It's basketball All-Star Weekend again, and this time it's back at Madison Square Square in New York.

The advantage of Madison Square Square is that it has television equipment that can broadcast the proceedings of the game, and if the game is held in another city, the video can only be played after the game.

After three years of development, TV viewers have developed the habit of watching games through television, which has become a must-have equipment for restaurants and bars, and there are always people who stay in restaurants and bars in order to watch TV. Compared with other TV shows, basketball games are obviously more suitable for a large group of people to watch together, so it is more atmospheric.

All-Star Weekend is a household name in the United States, with skill challenges, shooting contests and slam dunk contests all talking about the topic of conversation, and the annual All-Star lineup is the focus of debate among fans.

The TV audience has increased slightly every year, and this year it has increased particularly dramatically, also thanks to the end of the war and the discharge of a large number of soldiers.

10 million soldiers are not discharged empty-handed, when they are discharged from the army, they get their salaries during their service from the Ministry of Defense, the salaries of American GIs have always been not low, and there are various subsidies in wartime, those veterans have some surplus money in their hands, and as for the disabled soldiers, they will get a pension in addition. The Department of Defense distributed tens of billions of dollars to retired soldiers, making the money circulating in the market instantly increase, which may be the reason for the huge inflation in the United States from 1945 to 1947.

Americans are still better at spending, veterans have money in their hands, naturally want to buy and buy, the entertainment life of that era is not as rich as now, and the variety of goods is not as much as now, so the TV has become a popular product, many veterans will buy a TV as a daily entertainment and pastime.

Barkley was a veteran who had participated in the Normandy landings and lost his leg when he stepped on a landmine during the war to liberate France, so he also received a disabled soldier's pension and a monthly pension.

In terms of treatment, Barkley is good, but his life is not comfortable, because he has lost a leg, he can no longer move around as freely as before, most of the time, he can only stay at home, in a wheelchair, read newspapers, listen to the radio, and recently have a new entertainment, which is to watch television.

For a disabled person in a wheelchair, a television set is really a wonderful thing! It's not like a newspaper, with just cold text and black-and-white pictures, and it's not like a radio, where you can only hear sound and not see any images. On the television, Barkley was able to see vivid living people and see the outside world.

Buckley, who was not very easy to move, instantly fell in love with the TV, and for him, watching TV became his main daily routine, and even his life sustenance.

The television broadcast of basketball games has also become a must-watch program for Barkley, but every time he watches a basketball game, Barkley always has some bad feelings in his heart, although the game is very exciting, but he is more envious of those athletes who can run and gallop on the court, while he can only sit in a wheelchair, and it is impossible to go farther.

Barkley naturally has to watch the All-Star Weekend game, in fact, Barkley has already watched the video of last year's All-Star Weekend. In this era, TV shows are not so abundant, and TV stations can only broadcast some game videos to make up the numbers, and the annual All-Star Weekend game footage will naturally not be missed.

The technical challenge has begun, and seeing the talented players running back and forth on the field, constantly refreshing the fastest time, Barkley couldn't help but sigh: "It would have been nice if I had been careful and hadn't stepped on that mine!" ”

Barkley subconsciously touched the empty trouser leg, and a sour feeling rose in his heart. Although he received a large disability pension and a military pension every month, he preferred not to do so, he preferred not to lose that leg.

The show was still very exciting, and Barkley quickly forgot the sadness in his heart and put the experience into the game.

Soon, the shooting contest is over, and according to the process, the next step should be the slam dunk contest.

"I've watched the videos of the previous two years of the slam dunk contest, it's really exciting, I don't know what kind of surprises this year's slam dunk contest will bring." Barkley said to himself, staring at the TV screen expectantly, waiting for the slam dunk contest to begin.

However, the host of the scene announced that the next event was a wheelchair basketball exhibition game.

"Shouldn't it be a slam dunk contest? How did it become wheelchair basketball? Have you added a new item? And what is that wheelchair basketball thing? Barkley blinked inexplicably.

At this time, I saw ten wheelchair basketball players pushing their respective wheelchairs and walking onto the court.

"Someone in a wheelchair like me? What did they come up for? Barkley was even more stunned, and through the small screen of the television, he could vaguely see that all the people in wheelchairs were disabled, some had lost one leg, and some had lost both legs.

At this time, the on-site commentary also began to introduce wheelchair basketball.

"Wheelchair basketball is a sport that belongs to people with disabilities, and as the name suggests, this sport is simply playing basketball in a wheelchair. Wheelchair basketball players use special sports wheelchairs, which allow them to move around the court with ease. The rules of wheelchair basketball are also different from the basketball we are familiar with......"

The narrator gushed about it, and Barkley in front of the TV generally understood.

"Can you play basketball in a wheelchair? How to fight? Barkley looked at the TV with a curious expression.

After a brief introduction, the wheelchair basketball exhibition game officially began.

Since it is an exhibition match, the game time will definitely not be too long, only a short twenty minutes, and there is no pause in between, even the service time is counted within these twenty minutes.

But the audience at the scene was elated, and the fans felt that wheelchair basketball is a very novel sport, although the players are in wheelchairs, cannot jump, and the movement is not as flexible as normal players, but the pace of the game is fast.

Two wheels are definitely faster than two legs, and white athletes don't have the super athleticism and explosiveness of black people, so in terms of movement speed, wheelchair basketball is really faster than ordinary basketball, players push the wheelchair two or three times, with the help of the inertia of the wheelchair, they can go from the back court to the front court, and then complete an attack, which is much faster than running with legs. Wheelchair basketball is also not very defensive, and it is impossible to get stuck in a wheelchair like standing on the ground. There are wheelchair blocks, there is not much physical contact between players, and fouls are blown equally rarely. When the pace of the game is relatively fast, it takes seven or eight seconds to complete the transition between offense and defense, and it looks like the players on both sides are constantly playing fast attacks against each other.

The direction of the revision of basketball rules in the future is to speed up the pace of the game, which shows that the fast-paced game is what the audience likes to see.

In front of the TV, Barkley stared at the screen with his eyes, eager to engrave every movement of a wheelchair basketball player into his mind. There was a look of envy on his face, how he wished that he was now playing in an athletic wheelchair!

It wasn't until the wheelchair basketball performance was over that Barkley reluctantly withdrew his gaze.

"I don't have legs, but I can still play basketball! I envy them, there is a specially made wheelchair, if only I could be like them, how nice it would be! ”

The next slam dunk contest was still exciting, but it was hard to get Barkley's attention, and Barkley's mind was full of wheelchair basketball.

That night, Barkley had insomnia because he kept thinking about the wheelchair basketball, and the images on the TV kept flashing through his mind, thinking about every shot in the wheelchair basketball show, and fantasizing that if he was on the court, he would definitely be able to shoot that ball.

After tossing and turning in bed for a few hours, Barkley finally fell asleep, and on this day he had a dream that he was literally in a sports wheelchair and galloping on the basketball court!

The next day, when Barkley got up, the newsboy had already placed today's new newspaper in front of his door.

For Barkley, who has a physical disability and limited mobility, reading the newspaper is also an important part of his daily routine, and sometimes he even reads the newspaper three or four times.

In a prominent position in the newspaper, there was an All-Star Weekend report, which focused on the wheelchair basketball exhibition game, and in the report there, it is believed that the disabled people who participated in the performance were all disabled soldiers selected by the Veterans Administration. Obviously, this is actually a propaganda advertorial from the Veterans Administration, which is used to show off their achievements to the society.

"It turned out to be something made by the Veterans Administration, and when I first retired, I had never heard of this kind of sports wheelchair. No, I'll have to write a letter to the Veterans Administration and ask them to provide me with a sports wheelchair! Barkley thought of this, and immediately took pen and paper and began to write.

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On Monday, the Veterans Administration's telephone operators were almost busy, and almost all of the calls were to ask about sports wheelchairs, and those who called were disabled veterans who had seen the wheelchair basketball exhibition game and wanted to get a sports wheelchair from the Veterans Administration.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of letters came from all over the country, all of them were veterans with lower limb disabilities, asking for sports wheelchairs from the Veterans Administration.

Those veterans with lower limb disabilities have lost the right to engage in sports, they can no longer run and jump on the sports field like normal people, and the emergence of wheelchair basketball, like a candle in the dark, gives them hope.

These disabled veterans were all injured in World War II, they are in the prime of life, many of them are still young men, of course they are not willing to be in a wheelchair for the rest of their lives, and now they have a sports wheelchair, with wheelchair basketball, of course they have to fight hard.

Veterans are a very important force in the United States, especially after World War II, 10 million servicemen were discharged, and one-third of American families were related to veterans.

As a result, the Veterans Administration immediately began to discuss the purchase of sports wheelchairs. The final result of the discussion was that the Veterans Administration procured a batch of wheelchairs and encouraged servicemen with lower limb disabilities to participate in wheelchair basketball.

The Veterans Administration has a budget, and for the Veterans Administration, it is absolutely not stingy to spend money on things that can be solved.

Sports wheelchairs are made of aluminum alloy, which is very expensive, but this does not affect the procurement of the Veterans Administration, the United States has the world's largest military budget, and the procurement of the US military has always been not bad for money.

As Lawn-Udell said before, those large military-industrial enterprises have long been staring at the procurement of the Ministry of Defense, and as soon as something happens, they immediately flock to it like sharks asking about the smell of blood.

In the past few years, the life of the US military industrial enterprises has been very good, due to the needs of the war, all the military industrial enterprises are producing at full capacity, and they are also making a lot of money. But with the end of the war, the orders of the Ministry of Defense decreased instantly, and the US military even had a lot of surplus equipment to sell.

At this time, the Veterans Administration threw out an order for sports wheelchairs, which instantly became the target of the military industrial complex. If it were in normal times, maybe those military enterprises would not bother to grab an order for a wheelchair, but now is the cold winter period of military industrial enterprises, and in order to survive, they can't care much more.

Those military enterprises, both in scale and background, are far better than Chen Qiang, compared with military enterprises, Chen Qiang's industry is a small workshop, and Chen Qiang is really not qualified to meddle in this business.

Military enterprises snatching orders is also like a fight between gods, and those who can do military industry have backgrounds, either they have a relationship with the powerful generals of the Ministry of Defense, or there is a lot of support for congressmen behind them, and even some military industrial enterprises can go up to heaven and go directly to the White House.

Chen Qiang doesn't know how fierce the process of fighting for orders is for military enterprises, Chen Qiang only needs to wait for a result, because the patent right of the sports wheelchair is in Chen Qiang's hands, and no matter which company gets the order, it has to pay a patent fee to Chen Qiang.

Moreover, the professional basketball league controlled by Chen Qiang is also an important institution to promote wheelchair basketball, and military enterprises will not get along with Chen Qiang for a little patent fee.

Although Chen Qiang just drank a sip of soup in this transaction, Chen Qiang estimated that there should be no problem in earning $1.8 million by collecting patent fees. Although this is not as good as the time when Chen Qiang took advantage of the US stock market crash to make money, but doing business in a down-to-earth manner can have a profit of 1.8 million, which is already a big profit!

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