The King of the NBA

Since February 12, the Timberwolves have no games, because the All-Star weekend is approaching.

The 2014 NBA All-Star Weekend starts on the 15th and ends on the 17th. As usual, it is divided into rookie games, individual games, and the All-Star Game.

For Ning Yi, he has already been busy on the 14th. The 14th is the training day for the Rookie Challenge. As one of the players in the Rookie Challenge, Ning Yi naturally wants to participate.

This is an indoor training arena. There are many people, including players and reporters.

"rather."

"Ning Yi."

Players greeted Ning Yi one by one, almost all of them were from the Hill team. After all, Ning Yi was also from the Hill team, and everyone was considered teammates.

McAway, Hardaway Jr., Drummond, Salinger, Plumlee, Adams, Olynyk, Oladipo, these are the Hill players other than Ning Yi, including Ning Yi, a total of nine people.

A large part of them are first-year rookies, just like Ning Yi, so although they are also competing with each other, at this time, a group of people is still relatively united. After all, the Weber team is strong, and most of them are second-year players. Well, the paper strength of my own side is weaker, if they are not united, then they will lose.

Everyone is a player, who wants to lose?

Not far away, all the players of the Weber team also looked at Ning Yi.

This season, Ning Yi splits up too hard, so he will naturally attract attention. It can be said that the most attention in this Rookie Challenge is Ning Yi, Davis, and Lillard.

"Ning." Drummond patted Ning Yi, pursed his mouth not far away, and whispered: "Lillard looks at you a little bit wrong, be careful."

"Oh, don't worry." Ning Yi replied.

Drummond smiled.

Looking at the players on Weber's side, Ning Yi shook his head helplessly. I'm afraid it's not just Lillard who is hostile to him, but other people are probably similar. Once this person becomes famous, there will be more right and wrong.

"Not being jealous is a mediocrity." Ning Yi chuckled, and stared fiercely at Lillard's eyes, come on, isn't it just killing eyes? Who doesn't know what to do?

Lillard was stunned for a while, and was speechless for a while by Ning Yi's reaction, and turned his head angrily: "Humph"

The so-called training day is actually similar to the NBA's media open day.

After all, this is the Rookie Challenge, not the regular season, let alone the playoffs. Players and coaches are all improvised. If you think that you are really training according to the normal rules, then you are wrong. That is to let the players get acquainted, communicate with the coach, and deal with the reporters.

In fact, the delay is not much, and it will be over soon.

A group of players dispersed, and Downey followed Ning Yi.

After entering the national team and the arrival of the All-Star Weekend, Ning Yi's popularity soared again, and Downey was also extremely busy, dealing with various companies that invited Ning Yi to speak for him, some business activities, and a series of media calls. I don’t know how many Ning Yi who hope to interview.

These, Downey wants to discuss with Ning Yi.

"Ning." Downey handed Ning Yi a document, "These are some companies that want to invite you to speak for them. I have selected them, and you can take a look."

Ning Yi finally nodded.

Nowadays, there are many companies that invite Ning Yi to endorse, but Ning Yi is not very keen on this, so Downey's selection is relatively strict, only a small part is selected, and then Ning Yi eliminates some.

In this way, there are not many winners.

But Ning Yi didn't care about this, and Downey also figured it out. Although these are the money that can be obtained, compared with the future, it is not worth mentioning.

With Ning Yi's growth rate, as long as there are no accidents, his value will only increase in the future. It doesn't matter whether he signs these contracts at this time.

"Also." Downey said again: "espn, tnt, fox, etc. have all called, hoping to interview you. In addition, some media in China, such as penguin, xinlang, etc., also want to interview you. In addition to In addition to these, there are more newspapers and magazines, including "tusa" in the United States, China's "Sports Pioneer", "Slam Dunk" magazine, "Basketball Weekly" and so on, how do you reply to these?"

Ning Yi thought for a while, and said: "Tomorrow is the Rookie Challenge, I don't want to be distracted. You should screen these interviews first, and wait until the full weekend."

"Okay." Donnie replied.

For Ning Yi, the most important thing is tomorrow's Rookie Challenge. Team Webb obviously doesn't like him very much, and tomorrow's game will definitely target him. And the same, for Ning Yi, he must perform well enough in this game. He needs to prove himself and fight back against the Weber team.

NBA is a world where the weak are preyed upon by the strong. Moving forward step by step, like sailing against the current, if you don’t advance, you will retreat. Ning Yi has no way out. He must maintain this edge and go all the way.

Once he retreats, he will be submerged.

The next day, the All-Star Weekend came.

There are three activities on this day, one is the announcement of the Hall of Fame list; the other is the All-Star Celebrity Game; the third is the Rookie Challenge.

What people pay more attention to is the Hall of Fame list and the Rookie Challenge. As for the Celebrity Tournament, there is not much to watch. It is almost pure entertainment. The competition is not intense at all, and there is not much excitement. After all, almost all the celebrities who participate in the celebrity game, there are not many players.

But after all, it was the All-Star Weekend, the annual event of the NBA, and it was very popular, attracting many fans, even some popular stars and business leaders.

"Look, Yao Ming is here too."

"What's so strange about this? Doesn't Yao Ming come here often? And there is a Rookie Challenge today. The relationship between Yao Ming and Ning Yi is quite normal."

"Oh, that's Stallone."

"But it feels like his three daughters are more eye-catching than him."

"That is, one is prettier than the other, if he can be Stallone's son-in-law."

"You are dreaming, I still want to be Taylor's boyfriend. Hey, is that Taylor? Even she is here, Taylor, I love you."

At this time, it was only the celebrity competition, but there were already many people in the auditorium, including many celebrities. After all, most of the contestants in the celebrity competition were celebrities, singers, actors and so on.

Among these people, there are naturally some popular entertainers. Each of these people is the focus of entertainment, and when they appear here, they also attract the attention of many people.

Some people took pictures with their mobile phones, some people shouted loudly, and the atmosphere was hot.

"Tsk tsk, this is the All-Star Weekend." Ning Yi sat in an inconspicuous corner, felt the atmosphere of the scene, and couldn't help but click his tongue.

Of course, this kind of atmosphere is different from that during the game. During the game, it is tense, but now it is relaxed. Let every player and every fan feel relaxed. This may be the meaning of the NBA All-Star Weekend.