basketball kingdom

Chapter 123

Chapter 123

On the morning of the second day after the Lakers defeated the Suns in an away game, Xu Tian took the team plane back to Los Angeles and began to enjoy the rare few days of vacuum.

Li Lang sorted out the contact list between various media and Xu Tian, ​​and waited for Xu Tian at his home in Chinatown, preparing to discuss the next itinerary.

Xu Tian finished his personal training at three o'clock in the afternoon, took a taxi to Chinatown, and came to meet Li Lang.

The Lakers have a long history, coupled with the geographical advantage of being adjacent to Hollywood, there are many invitations about film and television in the invitation.What interested Xu Tian the most was Jimmy Kimmel's invitation.

Jimmy Kimmel is the host of Jimmy's Chicken Feather Show. This talk show is widely welcomed by the American people. Li Lang thinks this show can improve Xu Tian's image in the hearts of the people.

ESPN released the support rate of fans for the Lakers last night. Now only fans in Los Angeles and Golden State have a good impression of the Lakers. Most fans in other places hold a hostile attitude towards the Lakers. That's why Li Lang took over the event.

However, the support of the polls does not affect Xu Tian's commercial value. His jersey sales have surpassed Curry of the Warriors and jumped to the top of the sales list.

Xu Tian and Li Lang thought about it for a long time, and decided to accept the invitation of Jimmy Ji Maoxiu tomorrow night.

Alice handed over the business to the clerk and returned to Palisades. When she was bored, she went to ESPN to release Xu Tian's documentary, and watched it with relish.

The opening scene of the documentary is the sunset field near Los Angeles' Chinatown, and the speaker is the original Jerry Stanford.He talked about the game between the amateur basketball team and Xu Tian, ​​and bluntly said that no one in the team took Xu Tian seriously at that time, but they were severely educated by this future NBA player.

Then Xu Wenye appeared in the camera, telling about Xu Tian in his mind, and continued to let the audience visualize this 19-year-old rookie.

After Xu Wenye's interview, an express train appeared in the camera, accompanied by a magnetic narration, and began to tell the whole story of Xu Tian's participation in the draft.

Alice was engrossed in watching the TV, not noticing that Xu Tian had come to her side at all.

Xu Tian hadn't made out with Alice for a while, so he sat on the sofa and embraced this beautiful girl, which surprised Alice.

Alice turned her head to see Xu Tian, ​​and smacked him on the chest with her fist coquettishly, and said, "Why do you make no sound when you walk?"

Seeing the screen on the TV, Xu Tian didn't answer Alice's question, but instead asked, "Did you watch the documentary ESPN made for me?"

"Yes!" Alice gave an affirmative answer, "And you need to pay 30 dollars to watch it, which is no cheaper than a movie ticket."

Xu Tian touched his cheek with his left hand, and sighed in disbelief: "Wow! ESPN is also quite evil, but I guess no one will watch it."

"It shouldn't be so, I think many people will watch it."

Xu Tian was very satisfied with Alice's words, and pinched her face affectionately, causing Alice to chuckle.

Kobe saw Xu Tian's documentary "The Way of the Dragon" pushed on TV, and asked Vanessa, who was holding the remote control, to click on the ESPN channel to watch Xu Tian's documentary.When I saw that there was a fee of 30 US dollars, I couldn't help frowning.

Vanessa has no idea about money, and doesn't care about the $30 at all, so she clicks to pay without hesitation, and starts watching this well-made documentary.

Xu Wenye has limited physical talent and is not the main player of UCLA, but he has endless love for basketball, and he always spends time in the arena after dinner for training.

The current head coach of UCLA is Ben Holland, who is a new fan of Xu Tian.After watching the Raptors Crossing the River documentary, he knew that his player Xu Wenye knew Xu Tian and came to the stadium to look for him.

Seeing the head coach coming in, Xu Wenye stopped his training and asked, "Coach, why did you come to the arena during the break?"

Holland didn't want to reveal his heart prematurely, and said: "I ate a bit too much today, and I happened to take a walk to the arena. When I saw someone, I came in."

Xu Wenye has never been favored by the head coach, but now that he can get in close contact with him, he naturally wants to ask him about some basic training.

Holland perfunctory Xu Wenye's words, and cut to the point with a light topic, "Xu, don't the Chinese like the name Raptors Crossing the River?"

Xu Wenye hadn’t seen the documentary released by ESPN yet, so he thought the head coach was asking about Bruce Lee’s movie, and replied: “Bruce Lee’s martial arts moves are great, and the meaning of the Raptor’s Crossing the River is very good, and many Chinese people like it very much. "

"Bruce Lee?" Holland repeated in confusion, realizing that Xu Wenye might have misunderstood, and said, "No. I'm asking about Xu Tian, ​​a rookie from the Los Angeles Lakers."

"What's the relationship between Xu Tian and the Raptors Crossing the River?" Now Xu Wenye was confused.

Holland looked at the beads of sweat on Xu Wenye's chin, knowing that he hadn't watched the newly released documentary, and said, "If I have something to say, I'll just say it. ESPN's documentary for Xu Tian is called Raptors Crossing the River." , I saw you appearing in it, I hope you can invite him to the school to motivate the players in the team."

Only then did Xu Wenye understand why the head coach came to the stadium.He understands that the team is in a bad situation recently, and is happy to help contact Xu Tian, ​​but he is not sure whether he can hire Xu Tian, ​​who is already a star, based on his friendship with Xu Tian.

Fifteen minutes later, Xu Tian heard the notification tone of WeChat, let go of Alice in his arms, and took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket.

The WeChat message was sent by Xu Wenye, which naturally said that head coach Holland wanted to invite Xu Tian to UCLA.

Alice turned her head to see Xu Wenye's news, and said, "Xiaotian, you haven't been to college basketball, you should take advantage of the rest time of these few days to go to UCLA, where you can also train."

Xu Tian felt that what Alice said was very reasonable, so he gave Xu Wenye an affirmative answer, and planned to go to UCLA for training tomorrow morning.

The local people in Los Angeles have nothing to do. Clippers fans came to the Staples Center early today, ready to watch LeBron James' performance live.

Xu Tian and Alice turned into ordinary fans, brought French fries and Coke in advance, and watched the game between the Cavaliers and the Clippers live.In the pre-match preparation stage, Xu Tian saw the player with the strongest personal strength in the league at present-the young king of Kecheng, LeBron James.

James had heard about Xu Tian, ​​but he didn't pay much attention to the Clippers playing against the Cavaliers tonight.

Xu Tian has always only seen James on TV, but now that he saw it on the spot, he clearly realized how strong this talented small forward has.

The on-site director ignorantly put Xu Tian's close-up shots on the big screen above the stadium, instantly stealing the limelight from the players present.In the three-acre area of ​​Los Angeles, even the No. 1 player in the league is not as popular as the gorgeous Xu Tian.

James heard the movement in the stadium and couldn't help looking at the big screen above.

(End of this chapter)