Not again!

When You Zhan saw Liu Mang's strange eyes, she was uncomfortable.

Rao is James's strong "mature heart" after training and practice, and he can't bear Liu Mang's strange eyes.

James felt from the bottom of his heart that the senior in front of him wanted to "play" with him, and he felt a chill in his heart, feeling that it was a wrong choice to invite Liu Mang to lunch.

However, building a good relationship with the league's superstars was a decision that James had made before entering the NBA, even since 2002, when he announced that he would go straight to the NBA after high school.

"Ace, I'm probably going to your country next summer to promote sneakers, can you tell me about what's interesting in your country? I'd like to see it then. James forcibly shifted his attention and racked his brains to think of a topic, putting aside the uneasy feeling he was now having.

James thought of a good topic this time, and Liu Mang's attention was immediately diverted: "Traveling to our country? You should get the place recommended by the tour guide at that time, but the famous attractions recommended by the tour guide, I don't recommend you to go, such as going to Hangzhou West Lake, you have heard of it, that's good, if you go to Hangzhou, you don't need to go to the West Lake, it is better to go to the Lingyin Temple next to it, there are too many people in the West Lake, the Great Wall is a must-go, but remember not to steal the bricks there, three years to start, what is a three-year start? It's a labor reform, and I don't know about the labor reform? Then I have to tell you about our country's superior labor reform system, which is different from what you feed and drink and raise criminals......"

After Liu Mang finished ordering the food just now, he looked at James's face that was no different from ten or twenty years later, and couldn't help but start planning how to deal with the young Zhan in front of him the day after tomorrow.

Abuse of the little emperor, probably only the first year can be sad, and when James is in the second season, the 2004-2005 season, the league begins to enter the No-Hand-check era, coupled with the soaring strength of James, it will be difficult to stop the second season of Young Zhan, and it will not be easy to abuse James at that time, so Liu Mang looked at James with strange eyes.

However, everyone is happy to discuss the good of their own country, and they can talk about their own country badly, but when they talk to foreigners, they always point to good places.

James was relieved to see that Liu Mang finally didn't have that look, and began to discuss China with Liu Mang.

James attaches great importance to China, and his agency team told him that China is the most important market for the NBA in the future, and he naturally wants to occupy a place in the Chinese market, and it is of course the best choice for real Chinese people to understand China.

It's just that if Liu Mang knew James's thoughts, he might feel sorry for James, as far as Liu Mang knows, even if James will become popular in the United States in the next few years, but in China, people only know the four quarterbacks...... Mainly Kobe, and Yao Ming, O'Neal, he James and future beasts, are all in the 08-09 season one won the MVP, the other won the best defensive player to the finals, after the well-known domestic fans, 08 Olympics, James received more cheers, not as much as Anthony who partnered with Iverson.

Liu Mang and James' first private get-together, although a little embarrassing at one time, was overall very pleasant.

After lunch, Liu Mang's agent Schwartz and Rich Paul, the agent of James' largest sports agency in the United States, came to pick up the two and go to Nike's largest sneaker store in Atlanta.

James came to Atlanta a day in advance, mainly to get together with Liu Mang, have lunch, enhance friendship, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, the two went to Nike's sneaker promotion together to help James's first-generation boots be promoted in Atlanta.

For this, Liu Mang felt strange, there had never been two super-human balloon stars promoting sneakers together before, mainly the most popular Koaika in the past, an Adi, a Reebok, and a Nike, all of whom were set up as mortal enemies.

Kobe Bryant's image collapsed this year, this unlucky kid who doesn't know how to use money to shoot off-court things is still going to Colorado once or twice a month to fight a lawsuit, Adi doesn't want him, Nike can't help him for a while, but fortunately, Adi's side Maddie has stood up in the past two years, and was selected as an All-Star starter last season.

On Nike's side, Carter's popularity has declined sharply in the past year or so, and people's aesthetic fatigue has appeared, not to mention that Carter did not have Kobe and Iverson in the playoffs, and there was no outstanding performance like Maddie in the regular season, but now there are Liu Mang and James, and the popularity of Liu Mang and James is still significantly different from Carter's ability to suppress Kobe and Iverson in the two years at the peak of popularity, so Liu Mang and James were put together to promote it to fight against Reebok's Iverson and Adi's Maddie.

Originally, James fought against these two with Wade and Anthony, the latter two are owned by Jordan and are also stars under Nike, but now there is a Liu Mang who is more popular than Wade and Anthony combined, so he naturally uses Liu Mang and James to compete with the other two brands.

Liu Mang really admires James in some aspects, this time it is Liu Mang who has not participated in the promotion with other stars, but James does not act like an 18-year-old child, speaks official words skillfully with the media, and mingles when interacting with fans, which makes Liu Mang look cold or cold, Liu Mang didn't feel so "cold" when he was promoting with Carter in Shanghai last summer, but now, compared with James, he really doesn't know how to manage his own image.

However, Liu Mang doesn't have too many ideas to learn from James, everyone is different, Liu Mang feels that he can't learn James's kind of courtesan-like ability anyway, how to be at ease, after all, everyone has different pursuits and habits.

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When, November 24th, Venue, Phillips Arena.

"Ace, you're studying that rookie champion! Do you want to have fun again? "Rashid Wallace was a little excited.

Liu Mang is studying the few game videos of the Cavaliers this season from the preseason to the regular season, and even some of the game videos in high school have been obtained by the team editors.

Jason Terry, who was working on his strong shooting ability, also came over: "Ace, are you going to teach the guy who lied about being a high school student?" ”

"Falsely claiming to be a high school student?" Liu Mang was a little surprised by this title.

"Oh, you see, that guy looks as old as my dad, he looks like a high school student, and he actually plays better than Ricky Davis, he must be lying about his age, I guess he's at least thirty-five or sixteen years old......" Jason Terry was upset, and he was upset that another guard who was so strong in his rookie year came in.

Liu Mang didn't expect that whether it was Chinese fans or American fans, the things that ridiculed James seemed to be the same.

It's a friend anyway, of course Liu Mang wants to complain about James! Liu Mang said: "Jason, people are just getting older, don't look at people with colored glasses, it's okay to bully rookies, if you bully the elderly, others will scold us for not respecting the elderly!" ”

"Haha, Ace, your mouth is more annoying than mine......"

Liu Mang, Rashid Wallace, and Jason Terry discussed how to deal with James together, attracting other teammates to come, Prince, Raheem, and Barnes, the Hawks' defensive giants on the front line, heard that they were going to deal with James, and immediately became interested, including Kwame Brown, who is also a high school student.

Veterans such as Ratliffe and Stockton laughed and shook their heads, and joined in.

Bullying rookies, especially guys like James and Milicic who look like they're going to be scary opponents in the future, bullying them when they're rookies is something veterans love to do.

The most famous example is that Isaiah Thomas was isolated as an All-Star in Jordan's rookie season because Jordan didn't take the initiative to say hello, of course, Isaiah Thomas probably didn't expect Jordan to be such a hard iron plate, and finally lost his chance to enter the greatest dream team.

Although the Cavaliers have a bad start this year, James is on the news every three or five times, mainly because he is completely different from other high school students who have entered the NBA before, Kobe, Garnett, and Maddy When they entered the NBA, they could only see talent in their rookie years, and O'Neal Jr. had no chance to see his talent, while James was quite mature when he entered the NBA, and he was very versatile, and he could do well in scoring, rebounding, and assists.

Just like Kidd felt the pressure brought by Liu Mang, most of the famous swingmen in the league felt the pressure brought by James, and this is still a rookie!

The most important thing is that James has not yet entered the NBA, he has signed the second largest sneaker endorsement contract in history, compared to Liu Mang's biggest endorsement contract in history after showing his talent and strength in his rookie season, James didn't even play in the preseason, he was just selected as the champion, and within a few days, he won the endorsement fee that the career salary and endorsement fee of many famous stars are not comparable to the sum of the endorsement fee, which makes the famous stars teach James a lesson.

Seeing that his teammates were originally not much interested in playing the Cavaliers, and now they are flocking one by one to abuse Young Zhan, Liu Mang took a moment of silence for LeBron Jr., and then decisively began to build an impregnable defense and targeted offense for James, so that James can really feel what the NBA is......

It's just that after James entered the NBA, his ability evaluation decreased a little, from the original 82 to 79.

Liu Mang studied it for a while and understood this, it is still a matter of adaptation, when James was playing McDonald's All-Star, he played with those high school students, and he could show that he could be evaluated to 82 in the NBA, but after entering the NBA, it was inevitable that there were some adaptation problems, so he only showed 79 ability points.

Of course, this does not exclude teammates, coaches and other factors.

The strength of the Cavaliers is really poor, originally there was a combination of Boozer and Big Z on the inside, but now only Big Z is left, Big Z's offense is okay, defense and rebounding are terrible, forcing James, who is still playing point guard, to throw himself inside to grab rebounds, playing such an opponent, it is difficult for the Hawks to regard them as opponents of the same level.

As for the abuse of vegetables, Rahim, who is most similar to James's body type, should be the one who wants to abuse vegetables the most, but Rahim is not such an impulsive person, no one brought it up, and he is not that interested.

After participating in the publicity with James, Liu Mang devoted himself to the next matchup with James, discussing with Mike Woodson how to defend and his teammates how to attack.

Liu Mang attaches great importance to this fight with James, and suppressing him in the early stage of James' career is the most difficult part of Liu Mang's task as the king of the new generation of players.

James, who is now training in the hotel gym, doesn't know that the big brother who was friendly yesterday and told him about the good places and interesting things about China, is now thinking about spending money to deal with him.

However, James's training attitude is also admirable, as the youngest person on the Cavaliers, his training is the hardest, and the rest of the Cavaliers have come to the big city of Atlanta, and they have long gone to have fun, leaving James alone to practice.

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The day flew by, and on November 25th, the game day between the Hawks and the Cavaliers arrived!

The duel between Liu Mang and James, a few days ago, the league began to build momentum in advance!

Finally, the appearance has a new point for Liu Mang to build momentum, at the same time, James lived up to expectations after entering the NBA, opening 14 games, averaging 16 points, 6 boards and 4 assists per game, as the season deepens, James is more familiar with the NBA, the performance will inevitably get better and better, there is a rookie season with an average of 20+ per game of the historical rookie, people can already meet.

This time, David Stern personally planned the momentum of this new star showdown.

After obtaining Nike's consent, the day before the Hawks and Cavaliers game, David Stern used a group photo of Liu Mang and James participating in the promotional event, and the NBA's official website was titled "Brother this second, enemy the next second".

Compared with Adam Silva, who only forcibly creates public opinion, and the kind of embarrassing look at the future that forcibly creates a back-to-back battle between the two teams in the finals in an attempt to recreate the old rivals of the Magic Bird Showdown in the 80s, David Stern is worthy of being a real promotion master who single-handedly created the Magic Bird Showdown and the Jordan Dynasty and the OK combination.

Adam Silva has a strong ability to negotiate business, and can often bring benefits to the league by signing contracts that are much higher than expected, but giving Adam Silva the bargaining capital is all due to David Stern's strong promotion ability.

did not forcibly exaggerate the strength of Liu Mang and James and the things that could create a grudge between the two, just such a sentence showed the feeling that Liu Mang and James were friends and enemies.

This was originally the promotion of the showdown between James and Anthony in his rookie year, James was not used to compete with Kobe at the beginning, Kobe Bryant's image collapsed just this year, and the confrontation between James and Anthony was originally what the league wanted.

Originally, in addition to the Chinese market, Liu Mang was cultivated by the league as a candidate to challenge Kobe, but Kobe Bryant did it himself, and it looked like he was about to ruin his future, but at this time, James played a performance that met or even exceeded people's expectations, and originally David Stern felt that he would wait for James to grow up in two years before he could become an opponent with Liu Mang and Kobe.

But James was so mature when he first entered the NBA at the age of 18, more mature than when Liu Mang first entered the NBA, in this case, David Stern decisively chose to put the duel between Liu Mang and James on the stage.

And it worked out beyond David Stern's expectations!

Just before the showdown with the 1991 Finals Demon God, David Stern didn't do much publicity, just used an adjective - torch.

And the word torch has also become a representative of the inheritance in Jordan's mouth, and later Kobe Bryant and James have continued to use it.

James is more suitable than Kobe to oppose Liu Mang, and can better represent the United States, he, like most black people in the United States, has lived a difficult life since he was a child, and has the tenacious efforts that black people want to show people that they themselves do not have, and finally succeeded in entering the NBA.

James is the representative of the American dream! Compared to Kobe, who is regarded by many Americans as sandwich biscuits, James is more suitable as a representative of the American dream.

Because the league's promotion is working well, the Hawks and Cavaliers have seen a huge amount of attention in this game, which was originally an inconsequential regular season, but has become highly anticipated!

Because of David Stern's good promotion, American fans naturally regarded this tournament as a showdown between the strongest new generation players in China and the United States!

After Liu Mang played in the first two years, he had the title of the first star of the new generation, because there were no outside stars who could be compared with Liu Mang in the previous three years, and there were no inside stars, so fans didn't expect such a thing as a Sino-US war.

But now, James has shown even better individual ability than Liu Mang's rookie season, and after the league's promotion, the battle between the two has actually risen to such heights!

However, Atlanta fans still support Liu Mang, as for the American dream...... Atlanta fans scoffed! Without Liu Mang leading the team to the present, their basketball community in Atlanta is like an invisible person in the United States, talking about the American dream of a fart!

Obviously, Liu Mang and James themselves did not expect that a regular season game would unknowingly become burdened with the confrontation between China and the United States.

After the afternoon training, when Liu Mang went to pick up Dinah, Alexia, and Levia to watch the game, he bought a newspaper casually and saw that the increasingly intense ***** in the United States had spread to basketball, which raised the level of this regular season.

Liu Mang didn't know if James was nervous or something else, Liu Mang didn't care at all, but was even more excited!