On February 11, Shen Lian flew to Dallas, Texas, USA.

Dallas, the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest city in the United States.

The sports atmosphere in the city is strong, the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL, the Dallas Stars of the NHL, the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA, the Texas Rangers of MLB, and FC Dallas of MLS are all in the city. And the most well-known to Chinese is the German who plays for the Dallas Mavericks, Nowitzki.

"Hi, prawns! Welcome to Dallas! Far away, Adam Silva, a staff member assigned by the NBA, greeted Shen Lian warmly.

A white man tall enough to look down on Shen Lian. The bald head shape is very special, he didn't wear a hat on this cold day, Shen Lian felt cold when he looked at it.

"Mr. Xiao Hua, thank you very much for greeting." Xiao Hua is very likely to become the helmsman of the future NBA, a commercial league, and the other party came to the station to greet him in person, which should be said to be enough to save face, Shen Lian also felt very bright on his face, and greeted him with a smile and shook hands with Xiao Hua.

"Welcome to Dallas for this NBA All-Star Game Masters game. How's it going, is Dallas cold? Xiao Hua said with concern.

The Chinese market has always been the top priority of the NBA's development. As early as 1989, the far-sighted Stern had just become the NBA commissioner, and when he was satisfied, he flew to the other side of the ocean to go to CCTV to actively promote the broadcast of the NBA, and did not charge any fees for it.

And Stern's plan is also being implemented step by step, Wang Zhizhi entered the NBA and became the first Asian to enter the NBA, Yao Ming entered the NBA in 02 and grew into the league's top center, and Yi Jianlian entered the NBA in 07, which is also an occasional appearance. Even Sui Feifei and Miao Lijie, two women's basketball players, entered the WNBA. The promotion of the NBA as a business league in China is becoming more and more smooth.

However, in the playoffs last season, Yao Ming and Kobe Bryant collided with their knees, and their bodies broke out with more hidden dangers, and they announced their farewell to all games this season early, which brought about fluctuations in the influence of the NBA in China.

Yao Ming's season is reimbursed, and Yi Jianlian is far from having the ability to carry the banner, and he is only a rotation player with the Nets this season, let alone an All-Star. Stern had to find another way, and after the explosion in the North American film market with "District 9", he achieved box office results in Asia that were not inferior to "Transformers", which made David Stern take notice of the actor from China.

The influence among young Americans is average, but many people still know this movie and this actor, and in China and even the whole of Asia, well, in terms of popularity, he is the Justin Bieber of Asia.

With the influence of CCTV, the NBA successfully invited the most popular male artist in Chinese to participate in the All-Star Celebrity Game, and joined the Eastern Celebrity Team, teammates including Jordan's Batman, Scottie Pippen, NBA star BJ Armstrong, talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and so on.

And standing opposite him is the popular Canadian king Justin Bieber.

Shen Lian VS Bieber.

That's the NBA's slogan for this year's NBA All-Star Celebrity Game.

These two alone are enough for girls in Asia and North America to keep an eye on the live screen during the broadcast time of the Masters.

The remote control has always been in the hands of women, not to mention that basketball is still a very men's sport.

Arrange for the staff to take the luggage directly to the hotel room, and Adam Xiaohua directly took Shen Lian to the arranged training hall and introduced him to his teammates on the field.

"Hey, Shrimp Man. You're finally here. After entering the training hall, several people were doing shooting training, Shen Lian and Adam Xiaohua had just come in, and the sharp-eyed Pippen found Shen Lian.

"Hi, Batman. Nice to meet you. Pippen took the initiative to say hello, and Shen Lian hurriedly responded politely.

The other party is a legendary superstar in the NBA. The basketball god Jordan is the most powerful helper by his side.

"Did you bring your shoes, let's have fun. It's not good, and when I play tomorrow, I don't have a tacit understanding at all. Pippen invited that although it was an entertaining game, it did not mean that Pippen was willing to lose.

"yes, okay." Shen Lian was still wearing running shoes on his feet at this time. Not regular basketball shoes.

Because of the endorsement problem, he can't wear Adi or Nike shoes, and after negotiating with NB, he is allowed to wear domestic brand basketball shoes, and Li Ning has become the only option.

Of course, the trademark must be blocked.

Shen Lian smiled faintly at Pippen, walked into the training ground, and began to do warm-up exercises silently.

"Hey! Shrimp Man, are you ready? A white man said, moving his wrist, "It's better to be prepared to cry for a while." ”

Jimmy Kimmel, the talk show host, is the worst at this stage, and he is full of expectations that Shen Lian can be weaker than him. Don't let him finish at the bottom of the team.

Of course, when it comes to the field, Shen Lian and Bieber will be the focus of the whole court, and others will just make the ball for them.

"I'm still worried about your own good."

"Give it a try." Pippen passed a ball and motioned for the two to practice a little.

"You attack first, let me see how many catties you have." Jimmy half-crouched down, and his expression became stern.

Slowly dribbling sideways and patiently looking for opportunities, when he observed Jimmy in his hand, he was also observing Shen Lian and constantly exerting pressure, waiting for the opponent to make a flaw, ready to break the ball at any time.

Suddenly, Shen Lian's body turned outward slightly, revealing a small space for breaking the ball, and Jimmy noticed it and pounced like a falcon that had caught its prey, but what he didn't expect was that the ball that was clearly in front of him disappeared out of thin air.

Shen Lian deliberately released a flaw, taking advantage of the space where Jimmy broke the ball, he turned around with a pull ball, broke through from the other side of his body, and killed the basket.

By the time Jimmy stabilized his center of gravity and wanted to defend again, Shen Lian had already thrown off two positions with his explosive power and speed that was far from ordinary people.

The "brush" is very crisp sound, and the finish is relaxed and freehand.

The duel in the arena continued, and this time Jimmy obviously strengthened the pressure on Shen Lian, and his whole body was completely attached to Shen Lian's back, which was airtight.

Shen Lian also felt the pressure that Jimmy was exerting on himself at the moment, after all, he was white, and his strength was really big, he kept pushing himself out of the three-point line, and his two hands were still drawing circles on his back, making small movements one after another, there was no referee for this kind of bullfighting, and Shen Lian could only endure Jimmy's blatant small action offensive.

At this time, he was trying to get rid of Jimmy's defense, and suddenly a little distracted for a while, Jimmy quickly seized this opportunity to break the ball, the basketball slightly touched Jimmy's fingers, and jumped out, fortunately, Shen Lian reacted quickly, and hurriedly stepped forward to grab the ball before Jimmy regained control of the ball in his hand, and instinctively threw the ball out.

"Brush" is lucky, this ball has a lot of luck components. Shen Lian would definitely be forced to dribble twice if he didn't make a move, and he almost subconsciously threw it out, and the result was in.

Pippen clapped his hands vigorously and applauded, "Well done!" Come on! Shrimp Man! Welcome to the NBA! ”