I'm king in the basket

Chapter 503 The Devil Overcame Reason
Defeating the Kings away, the NBA ushered in the All-Star Weekend.

This year's All-Star Weekend was held in Houston.

Among the Raptors, Li Xing and Bargnani were selected as All-Stars.

Middleton signed up for the [-]-point contest.

The holiday, which should have been fun, was disturbed by the rumors of the transaction that were circulating.

The Raptors are determined to send Stephenson away before the trade deadline.

Now is the time when Stephenson's transaction value is the greatest. Sending him away at this time can get the greatest return.

Many teams have contacted the Raptors, but few teams have provided satisfactory offers.

This is the downside of players taking the initiative to apply for a trade.

When doing business, as long as you actively sell, and the goods you sell are not indispensable, others will naturally lower the price.

As some reporters with inside information said: "The Raptors have not received any serious offers yet."

A serious offer means that the teams that came to negotiate before all came here with the intention of teasing you.

Entering the All-Star Weekend, the exchanges between the teams have become frequent.

Especially the Kings and Raptors.

After that game, the two teams had a very valuable exchange.

Stephenson fidgets.

If he is traded to the Kings, he is tantamount to pushing himself into the fire pit.

Although he can't start in the Raptors, the competition he faces here is not as fierce as the Kings.

Moreover, he is self-aware, and he doesn't think he can compete with Evans.

If he ends up going to the Kings, he will leave a championship team that offered him the sixth man position and go to a team that can only hover on the edge of the playoffs as a second or even third substitute.

If this happens, he is destined to become a laughing stock.

Shouldn't the sixth man of the championship team be the seventh or even eighth man of the pseudo-strong team on the edge of the playoffs?Isn't this funny?

It stands to reason that Stephenson now only needs to stay at home and wait quietly for the transaction to happen.

It is almost certain that he will be traded before the trade deadline.

He doesn't need to go anywhere, he has already played the last game on behalf of the Raptors.

But he still came to Houston with Li Xing and others.

On the plane, everyone should talk and eat, and there is no sadness about decibels at all.

Li Xing deliberately didn't talk about that topic, and the others also deliberately avoided it.

Stephenson acted as lively as ever, as if the trade wasn't going to happen.

Houston

If there is no Li Xing, the current Houston has completed the reconstruction through the transaction, and they will get the future MVP player James Harden.

As a result, Li Xing's words, or because of his arrival, changed the wheel of fortune.

Harden stayed in Oklahoma City. In the 21st century, the NBA's biggest event has become a reality.

No one knows what kind of great achievements these three people will achieve in the future. After all, there is still the mountain of the Raptors in front of them.

Failing to trade players who can be used as cornerstones to train, the Rockets can only make up for it.

They don't want to be bad, so the record has been going up and down.

Their pick is extremely embarrassing, they can't get high picks, and they are insulated from those talented supernovas; it is also difficult to make a difference in the free market.

It is admirable to insist on not being bad, but the follow-up operation requires the Rockets' management to think carefully.

Li Xing, Bargnani, Stephenson, Button, and Middleton came to Houston.

The Raptors have a team of five. Except for Stephenson, the other four are all going to be on stage during the All-Star Weekend.

"Larch, what do you think of the Lance Stephenson deal?"

Journalists are best at asking such unsightly questions.

Without a smile on his face, Li Xing replied stiffly: "Let it be."

"So, you don't care about Lance's going or staying?"

"I want him to stay, but everyone has their own pursuit."

Li Xing answered a few words briefly, resisting the urge to send the reporter flying.

A group of five people came to the reserved hotel to stay.

"I think I will book this hotel when I come to Houston to play in the future."

Baggnani praised the hotel's facilities.

DeRozan had nothing to say, and kept praising: "Yeah, it's great here!"

"Can you be a little more reserved?"

Li Xing frowned.

"The environment here is really good."

Stephenson looked around and around, but couldn't find anything wrong.

Tomorrow, this year's All-Star Weekend will officially start.

Li Xing was watching TV, neither asking nor thinking.

After a while, someone knocked on the door.

It's Stephenson.

"Lance, shouldn't you be out messing around right now?"

Li Xing is used to becoming the VIP of the most famous local nightclub wherever he goes.

"Today is not appropriate."

Stephenson said.

He spoke seriously, his eyes met Li Xing, and he seemed to have something to say.

"come in."

Li Xing opened the door and Stephenson walked in.

Stephenson's arrival seemed to trigger some special law, and others also came to Li Xing's room.

Bargnani bought some food and drink outside, and came over at the same time as the two rookies.

"Bet? These guys must have brought something delicious."

Li Xing smiled.

"Don't bet, they will definitely bring it." Stephenson is also used to it.

Bargnani likes to hold small parties in the hotel the most. He is usually criticized by Snyder by name. It's not that they can't hold parties, but that the food they eat is unhealthy.

The Raptors are now in full swing, and there are far more people who hate them than like them. What if someone poisons their food?
Don't forget Jordan back then.

That is to say, the Jazz fans still have points in their hearts, but they just took some drugs that affect their status. If the drugs are replaced with arsenic, regardless of the consequences, basketball may not have the best player in history.

Snyder thinks that the food outside is unhealthy, so if he wants to eat, he brings all the equipment and cooks himself in the hotel.

However, what delicious food can these five big and three rough people cook?Can it compare to the outside?This suggestion was naturally ignored.

Snyder couldn't help but be angry.

"Guys, look what I brought. Whiskey, Chinatown duck, Mexican beef, and rotten high-energy sugared egg tarts!"

Well, these things are prohibited on the diet.

Li Xing's eyes straightened: "Nani, I knew you knew me best."

"Naturally, we are partners. If I don't know you, who would know you?" The pride in Bargnani's eyes almost flew out of his eyeballs.

"What are you waiting for?"

Stephenson gulped.

Button is eager to try, Middleton is eager to see through but does not want to break the ring.

Li Xing was not that particular, poured a glass of wine, picked up an egg tart and ate it.

"Larch, are you not afraid...Aren't you afraid of affecting the state of the game?" Barton asked.

Systematic people can do whatever they want.

Li Xing said while eating: "How can we have the strength to play the game if we are not full?"

"But these... are not healthy."

"Health? Health is nothing!"

Li Xing wiped his mouth and began to instill fallacies into the rookies: "Do you think Michael Jordan is great?"

"Great."

"The best in history, great or not?"

"He is synonymous with greatness!"

Li Xing didn't expect that there would be a bunch of Jordan loyal fans sitting here.

That being the case, it is all the more necessary to share this story.

"Do you know? Michael didn't pay attention to healthy eating until his first comeback." Li Xing said, "Before that, the best players in history were also vegetarians. They ate whatever they wanted."

"You mean he could have achieved more?"

Middleton was taken aback.

Li Xing really wanted to pour whiskey on his head, this guy is not clear-headed.

"No, what I mean is, when you reach a certain age, you can follow the dietary regulations. Even the best player in history doesn't take this regulation seriously. What are you afraid of? Just eat, drink today, drink today, We have to cherish the moment!"

Button was obviously convinced, but Middleton was still hesitating: "That is to say, if he could change his eating habits earlier, he would have achieved greater achievements?"

Why can't this idiot understand people's words?
Li Xing was anxious: "Chris, do you eat or not? Even Michael doesn't restrain himself. Do you think you are better than Michael?"

"You are lying."

Middleton was about to argue with Li Xing: "Michael is Michael, because he is the best player in history, so he can do this."

"Then you just stay here and watch us eat."

Li Xingcai didn't have time to teach rookies.

Everyone except Middleton started eating.

The food of this group of people was ugly. Seeing such delicious and fragrant food being eaten by them in various disgusting ways, Middleton actually felt a little hungry.

There was a voice in his heart admonishing him.

If you reach out, you lose.

Impulse is the devil, and you can't be the devil, Chris.

Don't forget, you have to be your best self, don't eat, don't eat, everything in front of you is just a small profit!

stop!

Middleton stretched out his hand and took the last egg tart in his palm.

Egg tarts, high-calorie junk desserts, and what Bargnani bought is a fighter in the garbage-sweetened egg tarts!
For this egg tart, ordinary people need to exercise for 10 to [-] minutes to consume the energy it brings.

Evil thoughts overcame reason, and Middleton fell.

"That's right, Chris."

Once the precept is broken, the rest is easy.

Middleton stared guiltily at the same time gobbling it up.

A few seconds ago, he was still despising the eating of the other four people in his heart, and in a blink of an eye, his eating was assimilated, even more disgusting than the others.

Li Xing ate, turned on the TV, and put it on a sports station.

It just so happened that this TV station was reporting on things in the NBA trading market.

"According to reliable sources, the Kings made a very attractive offer to the Raptors this afternoon."

(End of this chapter)