175 Phoenix
When he won the heavy trophy of the All-Star Game again, a sense of accomplishment soon surrounded Zhang Chen, and the cheers of the audience for him crashed into his mind one by one, and several players who had just lost also rushed up to hug Zhang Chen, and at this time they were only left with the purest blessings.
"Thank you......" Zhang Chen muttered as he lifted the trophy, which symbolized supreme glory, and held it high.
Zhang Chen's All-Star Game is not in vain, and he has won two trophies so far.
The cheers of the audience lingered in their ears for a long time, and the celebration lasted for a long, long time.
The long celebration ceremony finally ended, Zhang Chen walked down from the basketball court, came to the players' bench and took out his mobile phone, the fluorescent screen on it flickered slightly, indicating that he had an unread short message.
Look at the name, it turned out to be Avril's, Zhang Chen opened the text message to check, as if he saw Avril's beautiful face: "Congratulations...... This is the second trophy...... Once again, I've seen you win the championship! ”
Seeing this, Zhang Chen was stunned, then quickly turned his head and looked around towards the audience.
Zhang Chen felt that there must be an existence of Avril in a position, and when his eyes reached there, he saw Avril in black clothes, among the crowd, the beautiful and generous Avril was very conspicuous, she obviously also saw Zhang Chen's sweeping gaze, and she was a little surprised. However, she still beckoned and said hello to Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen was happy in his heart, and waved his hand in response, but the audience next to Avril felt flattered and waved happily at Zhang Chen, and there was a more radical fan who yelled at Zhang Chen I love you.
Zhang Chen hurriedly turned around, then came to the locker room to change into his original clothes, and then returned to the court to continue watching the next finale slam dunk contest. This year's slam dunk contest was more exciting, with a lot of participants, including Green, Guy and some others, and most importantly, there was a living treasure Howard among them. This guy is more entertaining, and the last superman style just came out and killed everything in seconds, becoming the most entertaining place in the slam dunk contest.
In the end, in the finals, he used a free throw line to jump and dunk and finally left Jeff Green behind and won the championship of this slam dunk contest.
The three-point shooting contest and the dunk contest were quite surprising, and the players showed their skills one after another, and the skill challenge was also quite good.
Tonight's game came to an end quickly, and Zhang Chen naturally returned to his hotel to live, so all this naturally did not need to be described in a big way.
Zhang Chen slept lightly, but his performance hit people's vision wave after wave, and many newspapers and magazines published their opinions on Zhang Chen.
Phoenix Fan Newspaper: The Rookie Challenge is a game that cheers people up, and in this game, some people are desperate, some people are regretful, and some people are helpless. I have to say that the most dazzling person in this game is their MVP - Zhang Chen, his performance is refreshing to the world, this is a great game, Zhang Chen alone has broken many records in the rookie challenge, his high score of 41 points is the peak of his career, this player is gradually on the right track under our watch. If I had to vote for the most surprising rookie of the year, I would definitely vote for Zhang Chen, who is jaw-dropping people with his performances.
New York Star Weekly - Beyond Expectations: Zhang Chen. If we want to talk about the NBA All-Star Weekend before the All-Star Game begins, then we must not ignore a pretty good guy, he is Zhang Chen. It's a very surprising player who always does something that makes people sigh. It's hard to predict what amazing things he's going to do next, he's always unpredictable.
I think a lot of people will remember a discussion we had about Zhang Chen at the beginning of the All-Star break, and at that time, I remember I also said that he was able to create some surprising achievements that we didn't expect...... In fact, he has done it, in the Rookie Challenge, he proved himself with 42 points and 4 assists, and in the three-point shooting competition, he used a perfect score to show the world that he can be the best one.
For a non-draft player, what he has done has already exceeded our expectations, and his every goal, every shot, can make us find the charm of basketball.
Perhaps, with the efforts of Chen, the year 07 will be a brilliant year for rookies. We don't have much to blame for him as a player, because everything he has done has exceeded our expectations.
The praise for Zhang Chen rolled in, and for a while, after this day, Zhang Chen's popularity in the United States greatly increased.
-- The next day, the all-star weekend meal finally came out.
For the first time, Zhang Chen was able to look at the NBA court without everything, and now he was able to completely stay out of the situation and point fingers at the players' performance, and he sat with Avril Avril. Next to it, the beauty is like jade, and on the court, the sword is like a rainbow.
"Bang!" Paul directly assisted Xiao Si in the half to come up with a difficult aerial relay slam dunk, and the two men frantically bumped their chests to celebrate. Zhang Chen smiled slightly: "This is really a good slam dunk, Chris can always create some incredible passes." ”
"Yes, Chris is a very good player...... He's also very handsome......" As soon as Avril finished saying this, Zhang Chen turned his head to look at her.
Avril then said very harshly, "Are you jealous? ”
Zhang Chen also replied fiercely: "You're right, I'm just jealous......" After saying this, the initiator Avril was a little embarrassed, lowered her head and looked at her thighs, and said, "You guy...... You were the one who said Paul was good...... I said he wouldn't be good......"
Zhang Chen scratched his head and said, "This...... Actually, I was just kidding, Chris is actually a terrible guy, he always likes to chatter. ”
Avril laughed, but she didn't know how to reply to Zhang Chen, although this guy is only maintaining an ambiguous relationship with himself now, but he has begun to be a little cautious.
The game continued, Zhang Chen lowered his head from time to time and discussed something with Avril, after all, Avril was going to leave after this game, and Zhang Chen felt that he had a lot to say to her.
It's just that it didn't take long for a game to end after all, and in the end, the Eastern Stars defeated their opponents, and the little emperor James won the MVP of this All-Star Game.
After the game, Avril left in a hurry, and before parting, Zhang Chen kept sending her to the airport, and then Avril walked on the plane with a few of her bodyguards. Watching the plane leave New Orleans, and in the end there was only a silhouette left, Zhang Chen was a little indescribable for a while, and felt that many things were a little boring.
Just then, the phone in the bag rang. Zhang Chen looked at the caller ID and turned out to be Yao Ming, he was a little surprised for a while, took the phone and asked, "Boss Yao, what's the matter?" ”
Yao Ming's voice on the phone was mixed with some resentment: "Zhang Chen, where did you run away, we have been looking for you everywhere." ”
"Looking for me?" Zhang Chen wondered: "What are you looking for me?" ”
"You forgot? As I told you a few days ago, about the Chinese Night, come back quickly, you're alone here! ”
Zhang Chen slapped his forehead suddenly, only then did he suddenly remember what Yao Ming had said to him a few days ago, and hurriedly apologized and said that he would rush back, and at the same time he also stopped a taxi on the side of the road and returned to the venue at a gallop.
This is a buffet dinner called China Night, which is quite luxurious, when Zhang Chen arrived, Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian had already met and started to communicate with all streams of society, and when they saw Zhang Chen walk in, Yao Ming hurriedly trotted over, and then pulled him to the middle position.
"Zhang Chen is here!" Many reporters exchanged heads, and after a while, a flash of light sounded in the audience, and many reporters were filming the legend of the rookie challenge and the three-point competition.
One by one, the Chinese reporters frantically brought the cameras over, and the Chinese language came to Zhang Chen one after another. Zhang Chen hadn't heard so much noisy Chinese for a long time, so he hurriedly asked the press officer to help sort out everyone's emotions and let them come one by one.
In addition to Zhang Chen, Yi Jianlian, and Yao Ming, there are also international movie stars Li Lianlian and Cheng Long, who are quite weighty people who appeared together, which soon attracted more attention.
Zhang Chen is relatively easy to speak, as long as the reporters' questions are not tricky, he will generally try his best to answer, and the reporters slowly recovered from their restlessness and began to ask Zhang Chen in an orderly manner.
For this compatriot, many Chinese reporters feel quite good, his performance has now made many Americans know him, his performance in the rookie challenge has amazed many people, in the three-point contest all hit the king, but also increased a lot of fans who worship him, now it can be said that his influence has been a bit like the meaning of Zhongtian, his limelight in the country is able to compete with James.
"Zhang Chen, your influence is really too great......" Zhang Chen had just finished dealing with the questions of the Chinese reporters, and the questions of the foreign reporters soon followed, which made Yi Jianlian, who had not been in the United States for a long time and still had some difficulty in English, feel very envious. Yi Jianlian scored a total of 8 points and 2 rebounds in the Rookie Challenge, which is not too bad but definitely not a good statistic, especially when his shooting percentage is not good.
Therefore, naturally, everyone paid more attention to Zhang Chen, as for Yao Ming, firstly, there was enough news about him over the years. Now, although his influence in the domestic basketball world is still well-deserved No.1, there are also some people who have aesthetic fatigue with him, and Zhang Chen is a rising rookie, his appearance is easy to give people a good impression, and his height is closer to ordinary people than Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, plus he shoots with one hand, so he naturally attracts a lot of attention.
In the middle of this buffet dinner, many Yao Ming's friends came to cheer, Yao Ming's popularity in the NBA was already very good, this gentle and gentle big man was easier to gain the favor of others.
The stars who came were Kobe, Paul, Anthony, and Zhang Chen's teammate Nash also came and came to greet Yao Ming.
Then came the buffet dinner, where people from many places began to sit in their seats, which was ultimately an NBA event to curry favor with the Chinese market, and on the other hand, to provide an opportunity for outsiders to get close to the players.
Zhang Chen has been thinking about Avril leaving here, but he has no time to care about it for a while, and after greeting everyone for a long time, it is almost time to disperse, and he will return to New Orleans tomorrow.
When it was time to finish, Yao Ming came to Zhang Chendi with a wine glass, and when Zhang Chen saw that it was him, he held his wine glass and touched him from afar.
Yao Ming took a sip of wine and said, "Zhang Chen, how did you think about what I told you a few days ago?" ”
Zhang Chen knew what he was talking about, so he said: "Boss Yao, I can't reply to you about this matter for the time being, the reason is still the one from a few days ago, I need more time to think about this matter, and I can't agree hastily." Because every decision I make has a lot going into it. ”
Yao Ming clinked glasses at him, then drank the wine in one gulp, and said helplessly: "You kid is not ordinary slippery...... But in any case, it's better to make a decision as soon as possible in this matter, and many things are running out of time...... Your performance in the past few days has made many domestic fans quite agree with you, and I hope you can consider it carefully. ”
Zhang Chen snorted, and then went over to drink with Yi Jianlian.
The time to leave also came quickly, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and Zhang Chen came to the door, and finally hugged each other, Yao Ming said with a smile: "Contact more in the future, we should be able to meet often on the court." ”
"Well, more contact!" Yi Jianlian said.
"You're probably going to be slaughtered by me when you see you on the court, haha!" After Zhang Chen said this, he finally patted Yao Mingdi on the shoulder and left. He has talked a lot with Yao Ming in the past few days, Yao Ming is like a generous brother, he speaks softly and elegantly, but it is easy to arouse people's favor.
Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian looked at each other and smiled, and then the two of them also left.
-- Taking the plane, Zhang Chen and the others had already embarked on the way to leave.
It's been a few days since I've been in New Or, and when I come back to Phoenix, I feel a lot more at home, after all, it's the city I've lived in for several years.
I went back to my room, turned on my computer and browsed the web, and then opened my itinerary.
After the All-Star break, all parties are ready to move, and basically the most tragic battle since the beginning of the season will begin. For the next month or two until the playoffs begin, all the teams in the East and West will start to work hard and take every opponent very seriously.
This new month, those who are not in the top eight of the East and West will try to attack the playoff spots, and the teams that are in the top eight will not be able to let the opponents behind them catch up, and the higher ones will have to compete for home-court advantage in the playoffs.
As a result, the competition will undoubtedly be extremely fierce in the coming time, and the Suns will have a thorny road ahead of them.
In this month's schedule, they will also meet the Hornets once, and then the Mavericks, and the East will once again meet the old enemy Heat team from Zhang Chenjie. The Suns are now in first place in the league's Western Conference standings, followed by the Hornets and the Lakers in third place.
The Suns only need a few more wins to fully lock up their playoff qualification.
However, Zhang Chen, who had just returned to Phoenix, immediately remembered what tomorrow would be.
Their match was supposed to take place the day after tomorrow, and tomorrow he has some free time, and this free time means a lot to him. That is, from tomorrow, he will embark on the journey of Bensan.
On February 20, Zhang Chen turned 20 years old, and the nineteen-year-old said that he went by himself, and in the evening, he cooked a bowl of noodles for himself, and then that day passed.
This year is probably the same...... Zhang Chen smiled bitterly in his heart, there should be no one who can remember his life.
On the morning of February 20th, Zhang Chen got up very early as usual, he just got up, and suddenly remembered that he would be twenty years old after today, and suddenly got out of the category of more than ten years old, Zhang Chen couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart.
"I'll live by myself...... It's still going to be beautiful......" Zhang Chen said to himself, not knowing whether it was to comfort himself or what.
Zhang Chen tried his best to be happy, he hummed a song, asked D'Antoni to take a leave, and he was busy preparing a hearty breakfast in the kitchen, but at this time, he suddenly remembered that his mobile phone seemed to have fallen to the ground in the middle of the night yesterday, after all, it was the middle of the night, and he didn't remember it until now.
Running to the bedside table, he picked up his phone, only to find that there were several unread text messages on it.
The first few were sent by the brothers who fought together in the country, and their words were not very serious:
"Zhang Chen, you will be a twenty-year-old man from tomorrow...... Let's run towards the age of thirty...... Life is said to be happy. ”
"Happy life...... Zhang Chen, at the age of thirty, he will wave to you again. ”
"Twenty years old...... Has the hair grown together? ”
A total of five text messages were sent by friends in China, once they also fought side by side together, once they were comrades-in-arms who cheered and cried together, seeing these friends still remember themselves like this, Zhang Chen suddenly felt a little excited.
However, after reading these five text messages, there are other unread text messages...... Zhang Chen is a little strange, almost all the people who can text are here...... Who else?
However, when he saw the name of the text message, he suddenly felt a warmth in his heart, and the name on it was Avril.
"Chen, life is happy...... I want to be happy every day in the future. ”
Zhang Chen felt very warm in his heart and accepted this blessing, that kind of warm feeling, as if you suddenly came to heaven, surrounded by warm smells, you can stretch your body and mind at will, and at the same time, the breeze blowing in the air can always make your heart smile brightly.
However, when he came back to his senses, he saw that there were still two text messages, the first one turned out to be Nina's, with a grimace emoji on it, and her text message said: "Chen, I wish you a happy life...... From now on, we will start a new life, we have all said...... We need to forget all the troubles of the past...... - Nina? Dubov. ”
A strange feeling suddenly reached his heart, and his mind remembered that on New Year's Day, Nina was writing crooked in front of him, and the corners of her lips were flying. Suddenly, my heart was full of warmth.
(To be continued)