NBA officials had already booked rooms for the two teams at the Xiyuan Hotel, which is the closest five-star hotel to the Yanjing Stadium, but Schulz waved his hand and booked several suites at the Shangri-La Hotel, two kilometers away.

The game was 8 p.m. on the 2nd, and it came a day early, and both for the Wizards and the SuperSonics, there was something going on.

Both sides are to attend some business events.

Last season, Da Yao almost single-handedly carried the Wizards through the playoffs and rushed all the way to the finals, which not only made the Wizards' market value in the United States skyrocket, but also made the Wizards the most favored by the local brand of the Dragon Country and the most popular team among fans, even with Lin Dong's supersonic has to stand aside.

After all, in terms of influence alone, the combination of Da Yao and Jordan is undoubtedly above Lin Dong and Payton.

Therefore, this time, at least more than 20 various brands are rushing to invite the Wizards to participate in the event, and finally pick and choose, in addition to some activities of Nike endorsed by themselves, there are six companies such as Li Ning and Sina that have reached a commercial activity agreement with the Wizards, one game a day, and another week or so after the game, with a total value of about 20 million US dollars in commercial activity income, in addition to the share of the Wizards and Da Yao, Jordan alone can get 7 million US dollars......

At this time, Jordan already had his own business empire, and $7 million was not much for him, and he was even a little resistant at first, and he didn't want to attend the event.

After all, since the playoffs, the American media will tease him with the phrase 'Go home baby' at every turn, which makes it difficult for him to refute, and he has been extremely embarrassed in front of the camera several times.

Frankly speaking, Yao Ming can lead the Wizards to the finals, Jordan still recognizes this guy, but that is only a recognition of his strength, when he always becomes someone else's background board, the basketball god is quite unhappy, and he has no good impression of Yao Ming and Dragon Kingdom.

This time he came to the Dragon Country for the exhibition game, Jordan estimated that these Dragon Country people who like Yao Ming didn't know how to mock him, if it weren't for Stern and Nike having talked to him countless times, he wouldn't want to come at all.

But to his surprise, after arriving here, no one mentioned this sentence, whether it was the fans of the Dragon Kingdom or the media reporters, but gave him great enthusiasm and madness for his arrival.

Lin Dong remembered that in the history of another world, Jordan had also come to Dragon Country twice, but on the whole, Jordan did not have much good impression of Dragon Country, which was related to the lawsuit between a domestic brand and Jordan for nearly ten years.

To put it bluntly, in another world, the flying man does not like the dragon kingdom.

But this time it seems a little different......

The American media used the phrase 'go home baby' to ridicule Jordan all kinds of extremes during this time, after all, Americans are already aesthetically tired when they look at all kinds of praise for Jordan, and the American media is quite clear about what fans like to watch, which makes Jordan very hurt.

and then compared the various enthusiasm and pursuit of him by the parties on the side of the Dragon Kingdom, but they didn't say a word about the damn 'go home baby'.

A huge gap, seems to have changed the NBA history of the first person to a lot of views of the dragon country, on the afternoon of the 1st to participate in Li Ning's activities is very active and interactive with the fans, and after receiving a little boy with leukemia to his classic portrait of the century, the basketball god was greatly moved, with a wave of his hand, not only to bear all the boy's treatment costs, but also to donate all the $1 million from the commercial performance with Li Ning that day to the Dragon Kingdom Leukemia Foundation.

This wave of operations has undoubtedly raised Jordan's infinite weight in the hearts of Dragon Country fans, so that in the past two days, the entire Yanjing has been immersed in a kind of pursuit of the god of basketball, and even completely overshadowed the limelight of Da Yao and Lin Dong, two local players, and also made the fans' calls for the Wizards far overshadow the supersound.

No way.

Although Lin Dong has competed for honor for the Dragon Kingdom at the World Youth Championships, Yao Ming in this era has already accompanied the Dragon Country men's basketball team to win the Asian Championships, and the adult competition is undoubtedly more influential than the youth event, plus this time the playoffs single-core to the finals, so although one is world-class and the other is Asian-level in terms of national honors, the influence of the two can be regarded as canceling each other at most, and even Lin Dong is still worse.

And Jordan and Payton have a fan base, so is there a comparison?

Thereupon...... The entire Yanjing City has completely become the home of the Wizards.

Although the supersonic is slightly less popular than the Wizards, they are actually quite popular, but Schulz has only received two commercial events.

On the one hand, it is because the Wizards have divided several large resources, and on the other hand, Schulz has other plans.

After all, it's your own team, so you have to give your brand a platform first...... Millions of business activity expenses are a fart, whether it is to bring in Lin Dong or build a team around him, isn't it just for the past few days?

The Starbucks main store, which opened in Yanjing International Trade Center half a month ago, asked Lin Dong, Payton and others who had just gotten off the plane to be 'waiters' for two hours, and after the game ended, in addition to an event arranged in the International Trade Building, there was another branch in Lin'an City to go around......

In short, just one afternoon, the young fans almost didn't crowd the International Trade Building, the whole store recorded a single-day revenue of 800,000 yuan, plus various media reports, Starbucks' name was also popular all over Yanjing and even the whole country overnight, which can be regarded as Schulz's plan to enter the Dragon Country market for the first time laid an extremely good foundation, so that he is also full of confidence, and intends to invest at least 50-80 stores in major cities in the Dragon Country at the same time in the second step, and he is going to roll up his sleeves and do a big job.

The game was played at 8 p.m. on the 2nd, but both teams were still present at the event in the morning.

Frankly, the tight schedule made everyone feel a little tired, but overall, the state was relatively relaxed.

It's just an exhibition game, more like the All-Star Game, the attacker will certainly do his best to stage all kinds of difficult maneuvers, and the defender will basically tacitly release a little water, after all, winning or losing this kind of game usually doesn't matter, the important thing is to play well.

It's a show.

At least that's what Jordan thinks, but alas, his opponent doesn't seem to think so......

- October 2nd, 8 p.m.

The Yanjing Stadium was already full of people, and the host introduced the players of both sides under the flashing lights, constantly raising the atmosphere of the scene, and the cheers of Jordan, which overshadowed the local players, also greatly satisfied the vanity of the basketball god.

The starting lineup of the Wizards, point guard Tyronn Lue, point guard Michael Jordan, center Yao Ming, the big forward is Jarred Jeffries, a rookie just selected by the Wizards this year, and the small forward is Jerry Stackhouse, who was just traded by the Wizards for Hamilton from the Pistons and averaged 29.8 points per game.

Hamilton's exchange for Stackhouse is an acceptable result for most Wizards fans, and it can be regarded as a trade reinforcement between the two sides, choosing a team that is more suitable for their own team, after all, compared to Hamilton, who is 84 kilograms and has a certain conflict with Jordan's position, the current Wizards need a stable forward more.

The starting five Tigers on the supersonic side, point guard Gary Payton, point guard Brent Barry, small forward Lin Dong, and big forward did not use the starting main force of Vin Baker, but replaced it with Sakuragi Hanamichi and center Tyson Chandler.

Amid the cheers of the audience, the two sides were soon standing on the court.

Chandler was still a little nervous about Yao Ming, who led the team to overturn the playoffs in last year's rookie season, and also blew up his Yao name in the Adi training camp, coupled with the absolute disadvantage of height and arm span, Yao Ming gently slapped the ball in the direction of Jordan, and the scene was immediately cheered again.

Jordan did not choose to break fast, holding the ball steadily through the midfield, facing his old friend Gary Payton, who came up from the top defense, just looking at the opponent's defensive actions and the intensity he could feel, he knew that this old friend had no plans to fight hard.

A stop-and-go jump shot after a breakaway change of direction made a solid first mid-range and pulled out the first place in the exhibition game.

"Hey man, didn't you wake up last night?" Jordan smiled and said to Peyton, "Look at your loose defense, do you want to go back and sleep and come back?" ”

"I just don't want to steal the limelight." Gary Payton said: "2 percent of the skill is useless, purely give you two points." ”

"Hahahaha! It seems that you have finally learned to respect the gods on the field? Jordan was very satisfied with the other party's answer: "Even if it's an exhibition match, let's take out 12% of your skills, and see if you can cause a little trouble for your god." ”

"What are you thinking?" Gary Payton laughed: "I'm afraid of stealing the limelight from my family Lin Dong, what's the matter with you?" The old man went to play golf, and stayed there! ”

Jordan was stunned, and then saw the NBA rookie who had just entered the league standing up outside the 3-point line, facing the defense of Stackhouse.

Swish!

The basketball jumps in the air in a perfect arc and then hollows into the net.

2:3, supersonic lead!

Peyton triumphantly said to Jordan, "Exhibition game? I'm going to pull you off the altar today! The future belongs to our family Lindong! ”

Jordan is no stranger to Peyton's trash talk.

"Cut ......" he pursed his lips and glanced in Lin Dong's direction: "Did you take the wrong medicine?" Just the rookie? ”

“go home baby？” Peyton grinned and threw out the only words that could hurt the old rascal.

The old rascal's face froze slightly, but soon he licked the corners of his mouth.

It's really a bad day...... It's just such a sentence, and as a result, any cat or dog dares to jump out and provoke themselves.

God's dignity can only be maintained through victory.

The basketball god smiled.

Exhibition? No matter what the game, no one can make a big deal in front of them!

A glint flashed through Jordan's eyes: "We'll see!" ”

Good show, opening!

(End of chapter)