After the battle in Utah, Yu Xiaochun was determined to choose the first of the two plans for Yang Yiming first, and molded him into a "hot pot monster" in the short term.

The choice was easy, but according to the agreement made by Yu Xiaochun and Scott Jr. and Karonsky II respectively, he could not disclose the details of the acquisition plan to Yang Yiming.

How do you convince Yiming without making him suspicious?

1/

Yu Xiaochun and Yang Yiming have a relationship of agent and player on the surface, but in fact they are much more complex and cordial.

The acquaintance of the two is quite fatalistic. Yu Xiaochun was originally an American returnee with a master's degree in law, and because of his interest, he devoted himself to the basketball industry without hesitation and became an NBA reporter, but at a football-themed amateur event, he deciphered the news of the Rockets' recruitment of Chinese players, and worked overnight, and was the first in China to find the player in this puzzle - Yuris Yang, that is, Yang Yiming.

On the other hand, Yang Yiming, before the Rockets' Zhou Qi was injured, was still a rising star limited to the knowledge base of professional basketball practitioners, but suddenly became the Rockets' "Plan B" and was drafted by the firing line before the start of the season. He might have had to go through a lot of trouble to find an agent who was easy to communicate with and had an American background, but Yu Xiaochun sent it to the door himself, which just solved his urgent need. As a result, the official announcement of the Rockets was sent the night before, and the news had not had time to heat up and ferment in China, so they embarked on the journey to Houston the next afternoon!

Two strangers who were originally plain in their lives, but they became friends in the land of America!

Yang Yiming has high basketball talent and some English skills, but after Yu Xiaochun signed his rookie contract, he still helped him get a job as a personal assistant and translator for the Rockets, keeping him by his side, and it was Yu Xiaochun's rich basketball knowledge and familiarity with the customs and customs that he valued. Yu Xiaochun Zhi'en Tubao, not only based on his basketball observation to help Yang Yiming set a season goal with the characteristics of 3D players to answer the best rookie problem of Coach Mike De'Antoni, but also worked together to evaluate the endorsement project for Yang Yiming, and recruited Nina, a magical hypnotic masseuse who can restore the physical strength of players and heal injuries, as a partner, which is quite a professional agent to open up the business territory.

Just from the perspective of expanding the business empire, Yu Xiaochun is no longer inferior to the predators in the alliance. In the 21st century, player agents are no longer brokers who only help teams negotiate contracts with players, but also diggers of players' commercial value; The weight of a celebrity agent who can call the wind and rain is almost as important in the sports world as the athlete himself.

Thanks to the matchmaking of the goddess of fate, although the two have not yet become high-spirited player agent partners, they have known each other for less than two months, but because of this adventure, they have become like a pair of old friends who cherish each other, and now they can almost talk about everything.

Before the away trip, Yang Yiming also met his favorite beauty team assistant Meritis under the "careful guidance" of Xiaochun to have dinner for the first time.

According to himself, he can feel the spark!

But naturally, the help of another partner, Nina, from a woman's perspective – is not an exaggeration! After all, Yu Xiaochun himself is also an ordinary boy with mediocre experience in love.

At the moment, he doesn't care about anything else. He only has basketball in his heart, and only the NBA dream of composing him and his friend Yang Yiming!

And the urgent need for this is to sell Scott's "capping method" without leaving a trace.

2/

After the road game against the Utah Jazz, the Rockets left overnight for Portland, Oregon, where they stayed at the Hilton Hotel downtown to prepare for the final game of their three road trips.

Portland is a small, small city full of high-rise buildings and green spaces. At eight o'clock, the sun was rising, the city had just woken up, and the traffic on the streets was slow, but many citizens who were jogging and cycling in the morning were already in good spirits, much faster than the cars.

Yu Xiaochun chose a few slices of raw wheat bread, brewed a bowl of cereal milk, sandwiched a plate of salad, picked a restaurant location near the west window, and sat down with Yang Yiming.

On the edge of the city to the northwest is a distant mountain, with snow on the top, white in the eastern sun, like a mischievous rabbit's tail, which may shake at any moment.

There weren't many people in the hotel's breakfast cafeteria, and some tourist-looking businessmen in suits and leather shoes sat in twos and threes, without seeing any other Rockets players.

"Eat so lightly?" Yang Yiming asked, pointing to the food on Yu Xiaochun's plate.

"Learn from you." Yu Xiaochun replied. Yang Yiming's breakfast is almost exactly the same as his, "I also learn from you, control calorie intake, eat healthy, and I also lose weight." ”

"What's wrong? Want to attract girls too? Yang Yiming joked, using a knife and fork to cut the one-sided fried eggs. The fork dragged the delicate omelette with a dripping yolk slowly flowing out of the torn opening, and he quickly took a sip and sent the whole egg into his mouth.

"No, it's just influenced by you, I want to better manage my body and improve it."

"It's good."

"Well, I thought so too." Yu Xiaochun tore the raw wheat bread into several slices and smeared a little butter, which was considered a consolation for the transition period of the recipe, "After eating, I plan to go to the gym for a while." What about you, what are your plans for today? ”

"After breakfast, there is a strength class to recover, and in the afternoon it is a warm-up training in the stadium."

"Hmm. Seven wins in a row, tomorrow's last away game, how does it feel? Yu Xiaochun thought of a way to guide the topic to basketball as much as possible.

"It's okay, the more I play, the less excited I feel like I was at the beginning." Yang Yiming swallowed a whole slice of toast bread, "Do your best." ”

"You are less modest. Your two blocks in the last game were really good, they were amazing. ”

"Hmm... Okay, I guess, haha. Yang Yiming is still a shy Chinese child in his bones, and when he heard the compliment, even if it was from this very familiar friend, he couldn't help but be embarrassed, and touched his hair with the hand he had just taken the bread and smiled.

"That's right." Yu Xiaochun put down the knife and fork and suddenly became serious.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?"

"The company that smart basketball wearable device contacted me two days ago." Seeing that the success has won Yang Yiming's attention, Yu Xiaochun began to talk nonsense seriously, "They said that the board of directors and investors still need to study the marketing shares, but they will send the products first, so that you can use them first, this is all free." And..."

"What else?"

"They have a recent analysis and research results, and they say that they can also give you a free trial, but I always feel a little suspicious of cheating..."Yu Xiaochun is a little eager to get away with it.

"Can you tell me first?"

"It's that they have an in-depth analysis of the shooting habits of players in the league, such as shooting time, shooting point, forward action, shooting method selection, and so on. But they weren't sure enough about the accuracy of the study, and they wanted to find someone to test it first. ”

"How to test?" Yang Yiming is really a smart child, and his eyes lit up when he heard this.

"It's that they want to give you some of the internal data first, using the next 10 Rockets games as a test interval. If the shooting habits of this player are analyzed accurately, then your defense, especially the blocking score, should be improved accordingly, and if not, the research needs to be reworked. I think it's a good idea, and it's in line with our goals, and that's the way to do it..."

"Not very sportsmanlike?" Yang Yiming picked up the second half of the sentence he didn't say.

"Well, that kind of that means." Yu Xiaochun is difficult.

"I don't think so." Yang Yiming swallowed the last piece of food on the plate, a yellow and tender mango slice, and said confidently, "Isn't the data research itself to gain a competitive advantage on the field. Every team is doing it, and their products are doing that, and I'm just one step ahead. ”

"—show it to me, what's the fastest?"

That's what I was waiting for!

"I'll ask." Yu Xiaochun wiped the corners of his mouth with a dining cloth, "Let's try to fight before tomorrow's game." ”

"Then I'll leave it to you—my dear agent!"