Author: Tiamo the Withered

"Do you really want to leave?"

"Well, I've decided." Facing his mother's question, Li Chengming nodded firmly.

He didn't know whether it was because Liu Nalian stimulated him more, or because the system brought more ambition, but he was looking forward to this trip now.

This year is 2007, and the NBA, like previous years, will start the draft after the finals.

This is also a big year for the draft. Popular rookies Greg Oden, Kevin Durant, Al Horford and others are all in this class. They performed well in college, and their prices in the natural draft have also increased accordingly.

And the domestic players who will participate in the NBA draft this year are not only Li Chengming, but also Kong Yi and Sun Yue.

Kong Kongyi is also a popular rookie candidate, mainly because of the benefits brought by Yao, not to mention the personal talent he has shown is indeed very good, attracting a lot of attention.

Of course, this is partly due to the domestic market. After all, everyone knows that the NBA has been working hard to develop the domestic market in recent years. Dayao is a good start. Domestic media also believe that Yi Di can succeed Dayao and become

National team and representative stars in the NBA.

As for Sun Yue, everyone knows that he is just an extra, and they don't have much hope for him. The focus of their attention is on Kongsong Yi.

Many domestic fans speculate whether he will be selected in the top three. Oden and Durant's positions cannot be shaken. Horford should be able to move, right?

Anyway, with the help of the media, domestic fans always have a kind of honeyed confidence in their own players these days. They even think that Durant is nothing more than that. Our space is not the limit. How can Durant, a man on earth,

Can you still compare to him?

On the contrary, everyone always likes to be picky about Dayao who is really powerful enough.

Among them, Li Chengming naturally seemed even more inconspicuous, and no domestic media even reported on it.

After all, he is not well-known himself, but he still got a trial invitation from the Magic through the system, and then came to participate in the draft at his own expense.

The Magic's popularity in China is relatively average. At this time, the media is not as developed as it will be in the future. Most of the information that everyone wants to know about the NBA can only be obtained from the official. Naturally, the official will not pay attention to someone like Li Chengming who knows where.

A little guy like a duckweed appears from every nook and cranny.

Regarding this draft and even this trial, Li Chengming himself is actually not very confident.

Although he tore through the whole school in college and won the class championship, everyone knows how big the gap is between the class competition in domestic universities and the NBA.

Let's put it this way, the NBA is undoubtedly the highest stage, followed by the NCAA, the European League, then the Development League, then the CBA, regional leagues, and then the domestic Development League and college leagues.

The last thing is the class competition in the university...

Although Li Chengming reigned supreme and relaxed in this shallow pond, this time he had to cross so many levels at once, so he naturally didn't seem very confident.

Moreover, he was not a very confident person to begin with, so his decision to drop out of school and go abroad was already a crazy decision.

Fortunately, his parents have always been supportive of him. Even if it was such a crazy decision, they still decided to let him give it a try. His father also deliberately put aside his work to prepare to take him abroad with him.

Due to the nature of his work, Li's father had a lot of contact with foreigners. Naturally, he was very good at English, and he also knew some Russian and French. Li Chengming had been under his influence since he was a child, and foreign language conversations were not a problem, so this communication issue first of all

If it is solved, we will definitely not encounter the same problem of poor communication that Dayao had in the early stage.

However, to gain a foothold in the NBA, it is not enough to be able to talk about tomatoes. You must also have real ability. And the more foreign players are, the harder it is to gain a foothold here. No matter where you are, you must have a household registration.

Li Chengming first came to New York with his father. This year's draft will be held at the Knicks' home court, Madison Square Garden Arena, and rookies who want to participate in the draft will also come here to complete their personal information registration.

Of course, there are still conditions to pass. As a foreign player, he must meet the conditions of being under 23 years old and having played in an American professional league other than the NBA, or he or his authorized representative must write a letter to the office of the league president.

Apply to be elected.

Dayao, Kongshang Yi and Sun Dasheng all can be considered as candidates through formal channels. If Li becomes famous, it will depend on the effect of this trial training with the Magic team.

Only if the trial training impresses the manager and coach, and they are willing to spend a lot of money to select Li Chengming with the draft pick, can Li Chengming complete the task.

Of course, you can also be an undrafted player. As long as you can successfully sign a contract, you will be successful if you have a contract.

Li Chengming made very low expectations in his mind, but the result still surprised him.

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"It seems we are quite busy this summer..."

Orlando's Amway Center, the home of the Magic, is holding a trial training. In addition to rookies, overseas players who have returned to look for opportunities, and free agents whose contracts have expired are participating in the trial.

Magic general manager Otis Smith joked with head coach Stan Van Gundy, but then shook his head and gave a wry smile.

It can be considered a joy in hardship. At least the team has a good momentum now. As long as they operate properly, there will be a lot of potential for next season.

After Smith took over as the team's general manager in May 2006, under his operation, the team finally made it to the playoffs last season. Although they were swept out in the first round, team center Howard averaged 15.3 points, 14.8 rebounds and 1.0 blocks per game.

, has already begun to show its majesty.

This season, he brought in former Heat coach Van Gundy who was out of work, and at the same time he was ambitiously preparing to flex his muscles in the trade market.

This time the Magic did not pay too much attention to the nearby Orlando training camp. Instead, after the training camp, they invited the players to come for trial training. This was also because they did not have good draft picks and were naturally interested in rookies.

Not that big anymore.

Rookies at the bottom of the rankings usually have a high probability of falling, including those with free contracts. If you can miss one or two from them, that would be great.

They don't really expect to find real gold from these people. After all, people who can't play or lose the draft always have various reasons. They talk about counterattacks, but the ones who can really counterattack are still a minority among the minority.

"Wait a minute, why is there a Chinese player?"

At this time, Van Gundy, who was looking at the list and comparing faces on the field, suddenly exclaimed, attracting Smith's attention.

Because of Dayao, the NBA is still very interested in Chinese players. Otherwise, Kong Yiyi, Sun Dasheng and others would not attract such high attention.

Even if you are not strong enough, you can choose him as a mascot to expand the Chinese market. No one will think that it is too much money.

Stan Van Gundy is even more special because his younger brother Jeff Van Gundy is the head coach of Houston and was dismissed just last month.

For this reason, Stan Van Gundy still has a good impression of Chinese players. If conditions permit, he would like to see what the Chinese player named Yi is like.

"Mr. Smith, these are the results of the physical examination..."

Some of the free agents have already gone through previous drafts. Once you check the data, you will know that this physical test is naturally for this year's rookie players. Although there are official data, seeing is believing.

Since the two of them were interested in the Chinese player, they naturally paid special attention to his data:

[Name: Li Chengming

Height: 6 feet 7 inches (201cm)

Weight: 341.4 lbs (155 kg)

Wingspan: 7 feet 1 inch (216cm)

Standing reach: 273cm

Vertical take-off: 82cm]

Of course, this kind of body side test only measures the most basic things, which are basically static talents, but it can also be seen that this player's physical talents are not bad.

This also made the two of them have some expectations for Li Chengming...
Chapter completed!