On the afternoon of February 12, Duan returned to Los Angeles in the morning and took a nap at home. Then he dressed up carefully in a suit and tied to attend the rookie training camp officially organized by the NBA.
The day before the All-Star Weekend every year is when first-year rookies participate in rookie training camp.
This year’s All-Star Weekend lasts for three days, on Friday the 13th, when the Rookie Challenge will be held.
On Saturday the 14th, in addition to the three retained programs of the Skills Challenge, Three-Point Shootout Contest and Slam Dunk Contest, this year we also created the Shooting Star Contest.
Sunday, the 15th, is naturally the most watched All-Star Game during the All-Star Weekend!
"Brother, I've arrived in Los Angeles! Come pick me up!"
Not long after Du En left the house and the car was still on the way, he received a call from Anthony.
Originally, Du En had made an appointment with Anthony and Wade to attend a rookie training camp together and go out to sea together after class to have fun.
"Wait for me at the airport, I'll be right over."
After receiving the call, Du En changed his itinerary and went to the airport to pick him up first.
Because it is a friendship between men, Anthony did not bring his girlfriend with him on this All-Star Weekend trip.
After Duan sent Anthony to the Staples Center, Wade also called Duan.
"Brother, I'm here, where are you? I can't wait to go to sea!"
"Dwayne, please call me Captain Doone!"
"Yes, Captain! Boatswain Dwyane Wade, requesting new instructions from Captain Doone!"
"Please gather at Staples Center quickly, the Neptune is about to go to sea!"
Almost half an hour later, Wade, who was very handsome in a suit and sunglasses, appeared in front of Du En and Anthony.
"Okay, let's go to class first!"
After the three exchanged pleasantries, Du En suggested that they first attend the rookie training camp.
The rookie training camp is carefully prepared by NBA Commissioner David Stern for rookies who have just entered the NBA.
As early as more than 20 years ago, when Stern first became NBA president, he wanted to change the American public's inherent impression of the NBA as pornographic, gambling, drug-related, dirty, chaotic, and poor.
Especially when Jordan became the American dream and the spokesperson of the NBA, Stern hoped that NBA players could become a member of the high-class American class and become a glorious American dream.
In order to prevent black players from being unable to control their desires because of their sudden wealth, they start to live in a drunken life and indulge in money, ruining their own futures, and also causing a waste of NBA assets.
Every year before the All-Star Weekend, the NBA invites experts to teach first-year rookies.
If the rookies are willing to study hard, they will know how to face the media, how to manage money, how to get along with the team's veterans, how to market and create topics, and make themselves more famous...
However, the vast majority of rookies just turned a deaf ear to it, as if they had accepted a mandatory task and were just here to show off.
"Hey, good afternoon, newbies, come on in!"
Duan walked into an office with Anthony and Wade, where two experts were on standby.
"Rookies, I know you are rich and promising, but when you get here, you have to listen to us, do you understand?"
"Sit down quickly. Didn't the veterans of your team tell you how to be obedient?"
The two experts immediately made a show of force after Du En and the others entered the door.
It was also the first time for Duen to participate in the rookie training camp. He didn't know what to do. He could only look at each other for a few times with Anthony and Wade, and then sat on the bench obediently.
"I have your files here. I know you are all talented and you will become the boss of your respective teams in the future!
You will become very famous and have a lot of money, but now, you are not mature enough or tough enough!
Have you noticed? We just spoke a little louder, so you didn't dare to talk back, so you just obeyed!
If it were your opponent who talked trash to you, would you still just accept it?
If it comes to an important game and your opponent performs very well, but your performance is not strong enough and the score is behind, do you have to watch the game lose?
No, no, no, we shouldn't be like this! We must be tough, we must try our best to show strong strength and tough attitude in every game! "
It turned out that the experts were not only trying to show off the Duen trio, but also had the intention of testing the Duen trio.
As the first expert finished speaking, the second expert continued: "Come on, tell me one after another, I am the boss of the team! You say it!"
The expert pointed at Anthony.
Anthony glanced at Duane and Wade, and then said loudly: "I am the boss of the team! New York is my territory!"
Anthony not only followed orders, but also processed them himself.
Because he has long been established as the boss of the New York Knicks, Anthony was quite confident when he said this.
"Very good, next one. Come on!" The expert pointed at Du En again.
"I'm the boss of the team, OK, make way for me!"
Du En also spoke loudly, but the expert shook his head: "You are not confident enough, you must be tougher.
None of the bosses were given up by others, they were all snatched by one's own ability.
You should say to Shaq and Kobe, listen to me, the Los Angeles Lakers are my team!
I am the boss of the team. I will lead you to win. If you don't obey me, get out! "
"The Los Angeles Lakers are my team and I am the boss of the team!"
After listening to the expert's advice, Du En roared loudly.
At this point in the class, Duan probably understood why Kobe was competing with O'Neal for the top spot.
"I'm the boss of the team and I'm going to win a championship for Miami!"
Soon, Wade also roared angrily.
Bang bang bang——
The two experts applauded, and then asked: "If you are about to face Kobe or Iverson in the next game, and you are interviewed by the media, what will you say?"
"I am a fan of Allen, and I wear the No. 3 jersey because of him!" Wade answered truthfully.
The expert was not satisfied: "No, no, no, that's too polite. Even if you think so in your heart, you shouldn't say that to the media.
You should speak out in front of the media!
I will use the next game to prove who is the best defender in the league!
I hope you can help me tell Allen that I will teach him a lesson!
I will limit Kobe to less than 20 points, and he will be blown away by me!
Only in this way can you create topics, gain greater fame and make more money. "
The expert roared and slapped the table.
Wade's cheeks, which were beginning to grow faintly, also bulged.
When the expert finished educating Wade and turned his attention to Du En, Du En muttered in his heart: "I seem to be self-taught without a teacher, right?"
"You and Kobe are teammates. You should know what kind of trouble Kobe is in now, right?"
It turns out that the expert changed the topic again, this time talking about how rookies deal with enthusiastic female fans.
Obviously, Kobe's results in the rookie training camp were not up to standard, and he was actually used as a negative example.
"Boys outside, you must protect yourself!
We are so tempting to girls who want to be famous and get money from us!
I've heard that even if you do something good, you should pack up your used balloons. "
Du En answered the expert's question, and the expert nodded and said: "That's right.
If you do get into trouble, you should inform your team and your agent.
Instead of hiding it from yourself and not saying anything out of embarrassment.
Any trouble that can be solved with money is not trouble. The trouble that NBA players need to avoid is mainly lawsuits.
If you get involved in a lawsuit, it will not only cost you a lot of money, but it will also have a huge impact on your reputation.
What's more important is that it takes away your energy, destroys your family, and makes you uninterested in playing football.
In fact, everything you have is obtained by playing ball, so no matter how difficult it is, you must play the ball well. "
The two experts chatted a lot with the three of them, including locker room relations and investment and financial management.
The three of them even asked Du En to be careful about their agents, because the agents were not really aligned with the stars, but had their own interests.
However, the class time of the rookie training camp is not long, only more than five minutes in total.
After the rookie class, whether he can listen to it or not depends entirely on his own attitude.
The experts are not the biological parents of the players, they just come to collect their wages.
Therefore, after finishing the lessons for Du En and the other three, they did not stay in class for tutoring, and just waited quietly for the arrival of the next batch of rookies.
"Brothers, the great sailing adventure is about to begin!"
After class, Du En first made a call to the dock, then drove Anthony and Wade to prepare to go to sea.
Because it was mid-February, the temperature in Los Angeles was not high and the sea water was relatively cold, so Duan did not prepare any banana boats.
However, there is no shortage of big waves on the beaches of Los Angeles, and the three of them can go with the waves as much as they like...
