Chu Yusheng and Chen didn't stop long after talking, and when Liu Ning and Zhou Jian came back, Chu Yusheng and Ximen had already left.

After Chen Zhi and Zhou Jian took a turn around the villa, Liu Ning quickly chose a bedroom on the second floor.

The arrival of Liu Ning gave this villa a long-lost lively atmosphere and life.

After settling down, Chen Zhi and Zhou Jian took Liu Ning to a nearby Chinese restaurant for dinner, which was regarded as catching the wind and washing the dust. Regarding Liu Ning's matter, Chen Zhi didn't dwell on it, believing that she would deal with the problem between study and work.

"I didn't expect to be able to eat such delicious Chinese food in the United States, I thought I would live with fast food milk in the future!" After Liu Ning finished eating, she was full of praise for the food.

Since Chen Zhi came to the United States, he rarely went out to eat with Zhou Jian, usually Chef Zhou was responsible for cooking, Chen Zhiyang was under Jiang Lanyue's strict orders, and he paid great attention to the diet after coming to the United States.

However, now Chen Zhi is not particularly harsh on the diet, but he has eaten a lot with Liu Ning, and the taste of these meals is indeed much higher than Zhou Jian's craftsmanship.

Zhou Jian, who had already gone out to settle the bill, returned to the room after a while, stretched out his hand and handed over a golden card, "The boss and his wife are both Chinese who have emigrated to the United States, and they recognized you when they entered the door, and they didn't take the liberty to bother, and they said a lot about the pride of Chinese basketball and so on." All in all, the meals were free and a VIP card of the highest level was also given. ”

Chen Zhi took the card and looked at it, raised his eyebrows and said, "Yo, I didn't expect me to have this treatment so soon." ”

"Isn't it a good feeling to be a celebrity?" Liu Ning dragged her cheeks and smiled when she heard this.

Chen Zhi smiled noncommittally, took out his mobile phone casually, took the VIP card, took a selfie, uploaded it to social media, and wrote only one word, delicious!

This can be regarded as a peach in return, although Chen is a star now, but he really does not have the consciousness of eating for nothing, and no one's money is blown by the wind.

As soon as he came out of the private room, Chen Zhi saw a middle-aged Chinese man, standing in the corridor with a six or seven-year-old boy, and when he saw himself coming out of the private room, the child wearing a yellow cap immediately jumped up excitedly, wearing Chen Zhi's No. 10 jersey in Dallas.

"The owner of this restaurant and his son." Zhou Jian whispered on the side.

Walking closer, Chen Zhi took the initiative to say hello, after all, people just gave a free order, Chinese food is not cheap in the United States, and the meal ordered by the three of them just now is at least worth hundreds of meters of gold.

Although the middle-aged man opened a restaurant to do business, he was not the kind of eight-sided delicate character, and after greeting him, he gently patted the child standing in front of him.

I heard the child say in a milky voice: "I like to watch you play the most, and my school classmates like it!" You see! ”

As he spoke, the child pulled the jersey on his body and said expectantly, "Uncle, can you sign my name on the clothes!" ”

Chen Zhi was stunned when he heard this.

It's not because this little fan wants to sign his own clothes! Nima, this is the first time in her life that she has been called uncle! 19-year-old Chen Zhi suddenly felt a feeling of being crushed by time, old~

"Kid, it's no problem to sign your autograph, but you have to change your name and call you big brother!" Chen Zhi leaned down and said with a smile.

When Liu Ning heard this, she couldn't help laughing, Zhou Jian smiled helplessly on the side, Chen Zhi saw the child, and estimated that his remaining child's heart also had a seizure, and he was actually more serious than a child.

In the evening, Chen Zhi put on his own exclusive combat boots to practice in the basketball room, although the feeling on his feet was not much different from the Wade's Way series of sneakers he wore before, but he felt very good in his heart.

Among the several different styles of sneakers sent, Chen Zhi's favorite is still low-top, relatively speaking, guard players who frequently break through the speed change prefer low-top shoes, which is also the mainstream of the current NBA, and there are also those who like to wear high-top shoes, Curry is a typical example, mainly because he had a serious ankle injury before, and he should bring better protection to his ankle through high uppers.

Liu Ning sat on the side of the training room and quietly watched Chen Zhi train, with a smile on her face that couldn't be stopped, being able to sit here and watch Chen Zhi play, everything was so illusory and real.

She snapped some pictures with her camera and then returned to her room.

After Chen Zhi took a shower after practicing, Liu Ning appeared in front of Chen Zhi with a laptop, "This is the press release I just wrote, how about it, it's not an invasion of your privacy, can you send it out?" ”

After quickly scanning the content of the speech, Chen Zhi said with a smile: "Write casually, report more of my news, as for privacy or something, it doesn't exist!" ”

Just kidding, after reading Liu Ning's manuscript, Chen Zhi felt that he was simply a perfect man!

Liu Ning wrote everything he did in that Chinese restaurant today, silently helped the Chinese restaurant make a free advertisement, joked with the boss's son, etc., and the fans who read this report will definitely turn fans directly!

"Future reports will be written at this level, and it will be your rent!" Chen Zhi couldn't help but pretend to be pleased and nodded after reading it, which made Liu Ning giggle.

Early the next morning, Chen Zhi rushed to the Dallas Mavericks training gym as usual, and Liu Ning also had to go to the Dallas Mavericks to do work contact, and it was no surprise that she would become one of the reporters accompanying the Dallas Mavericks.

However, the team did not have a daily practice session this morning, and after everyone had gathered, they flew to Denver, the capital of Colorado, to face the Denver Nuggets in the final game of the preseason.

The Denver Nuggets are most familiar to Chinese fans in the golden double gun period, although the golden double gun composed of Anthony and Iverson has been criticized as one of the least callable duos, but the picture of the two of them playing with the same trench hairstyle did capture a large number of fans.

The Nuggets are also in the midst of a rebuild, finishing 10th in the West last season and missing out on the playoffs, but the Nuggets don't look like they're going to struggle with a rebuild for long.

This is thanks to their success in finding a treasure in the second round of the draft, Nikola Jokic, known to fans for his extremely delicate handwork, can convince fans with only one hand of passing.

Last season, Jokic, who rose to prominence during Nurkic's injury, is undoubtedly the cornerstone and hope of the Nuggets' future.

In this Nuggets team, there is an old acquaintance of Chinese fans, Emmanuel Moodier! He was once ranked No. 1 high school student by ESPN.

After graduating from high school, he was hindered from entering NC+ due to academic problems, and played a season in the CBA Guangdong Hongyuan team.

A year later, Moodier was drafted by the Nuggets with the seventh pick and developed as one of the team's cores.

It's just that Moodier's performance in the Nuggets is really unsatisfactory, with low scoring efficiency and a high turnover rate becoming his trademark.

The Denver Nuggets are also a well-known small-ball market in the league, and it is really difficult to make a difference in bringing in big-name players, and they have not made any big moves in the offseason, and the selection of Jamal Murray with the No. 7 pick is their biggest move.

Perhaps they have seen hope in the players on the team, the Nuggets have given the players in the team a very good opportunity to grow, and whether they can grow depends on the performance of the players.

Liu Ning, one of the Dallas reporters, also followed the Dallas Mavericks to the Pepsi Center, the home of Denver, but she was a little disappointed because Chen would not be playing in this game.

Coach Carlisle's reasoning was that Chen needed to be ready for the regular season in the near future.

However, Chen Zhi was not much disappointed, because after several consecutive preseason games and 81 points against the Rockets, the speed of soul power collection has finally begun to soar.

For the Nuggets, main point guard Emmanuel Moodier and main point guard Gary Harris also did not play.

Veteran Jamil Nelson starts as point guard, sixth man Will Barton plays as a starting point, small forward Daroni Gallinari, big forward Nikola Jokic, and center Yusuf Nurkic.

Compared to Jokic, who has a delicate pass and a mid-range shot and three-point ability, Nurkic among the Kic brothers is a more traditional white center with a large tonnage and long arms.

The Mavericks' second brother, Delon entered the starting lineup, and if Chen Zhi had not been signed in the offseason, then the Dallas Mavericks could be said to be the main force on the court.

However, the situation on the court surprised Chen Zhi very much, and the Nuggets almost formed an absolute suppression of the Dallas Mavericks.

"Rick, aren't you going to do something?"

Chen Zhi sat on the bench, looked at the Mavericks who were behind by a large score, and said to Carlisle with a calm face.

"What needs to be done?" Carlisle asked, seemingly oblivious to the situation on the field.

"Don't you go to the sidelines and walk around and shout a few words?" Chen Zhi said, "Or call a timeout to make substitutions and adjust tactics." ”

Carlisle shook his head, "I think Dirk and they're doing well, and Barnes has had enough singles opportunities. ”

Chen Zhi said with a smile: "It's to prepare Barnes for the regular season, so he specially asked me to be the bench!" ”

Carlisle smiled when he heard this: "You see, Barnes is playing more confidently this game than before, and he has hit more balls in the first quarter than in the whole game in the past." ”

"Well, hitting three balls in a single quarter is really efficient enough for him now." Chen Zhi nodded when he heard this, he really couldn't ask for more balls for Barnes. "It's just that his hit rate is high, but the other people's hit rate is ridiculously low!"

"Mike Malone is really good at tuning the defense." Carlisle said, glancing at Nuggets head coach Mike Malone standing on the other end of the court.

Whether as an assistant coach with the Cavaliers or the Warriors, Mike Malone has made important contributions to the team's defense, and has even promoted the Cavaliers' defense to the second level in the league.

Big Shark O'Neal, who partnered with James at the end of his career, said that the Cavaliers' defense was not the credit of head coach Mike Brown, but the factor of assistant coach Mike Malone.

During his time with the Warriors, he served on the coaching staff of Mark Jackson, and the market could see Mike Malone laying out the team's defense during the timeout. ”

In the last game of the preseason, Barnes, who has been feeling cold, finally began to count, but the price seems to be a bit big, the rest of the Mavericks team members are all lost, especially the three-point shot, the shooting rate is simply unbearable, the starting 5 people shot 10 three-pointers, only Nuo Tianwang hit one shot, Matthews 2 in 0, Barnes in 2 in 0, and the second brother who entered the starting line handed over a score of 5 in 0.

With or without Chen being present, the Dallas Mavericks are two teams!

The big victory over the Rockets, a strong team, and the heavy defeat to the Nuggets, a weak team, shows the importance of Chen Zhi in Dallas.

This was the tone of the post-match coverage of the game by many sports media.

After the game, Chen Zhi didn't expect Moodier to take the initiative to come over and talk to him, probably he really had a good impression of Huaxia, "It's a pleasure to meet you, I used to be a member of Guangdong Hongyuan and played in Huaxia." ”

"I know, they all call you Huaxia Boy!" Chen Zhi said with a smile.

Moodier is not talkative, but he is a little embarrassed to hear Chen Zhi say this, after all, Chen Zhi is the real Chinese boy!

"Did you fight Yi?" Moodier asked suddenly.

"Easy? Oh no, we didn't have a game against the Lakers in the preseason. Chen Zhi said. Moodier and Yi Jianlian were teammates during the Guangdong period, so it's no wonder he mentions him.

"We played one game against the Lakers, and I know Yi is capable of playing in the NBA!"

Probably the topic that Moodier and Chen Zhi can talk about is Yi Jianlian, a former Chinese teammate.

However, Chen Zhi and Yi Jianlian have no intersection, and there is no interaction between the two sides, after all, Chen Zhi is from CUBA, and he does not have any basketball experience in the Chinese national team, and he has played a charity fund game organized by Da Yao, and has some contact with Yao Ming.

Compared with Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian is indeed much more introverted in personality, as a senior in Chinese basketball, he did not give Chen Zhi, a latecomer, any communication, maybe he felt that his NBA career was not successful.

The Dallas Mavericks' preseason ended in a miserable loss to the Nuggets in Chen Zhi's absence, and by this time, the preseason of all NBA teams has basically come to an end, and the new season will start soon.

But before that, there is still very important work to be done, to determine the team's 15-man squad!

In the race for the Dallas Mavericks' final spot, Dorian Finney-Smith managed to stay with the Dallas Mavericks with his excellent defensive performance.

Naturally, the Los Angeles Lakers will also have to determine the final 15-man roster.

Luke Wharton, the new coach that the Lakers poached from the Warriors, is inclined to keep Space Yi, and in his opinion, Yi Jianlian fits the current trend in the NBA.

However, he can't guarantee Yi Jianlian's playing time in the new season, after all, the Lakers are undoubtedly a rebuilding team with no playoff hope in the new season, and giving newcomers more time to practice is the best choice.

In the end, Yi Jianlian was not on the Lakers' 15-man squad. However, even if he misses the CBA registration period, the CBA door is still open to him!

Failing to return to the NBA made Yi Jianlian a little upset, but what made him even more upset was that the sneaker sponsor Hook found him and gave him a very difficult choice!