9. Opportunity

Phoenix West Arena, General Manager Office.

"This boy is more suitable as the protagonist of the publicity than we expected." Steve Kerr looked at the news about Sun Ce's crazy training yesterday, and felt that the boss's expectations might be a little bit successful.

This season has long lost hope of making the playoffs, so I can only do some silly things to attract the attention of fans.

The regular season is coming to an end, the Lakers also signed a 22-year-old Chinese point guard this season, but that point guard did not bring much popularity to the Lakers.

A lazy state that doesn't work hard at all, and his strength is average. The Lakers' season is almost over, and he only played 15 minutes.

Cole is not optimistic about the boss's promotion plan at all. Apart from Sun Yue, Cole also pays attention to the CBA. After all, he is the general manager, but after seeing the reports of Chinese players from the scouts, he feels that the Chinese are just doing business. , three big balls...mainly men's three big balls...but seeing Sun Ce's crazy training, it feels very different from the Chinese basketball players in his impression.

The main reason is that Sun Ce trained wildly for six hours from 8:00 in the morning to 2:00 in the afternoon, which gave Cole a good impression.

Cole himself is not a very talented person, but relying on his hard work, he shot the highest three-point shooting percentage in history in the player era, and it still maintains it to this day.

"This kid is good." At first Gentry didn't like this kind of hype, but after seeing the news that happened yesterday, he saw that a teenager who had only gained experience in participating in NBA trials and games actually worked so hard for this opportunity to participate. As an older generation basketball player who transformed into a coach after failing to hit the professional league in the 1970s, Gentry was also moved by it.

However, a good impression is a good impression, and Gentry only has a good impression of Sun Ce, and this kind of game... Although it is an irrelevant curtain call, Gentry didn't plan to let Sun Ce play for a long time.

However, Gentry was interested in Sun Ce's trial training. He originally planned to take a group photo to cooperate with the "show", but now he really wants to chat more with Sun Ce.

Gentry saw Sun Ce's standard and outrageous movements during shooting training. He wanted to see it with his own eyes. If possible, he would try to talk to Sun Ce about being a shooting coach.

A shooting coach doesn't necessarily have to have good shooting ability. On the contrary, most shooting coaches may have ridiculously poor basketball ability.

Gentry wants to give Sun Ce a chance, and wants to give a chance to the teenager who wanted to pursue his basketball dream just like him back then.

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On Sun Ce's side, he didn't know that his crazy training had given some people a good initial impression of him.

He took a taxi and brought a large bag of things that his classmates wanted to give to the stars or asked for autographs to the American West Arena. At exactly 11 o'clock in the morning, Sun Ce just got out of the car when he saw a group of reporters at the entrance of the arena.

When Sun Ce walked up, the reporters who had seen his photos and knew what he looked like rushed to take pictures.

When Sun Ce walked up, several people greeted him.

Sun Ce recognized him at first glance. The future top coach Steve Kerr and the current head coach of the Suns, Alvin Gentry, did not know each other. Take things over and take them into the stadium.

With an official smile, Cole came up to shake hands with Sun Ce.

Sun Ce hurriedly put his hands on his body first, and he had to be polite.

Cole held Sun Ce's right hand with his right hand, patted the back of Sun Ce's right hand with his left hand, and said with a smile: "Noah, a hard-working Chinese boy, hello, I believe you must know me, I will be too sad if you say you don't know me , I have only retired for a few years!"

Sun Ce was stunned for a moment, he was too enthusiastic, and he seemed to have a feeling of pretending to be humorous even though he wasn't very humorous.

"Of course, Mr. Cole, you are the best three-point shooter in my mind." Sun Ce immediately flattered him.

Although he knew it was a show, the other party had no malicious intentions, it was just business.

And Sun Ce didn't say anything against his will, he just said nice things. Compared with the original Sun Ce, he may not be as good at picking up girls as the original one, but he has a lot of experience in dealing with people, and he only chooses nice words.

In NBA history, among the players who made more than 200 three-pointers, Steve Kerr’s total three-point shooting rate ranked first in history. Among the players who made at least 50 three-pointers in a single season, Steve Kerr ranked first in history. Cole's 52.4% three-point shooting rate is also the first in history.

This kind of flattery perfectly circumvents the fact that Steve Kerr is a role player, whether it is the number of hits or the number of shots, there is a gap between Steve Kerr and Thunder Miller.

Reach out and don’t hit the smiling face. Although Steve Kerr doesn’t have Gentry’s “moved by the same situation”, most people like to hear good things. The same is true for Kerr. Three-pointers are the most proud of his basketball career things.

"Noah, come on, let's stand here..." Cole enthusiastically led Sun Ce between himself and Gentry, and let the reporters take pictures.

After taking photos, Cole and Gentry took Sun Ce to the training ground in the arena.

In the training ground, the guy who caught Sun Ce's attention made Sun Ce want to complain...

That guy is too "dazzling", his body is too exaggerated, and he takes up too much sight...

Shaq - O'Neal!

Sun Ce saw that this guy was concentrating on practicing free throws!

"Hey, if this guy practices free throws so hard every day, he will miss more than 5,000 free throws? Jordan can practice free throws. This guy feels much better than Jordan..." Sun Ce crazily slandered.

As if he had just discovered that Sun Ce came in, O'Neill took the initiative to come up: "Hi, my name is Noah, right? I watched your training video. It's really cool. Let's work hard together!"

After speaking, O'Neill opened his arms towards Sun Ce. When Sun Ce saw O'Neill, he first slandered, and then felt excited after approaching.

Big star! The most dominant center in NBA history!

But after hearing O'Neal's words, Sun Ce really wanted to reply: "Work hard with you to become a ball?"

"Hello, Noah, I'm Steve..." Nash, who was still wearing a waist brace, came up to hug him.

Stoudemire, Jason Richardson, Grant Hill...and so on Suns stars came up and embraced Sun Ce.

Sun Ce originally expected to train with these stars for a day and play a game together. It may not be a few minutes, but this is definitely his dream.

But when he really met these stars face to face, Sun Ce didn't know what to say, and his mind gradually went blank...

"Live, these are live NBA stars!"

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