From Today it is the King of the Basketball

Eagles home Phillips Arena home team dressing room inside the bathroom.

Recalling the gradual fusion of clear memories in his mind, Liu Mang looked at the mirror in a daze ...

There is no doubt that the man in the mirror is himself. Liu Mang ’s face in the mirror for more than 20 years is clearer than anyone else. He pulled off his pants and looked at the mole in the middle of his younger brother ’s hair. As for why he is tall It was 20 centimeters higher, and it was one meter ninety-three.

Liu Mang, English name Aisi-Liu, English name was given to him by the college coach, which means that his shot pierced his opponent like a skate. The newly added memory was born on August 26, 1982, now 19 years old, China A college student in the United States, Georgia Tech participated in the NBA draft after his sophomore year, and the hawks boss who was wanted to keep up with President David Stern's footsteps in exploring the Chinese market was ranked fifth overall in the second round. Thirteenth overall pick was selected. The strengths of basketball are ball control and three points. In this era, it was regarded as a non-mainstream game. Even the second round of the draft was difficult ...

The current time is November 1, 2001. Liu Mang's identity is a second-round rookie for the Hawks. The first half of the game is the opening game of the Hawks against the Rockets.

Liu Mang once thought about what it would be like to cross back to the past, but one day I really crossed, and found that I would not do anything. It may even be a problem in this era of no Internet and no convenient transportation. Even survival.

He now finds that he really does not have any capital that can survive in this era except for two years of non-full guarantee contracts with the Eagles.

In 2001, the Internet was not yet popular, and Internet access was only one or two megabits of broadband. Mobile phones were just phasing out Big Brother. The online game in the United States was still only the first version of "The Sims" on the web, and the online game in Asia was only "Blood Legend "The karaoke lined up for singing between friends is still the same ...

He is desperate now, he doesn't know the lottery number, and the way to get rich by buying lottery tickets doesn't work.

As far as investment is concerned, even if he really remembers that there will be a period of unreasonable skyrocketing in the stock market before a certain period of economic bubbles, but there is no money! And the bubble crisis in the 1990s has just ended, at least five or six years before the next round of story crisis!

As for the way to make money ... The first thing that Liu Mang thinks is the salary of the team, but he is only a second round show. How high can he get?

Now in 2001, the NBA salary cap has just exceeded 40 million. The team's number one inside player, league cap king Ratliff, team boss Rahim, the pensioner Kukotka, and the good guy Muhammad. Reached 39 million, and the other players are paid hundreds of thousands to more than one million, and no one has more than two million. Terry, an average player of 20 + 3 + 6 per game, is now considered a future superstar. Only 150 One year contract.

Liu Mang ’s rookie season salary is $ 460,000. Atlanta ’s state tax is not high, only 5%, but the federal tax rate for people with an annual salary of more than $ 200,000 and under $ 500,000 is 28%.

Because he had no draft market before, there was no agent to find him before the draft, and there are still no agents now, so there is no need to pay the agent for the bonus.

This is also a good thing, because the agent is usually the closest to the player, if the agent is seen something abnormal, it is troublesome to explain.

But after deducting 33% tax, 3% player union dues, the first year ’s salary of 460,000 will be less than 300,000 dollars. As for the non-guaranteed contract in the second year, can you get it? They both said.

300,000 US dollars, the purchasing power in the United States is indeed not low, but with these 300,000 US dollars, just sit and eat?

Play well and win a contract?

Liu Mang is desperate for this matter. Although his height becomes the height of a large NBA point guard with a height of one meter and ninety-three, which is higher than most of the NBA point guards in this era, but the memory of the draft The evaluation wrote: excellent ball control and excellent shooting.

He didn't even come here.

And the original evaluation of this identity is excellent ball control, excellent shooting, that is, physical fitness is sincere, a broken otaku, crossed over, playing wool NBA!

No one knows himself better than Liu Mang. Although he can play basketball and love to watch the NBA, the ball is really sincere. It is good to play a three-on-three halftime game with classmates in China. Is it NBA? Nonsense!

This body is not the kind of particularly good physical quality, even excellent, it can only be described as mediocre. When playing NCAA, coaches generally prefer technical and tactical execution, so Liu Mang remembers That "self" can have a fairly good performance in the NCAA. Georgia Tech scored in the top 8 in this crazy March. Only then was it famous in Atlanta.

As for being able to enter the NBA purely because the draft in the past two years is really bad, there are just a few to watch. Especially after the devil-like 2000 draft, the 2001 second round is equivalent to picking a person to keep drinking. Opportunity, not Popovich, it ’s impossible to guarantee that someone who has real strength outside this year ’s lottery will be able to gamble, because the talents in these two years are too bad. Kobe, McGrady and other high schools Entering the NBA after graduation, to a certain extent, spoiled the atmosphere, this is not, this year's Wizards' No. 1 summer league can not beat the unsuccessful college students.

This makes Liu Mang just because Stern is vigorously developing the overseas ball market, especially the Chinese market, and there is a Chinese college student who participated in the draft locally. That fixed-point three-point is not bad. The Eagles spent this for some reason. He was picked by the second-round pick of the Super Draft.

Now Liu Mang does n’t know if he ’s a problem when he ’s in the dove ’s nest or when he ’s crossing, because he has grown so much, because the appearance and even some of the “birthmarks” of his body are the same as his original, but one thing is certain, he does n’t "Inherited" to the body's original ability to control the ball and shoot, and even because the body became taller, getting the "small one" basketball was somewhat at a loss, completely unaccustomed.

With this feeling, Liu Mang understands that his shooting is absolutely unreliable, maybe it will bring stronger power than before and a completely different vision because of the height of a giant who is close to two meters. The angle directly throws the ball ...

The halftime break was not particularly long. Liu Mang thought about it for a while in the bathroom. After the break, he had heard the voice of the team staff who was calling his name to tell him that the game was about to start.

Liu Mang responded, sorted out his jerseys, and prepared to go ... Then guard the water dispenser ...

The Hawks lineup is not bad, where is the second round rookie in the regular time, and it is the second round rookie in the draft year. The second half of the rookie is no accident. It is to continue to defend the life of the drinking fountain.

He already knew during the halftime. The reason why he had a chance to play in the first half was entirely because the Rockets had a really strong point guard. It can even be said that it was the first such strong player in the position so far. Point guard, there has never been such a powerful point guard in NBA history-Steve Francis.

Francis can be regarded as an epoch-making point guard, although it may not be comparable to those of MVP or best line-up point guards, but his appearance is epoch-making, let people know that point guards can also play this way.

The previous point guards were probably divided into three types of guards. The most common types are those of Kidd and Stockton. They organize attacks and control the rhythm. The data is not necessarily good, but the good data must be super control. Wei, this is the consensus of the previous era.

The second type is Allen Iverson, Havlicek, Assassin Isaiah Thomas, Marbury and other scoring point guards.

There is only one person in the third type-Magician Johnson ...

And Francis and these three types are different, UU reading www.uukanshu. com he can organize attacks like Kidd, although not so good, but can also get six or seven assists per game, he can score like Iverson, although not so powerful, but can also get more than 20 points per game He can also be as versatile as a magician, with six or seven rebounds per game, but it is difficult to get a triple-double.

He has a strong body like a small forward, and has the same air supremacy capabilities as Jordan, Carter, and James Worthy.

Describes Francis-the double energy guard in a word that often appears ten years later!

Francis was the first real combo guard in NBA history, and Iverson played until the last season, that is, 2000-2001 season. Larry Brown was changed to a shooting guard position. Francis from the beginning It "occupies" all the work of the shooting guard and point guard. While leading the team's rhythm, it also has to be the team's scoring leader.

Francis wanted to do this, and the Rockets head coach Rudy Tomjanovich's willingness to let him do so shows his powerful strength.

Francis's impact is a point guard in the era. Now no one in the entire league can beat it. The Eagles' two point guards did not finish at halftime, they both backed up three fouls, plus the shooting guard position. With two fouls from Jason Terry, Francis fought crit again and again against the Hawks' defensively weak defender line, giving the Hawks an outside foul eight times at halftime ...

Against such a cruel opponent, Liu Mang felt that coach Lang Kruger could not send him on the court.

But Liu Mang had a feeling that Coach Lang-Kruger seemed to take care of him, but that part of his memory seemed to be still in confusion, and he did n’t remember it for a while ...