NBA: Magic Johnson opens the season, crowned MOP

"What is the ceiling for Asian defenders?"

"The buzzer beater against Duke - the crazy freshman season of the Chinese magician from Kentucky!"

"Chinese-American magician, one of the top ten rookies in this draft!"

"The No. 1 point guard in the NCAA in the 11-12 season? No, he has already become the best player in the peak season."

"The usual silence is for the explosion at the critical moment - Joey, a big point guard with the upper limit of the template, Earvin Johnson, and the lower limit of Regiseu."

"Can another great point guard after Magic Johnson dominate the league like EJ?"

"……"

After the NCAA Final Four, sports media across the United States, including ESPN, Draft, and"Tomorrow in America" and other first-tier media all began to report extensively on the"Kentucky Championship" event.

During this period, Joey and Davis, childhood friends and teammates, were the most reported and exposed college players.

Davis, needless to say, has been favored by the media since he was hailed as the"No. 1 high school student in the United States" in high school. It was obviously Joey who won the MOP this time, but judging from the player prospects reported by the media, he is clearly more inclined.

And Joey's agent, the famous Bill Duffy in later generations, took advantage of this"trend" and contacted many first-tier media to interview and"expose" Joey many times during his training."——

This is to build momentum for his participation in this year's NBA draft!

Nike, Adidas and many other sporting goods companies have also sent cooperation invitations.

Among them is the biggest source of off-court income for basketball players - the sneaker endorsement contract.

However, Bill Duffy seems to be very confident in his"hype" methods. After discussing with Joey, he decided to wait until after the draft to make a choice.

So far, ESPN and Draft, the two authoritative draft prediction websites, have placed Joey in the eighth to fourteenth place in the first round, which is the middle and late picks of the lottery.

Among them, ESPN's basketball commentator Monchi Kapasch commented on Joey in this way:

"Joey is a natural commander on the court. Whether it is his organizational ability, passing selection, court vision... he is unique among the guards in the same class. Hidden behind his excellent offensive data such as 10.3 points and 11 assists per game is a high positional defensive efficiency of 113.4. This means that no matter how good the opponent's leading player's scoring ability is, he can reduce the opponent's hit rate to below 40%. This is a very terrifying data!"

The evaluations of these two authoritative draft prediction agencies have greatly influenced the judgment of some NBA team uniform groups.

When the Warriors, Raptors, Pistons and other teams' regular season records are basically determined to be in the bottom three, the team's top management will send a negotiation team to briefly contact Joey's economic team, because their records are very"awkward" and they will most likely not get the top three picks, but they will not fall out of the lottery zone...

So hot rookies like Kentucky's young thick eyebrows and Kansas' Thomas Robinson, who are basically scheduled for the top three picks, are out of their reach.

So they will contact the second-tier favorites like Joey before the draft, and by the time of the joint tryouts and individual tryouts, they can basically determine each other's choices, and then start"negotiating terms.""——

Such as team status, training strength, etc.

This is not uncommon in the history of NBA drafts!

Obviously, Joey happens to be one of the few rookies who can negotiate with NBA teams.

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Near the evening of June, Joey and his management team landed at Chicago O'Hare International Airport.

As soon as he got off the plane, Joey returned to his apartment in the Milton William neighborhood.

Rejecting the invitation of a hot and sexy American girl to have breakfast together, Joey quietly entered the apartment wearing sunglasses.

As soon as he got home, he took a hot bath in the jacuzzi.

While relaxing his tired and sore muscles, Joey turned on the system - yes, Joey, a time traveler that the world loves to see!

The kind that comes with a system.

He came from the future in 2023. There were not so many terminal illnesses and car accidents during the time travel. He just woke up after a sleep and found himself thirteen years ago, becoming a child of an elite Asian family in Illinois who was also called"Joey".

At the same time, he is also a five-star high school point guard at the local Vision Charter High School in Chicago.

His system is called the Basketball Honor System. As the name suggests, the system will reward those who achieve corresponding honors and achievements in each corresponding level of the league, and system tasks will be issued regularly...

There is no punishment if the task cannot be completed, at most you will not get any rewards.

Joey has also developed two other functions of the system, namely the system mall (which contains a lot of"black technology" for professional athletes) and the system space (which can hold unlimited system rewards, limited to the system)

【……Checking host Joey, the college league is officially over, rewards are being distributed - winning the semi-final MOP, rewards: honor points*3000, free attribute points*8, silver badge upgrade*1

Achieving the highest team honor - 11-12 season NCAA champion, rewards: mysterious star template*1]

Joey lay in the bathtub and silently opened his attribute panel:

"Name: Joey

Date of Birth: March 12, 1993

Position: PG/SF

Height: 199cm

Wingspan: 221cm

Weight: 97kg

Ball control: 86 (100) Passing: 90 (100) Breakthrough: 90 (91) Layup: 76 (99) Breakthrough dunk: 81 (67) Free throw: 81 (100)

Mid-range shot: 85 (93) Three-pointer: 78 (56) Outside defense: 87 (99)

Physical attributes: Speed - 81 (91) Explosion - 80 (80) Agility - 81 (96) Strength - 80 (95) Bounce - 82 (89) Endurance - 86 (99)

(Free attribute point * 1 can improve any attribute value below 85 by one point, and above 85 requires three points to improve by one point)

Badges - Organization:

Ten Cents (Bronze, slightly increases the success rate of teammates' catching and shooting), Organization Core (Bronze, when on the court, slightly increases the offensive attributes of teammates), Dribbling Veteran (Bronze, slightly reduces the loss of physical strength caused by dribbling), Alley-oop Initiator (Bronze, slightly increases the success rate of teammates' alley-oop), Ball Protection Master (Bronze, when performing dribbling actions, slightly reduces the chance of being intercepted), First Step Master (Bronze, the ball handler can start faster and more effectively after a three-threat or fancy dribble)

Finishing:

Powerful Finisher (Silver, slightly reduces the impact of interference on hit rate)

Defense:

Pick-and-roll Dodger (Bronze, can quickly bypass the screen player and speed up the user's footwork), Death Entanglement (Bronze, the defender can get faster defensive actions, disrupt the opponent's dribbling rhythm, and make it easier for the opponent to make mistakes.)

Shooting:

High-difficulty Shooting King (Bronze, triggered in difficult shooting actions or intense confrontation shooting, strengthens five attribute points for mid-range shooting and three attribute points for three-point shooting), baseline three-point shooter: improve the hit rate of long-range shooting in the bottom corner (when making a shooting action at the baseline position, temporarily increase the attribute value of mid-range shooting and three-point shooting by three points.)

Comprehensive evaluation: 84

Injury risk: 19 (Free template: Super long standby player-Andre Miller, S-level star card, above seventy, that is, with a super high risk rate of sports injuries)

Equipment star card: Andre Miller (S, lifelong card), Elvin Johnson (SSR, 79-80 season)

Honor points: 8000"

"Is it the magician template?"

Looking at the purple and gold player card with a sunny smile on his face on the attribute panel, Joey was delighted, and a trace of joy flashed across his calm face.

Then, a suffocating dizziness came over him, and his consciousness fell into darkness.

If there was another person here, he would definitely find that Joey's body was slowly changing: his bones gradually protruded and stretched, supporting his angular and strong muscles, and his limbs and bones actually had symptoms similar to secondary development...

Invisibly, Joey's brain was also injected with many video recordings of the game - the purple and gold player with a bright smile on his face...