After the competition, Sun Zhuo invited Yao Ming to his home as a guest, and now the whole country is celebrating Christmas, but for the two Chinese, Christmas is not an important holiday, and the two still drink tea and catch up.

Yao Ming and Sun Zhuo have known each other in the past, but they have a general relationship with each other, and their situations are very different from their past experiences, in comparison, Yao Ming, who has attended a junior sports school, participated in a basketball summer camp held by the Sports Bureau, and played in the CBA, is more like a Chinese-style player slowly cultivated in that country, while Sun Zhuo is not.

Yao Ming won the ball, looked very happy, looked around Sun Zhuo's residence, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to be so high-profile in front of the media, but the place where you live is so low-key, I thought you had to rent a mansion, Mobley, who was opposite you today, told me in the locker room after the game, you are the most powerful trash talk master he has ever seen, I am very surprised, when did you learn to spray trash talk?" Did you learn it from O'Neill? ”

Sun Zhuo also took a look at his slightly ordinary cottage and said, "I'm about to change to a big house, and you know that I have become the spokesperson of Adidas." As for trash talk, this is a characteristic of the NBA, we also have to follow the local customs, do you think that as a Chinese, you should play more kind and humble? ”

Yao Ming is an upright person, and Sun Zhuo is worried that Yao Ming will not be able to get used to his actions.

Yao Ming shook his head, "No, it's not easy for Chinese to play in the NBA, our skin itself will be discriminated against, weak and kind is meaningless, everyone has their own characteristics, it's that I didn't know you well enough before, I didn't see that you have such a passionate and radiant side, this is good, you don't have to change." In addition to personality, I think your basketball skills have also improved a lot, frankly speaking, when you choose to participate in the NBA draft, I was worried about whether you will be selected, but I didn't expect the Los Angeles Lakers to take a fancy to you, and you are not only the strength of the 24th pick, can you tell me, how strong is your real strength? It's about our Olympics next year, it's very important, and I vow I will never give away this secret to anyone on Team Rockets. ”

Yao Ming desperately wants to know Sun Zhuo's true strength, not as an opponent, but as a teammate of the national team.

In August next year, Yao Ming and Sun Zhuo will compete in the Olympics as members of the Chinese men's basketball team at the same time, and Yao Ming obviously attaches great importance to national honor.

Sun Zhuo naturally believes in Yao Ming's character, and he also knows that Yao Ming attaches great importance to the results of the Olympic Games, even more than the achievements of his own career.

In the face of others, Sun Zhuo may play some tricks, but in the face of Yao Ming, Sun Zhuo intends to tell the truth: "Actually, in the battle against the knight, I was able to hit continuously because of good luck. ”

Yao Ming's face was slightly disappointed, he was disillusioned with Sun Zhuo, and he still thought that if Sun Zhuo really had such a powerful singles ability, there would be hope for the Olympics.

Yao Ming immediately smiled, "It turns out that you have been scaring Mobley from the beginning of today's game, haha, if he knew the truth, he would definitely not let you go." ”

Sun Zhuo also smiled awkwardly, Mobley did cooperate with himself today, giving Sun Zhuo a lot of opportunities to score at the free throw line.

"Yao Ming, although my ability to fight is not so strong, but when it comes to the Olympics, my other abilities will be greatly improved, and this Athens Olympics is definitely worth looking forward to! You set your goal in the quarterfinals, and I think it's a bit low. Sun Zhuo saw that Yao Ming was a little disappointed, and hurriedly reassured him.

Yao Ming was a little uncertain in his heart, and he didn't know how far Sun Zhuo's so-called other abilities could be improved.

Yao Ming asked, "Then how many do you think we can get into?" Top four? ”

Sun Zhuo said: "Except for the United States and Argentina, I don't think anyone can beat the Chinese team led by us, even if we meet them, we may not lose." Guess what the goals of the United States and Argentina are? It must be a gold medal, right? Then let's set this goal too! ”

After Yao Ming and Sun Zhuo finished chatting, he was in a state of turmoil for a long time, he didn't expect Sun Zhuo to be far more ambitious than himself, and he was confident to win in the face of strong teams like Argentina and the United States, so he decided to pay close attention to Sun Zhuo's game next.

……

After Christmas, the year 2004 was fast approaching.

2004 is still a very distant era for Sun Zhuo, he doesn't have much feeling about what is happening around the United States at present, he only remembers that in his previous life he was listening to Jay Chou's "Qili Xiang" and was fascinated, and remembered that Mango Satellite TV's "Super Girl" became popular all over the country, and now these things are happening again on the other side of the ocean, and nothing has changed.

However, Sun Zhuo's NBA has changed.

Voting for the 2004 NBA All-Star Game has begun, and this All-Star Game happens to be held in Los Angeles, and everything is very favorable to Sun Zhuo.

Last year, Yao Ming was selected for the All-Star Game as a rookie, and defeated O'Neal to become the starter, which shows how crazy and "irrational" Chinese fans are, even if Sun Zhuo is not qualified as an All-Star now, Chinese netizens will vote for him, not to mention, Sun Zhuo also showed more explosive ability than Yao Ming.

48 points in a single game!

In addition to Maddie's 60 points, the second place is Sun Zhuo.

As a result, at the end of January, when the NBA officially announced the All-Star selection list, Sun Zhuo appeared on the list without any suspense, becoming the only rookie selected as an All-Star among the rookies in the 03 class.

LeBron James is obviously very hit, he is known as the pride of the sky, a rare genius player in decades, but now, as the champion show, he is beginning to lag behind Sun Zhuo, Sun Zhuo has entered the All-Star Game, but James has not entered.

James began to complain that he didn't lash out at Sun Zhuo for not being an All-Star, and he rebuked that fans should also vote for him, and that he fully deserved to be an All-Star.

Anthony and Wade also have the same mentality, they are also eager to enter the All-Star Game, but now they are not so popular.

After the All-Star voting results were released, Sun Zhuo was like Yao Ming was selected as an All-Star last year, and was greatly questioned and dissatisfied, although Sun Zhuo had a few amazing performances this season, he could not continue to have such performances in every game, therefore, Artest, the number one star of the Indiana Pacers, publicly questioned Sun Zhuo's All-Star status, and said to the media: "The All-Star Game should not be a place where rookie rookies can come in casually, year after year, I'm fed up, Even LeBron James, the kid, was not selected, I really don't know what qualifications Sun has for being selected, just because he feels good and scored 48 points in one game? I don't question Sun's future, he's going to be a great player in the future, but at least for now, he's not an All-Star. ”

Artest's words said the hearts of many All-Star players, almost everyone here has worked hard in the NBA for many years before they finally qualified for the All-Star Game, and all of this is too easy for Sun Zhuo, and people will be jealous.

The reason why Artest took the initiative to mention this matter is because of his straightforwardness, and the other reason is that the Pacers are about to beat the Lakers.