Chapter 382
BJ time, on June 4, 2002, Wang Fei, the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, announced that due to Liu Mang's injury, he was unfortunately unable to participate in the US World Championships.
At the same time, it was announced that Wang Zhizhi was unwilling to play for the country and wanted to stay in the United States to play.
When the Lanxie sent people to negotiate with Liu Mang, there were also other Lanxie officials who directly sent a notice to ask Wang Zhizhi to go back. It was the kind of order, and Wang Zhizhi was naturally not happy at this time.
When these two news came out, most people were attracted by Wang Zhizhi's reluctance to play for the country and wanting to stay in the United States to play in the summer league.
The Blue Association still has a strong ability to guide public opinion. Unfortunately, Wang Zhizhi's "treason" incident has already begun.
On the contrary, why Liu Mang was unable to participate in the World Championships, not so many people care, because Liu Mang made it clear in the first interview at the All-Star Weekend and in many subsequent interviews that as long as the Blue Association is willing to let him enter the national team, he will Obligatory.
As for Wang Zhizhi, he is still in the struggle period of his career in his life. Of course he is willing to join the national team, but Wang Zhizhi does not want to enter the training team so early. He wants to perform in the summer league and strive to let his already good statistics this season To be able to win the next contract, they averaged 1 three-pointer per game with 5.6 points, 2 rebounds and 41% three-point shooting this season. They are favored by many teams, but the Mavericks have no choice. He renewed his contract because he had tried it, but it was of no use to the Chinese market. The relationship between Wang Zhizhi and the Blue Association was very stiff, which made him unable to generate income for the NBA before the Blue Association made changes.
Wang Zhizhi also has to think about himself. It is important to play for the country, but after the national team retires, after the glory is gone, there are many people who have no financial income. There are even world champions who retire and go to the street to do kung fu for a living. Yes, the most miserable ones are those who set up street stalls and were smashed by urban management.
Now it is not easy for Wang Zhizhi to play a good season. With some room for development, the Blue Association has come to add to the block again.
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Liu Mang failed to enter the national team,
Leaving aside the fact that 50% of the next year's NBA salary will be handed over, Yao Ming has also experienced this strange rule, but the final negotiation result is 5%, plus an annual training fee of 900,000 dollars.
After Wei Yuanli came to power in February 2003, the training fee was refunded to Yao Ming, and only 5% of the salary was collected as the Blue Association fee. Yao Ming's career salary was more than 93 million, and 5% was collected after tax deduction. About two million dollars in eight years.
Five percent is completely acceptable, as for the membership fee, the basic national conditions of the country are like this, and after more than ten years, the online novel writers' associations with dark code words will all charge membership fees.
Even if Liu Mang didn't make a deal, next season's salary would be only US$520,000, and after tax deduction half of it would be more than a hundred thousand US dollars, Liu Mang's heartache would not be unacceptable.
This is not the point, the point is the training camp designated by the Blue Association, which is actually two full months from June 15th to August 15th! During the period, there were six friendly matches in countries that Liu Mang had never even heard of.
Liu Mang said hell! Who has the time to lose weight with those potbellied national team teammates? The CBA in March, whose full name is Motorola, has finished the playoffs of the Chinese Men's Basketball League One. Those who didn't make it to the playoffs even started to have a holiday in February for the Chinese New Year. Now they all have big bellies and thick necks.
The Blue Association's training schedule is so long, Liu Wei said it is understandable, the Blue Association probably took this aspect into consideration and came up with this kind of devil's training, but it is impossible for him to lose weight together.
The key was the selection training camp. It wasn't until July when the entry list was submitted that it was decided who would be there. There were more than 30 people training together.
Not participating in the selection training camp means not accepting the national team call!
Wang Zhizhi was brutally banned in the name of not accepting the signs of the state!
Surprisingly, the middle-aged official with a big belly sent by the Blue Association was "very talkative", saying that if he could not participate in the training camp, he would not be able to participate in the selection of the national team. If you want to improve your strength, you can go, you are still young, and there will be opportunities in the future.
This statement made Liu Mang confused and a little uneasy. Could it be that he just said: Is the training time too long? I have a training plan for summer.
This is blocked? !
When I took Dinah to play in the afternoon, I was uneasy. Fortunately, Dinah hadn't gone to the playground for a long time and had a good time and didn't pay attention, otherwise she would be complained about again.
In the evening, watching the first fierce Lakers home game against the Nets 99-96, Liu Mang was not attracted by the unexpectedly exciting game.
Just when Liu Mang was still uneasy the next day, the news came. The American media received news that Liu Mang was injured and could not participate in the World Championships.
Only then did Liu Mang understand why Xu Jicheng, the head of the sports department of Xinhua News Agency, came to ask him not to play the summer league if he could.
This Lanxie really deserves to be deeply influenced by our country's traditional culture, and the persimmons are really picky! And I found such a reasonable excuse for myself!
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It is normal for Liu Mang to be a little confused, he has never experienced such a thing.
The Blue Association also wants political achievements. Liu Mang's strength is completely different from domestic defenders. For the sake of future political achievements, it is impossible for them to break up with Liu Mang.
At the same time, they don't want the results of this year's World Championships to be so good. The so-called emperor and courtiers are the same for government agencies.
Director Xin loves making money, and Director Li loves achievement.
One exploits the national team players to death. As long as they are members of the national team at first, if they sign an endorsement, the endorsement fee will be paid by the Blue Association.
Now the old leader is about to step down. As the saying goes, the death of the old leader's wife is like a crowd, and the old leader's death is very crowded, and the same is true for government agencies.
The people sent by the Lanxie will also do things selectively. The persimmons should be picked softly. Director Li is an old cadre who cares about his political achievements. Wouldn't it be better for the old leader to leave good grades when he leaves office?
The outgoing leader is the former leader, and it is useless to please him.
Director Xin has no objection to this. He has resigned now, and he may come back in the future.
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Liu Mang was a bit regretful that he did not get the opportunity to represent the national team to participate in the Indianapolis World Championships, but since he was not banned, he was not so regretful.
Even if he is added to the national team this year, it may not be of much use. Although the United States is not playing well this year and will be abused, it is still the top three in the world. Besides, Yugoslavia is the last; Greece, Argentina, and Spain in the golden age They're all about to reach their peak.
Not to mention the German team with Nowitzki and the powerful Russian team...
This year Liu Mang himself is just a rookie who just finished his rookie season in the NBA, Yao Ming is still a rookie, and Wang Zhizhi is still banned. It is estimated that only the African brothers will win.
If you didn't participate, you didn't participate! Liu Mang waits, waits for Yao Ming to become stronger, waits for Wang Zhizhi to return to the home team, and then go to 2004 or 2006 when the US team is still at a low point!
On the contrary, Liu Mang unloaded the burden and began to continue training hard. Two days of hard training and two rests, two days of hard training, one day of rest, one day of thinking about the experience gained in the training and thinking about where he did not practice well enough. In the next training, he will focus on train.
However, the boss and the head coach who heard the news hurried back from Hawaii, thinking that Liu Mang suffered some kind of injury and would not even be able to play in the World Championships in two and a half months.
Liu Mang said that he was not injured, they didn't believe it, and took him to the hospital for a comprehensive examination, which lasted for a long time.
"I just found an excuse not to participate in the World Championships, it's fine!" Liu Mang was speechless.
"That's good, I thought you lost the game and stimulated yourself to practice and hurt yourself!" Coach Kruger was relieved, and he could accept Liu Mang's reason.
Because the American mindset is: it's an honor to represent your country, but it's freedom not to want to represent your country, and it's probably fine for NBA superstars but not for athletes in other sports that don't make as much money low allowance.
And Liu Mang said that because he wanted to train and didn't want to participate in the World Championships, he made excuses that he was injured. The Americans are too understanding, and many NBA stars in the United States are like this.
After being relieved, Coach Kruger couldn't help but persuade: "Ace, don't practice so much every day. Young people recover quickly, but you still have a long career. Don't really train yourself. You are alone. You can go to your teammates or Tracy McGrady, Kobe...Kobe is fine, I think you will be beaten if you go to him."
Coach Kruger knew that Liu Mang, Kobe, and McGrady had dinner together during the All-Star Weekend, so he thought his disciples had a good relationship, especially when Liu Mang and Kidd went to the Western Conference during the All-Star Weekend. , Coach Kruger felt that Liu Mang had grown up.
Then something like this happened in the past few days.
"I know the coach." Liu Mang was quite touched, and he could feel his real concern. "I'm practicing for two days now and resting for two days. When Michael Jordan is free, I will go to him for advice."
"That's good, you can figure it out, I have an appointment with Yudao tomorrow, and I have to catch a plane back to Hawaii..."
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The world seemed to be quiet, and Liu Mang began to practice hard alone. The road to success is always lonely, and it is even more lonely to climb from the bottom ranks to the top.
Jason Terry and Raheem are very talented. As long as they do the training they should, one will naturally become a top star and the other will be a top star.
Blue-collar workers like Muhammad and Ratliff want more rest in the summer, and they are tired enough during the season.
And Liu Mang is neither, he can only rely on his hard work, relying on the soft touch that can be regarded as talent to train hard.
This kind of feeling is still very good, and Liu Mang also enjoys it. He trains for two days and reflects on his own shortcomings in training for a day. If it is a weekend, he will play with Dinah for a day. If Dinah does not have a holiday, Alexis When Ya is free, we will make appointments together to eat, go shopping, and sometimes accompany Levia to the supermarket for big purchases. Alexia often comes to the apartment now, and there are many things that need to be bought, otherwise it will be very expensive to buy now troublesome.
By the way, it’s not bad to see Kidd’s consecutive defeats after a bang. An enemy’s enemy is a friend. The Eagles’ biggest enemy next season is the Nets. The current opponent of the Lakers is also the Nets, so Liu Mang is now a Lakers fan. At least he The phrase "Lakers championship" and the "rogue body" selfie video method have become popular, and fans say he is a Lakers fan.
Liu Mang is very fortunate that there is no software to edit subtitles for videos and GIFs these days, and there is no such thing as emoji packs, otherwise he would probably become the king of emoji packs.
With plans, arrangements, and sweaty plans and arrangements, refusing interviews on the grounds of injuries, and not having much contact with the outside world, Liu Mang is in this simple and comfortable state, quietly Training, time passed quickly, and in a flash, the eight-day finals came to an end.
Except for the first game where the Lakers broke out because Kidd scored 23 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, the Lakers struggled until the end to win the game. The other three games were all over 20 points. Nets, played the most miserable finals in history, of course the miserable one is the Nets.
Although O’Neal was also swept by Olajuwon in the finals, it seems that the big score is the same, but the difference between the four games O’Neal lost was 2 points, 9 points, 3 points, and 12 points, except for the last game. He and Penny were both desperate and tortured to the point of losing their fighting spirit, and the others struggled to the end.
Liu Mang has watched all four games, and he is free in the summer anyway.
Watching O'Neal win the championship MVP with an average of 36 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks per game, Liu Mang finally breathed a sigh of relief, because this year Kobe performed better than O'Neal in the three playoff rounds of the Western Conference. There are voices saying yes It's time for Kobe to win a championship MVP.
This made Liu Mang know that O'Neal should be the FMVP for three consecutive games, but he was still a little worried, because Kobe's average of 27 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists in the finals was also good, and his shooting percentage was 51%. , can also give.
Fortunately, it didn't happen in the end, otherwise Liu Mang didn't know how this guy would be so embarrassing!
But well, Kobe is not embarrassed, is that still Kobe?
When the reporter interviewed after winning the championship, the reporter asked Kobe what he wanted to say after winning the three consecutive championships. The reporter wanted to ask what he wanted to say about the fact that the MVP of the championship was not him.
But Kobe's answer was: "Help me tell Ace Liu that we will see you in the finals next season!"
After winning the championship, Kobe finally responded to Liu Mang!
Liu Mang was shocked when he watched the live broadcast!
damned! The popularity of the young master finally subsided. The limelight has just passed with the finals, and now there are not many people paying attention. The young master still wants to train quietly and wait for the free market to open. Find an agent, and you Add fire to the young master!
However, there is one more thing Liu Mang wants to say to the little blacksmith: I will go to the finals next year, so you may not be able to come...