22. Fame
(Thanks to longyunliu, zhetian8341, Xiaobai, and the madman for the rewards given by these brothers. In addition, let me explain that this book is not a reward. He will not continue to tolerate his agency, but the pig's feet is not a person who acts voluntarily. The principle of orphans is to use all available resources)
There is a big photo hanging on the headlines of the newspaper, located in the parking lot of Yao Restaurant, and the content is that Li Yuntian and Zhang Zilin walk side by side towards a pink BMW. The photo is not very clear, obviously not taken by a professional reporter.
Li Yuntian knew who took this. When he saw the photos clearly, his eyes turned dark. In addition, he was extremely tired at this time, and he almost fell to the ground. Zhang Zilin was also very surprised. She asked blankly: "The American paparazzi are so powerful? How did they know that we were going to Yao Restaurant to have a party?"
Li Yuntian took out his cell phone and dialed Ma Yuan's phone number. After the call was connected, a vague voice came from the other side: "Hey, hello, this is the agency team of NBA star Li Yuntian. If you want to make an appointment for an interview, please call again tomorrow..."
"Ma Yuan, tell me, who the hell took photos of me and Zhang Zilin secretly? Why did you do this?" Li Yuntian shouted angrily, "Can you notify me of what you do? I said I don't want to hype like this, I don't want to hype like this! You do this so disgusting? Do you know? Don't force me?"
When he heard Li Yuntian's voice, Ma Yuan was much more awake. He advised: "Yuntian, don't worry about this kind of thing. Listen to Uncle Ma. Can celebrities become celebrities without hype? Okay, don't be angry. I will not use such news to hype you again in the future, okay?"
Li Yuntian threw his phone to the ground hard. He had heard of this guarantee dozens of times when he was in China, but he had never achieved it.
In fact, Li Yuntian could understand the thoughts of Ma Yuan and others. He was a player under these people. They signed him to make money. He understood this truth. But it was just for hype in the past. At that time, he was unknown. Without hype, there would be no fame, and without fame, no one asked him to shoot advertisements. But now it is different. He scored 10 points and 20 points in two games, and he became very popular in the basketball world.
Zhang Zilin understood everything from Li Yuntian's phone call. She had never had any scandals because she had no desire for fame and was very satisfied with her current life. She was actually a missed opportunity to become a Miss World. She had no idea of getting involved in the entertainment industry before. She was a woman who was a hurdle. Later, she had to quit the sports world due to injury with her right ankle, and then she became a model.
Even if she became a model, Zhang Zilin rarely took on jobs. She didn't expect to have any fame, so she never hyped herself up. Of course, she hated others using herself to hype even more.
Zhang Zilin politely sent Li Yuntian back to his residence, without saying a word on the way. Li Yuntian could clearly feel the gap between the two of them. Because they were fellow villagers, they both had a good impression of each other. Zhang Zilin was willing to drive him to the gymnasium and accompany him to train. Of course, Li Yuntian would not think that his charm conquered the other's hearts. Isn't it that the relationship between fellow villagers is playing a role?
Now, this relationship was shattered by the operations of Ma Yuan and others.
"I'm sorry." Li Yuntian said as he got off the car.
Zhang Zilin smiled charmingly and said, "It's nothing, it's not your business. Besides, this is just a small scandal. As long as we don't meet much in the future, this thing will be destroyed."
Listening to Zhang Zilin's polite but very official answer, Li Yuntian nodded silently. At this moment, he had the urge to fire Ma Yuan and others.
However, he is going to renew his contract with the Rockets these two days, and Ma Yuan needs to bargain for him. Not to mention anything else, Ma Yuan's ability to sign a contract is really superior. Li Yuntian took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart, walked into the room to prepare for rest.
On November 3, there was no need for training all day. Li Yuntian slept until nine o'clock in the morning, then packed up his personal toiletries and prepared to fly to Boston in the afternoon for the third game. Doug Sardmons had a game and left early in the morning. When he got up, he was the only one in the room.
Looking at the empty room, a feeling of loneliness rose in Li Yuntian's heart. Doug was his best friend in the United States. The two have been together for more than a year. After coming to the United States to participate in the draft last year, he joined the Austin Bulls in the NBDL, thus meeting captain Doug.
Doug was a genius in the United States during his high school years. In the 2002-03 season, LeBron's St. Mary's High School swept the East, while West Chester High School in Los Angeles dominated the West. Two of the best high school teams in the United States finally met in the high school league held in New Jersey on February 9, 2003. That time, the young emperor, who is now in the NBA, suffered a heavy blow. He scored a triple-double, but Doug led the team to win with 26 assists. In the entire high school period, the only one loss that LeBron James suffered was Doug's creation.
Later, in 2004, a car accident destroyed Doug, his left knee ligament was torn, and two nerves were severely damaged. Even so, after two years of recovery, Doug relied on his skillful skills and his superhuman consciousness still became the top organizational guard in the NBDL.
If he was not injured, how high would Doug's future achievements be? Li Yuntian could not imagine, but he was sure that if Doug was not injured, the NBA point guards would not be Paul, Deron, Kidd, and Nash who scored four points in the world.
A knock on the door interrupted Li Yuntian's imagination. He opened the door and Qin Ziyan appeared in front of him.
"Why do you always remind me that you are not in the service area when you call you? I thought you were kidnapped by aliens." Qin Ziyan smiled. Today she wore a white-washed denim shirt, paired with embroidered letters, elastic casual pants, without too much modification and color, and her hair was tied into a ponytail and hung behind her head, revealing her free and easy temperament in her simple and elegant style.
"I broke my phone." Li Yuntian briefly explained the incident, and he had no reservations about this old classmate who was really childhood sweetheart.
Qin Ziyan held a stack of newspapers in her arms. She put them on the coffee table and picked out one, and smiled and said, "I guessed that it was your agent who was messing around. They played such bad tricks when they were in China. Besides, how could Zhang Zilin make you hook up so quickly? After all, she is Miss World."
Li Yuntian took over the newspaper and was a very popular "Basketball Park" in China. The front page title was blackened and bold. The huge Song-style characters looked shocking: "North China Gods Roared to Dezhou, Two consecutive pairs of Housing City were created for Gods"!
"Damn! What's this?" Li Yuntian felt cold sweat after seeing the title. Isn't this obvious praise?
Qin Ziyan shrugged and smiled and took out another copy. This time it was the latest "Slam Dunk" magazine, with the cover saying "Yao Li joins hands to dominate Houston, and the NBA officially enters the Chinese era"
"Yao Ming's two-double God scored a new high, and the Rockets beat the strong team and remained unbeaten at the start of the game", this is the headline of "Beijing Sports". Li Yuntian smiled bitterly. The Trail Blazers are considered powerful teams? What's the unbeaten after just two games in the game?
"You are very popular in China now. If you have time, you can go to the domestic forum. For your domestic fans, you will fight," Qin Ziyan sat on the sofa and raised her slender legs, with a happy expression on her face. "The fans who like you call themselves 'sweet', and your opposition party calls themselves 'dark'. Now the battle between sweet and dark has become the most intense event in the country."
"Sweet? It's dark? Good name, I like it." Li Yuntian glanced at Qin Ziyan's attractive legs and smiled, "But you are here today. Without a cell phone, I'm worried about how to contact a taxi to take me to the airport."
After the two had dinner together, Qin Ziyan took Li Yuntian to Toyota Center to wait for Boss Fur's car. When they parted, Qin Ziyan suddenly said, "Old Li, I'm going back to China tonight. I'm here for an internship this time, so I can't stay there."
Li Yuntian was stunned and was at a loss for a moment and knew what to say.
"Perform well tomorrow. I will watch online live broadcasts in China to support you." Qin Ziyan smiled sweetly, turned the steering wheel and drove Hyundai onto the highway.
Li Yuntian stood outside the stadium, staring at the car's back as he was gradually moving away for a long time, until he could no longer see the silver traces of the car.
On November 2, the Rockets' team arrived at General Rogan International Airport in Boston. The team did not have training tasks that day and players could rest.
Francis was so happy that he explained to Li Yuntian: "You can never imagine what the Rockets were like in the past. Van Gundy was simply a tyrant. We had no time to rest. He would call us together to watch the opponent's games and watch them one by one until you were crazy about death!"
Adelman not only gave the players enough rest time, but also made it easier to train. On the morning of November 4th, it was a simple physical training, and in the afternoon, it was targeted joint training. Li Yuntian was placed as the main small forward in the second team. He and Hayes, Wells, Hyde and Frances were on the same team as Yao Ming, Scola, Bathir, McGrady, and Alstom.
Because of Li Yuntian, although Francis did not practice after the game, he was very active during training, so his form returned well. Alstom, who was not good at defending, was beaten miserably by him, so he could only let Bathil defend.
It was McGrady who defended Li Yuntian. After several warm-up rounds between the two sides, Francis broke through and passed the ball to Li Yuntian in the free throw area, who easily hit a goal.
Adelman was not very satisfied with McGrady's defensive attitude and reminded: "Tresey, can't you defend against Lee?"
McGrady shrugged and squinted her sleepy eyes and said, "I'm afraid that this kid's confidence will be ruined. It's not easy for Li to reach this point."
Yao Ming used his height to hit a hook on Hayes' head. Francis dribbled the ball to the frontcourt. Li Yuntian quietly ran outside the wing three-point line. McGrady followed casually and did not defend very seriously. Rockets players all know that Li Yuntian only made accurate shots in the middle of the left and right wings, and outside the three-point line, it can only be considered ordinary.
Francis passed the ball to Li Yuntian. After getting the ball, the latter slapped his right hand, leaned forward with his shoulder, and rushed to the middle distance of the left wing in two steps.
McGrady followed behind with big strides. He estimated that Li Yuntian was going to pass the ball, but the latter suddenly twisted his shoulders, and the impacted body stopped rapidly. Then he took a step back and pulled away from McGrady, jumping up and shooting.
‘Swish’, a crisp sound of basketballs entering the net sounded, and the whistles of Francis and Landry and Brooks also sounded. Adelman was even more dissatisfied, and he said to McGrady: “Be serious, Tracy, you have been beaten to Li as a damn sieve!”
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Chapter completed!