After the consecutive away games, the Celtics had as many as three days of rest, but they only took one day off.
The next day, the training day started again.
During his stay away from home, Lin Yu didn't have much time to train, so his open mid-range shooting attributes stalled.
Returning to training, it only took him one day to improve his open mid-range shooting attributes to full potential, and he could no longer improve them.
Lin Yu could only vent all his energy into strength and confrontation training, although in his opinion, all his training was useless.
During this period, Lin Yu received a call from Jeff Schwartz.
"Good evening, Lin, I am helping you negotiate Under Armour's sneaker contract in the Bay Area. They have basically agreed to reduce it to three years. The price of the contract remains unchanged, but at the same time, they have made a request that you must be on vacation during the break.
Free up half a month during the competition period to help them run promotional activities in China. Of course, they will also pay you extra for corresponding activities."
For such a result, Lin Yu naturally had nothing to refuse and could only agree: "No problem, Jeff, this is the contract. Ask them when they will sign it."
"Soon, Lin. Once I reach a final agreement with them, we can sign the contract."
Before hanging up the phone, Schwartz suddenly mentioned: "By the way, Lin, a reporter named Su has contacted me and wants to do an exclusive interview with you."
Lin Yu frowned: "Su? Chinese reporter?"
"That's right, he's a reporter from a certain Chinese portal."
"Stop it for me. I don't want to be interviewed by Chinese reporters for the time being. I'm thinking about how to deal with these reporters."
"Taking care of reporters? Okay, Lin, you have the final say."
Jeff Schwartz hopes that Lin Yu can accept more interviews from Chinese media, because that will increase Lin Yu's exposure, help Lin Yu gain more Chinese fans, and earn a larger Chinese market.
But Lin Yu was unwilling, and Schwartz didn't dare to force it. The current situation is that Lin Yu has the final say in everything, and Schwartz only has the right to make suggestions, and sometimes he doesn't even have the right to make suggestions.
Three days later, the Celtics had a home game against the Indiana Pacers.
After the Palace of Auburn Hills, the Pacers' situation plummeted. Artest, who returned after the suspension, was used to trade Peja Stojakovic, Reggie Miller retired sadly, and Jermaine O'Neal became the Pacers.
The player’s star player.
Although the situation is terrible, the Pacers' overall strength is still higher than the Celtics.
Jermaine O'Neal on the inside was attacking the frame like crazy, and Perkins couldn't stop him at all. On the outside, European king Sarunas Jaskovicius scored three consecutive points.
If Lin Yu hadn't stepped up and guarded Stephen Jackson, who made 5 of 20 shots, the Celtics would have lost this game.
In the presence of Lin Yu, the Kai team fought the Pacers until the last moment of the game, and then relied on Pierce's explosion to narrowly defeat the team by 5 points and win the game.
The Celtics completed their winning streak, and Doc Rivers finally breathed a sigh of relief. With 11 wins and 9 losses, the Celtics' winning rate left the dangerous 50% winning rate zone.
After the game, in the quiet underground parking lot of TD North Shore Garden, in a Toyota SUV with the door closed, a middle-aged white man was spitting on his mobile phone.
"Hey, hey, Carroll, don't blame me for not reminding you. China Lin has performed well in several consecutive games. Three days ago he made 5 of 17 shots against T-Mac in Houston, and today he defended Stephen Jackson in Boston again.
5-for-20 from the field, he's a top defender."
"And he's only 23, he's still very young. Who do you think of from his performance? Bruce Bowen, right? A younger, less dirty Bruce Bowen, who do you think of the next two first-choice goals?
Are draft picks expensive?”
The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly became louder: "Two first-round picks, this is the price for a star player, and all I want is an ordinary role player!"
"Luther Hyde plus two second-round picks and nothing else!"
The middle-aged white man maintained a trace of calmness from beginning to end, and calmly deceived the opponent: "Calm down, Carroll, how about you try to trade two first-round picks for Bruce Bowen? See what that old guy Greg will do
I won’t offend you.”
"I said, this is a younger Bruce Bowen. His potential will be very high in the future. He should even be priced higher than Bruce Bowen..."
On the other end of the phone, the voice gradually became smaller: "Hey, Danny, don't treat me as a fool. I can only have a first-round pick at most, and no more."
"No, no, no, two first-round picks, plus Luther Hyde, this is my final offer."
"Then goodbye, no, never again!"
It was another rest day after playing the Pacers. Lin Yu got up early in the morning after rarely sleeping in.
He turned on the computer and searched for a while for a way to watch live broadcasts of domestic TV channels through the Internet. Unfortunately, he could not find it. In desperation, Lin Yu had no choice but to go out and devote his wasted energy to additional training.
In the weight room of the Celtics training facility, Brian Du, who was still working during the holidays, helped Lin Yu adjust the weight and took protective measures.
Then, Lin Yu gritted his teeth and did waist and abdominal jerks one after another.
"Lin, are you working too hard? You have to give yourself a holiday occasionally."
While helping Lin Yu do the clean and jerk, Brian Du chatted with Lin Yu.
"I also want to give myself a holiday, but I have nothing to do during the holiday, so I might as well come here to train."
Lin Yu gritted his teeth and jerked and jerked one after another, sweat flowing from all parts of his body.
"Don't you have any hobbies? For example, video games? Golf? Or go watch a football game. The New England Patriots just won the championship last year, and their winning streak has not been interrupted since the start of the new season. Now Boston, the Patriots
The voice is much higher than that of the Celtics. I think you can go see Tom Brady and learn about the style of a football superstar?"
Lin Yu curled his lips: "No interest, I'm only interested in basketball."
As soon as the words came out, a voice suddenly sounded in my mind.
[Congratulations to the host, the steal was successful!]
Is this coming?
Lin Yu showed a surprised look and immediately wanted to end this strength training session, but Brian Du was unwilling to do so.
"No, Lin, since you have started, you can't end it halfway. Keep at it."
Therefore, Lin Yu could only grit his teeth and hold on for more than two hours, finally ending this slightly torturous strength training session.
Then, he went back to the locker room to take a shower, sat in the corner of the locker room, closed his eyes, and entered the "Stealing Meme" system.
[Congratulations: The host has successfully stolen Kevin Durant’s “trumpet” meme, and the system will reward you with a “gift package”. 】
As soon as you enter the system, a prompt pops up directly.
Sure enough, it was Du Xiaoshuai's trumpet joke. Lin Yu in the system took a deep breath, suppressed the excitement overflowing in his heart, and crossed out this prompt.
Then, a "gift package" appeared directly in the system interface. The color of this gift package was different from the previous two times. This time it was orange.
Lin Yu started thinking about the orange gift bag.
The first time it was red, and what he stole was Kobe Bryant's familiar "Los Angeles at four in the morning" meme. The second time was blue, and what he stole was the not-so-famous "Angry Slash" meme from the United Arab Emirates.
This time, what he stole in the orange gift bag was Durant's "trumpet" joke.
The popularity of this meme should be slightly lower than Kobe’s meme, but higher than the Arab League meme.
So, it means that the red gift pack has the highest level, followed by the orange one, and then the blue one.
As for whether there are other colors among them, Lin Yu doesn't know yet. What he can be sure of is that the level of the gift pack this time is at least higher than that of the "Angry Slash" one, and the rewards will be more generous.
With excitement, Lin Yu returned to the main interface and clicked on the open button of the gift package.
Immediately, the screen in front of him shook violently, and after a dazzling flash of light, three more small spaces appeared on the system interface. The ones lying in the spaces were naturally Lin Yu's rewards.
[Congratulations to the host, you have obtained a "Three Minutes of Death" special effect card, a "Peak KD Three-Point Shooting Potential Card", and a bottle of "Automatic Perfume". 】
Click on the rewards one by one to get specific instructions.
["Three Minutes of Death": Kevin Durant's unique mode, Death Mode. Once you enter this mode, in the next three minutes of the game, the host's shooting percentage against the defender will be greatly improved, and you will get Death.
Du’s bonus!]
["Peak KD three-point shooting potential card": After using this card, the host will get Kevin Durant's shooting potential, which are: open three-point shooting 97, interfered three-point shooting 92, and three-point shooting after dribbling
Shooting 94, after receiving the potential value bonus, the host's training will speed up the improvement of the above attributes.】
["Self-cooked perfume": This is a bottle of perfume. Within six hours after use, humans or animals that have been in contact with the host for a long time will feel familiar with the host. Number of times it can be used: 3/3.]
Needless to say, "Three Minutes of Death" is another time-effective bonus card. Lin Yu sent it to the system warehouse for use when he developed "Linsanity" memes.
"Peak KD three-point shooting potential card" is a permanent bonus item. His open three-point shooting attribute, which has just been improved to 71 points, can take another step forward. Lin Yu's interfered three-point shooting and movement have always been troubled.
His three-point shooting from behind the ball can also be improved to the top level in the league.
Lin Yu will no longer be afraid of his opponent's strict defense!
If these three shooting statistics are raised to the top of the league, who will he become?
Lin Yu tilted his head and thought for a moment, maybe he is a version of Klay Thompson with a weakened offensive ability with the ball, right?
If he can improve his ball-handling ability and breakthrough ability to the league average, then he will be Klay Thompson.
Finally, "self-made perfume", this thing is a bit magical. When Lin Yu opened his eyes, he found that this so-called self-made perfume appeared directly in Lin Yu's cabinet.
What can this thing be used for? Lin Yu hasn’t thought of it yet...