NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

Zi Chunlin, who was far away in the stands on the second floor, seemed to notice Zhang Jinshui's gaze. She turned her head and looked over, waved to him with a smile, pointed to the gate of the arena, and made a silent gesture with two index fingers crossed .

Zhang Jinshui nodded to her, went back to the locker room to shower and change clothes, then bid farewell to Turiaf and other temporary teammates, and went straight to the entrance of the arena with a shoulder bag on his shoulder to wait for Zi Chunlin.

As Zi Chunlin predicted, there were already more than a dozen beautiful country media guarding there, and they immediately surrounded Zhang Jinshui when they saw Zhang Jinshui.

"Zhang, how would you rate your performance in the group match?"

"Zhang, how do you evaluate Lutherhead who is playing against you?"

"Zhang, can you talk about your upcoming itinerary? Which team will you start your trial training with?"

"I saw that your agent has been in frequent contact with Knicks scout Tom these days. Will the Knicks be the team you prefer to join?"

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Reporters from more than a dozen media put their microphones and interview mics in front of Zhang Jinshui's face, with enthusiastic expressions, and questions rang out one after another like a cannonball.

This inevitably made Zhang Jinshui feel like a world away.

Before the group match, the same reporters from the beautiful country cast only indifference and ridicule in their gazes, and even the occasional questions were full of sharp sarcasm.

"Sorry, my English is not very good. I'd better leave your questions to my manager, Ms. Zi Chunlin."

Zhang Jinshui said coldly that even without Zi Chunlin's advice, he would not waste his generosity on these snobbish reporters from the beautiful country.

It was not until the two reporters from Huaguo who followed him to the beautiful country squeezed into the interview circle that Zhang Jinshui showed a warm smile on his face. The eyes of both sides met with emotion. After getting along with each other in the training camp for the past few days, These few Chinese people who were strangers in a foreign land unexpectedly cultivated a comrade-in-arms friendship of sharing weal and woe.

Zhang Jinshui patiently communicated with them in Mandarin some details of the game just now, as well as the thoughts in his mind at that time.

About 10 minutes later, the belated Zi Chunlin finally appeared at the gate of the gymnasium. Her pretty face was filled with a bright and confident smile, and her slender legs stepped on black high-heeled shoes. Beside Zhang Jinshui.

Reporters from the beautiful country gathered around again.

Zi Chunlin looked at herself in front of more than a dozen microphones, and spoke in proficient English, and focused on conveying a message to the media. There are too many teams that invited Zhang Jinshui to participate in the trial training, which made her a little distressed.

Before meeting Zhang Jinshui, Zi Chunlin was a Chinese college student who had just graduated from UCLA. Since she was young, she liked watching the NBA and wanted to be a basketball agent. She rejected the job that her parents arranged for her in the family company. Traveled thousands of miles to Huaguo to find young players who have the potential to get a chance to play in the NBA.

After several weeks of searching, they finally found Zhang Jinshui.

However, when they were working on Zhang Jinshui's coming to the United States, in order to force the siblings to give up their unreliable career as a basketball agent, their powerful parents cut off all their financial support.

In the end, her unreliable brother gave up, and she, relying on the scholarship she had saved in the past few years, gritted her teeth and brought Zhang Jinshui to the United States.

Even though Zhang Jinshui's performance in the joint trial training was not satisfactory, she still wanted to try her best to help this Huaguo boy.

Before the start of this game, she had already made up her mind that if no team was willing to give Zhang Jinshui a chance, she would go home and confess to her strong parents. At worst, she would sacrifice her dream and ask her parents to accept their Old friend Alexander helped Zhang Jinshui get a chance to try out the Rockets.

Fortunately, Zhang Jinshui was able to live up to his expectations.

Just now, scouts and assistant coaches from at least 10 teams took the initiative to greet her and express their willingness to invite Zhang Jinshui to participate in their team trials, including New York Knicks and Boston Celtics. These are teams from big ball markets.

Looking at their eager smiles, it was hard for Zi Chunlin to imagine that a few hours ago, it was the same group of people who said to her in a superior manner, "Miss Zi Chunlin, please go back, follow the procedure, Our team will have an internal discussion tomorrow, if you are interested in Zhang Jinshui, we will contact you."

Whether it was the initial perfunctory or the current eagerness, the nature is actually the same. This group of people did not give her the most basic respect at all.

I've heard people say before that the social circle behind the NBA is not that big, and they are very familiar with each other, but this circle is very old-fashioned, very old-fashioned, and very repulsive to non-beautiful people.

In the past few days, Zi Chunlin has seen it.

She swore secretly in her heart that as a woman with Chinese blood, she must make a name for herself in this circle.

And to do this, she must have enough good players in her hands. In the final analysis, the core of the NBA league is the players.

As long as she can help Zhang Jinshui gain a firm foothold in the NBA, as long as she can discover more potential players from Huaguo and bring them to the NBA, she will be eligible to have her own place in the league. At that time, her request , she will no longer be perfunctory, and her feelings must be carefully taken care of.

As an honorary graduate of the top Ivy League university in the beautiful country, Zi Chunlin has both a strong learning ability for new things and a keen sense of the world.

In the arena just now, when she found that the team representatives tried to induce her to give Zhang Jinshui a verbal commitment to participate in their team's trial training with enthusiastic smiles and sincere words, she wisely chose to avoid it. Likewise, in NBA circles, verbal promises have a similar force to official announcements in black and white.

Moreover, she told these team representatives that if they really sincerely invite Zhang Jinshui to their team for trial training, they should quickly provide an official invitation letter and attach a detailed trial training schedule.

Unknowingly, she has become the party that has the initiative in the dialogue with the team, which proves once again that in the NBA, the core is still excellent players.

Now Zhang Jinshui has proved his potential through a game, and next, it is her turn to help Zhang Jinshuiyou maximize his interests.

"In the NBA, in addition to the official joint trial training, there are three mainstream trial training methods,

The first is the open trial training organized by player agents. They can arrange the content of the trial training independently and invite teams that the players are interested in to watch.This kind of trial training method can only be enjoyed by the recognized son of heaven. Yao Ming in 02 and the little emperor James in 03 adopted this method.

The second is the collective trial training organized by the team. The team usually invites the players they are interested in together. The so-called trial training content is actually mostly for young players to compete with each other, so that the team can intuitively determine the best choice. The competition in this kind of trial training is fierce and cruel.

The third is the individual trial training arranged by the team for the players. Although it is still necessary to compete with the players specially recruited by the team. The competition is relatively friendly, and it can also be seen that the team respects and values ​​the players. "

After dinner, Zi Chunlin and Zhang Jinshui returned to the Hilton Hotel. After a simple settlement, Zi Chunlin returned to Zhang Jinshui's room with a pen and paper. While explaining to him, he explained the three training methods and their main features. write on paper.

"The first training method is naturally not something I can enjoy. I think you should try to help me get more opportunities for individual trial training, right?" Zhang Jinshui said with an unnatural expression on his eyes. somewhere else.

At this time, Zi Chunlin took off her delicate makeup and turned her face to the sky, but her beauty has not diminished at all.

She was wearing a very homely white T-shirt. When she lowered her head to write and draw on the paper, the slightly loose neckline inevitably poured out a bit of white and greasy spring.

The current Zhang Jinshui is not a young boy who has just grown up. In his last life, he was several years older than Zi Chunlin.

"Yes, after chatting with those scouts after the game today, I predict that at least 9 teams will send us trial training invitations tomorrow. But now there are only 23 days before the draft. To ensure that every Each trial has plenty of rest and preparation time, I only plan to let you participate in training with 4 or 5 teams.

Rejecting half of the nine trial invitations means we have plenty of room to bargain with the teams.I'll ask them for individual workouts and spread them evenly over the next three weeks.

But before that, I need to know your tendency and which teams you want to go to more. "

"May I know the names of those teams?"

"New York Knicks, Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks, Orlando Magic, Golden State Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, Boston Celtics, Detroit Pistons." Zi Chunlin wrote down the teams one by one on paper The name.

Zhang Jinshui immediately put his finger on the name of the Rockets, and said happily, "I am most inclined to the Rockets. To be able to fight side by side with Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady is my ultimate dream as a player."

"However, the Rockets only have one draft pick with the 24th pick in the first round. They are a strong team in the Western Conference. Champion. I think they should be more inclined to replenish their immediate combat power in the draft, judging from your test results in the joint trial training..." Zi Chunlin began to hesitate after speaking halfway.

Zhang Jinshui laughed at himself, and then Zi Chunlin said: "Although I have successfully aroused their interest through the performance of the match, but with my real strength, at most there is a lottery in the middle and late stages of the second round. The pick is too high, they probably won't draft me, and working out for the Rockets is probably just a waste of trying out for other teams, right?"

"Yes, we must recognize the reality. The advice I can give you is to try your best to stay in the NBA first, and then seek better development."

"I fully understand what you mean, but I'd better keep the Rockets in my training list. It's my dream to play in the NBA with Yao Ming McGrady and win the championship. If such an opportunity presents itself, I won't fight for it. I don't think I can have any future in the NBA." Zhang Jinshui was very firm.

"Okay." Zi Chunlin nodded, and said, "Then accept the Rockets' invitation to try out, and look at it from another perspective. After all, everyone knows that the Rockets only have the No. 24 pick in the first round. Let's release the news of the Rockets' tryouts." Finally, it will also help your draft quotes.

Also, is the city where the team is located a factor for you?For example, the Knicks, as a club in New York, are naturally in the spotlight, or the Golden State, where the Warriors are located, is the place where Chinese people gather most in the beautiful country. Playing in these places, you are more likely to become the focus of the media and earn money. Money off the pitch. "

"I just want to concentrate on playing. I don't care about things like attention. I believe that as long as I become good enough in the future, no matter which team I am in, these things will come to my door.

In addition, I don’t think about the New York Knicks. I heard that the internal management of this team is chaotic. There will be no good room for growth. "

Zi Chunlin smiled gratifiedly and said: "It's good that you have such an idea, and it saves me a lot of trouble. I have to admit that although you are only 19 years old, your ideas are quite mature, at least better than my 19-year-old's." The time is ripe, next, you should take a good rest first, adjust your state, and leave other things to me."