"The Olympics? Oh, my God...... Tatsu, I have to say you're such a crazy guy - are you so sure you're going to have a show at the Olympics that raises the ratings of those damn misers? Duffy asked Zhang Chen a little angrily, which made Zhang Chen touch his nose on the other end of the phone and said, "Yes...... It sounds a bit incredible, but that's exactly what I thought...... So, what I'm trying to say these days is that we have to hold our heads...... They'll find out what I'm worth! ”

Duffy was a little entangled, he found that he seemed to have met a rather difficult guy, so he said with some annoyance: "Aren't you afraid that those bosses will lose patience?" You know, if a person has a little money in their hands, they are more like finding a place to play...... Even if you can't buy what you like for the time being...... Well, I'm talking about the current state of the Knicks...... There are quite a few guys who covet their money. ”

Zhang Chen thought for a while and said, "I understand your concerns...... But I still want to say that we have to be quiet, we have to be patient...... I'm sure they'll give me a reasonable price after the Olympics! ”

Hearing Zhang Chen say this, Duffy had no choice but to sigh helplessly: "Okay, God bless you that what you said can really come true." ”

Zhang Chen smiled, and then Duffy suddenly said, "Oh...... Chen, I almost forgot one thing, and that is that Pepsi and Coca-Cola have recently made offers to you, and they want you to agree to their request to participate in their propaganda when you return home. ”

"I see...... It's up to you to deal with this matter, and I have no opinion on participating in propaganda activities in China. ”

"That's good...... In fact, I would like to say that you are going to face a busy period after you return to China, because I have helped you to undertake the requirements of 8 merchants in China, and at the same time you are in intensive negotiations with 5 merchants...... Moreover, the movie "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic" in your country also sent you a cameo invitation, and they specifically stated that they would take care of your time, and I helped you accept it. ”

"You kill me...... Zhang Chen roared loudly, and then suddenly thought of a question, he had also heard of that movie...... But there doesn't seem to be any highland-looking people in it...... "Oh...... That's right. Duffy didn't decide to let Zhang Chen go, and continued: "There are some other theatrical programs that invite you to participate...... For example, Blue Sky TV invited you to participate in an interview before the Olympics and wanted to hear your attitude towards the Olympics...... At the same time, your Celestial Empire Sports Station also wants to get some of your training videos, and they will make you a promotional video......"

Zhang Chen's head was so big when he heard it that he didn't feel that the whole world was clean until he hung up Duffy's phone.

A few days ago, Yao Ming also asked Zhang Chen to sing "Yanjing Welcomes You" with those acting stars, Yao Ming said with some regret in his deep and deep voice: "This is a good opportunity." ”

Zhang Chen said: "I don't sing very well...... he finally rejected Yao Ming for this reason, but he also understood the significance of this Olympic Games to Chinese. In mid-July, he will return to China and take part in a series of events, the highest of all of which will be his Olympic torchbearer, who will be in charge of the relay for the first time in front of the Chinese media for the first time as a sports star.

The end of June was soon carried out, on the day of June 29th, the NBA began the draft, the Bulls took Rose into the command with the first pick in the first round, and some Tigers were also divided by major teams, the Suns did not do much, and the Knicks selected Gallinari, and they also sent signing invitations to Duffy and Zhang Chen many times, but Duffy also had to obey Zhang Chen's orders, so they were very stubborn about this matter.

In this way, the Knicks' hearts are a little up-and-down, and they don't know what Zhang Chen means: Is he dragging this negotiation ongoing, on the one hand, he is dissatisfied with the Suns' offer, and on the other hand, he wants to stay in the Suns, so he has been slow to express his position and eye-to-eye with the Knicks to put pressure on the Suns? The Knicks were very nervous after deducing this result, and at the same time felt that Zhang Chen was not authentic and wanted to take advantage of them.

Seeing this, Duffy had to reveal a little bit of Zhang Chen's information, and the Knicks quieted down again, and the Suns couldn't figure out what Zhang Chen wanted to do, but their idea of getting Zhang Chen was far less important than that of the Knicks, and they really couldn't come up with the money, so the matter was put on hold.

The 08-09 season has not yet begun, but the arms race has been actively launched during this time, and of course, most of everyone's eyes are still on this year's American team.

This year's Dream Team is undoubtedly quite eye-catching - Kobe, James, Wade, Anthony, Paul...... Who is not a famous figure on the rivers and lakes? There are even people who believe that this year's U.S. team is the strongest ever, and Kobe Bryant and James, No. 23 and No. 24 have also become the focus of attention.

The world is slowly focusing on that ancient country and that ancient city, and the Olympics are in full swing under this circumstances.

At the beginning of July 2008, Zhang Chen officially jumped out of the rookie guaranteed contract with the Suns, and now he has truly become a free agent, everyone is looking forward to Zhang Chen's choice, but Zhang Chen seems to have begun to dedicate himself to the performance of the entertainment industry this time - he seems to be filming a soap opera, not joining any team, and his tone is also very dead, which makes the majority of fans gnash their teeth, after all, a player who averaged 55% three-point shooting per game last season, no matter which team he reached, it is a huge piece of news, After all, the biggest suspense during this period of time is Zhang Chen, and there are no other big-name players.

This soap opera was also copied for a while, but later Zhang Chen couldn't bear it anymore and expressed his opinion in front of the media: "I just want to play well in the Olympics now...... I don't think about anything else until then. ”

This sentence made everyone grit their teeth, but there was nothing they could do about Zhang Chen, so they could only look forward to the end of this soap opera as soon as possible. It's just that Zhang Chen didn't expect that after he said this point of view, everyone had more expectations for his choice, and at the last press conference, some attentive fans found that Zhang Chen's upper body was much stronger, and his originally thin body has now become stronger.

This made everyone think more about him, and after a player made this opinion, Zhang Chen quickly became a cup, because he accidentally became one of the most popular fantasy objects in the United States.

These were trifles, and on the day of July 15, he walked out of the training gym.

He rented a relatively complete trainer in his own original college arena, and he and his trainer Brewer trained here for more than ten days.

Zhang Chen used to be a guy who could occasionally shoot a few balls in their eyes, and his role was quite limited, but then no one thought of what happened in the middle, Zhang Chen suddenly became the best rookie in the NBA in the 2007-2008 season, which surprised everyone but couldn't figure it out.

Although they couldn't figure it out, it became their pride after all - see, this season's NBA Rookie of the Year is a guy who can't even play on our team's bench. It's just a pity that someone really treats this matter as a real thing, so Zhang Chen ridiculously ushered in everyone's challenge.

There is a guy who has a heads-up with Zhang Chen, a white man who is more racist, and he has always been dismissive of Zhang Chen, and he feels that Zhang Chen's role in the NBA is completely a matter of luck.

In the face of this self-defeating player, Zhang Chen played seven balls with him, and the first ball was interfered with by Zhang Chen, and then it became his nightmare - how to shoot outside Zhang Chen's three-point line, he had no choice but to sarcastically Zhang Chen could only jump shots, so Zhang Chen, who was 2.03 meters, played a gorgeous butterfly step in front of him at 1.96 meters, and he fell to the ground more than once.

"Oh my God...... I bet he had a magnet on his hand...... Why else is he so good on the ball? You know, he's a two-meter-and-three-meter guy! The man said this after the game, which made everyone scoff and at the same time revisited Zhang Chen's ball control, and then found that Zhang Chen's ball control was really quite good - it seemed to be better than Iverson.

Since that time, no one dares to underestimate Zhang Chen, the NBA's best rookie is far from what they can compete with, so there are many players who used to disdain Zhang Chen and now come to Zhang Chen to ask Zhang Chen for basketball understanding, Zhang Chen did not hide his secrets, and told them some of the playing styles that suited them in the NBA, which made them feel that they also benefited a lot.

After leaving the university, Zhang Chen felt that he should not have much chance to come back to his alma mater in the future - this city will also leave him in the future...... Shaking his head, Zhang Chen didn't want to think about those sad things by himself, returned to his residence, collected his things, and stepped onto the plane to China.

Outside the porthole, looking at the floating white clouds below, it was no longer the same mentality as the last time he returned to China, the two black-clothed bodyguards next to him sat there meticulously, dutifully watching every move that might occur around him, Zhang Chen felt that he had just come to Shanghai after a sleep.

Carrying his sunglasses and stepping off the plane, Zhang Chen immediately shouted that it was not good, because he found that there was a two-meter-twenty-six guy waiting for him with a smile on his face, and the most important thing was that there were already armed policemen standing next to him, who were maintaining order on the scene - there were already many drinking fans around him, and they were all shouting Zhang Chen's name frantically.

"Zhang Chen! Zhang Chen! ”

"Go home!" A fan is holding a huge poster in his hand, Zhang Chen is shooting, and in front of the poster, these two big characters are written, since the incident in Shuchuan, Zhang Chen's trend in China has not stopped, Zhang Chen currently has some vague direction of the first person in Chinese basketball, or Yao Ming's recovery training has made Zhang Chen's attention drop a little.

Although he had a bitter face at the moment he saw the fans, Zhang Chen quickly changed to a smiling face, and he couldn't chill their hearts.

"Do you remember me?" In the crowd, suddenly a guy said loudly to Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen was a little overwhelmed, but when he heard this, he knew the direction in his heart, walked over there, and said, "Hello, Fan Xingchen......"

The person in front of him was indeed Fan Xingchen, his face was full of honest and honest words, and Zhang Chen recognized him at a glance.

Fan Xingchen was flattered, and at the same time attracted the envy and jealousy of the surrounding fans, and Zhang Chen also walked in front of the fans at this time, said hello to them, and met some of their autograph and other requirements.

Half an hour later, he finally finished dealing with this, and then came to Yao Ming and said, "I'm sorry...... There are so many fans, hehe. ”

Yao Ming smiled: "I envy you a little...... I'm standing right here, and I don't have a lot of fans asking me for autographs. ”

"I'm also your fan...... Sign me for it. Zhang Chen said.

"Forget it, I can't afford it." Yao Ming laughed, and then naturally hugged Zhang Chen's shoulders, and the bodyguards of the two followed behind them, while a pair of eyes were still looking at the surrounding crowd.

"I'm finally back on this land!" Zhang Chen said with some emotion: "It feels good to still be the motherland...... Here you will feel that you are really standing on the earth, and the ground feels like you are connected to your blood. ”

A few reporters next to him quickly recorded this sentence, and Yao Ming said: "Yes, no matter what happens abroad, it is the best to return here...... You will understand that you are still the same person, the yellow-skinned and black-eyed person. ”

The two of them laughed and walked forward, he didn't have a hot butt in Shanghai, and soon ushered in his first event here - he was going to attend a promotional meeting in the dynamic zone, which was also the first thing he would face when he returned to China.

Today's propaganda meeting is still quite noisy, they are going to combine this publicity meeting with the holding of the Olympic Games, and find an opportunity to combine it, so although the sports stars they invited are mainly Zhang Chen, they also invited some other sports stars, and at the same time, some film and television stars came to help.

That night, under the protection of bodyguards, Zhang Chen wore a set of casual clothes and a Pepsi baseball cap to the sports center, which was already brightly lit, crowded with people, and all kinds of slogans spread all over the crowd.

On the backstage, Zhang Chen and the stars who are going to participate in the promotion tonight have a brief acquaintance, the most important of which is the football star who has been quite popular in recent years - Du Yang, someone once said that Du Yang held up football for a while, and Zhang Chen is half of the Chinese basketball, and when I saw each other today, I felt that the other party's handsomeness was beyond imagination.

Du Yang and Zhang Chen are both sports stars, and the topic is naturally more, but Zhou Jielian, who came later tonight, soon came to Zhang Chen's side to discuss basketball with him, although the two only met on the first day, they still said that the stars were flying, Zhang Chen could see Zhou Jielian's love for basketball, and also knew that he also made a movie called "Slam Dunk", the two of them were so excited that they played heads-up in the background, and Zhou Jieluan was abused by Zhang Chen to death.

"Oops......" A voice mixed with anger sounded next to him, it turned out that the basketball that Zhou Jie accidentally played just now smashed on the body of a girl, who was also a star who just came here today to participate in the publicity meeting, and was immediately frightened.

Zhou Jie glanced in that direction, smiled and said, "Yang Mi, why did you come?" ”

It turns out that she is the little Dongyi who was widely praised in Liu Yifei's version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and it does seem to have such an elf and pure taste, to say that her appearance is not a national beauty, but the combination of her nose and eyes has an indescribable charm and temperament.

"Yes...... Just arrived, but was quickly hit by your ball...... You two can really toss around, play basketball here......"

Zhou Jie smiled and didn't pay too much attention to it, he knew that Yang Mi was so arrogant, and Zhang Chen had just seen all the other stars, and now he saw a beautiful girl he didn't know, so he said, "Who is this?" ”

"My sister's name is Yang Mi...... Hehe, you're Zhang Chen, right...... It's cute. ”

Zhang Chen felt that his eyes were dark...... He is so tall that he is said to be cute, but he is really not used to it...... Although Avril said the same thing about him, Avril was not in the same situation as this after all. Also, this guy actually calls himself a sister? Zhang Chen walked over and measured Yang Mi's head, which was 1.70 meters, well, just near his neck, he said, "You should be cute......

Everyone knew what Zhang Chen meant, but Yang Mi smiled: "Thank you for the compliment, my sister accepted it." After speaking, he walked to the dressing room and ignored Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen felt that this girl was a little weird but quite interesting.

So he and Jay Chou inquired about Yang Mi, and Jay Chou said: "It's really not a joke that she calls herself a sister in front of you...... She's eighty-six, you're eighty-eight, right? The two-year-old gap is there. ”

Zhang Chen was a little depressed: "It's all from the 80s, how can there be so many differences." ”

Du Yang next to him immediately became vigilant: "Hey, Zhang Chen, you don't want to deny the age gap between us, right?" But this girl is pretty and you can consider it. ”

Zhang Chen glanced at him with disdain: "Who has a bunch of harems in Hollywood like you?" ”

Du Yang immediately coughed, he didn't want to reveal his pervert surname in front of several other female stars.

There was a little episode at the beginning of this publicity meeting, and it was even more fleshed out when it was officially carried out.

Zhang Chen's appearance is relatively late, but just before Yang Mi, Yang Mi is more beautiful after putting on makeup, this year she is more beautiful and simple than three years later, looking at Zhang Chen and said: "Actually, my dad likes to watch you play, sign my sister after the end...... Don't run away all of a sudden. ”

Zhang Chen said with a bitter face: "Can you stop calling yourself so much...... This one...... It sounds weird to me. ”

Yang Mi still just smiled: "I don't care about you, I'll just call it smooth......"

Zhang Chen touched his nose.

(To be continued)