Chapter 13: Intensive Training
"Oriental teenagers play magic again, the Bulls draw 1-1 at home against the Lakers!"
"A teenager from the East ruined the Lakers dynasty with a slicing ball!"
"The Oriental boy comes from the East, and the two biography all show the style of the ancient country......"
......Of course, the first three are the headlines of the Chicago Sports Newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, while the rest is the news published by a small ninth-rate newspaper.
The whole outside world is quite interested in the emergence of Jiang Yang, after all, Jiang Yang is a Chinese.
Think about the domestic reaction after roughly entering the NBA, if it weren't for some unpleasantness, it would definitely belong to the level of a national idol, and later after Yao Ming entered the NBA, it rose directly to the level of a national idol, not only became the Western starter of the All-Star Game that year, but also soared in popularity.
Alexander, the owner of the rockets, pointed to Yao Ming to make money, and now the only Chinese in the NBA is Jiang Yang.
Even if it is because the current level of communication is not very developed, not many people in the NBA watch it, but the news still came back to China, and even the news network of the imperial court reported about Jiang Yang, and for a while, people all over the world focused on Jiang Yang, but paid much less attention to Jordan.
And David Stern has always wanted to make the NBA bigger, although the current NBA has not yet gained a foothold in the United States.
However, David Scott, who has always been very strategic, still set his sights on the ancient country of the distant East.
After all, there are 1.2 billion people there, which is a super big market, and of course it is not the time to put the NBA there, and he needs to bring the ugly image of the NBA back from the eyes of the fans first.
No matter what the outside says, Jiang Yang is indeed on fire anyway, but Jiang Yang doesn't seem to know very well, and he still came to the stadium early in the morning the next day, where he wants to meet the team, and then fly to Los Angeles together.
The schedule of the Finals is like this, the first two games are on the home court of the Bulls, June 2 and June 5, and then on Friday, June 7, the third game will be played in Los Angeles, the home of the Lakers, and then the fourth and fifth games will be in Los Angeles, and the time will be Sunday, June 9 and Wednesday, June 12, respectively, which are very important.
As soon as Jiang Yang came to the door of the stadium, he found that there was already a ticket blocked at the main entrance of the stadium, and he didn't take himself too seriously, so he still followed his original route and slowly walked towards the direction of the stadium.
"Mr. Jiang, I'm sorry, we're here to protect your safety, please go this way!" Before Jiang Yang could reach the door of the stadium, three guys in black suits came out of the stab and blocked Jiang Yang.
"Uh, protect me?" Before Jiang Yang could figure out what was going on, he was carried by two men in black to the side.
Probably sensing Jiang Yang's appearance, a reporter unconsciously looked back, and just saw three bodyguards leaving with Jiang Yang, and the group of reporters exploded at once, rushing towards the place where Jiang Yang was.
Before Jiang Yang came over, he was just an ordinary otaku, where had he seen such a formation, and he was suddenly scared stupid.
Fortunately, the three men in black were professional, and the two quickly pushed the reporter away, and then the remaining one pushed Jiang Yang into the stadium, and after entering the stadium, there was naturally a security guard at the door, so Jiang Yang didn't need to bother.
"This ...... What's the situation? Jiang Yang touched his thumping heart, and looked at the group of reporters outside with some surprise, Jiang Yang felt that if he went out, he would probably be eaten by them.
"Hey, here we go!" Just when Jiang Yang was scared there, a big hand slapped Jiang Yang's shoulder, which startled Jiang Yang, and when he looked back, it was none other than the current team's second leader, Scott Pippon.
In fact, everyone is not sure whether the leather tent is the second leader now, or Grant is the second leader, the leather tent is more of a side job, and Grant, like Jordan, is mainly for offense, but in Jiang Yang's heart, the leather tent is definitely the second leader of the Bulls now, Grant? The devil knows who he is...... Anyway, there is no information about him in Jiang Yang's memory.
"It's the first time you've faced such a situation, and you'll get used to it later!" Looking at Jiang Yang's frightened appearance, the leather tent smiled at Jiang Yang, there are many good people in the Bulls, such as John Crisson, and the leather tent in front of him has a good temper.
Of course, there are also Gelu, just like Michael Jordan, the god of basketball, he is the most Gelu guy in the team, Jordan, Kobe Bryant, etc., these superstars are all paranoid, and they are all particularly self-centered, with a very bad temper, they like to find trouble with themselves at the same time, they prefer to find trouble with others, if they win, if they lose, they will abuse themselves fiercely at the same time, and then scold their teammates, some people say that this is called hating iron and steel, but in Jiang Yang's view, this is habitual, The other Grant also looks down on people, and Jiang Yang has no love for these guys.
Jiang Yang is such a person, if others treat him well, he treats others well, and if others treat him badly, then he ignores the other party.
After entering the stadium, Jiang Yang found that almost all the people came, waited for about ten minutes, and the others also came to the stadium, and the last to come in was Phil Jackson and the assistant coach, after they arrived, everyone was ready to get up, directly with their luggage, and got on the bus, and the team would send the players to the airport.
Of course, there is no so-called charter flight now, and the situation of the boss in later generations who chartered the plane and sent the players specifically did not exist.
Their current charter flights are ordinary passenger planes, if they are small, they will directly charter this flight, and if they are medium-sized, they will package a part, of course, those stadiums sponsored by the American Airlines Center will say that American Airlines is their home, and naturally there are planes.
However, with the Bull boss's picking, it is already a miracle that he is willing to charter a flight......
Jiang Yang followed the team to the airport, boarded the plane according to the check-in procedures, and prepared to go to Los Angeles.
The plane in 91 was not as comfortable as in later generations, and after getting on the plane, Jiang Yang lay on the chair and prepared to sleep.
But he wanted to sleep, but there were people who didn't want him to sleep......
"Jiang, come here!" At this time, the voice of coach Phil Jackson came from the front of the cabin, and when he heard Phil Jackson's voice, Jiang Yang sat up smartly, and now he is on someone's turf, so he has to deal with it carefully.
"Here!" After Jiang Yang unbuckled his seat belt, he came to the front of the cabin, at this time Phil Jackson was discussing the team's affairs with the assistant coaches, and after seeing Jiang Yang coming, he specifically pointed to an empty seat opposite to Jiang Yang.
After Jiang Yang sat down, he found that these old men's eyes were not quite right......
"Uh, Coach, what's the matter with me?" Looking at Phil Jackson, Jiang Yang asked him cautiously.
"Well, he is 188 cm tall, 185.5 cm barefoot, weighs 204 pounds (185 pounds), is 2.93 meters tall on the spot (the lower edge of the rebound is 2.90 meters from the ground, that is, he can just touch the rebound), his physical strength is very poor, his shooting rate is 28.9%, his three-point shooting rate is 15.4%, his layup shooting rate is 33.1%, his 100-meter speed is 17.3 seconds, and his bench press is 25 kilograms......" Listening to what Phil Jackson said, Jiang Yang's face was already unbelievably red.
Such a body, even compared with ordinary people, is a lot worse, but this is already Jiang Yang's biggest limit.
Of course, the current population is basically in a sub-healthy state, and Jiang Yang is a little fat, so the decline in data is understandable, even so, he is a middle-class master playing basketball where they live.
However, these things are a big difference compared with those students of the Sports Institute, and compared with those professional athletes, they are even worse than those professional athletes, even if they are CBA players, they are N times better than Jiang Yang's data, not to mention that now the place where he is is still the holy land of the basketball world NBA, looking at such data, Jiang Yang is helpless.
"Coach, you're going to fire me?" Jiang Yang looked at Phil Jackson and shook his head helplessly, it's just a job, as long as the Bulls can win the game, he doesn't care about leaving the Bulls now, of course not on the plane...... He wasn't so rigid that he could jump straight out of the plane.
"Of course not, the team gave you this contract, and your contract will be executed, but your health is so bad, I need to make you reborn!" Phil Jackson touched his beard (he had a beard at the time) and smiled at Jiang Yang.
After listening to Phil Jackson's words, the assistant coaches next to him also looked at Jiang Yang with a sneer.
Looking at the smiling faces of the guys in front of him, Jiang Yang suddenly felt that his back was cold, and the iron sheet of the plane seemed to be unable to wrap the cold wind outside......