137 Chapter 137. Someone Has to Win

137 Chapter 137. Someone Has to Win

Madison!

This year's Madison Square Garden game is not the superstar show in the future. Madison Square Garden, which still has the prestige of being able to reach the finals in the 1990s, is still a holy place for basketball. It is the face of New York, not the basketball that will be teased in the future. holy place.

Seeing his teammates seem to have little reaction to losing a game, and sadly received a task, Liu Mang feels that losing is actually not that difficult to accept, right...

What a big deal!

"Brother System, Master, I don't want it anymore, can that task be cancelled?"

"The host requested to cancel the task, but the automatic judgment of task cancellation failed. Is the host sure?"

"..."

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December 16th is a very important day for the two cities.

On the afternoon of the 15th, after playing two consecutive home games, Liu Mang was about to leave Atlanta with the team and came to the location of Liu Mang's team, which is considered by the outside world to be the biggest opponent at this stage - Memphis, Tennessee!

The latest rookie rankings in December, this ranking about rookies, MVP, team strength, etc. is a new thing just released by the NBA official website this season, and it has attracted the attention of fans.

There is competition among strong teams, and the competition between strong teams is who is the MVP and who is the number one in the power list.

The Eagles are now ranked eighth in the league, and only twelfth in the power list, which is above the mid-range. They are not qualified to talk about the power list.

But weak teams have their own concerns.

Just like the Hawks and Grizzlies, fans of these two teams are most concerned about who will be the best rookie this season!

Originally, the Eagles didn't care about this matter. In the past few years, their own draft has been a sad reminder, and parallel imports have been one after another. They have already habitually forgotten about this problem. In the young year of the draft, the 17th pick in the first round was useless and traded out. They didn't care about it at first, but who knew that the rookie in the second round would explode! Ranked in the top five of the rookie list from the beginning of the new season, it has now climbed to second, averaging 15.5 points, 1.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game, second only to Paul Gasol of the Grizzlies.

It seems that there is a gap between Liu Mang's strength and Pau Gasol, but the fans still hold on to hope, because the record of the Eagles is much better than that of the Grizzlies! One is the top four in the division, and the other is the bottom in the West.

Judging from the current strength and statistics, Pau Gasol is definitely the No. 1 rookie, but when the time comes to vote, the record will definitely become a big influencing factor!

Liu Mang packed his things, nothing special, just a pair of sneakers, a light coat, mobile phone wallet and so on.

The team bus hasn't arrived yet, Liu Mang is waiting for the bus while watching TV in the living room.

The coach of the team expressed his despair. Other players, coaches, and management staff all drove to the airport by themselves. He could have justifiably "vacated". It is said that he has a Lamborghini, but he still wants to ride the team bus! It's just too picky!

"Uncle, your bag is so beautiful! Huh? Why can't you open it?" Little Loli Dinah was there fiddling with Liu Mang's backpack that was drawn by the system.

"Huh? Isn't it, is it broken?" Liu Mang was very surprised, the products produced by the system are so cheating, and they broke before the first use?

Liu Mang took the bag and pulled it, and then he pulled it away.

"..."

"Why can't Dinah open it? Don't you like this bag?" Dinah asked strangely.

Dinah tried to close the chain, but it wouldn't open again.

"..." This backpack is fireproof and waterproof, so is it also anti-theft?

"The host guessed right. Only the host can open the zipper of the backpack."

This feeling is good! Don't be afraid of things being stolen!

No, what if the backpack is directly stolen?

This kind of backpack and suitcase locks are all "gentlemen's locks". Anti-gentlemen can't protect against villains. If people really want to steal, they just steal the bag together. It doesn't matter whether you lock it or not, the main thing is It is to prevent privacy from being snooped.

Dinah played with this strange backpack for a while, but soon lost interest, and started to discuss the competition with Liu Mang.

"Uncle, Uncle, you must beat that European!" Little Lori Dinah seemed to place more emphasis on Liu Mang's defeat of Pau Gasol than Liu Mang.

"Huh? Dinah, don't you like handsome guys the most?"

"European talent is not a handsome guy, he is too soft, an uncle is a handsome guy!" Little Loli Dinah looked admiring.

"What's the purpose of telling me!" Liu Mang gave the little loli a blank look.

Seen through her thoughts, Dinah said coquettishly, "Dinah has a classmate whose hometown is Memphis. She has a scarab totem, so beautiful..."

"Ahem, the weather is really nice today!" Liu Mang looked at the dark clouds outside the window and changed the subject.

Just kidding! That thing looks like a few hundred dollars!

"Uncle cheapskate!"

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After an hour's flight, Liu Mang followed the team to Memphis for the first time.

It is a bit ridiculous to say that Memphis is a team in the West. It is estimated that the league will not be able to get the number of teams in the Southwest Division if it is assigned to the Southwest Division. Moved to the Southwest Division.

The football market here in Memphis is really good, and the atmosphere of the fans is very good, because this city has never had a decent professional team since its establishment in the 19th century to the present!

To say that Memphis before the Grizzlies moved here in July this year, the only place that people can remember is that Elvis Presley's first record "Sad Hotel" was released here and became popular in Europe and America. , there is nothing else that people can remember.

When there is a professional team in the four major leagues, the people of Memphis immediately become loyal to the Grizzlies. The big difference between Europe and the United States and China is that most of their fans are city fans, with a strong sense of belonging. .

It's just limited by the fact that there are only more than 500,000 people in a place as large as Memphis. It is estimated that it will be difficult for the Grizzlies to make money.

After getting off the plane, Liu Mang felt that the place seemed to be pretty good, the environment was very good, the bus drove from the airport to the city, it was difficult to see tall buildings.

When we approached the urban area, we saw very few tall buildings.

But just outside the urban area, Liu Mang saw a "bizarre" tall building, of course it was taller than the other buildings he saw, with about fifty or sixty floors.

"Nazir, what is that building for? It's built outside the urban area? Can the shop be rented out?" Liu Mang asked curiously.

"Oh, that's the prison in Memphis, the tallest building here."

"..."

The tallest building is the prison! What is the mayor thinking here!

When he was a football fan, Liu Mang often saw on the Internet that players did not want to play in places like Memphis, saying that this is the fringe area of ​​urban and rural areas. When he arrived here, he found that it was indeed the case. The buildings here are probably combined with the urban and rural areas of Shanghai and BJ. The department is almost the same, there are very few high-rise buildings with more than 20 floors, and the largest buildings in the urban area are banks, FedEx headquarters...

However, the basketball atmosphere is much stronger than that of Atlanta. Atlanta also has a strong NFL team. The Eagles can barely compete with the NFL Falcons by relying on the popularity that Wilkins accumulated for the Eagles. Losing to the Falcons, if it wasn't for Liu Mang's popularity in Atlanta this year, he would probably be thrown off by the Falcons.

As for the sports fans here in Memphis, when Liu Mang came out of the hotel, the posters he saw, the advertisements on the bus stop signs, and the promotions on the big screens outside the supermarket were all about the Grizzlies and the Grizzlies star Paul. -gasol!

Liu Mang came to the supermarket to buy the totem toy inherited from the aborigines here that she wanted for Little Lori Dinah, but outside the supermarket, he saw the Grizzlies' promotion for tomorrow's game.

"Best rookie?"

My family are children who love their own family more. A rookie is a child to a team. Memphis people's love for Pau Gasol can be seen from the advertisements that can be seen everywhere.

Handsome, handsome, and elegant, it's not unreasonable for fans to love Gasol.

However, for the best rookie, Liu Mang looked at the game promotion of Memphis, which constantly boasted that Gasol belittled himself, and felt a strange feeling in his heart, someone will win...