Chapter 787

From August 29th to 31st, Liu Mang first went to the three European countries to promote. Taking advantage of the popularity in Europe brought by the just defeated American men's basketball team, Liu Mang's publicity was much more popular than last year. I saw many people wearing Eagles jerseys, Rogue league jerseys, and even fans wearing his No. 8 jersey from the Chinese team came to the event.

When he was promoting, the three girls had a great time shopping. Hearing that Liu Mang had a bonus from the state, he immediately wanted to buy it.

Liu Mang said that the bonus is only 50,000 yuan, which is less than 10,000 US dollars. The three girls don't believe it...

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At noon on September 1st, he returned to his home in Atlanta. It had been a month since Liu Mang had been back. Finally, Liu Mang could relax. Next, signing the contract and going to the imperial capital to attend the celebration banquet were all relaxing and joyful things.

Unknowingly, this place has really been regarded as a home by Liu Mang. Although...it's a bit like eating soft food...but this feeling is still a little exciting.

Before they came back, they had hired a cleaner to clean up the house. After arriving home, Liu Mang and San Niu immediately went back to their respective rooms and fell asleep...

The next morning, Liu Mang got up early, ready to continue training.

Just after waking up, the system prompt came.

"Ding... The upgrade of the basketball superstar section is complete..."

The system panel appeared in front of Liu Mang. He first looked at the lottery template, thinking that the system was going to mess with something else, but he didn't expect that the lottery system hadn't changed. After looking at all the panels, he found that it was the training system that had changed!

The training mode is divided into two types.

The previous training mode has not changed, and the task training system is still the same. It belongs to the kind that does not necessarily get special rewards after completing a thousand times. 10,000 superstar points for an advanced mission is still very attractive.

It’s just that Liu Mang hasn’t completed several intermediate tasks until now. 100 shots in 200 seconds is not difficult to say, but the three-point ability evaluation of less than 90 is still a bit difficult. Hitting with a high shooting rate 100 shots is no problem, but if you refer to the three-point contest, you can shoot 25 balls in 60 seconds, and few people can make 20 shots. Most of the time, Liu Mang is a superstar who trains normally and chooses to perform primary tasks and earn some physical potions value.

As for making 100 three-pointers in 150 seconds...Liu Mang felt that if he improved to Curry's three-pointer, it would be possible to complete it. That was too difficult, and the task of making 100 three-pointers in 150 seconds It is the end point of the three-point training task. After the completion, you can get the skill of dribbling and shooting quickly, that is, it is possible to shoot with the ball in 0.3 seconds like Curry.

The goal Liu Mang is trying to achieve is to be stronger than Curry...

Of course, Liu Mang doesn't think he will be worse than Curry, and his playing style is too far behind.

However, Liu Mang finds this new version of the training system very interesting, and it is more in line with his current needs. Speaking of it, it is closer to the inheritance mission he used to train with Jordan, Stockton, and Malone, but it is not for him to steal success. The rate is doubled, but the real learning technique!

It's just... This system is a "pit" superstar value with changing patterns!

"Superstar training mode: When the host learns a technique like a master-level figure of a certain basketball skill, the corresponding superstar value can be paid to speed up memory and comprehension. If you have used the star card of the player, you will have an additional comprehension bonus."

What a coincidence! Isn't there 150,000 superstar values ​​now! Learn to learn! Keep the 50,000 superstar points reserved at the beginning of the regular season, and learn the rest!

Before the Olympic Games, Liu Mang found McGrady and made an appointment to train together in September. McGrady said he wanted to find Kobe together...

After thinking about it, Liu Mang, Kobe, Iverson, Jordan, Manu Ginobili, Magician, it seems that he has used these most powerful stars, and they all fit his position and style of play. Card, the other O'Neal, O'Neal, Ben Wallace... forget it.

With the experience of superstar abilities, plus asking for advice from the stars, and training by himself, Liu Mang feels that this is really the best way for a top star, a player who is in the same position as a top star.

A top star is actually a very awkward position, unless it is the type like Kidd, who has an ability value of 94 but is better than a superstar when leading a team. No credit.

For example, Carter and Raheem have good statistics, but if you look at their honors at their peak, they are a third team and an All-Star at the top.

It’s okay if they are top-notch players. Like Francis, the style of play and strength are all there. Not many people expect them to be a first-time MVP, but the strength of top stars has exceeded that level, and people’s expectations for them are already high. , but most of the top stars do not have the ability to independently lead the team to achieve good results, something is always missing.

It's not the same after crossing the hurdle of superstars. Even if Tracy McGrady and Kobe were in a bad team at their peak, at least the statistics can fly, and top stars can't accomplish that performance.

So the top star is an awkward position. The key is that their skills have already formed, and they don’t know which training direction to develop. It’s okay to be the second in charge on a strong team. Ray Allen.

Not reconciled to being the second child, but wanting to be the leader of a championship-level team is not qualified enough, being the leader of a bad team but dislikes the record, and can't let go of forming a team of first-class star teammates to play in a civilian lineup... Most of the top stars are like this.

Liu Mang is different. He can experience what abilities of those superstars are most suitable for him, and then learn, and then train hard on his own. Of course, he must be willing to teach. Not everyone can open a training camp just like Dameng.

The best high post technique before Liu Mang's eyes is Kobe. Mr. Joe has no way to learn it now. They are busy preparing for the opening game of the new team. In the first season, Liu Mang did not to bother.

On Iverson's side, it can be regarded as a friend of gentlemen, magicians have almost no intersection, and Ginobili is almost a sworn enemy.

Therefore, the target is Kobe.

Liu Mang didn't know how McGrady and Kobe, two people with completely different personalities, got together, but this time, I really appreciate McGrady's "assist", but how can Kobe teach skills? A difficult question, the relationship with the little blacksmith is not very harmonious...

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The system upgrade was completed yesterday. After a brief training, I took a good rest at home for a day. In the evening, I discussed with Alexia several times how life is born. This morning, Liu Mang and Schwartz who came to pick him up came to the At the Phillips Arena, coach Kruger and owner Steven Price had been waiting for a long time, and the two had been waiting before dawn in the early morning.

Fortunately, Liu Mang hadn't contacted any other teams before, otherwise they would definitely not be able to sit still.

After trading Boozer and Raheem away, they can be sure that Liu Mang must be the most injured one.

"Ace, congratulations, you defeated the Dream Team." Price saw Liu Mang, and came up to give him a hug.

"Thank you." Liu Mang felt a little weird, the boss seemed quite happy after beating their US team.

Seeing Liu Mang's expression was a little confused, Price didn't explain...Of course he was happy! Liu Mang's positive comments in China have surged, and the ones who have benefited the most, besides Liu Mang himself, are the Eagles and the NBA. Similarly, the same is true for the Rockets facing Yao Ming.

The Lakers can't wait to renew the contract with Wang Zhizhi. O'Neal left, and the Lakers have no one inside. In addition, Wang Zhizhi now has a good evaluation in China. Without O'Neal, the Lakers are worried about the decline of the team's popularity. After Kobe's contract extension, O'Neal's deal, and the Olympics, the first goal is to renew his contract with Wang Zhizhi.

"Ace, congratulations." Coach Kruger came up and patted Liu Mang on the shoulder.

Coach Kruger still has the image of a strict teacher.

Back to the team, Liu Mang's reluctance to be separated from his teammates from the national team has been washed away a lot. After leaving a group of teammates, he has new teammates. growth.

After exchanging pleasantries, Price couldn't wait to bring Liu Mang to the office, and took out the contract that he had discussed with Schwartz long ago.

Liu Mang and the lawyers brought by Schwartz looked at it, and there was nothing wrong with it.

A 5-year maximum salary contract of 78.83 million US dollars, the last year is a player option, a 3% portrait fee, and the sales share of the peripheral products that the Eagles and the Rogue League cooperate with is the same as before, all of which are Liu Mang The best conditions available.

The starting salary of the contract is $12.53 million, 25 percent of the salary cap.

Both Liu Mang and the Eagles were blamed this time. Since the finals ended in just five games, the league’s total income was “lost” by tens of millions of dollars. In addition, the entire Eastern Conference playoffs of the Eagles added up to only playing I played 12 games, and lost some income. Before the start of last season, the estimated salary cap for the 04-05 season was about 52 million US dollars, but now it is only a little over 50 million US dollars, which is 1.09 million more than the 03-04 season. U.S. dollars, lower than the initial expectation of an increase of 3 million U.S. dollars.

Therefore, Liu Mang's maximum salary is also slightly lower than originally expected. The maximum salary expected before the start of last season was 80 million for five years, but it is not bad. In the last year, Liu Mang planned to jump out of the contract. In 2008, the contract can be renegotiated.

The management of the Eagles is not surprised that Liu Mang signed a 4+1 contract. Annual maximum salary.

The Eagles had no reason to refuse the ball's maximum salary, and Liu Mang should have received the maximum salary in the first place.

Moreover, the Eagles are more eager than Liu Mang to renew the contract quickly. The contract is not a problem at all. They can give as much as they can. They are much more anxious than Liu Mang, but when Liu Mang is playing in the Olympics, they can't Distract Liu Mang.

Seeing Ace happily signing the contract in quadruplicate, Price and Coach Kruger finally let go of their worries and smiled at each other.

"Ace, I believe our cooperation for the next many years will be very pleasant." Price stretched out his hand and shook Liu Mang's hand, and then held one of the contracts with Liu Mang, facing the side that had been prepared for a long time The cameraman who took the photo, this is to be used as a promotional photo.

Price said many years, not the next five years. The meaning is obvious. He wants Liu Mang to stay with the Eagles, so he emphasized this matter.

Liu Mang didn't break anything, so let's take a group photo first...

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After Liu Mang completed his contract extension with the Eagles, he held a press conference in the afternoon to announce the matter.

Eagles fans finally felt relieved. Liu Mang won the scoring title in the Olympics and killed the United States. In fact, it didn’t have much impact on American basketball fans. Few people hated Liu Mang because of it. They blamed him even more. That group of players and coaches.

Larry Brown is about to be sprayed to death. First, he "drives away" the Pistons' scarce and powerful small forwards, destroying the Pistons' long-term team building plan, and letting him be seen by Pistons fans, pretending to be Pistons fans and watching the excitement The fans were raving, and now they brought the US team to break the lower limit of the US team's performance in the Olympics. Moreover, after the participation of NBA players, the US team lost for the first time in the Olympics, and they didn't even make it to the semifinals.

Originally, after the disastrous defeat in the 2002 World Championships, the American Basketball Association wanted to find Larry Brown, who was famous at the time, to change the situation. Unexpectedly, it was even worse. -Brown led the US team for four years. From the 2003 qualifiers to the 2006 World Championships, he hopes to form a four-year cycle, maintain a similar lineup, and let the players have a better understanding.

But now, because of the pressure of the media and the fans, Colangelo can only announce that the national team and Larry Brown have broken up, and will decide on the new head coach of the US men's basketball team before the start of the next Pan American Basketball Championship.

When he saw the news, Liu Mang thought it was too normal. Originally, the U.S. team only won the third place, and Larry Brown would pack up and leave. If it weren’t for the fact that he won the NBA championship with the Pistons in the original history , The reputation has long been rotten, and it didn't have to wait until 2006 to call Nate Robinson a "dwarf".

On the second day after signing the contract, Liu Mang, who had only rested for two days, returned to China and participated in the celebration banquet.

Mainly under the leadership of head Li Nanli, I got to know some officials of the Blue Association.

It has become one of the representative tasks of the Chinese sports world. This is what Liu Mang has to experience. Schwartz also emphasized that Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi both gave advice, so Liu Mang started to "smile" again. Smiling and shaking hands...

After the Olympics, Liu Mang, together with Liu Xiang and Liu Yanan, the two Olympic champions, became the "Big Three of the Liu family" of the Chinese Olympic team...

Time passed quickly, and in a flash, it was September 7th. Liu Mang had already arrived at his vacation home in Los Angeles, and the three girls had already asked the housekeeper to tidy up the place in advance.

James has already rented the training hall, and he is waiting for Liu Mang to call Kobe and McGrady to train together.

James is eager to enter the circle of top players. This is his career plan...