A qualified team leader doesn't need to verbally suggest to others that he is the boss.

It was tacitly acknowledged by the unanimous hearts of the teammates.

The Cavaliers' James, the Lakers' Kobe, the Mavericks' Nowitzki, and so on are all qualified leaders.

Now Xue Ding thinks that Roy should be too.

With him, there will be no internal contradictions among the young talents of the pioneers.

Oden is the top show, Ade is the role model, and the two are also quite convinced of Roy, which can also show Roy's cleverness.

If a team's leadership skills are not enough, it can easily lead to team centrifugation.

For example, Durant of the future Thunder.

, a man who was born to be the second child, was pushed to the position of the boss of the Thunder, and Westbrook refused to compete with him for the boss.

In the end, the brothers were separated and the team failed.

Instead, he went to Curry's Warriors, became the fourth oldest member of the team, and became brothers with Green before completing his ultimate sublimation.

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"Xiaoding, have you arrived in Houston?"

"Well, Brother Yao, I'm here, I'm at the hotel."

"Okay, then you wait at the hotel, I'll ask the driver to pick you up, and I'll invite you to dinner."

"Hmm."

Yao Ming was very righteous and invited Xue Ding, who came to Houston for the first time, to his house as a guest.

Arrived at Yao Ming's house.

Xue Ding saw Ye Li and handed over the fruit he bought.

Xue Ding has not forgotten the traditional etiquette of his own country.

Da Yao has not recovered since he was injured in the playoffs.

Xue Ding looked at Yao Ming, who was injured at home, and was a little touched.

Xue Ding in his previous life also knew that Yao Ming would announce his retirement soon.

Xue Ding felt that there were many things that should come and would always come.

This giant who carries the Chinese men's basketball team, no matter how many fans hack him when he plays, those people can't change that he makes most Chinese want to know about the NBA, and he is the greatest Chinese player in NBA history.

Xue Ding knew that it was Yao Ming who made the NBA really enter China.

Whether fans like McJordan, Iverson, Kobe, Carter, or Maddy, most Chinese fans would not have learned about these superstars in such depth and detail without Yao Ming.

Yao Ming's greatness is not only the outstanding achievements of the players, but also his character.

There are a lot of national team games and it is very tiring, and Yao Ming never complains.

Because he knows that China needs him.

America's supergiants can play well with peace of mind, but Yao Ming still has to carry the expectations of a country.

A reporter once asked an American superstar a question.

"What would you do if you were to be on the other side of the world, exposed to a whole new language and a whole new culture, while also having to shoulder the expectations of a country, or even a continent?"

The superstar replied: "I definitely don't do it, I don't do it, I don't even dare to think about it, I don't want to!" ”

This is the difference between Yao Ming and other superstars.

Yao Ming made Chinese basketball completely unrivaled in Asia, and with him, the Chinese team even almost killed Spain...

This is a senior worthy of respect.

At the dinner table, Xue Ding also humbly asked Yao Ming a lot of questions.

One of the most important is how to deal with the pressure off the pitch as a Chinese player.

Although Xue Ding is very mature, he was not a public figure in his previous life, and after the start of the regular season, he has never been in such a huge spotlight......

After or before Xue Ding's every game, he always has the most media reporters around him.

Each time he was faced with a question he had answered hundreds of times.....

For example, a reporter will ask, "Xue Ding, do you feel pressured?" Hundreds of millions of Chinese people are very concerned about your every move, how do you reduce your pressure? ”

Almost all reporters who have never interviewed Xue Ding first think of this question.

From after Xue Ding was selected in the draft, to the regular season, he came to Houston.

During this time, Xue Ding met reporters who had never interviewed him almost every day, and he had to answer this question at least once a day.

In total, Xue Ding has answered this question no less than 200 times.

Is Xue Ding stressed?

Big of course

Xue Ding really felt the situation that Yi Jianlian and Yao Ming were facing at that time.

Most of the reporters who asked Xue Ding this question didn't know that when they asked this question, they were adding pressure to Xue Ding.

In fact, for Xue Ding, the pressure of becoming a good NBA player and an international superstar from China is far less than the pressure brought by news hype.

Looking at Xue Ding's troubles, Yao Ming smiled.

"Xiao Ding, you are very similar to me back then."

"Well, what did you do with that?" Xue Ding asked.

Yao Ming didn't answer directly, but said with a little memory: "When I first came out in the first year, I was a little famous, but I myself knew how this fame came about. Four of this fame is based on my own play, and six points are hyped by the media,"

Xue Ding nodded, almost.

Before and after the game, there are more reporters around than the media than all the teammates combined, and sometimes, for rookies, it's not a benefit....

"I don't have to bear the fame of playing ball. I didn't even think the pressure was anything to me, and I forgot about it when I got home. Yao Ming continued.

"But the media, especially the American media, frantically put me on the front page again and again, and put the image of the whole Asian on my head again and again, and I can't bear it."

Yao Ming was equally distressed at the time, and then continued:

"I remember one day, there were 17 and the largest group of 30 people who wanted to take a picture with me at the Chinese Embassy in the United States, and I could only smile wryly. In the past, I always thought that the embassy was a very distant place, a place that could only be seen on TV, a very sacred place. But when I saw people lining up to take pictures with themselves, I was really helpless. ”

Yao Ming sighed heavily.

"Xiaoding, since you can't control it, you can't stop others from worshiping you, and you can't stop yourself from becoming the most popular Chinese in the United States, then you have to let yourself get used to it slowly."

Xue Ding nodded.

"From the day the NBA becomes famous, you will become a cash cow in the eyes of businessmen, this is not something you can decide, this is the law of the market, me, the United Arab Emirates, you, all the same."

"But no matter how much the media praises you and how optimistic the market is about you, you can't forget your duty, don't forget your original intention of playing basketball, this is my advice."

Yao Ming finally looked at Xue Ding solemnly and said.

For this Chinese boy, Yao Ming didn't want to see him lifted to the sky and beaten to the ground.

After two consecutive triple-doubles, the current Xue Ding really feels these pressures.

Xue Ding replied: "Well, I know, I will put my mind on the court, I hope my fame is based on my own games, not boasting." ”

Yao Ming also nodded, this is how he handled it back then, and in the end, his strength matched his fame.

Xue Ding's psychological maturity is far from being compared to ordinary players of the same age.

"He'll succeed."

This is the conclusion of Yao Ming after communicating with Xue Ding.