I'm really good at shooting.

Being selected, celebration must be inevitable.

Except for Su Qun who had to go back to finish the draft, Sun Hao and the others left Madison Square Garden to celebrate outside.

……

Madison Square Garden League draft office.

Stern sat there, smiling.

What can make him so happy is certainly not this year's draft.

In the young year of the draft, it is difficult to produce any basketball superstars, so naturally there is no "Jordan successor" he is looking for.

The one who can make him so happy is naturally Sun Hao.

After the first round of the draft, he returned to the office, and the information about Sun Hao was delivered to his desk one by one.

He needs to understand Sun Hao, and then see how much he can open the door to the Chinese market this time.

The more you know, the happier he is.

Although Sun Hao has many shortcomings, such as short stature, average defense, and average organization.

But he also has advantages, accurate shooting, high golf quotient, big heart, and strong willpower.

Defense and organization can be improved, big heart and willpower are born.

As for height, he already has the history of Sun Hao's height change from when he was 13 years old to now.

He has grown 5cm in 43 years, and the growth is still very irregular. Who knows if he will grow in the future.

Even if it is not long, 1 meters is enough to play a point guard.

In the NBA, there are actually two types of height, one is the registered height, and the other is the measured height.

Most players use the registered height, and this registered height often has some moisture.

这里面有往高一些报的，代表性的如艾弗森注册是1米83，但实际只有1米78到1米80之间。

Of course, there are also those who report being short. Durant's registered height is 2 meters, but in fact he is already 06 meters.

The reason for these problems is that the NBA has height requirements for various positions.

Many players will naturally have some moisture in order to play their favorite positions.

But Sun Hao is different. Because Sun Hao did not participate in the joint trial training, his height was tested by all teams during the previous trial training.

The actual measurement of bare feet is 1 meters. If you put on shoes and add some water, the registered height of 83 meters is not too much.

This height is barely enough for a shooting guard.

The well-known NBA combo guard, "logo man" Jerry West's registered height is 1 meters.

So after fully understanding, Stern came to a conclusion: Sun Hao is a person with more advantages than disadvantages.

And this conclusion also means that there is a possibility in Sun Hao.

And he went to the Mavericks.

Stern is committed to promoting the NBA's overseas market, and the Mavericks are the vanguard of the Chinese market.

Hu Weidong was given a 1998-day short contract in 10, Wang Zhizhi was directly selected in the 1999 draft, and Sun Hao was directly selected in the first round this year!

So many operations show one thing, the Mavericks want to get the biggest piece of cake in the Chinese market.

In other words, they will definitely train Sun Hao well.

Coupled with the old Nelson's mad scientist, Sun Hao's style of play suits him very well.

A player with potential, a team willing to develop, and a crazy head coach.

Either way, it looks like it could be done.

After Stern read all the materials, he took out the paper and pen, and prepared to write a letter.

Everything is ready, he is ready to send a gust of wind.

Dear Chinese Basketball Association:

These are the words on the letterhead.

He is ready to invite the Chinese men's basketball team to participate in the Southern California Summer League again.

The last time the Chinese men's basketball team appeared on the summer league stage was because of the Olympics, and this time it is also the Olympics.

Although the location is different, the level can be the same.

The Chinese men's basketball team would definitely like to have one more chance to play against high-level teams.

And apart from Sun Hao, there are actually two other people worthy of him writing this letter.

Hu Weidong, the 30-year-old top Asian forward, missed the NBA due to injury, this time may be an opportunity.

Wang Zhizhi, a young man who could have come a long time ago but is limited by the system, represents another possibility.

Maybe this kind of thing, the more the better.

As long as the Chinese market can be opened, he is willing to form a team.

After finishing writing the letter, he remembered something, and instead of asking his assistant to send the letter, he picked up the phone beside him.

The summer league will start in ten days, and it will be too late to send a letter, so the phone is the most convenient.

Although the Chinese market has not been fully opened in the past few years, with the entry of journalists like Zhang Weiping who are stationed in the United States, the number of communication between the two parties has increased much more than before.

"Hi, I'm NBA Commissioner David Stern."

"Hello, I'm Li Yuanwei, deputy director of the Chinese Basketball Association."

A phone call was made across the Pacific Ocean.

……

Chapter 91 "The Little Emperor Brings His Talent to the NBA"

"Congratulations to the host for being selected in the 2000 NBA draft. The system will be upgraded to version 2.0."

"Version upgrade, 0.1%..."

"Version upgrade, 0.2%..."

……

On the way Sun Hao took it out to celebrate, the system's notification sound kept coming in his mind.

It felt like a fish kept spitting bubbles in his head.

He was actually quite curious, why did the system update have to keep reminding the progress, is it to strengthen his weaker sense of existence?

Ever since, Sun Hao's going out to celebrate this night became very weird.

"Sun, congratulations, now you are a real NBA player! Come on, drink!"

"Version upgrade, 6.6%..."

"Sun, Benita said that she wants to go shopping in Manhattan tomorrow, will you go with her?"

"Version upgrade, 6.7%..."

"It just so happens that Benita is fine, so let her go to Los Angeles with you."

"Version upgrade, 6.8%..."

……

When Sun Hao's mind happened to be bubbling, Su Qun finally finished his article on Sun Hao's draft.

As soon as it was completed, he sent it to the "Sports Weekly" headquarters by email.

When Sun Hao finished celebrating and went back to the hotel to sleep soundly, this article titled "The Little Emperor Brings His Talent to the NBA" appeared in front of Chinese people.

"'I don't have the challenge I had when I started as a basketball player'.

When Michael Jordan announced his retirement from the NBA a year ago after uttering those words, Chicago's second Bulls dynasty came to an abrupt end.

Jordan has retired again, but unlike five years ago, he is 37 years old.

Will Jordan come back again?

I don't think so, as he said, basketball has no challenge for him.

The challenge for him, as he said in his retirement declaration, is the challenge of being a parent.

As a result, Jordan is no longer, and a group of "Jordan successors" can't wait. Iverson, Hill, Kobe, and Carter are all starting to move.

Who will be the next Michael Jordan?Or is there another Michael Jordan?

We have no way of knowing the answers to these questions, but what we can see is that when O'Neal swept the finals with crazy data of 38.0 points, 16.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.7 blocks per game, when he was elected FMVP, the league will enter the finals again. age of giants.

In this era, O'Neal, Duncan, and even Garnett and Wallace are the protagonists of the league.

Ever since, just like the just-concluded 2000 NBA draft, four of the top five picks were insiders, and eight of the fourteen lottery picks were insiders.

Big men are starting to be so sought after, whether or not they're really talented.

As long as you are tall enough, as long as you are physically fit, you can get a high pick.

This is the trend of the NBA, it is also the trend of world basketball, and it is also ours.

In fact, long before Jordan retired, we had already started a giant movement, Wang Zhizhi, Battelle, Yao Ming.

We keep up with the pace of the times, we have our own mobile Great Wall, and we want to create our own place in the world basketball world.

Then, Sun Hao appeared.

He got the highest score in a single game in the European professional basketball league, he won the double championship of the Champions League and La Liga, and became the double MVP.

This is the first time in basketball history that a Chinese has stood on top of Europe, and he was only 18 years old when he completed all this.

And he is a defender, a defender who was 1 meters a year ago and is now 75 meters.

Maybe if we dig a little deeper, we will find that he is a so-called short defender who was eliminated in China.

He was like a bolt of lightning across the sky, lighting up the sky and startling us.

Only then did we discover that when we were trying our best to cultivate tall insiders, our little Kuailing, that "little" was slowly disappearing without our knowing it.

Just yesterday, I had the honor to come to the "Basketball Mecca" Madison Square Garden, the sacred place of basketball in the world.

When NBA commissioner David Stern pronounced Sun Hao's name, I couldn't help myself.

For the first time, Chinese, Asian, and even yellow guards are on the NBA stage!And it was the 24th pick in the first round that made history!

When the torrent of big men in world basketball was already unstoppable, he went against the current and told us that guards of yellow race can also play in the NBA!

We should be thankful that Sun Hao's appearance sounded the alarm for us in advance.

At the same time, he also raised a series of questions for us.

Does our guard have the ability to shoot independently?

In addition to shooting, is the breakthrough of our defender enough to tear apart the defense on the big stage?

Is our physical fitness and confrontation really the only thing we can do?

In Europe, Sun Hao has done these things and done them well.

His three-pointers shot through the opponent's net again and again like a storm, which made people excited.

But when the opponent frantically went up to defend the three-pointer, his first breakthrough was like crossing the road in the early morning.

He is not afraid of confrontation, he is even good at confrontation, he is a small steel cannon full of drive.

He refreshed fans' cognition again and again. He was called Napoleon of China by European fans, which is a title that represents the emperor!

Now, after conquering Europe, he is stepping onto the NBA stage.

We don't know how Sun Hao will perform in the NBA, because no one can predict the future.

It's like we don't know whether the men's basketball team in Sydney can achieve another glory this time.

But we're starting to look forward to it.

Because this is the first time a person of yellow race has appeared on the NBA stage.