Another upset!

Not many people at the scene understood the name David Stern pronounced. When Liu Xiu heard David Stern pronounce his name in a strange tone, he was stunned for a moment. When the spotlight came on

He stood up suddenly.

Few of the hundreds of New York fans at the scene knew whose name David Stern read at first, but when the spotlight shone on Liu Xiu, they knew it and quickly burst into violent cheers.

At the moment, it has only been more than two months since Liu Xiu helped Syracuse University win the NCAA Basketball Championship. He has a certain fan base in New York. This result is a surprise to them. Syracuse University has two lottery picks!

In terms of unpopularity, the Grizzlies' selection of Liu Xiu is not as big as the Pistons not selecting Anthony and selecting 17-year-old Darko Milicic.

But this is the last lottery pick!

All the members of Little Green Room who have not yet been selected are staring eagerly at this pick. They were originally hostile to each other and all had the most feared competitors in their hearts, but Liu Xiu was not among the list of competitors that everyone was afraid of.

Well boy, it turned out that the one they ignored was chosen!

Why him?

The lottery picks who had already been selected were also surprised, including No. 1 pick James, who all turned to stare at Liu Xiu.

James was also guessing with his relatives and friends who would be the 13th pick, but he didn't expect it to be this guy.

Looking at Liu Xiu's unremarkable appearance, he is only about ten centimeters taller than the average height in the United States, and his body shape is that of a passerby. Compared with everyone here, he is just fat...

Liu Xiu is not completely unknown among the rookies in this draft, and the fact that he and Anthony's group got involved in the game became quite popular in the middle of the season.

In terms of strength, Liu Xiu has it. After all, he is the core of the back line of the championship team. But every year, there are the core of the back line of the NCAA basketball championship championship. How many of them can enter the NBA? Compared with other members of the Little Green Room who were not selected.

, Liu Xiu has no advantage.

Just the face...

Damn, the Grizzlies select people based on their looks?

James was a little upset. Who was selected with the 13th overall pick had no impact on him, but after analyzing it, he came to a conclusion that made him really upset.

Not to mention others, even Anthony, who was extremely looking forward to Liu Xiu being selected, did not expect Liu Xiu to be selected at this pick. He initially thought that Liu Xiu must be selected with a high pick, but after entering the trial training stage, he reluctantly accepted it.

It would be great if Liu Xiu can be selected.

Anthony has been dreaming of doing great things and becoming a stronger person since he was a child. After being shocked, he stood up and put his arms around Liu Xiu's shoulders: "gogogo, brother, you have been selected! No. 13!"

Liu Xiu was frightened, not that it was a bad thing, it was a good thing, but the pie-like good thing that dropped on him that day made him dizzy.

After hearing Anthony's words, Liu Xiucai reacted, stepped forward to take the ball cap handed over by the Grizzlies management, and walked onto the stage.

The Grizzlies front office wasn't as enthusiastic as the front office of the previous team, but no one noticed.

David Stern looked at Liu Xiu who put on his hat and walked onto the stage. Without doing anything extra, he shook hands, took photos, and then left the stage.

In fact, David Stern really wanted to dance a disco song at this time! Fortunately, he was a professional and held back.

There is another Chinese player in the lottery! He is also an outside player!

Is he optimistic about Liu Xiu's future? No, in his opinion, Liu Xiu's future development is a matter of the future. Is the future important? It is very important, but the future is accumulated bit by bit now. What he needs now is

This summer, we can promote China’s NBA inside and outside stars in China!

Being able to create higher attention for the new season in China is why David Stern is excited.

Moreover, it is also beneficial for Yao Ming to collapse in the early stages of his rookie season and only play in the middle and late stages. Even if Liu Xiu does not play, this kind of attention can be extended as much as possible. If Liu Xiu does play, it will be better. If Liu Xiu does not play, it will be better.

Also make the most of it.

As for whether the Grizzlies will waste a lottery pick... David Stern doesn't care anyway.

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Watching Liu Xiu return to his seat and take a deep breath to adjust his emotions, Anthony was not very good at talking, but as a big and powerful boss, he could say something to congratulate his younger brother.

Liu Xiu was selected in the lottery. For Anthony, it is completely unimportant that he was selected after falling to the third overall pick!

Anthony recalled his past acquaintance with Liu Xiu.

Last August, Anthony came to Syracuse from Towson Catholic High School in Baltimore and quickly won over his two younger brothers with his outstanding virtues.

But he had just become the boss of a trio and was thinking about how to become bigger and stronger in the future. The two younger brothers were beaten and asked him for help.

He knew that these two boys could fight, rob, bully, and bully the weak... they could do it all. These two boys at the same level only got into Syracuse University because American universities had to give black people certain admission quotas. Neither of them could get it 100%.

to the graduation certificate.

When he heard that the other party was a Chinese, Anthony knew what had happened.

The two younger brothers I just took in wanted to do bad things and were killed instead.

But no matter who is right or wrong, he, An, just debuted at Syracuse University and his younger brother was beaten. He must regain his reputation, otherwise how can he become bigger and stronger in the future?

Then, Anthony and Liu Xiu ushered in their first one-on-one duel. Anthony did not have the advantage, and he could see that the opponent was more than capable. Judging from Anthony's rich experience, even with two useless younger brothers, he might not be able to defeat him!

Anthony didn't work hard, he wanted to become bigger and stronger, he worked hard for small things...what was he trying to do?

After doing one game, Anthony felt that this was not going to work. Although he did not suffer any loss, he could not regain the scene.

Fortunately, although he was aloof and arrogant, he had some brains and quickly thought of a solution - if the person who beat his younger brother was his brother, then beating his younger brother would be a lesson to him!

It's okay if you round it off.

Liu Xiu was very generous and accepted the invitation of Anthony's gang.

Anthony did not expect that Liu Xiu already had a certain reputation in the Syracuse University gangster community, and ordinary people did not dare to provoke him, but Liu Xiu himself was not a gangster.

After Liu Xiu joined his small gang, he became bigger and stronger significantly faster.

Anthony was a destined star player at Syracuse University. When he returned to the team for the new season, Liu Xiu said he wanted to try out the basketball team, so Anthony went directly to the basketball club to recruit Liu Xiu.

When Anthony, a rookie, added a guy who didn't look like he was playing high-level amateur basketball like the NCAA to the team, Syracuse University Orange coach Jim Boeheim didn't refuse.

Syracuse University has long investigated what kind of person Anthony is, and some things require coaxing.

There are only a dozen official players in the school team, but there are hundreds of people in the basketball club, so one more player doesn't matter. It would be troublesome to dissatisfy a genius like Anthony.

College coaches have great power, but whether their position is stable or not depends on the performance of the team.

And when Jim Boyheim treated Liu Xiu, he also gave him some preferential treatment. Seeing that Liu Xiu had the level of an amateur, Jim Boyheim gave Liu Xiu more sparring opportunities. In fact,

Let Anthony see his friend on the team more often.

But one day Jim Boyheim still chased Liu Xiu for nine streets... His daughter was a sophomore at Syracuse University, worked as a club manager in the basketball club, and fell in love with Liu Xiu.

Although there was no follow-up, Liu Xiu was the one who was favored and did not follow, but Jim Boeheim was still furious for a while.

In terms of basketball, Liu Xiu was just a sparring partner at the beginning, and his quality was very poor in Anthony's opinion, only at the level of an amateur. His advantage was that he was extremely strong as a defender and his speed was not bad.

But soon, after two months of training, Anthony was surprised.

After Anthony got acquainted with Liu Xiu, he knew that this guy was lazy as hell. Apart from the training arranged by the coaching staff, Liu Xiu had rarely done any private training in the past two months. As for his "efforts" in basketball, he was working as a sparring partner to play with the team.

During the internal training games, I occasionally went to the school open-air court to play ball with Anthony who wanted to be in the limelight...

And just two months later, Liu Xiu actually impressed Jim Boeheim with his good performance in the pre-season trials and was selected for the waiting list!

Once a defender on the team's official roster is injured or unable to play for other reasons, Liu Xiu has the opportunity to come on as a substitute.

Later, Liu Xiu improved at a speed that surprised even a genius like Anthony. He became a substitute, a main substitute, and a starter... In the finals of the NCAA Basketball Championship, Syracuse University won a great victory. Liu Xiu scored 11 points and 10 assists in a single game.

With the help of Anthony, Anthony scored 35 points, breaking the single-game scoring record for a freshman in the finals, and led Syracuse University to a 92-71 victory over the University of Kansas to win the championship.

The score difference was 21 points. The last time the NCAA finals score difference was larger than this game, it was the 30-point victory by the University of Nevada against Duke University in 1990.

Liu Xiu was not a member of the school team during his freshman and sophomore years. It was only in his junior year that he really received professional basketball training. He made rapid progress in his junior season... Anthony eventually got used to it and recognized Liu Xiu's talent.

The competition in the division is like a game. Anthony, who did not feel the pressure until March Madness, knows very well that as long as the college competition is not at the top 64 level in the United States, no matter how strong the division is, it will ultimately be an amateur level competition.

After one season, Anthony has concluded that Liu Xiu's rapid progress during the season has nothing to do with Liu Xiu's efforts during the season.

During the season, this guy only plays games and conducts team training. He is usually lazy and almost never trains!

Anthony has never seen a basketball player as lazy as Liu Xiu. He has never seen him from junior high school to college.

You can tell by looking at the body shape. Liu Xiu is 188 centimeters tall and weighs 205 pounds. Calculated in kilograms, the height measurement and weight measurement are almost the same! After playing for one season, he gained a few kilograms.

Anthony, who has a big brother mentality, naturally has to think about his brother.

Anthony determined that if he was not on the Orange team, even if Hakeem Warrick, the core teammate of the inside line, was selected to stay in school due to lack of confidence, plus Liu Xiu, it would be difficult to reach March Madness.

As for Liu Xiu's progress in the knockout stage in March, Anthony obviously felt that the competition in the competition area was faster!

Originally, Anthony was invincible in his freshman season. After winning the championship, he had no nostalgia for college. He had already decided to participate in the draft in advance. He used his wise brain to analyze and decided to drag Liu Xiu to the NBA with him.

Anthony has known for a long time that although Liu Xiu's family is not poor, it is not easy for his parents to support him to study in the United States. He has relatives working in the United States, but they are only from a middle-class family at best.

As the eldest brother, although Liu Xiu is older than An, and Liu Xiu has never accepted being a younger brother, Anthony is also thinking about Liu Xiu. Since Liu Xiu has the talent to play basketball, he must explore it... In this world

There are many opportunities to become rich in the world, but for both of them, playing in the NBA is the best opportunity to become rich!

The key point is that they just won the championship. The news about their team that Anthony heard and saw was all praise. In his opinion, this year is the best year for Liu Xiu University's data and team record.

Likely to be drafted high.

In Anthony's view, Liu Xiu's lazy character may make little progress without playing more intense games in his senior season. In addition, the Orange team's record next season is definitely not guaranteed... After Anthony thought for a few days,

He took Liu Xiu to sign with an agent and signed up for the draft together.
To be continued...