October 25, 2006, the day before the season opener.

ESPN's Atlanta office building, where tomorrow will be the city for an NBA opener game, the two protagonists are recording a fun show co-created by Imperial Television and ESPN.

"Welcome to ESPN Sports Channel and CCTV Sports Channel to bring you special programs, I am Liu Mang Ice-Liu, and today I am partnered with Dirk-Noitzki," Liu Mang's previous opening remarks were in Chinese, and then turned to Nowitsky and asked: "Dirk, what kind of opportunity did you come to our show?" ”

"Uh...... Didn't you call me after Ace and tell me that there was a show to record today? Nowitzki asked, confused.

“…… Recording! Click, stop......" Liu Mang pointed to the cameraman.

Nowitzki remembered what he had just discussed, and quickly responded: "Oh, oh, because I love China, I like China very much, and I hope that we in Germany will be invited to participate in the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, so I want to know more about China." ”

Nowitzki was a little excited, he rarely participated in such events, not that he didn't want to participate, he didn't like to shoot commercials or anything, but he still liked it on TV, but no one invited him.

The director next to him was asking the producer, "Do you want to re-record?" ”

"No, that's all!" The producer immediately interrupted the director's practice of interrupting the recording.

On the other side of the camera, Liu Mang saw that the recording did not stop, and immediately understood what to do, and re-used the Chinese and said: "Okay, let's start again, 1.2.3, start, welcome everyone to watch the special program brought to you by ESPN Sports Channel and CCTV Sports Channel......"

Nowitzki was ready this time, pretending that nothing had happened just now, and after Liu Mang refinished the opening remarks, he re-said according to the script given: "Hello, China, I'm Dirk Nowitzki, and the reason I participated in this show is because I love China...... I want to know more about China. ”

"Thank you, welcome to Beijing, then Dirk, I'm going to ask a few questions that Chinese fans would love to ask you." Liu Mang flipped through the script, how could there be any questions that Chinese fans wanted to ask, the questions were all made up by Liu Mang himself.

Nowitzki became serious, and the script in his hand only had the opening sentence how to answer, and what he was going to ask later, which was said to be a question from a German basketball fan who went to Germany to collect from the TV station.

Pretending to flip through it, Liu Mang asked: "Dirk, the fans of our country are very concerned about your question......

Liu Mang said and elongated his voice, and Nowitzki looked at Liu Mang more intently, expecting what the problem was.

Liu Mang was very satisfied with Nowitzki's reaction and continued to ask: "...... The fans are very concerned, will your German team make it to the Olympics? They're worried they won't see you in 2008. ”

It's a crit when it comes up!

Nowitzki felt like he had been stabbed in the heart, and the German team really couldn't take it! At the World Championships, Germany won three games, 2-3 in the group stage and 1-2 in the ranking round, and the German team ranked 13th in the world......

This ranking, in the European region, where there are many strong teams, it is difficult to enter the Olympic Games......

Nowitzki replied, "I'll try." ”

It's still very unconfident, but it's just Liu Mang's appetizer question, and Nowitzki waits for the second question, hoping that the question asked by the "Chinese fans" will not be so heart-wrenching.

Nowitzki saw Liu Mang take out two big photos from the side of the chair, and was very curious, why do you want photos?

Liu Mang couldn't help but laugh and asked, "Next is a quiz ......?"

Nowitzki felt that the style of painting had become a little fast, and it was still a heart-piercing question just now, why did it suddenly become an intellectual question again?

Liu Mang continued to ask: "Excuse me, which of the two photos below is Dirk Nowitzki." ”

“？” Novitsky was confused, and looked at the photo that Liu Mang opened, and Novitsky's eyes widened in the first one.

He saw the photo of a "him" with a face covered in silver paint, a strange thing on his head, and a "battle robe" on his body, standing on a large rock and smiling!

Cosplay？

Or is it such a heavy cosplay?

"Oh ho ho ho ...... This is ...... "Nowitzki is convinced that he has never taken such a photograph.

At this time, Liu Mang opened the second photo.

Nowitzki immediately looked over, it was after Nowitzki defeated the Spurs on the road in the last game of the second round of the Western Conference playoffs last season, he leaned back excitedly, twisted the blue jersey with an orchid finger in his right hand, his eyes were wavering, his blonde hair was scattered, and he had a demonic expression of arrogantly sticking out his tongue......

"NO......" Novitsky let out a cry of despair, a pain for the rest of his life, and he was on the verge of collapse when he saw the picture in the headlines that night......

Now Now, Nowitzki wonders if the first photo was an "art photo" he took when he was too drunk......

I was nervous when I was recording the show, but at first glance, I put it together with an unbearable photo of myself, and I began to have self-doubt......

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"I call you, do you dare to agree?"

Nowitzki put the photo of the silver-horned king next to him and taught Liu Mang several times, he still said this sentence in very broken Chinese, and when this picture was broadcast on the "Basketball Park" program of the Imperial Court Sports Station on Friday afternoon of the 25th Beijing time, the fans who watched this basketball program that is considered the best basketball program in domestic satellite TV laughed.

They really didn't notice it before, when people's impression of Journey to the West was still limited to the CCTV version of Journey to the West, Zhang Weijian's version of Monkey, and Xingye's version of Supreme Treasure, there were not so many spoofs of Journey to the West......

The fans know Liu Mang too well, and he firmly believes that Liu Mang has fooled Nowitzki......

Originally, the imperial court gave Nowitzki the nickname "German Chariot", which sounded domineering, and the German tank was very famous and once swept across the European continent.

But the German basketball team and the German tanks ...... It doesn't seem to match, so! Nowitzki's nickname has changed......

Liu Mang accidentally opened the beginning of the nickname of NBA stars full of local flavor in China......

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"Haha, Ace, thank you for letting me know that I have so many fans in China." Nowitzki was very happy, but fortunately the photo was not taken by him, it was a character from a mythical TV series.

That way, Nowitzki would be much more receptive, and he didn't want a second one with a picture that he couldn't look back on......

Nowitzki finally knew his nickname in China, and it turned out to be the Silver Horn King.

Touching on the word king, Nowitzki's current mood can be described in one word...... He thinks it's a foreign nickname......

But...... Liu Mang really didn't expect that Nowitzki would really become popular in the domestic basketball world......

When he received the invitation from the basketball park and ESPN, he just wanted to tease the Silver Horn King......