Chapter 309: The First Day of All-Star Weekend
This All-Star is indeed a little more boring than the previous ones, and there is no way, the players of the local team are not good.
Looking at the current players of the Rockets, how many have been with the Rockets for more than two years? Martin is the biggest veteran of the Rockets, Murray sent all the players who needed to sign big contracts, and planned to rebuild the team, but in the end he signed Jeremy Lin for the market.
There are no veteran players, and the Rockets' players don't feel like hosts in this All-Star, and no one takes the initiative to entertain this group of foreign players like Wang Meng, because the Rockets players don't know much about Houston.
This reason led to a very interesting thing, the next day, on the 16th, Yao Ming was invited out by Martin and Jeremy Lin to act as the pseudo-host of Houston.
This kind of thing is very embarrassing, but on Yao Ming's side, it is quite passable, Yao Ming's career is very loyal, he has always stayed in the rocket, and has never left, even in the end, Yao Ming chose to retire in the rocket. Now although Yao Ming plays for the Spurs, everyone knows and respects the idea of a veteran fighting for a championship ring, no one thinks that Yao Ming is a traitor to the Rockets, and in fact Yao Ming is not a traitor to the Rockets.
As a veteran who has been in the Rockets for 9 years, Yao Ming certainly knows Houston very well, and Yao Ming himself is also a very cheerful person, 16 When the league led the NBA players to volunteer, Yao Ming reflected this very well, after the stars worked, he took the initiative to recruit the stars to go to his family's Chinese restaurant in Houston to eat Chinese food, and explained to them some cultural customs about China. The most talked-about is, of course, the Spring Festival that is going on in China.
"Wang Meng! You Chinese are really troublesome to eat, how to use these chopsticks, I feel that this is more difficult than my college studies. Roy grabbed a chopstick with one hand and complained to Wang Meng.
"This one is for one hand, like this." As a veteran in his 30s, Gasol is obviously more experienced than Oden, at least he knows how to use chopsticks correctly.
"Hold it with two fingers, how can you hold the vegetables?" Roy was extremely depressed, "It seems that I am still used to using knives and forks. ”
Of course, Yao Ming knew the embarrassment of this group of NBA players, after all, there were too few NBA players who were proficient in Chinese culture and could use chopsticks, so Yao Ming had already specially ordered that when the meal was served, he also served spoons to this group of players.
"It's been a long time since I've eaten such authentic Chinese food." Regardless of whether others like to eat it or not, Wang Meng is greedy, in New Orleans, roasted wings are a large piece, but there is very little Chinese food, and Wang Meng has never eaten authentic Chinese food. Wang Meng always has a habit of running out to find a Chinese restaurant when playing away from home, and among the 30 teams in the league, Wang Meng's favorite is the Warriors, because the Chinese restaurants in Chinatown there taste the most authentic, and not everyone likes the non-nutritious fast food of American burgers and cola.
The food at Yao Ming's restaurant in Houston is also quite good, and the last time Jeremy Lin invited him to dinner was here.
It took a long time for the players to get their own food.
At this time, Yao Ming waved his hand, and a plate of dumplings was served. Wang Meng's eyes suddenly turned red. "I'm rubbing! There are dumplings you don't have in the morning! Fly when I'm full before I serve it?
In fact, on the 9th, Stern also specially organized the process of making dumplings live on the video screen of some teams' stars, wanting to shorten the distance with the Chinese audience and open the Chinese market, but unfortunately, this kind of video screen only played less than 10 seconds of footage on the serious court station, and it did not have much effect. And. Can these stars eat dumplings?
"Huh? Is it like this with dumplings? How do I remember that when cooked, it was slice by piece? Howard looked at the rows of dumplings like ears and said strangely.
Wang Meng couldn't help but roll his eyes. "Holy! Are you boiling dumplings, or are you not pinching them at all, and the water is boiling as soon as you soak them? Besides, you haven't eaten dumplings, haven't you ever seen dumplings run? Do you need to be so surprised? ”
didn't even bother to pay attention to Howard, Wang Meng directly picked up the chopsticks, picked one up at a fast speed and put it into his mouth.
"Wow." Wang Meng's movements immediately caused a burst of amazement among the players around him.
"The clip is beautiful!" Bryant said with a smile on his face.
"Quick! Vicious! Permit! Wang Meng's speed with chopsticks was even more threatening than his breakthrough. James said seriously.
"No, I'm going to try it too! I rub! Dropped the ground! Westbrook howled.
"It's definitely a very beautiful pinch, if it's put in the NBA, this time it will definitely be able to score the best five balls of the season!" O'Neill stuffed a mouthful of dumplings and said vaguely.
"I'll rub!" Wang Meng and the others were taken aback, and they realized that O'Neill had already sat on the chair without knowing when he was facing a plate of dumplings. "When did you come?"
How big is O'Neill? None of the people in the room found out.
"I'm doing a show, the name of the show is "Shaq's Voyeur Record", but halfway through the filming, I found that you people actually ate it, how can I be missing such a good thing?" Shaq didn't raise his head, stuffed a mouthful of dumplings and said vaguely.
"Wait!" Howard suddenly noticed that something was wrong, and he pointed to the chopsticks that Shaq was holding in his right hand, "You still use this?" And so fast? ”
As soon as Howard said this, everyone realized that O'Neill's skill in using chopsticks seemed to be no less than Wang Meng's, otherwise how could he stuff a mouthful of dumplings so quickly?
"This?" Shaq looked at the chopsticks in his right hand suspiciously, and then said nonchalantly: "I see that you all take it like this, so I also take it like this, as for the dumplings, can't you just grab them with your hands?" With that, he grabbed a dumpling again and quickly stuffed himself into the end.
"That's right." Everyone suddenly realized, and then they were immediately stunned, and they all looked at the dumplings on the table, and their faces were not good.
A few seconds later, Wang Meng looked at this group of NBA superstars with a black line and pounced on the table without any image, like a bunch of turtles grabbing dumplings with their hands and stuffing them into their mouths.
"I'm rubbing! No way. Wang Meng looked at the chopsticks in his hand, then looked at the group of people, and decisively threw away the chopsticks. You wait! Leave me one! ”
(To be continued)