Chapter 995 994. Advance to Super Giant!

(The time of the previous chapter has been slightly changed, which does not affect the reading.)

It took 25 days, which is shorter than the expected 30 days, and Liu Mang successfully completed the conditions for using the special card "Jason Kidd's Perseverance"!

"Left hand: three-pointer 85, mid-range shot 79, layup 92.

Right hand: three-pointer 93, mid-range shot 91, layup 94."

Seeing the greatly improved shooting ability in a month, Liu Mang was full of a sense of accomplishment.

The three-pointer of the left hand relied on the special card "Jason Kidd's Perseverance", which was actually mainly Liu Mang's crazy training, and greatly improved to the first-class three-pointer level of 85.

And the mid-range shot of the left hand, because of the improvement of the three-pointer, the mid-range shot also improved a little.

The three-pointer of the right hand has been evaluated a little higher than the end of last season, reaching 93, and the mid-range shot has been improved to 91, both of which have improved a little.

Liu Mang's layup has improved with both hands, mainly relying on the increase in strength. After adapting to the strength, it has naturally improved. The right hand has reached the critical point of 94.

Liu Mang's goal is to improve his right-hand three-point shooting to the critical point of 94 before the start of the season. It would be best if he could reach another level of three-point shooting ability that has never been seen in NBA history, which is 95.

But if he doesn't reach it, Liu Mang is not in a hurry. Even Stephen Curry, who is a talented three-point shooter, "realized the truth" at the age of 25 and reached a three-point shooting ability evaluation of 95. Liu Mang is only 23 years old now. He is looking forward to one day becoming... a template for Stephen Curry?

Liu Mang feels excited just thinking about it.

But what makes Liu Mang more excited is not these things.

But the comprehensive ability evaluation!

"Comprehensive ability evaluation 95, star positioning: superstar."

Seeing the number "95" on the system, which Liu Mang feels is dazzling even though it doesn't flash, Liu Mang feels that his efforts have not been in vain!

Four seasons are over, and he is also 23 years old. Finally, with such a low starting point, like those era-level superstars, in the fifth season that is about to begin, at the age of 23 or 24, he has joined the ranks of superstars!

In the original time and space, players who were at the same stage as Liu Mang now and could become superstars were probably already superstars when they played for about the same amount of time as Liu Mang.

Players who could become superstars were already superstars early on. There were too few who became superstars after this age.

Yao Ming averaged 22 points and 10 rebounds per game in his fourth year, and 25 points and 9 rebounds per game in his fifth season.

For a center, this is already a superstar performance. The average of 25 points per game is the only one after the four big centers.

When James was in his fourth year, he led the team to the finals. Although he was forced to shave his head by the Spurs, he was definitely a superstar.

Wade won the championship and the Finals MVP in his third year.

In the early generation of stars, McGrady was already a first-team scoring champion at the age of 23, a superstar for sure, and Kobe was also a first-team and first-team defense at the age of 23.

Going back, O'Neal was a scoring champion in his third year... Although he was only in the second team, there was nothing he could do because Olajuwon was above him.

By the 1980s, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, who had dominated the NBA since entering it, were not included. Jordan averaged 37 points in his third year, and was the scoring champion, MVP, and best defensive player in his fourth year...

Liu Mang, who had just turned 23, also successfully joined the ranks of superstars at this age!

Liu Mang was in ecstasy when another prompt suddenly came.

"Ding... The Canadian national basketball team was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Pan American Basketball Championship. Steve Nash is now on vacation. The penalty for failed missions in the Run and Gun Era has been activated. Please contact Steve Nash as soon as possible and invite Steve Nash to the host's birthday party."

As soon as this prompt came out, Liu Mang felt itchy in his chest. He opened it and saw that there was a bunch of chest hair on his chest!

It's not particularly exaggerated to be as ferocious as those white people with abundant body hair, but...It's exactly the same shape as the chest hair in a photo of Nash swimming at the beach, except that the color is black!

Damn!

The previous mission penalty has not been triggered, mainly because Nash was forewarned to go to the Canadian national team training after the playoffs.

The Canadian team is average, and it is not yet the peak period when the entire Canadian team will be composed of NBA players. Even with Nash, it is difficult to enter the World Series. This time is no exception. They entered the top eight in North and South America and made it to the quarterfinals, but they met Brazil in the quarterfinals and were beaten 109 to 65. Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and other teams in South America are still very strong.

However, Nash was eliminated, and Liu Mang's bad luck came!

Seeing the same chest hair as Nash on his chest, Liu Mang's desire to applaud with Levia at night to celebrate his advancement to a super giant was gone. He didn't care that he was already a superstar certified by the system, and immediately returned to the locker room to call Nash...

...

It's Liu Mang's birthday!

David Stern was happy when he thought of Liu Mang.

The NBA has been developing in the United States for decades. After the Magic Bird era and the Jordan era, the development of the local market has basically reached its peak.

In the future, apart from raising ticket prices and live broadcast prices, there are not many places to develop the market in the local market.

The biggest factor affecting ticket prices is not the strength of the team or the quality of the game, but the limitation of transportation, which prevents many fans who want to watch the game live from watching it. The supply cannot meet the demand, and the ticket price cannot be increased.

The price of live broadcast is limited by communication technology.

When transportation and communication technology are more developed, the growth of income in these areas will be a natural result.

Adam Silva is a good negotiator, but his success in the NBA is largely due to the rapid development of technology. Of course, he is good at business negotiations. Among so many vice presidents, he is the only one who can help the NBA to continuously increase its income. This is a skill.

Now the NBA wants to expand overseas markets.

But after many attempts, Nowitzki failed to expand the European market. British Jordan and British Jordan on the bench played so well in their rookie season, but they failed to open up the British market. Gasol made basketball develop well in Spain, but it has nothing to do with the NBA. What the Spanish like is their national basketball team.

On the contrary, Liu Mang, who suddenly appeared, is popular in Asia. It is no problem. But Liu Mang is also popular in Europe because of the Athens Olympics!

David Stern originally regarded Liu Mang as a face to develop the Chinese and Asian markets, but surprisingly, the popularity of the four major shooting guards in China is not much lower than that of Liu Mang. On the contrary, Liu Mang is the most famous NBA star in Europe, except for Magic Johnson and Jordan and the NBA stars of European countries!

Just one Olympic victory over the US team made Liu Mang famous in Europe.

Liu Mang turned 23 years old. David Stern instructed the operation department to celebrate Liu Mang's birthday on the official website headline, and also wrote all the honors of Liu Mang's four-year career.

Two-time NBA Sixth Man of the Year, NBA Most Improved Award winner, one regular season MVP, two championships and consecutive championships and Finals MVPs, two scoring titles, two first team selections, one second defense, a total of 1,009 three-pointers in his four-year career, the fastest to make 1,000 three-pointers in history and the youngest to make 1,000 three-pointers...

A long list of hard honors.

David Stern looked at the email sent by the operations department and was very satisfied with the picture of the headline birthday blessing, and replied to the operations department with a "pass".

It's beautiful, beautiful, the big event at the Palace of Auburn Hills last season affected the ratings and attendance of some teams for a while, but the total league revenue last season still increased by 110 million US dollars. The revenue increase brought by Liu Mang and Yao Ming makes David Stern live a happy life now.

Thinking back to the 1990s when the four centers and the Bulls dynasty had the fastest growth in NBA revenue, it was just like this.

Just as David Stern was happily refreshing the NBA official website homepage, waiting for the delay time to pass and the headline of birthday wishes to Liu Mang to appear, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." David Stern responded.

The door was pushed open, and it was David Stern's secretary who walked in quickly with an anxious look and said: "Boss, it's bad, Ace is causing trouble again!"

This scene happened at the same time in the president's office at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, where a meeting was in progress...