On July 7, Beijing time, the 2003 NBA Summer League officially kicked off in Long Beach, California. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info because of the participation of "Little Emperor" LeBron James, this summer league was broadcast live on TV for the first time.

The Summer League will be played in four locations, with the exception of Long Beach, where Orlando in Florida, the Boston area and Salt Lake City are the other three regions.

The bus that was supposed to join the Spurs this year did not land in the NBA as successfully as it used to be because of Chamberlain's unexpected appearance. In this way, with Wang Zhizhi, who will represent the Los Angeles Clippers in the summer league, and Yao Ming of the Rockets, there will be three Chinese faces in the NBA in 2003.

In fact, for the big logarithmic players, the NBA Summer League does not mean much, it is usually an assistant coach and some rookies, and then mixed with a group of amateur players and fringe players who are eager to join a certain NBA team, of course, if there is a whim of a few players, the league will not object.

Generally speaking, in Summer League, teams don't ask for anything special about tactics, and going it alone tends to be the main theme.

The Spurs' first opponent is the Philadelphia 76ers, which is a very hot team in recent years, and they have Chamberlain's favorite little man Allen. Iverson, but it has nothing to do with this game.

"Do you want to make a foul?"

Thinking about his task in the game, Chamberlain stood on the court.

Because tickets are so cheap, the Summer League attracts a lot of fans who don't have much money to watch regular games, despite the lack of stars.

This made Chamberlain a little apprehensive and a little excited. As if all the cells in his body had been ignited, he seemed to jump faster than ever. But he's still no match for the 76ers center.

The 76ers' point guard got the basketball, and he didn't wait for his teammates to get into the offensive position, and he cut into the halfway line.

It's hard to see any decent defense in the summer league, not to mention the surprise attack of the opponent that caught the Spurs a little off guard. Except for the small forward's knee-jerk sideways block, the 76ers point guard's individual breakthrough was not disturbed.

Chamberlain ran to the basket as hard as he could, and his speed on the inside allowed him to get to the basket before the point guard.

"Prediction!"

Chamberlain meditated in his heart and stood in the defensive position under the basket. In the next second, he made physical contact with the opposing point guard, and Chamberlain, who was hit by the huge force of this short and fat black man, fell backwards, but he was excited: "It's done!" ”

But until the basketball fell into the hoop, he didn't wait for the referee's whistle. Getting up from the floor, Chamberlain glanced at the referee standing not far away, did not dare to complain, just shook his hand angrily, ran to the baseline to pick up the basketball, and threw it to the team's point guard.

However, although he did not get justice from the referee, the assistant coach of the team who led the team to participate in the summer league gave Chamberlain this justice in the notebook he carried with him: "The speed is very good, there is a good sense of defense and defensive enthusiasm, and he can stand in a defensive position in time in the fast break!" ”

The Spurs' offense felt the 76ers' half in the blink of an eye, well, their poor power forward has been abandoned by his teammates, if Chamberlain wasn't fast enough, he would have been an outcast, but even if he ran to the offensive position, he didn't get the pass, and the Spurs' point guard, like the 76ers' point guard, chose to insert one person to the end.

In fact, all of us present are rivals to each other!

Chamberlain was not surprised, nor did he complain, he tried hard to get stuck in the basket position, although he would soon lose it again, but he persevered in doing so again and again.

With a little advantage from "prediction", after his own point guard missed the layup, he was the first to jump from under the basket, and his bounce was not enough for him to protect the rebound, but Chamberlain first raised the basketball so that everyone could not get him, and then used the time difference between the second bounce and the second bounce, and he successfully did this.

"A rebound!"

While Chamberlain was excited about his first stat, the Spurs' assistant coach wrote this line in his notebook: "I have a keen intuition about where the rebound will land, and I don't have a good bounce ability, but I have a good secondary bounce ability." ”

In this offense, Chamberlain didn't get more opportunities to perform, and the defensive pressure from the opposing center made it difficult for him to complete the turn, so he had to re-pass the rebounds he had grabbed.

The Spurs small forward, who got the pass, didn't look to cooperate with his teammates and chose to go it alone, but luckily he managed to put the basketball in the basket.

Seeing his opponent score, the 76ers' small forward felt envious, and reached out to the point guard for the ball as soon as he entered the Spurs' half. However, the point guard ignored him and continued to launch a lonely charge alone.

In fact, he is overestimating himself, and if he has the ability to break through to a single team, coupled with his physical strength that Chamberlain is deeply envious, it is impossible to not get a stable contract until now.

But summer league is like that, there are always a lot of people who are fearless to rush inside, there are always a lot of people who would rather trust the ethereal luck than their teammates when they don't have a chance at all, and after the breakthrough is blocked, the point guard forces a shot.

Chamberlain used the same tactics to protect the defensive rebound.

"Two rebounds."

Chamberlain bent down and held the basketball tightly in his arms, and only after all the opposing players left the basket did he hand the basketball to the team's point guard to organize the offense.

That's all Chamberlain's performance in the first Summer League game, in the center position where he needs the most teammates, he didn't get a few passes from his teammates, but his rebounding stats were very beautiful because of all kinds of unreasonable offense.

In 32 minutes he played, he grabbed 17 rebounds, four of which were converted into points, and two passes gave him an assist. In this way, he got 8 points, 17 rebounds and two assists. However, in terms of foul making, which is the main thing for him, he has achieved very little, and the more lenient penalty rules have made him have to find a new point of fit.

Sitting in the players' box, after being replaced by his teammates, Chamberlain quietly opened the "dream space" to check the harvest of this game.

"I have 97 points of experience, and I have so much experience in the summer league."

Seeing that he was about to have 4,000 experience slots, Chamberlain smiled from ear to ear.