Broadly speaking, the new NBA season begins on July 1 every year.

But for the players, the start of the new season should start with NBA Media Day.

The NBA league really took a big leap forward after the administration of David Stern, the extremely talented former president, and one of the areas he focused on was building a good relationship with the media to promote the NBA.

Therefore, every year the NBA will set up a media day before the start of the new season for media interviews, and at the same time take makeup photos for publicity, which is set on the last Monday of September every year, and the teams that are going to play preseason overseas will have a media day three days in advance, and every player is required to participate on this day.

The period at the end of last season and before the media day is an offseason for NBA players, and players can arrange whatever they want.

Players who are not satisfied with their own strength and are motivated enough at the same time will most likely make full use of every day of the offseason in order to have a better performance next season, Kobe Bryant is an absolute model in this regard, and even when participating in various business activities, he will train every day, which can be said to be a typical example of diligence in the entire NBA history.

More players will choose to let themselves relax for a while, and then start to prepare for next season's battles, such as Nowitzki, after the offseason, he will first relax for a month, treat himself to all kinds of nonsense and drink, eat enough ice cream and burgers that will not be touched at all during the season, and then reserve them for next season.

But once the media day begins, the players' vacation is truly over, and the week-long official NBA training camp begins.

The young club also used to give the German chariot with the ball and dunked violently, but it has long been unable to withstand the invasion of the years, and now he has completely become a Dallas veteran driver, but he is still the soul and leader of the Dallas Mavericks, even if Chen Zhi and Barnes, the two highest-paid players, join, this status quo will not change in a short time.

However, there is no need to doubt that the old driver will leave the core position on the field to Chen Zhi and Barnes, and as for the leader position, it depends on the ability and character of the two.

Soft and slow have become labels that Nowitzki himself will not deny, after all, even die-hard fans of Dallas have begun to use "I am soft" as a synonym for Norvisky.

In the eyes of any NBA star, the word "soft" is the most reluctant accusation. But for Nowitzki, soft is a term of endearment, after all, he is really soft!

For an old guy who has to think about whether he will be attacked by the basket when he dunks, sorry, it really can't be hard!

Fortunately, in addition to being slow and soft, Dirk Nowitzki has another characteristic that has been preserved, that is, accurate, after all, he is also a man who has entered the 180 club.

Last season's 44.8 percent shooting from the field looks like a disappointing, the lowest he's shooting outside of his rookie season, but it's still impressive, considering that the vast majority of his shots are from the field rather than from the basket.

What's more, he still maintains a 36% three-point shooting percentage, which is good enough to be the No. 4 shooter in the space, and of course, in reality, Nowitzki is more of a No. 2 on the court.

Last season's data of 18.3 points and 6.5 rebounds is enough to show that the old German tank does still have oil in the chassis, although it is slow, it is still a powerful artillery that charges into battle.

The old driver, who was probably destined to stand in the American Airlines Center arena as a golden rooster independence, stood next to a short player who could reach his shoulders, Jose Barria.

"Jose, you know what, you owe a thank you to our new teammate, you are finally not the shortest player in the team this new season, he is significantly shorter than you by a quarter!" The old driver patted Barria on the shoulder as he spoke.

"I should say thank you to him, this guy tweeted my best wishes for my marriage when I had my wedding in the offseason! Of course, he was able to get me out of the hat of being the shortest player in the team, and I owe him more credit. ”

José Barria, who is only 183 tall but has an extremely strong body, laughs.

Because of his height, the guys on the team have already spoofed him more than once.

As the two were talking, Chen Zhi took Zhou Jian into the American Airlines Center Arena, today is the media day, but the interview time has not officially started, and the players have arrived at the stadium one after another.

"Hi, Dirk! How about the off-season! Chen Zhi greeted nowitsky when he saw it.

Now the Mavericks are most familiar with him, and it must be Justin Anderson, who not only played together in the summer league, but also partnered together at the Yao Foundation charity game at the end of August, in addition to the rookies who participated in the summer league together, the most familiar is naturally Dirk Nowitzki.

Nowitzki and Barria turned their heads when they heard this.

The guy in front of him had yellow skin, obviously the only Chinese player on the team, but he looked a little different from what Dirk said, Barria couldn't help but turn his head to look at Nowitzki, and Nowitzki was also looking at Barria in surprise.

"Hey, are you sure this guy looks a little shorter than me?"

The so-called no expectation, no harm, Barria, who is full of expectations to get rid of the title of the shortest player, feels that he has received 10,000 points of damage and a critical hit.

Chen Zhi in front of him looks clearly taller than him!

Nowitzki didn't answer after seeing Chen, and suddenly turned around and walked towards the locker room.

Chen Zhi and Baria looked at each other, not knowing what happened to this old guy suddenly, so they didn't care about greeting each other, and quickly followed.

"Hey, Dirk, what do you mean by that..."

Seeing Dekonowski's actions in the locker room, Barria felt like he had been hurt again, and the guy was changing a super mini child seat from the old cabinet to his own!

After changing, looking at the scene in the locker room, the old driver touched his chin and said, "It seems that this child safety seat still belongs to you!" ”

"Hey, you've already given me a child seat!" Baria said helplessly.

"Who made you suddenly the shortest guy in the locker room again!" Novitsky laughed, "This little guy is obviously longer than before!" ”

Chen Zhi was dumbfounded, he didn't expect the old driver to have such a funny side!

"Oh, would you like me to introduce you to each other? Probably not! "Nowitzki is finally back to normal after being funny.

"No need, the top salary failed in the draft, I have seen your photos on the mobile news many times!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand towards Chen Zhi.

Chen Zhi reached out and shook Barria, "JJ Barria, the man who made James deflated!" ”

Barria was very happy when he heard this, this was indeed a record worth showing off for him, after all, that man was James, the best basketball player on the planet at the moment.

But if he knew that Chen Zhi muttered in his heart, the man with X organ in his name, he didn't know how to feel.