Chapter 52: Caesar's Hotel in Atlantic City
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Coupled with the fact that the Miss America pageant is underway, Atlantic City's beaches are probably full of young girls dressed in three-point fashion. So when Bill Duncan learned that Wang Lei was going to Atlantic City to box, he immediately asked for leave from school and came with him.
It is said that Bill lost to Wang Lei at the beginning, to see if he got the NBA championship ring first or Wang Lei got the boxing championship belt first, and if he lost, he had to agree to any condition of the other party. Originally, Bill was very confident that he would win the bet, but now he has no confidence at all.
Wang Lei mixes extremely well in the professional boxing world, and it will take two more fights at most to have a chance to win the boxing belt. And he, he didn't even participate in the NBA draft, and he was still in the high school basketball league!
While Beal is certain for a top-three pick in next summer's NBA Draft, it's impossible to join the Los Angeles Lakers of his dreams. The Los Angeles Lakers' record is very good, "Magic" Elvin Johnson has just won the regular season and Finals MVP, and has a chance to defend the title again, there is no top-three draft pick, not even a top-10 draft, and it is impossible to select him.
The top three picks most likely to pick next summer are the Los Angeles Clippers, Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers, all three of whom Bill doesn't want to go to, and it is estimated that he will not get a championship ring for ten years.
Beal began to consider the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls, which Wang predicted would be able to win the NBA championship for the next five years.
The Detroit Pistons are unlikely, this team has always been a playoff powerhouse, not to mention the top 10 draft picks, there is no shortage of power forwards like him, "Villain" Ranbier and the rebounding monster "Big Bug" Rodman are currently on the Pistons, and there is also a guy named Rick Mohorn who is also a master of rebounding. Beal went to the Pistons and was estimated to not be able to play, so he could only be a player guarding the water cooler.
This is unbearable for Bill!
Instead, Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls have a chance, provided the Chicago Bulls are willing to trade him for a top-three draft pick.
It's as if this summer, the Chicago Bulls paid a center and a second-round pick the following year to get Scottie Pippen in exchange for him.
Pippen plays small forward and is fifth with the draft pick, while Beal is the interior power forward and is predicted to be in the top three. If the Chicago Bulls want to get him, they have to pay a bigger price, and the Bulls may not be willing to change.
Bill, who realized that he was going to lose the bet nine times out of ten, had a hard time stalking Wang Lei for a long time, and finally forced Wang Lei to agree to change the bet contract and bet on whether he would get the NBA championship ring first or Wang Lei would get the heavyweight boxing belt first.
After changing the bet, Bill was satisfied, thinking that he had won this time, and was already thinking about what to let Wang Lei do after winning.
Wang Lei smiled secretly in his heart: Although it is not easy for him to upgrade from welterweight to heavyweight to win the boxing championship belt, it is definitely not without a chance. Even if you slow down the pace of upgrading, you will have the opportunity to do it within five years. But with no hope of joining the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls, Beal is unlikely to win the NBA Finals in five years.
Many NBA superstars have never been able to get a championship ring in their lifetimes, such as Charles Barkley and Karl Malone. Both men are power forwards like Beal, have won MVP and rebounding titles, and have even been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame and selected as one of the top 50 superstars, but they never won a championship ring until they retired.
What's more, after Michael Jordan led the Bulls to win the first three-consecutive championship and retired to baseball, it was the Houston Rockets led by "Big Dream" Olajuwon who won the two consecutive championships in the finals.
That said, unless Beal can join the Detroit Live, Chicago Bulls or Houston Rockets after the draft next year, he may not be able to get an NBA championship ring for ten years.
No matter from that point of view, this bet on Wang Lei has won.
Of course, Bill is the only friend after all, and Wang Lei can't bear to see him like Charles Barkley and Carl Malone without a ring until he retires.
Maybe it's time for me to flap my butterfly wings and change Bill's fate.
For example, let Beal join the Spurs and partner with "Admiral" David Robinson after the end of his rookie contract, or simply join the Rockets to partner with "Big Dream" Olajuwon, maybe there is a chance to throw Jordan's Bulls dynasty behind.
Wang Lei has watched a few of Bill's games recently, and found that although Bill's shooting skills are still not good, he is becoming more and more adept at passing and assisting, and his rebounding and blocking skills are still strong. Wang Lei thinks that after Beal joins the NBA, as long as there is no accident, he may be able to become a triple-double king, and may even win a quadruple-double.
With such a powerful partnership of Robinson and Olajuwon, it is not impossible to overturn the Chicago Bulls led by Jordan and get a championship ring.
Provided, of course, that Bill is willing to listen to him!
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Arriving in Atlantic City, Wang Lei, Sadler and others were taken directly to the Caesars Hotel and Casino, the venue of the game, by the pick-up crew arranged by Arum.
The Caesars Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City is no worse than the Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, and it has been the largest and most luxurious hotel in Atlantic City until the opening of the "Taj Mahal" casino in the Indian architectural style in the 90s, with a lobby of 100 meters long and 80 meters wide, and both casinos can accommodate tens of thousands of gamblers, and thousands of gamblers from all over the world linger in the casino almost every day.
The Caesars Hotel & Casino's boxing venue is no worse than the Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, which can accommodate more than 15,000 spectators to watch the match.
Because Wang Lei is a boxer who came to the casino to compete, the organizer of the casino not only arranged a presidential suite for Wang Lei and others, but also ate and lived for free.
Bill was naturally very happy to be able to live in the presidential suite. But not long after staying in the room, Bill reverted to his old ways, took out a few dollars and went to the casino below to exchange chips to play, and pulled Cruise and Chekov away.
If it weren't for the fact that Wang Lei's grandfather and coach Sadler didn't allow Wang Lei to gamble, Bill might have pulled Wang Lei into the water.
Wang Lei also wanted to go down and gamble, but seeing Sadler following him like a fart and a serious face, he had to give up this idea.
After putting away his luggage and taking a shower in the bathroom, Wang Lei went to bed so that his physical condition could return to his peak.
When I slept until five o'clock, I was woken up by Sadler to eat some free meals made by the hotel, and after eating, the phone in the hotel room rang, but it was the Zhou Yuqiang sisters who called, saying that they had come to Atlantic City.
Wang Lei hurriedly went down with Nissen to greet him.
The Zhou sisters came to Atlantic City by car, driving for hours from Boston to Atlantic City, and the sisters were still refreshed and tired. Zhou Yuwei was very happy to see Wang Lei, and after moving the luggage she brought into the hotel room where Wang Lei lived, she asked Wang Lei to take them out shopping.
Because Zhou Yuwei is Wang Lei's fiancée, Sadler is not easy to object, but he vaguely reminded Wang Lei not to indulge, don't forget that there will be a game the night after tomorrow.
Wang Lei understood what Sadler meant, and rolled his eyes involuntarily.
Is my brother so hungry?
What's more, the relationship between my brother and his fiancée is still very pure, and I haven't even held hands!
Zhou Yuqiang didn't know whether she really wanted to go shopping or deliberately made a light bulb because she was not at ease with Wang Lei, and she had no intention of letting Wang Lei and Zhou Yuwei be alone, and she followed them inch by inch.
Coupled with the "bodyguard" Neeson who followed them in the dark, Wang Lei couldn't develop a relationship with Zhou Yuwei, so he had to honestly accompany the sisters to go shopping, and when he was tired of shopping, he went to the café to chat with the sisters and talk to them about the script.
Zhou Yuwei didn't know if she was addicted to being a director after directing a movie, and she didn't have the slightest idea of falling in love with Wang Lei to enhance her relationship, and the topic never left the movie script from beginning to end.
Listening to what she meant, she obviously wanted Wang Lei to write another movie script for her to direct, preferably a low-cost and easy-to-shoot script like "The Night the Comet Comed", and preferably a high box office.
(It's still two chapters in a row today, and there's one more chapter below!) )