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To be honest, this is the situation Stern would rather see.

The door to the Chinese market needs to be opened, and overseas markets also need stimulation.

Li Ang joined the Raptors, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

Well, since Li Ang failed to go to the local market, Stern must comfort himself!

When Li Ang stepped down, there were already many reporters waiting for him.

"Lee, you have to start your career in Toronto. Do you think this is a suitable starting point?"

“It’s a perfect fit and I can’t wait to play my part in the team.”

"Are you confident that you can help the team make the playoffs next season?"

"I will try my best to help the team and do whatever I can."

"As the first Asian player selected in the lottery to enter the NBA, what do you want to say to Asian fans?"

"Asians can also play in the NBA. It's not just me. I also know that there are many excellent basketball players in China who are actually capable of playing in the NBA. Come on, sooner or later you will also be standing here."

In the 1990s and early 1990s, most athletes in China were uncomfortable, at a loss, and incoherent when facing interviews and cameras.

This is especially true internationally.

To be honest, I am still not confident. This lack of confidence is deeply rooted in this generation.

But the mentality of Li Ang's athletes from 2021 is different. If you compare future athletes with current athletes, you will find that their confidence levels are completely different.

They are more calm and natural in front of the camera, and can vent their emotions more boldly.

Li Ang is like this. When he is interviewed by reporters, his eyes will not wander, and he can answer questions freely in English.

What does it mean to be an international superstar?

It shows the spirit of Chinese athletes!

Soon, Director Zhang and Su Junyang also came up, their faces full of joy.

They all thought that Li Ang would be selected by the Cavaliers at eighth, but they did not expect that he would suddenly rise to fifth.

"Leon, next season do you think you still have the confidence to perform as well in the NBA as you did in the NCAA?"

Instructor Zhang’s questions were very simple. He was probably so excited that he forgot the questions he had originally prepared.

Li Ang nodded and said "yes" decisively.

Returning to his seat, Leon hugged his family, Bart Stern and Francis again.

At this time, Li Ang's cell phone vibrated like something in his pants.

When I opened it, there were all congratulatory text messages.

Oakley, Big Ben, Gary Williams, Cal Sr., Hampton, Tina and Nicole

Although they were not with Li Ang at this time, they seemed to be standing beside him.

The draft is still going on, and all the players in the little green room are standing on the stage as they wish.

With the seventh pick, Hamilton was selected by the Washington Wizards. The home fans cheered, but the Wizards' cleaners sighed.

It will be difficult to clean this toilet from now on!

When walking down, Hamilton pointed at Li Ang, as if telling him: "Let's have another showdown in the NBA where you either die or I vomit!"

With the eighth pick, the Cavaliers, after losing Leon, had no choice but to use their backup plan and acquired another guard, Andre Miller, who couldn't shoot from long range but was very strong in back-up play.

The knight is so big.

With the 16th pick, the Chicago Bulls selected Artest from St. John's after acquiring Francis.

Li Ang was not surprised by this, but Francis's lips were frightened at the time.

"Ah, Artest!?" When Boss Fu heard Stern pronounce the name, he swallowed and glanced at Li Ang.

Damn it, why am I in the 251st team!

He won't take revenge on me on the court, right?

Artest at home pumped his fist hard and was extremely happy.

Most of the children of this era are Jordan fans. So joining the Bulls is like a dream come true for Artest.

Moreover, the Bulls also have Francis!

Hey hey hey.

Li Ang, Li Ang, your dick is in my hand now!

The old gangster at home also smiled happily, the Bulls finally chose a decent guy.

Well, after the new season training camp starts, I will go visit the class!

With the fourth pick in the second round, the Nuggets selected Obina. With the sixth pick, the Wizards selected Proffitt.

Because Li Ang's two college teammates won championships in the NCAA, their rankings were much higher than before.

With the seventh pick, another Chinese name appeared on the scene.

The Mavericks chose Wang Zhizhi just like they did before.

Director Zhang and Su Junyang were so excited that they even thought about the headlines for tomorrow's news.

It just so happens that the new millennium is coming, and at this juncture, two Chinese players have been selected by the NBA.

The title is called "Golden Generation"!

The NBA, which used to feel out of reach, has two Chinese players selected at one time. This is undoubtedly a blockbuster in the basketball world.

The draft came to an end, and with the 28th pick in the second round, the second to last pick, the Spurs, who had just won the championship yesterday, selected an Argentinian with long flowing hair.

Highlights of his overseas league games were played on the big screen, but the fans at the scene simply ignored him.

There is a high probability that a person with this kind of pick will pack up and return to South America to grow coffee beans after playing a few games in the NBA.

If you're lucky, you can earn millions by playing a few seasons and live a good life.

How could these proud eagles imagine that five years later, this long-haired Argentinian would shame American basketball.

At this point, the 1999 NBA Draft has come to an end.

But Li Ang and the others can't leave yet, and all the lottery rookies have to take a group photo.

Who among these talents will achieve greater success in the NBA? Who will be ignored by everyone?

No one knows now.

After returning to the hotel, Li Ang still couldn't believe that he had actually become an NBA player.

Although Li Ang was quite calm at the scene, he was actually very excited.

In the past, this kind of thing could only be done by playing games and reading novels.

Now, it has become something that Li Ang is about to face.

"The fifth pick, to be honest, the result is not bad." Bart Stern smiled. Although Toronto is an overseas market, it is different from Vancouver, which is half dead.

Toronto's ball market is even bigger than Cleveland's.

Moreover, Toronto still has Carter, who is a guy with his own traffic. There will definitely be many games broadcast across the United States next season.

Li Ang can also reap traffic dividends by playing beside him.

Li Ang also carefully thought about his prospects with the Raptors. At this period of time, because of Carter, Li Ang still knew a little bit about the Raptors.

According to the original history, next season the Raptors should make the playoffs for the first time in team history. This is better than simply being a bad team. At least they don't have to lose and shut down.

You see, Vancouver's Raheem has lost so much that he can only amuse himself by being the leader in blocked shots. It's really miserable.

From the perspective of the locker room, the absolute core of the Raptors at this time is undoubtedly Carter.

Carter himself is also a newcomer and has a gentle personality that is easy to get along with.

What's more, the real locker room leader of the Raptors is Oakley, who is his master.

Therefore, Li Ang should not encounter any trouble within the Raptors.

If anyone is dissatisfied with Li Ang, you can speak out boldly. It is not that we, Lao Li, cannot accept opinions.

It's just that after expressing your opinion, Oakley and Leon may invite you to a small corner of the parking lot for a visit.

It's normal to take suggestions.

Another issue is role positioning.

From the impression flow, when Carter and Tracy McGrady team up, the style of the game seems to be that the cousin beats the cousin, and the cousin beats the cousin, and no one else has anything to do.

In fact, this is not the case. Only Carter has the absolute right to take action for the Raptors. McGrady is currently only a sixth man.

Of course, he has a lot of shooting rights, but he is not yet on par with Carter.

In fact, throughout his entire Raptors career, McGrady has never been on par with Carter.

After all, Tracy Wang only averaged 9.3 points per game last season. If I remember correctly next season, he should only average 14.15 points per game.

At this time, McGrady was far from the superstar in people's minds. He really became famous with the Magic.

McGrady of the Raptors is just a young man with good talent, nothing more.

In other words, although Li Ang is not the absolute core on the offensive end, he is not unable to touch the ball.

The main reason why the Raptors chose him was probably because of his defensive and rebounding abilities.

Simply the earliest documented 30D player!

This is actually good, because Li Ang's independent offensive capabilities have not yet been fully developed.

If Li Ang is given too much ball power, he won't be able to digest it. He can't trample him throughout the whole game, right?

NBA games are not about being reckless.

If you don't have that ability and still have to force yourself to do it, you will easily be labeled as a parallel import.

First, develop for a season behind Carter and McGrady to develop more scoring methods.

After all, Li Ang can freely choose which part of the abilities to add after upgrading.

Therefore, there is no such problem as not being able to practice offense.

Use the experience points gained from grabbing rebounds to increase offensive abilities.

This is not about making money standing up, it is about making money by jumping.

If Tracy Wang still leaves the Raptors as in the original history, then after his insignificant development, Li Ang will be able to seamlessly connect, smoothly take over, and dunk the baskets of every NBA arena with Brother Carter!

I’m quite the planning whiz!

That night, Li Ang couldn't sleep.

All he could think about was playing in the NBA in the future.

Do you think there will really be a legend of the top five shooting guards in the future?

The cauliflower head of the Lakers plays like a McDuck.

That cornhead from Philadelphia breaks through as fast as the wind.

Canada's bald guy can dunk like a tiger.

The bald cousin is elegant and picturesque.

There is also King Li, who scores more points in board games!

A shooting guard who can't rebound is not a good power forward.

The next day, Li Ang woke up with dark circles under his eyes.

In the dream, he dunked on O'Neal, and his face was stunned. His strength explained what it means to have everything in a dream.

Just after waking up, Bart Stern started knocking on the door "bang bang bang".

"Li, get up and make some money!"

Li Ang opened the door and found that Bart Stern was holding a pile of contracts, all of which were draft contracts for commercial endorsements.

Although Li Ang has not yet entered the league and played a game, he is the first Chinese to be selected by the NBA.

The commercial value is not low at all.

Now these are small endorsements and the contracts are not particularly big.

But it was enough for Li Ang to earn hundreds of thousands before entering the league, and he was somewhat troubled.

Now, not only China, but the entire Asia has set off a basketball storm.

Domestically, the news is overwhelming that Li Ang and Wang Zhizhi were selected in the NBA.

In the domestic fan circle, it can be said that everyone knows Wang Zhizhi.

And Li Ang's ranking is a whole round higher than Wang Zhizhi!

Think about how much of a shock this is to Chinese fans.

In Shanghai, a young boy with a bad ear bought several newspapers at the newsstand next to the egg-filled pancakes, all just to read the sports section.

Looking at the Chinese man wearing a Raptors baseball cap and shaking hands with Stern on the stage, the young man's eyes were full of yearning.

And Li Ang's words, "It's not just me, I also know that there are many excellent basketball players in China, and they can actually play in the NBA" gave him great encouragement.

The 1999 Asian Championships is coming soon, which will be the beginning of Yao Ming's national team career.

He must do his best and seize every opportunity to perform!

Wang Zhizhi looked at Li Ang in the newspaper with some envy.

Because he is about to play in the Asian Championships, although he has been selected, he cannot report to the NBA yet.

I don’t know when it will actually be possible to land in the NBA.

I really look forward to playing against another person with yellow skin and black hair in the NBA!

Hu Weidong smiled softly, put down the newspaper, and continued training.

NBA, if it weren't for the damn injuries, I should have had a chance.

People from the Basketball Association looked at the newspaper and looked forward to Li Ang even more.

This year's Asian Championships, they did not invite Li Ang.

After all, no matter how good Li Ang is, he is still a student player who has never played in a professional game.

They want to see how Li Ang performs in the NBA next season before considering whether to take him to the 2000 Olympics.

CCTV is also preparing to increase the number of NBA broadcasts next season. Last season, CCTV only broadcast NBA on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and most of them were recorded broadcasts.

Now that a Chinese player has gone to the NBA, everyone is paying more attention to it. We might as well broadcast more Raptors games next season.

In this era where print media dominates, it is incredible that Li Ang, as an athlete outside the system, has become so popular.

And in Ugly Country, Toronto is full of news about Leon.

Reporters from some TV stations went to the streets to randomly interview fans and asked them what they thought of the Raptors' draft.

Li Ang's reputation is polarized.

Because in Canada, the NCAA is not as popular as in the ugly country.

Therefore, Li Ang is not particularly famous in Toronto.

Some fans who don't watch the NCAA think that the Raptors are like Shi Lezhi. There are no Chinese people who can play basketball, and they still play in the NBA.

Wouldn't it be nice for you to choose Hamilton and play the tired tactic?

Some fans who follow the NCAA are still optimistic about Li Ang's prospects with the Raptors.

After all, in this era, fierce and muscular power forwards are very popular.

It doesn't matter whether fans think highly of Li Ang or not, but the two leaders of the Raptors take Li Ang very seriously.

In the afternoon, Grunwald and Isaiah Thomas met with Leon at a restaurant.

"I'm very happy that we can finally come together. If you perform well, we are willing to give you a main position next season. This is what Charles means. He believes that in the fourth position, you can do better than him.

We value your defensive ability, and of course your offensive talent. Next season, our goal is to hit the playoffs. I hope you can be ready to help the team achieve its goal! "

Grunwald got straight to the point and started talking about the main position. And he also added, "I also value your offensive talent."

Otherwise, how can I be said to be a general manager? Emotional intelligence is a very good thing.

But it is true that this offensive talent also depends on who you compare with.

If compared with Oakley's great apprentice, Li Ang is simply full of offensive talent!

Li Ang is not a fool, he has also heard that there is a prerequisite for guaranteeing the main position - if you perform well.

Got it, the summer league is about to start, I will show you what Li Sanguang is on the court.

Li Ang didn't take a break, and after making money, he didn't indulge in young club models like Odangdang did.

The day after meeting with the team's two big bosses, he asked Bart Stern to book him a plane ticket to Long Beach.

The Southern California Summer League, which starts soon, will be held there!

The current summer league is different from the summer league that Li Ang knew in his previous life.

The current summer league is not large in scale, and it is not an official NBA event.

For example, this year's Southern California Summer League only has eight teams participating, and the competition venue is a high school gymnasium.

No live broadcast, not many viewers, nothing.

Although the scale is small, the level is not low, and the Southern California Summer League is no stranger to Chinese fans.

In 1996, Hu Weidong played against rookie Kobe Bryant here and scored 30 points.

During the game, there was also a big risk against Kobe.

At that time, the Lakers were on a fast break, and Kobe saw the two teammates in front of him, but...

I just won’t pass it on!

I saw the young man turning around and sliding into the paint, taking off for a layup.

Hu Weidong stood nearby and with a slight jump, the reckless Kobe was fooled.

After taking the risk, Hu Weidong shook his head and muttered: "What a joke!"

In 1997 and 1998, the men's basketball team also played here.

The Chinese team's summer league tour for three consecutive years has given the summer league a certain degree of popularity in China.

Therefore, Li Ang's summer league debut attracted a lot of Chinese media.

Because of this game, Li Ang's strength can be clearly compared!

Members of the national team have played at the same level of competition, and Li Ang's performance in this kind of competition can be compared directly with some members of the national team.

In this way, it will be clear at a glance what rank Li Ang is.

Previously, the Chinese team had never won a game in the summer league. Moreover, except for Hu Weidong, who surpassed Kobe Bryant by 30 points in a single game, everyone else's statistics were a bit bleak.

Domestic media are also mentally prepared for Li Ang to be tortured into a dog.

The national team can't do well in the summer league. It's normal for Li Ang, a student, to not do well.

Li Ang spent more than half a month in advance to rent a place and hire a trainer to help him recover. In addition to the agent's share of the advertising fees he earned before, he also gave a little to his parents, so Li Ang basically invested all of it. Went in training.

To be honest, Li Ang has never seen so much money.

Whether in his previous life or now, Li Ang has never experienced the life of a rich person.

What about "changing a batch" and "setting a small goal"? Who doesn't want to experience this kind of life?

At one point, he almost couldn't help but want to go out with the money.

But his professional ethics as a professional athlete in his previous life finally allowed Li Ang to restrain his impulse.

To be honest, if you spend this little money lavishly, you won't be able to squander it for long.

If you want long-term development, you must spend your money where it should be spent.

Li Ang has been training hard with the help of the trainer during this period, so when the summer league started, Li Ang was in very good condition.

On July 10th, the Southern California Summer League will officially begin in Long Beach.

Li Ang's first opponent is the Denver Nuggets.

The domestic media is paying close attention to this game. Judging from the performance of Chinese players playing here in the past, Li Ang can score seven or eight points and grab five or six rebounds in this game, which is considered a pass.

After all, Li Ang is only 20 years old, one of China's top ten talkers - he is still young!

Although the game has not started yet, Li Ang is confident that his number of rebounds in this game should not be too few.

Because the NCAA's super star forward Obina, who averages 10 cards per game, is on the opposite side!