McDonald's Pacific Los Angeles headquarters, they are recently inviting top high school students to participate in the high school all-star game at the end of the month, in fact, there is only one event that is the most important, that is, the slam dunk contest, and the other games are not highly concerned, and there is no high attention to the games in the Adidas training camp, and the selling point of the McDonald's high school all-star weekend is the slam dunk contest, and this game is broadcast live in the United States.

Some of the invited players replied, some of the players refused, these are nothing, their most important legendary "high school student strongest slam dunk king" Vince Carter agreed to participate in the slam dunk contest, and that's enough!

This slam dunk contest does not cost anything, except for room and board, some basic venue fees, staff costs, and bonuses for players who enter the finals, which are much smaller than other commercial expenses.

It has been a few months since the invitation was sent, and those who want to agree to participate should have already replied by phone, email, letter, etc., McDonald's feels that the work of inviting players is almost done, and the next step can start preparations for the game.

There are still 10 days to go, McDonald's High School All-Star Weekend is about to begin, today is the deadline for submission of entry materials, and it has been two days since I received a new letter The staff who are preparing to count the list of participating players came to the mailbox for the last time, and I saw that there were two letters today.

Open it and look at it, Zhang Hao and Paul Pierce of Inglewood High School, which has performed well in California in the last two years in southwest Los Angeles, are the only Chinese high school students they invited, and Pierce is the best high school player in California this season.

Pierce was invited to sell tickets locally, live TV and advertising to make money, of course it is better to be able to sell tickets, this year's information and communication technology is still very backward, out of Florida, not many people know that Carter is still a high school student.

Zhang Hao can also play such a role, but McDonald's originally did not plan to invite a Chinese high school student to participate, which is related to business matters, and their Asia-Pacific market development department strongly recommended inviting Zhang Hao when they learned that the Pacific headquarters was going to hold a high school slam dunk contest this year.

Although the Pacific headquarters agreed, the invitation was not as positive as expected by the Asia-Pacific Market Development Department, and it was far worse than going to Carter's family to communicate.

However, Zhang Hao responded, and the staff also submitted him to the person in charge of the preparation of this event.

Zhang Hao wants to participate in the slam dunk contest, McDonald's is naturally happy, even if they are not so active, but Zhang Hao agrees to participate, then you can use Zhang Hao's Chinese identity.

They don't need to sign Zhang Hao's spokesperson, but using the gimmick that Zhang Hao is now a top 30 high school student in the United States, McDonald's still wants to do it, no need to spend any money, provide a little bonus, Zhang Hao can get it, can not get it down, this can use Zhang Hao's identity as a Chinese to promote a wave in China.

The pressure of competition with KFC is too great, China, a country with a population of more than 1 billion, has a huge catering market, and McDonald's does not want to miss the opportunity to open up the market.

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Time, April 16th, another 5 days have passed, Zhang Hao's life span is only 374 days left, and tonight has passed, there are 373 days left.

This kind of pressure to see his life expectancy decreasing day by day does make him a little crazy, but fortunately, there is a part of the memory of the future, and the mood of "I am so happy to be able to live" allows him to face all this calmly and work hard to find a way to live.

What is the method of effort?

It's training!

If you can personally feel your more and more stable CIC, and you can clearly feel the progress of CIC, you can have a better "plan to survive".

After sending the letter, Zhang Hao has been training for the past few days, and he can only feel the progress after practicing for a long time compared to before, and the progress in these days makes Zhang Hao excited every day.

In just 5 days, the mid-pitch ability value has risen from 75 to 79! 70 to 79 Zhang Hao regards it as good, if 90-94 is the top, then 85-89 should be the first-class level, and 80-84 is the excellent level! NBA-level mid-range mid-range shots are just around the corner!

Not only is the evaluation improving, but he can also feel the improvement in his shooting accuracy, which can now be described as changing with each passing day compared to the previous improvement speed.

Zhang Hao got up and came to the small living room outside the bedroom, the apartment was old, but the area was quite large, more than 40 square meters, there was a small living room and a bathroom, Zhang Hao, who had just woken up, saw a fat dun playing computer in his living room.

This is a broken computer, not to mention the big head machine, the network speed makes people blow up, and the configuration is also poor...... This is from Zhang Hao's future vision.

For Pierce, it's a baby!

Pierce's mother, dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Kansas, as well as the basketball team manager and head coach, came to visit and confirmed that Pierce would attend the University of Kansas, so she didn't care much about Pierce's studies.

Because Pierce was admitted to college, and studied nursing, which is easy to find a job in the future, Pierce's mother was very satisfied with this, and the three sons were all admitted to college and received full scholarships...... Mainly because of Pierce's chubby appearance, she really doesn't think that Pierce can eventually become a professional player like her second son, maybe she will be like her eldest son, although he is talented, but because of his lack of self-discipline in diet, he will eventually lose the opportunity to become a professional player, so Pierce is now playing games every day, and his mother said that he can play games casually when he is admitted to college......

The computer is Zhang Hao's, when he first came to the United States to study, his family still had money, and he directly bought a lot of things, computers, pagers and other things, just about to buy a big brother, the latest game software is basically Pierce helped his mother clean the corridor, move things and other labor to get pocket money to buy, the two took turns to play.

In the past, Zhang Hao liked to play games, but now Zhang Hao has no interest in these games, and the picture quality and full screen mosaics are not enough to describe their inferiority...... Wait for Red Alert and CS, StarCraft, Warcraft 2, Diablo 2 ...... He was interested in waiting for the games to come out, and those games can be said to have completely changed the entire game era.

Zhang Hao watched Pierce play the second part of the interstellar universe exploration machine battle game "Elite", just Pierce was alone in fragments, usually the same, Zhang Hao usually played, he rarely spoke, it was Pierce who said on the side, Pierce didn't feel wrong at all, but he was confused about how he had been playing for so long today? In the past, if there was no training, the two of them would rush to play.

Today, there is a competition between the junior students and the Southern California High School, which is being held in their school, and they will use the training ground, and Zhang Hao is also preparing to take a day off.

But don't say it, watching Pierce play, Zhang Hao also thinks it's very interesting, the main thing is that the game is interesting, although the current game is not as good as the picture quality in the future, but it is better in the plot and playability...... The most important thing is the game, it's fun to play with someone, even if it's one person playing and watching alone.

At noon, feeling hungry, Zhang Hao said hello to Pierce, went out to buy three pizzas and came back to eat together.

After coming to the United States, Zhang Hao discovered things like pizza, hamburgers, and fried chicken nuggets, which are the same as domestic Shaxian snacks.

But in the same way, he saw the American side, and the bun was 5 US dollars...... It doesn't matter if the taste is weird, the difference between pizza in the United States and pizza in China is quite big, but some very cheap Chinese food in China is expensive to death in the United States, and some of the shapes are very different, he and Pierce went to eat a big bun that cost 12 US dollars, and they need to be cut with a knife and fork to eat.

When he went to buy pizza in the next neighborhood and came back, Zhang Hao saw a letter in his mailbox, and his eyes lit up! Could it be that a new school has replied?

Take it out and look at it, a little disappointed, Adidas and McDonald's reply letters.

Adidas's reply letter was one, though, while McDonald's reply letter was two!

"Is this fat guy really participating in the slam dunk contest?"

Zhang Hao thought of Pierce High School's dunks a total of 3 times...... Lecture on righteousness!

If Pierce dunks first, and he Zhang Hao dunks again, then in comparison, maybe he can really get a full dunk.

Just when Zhang Hao opened the reply letter from the Adidas training camp, the subtitle prompt came again.

"Special Signing Player: Zhang Hao, has successfully signed up for the Adidas 1995 Summer High School Basketball Camp, congratulations to the host for an increase of 15 days.

Special Signing Player: Zhang Hao, who has successfully signed up for the McDonald's All-Star Slam Dunk Contest for high school students, congratulations to the host for increasing his remaining life span by 15 days.

The remaining life is 404 days, and the usable life is 403 days. ”

Look at the specific time, place, and hotel of the competition written on the letter...... and so on, Zhang Hao was very excited - sure enough! A player with a special signing, that is, he himself participated in an important event, may be rewarded!

He participated in these two events, the main purpose is to get rewards, and he is actually not very optimistic about the final result, but he can be rewarded if he participates, why not?

However, I didn't expect that the Adidas training camp that I took the initiative to participate in also had rewards, but this also made Zhang Hao's alternative plan more feasible - if it doesn't work, he will play low-level leagues or organized street events.

Adidas' ABCD training camp, which Pierce participated in last year, is a similarly advertised event competition by Adidas to compete with Nike in the basketball shoe market, but the level of competition is the highest in the training camps of major sports brands.

In this game, generally speaking, there are no senior high school players to participate, and most of the senior high school players have been divided up by major colleges and universities at this time, so it is usually the players who can be shortlisted for the top 100 high school students in the United States in the second and third years of high school, and the last high school All-Star players can basically enter the NCAA Division I team in the future.

Zhang Hao is obviously an exception, and he received the invitation this year, in large part because of the large number of Chinese people in the venue.

Zhang Hao felt that he had to work hard and try to see if he could get the approval of a college coach, just like Coach Scott Collins at Inglewood High School, who took a fancy to his ability and talent and selected him.

The power of college coaches is very large, and the head coach has a high voice in scholarship arrangements and player selection.

But think of college...... Zhang Hao still has a headache, he sent his game video and resume to 22 universities in the first-tier league, but so far only 9 universities have replied.

Most of the universities who replied were interested in his SAT scores, and Zhang Hao estimated that he would not apply for college for the purpose of basketball scholarships, but simply apply for universities based on his grades, and those schools would be much more enthusiastic.

Returning to the bedroom with three letters, Zhang Hao gave Pierce's letter to Pierce, and opened his reply letter to the McDonald's High School All-Star Slam Dunk Contest.

The Adidas Bootcamp was held in San Francisco this year, and the McDonald's All-Star Weekend for High School Students was held in Los Angeles.

McDonald's All-Star Weekend, the 24th went to the designated hotel to report, the 25th-26th is the selection of the game, including the preliminary round of the slam dunk contest, McDonald's high school all-stars, is modeled after the rules of the NBA All-Star, but there are tryouts, the first two days of selection, the 27th is the high school All-Star game, the 28th is the three-point contest and the dunk contest.

And the most valued and the only one that has been broadcast live in the United States is the slam dunk contest, and the previous three-point contest also had the opportunity to be broadcast live in the United States because of the slam dunk contest, but it is estimated that not many people pay attention to it.

In terms of the all-star game, Zhang Hao did not receive an invitation, but in the past few days, Zhang Hao learned about this all-star and found that this high school all-star selection is very strange, it is among all the state league championship teams in the east and west, and the experts select a player in each of the state championship high schools that are divided into the east or west, and sometimes the best players do not have the opportunity to participate.

Pierce also received an invitation, but declined because it wasn't necessary.

Adidas training camp is different, Zhang Hao is a special case, most of the other players are sophomores and juniors, the first is to start a week-long training camp, during which some game selections will be held in various ways, and finally the All-Star lineup will be determined, at the node between the NBA regular season playoffs, seize the time, and conduct a game that imitates the NBA All-Stars, the two teams are composed of high school students from the East and the West.

After Zhang Hao paid attention to this event, he saw the promotional poster of the Adidas High School basketball camp, and the cover player used to promote it was Kevin Garnett, the best high school student in the United States at Farraghu High School...... Zhang Hao deliberately paid attention to the current Garnett, only to understand why this guy didn't go to college and went directly to the NBA, his grades were too bad, what kind of enthusiasm for learning can make a senior in high school only score more than 300 points in the SAT exam?

When there was an ACT test at the end of April and an SAT test at the beginning of May, Garnett, a difficult test, did not study hard to get into college, and came to participate in this competition, perhaps because he didn't think about going to college at all...... There was no chance to enter.

The Adidas training camp was not livestreamed, but it attracted more attention than the training camp and the All-Star Game on McDonald's's side! The MVP of this tournament almost all ended up in the NBA, and the 18-man roster for the final game of this tournament almost all entered the NCAA Division I teams in every edition.

The McDonald's All-Star Game for high school students is almost equivalent to going through the motions, and the slam dunk contest is only about physical fitness and dunk creativity, while the final game of Adidas training camp is about real skill and basketball talent.

While Pierce was eating pizza, Zhang Hao used his computer to search for the details of this game in the Adidas training camp.

In these years, I have been very patient with the computer......

"Yo he!"

Zhang Hao looked at the list of participants and quickly found the names of some familiar people, not familiar with each other, but he knew those people.

Garnett, Kobe, Hamilton, Bibby, Jermaine O'Neal...... However, the vast majority of people still don't know each other, more than 100 people.

Zhang Hao thought about the speed of his mid-pitch progress...... Originally, he didn't have any expectations for Adidas training camp, but now that he has, he is good at running, catching and shooting, if there is a teammate who passes the ball a little better, and the relationship is better, maybe he can make the final 18-man squad?

The probability of making the NCAA Division I varsity team will be greatly increased!

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