Lu Fei did not accept media interviews, and did not even go to drink celebration wine with his teammates, but he hugged each of his teammates when he left the team.

"That's all I have to do to go back to accompany my wife."

This was the reason he gave his teammates not to attend the celebration.

Lu Fei returned to Pengcheng to stay with Lao Gu and his mother for a day, took them to Yunlong Lake for a walk, breathed fresh air, and occasionally met a few fans who would come up to take a group photo, and he also agreed with a smile.

On October 4, Lu Fei boarded a plane to Seattle.

Sitting on the plane, looking out the window at the layers of white clouds drifting by, his mind recalled some unexpected things that had happened in the past few days.

In the past few days, there has been an uproar in the Chinese basketball world.

Yao Ming said in an interview with the media: "In the future, most of China's high-level athletes will come from campuses, and what we need to do is to help the school sports system grow, like the NCAA in the United States." ”

The Chinese Basketball Association followed by the promulgation of a series of plans, the club requires major clubs to build a youth training system, cultivate young people, youth players will be sent to major colleges and universities for training, and campus basketball, the national basketball training camp from time to time to provide training opportunities to major college basketball teams, local CUBA teams have the opportunity to submit outstanding player training plans to their respective provincial clubs, and in the future, the selection of CBA professional basketball players will be selected from the campus and youth training.

This was a bit unexpected by Lu Fei, who remembered that in 2003, China did not propose a plan to combine sports and education.

Is it the sentence Yao Ming mentioned or is it because of his own appearance?

His own appearance has made some units in China see the potential of campus basketball?

Lu Fei doesn't know if the combination of sports and education can solve the problem of talent fault in the Chinese men's basketball team, and he doesn't even know if there will be a suspicion of pulling out seedlings.

After all, there are too many problems with the development of domestic basketball.

There is a serious fault between players and coaches, the basketball system is not perfect, the development of professional leagues is deformed, and the development of domestic basketball cannot be solved by a combination of sports and education.

Many people have a misconception, that is, the foundation of Chinese basketball is very good, the pyramid base is very solid, and it is true that there are more and more fans who like to play wild ball in recent years. But 90% of Chinese basketball lovers have not even played a full game a few times, but they just play a dozen 3v3s in the half, let alone have any opportunities to receive professional training.

No matter how large the population of wild ball fans is, it has nothing to do with the youth basketball training system. Serbia, Spain, Lithuania, Italy, these world's strongest teams, the players' confrontation ability is very good, but the physical fitness of running and jumping is not much better than that of Asians, and those European defenders are not as fast as Jeremy Lin. And the ability to fight is completely trainable.

The foundation of their world-based foundation is the excellent basic skills of the players, excellent technical and tactical literacy, and excellent teamwork. Although the talent is not comparable to the Americans, European players are not inferior to the Americans in terms of tactical literacy, teamwork and basic skills.

The European basketball club is becoming stronger and stronger, and it is inseparable from their extremely perfect, rigorous and scientific youth professional training system, which is the most worthy of learning from China.

However, it is still difficult to replicate the European model in terms of national conditions.

How many families in China are willing to put their children under terrible pressure to go to school and send their children to receive a lot of training every week?

How many qualified grassroots basketball coaches are there?

How many amateur leagues and youth leagues are there?

How many clubs have a well-established youth selection and training mechanism?

To put it bluntly, the domestic basketball system is out of touch with the whole people, and it is still a kind of "national system", and the popularity of the basketball market has not fundamentally touched the long-term system.

But this time, it is a bold attempt made by domestic basketball to try to break this barrier.

It's just that what the outcome will be is still unknown.

But Lu Fei felt that now was the best time.

At least now is still the golden age of the Chinese men's basketball team, with a blowout of talents, Da Yao, Dazhi, Yi Jianlian, Liu Wei, Zhu Fangyu emerging, although the youth training of the men's basketball team is a little worse, at least Zhang Qingpeng, Zhou Peng, Chen Jianghua and other relatively high-quality rookies in the future, plus eating the old book, there is still a lot of time to try.

When the plane landed in Seattle, it was late at night.

Walking in the passage of the airport, I clearly felt a humid air rushing towards my face, and it was really raining lightly outside.

Joe Smith was already waiting outside the airport.

This time was really hard for him, the two countries went back and forth, Lu Fei got into Joe Smith's Ford car, Joe Smith asked, "Go to the University of Washington?" ”

Lu Fei nodded.

He is different from other selected players, others will go to the city where the team is located to rent a house and buy a house, Lu Fei does not need to, he has not yet returned to the school dormitory.

"I think it's better for you to buy a house of your own, after all, you're a multimillionaire now, and you're also an NBA star, and it's not appropriate to live in a dorm room at school all the time." Joe-Smith laughed.

Lu Fei also smiled.

"By the way, the commercial contract has basically been signed recently, in addition to the contract with NIKE, there is also an endorsement contract with Ford Motor, and Amazon in Seattle is also in talks with us, and China Mobile has also talked to me a few times...... Most of the contracts are signed for three years, and it is initially estimated that these endorsements can bring you more than 10 million US dollars per year, of course, there is also a part of the tax to be paid, and there are not so many of them. Joe Smith began to report on the results of his recent work.

"Three years?" Lu Fei nodded.

Joe Smith looked at Lu Fei through the rearview mirror, and felt more and more that this young man was calm enough, like many rookie players would be very excited when they knew that they had made so much money, but Lu Fei did not.

"That's right, like NIKE, we only want to sign for three years, and the other party only wants to sign for three years, because three years later is the last year of your rookie contract 3+1, when you are a rising superstar, or everyone will already know, if you can become a good star, then the next endorsement contract will naturally rise, but if you don't achieve something, many advertising contracts will basically be canceled, of course, it may also include our contract." Joe Smith said without hesitation.

"Don't worry, I'm still confident in my play." Lu Fei smiled.

As he spoke, the car drove into the University of Washington.

Lu Fei originally wanted to go back to the dormitory directly, but it was estimated that Anthony Washington now had Elle, so he shouldn't be watching action movies in the dormitory day and night.

Thinking of Anthony Washington, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile.

Suddenly, Lu Fei's eyes looked at the stadium not far away, but the stadium was lit at this time, which was particularly conspicuous in the dark campus.

Who's still training in the stadium so late?

Brandon Roy?

Lu Fei stopped Joe Smith from the car, and he walked to the arena, where the breeze and drizzle hit his face, making his tired body suddenly sober up a lot.

The sound of basketballs colliding with the floor was heard in the arena.

Lu Fei walked into the arena and looked up, only to find that it was not Brandon Roy who was training, but a small player, and he also knew this person - Chris Paul.

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