unfinished glory

Chapter 125 Summer
The hottest thing in the entire playoffs, except for the controversial finals, was Li Chongxiao's contract renewal with the Spurs.

He didn't even wait for the Spurs to issue a qualifying offer, and immediately renewed his contract with the team.

Most of the players and even the team managers think that Li Chongxiao's brain is flooded, and the salary cut is not such a way, more than 40%.

Apart from the unscrupulous ridicule of him by the media and pundits, players and managers were unexpectedly silent.

As a part-time worker, although the other players hated this way of disrupting the market, they still had to praise him for his selflessness on the surface.

The players are unwilling to take a dime less in private, but they want to express their love and dedication to the team on the surface.

Duncan, who had persuaded him, also called, saying that Li Chongxiao was crazy.He just thought that the other party could cut his salary appropriately, and didn't let him cut it so much.

"Not much, just a salary cut of more than 400 million!" Li Chongxiao said on the phone in a nonchalant tone.

"400 million?" Duncan laughed angrily, and said loudly, "Do you know that you will take 1000 million less in the third year?"

"Where did the third year come from?" Li Chongxiao's rhetorical question stunned the other party.

It was only when Duncan realized that he knew Li Chongxiao's attitude, so the player option for the third year would not have been prepared for the purpose of jumping out and signing with the Spurs.

400 million is his farewell to the team and an investment in future freedom.

First of all, he is still in the period of high-speed ball growth, hoping to be in a stable environment.Second, he hopes that he can choose, instead of passively trading to an unsuitable team, even if it is to become a leader.

And the managers of other teams, seeing this 2+1 contract and thinking of the ups and downs of the Spurs before, how could they not understand what's going on?

Two years later, it is unlikely that this big fish will enter the free market.It would be good to stay in the Spurs before that. It will not only benefit Li Chongxiao's growth, but also continue to test his quality.

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This year is a small year in the draft, and the Raptors chose Italian Andrea Bargnani, the first European No. [-] pick in NBA history.

The Bulls traded the No. [-] pick to the No. [-] Trail Blazers, and LaMarcus Aldridge went to Portland.

The Bobcats at No. [-] selected Adam Morrison.

Li Chongxiao's former teammates at Duke University, Sheldon Williams and JJ Redick, were selected with the 5th and 11th overall picks, respectively.I don't know how much higher this pick is than Li Chongxiao, but no matter how optimistic the media is, they probably don't think that these two have a chance to reach Li Chongxiao's height.

The Rockets did not choose the inside, but chose a point guard Kyle Lowry, and then selected a small forward Marcus Vinicius in the second round.

The only good news for them is that Spanoulis, who has been waiting for two years, has finally chosen to come to the NBA. The joining of "European Kobe" has aroused the carnival of local fans.

For the Spurs, they chose Damir Makta from Bosnia and Herzegovina, a center about two meters one.In addition, Francisco Elson and Matt Bonner were signed, a center and a forward.

After signing the contract with the Spurs, Li Chongxiao got up and returned to China. In addition to reuniting with his family, he also signed several endorsement contracts.

Of course, the most important thing is to continue to speak for Ms. Wang Caixia's business empire.

As for the national team's competition, whether it is the Stankovic Cup or the World Championships, Li Chongxiao refused.The fans who like him this time are a little hard to accept.If it is at the level of the Asian Championships, forget it, and now it is a bit too much not to participate in the world-class national competitions.

All of a sudden, fans turned to passers-by on the forum, and fans turned to black fans suddenly increased.

However, the opinions of the fans have never been that important. When the Basketball Association has no choice but to make a move, Li Chongxiao can really go his own way.

He stayed in the country for less than two weeks before returning to the training ground and disappearing from people's sight again.

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Yao Ming's outstanding performance last season greatly increased his confidence. He rejected the Sri Lanka Cup and only chose to participate in the World Championships.

The Huaxia team was placed in Group D, in a group with the United States, Puerto Rico, Slovenia, Italy and Senegal

In the group stage, Yao Ming played a dominant performance, averaging 27.4 points and 11.2 rebounds per game, helping the team win 5 out of 3 games, losing only to the US team and the Italian team, and successfully reached the top 16.

In the quarter-finals, they met the Australian team.

Before the game, Bogut made another mistake with his bad mouth, and once again provoked Yao Ming, saying that he is a piece of garbage without the support of NBA-level teammates.

As a result, in the game, Bogut was abused by Yao Ming from the beginning to the end. The Australian center only played 21 minutes before he was sent off for fouling.He made only 13 of 3 shots and scored 7 points and 3 rebounds.

On the other hand, Yao Ming showed his demeanor as a super center, scoring 40 points and 14 rebounds.Although the Huaxia team didn't play very well, and the guards sometimes couldn't dribble the ball, they led by a lot of points in the first half, and Yao Ming hit consecutive free throws later to defend the victory.

Since 1994, the Huaxia men's basketball team has reached the quarterfinals of the World Championships again.

Seeing Yao Ming's performance, some fans began to ridicule Li Chongxiao, thinking that it doesn't matter if he is there or not, and the Huaxia basketball team has made historic progress.

What's more, he even said that Li Chongxiao's arrival would only slow him down.

In the eight-to-four match, the Huaxia team met the defending champion Argentina.

In the first half of the game, Yao Ming beat Li Chongxiao's teammate Oberto into a mess. He made 5 of 5 shots and 3 of 3 free throws, but his chances of getting the ball were less and less each quarter.

Li Chongxiao's other teammate Ginobili led the Argentine team's outside line, playing against the Huaxia team's defenders without temper. He personally got 5 steals in the halftime.

In the second half, the Argentine team started to press all over the court. At one point, Huaxia's defenders couldn't even bring the ball up the frontcourt. Yao Ming kept running back and forth. In more than 6 minutes, he didn't even touch the ball.

The Argentine team opened up the score in one fell swoop in the third quarter, winning 20 points in a single quarter and establishing the victory.

Yao Ming only got 2 shots and made them in the second half. He only scored 17 points in the whole game.

After rejecting Jonas's suggestion to let him play and score, he slammed the towel on the floor, and the loss was too useless.

Seeing this scene, several defenders of the team turned their heads away, not daring to look at him.

This game woke up many blindly optimistic Huaxia fans. When the team entered the quarter-finals of the World Championships, many people were looking forward to the team's one step closer, and felt that the team would be worthwhile even facing the defending champion.

Fans who thought Li Chongxiao was useless before, their faces were swollen, and fans who know a little bit about football can see that if the team has a player who can dribble the ball across halftime and hand the ball to Yao Ming, who will win? Still unknown.

At the press conference after the game, Yao Ming was also very angry. He couldn't blame his teammate, so he could only blame him on himself, saying that he didn't give more help to the outside line.

The national team lost, and Yao Ming returned to the Rockets, but nothing good happened.Full of expectations, he didn't find that the team had any reinforcements inside. He just sent Swift and Kyle Lowry back to the Grizzlies in exchange for Jack Chakalidis.

Yao Ming expressed his dissatisfaction with the team's management for the first time in the phone call with Li Chongxiao, and he no longer rejected leaving the Rockets in his words.

(End of this chapter)