Chapter 279: The First All-Star Game of the New Century! Old fox Stern also has times of forgetfulness!
In addition to the Spurs' two shocking trades, the other trade is between the Los Angeles Lakers and their current number one rival in the West, the Trail Blazers.
O'Neal Jr.'s trade request was heard by the management, but for such a guy who has been on the cold bench for 4 years, they didn't pay too much attention to it, and just casually spread the news in the league that they wanted to trade O'Neal Jr., and they didn't follow up much.
And O'Neal Jr.'s trade market is obviously not very good, half of the managers in the league don't know that the Trail Blazers have such a person, and the remaining half, even if they know him, are not very prepared to make an offer to take him.
Again, a young inside line at the end of the bench is not worth haggling back and forth, and O'Neal Jr. is most suitable for now, or being put into the deal as an add-on to the deal to make up the numbers.
But not all the managers in the league are illiterate!
Take Jerry West of the Lakers, for example!
When this old fox visited Kobe Bryant four years ago, he also observed the talented newcomers of that class.
Except for super newcomers such as Iverson, Marbury, Raheem, etc., who knew that they would definitely succeed as long as they were not blind, West's eyes were more on those high school students and non-lottery players.
He has a deep memory of O'Neill Jr. since 96, of course, that is, he was impressed at the time, and now that time has passed, West's memory is not so good!
Even if it weren't for the coincidence that the Trail Blazers were going to trade O'Neal Jr., he would have forgotten about this guy.
After all, his impression of O'Neal Jr. 4 years ago was only that he had good talent and strong defensive ability, far from the point where he felt that this guy had any shocking top talent.
But now, this kid has been sitting on the cold bench in Portland for three years, and his mentality must have been honed almost, and at this time he is at the low point of the price.
After thinking about it, West called the Trail Blazers.
He actually thinks the same thing as Popovich.
Bottom-copying!
This kind of good opportunity to buy the bottom, he will definitely not miss it, especially that little O'Neill belongs to the type of type with a very low price, playing out to make money, and it doesn't matter if you can't play it, it is almost zero cost!
So, after chatting with the Trail Blazers a few back and forth, West got O'Neal Jr. from the Trail Blazers at the cost of two second-round picks!
Compared with the two transactions of the Spurs, almost no one paid attention to West's shot, and everyone felt that this was West's insurance for the team, in case the team's current starting power forward AC Green was injured, so that someone could make up for the team's No. 4 position.
Well......
Of course, if you know AC Green, you will also know that this insurance is the same as not.
The number one iron man in NBA history, he only missed 3 games in the second year of his entire career, and has 13 seasons left, full attendance!
Absolute number one iron man in the NBA!
Buying him insurance for fear of him getting hurt is the same as buying insurance for the Pacific Ocean and fearing that the Pacific Ocean will dry up.
It's not impossible, but it's almost certainly a waste of money!
In addition to these three trades, another big deal came from the Chicago Bulls, Golden State Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers, with the three teams coming up with a three-way deal around draft picks, Larry Hughes and Tony Kukoc.
The 76ers finally couldn't bear the situation that the team didn't have a second reliable scoring point besides Iverson, and they used Larry Hughes as the main body to exchange for the European king from the Chicago Bulls, Tony Kukoc!
The Warriors sent out a draft pick and got Hughes, a talented young forward.
As for the Bulls, they cleared up salary space and got a future draft pick!
After this trade, the 76ers paired Iverson with an all-round forward, and Kukoc can contribute 18 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists this season! His firepower and all-round ability will definitely bring enough help to Iverson!
On the Bulls' side, after getting the top pick Brand and the potential 'beast' Artest, the team's rebuild has officially been on track! Kukoc, a 'former courtier' and an old gangster, is naturally the first thing the team has to clean.
He's not old enough to rebuild with the youngsters and send him to a playoff-caliber team, even if it's a bit human for the Bulls.
As for the Warriors, they have also found a potential outside player for themselves in the rebuilding for many years, and they are looking forward to Hughes and Jamison to bring the team to glory together!
Except for these few transactions that may affect the league structure, the rest of the transactions are some minor repairs that are not worth mentioning, and as for the Pacers, they are of course sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai and are not in a hurry at all.
Their record is the first in the league, and the personnel reserves in each position are very sufficient, they don't need to rush at all, just look at the market situation!
According to Bird, unless there are any serious injuries or uncontrollable accidents, the Pacers' lineup will most likely not move this year! He is very happy with the team's performance so far!
What's more, there are still more than two months before the trade deadline, and the reason why this year's arms race is advanced is also because of these two transactions by the Spurs.
Presumably, the Spurs also chose to trade in advance in order to give the lineup enough time to run in, so that the team has more than half a season to run in, adapt, and then go all out to prepare for the playoffs!
In January, the Pacers finally came out of the terrible situation at the end of December, and their momentum was once again irresistible!
Throughout the month of January, the Pacers won 15 games, and they won them all!
The whole team was in great shape all month, no one dropped the chain, and even Miller, who was in very bad form at the beginning of the season, regained a little bit of his peak feeling this month!
Over the course of the month, the Pacers outscored their opponents by 17.1 points, the highest in the league! A third of the team's games have gone into garbage time, and the main players have not been able to get playing time in the fourth quarter of these games!
With the reduction of playing time, the average data of the main players has naturally declined.
Lin Tian played only 36.1 minutes per game this month, averaging 22.8 points, 11.2 assists, 5.1 rebounds and 3.1 steals per game!
Chris Webber's playing time dropped to 34.4 minutes, and his average data dropped to 19.4 points, 9.9 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game!
Other data such as Carter, Big Ben, Christie, Miller and others have also declined more or less due to the reduction in playing time.
The playing time and stats of the main players have decreased, and the stats of the substitute players have naturally improved!
Among them, the best player is Rashad Lewis, a sophomore who has played like a top high school student this season after a year of adaptation, he averaged 8.9 points and 3.1 rebounds per game in January, and his 3-point shooting rate was as high as 49%!
There is already a trend to replace Mullin as the Pacers' No. 2 3-point shooter on the bench!
And relying on the momentum of the team's full victory and 36 minutes of playing time, although Lin Tian's data did not explode last month, and at the same time, it was not as good as O'Neal, who hit 30+14+3 again this month, but Lin Tian still won the league's Player of the Month for the second consecutive month!
With the current situation that the league only selects the best player of the month every month, Lin Tian, who has won two consecutive awards, has already held two-thirds of the MVP trophy in his arms!
As January came to a close, the league announced an extremely important event for the season.
NBA All-Star Voting Results for the Season, Announced!
After more than two months of fan voting, five players from each of the East and West became the All-Star starters of the season!
The fans who have endured a year without voting have voted crazy this year, unleashing their enthusiasm to the fullest, and successfully raising the total number of All-Star votes this season to a higher level again!
This year's total number of All-Star votes and the number of All-Star votes have all been raised by a notch compared to two years ago!
Well, of course, the main contributors to the votes are Lin Tian and Huaxia fans!
This year, Lin Tian became the ticket king for the second consecutive All-Star Game without any suspense!
And since getting a record-breaking 4 million votes in 98, this season's Lin Tian has achieved another brilliant success, and he has received a total of 5.6 million All-Star votes! This number, Stern is grinning at the corners of his mouth!
Good! All right! Although there is no money for all-star voting, Stern is happy to see that Lin Tian alone has received more than 5.6 million votes!
That's the best proof that the NBA is getting global attention!
Moreover, because the all-star votes have always been one vote, Lin Tian can get 5.6 million votes, and the number of votes of others will naturally follow, and the tide will rise!
The votes of all players in the entire NBA have ushered in a huge increase this year!
For example, with more than 2 million votes, there are 7 people in the whole alliance!
If it was placed in the year before Lin Tian participated in the all-star voting, 2 million could definitely easily become the all-star vote king, but this year, 2 million votes has almost become the lower limit of all-star starters.
Lower than this? That's basically an All-Star starter!
The second most voted winner in the East was Vince Carter, who won 2.7 million votes! It is worth mentioning that because the positions of Carter and Christie have been swinging back and forth, it has always been very vague who plays two and who plays three, and even Lin Tian didn't know one thing until he saw the All-Star vote.
Carter was selected as an All-Star starter as a forward!
Carter became the starter as a striker, and the happiest was of course Allen Iverson, who got 2.5 million votes! If Carter had signed up as a defender, Iverson would have missed the start again this year!
The other Eastern forward who started with Carter is of course also a Pacers player! Chris Webber, who got 2.3 million votes, as the second leader of the Pacers, Webb, who has all-round skills and gorgeous play, is definitely deserved to be selected as an All-Star.
It is worth mentioning that he relied on the outburst of fans in the last few days before the voting deadline to barely overtake Grant Hill, who received 2.2 million votes, and successfully counterattacked to become the starter.
And this position is basically the only starting position in the East with suspense.
After all, Reggie Miller and Gary Payton, the third and fourth guards in the East, only got 1.7 million and 1.6 million votes respectively, which is far inferior to Lin Tian and Iverson.
As for the center position, there is no suspense, Mo Ning won 2.1 million votes, and Ewing, who was in second place, only got 900,000 votes, which is less than half of Mo Ning's!
As a result, the All-Star starting five in the East are: Alonzo Mourning, Chris Webb, Vince Carter, Lin Tian, and Allen Iverson!
It is also a very reasonable, traditional combination of two large and three small!
The West side is very similar to the East in one thing: their all-star five, too, is almost no suspense!
For example, the king of Western votes is Shaq O'Neal from the Lakers, the big man won 3.5 million votes, ranking second in the league, and the second place in the Western center is David Robinson, who only got 980,000 votes, more than three times the number of votes, so that O'Neal was elected as an All-Star starter without any suspense!
Well, of course, it's been a few years since this guy was able to happily enter the All-Star starter, and another All-Star voting maniac is about to join the NBA!
In the forward position, Garnett got 2.3 million votes, Duncan got 1.9 million votes, and the two No. 21s became the starters on the Western front line side by side, while Scott Pippen, who was in third place, only got 1.1 million votes, which is far from Duncan.
In the guard position, Jason Kidd, the 'son of the Sun', who got 2.2 million votes, and Kobe Bryant, who became an All-Star starter for the second time in a row and got 2.01 million votes!
In third place in the Western backcourt is Jason Williams, a personalized guard from the Kings! But he only got 1.5 million tickets, and the distance between him and Kobe Bryant was also very large, and it didn't put any pressure on Kobe!
In the end, the starters in the West are: Shaq O'Neal, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Jason Kidd, Kobe Bryant!
Judging from the results of the vote, the biggest winner of this All-Star vote is undoubtedly the official of the NBA! After last year's All-Star Game was canceled due to a shutdown, this year they had a huge success with the results of the All-Star Poll! Regardless of where those votes came from, the NBA was a success and a quick one, and it drew fans back!
This year's All-Star total votes are more than double that of any previous edition! From this point alone, you can see how much attention this All-Star Game has!
As for the big winners at the team level, there is no doubt that they are the Lakers and Pacers.
The Lakers' Kobe Bryant and O'Neal became the starters, and the Pacers played side by side!
These two teams contributed half of the All-Star starters!
The next suspense is who the league's coaches will vote for the All-Star bench players.
But before the final results were in, Stern decided to do some work first! He wants to take the already extremely successful and highly watched All-Star Game up a notch again!
As for how to make a bigger and more popular gimmick?
Stern said: It's so easy!
Wouldn't it be enough to raise the fame, gimmicks and grades of the participants in the individual competitions!
And in today's alliance, who is the number one traffic, and who has the top heat? There is no doubt that there is only one answer!
Also the first person Stern to call!
"Hi Lin! Congratulations on becoming the first person in league history to surpass 5 million All-Star votes! ”
"Let's get to the point, Mr. President, you also called me two years ago, and at that time it was to congratulate me on becoming the first person to surpass 4 million votes." Lin Tian and Ste have always been unceremoniously, and said simply and directly: "What do you want me to do?" ”
FUXX!
Stern scolded in his stomach, this Lin is really good at how to make people angry and how to make people feel unhappy!
Lao Tzu is the president! Lao Tzu is the KING of this alliance!
I didn't say a word, and you asked me what I wanted from you?
I'm Stern, known as the most successful president of NBA history, shameless?
Thinking of this, Stern rolled his eyes and said directly: "Lin, I'm going to invite your teammate Vince to participate in the slam dunk contest, but it's quite boring for him to go alone, and the most important thing is that he is a 2nd grader, in case he is nervous and doesn't deduct the level, it will be a bit of a pity." ”
"As the boss of the team, help him, you also participate, give him a little confidence."
"Okay."
"You don't have to rush to answer me, you can think about it, and then discuss it with Vince to see if he really needs you, and this time it's ......" Stern said this, suddenly feeling as if he had missed some important clues, and after hesitating for a moment, he said incredulously: "You agreed?" You actually agreed? ”
Stern knows better than anyone how lame his excuse for inviting Lin Tian to participate in the slam dunk contest is, and he also knows that this statement is completely unconvincing, and even when he encounters those grumpy guys, he will come back directly.
"What do you mean, I can only be a foil for my little brother, right?" One sentence can make Stern completely deadlocked.
But Stern really doesn't have any other reason to use it.
Fame, benefits, the title of the slam dunk king, traffic, and the love of fans......
Lin Tian doesn't lack any of these things!
Especially this guy has rejected Stern several times before, which makes Stern feel that this is a master who doesn't want to enter the oil and salt, and if he wants to convince him, he can only try to play the emotional card.
But Stern never thought that Lin Tianhui would just agree.
"Are you serious?" Stern couldn't help but ask again.
"Of course! I'm going to be in this year's slam dunk contest, and even if there's a spot in the three-point contest, I'd like to have some fun. Lin Tian smiled and said that he was not joking!
Participating in this year's slam dunk contest was planned by Lin Tian a long time ago!
Before this year, Lin Tian just had no interest in competing with Kobe, the most watery dunk king in history, and he didn't have the heart to abuse Barry, who 'white people can fly'.
In the past few slam dunk contests, to be honest, it was really rookies pecking each other!
It was even rotten to the 1998 All-Star Game, and the slam dunk contest was canceled.
Well, of course, the main reason is that Lin Tian knows very well that in those two years, even if he went to the rookies to peck each other, he was afraid that he would not be able to win.
They deducted it badly, and Lin Tian couldn't deduct it himself!
But now, Lin Tianna is full of confidence!
Although his 'Huaxia Leap' talent did not increase his take-off height, it greatly increased Lin Tian's glide length! Coupled with the upgrade before the season, Lin Tian's own bounce ability has also reached the level of S-!
Although the absolute height of Lin Tianqi after jumping is still not comparable to that of monsters like Carter and Francis, who said that the slam dunk contest has to jump high? It's not a high jump again!
In short, Lin Tian is very confident in this competition!
At the same time, Lin Tian also has great ambitions for this NBA slam dunk contest that will go down in history!
Wouldn't it be more awesome to take out Carter, Francis, and Maddie in the slam dunk contest than to kill Kobe, Barry, Dee Brown, and Ray Allen?
In addition, it is worth mentioning that another reason why Lin Tian promised Stern so simply is that he actually agreed to Stern two years ago, saying that if Stern stopped holding the slam dunk contest in 98, then he would participate in the next one.
Well...... Apparently, Stern forgot about it.
But I, Lin Daguan, have always done what I say, never break my word!
Especially when there are benefits!
In the final analysis, Lin Tian is full of ambition for the first all-star slam dunk contest in the new century in 2000!
He wants to leave his name on the top slam dunk contest in NBA history!
Kill Carter and make Carter the second Aaron Gurdon!
Well, no, it's to make Aaron Gordon the second Vince Carter!
Let Carter also become the uncrowned king!
I just don't know, does anyone dare to give Carter a 9 points in the slam dunk contest?
Wade is only a teenager this year, and he doesn't know that 9 points can bring Carter a lot of extra income, attention and honor.
But in short, Lin Tian is willing to participate, and the alliance has finally saved enough generals, which is definitely a great thing for the alliance!
So while the league restarted the All-Star, it also took advantage of this reason to restart the slam dunk contest!
The first All-Star Game of the new century must be lively!
But of course, Lin Daguan is not a benevolent gentleman, and since Stern forgot that he had promised him that he would definitely participate in the slam dunk contest, he had to take the opportunity to squeeze him again!
"However, I have the conditions!"
"Just mention!" Stern is becoming very cool at this time, Lin Tian participated in the slam dunk contest, which is a great thing! Stern was already fantasizing about the scene of fans all over the world shouting gongs and drums, firecrackers, red flags, and crowds watching the slam dunk contest that night!
It's exciting to think about!
"It's also very simple, Dolan and I got that training camp, you know?" Lin Tian said with a smile: "There is a second season in this offseason, come and make a cameo appearance for me for two episodes and be a guest!" It's not hard to give us a word at the beginning of the first episode and give us an award at the end. ”
"It's as simple as that?" Stern knows very well what Lin Tian is doing this, and how hot the creation camp is! Wade, Arenas, Randolph, Hinrich...... These young people who performed brilliantly in that creation camp are now well-known in the United States and have received a very high level of attention!
Countless people have a layer of filter on them, and they will pay extra attention to their high school or college games, and even the ratings and attention of the NCAA and high school leagues have increased dramatically.
In other words, these young people, before they entered the NBA, gained the first wave of fans in the United States and even the world because of their outstanding performance in the creation camp!
In this case, the second season of this creation camp will inevitably have higher ratings, attention and more geniuses to join!
Even Stern heard that the NCAA side is ready to send some players to participate in the creation camp because of the benefits this year, so as to bring some extra attention to the league!
Therefore, although he has never attended various business events in his personal name, Stern will not refuse this kind of activity to represent the alliance to attend well-known programs in the United States and show the style of the alliance!
It's good for everyone! So Stern didn't hesitate at all, nodded directly in agreement, and reached an agreement with Lin Tian!
After hanging up the phone, Stern was immediately full of energy!
He is looking forward to this All-Star!
This time, we will definitely get off to a good start in the new century! So Stern directly stole the work of his officials, he began to personally look through the list of players, he wanted to call one by one, and invite the players to participate in the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest!
After all, Lin Tian had just agreed to participate in the three-point contest!
Hey, the first player in NBA history to compete in three-pointers, dunks, and three-game events at the same time in the same year!
This heat can also be fried!
An old fox like Stern will never let go of any opportunity to stir up the heat!
At the same time, Stern also called his assistant into the office first, and asked him to find the media to publicize the news that the league was going to invite Lin Tian to participate in two individual competitions at the same time!
Well, at the beginning, it is necessary to start with the invitation of the alliance, then Lin Tian may participate, Lin Tian may not participate, and finally decide to participate.
Hehe, the main thing is to make him look one hundred and eighty times, and he will continue to fry for half a month!
Anyway, there are almost two weeks left before the All-Star Game, and in these two weeks, Stern will not waste an hour, and he will do his best to make this All-Star the most successful and influential in NBA history!
What I lost when I didn't hold an All-Star last year, Lao Tzu Stern, I have to get it all back this time!
Stern called one by one, and almost every call his first sentence was: "Lin will also participate in the three-point/dunk contest, do you want to kill him?" ”
Well, finally this extremely difficult guy agreed to participate in the single event, then Stern just wants to completely squeeze out Lin Tian's residual value, and he can't waste this opportunity!
After all, Stern knew how annoying Lin Tian was, and how many people wanted to find an opportunity to kill Lin Tian!
It's the pitch, but what if it's a non-confrontational one-event event?
This is an extremely rare and good opportunity to kill Lin Tian!
Many players will not miss this opportunity!
As Stern's phone calls went out one by one, and the league officials and the media cooperated to hype each other, the list of personnel for the individual event also surfaced little by little, and the league used an extremely skillful and professional way to play the list of participants and suspense in the single event with eighteen tricks, which pulled the fans' expectations to the highest!
However, tease is teasing, the league is not in a hurry to fully announce the list of participants in the individual events, in the past few days, they have used the words possible, probably, perhaps, intentionally, honestly, probably, and almost certainly.
The main thing is that you can't get in!
If we don't raise the fans' expectations to the highest level, Stern and the league will never release the final list in its entirety!
The league is playing its magic of mobilizing public opinion, but the NBA season will not stop there, and the NBA game continues!
February 5, 2000, Chinese time, is the most important day of the year in China: the first day of the Lunar New Year!
This is the first day of the Chinese New Year, and it is also a big day for the whole Chinese to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, celebrate with the whole family, and go to the homes of relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings!
In the late 90s and early 21st century, the Chinese New Year was full of flavor! Young people are looking forward to good food, New Year's money and all kinds of fireworks, and adults are finally sitting together after a year of hard work to talk about family things.
What's more, the Spring Festival Gala at this time, it is also the real Spring Festival Gala, Uncle Heitu's sketches, Niu Feng's cross talk, Aunt Zhao's sketches, and many singers and movie stars rarely appear together.
The Spring Festival Gala at this time is a good program and a good moment for a real family carnival!
The Chinese New Year at this time is really the New Year, and it is also the day that almost everyone in China is most looking forward to.
And the NBA, whose goal is to completely expand the Chinese market, will certainly not miss this good day! On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, they arranged a showdown that Chinese fans are most looking forward to, want to see and will not miss!
The Indiana Pacers take on the Dallas Mavericks on the road!
At the same time, it is also Lin Tian VS roughly!
This is the first Chinese matchup in the NBA! It is also the first Chinese derby!
The NBA arranged this game on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which shows that they have indeed put a lot of thought into pleasing Chinese fans!
At this time, the NBA and Chinese officials are also in the honeymoon period!
Roughly this season, although he did not participate in the Mavericks' summer league, he participated in the Mavericks' training camp and preseason games completely, and he didn't go back to play any like the Universiade and the National Games throughout the regular season.
This season's rough, wholeheartedly honing skills, playing well in the Mavericks! In addition, with Lin Tian's face, although the old Nelson will not give him special preferential treatment and give him any extra playing time, the old Nelson has indeed arranged an assistant coach to teach him to play roughly and hone his technical details!
Roughly knowing that the treatment he received was all because of Lin Tian's face, he didn't want to let Lin Tian be embarrassed, and he also spent 120% of his energy and concentration to train and play games throughout the season!
His hard work, of course, paid off!
The 22-year-old is roughly in the stage of rising ball, he absorbs knowledge and skills like a sponge, and the general comparison between Lin Tian's memory of coming a year late, and only playing 5 games in the first year and going back to participate in any domestic competition, and not participating in the training camp at all in the second year, is completely different!
Of course, this difference is not exaggerated to the point that some fans say 'not to lose to Nowitzki', which is completely nonsense for fans who have never watched the game.
The gap between him and Nowitzki in terms of talent is still very obvious!
This season, Nowitzki has grown into the team's No. 2 scorer, averaging 17.5 points and 6.5 rebounds per game, and is rapidly moving towards the top power forward position in the league.
And after about half a season of hard work, he has also gained a firm foothold in the Mavericks, and he has played 46 games so far this season, although all of them are substitutes, but the average playing time per game has also reached 21 minutes, which is the seventh most minutes on the team!
He averaged 6.5 points and 3.2 rebounds per game, and now he has entered the team's rotation steadily, and is Nowitzki's number one bench!
Although it is not comparable to Lin Tian, an MVP and a big player in the team, he has roughly gained a firm foothold in the Mavericks.
What's more, for Chinese fans, they don't really care about how much playing time they get and how many points they score in the Mavericks, what they really look forward to is that Lin Tianhe can roughly compete in the NBA!
Two Chinese people stand on the court of the highest basketball league and face off, just thinking about it makes the fans of the entire Huaxia excited!
Well, it's not just the excitement, it's also the quarrels.
"Mom, you guys go to Grandpa's house first, I'm going to watch the NBA at home!" Starts at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 11 a.m., so I'll be there before lunch! ”
"It's against you? What, well, how important can a thief be than going to grandpa's house? This year is the first day of the Lunar New Year! If you dare to go to your grandfather's house at 11 o'clock, your father will dare to break your legs! Now get dressed and go out now! Hurry up! Or I'll tell your dad, huh? Where's your dad? ”
"Daughter-in-law, let's go later today, I also have to watch this game, if I don't watch it, I won't have a good year, otherwise you should go first!"
"Li Jianjun, you're against the sky, aren't you! Go to your dad's house, you let me go first? I can't get over this day, I'll tell you! You two are going to me off! ”
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"Dad, my stomach hurts! The dumplings from last night seem to be broken, can I lie down at home today? ”
"Wife, my stomach hurts too, the dumplings last night must have been broken, I'll lie down at home with my son."
"You two hate me for cooking unpleasantly, don't you?"
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"Son? Husband? Well? What about people? Where did you run early in the morning? Let me give you a call. ”
"Daughter-in-law? Oh, my son and I can't sleep at seven o'clock in the morning, so we will come to Dad's place first, you don't have to worry, you take your time, we wait for you, it's okay. ”
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"Grandpa, I'm going to watch the NBA! Please! ”
"What NBA! Watch the replay of the Spring Festival Gala! ”
"But the NBA today is the Pacers vs. Mavericks, the American League, there are two of us Chinese!"
"Two Chinese people fight American devils? See! Which one? It sees! ”
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"Where's it? Hurry up! Su Qundu began to say New Year's wishes! If you don't arrive again, just wait for the second verse! ”
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"Daughter-in-law, you can cook today, and a few of us will watch a game!"
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"Dad, I didn't write my homework during the winter vacation, and I want to do my homework at home today!"
"! When will you kid take the initiative to do his homework? Don't think I don't know what you're thinking, I'll tell you, it's 8:15, if you go out quickly, we can still watch the game when we get to grandpa's house, if you ink for a while, I can't see the game, don't blame me for pumping you! ”
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Similar situations continue to be staged in various places throughout China, and this Spring Festival showdown really brings a feeling of the second Spring Festival Gala to Chinese fans!
Every family, men, women and children, all coincidentally stayed in front of their own TV, some of them did not have a TV set in good conditions, so they went to the neighbor's house to watch it together, and in some villages, someone even put the TV directly on the square, and the whole village watched it together!
"Hello audience friends, I wish you all a happy new year and all your wishes come true! Then welcome everyone to watch the New Year special program brought by Huaxia Sports, NBA regular season, Indiana Pacers away game against Dallas Mavericks! Sun Zhengping appeared on the screen with a smile and said to Su Qun beside him: "Teacher Su, let's also give everyone a New Year's greeting!" ”
"I wish you all the best in the new year!" Su Qun also smiled and said lightly: "But I think everyone is not very interested in the blessings of the two of us, so let's see how the people who are really interested in the big guy bring us blessings!" ”
After Su Qun finished speaking, the camera of the TV immediately turned, and roughly the somewhat restrained face appeared in front of the TV, and beside him was Yang Yi, a special reporter of the Basketball Herald.
"Hello audience friends, with me now, is one of the protagonists tonight: roughly! Come on rough and say hello to the fans who support you. "After several years of training, Yang Yi is already an old man, and when it comes to interviewing at this time, it is very easy.
"Happy New Year, Happy New Year everyone." A smile roughly leaked out, and just as he was about to continue, a white guard with a head full of messy hair and like a hedgehog passed by the two people, and suddenly smiled and said a word of Chinese language.
"Happy New Year!"
"Haha, it seems that the popularity of the Mavericks is very good! Let me introduce you to this one of the Mavericks' backup playmakers and roughly one of their best friends in Dallas: Steve Nash! He played a lot of time with Rough, and he also made a lot of beautiful passes! ”
"Steve, would you like to have a conversation?"
Hearing Yang Yi's last sentence in English, Nash immediately walked to the side with a smile, and then put one hand into a fist and the other hand as a palm, and first came to a Chinese Jianghu meeting gift before saying: "Happy New Year!" ”
Then he scratched his head a little embarrassedly and said, "I will speak this Chinese language." ”
(End of chapter)