Chapter 439 437. Declare War on the Strongest General!

The game against the Wizards and Pacers allowed fans to see a different side of Liu Mang.

Facing historical celebrities, while seemingly arrogant, there is no lack of respect. Before the game, they roared lively, but after the game, no matter whether they won or lost, they never showed the slightest disrespect to their opponents, but were full of respect.

The shameless second-year guy has changed many people's impressions of him. Of course, some people will scold Liu Mang for being shameless. Calling Liu Mang shameless has become a landscape in the NBA. Even his fans say " Shameless", "rogue" and other adjectives to describe him.

This made Liu Mang wonder whether to laugh or curse every time he read the posts on the Internet.

Liu Mang was packing his clothes at home. This time, he had a five-game streak, then came back to play a home game, and then two consecutive away games.

After playing the Pacers, there is only one day to rest. The team took care of the players. They just played the game yesterday and let the players sleep for a while. They arranged a flight to Toronto at 3 pm. Tomorrow is the 18th, the last back-to-back of this month. start day.

As of January 16 against the Pacers, the Eagles' easy start has come to an end, and their record is a bit shaky, with 15 wins and 19 losses. Play 8 games a day and win at least six.

With such a tight schedule, the Hawks’ transition from the romantic and sweet schedule to the mid-season of the devil came so suddenly. In fact, this was also the most difficult part of the Rockets during Yao Ming’s peak period. Often the Rockets played well at the beginning. It was time to reach the peak, and immediately after the difficult schedule was over, a wave of injuries hit due to fatigue, the core truce, the record collapsed, and the comeback before the playoffs, the final ranking was only fifth, not once or twice, the Rockets experienced several times times this situation.

For example, in the 2007-08 season, there were 22 consecutive victories and 22 games. From January 30th to March 17th, 22 games were played, a total of 48 days.

And it can’t be rough calculations. In February, there is an eight or nine-day All-Star Weekend, which is halfway through the Rockets’ 22-game winning streak. They played 22 games in 40 days. During that time, the Rockets showed their championship strength. But in the end, the Chinese New Year just finished that year, and it was early spring, but the Rockets collapsed not long after the winning streak was over.

The most unlucky thing for Yao Ming is that he has not waited until the Chinese market he has driven has entered its heyday, and when it is not so necessary to arrange stacks of schedules for his team during the Chinese New Year, he sees himself 29, 30 At the age of 20, he was at his peak, and by the time he could enjoy his peak years in an easy schedule, he had already retired due to injury.

The league is already warming up for the Spring Festival in China. The Eagles’ Devil’s schedule starts from January 18th to March 31st, 72 days, 38 games, and the All-Star Weekend in the middle, which consumes seven days. That's 38 games in 65 days.

Capitalists are always profit-oriented. David Stern's caring for Liu Mang is indeed caring, but in the case of profit, as for Liu Mang's future...

There are so many stars in the NBA who were the signature or highly praised stars of the league at their peak, and they are miserable after retiring. Will the league care?

Liu Mang’s Eagles team is lucky. Raheem has not lost his enthusiasm for the game and is actively training. He is still the iron man who has never missed a game due to injury in the past six years. Jason Terry and Muhammad will not talk about it. , They are all evergreens who don’t play until they can’t play anymore and will never retire. Except for Ratliff who has a history of injuries, the core lineup of the Eagles has done a good job in preventing injuries, and Ratliff has done a good job because of Liu With the appearance of Reckless, the Eagles played with a small lineup most of the time, the appearance of Boozer and the return of Kevin Wesley, Ratliff started the season at a low level in December, and his average playing time dropped to more than 23 minutes per game In less than 24 minutes, he played quite healthily, and played less time, with great efficiency.

If last season, when the team just had cohesion, but the record was so poor and the second team was so poor, it would be no wonder it didn't collapse.

Fortunately, this year the Eagles' core lineup has been a tacit partner for a season, and the bench lineup has Prince, Boozer, and Kevin Wesley as supplements. Danny Ferry... averaged 2.6 points in 5 minutes per game, close to 1 three-pointer per game, which is also considered a threat. The Eagles have more choices inside and outside the line, unlike when the Rockets had superstars The bench lineup is so miserable, so it is acceptable for such a schedule.

Liu Mang packed a box full of clothes, and asked Prince to help bring the shoes.

Speaking of which, NBA players prefer to "bully" rookies who look arrogant. As long as Barnes is with the team, he is called the most, but Barnes is also happy, because the overall atmosphere of the Eagles is very good. When he went shopping, he also paid attention to whether this second-round rookie was rich, and every time he would give an extra ten or eight yuan, a round number, and he didn't have to look for more.

Boozer is often used by veterans because of his appearance.

As for Liu Mang, he is good at "bullying" and likes to ask the honest Prince to work. The main reason is that Prince's sense of existence is too low. No one orders him. He still feels that he is isolated. The three When the rookie was chatting, he happened to be heard by Liu Mang who had come to the arena earlier, so he put the matter of calling Boozer on Prince.

Sometimes people are really cheap. If you give him extra work without overtime pay, Prince becomes more active...

In the cold Toronto and Milwaukee, you must bring more clothes. This group is back-to-back, with a strong Carter, and the Bucks who broke out again after getting Payton. The last eight games of the Eagles in January are the most difficult. .

After packing up his things, looking at this familiar house and objects, Liu Mang sighed a little. After these two rounds of away games, he will come back on the first of next month, and he will probably move.

Following the beautiful landlord to the newly bought villa, I feel a little excited, and I have to live the life of a luxurious capitalist.

There are not many opportunities to have dinner at this home. Fortunately, the team arranged to fly at three o'clock in the afternoon, so Liu Mang planned to drive directly to the airport after lunch.

Now as the star with the second highest endorsement of NBA sneakers, Liu Mang is already a local rich man. Driving a sports car will not become news like it did at the beginning of last season. Although Liu Mang doesn’t say he dislikes those lace, he always feels weird , Now I drive the car of the beautiful landlord, and I have money to refuel, how great.

As for buying a car?

Just kidding, Levia's idle cars are also idle...

Liu Mang found a perfect reason for himself to eat, drink, and drive.

When Liu Mang came to the sixth floor, Alexia was preparing lunch. Liu Mang checked the time. It was 11:55 Eastern Time, 5 minutes away, and the number of votes for another round of the All-Star Weekend voting was about to come out.

After the voting this time, it will be announced next time, which is the time to determine the starting candidate for the All-Star.

Liu Mang saw that Dinah was helping Alexia, and Levia was watching TV, which was enough.

But watching sports news, Liu Mang also sat down to watch the news.

The NBA's official press conference has begun, and before the announcement of the new vote count, some league penalties were announced.

There are several penalties.

Rasheed Wallace of the Trail Blazers had his 15th technical foul of the season in the last game and was fined 2,500 yuan.

Before 1998, there were still many players with cheap salaries. After the Jordan Law and before 1998, the fines for technical fouls were very small and negligible.

After 1998, the rule was that players were fined $1,000 for two technical fouls in the first season, $1,500 for two more, and $2,500 for the next two. Liu Mang helped the big brother Rasheed Wallace. After a while, a total of... 32,500 fines have been paid!

This is not counting the penalty for being expelled for two technical fouls. For the first expulsion, an additional $1,000 will be added, and each subsequent expulsion will be punished according to the number of expulsions multiplied by $1,000.

Liu Mang saw the number of technical fouls made by Rasheed Wallace, and thought that the Blazers had played at most 40 games so far, right? Co-authoring this product will cause a technical foul in at most three games, and there is no one else.

As for the fine, Liu Mang thinks that the only advantage of the fine is the pre-tax fine for salary payment, so it will not happen that a player pays a tax penalty once, and the league’s income is fined again, and it will be directly deducted from the next salary. Now Players will not be fined for half a month's salary... Except for the ten-day short contract. There are regulations in the ten-day short contract. The team can subsidize fines within a certain number of times. After all, some players who sign 10-day contracts Really can't afford to pay the fine.

Fortunately, there is no accumulative suspension in the penalty clause for technical fouls. Otherwise, in the season when Rasheed Wallace suffered 41 technical fouls, there would be fewer technical fouls, because at least a dozen games would be suspended...

The second penalty was that Kobe Bryant had an altercation with Gary Payton during the game. The two elbowed each other and both received technical fouls. Kobe was fined $1,500 and Gary Payton was fined $2,500.

The third punishment is...

fourth……

The last penalty, Ace Liu's indecent actions in the game against the Pacers on January 16, 2003, was given an additional warning and fined $5,000.

The league also announced some new rules for technical fouls. Throat locking, whether it is locking someone else's throat or locking one's own throat, is included in the scope of technical fouls that must be called.

There are also some other actions and gestures, such as indecent actions such as holding eggs, gangster gestures, some provocative ones, etc., are incidentally included in the ranks of prohibited actions that must be whistled for technical fouls.

Liu Mang felt that he was being targeted!

Liu Mang complained that he was "targeted", and then he was a little puzzled, didn't he say that the good alliance would not punish him for his gestures?

"Ding... Please believe that the host was not punished for provoking Reggie Miller."

Because of what Liu Mang said after the game, and what Reggie Miller seemed to agree with Liu Mang, the public opinion did not accuse Liu Mang of making such moves eight times in the game, but regarded it as a good talk.

But the alliance is really afraid that Liu Mang will make troubles every day, so if there is no fight this time, what about next time?

Now the league has regretted arranging such a loose and tight schedule for the Eagles. Who the hell knows that their best schedule is the worst?

Now it is very difficult to enter the playoffs. If the Eagles are suspended because of Liu Mang's provocative actions and causing fights, some players will be suspended. This year's playoffs will really be hopeless.

Liu Mang analyzed it himself, so, do you have to thank the alliance for the fine?

Depend on! When the young master is willing to be idle and have nothing to provoke opponents! The young master is a good citizen!

Also, $5,000!

Damn it, there are more than 2,600 after tax deduction, Liu Mang is bleeding, he can fill up the car many times...

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At 12:00 noon, the penultimate vote count for the All-Star Weekend was announced.

In the West, Kobe continues to dominate. Kobe's popularity this year is indeed unrivaled. When Carter didn't play for half a season and O'Neal suffered repeated injuries, Kobe led those old and slow teammates. It's holding on, it didn't fall out of the top five in the Western Conference, and it entered a period of rising popularity. With 1.23 million votes, there are only four leaders with more than one million votes.

Francis ranked second in the Western Conference with 720,000 votes.

Western forward Garnett and Duncan both broke 900,000 votes, not far from 1 million votes.

Center...Yao Ming is the second one in the West with 1.03 million votes, just ahead of O'Neal by 200,000 votes.

At the center position in the Eastern Conference, there is an existence who is complained about like Yao Ming. Ratliff, no matter whether the Eagles record is good or bad, whether the Eagles collapse or rise again, the popularity he brought to the Eagles by relying on Liu Mang is still there. The record of the Eagles last season was that the All-Star center in the East won the most votes, with 890,000 votes, more than 300,000 votes more than the second Ben Wallace, and more than Shaquille O'Neal in the West...

As for forwards, McGrady led with 1.07 million votes, and Carter was far ahead of others with 920,000 votes.

Raheem is not so lucky this year. Even if he has gained momentum recently, he only has more than 600,000 votes, ranking fourth among forwards after Grant Hill, who was reimbursed again after only playing 29 games this year.

In terms of guards, Liu Mang got the second most votes in the league, leading the Eastern Conference with 1.1 million votes. He was a little behind McGrady, who was the top scorer this year, but with his recent 54 points and large triple-double, Liu Mang Mang has surpassed Tracy McGrady as the player with the most votes in the Eastern Conference.

Another guard position in the Eastern Conference. Iverson and Jordan are fighting fiercely, but Jordan is obviously at a disadvantage. Your 76ers have a good record. You traded the old Mutombo for the peak Van Horn. The 76ers are strong It is much better than last season. If it weren't for the Magic's top spot in the Southeast Division, the 76ers would be fourth in the East.

For Mr. Joe, who seems to be unable to beat Iverson in the current All-Star voting dominated by young people, Liu Mang thinks that time is not forgiving, but he is still very happy about being the top voter in the Eastern Conference.

Because not only Yao Ming, but also Liu Mang, a Chinese player, supported the desire of domestic fans to vote. Although there are still few domestic voting channels, it also brought a lot of help to this year's All-Star voting. In fact, the number of votes received by Liu Mang Kidd is much higher than the original one.

But there is also anger, Liu Mang is very dissatisfied, and actually let that little blacksmith also follow suit!

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I enjoyed the lunch of Aida-senpai and chatted about the new house in the afternoon, and talked about Dinah and Alexia's winter vacation arrangements. After the past, Liu Mang got the hug of the soft girl Little Lolita, and drove Levia's jeep to the airport.

The plane took off at 3 o'clock, and the Eagles arrived in Toronto at 5:30 o'clock. Unlike Atlanta's wet and cold, Toronto is like the Northeast of China, and it is now turning into ice.

Fortunately, all residents and workplaces in Canada who pay the welfare system fees normally have electric heating equipment, and the electricity bill is negligible, so after arriving at the hotel, Liu Mang, who is afraid of the cold, finally changed his clothes from the inner three layers to the outer layer. freed from.

Moreover, this time it was colder than when they played the away game last year, and it was deep winter. In the coldest time of the year in Canada, there was no malicious interruption of the heating circuit. The Eagles' rest in this away game was generally good.

After Liu Mang arrived in his room, he first nestled in the bed that had been hot for a while after turning on the electric heater, and looked at his superstar value. It was 14423 points. There was a mid-level superstar value reward draw. - Miller's 1989-1990 version of the star card, Ben Wallace's 01-02 season star card, 18 primary steal cards, 1 manic potion, 21 physical strength potions, 19 primary injury potions and 1 intermediate injury potion disease medicine.

There are also some skill upgrade cards that cannot be saved due to the need to suppress some unskilled technical moves.

Looking at the 21 physical potions, it is estimated that after a few days of training, they will be gone. Liu Mang used 44 low-level superstar lottery draws to make up for it.

"Boss of the system, use 44 primary superstar value draws."

"The host used 44 primary superstar value draws, consuming 4400 superstar points..."

"Ding... Congratulations to the host for obtaining 17 physical potions, 5 primary injury potions, 29 skill upgrade cards, 4 primary stealing cards, and 1 manic potion."

"Ding... special reminder, since the number of skills possessed by the host has reached a certain number, the ability value is very close to 80, and the use of stealing cards will have a special effect after the host's ability value exceeds 80, so stay tuned."

Special Note? Stay tuned?

Kill obsessive-compulsive disorder!

Liu Mang took a deep breath, expressing that he was not angry, and used a good attitude to welcome the mid-level superstar lottery that will be used next when he got 54 points on Mr. Qiao's head. The mood should be better, and the luck might be better .

"Boss of the system, use the rewarded 1 mid-level superstar value lottery to designate a special card."

Of course, the special card is the best, and there is no shortage of skills. Technical moves with skill bonuses such as back shots and turn jump shots have not yet been developed. It's because there are too many full-level skills exceeding 80, and some abilities that have not yet reached the effect of the bench bandit bonus will drop a lot.

So Liu Mang is looking forward to getting a chapter of awesome special cards.

"The number of draws for the mid-level superstar value rewarded by the host is 1 time, and there is a one-third chance to designate a special card..."

"Ding... Congratulations to the host for getting the Action Pack: Zach LaVine Dunk Pack."

"Zach LaVine dunk bag, the minimum bounce requirement: 90, the host has met, the full unlock dunk action needs 95 bounce value, the host can unlock all dunks in the solo riding level 5, pick-and-roll master level 5, and peak training mode action."

"Watt? Another god-level dunk bag?"

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At around seven o'clock in the evening, Carter hired a driver and bought an extended Bentley to take the Eagles players to his house for dinner.

Since the recovery from the injury has greatly exceeded expectations, when he heard the doctor say that his ankle had almost recovered to its pre-injury condition, he was so excited that he almost had a fight with a female doctor in her 50s...

From the beginning of recovery training at the age of 15 to the present, Carter found that his jumping and explosive power were not affected, but his body was a little rusty after lying down and holding a crutch for seven or eight months. It happened that Liu Mang came, so Liu Mang and his teammates were invited to his house for dinner.

"UFO, this car is so cool!" Barnes said enviously.

"Haha, your name is Matt. You will have some too. I will give you a Ferrari, and you will receive it when you return to Atlanta." Carter laughed while seeing the rookie drooling.

"Really? That's great..." Barnes exclaimed in disbelief.

Carter said he would give Barnes a Ferrari. Liu Mang thought it was not a random shot, because American cars are cheap, and now is the time when the dollar is at its strongest, and you can buy a good sports car for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Carter's 6-year salary of 88 million US dollars has just come into effect this season, plus the 5-year 25 million he signed with Nike in 2000 plus the endorsement contract that helped Carter repay the former endorsement brand's 15 million US dollars in liquidated damages, and some other As an endorsement, Carter's annual after-tax income this season is close to 14 million dollars. For Carter, sending a Ferrari is as easy as James giving a sports car to his younger brother in the future.

Recently, Carter was in a good mood, promised to give it away, and immediately called the car dealer he was familiar with that sold the Ferrari, and asked them to contact the dealer in Atlanta to send a Ferrari to Phillips Arena for Barnes.

Not to mention Raheem who has a big contract, even Jason Terry and Muhammad, who got some endorsements through Liu Mang, don't care so much about a sports car, only three rookies see Carter thought it was a little crazy to buy a stretched Bentley to pick them up.

It's just that Prince and Boozer were relatively restrained and didn't directly express their envy, which makes them regret it now. If they also expressed their envy with Barnes, would they also be able to get a sports car?

But it was too late to regret it, and it felt so stupid to do what Barnes did at this time.

"Okay, okay, get in the car, it's so cold." Liu Mang saw Carter pretending to be serious, it hurts, "Vince, are you crazy! Don't you know how cold it is here? You still go out to eat? Don't be afraid for a while Is the road blocked by heavy snow?"

"Okay, everyone, get in the car." Carter really felt that Liu Mang was good enough, and invited him to dinner without talking too much.

But when Carter thought of what he had prepared, he immediately smiled: "Tonight there is a show at my house, which will definitely open your eyes."

"O, Vince, you didn't find a group of beauties to hold a party at your house! Oh my God, you are so crazy to win us!" Jason Terry joked.

But when it comes to beauties, the atmosphere in the car suddenly becomes active.

Carter had a good laugh...

Liu Mang saw that after leaving the underground parking lot, heavy snow began to fall outside the window. Thanks to the heater in the car, otherwise it would be horrific. After the sun went down today, the temperature in Toronto has dropped to minus 5 degrees here in Fahrenheit. That's about minus 20 degrees Celsius. He is estimated to be like a Northeast person. His beautiful hair is covered with frost, so he has to wrap his body tightly.

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To Carter's house.

The Eagles players are basically Americans and Chinese, with a ratio of 14 to 1. This is the first time I have been to the home of a player outside the United States. I look at the exaggerated villa with a hill as the back garden, and the exaggerated The villa with 19 wooden structure rooms is so frighteningly popular.

The United States is also considered to have a vast land and a sparse population. Compared with Canada, the population of the United States is really dense.

Canadian villas are really cheap except for the property tax that fluctuates from 1% to 3% per year and a certain amount of currency depreciation tax or value-added tax as estimated by the tax department. Carter’s house cost 3 million dollars In Atlanta, the area is at least half smaller, and the house area is only half smaller. It is impossible for the mountain behind Carter's house to belong to their house.

However, the house price is 3 million US dollars, and the tax department's valuation is usually around 150%. There is also a tax on the currency whether it appreciates or depreciates. This is the most complained about place in Canada.

Liu Mang was a little dumbfounded looking at the huge living room full of musical instruments. Is this the legendary eye-opening thing?

Piano, guitar, drums, viola, clarinet, oboe, cello, electric piano, saxophone, flute, keyboard...

Liu Mang looked at the full range of musical instruments, and his head was full of question marks. Is this the legendary eye-opening and exciting thing?

your sister!

Thought it was a girl!

However, beyond Liu Mang's expectations, his teammates all exclaimed, and then rushed towards the musical instrument he was good at.

Carter picked up the saxophone he won a music scholarship in college, Jason Terry walked to the drum set, Kevin Wesley, who is still angry today, played the piano, Ratliff played the trumpet, Raheem is actually a violinist, Barnes is a clarinet... Even Boozer has found his flute that he is good at.

These musical instruments prepared by Carter are probably not cheap, and everyone is amazed at the awesome sound quality!

Looking at the picture in front of him, Liu Mang felt that the painting style was wrong!

This group of big black men can play music one by one?

Wait, it seems that someone here has released a music record...

Liu Mang felt that he was weak!

"How about it, isn't the program prepared today great!" Carter said proudly holding the saxophone: "These are the top instruments I just bought,"

Suddenly, Carter saw that Liu Mang was still in a daze and did not choose his favorite musical instrument, and asked suspiciously: "Ace, what's wrong? You can't play musical instruments?"

Liu Mang quickly looked through his skill library, and found the musical instrument he knew...

Liu Mang said awkwardly: "I know a Chinese musical instrument, but you don't have one here..."

"Oh? Chinese musical instruments? That's so cool! Ace, what are you talking about? I'll ask someone from the musical instrument store to bring it to you!" Carter said richly, not short of money!

"Uh, maybe you can't buy it here." Liu Mang was even more embarrassed.

"Ace, you're welcome, tell me, is it expensive? It's okay, I'll give it to you if I buy it!" Carter continued to act like a rich man.

"Well, try to see if you can buy it," Liu Mang said in pain, "That instrument is called ERHU-fiddle"

"Erhu violin? What brand is this?" Carter was a little confused. He was proficient in musical instruments and had never heard of this brand of violin.

"It's not a violin, it's called an erhu..."

Liu Mang looked at the only musical instrument skill in the system panel, playing the erhu for Xiaocheng, and felt a pain in the ass... Not to mention whether you can buy erhu in Toronto, did you buy it back, and want to come to Erquan Yingyue ?

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Generally speaking, everyone had a good time with the Carter family's Magic Sound Luanwu Pa. Although it was a pity that Carter didn't hear Liu Mang performing the legendary erhu in the end, Liu Mang was a good spectator. To avoid embarrassment, Liu Mang clapped loudly every time their chaotic performance ended.

At 10:30 in the evening, before the curfew, Carter asked the driver to take Liu Mang and his party back to the hotel. Fortunately, the snow stopped early and the road was not blocked. Otherwise, Coach Kruger would probably be furious.

After Liu Mang returned to the hotel, he learned from the painful experience. It seems that in the future, he really has to use his rogue value to pick up some other talents, otherwise it will be embarrassing sometimes.

Like a little blacksmith from Milan who knows how to play the piano and the violin, Liu Mang felt that if he didn't have the talents that are more common than the general public, he would be really difficult to get along with!

Liu Mang looked at the ceiling and sighed. It’s not easy to play in the NBA these days, and you must be versatile. Otherwise, if the team loses its mind and makes a band in the future, I won’t be able to get involved... When I go back to Atlanta, I’ll go to Chinatown to buy an erhu put it aside...

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Overall, it was a good night in Toronto. On the second day, the first back-to-back away game, it was time to play against the Raptors.

Carter is back!

The super popularity continues!

There is no doubt that Carter is still the most popular player in the league, but he has been injured for nearly half a season. Unlike the Eagles who only played 34 games, the Raptors have reached 39 games, 9 wins and 30 losses. Second, people didn't know when Carter would return from injury at first, so his All-Star voting was affected, but he still sat firmly in the All-Star starting position.

This time Carter came back, just as the opponent is currently in a hot state. The Eagles, who have 9 wins and 1 loss in the last ten games, have Liu Mang, a popular fried chicken. The match between Carter and Liu Mang is undoubtedly a favorite of basketball players all over the world. fan attention.

How is Carter's ankle injury recovering? It is said that the Raptors have a tendency to trade Carter. Is the rumor that the ankle has recovered perfectly is true or false? After Carter's comeback, will the Raptors, now ranked second to last in the Eastern Conference, improve...

Carter never lacked topics during his peak period, coupled with Liu Mang's recent enthusiasm, Liu Mang has averaged 21.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 4.1 assists per game in the 10 games since December 21st. 14.9 points, but once again regarded as the favorite candidate for the best sixth man. If Liu Mang maintains this state and the Eagles enter the playoffs again, Liu Mang will still become the number one favorite for the best sixth man. This game was decisively added a live broadcast throughout North America by T.N.T and a Canadian TV station.

The Raptors are suffering. Last season they were the top three teams in the U.S. because of Carter’s injury until at least January. In the first 39 games this year, there were only two U.S. televised games, one away against the Kings and one It's a home game against the Lakers, and it's all live broadcasts. Today, they finally have a national live broadcast with them as the protagonists.

In the afternoon, the Eagles came to the Canadian Airline Center. Since it was broadcast live across the United States, there must be a press conference before the game to promote the game.

Liu Mang didn't want to participate this time, but he had no choice but to participate!

"King of the five best shots: Before the next meeting with Vince Carter, openly declare war on Carter in the dunk duel in the game, and win more five best shots than Vince Carter in the five best shots of the day. Mission. Reward: A random Vince Carter skill card. Failure penalty: Lose the Vince Carter dunk bag."

Looking at this task, Liu Mang really wanted to blow up a certain stupid loli's ass, looking for trouble for nothing!

But... If Carter's dunk bag is gone, I'm really sorry!

The function of the dunk bag is to give bonuses to areas such as waist, abdomen, back strength, etc. that cannot be achieved when the bounce meets the requirements and there is a chance to dunk, and the movements can be made naturally.

Although there is LaVine's dunk bag, Carter's dunk bag is also super handsome! Liu Mang was really reluctant.

The key is that if you win, there will be one of Carter's random skills!

The half-human half-god can't get it, but the skills of death button and aerial performer are very dazzling! Liu Mang wanted it so much.

Therefore, when the team press officer just routinely notified Liu Mang of the press conference, unexpectedly, Liu Mang nodded without hesitation and said he would go!

Coach Kruger, who is being interviewed at the press conference, and Lenny Wilkens, the star of the opponent’s Eagles and one of the best coaches in team history, are being interviewed. Bian Superman balloon star Vince Carter came, and Liu Mang was led by the team's press officer to the interview hall.

Carter greeted Liu Mang with a signature smile, and Liu Mang nodded in response, with a stern expression on his face.

Coach Kruger didn't expect Liu Mang to come to the press conference, he was shocked!

Seeing Liu Mang's expression, Coach Kruger felt uneasy. The opponent has a historical player...a player who has indeed made history in dunking. Coach Kruger feels that something is wrong today...

Coach Kruger already has a psychological shadow on Liu Mang's participation in the pre-match interview!

Seeing Liu Mang and Carter coming, out of a keen sense of news, seeing Liu Mang coming, the media's muskets were the problem and decisively overtook Liu Mang: "Liu, Vince Carter is back today, you are right about this Do you feel any difference in the game?"

"Vince's comeback is a great thing for the league and all the fans. We can enjoy the wonderful performance of UFO again. I feel very lucky to play against the team that has Vince."

Liu Mang's first answer was very polite, basically following the script given by the press officer, which made Coach Kruger heave a sigh of relief.

"Could it be that I'm thinking too much about that uneasy feeling?" Coach Kruger felt something strange, but Liu Mang's answer to the question today seemed to be nothing wrong.

But the reporter is not happy! They want news! Do something! Except for the reporters from Atlanta and Georgia who came with the team and the local reporters in Toronto, the other reporters wanted to make things happen.

A reporter with a Sports Illustrated microphone in his hand asked: "Liu, after your body has become stronger this year, your jumping and explosive power have improved significantly. Almost every dunk you make is among the top five shots of the day and the top ten shots of the week. Today Will you perform against Vince Carter, the best dunk king?"

Originally seeing that it was a reporter from Sports Illustrated, Coach Kruger was a little worried that the other party would provoke trouble, but he didn't expect that the other party asked this question, so Coach Kruger was relieved.

Liu Mang's dunks are good-looking, but they are not what Liu Mang is good at. In 34 games this season, Liu Mang has only 16 dunks, which is the average number of dunks for an ordinary guard. Coach Kruger thinks that Liu Mang will probably praise him at this time Let's talk about Carter, in terms of politeness, Liu Mang has always done a good job.

If it was normal, Coach Kruger was right. Liu Mang also praised Carter's dunk last season.

But today...

Liu Mang struggled for a while, pinched his thigh with his hand under the interview table, and said forcibly, "Is Vince the best dunk master? I think he can only be ranked second now, starting from today." , I will probably replace Vince as the NBA player with the strongest dunk.”

As soon as these words came out, the audience fell silent.

Even the reporter of Sports Illustrated, who was provocative, didn't expect Liu Mang to be so direct!

Recently, Liu Mang first challenged Jordan, then challenged Reggie Miller in the game, and now, he challenged the recognized best dunker in NBA history!

The Sports Illustrated reporter couldn't believe his ears, and asked incredulously, "Liu, are you declaring war on Vince Carter's dunk?"

"Your English is not bad, you heard me right." Liu Mang joked.

After Liu Mang uttered the wild words, he also thought about it. He thought that war had already been declared, what else could he do? The big deal would be to fail the mission and lose face. What if he wins? Now Carter is just recovering from his injury. Although he is perfectly healed, after resting for so long, his body will definitely not be able to reach its peak state for a while. Liu Mang feels that his chances of winning are not particularly low.

"OH-MY-GOD!"

There were bursts of exclamations from the scene, and then everyone looked at Carter who was also a little dumbfounded.

Carter was shocked by Liu Mang's declaration of war.

And then... Carter got a little excited!

Looking at the eyes of the media begging for a response, Carter laughed and said: "Haha, I am also looking forward to the duel with Ace. Has it become a dunk this time? I watched Ace's game and you imitated me. I didn't expect you to dunk so well, I really underestimated you! I accept your challenge!"

Liu Mang knows that even if war is declared, Carter will not be angry. Carter's temper is too gentle and he is good at accepting changes, just like he will be in the Nets in the future from the core to the team's catchers and lobs, and then become The sixth man, an ordinary bench player, has never had any complaints and is almost seamlessly connected. Liu Mang knew that Carter is a person with a good personality.

Especially when his teammate's lonely and invincible dunk is challenged, the probability of Carter getting angry is pitifully small, but the probability of accepting the challenge excitedly is even greater!

In this way, Liu Mang also changed from uneasy to thoughtful and now has a strong fighting spirit!

Seeing the sparks between Carter and Liu Mang, who were staring at each other, the media did not expect that a routine pre-match press conference would turn out to be a mess!

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