The self-correcting nature of history is constantly playing out in Lin Dong's eyes.

For example, although the Suns snatched Bosh, they let the Raptors take away Amare Stoudemire, who should have belonged to the Suns this year, coincidentally, with the strength of Xiao Si, it should have been the ninth pick in 02, but because of the stars shining this year, it fell out of the lotto area, but it just gave the Raptors a cheap, and won Xiao Si with the eighteenth pick in the first round, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation for the Raptors to lose the 'Dragon King next year'.

And there are other balances like this, which make Lin Dong feel as if history is looking for a balance for the teams.

After all, each team has its own expectations and plans, whether it is the league or the team itself, it is in a process of constantly pursuing balance, it is impossible to say that if I am missing who in history, the team will not develop and not operate, at most it is just a different path, and in fact, most of the players are back on the right track in history in this coincidence......

The only thing that can really be called unbalanced is the source that changes history itself.

For example, the supersonic speed that won three potential fighters in a row, and the knights who won LeBron and Wade.

However, according to the previous supersonic intelligence analysis, LeBron's potential is not as good as before, and it is really unknown whether he can combine with Wade in the Cavaliers and fight out of the Eastern Conference.

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With the addition of new teams, there have been minor changes to the format of the 02-03 season.

It's still 82 regular season games as before, but with the exception, there's an extra 4-team 3-game rule in a different division of the same league.

The 30 teams are divided into two major leagues in an east-west distribution, with another 15 teams from different leagues playing two games each in the regular season, one home and one away.

The same league is divided into 3 major regions, and 4 teams in the same division play 4 games each, 2 home and 2 away.

Six of the teams in different divisions of the same league also play 4 games each, 2 home and 2 away, and 3 games against the remaining 4 teams, for a total of 12 games, accounting for 6 of them home and 6 away.

In addition, 3 rule rectifications have been added, and the regular season will be sorted by a computer-assigned competition system, which will inevitably have difficult schedules such as back-to-back and consecutive away games, but on the whole, let each team try to get a balance.

At the same time, the playoff schedule allocation has also been changed from the previous rule that the first place in the regular season division is the seeded team to the rule that the top four teams in the entire East or West can become seeded teams, which avoids the Pacers who were the fourth in the East last season but met the eighth in the first round, or some of the top two in the entire league but encountered in advance, and the unreasonable schedule.

The third rule change is to shorten the timeout time in the playoffs, changing the original three 60-second timeouts for each team to two 60-second and one 20-second to speed up the team's pace in the final stage......

Studying the format was an adaptation for the rest of the team, but for Lindon, it was fun.

Interestingly, these reforms should have only begun to appear in 06 years, and their own crossing, slam dunk characters, caused by changes such as the Nike Summit, the World Championships, and finally spread to the NBA, resulting in the United States and the Dragon side of the market value have skyrocketed, which also slowed up the overall development process of the NBA.

Frankly speaking, after Stern's abdication, Xiao Hua's rise to power, and 15 years of complete control by Nike, the NBA's influence around the world has been declining, and in the era of Lin Dong in 2028, although the NBA is still the highest temple and the highest intensity league in the world's basketball, in fact, both influence and intensity, have been slowly caught up by the European league.

However, now that the NBA has changed in advance, will it still follow the old path in history, Lin Dong feels that this is also something worth looking forward to.

The team's schedule for the new season has come out, and the SuperSonics will usher in the first game of the new season on October 13, with the last place in the league last year, to face the Lakers, who won the NBA championship last year and have an OK combination......

An absolute tough battle, the newly ascended king, to meet the challenge from the hottest super rookie in the United States today, as early as the first announcement of the format, has already attracted the attention of many people.

However, before that, as the NBA that intends to officially enter the Dragon Country market this year, Stern also arranged two preseason games in Dragon Country Yanjing.

This NBA Dragon game, which should have appeared in 04, was played by the Rockets with Yao Ming against the Sacramento Kings, who Liu Wei was trying out at the time, also appeared two years ahead of schedule.

On October 2 and October 3, 02, at the Yenching Stadium, the Seattle SuperSonics with Payton and Lin Dong played against the Washington Wizards with Jordan and Yao Ming, two back-to-back games.

Although this kind of preseason performance is mostly performative, as soon as the news came out, the entire Dragon Country basketball world immediately boiled......

On one side is Yao Ming, on the other side is Lin Dong, two NBA champions of the Dragon Country, two hottest new stars in the Dragon Country basketball world today, and the absolute future of Dragon Country basketball, which is full of highlights.

On the other hand, even if it is a 'supporting role'...... Excuse me, is that a supporting character?

Jordan, the god of basketball, on one side, and Gary Payton on the other!

These two are also old enemies, known as the strongest god of basketball in the 96 season, the 72-win Bulls, it was in that year and the Supersonic Finals, and it was also in that year that Payton prevented Jordan to the only Finals of his career with an average of less than 30 points per game, took off the DPOY of the year, and was named the reputation of a glove.

Both of them have a large number of fans in the Dragon Country, plus Yao Ming and Lin Dong, two proud local players and local champions in the Dragon Country...... As early as the NBA, the news was just released, and the major media and newspapers in the Dragon Country published it like crazy, and even appeared on the XW simulcast.

Mrs. Lin carefully recorded the content of the XW simulcast that night, although the 'key shot' is only a short ten seconds, and every word in it, the old lady can already recite it backwards, but as long as an old comrade-in-arms comes to the house, the old lady must try his best to show them twice!

MD, this is an XW simulcast, do you have such a grandson? Glory to the ancestors!

The old lady walked during this time and felt that people were floating, and her body was as light as a swallow.

The Longguo Yanjing Stadium has sold a full 28,000 tickets since July 1......

Divided into six grades, the lowest price is 210 yuan, and the highest price has reached 4,000 yuan, with an average price of about 1,500 yuan, equivalent to 200 US dollars!

In the Dragon Kingdom of 02, such a ticket is simply not something that ordinary people can afford.

But just over 1 hour on the day of ticket sales, the first batch of 5,000 tickets has been frenzied, all-night queue of fans, blocking the ticket gate and snatching up, there are many or even dozens of dozens of buying, so that the ticket seller has to hurry up to make a new regulation, one ID card can only buy two tickets at most, and at the same time vigorously catch a large number of ticket sellers, completely eliminate scalpers, and resell them to ensure the absolute fairness and justice of ticket sales...... Otherwise, the fans who are already crazy but can't buy tickets really want to make a fuss, and the matter will be even bigger.

The Dragon Basketball Association is fully escorted, and Yanjing City began to deploy J forces from all over the place as early as August, and the entire Yanjing City is full of large posters of Lin Dong plus Payton VS Yao Ming and Jordan, and everyone is talking about this matter, but whenever outsiders come to take a taxi anywhere, the taxi master will ask you if you know Lin Dong and Yao Ming, and if you don't know, you have to give you a good science popularization...... That posture is nothing more than a visit by a head of state.

Absolutely unprecedented!

—Carey Apartments, Seattle.

Today is a big day for Sakuragi Hanamichi......

Since signing with the team, this guy has got a 3-year rookie contract of 9.5 million US dollars, 2.5 million US dollars in the first year, 3 million in the second year, and 4 million in the third year.

Compared with Lin Dong's 3-year 18 million according to the rookie salary cap, it is naturally not much, but Sakuragi Hanamichi is very satisfied.

2.5 million US dollars, nearly 400 million yen!

For this 18-year-old child, who has been living in low-cost government housing in Japan, he never dreamed that he would have so much money.

This guy had a diary that Lin Dong had seen when he went to that dormitory with Rukawa Kaede before.

Frankly speaking, before seeing that diary, Lin Dong really didn't think that a scumbag like Sakuragi still had the habit of writing a diary, but after reading it, he was a little silent, most of the diaries on it were only a few sentences, and they were not written every day, but they were all very interesting......

For example: On the X day of 00, Anke fried chicken restaurant, the store manager Nishikawa secretly gave me the fried chicken that had not been sold out, and wrapped a large package.

On the X day of the month, Dad transferred a lot of money to Earl, and Dad didn't tell me how much it was, but it was clear from Earl's face that it must be a lot, estimated to be millions of yen......

On the Xth of the month, Stephen took me to eat a teppanyaki, Wagyu beef teppanyaki! I stole a glance at the bill, and it was 30,000 yen!

…… On March 31, 01, my dad took me and Liuchuan Fox to the United States by plane, and my dad bought a plane ticket!

…… On August 3, 01, Brother Gao gave me the key to his apartment, this room is so big, much better than the one assigned by the school, I heard that these apartments in the United States are not cheap!

On August 4th, Liuchuan Fox actually bought an extra breakfast, hum, reluctantly help him eat it, it's shameful to waste food!

On August 11th, Brother Gao helped me buy a lot of things, all of which I gave to Mr. Peyton.

…… On November 12th, Lin Dad sent food again, a lot of dorayaki, it's delicious!

…… On November 22nd, Haruko's 25th letter, happy to death, Haruko's handwriting is so good, it's not like what I wrote, it's so ugly!

…… On November 30th, Chandler gave me a shopping card, which was $500, and he thought that the store was too far away, but it was very close to the school, and this guy was a nice person, but he was a little lazy.

…… On December 25th, my mother was sick, but fortunately there were Haruko and Yohei, but the operation fee was not enough, my father was not in Kanagawa, and the phone did not get through, but fortunately, Brother Gao called Lin Dad, 200,000 US dollars...... I can't sleep, I miss my mother, I want to cry......

Although the diary is simple, it records almost all the people who have helped him in the past two years, and everything that has helped him.

So after getting the first salary, this guy began to 'swell', and in addition to training every day for the past month, he was throwing money like crazy.

He bought gifts for everyone in the supersonics, and he also bought a lot to send back to Japan, to everyone who had helped him, such as Coach Anzai, such as Lao Lin, such as his friends, and even the store manager of Ankor Fried Chicken, and even the other guys in the store, from food to clothing, and even valuables such as mobile phones.

also sent a large amount of remittance to Lin Dong and Coach Anxi, a check for $300,000 to Lin Dong and a remittance slip for $700,000 to Anxi's father.

Lin Dong didn't know how much Coach Anzai spent on him, and it is estimated that Sakuragi himself didn't know very well, but Lin Dong himself only took 200,000 that time, but that guy gave himself 300,000...... Thinking of Sakuragi's self-esteem, Lin Dong didn't refuse, and took the extra money, and the right to save it for him, after all, with the current speed at which this guy spends money, it is estimated that he will have to go bankrupt if he can't wait for next year's salary......

I wanted to remind him to pay attention to financial management, after all, many NBA stars go bankrupt after retiring, but thinking of that diary, Lin Dong still kept his mouth shut, and he will talk about it when he has a chance in the future.

But that's not all.

This guy also spent $400,000 to buy a 180-square-meter second-hand apartment with 4 bedrooms, 2 living rooms and 2 bathrooms.

Right next to the Supersonic Arena, within the same block range, next to Carey Park, about two kilometers away is Seattle Beach, an absolute downtown location, and at this time in '02, $400,000 was considered a high-end residential in the West.

Then he bought tickets for his mother, Coach Anzai, Haruko, Akagi, Mitsui, Sakuragi Legion, etc., all of them flew over, all in first class...... Originally, I wanted to call Miyagi and Mu Dui, but I heard that Miyagi was playing the first summer league of his freshman year, and Mu Du was busy with his studies, so he had to leave a little regret.

Rukawa Kaede had already gone to Charlotte City at this time, Lin Dong came to help move, as well as a few younger teammates of the SuperSonics, of course, his teachers Peyton, McMillan and Stephen and others, Sakuragi's popularity has always been very good.

The reunion of old friends is naturally a special joy and emotion.

So moving, partying, and partying until midnight, the busy and lively and fulfilling day passed quickly.

And it was only after the evening party was over that a little episode occurred when arranging accommodation.

According to the original arrangement, Mitsui has a place to go, because Mitsui Group and many companies in Seattle have cooperation, his father has bought a house here a few years ago, and someone has been taking care of it, this time I came to take a look......

Coach Anzai and Akagi took Haruko to live at Lin Dong's house, but the Sakuragi Army insisted on wanting to see Lin Dong's big villa, and just gave them the four bedrooms of Sakuragi's house, and everyone readily agreed.

But when it came time to assign a room, I realized that something was not quite right.

Sakuragi one, his mother one, Akagi one, Coach Anzai one...... What about Haruko?!

Mito Yohei blinked his eyes and said to Sakuragi Hanamichi: "Hanamichi, you and Akagi Boss squeeze, let Haruko sleep in your room!" ”

Sakuragi was stunned.

Then the originally lively living room suddenly quieted down in an instant......

(End of chapter)