station decided to take the lead in warming up, so they released a clip of Li Xing speaking Mandarin for half a minute, which really stirred up waves on the Internet.

"Don't brag or criticize, what is Dante's Mandarin level?"

"In fairness, can Li Di's Mandarin pass 99% of the Chinese people?"

"If the men's basketball team has Li Di, how much help will it be?"

This is the effect brought by Li Xing. For a while, discussions about Li Xing's Mandarin flooded the Internet in China.

This is also the effect Li Xing wanted, and the goal of this step has been achieved.

Of course, it wasn't his idea.

Li Xing brought bodyguards and several assistants with him this time around the world, and Purdue Rangno was one of them.

"It seems that you have touched the sensitive nerves of the Chinese people." Rang Nuo couldn't help but said to Li Xing as he watched the incident that continued to ferment.

Li Xing asked: "The next step, what should I do?"

"If the adults in charge of the basketball team are not idiots, they should be ready to greet you by now. They won't miss this opportunity."

Jean Nuo made himself a cup of instant coffee: "If they invite you to join the Chinese team now, what would you do?"

"Of course I refuse."

"How to refuse?"

"This matter is not in my plan now, is that okay?" Li Xing asked.

Jeannot said calmly: "If you want the fans to give up their expectations of you, it's okay to do so."

"Tch, of course I know I can't do that."

Li Xing is not a fool, he knows how to deal with those people.

Sure enough, two days later, the special commissioner of the Basketball Association took the initiative to contact Li Xing.

This contact was carried out in secret and there was no advance notice, but the people who came to make contact were not ordinary people.

Lin Zhiguo, the deputy director of the basketball management center, has worked in this position for many years. Although he has not made any achievements, he has done his best. This time, as the spokesperson of the basketball association, he made a special trip to discuss with Li Xing.

Li Xing only left a bodyguard in the room, and no one else was invited out.

"Director, that guy can't understand Chinese, please tell me anything."

Li Xing was too lazy to play sloppy with this group of officials, he had something to say.

Lin Zhiguo was a bit embarrassed about addressing him, he hesitated for a long time before saying: "I am 20 years older than you, so I will call you Xiao Li, what do you think?"

Fortunately, his name is not Xiao Lizi
Every Qing palace drama will have a eunuch named Xiao Lizi.

Li Xing said lightly: "You are welcome."

Li Xing's calm demeanor made Lin Zhiguo secretly amazed. A young man like him, no matter how successful he is in his career, should always look like a young man. This guy is not the kind of young and mature person.

Although China and the world are separated by a wall of sighs, what Li Xing did in the United States will more or less spread to China.

According to Lin Zhiguo's understanding, Li Xing is a particularly dissolute person, he should be easy to talk, but now he looks like a little fox, which is really unpredictable.

"Xiao Li, it's like this. Recently, our men's basketball training team is preparing for a few warm-up matches, and it's in Shanghai."

Lin Zhiguo specifically proposed the place name, and Shanghai is Li Xing's next promotional location.

"I wonder if you are interested in knowing more?"

Lin Zhiguo asked with a smile.

"Who is the opponent?"

"Bosnia and Herzegovina Second Team."

Bosnia and Herzegovina?Or the second team?
What Li Xing didn't know was that even if the opponent was the second team, it was still a [-]-[-] opponent for the declining Chinese men's basketball team.

Considering the addition of the home court and the patriotic whistle, the men's basketball team has a [-]% winning rate, but this is also a good warm-up match.

This game may not be interesting, but Li Xing has to go.

"I'm very interested, and I happen to get to know everyone."

Li Xing's seemingly inadvertent mention made Lin Zhiguo tremble.

What a hint!

"Great, if the team members hear that you are coming to watch the game, they will definitely have a good game!" Lin Zhiguo said excitedly. "Although Yao Ming has retired, we still have many outstanding young talents."

"is it?"

Li Xing is a fake fan. He doesn't know much about the NBA 10 years later (and he also has limited knowledge about the one before 10), but he is a fan, so he knows the national basketball team.

Even if I stop playing or watching the NBA, I will pay attention to the national team's games.

He knew what was coming.

Without him, the men's basketball team would have qualified for the Olympics in the Asian Championships in 11, and then lost dozens of points per game in the London Olympics in 12, and went home after a disgraceful five-game losing streak. In 13 and 14, he won the fifth place in Asia in the two competitions in [-] and [-], and fell to the lowest point in history.

Lin Zhiguo's so-called "excellent young talent" will help the Chinese team return to the top of Asia in 15, and then lose five consecutive games in the Olympics.

It can be found that it is not a problem for the Chinese team to break through in Asia, and the difficulty lies in the world-class competitions.

After Yao Ming, the national basketball team has no big killer to control the situation.

What Li Xing wants to do is this role.

He now wants to show an interested but hesitant look, first to whet their appetites, and finally to negotiate terms with the Basketball Association.

There are not many points that can be earned by playing for the national team. Playing this game is for the domestic market and for selfishness-every fan will do it for a while when they see the Chinese team being slaughtered by European and American powers. Heroes can help the Chinese team overthrow this group of people" dream, and now this dream has come true.

Li Xing can do it.

However, this thing has to be done slowly.

(End of this chapter)