Preparations were made in the morning. After the lunch break in the afternoon and before the warm-up began, Li Ao and Gentry accepted exclusive interviews with Xinhua News Agency and Chaotingdai.
The reporter here today is Xu Jicheng again.
In fact, many reporters rushed to do this job, but everything has a first-come, first-served basis. Xu Jicheng got on the line with Li Ao before Li Ao even planned to enter the NBA.
Xu Jicheng first interviewed Gentry and asked a lot of official questions, and Gentry gave careful and official answers.
When they arrived at Li Ao, Xu Jicheng asked: "Xiao Li Tanhua, do you have any goals for the new season that is about to start?"
Xu Jicheng used Chinese. Gentry was very curious after hearing the translation. Best Rookie? Get high scores? Or block a shot?
The Clippers specially equipped a Chinese-English translator, mainly because Wally Walker felt that Li Ao's character was too difficult to figure out, just in case.
"I have only one goal, to work hard to win the championship." Li Ao responded without hesitation.
Anyway, if he hadn’t said this, the domestic media had already written it, and it was even more outrageous than this. One crown surpassed Magic, two crowns surpassed Jordan, three crowns were invincible, and four crowns carved a basketball next to the Presidential Hill. A sense of déjà vu as an athlete.
In this case, it is better to speak out your dreams. There is no shame in speaking out your dreams.
Gentry was so frightened that he dropped his chair when he heard the translation.
Just them Clippers?
Target championship?
I'm afraid I'll be laughed to death!
But their Spider-Man... seems to be serious!
At this moment, Gentry remembered that when he was playing basketball as a child, he and his cousin David Thompson's team were a group of kids who were still in elementary school, but they wanted to defeat a group of sixteen or seventeen-year-old high school students. Get the community championship.
Although he was brutally beaten in the end, the innocence and innocence of just wanting to win are very beautiful when I think about it now.
Xu Jicheng was also frightened. Could it be that Tan Hwa Lang was deceived into lameness by the group of cerebral palsy reporters in China?
He "risked the world's disdain" and kindly reminded: "Your team may be a little too far away from this goal..."
Li Ao smiled and said: "I have this goal, and it doesn't matter whether I can achieve it at this stage, right?
If I'm not playing to win, if I'm not trying to win to the end, then why should I play? I wouldn't be better off going to Hollywood next door to find a class. "
Although these words are excessive, both Xu Jicheng and Gentry think it makes sense!
It is true that people can act in movies without playing basketball.
Too tall to be popular?
That's because people who are too tall are generally ugly.
But Li Ao is different, he is handsome!
And he has acting skills!
The low-budget crime film "Paranoid", which was released in the middle of the month with an investment of less than US$2 million, relied on the marketing of the tidbits about Li Ao and the heroine and the co-star, as well as the lingering scenes in the film, which attracted many LSPs to buy tickets and watch. LSP could not help but For both men and women, the box office grossed over US$5 million in the first three days, making the money back.
First, the "hue" of Li Ao and Jessica attracted LSP. Later, word-of-mouth developed. The content is indeed good, and the acting skills of the female protagonist and guest male stars are quite good.
Jessica has received a lot of praise for her acting skills.
Li Ao was praised for his performance as a scumbag, and he is worthy of being an experienced player.
Although the male protagonist's acting skills were okay, because there were many long shots, he acted too hard and his performance was average. He was crushed by Li Ao's only 10 minutes of scenes.
In fact, the director originally thought of giving Li Ao a few shots at most, one or two minutes of footage. If the performance was too stretched, he would directly cut that part, but in the end he used all the shots.
With this change, Li Ao had a lot more money to take.
Although it was a guest appearance, he was still a quasi-NBA player at the time and had a profit-sharing agreement in his contract.
He didn't care about the profit-sharing agreement at that time. He thought he only had one or two minutes of footage, which is what passion scenes in crime movies are like. It's not a R-rated movie, and the profit-sharing agreement requires that the box office exceeds 5 million US dollars before he can get the money. , based on a two-minute shot, even if the box office was 6 million, he would only get about 3,000 US dollars.
But the movie's box office turned out to be pretty good. Before leaving for Salt Lake City yesterday, Schwartz found him and calculated it based on 10 minutes of footage. As of the day before yesterday, he could already get almost US$100,000, which is already a huge sum. It's a small amount of money.
Moreover, he heard that many countries were already preparing to introduce this movie. What surprised him most was that the imperial court was preparing to introduce it... Just the thing he shot, domestically! CCTV! Can it be broadcast?
But he couldn't care less, he just collected a small amount of money.
On Xu Jicheng's side, he also felt the feeling of 'pursuing the purest dream' from Li Ao.
As a veteran journalist, in my perception, sports and business have become integrated.
But Li Ao seems so special...
At this moment, putting aside his work goals, expectations for national basketball, etc., Xu Jicheng came up with an idea - he just wanted to see how far Li Ao could go in pursuing his dream!
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At 7:40 pm, at the Salt Lake City Energy Solutions Arena, the away Clippers entered the venue first.
Giving Odom a face, Li Ao chose to play first and felt the atmosphere of the Jazz's devilish home court.
Just... average.
From the perspective of players who have played in the NCAA Final Four, these boos are nothing.
After Odom came out last, the boos turned into wild cheers.
In the past 12 seasons, the Jazz have won at least 50 games in 10 seasons, and one of the two times they did not win 50 games was a shortened season.
Although he did not win the championship, his outstanding performance over the years has given Shuangsha a lot of fanatical fans in the local area.
However, seeing the five starting players on the opposite side, Li Ao: (￣ェ￣;)
Byron Russell, 30 years old, overall rating of 78.
Maybe it's because life is too stressful and he looks older.
But he is already the youngest-looking starter on the Jazz.
The other four starters have traces of time written all over their faces!
John Stockton, 38 years old, overall evaluation of 85; John Starks, 35 years old, overall evaluation of 79; Karl Malone, 37 years old, overall evaluation of 93; Alden Polynis, 36 years old, Overall rating 69.
Is there an older starting lineup in NBA history?
Putting away his distracting thoughts, Li Ao looked at the player detection reports of the Jazz substitutes, and a strange color flashed in his eyes.
Danny Manning 77, Donyel Marshall 80, Jacqui Vaughn 72, Ostertag 74... There is no other player with a comprehensive evaluation of 70!
As Li Ao expected, players with a level of 70+ are also the mainstay in the NBA and the main substitute for each team.
The Clippers may be one of the best in the league in terms of the number of main substitute players.
It's just that their problem is that they only have one of the best main substitute groups in the league.
Gan!
However, the evaluation report of the Jazz's substitute players is higher than the scout's evaluation of these people that Li Ao saw, but it is also in line with a sentence in the scout's report - the Jazz's role players have average personal abilities, but they rely on double evil and Sloan's tactical system and specialties are used very well.
This is the so-called system player. Without the system, he is nothing.
In the last ten years, the Jazz had a lot of poachers, but the people who were poached by the Jazz had no impact at all. Every time they left, another one popped up immediately, but the team that poached them became the biggest victim, signing a high-paid and incompetent person. player of.
Since double evil can drive teammates to become better, Li Ao thinks that he, Odom, and O'Neal will be able to do it one day, right?
At 9 o'clock in the evening, the Clippers' away game against the Jazz started.
The Clippers' starting lineup is still Greg Anthony, Piakowsky, Li Ao, Odom, and O'Neal Jr.
Polynice used to be a ruthless player who averaged 13 points and 12 rebounds per game, but as time passes, the Los Angeles high school students bullied him into becoming too old.
O'Neal won the jump ball and the Clippers attacked first.
Li Ao rushed out as soon as the ball reached its highest point and ran all the way to the opposite three-second zone... The ball didn't come, and his idea of bullying the opponent's old weakness failed.
When Greg Anthony reacted and wanted to pass the ball, Malone had already withdrawn to resist Li Ao.
Ma Long used small moves during the confrontation, using his strength to push Li Ao staggering, then pressed him up and said, "You weakling, I'll just push you and you won't be able to survive... Oh..."
Ma Long took a step back in pain. When he pressed forward, the rookie actually raised his elbow and pointed it at his stomach!
At this time, a tall man cut inside to receive the ball. Malone quickly moved up, but was a step too slow.
O'Neal Jr. caught the ball and hit a layup!
Li Ao moved his left arm and retreated with satisfaction. Although he did not score, the fast break was successful at the beginning. Is this guy Malone made of muscles? My stomach hurts.
Returning to the backcourt, Li Ao saw Ma Long staring at him and running over.
When Malone entered the three-point line, Li Ao greeted him warmly: "Good evening, overall runner-up."
Ma Long was extremely angry, but after holding it in for two seconds, he didn't think of how to reply. He could only say angrily: "Shut up, rookie!"
"Yeah, I'm a rookie. I'm young. You haven't even won a championship at your age. Why are you playing basketball? Go back and deliver letters. Maybe you can win the postman championship."
Hearing Li Ao's words and the final frivolous ending, his teammates were not calm anymore. Opposite him was Ma Long!
But they were not surprised.
Their Spider-Man is Yong!
Ma Long was so angry that his face turned black and red.
He wanted to use small tricks to trick his opponent Tan Hwa Lang, but he was betrayed in the end.
He wanted to talk trash, but the other person trash-talked him so much that he couldn't talk back.
After being nailed to the pillar of shame by Pippen's trash talk, Malone felt painful and began to learn to talk trash. However, he did not have the talent in this area, but he just wanted to say it.
Commonly known as both good and fun-loving.
However, he is notorious for his small tricks and trash talk, and young players dare not respond. He encountered a tough problem tonight.
If you can't say it, I won't say it anymore, just beat the opponent!
Stockton slowly advanced to the frontcourt, and the Jazz players also slowly moved their positions. With 10 seconds left in the attack time, Malone came to the top arc and started a pick-and-roll with Stockton.
After breaking up, Malone received the ball on the left side of the three-second zone and broke through. Li Ao made up for it. Malone's steps were not very fast and he easily stopped the forward momentum. Li Ao made up for it, but Malone pulled it horizontally when he grabbed the ball. One step later, when Li Ao pounced on him, Ma Long had already tilted his body towards the baseline and shot...
In!
With this rhythm and timing, Li Ao praised: "He is worthy of being the overall runner-up. The mid-range shot is as accurate as the championship."
Malone's joy at scoring the goal instantly turned into anger. He followed Li Ao, who was running forward, butted his opponent with his arm and sprayed: "At least I got the runner-up, what about you, rookie!"
Li Ao was not afraid and raised his arm back. The opponent was so strong! But he struggled to hold on and said with a ferocious smile: "I don't have the ability to win runner-up. I can only win the championship. I just got the MOP."
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This chapter is a bit short. I got up too late on Sunday, so I will write more as much as I can. Xiaofeng will have breakfast and continue writing. I will write more words in the chapters that will be updated in the afternoon or evening~
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