Walking on No. 115 Street in New York, Wen Yi felt that his luck was indeed very bad.

He originally came to the United States with the domestic team to report on the Rockets and Da Yao news, but Da Yao was detected with a fractured tibia bone in his right knee in December last year, and he finally managed to go abroad to report on his first major injury in Da Yao's career, and now he has not come back in March, and the old man of the newspaper who came to the United States with the team has returned to China to report on the preparations for the Olympics, Wen Yi was left to wait for the news of Da Yao, and at the same time, he can also send some news about other NBA teams back to China by the way.

Although domestic readers also pay attention to other NBA stars, they mainly focus on big stars such as Kobe James, and the newcomer Wen Yi can't get their scoop alone, so he can only pick up some American media reports and send them back to China, but this kind of thing is being done by major sports media in China, and Wen Yi, who wants to seize the opportunity to make some achievements, knows that only selecting some clichés and sending them back to China will not greatly improve his status in the newspaper, and he has been looking for scoops.

Two days ago, Wen Yi saw a news in the well-known "Grandstand Sports" in the United States, about an NCAA Chinese player, and the shrewd Wen Yi found that this was an opportunity, so he came to Manhattan, New York, and found Columbia University.

But when I arrived at Columbia University, Wen Yi learned that the Columbia Lions had gone to Ithaca, and today was the match day between Columbia University and Cornell University.

Although Ithaca is the capital of New York State's Tompkins County, it is not close to New York City, which is located in southwestern New York State and New York City is located in southeastern New York State.

In the evening, Wen Yi found a cheap hotel near Columbia University to stay, planning to wait until tomorrow to find a chance to meet the Chinese player.

Through a local sports television station in New York, Wen Yi watched the game between Columbia University and Cornell University.

Through the TV commentary, Wen Yi also knew that this Chinese-American player is now a well-known basketball star in the New York area.

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At Cornell University, the game between Columbia University and UConn is in full swing, this is the last game of UConn, Kang Nature wants to end up with a win at home, and most of the fans who poured into the stadium are more than a dozen Kangda cheering, but Li Chenglong saw a lot of fans cheering for him at the scene, mainly Chinese or international students from Asia.

Using an energy bottle, Lee Chenglong was in good shape, and he rushed to the basket to dunk past the opposing defender at the beginning, which made his teammates, who were a little nervous by the frenetic home atmosphere, come back to their senses a little.

Next, Li Chenglong scored another five-minute explosive score, scoring 9 points in five minutes to help Columbia University lead the opponent 12-7, and five minutes later, Li Chenglong's teammates also began to find their form, and Kangda was never able to narrow the score.

At the end of the first half, Columbia led 40-31.

At the beginning of the second half, Columbia's form slipped somewhat, and Kangda saw the hope of chasing points, but after a timeout, Li Chenglong broke out again.

First, he accelerated his breakthrough with Martin Taylor's flank block, then made a pull-up jump shot in the three-second zone, and in the second round, O'Connor helped cover on the outside, and Lee Chenglong made a three-point shot.

When Li Chenglong shook the opponent's inside line outside the three-point line, causing the opponent's three-point foul, and Li Chenglong made three free throws to directly widen the difference to 15 points, there was huge applause in the Kangda arena.

Although the pure competitive slogan of the NCAA is more to attract audiences, the NCAA game is indeed more pure, this game Kangda has no desire, just wants to create a little trouble for Columbia, when Li Chenglong played a dominant performance, Kangda fans did not hesitate to applaud themselves.

In the end, Columbia defeated UConn 77-63 to ensure its qualification for the national championship and did not give Penn any chance.

In the last game of the regular season, Li Chenglong scored 31 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal with 11 of 24 shots, 3 of 6 three-pointers, and 6 of 7 free throws.

This season's NCAA Ivy League games are all over, Columbia has a 13-1 record in 14 games to become the Ivy League champion, and Penn's 12-2 record is also very good, but unfortunately can only be relegated to the runner-up.

Since it was an away game, everyone at Columbia University could only open two bottles of champagne in the dressing room to celebrate.

Back in New York the next day, the Lions were warmly welcomed by Columbia fans at the gates of Columbia University, and Barry Newberg, vice president and director of athletics, came to congratulate the Lions.

The Ivy League championship is just a small championship that is not very important, and the national championship is the main event, but the team events of Columbia University have been sluggish for a long time, but the results of less concerned projects such as swimming are not bad, and now that basketball has won the Ivy League championship, it will go to the national championship, which is naturally worth celebrating.

With the championship in place, the Lions' next goal is naturally to prepare for the national championship, but now that the playoffs in other NCAA leagues are in critical time, the national championship will not start until March 14.

When Li Chenglong returned to the dormitory at noon, his roommate Randy Wilson came up to congratulate him, and then said: "Bruce, a Chinese reporter came to the dormitory this morning and wanted to interview you, and when he learned that you were not there, he also asked me a lot of questions about you, and he said that he would come back later." ”

Li Chenglong is a little strange, Chinese journalist? Journalists on the Chinese side also care about the NCAA? He remembered that China seemed to care about the NBA, and basically not many people cared about the NCAA games, right?

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Li Chenglong came to the Oriental Café again, this time to meet a Chinese journalist.

In the designated position, Li Chenglong met the other party at the appointed position, he looked about thirty years old, and it was still a little cold in New York in March, but the other party was wearing a white shirt, which made him feel very clean.

"Hello, Bruce, I'm Wen Yi, a reporter from the domestic "Basketball Herald", and it's a pleasure to meet you."

Wen Yi spoke first, he learned about Li Chenglong's English name from the American media, and was worried that the other party could not speak English directly in Chinese.

Li Chenglong shook hands with the other party and sat down: "You can speak Chinese directly, I can understand it, my Chinese name is Li Chenglong." ”

Li Chenglong can speak Chinese, which brings the two sides closer, and after getting to know each other, the interview soon began.

"When did you start playing basketball?"

"I started to play basketball when I was about six or seven years old, New York is the mecca of basketball in the United States, it is the most dense basketball court in the world, I grew up in New York, I was exposed to basketball at a very young age, and I began to like basketball."

"As far as I know, neither the New York Knicks' results in the NBA nor the NCAA results of New York University's results are good, and New York's basketball mecca seems to be a bit of a misnomer."

"The NBA is a commercial league, and the New York Knicks have very few players who are native to New York. In fact, in the United States, the most popular football belongs to the Midwest and the South, the eastern part of the United States is the base camp of basketball, New York is the heart of this base camp, in the early years, there were basketball emperor Chamberlain, Dr. J Julius Irving, Gutter Abdul-Jabbar and other celebrities were born in New York, after the eighties, Bernard King, Mark Jackson, Chris Mullin, etc. are also New Yorkers, and Jordan, the flyer who promoted the NBA to the world, was also born in New York, and now the NBA is active in New York, and there are also Carmelo Anthony, Lamar Odom, Ron Artest, etc., there are even more role players who are not famous. ”

"So none of these people played in New York? Not even NCAA basketball? ”

"New York has the best basketball atmosphere, many people grow up with basketball in New York, but when they need to learn systematic basketball knowledge in middle school or college, there is no high school or university in New York that is good enough for basketball, and it is difficult for high school or college in New York to enter the top 50 in the national basketball rankings, and those basketball talents have to leave New York to continue their basketball careers elsewhere. Michael Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he learned to play basketball, but he left New York for North Carolina when he was in middle school, where he entered the NBA by excelling at the University of North Carolina. ”

"Okay, so let's talk about you, you've done well in the Ivy League this year, do you have any plans to get into the NBA?"

"I've actually decided that I'm going to play in this year's NBA Draft......"