Chen Jie opened his eyes drowsily, and what he saw was the ceiling. He glanced at the bright sunshine, and the morning light flooded the air wantonly. Chen Jie was about to get up to train.
Li Ming'er, who heard the noise, turned back from the kitchen and glanced at Chen Jie.
She was wearing a very beautiful pink pajamas and an apron in front, which was a bit of a mix-and-match style... However, the slightly messy hair on her forehead and her perfect figure made Li Ming'er's movements full of endless excitement.
Temptation.
"What are you doing? It's the offseason from today on!" Li Ming'er rolled her eyes at him and said.
Chen Jie suddenly slapped his forehead and thought of this.
After laughing at himself, Chen Jie fell on the bed again. The bed was the most beautiful place.
"Lie down for a while and get up and rinse your mouth! Get ready for breakfast." Li Ming'er said a little nagging: "Today at noon, you will have the team's championship parade. We will go after lunch."
It feels so good to have someone to take care of you and cook for you! Chen Jie threw his whole body on the bed, looked at the ceiling with a smile on his face, and said, "Okay! Everything is up to my wife.
It’s arranged!”
"Poor talk!" Li Ming'er said and then went to cook.
Chen Jie was lying on the bed, and he really didn't want to move. After entering the league, he seemed to have turned into a machine. His daily life consisted of constant struggle, constant training, and then competition... In such a situation,
Repeat, repeat... Now, it's finally the offseason!
Chen Jie can finally breathe a sigh of relief. The competition is over for now and he can start a wonderful life of his own.
Of course, for some players, the offseason is a good time to travel around and practice fishing skills, but for Chen Jie, it is definitely not like that... Chen Jie has a lot of things going on!
First of all, of course, is training... Chen Jie is a player who will never relax his demands on himself. Of course, he will seize the time and train a lot on himself. During this offseason, he cannot lower his demands on himself.
Require.
The second is to return to China. As Chen Jie’s commercial value increases, many of his sponsors certainly want to open up the Chinese market behind Chen Jie, so Chen Jie will return to China to participate in many business activities. Of course, this is not
The point, the point is, in this year’s new national team training roster, Chen Jie’s name is clearly written.
In other words, from today on, Chen Jie will become a member of the Chinese national team.
In the summer of 2005, although there were no major events, China was accustomed to preparing in advance. Next year's World Championships, and even the Olympic Games three years later, were already on the agenda.
Yao Ming does not need to participate in this training camp. In fact, with Chen Jie's identity and status, there is no need for him to participate in such a training camp.
However, because Chen Jie has never had the experience of participating in a national team before, he and the national team still need to adjust. Moreover, releasing the news of Chen Jie joining the national team this year will also help Chinese fans maintain confidence in next year's World Championships.
expect.
Therefore, Chen Jie must participate in this year's training camp, but everyone knows that this training camp does not explain the problem, but only has a symbolic meaning.
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Returning to China this time, Chen Jie did not act quietly like last year. After all, his fame last year was not as good as this year!
This time, Chen Jie announced the news of his return to China openly and calmly flew back to China on a plane.
When he got off the plane, although Chen Jie was well prepared, he was still shocked by the scene in front of him. What do you mean by a sea of people? Chen Jie had never seen so many people at an airport. Even the police came to maintain order at the airport. This shows how lively it is here.
When Chen Jie got off the plane, he immediately heard a burst of cheers, "Chen Jie! I love you! Welcome back to China!" Chen Jie followed the voice and saw a very huge banner hung up, which read, "Chen Jie! China
The pride of basketball, the number one guard in the world!"
"China is better!" Chen Jie couldn't help but sigh after hearing the long-lost Chinese language: "Chinese fans are even more enthusiastic than those in the United States."
Of course, it was a sigh of relief, but Chen Jie did not dare to stay here any longer. As a Chinese, Chen Jie naturally knew how crazy Chinese fans were, so he obediently evacuated the airport under the cover of airport security personnel.
Of course, the first thing Chen Jie did when he returned to China was to report to the national team!
The Chinese Men's Basketball National Team started recruiting as early as May, but Chen Jie and Yao Ming, who played in the NBA, were not reported on the roster due to no games. In May, the Chinese Men's Basketball Team played four games.
In the U.S. warm-up match, China won three out of four games, but the players on this U.S. team are not NBA playoff players, and their level is far from that of the American Dream Team.
In these four games, neither Yao Ming nor Chen Jie participated. The Chinese team is not the strongest, but the weakness of the Chinese men's basketball team can also be seen.
At the beginning of June, the Chinese men's basketball team flew to Australia to play a series of warm-up matches with the Australian national team. Australia was not a strong team, but the results of the games between the two teams disappointed many people. China lost all three games, which disappointed many people.
Chinese fans are greatly disappointed. Without Chen Jie and Yao Ming, the Chinese team seems to have suddenly become a weak team.
After the warm-up match with Australia, the men's basketball team immediately started the four-nation league again. However, by talking to the basketball teams from the other three countries in the Chinese League, this was to give the Chinese men's basketball players confidence, and the Chinese team finally tasted victory.
What a taste, even though they are facing a basketball team like Montenegro.
"You are Chen Jie. I have admired your name for a long time." Seeing a bald old man facing him with a smile on his face, Chen Jie felt very disgusted, but he still had to shake hands with him.
Although Chen Jie has never participated in the CBA and has no qualifications in China, his performance in the United States forced the big guys in the basketball association to pay attention to Chen Jie's status, so Yao Ming brought Chen Jie here.
Immortals from all walks of life came to greet Chen Jie.
There is no one who can achieve this position who is not an old fox. They are very aware of Chen Jie’s influence in China now, and they also know what the consequences of offending Chen Jie will be. Chen Jie is not Wang Zhizhi, and Wang Zhizhi is easy to deal with because he
His influence is too low, but Chen Jie is different. To put it bluntly, even Yao Ming, the No. 1 pick in 2002, is not as influential as Chen Jie in China. So they wisely treated Chen Jie as an uncle.
All the procedures for joining the national team were completed very smoothly, without any sloppiness. In fact, the big bosses of the basketball association have also been very worried recently. Australia has lost three consecutive games, and Chinese fans have already regarded the Chinese basketball team as
The Chinese Basketball Association is in trouble. If it weren’t for the support from the Football Association, the Basketball Association would be a rotten egg. They are eager to improve the level of the men’s basketball team, but this year Yao Ming did not return to China for training. Without him, the Chinese team
It's really just that little strength. Now that a person who is even more awesome than Yao Ming has joined the national team, how dare they use their qualifications to gain a big name?
"I didn't expect it to go smoothly." After coming out of the Basketball Association with the national team member's card, Chen Jie murmured a little unexpectedly: "I thought these guys were going to make things difficult for me because of my qualifications."
Dong Fang, who is responsible for China affairs in Chen Jie's agent team, smiled and shook his head, "Don't take everything so complicated. Okay, I have called Yunus to inform him of your joining the national team.
The thing is, they are currently playing in the Four Nations League in Kunshan. I told them that you don’t need to go there for the time being. You will go to participate in business activities first. After the Four Nations League is over, you can go to the national team for training. "
Dong Fang was the Chinese agent that Fagan specifically looked for for Chen Jie in China after he knew that Chen Jie intended to form an agent team. He has a wide network of contacts in the Chinese basketball world. Now it seems that this is indeed the case. He is even the head coach of the national team.
He can talk to the coach Silver Fox Yunus.
Chen Jie nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll take a day off first, and tomorrow we'll start the hard work of catching up on the announcements!"
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The day of catching up with the announcement was more difficult than Chen Jie imagined. Even after a few activities, Chen Jie felt that it was more exhausting than the finals. At this time, Chen Jie couldn't wait to go to the national team to train as soon as possible! He felt that training was even harder than the finals.
Participating in business events has never been easier!
The Four Nations League of the Chinese men's basketball team simply ended on July 7. In these games, the men's basketball team, under the leadership of Yi Jianlian, performed pretty well and won three games. However, in the second game
During the game in Puerto Rico, when the game was about to end, due to Yi Jianlian's impulsiveness, a vicious group fight broke out between the two teams.
At this time, the national team was once again criticized by the media.
In order to quickly get rid of this kind of negative news, the Basketball Association had to announce in advance that Chen Jie had reported to the national team. Originally, the Basketball Association was planning to hold a special press conference, but now they are also urgently seeking medical treatment.
However, fearing that Chen Jie would think this was a slight to him, the Basketball Association sent someone to call Chen Jie to explain.
Chen Jie is fine. He would rather attend less press conferences like this. After all, the experience of confronting the media is not as good as training!
Knowing that Chen Jie has been reported and officially called a member of the Chinese national team, the media and fans were overjoyed. They began to stop talking about the gang fight incident! Everyone began to discuss the impact of Chen Jie joining the national team.
What changes will the national team make?
At this time, the media started to make a fuss again, "The Chinese men's basketball team is the strongest team in Asia, and our goal is to hit the top three in next year's World Championships!!"
Seeing such a newspaper, Chen Jie felt dumbfounded. To hit the top three? It would be good to enter the quarterfinals. Chen Jie still remembers that in his previous life, if it weren't for Wang Shipeng's winning goal, the Chinese team would not even be able to qualify in the group stage.
Basketball is not about personal heroism. How much can one person change?
Chen Jie is not sure either!
After the Four Nations League ended in early July, Chen Jie officially reported to the Chinese men's basketball national team training camp and participated in national team training.
The coach of the national team is Yunus, whom Yao Ming recruited from the United States. The white-haired old man is very dedicated. But I don’t know what others think of him. Anyway, Chen Jie thinks his level is really average, at least in terms of scheduling of game personnel.
In terms of performance, his flexibility is average and his tactics are not outstanding.
Chen Jie thinks Yunus is average. Yunus doesn't think much when he sees Chen Jie. In Yunus' eyes, Chen Jie is really a big name. Yao Ming used to go back to the national team to play with his opponent as soon as he came back from the NBA.
Competition, how about you go back to China and participate in business activities? Are you trying to be a big name?!
How about being the scoring leader in the NBA? How about being the MVP? It doesn’t mean that you can be regarded as an uncle everywhere, at least not in the eyes of Yunus. In recent games, Yunus led the team to a winning streak, and his self-confidence has increased sharply. I kind of think that the Chinese team is already very good.
I feel strong now, and I don’t want to be so thirsty for Chen Jie at first.
"Everyone, come here!" Yunas called all the players who were training on the court and said, "This is Chen Jie, the famous first guard in the NBA."
Listening to Yunus's words, Chen Jie raised his eyebrows, "Good guy, what you are saying is thorny."
"Starting today, he will join our team and participate in training together." Yunus said. The topic suddenly changed, "But everyone knows that in the end, only 12 people can represent China in the World Championships. Now there are only 12 people in our team.
There are 17 people, which means that this year's roster is not necessarily next year's final roster. We will also lay off 5 people. These 5 people will definitely be the five worst performers in the team, so I hope everyone can
Give 120% of your efforts to the next training, otherwise, I don’t care how strong your level is or how famous you are, as long as you perform poorly, I will still lay you off. Okay, continue training.
!”
Chen Jie looked at Yunus and narrowed his eyes slightly. He originally thought he was the head coach hired by Yao Ming. He might be easier to talk to, but it seems that he is just like this. Give me some power and ask me to obey you? Really?
Interesting.
As soon as Yunus left, the players surrounded Chen Jie one after another. Regarding Chen Jie's heroic performance in the NBA, these CBA players regarded it as a novel. Although Chen Jie was younger than them, this
It does not hinder communication between them.
Chen Jie knows many of these people, the most famous of which are of course Yi Jianlian, Wang Shipeng, Zhu Fangyu, Liu Wei and others. These people all have plans to go to the NBA, and of course they want to know more about the NBA!
"Tch, what's the big deal? It's just that I got lucky and got some grades in the NBA. I'm much better in the NBA." At this time, a shady voice suddenly came from the crowd, and Chen Jie followed.
The crowd looked over and saw several players sitting together over there.
Chen Jie smiled and said lightly: "Yeah, I'm just lucky. There's nothing worth praising. There are many people who can score more than 30 points in the playoffs. But, I'm curious, how many people can score in the playoffs?"
Game, can I get 1 point?"
"Chen Jie, come here, I'll show you the training ground." Yi Jianlian saw that something was wrong, so he quickly pulled Chen Jie over and pulled Chen Jie aside with a smile.
"What's so great, it's just a name for himself in the NBA. He didn't know where he was when I was playing basketball." An indignant voice came from behind.
Chen Jie pushed Yi Jianlian away and walked towards the place where the sound came from.
"Chen Jie, don't say goodbye. You have just arrived. It's not good to make such a fuss." Wang Shipeng and others also came up to pull Chen Jie. They knew that Chen Jie had a bad temper. Chinese players in the NBA have always been humble, kind and civilized, whether it is Wang Zhizhi or Yao Ming.
, it was all like this, but this was before Chen Jie appeared. After Chen Jie appeared, the gentle and elegant image of the Chinese people seemed to have disappeared in the NBA. Provoking reporters and verbal wars with stars were all things Chen Jie had done before.
, Wang Shipeng and others cannot guarantee whether Chen Jie would dare to hit people here when he first arrived. This is no joke.
Chen Jie ignored the group of people and went straight to the player who was speaking.
This is a tall and thin player. Chen Jie does not know him. He is not very old. He may have been included in the national team trial list because he joined the CBA last year and made some achievements. It can be seen from his height that he
He should be playing guard. Chen Jie immediately understood what was going on. First of all, he had only played in the CBA for two years and had good results, so his self-confidence was inflated and he thought that even the NBA was not necessarily that strong. Secondly, Chen Jie was also a guard.
In other words, when Chen Jie comes here, some of the defenders will definitely be squeezed out.
When he saw Chen Jie walking towards him, the man did not flinch. Instead, he straightened his chest and looked directly at Chen Jie not to be outdone.
But he is only about 1.8 meters tall, so compared to Chen Jie who is 1.93 meters tall, he is undoubtedly much less imposing.
Chen Jie did not stop in front of this man, but passed him by, bent down and picked up a basketball that fell on the ground, and walked to the basketball court next to him.
"I haven't played on a basketball court like this for a long time. It feels so small." Chen Jie stood on the court and immediately felt the difference. The NBA's three-point line was one meter farther than the international standard. Correspondingly, the entire court was larger.
The international standard is much higher. When Chen Jie stood on the three-point line of the court, it felt almost like two points farther away.
So Chen Jie took a few steps back while dribbling the ball, and stopped just one step away from the half-court line.
Raising his hand, aiming, and shooting, Chen Jie's shooting movements were all done in one go. The basketball flew out of Chen Jie's fingertips and lightly flew into the net.
"Hey, isn't it just shooting? Who hasn't missed one or two of these half-court long-distance three-pointers?" The man was a little disdainful when he saw this, thinking that Chen Jie wanted to use some trick to establish his authority.
Immediately afterwards, the man's mouth slowly grew larger.
Chen Jie ran over and picked up the basketball, then returned to the same position and shot again.
"Whoa!" The basketball hit again, and then Chen Jie ran over again.
The continuous sound of "swish, swish, swish" made the man's face paler. He hit the target, 100% hit. Although it was only one position and there was no one to interfere with it, it was not the three-point line, but almost half-court.
, Chen Jie can maintain a 100% shooting percentage from that distance, how terrifying is his shooting accuracy on the court?
"Frame!" Finally, Chen Jie's shot failed to score, but it was not over yet.
"Erupt in an instant!" Chen Jie suddenly accelerated and rushed into the paint like a cheetah. The basketball bounced high. Chen Jie only rushed into the paint in just a few seconds, then raised his head high and grabbed the basketball with both hands.
Dunk the basketball hard into the hoop.
"Boom!" The violent voice and the trembling backboard made no one doubt how hard Chen Jie used to dunk.
Shrugging, Chen Jie let go of the basket, walked out of the court and passed the crowd, picked up the shoulder bag he had just placed on the ground, and walked away with an indifferent expression.
The dozen or so basketball players on the court looked at each other, and no one spoke for a long time.
"You're so arrogant. You're going to slap us down as soon as you come here!" the player who had previously provoked Chen Jie said angrily.
"Okay!" Before he could finish speaking, Yi Jianlian suddenly interrupted the man coldly, "So what if he is arrogant? If you can make a name for yourself in the NBA, you can also be so arrogant! This is the national team.
, not your respective clubs, give me good training!"
Yi Jianlian has always been a kind person. When Yao Ming was away, he replaced Yao Ming as the leader of the national team and gradually developed some leadership qualities. At least he knows what to do in this situation.
The man opened his mouth, looking unconvinced and wanting to retort. Someone next to him immediately pulled him, and he immediately responded and shut his mouth in a dignified voice.
He has watched the performance of Yi Jianlian leading the Chinese team in the Four Nations League these days. Whether he wants to admit it or not, Yi Jianlian is indeed the strongest player of the Chinese team besides Chen Jie and Yao Ming. That's it, Yi Jianlian is
He hasn't gone to the NBA yet, so we can see how strong Chen Jie is if he can play the core position in the NBA.
However, even though I have this understanding in my heart, I still can't get rid of my dissatisfaction.
He stared at Chen Jie's back and thought to himself, what's so awesome? NBA teammates can win the championship. When you get to the national team, let's see how far you can go. Anyway, everyone has hope for you, not for us.
Sometimes when our results are not good, it depends on who the media will criticize.
Thinking like this, the young guard seemed to be relieved. He took the basketball and walked aside to start training.
His name is Yang Ming, the main shooting guard of the Liaoning team this year.
This was the first time he saw Chen Jie, and he didn't know why he had such a dislike for Chen Jie.
No one has ever told him that this is because he is not even qualified to be jealous!
His provocation against Chen Jie was more like a helpless struggle. (To be continued...)
