The warm winter sun shines through the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows and fills the entire room.
After the game day, all Celtics members returned to Boston. Doc Rivers gave the team a day off, and Lin Yu took a long nap.
When I woke up, it was already past 10 noon.
After getting up, while brushing his teeth and washing up, the doorbell started to ring. Lin Yu opened the door while brushing his teeth while frothing at the mouth.
As expected, it was Lin Yu’s American agent, Jeff Schwartz.
Jeff Schwartz is the No. 1 basketball agent in North America. He knows China well and has served Battelle and General before. He became Lin Yu's agent through the matchmaking of Lin Yu's domestic agent Zhong Jun.
In general, Jeff Schwartz helped Lin Yu get an NBA contract and a sneaker contract from Nike, and then he seemed to disappear.
Every year when the settlement period of the brokerage contract comes, he will appear in front of Lin Yu and take away his share of the income.
From this aspect, this guy is not a qualified agent.
But now, Schwartz suddenly became enthusiastic. He opened the door, first showed his white teeth to Lin Yu, and then said hello.
"Hey Lin, long time no see."
Lin Yu also replied: "Long time no see, Mr. Schwartz."
Then he turned around and continued brushing his teeth, seemingly not enthusiastic about Schwartz's arrival.
Schwartz was still very enthusiastic. With a smile on his face, he followed Lin Yu and said loudly: "Look, Lin, I brought you more than ten newspapers and magazines, and the front page headlines of each newspaper and magazine
It’s all about you.”
More than a dozen newspapers and magazines?
Lin Yu was then attracted by Schwartz's attention.
"Let's take a look at the Boston Globe first. They said: China's Lin dominated the final moments and helped the Celtics win!" Schwartz's movements and expressions were very exaggerated. He shook the "Boston Globe" in his hand, "Look.
, this is the local media in Boston, obviously, they have recognized you, do you know how difficult this is?"
"Boston is the most exclusive city among the 29 cities in the NBA. At first, they did not like black players and were only willing to trust the white players on the team. Then, because of Bill Russell, they had to accept black players, and then,
They began to discriminate against people of color other than blacks and whites. It was not until the 21st century, when racial discrimination was not so prevalent, that you had the opportunity to join the Celtics, but even then, the fans of the Celtics still did not welcome you."
"But now that you have conquered them, you will be like Bill Russell, forcing these Celtic fans to accept the existence of yellow players!"
Schwartz is right. Celtics fans have always disliked him, but this guy keeps comparing Lin Yu to Bill Russell, which is a bit exaggerated.
Lin Yu is now as far away from Bill Russell as a galaxy.
He shook his head secretly, ran to the nearest bathroom, rinsed his mouth, and finished brushing his teeth.
"Mr. Schwartz, have you had breakfast? Do you want some more?"
Lin Yu took out a piece of whole wheat bread and a glass of milk from the refrigerator, and was polite to Jeff Schwartz.
It was already approaching noon, and Schwartz had obviously already had breakfast. He waved his hand: "You don't have to worry about me, Lin, I've already eaten."
Then, he pulled out another newspaper: "Look at this USA Today, Sam Amick specially wrote a report: 'AI killer' Lin from China! Look, Lin, you have an interesting one.
The nickname was written by Sam Amick's golden pen."
Lin Yu took a bite of bread and rolled his eyes: "This nickname is not interesting at all. Besides, who is Sam Amick?"
"Sam Amick is a famous reporter in USA Today. He is an expert in the field of basketball. By the way, you can look at the report written by the famous reporter Lee Jenkins of Sports Illustrated: Iverson twice capped, China Lin
Perform the drama of becoming famous with one goal."
This title made Lin Yu thoughtful: "So, in last night's game, did I become famous with just one goal?"
Jeff Schwartz stood up suddenly and showed great excitement: "Of course, do you know how big the impact of last night's game was? You flipped Allen Allen's hat in front of NBC's national live broadcast.
Ferson, and then hit a key three-pointer, one attack and one defense directly decided the outcome of the game, everyone is telling you about your magic."
Lin Yu didn't quite believe that even though last night's game was very intense, it was just an ordinary regular season game. How influential could it be? Could it be more influential than "Linsanity"?
Lin Yu expressed doubts...
By the way, what did I just think of?
Lin Yu was suddenly stunned. After thinking for a while, he translated the word he was thinking of and it was right, it was "Lin Madness"!
"Crazy Lin"'s surname is Lin, and Lin Yu's surname is also Lin, which is a perfect match.
"There's another story to steal."
Lin Yu muttered to himself, remembered the meme in his mind, and then began to think about how he could steal the "Lin Madness" meme.
"Perhaps those time-sensitive props will help me."
With a "Peak Kobe Bryant Single Game Experience Card" and a "UAE Template Experience Card", Lin Yu has the opportunity to hit two games in a row.
However, he remembered that "Linsanity" lasted for at least five or six games. Just two time-sensitive props were not enough. He had to wait.
The only effect of Jeff Schwartz's arrival is to tell Lin Yu that Lin Yu is no longer an unknown person in North America.
Lin Yu also logged into the basketball forum in the United States and browsed it, and found that there were indeed many more discussion posts related to him.
Unfortunately, most of the titles of these discussion posts are: "He was tipped to the ground by an unknown person from China, so he lost the game. Will Iverson have to take the blame for this defeat?"
Or: "Being locked up by a Chinese player from the Kai team, is AI really old?"
emmm... Even though Lin Yu's performance was so outstanding, and even at the end of the game, Charles Barkley was praising Lin Yu, Lin Yu was still ignored by this group of American fans.
On the domestic forums, Lin Yu's personal performance shocked many domestic anti-fans.
"Six points, six rebounds, one assist, one block and two turnovers, 100% field goal percentage and three-point shooting percentage, and a 75% free throw percentage caused by deliberately missing the last ball, Lin Dayu can actually play like this
Performance?"
No wonder this group of anti-fans were so surprised. After being convinced by those unscrupulous reporters for a long time that Lin Yu had no ability to play in the NBA, they already believed it.
And suddenly one day, after Lin Yu performed at an NBA level, they were naturally surprised.
In 2005, domestic NBA broadcasting was not yet developed. Central Five usually only broadcast Rockets and Lakers games, while the Celtics games could not be broadcast twice throughout the year.
The game between the Celtics and the 76ers was naturally not broadcast in China.
But something good happened, because Lin Yu finally had a qualified personal performance and went to the Internet to transfer the video of this game and put it on the mainland's local area network.
Then, a group of fans saw Lin Yu flip Iverson twice, hit a key three-pointer in the end, and wave his huge fist in the face of the boos from the audience.
As a result, these fans who were originally Lin Yu's fans suddenly turned into fans...
Lin Yu finally had his first batch of fans in China. They were not many, but they were the most loyal fans.
