When Yi Feng flipped through the magazine, he was also thinking.

Now Downs and Okafor are all over the United States, and it's almost certain that they are one of them. Even Russell, who is physically and skilled, is hard to shake their position.

But can a player with the physical qualities of Moodier, or even better than him, and a player like Russell, who is even more skilled, snatch the title?

Yi Feng thought that he was such a person, and he didn't even have the slightest suspicion.

He has this self-confidence.

But the question is, how should he get the word out about himself? At least Russell's popularity in the United States is necessary to compete with the top favorites like Downs and Okafor.

Time passed slowly as he thought, and before he knew it, the sky was already dark.

At this time, the phone rang again, it was Tang Ya. Yi Feng answered the phone, and tenderness appeared in his eyes.

He didn't reveal his thoughts on the phone, but laughed with his girlfriend and eliminated his girlfriend's worries. Putting down the phone, Yi Feng, who had not slept all night, finally turned off the light and fell asleep slowly.

Time passed quickly, Yi Feng got up at noon, walked around the neighborhood in the afternoon, and saw a lot of young people who were sweating and youth on the street court, although they had the desire to show their style on the court, but considering that they were going to the draft joint training camp tomorrow, they held back this thought.

In the evening, Zhou Mu reappeared, and mysteriously revealed to Yi Feng that he was ready. Yi Feng asked carefully, what exactly is the preparation? But Zhou Mu smiled and said nothing, only saying that you will know later.

Yi Feng didn't dig deeper, in his opinion, Zhou Mu's operations were just a side door, if there was no guarantee of his own hard power, everything would be empty. And if you have excellent strength, why do you need those vain things?

That night, Yi Feng had a good night's sleep, his body fully recovered, and there was no longer the slightest tiredness. For the joint training camp, he is completely ready.

NBA Draft Joint Training Camp, known as Chicago Joint Training Camp because it is held in Chicago all year round. This year's draft joint training camp is scheduled for the 11th to 15th at the United Center Arena in Chicago.

In previous joint training camps, only one or two media outlets were allowed to enter, so little was known about the situation in the training camps. Many big-name rookies just deal with it in training camp, and even excuse themselves not to participate in joint training camps.

This can make the NBA official face gloomy.

So this year the policy has changed.

This year's Chicago Joint Training Camp was fully open to the media, and the rookies in it were all exposed to the media. If there are still those who do not work hard, they are the ones who suffer.

With the media pouring into training camps, as well as NBA coaches, general managers and scouts, the pressure on rookies is naturally high. With pressure, the chances of them behaving abnormally increase dramatically, which is undoubtedly devastating for them. Because the draft market is sure to go down with their poor performance.

But with such a high level of risk, there will certainly be huge benefits and rewards.

If a player can shine in a joint training camp, then his draft market is certainly bullish.

The NBA's action is more than that.

Officials are worried that this year's training camp will become an ornament again, so they specially returned to the original and restarted the 5-on-5 match. The camp was also set up at the United Center Arena in Chicago. It's the home of the Bulls.

In recent years, NBA team general managers and scouts have complained about the lack of competition among rookies in joint training camps, which has led to less and less point in examining player value. So there was this official decision.

Since 2009, the NBA has invited about 60 rookies to participate in joint training camps, allowing them to do some shooting drills, as well as ball control drills, and some slight simulated confrontations.

That's the rule set by former NBA commissioner, shrewd Jewish-American David Stern.

NBA commissioner Adam Silva, who took office on February 1, 2014, reversed the rules of the joint training camp that Stern had changed in 2009 in an effort to dismantle the influence of former commissioner Stern and establish his authority.

Silva's big move was to restart the 5-on-5 matchup, which had already been abandoned.

Prior to 2009, the NBA used a 5-on-5 tournament called "pre-draft training camp" to vet these prospective players in Orlando, Florida, Chicago, etc., and especially Chicago.

But after Stern changed that rule, the rookies with high predictions were reluctant to participate in this kind of show-based matchup, resulting in training camp ending up with a group of rookies who were basically second-round prospects playing pointless matchups.

In this year's training camp, a total of 66 rookie players were officially invited to participate. The list of invitees is decided by the 30 teams of the NBA.

In fact, the initial invitation list was only 65 people, but later one person was added to the list. It is said that it was President Silva's request. At that time, the entire NBA official and the management of various teams felt a little inexplicable, because this guy who cut the team was with Chinese.

FengYi？

Could it be that Yi's brother? These bigwigs couldn't help but start sneering in their hearts.

At the beginning, Yi almost made it to the All-Star in his rookie season. Is this another "great" player to conquer the NBA?

At the same time, they also despise Silva in their hearts, worthy of being the designated successor of Stern's old fox, and even the posture of kneeling and licking the Chinese market is the same.

At the beginning, the miser of Alexander in Houston had good luck and hugged a golden thigh like Yao Ming and made a lot of money. Later, the Bucks followed suit and selected Yi Jianlian, although he didn't make achievements, but the Bucks also made a lot of money.

Who doesn't want dollar bills?

These bigwigs naturally have fantasies in their hearts: if this Yi has a little strength, as long as it is not worse than the Sun selected by the Lakers, they dare to gamble!

Of course, it's not a bet on whether Yi Feng can get a head, but a bet on how much money they will make after they choose Yi Feng.

On the one hand, they despise the strength of Chinese players, and will only rely on the huge population base and the huge number of fans to speak; But on the other hand, they want to make money from the Chinese.

In which year did no NBA stars come to China to promote, and in which year did China not broadcast NBA games?

For the money, for the dollar, they endured the disgust and put Yi Feng on the invitation list.

After all, no one is at odds with money, is it?

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May 11, 2015, 9 a.m., United Center Arena, Chicago.

Yi Feng sat on the silver Chevrolet that Zhou Mu got out of nowhere, and came to the United Center Arena.

Union Center Arena, home to the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Ice Hockey League and the Chicago Bulls of the NBA, is named after sponsor United Airlines.

Located at 1901 W. Madison Street in Chicago, it opened on August 18, 1994, covering an area of 960,000 square feet, claiming to be the largest stadium in the United States, with a capacity of 21,879 spectators when basketball games are held.

To the east of the United Center arena, there is a bronze statue of Michael Jordan. It was done in honor of the great basketball god and is a Chicagoan's tribute to Jordan.

The bronze statue is 3.5 meters high, weighs 907 kilograms, and is modeled as Jordan's flying dunk, and the marble tablet on the base of the bronze statue is engraved with Jordan's various glories, and there is a sentence "Thebestthereeverwas.Thebestthereeverwillbe" means that there is no one before and no one after.

Today, the statue has become a major tourist attraction in the city of Chicago, and tourists from all over the world and even foreign tourists always stop here just to see the bronze statue.

And now, at the entrance to the United Center arena, it is crowded with dense people. These are all journalists, mostly from the U.S. media, but also some from overseas.

The camp is not open and the media are not allowed to enter. And now it was almost time for the training camp to open, so they all started to squeeze towards the entrance.

Invited rookie players have a special way to enter the arena, but they need to be invited to enter.

Yi Feng originally wanted to take a look at the bronze statue of Jordan and pay his respects. Unexpectedly, Zhou Mu directly pulled him towards the special passage.

"If you want to see it later, there is time. You have to understand what is most important right now. Get into the arena early, there must already be quite a few team managers and scouts in there, and you should behave well in front of them. ”

Yi Feng wondered, "Now that the training camp hasn't started yet, if I'm the only one in it to show off my skills, how can I feel a little silly?" ”

Zhou Mu said: "Take out the selling points on your body, and it doesn't matter if you show off your skills." It would be nice if you were the only one to show off your skills. At that time, everyone's eyes will be on you, as long as you behave well, won't it be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people? That would save me a lot of effort. ”

Yi Feng was puzzled, "What effort do you save?" ”

"Sell your kung fu."

Zhou Mu took out the invitation letter, handed it to the staff of the stadium, took the badge handed over by the staff, and took the lead in walking towards the passage. Yi Feng, who followed behind, heard the conversation between the staff with his sensitive ear power-

"The one who went in just now is a yellow man, right? It looks skinny, and it will definitely fly when you touch it on the court! ”

"Listening to their blunt voices, I think they must be Chinese!"

"Hehe, you see the one walking behind, with his height, he should be playing at the back. But except for players like Yao who can be bullied by height, defenders can't do it at all! The confrontation is poor, the technique is terrible, the dribble can't pass half the court, I don't think he even has a chance to be touched! ”

"Hahaha, I understand what you mean, just say that he can't play!"

"Maybe he'll be taken by a certain team, like the Lakers."

"That's right, while signing him as the team's mascot, you can also make Asians money!"

"Hahaha......"

Yi Feng's heart suddenly caught fire, and his fists clenched tightly.

But he didn't look back.

Because he knew that even if he knocked these staff members to the ground, it would not change their minds. Only by proving yourself on the pitch can you shut them up.