Columbia University continued its dark horse path by knocking out the University of Virginia to the Sweet Sixteen.

Li Chenglong shot 8 of 15, 4 of 7 three-pointers, 6 of 6 free throws in the game, and got 26 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals, Li Chenglong is undoubtedly the biggest contributor to the team's win, but today Martin Taylor is also in good shape, he got 20 points and 9 rebounds on 7 of 12 shots, and is the second most scoring player on the team.

Columbia University's entry into the top 32 in the last round was just a small dark horse, and the degree of attention was limited, so now it is a big dark horse to enter the top 16.

Every year in Crazy March, entering the top 16 in the United States is called the Sweet Sixteen, the top eight in the United States is called the elite quarterfinals, and the top four in the United States is called the ultimate semi-finals.

Speaking to reporters after the match, Lee said: "It was a great victory, we played our own style and we deserved it. ”

"Making history? It's not history, Columbida University has also reached the top 16 in the United States in its history......"

At the end of the interview, the whole Columbia team rested in Columbus for one night and returned to New York the next morning. Columbia's next game will be played on March 22 in the small Texas town of San Antonio, against Ohio State University, the No. 1 seed in the Southern Division, a team with two top NCAA stars, Greg Oden and Michael Conley.

Back in New York, the Lions went back to Columbia University to be welcomed by the fans, although there were also fans at the airport to pick them up, but the real welcome ceremony was on campus, but Li Chenglong had to be temporarily separated from the team, and the rest of the Lions team didn't ask much, they knew that Li Chenglong was going to participate in this year's NBA draft.

Li Chenglong left with his agent Tom Hammer, and although he has not officially signed a contract, Hammer is already doing the work of an agent.

Once in the car, Tom Hammer said, "Well done, Bruce, you're a big star in New York by now." ”

"There's no shortage of stars in New York."

"No, I'm talking about real New York stars, a lot of kids who grew up in New York left New York at the beginning of middle school, you grew up in New York, played in New York, became famous in New York, and you don't have to be famous in New York at all like Carmelo Anthony's NBA stars who were born in New York and grew up and left New York."

"Well, you said all that, it wasn't just to tell me, was it?"

"The Ivy is really different from the poor families in Queens, and I like to talk to smart people. I think you should stay in a big city and you're famous enough in New York to stay and play in New York, it would be the perfect thing to do. ”

"And then?"

"This year, the Knicks have a 23rd pick in the first round, which they got when they traded with the Nuggets before, and I recommended you to them, and they said they were interested in you, and when the NCAA game is over, we can find time to go over and try it out."

"Okay, we'll talk about that then."

Seeing Li Chenglong's lack of interest, Hammer didn't continue, he didn't know why Li Chenglong was not interested in this proposal.

Of course, Li Chenglong is not very interested, the current Knicks are a complete bad team, and they are so bad that they can't be worse, from the management to the locker room. The owner of the Knicks has a special trust in Isaiah Thomas, and the Smiling Assassin was very good when he played back then, but he couldn't manage the team, and there are many examples of this, and Joe's gang leader is the best proof of this.

Thomas has made a bunch of rotten contracts at the Knicks manager's position, and a lot of scrapped players are getting paid by the Knicks every month without having to play, and they should all go back and give the Smiling Assassins a permanent ranking. The Smiling Assassin has made the Knicks into a team with the highest salary in the league, but fails to make the playoffs every year, and ironically, Isaiah Thomas has a solid position and is trusted by the owner, which is definitely the current NBA mystery: how did the Smiling Assassin have so many means to make the Knicks like that, but still be trusted by the Knicks owner?

Lee Chenglong is confident in his own strength, but a Nix like Isaiah Thomas who messes around, forget it.

Come to Midtown East Manhattan, home to the headquarters of a leading sports management agency.

Li Chenglong's father, Li Mingli, has been waiting here for a long time, and everyone has made an appointment to officially sign a contract with Excellence Brokerage Company today. Of course, the signing will have to wait until the end of the NCAA tournament to be announced, and at present, Li Chenglong has led Columbia University to consecutive upsets, and has shown its potential, and the excellent brokerage company decided to sign early to avoid being poached.

Li Mingli personally checked the contract twice to confirm that there was no problem, so both parties signed their names on the contract, and Li Chenglong officially became a person from the excellent sports management agency.

Contracts are the most common form of commission in the NBA, with a 5 percent cut on salaries and 10 percent on business income.

After signing the contract, Kelly Krause, the owner of Excellence Sports Management Agency and a famous agent, shook hands with Li Chenglong and said: "Welcome to Excellence Sports, I believe you can succeed in the NBA." ”

Li Chenglong knew that the other party was just polite words, and at present, the excellent agency only treated him as an ordinary player who could play in the NBA, but he didn't care, and he would change the contract when he became famous in the future, and if he didn't change it, he would change to a brokerage company.

Although Excellence Sports is also one of the big brokerage companies in the United States, it is said that it is currently poaching the world-famous golf star Tiger Woods, and it is very close to achieving the goal, you must know that Tiger Woods has occupied the first place in the annual income list of global athletes for several years.

Even if Excellence Sports poached Tiger Woods, it would be far from the CAA of the American brokerage predator.

CAA is a giant of American agencies in film and sports companies, but it is still inevitably in the category of serving stars.

In terms of film and television, more than half of Hollywood's actors belong to CAA, and most of the top superstars are in CAA, in terms of sports and basketball alone, CAA has recruited James, Wade, Bosh, Anthony, Paul, Parker and other stars, and the current draft favorite Durant is said to have hooked up with CAA.

Because there are too many stars from all walks of life under CAA, some people think that CAA is completely the behind-the-scenes controller of Hollywood and the four major sports leagues in the United States, which is simply a myth of CAA.

For a small actor or a small athlete, CAA is indeed a big Mac, but for real big stars, CAA is just a service company that serves them.

Leonardo DiCaprio relied on CAA's help to get the actor of "Titanic", and Xiao Li turned around and terminated the contract with CAA as the big ship swept the world, because he thought that CAA's commission was too high, and CAA had nothing to do with Xiao Li.

CAA spent more than ten years of hard work on Tom Cruise, making him the world's No. 1 film and television star, but Tom broke up with CAA because of some trivial things, and CAA, who was particularly unwilling after the breakup, could only occasionally explode some of Tom's previous black history, but Tom Cruise, who was already in the limelight, didn't care about that impact at all.

James was able to get Nike's 7-year 90 million top contract before the NBA draft, and he was burdened with nearly 200 million endorsement contracts before entering the NBA before he played a game, CAA played a huge role in it, but after two years, James will leave CAA, and CAA can only watch.

After the brokerage company's affairs are settled, Li Chenglong plans to go home for a day of rest first, and then go to school and his teammates tomorrow to go to San Antonio.

In Tribeca, Li Chenglong and Li Mingli met three people who seemed to be a family of three, all three of whom were Asian faces, and Li Mingli took the initiative to go up and say hello: "Hello, Wei, are you going to participate in the competition?" ”

Li Chenglong looked at it, this is a strange family of three, the father is carrying a backpack, and the mother is also carrying luggage in her hands, which seems to be not light, but the girl is empty-handed.

However, this girl is quite tall, Li Chenglong is estimated to be more than 1.7 meters, about 1.75 meters, but she doesn't look too old, maybe seventeen or eighteen years old, a girl is so tall at a young age, even in the United States, it is relatively rare, and her parents are obvious East Asian faces. The most important thing is that the girl looks quite pretty, tall, wearing a Nike tracksuit with a baseball cap, and the most obvious thing standing there is a pair of straight long legs.

Li Mingli was chatting with the group of middle-aged couples, and they seemed quite familiar, but they were both in English, and Li Chenglong didn't know if the other party was Chinese or from another country.

The bored Li Chenglong walked over to the girl and asked, "Hello, are you Chinese?" ”

"No, my parents are Korean, but I grew up in Hawaii." The girl blushed a little when she spoke, which made Li Chenglong a little strange, girls who grew up in the United States would still be afraid of life?

As soon as I said these two words, the parents of both sides had finished talking, and the other party was about to leave.

After the other party left, Li Chenglong asked, "They are also New Yorkers?" ”

"No, they have a Hawaiian family, they have a house in Tribeca, they know each other, they have played golf together twice, and it's like the kid is a golfer."

Li Chenglong knew that the child should be referring to the beautiful girl, but he was so tall that he thought it was a model or a basketball player at first.

(To be continued)