The Lakers defeated the Pacers 104-87 to win Game 1 of the Finals.

There is a big gap in the strength shown.

Mainly O'Neal, without the restrictions of Weber + Divac and Sabonis + Pippen, O'Neal hit 21 of 31 shots and scored 43 points when he was only 1 of 6 from the free throw line.

None of the Pacers' fouls could stop O'Neal from crashing into the basket with a small hook.

Even if there are two people standing under the Pacers' basket, O'Neal can chisel in and put the ball in the frame when he receives the ball.

'OK Combo is invincible in the world', it's really here!

After the first game of the finals, Li Ao became the darling of Lakers fans again.

Lakers fans were very happy and proud to hear that Li Ao turned down tryout invitations from all teams in order to be selected by them with the 29th pick.

Only now that things are going out of control, they find that they may be losing the greatest college basketball player of the 21st century in Los Angeles......

On Li Ao's side, he watched the live broadcast of the game between the Lakers and the Pacers.

But I've been wandering when I watched it.

How did things get to this point?

At first, he and Schwartz only agreed to decline the tryout offer for a second-round pick.

Then, refuse the multi-player tryout invitation from the non-lotto team and only accept individual tryouts.

Then, they didn't even accept an invitation to try out for a non-lottery team.

Then, all of their tryout invitations were also declined by the team at the end of the lottery with the 9-13th pick......

I was worried that refusing to try out would affect the draft market, what if the Lakers didn't get the lotto?

But after discussing with Schwartz, Li Ao decided to believe the promise of the logo man.

Angel City, Los Angeles, how nice it is to play here.

10th or 13th pick, the two think that the Lakers will definitely get it back from the Magic, and they don't think so, they just think so.

But it didn't work out, the more they refused, the higher the order expectations!

Just the anticipation is not enough, those high-pick teams are becoming more and more interested in him, and the Bulls, who have the 4th and 7th picks, have also sent them tryouts, and they have done it in one step, without going through the process, and invited him to participate in the one-man tryout session after the regular tryout phase.

Today, the most outrageous thing is coming, and the Grizzlies seem to want to choose him too!

Although the Grizzlies haven't sent him an invitation to tryout, the Clippers called in the afternoon.

Schwartz thought the Clippers wanted to select Li Ao with the 18th pick, but before he could refuse, Elgin Baylor quickly said that it was a separate tryout for the Tanhua pick.

This time, it was Li Ao who refused.

At the time of refusal, he felt very disillusioned, and he was so arrogant that he refused to explore the flower lot?

If it's all Los Angeles teams, whoever goes to the Clippers would rather be a few picks lower.

In other words, he announced on the live broadcast that he signed up for the draft until now, more than a month has passed, and he only participated in a Lakers trial at the end of the first round and the beginning of the second round, and did nothing else.

Li Ao fell into deep thought, if this trend continues, will it be possible to finally go to live with a lone wolf?

And then when the Nets traded Kidd, they sent him to Phoenix to bask in the sun with the lone wolves?

Then you can't fight every three days?

He shook his head frantically.

Not so much.

Kenyon Martin is one of the few draft bigwigs to win the John Wooden Award, Naismith's All-American, and AP's All-American Player of the Year in the same year.

Not to mention this draft year, putting this year's Kenyon Martin last year and the year before last, he can also compete for the top pick.

In the last decade, Kenyon Martin couldn't compete for the top picks Duncan, Iverson, Big Dog, Webb, O'Neal, Big Mom, Coleman...... Well, it seems that there are not many who have won it.

But Kenyon Martin's individual performance, the fight for the top spot is really good.

The champion must be Kenyon Martin, and Li Ao picks him out.

If you don't understand, you don't want to, Li Ao estimates that he can't fall out of the lotto area, since that's the case, what else is there to worry about, it's much higher than his original goal.

…

After a good night's sleep, early the next morning, Schwartz drove Li Ao to Universal Studios Hollywood.

Li Ao came here, definitely not to travel, otherwise he wouldn't be with the agent.

At the end of last month, a beverage company offered him an endorsement contract of 500,000 US dollars a year.

Li Ao is very excited, is this going to be rich?

But Schwartz refused.

Schwartz said to him at the time: "We can't accept this contract, although it's only one year, but as long as we accept, your endorsement price range will be fixed, and then we will be very passive when we negotiate contracts with really big companies, don't worry, there are already several brands contacting me, but it's not time to negotiate the price." ”

Li Ao felt that Schwartz was very reasonable, and tearfully pushed away 500,000 US dollars.

He found that his agent was particularly sensitive to money.

That's a good thing, he's the one who makes the big buck anyway.

But in the end, you have to earn some extra money to subsidize the family.

So, Schwartz gave Li Ao a movie, IMG has been in the sports world for a short time, and it doesn't have as much energy as David Falcao, but it's very easy to find a job in the entertainment industry.

A cameo is paid 100,000 US dollars, and if it goes well, it can be done in one day.

Li Ao heard that he was going to betray his hue and play a playboy, and there was a bed scene and an intimate scene, so he agreed on the spot.

What's wrong with dedicating oneself to art?

And the heroine happens to be Jessica, who he has a close personal relationship with, so he doesn't have to worry about the other party being too good to talk, but he is a little worried about another actress who plays the opposite role......

When he arrived on set, director John Dugan came to pick him up with three actors.

The three actors are the female protagonist Jessica, the male protagonist Ian Gray, and Liz Kapan, one of the two actors who play opposite Li Ao.

Jessica, very familiar and knowing.

The male protagonist Ian Gray, Li Ao has an impression, I saw this face when I watched Game of Thrones 2, and now I am younger.

Liz Kapan, who will play the Shocking Demon Thieves 2 in the future, Li Ao watched this movie at Dong Chou and saw this face, and now he is much younger, estimated to be less than 20 years old, with a small face and big eyes, and he is dressed like tea, which should be the costume used for today's filming.

He was satisfied, and he didn't have to worry about not being able to get his mouth out.

The main thing is that the future black clownfish movie left him with too deep psychological shadows.

I met a total of four people, but only director Li Ao had never heard of it.

It was only before he came that Schwartz gave him information about the director, and he had only heard of the name, and he had never seen any of the films he directed.

Threesome in troubled times, dangerous good men, toying with ...... Looking at the name, it's not a serious movie.

What is outrageous is that these movies are either youth films or crime films, that is, they play side balls.

And they are all small-budget films, and the budget is so low that you have to pull investment everywhere while filming.

This time, Li Ao wants to make a cameo in a movie called Paranoid, which means paranoiac and paranoid.

After the greetings, Li Ao got his script, a very brief shooting content - playing the heroine's ex-boyfriend, a bed scene with the heroine, an intimate scene with the heroine's best friend, and the best friend is Liz Kapan.

Then there was no role for him, the male protagonist was not in the same frame as him, and he came to pick him up purely to ask for a group photo.

In addition to his script, there is also the synopsis of the whole story, Jessica plays a sexy model in her true colors, finds that he and her best friend split her legs, runs away crying, meets the male protagonist, and walks out of the shadows under the comfort of the male protagonist, and the two are together.

Who knew that the male protagonist was a married pervert who kidnapped the female protagonist and locked him up, and the last person who had always had a crush on the female protagonist saved the female protagonist and brought the male protagonist to justice.

After Li Ao finished reading the script, director John Duggan said: "Don't be nervous, your role is very simple. ”

Li Ao asked, "I don't have lines?" ”

"You just have to play on the spot, what a man with money, a heart, and a sweet mouth would say."

"Oh, it's a scumbag, how do you play this? I have no acting experience. ”

“trash man？ It's well described, how to act...... It's okay to act in your true colors, but you have to be a little more restrained, and there is a camera to shoot. ”

“……”

Li Ao: ○(╬ ̄益 ̄╬)○

His fists clenched.

What does it mean to be a little more convergent? What does it mean to act in true colors?

Several people on the side were already laughing.

The director asked Li Ao to get acquainted with the two actresses who played rival scenes, and then took the male protagonist to another set, and the male protagonist still had scenes to film.

For Li Ao's role, John Dugan really didn't care.

It was the people who were temporarily stuffed by the management, saying that they wanted to add some drama, for the sake of adding the budget, just add it, and play it casually, and it may not be cut in when the time comes.

After the director left, Jessica said to Li Ao: "Wow, you really came to film, acting in your true colors." ”

"Aren't you also acting in your true colors? Sexy model, tsk, and bed scenes, take it off? ”

"It's a crime movie! If you weren't going to participate, the director temporarily added a bed scene to you, so you didn't have a scene to take off, this time you are on it, you have to take off you...... Ahem, show you my stills, and you'll know how good I acted. ”

Jessica was annoyed for a moment and forgot that there was another actress next to her, so she quickly changed the topic, took Li Ao's hand, took out a stack of prepared stills from her bag, and slapped them on Li Ao's hand.

There were others there, and Li Ao was also a little embarrassed, he pretended not to hear anything, and looked at the stills.

The first few photos are beautiful shapes, but in the back, when they are kidnapped and locked up, the image begins to change gradually.

In the last few photos, the picture of being locked in the basement, the makeup is deliberately ugly, and it really looks like the image of being locked in a dark basement and being tortured and abused for a long time, and the helplessness and fear in the eyes can be seen through the photos.

He muttered, "The acting is pretty good." ”

"Hmph," Jessica said proudly: "You said it, I'm good-looking, have a good figure, good acting skills, and will definitely be popular." ”

Saying that, Jessica was a little angry, and mocked: "In order to let you play in your true colors, the director temporarily found a beautiful actress, you have to be a little more restrained, don't do anything unsightly on the set." ”

"Oh? That is, I have created a job opportunity for someone else? Oh, God forbid, I did another good thing. ”

“……”

Jessica and Liz Kapan, who was watching the show, were speechless.

Liz Kapan, who studied piano at Hamilton College School of Music, started filming two years ago, acting in a school comedy TV series Freak and Nerd, and then continued to study, graduating soon this year.

Originally, her dream was to be a pianist, but after filming that TV series, she fell in love with the feeling of playing someone else, and decided to change careers.

But she came to Hollywood after Christmas, and now half a year has passed, and she hasn't received any serious roles, passerby A, clerk B, deceased C, and the background D whose face can't be revealed......

Finally, two days ago, her agent told her that she had received a scene where she would show her face with lines, but it was an intimate scene.

She was so happy, the intimate scene was the intimate scene, at least she could show her face.

Yesterday, she arrived at the crew and heard that it was the NCAA new MOP who played the opposite role, and she was even happier, at least she was gnawed by a handsome guy.

Seeing me today, she is even more handsome than on TV, and she thinks that she can go a few inches further, let alone gnaw.

But now she thinks the same as Jessica - how is she not a mute?

…

Playing a scumbag, Li Ao said he wouldn't.

But it doesn't matter, acting, he recalled in his mind those scumbags in the screen image, the 'performers' he drew before began to work, and when it came to the afternoon shooting, as soon as the board was played, he immediately entered the state and got entangled with Jessica.

The lines, expressions, and body movements made up by himself make John Dugan's eyes, who originally had the mentality of taking a casual shot, shine!

The key is that Jessica has good acting skills, and she has never been right before, but she can catch what Li Ao said, and her action coordination is also in place.

The two know each other well, and when they do the action, they are fully engaged, and they look like real couples.

At the critical moment, John Dugan shouted 'click', not that the shooting was bad, but that one was over, and it was enough to get here.

John Dugan is a little regretful that he already knew how to make films made by adults.

Change the scene, change the actress, and it's time for the next shot.

Although she was ready to be gnawed, now Liz Kapan was nervous.

This little handsome guy is really handsome!

She could tell that Jessica was really getting.

What should she do?

However, unlike what she thought, after the filming started, they were shouted 'click' several times in a row, which was different from the one time just now, this time Li Ao always wanted to borrow a seat, but he had no experience, and the director was so angry that he scolded the street.

This little handsome guy can not touch her without touching her, the gentleman has to die!

That's not the case with Jessica just now!

She was angry, and when it was time to shoot again, she took the initiative to gnaw and pulled Li Ao's hand towards her.

This time it was over twice, and the first time was actually a good shot, but John Dugan saw that Li Ao was passive, adjusted the relationship between the characters, and became the heroine's best friend who took the initiative to seduce the heroine's ex-boyfriend, and the logic made sense at once.

In one afternoon, Li Ao and Liz Kapan were finished.

Jessica's side, I'm going to work overtime tonight, so I gave Li Ao half a day to shoot, and naturally I had to make up for it at night, and the shooting location was calculated by the day.

After thanking the staff, Li Ao was about to leave with Schwartz, and Liz Kapan asked him to have dinner with him.

Li Ao did not refuse, in one afternoon, after the commission, he also earned 70,000 US dollars, although he still has to pay taxes next year, but it is still okay to have a meal.

After Schwartz sent the two to the restaurant, he was very sensible and left beforehand.

Then, Li Ao and Liz Kapan ate from the restaurant to the hotel......

…

The finals are in full swing, and at this time, a lace news has entered the field of vision of basketball fans.

NCAA new MOP Li Ao, who is becoming more and more popular in the draft, refused to participate in the trial, but went to Hollywood to ask a young actor!

When Li Ao appeared at Universal Studios Hollywood, he was targeted by the paparazzi.

Who made him the hottest rookie right now?

He and Liz Kapan were eating at a restaurant, entering a hotel, and were photographed again.

As a result, he once again sparked controversy.

Can such a player play well in the NBA?

But there was a group of people who were happy — the fans in Los Angeles, the Lakers management.

Other media did not report it, but the local media in Los Angeles reported many times that Li Ao resumed training after playing three crazy games, and after ten days, he resumed training, and he had to practice for two hours every day after school, and after the final exam, he did not go to the trial, and he soaked in the Memorial Stadium almost every day.

But Lakers fans didn't explain this time, and ran to the Internet to scold and scold, trying to cool down Li Ao's excessively hot draft market.

There are also fans who are curious and curious that they have discovered one thing - Li Ao's dating partners seem to be 18 years old?

This topic has also aroused a small number of discussions.

Li Ao's side slept until almost noon before getting up.

He didn't expect Liz Kapan to look so wild, although not so experienced, but with both skill and stamina.

When he fell asleep, it was almost dawn, and his legs were numb.

It took 250 achievement points to open the Dark Aegis of the Dark God of Gunara.

But when he woke up, he saw Liz Kapan walking around the room, standing up and crouching down with her head in her hands.

"Liz, what's wrong with you? Didn't you cry out in pain before? Is this a form of treatment? ”

Liz Kapan really wanted to rush up and kick it...... can't get off her feet, that face, that figure, she just looks at it......

She looked away, suggesting that she couldn't be fooled anymore.

She complained: "I haven't been in a movie magazine yet, so I'm in a gossip magazine first, and it's all your fault!" ”

Hearing this, Li Ao probably guessed what was going on and was photographed again.

He said innocently: "Last night, you stood in front of the hotel and didn't leave, blame me?" ”

Liz Kapan blew up on the spot: "You brought me to the front of the hotel!" It's over, my dream of being an actor is shattered......"

"Uh...... Not necessarily, maybe your dream of being an actor finally has a way to go. ”

Liz Kapan is confused when suddenly her phone rings.

She answered the phone and the agent called.

Soon, she understood what Li Ao meant.

After hanging up the phone, she picked up Li Ao's mobile phone on the side and dialed her phone, and after hanging up, she left a sentence "I received a job, I will leave first, and I will make an appointment for dinner next time I am free" and left in a hurry.

Li Ao watched the other party put on his pants and left...... Scumbag!

After slandering for a while, Li Ao got up and took a shower, went to the bank, and remitted some money to his parents, not much, 100,000 soft girl coins per person...... No, it's my mother who is 200,000 yuan alone.

He's finally starting to make money!

He doesn't care much about entertainment news again, and he is not a dwarf bean who eats on his girlfriend's powder.

Time passed day by day, and Li Ao returned to the life of training, training, retraining, and occasionally playing games, and trying out.

On June 22, as the Lakers defeated the Pacers 4-2 in the finals to win the championship, O'Neal won the FMVP with an average of 38 points, 16.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.7 blocks per game to dominate the NBA, and the NBA1999-2000 season came to an end, people's attention began to shift from the finals to the upcoming draft.

(End of chapter)