At ten o'clock in the morning of the 2nd, Zhou Quan and Zhou Jun attended the opening ceremony of the first branch of the exquisite coffee shop.

Without inviting anyone else, his current influence is enough, and there are dozens of media present, and there is a long queue of customers waiting to enter the store.

At noon, after lunch, I took a half-hour nap, and then went to the headquarters and attended a press conference at half past one.

There were a lot of media outlets, the huge press hall was packed, the reporters, videographers and assistants, more than 300 people, and the front rows were all full of long guns and short guns.

"Iron Fist, how did you sleep last night?" The first to ask was a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, who asked a quirky question.

"Why do you ask this?" Zhou Quan asked suspiciously.

Many fellow reporters were also very puzzled, and their eyes looked at the reporter to see what he had to say.

The reporter laughed: "Because you said twice during the finals last year that you slept well and had no dreams, and those two times you played very well. ”

Zhou Quan couldn't help laughing, and the other reporters also had an expression that was so suddenly realized.

"I slept ...... last night"

When Zhou Quan said this, he smiled and said, "This is a secret, and I can't tell you now." ”

"Shh

The scene actually sounded boos from reporters.

The moderator clicked the second reporter's card, a reporter from the New York Times.

The reporter took the microphone and asked, "Iron Fist King, what I want to know is that there is currently news that your first forced title defense opponent will be Holyfield, is this news true?" ”

Zhou Quan said with a smile: "Sir, the reason why my boxing team and I didn't announce the news of the title defense is that we don't want to affect the NBA Finals, so you can ask me this question after the Finals." ”

The reporter reluctantly changed the question and asked, "Okay, Iron Fist, at the moment the media is more optimistic about the supersound, do you have anything to say about this?" ”

Zhou Quan said with a smile: "This time the media have become more professional, haha......"

After saying that, he laughed, and the media reporters also laughed.

……

June 2, 1996, Seattle Center Coliseum.

Since the evening, inside and outside the museum, it has been crowded, and even the entire downtown has been overcrowded, countless people have rushed from the entire Seattle metropolitan area to the city center, and every parking lot has been full.

"Overall Champion! Overall Winner ......"

"Iron Fist! Tekken ......"

Outside the central gymnasium, bursts of earth-shattering shouts erupted from time to time.

"Now Zhou Quan's nickname has become the Iron Fist King, as if he has been crowned, there is one more king."

"It's good that we won the World Champion Title Defense this time."

"I think there is a chance, I heard that Holyfield's weight is not a few kilograms larger than Zhou Quan's, and Zhou Quan's ability to resist and strike power will not suffer too much."

"This time, we should broadcast the title defense live in the station, right?"

"Zhou Quan's influence is so great, it must be broadcast, what our country lacks now is influence. Otherwise, there is still a shortage of foreign exchange in China, why can NBA games be broadcast twice a week? The state has specially allocated foreign exchange to Taili. ”

Zhang Lili's group of people crowded into the crowd, looking for interview targets while discussing some topics related to Zhou Quan.

At half-past six, the gymnasium opened, and a sea of people began to pour into the gymnasium, filling the central gymnasium with a capacity of 15,000 people at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Or 2,000 away fans, 13,000 home fans, this is the home and away conditions negotiated between the SuperSonics and the Bulls.

On the seats of each home fan, there is a grand finale gift bag, which includes a special finals jersey, of which there are 100 jerseys with the signature of the stars, and Zhou Quan's signed jersey has 10 pieces.

"Oh, I got Schramf's signed jersey."

"Haha, I got my signed jersey from Hawkins."

"God, why did I get it Rodman's? I want the Tekken signature jersey. ”

"Oh God, God, he gave me a signed Tekken jersey? Ha ha! ”

"Oh, that guy is so lucky!"

"Hey, bro, can you sell it to me? I gave $1500. ”

"Want to buy a signed Finals jersey for Tekken for $1,500? I gave out $5000. ”

"I'll give you $20,000, give it to me, and I'll sign you a check right away."

"Haha, I also got the signed jersey of the Iron Fist King!"

"God, why didn't I get anything?"

As the fans entered, cheers from fans rang out from time to time.

On the sidelines, most of the first and second rows are celebrities, stars, and stars, as well as some rich people and politicians, as well as some unknown men and women, who are rich people when they look dressed.

Stallone picked up the gift bag on his seat, opened it with some anticipation, pulled out his jersey and shook it to see if it had been signed.

Unfortunately, there was nothing, he shook his head regretfully and put the jersey on his body.

"Oh?"

Roberts couldn't believe that she actually got a signed jersey with Iron Fist?

"Julia, will you give it to me? We are best friends. ”

"Julia, please, give it to me, I'll give you ten shows for your next movie."

Stallone and a group of others ran over and shouted.

"You want to be beautiful."

Afraid of being snatched away, Roberts put the jersey directly on his body.

Zeng Li, who was next to him, didn't quite understand, he had such a good relationship with Zhou Quan, why didn't he ask him for an autographed jersey?

She ignored it a little, they didn't have it, but this was a finals jersey, what they wanted was luck, and no friend would specifically ask Zhou Quan for a jersey like this.

Iverson sat in the third row of the East Stands, along with Kobe Bryant and Marbury, and their entry also attracted some media attention.

"I want the Tekken signature jersey." Iverson said.

"Me too." Bryant Road.

"I found it for me, I traded it for a pair of MJ's first-generation sneakers, new ones that I didn't wear." Marbury yelled.

"You're beautiful." Kobe Bryant didn't get angry.

The first thing they do when they get to their seats is to flip through the packets.

It's a pity that no one has such good luck, after all, there are more than 13,000 people, and there are only 100 lucky winners, and only 10 of them can get Zhou Quan's signed jersey.

The wives of the two teams have already entered the field, and the most active is the introverted Zeng Li, even Jordan's wife is far inferior to her.

She greeted some of Zhou Quan's friends from time to time on the sidelines, and after almost a year of study, her English listening and speaking skills are now good, there are no communication barriers, and there are still problems with reading and writing.

She knows and even knows these people, Hollywood stars, some big businessmen and tycoons in Seattle, members of yacht clubs, Zhou Quan often takes her to some social occasions, and many business activities will bring her, and she is now fully integrated into Zhou Quan's social circle.

"Zeng, how did Iron Fist sleep last night?" Roberts asked curiously.

Zeng Li's face was confused, his vigilance was raised, and he said in his heart, why do you care about this?

At this time, Stallone and Arnold and a group of celebrities also looked at her curiously, and seemed to be very concerned about this issue, which made her very puzzled.

"Zeng, didn't Iron Fist sleep well last night?" Bill Wharton asked, a little nervous.

"Zeng, tell us quickly, how is he sleeping?" Reggie Miller also asked.

Zeng Li said helplessly: "I didn't ask him, it seems to be okay, right?" ”

"Alas!"

Everyone sighed in unison.

The wives of the players on both teams looked at Zeng with jealousy, even Jordan's wife, Juanita.

They are just simple housewives, with children at home, no job, no career of their own, and their men will never go out to play alone, and will not take them with them.

And Iron Fist and his girlfriend are not married yet, so they often take her to various events, and even opened their own coffee shop for her, and it is said that they have opened a branch today, and they will definitely get bigger and bigger in the future.

The media seats at both ends of the bottom line, seven or eight layers on top of each other, densely packed with long guns and short cannons, more than 200 media outlets are crowded together, and the seats at both ends are dismantled in three rows to accommodate them.

At eight o'clock, the starting lists of the two teams were announced, and the substitutes also began to warm up.

Bulls: Kevin Willis, Tony Kukoc, Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, Ron Harper

Hypersonics: Matt Geiger, Rodman, Schramf, Jose Hawkins, Zhou Quan

On the TNT commentary bench, the live broadcast time was also up, and Magic Johnson said after getting the list: "Coach George Carr sent Matt Geiger to strengthen the defense against Kevin Willis.

But in this way, the supersonic low-post offense will be affected to a certain extent, and Geiger's offensive ability is still not as good as Gilliam's. ”

Larry Bird said with a grin: "Almost, anyway, Kevin Willis is not as good as before now, and his strength is not stronger than Geiger." ”

Magic Johnson shook his head helplessly and said: "Coach Phil Jackson miscalculated the impact of Kevin Willis' injury, if he goes to trade the Lakers' Elden Campbell, or Verratti Divac, it will be much better than Kevin Willis, and the trade about Willis is debatable." ”

"Divac and Campbell are really good centre-forwards, better than Willis, and there is no injury factor. And the Lakers should be able to trade one out, just keep one, as long as the chips are good. Larry Bird nodded.

Magic Johnson said with some concern: "Willis didn't play the performance that the Bulls expected, and now this Bulls team is not better than last year, and the SuperSonics are actually stronger than last year, even winning 70 regular season games."

"So the media is more bullish on hypersound."

When Larry Bird said this, he suddenly smiled and said, "I'm curious, I don't know how Iron Fist slept last night?" ”

Magic Johnson was stunned and said to himself, I hope that guy will have nightmares last night.

At this time, the players in the tunnel, the two teams meet at the starters.

"Flyer, meet again."

"Iron Fist, it's not necessarily you who wins this time."

"Then we'll see you on the field and fight it out."

Zhou Quan and Jordan said a few words, and the visitors started to play.

"Shh

A huge boo sounded, it was about the championship, and the home team fans did not have any politeness, their faces were flushed, and they were still booing vigorously.

The Bulls have been tested by the finals for a long time, and they are not scared at all, and they walk into the court with their heads held high.

"Oh roar!"

Then the home team came on, cheers instead of boos.

"Oh roar!"

Zhou Quan finale, cheers rushed to the top, like an erupting volcano.

The host of the scene ran over and handed the microphone to Zhou Quan, who was customary to say a few words as a representative of the players.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we're at the Grand Final again, it's an exciting series and we're going to start hitting our goals, we're going to ...... Defending! ”

"Defend your title! Defending! Defending ......"

With Zhou Quan's last loud shout, a huge and uniform shout rang out in the Seattle Center Gymnasium, which shook the earth, and then spread to the entire Seattle metropolitan area, with millions of people shouting the same goal.

"Defend your title!"

On the CCTV commentary seat, Zhang Lili and Xu Jicheng also shouted loudly.

……

During the warm-up, Zhou Quan and Rodman walked to the halfway line and said hello to John Sely.

Sailly was traded to the Bulls by the Raptors this season, but because of injuries, he was the one who played the least time for the Bulls.

"Spider, what are your plans for the future?" Rodman asked with a grin.

"I still have a year left on my contract, the Raptors pay the bill, but the Bulls don't want me anymore, and the Raptors don't want me, but I think I can still play, and I want to go to Europe and play for a few years." John Sely said with a smile.

"Good idea, the confrontation over there is not as good as the NBA, you can try it." Zhou Quan praised.

At half past eight, the game officially began.

Jump ball, supersonic offense.

Zhou Quan took a look at Kevin Willis's jump ball, and he couldn't jump anymore, indicating that the knee injury had not recovered, and the previous state was gone.

He took the ball and Ron Harper got in front of him.

Directly on the hand, the left hand on his waist, the main defense of his dominant hand right hand, and then directly on the body confrontation, pushing him to the left wing.

On the left wing, Pippen kept up with Schramf and remained in a defensive position to cut off his and Schramf's passes.

Schramf simply ran to the top of the arc and ceded the left wing to him.

He immediately pulled to the left flank, turned around, and began to hit the 84kg Ron Harper on his back.

"Haha, Iron Fist King, crush him!"

Henem Chrisman, the on-site commentator, shouted excitedly.

Ron Harper pushed it up and was directly crushed back, his knee was seriously injured, and his weight was 8 kilograms smaller, so he couldn't stand it at all, and immediately defended and retreated.

Zhou Quan sped up the grinding speed, and then suddenly turned around, burst the opponent, and hit the left waist position in two steps, facing Kevin Willis's supplementary defense is a pull-up jump shot.

"Brush!"

The water splashed and hit the shot.

“Yes！ The Iron Fist King threw the first shot, and there was no defender in his eyes at all. ”

In the cheers of the audience, the rousing roar of Henem Chrisman immediately rang out.

"It's very easy, whether it's hitting Ron Harper or a pull-up jumper, Iron Fist is a very easy ball, without a bit of reluctance, and Ron Harper's defense looks very little limited to him." Larry Bird analyzed.

"It's just the first goal, it depends on the next state." Magic Johnson said.

(End of chapter)