NBA: Start the water cooler and reach the Hall of Fame

With Han Yinzhi's operation, Huaguo's professional basketball circle soon became turbulent...

But at this moment, in the distant America, there is still a peaceful atmosphere.

After winning the best player in the East in the first week of the game, since the next game will be until November 11, there are still three days for the Wizards to rest.

Therefore, during this rare break time, Li Kaiming received interview invitations from more than one media, or invited him to talk shows, or had separate private interviews.

However, Li Kaiming himself is not particularly interested in making public appearances in the media, so he only accepted a few interviews with basketball-related programs, and refused all other entertainment programs. This surprised his agent Monica .

You know, there are quite a few NBA players who like to participate in various variety shows in their spare time. Fortunately, during the offseason, there are still some guys who are restless when they are recovering from their injuries.

The reason for doing this is because some players are a little bit drifting after entering the NBA, especially those with big contracts. After experiencing the feeling of a multi-millionaire, they naturally want to pursue the feeling of being respected by others. Showing up in public is obviously a good choice.

But Li Kaiming did not do this. Almost all the programs he participated in were related to basketball. This made his agent Monica feel lucky again. , Li Kaiming doesn't even go to nightclubs very often.

Of course, various programs only take up a small part of Li Kaiming's rest time, and he still spends most of his time getting along with his family and team training.

This kid Sun Yue was very excited in the garbage time of the last game, which made him think that he had found a feeling of improvement in training, so he has been doing devil training almost every day for the past three days.

Li Kaiming is fine, he doesn't live with this guy, so Sun Yue can't drag Li Kaiming with him, but Yi Jianlian, because he lives with Sun Yue, is dragged by this kid to get up early for training every day, even though it's not until four o'clock in the morning level, but you have to open your eyes at six o'clock.

This is a kind of torture for Yi Jianlian, who is used to sleeping late during the rest time, but after this month of hard work, he has also found a little feeling of training, and the changed shooting posture is basically fixed. Come here, although the hit rate cannot be compared with the previous posture, it is at least the beginning.

The two Huaguo players who received feedback in training unknowingly became the two hardest-trained players in the Wizards team, which even Li Kaiming himself did not expect.

However, Li Kaiming felt very relieved to see these two people have such perseverance and motivation. After all, this is his future teammate of the national team. Who doesn't want their teammates to be strong?

On November 11, after a few days of rest in place, the Wizards set off again and took a special plane to New York, the largest city in America and one of the global financial centers.

Tomorrow night, they will face the New York Knicks on a national live broadcast. It has to be said that the influence of the metropolis is strong. After the gorilla Ewing retired, the Knicks have not made the playoffs for several years. In this way, the Knicks still have the most All-America live broadcasts in the league and the highest market value.

This is the influence of the big ball market!

Besides, fans in New York are also very supportive of the team. The most famous Knicks fan is undoubtedly the well-known director Spike Lee who often sits on the sidelines and wears a floral suit.

If nothing else, Spike Lee will appear on the sidelines in this match.

When the team left Washington, the head coach had already announced to the team that Arenas would continue to be absent due to injury and would not go away with the team.

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the Wizards had a vague guess: Arenas might be close to being traded...

No one thought that Agent No. 0, who was all-powerful back then, would never recover after the gunmen incident.

I'm afraid this is God's punishment for Arenas...

The peaceful night passed, the sun once again shone on the earth, and the quiet New York began to make noise again.

After returning to the team, Li Kaiming resumed his previous routine and started training with Sun Yueyi Jianlian.

In the afternoon, it was still videotaping and running tactics. Sanders told Li Kaiming when he was arranging tactics that if nothing else happened, the latter would face Stoudemire tonight.

Li Kaiming said that he doesn't care about it, Howard has already fought, so how can you be afraid of you, a mere Stoudemire?

At six o'clock in the evening, the familiar Madison Square Garden.

This is the second time for Li Kaiming to come to this arena known as the Holy Land of basketball, but the last time he came here was to participate in the draft and had no chance to play on the court.

But this time, if nothing unexpected happens, he should come to mess things up.

In the pre-match interview, the reporter asked Li Kaiming some questions related to winning the best player. Li Kaiming's overall performance was relatively modest, saying that he would like to thank the team for their support, and finally said some scenes with more goals than that.

Then the reporter asked the main point, "In this game, you will face Amare Stoudemire. Will you have a different mentality when facing such a player? How will you defend him?"

Boring question!

Li Kaiming commented on the reporter's question in his heart, and then with a ceremonial smile on his face, "Of course he is a very good basketball player. His face-up breakthrough and his mid-range are difficult to defend. I can only do my best." Do your best to restrain him."

The same question was also asked to the Knicks, but the subject was changed to Li Kaiming.

The current head coach of the Knicks, Mike D'Antoni, is a fat old man with a kind face and a mustache. He coached Stoudemire as early as the Suns, so Stoudemire's choice to join the Knicks in the offseason must also have his factors.

D'Antoni held down the microphone with a serious expression on his face, "I have seen Li Kaiming's performance in the first three games, and it was impeccable. I think his strength is no less than that of some All-Star insiders. We will Set up defense inside and outside at the same time, try to make him play as hard as possible!"

D'Antoni's evaluation of Li Kaiming aroused discussion among reporters on the scene, because this is the first time an NBA coach has praised Li Kaiming so much.

Especially when the 76ers head coach Doug Collins said that John Wall is not bad for Li Kaiming in the last game, D'Antoni's evaluation is even more shocking.

When the reporter asked how Stoudemire would think about his matchup with Li Kaiming, Stoudemire made a cool gesture, "Brother, you know, I won't let him break ground on my head!"

The meaning of Stoudemire is obvious. As a person who averaged 37 points per game on the head of the genuine Duncan in his peak period, facing a Duncan 2.0, he must be disdainful in his heart.

I have played the genuine Duncan, let alone you, a pirated one!

Stoudemire's remarks finally brought a little bit of gunpowder to the game. Otherwise, Madison, who is known as the Mecca of basketball, would be meaningless if the game was not passionate.

At seven o'clock in the evening, after the familiar pre-match ceremony, the starting lineups of both sides were displayed on the big screen.

New York Knicks, point guard Raymond Felton, shooting guard Landry Fields, small forward Danilo Gallinari, power forward Amare Stoudemire, center Dee Murphy Mozgov .

Washington Wizards, point guard Kirk Hinrich, shooting guard Nick Young, small forward Al Thornton, power forward Li Kaiming, center Andrey Blatche.

The referee on duty tonight is Brian Ford wearing uniform number 45. Stoudemire turned out to be the kicker for the Knicks jump ball, and when the latter stood in the middle circle, he even raised his chin at Li Kaiming!

The meaning is obvious, I want to compete with Li Kaiming in jumping the ball!

Li Kaiming smiled and ignored the latter, but continued to stand outside the circle and wait for Blatche to jump the ball.

Seeing that Li Kaiming was not on the sidelines, Sanders breathed a sigh of relief.

If Li Kaiming played against Stoudemire on the road, the Wizards would not be far from losing!