What can a person do with a ruthless mind?

Lost 25 pounds in 12 days!

Zhang Hao looked at the ruthless man in front of him, who had obviously lost a small circle, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart - he was worthy of being a big guy who didn't die after more than a dozen knives.

10 pounds! The pork is so big! I actually subtracted it stiffly.

It's so ruthless!

Regardless of whether it will affect his health, Zhang Hao looked at Pierce anyway and felt that Pierce's whole person was more energetic.

"Haha, what's the matter, aren't you stunned! I said, I want to lose weight, I can lose weight in minutes, this is just the beginning, you go to the NBA and wait, and when I come to the NBA, we will lead the Lakers to win the championship together......"

Pierce's mouth opened, and the ruthlessness that Zhang Hao had felt from him before suddenly dissipated.

Chatter or the same chatterbox......

Seeing Pierce, Zhang Hao's mood was much better, a confused future made him feel very bad in the past few days, always thinking about what to do if he lost the election, and the key was to watch the life expectancy decrease day by day every day.

"Aix, when are we going to New York? It's my first time going to Madison Square Garden, and it's a basketball mecca......."

Facing Pierce, who turned on the chatter mode again, Zhang Hao ignored the miscellaneous and replied directly: "The plane will be at nine o'clock tomorrow morning." ”

“……”

Today is June 25th, Zhang Hao's remaining life is 367 days, and the day after tomorrow is the day of the draft.

It felt like a coincidence, as if the day of the draft would be a new chapter, just back to 365 days, the remaining life he had when he had just fused his memories.

It's just that he can't predict exactly how this new chapter will develop.

But he has also figured it out in the past few days, dazed and confused, hesitant and hesitant, but time will still pass day by day, and it has come to this point, and the next draft conference should be as it should be.

At this time, Zhang Hao finally understood what it meant to be a "major decision in life".

It is true that the decision was made a little hastily at that time, but now that the decision has been made and has been on this path, there is no turning back.

What he has to do now is to wait until the results come out, and then consider the future according to the results, it is useless to regret the original decision, he can only hope that the results will make him not regret it.

What can make him feel a little comforted is that no matter how confused and hesitant he is in the process, he gives his all every time he participates in the draft, regardless of whether the team on the tryout values him or not.

Next, head to New York and wait to be picked.

……

The just-concluded 94-95 season was quite a legendary season in the eyes of fans.

First of all, Jordan is back!

Then, Jordan was beaten by pennies.

Then, Olajuwon led the sixth-place team in the West, all the way to the Finals, without home-court advantage in the whole process, but swept O'Neal in the Finals to complete two consecutive championships.

This championship directly established Olajuwon's position in the top 10 in history.

After the Finals, the draft and the subsequent free market became the focus of fans' attention.

The first thing is definitely the draft.

Joe Smith, Antonio McDyce, Rasheed Wallace, Damon Stoudemire, Jerry Starhouse...... The quality of this year's draft is still quite high, although Duncan is missing, but it is also a pretty good draft year.

The ownership of these players is the focus of attention of fans at the moment.

And the high school rookies who were once very hyped during the playoffs, when it came time to draft, there were not many topics to mention about them.

In the eyes of fans, high school students participating in the draft are just a gimmick, and not many people think that they can directly adapt to NBA-level games, because many high school talents can't even adapt to the college league, and the gap is too big.

Garnett, Zhang Hao and others are just "topics"; And that group of geniuses who came out of the university are the "hot"!

Even Garnett, who is so famous, has teams that say things like, "I'm stupid to pick him with a lottery pick."

On June 26, the day before the draft, the sports media gathered in New York, and the top young basketball talents in the United States and the world also gathered in New York.

Zhang Hao and Pierce came to the Big Apple together, found a cheap hotel, opened a standard room, and made do with it.

This year is not as rich as the future NBA, except for the group of people in the small green house, the other rookies have to be responsible for their own food and lodging during the draft.

The money earned from the previous slam dunk contest has been almost spent.

Now Zhang Hao is waiting for tomorrow's draft and looking forward to coming soon.

Either the tender model club, or the ......

Anyway, if he is selected, Zhang Hao feels that at least he does not have to worry about his livelihood for the time being.

The two poor boys had no money to go out and play, and the small hotel didn't even have a television, so Pierce brought his red and white machine.

However, when you come to the Big Apple, you naturally want to go shopping, Pierce proposed to go to Madison Square Garden first, so as not to find the way tomorrow, although in fact, the fact that the players who participated in the draft on the day of the draft will not be on the spot does not affect the draft, nor does it affect whether they will be selected, but if you want to experience the NBA draft in your basketball career, you will have a chance to go, and of course you have to go.

Say go, put valuables ...... They didn't have any valuables, so they packed up their cash and driver's licenses and went straight out.

Although the hotel is shabby and small, there are quite a few people who come to stay here, or rather, this cheap hotel not very far from Madison Square Garden, where you can see players participating in the draft.

After all, there are only so many people in the small green house, hundreds of people participate in the draft, most of them are players from the United States, and college students don't have much money, so they basically find such cheap hotels to live in.

Coming out of the elevator, Zhang Hao saw several players who had met.

"Michael, what a coincidence, you live here too!" Zhang Hao greeted Michael Finley with an old face.

Michael Finley has an extremely mild personality, so mild that he is not impatient when he can't catch the ball during the trial, and he is also a no-ball, ball-holding scumbag player, and he is also the draft prediction pick at the end of the first round and the beginning of the second round.

The two who shared the same illness were quite compatible in the Pistons' tryout...... That is, the two sat and neither spoke, and they both felt that the other party was not bad.

"It's you, Aix, how is it, I heard that you tried out a few more teams later, how is it going?"

"It's okay, what about you."

"I'm okay ...... too"

Although it was quite a match, it was not familiar, so after a pleasant greeting, they separated.

Michael Finley, Zhang Hao naturally has an impression, and it is precisely because he saw that Michael Finley, a star who is so strong in the future, suffered similar to him in the draft, most of the participating players are actually in a similar situation, and it is very difficult for most of the participating players to get a trial opportunity...... So Zhang Haocai didn't have an explosive mentality, he gradually understood later, thanks to the slam dunk contest and Adidas training camp before the start of the trial, so many teams were interested in him and invited him to try out, he called and took the initiative to apply for a trial, and more participating players came to try out.

It was fine, but I walked for nearly an hour to Madison Square Garden to see the appearance...... In general, it is the appearance of an ordinary NBA arena, and it is relatively old, and it is said that it is almost time to renovate.

The stadium, built in 1968, is also poorly planned, with the main entrance of the arena directly facing the main road, and above the main entrance there is a huge poster of the star with a picture of Patrick Ewing the gorilla holding the ball with both hands.

Walking is still beneficial, currently in a traffic jam, Zhang Hao and Pierce came to the door of the stadium smoothly, there is a window at the ticket office, "rookie registration office", Zhang Hao took out the draft registration receipt, and smoothly entered the museum for free with the "agent".

When Zhang Hao was bored to learn about this aspect, he found an unbelievable thing, that is, the individual ticket prices of some attractions in New York are similar to the price of the city-wide pass.

Pierce entered the arena and turned on the chatter mode, and he was surprised when he saw everything, but Zhang Hao has been to more NBA arenas recently, and he has no curiosity.

It took more than half an hour to walk around, and it took 15 US dollars to take 3 photos, and tomorrow I picked them up at the photo shop in the stadium, and I was ready to leave.

"Ax, you are in the NBA and waiting, I will come back in two years, do you think the Lakers will draft you? I think so......"

Zhang Hao listened to Pierce's "Laker dream", and he really wanted to tell Pierce that if the Lakers successfully got the OK combination next summer, he had no chance to be selected by the Lakers in the future, and O'Neal had a chance to get a lottery pick, and in exchange for Kobe Bryant also sent away Divac, who had the highest trade value, and although Van Exel and Eddie Jones were good, it was difficult to exchange for the top ten picks.

In that case, just listen to Pierce's chatter quietly.

Just as the two of them were walking towards the exit of the stadium, suddenly, Zhang Hao heard someone say his name.

"Look, isn't that Xiao Zhang ......?"

Zhang Hao had never heard this title before, the key is that it is Chinese, he immediately turned his head and saw several Chinese faces, one of which was met once, Xinhua reporter Xu Jicheng.

It was not Xu Jicheng who said his name, but an older middle-aged man next to him.

"Aix, are you being called?"

"Yes, journalists from our country."

Zhang Hao explained, and led Pierce to a few people who walked towards them.

This time, it was Xu Jicheng who spoke first: "Aix, I finally found you, it's really difficult to see you......"

Zhang Hao heard a strong sense of resentment from the tone of Xu Jicheng, a big man.

Without waiting for Zhang Hao to reply, Xu Jicheng enthusiastically introduced: "Mr. Jiang, your eyes are so good, I haven't seen Xiao Zhang yet, you can see it at a glance, you are not mistaken, this is our country's talented basketball high school student Zhang Hao, whose English name is Aix...... Aix, this is Mr. Jiang Xiaoyu, editor-in-chief of the sports news department of Xinhua News Agency.

This is the editor-in-chief of the basketball news editorial department of the Imperial Court Sports Channel......

This is ......

Aix, this guy next to you I remember is Paul Pearce, a talented high school student from California, right, hello, we're ...... from China."

Through Xu Jicheng's introduction, Zhang Hao got to know some leaders of the two major media giants in China.

I also learned that in the past period, domestic reporters were trying to find ways to collect information about him.

Pierce is quite accustomed to being interviewed, a high school star player.

A Chinese high school student participating in the NBA draft, as well as the market from the end of the first round to the middle of the second round, domestic sports fans are very concerned.

And unlike the United States, it has been more than a month since Zhang Hao announced his participation in the draft, and the domestic popularity has not diminished at all!

Although in many aspects of the country, various problems such as "the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds", "there is nothing to do when you are full" and so on, what the Chinese people lack more at present is confidence.

And to what extent do Chinese people need faith?

If any aspect of the country is not good enough, they feel that their country is still poor.

military, compared with the United States; Romantic, you have to compare with France; rigorous, compared with Germany; Hygiene, compared with Japan...... I want to compare with the best in everything.

Sports, in this regard, the Chinese people naturally hope that their country is strong in all aspects, basketball has a wide audience in China, so many years have passed, and finally a domestic basketball player has the opportunity to appear on the NBA stage, which has triggered a strong basketball boom in China.

However, there is no news breaking news in China!

Some media went to the Blue Association to see if there was any information there, but they were asked by the Blue Association not to report about Zhang Hao...... It's just that under the leadership of Xinhua News Agency, not many media have paid attention to the strange request of the Blue Association.

Since there is no news in China, I will go to the United States to cover the news, but first, there are not many domestic media that have been allowed to cover in the United States, and the Soviet Union has fallen, and for multiple reasons, my own country has become the biggest imaginary enemy of the United States.

Second, due to some reasons, they couldn't get Zhang Hao's contact information from the NBA, every time the NBA headquarters sent a message saying that Zhang Hao was going to a tryout, they just arrived there, and Zhang Hao had already finished the trial and went to the next city.

It's like that every time, and it's a day or two off every time.

More than a few times, they also understood that the NBA just wanted them to report on draft tryouts that they had barely covered in previous years.

Not to mention the draft tryout, they are rarely reported by the mainstream media even on the draft conference.

But now the situation is different, if Zhang Hao really entered the NBA, they had planned to focus on Zhang Hao's breakthrough and gradually increase their coverage of the NBA, so it would be nothing in advance.

To each his own, he takes what he needs.