Before Su Xi arrived in China, the Chinese men's basketball team announced this shocking news: the youngest Finals MVP in NBA history, the most powerful No. 1 position in the history of Chinese basketball, will join the national men's basketball Olympic team.

Three days before the announcement, Wang Zhizhi made a sincere apology to his domestic parent club and announced that he would return to the domestic league next season. On the second day, the Chinese men's basketball team announced that it would open its door to Wang Zhizhi and was willing to accept him into the training camp.

This is, of course, a rhetoric, a step down.

After all, Wang Zhizhi left the national team that year, and the negative impact is still there, and it has not been completely eliminated.

However, this is exciting news for the fans. Before Su Xi and Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi was the most powerful genius in Chinese basketball, and Yao Ming also regarded him as an idol at the beginning. Although Wang Zhizhi is not successful in the NBA, he is not completely unsuccessful in the NBA, as long as he is willing to have a base salary, there will still be teams to invest in him.

It's just that at this juncture. Returning home becomes something even more attractive.

While still rejoicing at Dazhi's return, Su Xi's return dropped an even bigger shock bomb.

Originally, everyone thought that the Olympics were about to start, and Suxi should not join the national men's basketball team again. There were also some harsh conditions on the Internet earlier, such as the Basketball Association asking Su Xi to make some contributions to the domestic basketball industry.

This caused a lot of anger among fans.

Everyone is more on Suhi's side.

…

During the long Pacific flight, Isaiah Thomas sat next to Suhi, feeling joy and worry about his first trip to China in his life.

He didn't expect the matter to be resolved so quickly, and after seeking his consent, Su Xi explained to the Chinese Blue Association and Nike. Soon, Isaiah Thomas was given his work visa, and he will also receive $100,000 in consultant fees.

When Isaiah Thomas told James Dolan that he was going to China and was going to Athens as an advisor to the Chinese team. James Dolan did not hesitate and agreed directly and gave him the bonus back.

He said that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and he must deal with Su Xi more closely.

Su Xi is the youngest Finals MVP in history.

And he is also the man he James Dolan took a fancy to at first sight, which fully shows how accurate his basketball vision is. Every time he gets together with friends now, he says: When Suhi the Sheep was still a substitute under Carmelo Anthony, I took a fancy to him and thought he was more promising than Carmelo Anthony.

Then he would sigh and scold Raidon and Don Cheney for ruining his own affairs.

Now Isaiah Thomas is on the same page as him, and he has given Isaiah Thomas Nix the biggest management in the club's history.

Now that Isaiah Thomas is about to leave his post in the busy offseason, instead of being angry, he is fully supportive and gives Thomas double the bonus.

Thomas also felt dreamy.

It's a great paid vacation.

However, Isaiah Thomas is responsible. He's not the kind of guy who just takes money and doesn't work.

He stayed up for two big nights and watched the video materials of all the players of the Chinese national team. A lot of the time, he watched it with Suhey.

"Your lineup is not bad, you are in the No. 1 position, Yao Ming is in the No. 5 position, as well as Battle and Wang Zhizhi, and the No. 4 position is also very distinctive, and a group of very distinctive role players have been assembled."

"However, their pace is too slow. Your manager is a conservative European coach who is very rigid defensively. It's like being in a math problem, 5+5+5+5+5, one by one. Although this is easy to execute, it is easy to be beaten against a real attacking team. ”

Isaiah Thomas is experienced in talking about defense, and he is, after all, a great disciple of Chuck Daley.

He believes that defense is not an addition, and it is not a separate calculation of one area and one area.

It should be multiplication, and all players should be linked.

"You have to take into account the technical and tactical level of domestic players, and you can't demand them with NBA standards." Su Xi said for his teammates who were about to come.

Isaiah Thomas stretched and said to Suhey, "Jack, it's the first time we've worked together, so we should at least get a medal, right?" ”

"That's what I thought too." Su Xi smiled: "It's best to beat the Dream Team and get the gold medal." ”

"Of course, there's a big chance of that."

Isaiah Thomas said seriously.

The Dream Six team can be said to be ill-fated.

The Dream Team hasn't recruited enough superstars this year. When they played in the Americas Championship, they formed a strong team, Ray Allen, Bibby, Carter, Nickerson, Duncan, Iverson, Kidd, Jefferson, Malone, Kenyon Martin, Maddy, Okafor, O'Neal Jr.

This superstar team is unbeatable at the Championship of the Americas.

But with the Olympics just around the corner, 10 players from the 2003 tournament team dropped out of training camp. They use a variety of reasons, chief among them being concerns about the safety of Athens, and these NBA billionaires don't want to risk their lives. In addition, Kidd, Malone, O'Neal Jr., Martin and others have all cited injuries as a reason.

O'Neill and Garnett have already won Olympic gold medals and have long said they will not play in the Olympics again.

Surprisingly, this year's Dream Team head coach Larry Brown didn't even call his Pistons kids, with Ben Wallace and Hamilton both deciding not to play.

Clearly, they don't want to go through the rigors of Larry Brown again in the offseason.

Larry Brown was so surprised by this that he even expressed it directly in the media: "I was so surprised that in the end I could only say to the Basketball Association: 'Okay, just let the players who are willing to come.' ’”

Larry Brown later gave him a list. In this list, there are some young players and even rookies who have only played for a year.

"Give me a couple of young guys, like Wade, Stoudemire, LeBron, Carmelo and just sit there," Larry Brown said, "and I'll tell them: 'You may not play a minute, you may not play 20 minutes, but you are the future of the team.'" You have to learn the right way to do things from the other team members. ”

Larry Brown is known for not liking rookies, but now he's made that decision. This fully illustrates the crampedness of this dream team.

In the end, the Dream Six squad was decided the day before Suhi left for China: Allen Iverson and Tim Duncan led the way, and several other experienced players were Stephen Marbury, Sean Marion, Lamar Odom, and Richard Jefferson.

And then there was a bunch of young people. Among the second-graders are Carlos Boozer and Stoudemire. First-graders Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James. There is also Emeka Okafor, who has just entered the draft.

When Carlos Boozer was selected for the Dream Six team, he also made a special call to Sushi to show off: "Hey, Jack. I'm going to win an Olympic gold medal right away, and I'm not going to be too far away from you. Moreover, I have always wanted to serve my country, and I will definitely lead you in this matter. ”

Su Xi already knew at that time that Nike had negotiated with the Chinese team, and they increased the sponsorship amount to help Su Xi get rid of some unnecessary troubles and be selected for the national team.

But he didn't make it clear to Carlos Boozer, he sold a pass. He teased Carlos Boozer: "What if the Dream Six team can't win the championship? You don't have any championship genes as a team. A coalition of losers, so to speak. ”

Carlos Boozer is quite serious: "Our American team is a dimensionality reduction blow against any team, even if it is an NBA bench to form a team, it can sweep the world." What's more, we have Iverson and Duncan, and a bunch of young talents. ”

"Good! Good! Good! Come on! Come on! Suhi encouraged Carlos Boozer.

It didn't take long for Sushi to see LeBron James' confident face on TV. "I decided to bring my talent to Athens, and it was my desire to serve my country," he said. I want to help the team win the championship in Athens, the gold medal belongs to the United States, and the glory belongs to the United States! ”

When LeBron James appears on TV, he is always full of positive energy.

Wade, in contrast, is more low-key and reserved. He said it was a learning journey.

Carmelo Anthony is also confident: "The Dream Six team should surpass all the previous dream teams. We were born to make history. ”

Anthony deserves to be called the peerless double pride of the 03 generation with James.

However, with the rise of Suhi and the youngest Finals MVP in history, the peerless duo is rarely mentioned.

James has been crazy in the media these days, and he wants to regain his influence through this year's Olympics.

Use an Olympic gold medal to dilute the MVP trophy of the finals.

It's a big idea.

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At Capital International Airport, when Su Xi got off the plane, he couldn't help but be in a trance. This is the first time I have set foot on the soil after 10 years of absence.

At that time, Grandpa took him by the hand and got on the ship.

Now he walks off the plane with his grandfather's ashes in his hand.

It's like a world away.

Looking up, the scorching July sun is very harsh.

There is a sense of unreality.

"I'm back, Grandpa."

Sushi muttered softly.

Soon, a special staff member came to pick him up and Isaiah Thomas.

But when they walked out of the aisle, they didn't have time to pick up their luggage. Su Xi saw the most shocking scene in his life, about forty-five media outlets rushed up, and there were at least a thousand people shouting their names behind them.

The exit passage is black and pressed.

It was a scene Suhi had never seen before.

The swarm of reporters had already pointed their guns at him, and many of them were asking Su Xi all kinds of questions, some in Chinese, some in English.

Mess.

Suhi just felt like a mess.

Isaiah Thomas next to him was also frightened by this battle, but fortunately, the airport security quickly dispatched, and the staff who picked up the airport also opened a passage for them, and Suxi and Isaiah Thomas got out of the crowd and got into the car.

After getting on the bus, it was still blocked by people for a while, and many excited fans came to shoot the windows.

This is beyond Isaiah Thomas's imagination.

He couldn't help but say to Suhi: "Jack, I feel that your popularity in China is even more exaggerated than Michael Jackson at his peak. They look like crazy rock fans. ”

Sushi was also surprised.

It wasn't until he got back to the hotel that he turned on the TV.

The picture of him being picked up on the CCTV sports channel, changed the channel, and it is still this.

Suhi turned on the computer, and it was full of reports about herself.

Although Huang Xiaoman has already predicted to him that he has super popularity in China. However, when he saw the overwhelming coverage on the TV station, there was a frenzied discussion on the Internet.

He was already very sure: I was expected to be so high that I was even considered a 'national hero'.

He clicked on a sports forum.

The most popular post is "Su Xi joins the national team, how far is the Chinese men's basketball team from the Olympic gold medal?" 》

"Suhi, the youngest Finals MVP in NBA history. Under the age of 20, he is already the hottest star in the NBA, he led the Pacers to win the first championship in team history, his strength is SSSSS-level, the Chinese team is now officially announced that he has joined, plus the previous Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and the talented teenager Yi Jianlian... Why shouldn't we win the title? ”

This is the statement of the landlord.

When Su Xi saw it, she was stunned.

He had optimistic predictions, but it was too difficult to win.

It's not something that can be achieved overnight, it's as strong as the Pacers, and it took years of running-in to win the championship, so that Sushi led a bad team and couldn't even make the playoffs.

"It's too difficult to win a gold medal, but I don't think it's a big problem to win a medal. Such a lineup, plus my grandmother, can make it to the semifinals. ”

"Suhi's return to China at this time fully proves that he is a true patriot. However, we can't overdo it, his achievements in the NBA are one thing, but when it comes to the FIBA system, he also needs to adapt. It is more practical to target the medals. ”

"Sushi is the gold medal, he is so handsome! It is worthy of growing up eating steak milk, and I love him to death. ”

"I have to admit that Su Xi is the most concerned among the Olympic athletes, he is like a big hero with a halo, if he leads the Chinese men's basketball team to win the gold medal this time, his reputation will explode directly! Fault leading! ”

"No one will watch the Athens Olympics, just the men's basketball team and Suhi."

"Doesn't Su Xi consider developing two female stars in China? You can't favor one over the other, the Pacific Ocean is big enough to accommodate the free competition of female stars from the two countries! ”

"Whether Suhi wins the gold medal or not does not affect his status. He is the first person in domestic sports and the most well-known celebrity in China. However, if he wins the gold medal, he will have a higher place in history......"

“……”

Su Xi looked at these messages, and he felt his brain buzzing.

That's a big challenge.

Suhi looked at a few other websites, and most of them were.

Almost all sports forums are talking about Suhi.

The heat exploded.

After a while, Su Xi received a call from Huang Xiaoman, who told him that the matter of returning to his hometown had been arranged. In addition, CCTV hopes to conduct an exclusive interview with him in the evening.

Suxi readily agreed.

"They offered to interview Isaiah Thomas at the same time, and you talk to him to see if he would like to?"

Huang Xiaoman said again.

"Okay, I'll ask."

(End of chapter)