Chapter 1008 1007. Unparalleled

"Ace, don't you have any wine at home?" Iverson asked.

Watching the Lakers vs. Heat game on TV, Liu Mang said strangely: "Yes, you want to drink? There's a game tomorrow!"

"What does it matter," Iverson replied indifferently, and then lowered his voice and said: "I found a great store yesterday, Ace, do you want to go with me?"

"... I want to hold my daughter to sleep at night, no," Liu Mang refused very straightforwardly, and someone walked around behind him pretending to find something.

"You paranoids are really boring. I don't know how Tracy has such a good relationship with people like you. By the way, where's the wine, do you have whiskey?" Iverson looked down on it and continued to ask for wine.

"Yes, Levia, help Allen get a bottle of whiskey." Liu Mang said to Levia behind him.

"Okay, Ace, you can't drink." Levia gave Liu Mang face when there were outsiders, but still gave him a warning.

"Yes, yes, I know."

After hearing this, Levia went to the second floor warehouse with satisfaction to get a bottle of whiskey and a whiskey glass, and also got soda and a water glass for Liu Mang.

Alcohol can't be drunk, but soda can still be indulged, at least it will bubble.

"Then I drink it myself, is there anything to go with it?" Iverson really doesn't treat himself as an outsider.

"Wait for Allen, I'll get it right away." Levia went to get the snacks that Liu Mang's father used when he occasionally had a few drinks.

Liu Mang watched Iverson eat snacks and drink like that, and felt that it was a waste of talent, and this was also one of them!

But talented people are often like this, and those who are talented, self-disciplined, and can stand grass are all era-level superstars, Jordan, Kobe, and the future James, are all like this.

Iverson has a talent that is not inferior to Kobe, and he is tough. Now he is 30 years old. Liu Mang looked at Iverson's ability evaluation, which is as high as 96. With some changes in the rules, Iverson actually played the best efficiency of his career last season, but the team's record was average, and the role players were much worse than those in the Larry Brown era.

But in terms of self-discipline, even if Iverson changed his playing style on the court, he was still the same off the court.

He drinks when he should drink, eats when he should eat, and plays when he should play. He has a lot of brothers and has no self-discipline at all.

But even so, the 30-year-old Iverson is still a superstar, and Liu Mang remembers that in the original time and space, Iverson was abandoned by the Nuggets after 2008, and was excluded by the Pistons, and then fell from the peak. At that time, he was 33, and he also averaged 17+3+5 per game and was selected as an All-Star starter.

He was able to surpass Rahim, Marbury, Camby and others to become the No. 1 pick of the 96 golden generation. This talent is really amazing.

Iverson's talent, except for his height, is definitely the best among the best. Even if his talent is a little worse, even if he has super-top talent, Iverson's training attitude and attitude towards life would have collapsed long ago. The big dog, who is also the No. 1 pick, is far less talented than Iverson.

But Iverson is talented and can be willful.

The day before the game with the Hawks, the first game of the NBA 2005-2006 regular season when the Lakers challenged the Heat away, Iverson bought a few gifts for Liu Mang's parents and the newborn baby, and came to greet them.

Iverson is too sentimental. Liu Mang likes friends like Iverson from a non-basketball perspective, but as a basketball player, he really thinks Iverson is too undisciplined.

But he is 30 years old, and he has changed his playing style. He has already reached the limit. Liu Mang did not persuade him, after all, he is a player of the younger generation.

Liu Mang and Iverson chatted about some trivial matters while watching the game between the Lakers and the Heat.

The league also paid enough attention to this game. On the 27th, only this game was arranged.

The game was very good. The Lakers were at a disadvantage, probably because of the grief and anger after being reversed by the Hawks in the last preseason game. The Heat played more vigorously than the Lakers.

The duel between Yao Ming and O'Neal was evenly matched. There was the little blacksmith who was the best at passing the ball to the center. Yao Ming played against O'Neal, who was at the end of his peak and played very hard. He scored 35 points, 9 rebounds and 4 blocks in the whole game, and blocked O'Neal twice.

O'Neal scored 22 points, 19 rebounds and 2 blocks, and blocked the little blacksmith.

Wade actually did not have an advantage in the matchup with Kobe, and was suppressed by Kobe. Kobe, who entered his true peak period, could only compete with Kobe, who was also at his peak, even when Wade was at his peak. Wade scored 27 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, and Kobe also scored 26 points, 5 rebounds, 11 assists, 3 steals and a head-on steal from Wade.

But the Heat led in an unexpected way. The point guard position was completely blown up. Both Jason Williams and Payton beat Smush Parker, the former Pistons point guard signed by the Lakers.

The Lakers failed to catch up with the point guard in the summer. There were too few free agent point guards in the offseason just past. Payton was unwilling to go back and partner with Kobe again. Jason Williams was also interested in the Lakers, but the Lakers had doubts about this point guard who was once famous for his sloppy play in the West. At this time, the Heat offered a big contract, and Jason Williams went to Miami without hesitation. He graduated from the University of Florida and had a sense of belonging to Miami.

Parker became a free agent, but the Spurs had to keep him with tens of millions of annual salary. Most free agent point guards, including Liu Mang and Kidd, signed new contracts in the summer of 2003 and 2004. The Lakers missed out. He got Jason Williams, and now he's been beaten by Jason Williams.

Relying on Jason Williams' performance of hitting 3 three-pointers and scoring a total of 14 points and 10 assists, the Heat defeated the Lakers 103-98.

The Heat got off to a good start relying on the protection of their point guard and rebounds.

The game was great to watch. After Liu Mang and Iverson watched the game, Liu Mang called the car rental company in the villa area. Iverson teased Liu Mang a few words and took a car to a nightclub to have fun. His group followed him to Atlanta. My "brother" has been waiting for him to pay the bill for a long time.

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"Boss Ace, you're here. These are the gifts I bought for your son and daughter." Iguodala saw Liu Mang coming to the locker room, took the gift box out of the closet and handed it to Liu Mang.

"Oh, thank you." Liu Mang accepted it without refusing.

Iguodala took the lead, and other Hawks teammates who had not yet visited Liu Mang's home took out their gifts.

Liu Mang never took his children out of the house. Doctors always came to check at home. Except for Tracy McGrady, Rasheed Wallace, and Jason Terry, the three brothers who often visited Liu Mang's house, no one else had been there in the past few days. I have never been to Liu Mang's house, but I have been choosing gifts for a few days, and today we all come together to give gifts to Liu Mang.

The ratings for the opening game between the Lakers and the Heat were indeed off the charts. Last season's opening game between the Lakers and the Heat set a new record in NBA history, and this year it set another record again, giving the new NBA season a good start.

The season has officially kicked off, and the Eagles' regular season will also begin on October 28th.

After chatting with Iverson for two or three hours last night, Liu Mang took a shower and went to bed early after watching the game. He got up early in the morning and ran with Dinah, who was used to getting up early and was gradually developing from a lolita to a lolita girl. , after eating the breakfast made by Liu Mang's mother, he sent the little Loli to school, and then went to the arena to prepare for the evening game.

Liu Mang's mother deliberately learned how to make low-fat and healthy food that professional athletes eat. She was very thoughtful.

When Liu Mang arrived at the arena at around eight o'clock, many teammates had already arrived. Under the leadership of Iguodala, they gave gifts one after another. Even two rookies, David Lee and Granger, had not yet won the first place. Liu Mang was a little touched even though he borrowed money to buy gifts even though he received a salary.

In the new season, everyone is very motivated and looking forward to the new season, especially the young players.

I have been well prepared for the 76ers' tactical training in the past two days, and I am just waiting for the game in the evening.

Liu Mang and Iguodala moved the dozen or so gifts they received to the car together. As soon as they returned to the training ground and were ready to warm up and start training, Stockton came and called Liu Mang away.

"John, what's the matter?" Liu Mang followed Stockton to the boss's office and asked strangely. The team should be fine. The lineup is neat and the tactics maintain most of last season's style. There is no contradiction in injury.

"It's a good thing, you'll know it when you see it." Stockton was careless and gave it away, showing a rather strange and mysterious smile.

Confused, Liu Mang followed Stockton to the boss's office, where Price and Coach Kruger were chatting with league officials.

When Liu Mang entered his boss's office, he first saw the championship flag on the desk.

"Ace, you're here, look, what is this!" Price came up and patted Liu Mang on the shoulder.

This... at the beginning of tonight's game, there was a ceremony to raise the championship flag. This is a good thing, but it's not the first time, but what is so special about calling him here? I didn’t even call him here last year!

Seeing Liu Mang's confusion, Price showed the same smile as Stockton: "Ace, you will know when you go over and take a look."

Liu Mang was still confused. When he walked to the desk, he saw that it was no different from last year's championship banner. It was just that the year had changed from 2003-2004 to 2004-2005. Most of the names of the players on it had changed, and many numbers were missing. The old teammates from the first championship are just some new teammates from last season.

Liu Mang picked up the championship flag and wanted to see what was different. As soon as he lifted the flag, he suddenly saw something. When he opened it and took a look, he was stunned...

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The opening game of the 2005-2006 season for the Eagles.

Even if the Lakers are playing their Christmas game in Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States and the largest entertainment city in the world, their opening game will be an away game, but for the Eagles, no matter how any other games are arranged, the opening game must be at home, because They are the defending champions! The championship flag must be raised on the first day of the new season for the team.

This game, in the United States, ESPN, T.N.T, Time Warner, American Cable TV, CBS, and ABC TV, the five largest sports TV stations in North America, all broadcast the game live.

Over in China, the Chaoting Channel naturally broadcasts the opening game of the Lakers and Hawks. It finished broadcasting the Lakers yesterday and continues to broadcast the Hawks today.

Compared to the Lakers, the Eagles receive more attention. From two hours before the start of the game, the Eagles' performance in the past two seasons was reviewed. Of course, it was mainly Liu Mang's performance.

Liu Mang has already laid the foundation for the dynasty. Now it is the new season with a chance to establish the dynasty. The opening game is also a ceremony for the raising of the championship flag. Naturally, it should be well publicized in China.

The Eagles and the 76ers are friendly teams. There were not many boos when the visiting players came on the field, especially when Iverson came on the field, there were some cheers.

As for Iverson, he is the most representative figure of black athletes in the United States. Even the NFL superstars are not as popular as Iverson.

When the Eagles came on the field, the Eagles players clearly felt that Liu Mang was getting more and more excited.

Liu Mang has been particularly excited since the morning, and his teammates have noticed it.

Although I don’t know what’s going on, the boss is a little excited, and the boss is always like this, always unexpected.

“Ladies and gentlemen, and children, our dynasty is just around the corner!” After the players of the two teams came on the field, the on-site DJ who came to the stadium served as the host and shouted out the Eagles’ goal for the new season.

Establish a dynasty!

The fans on the scene were immediately motivated, and the whole stadium was full of cheers.

Boss Price came out and took the microphone: "Thank you for the fans' continued support. In the new season, we will definitely play better games. Our goal is still the championship!"

The fans cheered, of course, for the players, but Price enjoyed the feeling of being watched by thousands of people. It was so cool to be the owner of a championship team. Although he had to pay a luxury tax of tens of millions of dollars this year, he was not Alexander. He was stingy before, and the team had negative returns. Now the team makes money every year, so he pays taxes. He makes more money. Didn't you see that Yao Ming has renewed his contract with the Lakers next season, and his salary is going to be 80 or 90 million.

The players of the Hawks last season were reviewed on the big screen. Price introduced them one by one and thanked the players who helped the team win the championship last year. He especially thanked Muhammad, who was traded away, for his contributions in the past four years. He wished Muhammad to play better in the Spurs. Even though Muhammad went to the biggest rival of the Hawks, he also thanked him specially, which reflected the humanistic care of the team.

After thanking the players from last season one by one, Price introduced this year's new lineup. When he introduced Liu Mang as the last one, the fans found that Liu Mang was very excited, a little too excited.

The commentators on the court TV were all teasing, and Coach Zhang smiled and said, "Ace is still maintaining this passion. It seems that the Hawks have a great chance of winning the championship again this year! The boss has not slacked off."

The next step was to distribute championship rings. Retired veterans McCarty and Persson also came to the scene.

Originally, Liu Mang should have put the rings on his teammates, but Liu Mang pushed McGrady. McGrady was stunned for a moment, nodded, and replaced Liu Mang to complete the task. After taking the rings from Price, he put them on his teammates one by one.

New teammates, Horry is not counted. This guy has enough rings to wear on one hand. Barry and the two rookies are very envious.

When he put the ring on Liu Mang at last, McGrady asked curiously, "Ace, what's wrong? You are a little bit abnormal today."

"It's a good thing. You will know in a while." Liu Mang was so excited that he wanted to lift the thing into the air immediately.

After the rings were awarded, under the guidance of reporters, the players who received the championship rings lined up and took group and individual photos together.

This year's rings are somewhat different from last season. There is no special design like last year. It is more concise. It is no longer as high-profile as last year to engrave each player's name on it. Only the player's own name is engraved, but the diamond is bigger and more valuable. The league gave subsidies for each ring, but Price paid for each ring with his own money to supplement the cost price of up to 200,000 US dollars.

After the photo shoot, the staff took the rings back and returned them to the players after the game. Wearing this thing during the game is a weapon of mass destruction...

After seeing these scenes for two consecutive years, Malone on the sidelines felt that the season was over, so he resigned and went to boxing.

Malone didn't want to come today, but as a trainer, he also had a ring, so he came.

On the other side, the 76ers players on the bench could only sit and watch the other side give out rings. It was impossible not to envy the two big stars Iverson and Webber. Iverson was okay, thinking that he was still young and had a lot of oil, which was indeed the case.

But Webber was really jealous when he saw Mourning kissing the championship ring non-stop!

They entered the NBA one year apart. Although Webber still has the ability to start and even perform as a star, he has never won as many honors as Mourning. Now the championship has been won by Mourning first, and the other party may still... continue to win the championship.

After the championship ceremony, it was time for the championship flag raising ceremony, which was also the last activity before the game started.

"Ladies and gentlemen, next, we will raise the third championship flag in our team history, but this year's championship flag has a very special design. Ace brought something special to the championship flag, and gave it to the Chinese fans who have always supported us..." Price said what the official told him to say.

Thank the Chinese fans for the design? People were curious to see the staff hang the steel rope on the championship flag.

When the championship flag was raised, the fans on one side didn't see anything, but the fans on the other side exclaimed! Some Chinese fans who came to watch the game screamed!

When the flag was specially designed to rotate in the air, the whole audience exclaimed.

This time, the championship flag has no front and back sides, both sides are front, one is English and the other is Chinese!

When the first championship was won, the league didn't think of this, but now Liu Mang has laid the foundation for the dynasty. If the Hawks continue to win the championship in the new season, Liu Mang will undoubtedly still be the MVP. There is no suspense about this. No matter how powerful the other players on the Hawks are, Liu Mang is the leader of this team. Everything is built around Liu Mang. Without Liu Mang, the Hawks would not be where they are today.

Whether it is income, attention, record, strength, etc., it is all because of Liu Mang that the Hawks have the opportunity to lay the foundation for the dynasty.

If Liu Mang established a dynasty, most fans would think it was a Chinese dynasty. David Stern wanted to take this opportunity to completely open up the Chinese market!

Liu Mang knew about this a long time ago, but when he saw it, his eyes were still red. This is the first time! The first time in NBA history! Chinese appears on the championship banner!

The commentator on the court TV was guessing what was different about this year's championship banner. When the screen switched to the Chinese side of the championship banner, Yu Jia, Zhang Weiping and Su Qunsu were all shocked and stood up, all stunned!

"This design, this... Oh... Ace is really, this NBA..." Coach Zhang, the former No. 1 in Chinese basketball and the former No. 1 in Asia, spoke incoherently. After talking for a long time, he didn't finish a sentence.

It's incredible!

Domestic basketball players and fans still underestimated Liu Mang's influence in world basketball.

Just like some domestic fans inexplicably questioned the strength of Yao Ming, the strongest center in Asian history, Liu Mang's black fans in China still occupy half of the country.

Although Liu Mang appeared with a championship banner half in Chinese, he will still be black.

However, this made most of the domestic fans who really love basketball, as well as domestic basketball people, so excited that they were about to cry, and many fans really cried!

Chinese basketball fans were also boiling at this moment! Chinese people are not only able to play small ball sports!

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