Chapter 6: Chores Before the New Season
On July 12, the Hornets rookie flew to Las Vegas for the summer league with non-main players and non-key rotation players, but head coach Williams did not come, but assistant coach Randy Ayers led the team.
Summer league has a long history, but it is not officially organized by the NBA, but is led by one NBA team and held jointly with other teams.
Summer League is usually played in Long Beach, Las Vegas, Apolis Minnesota, Atlanta and other places in California, and this year it was in Las Vegas.
The summer league can play a role in selecting players and grinding the lineup for each team. Rookies can also take the opportunity as a buffer to enter the NBA, and the fat man is also to adapt to the rhythm of the NBA, otherwise he will buy all kinds of experience in the system mall, so he will not come to suffer this hardship.
A total of 24 teams participated in the Summer League this year, including 11 NBA playoff teams, 12 non-playoff teams, and one NBDL guest team. The 24 teams started on July 13 and ended on the 22nd, for ten days, with five games per team.
It was only after the game started that Yang Yi realized that it was a huge mistake to come to Las Vegas. While it's bluffing to have 11 playoff teams participating in this kind of booing, who are Nima coming to play? Invited free agents, high school players, college players, NBA rookies, and all kinds of water cooler caretakers, there is no superstar at all, this Nima is the famous summer league? The fat man felt cheated. No wonder the main players of the team are not coming, and the manager is not coming. At this level, how do you feel the gap with top superstars, and how do you buy skills? Not challenging at all! More than 300 glory points are not easy to spend! I don't know what to buy to suit me now.
So, Yang Yi went on the court to play a quarter, killing the little soldiers, and then he didn't play, leaving time for those players who needed to perform, such as Darius Miller.
It's a pity that I don't have green dollars in my pocket, otherwise I would have to go to Las Vegas for a trip to Las Vegas, and there are still anecdotes of Michael Jordan in Las Vegas in the basketball world!
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So boring! The fat man stretched his waist and sighed a little while lying on the recliner in the hotel! In the past few days, in addition to practicing with his teammates, he hid in the hotel and talked to Su Ling on the phone, and then discussed with Xiao Yafang about forming a team of agents. Occasionally go to the system to browse, play 2k, and there is nothing to do!
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Finally, the summer league ended on the 22nd, and the fat man with a stuffed face returned to New Orleans with his restless heart. If it weren't for the sake of the harmony between his teammates, he would have left alone a long time ago, so why wait for ten days and so long!
On July 23, Yang Yi and the Hornets reached an agreement, and the two sides officially signed a four-year contract worth $23.2 million, including the 2014 and 2015 summer team options.
Finally rich! The fat man sighed a little. If you sign a contract before, then you can go to the casino and go to the casino in style! But when you think about your millions of dollars, it's not interesting to make a splash in a place like Las Vegas.
In the future, I will have to play in New Orleans, and the house matter will have to be resolved. However, this matter will be handed over to Xiao Yafang, who will make her an agent! The agent has to do all this stuff for the employer.
On October 5, the NBA preseason officially opened.
On Oct. 7, the Magic's preseason game against the Hornets will be held in Mexico City, Mexico.
For the team, the main purpose of pre-season is to run in the squad, enrich the style of play, and test the competitive form of new and old players. There are about 8 preseason games for each team, and in order to avoid the main players getting tired before they fight, the main players in this kind of game generally do not play more than 30 minutes, so it is also an opportunity for substitutes to take the opportunity to show themselves.
Olympic Center in Mexico City, Aliberk Olympic Complex.
The two sides of the game started the game:
Hornets: No. 17 Yang Yi, No. 10 Eric Gordon, No. 0 Al Aminu, No. 33 Ryan Anderson, No. 15 Robin Lopez
Magic: No. 3 Al Harrington, No. 7 JJ Redick, No. 9 Nikola Učevic, No. 14 Jamil Nelson, No. 15 Hido Turkoglou
The lineups of both sides are similar, but the Magic have relatively rich experience, while the Hornets have Yang Yi, and the youth storm is more intense.
The atmosphere at the Aliberk Olympic Stadium is quite strong, although you can usually watch NBA games through TV broadcasts or online platforms, but after all, there is no more real, more impactful and shocking feeling of watching in person!
A large poster of the Fat Man was held aloft by the fans, showing him in the NCAA Finals with Travis Leleford and Egary Johnson smashing down the basketball hoop, with the caption "The One, God Comes."
The players of the Hornets and the Magic team are a little envious of Yang Yi, and even envy and hate! Because almost all of the huge posters of fat people on the scene are there, just like the arrival of countless Yang Yi, the sound of "The One" is endless!
The fat man didn't expect that he hadn't played an NBA game yet, and he had so many fans in Mexico, but he didn't expect that this was the league's promotion to him, and he became the main star of this NBA trip to Mexico. Otherwise, he is a rookie who has not yet entered the alliance, how can other Mexicans know about him?
He didn't know, so he was a little excited, and since these fans were supporting him, it really couldn't be justified not to give them a great game.
It's game on!
Robin Lopez with Nikola Učevic jump ball. Ucevic bounced faster and bounced better, and the Magic got the kick-off!
Jamil Nelson attacked with the ball, as soon as Young stepped forward to intercept, the Magic players started to run, Nelson held the ball on the spot, and when Al Harrington ran out of space, he passed the ball out.
Harrington received the ball, and the team's power forward Ryan Anderson hurriedly stepped forward to block, and Harrington raised his hands high to make a shooting motion, luring Anderson to jump up and block. Anderson was fooled and jumped up. Harrington shook off Anderson and rushed straight with the ball, and the surrounding Hornets players were entangled by other Magic players, and it was too late to stop Harrington. Harrington rushed to the penalty area, flew into the air, and dunked the basketball into the basket with both hands.
The scene instantly cheered, and the audience didn't expect that less than 10 seconds after the opening, the Magic staged a good show of flying and dunking, and they instantly remembered the big man of the Magic team.
Yang Yi's basketball awareness is only a junior point guard awareness, and he can't understand the tactics of the Magic team, so...
The offense and defense switched, and Yang Yi advanced with the ball. He's going to play it himself. So he motioned for his teammates to pull away and eat Nelson himself.
The Hornets players all knew the fat man's singles ability, and no one doubted his ability to eat Nelson alone, so they all pulled away and let him single.
Yang Yiyi looked at Nelson, who was several laps younger than him in front of him, and couldn't help but smile. He held the ball in his right hand and gently pressed his left shoulder against Nelson, and it only took half a percent of his strength to squeeze Nelson to stumble. Yang Yi suddenly switched to holding the ball in his left hand, turned around and broke through Nielsen, and rushed towards the three-point line.
As soon as he crossed the free throw line, Ucevic broke through Lopez's blockade to stop him. The fat man didn't think about it, he directly transported the strength of his whole body, and instantly rose from the ground, like a heavy tank, crushed on Ucevic in an instant.
The fat man far surpassed Ucevic in both body weight and body density, and the huge impact slammed Ucevic into the basketball hoop. And the fat man's body did not stop and continued to move forward after being blocked, but he no longer had the momentum to move forward.
At this moment, I saw the fat man holding his chest and abdomen in the air, holding the basketball with his left hand, lifting the ball above his head, holding it with his right hand, and then smashing it down towards the basket.
"Bang, bang!" The basketball hoop was torn by the fat man's huge force and creaked and crumbling!
This game was broadcast live by Mexican national television, and the result of the fat man's shocking buckle directly conquered most of the Mexicans who watched the live broadcast, and there were countless fans!
The audience at the scene was already crazy, they were crazy to hold the huge poster of the fat man and swayed and shouted, hoarse. They didn't expect Yang Yi's style of play to be so vigorous, directly dunking Ucevic, watching Ucevic lying on the ground for a long time and unable to get up, the cheers were even louder, they would not sympathize with Ucevic's suffering.
The players on the scene were also stunned! They didn't expect this either. Is this Nima still human? A big center was knocked on the basketball hoop by the No. 1 player, and couldn't get up for half a day after falling to the ground, which was a fantasy, but it happened right in front of their eyes, and they couldn't believe it.
This directly refreshed their understanding of fat people, I had only heard that this guy had five doubles in the NCAA, but I didn't expect it to be a violent point guard, and Byron Davis is of the same genre!
Seeing that Učević couldn't get up for half a day, the referee directly stopped the game, hurried to the team doctor, and carried Učević off the court on a stretcher.
In less than half a minute of the opening game, Magic's starting center was directly beaten by Yang Yi. The eyes of the Hornets players have changed when they look at the fat man, and if this Nima gives himself such a look during the intra-team competition, then he can consider going home. Nima, the fat man, rushed up and died if he touched it, he couldn't be provoked, he couldn't be provoked!
Because the fat man was really powerful, the high-morale Hornets defeated the unintentional Magic, and finally the Hornets defeated the Magic by 25 points with 123:98, making a good start.
In a game, Yang Yi has countless fans in the Mexican circle, which has laid a certain foundation for his future business plans.
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The Hornets with a big victory at home against the Los Angeles Clippers, originally thought that they could play with the Clippers, but they didn't expect to be beaten back to their original shape, Yang Yi played abnormally in this game, and was played by the experienced Paul so that he couldn't find the north, the fat man played abnormally, and the other players played averagely, and there was no doubt that the game was lost, but it was not too ugly. Although the fat man was knocked out early by Paul, his score was enough to ensure that the Hornets would not lose too badly.
In the following games, he won two out of eight games, and the fat man was also a variety of scorched people, among which DeLong was taught how a fat man dribbled
The fat man's heart is stuffed, the top point guard consciousness, my brother wants to buy the top point guard consciousness, even if he doesn't buy skills, equipment, or potions, he has to buy top point guard awareness, and he doesn't want to be teased on the court anymore, he really treats his brother's strength as an orangutan!