Basketball starts with breathing

Chapter 144 The first preseason game [Second update, please subscribe]

When going out in the morning, Lu Yu asked Annie to lock the door. If a stranger knocked on the door, he would not open the door, and kept the gun where he could get it immediately.

The psychological impact of this incident on the American people is extremely far-reaching, and the American people's sense of economic and political security has been severely weakened.

After the incident, U.S. investors began to sell stocks in panic, causing the stock market to plummet.Over the week, the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P dropped 14.3%, 16.1% and 11.6%, respectively, with stocks shedding an estimated $1.4 trillion.

Despite the massive injection of capital into the stock market by the government, after the market reopened on September 9, panic selling was still inevitable, and major stock indexes continued to fall to the lowest point in three years.

For a time, the whole country was in depression, and the atmosphere of sadness permeated the whole country.

At this time, a superhero needs to appear to cheer people up and lead them to face difficulties and accept challenges bravely!

Two weeks after the event, on September 2001, 9, the hero appeared!
NBA superstar and basketball god Michael Jordan, who has retired for three years, announced his comeback!

This is Jordan's second comeback.

The timing was just right.

NBA Commissioner David Stern said: "I am very pleased with Jordan's comeback. Michael was beloved by fans around the world as a basketball legend. In addition, Jordan's return to the NBA also brings great joy to the grieving American people. A little comfort and joy came."

The American people are still in great grief just after the trauma of this attack.

Jordan is 37 years old. He is no longer the god of basketball who asks for anything on the court, and is admired by everyone off the court.

But, Jordan is Jordan after all, and he is also the most influential player on the planet.

When he announced that he would donate his entire annual salary for the first season - $100 million - to the American people who suffered the attack, it caused a huge stir in the sports world and in American society as a whole.

Jordan said: "In such a difficult time, I hope my actions can help some people, that's all."

Moreover, Jordan did not choose the Chicago Bulls, who had won the championship six times, but chose the team in Washington, the capital of the United States, the Wizards!This choice is undoubtedly a clever choice!

Today, the entire American society has fallen into unprecedented despair, and even the whole society is shrouded in haze, and the NBA ticket sales rate has dropped sharply, and even the Wizards invested by Jordan have a poor record. Last season, the attendance rate in the NBA was the lowest in the league.

He chose the Wizards and brought attendance.

At the same time, the Wizards boss promised him that as long as Jordan retired, he could recover his shares at the original price and would give him a larger percentage of the shares.

Because the league stipulates that players cannot hold team shares, it is said that Jordan followed the example of Magic Johnson, who made a short comeback before, so he sold his shares to the owner of the Wizards, and agreed to recover the original price after he retired.

Unfortunately, Lu Yu knew that this time Boss Qiao was fooled.

On October 10, NBA teams ushered in their annual media day, but this media day was so different. Although players and coaches were still being interviewed and taking photos, everyone found that players The jersey on his body has a "Unity Ribbon" pattern containing the American flag more than ever.

The Toronto Raptors' unity ribbon features both the U.S. and Canadian flags.

The Bulls players who have been training together for more than a month have already arrived at the scene. Lu Yu, Artest, Jamal Crawford, and Tyson Chandler have become friends because they often go to the street court to play together. They also had dinner together, and they made an appointment to report together on the media day.

Oakley took the lead before them. As the team's big brother, he would be happy to see Lu Yu and several potential players from the team mingle.

Lu Yu respected him even more. After arriving at the scene, he let Oakley walk in front. The four of them walked side by side behind Oakley like his younger brother.

Head coach Floyd took all this into consideration, and secretly lamented that Lu Yu not only has a high IQ in playing, but also has no emotional intelligence in life. .

This child is definitely not in the pool.

His only concern was whether the pond in Chicago could accommodate such a large thing in the future.

Of course, according to history, the Bulls are not a small pond, but today is no different than in the past, from time to time.

What surprised him the most was that Lu Yu, Drew and Guyton could also chat together. He thought that the three of them would have a tense relationship because they were competing for the position of point guard in the team.

Who knew that Lu Yu would take the initiative to say hello to the two of them, and they both greeted them with smiles.

It doesn't matter to Gayton, after all, whoever is on the bench is always playing. If there is no Lu Yu today, tomorrow there will be Wang Yu and Zhang Yu who is stronger than himself, and sooner or later he will become a substitute.

His strength is like this. If he is not a few centimeters taller than Amin, he will be fired this season, not Amin.

After several training games, he also recognized the reality.

The gap in strength between himself and Lu Yu is as deep as the Mariana Trench.

And what about Drew.

His enthusiasm seemed to be overdone: "Lu, the media will take pictures for a while, you must show the style of the second best show, I think today's C position is none other than you, the NBA tradition is like this, the media day is even a coach and general manager. , They are all green leaves for rookies, especially the best rookie players every year, who have to debut in the C position."

"Really? I don't even know, thank you." Lu Yu kept calm, but he secretly said in his heart, it's a pity that this guy doesn't sell kidnappings, fudge, let's see how long you can flicker.

If Lu Yu really made his debut in C position today, he would offend people.

Not to mention the veteran players in the team, Brad Miller, Marcus Fetzel and Ron Mercer, the three current star players in their own right, will not give themselves a good look.

Not to mention the head coach and general manager.

Drew is a wicked hypocrite. He always speaks ill of another person in front of one person, and then speaks ill of another person in front of another person. On the surface, he and both of them are friends, but the two Personally almost got into a fight because of him.

Lu Yu went to chat with other people again. He is not a fool, and he is too lazy to make excuses for this kind of smiling tiger who wants to trick him.

If you really want to compete, do it on your own merits.

Lu Yu would not regard Drew as an enemy. After all, to be Lu Yu's enemy, Drew's strength is not enough.

The interaction between the three people fell into Floyd's eyes, but it gave Lu Yu a lot of points. Even if it was a competitor, he hoped that the team would be in a healthy competition, not maliciously rotten. Their fundamental goals are the same. Yes, that is to make the Bulls play better.

Except for Marcus Fetzel, Lu Yu communicated well with others. Fetzer was a student brought by head coach Floyd when he was a college coach, and now he has become the core player of the Bulls' publicity. , Naturally a little arrogant, Lu Yu just smiled and rowed away.

Brad Miller is very satisfied with Lu Yu during this period of time. What a big center needs most is a point guard who can pass the ball. It happens that Lu Yu passes the ball well: "If you can make less breakthroughs, let me play with my back more. Better a few times."

Lu Yu prefers to cooperate with a pie-eating player like Chandler, and cooperates with Miller, somewhat like a tool man.

Brad Miller, Marcus Fetzel and another core Ron Mercer took the makeup photos first.

Ron Mercer has always spoken very little, but he was the perimeter player with the strongest scoring ability on this team before Lu Yu came.

He graduated from the University of Kentucky and was selected by the Boston Celtics with the sixth overall pick in the first round in 1997. He is 1cm tall and weighs 6kg. Last season, he averaged 201 points, 95 rebounds, 19.7 assists and 3.9 steals per game. No. 3.3 scorer outside of Rand.

From the perspective of the role of the team, with him there, Artest can only serve as a substitute for him.

But Lu Yu knew that his absolute strength was not good, and when he didn't have enough ball rights, his level of playing supporting roles was ridiculous.

The reporter's interview mainly revolved around a few cores. Of course, many reporters paid attention to Lu Yu, but after looking around, only a few reporters saw Lu Yu's figure in the corner.

And Lu Yu's answer to the question was also very bland, without any explosive news, which made the reporter lose interest.

He won't really be fooled by that fool Drew.

Is it necessary to steal the limelight of these old players at this time?
Tomorrow, the team will open their training sessions to the media for the first time. The NBA preseason will officially start on the 5th, and the schedule will be released. In order to cater to the tastes of international fans and to develop the market, including the Chicago Bulls The 6 teams, including them, are going to play abroad.This is not the first time in NBA history.

On October 10th and 13th, the Lakers, which have Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, will take on the Golden State Warriors at the Dome in Tokyo, Japan, for two consecutive games.

At the same time, the Bulls and the Mavericks will have their first derby game in China Magic Capital.

It simply detonated the enthusiasm of domestic fans.

The Bulls have Lu Yu and the Mavericks have Wang Zhizhi.

Who do you support?
This is a problem.

On the morning of the 3rd, Lu Yujia practiced shooting, rested in the afternoon, and went to the team's public training session in the evening. To Lu Yu's surprise, he had nothing to do except warm up with the players on the court.

In the team's confrontation training, the head coach Floyd only let him play for 2 minutes, and then replaced him.

The next day, when the Chicago Sports News introduced the training class, it described the Bulls as "unremarkable". When introducing Lu Yu, the newspaper said: "It seems that Floyd is the leader The coach is not optimistic about the rookie Lu Yu, and even the training sessions let Lu Yu play very little time, and we don't have to wait until the regular season, we can conclude that Lu Yu's road to the NBA is bound to be full of bumps."

You must know that when Lu Yu was first selected, it was this newspaper that praised Lu Yu to the sky.

They even said that Lu Yu was the savior of the Bulls.

Freud put the newspaper in front of Lu Yu.

"I'm not trying to show the enemy's weakness. I just want to tell you the truth. When you don't show any performance, those who touted you at the beginning will end up getting down on the ground."

"So, from now on, you have to prepare to slap them in the face!"

……

On Oct. 10, the Bulls host the Memphis Grizzlies for their first preseason game of the season.

This is Lu Yu's first NBA show. Although yesterday's media was not optimistic about Lu Yu, there were still a lot of spectators who supported Lu Yu. When Lu Yu walked into the court from the player tunnel to warm up, he had already seen In the full arena, there were bursts of screams in his ears, and he didn't know if it was an illusion. He always felt that many female fans were calling their names.

Sure enough, when I looked up, I saw a row of sexy female fans shouting his name: "Lu... Yu..." The pronunciation is not very standard, but from their loving peach blossom eyes, it can be seen that they are Attracted by Lu Yu's handsome appearance.

There were also many Huaqiao in the stands, and they carried banners with the words "Lu Yu! Come on!", which made Lu Yu feel more cordial.

This ordinary preseason game attracted more than 1 spectators to watch the scene. The number of fans alone has already surprised the general manager Klaus. It can be expected that the box office will soar in the future. It seems that choosing Lu Yu is the right choice.

The team's membership hasn't changed much, with the exception of three rookies.

Obviously, the fans are not here for the other two. Lu Yu is his god of wealth. Not only did he bring some Chinese brand sponsorships, such as the Yili milk that is now projected on the floor by the lights on the field, but also to the ball that has been silent for a long time. The pavilion brought back many fans who had not been there for a long time to watch the game.

There was also an area of ​​fans in the stands who were not wearing Bulls jerseys or Grizzlies jerseys. The name of Gonzaga University was printed on the chest of the jerseys they were wearing, and their back numbers were uniformly Lu Yu's No. 10. , they came to see their former hero, and they held a large photo of Lu Yu, which read: "Pride of Spokane, Gonzaga Bulldogs will always support you wherever you go."

Looking at the crowded stands, Lu Yu suppressed his surging emotions, and even took a moment to glance at his system panel.

[Host: Lu Yu]

[Water Breathing: 71%]

【Breath of Thunder: 66%】

[Breath of Fire: 57%]

[Breath of the Wind: 16%]

This is the training result of this summer. Now I will show my training results on the NBA arena, and I will continue to improve myself on the NBA arena.

Oakley came over and patted him on the shoulder: "How is it? Are you okay?"

"Fortunately, the lights are a bit dazzling." Lu Yu glanced at the female fans in the stands.

The players of the two teams began to warm up, and Lu Yu also walked up to Battier and bumped his shoulders with Battier.

The two have competed on the same field since the NCAA, but they met again in their first game in the NBA.

Fate.

On the sidelines, Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron also came to the scene of the game. Charlize ignored Lu Yu during this time, but at this time, watching Lu Yu standing on the NBA arena, he had a different mind.

The players return to the locker room.

after awhile,

The lights on the court suddenly dimmed, and the passionate voice of the live commentator sounded amid the applause and screams of the fans.

"We're here to welcome our Bulls players in, it's a new season, we have a lot of new faces in our players, let's welcome them... First up is our newcomer of the year, Trenton Hassell... "

The last note is dragged for a long, long time.

Followed by the passionate voice of the commentary, Chandler also walked out of the player tunnel.

Lu Yu stood in the player tunnel.

Artest touched him behind him: "Lu, it's your turn, have you figured out what dance to use? I can teach you, for example, take off your jersey to reveal your hardcover muscles..."

"……forget it."

Lu Yu would not be an exhibitionist like Silly Tai.

He walked away from the player.

The on-site commentator announced at this time: "The following is our super rookie this year, from Gonzaga University, now wearing the No. 10 jersey of the Bulls, Lu... Yu..."

All the lights hit Lu Yu's face.

Lu Yu appeared.

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