Liu Mang expressed that he was "honored" to make headlines while lying down.

Then the Celtics came to Atlanta to challenge the Hawks away from home on the 18th.

On the rest day of the 17th after back-to-back games, in addition to those weird online comments and the four shooting guards collectively teasing Liu Mang, the most important and best news for the Eagles is that Liu Mang's foot

All the swelling from the injury has dissipated.

Therefore, Liu Mang, who had playing time protection in the first two games, faced the "enemy" Celtics this time, a team that was upset and lost last time. Liu Mang played 34 minutes and made 12 of 27 shots.

Scored 35 points and 7 assists, and led the team to beat the Celtics, who were also in pain after the trade. 98 to 71, the Eagles easily won 7 consecutive victories, and the record improved to 21 wins and 4 losses, continuing to set new standards.

Team history record.

But then came the back-to-back games against the Warriors and SuperSonics on the 20th and 21st. Maybe they won too much and started to slack off. The Hawks had a tough time in these two games. In the first game, they lost 105-113 at home.

Without the Warriors, the Eagles' defense has a big problem. It may not be a big problem, but it just looks down on the Warriors. The side effects of the strong mentality have begun to appear. When facing strong teams, they play with great enthusiasm.

When the team is weak, they think they are a strong team and play a little laxly.

However, when they played the Sonics in the second game, the Eagles' defense immediately became very tight because of their loss to the Warriors in the previous game. However, the Eagles' shooting became very bad again in this game, mainly because of Liu Mang.

He scored 30 points on 10 of 34 shots from the field. It went into overtime and narrowly defeated the SuperSonics 99-96. Although the process was a little difficult, we still won.

After playing these two games, the Eagles' record became 22 wins and 5 losses.

On December 23, the last game before the Christmas game, the Eagles finally broke out after two stinky games. Facing the Bulls, Liu Mang made 14 of 20 shots, beating Xin Li.

Qi exploded completely, scored 33 points, and led the Eagles to easily defeat the Bulls 109-80, improving the record to 23 wins and 5 losses.

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"Uncle, this, this, and this, here... wow, Dinah likes them so much..."

"But, Dinah, we are giving it to others, so what is the use of it if you like it?"

"Dina is a child too. If Dinah likes it, other children will also like it!"

"Are you sure other children will like this jigsaw puzzle with more than 10,000 small pieces?"

"Most definitely!"

"as long as you are happy!"

In the children's toy section of the supermarket, Liu Mang looked at the shopping guide with a smile on his face, as well as the pile of toys next to the shopping guide that could barely fit in the pickup truck, and the little loli who was still picking.

Bleeding.

Today is Christmas Eve, and it is already his third Christmas in the NBA. Liu Mang sighed that time flies by so fast. When he saw Dinah, who turned 9 years old a few days ago, he almost felt slim.

The Eagles are now also a popular team in the league. After making so much money, they naturally have to shoulder their due responsibilities. For example, the players must contribute to the community and send some gifts to the people in the slums. Liu Mang

The responsible person is to give toys to the children.

Liu Mang didn't know what to give, so he took Dinah with him to buy gifts together.

Dinah was very happy when she heard this, and almost emptied the toy section of the supermarket until she saw that the pickup truck seemed to be unable to fit it in, so she reluctantly left.

Liu Mang was heartbroken and spent more than 30,000 US dollars to check out. Then he and Dinah sent the gifts to the Eagles team staff at Phillips Arena who were responsible for receiving gifts and recruiting college volunteers to act as Santa Claus to deliver gifts tonight.

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The team staff were dumbfounded when they saw Liu Mang's pick-up truck full of gifts. Others gave gifts with meaning and calculated them in numbers. Liu Mang was so sincere that they could be calculated in a meal.

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Other members of the Eagles also came to the arena. In addition to handing over gifts to the people in the slums to team staff, the players also gave gifts individually.

Liu Mang took Dinah to the arena training ground. Most of the Eagles players were there, and each also brought some friends or family members.

Liu Mang is now also a big boss, and it’s time to give gifts to his younger brothers. He and Raheem, Jason Terry, Ratliff, Stockton, Rasheed Wallace, etc.

The bosses are waiting to prepare gifts for the role players.

Liu Mang prepared a Walkman for everyone, and everyone else also prepared some electronic products, such as Rahim's laptop, Rasheed Wallace's new mobile phone, etc.

As for the little Lolita, she started asking for red envelopes everywhere again. Her teammates were used to Liu Mang's "Chinese New Year etiquette". For example, Stockton, an "old man", gave each of his teammates a 1,000-dollar gift.

The red envelope is simple and crude.

Looking at the stack of red envelopes in Dinah's hand, even Barnes, who still had a salary of more than 500,000 US dollars, had been "extorted" for 500 US dollars. Liu Mang felt that he was embarrassed. He would not have done it if he had known it.

This little loli is learning traditional Chinese culture!

After the gifts were delivered, the Eagles players spontaneously organized a training session for tomorrow's Christmas game with the Pistons. Today was originally a holiday, but to play against the Pistons, the third-ranked team in the Eastern Conference, the Eagles players

They all take it seriously.

There are 5 Christmas games this year. The one that kicked off was the Christmas game between the Eagles and the Pistons. The Pistons were swept by the Eagles in the past two seasons. After Larry Brown took over the Pistons, the league felt that the Pistons

The game against the Eagles is definitely something to watch, so we arranged this game.

The second game is the scoring championship battle between the Magic and the 76ers. Originally, this game was also very interesting. Iverson was the scoring champion in 2001 and 2002, and McGrady was the scoring champion last season. Two of the past three years

The battle between two scoring champions is very interesting, but this year's Magic team collapsed, and the 76ers' Iverson may not return until the end of January or early February. The league's calculation was wrong.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The third game is the Rockets playing the Suns away from home. It is a duel between the traditional center and the new era center of Yao Ming and Stoudemire. Yao Ming has made great strides towards becoming a superstar this year.

, Stoudemire also performed well. The duel between top centers is always attractive. The duel between the two best centers of the younger generation in the same session attracted the attention of many fans.

In the fourth game, the Timberwolves faced the Spurs at home, and the duel between the two No. 21s continued.

The finale is a game between the Big Four Lakers and the Nets, the Eastern Conference kings for the past two years, which is also worth watching.

The Eagles players started training, and Dinah followed Rasheed Wallace's daughter to wander around the arena. The two teenage girls had a lot to talk about.

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After training, Liu Mang took a shower, changed clothes, and prepared to go home with Dinah. As soon as he came out of the locker room, he saw Schwartz coming with someone!

"Ace, I've been looking for you for a long time!" Schwartz led the young man next to him and walked towards Liu Mang.

"Jeff, have you brought someone to try out again? Our team is not short of people, right? I was training just now, and my phone was in the locker room." Liu Mang took out his phone, and sure enough, there were several missed calls on it.

They were all Schwartz's. Liu Mang shook the phone screen towards Schwartz.

Liu Mang thought that Schwartz had brought someone to try out again. He looked at the young man who looked like a college student next to Schwartz. He was very rustic. He was wearing an old suit. He looked very dirty, but he looked a little familiar.

, Liu Mang was impressed by this face, and asked curiously: "Is this an undrafted draft? Too thin! Is he very talented Jeff?"

"OH, no, Ace, he's not here for trial training. Let me introduce him to you..."

Before Schwartz finished speaking, the young man next to him who looked like a college student who Liu Mang regarded as a country bumpkin came up confidently and said: "I'm honored that Ace has accepted me as a player for trial training. I'm very happy."

I like basketball, but like you said, I'm too thin to play in the NBA, but I can still play street ball. My name is Mark Zuckerberg, a sophomore at Harvard University."

Zuckerberg tried hard to maintain a confident appearance on the surface, but he was very nervous on the inside. In the past half semester, he had been rejected by many investors. Of course, he learned a lot from it, such as how to attract investors when he wanted to invest.

Remain confident in front of the target, neither humble nor arrogant, otherwise you will be looked down upon. If you are looked down upon, you will basically lose most of your investment.

After Zuckerberg introduced himself, he smiled on the surface but looked at Liu Mang nervously on the inside, hoping to leave a good impression.

But... Zuckerberg found that Liu Mang looked at him with a strange look after hearing his self-introduction. He felt as if his whole body was being stared at by a hungry wolf. In this winter, he felt the sweat on his vest.

The shirt inside was completely wet.

Schwartz looked at Liu Mang staring at his junior, looking up and down. He didn't know what Liu Mang was thinking, but if his junior could help, he would do it. Moreover, this junior was indeed talented. If he

If you have money, you will help yourself. The key is that you don’t have money.

Schwartz said to Liu Mang: "Ace, let me introduce to you, this is the computer genius from Harvard University..."

Liu Mang waved his hand, knowing that he had accidentally seen someone else as prey again. The main reason was that he was too surprised. He didn't expect to meet Zuckerberg at all!

Schwartz seems to have graduated from Harvard University with majors in financial management and law many years ago, but he never paid attention to it before. Who knew that he and Zuckerberg actually knew each other, and even introduced Zuckerberg to him in the early days of his business?

know.

When Schwartz saw Liu Mang waving his hand, he thought Liu Mang didn't want to hear his next introduction. He knew that Liu Mang had already figured it out. He was another college student entrepreneur who wanted to find venture capital. At this peak period of Internet development,

Thousands of college student entrepreneurs have emerged from various top universities in the United States. However, 99% of them eventually went bankrupt with investors' venture capital. Especially after the Internet bubble crisis in the late 1990s, investment

People have become more cautious about Internet venture capital, and it is more difficult for college student entrepreneurs to find venture capital from investors. In the NBA, there are also many retired players who have gone bankrupt because they invested their money in the Internet.

Schwartz glanced at Zuckerberg helplessly, and Zuckerberg felt cold in his heart. In the past few months, he has been rejected by countless "rich people", and there are many people who are more impatient than Liu Mang.

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Just when Zuckerberg was frustrated and ready to say goodbye and leave, retaining some dignity, he suddenly heard the Chinese "tycoon" in front of him say something.

"Jeff, Zach, let's go to the conference room to talk. It's not convenient here."

After Liu Mang finished speaking, he saw Rasheed Wallace coming out of the locker room after taking a shower, and said to Tianzun: "Rashid, you saw Dinah asked her to come to the conference room to find me, thank you."

Rasheed Wallace responded and went to find his daughter. After he moved to Atlanta, his daughter went to a school with Dinah, one grade higher than Dinah, and they had a good relationship. He knew that Dinah and he

My daughter went to play.

Liu Mang looked at Zuckerberg, who was stunned because of such a sudden turn of events, and said with a smile: "Let's go, Zucker, don't you want to attract investment? Or did I understand it wrong?"

Schwartz patted Zuckerberg, and then Zuckerberg reacted and quickly followed Liu Mang in front.
To be continued...