Chapter 568
After listening to the response given by the league officials, Darrell Morey had no choice but to stop at the same time. But Van Gundy, who knew the news, was so angry that he just wanted to scold his mother, how could he have thought that these league officials were so shrewd in making money, and they even had to spend money to buy tickets to visit the team's training.
There is no way, since he has already boarded the thief ship of the alliance, Van Gundy can only do things according to the rules. After returning to the hotel, Van Gundy explained the situation to Lamar first.
Lamar's eyebrows furrowed when he heard this: "Darrell, look at everyone's current situation, if you train like this, it can easily lead to muscle strain." It's not going to be easy to do if something goes wrong, and the regular season is about to start, so what are we going to do if we get an injury?"
Van Gundy is also at a loss for what to do: "What can I do? I shouldn't have participated in this trip to Asia in the first place! Now that we are in the league, if we break the contract, these guys will definitely stumble us in the middle of the season! Besides, breaking the contract will also have a big impact on our team's reputation." ”
Lamar didn't expect this just now, and the purpose of the team's visit to Asia this time was to mention
Gonyx's influence in Asia, if it really does what Van Gundy says, is counterproductive.
Van Gundy pondered for a moment before he began to speak his thoughts: "It's not that it can't be solved. No one has a rule on how we should train? When the time comes, we'll just deal with it, and before the big deal is over, you and Houston and Chauncey will show off a few more beautiful tricks, won't we?"
Lamar glanced at Van Gundy: "It's better not to go than this! ”
"So what do you say?"
As if he had made a lot of determination, Lamar gritted his teeth and said, "Do whatever you want!"
"Aren't we here to help Asian countries improve their local basketball standards? ”
All the players gathered and got on the bus, although the reception staff repeatedly assured that the public training session was only a small area, but when the bus arrived at the training hall, everyone was still shocked by the sight in front of them.
This is a small area? Look at the crowd of people, there are tens of thousands of fans gathered outside the stadium alone. People wrapped themselves in uniform Knicks jerseys, holding up posters of Knicks players on this trip to Asia, looking at the posture At this time, if any Knicks player who didn't know how to die was driven out of the car, they would have to be torn to shreds.
"Is this the small range you are talking about?" Van Gundy's eyes were about to pop out, and he was a fart on such an occasion.
Van Gundy's current group of players, except for the always calm Billups and Battier, and Wang Zhizhi, who doesn't know each other, the remaining three are all showy masters.
When the time comes, they will be screamed and coaxed by the fans, and they will not be crazy about adrenaline, and they will show themselves hard.
The reception staff smiled awkwardly: "This may have been an accident!"
An accident sent Van Gundy away, and Van Gundy was depressed and just wanted to hit the wall.
I finally entered the stadium in a daze, and the scene inside was even more terrifying.
Tens of thousands of fans are waiting for the Knicks to arrive.
With a simple hello, the players entered the dressing room under the leadership of Lamar, who gathered everyone together as soon as he entered the door.
"Declare in advance, when you train for a while, you will do it that way in New York. Whoever dares to make a showmanship will wait to be punished when he returns to New York!"
When Lamar said this, the look on his face was cold and terrifying. No one dared to think that Lamar was joking, and after a moment's hesitation, they nodded in agreement.
When they changed their equipment and came out again, there was naturally another tsunami in the stadium.
"I don't feel like I'm in the gym, I'm in the finals. Dampotter teased with a relaxed expression.
Lamar glared at him and said, "Have you played in the finals?"
The Knicks as a team think they're ready to practice and certainly ready to interact with the fans. It's a pity that what they think is still too simple.
A group of people had just stepped onto the field when they were told that they could not start training for the time being. Because before they appeared, there were entertainment performances, and it is said that the famous local singers in Shanghai came to cheer them up, and Lamar was only a little learned and didn't remember what his name was.
Looking at the unusually unusually dressed young man on the court, who was definitely no more than twenty years old, singing rap hard, even Wang Zhixie, a native of China, was dizzy.
The fans in the stands seemed to have changed their identities all at once, shouting the name of the singer, looking extremely excited.
"Are these people really here to train us?" said Dampot, who had a bitter face and had essential doubts about his life for the first time: "I think they seem to have come to the concert specifically to listen to it." And is that guy singing rap? How does it feel weird?"
Lamar also couldn't cry or laugh: "Damn, I don't know what's going on!"
Lamar is not unhappy because his own people have been robbed of the limelight, the key is that since there are already people who have saved the scene, why do they have to suffer.
Originally, Lamar also planned to take advantage of the trip to Asia to conduct a few trainings, so that Wang Zhizhi could take this opportunity to understand the Knicks' tactics and teammates, and speed up the integration into the team. But looking at the current situation, he is a little wishful thinking.
Looking back at his teammates who were standing uncomfortably, Lamar smiled helplessly and beckoned the team doctor to quickly massage everyone, and those who couldn't take their turn hurried to prepare for the activity.
Who knew that after this scene was captured by the camera, he directly gave a two-word evaluation one by one.
finally stayed up until the end of the performance, and it took more than ten minutes to deliver the flying kiss.
Those fans, yes, are the fans!
The star finally left the scene, and when he left, he didn't even look at Lamar and them, and his expression was so arrogant that he almost poked the sky into a hole. Obviously, he thinks Lamar and the others are a bunch of reckless people, and they are not on the same level as him at all.
The court was quiet, and Lamar, a group of turtles who had just been despised, stood on the sidelines, looking at the staff of the organizer and not knowing whether it was time to play. If they go up and be knocked down again, they will really have no face.
Finding that the atmosphere at the scene was a little cold, the staff of the organizer hurriedly waved their hands to kill Lamar and others.
"Alright, guys, it's time for us to play, and hopefully our dull training style won't scare the fans away. Lamar teased and led his teammates onto the field.
"Hey, Lamar! You guy said that the way he trained was dull, if you lived through Willis Reed's era, you wouldn't say that. ”
"Alright, Jeff, I don't have time to spend time with you to reminisce about the past, I just want to finish training quickly and go back to my bed. I don't want to stay in this place for a minute, I feel like I'm about to become an entertainment star. Don't you think we're looking like a bunch of monkeys being watched?"
Van Gundy knew Lamar was angry. Now there are not many pure basketball stars like Lamar, and even paranoids like AI and Kobe have begun to play with tickets and make records, only Lamar still puts all his energy on basketball as always.
And Lamar's serious attitude towards basketball is beyond everyone's imagination, and letting people sing and dance casually like the basketball court as a stage just now is simply unforgivable in Lamar's eyes.
"Alright, Lamar, didn't you just say that? Treat this training as if it were in New York, and if that's the case, stop complaining and start quickly. ”
Probably because of Lamar's obscenity, the other players were also training very seriously at this time.
Six Knicks players did a simple warm-up with assistant staff and then began a switchback run.
The massage just now still had a certain effect, at least the players' bodies are no longer as stiff as they were just now, which also reduces the possibility of injury.
Van Gundy stood on the sidelines, still shouting as loudly as usual to remind a player to pay attention to his movements. He was also very relieved to see the serious looks of the players.
After the warm-up activity, the three-person passing and receiving practice began.
In the eyes of experts, this kind of connection should be very formal and professional, but in the eyes of the fans in the stadium, it is really boring, and one by one has lost the excitement just now, sitting listlessly in their seats and watching the players sweat.
"Coach Van Gundy!" the director sent by the TV station couldn't stand it anymore. Because if it goes on like this, there is no way to guarantee ratings. The money invested by the TV station has also been wasted.
Van Gundy glanced at the organizer staff next to him suspiciously, not understanding when he had provoked the other party. Are you telling yourself that your training is over? But this is just the beginning!
The staff hesitated for a while before they were embarrassed and said, "Coach Van Gundy, see if you can arrange Lamar for them to do a slam dunk practice, this is really not exciting enough!"
Van Gundy's eyes and nose almost cramped with anger: "Slam dunk practice? Do you think this is an All-Star slam dunk contest? My team has never had any slam dunk practice!"
"None of the NBA teams have that! We're here for a promotional event, not a circus clown, not a monkey. If you want to watch slam dunk, next time you'd better find some people who play basketball on the streets of New York, and I think they'll fulfill your desire to see slam dunk. ”
At this point, Van Gundy was not ready to compromise anymore! Although it was really not suitable to practice in front of tens of thousands of people, their time was running out.