Chapter 16

On the evening of the 16th, the day after officially signing with Nike...

In the game where the team continued to play at home against the Warriors, Su Feng, wearing the A Cone, felt like he had been possessed by Jordan.

Well...

Well!

It was the Jordan of the Iron Smelting Gang, not the Jordan who had activated "God Descending to Earth."

Speaking of which, there's a little story about the A Cone 3s that Su Feng was wearing tonight.

That is, after officially signing with Nike yesterday, Su Feng specifically asked the Nike staff for "Old Rogue" Jordan's contact information.

Then...

Su Feng always felt that Jordan's tone on the phone at the time was a bit tired, as if his whole body had been hollowed out.

On the phone, Jordan didn't say anything like "You don't deserve to wear AJs" to him. And what surprised Su Feng was that, in addition to giving himself a license to wear A Cones...

Jordan was actually encouraging himself on the phone at the time?

Damn it, is reality so absurd?

"Your recent performance has been very good. Keep it up and try to lead the team to a higher position."

Su Feng: "......"

Seriously, has this Jordan also been possessed by someone else?

However, Su Feng didn't think too much about it at the time.

Anyway, in his opinion, as long as he can successfully get a license to wear AJs, that's fine.

Su Feng swore to the heavens that he was definitely not calling Jordan because he disliked other Nike shoes, but because in the '90s, if he didn't wear AJs to play basketball, Su Feng always felt like he was missing something.

And the facts proved that Jordan's EQ level also depends on who he's dealing with.

Su Feng had just created the 'Meteor Dunk,' and his popularity was amazing. How could Jordan not know that Su Feng wearing AJs at this time would only benefit him?

And knowing Stern's tricks well, Jordan had already seen through that Stern was promoting Su Feng recently.

Jordan wasn't stupid. He knew that there had always been a tacit understanding between him and Stern.

In Su Feng's previous life, shortly after Jordan put the "Jordan successor" label on Kobe, Stern immediately arranged for Kobe to enter the All-Star game.

There was even a rumor that Jordan's retirement that year was Stern's way of protecting him.

Just like after the "Rodman kicks a photographer" incident, the Bulls were treated coldly by the referees in the next few games. Jordan knew that standing on Stern's side at this time was more conducive to the construction of the Bulls' second dynasty.

As for encouraging Su Feng...

That was purely because the 76ers were too annoying.

Why not let them annoy pseudo-powerhouses like the Heat?

Everyone has their own complex side, and there's no doubt that Jordan is also a complex person.

In Su Feng's previous life, he put on airs during his trip to China, broke appointments, and even said that "You don't deserve to wear AJs" to his little fan Hamilton in the future, which directly pierced Hamilton's heart at the time.

But during the construction of the Bulls' second dynasty, Jordan was definitely a "smart man."

As the saying goes, times change, and how could Su Feng always guess people's hearts?

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Back to the Zhongzhou Arena.

Facing Adelman's Warriors, the 76ers had the last laugh.

The two teams jointly played a postmodern basketball score in this game, 114 to 125. The 76ers fans who came to the scene were very happy, because the rhythm of this game was like an All-Star game.

Su Feng made 4 of 14 shots in this game, scoring only 13 points including free throws and three-pointers.

Su Feng's poor performance was related to the fact that his main energy in this game was focused on Sprewell.

Sprewell, nicknamed "Madman," had explosive physical talent. He and Su Feng fought hard for 48 minutes in this game.

The two's hand-to-hand combat on the court made the fans on the scene tremble, because the fans were afraid that the two would take off their jerseys in the next second and directly hold a boxing championship.

Speaking of which, Sprewell is also a complex player.

If things develop according to the historical trajectory, Sprewell will break up with Carlesimo, who replaced Adelman, next season.

In many future evaluations, you can often see derogatory terms such as "brainless, stubborn, and irritable" in Sprewell's evaluation.

In 1993, during a training session, because of a verbal conflict with Byron Houston, he directly engaged in a martial arts PK with Houston.

In 1995, after fighting with teammate Jerome Kersey, he even threatened to shoot Kersey.

In the 97/98 season, after a dispute with coach Carlesimo, he directly locked Carlesimo's throat. If his teammates hadn't stopped him in time, Carlesimo might have been strangled to death by him.

In 2005, because he was dissatisfied with the 3-year, $21 million offer from the Timberwolves, after saying the famous "I can't feed my family on less than $10 million" to the team, no one cared about him anymore.

In the future, after retiring, he also repeatedly committed domestic violence against his girlfriend.

Finally, after spending all his savings, this guy declared bankruptcy.

And it is worth mentioning that Sprewell's highlight moments...

Almost all of them were played under Van Gundy.

In the years when he played under Van Gundy, Sprewell basically didn't make any big mistakes, and he also played the famous "Black Eight Miracle" with the Knicks.

So...

If Van Gundy wasn't so stubborn on the basketball court, he would really have the potential to become a basketball godfather.

Because he can even handle people like Sprewell, who is "a legend below the neck," how could he not have something special?

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On the 17th, after defeating the Warriors, the 76ers played against the Nets at home in a back-to-back game.

Originally, before the start of this game, Davis wanted to reduce Su Feng's playing time.

Because after yesterday's game against the Warriors, Davis felt very sorry for Su Feng, who was covered in bruises after the game.

But...

During the game, as he used him, Davis forgot to let Su Feng rest properly again.

Speaking of which, the current coach of the Nets is John Calipari, who is the mentor of Rose and Wall in their college days in the future.

As a disciple of Larry Brown, Calipari's signature tactic is called DDM.

You can simply understand it as: a guard's unlimited one-on-one tactic.

There are many variations of this tactic, but there is a prerequisite: you must have a super guard with extremely strong breakthrough ability in your team.

Calipari's tactic cannot be popular in this era, because except for a few players, rushing in regardless of the HC rules is no different from courting death.

And even in the future small-ball era, after the defensive intensity of the game changes in the playoffs, the shortcomings of this tactic are very obvious.

Because the NCAA and the NBA are completely different games. In the NCAA, if you have monsters like Rose and Wall, how can the other side limit you?

But in the NBA...

Who told you that you must use Curry to defend against the other side's Irving or Westbrook?

Once the core guard is limited, Calipari's tactic cannot be launched.

This season, the Nets' starting guard is Robert Pack, a name that even an excellent keyboard warrior like Su Feng is unfamiliar with.

Benefiting from Calipari's DDM tactic, Pack has played a "15+9" quasi-All-Star guard data this season.

However, although the data looks very good, Pack was blown away by Iverson on this night.

In Su Feng's previous life, after Pack was traded to the Mavericks, this guy quickly revealed his true colors.

In the NBA, there is no shortage of players whose data looks good, but are actually trash.

Take Kittles, the "Mosquito," who is in the same draft as Su Feng, as an example.

This season, Kittles' average data is similar to Su Feng's, but in the current rookie rankings, Kittles' ranking is even behind Ray Allen.

Because in the eyes of the judges, Kittles' data is unconvincing.

In this game, Iverson blew up Pack, and Su Feng also defended this "Mosquito" into a "Dead Mosquito" in the match-up with Kittles.

Kittles is good at using off-ball movement to launch cold arrows, which is exactly what Su Feng, this "Iron Merchant," likes.

As long as he thinks that every time Kittles makes a goal, he will lose 100 million Iron Points, Su Feng feels that he must defend Kittles with the attitude of defending Jordan.

84 to 113, "Ai Feng" combined to score 50 points in this game, helping the 76ers achieve a three-game winning streak at home.

After the game, Calipari said angrily in an interview that if he had an Iverson, he would definitely be able to lead the Nets to achieve better results than the 76ers.

The Philadelphia reporters at the press conference at the time were all happy, because looking at Calipari's envious and jealous expression was also a kind of happiness...

And when Su Feng heard Calipari's remarks, he felt that like teacher, like student...

"Now even the disciples want to come and pick peaches?"

Su Feng suddenly felt that Davis's future was not very optimistic.

After all, as the 76ers get better and better in the new season, more and more people are optimistic about them, which also means...

Many coaches who like to pick peaches are now staring at Davis's position.

"It seems that the 'Wandering Iron' plan is time to upgrade to version 7.0." Su Feng thought silently this day.

The '90s are different from the future. People in this era generally believe that head coaches who have achieved success in the NCAA will definitely be successful in the NBA.

And in the future, with the help of the social network mirror, most coaches' abilities will be clearly seen after fans gather together to discuss a few games.

Therefore, in the future, many young and agile coaches will gradually become the first choice for most NBA teams.

Compared with fame, the future NBA will pay more attention to your tactical concepts and the way you get along with players.

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On the 18th, the 76ers flew to Indianapolis to prepare for the away game against the Pacers on the 19th.

Just finished fighting the disciple, and now I'm going to meet the master...

I have to say, the NBA schedule is really wonderful.

Brown's coveting of the 76ers is now well known.

This season, in addition to blaming the Pacers' players in interviews, the thing Larry Brown loves to do most is to praise "Ai Feng."

"I must admit that my previous judgment was wrong.

In my opinion, as long as you give me a year, I can make Su a star player.

His 'Meteor Dunk' is very imaginative. If I were the head coach of the 76ers, I would encourage him to use this kind of finishing method more in the game."

"Allen is talented and will definitely become the best offensive guard in this league in the future."

"I think there is still a lot of potential to be tapped in them (the 76ers). John (Davidson) has been doing a good job recently, and I believe he will be a good coach in the future."

Listen!

If he didn't know what kind of person Larry Brown was, Su Feng would almost have been fooled by him with this kind of peach-picking remark.

Larry Brown's implication is already very simple. As long as he is given the opportunity, he can pack his bags and come to Philadelphia immediately.

How "sinister" is his intention?

But then again, because he was preparing for back-to-back games before, Su Feng hadn't read the news much in the past two days.

As a result, after the team arrived in Indy and bought two newspapers after getting off the plane...

Su Feng realized...

It turned out that his "Meteor Dunk" had caused such a big controversy in the world?

Currently, many NBA stars have participated in the discussion of whether the "Meteor Dunk" is a dunk.

For example, Drexler said in an interview that the "Meteor Dunk" is of course a dunk.

Because in his opinion, this is a new way for young people to dare to try, "We can't be too rigid in accepting new things."

Another example is Pistons legend Thomas, who even believes that Su Feng's "posterization" dunk on Malone should be included in the NBA's historical top 50 dunks.

Don't ask, just ask how many souls Malone has killed with his elbows, and there are that many legends supporting Su Feng this time.

Su Feng has offended many big shots since entering the league, but how can his hate value be as high as Malone, a man who looks like a warrior but is actually an assassin?

This time, even "Old Rogue" Jordan stood on Su Feng's side.

Because this season, Jordan and Malone have a direct competitive relationship in the regular season MVP battle.

What are you kidding me? Would "Old Rogue" Jordan miss this opportunity to suppress his competitors?

The so-called "friendly mutual assistance" of the rice country has always been like this.

In the face of interests, the enemy of my enemy is my friend!

It's just that the mobile phones in this era are not smart enough, otherwise who knows how many accounts Malone would have to create to fight against this group of people who can't wait to step on him?

And what exceeded Su Feng's expectations was that his "napkin agreement" with Nike had now become a "signing model" that many companies were competing to imitate.

The evil capitalists felt that they had found a new way to "paint a cake" for their employees.

Look, I'm so anxious that I can only sign a contract with you using a napkin. It's time for you to shed your blood for me, right?

If you have to use one sentence to describe the current NBA public opinion environment, then you can only use a mess to describe it.

Su Feng felt that his "posterization" dunk on Malone was like Yunlong attacking Ping'an County.

There were many people supporting Malone, but there were even more people helping him surround the point and fight for aid.

It's a mess, it's a mess, it's a complete mess.

"Is this still the world I'm familiar with?"

Looking at this group of legends who were tearing each other apart in the newspapers, Su Feng felt...

The tall image of these legends in his mind instantly shortened by half.

And just as Su Feng was sighing about this group of crazy dueling legends, Nike had already sent him his first gift...

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As early as 1986, Nike had launched its first advertisement in the Rabbit Country.

And this season, as Su Feng opened the door to the NBA for the Rabbit Country in advance...

Nike, who smelled the business opportunities, had already conducted further cooperation with Da Tianchao Sports TV last summer.

According to the original plan, Nike was originally scheduled to send its latest advertisement, which was used to promote the NBA All-Star Game, to the Rabbit Country on January 15 this year.

But because of the official signing with Su Feng on the 15th, Nike's advertisement was not sent to Beijing by special plane until January 17.

And due to the production time, Nike did not have time to modify the specific content of this advertisement.

However, Phil Knight, the person in charge of Nike who had investigated the Chinese market, specially attached the specific voting method for the current NBA All-Star Game at the end of this advertisement in order to strengthen Chinese fans' recognition of Nike, encouraging Chinese fans to vote for Su Feng.

Before the Internet completely exploded, there were mainly two ways to vote for the NBA All-Star Game.

One is to send an email, and the other is to make a phone call.

Well...

There are also two types of emails, one is email and the other is traditional mail.

However, because the statistical process of traditional mail and phone calls is too cumbersome, after the Internet gradually flourished, the NBA encouraged fans to use email to vote for their favorite stars.

Of course, due to various force majeure factors, there have actually been many cases of "invalid votes" in the NBA.

Knight is a smart man. In fact, he doesn't know that as the NBA All-Star Game voting has entered the fourth period, Chinese fans simply don't have time to vote for Su Feng.

After all, at that time, the computer was too luxurious in the Rabbit Country.

So this Nike person in charge actually just wanted to use Su Feng to win Chinese fans' recognition of Nike.

In Knight's opinion, even if the rabbits in the Rabbit Country are capable, it is impossible to add millions of votes to Su Feng overnight across the Pacific Ocean.

Right?

"Old Su, it's not me who's talking about you.

Your son is the first Chinese player to enter the NBA, and this is the NBA All-Star Game!

Do you know what role his entry into the All-Star Game will play for our country's basketball enthusiasts and for our country's sports development?

I'm putting the ugly words first, if you continue to be so obsessed, I'll go to Grandpa Su.

And I won't hide the fact that you had dinner with that someone last week."

Just as Su Feng was preparing for the away game against the Pacers, in the Rabbit Country, Xu Guoliang couldn't wait to kick Su Weiguo into the Huangpu River.

"Old Xu, I also read the voting method mentioned in the Nike advertisement.

But even if I want to help with that email voting, I can't do anything.

Look, there are so many restrictions on it, you have to write this, fill in that, and check this, look at that..." Su Weiguo said with a headache.

"Are you stupid? We can't play email, isn't there still traditional mail?

Look, Nike has even sent several sample forms.

Old Su, you have been corrupted by capital!

You have even forgotten the golden words that Grandpa Su often taught us, 'Let the enemy fall into the vast ocean of people's war'!" Xu Guoliang said angrily.

"No, how dare I forget what Grandpa said?

It's just that, how should we do this traditional mail?

Even if we can mobilize the masses to vote for that little bastard, how should we send it?

This is across the Pacific Ocean. By the time it is sent, the All-Star Game over there may have already ended, right?" Su Weiguo said helplessly.

"What are you worried about? Worrying about this and worrying about that?

Are you still Su Weiguo who used to xxxx with me?

Let me tell you this, I came to you this time because I was entrusted by a friend from CCTV.

Because they are preparing to make a basketball program. At that time, in the program, they will popularize to fans how to correctly fill out the form to vote for Xiao Su.

This time is limited, we have to mobilize all the forces we can mobilize.

Mainly fans in and near Beijing. I am responsible for the money, and you are responsible for the people.

I'll give you three days to gather all the forms filled out by these fans, and then I'll find a special plane to send them to New York!" Xu Guoliang said, patting Su Weiguo's shoulder.

"Is there enough time?" Su Weiguo asked.

"Comrade Su Weiguo, remember, the sentence I often say when dealing with foreigners is, never say the word 'impossible' to Chinese people!" Xu Guoliang said.

"Then aren't you going to bleed a lot this time?" Su Weiguo said.

Bang!

Xu Guoliang kicked Su Weiguo directly, "You still dare to talk to me about money? How much money have you fooled from me, you don't know in your heart?

This is your son, and also my virtuous nephew!

If this matter is handled properly, it will be able to enhance national pride, you know? Can your ideological awareness not be so low?"

Su Weiguo nodded, "I'm not feeling sorry for you?"

Xu Guoliang rolled his eyes at Su Weiguo. As a comrade-in-arms who grew up wearing the same pants, Xu Guoliang was already accustomed to Su Weiguo's tricks.

Anyway, just listen to what the Su family says.

Don't take it seriously, or you'll be sold and still counting money for them.

"Alas, Xiao Su is still honest, and he must let him play with Hehe more in the future."

At this moment, Xu Guoliang thought with emotion.

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