Chapter 755: The second Chinese player to enter the NBA
"Mr. Yang, the Ministry of Electronic Information Industry invites you to participate in the National Electronic Information Seminar next week and make a report in public."
"I'm not interested, let Yongping go, he is better at official words than me."
"Okay. In addition, Acclaim Game Co., Ltd. in the United States, Croteam Game Co., Ltd. in Croatia, and Rockstar Game Co., Ltd. in the United States, they would like to send representatives to our company's Spring Festival party this year. ”
"Yes, you go and invite them to be guests, we Longteng are the most welcome guests. Acclaim's Shadow Samurai, Croteam's Sam the Hero, and R-Star's GTA series are all based on our 'Blood Wars' engine. But you have to remind the people of R Star that games are games, don't get involved in politics, if the Chinese government blocks them, I can't save them, even if I buy our game engine, it's useless. ”
"Yes! I'll let them know. There are also some invitations ......"
"Xiao Liu, please, it's almost Spring Festival now, can you let me take a break? If you can push it, you can push it! ”
"Okay! By the way, President Alexey called you, and you were killing Zuma with your friends that day, so ......"
“…… Hehe, itchy hands for a while. Yang Yun was a little embarrassed, he obviously said that he wouldn't play games, but his hands were itchy, and he logged in to the GM number that could adjust the level and equipment at any time, and mingled with Wuji and their guilds, and challenged the Zuma Temple at level 30.
Alexey called Yang Yun? What can he find Yang Yun for?
"The Minnesota Timberwolves are preparing to officially bring in Chinese player Wang Zhizhi this year, the second Chinese player to officially enter the NBA, and the Shanghai General Administration of Sports intends to hold a grand farewell party. Timberwolves senior officials and stars are invited to China, and President Alexey let me let you know. ”
"Oh. Well, you guys arrange this. ”
Wang Zhizhi's entry into the NBA is a big deal. As the second Chinese player to enter the NBA, this is the star Chinese player who officially joined the NBA after Bart entered the Timberwolves in 1996 - although he basically trained with the Timberwolves throughout 1998, he had to wait until January 1999 to officially join the NBA, which was also a helpless move.
In the basketball and soccer industries, Yang Yun took advantage of the opportunity to develop the "Pro Evolution Soccer" and "NBAGame" game series a few years ago to acquire two teams, La Liga Deportivo Club and the Minnesota Timberwolves in the United States, and since then he has entered the industry of combining games and sports, with the original intention of competing against EA's EA-Sports. Facts have proved that this is really good, FIFA and the NBA organizing committee are very face-saving and do things when they receive money.
EA's "FIFA" and "NBALive" series are vulnerable under the heavy attack of the dragon, not that these two games are bad, but because the dragon's "Pro Evolution Soccer" and "NBAGame" have a relatively large overlap with EA, and the design idea is much more advanced than the two games of EA, and the most important thing is that there are countless people who play the dragon game, which is ten times more than EA. More than 20 times, and the gap between the two has even expanded to 50 times in recent years.
Attacking EA is a necessary move to clean up his strong opponents in the game industry, and the inadvertent acquisition has given Yang Yun a windfall, and it seems that he has unintentionally inserted the feeling of willows and willows.
Acquisition of Laco. A large number of Chinese players are sent to La Liga for training, and Chinese players can be seen everywhere in La Liga, and a large group of young football players aged 16-20 are active on the La Liga pitch in recent years. Then take this opportunity to enter Ligue 1, the Premier League. Serie A, European football in the past three years has often seen the presence of Chinese.
The 1998 World Cup saw a resurgence in Asia. Among them, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar these Asian powerhouses are still eye-catching, Japan hit the World Cup for the first time in 1994 but made a comeback after tasting the pain of Doha, and the South Korean team is also the fifth consecutive impact on the World Cup.
Yang Chen, Zhang Xiaorui, Hao Wei, Li Tie, Li Jinyu, Sui Dongliang, Sun Jihai, Li Weifeng, Yang Pu, Shang Yi, Bao Wenjie, Daniel Zhang, Xu Yunlong, Shao Jiayi, Zheng Zhi, these 15 young Chinese players were recruited by Deportivo scout Han Wei under the door, sent to Laco for youth training, and after half a year, they were successively exchanged to other European teams, or started to play in the second line of Laco.
In addition, there are Fan Zhiyi, Hao Haidong, Li Yi who protects the ball like Henry, and Lin Hai, a talented player discovered by chance, these mature star-level players have already played the main force in their respective teams, with rich experience, skill, and excellent psychological quality, and have played in the top European leagues and the Champions League, and they have become the main force of the national team.
So in the 1998 World Cup, the entire national team had 8 players who returned from overseas, and this national team was pinned on high hopes by 1.2 billion Chinese, praised as the "Dragon Teng Team" of the new hope for Chinese football, and Iran, Japan, and South Korea were all trampled on in the qualifiers, second only to Saudi Arabia in the top ten, and won one of the two precious places, and entered the World Cup for the first time in history!
Although in the 1998 World Cup, the Chinese team was divided into Group F, the opponents were Germany, the United States and Yugoslavia, and they did not even pass the first round of the group stage, but they won at least one win and two losses, defeated the United States, lost to Germany and Yugoslavia, scored 3, lost 5, such a record has set a history, although the defeat is still glorious, not ashamed.
Since the 1998 World Cup, the company has been raised a level in the hearts of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and the national leaders, and officials have begun to be specifically responsible for contacting Longteng, not only in football, but also in the management of the Timberwolves, the exchanges between Croatia and China in sports, and the national sports and fitness that Longteng has been promoting.
Wang Zhizhi's entry into the official NBA is a major event with enlightening significance in the eyes of many people.
The NBA is different from European football, the NBA emphasizes more on personal strength, and the Chinese are still undeniably inferior in physical confrontation, so Longteng has not opened the floodgates to release a large number of people, and their reason is "Bart is strong among Chinese players, right?" Which local stars in China dare to pat their chests and say that they are better than him? Even he is playing as a substitute for Garnett, who still wants to play the main team? ”
Since 96, the Minnesota Timberwolves have become an NBA playoff team, with centers O'Neal and Ben Wallace, small forward Jamal Mashburn and bench Robert Hawley, scoring guard Ray Allen and bench Bruce Bowen, point guard Dejan Bodiloga, big forward Garnett and Barter, this is already a super luxury lineup.
In 1997, the Timberwolves entered the playoffs for the first time, and the Timberwolves entered the playoffs for the second time in 1998, and they have become one of the top two in the West, vaguely surpassing the momentum of the Big Brother Rockets, and it is possible to win the championship.
Wang Zhi entered the NBA at this time, he was to replace Bartle, and continue to learn to play the power forward position with Garnett, a Chinese star player like him, the MVP in the Chinese men's basketball professional arena, a super celebrity, if he wants to enter the NBA, he will start from the periphery, sit up from the bench, and the treatment and status are quite different.
But in this way, Wang Zhizhi did not dare to relax, but was very cooperative, constantly challenging himself and strengthening his strength.
At the end of January, Yang Yun participated in the farewell banquet held by the Shanghai General Administration of Sports, in addition to the leaders of the State General Administration of Sports and the Shanghai General Administration of Sports, and then all the players of the Shanghai Longteng Sharks Club, the president of the Timberwolves and O'Neal Garnett, two superstars, plus the coach of Beijing Bayi and Wang Zhizhi's teammates.
This banquet is very pure, Yang Yun likes this atmosphere very much, he is a banquet with Lin Zhiling, it seems that he is very relaxed, cordial, no shelf, he doesn't like to see groups of officials, he has to say a few words after eating, or the businessmen who are filled with a lot of copper smell on the field, three sentences are not separated from money.
"Aha! Shaq, you're strong again! ComeOn,one,two,three,go! As soon as Yang Yun saw O'Neill, he couldn't help but amuse him.
Of course O'Neal is willing, he is a comedian, he has starred in a lot of Longteng movies, he loves to play treasures by nature, and with Yang Yun's instructions, he immediately twisted his big buttocks, grabbed his crotch with one hand, learned Michael Jackson's lifting movement, and jumped up in front of Yang Yun.
Everyone laughed, the difference in height is too big, the difference in body size is too big, this action is like being obscene/obscene, many young players are almost crazy with laughter, who would have thought that world-class stars, their idols, would be so lively in private, there is really no live performance in the movie!
When hugging, Yang Yun was almost suffocated by O'Neill, and finally let go, Yang Yun patted his arm and pretended to be displeased: "Shaq, treat me like this again, be careful that I deduct your salary!" ”
O'Neill laughed, rolled his eyes, saw Wang Zhizhi, and exclaimed in horror: "Oh king! If anyone dares to bully you in the future, you will sue me, and I will support you! ”
Alexey, who was standing in the back, interjected and asked, "Including me?" ”
O'Neill impatiently chased flies: "Of course! I just have to please Yang! Wang, for my sake, for your sake, can you say a few kind words for me? ”
Seeing O'Neill hugging Wang Zhizhi and raising his eyebrows and smiling, the laughter that everyone had just stopped broke out again, and Yang Yun and Alexey shook hands and embraced.
"Welcome back to China, my old friend!" (To be continued......)