Cheng Jie, 16 years old, 1.93 meters tall, 98 kg in weight, Mongolian, from a poor county in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, his family belongs to a particularly poor household, and he has been practicing basketball for one year......

The previous information is negligible, but Wang Xiao has been watching him for 1 year of basketball.

One year, for basketball players, it may only be the stage of practicing the introduction and basic skills, in fact, looking at Cheng Jie's appearance, the basic skills are not solid, which explains why Cheng Jie can't keep up with the progress of the training camp.

What made Wang Xiao even more concerned was that each of the selected trainees had been interviewed, briefly introducing the name, where the age came from, etc., and when the reporter who interviewed Cheng Jie asked him why he played basketball, Cheng Jie's simple and clear answer made the reporter couldn't help but be stunned.

"Make money."

Facing the camera, Cheng Jie was a little shy, but his answer was concise and to the point. "We people there say that being a sports star makes a lot of money, and I want to make money, make a lot of money, so I want to play basketball."

It's a reason that is so real that anyone is embarrassed to say it, but this 16-year-old boy said it in a big way.

Prior to this, the reporter of Li Ning Sports has interviewed many other selected trainees, and the vast majority of trainees answered that they love the sport of basketball, hoping to win glory for the country, although they know that the vast majority of people may not think like this in their hearts, but at least in the face of the camera microphone interview, even these children under the age of 20 know to say something beautiful.

Cheng Jie was the only one who said such a sentence.

Everyone thinks Cheng Jie is too utilitarian, but Wang Xiao doesn't think so.

After all, Cheng Jie is different from others, his father was imprisoned for committing something since he was a child, and it was his uneducated mother who raised him by farming and grazing, and for children born in such an environment, making money is their biggest goal.

Interest? Hobby? If you can't even eat enough on your stomach, who is in the mood to think about those things?

And Cheng Jie's so-called making money may not be the same as the so-called utilitarianism of most people, he may just want to make money to make his life and his mother's life better, as for how to make money and how much money to make, he may not have a clear concept himself.

This is fundamentally different from many people who say that they don't care about money and only want to dream, but in fact they are money first and can give up everything for money.

Cheng Jie is very real, and the truth makes Wang Xiao appreciate this 16-year-old kid a little.

Maybe it's because of the big truth he told during the interview, maybe it's his Mongolian identity, maybe it's because he has a somewhat withdrawn personality, or maybe these factors are added together, in just a few days, Cheng Jie was isolated by the vast majority of trainees.

This is rare, although all the trainees on the field are essentially competitors, but at the same time they can't put the competition on the surface, because basketball is a team sport, pay attention to individual ability, but also need to be able to handle interpersonal relationships.

From this point of view, Cheng Jie, who is isolated by most people, has some problems.

And Wang Xiao marked the key symbol on his name.

The clear purpose, the perseverance to run ten kilometers a day to train on the street basketball court after being excluded, and the kind of ambition to work hard in a poor family are exactly the kind of players Wang Xiao wants.

Wang Xiao has every reason to believe that this kid will definitely not live up to the value of the growth template card if he uses any card in his hand.

Of course, this is only a preliminary judgment, and the training camp has only started for a long time, and maybe more excellent seedlings will be found later.

Wang Xiao just picked out Cheng Jie's name separately, and then focused on it, he was actually quite looking forward to it, if there was no interference by his own intervention, what would happen to Cheng Jie, who was currently squeezed out by the same group of trainees, unable to keep up with the progress of the training camp, and incompatible with the atmosphere of the entire training camp, in a few months.

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The training camp continues to be in full swing, and as the pace of training is further accelerated, more and more trainees are struggling and unable to keep up with the rhythm.

And Cheng Jie, who always couldn't keep up with the training progress at the beginning, seemed to be even more struggling, but what was surprising was that he could barely keep up with the training gradually, although he was always hanging at the last one, extremely reluctantly, but he did complete the training task assigned by the trainer.

Soon, the half-month intensive training ended, and at the same time, the results of the first batch were officially announced.

There is no suspense, Wang Zhelin, Zhou Qi and other future national team members are among the best, and most of the other players have a big gap with their ratings, as for Cheng Jie, he belongs to the bottom ranks, and even almost enters the top ten.

Players who finish in the bottom 10 will leave the camp and end their training program early.

The number of trainees from 100 has also been officially changed to 90.

The 90 trainees who survived did not have much chance to breathe a sigh of relief, because after the intensive training, a more complex training plan awaited them.

Defensive training, tactical training, covering running training......

If they don't perform well enough in any link, they may be kicked out of the team, and no one dares to take it lightly.

With the increase in training types and the deepening of intensity, Wang Xiao is more and more satisfied with Cheng Jie, although the speed of progress is not fast, compared with Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin and others, there is a world of difference, but Cheng Jie is indeed making solid progress every day, he is very serious about absorbing the skills taught to them by the trainer every day.

What's even more commendable is that this kid can still maintain the habit of going to the street basketball court every day to practice even more in the face of increasing training intensity.

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Before you know it, it's October.

On the NBA side, labor and management are still arguing, and they have not been able to reach an agreement for a long time, and the shutdown has affected the start of the new season, and many players have begun to panic, worried that the NBA will really come to an end, and many players have begun to sign contracts with overseas leagues to play, on the one hand, in order to leave a way back for themselves, and on the other hand, they are also thinking about maintaining their competitive state in other professional arenas.

Several of Wang Xiao's disciples, like Jeremy Lin, Stephen. Curry and Paul, who had a straight start with Wang Xiao because he was taken care of by Wang Xiao last season. George once called Wang Xiao and said that a team in the CBA had contacted them and couldn't make up his mind and wanted to ask Wang Xiao's opinion.

As a traverser, Wang Xiao gave them very pertinent advice.

"Seriously, I don't recommend you to go to the CBA to play."

As a traverser, Wang Xiao was very aware of the outcome of the shutdown and the subsequent impact, so he was not worried from the beginning, and even took advantage of this long vacation to go back to China to hold a huge "Wang Xiao Basketball Training Camp"

"I can tell you clearly that the NBA shutdown will end sooner or later, and neither labor nor management can afford the huge loss of a long-term shutdown, and both sides will eventually find a balance between the two and then end it all."

"When all this comes to an end, the new season is bound to be a shortened one, with a tight schedule and a tight schedule that will be a big test of fitness for every team and every player."

"Huaxia is too far away from the United States, and traveling to the CBA to play is not necessarily going to keep you competitive, and it is likely to over-fatigue your body, which is not a good thing for dealing with the intense competition of a shortened season."

"So my personal advice is that it's better for you to stay in the U.S., train hard every day, play in small games organised by other players once in a while, stay in good shape, and reserve more fitness for the upcoming shrinking season."

Anyone who called Wang Xiao was without exception a player who trusted Wang Xiao very much, so Wang Xiao's advice was very convincingly obeyed.

What Wang Xiao said is also true.

Because of the shutdown, each team only played 66 regular season games in the 11-12 season, and the tight schedule made many players unable to slow down, which made it particularly difficult for teams with an average age to reach the playoffs, such as the Spurs, Lakers, Mavericks, Celtics and other teams.

In the 11-12 season, the Finals were reached by two young teams, on one side of the Heat Big Three, and on the other side of the Thunder Three Less.

There is no doubt that in this shrinking season, the younger and more energetic teams will have the last laugh.

Therefore, Wang Xiao's advice to them is to recharge as much as possible under the condition of ensuring their competitive state.

The first season entered the Eastern Conference Finals, the second season entered the Finals, and now the third season is about to be ushered in, Wang Xiao's goal is naturally locked on the championship.

However, there are only a few people like Curry and Jeremy Lin who call Wang Xiao, after all, according to the NBA shutdown rules, no management personnel of the team can contact the players during the shutdown.

As the head coach of the Wizards, Wang Xiao properly belongs to the management personnel, and talking on the phone with Curry, Jeremy Lin and others is also a violation of the rules, and once he is found to be reported, he will inevitably face a fine from the league.

However, the call was made by Curry on their own initiative, so naturally it was impossible to leak it out, so it was not a big problem.

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The NBA was in a tense atmosphere throughout October, with negotiations between labor and management delaying to reach a consensus, and in November, something even more serious.

On November 15, 2011, NBA player representatives and the union executive committee jointly decided to reject the new proposal from the management, and the collective bargaining officially broke down, as if the NBA was really coming to an end this time, and it was really going to be suspended permanently.

More and more players are choosing to play overseas, such as Wilson, who went to China to pan for gold. Chandler, Brooks, J.R. Smith and other players.

But there is one player who is very surprising, and that is the only Chinese player in the NBA at present, Yi Jianlian of the Nets.

As a Chinese player, when the NBA was suspended, Yi Jianlian did not choose to return to China to play, but stayed in the United States for special training.