"These guys are really pitiful."

2003 was an extraordinary year for basketball players all over the world, and in fact, even for NBA basketball players in the United States, this summer was a very special journey, everyone knows that as a basketball player, in addition to the NBA is their highest stage as an individual, then the Olympics is the highest collective stage they can achieve as a player, which may be like the Champions League and the World Cup of football. So the significance of the Olympics is very clear, even for the super big names in the NBA.

In fact, even a year later, in 2004, the Olympic Games started early in the summer of this year, of course, such an early start is naturally not the early start of the main competition, but all the Olympic qualifiers around the world began at this time, the Olympic Games in the Americas Qualifiers that began on August 20, the men's basketball tournament of the European Championships that started on September 1, and the men's Asian Basketball Championships that began on September 15, but in the past, for the American basketball team, It's hard for them to qualify for the Americas, and under normal circumstances they would finish in the top three at the World Championships the previous year and then qualify for the Olympics.

And just last year, the men's basketball World Championships held in the United States, the Dream Five team failed miserably at home, and finally could only get a miserable record of sixth place, in this case, they also lost the ticket to the Olympic Games, and finally had to participate in the qualifiers, and because of last year's failure, the superstars of the American NBA are also facing a lot of pressure, especially the NBA superstars who refused to participate in the World Championships last year, so in this year's American qualifiers, it should have been just a small game, But under the pressure of the media and public opinion, almost all the superstars in the NBA are quietly waiting for the call-up of Pat Riley, the head coach of the Dream Six team.

These superstars who refused to participate in the World Championships finally shot themselves in the foot and had to participate in the extremely boring American qualifiers for them, and the Celtics, one of the strongest teams in the league, the two leading players of this team, Maddie and O'Neal Jr., were also selected, and when the dream team hijacked by public opinion was assembled. Zhuang Fei could only hold the newspaper in his office and continue to sigh, and the list of 13 people published in the newspaper almost included the top group of superstars in the NBA.

In addition to the Celtics' two leading players, there are also Mourning of the Heat, Kobe Bryant and Szczebiak of the Lakers, Kidd and Duncan of the Spurs, Carter of the Grizzlies, Ray Allen of the SuperSonics, Iverson of the 76ers, Garnett and Pierce of the Timberwolves, plus this year's top pick Anthony, such a lineup is not to mention playing a small South American qualifier. Even if you go directly to the Olympics, there is no problem, except for the injured Webb and Grant Hill and O'Fat, these players almost represent the strongest group of players in the NBA, but it is obvious that it is estimated that for most of these players, they are unwilling to participate in the qualifiers, at least Zhuang Fei knows that Maddie of his team is unwilling to participate.

Not to mention that he didn't want to qualify. Even the Olympics he didn't want to. Because in the eyes of the Boston Celtics' leading player, these things are a complete waste of time, and one Olympics is enough, but at this time, under the pressure of all the public opinion in the United States, none of them dared to refuse the invitation or dare to say that they still have no interest in the national team.

In the past, when there was no crossing in China, Zhuang Fei has been hearing a rumor about the United States in China, that is, the country's values are different from China's, China likes to say patriotism, the country needs you, you have to have difficulties and unconditionally, while the United States advocates personal values, even if the country needs you. You also have the right to refuse, in the United States everyone does have the right to refuse, just like this time, but the angry youth in the United States will definitely let these people die miserably, and in fact, Zhuang Fei has also lived in the United States for more than ten years, and the values of the American masses and the Chinese masses are still very close in this regard. In fact, values like this are the same in most countries.

Of course, for Zhuang Fei, he doesn't have much interest in whether the universal values of the United States are the same as China's, just because the impact of the Olympic qualifiers that started almost the world this summer on the NBA team is absolutely huge, because of the Olympic qualifiers, it is certain that many superstar players in the NB are in state earlier than last season, after all, in the past, the NBA needed to start preparing for the NBA in October.

And this year, most of the players started in August, especially most of these big-name players are the leaders of some strong teams, plus some international players such as the Mavericks' Nowitzki and the Trail Blazer's Gasol, it can be said that in the regular season of the new season, it is estimated that all teams will not have too much buffer time, basically most teams will be in good shape at the beginning, and this kind of early state is naturally likely to affect the performance of players in the future, in this regard, Zhuang Fei needs to make preparations in advance, after all, the Boston Celtics have several such players.

It's just that even Zhuang Fei needs to prepare for the state curve of the players in the new season, but now, Zhuang Fei doesn't need to think too much, almost after handing over the team to the team's new assistant coach Tom Thibodo, Zhuang Fei left Boston, and then returned to Windsor City, and Zhuang Fei's little nephew Zhuang Lin returned to Windsor City.

It's August in the United States now, and Zhuang Lin graduated from the seventh grade two months ago, and he will start his eighth grade life next semester, and in the United States, the eighth grade is equivalent to the third grade of junior high school in China, and American education is generally graded by numbers, and there are 12 grades before college. Grades 1-5 are grades 1-5 of elementary school, while grades 6-8 are the three grades of junior high school, while grades 9-12 are from the first to the fourth year of high school, and in the United States high school is four years. Primary school is five years, and in this case, Zhuang Lin needs to prepare for further education from the next semester.

In the United States, although it is not very difficult to transfer from the 8th grade in Boston to the 9th grade in Windsor City, for Zhuang Fei, Zhuang Fei does not want Zhuang Fei to do this, originally according to Zhuang Lin, he hopes that he will go to Windsor City to study high school after graduating from junior high school, he hopes to accompany Zhuang Fei for one more year, but this will affect his integration very much. After all, in the United States, generally speaking, the number of people in a city is not large, especially in a medium-sized city like Windsor, and it can almost be said that most students in the same grade know each other, which is not the same in China. In this case. Airborne students like Zhuang Lin need to adapt to time, so almost after the draft, Zhuang Fei moved Zhuang Lin's school status to Windsor City, and also let his nephew go to the eighth grade in Windsor City, and then go directly to school locally, and Zhuang Fei also greeted his former assistant coach in advance, and now Mark Allen, the head coach of Windsor City, after all, Zhuang Lin is in Windsor City, and Zhuang Fei entrusted Mark Allen to take care of him

"Zhuang, our team should be very competitive this year."

Windsor City, North Carolina. On the campus of Wake Forest University, Zhuang Fei and Mark Allen, the current head coach of Wake Forest University, walked side by side, since Zhuang Fei left, the team has not won any championships, and similarly, after Zhuang Fei left, the current head coach of this team, Mark Allen, has always been very anxious. After all, Zhuang Fei's results have left her with too much pressure, in this case, Zhuang Fei is the first time to see his former assistant have such an expression, of course, Zhuang Fei of course knows why the head coach of Wake Forest has such an expression, because the current team has left the team's senior captain Gerard Wallace and added this year's best high school guard Chris Paul, when this team has such two excellent players, it is indeed very competitive.

It's just that Zhuang Fei was a little surprised. The former aide may not be as competitive as he imagined.

"Zhuang, you know what? This year, we have a Chinese student in the team, and the strength is very good, and the partnership with Chris Paul is so wonderful. These two newcomers will be very interesting" Mark Allen looked a little difficult to suppress his excitement in Zhuang Fei's eyes at this time, although the new semester has not yet started at this time, but Chris Paul, as a local, has basically been training with Wake Forest University in the summer since high school.

"Chinese players?" Zhuang Fei was also a little stunned, in his opinion, China does not have any excellent players at this age, let alone players who can cooperate with Paul, and now Paul's ability is already a B+ player, that is to say, a player with a ability of more than 80.

"Yes, this Chinese is very talented, although he looks dull, but very malleable, if it is not for a few years of delay in China, I think he should be even better"

Looking at the praise of his former assistant, Zhuang Fei was a little curious, and he really couldn't think of any player in China who was 84 or 85 years old who could have such potential and strength.

And when Zhuang Fei and Mark Allen pushed open the door of the Wake Forest University training hall with this doubt, they were startled by the big Chinese man who looked a little thin.

"Why is he here?" Zhuang Fei was directly stunned and didn't know what to say, because this very good Chinese young man who played with Paul in Mark Allen's mouth was none other than Yi Jianlian, or someone who was called Emperor Yi by many people in later generations.

"Why is he 18 now?" Zhuang Fei was almost stunned and subconsciously asked. And this is also a little surprising to Mark Allen on the side.

"That's right, Yi is a player on October 27, 1984, and he is not yet 19 years old this year, but he looks a little tender, but he is indeed a player of college age, and he was sent by that Director Li two months ago" Although Mark Allen didn't know why Zhuang Fei was surprised, he also made a detailed introduction.

Because of Zhuang Fei's relationship, in China, not only the NBA's popularity has been advanced, but also the NCAA league has been brought into China, unlike the previous life, in the present, the NCAA is quite hot, according to Zhuang Fei knows that there are many Chinese students in some third-rate teams in the NCAA, and as Zhuang Fei's home team, Wake Forest's popularity in China is no worse than that of the Timberwolves or the Celtics, you know, Wake Forest's current home name is named after Zhuang Fei. This is a team that gives Chinese fans a great sense of belonging.

So after hearing Mark Allen say that this is the person sent by Li Yuanwei, Zhuang Fei also nodded with some understanding, this director of the Chinese Basketball Association has not been to the NCAA in recent years, and it is probably the first time to be able to stuff a young player directly into a giant team like Wake Forest, compared with many other basketball association bureaucrats, this director Li Yuanwei is a more enlightened and more in line with Zhuang Fei's taste. So when he thought of this, Zhuang Fei also suppressed the psychological shock.

"Zhuang, do you know him?" Mark Allen saw that Zhuang Fei had been in a daze since he entered the team training hall, and then asked with some confusion.

"No, I don't know" At this time, Zhuang Fei also woke up from his contemplation.

Zhuang Fei's arrival was soon discovered by the players and fans in the training hall of Wake Forest University, although it is now during the summer vacation, but as a tradition of Wake Forest, almost all the players have returned to the team in advance, if it were not for this year's Copa America qualifiers, now Carter and Duncan or Szczebiak will also be here, but now although there is no Duncan and Carter and others, But Zhuang Fei still saw James Posey and Ragabel and Joe Johnson and Al Harrington and this year's rookies LeBron James and Josh Howard and others, and this time did not disappoint Zhuang Fei, as Duncan's apprentice and heir, at this time Paul was playing with James as Carter's successor with the two teams, and the two could fight as soon as they met together. When he saw this scene, Zhuang Fei also smiled.

"They've always been like this, I'm so annoyed" Mark Allen said with a smile when he saw Zhuang Fei's smiling appearance, but then the Wake Forest manager also continued: "However, they are indeed all geniuses, it's just a pity that they can't be in the same team at the same time"

"Yes, they are indeed all geniuses" Zhuang Fei also nodded with a smile after Mark Allen finished speaking, and at this time, his eyes did not just notice Paul and James like Mark Allen, but glanced at the audience, these are all geniuses here, they are all geniuses belonging to Wake Forest, and all of this may have been created by him. Perhaps it is also a continuation of a dynasty that will always be the creator of this dynasty.