Madison!

The Madison Square Garden game this year is not the superstar show party of the future, and the Madison Square Garden that can reach the finals in the 90s is still the basketball mecca of the year, the façade of New York, not the basketball mecca that will be ridiculed in the future.

Seeing that his teammates didn't seem to react much to losing a game, and received a task sadly, Liu Mang felt that losing was actually not so difficult to accept, right......

What a big deal!

"Brother system, uncle, I'm not eager anymore, can that task be canceled?"

"The host asks to cancel the task, and the task cancellation is automatically determined to fail, is the host confirmed?"

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December 16 is a very important day for both cities.

On the afternoon of the 15th, after playing two consecutive home games, Liu Mang was about to leave Atlanta with the team and came to the location of a team that Liu Mang is considered to be the biggest opponent by the outside world at this stage - Memphis, Tennessee!

December's latest rookie rankings, which are about rookies, MVPs, team power, etc., are new things that the NBA's official website has just come up with this season, and it has attracted a lot of attention from fans.

Strong teams have competition from strong teams, and the competition of strong teams is who is the MVP, and who is the first on the combat power list.

The Eagles are now ranked eighth in the league, only ranked twelfth in the power list, and are in the upper middle of the list, so they are not qualified to talk about the power list.

But the weak team has its own concerns.

Just like the Hawks and Grizzlies, the biggest thing fans of these two teams are most concerned about this season is who will win the best rookie award!

Originally, the Hawks didn't care about this matter, in the past few years, their own draft was called a sad urge, parallel goods one after another, and they have been accustomed to forgetting this problem, plus they made the playoffs last season, because it was a draft year, the seventeenth pick in the first round was useless to trade out, they didn't care about it, who knew that the rookies in the second round actually broke out! Ranked in the top five on the rookie list since the start of the new season, it has now climbed to second place, averaging 15.5 points, 1.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game behind only Pau Gasol of the Grizzlies.

It seems that Liu Mang's strength is far behind Pau Gasol, but fans are still holding out hope, because the Hawks' record is much better than that of the Grizzlies! One is in the top four of the division, and one is at the bottom of the west.

Judging from the current strength and data, Pau Gasol is definitely the first rookie, but when it comes time to vote, the record will definitely become a big factor!

Liu Mang packed up his things, nothing special, just a pair of sneakers, a thin jacket, a mobile wallet or something.

The team's bus hasn't come yet, and Liu Mang is watching TV in the living room and waiting for the bus.

The team bus master said that he was very desperate, other players, coaches, and management staff drove to the airport by themselves, and he could have justifiably "taken a holiday", who knew that there was a weird rookie this year, and the news said that he had a Lamborghini, and he actually had to rub the team bus! It's just too picky!

"Uncle, your bag is so beautiful! Well? Why can't it be opened? "Dina Lori was there tinkering with Liu Mang's backpack that the system had drawn.

"Huh? Isn't it, broken? "Liu Mang is very strange, the system is so cheating, and it broke the first time before it was used?

Liu Mang took the bag and pulled it open, and opened it all at once.

“……”

"Why can't Dinah pull it away? Don't like Dinah with this bag? Dinah asked curiously.

Dinah tried to pull the chain on, but couldn't open it again.

"......" This backpack is fireproof and waterproof, is it still anti-theft?

"The host guessed correctly, the zipper of the backpack can only be opened by the host."

This is a good feeling! Don't be afraid of being stolen!

No, what if the backpack was stolen?

It will also be, the locks of this kind of backpack and suitcase are "gentleman's locks", anti-gentleman can't prevent villains, people really want to steal, and they steal it together, no matter what lock you don't lock, the main thing is to prevent privacy from being snooped.

Dina Little Lori tinkered with this strange backpack for a while, and soon lost interest and began to discuss the competition with Liu Mang.

"Uncle Uncle, you must beat that European!" Dinah Lori seems to be more serious about Liu Mang's defeat of Pau Gasol than Liu Mang.

"Huh? Dinah, don't you like big handsome guys the most? ”

"The European talent is not a handsome guy, he is too soft, and the uncle is a handsome guy!" Dinah Lori had an adoring expression.

"What's the purpose!" Liu Mang glanced at the little Lori.

Seeing through her thoughts, Dinah said coquettishly: "Dinah has a classmate whose hometown is Memphis, and she has a totem of a scarab beetle, so beautiful......"

"Ahem, the weather is so nice today!" Liu Mang looked at the dark clouds outside the window and changed the topic.

Just kidding! That thing looks like a knife with hundreds of dollars!

"Uncle is stingy!"

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After an hour's flight, Liu Mang followed the team to Memphis for the first time.

It's a bit of a stretch to say that Memphis is a team in the West, and it is estimated that the league can't make up the number of teams in the Southwest Division, so the Memphis Grizzlies in the southeast of the United States are classified into the Southwest Division.

Memphis is a really nice ball market and a great fan atmosphere, because the city has never had a decent professional team since its founding in the 19th century!

Before the Grizzlies moved here in July, the only thing Memphis could remember was that Elvis Presley's first album "Sad Hotel" was released here and then became popular in Europe and the United States.

When there was a professional team in the big four leagues, the Memphis immediately became a die-hard member of the Grizzlies, and the big difference between Europe and the United States and China is that most of their fans are city fans, and they have a strong sense of belonging.

It's just that with just over 500,000 people in a place the size of Memphis, it is estimated that it will be difficult for grizzlies to make money.

After getting off the plane, Liu Mang felt that it seemed to be a good place, the environment was very good, the bus drove from the airport to the city, and it was difficult to see high-rise buildings.

When I got to the city, I saw very few high-rise buildings.

However, just outside the city, Liu Mang saw a "bizarre" high, of course, it was very tall compared to other buildings he saw, about fifty or sixty floors.

"Nazr, what's that building for? Actually built outside the city? Can I rent out a shop? Liu Mang asked curiously.

"Oh, that's the prison in Memphis, the tallest building here."

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The highest building is the prison! What does the mayor here think!

When he was a fan in the past, Liu Mang often saw on the Internet that players didn't want to play in places like Memphis, saying that this is the urban-rural junction, and when he arrived here, he found that this is indeed the case, and the buildings here are probably similar to the urban-rural junctions of Shanghai and Beijing, with very few high-rise buildings over 20 floors, and the largest buildings in the urban area are banks and FedEx headquarters......

However, the basketball atmosphere is much stronger than Atlanta, Atlanta still has a strong team in the NFL, and the Hawks can barely wrestle with the NFL Falcons by relying on the popularity that Wilkins has accumulated for the Hawks back then.

And the sports fans here in Memphis, Liu Mang came out of the hotel and saw the posters, the advertisements on the bus stop signs, and the promotions on the big screens outside the supermarket, all of which were the Grizzlies and the Grizzlies' star Pau Gasol!

Liu Mang came to the supermarket to buy the totem totem toy that Dinah Lori wanted from the previous aborigines here, but she saw the Grizzlies' promotion for tomorrow's game outside the supermarket.

"The best rookie?"

My own family loves their own children more, a rookie is a child for a team, and the Memphis people's love for Pau Gasol can be seen in the advertisements everywhere.

Handsome, beautiful style of play, elegant personality, fans love Gasol for no reason.

However, for the best rookie, Liu Mang looked at the game publicity of Memphis, which constantly boasted about Gasol and belittled him, and a strange feeling came to his heart, someone will win......