After beating the Jazz, the Dallas Mavericks have won four straight games in the opening season, a record that puts the Mavericks and the defending champion Cavaliers, who also won four in a row, to the top spot in the East and West.

Of course, the start of the new season is still short, and teams such as the Bulls, Hawks, and Clippers have also not tasted defeat, but they only have 3 games and are at the bottom of the rankings.

Originally, the ranking at the beginning of the season did not receive much attention from fans, because there were too few games in the early part of the season, and each team faced different opponents, which can only be used as a reference for the team's strength in the new season, and cannot fully explain the problem.

However, after ESPN's team power rankings came out in the first week, the team record ranking of the new season was frequently mentioned, especially Dallas Mavericks fans, who were very unconvinced that ESPN ranked the Mavericks only in the 13th position of the team's strength! The Mavericks, who have won all four games, are only in 13th place, which is really unacceptable to Dallas Mavericks fans.

But ESPN columnists probably expected this ranking to spark controversy, and conducted a series of analyses in the article, such as the Mavericks' opponents in four games, two of which were Houston Rockets, a team that has only one win and three losses to start the game, and is ranked 22nd in the power rankings by experts, as if it is a team struggling in the mire, and defeating such a team is not enough to show strength, not to mention that the Mavericks were almost overturned by the Rockets. The win over the Jazz was interpreted by experts as an atypical victory, as the team's three-point shot was so hot.

Chen's performance in these games is also listed, and that's the only reason the Mavericks are listed as a team in the upper middle of the league.

At the same time, ESPN analyzed Chen's data and came to a conclusion that the rookie who played the best in the opening stage of the season is returning to Earth at a visible speed, and pointed out that Chen Zhi is not likely to hit the rookie wall in the near future, and then the Mavericks may become a weak team in the league, because now they are like a black hole on the defensive end, especially on the interior defense.

The Mavericks have returned to Dallas after the Jazz defeat, and Mark Cuban, while active on social media, rarely spends time in fan forums, as he usually spends his days one-on-one with NBA stars.

But today he took out his mobile phone and opened the fan forum, he wanted to see what kind of discussion would be triggered by Chen Zhi's ball that overturned Gobert, there should be a GIF there, so that he could enjoy Chen Zhi's violent dunk and Gobert's stunned expression on the ground over and over again!

As he thought, Chen Zhi is indeed on fire!

"Chen Zhi's dunk this time is really exciting, and the top ten dunks of the year are scheduled at the beginning of the new season"

“SHxT！ It turns out that what is more rebellious than the buckle is that the buckle is overturned to the ground! ”

"This little man reminds me of the picture of young Wade overturning Valejo!"

"You may not have seen the young Kobe Bryant's dunk book, I was there at the time!"

"Big Ben didn't fall to the ground at all, and bragging B doesn't have to pay taxes!"

"What if I said the first thing that came to mind was Batman dunking the gorilla! Oh, and I was there at the time! ”

"It's really a little man who explodes to the extreme, who will be detained next?!"

Completing the dunk and knocking the opponent to the ground is even rarer in the dunk itself, and it is usually the small players who are dunked to the ground, such as the brave Knight, who was almost murdered by Jordan Jr.!

It's really rare for a center player like Pi Erye and Chen Zhi to directly overturn the top defensive center player! As for Wade's dunk over Valejo, he is slightly inferior!

Cuban is very happy to see Chen Zhi so hot and his popularity is rising, the fun of running a team is not much worse than playing on the court in Cuban's opinion, and watching the rookie players he selected himself play at such a high level, that feeling is even different.

However, after seeing the ESPN power rankings, Cuban was inevitably a little unhappy, but the analysis in that article was very reasonable, so that Cuban couldn't find fault with it.

Seeing the last sentence in the analysis article, if the Mavericks can get a center with excellent athletic ability to protect the frame, then the Mavericks may be able to enter the top eight, Cuban sighed, this year is a qualified center player in demand, which one of the powerful centers is not robbed as a baby, the centers in the Mavericks, one by one, are either over thirty years old, or rookies who have just entered the league. However, Dallas just didn't have the life to bring in a strong center, and now Dallas doesn't have enough salary space to bring in a star center.

Now in the entire league, probably the 76ers don't treat these potential centers as treasures, and they have hoarded a lot of big men on the interior over the years, all of whom are worthy of talent, but they have been plagued by injuries.

Thinking of this, Cuban touched his chin and pondered, then opened the team's record ranking and looked at the recent situation of the 76ers. Sure enough, there is no doubt that he knelt three times in a row, and he is still at the bottom of the league, and I am afraid that he will struggle in the quagmire for a long time!

However, after taking a closer look, Cuban found that the 76ers' big man Embiid, who had been raised for two years and finally appeared, was really efficient, and the data simply made Cuban drool, if it weren't for Embiid being limited by the team's playing time, I'm afraid that the data of 20+10+5+2 is just a small matter, and the 76ers will not be hard to find!

Such a dominant big man, as long as he stays healthy, will obviously be the cornerstone of the 76ers, and as a result, one of the young Okafor and Noel is bound to leave. Maybe it's time to reach out to the 76ers and try to get these two young guys who are still under contract in their rookie years to bring their talent to Dallas, Cuban can't help but think.

When Cuban was both happy and worried about the team, Chen Zhi practiced his projection ability in Highland Parker without distraction, and soon after the beginning, he saw Zhou Jian walking into the basketball room with a frown.

"Chen Dao, come and see the news." As he spoke, Zhou Jian handed over the phone.

Chen Zhi took the phone in surprise, when he was training, Zhou Jian rarely bothered, and then looked at the expression on his face, it was obviously not a good thing.

The mobile phone opened a Mi Guo fan forum APP, and the news reported was not NBA news, but something that happened far away in the Chinese CBA arena, with a picture of a pair of basketball shoes being thrown on the court.

In the report, Chen Zhi's name was also specifically mentioned, indicating that the manufacturer of the sneakers that caused discomfort to the players' feet was Chen Zhi's contracted sneaker company Lining.

Although Chen Zhi doesn't know much about CBA players, the player who appears in the picture is very familiar, and he is the first brother of Huaxia who can't find a place in the Lakers to return to the CBA, and this game happens to be the first game he has returned to the CBA, and the attention is particularly high.

Seeing that Chen Zhi seemed to have finished reading the report, Zhou Jian smiled helplessly, "After I saw this news, I specially checked the time, and the time when this report appeared was less than 3 minutes before the incident on the Huaxia Arena. ”

Chen Zhi nodded when he heard this, Zhou Jian's meaning was very clear, this was a press release that had been prepared a long time ago, and it was impossible to finish this report in 3 minutes, obviously he had been prepared.

"Brother Chu didn't contact us?" Chen Zhi thought for a while and asked, he thought of Chu Yusheng's words when he sent the sneakers before, presumably this was the inside information that Chu Yusheng didn't get at that time.

"At this time, the game should still be going on, and he will probably wait until the game is over to make a decision." Zhou Jian speculated, "This incident is definitely a major blow to the brand image that Lining has worked so hard to accumulate, and this method is quite ruthless!" Moreover, the sales of Lining sneakers may also be affected, which is directly related to your income! ”

Chen Zhi shook his head and sighed, "I'm not worried about my income, or even the impact of this incident on Lining, but for the CBA and Huaxia Basketball, that's a big deal." ”

Zhou Jian nodded when he heard this, Lining is the exclusive sponsor of the CBA, and the sponsorship fee of 2 billion is very important for the vast majority of CBA teams that are in the red, and this sponsorship fee share is an important income to reduce their losses.

For the CBA league, Lining's amount of cost is really not what any sports equipment company is willing to give, in the year when the contract was signed, those competitors' bids were not even 200 million a year, less than half of Lining, although this is Lining advertising for itself, but it does not have to raise the cost to this extent, and the huge benefits brought to CBA are real.

Linin's sponsorship contract with the team is currently in its final year, and after this incident, the CBA league will be in an extremely passive position in the negotiations with various potential sponsors in the future.

In the modern era of more and more popular sports, with the development of the event, the cost of the main sponsor will definitely increase, although it will certainly not reach the level of the NBA's skyrocketing, not even doubled, and there may still be an increase of dozens of percentage points.

But after this incident, the cost of CBA sponsorship may stagnate or even decrease, which is not a good thing for Chinese basketball, especially for those players who are not famous enough.

"Are we going to do something?" Zhou Jian asked tentatively, although Chen Zhi said that he didn't care about the impact on his income, as an agent, he felt that he still had to do his best to protect Chen Zhi's income.

Chen Zhi thought about it and nodded, as a contracted player of Lining, at this time, he must stand up and make a statement, "Just post a photo of me showing my sneakers on social media." ”

"How about this one?" Zhou Jian seemed to have this idea for a long time, and took out a photo with his mobile phone while speaking.

Chen Zhi took a look, it was a photo of him tying the laces of his two shoes and hanging them around his neck when he first received them.

When I was in junior high school, it was very popular to do this on the field in Wei County, it looked cool, handsome, and very draggy, even the shoes I wore were hung with this! After all, at that time, a pair of basketball shoes was still a luxury for remote Wei County, especially for junior high school students. So it has to be hung around the neck and let people see that Lao Tzu has sneakers!

Probably because the taste is too sour, and sneakers are no longer a rare thing, and now few people are so showy, at most, like Chen Zhi's photo, posing with a pair of new shoes that have not been worn.

"Yes, that's it!" Chen Zhi liked this photo very much, and the prominence of the shoes was obvious enough to be sent out at this time.

Zhou Jian obviously still had some thoughts, and said with a wink, "Do you want to add some words?" ”

Chen Zhi was already familiar with Zhou Jian, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhou, what do you want to add?" ”

"Come to the NBA, where players have the freedom to choose their own shoes!" Zhou Jian immediately blurted out, obviously not improvised.

Chen Zhi smiled and said, "Brother Zhou, it seems that you have more opinions about Sister Da Lian than I do, is it really good to be so ridiculous?" Besides, it's not like they can't play in the NBA before they go back. ”

Chen Zhi really didn't like taking off his shoes on the field, but although Chen Zhi didn't agree with Yi Jianlian's actions, there was no need to ridicule him, there was a price to pay for him to do this, and as for how things were dealt with in the end, it was not something Chen Zhi needed to care about.

Zhou Jian nodded when he heard the words and said, "Then forget it, I thought about it, this sentence seems to have a sarcastic meaning of the Basketball Association, so don't add it!" ”

In fact, the basketball association does have a dictatorship in the selection of basketball equipment, but the current level of development of the CBA may really need to do so.

After completely giving the basketball equipment option to the players, the huge benefits are nothing more than a few famous stars, and even many clubs can not bear this level of loss after losing the more than 10 million that can be shared, and finally can only disband the team and withdraw from the league.

Soon, Zhou Jian posted the photo he had taken on social media such as Chen Zhi's IG and scarf.

Chu Yusheng called not long after, he already knew Chen Zhi's actions on social media, in his opinion, Chen Zhi did just right, without much explanation, but showed his agreement with Lining's sneakers, which was enough.

Chu Yusheng did not mention this matter again, but reminded Chen Zhi to be careful of his safety on the field, another situation where he did not receive inside information has happened, and now he is most worried about Chen Zhi's safety.

Chen Zhi thought that this matter would be over, and the rest was just a private discussion among the fans.

I only flew back to Dallas from Salt Lake City in the morning, and the team training in the afternoon was still canceled, and Chen Zhi also planned to take a break after finishing the afternoon training, because there was a live game that I had to watch tonight, the Oklahoma City Thunder vs. the Golden State Warriors!

Under the influence of Jiang Lanyue, the NBA live broadcasts that Chen Zhi watched were basically Warriors games, and after the introduction of Durant this season, Chen Zhi was also very curious about the strength and performance of the Warriors, and watching a game can be regarded as understanding the opponent's intelligence.

What's more, this is the first time Durant has faced his Thunder teammates since he left the Thunder, especially Wei Shao, and Chen Zhi is also very curious about what kind of sparks will be rubbed in the end.

However, what Chen Zhi didn't expect was that a piece of news broke out that Durant was unexpectedly asked about taking off his shoes when he was interviewed by reporters before the game.

"Lining? What kind of shoes are they, it's normal for players to be reluctant to wear them, it's strange for people to be willing to wear them. This is Durant's response.

Durant has always had a big mouth, but his emotional intelligence is lacking, but considering his huge sneaker contract with Hook for ten years and more than 300 million meters, this may not be a sign of his lack of emotional intelligence.

Seeing this news, Chen Zhi immediately narrowed his eyes, it seems that the Mavericks are not far from the game with the Warriors!