Chapter 111: First Stop, Chicago!
Chicago, Windy City, located in Illinois in the Midwest of the United States, east of Lake Michigan, one of the magnificent Great Lakes of North America, is one of the famous international financial centers, and is also the third largest city in the United States after New York and Los Angeles.
Chicago is a famous aviation hub in the United States, and the transportation here is very convenient, and Hu Qingniu, Jordan and Ewing appeared in Chicago three hours after making the decision.
Chicago is also a well-known tourist destination, with tens of millions of tourists coming here every year. And as one of the faces of Chicago, the bronze statue of Michael Jordan standing outside the United Center arena is a place of pilgrimage for every basketball enthusiast.
So when Hu Qingniu and the three appeared at the airport, they immediately fell into trouble. Hu Qingniu is fine, just a normal black suit, handbag, and a business attire. Jordan was prepared, dressed in a wide hip-hop outfit and disguised himself with a face mask, headphones and sunglasses.
But I didn't expect that the first to show his stuff was Ewing, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who was more than 2.10 meters tall, he was too conspicuous. So much so that everyone had to look at this big guy a few more times, and soon he was exposed.
At the airport passage, a fan from France cried and hung Ewing's arm to ask for a group photo. The onlookers gathered more and more, and soon hundreds of onlookers gathered, so Hu Qingniu, who was not disguised, was also recognized.
The emerging coach who just led the Wizards to win the championship, the ghost talent of the coaching industry - Doctor, Hu Qingniu's reputation in the basketball world spread faster than he imagined.
If that's the case, maybe Hu Qingniu and the three of them will go out in an hour.
But Jordan, dressed in hip-hop outfit, couldn't escape the suspicion of the onlookers.
It is said that the eyes of the masses are bright, and Hu Qingniu now knows that this sentence is really reasonable. Can the big man who is close to 2 meters next to Hu Qingniu and Ewing be an ordinary person.
I don't know who shouted first, Michael Jordan!
Then the excitement of the crowd was ignited again, and the exuberant curiosity caused them to gather more and more, and to huddle closer and closer. Seeing that Jordan was still pretending to be calm, he didn't have the slightest explanation and put down his mask.
I don't know which, but Jordan's mask, headphones and sunglasses were not spared, and they were ripped off one by one.
It's a big basket!
"This is Michael Jordan!"
......
"Michael Jordan!"
"Michael Jordan!"
"Michael Jordan!"
The crowd was shouting that in Chicago, Jordan was a god, and Hu Qingniu had seen this kind of frenzy.
Hu Qingniu and the three of them tried to move forward from the airport passage, but the crowd gathered more and more, and the passage had been blocked. As a result, the airport staff were unable to come for a while.
A long time, spent waiting and signing.
It was about 20 minutes before uniformed staff members squeezed in hand in hand.
Hu Qingniu exhaled a long breath, as if he had seen a relative, but the next scene surprised him.
The man at the front, who was almost 40 years old, was probably a white fat man in the middle of the airport, and after squeezing in front of them with difficulty, he took out a red Chicago Bulls retro red jersey from his arms. The number 23 above is already a little blurry, and it is obvious that it has been worn and washed every day.
"Michael, I'm your die-hard loyalist, and this is the Bulls jersey for your first year winning the championship." The white fat man chattered excitedly.
Jordan took the somewhat worn jersey and opened it to see that the collar on it was still a U-neck, which was a championship brand jersey, and it was indeed very early.
Jordan vaguely remembers that after 91, the Bulls' jersey was changed to Nike. And Nike also changed its jersey from a U-neck to a round neck. The U-neck jerseys made by the champion, even Jordan himself don't have many pieces.
Jordan, who was in a somewhat complicated mood, grabbed the shoulders of the fat man in front of him and gave him a warm hug. For every star, these old fans who have always supported them are the loveliest people.
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After nearly five hours of airport paralysis, Hu Qingniu and his entourage finally got into a Ford Raptor pickup truck equipped with a powerful V8 engine. This car can be said to be a representative model of the United States, big enough to fit everything in the house, and it is also a car contributed by the white fat man at the airport.
Now Hu Qingniu is going to set off to scout the first player who is scheduled to be Dwyane Wade.
Like many basketball superstars, Wade grew up in a single-parent family, but he had a father.
Wade's basketball career has been bumpy, and although he was selected for the varsity basketball team in high school, he didn't get much playing time. On the contrary, his half-brother McDaniel is the star of the team.
The first turning point in Wade's basketball career came in his junior year of high school, where he extended his practice hours and made hundreds of jumpers every day, which improved his ball handling and shooting ability on the outside of the arc. Wade's physical fitness has also improved, growing nearly 4 inches. He averaged 20.7 points and 7.6 rebounds per game that year. Entering fourth grade, Wade became a "sought-after commodity" at schools in the Central and Western Side. Marquette University, and Illinois were mostly interested in him. Wade has a double-double in almost every game, averaging 27 points and 11 rebounds per game. The team has a 24-5 record.
Wade originally thought that after becoming a star player, his future basketball career would be smooth sailing, but he didn't expect to run into trouble as soon as he entered Marquette University.
Due to his neglect of studying since childhood, his grades were a little too bad to trigger NCAA Proposition 48, so that he could not play in the game for the entire freshman year.
Like many movie protagonists, Wade actively sought the help of his teachers, and his grades improved significantly, and finally in his sophomore year, Wade got the opportunity to play and made a splash.
He averaged 17.8 points, 6.6 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.47 steals per game. Even more exciting, Marquette University has a 26-7 record, their best record since the 1993–94 season.
The season just ended was Wade's junior year, and Wade, who averaged 21.5 points per game, brought the little-known Marquette University to the final four of the NCAA March Madness, and although he missed the finals, Wade was selected to the first team in the United States.
Jordan looked at the resume that Hu Qingniu sorted out for Wade, and he keenly found one of Wade's biggest problems, age.
"I'll admit it's a pretty resume, but DW is the oldest rookie in the rookie class and he probably doesn't have much potential left to dig into." Jordan was arguing with Hu Qingniu.
"It's all here, we should go and meet him. Patrick, where is the most famous street court here? ”
"Franklin Park, 4320 15th Block, Chicago."
"Well done, we'll go there."