Three Hundred and Fifty-Three. The Cover of the Asian Edition of Time Magazine!

The day after tomorrow is the 15th, the day when the Grizzlies and the Rockets will play against each other for the third time this season, and it will also be the fourth time Sun Ce will play against the Rockets.

The Grizzlies are currently 42 wins and 23 losses, and the Rockets are 41 wins and 22 losses. Because the Grizzlies suffered two consecutive losses in the first two games of their five-game streak, the Grizzlies and the Rockets currently have no win gap.

As the Rockets used by the NBA to stimulate the Chinese basketball market after the Chinese New Year, there were few games in the first half of the season, but there were a lot of games in March. There were 18 games in this month, so many back-to-back games that they could play 13 games in 21 days last month. games compared to the Grizzlies.

But the Grizzlies are just a random schedule as a bad team.

The same schedule, completely different starting point.

Today the league has begun to warm up for the Chinese Derby on the 15th.

Coincidentally, in the 2002-2003 season, Yao Ming was the second best rookie. It was a pity that Yao Ming had almost the same statistics as Stoudemire, and his contribution to the team's winning was almost the same. Everyone averaged 13.5 points per game, but the Rockets only got 43 wins and failed to make the playoffs. The Suns made the playoffs with 44 wins and only one game.

With this, Stoudemire scored the best rookie vote with 428 points, beating Yao Ming with 405 points and becoming the best rookie. This is the smallest difference in the number of best rookie votes since the 21st century. The difference in the number of votes is small.

Sun Ce is also the second most popular rookie of the year, and his average data per game... must be far behind Evans.

But Sun Ce's team has a better record, and the improvement in record came after Sun Ce joined!

Although the Grizzlies already have the strength to win 40+ games, before Sun Ce joined, the Grizzlies only had 4 wins and 6 losses. Of course, people regard Sun Ce as the key to start the Grizzlies outbreak.

So it's not like there's no chance of winning Rookie of the Year.

It's just that the players who can average 20+5+5 per game in their rookie season all won the best rookie, which is very important.

But regardless of whether Sun Ce can get the best rookie, it can be hyped by NBA officials.

Sun Ce won the best rookie, which is "beyond" rookie Yao Ming.

If you don't get it, the high probability is also the second, which is the same starting point as Yao Ming.

The second-round pick counterattacked to this point in his rookie season,

Never before in NBA history.

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While people were discussing Pierce's height, the Rondo ATM, and the Chinese Derby, Sun Ce and his teammates flew from Boston to Houston in the afternoon.

Will be staying here for two nights, waiting for the Rockets to come back from their back-to-back away games.

The Rockets are currently on their way to a four-game winning streak. They just played the third game of a four-game winning streak yesterday. They have to go to New Orleans today. After playing the Hornets tomorrow night, they will return to the Grizzlies game the next morning. Back to back against the Grizzlies.

This is undoubtedly a huge benefit for the Grizzlies.

"Zack wrote a new song? What? Why don't you bring us with you? He asked Nash to record the MV?" Sun Ce took a bite of the sweet mapo tofu.

This taste...is very special. Although it is not authentic at all, it is quite interesting to eat it once in a while.

Sun Ce thinks the taste is very special, but this taste is normal to Americans, or some of them think that Chinese food has this taste.

For example, Guy directly picked up the plate and scooped vegetables into the bowl with a male spoon, and said, "Yes, it's too much. He said that we don't have talent for dancing. It's too much for them to dance with you."

Guy scooped up two extra spoonfuls, Chinese food is expensive! It hurts to eat a meal. Today, Sun Ce just took a double 20 treat for dinner. He ordered a lot of dishes.

"Zach is really too much, we are right to despise him strongly..."

At noon, Sun Ce, Gay, Gasol Jr., Jordan Jr., Cook, Haddadi and others went to Yao Restaurant to eat Western-style Chinese food. Randolph and Shane Battier did not come together today. They wrote songs in the hotel, and the others I have no interest in Chinese food, so I made an appointment to eat other things.

Sun Ce was so lucky to chat while eating!

He complained that Randolph didn't take them to play together, but he was glad that he didn't ask him to record songs together.

Let Nash develop well on the road of Cai Moukun. He has only had a few years in his career. After retiring, he can happily sing, dance, rap and occasionally play basketball.

Just as Sun Ce was chatting with Guy and Gasol Jr., the phone rang...

A minute later... Yao Restaurant rang out almost: "What? An interview with Time Magazine?"

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The envy, jealousy and hatred of teammates were written on their faces without any concealment.

"I can't help it! I really want to keep a low profile, but my strength doesn't allow it... Hey, hey... Wait, don't slap me, I have an interview with Time Magazine in a while..."

Back at the hotel, Sun Ce's stern look was ravaged by a group of team bosses who were older than him.

But anyway, this matter is still very important.

Under the leadership of teammates, we went to buy a new suit together, dressed like a dog, waited for Bill Duffy to pick him up, went to the Toyota Center together, and met with the reporter of Time Magazine.

In the Asian edition of Time Magazine, Asian basketball fans are more familiar with the home court of the Rockets, so it was naturally recorded at the Toyota Center.

Moreover, the publication period is very tight, and a special cover was taken out for Sun Ce, because his performance in the last eight games sparked the enthusiasm for Asian basketball.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Bill Duffy arrived at the hotel. Little Jordan carefully helped Sun Ce organize the details of the suit. Sun Ce and Bill Duffy came to the Toyota Center for an interview. Time Magazine had already contacted the Rockets. Interview set up...

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There are quite a few people in the NBA who have been featured in Time Magazine. In the decade of the 21st century, there have been players such as Yao Ming, Kobe, James, Jordan, Nash, and the Dream Team.

But there are very few Chinese basketball players who appear on Time Magazine.

Sun Ce became the third basketball player in Chinese sports history to be featured in Time Magazine!

Except for Sun Ce, only Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi have done it.

In 2002, Time Magazine's Asian Hero, Wang Zhizhi, the first Chinese player to appear on the NBA regular season stage, was selected.

However, the only Chinese basketball players on the cover are Sun Ce and Yao Ming.

And that's not the point, the point is that Sun Ce is a rookie!

In NBA history, only three rookie seasons have been featured in Time Magazine.

One is Skyhook, who was not called Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at that time. He made history in the NCAA. He started playing as a representative in his sophomore year and led his team to win the championship in the first year. The first person in history, helped start a wave of seven consecutive championships that no one before or after will never be able to break, known as the Celtics of the NCAA.

This is quite ironic. The University team in Los Angeles has a nickname of the NCAA Celtics. Fans and players from this school never recognize this nickname.

Although there was no Jabbar for the next four consecutive championships, the three consecutive championships at that time were already known as the first dynasty of the NCAA.

After winning three consecutive championships, he was just selected by the Bucks with the first overall pick, and he appeared in Time Magazine.

Except for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, all Chinese players can be featured in Time Magazine in their rookie season.

When Yao Ming was selected as the No. 1 pick, at the beginning of his rookie season, he was on the cover of Time Magazine on November 18, 2002.

This time it's Sun Ce's turn!

In the cover interview of this top international media, the content of the interview is actually not much attention.

Being on the cover of Time Magazine is a very compelling thing for a basketball player.

After the interview, Bill Duffy took the initiative to spread the news...

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