Chapter 309: Madison Square Garden

"But, don't you think it's partly because of your presence?" Hostess. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I can say that, but the interpretation is completely wrong."

"I want to hear about it." Hostess.

"No problem, don't worry."

"I'll say—" Barkley wanted to draw his sword, as always.

"Let him speak first, tell me why." Oprah thought: This is big news!

"You see, there's his business everywhere." Jordan: Is this protecting Fliggy?

"The reason is that back then, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, we earned our achievements."

Bang bang bang... It's still applause.

"I'm not belittling today's young players, because they have to understand this, but hopefully they can understand one day that when companies came to find endorsements, we could match endorsements with dagger performances, but now players may get endorsements before they win, so you're betting on whether this young player can become a big player, that is, players make money by their potential, maybe he can

into a big tool. ”

"You don't think that's good?" Hostess.

"Yes, it creates laziness. Happiness comes too easily, and you're lazy. ”

"Understood." Hostess.

Bang bang bang...

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Jordan is alluding to the big dog, and as of the end of March, the basketball players who will participate in this year's draft have basically been decided, and the widely accepted top five predictions are like this. Robinson, Grant. Hill, Tangyer. Marshall, Jason. Kidd, Zhu Wan. Howard, three small forwards, one guard and one interior lineman. And Robinson, who has the biggest mouth but is also the most likely to win the top pick, opened his mouth again, and he threatened reporters: I am the strongest rookie in this class, and I must have the value to accompany him! The reporter was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked busily: How to get the champion signature? Robinson stretched out an index finger and replied, "I want a salary of 10 million because I'm the best rookie this year."

As soon as his mouth cannon came out, it naturally stirred up a thousand waves for a while, not only the owners of the teams were dissatisfied, but even the NBA old people were quite dissatisfied with it, and there were not a few unhappy famous stars, and they declared to the outside world: Beat him up when they meet him.

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With the release of the basketball talk show with Jordan and Barkley as special guests, the issue of the salary ceiling of rookies has become more lively.

There is some commotion in the outside world, but as a small city with a population of more than 300,000, it is a bit away from the hustle and bustle, and the small university in the small city, the Wake Forest basketball team, still conducts routine tactical drills at its own pace, and everyone is very calm about the rookie salary that is hotly discussed by the outside world.

Of course, there are exceptions, Rodney. Rodgers, as a rookie who has just confirmed his candidacy, he has reason to be excited and excited, but his excitement and excitement were quickly worn out by the two big stables in the team, or should I say - was cooled down, Duncan and Billups used their stable and abnormal play to make the overheated Rogers return to reason. Of course, the overly emotional Rodgers still dug a big hole for this intra-team matchup, and finally today's intra-team game ended with the substitute winning, 98-100. Who let Rodgers play too much, in the first quarter he dug a 20-point hole for his side, although the main force played a little ugly in the first quarter, but overall it was still good, at least at the end of the original psychological imbalance Rodgers adjusted, which completed the fundamental purpose of the team's resistance - to adjust the state, so after the collective drill, Dave and Bach were still more satisfied, at least they generously did not arrange the "punishment" of the loser's group.

In this way, the basketball players of Wake Forest are training hard as usual in a fairly relaxed environment, and their basketball is still quite pure in this era before the rise of the Internet era.

When people are busy, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is April 2nd, and today is the match day of the semi-finals.

The first game of the day will start at 9:30 a.m., and the first two teams will be the Arizona Wildcats vs. the Michigan Wolves, and the game will be played at Madison Square Garden, which is the home of the New York Knicks. The Kentucky Wildcats vs. Wake Forest Devils Deacons game will be played at the First Union Arena, which is still the "old" arena of the Philadelphia 76ers, which is quite related to a rebellious guy on the team.

Taking advantage of the fact that there is still time before the start of their game, everyone is busy with their own work, some of them are staring at the big eyes of the copper bell with a cute face, and I don't know if it is Duncan who is in a daze, Billups who is sitting on the bench and does not forget to dribble, who is still humming a strange tune with good interest, and at the same time does not forget to tidy up the bracer Rogers, Wallace and Patterson who are doing leg press stretches, and Mitsui who is adjusting the knee pads, Ma.jian, who didn't want to be idle and was stretching, Iverson who was listening to music with his eyes closed, and Yamada-san, who was a little bored and stroked his forehead and hung his hair, in short, everyone had their own routines for preparing for the game, and everyone was preparing for themselves.

After a while, the time came to 9:30 Coach Dave turned on the TV in the locker room and turned the channel to TNT, it is worth saying that today's national live broadcast is not exclusive to ESPN, but the simultaneous live broadcast of the three major TV stations, as for the object is the semifinals of the Arizona Wildcats vs Michigan Wolves, and with the movements of their own coach, Yamada Tadashi and other Vic players naturally turned their attention to the hanging TV.

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The players of the two teams on the field did a fairly low-key warm-up exercise in their respective halves, and the players on both sides honestly did not play any friction, perhaps thanks to Jordan and Barkley's talk show some time ago, the pot of the big dog... After a peaceful warm-up, they surrounded their coach to finish the pre-match buff, and then both teams started to enter the field. As expected, both sides were on the team's strongest combination.

Arizona Wildcats: Walter. McCarty 206 cm, 103 kg, Anthony. Walker 205 cm, 102 kg, Ron. Mercer 199 cm, 93 kg, Derek. Anderson 194 cm, 88 kg, Tony. Decker is 183 cm and 83 kg, and their sixth man is Robert 196 cm and 92 kg. Jefferson.

Michigan Wolves: Leon. Rand 209 cm, 116 kg, Zhu Wan. Howard 205 cm, 105 kg, Jay. Rose 201 cm, 96 kg, Jamie. Gold 194 cm, 93 kg, Ray. Jackson is 192 cm and 90 kg, and on the bench is a strong newcomer with 206 cm and 107 kg. Taylor.

The Arizona side obviously wants to carry forward the team's strengths of being able to run and shoot, and the Michigan side is naturally still playing Princeton, blocking and combining the way to play positional warfare, and the response of the coaches of the two teams is not unexpected, and they are all playing the same routine, and the live broadcast combination of the three major TV stations is naturally taking advantage of the last time on the eve of the jump ball, and they are all wild.

Syllable!

With a crisp slap of the ball, the semi-finals of the first tournament of the 93-94 season officially began.