Chapter 110: Drafts that have nothing to do with drafts (2)

In Leon’s room, the draft meeting held in Madison Square Garden was being broadcasted on TV. Stern stepped onto the podium and is about to announce the first pick for this year’s draft. Copy URL to visit
-the---in-2002-nba-draft, the--------and--sharks! (In the 2002 NBA Draft, the Houston Rockets chose Yao Ming from China and the Shanghai Sharks in the first overall pick!) "When Stern reads the name Yao Ming, the entire Madison Garden The square is full of cheers and boiling, sitting in front of the TV and watching the live broadcast can feel the warm atmosphere of the scene.
The first foreign champion in nba history was born. He did not come from Europe, the strongest basketball player outside the United States, but from China on the other side of the ocean, a world of yellow people ignored by Americans.
At this time, Wang Zhizhi, Schwartz, and Wang Zhizhi's assistant Chen Weiming were also in Leon's room. They were all doing tentative greetings before, and they turned their attention to the TV after the start of the draft.
"How do you feel, Wang, your teammate and opponent, Yao Ming became the No. 1 overall pick. I heard that when you were in China, Yao never won the national championship. He got his wish after you left. Give me some comments." Leon asked Wang Zhizhi a sharp question.
After seeing Wang Zhizhi, he found that he was a shy, introverted big man, which felt a little strange. In fact, those tall giants are somewhat withdrawn from the inside and feel weird. No wonder people say lonely giants.
Then Leon found that Wang Zhizhi’s English was not very good. Once Leon spoke that thick Boston accent and extremely fast speaking speed, Wang Zhizhi would look at Chen Weiming blankly, and Chen Weiming would simply speak to Wang Zhizhi in a bad Chinese. An explanation of what Leon said.
What Leon said just now uses a very complicated sentence structure, using two attributive clauses. Moreover, the speed of speech was so fast that Wang Zhizhi fell into a bewildered expression again, and he had to ask Chen Weiming for help again.
Chen Weiming is not too tall, has a nice appearance, single eyelids, neat short hair, and looks very clean. It is a typical outstanding Chinese image in American hearts. From the moment he entered Leon's room, he kept guarding Wang Zhizhi's side. Act as an interpreter for this conversation.
"He asks you how to evaluate Yao Ming. He is an opponent and a teammate. Now he has been picked in the first place." Chen Weiming's translation is quite accurate, but his Chinese is really not good, Wang Zhizhi is just barely able to. Understand.
Wang Zhizhi sat on the sofa and smiled, with a somewhat reluctant smile, looking at the person who had been left far behind by himself. Now I came to the NBA with a highly anticipated posture, but I was on the verge of being abandoned. I had to endure the torment of the choice in a small room, and my heart was bound to be mixed.
The TV shot happened to be switched to China, Beijing. At this time, Yao Ming was in a room in a foreign reporter's apartment outside Jianguomen, where the NBA official set up a temporary studio. Yao Ming sat in front of the camera with his parents and Wang Fei, the head coach of the Chinese Men's Basketball Team. When Yao Ming was selected, he and his father high-five, and his mother shook his hand, and then Wang Fei shook hands with Yao Ming to celebrate. However, unlike those American stars who were crying and embracing with their families at every turn of excitement, Yao Ming quickly calmed down after a brief celebration. His mother put her hand on his lap, seeming to signal Yao Ming to calm down.
"It's okay, he is better than me now. He is working hard and will have better development in the future." Wang Zhizhi looked at Yao Ming who was unable to be there because of preparations for the national team game and gave his own evaluation.
"He said Yao is pretty good. There will be good development in the future, but he may not be strong." Chen Weiming listened to Wang Zhizhi's words and spoke to Leon very quickly. Obviously, he didn't want Wang Zhizhi's frustrating words to be heard by potential new clubs. Players in the United States should be confident, even in the face of Jordan, they must firmly believe that they are the strongest, so he slightly changed the original meaning of Wang Zhizhi's words.
Leon just smiled after hearing this, not paying attention to Chen Weiming's tricks, and then said: "Do you know how people evaluate you and Yao in your country now? Do you know how much you choose to stay in the United States will be to your life? I think you should have read that fax. If you want to get everything back to normal, then I advise you to go back to your hometown and solve your problems in China. Next Come to the Celtics for a good season."
After hearing Leon’s words, Chen Weiming's brows tightened. He knew that the highlight of the meeting was coming. As Wang Zhizhi’s assistant and translator, he had already given him a lot of persuasion as Wang Zhizhi, including many from China. Contact, Chen Weiming blocked them one by one from Wang Zhizhi. This time he decided to repeat the old tricks and use the language barrier to make a mistake.
"Now China has a lot of comments about you and Yao..., some are not very good to you, Yao is better. He thinks you should go back, deal with this kind of thing, and then return to the United States to play." Chen Weiming's translator was in In fact, there is no problem in meaning, but the feeling of speaking is completely different.
When Wang Zhizhi heard his face, he said coldly, "What are you going to do when you go back? If there is something to solve, I want to play well. As long as I play out, all comments will be nonsense."
"He said he didn't want to go back. As long as he played well in the United States and played well, he didn't care about the rumors." Chen Weiming spread his hands towards Leon and said to Leon with a very helpless expression.
Leon snorted coldly. He turned off the TV, walked to the window, and opened the curtains. Outside the window was the bustling night view of New York City, dazzling and charming. He opened the window a little bit to let the evening breeze in. He took out a cigar from his pocket, "Cleopatra", slowly lit it with a long stick match, and took a sip. Because Leon had cut off his long hair, he looked a little less evil and a little more upright, but when he smoked his cigar, the evil spirit on his body was vented like Auerbach.
He pointed at Wang Zhizhi with his cigar in his fingers, and then said to Wang Zhizhi in fluent Mandarin Chinese: "Comrade Wang Zhizhi, I heard that the Chinese pay attention to the return of the leaves to the roots, and there is a saying that the rich and the noble do not return to the hometown like a night in a brocade. China People have deep feelings for their homeland. A wandering person’s desire and expectation to return to their hometown is often the motivation to support them. The United States is a country of immigrants, and an American cannot experience such cultural feelings. Yes, but you are not American, you are a Chinese. You have to consider not only basketball, but also your parents, your lover, your hometown, your motherland. I don’t want to be in Kyle next season The players played by the specials are a shell with no spiritual belonging, let alone hope that when the NBA is developing towards the world, the Celtics, the team with the longest culture in the United States, will lose the world’s largest market because of you. You can’t get any live broadcasts. Including your confrontation with Yao Ming! So, no matter from your personal emotional considerations or from the interests of the team, you should go back and solve the problem. As for your development in the NBA, I I promise you that I will give you enough opportunities, provided that you work hard and listen to me. This is your last chance, Dazhi."
When Leon finished talking about this big call ~EbookFREE.me~ the whole room seemed to freeze. Schwartz, who hadn't spoken and watched the show from start to finish, was dumbfounded, and Chen Weiming's eyes widened with horror. Wang Zhizhi was also in a daze at the beginning. When he realized that he could understand every word Leon said, the more serious and anxious the expression on his face became, and when Leon said, "This is you "The last chance, Da Zhi", Wang Zhizhi completely collapsed. He buried his head between his legs and held his hair with both hands. For months, the life of "betraying" everyone has plunged him into a huge In the struggle of isolation and hesitation.
Chen Weiming and his wife are his only straws, especially Chen Weiming who can speak some Chinese. When he saw Leon’s fax in Chinese that day, he was moved. But after seeing Fox Leon, he found that this was an English-speaking American. He thought that the fax was nothing but a Chinese students studying in Boston translate, after all, there are too many famous universities in Boston.
However, when Leon tapped his heart with a mouthful of authentic Chinese and words that fit Chinese psychology, the little spiritual wall he maintained because of his stubbornness and gentleness was defeated.
Leon stepped forward, held on to Wang Zhizhi's shoulder and said, "Go home, big boy." (To be continued.)
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