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After finishing his first regular season, Joey returned to the Holy City.

Bill Duffy, who had been waiting for a long time, joined him with his newly recruited management team. The next day, they came to an advertising studio in San Antonio to shoot Joey's second promotional advertisement for"Gentleman Generation".

The content of the advertisement is very simple. Joey, who looks outstanding, wears a brand-name suit and the silver-gray color of"Gentleman Generation". On the built"Los Angeles Wide Angle Street Basketball Court", he plays a 3V3 game with the players played by the crowd actors, and then uses the signature"in&out connection big back dribble" to shake off the opponent and make a layup amid the enthusiastic cheers of the audience on the sidelines.

Some special effects and sound will be added later, and the main highlight is the word"handsome" of Joey, the spokesperson for sneakers. Finally, the advertising director sent by Nike also introduced Joey to several 18-line wild models who were temporarily hired on the set.

In the director's opinion, an NBA professional athlete like Joey must be a"seed sower" with vigorous male hormones that cannot be released, so he found some small models who were very consistent with Mi Li's aesthetics to act as cheerleaders on the set.

But what he didn't expect was that Joey's management team rejected him without even thinking about it. After all, he was just marketing the persona of a"new-age magician", which did not mean that he had to emulate his real buddies and play the"Rainbow Tactics"."……

After the filming of this advertisement, Joey also received his second income from his sneaker endorsement. After deducting Texas local taxes and some miscellaneous taxes, Joey received a total of 3.27 million US dollars.

This is higher than the salary that other rookies can get in the first year of their contracts.

After finishing the filming of the advertisement, Joey dressed up and came to the San Antonio International Airport, eight kilometers north of the city, in a low-key manner. After waiting in the airport parking lot for about half an hour, suddenly, the passenger door was opened, and a woman who was wrapped tightly and wearing sunglasses sat down.

After the woman sat down, Joey started his second-hand SUV and quickly drove to his apartment near the arena.

During the whole process, the two of them hardly exchanged a word, as if silence was the main color between them.……

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After returning to the apartment, Joey didn't walk out of the room until the evening of the next day. He poured himself a glass of water and drank it all in one gulp. He was secretly shocked by the strong fighting ability of the Hollywood female star. He had been struggling for almost a whole day and night.……

"call——"

After drinking a full liter of water, Joey felt that he was in better condition.

It would be great if the system mall could have a black technology that would not make players tired.

Joey muttered, then sat on the sofa in the living room and began to calculate the"honors" he might get in this season's regular season: the first one was"Rookie of the Year", or ROY!

Joey played 74 regular season games for the Spurs in the 12-13 season, averaging 30.4 minutes per game, scoring 17.1 points, 8.7 assists, 5.2 rebounds, 2.4 steals and 1.3 blocks.

Among them, assists and steals ranked in the top ten in the league, leading the same rookie class; average points per game ranked second among rookies, and blocked shots ranked third among rookies; the Spurs' regular season record this season was also fixed at 63 wins and 19 losses, tying the best regular season record in team history (05-06 season).

As the team's third scoring point, Joey's average points per game were second only to Duncan (17.9 points) and Parker (21.1 points).

After the All-Star Game, when Manu was accidentally injured, it was Joey who stood up and abandoned the"Princeton system" with a significantly higher tactical position and more impressive data, and returned to the bench to serve as the team's sixth man.

And it was Joey who made up for the team's"loss" of losing Manu. It was also Joey who led the Spurs' bench bandits in March and April to play the league's first bench scoring and efficiency, which played a great role in the Spurs and Thunder's"competition" for the first place in the West.

In comparison, the rest of the 12th rookies, except for Portland's senior Damian Lillard, almost all lived under Joey's"shadow".

Lillard played 82 regular season games for the Trail Blazers in his rookie season, all of which started in 82 games, averaging 38.6 minutes per game, averaging 15.7 shots per game, and shooting 42.8% to get 19 points, 6.5 assists, and 3.1 rebounds.

But on the defensive end, the data of 3.0 turnovers and 2.8 fouls per game is quite eye-catching.

As the No. 1 pick in this year's draft, Anthony Davis, who went to the London Olympics with the Dream Team last summer and was highly expected by the American people, has not performed as well as expected this season."……

Although his offensive statistics of 13.5 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game are worthy of the No. 1 pick, compared with the other two rookies of the same class, especially his former teammate Joey, who played the most comprehensive rookie season in history, he seems a bit"bleak".

However, his potential on the defensive end is visible to the naked eye. His average of 1.8 blocks, 1.2 steals and a defensive efficiency of 101.2 in his first season made many media and experts in the Mili family exclaim that"the next Hakeem Olajuwon" is here!

A strong competitor for the future No. 1 inside line in the NBA with both offense and defense!

This is the media's evaluation of Brother Brow at this stage.

Of course, they also said that Davis' achievements are in the future, and now it belongs to the No. 3 pick in the San Francisco FC.

Yes, this sentence means that compared with Lillard and Davis, two new stars in the league who are still struggling in the"quagmire" of the West, Joey has grown into the No. 3 scorer of the second team in the league and entered the playoffs with the team's No. 1 record in the West.

He is about to stand on a higher and bigger stage, to compete with those senior stars who have been fighting in the league for many years!

For a first-year rookie, this is a great honor and opportunity!

Unlike other rookies who are ready to go home to"fish", what Joey needs to do now is to focus on the Spurs' first-round opponent in the playoffs, the Los Angeles Lakers, from the city with the highest exposure in the United States!

This season, the Lakers won a wave of consecutive victories at the last minute. Although it was ended by the Spurs, they still stabilized their eighth position in the Western Conference with a record of 45 wins and 37 losses.

In the last game of the regular season against the Houston Rockets, the Lakers were almost all soldiers. The reason is that compared with the Utah Jazz, who have completed the entire regular season with a record of 44 wins and 38 losses, if they lose this last regular season game, then all the efforts of the season will be wasted.

According to the NBA regular season ranking rules, if there are two teams with the same record at the end of the season, the order will be ranked according to the win-loss ratio between the two teams in the season.

The Lakers and the Jazz played against each other three times this season, with two losses and one win. Losing the game against the Rockets means that they will lose the eighth place in the Western Conference, while the Jazz will automatically upgrade to the eighth place.

Fortunately, the two pillars of the Lakers, Pau Gasol and Howard, stood up.

The former scored a large triple-double of 17 points, 20 rebounds and 11 assists, and the latter 16+18 showed his peak style again...

In the end, the Lakers won the game 99:95.

This result also made Popovich, who was paying attention to this game, feel relieved.

After determining the first-round opponent, Joey turned his attention to the rest of the Western Conference teams.

First is the Thunder, which is second in the Western Conference with 61 wins and 21 losses. This season is the peak season of Durant and Westbrook's cooperation.

Durant averaged 28.1 points, 7.9 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game, ranking second in the league in scoring. His personal honor of scoring champion for three consecutive years was interrupted, and the first scoring champion of New York's Angua career was born.

The turtle in the sewer initially showed the style of the"all-around triple-double king" in later generations, averaging 23+7+6 per game.

The cooperation between the two youngsters makes the Thunder considered the second favorite for the championship this season. In the first round, they faced the Rockets, the"dark horse" of the playoffs led by the third youngster. ESPN experts predicted that they would resolve the battle within 5 games.

The third team in the West was unexpected by everyone. It was the Denver Nuggets, which was unpopular among all experts and fans before the start of the season.

This year's Nuggets is also a"weird" team in the regular season of the West. You say that they are the Spurs of team basketball. They can do a"stupid thing" to you to replace the starting lineup every three days and replace the whole lineup every five days.

You say that there are many contradictions within the team, and Gallinari, Ty Lawson, Chandler and other New York factions are independent. However, they are the team with the most players scoring in double digits this season, with eight players scoring in double digits!

(I vaguely remember that this season, Ty Lawson, Gallinari, Chandler Jr., Iguodala, Captain Brewer, Faried, Andre Miller, and McGee were all on the same team with so many players averaging more than 10 points per game, which was rare in history.)

Then there was the Los Angeles Clippers, who ranked fourth on the ESPN team strength prediction list before the season. The main players of the team suffered injuries before and after the All-Star Game, and other teams were rushing to the end of the season, but the Clippers, led by coach Nigro, made some"lineup adaptation adjustments", and once moved the starting center DeAndre Jordan to the bench and moved the faster and more versatile veteran Kenyon Martin to the starting lineup.

The intention was to imitate the"Princeton system" of his mentor Popovich this season.

The Clippers eventually finished fourth with a record of 56 wins and 26 losses. The

Grizzlies ranked fifth in the West with a record of 56 wins and 22 losses, because they only won once in three games against the Clippers this season.

However, the first round of the"Ship-Bear War" of the second round of the original playoffs is about to start. I wonder if Griffin, Jordan and other Clippers inside players who were"rubbed" by the two bears in the original history can"rebound"?

Needless to say, the sixth-placed Golden State Warriors, the LOGO man who was the basketball consultant at the time, Jerry West, went to the Nuggets in the upper half.

The civilian Nuggets, who have no one who can play superstar ball, met the already rising"Splash Brothers". What kind of sparks will collide in the first round of the most likely series of underdogs?

The seventh-placed Houston Rockets led by Harden will meet the"old master" Thunder led by two good brothers in the first round. The battle of revenge, Magneto vs. Thunder Durant + Westbrook who has become a turtle - the civil war in Oklahoma City is about to start!