Chapter 566 The 1990s are mine, the 1900s are still mine

  New York, David Stern's mind has been a little complicated since yesterday.

   At this time last year, the league's two superstars retired at the same time, which caused a great shock to the league. The situation where he painstakingly created the situation of east and west giants fighting for hegemony came to an end. The ratings of the 01/02 season dropped sharply, and the league lost a lot of popularity.

   Fortunately, there are still several rising stars in the league, barely supporting the situation after Jordan and old K retired.

  In 1996, Iverson and Kobe were both very personal and powerful. They have already made a name for themselves and are well-known.

   McGrady in 1997 has become the son of the Windy City, propping up the ball market after Jordan left the Bulls.

  Vince Carter in 1998, the top dunker in actual combat. His amazing dunk in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games made him tens of millions of dollars a year, making him famous all over the world. In recent years, he has also become a rising star with remarkable reputation.

   These four shooting guards are the rising stars of the league that he personally decided after Jordan and old K retired last year.

  The era of the behemoth K of the old K has come to an end. Now it is an era of shooting backs started by Jordan himself. After being interrupted by the old K, since last year, he has begun to promote the era of the four shooting backs.

   In addition, although the old K retired, the Yao who was trained by the old K appeared, and his debut was the peak. Yao supported the Chinese market after the old K retired and became a signature player in the Chinese basketball world.

   So a year after the retirement of the two iconic players, the situation in the league has stabilized.

   However, now that the old K is coming back, this will cause some problems.

  If the old K's state declines seriously, it's nothing, but if the old K's state decline is not serious after his comeback, with his appeal, it is bound to have an impact on the new quarterback era.

Old K is almost 30 years old. Even if he is not injured, this age has already entered the late stage of his career. Even if Old K can still play a certain state after his comeback, he is not optimistic about Old K, because the era of Old K has already passed. In the past, he didn't want to affect the future of the league because of the comeback of old K. The era of old K and his K is a thing of the past.

   To be honest, now he would rather hold Yao than Lao K.

   The only regret is that Yao is not as characterful and topical as Lao K.

However, he is not very worried, because Old K is not Jordan, Jordan is a perimeter. At the age of 37, he still averaged a crazy performance of 26 points in the finals, and Old K is a center. After a devastating serious injury, even if Forcibly coming back, at the age of 30, his state will definitely not return to the past.

  If Jordan was replaced by old K, even if Jordan suffered such a serious injury when he was 30 years old, he would still hold out hope, but old K, he would not.

   "Let him pass what should be passed, and bury what should be buried. A new era has begun and cannot be stopped."

   went to the window, opened the curtains, the office was brightly lit, looking at the sun at eight or nine o'clock outside the window, David Stern felt a vitality and vitality.

In his eyes, the dazzling sunshine is like the famous four quarterbacks, dust to dust, dust to dust, K era, let him be the past tense, the league needs a new king, needs freshness, no longer needs old age K.

  …

   On this day, following the US media, countless domestic media began to focus on the news of Wang Tiejun's comeback. After a while, the photo of Pharaoh appeared on the headlines of major domestic media again.

Also as Lao Wang expected, from domestic to foreign, almost all media are not optimistic about his comeback. Many media believe that he should not pay, thinking that he is old and injured. Now is the era of young people, and his era is already become past tense.

   CCTV's seven o'clock news also gave Pharaoh a minute to reappear in the eyes of people all over the country after a year.

  5, O'Neal was interviewed by Los Angeles TV in Los Angeles.

   "Shaq, how good do you think K's comeback will be?" the reporter asked.

"We know that Tim Duncan suffered a torn meniscus in 2000, from flying to the floor. As an athlete, injuries are inevitable, but Duncan has overcome them, and he is still the strongest in the league. A power forward, so I believe that old K will also overcome the injury problem, and I believe he will have a successful comeback." O'Neal said seriously without being funny.

   "But Old K's injury is several times more serious than Duncan's," the reporter said.

   "Maybe the old K is not as good as Duncan after his comeback, but I think he will still be a very important person in this league." O'Neal said.

   "Shaq, I heard that you want to lose weight, is it the old K's comeback announcement that makes you feel threatened?" the reporter asked.

Speaking of this question, O'Neal's eyes widened, and he immediately denied: "This is impossible, even if Old K comes back, it will not be a threat to me, I will still be the active center, and I will put him in the Rubbing on the floor."

   Having said that, he also made a gesture of rubbing Pharaoh on the floor and shouting: "Friction, rub, rub..."

   "You took Brother Tiejun's position. Now that Brother Tiejun is coming back, he will definitely **** you. It's enough for you to be the first center in active duty for a year. Do you want to rub Brother Tiejun on the floor?"

  New Jersey, Dayao's home, he looked at O'Neal on the TV and muttered to himself with some dissatisfaction.

   Yao's father and Yao's mother were sitting on the side. At this time, Yao's mother sighed: "Dayao, your brother Tiejun is back, and I don't know how he is doing. The American media has been ridiculing him for the past two days."

   "Brother Tiejun said he has recovered well, I believe him." Dayao has inexplicable confidence, because Wang Tiejun has always given him such confidence.

   At this time, Washington, Jordan saw O'Neal's interview program in his villa.

He defeated the Lakers to win the championship last year, no, he defeated the old K to win the championship. He immediately retired and ended his career. After many NBA players retire, some will choose to be coaches, or enter the management, or become like Barkley and others. The commentator, but he doesn't have those thoughts, what he wants is to be the team owner who can decide everything.

  The opportunity soon appeared. The owner of the Wizards was willing to sell 5% of the shares of the Wizards at a price of $20 million. He successfully became the small boss of the Wizards, entered the management team, and then dominated the next draft.

   The Wizards held the No. 1 pick in 2001, and he helped the team select Kwame Brown, a talented guy.

   But apparently this draft gave him no face, because Brown's rookie season was not successful.

   Now that the news of old K's comeback has been announced, he is a little emotional.

   At this time last year, he and Old K played indistinguishably in the finals. Unexpectedly, at the last moment, Old K and O'Neal were seriously injured and ended up together, allowing him to win the championship.

Although O'Neal's injury was serious, it was not fatal. He recovered within a few months of the offseason, while Old K's injury was even more serious. Dr. Carter, who operated on Old K, said that Old K had no chance of returning. On the basketball court, he also thought that this behemoth would not come back, but he did not expect to come back now.

Whether    is a forced comeback or a real recovery, he doesn't know.

However, with O'Neal's current strength, he should be able to suppress Old K. Last year's knee fracture did not have much impact on O'Neal, because the fracture was very light and healed very well, while Old K was not, so he It is speculated that the old K should be unwilling and forcibly come back.

   In fact, he also admired Old K's courage to come back. After all, as a heavy center, Old K is really not young now.

   At this moment, the phone rang, and I saw that it was a reporter from the New York Times that I knew.

   "Hey, Michael, how about an interview with me?" he asked after connecting the phone.

   "OK."

  Jordan agreed, it was unavoidable, and he didn't want to avoid it. If K came back and he had no voice, it only meant that he was no longer important.

   "So Michael, what do you think about the comeback of Old K?" the reporter asked.

   "With such a serious injury, I admire his courage to come back, but I don't think his comeback is rational," he said.

   "Do you think Old K forced his comeback?"

   "Well, that's about the same."

   "Can you predict what level the old K will reach after his comeback?"

   "Oh, no matter how badly his strength is damaged, but his background is too strong, I think he should also have the strength of an All-Star, but there should be no super-giant dominance."

  …

   On June 11th, after the finals, the Blazers led by Duncan finally defeated the Nets led by Dayao. The score was 4-2, and Duncan won the first championship of his career.

  The 2001/02 season of the NBA also officially ended. The training team arranged by Hawksman also rushed to the capital and began to help Pharaoh to train, and he officially began the road to recovery.

   And these days, a large number of reporters have rushed to Fengshen Street to interview Wang Tiejun. Most of them are foreign reporters, and most of them are from the United States.

  Pharaoh was focused on training and did not give interviews at first, but in the end, there were too many reporters, blocking the two doors of the house every day, which was a little troublesome, so he decided to hold a press conference.

  Bai Changsheng quickly arranged for him. The time is ten o'clock in the morning on the 16th. The press conference will be held in the News Room 1 of the K Times Sports Center.

   On the afternoon of the 15th, the Dayao family of three who came back from the United States, as well as Lao Hu, Da Zhi, Zhang Lili and Su Qun, arrived at Lao Wang's house.

  Pharaoh was training with the ball with confrontation. A group of people saw his state and their jaws dropped to the floor.

   Dayao said in surprise: "Brother, you are not at the rhythm of being rubbed on the floor by O'Neal, you are going to rub him on the floor for a few more years at the rhythm!"

   "I can't kill him?" Lao Wang said.

"Ha ha…"

   Zhang Lili and they all laughed excitedly.

  Pharaoh did not interrupt his training, and a group of people watched him training.

Lao Wang pulled to the left wing, two steps away from the paint area, a ferocious sideways hit by Tieshan, knocked over the opposing trainer, then turned around and strode into the paint area and took off directly from the left waist , Under the ball with one hand, it is an explosive tomahawk-style dunk.

   "Oh hoo!"

   The crowd watching the excitement suddenly cheered.

   "My brother's body is amazing!" Dayao exclaimed.

   Dazhi said with a smile: "The alliance has just canceled the K-law. Brother Tiejun's comeback, I wonder if the K-law will be taken out again?"

   "It's very possible, haha!" Zhang Lili laughed.

"Tie Jun is preparing to go back to the league to do things. The league has just launched the quarterback era. If there is a reversal and return to the K era, what the league management will think?" .

   "Brother, do you want to start a restoration?" Dayao shouted loudly with a smile.

   "Restoration?"

  Pharaoh smiled and said, "I only took a year off. What is the restoration, my era is not over at all. The 1990s are mine, and the current 1900s will also be mine."

   The training ended at 5:00 p.m., and dinner had been arranged. In a restaurant in Fengshenjie community, a group of people walked over. On the way, there was not much onlookers.

  This large area of ​​Fengshen District, Pharaoh has lived here for eight or nine years, and in the past year, he has been wandering here every day, people have long been accustomed to his existence.

   After entering the private room, Zhang Lili asked, "Tie Jun, you were injured last year, and the summer camp was not held. What about this year?"

   Lao Wang thought about it and said, "It shouldn't be stopped last year. Let's continue this year. It doesn't cost a lot of money, and we can cultivate a few talents."

Zhang Lili said: "Last year you were seriously injured and reimbursed, how can I still have the mind to start a summer camp? But our summer camp is not the few talents you mentioned. After the seventh summer camp, there are many talents who have gone out from us. They play abroad. There are five or six of them, and Dayao is also produced by the serious Tiejun summer camp. There are dozens of people who have joined the CBA in China. Which team does not have our people? There are so many talents!"

   Old Wang said: "Brother Zhang, you should ask Mr. Bai for the summer camp and ask him to provide the venue and funds."

   "Don't worry, I know the way." Lao Zhang smiled.

   Old Wang looked at Lao Hu and asked, "Brother Hu, your contract is over, what are you going to do?"

Hu Weidong said with a smile: "I'm 32 years old this year, and injuries have also come out in the past few years. I'm not going to go to the United States this time. I plan to go back to Jiangsu and play for another two years before retiring. I left to play in the NBA, right? Live where I nurtured."

  Pharaoh nodded and said, "Although we won a silver medal in the Olympic Games the year before last, how can a silver medal be a gold medal? In the 2004 Olympic Games, we must work hard to defeat the US team, and then upgrade the silver medal to the lower ranks. What do you think?"

   Dayao said excitedly: "Brother, listen to you."

Pharaoh analyzed: "In 2004, I estimate that O'Neal will definitely not participate, the big dream will retire, and David Robinson will not be able to. He may retire at any time, and Ewing is the same situation. The United States has no decent center. , we have an absolute advantage in the fifth position.

   In the power forward position, they have Duncan and a troll, but we are still stronger in the whole interior comparison.

   On the outside, although Liu Wei and Liu Jihua can be used, they will definitely be crushed by Kobe and the others. Fortunately, with their current strength, there is no problem with dribbling the ball past half court.

   In contrast, we both have strengths and weaknesses, and we can still fight. But those European teams are also quite strong and we have to be careful. "

After dinner, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening. Dayao and the others went to the hotel. Pharaoh habitually started to take turns in the sports center. At this time, the phone rang. When he saw a call from Ewing from the United States, that It is morning now.

   "Hey, Patrick, how are you?" he asked with a smile when he got on the phone.

   "Old K, how much strength do you have?" Ewing's voice sounded depressed.

   "Uh, are you ready to retire?" Pharaoh asked knowingly.

   "I have this idea." Ewing over there gave a wry smile.

After the 00/01 season, his contract with the Pacers ended. He originally wanted to join the Lakers with a basic salary to make a ring. This was what Old K had promised him, but he did not expect that Old K would be seriously injured in the finals. Minimum salary played another year with the Pacers.

   Now that the old K is back, he wants to inquire about the situation. If the old K fails, he may choose to retire directly.

   "Patrick, ask your agent to contact the Suns management." Pharaoh said.

   "Really?" Ewing couldn't believe it.

   "Will I lie to you?"

   Pharaoh asked back, but immediately added: "But the Suns are bad now, so you have to be mentally prepared."

   "It doesn't matter, let's see my luck."

Ewing has nothing to choose from. He is 40 years old now. He could play for more than ten minutes in a game last season. Championship-level teams like the Trail Blazers, the Nets and the Lakers have no basic salary to join. Position, old K can promise him, it is not bad.

   At ten o'clock in the morning the next day, Pharaoh's press conference was held as scheduled. Hundreds of media came, more than half of which were foreign media, and all of them were big media. Small media couldn't get in at all.

  Su Qun recommended himself as the host of the press conference. He was the first to call on his acquaintance Yang Yi.

   "Old K, congratulations on your comeback, I hope you can play a performance that makes the Chinese people proud again."

  Yang Yi is a basketball reporter for the Capital Youth Daily. In the past two years, he has become an NBA commentator for CCTV. Before asking questions, he sent his congratulations.

"thanks."

   Pharaoh responded briefly.

   Next, Yang Yi asked: "Most of the media at home and abroad are not optimistic about your comeback, and many NBA stars have the same attitude. What do you think?"

  Pharaoh smiled and said, "I'm doing recovery training recently. From the current state, I'm really not as good as before."

"Oh!"

The reporters below exclaimed. The old K, who never admits defeat, can say this. It seems that it is really impossible. This comeback is definitely a forced comeback. I believe that in the near future, old K may retire again. The real retired.

  Pharaoh continued: "I just turned 29 years old, and I never thought that this age can return to the previous state after a serious injury."

Speaking of this, he changed his words, but said: "I may be weaker, but in the NBA, for now, I can't see any inside player who can pose a real threat to me. "

"Oh?!"

   At this moment, the reporters below were shocked.

   They didn't expect old K to say this. It's crazy. At the age of 29, he returned from a serious injury. When he came back in a few months, he was almost 30 years old. Why should he underestimate all the inside players in the league?

Among the current inside players in the league, although O'Neal is 30 years old, his performance has declined slightly this season, but after a serious injury, he will return to his peak state next season, and in addition to the big shark, the fifth position is still There are Yao, Mutombo, O'Neal Jr., and Duncan, Garnett, Nowitzki, and Chris Webber at the 4th position. All of them are powerful insiders. Old K is not injured and has the qualifications to look down on them. , but after being seriously injured, how dare you say that?

   For a moment, almost all media reporters raised their hands.

  Suqun turned over the cards of the New York Times reporter for the second time. The reporter took the microphone and immediately asked, "Old K, do you think your K era is over?"

   "It was mine in the 1990s, and in the 1900s, it will still be mine." Lao Wang smiled.

"Oh!"

   exclaimed again.

This sentence is more straightforward and explicit than the words that despised all the inside players in the league. They couldn't believe it. Old K can be said to have suppressed the entire 1990s, six championships in nine years, and single-handedly created the era of behemoth K. Do you want to continue suppressing the 00s at the age of 30, with a seriously injured body? This is impossible, it should be that they heard it wrong, or that old K said the wrong thing.

   "Old K, what did you just say?" The New York Times reporter, who was also in disbelief, quickly asked.

   "You heard right, don't doubt your ears, I believe they have no problem." Old Wang still smiled.

"Oh!"

   There were exclamations again, and then the media reporters realized that it was not that they heard it wrong, nor that Old K said it wrong.

   But, how dare old K say that?

   The content of this conference soon spread to North America and the world.

   (end of this chapter)