In the office of the vice president of the New York Times, the phone in the "jingle bell" office rang, and the middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes picked up the microphone in a hurry.

"President Hill, you've done what you've done." The voice on the other end of the line said.

"Thank you, this Chinese young man is a little related to me, and I still hope that Editor-in-Chief Ross will care more about him and write more about him in the future."

After receiving the promised reply from the other party, the people on both ends of the phone exchanged pleasantries. Hill breathed a sigh of relief and hung up the phone.

Kristen. Hill wanted to torture his daughter's relationship with this Chinese college player last night, but not only did he not ask anything from his daughter's mouth, but he was also given a task by Ledlow - to help this Chinese kid make a positive report.

This kind of thing is naturally a trivial matter for a vice president of the New York Times, but Hill, who knows his daughter well, can see it from Ledlow's shy expression and body movements, although she doesn't admit it, but it is also from Hill, who has passed this age, that she can be sure that her daughter already likes this Sun Yue.

As one of the most read media in the sports media, Sports Illustrated's influence in the sports world is self-evident, and Sports Illustrated's report on Sun Yue has set off a lot of turmoil in the sports world in the United States.

Sports Illustrated, few Chinese can get coverage, and suddenly this report about Sun Yue appeared, and many fans who didn't know Sun Yue began to pay attention to this two-meter-and-three-meter point guard from China.

When Sun Yue's fame was getting bigger and bigger, and when many fans began to pay attention to Sun Yue, Sun Yue's sixth NCAA regular season game and first game as a small forward began.

In this game, Lance dribbled more than half court and implemented the first offensive tactic, Sun Yue frequently mobilized the opponent's defense through running, and just began to implement this tactic, the Wolverine team players were not familiar with this tactic, and the offense hit bumpy, frequent mistakes, and fell behind by fifteen points in the first half.

But in the second half, the Wolverine team began to get familiar with this style of play, and Sun Yue also completely liberated himself with the help of Lance, leading the Wolverine team to continue to play a mercury-like attack, and the Wolverine team not only overtook the score, but finally defeated the opponent by five points. Sun Yue got 18 points, 13 assists, 10 rebounds, 5 steals and 3 blocks in this game, and the fly in the ointment was 7 turnovers.

In the next four games, the Wolverines won three and lost one, and the opponents in the four games were all teams from the top ten leagues, with home and away, strong teams and weak teams.

The Wolverines finished their first 10 games of the season with an eight-two-loss record, the same record as the University of Illinois Militants, who are at the top of the Big Ten leagues because of their record against each other.

Sun Yue is the biggest discovery of the Wolverines this year, he started every game in 10 games, and averaged 31.3 minutes of playing time per game, with 19.7 points, 6.5 rebounds, 9.6 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.1 blocks, with a shooting rate of 48.9%, a three-point shooting rate of 41.3%, and a free throw shooting rate of 84.5%, almost entering the "180" club.

Sun Yue's excellent performance in the field has also received due attention. The freshman Chinese point guard of the Wolverines received the most cheers in every game, and even in some away games, some Chinese students rushed to cheer Sun Yue on.

It is worth mentioning that I don't know if it was because Sports Illustrated reported on Sun Yue, or because Sun Yue's performance was finally recognized by the harsh sports media, and Sun Yue has risen to No. 16 in the NCAATOP 100 list of ESPN. Yahoo Sports' NCAA Top 150 list, which is biased against Sun Yue, still ranks him in 30th place very unobjectively.

DraftExpress, the most professional draft website, recently updated the 2005 NBA mock draft list, and Sun Yue has jumped to the 28th pick in the first round, and experts predict that he will be selected by the Houston Rockets in the first round at 28th.

This prediction made all Chinese basketball fans collectively excited, and if Sun Yue was drafted by the Houston Rockets, he would form a "Mingyue" combination with Yao Ming.

In July this year, the Houston Rockets and the Orlando Magic reached a deal, and the Rockets exchanged Francis, Mobley, and Cato for McGrady, power forward Juwan Howard, and guard Tyronn Lue.

The Houston Rockets' training gym in the office of Rockets owner Leslie. Alexander and General Manager Carol. Dawson watched the Rockets' players practice through his office window.

On the basketball court, the tall Chinese player wearing the No. 11 training uniform received the ball with a beautiful little hook hand that turned around and a half, and the defensive player couldn't cover the hook hand of the center from two meters and two six, and the basketball was hollow into the net.

Alexander turned to Askson: "Do you think our squad has any hope of winning the championship after we got Maddie this year?" ”

Dawson thought about it for a moment and said, "There is hope, but although the Los Angeles Lakers' big sharks are swimming in the winter, and the Lakers are not competitive, the San Antonio Spurs may be a mountain that we will not be able to cross." ”

"So do you think we can pick a point guard to help our big man and Tracy?"

"Actually, Bob. Sula would do well at point guard. Dawson was later called "the most incompetent general manager" by many Rockets fans, and his stubbornness and old-fashioned nature made the Rockets miss many opportunities.

Throughout Dawson's 10 years as general manager of the Rockets, there were not many trades or signings to boast about: the four-man swap for Barkley in 1996 still failed to bring the Rockets back a championship, and bringing Pippen in 1999 ended up being a farce; In 2000, he gave Taylor, who couldn't defend, a six-year, $48.75 million oversized contract; Replacing Olajuwon in 2001 was seen as a betrayal.

Later, the Rockets finally recruited Jim at a low price? Dawson is deeply "inspired" by a cost-effective player like Jackson, and always wants to use Yao Mai and the two as signboards to attract other players who are about to retire to dream of a championship ring and join the Rockets on the premise of sacrificing income.

Results in the middle of the season, like Mark? Jackson, Strickland, Wesley, Uncle Mu, and other players in their forties have staged episodes on the Rockets. With the addition of Wittespond, Baker, Wharton, Anderson, and Swift, the Rockets are like a blind man picking up a bunch of stones. whereas

And his most failed trade was to give three first-round picks — Jefferson, Collins and Armstrong — to the Nets in exchange for a problem teenager Eddie? Griffin, and eventually deprecated it. Since then, the rocket has been mired in a deep quagmire.

In terms of drafting, he has selected a total of 18 people in the past nine years, but now only Yao Ming and Hyde, as well as Hayes, remain with the Rockets. Yao Ming is the champion show fool will choose, and the other two are embarrassing and useful. For a team that is always aiming for a championship, this seems a bit too banal. A low pick does not mean that there are no good players, poor draft vision, narrow vision, and no work, this may be Dawson's best evaluation, and in recent years, he has occasionally cultivated better players such as Posey, but Dawson didn't take him seriously and let him go.