"Uncle, uncle, get up......"

"Don't make trouble Dinah, uncle, I didn't sleep all night last night, I'm so sleepy."

"Uncle went to a nightclub last night? Big Bad! It's time to get up, someone called you to go to a press conference......"

"I didn't go to a nightclub, press conference? By the way, today is an eventing event, and now it seems to be called a comprehensive competition day, and there is a press conference at two o'clock in the afternoon...... "Liu Mang looked at the clock at the head of the bed, it was already 12 o'clock?

Fortunately, the morning ended early, and when I came back and slept all morning, Liu Mang got up and washed his face, brushed his toothbrush, and felt sober.

Liu Mang came to the living room, and the waiter was serving the food, and it was Levia who called the hotel restaurant to deliver it.

Liu Mang took a slice of bread and padd his stomach.

"Ace, it's time for you to find an agent, the phone has been called to the hotel room, they will pick you up at one point, and you will change your clothes after lunch." Levia said speechlessly.

Liu Mang was also a little lucky, if he hadn't left the hotel address before, the all-star organizer 76ers wouldn't even know where to call someone.

"I also want to find an agent, but those well-known agents in the season can't contact players who are not under their own, and if you want to find those who are capable, it is estimated that you will have to wait until the summer to finish the season." Liu Mang responded.

Liu Mang also went to learn about these things before, and after asking about it, I learned that unlike the rules of other professional leagues, the agent of NBA players signed a contract, either when they participated in the draft in college, or in the offseason, during the season, the agent cannot have formal business dealings with players who are not under his own team contract, for example, you can fire the agent, but you can only find a new agent in the offseason, or like James, open a brokerage company by yourself, Turn a big-name broker into an employee or shareholder of your company.

Because almost all of those big-name agents have the star of a certain team, they can be regarded as some representatives of a certain team, and the management or relevant personnel of a team cannot communicate with players with contracts, especially talking about changing teams or signing contracts, which is an illegal operation, with a minimum fine of 500,000 US dollars and a maximum of 5 first-round picks.

And James's operation will not violate these regulations, it is a loophole in the rules, any rule has a loophole, and there is no provision in the NBA's rules that players are not allowed to do NBA-related business.

Levia thought for a while and said: "That's right, it's better not to find an incompetent agent for the time being, I'll help you collect the information of the agents of the outstanding athletes in North America when I'm fine, maybe some of the other three major leagues that haven't entered the NBA have the right ones." ”

"Yes, Ace, you must choose carefully, don't choose an agent like Pippen, then you will be unlucky." Alexia also felt that Liu Mang didn't need to be in such a hurry, "Anyway, your endorsement contracts are signed with the season, so don't be in a hurry now." ”

"Yes, I think the same way, it's important to make money, but I'm not in such a hurry, I don't have time to get commercial endorsements for the rest of the season, let's wait for the offseason." Liu Mang responded and began to eat steak, eating too much grass, and the medium-rare steak felt fine, which was much better than the various vegetables and boiled white meat prepared by the team.

Dietary experts divide meat into red meat and white meat, red meat refers to pork, beef, lamb and other high-fat meat, and white meat mostly refers to poultry and fish and other meats that are rich in fine fiber and very low in fat.

Among them, beef is relatively good, the protein content is very high, pork and mutton have a great chance of eating long fat, and the fat in it is too fine and easy to be absorbed.

As a professional athlete, the first hurdle to pass is to get used to eating white meat.

Of course, for most athletes from poor families, they are not picky eaters when they have the team's free meat at the beginning, but they get tired of eating it.

……

After lunch, after making an appointment to pick them up in the evening to watch the comprehensive competition, Liu Mang changed into a new outfit he bought, and after Dinah was not skilled at all and almost strangled Liu Mang to death, Liu Mang came to the Wachovia Center to attend the press conference.

I met the people we were going to play with tonight, some of whom we had already met, played games or been temporary teammates.

The four men in the dunk contest are sophomore Desmond Mason, rookies Jason Richardson and Gerard Wallace, and the only star to make a name for themselves, Steve Francis.

The three-point contest has Liu Mang, Ray Allen, who is known as the strongest three-point player in the active game, Mike Miller and Quentin Richardson in the second year, Steve Nash, who has always believed that those who love to laugh will not be unlucky, Paul Pierce, who can't be stabbed, Steve Smith, a former All-Star, and Peja Stojakovic, the Kings' first scorer.

The NBA and NBA Mixed Shot Challenge is contested by women's basketball superstar Theresa Witherspoon, a superstar of the New York Liberty who led the team to the NBA Finals two years in a row.

"Ace, wow wow wow, you will really come today, I wish you the championship of the three-point contest in advance!" Jason Richardson came to say hello warmly and spoke very directly......

Say it so loudly in front of the three marksmen of Peja, Nash, and Ray Allen!

Liu Mang just wanted to tell Jason Richardson not to be so high-profile, it was too hateful, but when he turned his head and thought about it, why not be high-profile! Today is all about high profile!

"Haha, of course, I'm not interested in anything other than the first! Jason, you're going to win the slam dunk contest too! Otherwise, don't say you know me! Liu Mang said even louder.

The scene is the kind of free visit similar to a rookie interview, and Liu Mang's voice immediately attracted all the attention.

Liu Mang is a topic maker, he can do anything, but he doesn't have an agent, which makes the media love it...... I can't find anyone to love, and I can't find anyone at all when I usually want to make an interview! It is only China's imperial court sports station that has the ability to let the stubborn rookie coach of the Eagles bring a message to Liu Mang for an interview, and it is completely impossible for others to have an exclusive interview.

Originally, there was Francis, the Western All-Star starter, and popular stars such as Peja, Ray Allen, and Witherspoon today, but Liu Mang's voice immediately attracted reporters.

In terms of popularity, except for Witherspoon, an NBA superstar who is very popular in the United States, Francis, Peja, and Ray Allen, the other players participating today can't compete with Liu Mang's popularity.

And the reporters who stayed next to the players also changed the content of the questions.

"Ray, Peja, what do you think of Ace Liu Haoyan to win the three-point contest?"

"Steve, are you confident of beating Jason Richardson to win the Dunk Contest? His few dunks at the rookie game yesterday were amazing! ”

"Teresa, do you have the confidence to beat Ace Liu in terms of the shooting you are good at? He's also a great shooter......"

This question makes it clear that these reporters don't go around Liu Mang and Jason Williams, who suddenly has so many reporters talking around and starts to tremble for the first time, it is clear that it is not because of them, but to find a topic!

Witherspoon is nothing in the NBA, NBA stars are unrealistic to compare popularity with NBA stars, Witherspoon responds normally that he will work hard to prove that women are no worse than men.

Ray Allen is still self-contained, endure it, Peja is different, Yugoslavs, although Yugoslavia has disintegrated, and in a few years it is estimated that the last one that still retains the Yugoslav flag is still called Serbia and Montenegro, that is, the two countries that will be divided into Serbia and Montenegro in the future still retain the name of Yugoslavia in the end, and the other member states are independent.

But for the athletes who experienced Yugoslavia's dominance in sports, they still refer to themselves as Yugoslavs, especially at the 2002 World Championships in Indiana, Peja, a Croatian, who will continue to represent Yugoslavia at the World Championships.

The Yugoslavs had always had a fiery temper, and Peja was indeed a charity ambassador off the field, but not as gentle as his scholarly face when it came to the game.

"Tell that rookie! He didn't stand a chance! He didn't stand a chance! Peja roared.

Francis was also furious, in his opinion, Liu Mang's words were aimed at him!

This rookie actually called another rookie to deal with him, and he wanted to win himself, Francis felt humiliated!

"I'm going to win the championship in this slam dunk contest!"

……

Liu Mang didn't know that he was hated even more by a person who already hated him, and he didn't know that he had offended the Kings this time.

But what can you do if you know? them off again? How tired!

Moreover, he is just pretending, very pure pretending!

"Ace, you mean you're definitely going to take first place in this three-point contest?"

"Of course, it's literal, I'm not interested in anything but the first."

"But today's game has Peja Stojakovic and Ray Allen and Steve Smith as the ......"

"They might be able to fight for the runner-up and I'm going to win! Just like Jason, I think his dunk is the strongest of any player in the competition. ”

"Ace ......"

"Ace ......"

Liu Mang finished pretending to be forced, but he couldn't find any new content for pretending to be forced, so he chose to leave directly when the media still wanted to ask.

Jason Richardson looked at Liu Mang's back and was stupid, my eldest brother is awesome!

Wait, what did the eldest brother say when he left? It seems that I praised my little brother, and I dunk it is the best...... Wrong! Big brother, why are you praising my little brother at this time? Isn't it hatred......

Sure enough, Jason Richardson glanced over to Francis, and sure enough, he was furious!

Oh, God!

Jason Richardson looked at the reporters who couldn't catch up with Liu Mang and gathered around him, and for the first time felt that it was such a sad thing to be surrounded by reporters......