basketball kingdom

Chapter 10 Going to New York
On the evening before the draft, Xu Tian, ​​Alice and Li Lang flew to New York. Xu Tian came to this internationally renowned metropolis for the first time.

New York is the most populous city in the United States, sitting in the heart of the Greater New York metropolitan area and one of the largest economic centers in the world.

New York's financial district, led by Lower Manhattan and Wall Street, is known as the world's financial center. Among them, Manhattan's Chinatown is the densest concentration of Chinese in the Western Hemisphere.However, the purpose of Xu Tian's trip was not Manhattan, but Brooklyn, which is located in the southeast of Manhattan.

The draft is usually held at Madison Garden, home of the New York Knicks, or Barclays Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets. This year's draft is held in Brooklyn. Xu Tian, ​​who was invited to enter the small green room, can go to the scene tomorrow.

After taking the subway to Brooklyn, Xu Tian stood in the aisle of the subway. He just got off the plane and didn't want to sit on the seat yet.

Passengers who came to this carriage looked at him intentionally or unintentionally. In this carriage that was not full of passengers, it was really strange not to take a seat. In addition, Xu Tian was very big, so he naturally attracted him. A lot of eyes.

Xu Tian didn't pay attention to the people around him. He had long been used to playing in the public eye, and these eyes couldn't disturb him at all.

Xu Tian is now thinking about some things on his own, some things before and after.

Li Lang sat on the seat, flipping through his mobile phone, noting the phone number in the call log.Before the draft meeting, he still needs to make a final confirmation to see if the managers who are interested in Xu Tian have changed their minds.

Alice was not as energetic as Xu Tian, ​​so she sat on the seat and took a photo of Xu Tian with her mobile phone.

Now the wallpaper on her phone is Xu Tian. If you want to ask why, it is because Xu Tian used a confession that was not a confession yesterday evening to make Alice his girlfriend.

Athletes of Xu Tian's level are basically not allowed to mess around casually.Now that you are in love, there is a high probability that you will go to the end.

When Xu Tian used QQ to make a video call with his parents, he told them about his girlfriend.Apart from worrying that the progress was too fast, his parents didn't have any objections, they just said that Xu Tian liked it.

Xu Tian's father's name is Xu Guangcai, and his mother's name is Meng Jing. They are both national second-level basketball players. They only represent the provincial team at the highest level, and they are not considered the core of the team.However, this kind of family structure gave Xu Tian enough physical talent, giving him the opportunity to embark on the path of professional basketball.

Perhaps influenced by his parents, Xu Tian liked playing basketball since he was a child.His parents also wanted Xu Tian to continue his career, so they sent Xu Tian to a professional basketball sports school for more than ten years.

During these years in sports school and playing professionally, Xu Tian seldom went home, so he didn't have much communication with his parents.It may be that they feel a little owed, the couple rarely get involved in Xu Tian's affairs, even when Xu Tian submitted his application to the NBA, the two of them did not participate too much.

The only thing Xu Guangcai participated in the decision-making was Xu Tian's endorsement contract.

When he was still in the CBA, Nike, Adidas and Li Ning all offered olive branches to Xu Tian.As we all know, Nike and Adidas are both very top sports brands, and the contracts they gave are no worse than Li Ning's. However, after meeting with Li Ning once, Xu Guangcai recognized Li Ning. Tian signed a ten-year contract with Li Ning.

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When Xu Tian came out of his own thoughts, he saw that Alice had fallen asleep, so he walked over and sat beside her so that she could sleep with his arms.

Xu Tian had known Alice for less than a week, but there was already an unusual tacit understanding between the two of them, which made Xu Tian identify this girl.

Li Lang, who finished noting his phone information, made a phone call to book a hotel. Although he is still a child, but with Xu Tian's trust, he has put aside his own worries and slowly embarked on the road of a professional agent. .

Looking at the passing scenery outside the car window, Xu Tian sighed in his heart, there are too many unpredictable things in life.At least when he first arrived in the United States, he never thought that he would get a girlfriend so quickly, nor would he think that he would hire another agent soon after he fired his agent.

When the subway arrived at the station, Alice just woke up from her sleep and saw Xu Tian sitting next to her, with a smile on her face unconsciously.The beginning of love is always hot and sweet, Xu Tian and she are in this stage.

But now there are still a lot of business to do, and the two of them didn't have too much intimate interaction. They followed Li Lang out of the subway hand in hand, and walked into Brooklyn.

Brooklyn is the most populous district in the five major districts of New York. If the districts of New York are independent cities, then Brooklyn is the third most populous city after Los Angeles and Chicago, and it can also be counted as the fourth largest city in the United States.

In the [-]th century, Brooklyn had nicknames such as the City of Trees, the City of Homes and the City of Churches. It had a unique charm; compared with Manhattan, the capital of the world on the other side, it has a more rural atmosphere and a more livable environment.

Being here, Xu Tian still has many surprises, and wants to feel the atmosphere here up close.However, Li Lang had already ordered a taxi, so he had no choice but to look away, and sat in the back of the taxi with Alice.

This reminded Xu Tian of the scene when he went to Staples a few days ago.But at that time, the atmosphere between the two was just a little ambiguous, and Alice only dared to lean on Xu Tian secretly, but now the two have become lovers.

Li Lang had exchanged dollars for Xu Tian a long time ago, and now he has more than enough money to spend. In order to let Li Lang, a workaholic, enjoy himself, Xu Tian specially asked him to book a five-star hotel.

When the taxi stopped in front of the reserved hotel, Xu Tian took a look at the outside of the hotel, but he couldn't see much except that it was luxurious enough.

After entering the hotel lobby, the three of them came to the front desk. Li Lang and Alice took out their driver's licenses, and Xu Tian took out his passport.Although Alice is of mixed Chinese and American blood, she is still an American citizen after all, and has her own unique identity card.

"Sir, here are the key cards for the three rooms you booked." After confirming the information of the three, the front desk staff took out three hotel key cards and handed them to Li Lang.

Li Lang handed the other two key cards to Xu Tian, ​​and the three of them walked towards the elevator together.

When entering the elevator, Xu Tian saw an old opponent, a small foreign player who played for the Guangdong team this year-Emanuel Mudiay.Mudiay was the favorite of the No. [-] pick before, but in order to earn money earlier, he played in the CBA for a year, and now his predicted draft pick has dropped a bit.

Mudiay was talking about something with the people beside him, and he didn't stop to talk to Xu Tian.When the draft is about to start, everyone is very busy, which is also reasonable.

Li Lang made the first call in the elevator. It was to Pat Riley, president of the Miami Heat. They had the tenth pick in the first round this year and expressed their interest in choosing Xu Tian.

After the Miami Heat formed the Big Three in the summer of 2010, they went through four consecutive Eastern Conference championship seasons.However, after James returned to the Cavaliers last summer, the Heat withdrew from the ranks of the top teams. Coupled with Wade's age, they want to use the No. [-] pick to select a suitable candidate this year.

Xu Tian couldn't understand English, and he didn't care about what Li Lang and Riley said. Now he needs to go through it in his mind to see if everything he needs to prepare is ready.

When walking out of the elevator, Alice called out from behind and said, "Xiaotian, we forgot the custom suit in Los Angeles!"

Xu Tian remembered after hearing Alice's words, they didn't bring custom-made suits.Because the lottery show basically has shots, you need to prepare very formal clothes.

Li Lang covered the bottom of the phone with his hands so that the voices of Xu Tian and Alice would not be transmitted to the other end of the phone, and said anxiously: "You two hurry up and buy a suit! I still have a lot of calls to make, I can't go with the two of you."

Alice looked at the watch on her wrist. It was already six o'clock in the afternoon. Although the three of them hadn't eaten yet, they couldn't care about it at this time.Quickly rushed back to the elevator, and the two set off to buy suits.

Li Lang entered the reserved room and continued to communicate with Pat Riley. After another 5 minutes, the call ended.

Li Lang took a break, dug out the phone's address book, continued to dial the number of the next team manager that had been noted, and started the next round of communication.

When Xu Tian and Alice returned to the hotel with their suits, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.Because of Xu Tian's tall stature, the two of them traveled a long distance before finding a shop that could make custom suits. Finally, under the rush of the tailor, they hurriedly made them.

After Li Lang ordered takeaway for dinner, Xu Tian and Alice had already received the call and went directly to Li Lang's room.When Xu Tian entered the door, he found that besides the sumptuous dinner, there was also a bottle of sober wine on the table.

Xu Tian quickly started to move his chopsticks. After this day, he was already very hungry.He didn't drink and wanted to wait until after the draft pick was confirmed before celebrating.

Li Lang's mission was completed. He took a sip of the red wine in his glass and said to Xu Tian, ​​"There are two team managers who have clearly stated that if they fall into their lottery, they will definitely choose you. This is what I can do." To the maximum extent, the rest depends on tomorrow's draft."

Xu Tian nodded slightly. He didn't know what would happen tomorrow, but he would know the result soon.

(End of this chapter)