At this time, on the NBC commentary bench, James Worthy excitedly said: "Good news, the first regular season game after the return of the Iron Fist King, our national ratings have now reached 45 million. ”

"Great!"

John Moore said excitedly.

New York, hearing this data, David Stern is also very excited.

Of course, he knew that this was only temporary, and that it was impossible for the superSonics to maintain such high ratings after that.

But last season's league-wide ratings just exceeded one million, and as long as the average U.S. viewership for the SuperSonics regular season can be maintained above three million, it will be a huge victory that will bring the NBA league to popularity.

"System, I'm coming back to the NBA, why don't you send a mission to celebrate?"

Seeing that the game was about to start, and there was still no movement in the system, Zhou Quan couldn't help but urge in his heart.

With this urging, the system has really moved, and two new prompts have appeared on the panel.

"Congratulations to the host for learning their way back, rewarding them with a full level of resistance to injury and illness. Claim the conditions, give up the four gold belts in the professional boxing heavyweight division. ”

He immediately opened the first one, startled, is the system crazy, I can't believe it, I actually gave away a full-level attribute for nothing?

His current ability to resist injuries and illnesses is level 95, and the full level is 99, and he will be directly promoted by four levels, which is too big a reward.

However, the latter condition is a bit aimed at him.

But it doesn't matter, because he has completed the unification battle, this achievement has been obtained, and the system does not say that he can no longer participate in professional boxing in the future, but just temporarily give up the title, and have a chance to regain it in the future.

He then turned on the second prompt: "Please ask the host to win the fifth crown, as well as MVP and FMVP, and reward the full level of foresight." ”

"The rewards are average, and I'm the top prophetic vision now."

Although I don't think the reward is powerful, but because his full-level panoramic vision is too magical, he also has some ambitions for this full-level preview vision, and I don't know if there will be any magical functions.

……

At half past eight, the game began.

Campbell and Michael Olowo Candy jump ball.

Olovo Kandi was the No. 1 pick in '98, 213 cm, great physical fitness, and the draft template was Olajuwon, which is why the Clippers chose him.

But after entering the league, his attitude was very lazy and he didn't want to polish his skills, so his quality was great, but his skills were close to zero, and the only center skills he showed were grabbing frontcourt rebounds.

As the No. 1 pick, he was only selected to the Rookie Second Team in his rookie season, and in just one season, he proved that he had what it takes to compete for the best parallel pick in history and prove that the Clippers made the wrong choice.

"Smack!"

Campbell wasn't as physical as his opponent, but he took a better start and scrambled to get the ball away.

Zhou Quan received the ball and attacked at supersonic speed.

Came to the top of the arc, paused slightly, and then suddenly changed direction, burst Murdoch from the right, and killed.

Power forward Ramal Odom quickly came up to make up for the defense, Zhou Quan turned around one person, and then broke through another person, from the direction of the right front side of the basket, to the basket.

Michael Olowokandi returned from the left side of the basket, and Zhou Quan held the ball in one hand with his right hand and jumped up against him without hesitation.

"Bang!"

With the sound of a violent explosion of the basket, Michael Olovokandi collapsed and flipped under the basket.

"Oh roar!"

The fans raised their arms and cheered excitedly.

"Buckle! The Iron Fist King is the champion of parallel imports, this is his first goal, the first goal after his comeback. Henem Chrisman's roar resounded throughout the Central Gymnasium.

McJim roared excitedly: "The Iron Fist King dunked over the Clippers' champion Xiu, and he used an unbeatable dunk to tell the whole league that he is back!" ”

This goal was a start to the night, and this game was a real debut after the comeback, Zhou Quan broke out in full force, and the attack was very efficient.

He is actually down now from before he retired, and his shooting touch has not returned, but this is the opening game, so he has reduced his outside jumper shots and focused on breakthrough scoring and fast-break scoring to improve offensive efficiency.

In 40 minutes, he shot 18-of-25 from the field, 72% of the shots, 4-of-8 three-pointers, 13-of-15 free throws, and scored 53 points, 5 rebounds, 8 assists, 5 steals, 3 blocks, 2 turnovers and 2 fouls.

His strong performance made all the fans cheer, and the atmosphere was very lively from the beginning to the end of the game.

"I can say with certainty that in two years, the athletic quality of the Iron Fist King has not declined, and his body and physical fitness are still at their peak." John Moore said after the game.

Judging from this game, there is no significant decline in his strength, and the shooting percentage is still impressive. Of course, this is also the reason why the opponent is too weak. In short, the first regular season game after the return of the Iron Fist King was very successful. James Worthy said.

"I haven't played for two years, and I hit 50+ in the first regular season, and it's already very good to be in such a state. As long as he fights for a while longer, the strength of the Iron Fist King will definitely be able to return to its peak state. John Moore said excitedly.

At this time, Zhou Quan was interviewed by NBC TV at the scene.

"Iron Fist, are you happy with your performance tonight?" The reporter asked with a smile.

"The data is okay, but the state is still a little worse." Zhou Quan shook his head and said.

"50+, many stars may not be able to play 50+ once in their lives, why do you say that?" The reporter asked incomprehensibly.

"The Clippers are weak, very weak, they have neither outside defense nor interior defense, and against an opponent like that, I didn't hold back when I broke out at full strength tonight, and if I had retired I could have played better numbers." Zhou Quan said.

"I see." The reporter was surprised.

……

"50+ in a single game, the King of Iron Fist is back!" NBC TV.

"50+ in a single game, the Iron Fist King is not satisfied with his state." Los Angeles Times.

"Tekken: I'm sorry, I was in terrible form tonight, I only scored 53 points and shot only 56.3 percent." The Seattle Times.

The next day, countless media rushed to report the news about Zhou Quan.

New York, NBA headquarters, David Stern looked at a statistic table in his hand.

Here's the ratings statistic for last night's eight openers, five of which were broadcast live across the U.S., with an average viewership of 11.75 million across those five games.

Of course, this is because the ratings of the supersonic games are too high, but excluding the supersonics, the average ratings of the other four games broadcast live in the United States also reached 2.53 million, much higher than the average rating of 1.2 million last season.

There's also an opener element to that, but he's sure the league's ratings are coming back and everything is looking up.

"Chris, release the ratings data for the opener." He smiled and said to Special Assistant Bai Kais, who was standing across from his desk.

"Yes, Mr. President."

Bai Kaisi took the statistical table, and said with a smile: "Sir, now the league's propaganda is focused on the Iron Fist King, and the propaganda of those quarterbacks?" ”

Stern knocked on the table, thought about it for a while, and said, "Let's talk about it later, their current role in the alliance doesn't even add up to one-tenth of the Iron Fist King." ”

Bai Kaisi nodded and said, "Mr. President, I have observed the headquarters during this time, including the referee committee, and I have not heard anything against the Iron Fist King. ”

"Well done." Stern nodded appreciatively,

Bai Keith smiled and said, "But there's news in Chicago, sir, it's said that Jordan may join the MLB league. ”

"He's going to play baseball? Does he have the talent of an iron fist? Crossover is not something that everyone can play. ”

Stern was stunned, muttered angrily, and said with some dissatisfaction: "Michael has made a great contribution to the league, since he wants to make a comeback, he chose MLB, what does this make the media and fans think of the NBA?" ”

"I contacted his agent, and David Falke said that Jordan wanted to be the owner of an NBA team, but didn't have the opportunity, so he chose to go to MLB." Bai Keith said.

Stern nodded and said, "You tell him that I will grant Michael's wish if I have the chance." But he has to continue to contribute to the league instead of running to MLB and distracting our fans. ”

"I'll contact Mr. David Falck right away." Bai Keith said immediately.

David Stern nodded and motioned for White Keyes to go out first.

He feels okay about this special assistant, his ability is not inferior to Adam Xiaohua, he has worked in the company for seven years, has a wide range of contacts in the alliance, has a lot of news, and has not yet had racial discrimination, so he can focus on training it in the future.

"Rogge, just do as I say, I don't have time to defend my title in the next year, so let's give up the four belts."

Seattle, Zhou Quan's home, he said to Philip.

"Really give up?" Philip said with a look of regret.

"Give up." Zhou Quan nodded without hesitation.

Three hours later, Philip held a press conference to officially announce the renunciation of heavyweight belts from the four major organizations of professional boxing on behalf of Zhou Quan.

This news shocked the sports world, and Zhou Quan made a wave of front-page headlines in the world's media.

"This news is fantastic!"

When David Stern saw the news, it was like a shot in the arm.

"Level 99, good."

Zhou Quan also received a reward for his full-level ability to resist injuries and illnesses.

He estimates that this ability does not mean that there will be no injury, but the probability of injury will be reduced, and the general toss will not be injured, and the injury will not often have the kind of big injury that affects the career.

……

On the 4th, the SuperSonics face the Mavericks at home.

At 8:15, in the players' tunnel, when the sophomore Nowitzki saw Zhou Quan, he was very excited, but due to Zhou Quan's high status, he didn't dare to go up and speak.

He is a fan of Schramf, who has completed a three-peat, is already the first person in basketball in Germany, can be called the king of basketball, and is no less popular than those football superstars, and he also wants to accomplish such great things in the NBA, and everyone knows him when he returns to Germany.

Zhou Quan patrolled the Mavericks' five starters with a review eye, although the Mavericks did not have much strength, but his habit was to study the opponent's information before the game, so he still had some understanding of this player.

Center Sean Lukes, a second-round pick in '92, doesn't have much strength.

Robert Pike, the guy he's going to play against tonight, is also his year-year pick, but he was undrafted and doesn't have much strength.

Eric Strickland, the undrafted quarterback in '96, is also blue-collar and has little strength.

Michael Finley, the No. 23 pick in the first round in '95, was 20+5+5 last season, and was a quasi-All-Star.

Nowitzki, like Schramf, is a German, the No. 9 pick in the first round in 98, the performance of his rookie season is average, 8+3, an average of 20 minutes per game, as a 213 cm power forward, the rebounds are a little less, and the shooting rate is only 40%, which is too low.

Although Nowitz looked at him with reverence, he didn't feel anything special, because this kind of gaze was too common for him, and Michael Finley next to the young German looked at him the same.

"Hello and welcome to Seattle."

He nodded briefly and said hello.

"Hello, Iron Fist!"

"Good evening, Iron Fist!"

Several Mavericks starters shouted excitedly, all of them looking like fans.

Although the Mavericks are very weak, and there are two undrafted starters, they are also a bunch of low-salary young people on their side, and there are several undrafted picks, Zhou Quan did not dare to be careless in this game, played 35 minutes, and scored 35 points, 15 assists, 6 steals and 4 blocks, and led by 24 points before leaving the game in the 4th minute of the final quarter.

In fact, his state tonight was average, with a shooting rate of only 46%, because most of his shots were outside jumpers, and after two years of retirement, he needed to use constant jump shots to get back in shape.

The outside jumper is the main way for a guard to shoot in positional battles, with less physical consumption, scoring under the basket, scoring on fast breaks, physical consumption is large, and it depends on the opportunity.

In the second regular season, the superSonics' national ratings plummeted from the first, from more than 40 million to only 27 million.

On the 6th, the SuperSonics welcomed their old Western rivals, the Jazz, at home.

At one o'clock in the afternoon of this day, Zhou Quan came to the headquarters and met Ben Wallace outside the training hall.

Ben Wallace squatted outside, and when he saw him, he jumped up, and he casually asked, "Ben, are you waiting for me?" Let's talk about something. ”

Ben Wallace took the bag in his hand and said, "Boss, which one?" ”

"Say." He urged.

Ben Wallace plucked up the courage and said, "Boss, can you talk to the coach and let me play center?" I'm a center forward, and I'm not familiar with the forward position, so I can't play well. Especially the small forward, I, I ......"

Zhou Quan looked at Ben Wallace helplessly, and after thinking about it, he said: "Ben, your height is not good, if you really play center, and you can't play any performance, you know, you may lose all your opportunities at that time, and you may also be cleared out." ”

Ben Wallace gritted his teeth and nodded, "Boss, I'm serious. ”

"Well, I'll talk to Paul. But the outcome depends on your performance. Zhou Quan nodded.

"Thank you, Boss." Ben Wallace said excitedly.

(End of chapter)