The Way of the Center

Time passed quickly, and besides training and being interviewed every day, Anjie also got together with the former Cyclones. Just yesterday, the whole team went to the backyard of Rickard's house for an outdoor barbecue. A group of rough lads have turned the Ricard family's backyard upside down, and the baked food is horrible.

Of course, An Jie will never forget spending good time with Catherine. Although the two are not in a relationship between boyfriend and girlfriend, they both know in their hearts that they are now waiting for An Jie to participate in the draft and pierce that layer of paper. An Jie cherishes these times very much, because the time left for him to distribute freely has become less and less.

The wonderful NBA finals finally came to an end under the wheel of time. The contest between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers has made the fans hooked, and the Celtics' Big Three's championship has also changed the pattern of the basketball world in the future without knowing it. And the Lakers are not without gains. Pau Gasol's joining halfway gave the Los Angeles people hope. Although they narrowly lost the finals, their next season is very exciting. When all the games of the 07-08 season were over, Anjie began to get busy.

Seeing that the summer vacation is coming, An Jie has no time to go back to China. In addition to being busy with training from March to now, the school curriculum also makes it impossible for him to spare time to go back to China.

If he had decided to participate in the draft from the very beginning, then An Jie didn't need to attend classes. But he decided to participate in the draft only halfway through, so he couldn't give up his studies when he was uncertain about the future at that time. Now that the course is over, he will officially start his career.

In the first step, Moslav accompanied Anjie to the president's office of Iowa State University, where they came to submit their withdrawal application.

The gentle principal was polite to An Jie and Moslav, and even promised that if An Jie could be selected in the first round, he would immediately give An Jie a bonus of 20,000 US dollars.

Players participating in the NBA draft are living advertisements for their alma mater. What's more, no one from Iowa State University has appeared in the first round of the draft for many years, so the principal also attaches great importance to this matter.

After dealing with the school affairs, An Jie is about to start his trial training journey. Looking at the teams that he was familiar with, An Jie was indescribably excited.

"So many teams are interested in me." An Jie stared at the long trial list, almost drooling on the floor.

"Don't get excited too early. Whether you can be guaranteed or not depends on your performance during the trial training." In fact, Moslav has great confidence in Anjie, he just doesn't want this kid to get too excited and cause abnormal performance.

"Hey, I know, so where are we going at the first stop?"

"Miami." Muslav waved the two tickets in his hand. "Let's go tonight, try out tomorrow morning."

Before boarding the plane, An Jie called his parents and told them about his latest itinerary. An Jie's parents proposed more than once to come to the United States to accompany An Jie, but An Jie didn't want to trouble them, so they politely refused.

"Don't worry, Mom. You don't need to come. I'll have free time to go back to China in a month or two. Don't worry. Mr. Meslav is very kind to me. You don't have to worry about me being cheated." The hearts of parents all over the world.

When An Jie and Moslav sat on the plane, An Jie suddenly found a face he was very familiar with.

"Angkor!"

"Are you taking this flight too?" Wu Hua was also very surprised to meet An Jie on the plane.

Since the conversation between An Jie and Wu Hua just now was all in Chinese, Meslav on the side looked at a loss and couldn't figure out the situation.

"Oh, this is the reporter I mentioned to you, Wu Hua from "Sports Pioneer." An Jie saw the predicament of Muslav,

He quickly introduced it.

"You must be An Jie's manager. Nice to meet you." Wu Hua didn't miss this opportunity, and immediately stood up and shook hands with Moslav. It never hurts to have a good relationship with a player's manager.

"It's a pleasure to meet you. Anjie often mentions your media to me. The increase in Anjie's attention is inseparable from your efforts." It's not the first day for Meslav to deal with the media, and his conversation is very sophisticated.

"Why are you going to Miami, Angkor." An Jie and Wu Hua chatted casually like friends, which is a treatment that other media does not have. Because An Jie knows that Wu Hua has a clear distinction between public and private affairs, he will not write everything in the news, and Wu Hua will not ask questions that interfere with An Jie's private life when he is working. It's just that in order to stop the embarrassment of the Muslavs on the side, they communicated in English the whole time.

"Of course it's for you. The news has spread and everyone knows that you're going to Miami."

An Jie turned his head to look at Mr. Moslav, and sure enough, he showed a smug smile, and the news really spread from him.

In addition to An Jie and Wu Hua, there were many Asian-faced guys on this plane, who knew if they were reporters who had heard the news.

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Mild sunshine, golden sands, beauties in bikinis, blue sea, seeing the beautiful scene of Miami can easily make people feel lazy. But Anjie and Moslav didn't have time to appreciate the beauty of Miami. After a night's rest in the hotel, they went to the American Airlines Center arena early the next morning.

"Wow." Looking at the huge gymnasium, An Jie was too shocked to speak. The NBA is different. The NCAA's well-established playing field is still not comparable to the home court of NBA teams.

"Let's go, Ann, everyone else is waiting in the training ground." For these scenes, Moslav has long been familiar with them. He urged An Jie to move forward, the damn traffic had already delayed them a lot.

When An Jie walked into the training ground, there were already several players doing shooting practice.

As soon as he entered, the eyes of the three people standing on the sidelines all gathered. An Jie's feet trembled a little. These three people who could only be seen on TV were actually standing in front of him now.

The new Miami Heat coach Eric Spoelstra, the Heat's general manager, NBA star Pat Riley and the soul leader of the Miami Heat, Dwyane Wade.

"Be safe, Riley." Moslav shook hands with Riley casually, as if they had known each other for a long time.

"This is the child I told you about, Anjie." Moslav turned sideways so as not to block the sight of the three of them.

"Hello, everyone." An Jie didn't know what to say, but he couldn't just keep silent like a fool, so he choked out this word for a long time.

Riley saw that the Chinese man was nervous, and he tried to lighten the atmosphere. "Well, welcome to Miami, I guess we don't have to introduce ourselves."

"Don't be nervous bro, just do what you usually do in training later on." Wade also came up to talk to An Jie, and An Jie was so excited that he almost asked Wade to sign for him.

"Okay, Ann, let's change clothes." Moslav accompanied An Jie to the locker room. From now on, there was not much he could do, and his fate depended entirely on An Jie.

"Don't be nervous, the Heat are not our only option, there are still many opportunities."

An Jie didn't respond, just nodded slightly. He put on a Cyclones red jersey, but the name on the back of the jersey was "Morris".

When An Jie came to the basketball court, he discovered that there were two faces he was very familiar with on this court. They are Michael Beasley and Mario Chalmers. Together with Anjie, these three people were arranged to appear on the Heat's training ground on the same day. Killing Moslav did not believe that this was just a coincidence. No wonder even Wade and Riley came to the training ground in person. Such a review lineup is enough to show the importance the Heat attach to this draft.

A failed season just experienced made everyone in the Heat team intolerable. Since the Sharks left, the Heat team has been sluggish. As the first Wade in the 03 generation to get involved in the championship, the decadent record is unacceptable.

Mario Chalmers, Michael Beasley and Anjie, who can be the right-hand man of The Flash. An Jie, who was shooting and warming up on the court, didn't know that he had been given such high expectations.

He is 2.16 meters tall with bare feet and 2.19 meters tall with shoes on. The wingspan is 2 meters 34 and the weight is 110 kg.

"It's too light!" The previous statistics were amazing, but when he saw the column of weight, Pat Kelly couldn't help frowning. But thinking that An Jie had never fought against a large-tonnage center, he decided to continue watching.

Vertical jump of 88 cm, body fat of 6.7%, baseline run back and forth for 12 seconds. As a Chinese, and with such a great height, Riley is quite satisfied with Anjie's athletic ability. What's more, this kid is only 19 years old, there is still a lot of room for improvement in these things.

After looking at everyone's stats, Pat Riley called Spoelstra. "Let's arrange a confrontation training later, just assign Anjie and Beasley to different teams."

Wade next to him nodded happily, and Spoelstra quickly found someone to arrange it.

Michael Beasley looked at An Jie with unfriendly eyes, and his dismissive expression was full of murderous intent. It was the damn Chinese who made him lose face in his first NCAA game. Forget about the past, do you still want to compete with yourself for the draft position? There are no doors!

An Jie didn't know that in the other half, he was already being watched.

Is it the skinny Oriental Tower, the prodigy who became famous in high school, or Chalmers who won the MOP this year? The Heat's gamble has officially opened.

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