On July 23, the Lakers welcomed the Los Angeles Clippers on the road. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Staples Arena had not yet been built at this time, and the two Los Angeles teams had not yet shared a home court, and the home of the Clippers was now the "Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena."

The Chinese media did not take an interest in the game because there was a Chinese on the Clippers, and no Chinese media came to report on the game, which would surely be crowned a "Chinese derby" in ten years, because Ma Jianzheng was banned by the Basketball Association, and the name will not appear in Chinese sports newspapers for the time being.

Ma Jian was selected for the Chinese men's basketball team in 1989 and was the main forward of the Chinese team at that time. He was invited on a full scholarship to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for his outstanding performance at the Barcelona Olympics, which was a remarkable achievement in those days.

UCLA has always been a giant team in the NCAA, and being able to get a full scholarship to it is something that many American talents dream of.

Referring to Jeremy Lin's inability to even get a scholarship from an NCAA Division I university, you can know that at least Ma Jian was better than Jeremy Lin at that stage.

It's a pity that Ma Jian's luck ran out at this point, not only did he fall out with the basketball association at that time for the opportunity to study abroad, so he lost his position in the national team.

Later, after Ma Jianzai, who desperately put all his future on the NCAA, came to Los Angeles, because the academic qualifications of the Chinese sports school were not recognized by the American education system, he tragically lost the scholarship and admission qualification of UCLA, and finally had to transfer to a small local college in Utah, the so-called Pheasant University.

In the end, Ma Jian, who had survived for four years, finally got the opportunity to enter the NBA, but the best time in the first two years was delayed due to the lack of NCAA training, and although he successfully joined the University of Utah and played in the NCAA in the third year, he did not play time because of the team with Van Horn, and he still did not get much training in the last two years.

In fact, Ma Jian's four-year college career in the United States did not help him much, and training in the United States alone did not have much effect, and it was really not as good as the training he got from playing in the national team.

Now Ma Jian doesn't have much potential, 21-25 years old is the fastest stage for a basketball player, but he has wasted this time perfectly, and no one has any luck.

Although he was given a starting spot on the Clippers' summer league roster, he has a very good chance of being cut if he doesn't play particularly well in the upcoming games.

In the past few days, Ma Jian has been thunderous about Zhang Zhu's name, and the outside media is still reporting on the discrimination incident, which has even attracted the attention of the President of the United States.

Just in the afternoon, the media in Washington revealed the current president's opinion on the matter.

Clinton had just sworn to Hillary that he wasn't cheating, and then said at the White House: "We've made a lot of progress, but every once in a while there are still problems like this." I believe that we need to unequivocally condemn this kind of behavior and educate our children not to be fooled by such statements. On the other hand, the reason why such statements always cause an uproar just shows that most of us are changing for the better. ”

Ma Jian, who has lived in the United States for four years, was very shocked by this, and he did not expect that a Chinese American could cause such a big public opinion turmoil.

Trim's plan obviously succeeded, Zhang Mao has become popular in the United States, and even many people who don't watch basketball know that he is such a person.

Zhang Qi also found out that there was a Chinese name in the opponent's team before the game, and this guy named Ma Jian immediately gave him a lot of intimacy.

He's never played against a real Chinese player before, and this guy happens to be in the number three position.

That means they're going to be in a position tonight.

The Clippers were beaten by the Suns by 20 points at home yesterday, but Ma Jian performed well, playing 25 minutes and contributing 15 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist.

Although it has been delayed for a few years, Ma Jian's talent is good, and he has reached the NBA bench level in terms of immediate combat power, and if he could successfully join UCLA four years ago, he would have entered the NBA by now.

But now at 26 years old, he is too old, and now the NBA's outside players are in an era of thriving talent, so a 26-year-old Chinese cannot arouse the interest of various teams, and there are too many American players with the same ability, and they are more willing to give these people a chance.

Today, the Clippers' home stadium, Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, welcomed 17,000 fans, which is already more than the Clippers' attendance during the regular season.

Of course, there are a lot of Lakers fans here today.

These Lakers fans are all here to see Zhang Qi, and it is obviously worth it to spend a few dollars to watch a game that even the president mentioned.

Considering that Zhang was still a player drafted by the Clippers a month ago, this is even more gimmicky.

"That kid is the one we traded to show the eye?"

The owner of the Clippers, Donald Sterling, was also on hand today to watch the game, and he was interested in the rookie who was originally drafted by his own team.

"Yes, we traded him for Eddie Jones and Divac, one of whom is the Lakers' most promising guard and the Lakers' best interior player."

Elgin Baylor hurriedly explained to the boss, and there was a bit of credit in his words.

"If these two are so good, how could the Lakers agree to this deal?"

Donald Sterling doesn't know much about basketball, but he's not stupid.

The question was a bit sharp, and Lord Belle was suddenly speechless when asked, not knowing how to answer such a tricky question from his boss.

Donald Sterling snorted coldly when he saw this, he didn't ask Elgin Baylor to be the general manager because he admired his management ability, and of course he didn't covet Baylor's cheap salary as reported by the media, which was too underestimate of him, a figure who could make David Stern helpless.

Sterling is interested in Elgin Baylor's connections, and the team's management is also the executive vice president, who is dedicated to managing the team's day-to-day operations, and Baylor, the general manager, is only responsible for transfer negotiations and other issues.

But in the end, it is not him, the general manager, who really cares about money and transactions, and the position of Lord Belle is in name only, which is a bit of a point of being put on the table.

The owner of the Clippers doesn't know how shrewd he is, and the matter of Zhang Qian has been so hyped up in the past few days, this Jew with a keen sense of smell immediately smelled a lot.

If he had to choose now, he would certainly not agree to the deal.

And he also heard about Zhang Zhu's first game, it seems that this half-breed even underestimated his skills, so doesn't it mean that the Clippers lost money on this deal?

What Sterling hates most is to make a loss-making deal, so he went to the game in person today, and pointed out early in the morning that he must let that Eddie Jones play, he wants to see how much he has lost?

Elgin Baylor naturally stopped his own boss's whimsical approach, isn't this a random command?

Eddie Jones had just finished his vacation, had been in training camp for less than a week, and was in poor physical and competitive form, and they didn't plan to let Eddie Jones play in Summer League at all.

If he is forced to play, then Eddie Jones will most likely behave badly!

But Sterling didn't understand this, and when he saw that Lord Baylor objected, he thought that his general manager would not dare to let him know after making a return to the original deal.

In addition to being unwilling to trade at a loss, Sterling is also more suspicious.

As soon as Lord Baylor objected, he felt that maybe this old courtier of the Lakers team played him a "heart in Cao Ying, heart in Han", maybe he was secretly helping the original team poach people from his hands, so today he must see what is going on?

In this era, the owners in the league are very strong, and Eddie Jones also wants to show himself in front of the new boss, so he is also eager to try, never thinking that he will be inferior to an 18-year-old high school student, and even wants to teach Zhang Qian a lesson, so that the Lakers will regret trading him.

Elgin Baylor had no choice, and since the owner and the players wanted to play, he, the nominal general manager, had to do it.

But he already has a bad premonition in his heart, although he is not as accurate as West in terms of vision, but since he dares to use the list to select Zhang Qi and then blackmail the Lakers, this shows that he is by no means without any eyesight, which has to be compared with whom.

Baylor can already see from the first game that he didn't make a profit in this deal, and he really lost money.

So what he worries about is that if Eddie Jones doesn't play well in this game, he can predict how angry his shrewd and slamming boss will be!

"I'm glad that you've been paying attention to the topic of racial discrimination these days, which shows that public opinion is evolving, and there will no longer be blatant discrimination against people of color, but people don't care about it, which is a manifestation of the progress of civilization. But I'm a professional athlete and today I'm going to focus more on the pitch and what happens off the pitch won't affect my performance on the pitch and will be my motivation. Zhang Mao briefly expressed his opinion before the game.

In today's game, the lineup sent by the Clippers made both fans very satisfied, in addition to the forward Ma Jian from China, former Lakers guard Eddie Jones also entered the starting list, which undoubtedly multiplied the topic of the game.

Even Clippers fans are getting serious now, and they also want to see if their team is losing or making money?

Eddie Jones replaced Brant Barry as the starter today, the former weighs only 200 pounds, the latter is only 180 pounds, both can only play the second position, if they go to play against the 215-pound Zhang Mao, the final outcome can even be guessed by the pseudo-fans.

Zhang faced two of the Kings' forwards in his first outing, and he had already demonstrated how he would deal with those lightweight opponents.

Ma Jian is 202cm tall and weighs 230 pounds, only such height and tonnage can withstand the impact of Zhang Zhu, and even Ma Jian looks much stronger than Zhang Zhu, after all, one of the two is 26 years old and the other is only 18 years old.

"Is this kid really only 18 years old?"

When Ma Jian saw Zhang Zhu for the first time, he was not jealous of the other party's appearance of throwing him nine streets, what surprised him was Zhang Fu's size, and it was difficult for him to imagine that an 18-year-old child would have such a strong figure as Zhang Fu.

He still remembers when he first came to the United States, when he was 22 years old, and he was only 210 pounds at that time, which was not as strong as Zhang Fu now.

"Is it ......?"

Ma Jian naturally thought of falsely reporting his age, which is also a common phenomenon in China.

In China, it has long been not to see who has falsely reported his age, but it is too difficult to find a player who has not changed his age, so he naturally wondered if Zhang Mao had reported an extra age or two.

Just when Ma Jian was stunned, Zhang Qian took the initiative to come over and say hello to him.

"Hello, nice to meet you, you are the first Chinese I fought against."

Zhang's "hello" is said in Chinese, and the rest is in English.

Speaking of which, his broken Chinese is still learned from Zhang Baizhi, but he usually has no time to practice, so he can only say a few words.

The most cheating thing is that he learned Cantonese with his little girlfriend, and Zhang Wei still can't tell the difference between Cantonese and Mandarin, anyway, it's just Chinese.

"Hello, I'm glad to meet you too."

Ma Jian was a little confused, he didn't know how to communicate with Zhang Zhu, because the phrase "hello" was actually in Cantonese, which made him so painful, he paused for a while and said in English: "I'll invite you to dinner after the game, how about it?" ”

"Okay!" Of course, Zhang Wei will not refuse, his impression of Chinese is much better than that of whites, at least Chinese and Asian Americans have never discriminated against him, so he feels that Chinese should not discriminate against him.

Zhang Wei often thinks in his heart that since those hateful whites do not accept him, then he should simply be a Chinese, anyway, his facial features are more like Chinese.