At nine o'clock, Guo Xu entered the court and greeted his teammates who came one after another.

The atmosphere in the Suns team is very good, especially the relationship between the four strong men of the same age on the inside line has become very iron. They spent a lot of physical strength and energy together for two months of passionate hand-to-hand fighting, and filmed a very memorable small video, which was stored in their respective computers.

The 213CM blue-collar center Desagana Diop came early, and Guo Xu took the initiative to greet him.

Compared to O'Neal, Diop has a more well-proportioned body, his arms are long, and his legs are not as thick as O'Neill, but his shoulders are super wide and his back is thick.

This super hunk from Senegal will not be 22 years old until the end of January next year, his skin is dark and shiny, he has a very festive face, his eyebrows are a little gosy, his smile is more silly than Néne, and he shows a very white crooked mouth.

As a child, Diop was obviously not taken much seriously by his parents. Children between the ages of 6 and 12 are in the alternating period of primary and permanent teeth, and the arrangement of the teeth is often intricate, which is medically called temporary malocclusion. Guo Xu also had this situation when he was a child, his family took him to the dentist and extracted the front teeth, and the crooked teeth that were originally in the back slowly came to the front.

"Can I call you Sag? Do you like this nickname or not? Guo Xu asked with a smile.

"Okay, it was a little weird at first......" Diop smirked.

While practicing together, three of his teammates nicknamed him "Big Sag", a simplification of his name. People with longer names in the United States generally have abbreviations, but in Africa there is no habit of this, to put it bluntly, they are called indiscriminately.

Guo Xu looked at him, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like 127 kilograms, and asked, "Are you thinner than last season?" ”

"You see that? I lost 122 kilograms. Diop whispered a little shyly. He has a very honest personality, he managed to lose weight in the summer under the guidance of his teammates, he does what others say, and Haslem is now a weight loss expert.

Diop, who reached 135 kilograms at his heaviest weight in the Cavaliers, rarely got a chance to play, and everyone said that he was a parallel commodity, and sometimes he couldn't sleep at all when he came home from a game, and he couldn't help but cry secretly.

Now the weight is perfect for him, the mobility has increased, and the strength is still not weak.

No matter how big he is, Diop was only a 19-year-old when he first entered the league, and he was stimulated a lot by the Cavaliers. He was very happy to join the Suns, Guo Xu called to chat with him, and clearly told him that he was here to be a defensive blue-collar worker, just do what he is good at, and he will not pass the ball to him on the offensive end.

Diop is also a wonder, he only started to officially contact basketball at the age of 16, and you can imagine how poor the basic skills are, and the Cavaliers coaching staff tried to develop his offense, but not only did not succeed, but also made him suffer from shooting phobia.

In Guo Xu's previous life, Diop played in the NBA for 12 seasons, played a total of 601 games in four teams, and scored a total of 1,138 points in his career, which is about equivalent to Kobe Bryant's score in half a season in 2005.

He has set a series of magical records, averaging less than 2 points per game; A career-high 10 points in a single game; A total of 258 games without scoring a point, the first in NBA history; As an interior player, he shot 42 percent from the field and 46 percent from the free-throw line in his career.

When Nene came, the scene became more lively, Xiao Si said that Nene practiced English very well during the holidays, and asked him to rap to prove it.

Nene really sang a few words, and although his voice was very rough, he got everyone's applause.

Ragabel quickly mingled with his teammates when he arrived, and his appearance was handsome and dashing among the blacks, and it was easy to make a good impression.

Marion chatted with James Jones for a while, and recognized a little brother, the two are very similar, both are a little hunchback and extra-long arms, the difference is that Jones has a neck 2CM longer than Marion, which leads to their height difference, otherwise they are brothers......

When Josh Howard and Marion greeted each other, they both laughed happily and probably thought in their hearts that I was finally not the ugliest person on the team.

Whether it's a draft or a trade, Bryan follows a principle, that is, don't look for problem players, there will be basically no conflict in the Suns locker room, and the players get along well, which is a big advantage.

At 10 o'clock, the reporters entered the court, the players took core makeup photos, Guo Xu stood in the middle holding a basketball, flanked by Marion, Nene, Stoudamire, Joe Johnson, and four strong men concave together.

The depth of the Suns lineup is very strong, and if these five are all in their prime, the other teams basically don't have to play, just surrender.

In an interview, everyone was unanimous and expressed confidence in competing for the championship this season.

The most reporters interviewed Guo Xu, and someone asked: "You haven't practiced for nearly three months during the holidays, will this affect your state?" ”

"No, I'm confident."

The reporter asked: "Most of the stars train very hard, even Michael Jordan had to practice during the holidays, but you went to make a love movie, and some people say that you are not doing your job, how do you feel about this?" ”

Guo Xu smiled: "When Jordan went to play baseball, some people said that he was not doing his job, he won three championships when he came back, what is the strength of the player, in the final analysis, it is the results that speak, I don't have any special feelings." ”

Guo Xu didn't bother to answer this question, and he also used Jordan as an example to perfunctory the past.

It's normal for stars to train hard a few times during the holidays in order to break out next season, but it is impossible for a player to stop doing anything other than sports and basketball, which is not called hard work, it is called a robot.

Jordan has retired, and there are still many people who like to use him as an example to sarcastically ridicule active players, saying that his training level is unparalleled, and most of his achievements are achieved because of hard training, which is completely popular with active players.

Jordan is great, six championships, a bunch of individual accolades, but it's a little disgusting for some people to have to blow him up as a god.

Jordan has been training hard? When he gambles, he uses one hand to dribble with the other to practice basic skills, right?

In the 1993 Eastern Conference Finals, the Bulls fell behind 0-2 against the Knicks, Jordan shot 37 iron from 59 in the first two games, and the media broke the news that Jordan had been seen gambling all night in Atlantic Casino the night before the game, and he had missed training in key games.

And Jordan likes to make movies like Guo Xu, everyone has watched "Slam Dunk in the Air", but what everyone hasn't seen is a bunch of adult movies. In 1995, Jordan was involved in the infamous "Gold Club Case", and later because of a thief, his prostitution was completely exposed.

Jordan especially likes to use a camera to film the process when he and his lover "snap", but once a thief patronized Jordan's house and stole the videotape, the Internet was not so developed at that time, otherwise Jordan's image would have been the same as that of Guanxi brother.

One reporter asked, "You didn't represent Team USA at the U.S. Championships in the summer, would you consider joining the Dream Team in the future?" ”

Finishing sixth at the 2002 World Championships, the United States must compete in Argentina's 2003 Men's Basketball Championship of the Americas and finish in the top three to qualify for the Olympics. Spurred on by the previous year's fiasco, many of the NBA's top stars who were able to travel entered the tournament and easily finished first.

Guo Xu smiled: "I didn't get an invitation to the national team, if someone invites me, I will consider it." ”

Someone else asked Guo Xu about his girlfriend, but he didn't admit that he had a girlfriend who was perfunctory.

The holidays are behind him, and he has to focus on the basketball court.