Seven Hundred and Twenty-Five. Battle on New Year's Eve!

Outside the hotel gate, Sun Ce and Wang Keying spent some time together, and then sent Wang Keying to a taxi back to school. Wang Keying had classes this morning, and she had been delayed all day yesterday. After giving Wang Keying the tickets that Coach Hollins had asked for yesterday, the two separated. After the afternoon training was over, Sun Ce would go to school to pick her up.

Today, Sun Ce had to train with his teammates for the next away back-to-back games. Together with the 4 games in 5 days at home, the Grizzlies had a total of 3 consecutive back-to-back games! That is 6 games in 8 days!

But there was no way, tomorrow night was the Chinese New Year in China, and the Grizzlies had to take on the responsibility of domestic ratings. The Mavericks' schedule in the first half of February was also brutal.

Coach Hollins watched Sun Ce walk into the hotel gate after sending his girlfriend off, and quickly covered his head with a newspaper.

Seeing Sun Ce as energetic as usual, Coach Hollins breathed a sigh of relief.

Most teams are not allowed to bring family members to away games, but the Grizzlies do not have this rule. It's just that the players all have this concept. If the coaching staff and management do not ask them to bring them, they will not bring them. First, they are afraid of delaying things. Second,... they finally leave home, and bringing girlfriends and wives will affect them to go to nightclubs.

But Sun Ce's girlfriend is in the away city, so there is nothing to do.

So Coach Hollins is still a little worried. After breakfast, he saw Sun Ce and Wang Keying, and he kept hiding beside them to peek, but he was relieved to see that Sun Ce seemed to be fine.

Coach Hollins watched Sun Ce walk into the elevator and sighed.

The current head coach is completely different from the head coach back then. Most of the current players are not very mature mentally. The main reason is that these players who entered the NBA after 2000, few of them have read too much. Almost all of them entered the NBA after one year of college and did not learn anything. Role players are okay, so they don't need to be taken care of, and many role players have studied for a few more years in college before entering the NBA.

But those core players are basically under 20 years old when they first enter the NBA. The current head coach has an additional job as a nanny.

Coach Hollins was thankful that Sun Ce had no problem with his attitude towards basketball. Except for some troubles every other day, everything else was fine.

If he met some young core players with eccentric personalities, it would be torture.

Why was Roy rated so highly by the coaches of various teams? It was because he was the kind of core player who entered the NBA in the standard era, with a mature personality and strong leadership qualities. The young core players of the year were almost all like that.

But now,

the coaches of various teams are thankful that the young core players are not committing suicide. As for being childish... just be a good babysitter.

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After sending Wang Keying away, Sun Ce returned to his room to organize his things, and then went to the Toyota Center, the Lakers training hall, with his teammates to prepare for the game tomorrow night.

When he arrived at the Lakers training hall, he met the Lakers players who also came early to prepare for the game. Gasol and his brother had a cordial exchange, which made Gasol, the older brother, so angry that he could only sigh that his younger brother had grown up and didn't listen to his brother anymore.

The relationship between Randolph and Artest has improved recently. Both of them are the type of "turning over a new leaf", and it is a coincidence that the time of their turning over a new leaf is about the same, and there is a kind of mutual appreciation.

However, although the two MVP candidates, Sun Ce and Kobe, had a pleasant lunch yesterday, the hostile atmosphere between the two teams was very strong.

The difference in wins was only one game, and the two teams would naturally have hostile emotions when they faced each other head-on.

Moreover, one side is the current basketball overlord, and the other side is a rising young army. Except for the players with good relationships, there is nothing to talk about.

Paul Sun Ce and Kobe, both of them have no topics to talk about.

After a brief greeting, the two teams entered the training ground to prepare for the game.

Playing against the Lakers, the Grizzlies' preparations are simpler because they are too familiar with them.

The core lineup of the Lakers has not changed for a long time. Since the introduction of Gasol after Bynum's accidental injury in the 07-08 season, the core lineup of the Lakers has not changed. Gasol and Odom are the tactical core, Kobe is the end point, Bynum is in the low post, and Fisher helps organize the offense. There has not been much change. The role players are also puzzle players. After Artest, the core of the Rockets' outside line in the 08-09 season, came to the Lakers, he became a pure role player last season. The Lakers have a strong purpose in building the team, so the tactical play has not changed much.

To talk about the characteristics of the Lakers, there is only one word: strong!

After the tactical training in the morning, Sun Ce and his teammates came to a restaurant reserved by the team for lunch. When the team played in Los Angeles, training was very troublesome. Staples Center rarely had time to be used as a training ground, especially with the Grammys coming.

The Lakers and Clippers both have their own training grounds. Relatively speaking, playing against the Lakers is not bad. The Toyota Center is the home court of the WNBA Sparks. Although the stadium has only more than 6,000 seats, the training ground is a standard NBA-level training ground.

Playing against the Clippers will be terrible. If the Staples Center cannot be used, the Clippers owner can rent a suburban university stadium for the opponent. The Clippers' own training grounds are all rented...

When we arrived at the restaurant, everyone gathered around Sun Ce, who was browsing Twitter on his laptop. The NBA used Twitter to announce the All-Star list this year, one by one, in order to increase fans, which is similar to the future US president's Twitter governance.

Sun Ce felt that Trump became president for no other reason than to increase fans.

At noon, there was finally news on the official Twitter.

The visiting team's Eastern Conference roster comes out first.

Not surprisingly, Howard won the Eastern Conference vote leader with more than 2.19 million votes and became the Eastern Conference All-Star center.

James ranked second with 2.05 million votes. Stoudemire overtook him in a corner after being injured. The Knicks' record dropped sharply, allowing fans to further understand his importance. With 1.61 million votes, he beat Garnet with 1.49 million votes. Specially became an Eastern All-Star forward.

In terms of Eastern Conference defenders, Rose ranked first with 1.51 million votes. Paul's 1.44 million votes defeated Wade with 1.39 million votes to become another All-Star defender in the Eastern Conference.

Next came the Western Conference roster. As soon as it came out, teammates were cheering.

The Grizzlies have an All-Star for the second year in a row!

Although this was something that had been expected, his teammates were still very happy. Randolph said proudly: "I'm treating you during the long vacation! Let's play together in Los Angeles and help our lord celebrate his selection to the All-Stars again!"

When the teammates heard Randolph's words, they all cheered and congratulated Sun Ce.

This kind of thing should be treated as a treat, but Randolph is worried that a young second-year boy like Sun Ce doesn't know how to socialize. If it were someone else, he would be the first to do so as early as when the first round of All-Star votes are announced or the second round of votes are announced. He raised this matter, but Sun Ce didn't say anything. Now only Randolph can help with this matter.

Anyway, it doesn't cost him much money. After becoming teammates with Sun Ce, Randolph has already made a lot of extra money.

What Randolph didn't know was that after he said this, Sun Ce was so happy. He had already prepared a treat. Yao Ming had reminded him about it, but he was worried about money and didn't want to think about it too early. He was just about to say that he wanted to treat a guest, but Randolph actually stood up.

Sun Ce couldn't be happier.

In this case, Sun Ce edited a tweet "Looking forward to performing on the All-Star stage with Zach" and then sent it...

Taking advantage of the heat to build momentum for Randolph is considered a reward for giving Randolph a treat.

One tweet saves a lot of money, which is great.

There is no suspense about who will be the top vote-getter for this year's All-Star Weekend. Kobe Bryant won the All-Star top vote with 2.51 million votes, two consecutive championships and two consecutive MVP awards. He is well-deserved.

The person with the second highest number of votes in the Western Conference is not Sun Ce, but Yao Ming at the center position. With 2.21 million votes, he won the second highest number of votes for this All-Star.

Sun Ce ranked third in the Western Conference with 2.15 million votes.

The gap between the top two guards in the Western Conference and those behind them is too big. Nash, who ranked third, only had 740,000 votes, and Ginobili only had 720,000 votes.

The competition for forwards in the West is as fierce as guards in the East. Durant ranked first with 1.23 million votes, Anthony ranked second with 1.09 million votes, Gasol ranked third with 1.05 million votes, and Nowitzki ranked with 990,000 votes. Fourth, Randolph was fifth with 850,000 votes, Duncan was sixth with 720,000 votes, and even Griffin and Love, who were seventh and eighth, had more than 500,000 votes.

The Western Conference's forward line is explosive!

In addition to the all-star list, the invitation list for the three events was also announced today.

Among them, Sun Ce was invited to the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest...

This invitation list is just an invitation list. For example, the invitation list for the Slam Dunk Contest includes Kobe, James, and Wade every year. But in fact, they have declined it long ago. Invitations have been invited since the All-Star voting began.

Sun Ce also refused long ago.

Go to the slam dunk contest and play with him!

During the three-point contest, he even felt that the league was teasing him, or maybe the whole stunt was intentional.

The specific roster will be announced in the next few days along with the rookie game roster, All-Star substitute roster, Shooting Star Challenge, Masters Game and other projects.

Sun Ce's selection for the All-Star Game was expected from the beginning. Judging from the momentum of Sun Ce's rookie season, as long as Sun Ce makes steady progress, he will not be able to make it to the All-Star Game in the future. With China as his backing, there is no need to worry about this aspect.

What's more, Sun Ce's progress this season has been far beyond imagination, and his performance has exceeded everyone's expectations.

The teammates were simply happy for Sun Ce and came to join in the fun. Of course, they were even happier if there was someone else.

This is related to the team culture of the Grizzlies. The owner and coaching staff have worked hard for more than two years. As a team on the rise, everything is developing in a good direction. Until it reaches the peak, there may not be a real A contradiction in meaning arises.

As for how far this peak can be reached, everyone is working hard!

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Time flew by, and another day passed. On the night of the training day, Wang Keying took the initiative to go back to his rented place early without staying overnight. On the one hand, he did not want to affect Sun Ce's performance in the game tomorrow night. On the other hand, he was worried about Sun Ce. waist...

On February 2nd, the game day between the Grizzlies and Lakers arrived.

I held a tactical meeting in the hotel in the morning and then rested. I had already prepared everything that needed to be prepared yesterday. In the afternoon, I just went to warm up and run tactics.

As for technical and tactical training, the Grizzlies did not have any training until the All-Star Weekend. At most, they only ran tactics on the day of the game.

Six games in eight days, the biggest physical test before the All-Star weekend is here!

Sun Ce was very nervous today, so nervous that it was difficult to control his emotions!

Before going to bed last night, Sun Ce had made a plan. When he got up this morning, he would study tactics, eat well at noon, rest in the afternoon, and then be interviewed before the game, warm up, prepare for the game, etc.

But when he got up this morning, he was restless and his mood was completely different from what he expected!

Not to mention watching game videos this morning, he couldn't even laugh while watching variety shows. He didn't even expect this feeling, and he couldn't tell how he felt.

It's not nervousness, nor anxiety, nor uneasiness. It's an indescribable complex emotion that always makes him unable to calm down.

There is no way that in a few hours, it will be New Year's Eve.

Sun Ce couldn't help but take out his cell phone and make an international long distance call to his father... After a while, there was a yelling sound coming from the other end of the phone...

"Ge Laozi, early in the morning Iori Yashen called the Hammer at 3:30! Climb away... beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep."

"..."

Sun Ce's heart was broken, dear father, this is it!

But don't mention it. After hearing what the cheap dad said, although he was hung up without any communication, Sun Ce's mood calmed down a lot.

After a while, Dad's cell phone called back.

Sun Ce felt that his father still loved him, so he immediately answered the call...it turned out to be a call from his mother: "Ace, don't pay attention to you old man. He was busy preparing New Year's Eve dinner for your uncle and aunt last night. He was tired. What's the matter? You're calling so late."

"It's okay. I don't know why I just can't sit still, so I want to talk to you. Maybe it's New Year's Eve tonight, so I'm too nervous."

"Express your nerves, your old man and I and your relatives will cheer you on, A Ce, rise up!"

"Mom, it's okay if you don't tell me, but if you tell me, I'm more worried about losing..."

Before Sun Ce could finish his words, a burst of curses came from the other side: "What the hell do you care about that bitch? International long distance calls are free..."

"Snapped"

"ah……"

"If you want to sleep, just sleep. If you don't want to sleep, roll over and make a bed on the floor!"

When Sun Ce heard the screams on the other end of the phone, cold sweat broke out on his vest. What a miserable man in Bashu!

After cleaning up the obstructive husband next to her, Sun Ce's mother continued: "Ace, I heard that you have a stable girlfriend now. I saw her photo in the news. She is a beautiful girl. When can I bring it back to see you? ? If we don’t come to the United States until the end of the year, you’ll also be playing in the All-Star Weekend this year.”

After hearing what his mother said, Sun Ce thought of the misery of his cheap father, and felt a little confused about what to say. Let Wang Keying and his mother get to know each other, get familiar with each other, and then learn from each other...

Sun Ce felt as if the sky was falling!

We have to find a way to avoid the two of them meeting!

A bad relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can be troublesome, but a good relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can also be troublesome!

Sun Ce suddenly thought of something and said quickly: "Mom, don't you want to go abroad and worry about getting lost because you don't know English?"

"Your agent Xiao He will take us to play, you don't have to worry..."

"..."

Sun Ce is about to vomit blood!

If you have nothing to do, find a domestic agent!

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It is very effective to use a painful thing to cover up an uneasy thing.

Sun Ce was initially a little overwhelmed about playing the game on New Year's Eve, but after a phone call with his parents, although it felt like something desperate was about to happen, he did calm down.

In order to avoid the thought of the game returning to that indescribable restless mood, Sun Ce simply called Wang Keying and asked him to watch a movie...

After watching the movie and having lunch, Sun Ce told Wang Keying that his mother was coming to see her.

As an American, Wang Keying had nothing to fear about this kind of thing. Instead, she excitedly asked Sun Ce: "Lord, what kind of person is this aunt?"

What does it look like?

Sun Ce thought for a while: "My mother seemed to have worked in a cultural troupe more than 20 years ago. She worked like a model and had a bold personality. My mother is the boss of our hot pot restaurant and my father is like a bodyguard. Generally speaking, it should be very... Easy to get along with..."

When Sun Ce said that his father was like a bodyguard, Wang Keying thought of Sun Ce's father's strong-backed appearance and couldn't help laughing.

Wang Keying was very curious about what kind of elixir Sun Ce's father had to take or what kind of beautiful wife he had to have to make Sun Ce so handsome.

Out of curiosity, I asked. Sun Ce happened to have a photo of him and his parents on his phone, and he showed it to Wang Keying.

Sun Ce's mother is now 10 years old and very wealthy, but from the way she stands and takes pictures, it can be seen that she does have modeling skills, and she looks quite kind.

First impression is very good.

"Lord, don't worry, I will definitely entertain you when the time comes! My Chinese can finally come in handy!" Wang Keying looked like she had left it to me.

Sun Ce saw Wang Keying looking forward to it and had nothing to say. He forgot that although this girl could speak Chinese and looked quite Chinese, she was not afraid of her mother-in-law.

Sun Ce felt like the sky was falling...

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After lunch, Wang Keying left first and went to the Staples Center by herself in the evening. Without delaying Sun Ce's afternoon affairs, Sun Ce returned to the hotel to meet the team. By this time, the filming of the Chaotingtai Sports Station had already begun.

There are two live games on Chaoting Sports Channel today.

The first is the game between the Rockets and the Heat in Miami starting at 7 a.m. Beijing time, and then the game between the Grizzlies and the Lakers in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. Beijing time.

These two games feature the most favorite players of Chinese fans. There is no doubt that they are games specially arranged by the league to cater to the Chinese market.

And compared with the "Chinese Derby" which may cause aesthetic fatigue, this arrangement is actually better, and the attractions are also slow.

Kobe and James are the two most popular American players in China. When these two compete with two Chinese players, their attention is also explosive.

After adjusting all morning, Sun Ce came to the Staples Center with his teammates with some uneasiness. This uneasiness was not uneasiness about the game, but the worry that he would encounter the unspeakable emotions of the morning again.

But when he walked into the Staples Center training ground and saw a large number of domestic reporters filming and interviewing his teammates, Sun Ce became excited!

New Year's Eve! Playing a game on such a night with the attention of countless domestic audiences is exciting just thinking about it!

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