NBA: I have 3, no D, and I can't dribble

Chapter 164 [164] Kaka treats guests to watch the World Cup finals, the NBA’s first Chinese match!
7 month 10 day.

Berlin, Olympic Stadium.

Even for people who don't like football, this day is destined to be remembered.

The 2006 World Cup final in Germany was held in this stadium, and the 75000 seats were overcrowded.

The two teams facing off in the final were the French team led by Zidane and the Italian team led by Cannavaro.

At the warm invitation of his friend Kaka, Lin Fei naturally refused and took his girlfriend Qin Dongmei with him to fly to Berlin, Germany, to watch this world-famous World Cup final with Kaka.

Since Kaka watched one of Lin Fei's games in last year's finals, he has become a fan of Lin Fei, and the two often communicate with each other through phone messages and MSN.

At the beginning, the two young people made a solemn promise to carve out a world in their respective fields.

Now a season has passed, and Lin Fei's achievements in the NBA are obvious to all. He has reached the Finals for two consecutive years and won the championship. He is second in the regular season MVP list, second in the scoring list, leads the steals list, double team, All-Star vote leader, and All-NBA player. Star MVP…

To be honest, looking at the entire history of the NBA, there are very few people who can win these honors in the same season.

But when Kaká looks at himself, he has played tepidly in Milan this season, with progress and highlights but lackluster performance.

Comparing the two, Kaka inevitably felt a little embarrassed in front of Lin Fei, and at the same time he was determined to work hard to achieve good results in the new Serie A season.

An hour before the start of the final, Lin Fei and his girlfriend Qin Dongmei, Kaka and his girlfriend Caroline,

Under the escort of the public relations staff, I entered the venue early through the internal passage and sat in a seat in the front row with a good view.

The four front row tickets for the final were bought in advance by Kaka through his agent a month ago.

As early as the G6 game of the NBA Finals in June, Lin Fei gave two tickets allocated by the team to Kaka and his girlfriend who came to watch the game.
It's a pity that G2 of the finals at that time was also the only game where Lin Fei's performance was sluggish in the entire finals.

Now Kaka invites Lin Fei to watch the World Cup finals, which can be regarded as a courtesy exchange between friends.

But compared with the value of front-row tickets for the NBA Finals at that time, front-row tickets for this World Cup are much cheaper.

Lin Fei and Kaka have four good positions, and the original price of each ticket is only over 700 euros. Even with the scalpers' hype, it is only over 1000 euros.

At this time in 2006, the euro was strong and had not yet devalued, but the equivalent of the Chinese currency was only over 10000.

But the price of front-row tickets for this year's NBA Finals is at least tens of thousands of dollars...

After all, a football stadium can accommodate 3-5 times the number of spectators as an NBA basketball game, so with small profits but quick turnover, the tickets for this high-profile football game are still quite profitable.

Two top handsome guys, followed by two top beauties, are naturally quite eye-catching and attract the attention of many fans around them.

"Look, isn't that Kaka? He's also here to watch the World Cup, and next to him is his girlfriend Caroline, right? She's so beautiful!"

"Kaká is really the male god in my mind. He is devoted and infatuated with his girlfriend. There has never been any scandal. I believe he will definitely be able to play in Serie A!"

"Who is the handsome Asian guy next to Kaka who is chatting and laughing with him? Why does he look familiar?"

"Oh my god, isn't that Lin? He is now a celebrity in the NBA. The Asian beauty next to him should be his girlfriend. She seems to be a part-time manager. She is not only beautiful but also capable!"

"I never watch basketball, but this Lin's appearance is really amazing to me. It's just a little bit worse than my Kaka!"

There were many Chinese and Chinese fans around the scene. Naturally, everyone knew about Lin Fei, even if they didn't watch the NBA.

"Lin Fei's current global popularity and commercial value cannot be compared to Kaka. Kaká is still a second-rate star internationally, but Lin Fei is already a first-rate star in the NBA!"

"Is this Lin Fei really that famous? I think he is quite young? He is probably younger than Kaka, right?"

Some fans in the front row who were closer to each other took the initiative to ask Lin Fei and Kaka for autographs and photos. Naturally, these two high-quality idols could not refuse, and they satisfied these fanatical fans one by one.

Lin Fei smiled and said: "Kaka, just now you said that your performance in Serie A is not one-tenth of what I did in the NBA. Why do you have more fans than me now? You are still famous!"

Kaka shook his head quickly and said: "Lin, how can you compare with this? Don't forget that this is the Football World Cup. Naturally, most of the people here are football fans. There are so many people who like you, which is already great!"

"I went to Miami to watch your Finals last month. From beginning to end, only one person asked me for an autograph. Wouldn't that mean I'm even less famous?"

Lin Fei smiled and comforted him kindly: "If you have one, then there are two. This shows that you are still famous in the basketball circle! Those who can break through the circle are all big stars, or they have the potential to be big stars!"

Kaka couldn't laugh or cry: "Lin, please stop comforting me. Do you know what the only girl who asked me for an autograph and a photo said?"

"He asked me, you are so handsome, which NBA team are you on?"

The conversation between Kaka and Lin Fei made their girlfriends Qin Dongmei and Caroline couldn't help laughing until their stomachs ached.

Before the game started, Kaka also asked Lin Fei for his views and predictions on tonight's final.

For Lin Fei, a time traveler, he was embarrassed to answer this kind of question.

Although after Lin Fei traveled through time, a series of butterfly effects occurred in the NBA. The Timberwolves and Heat won championships successively, Wade won the MVP early, Zhu Fangyu tried out with the Mavericks, and now even the Spurs GDP has been disbanded...

But that's the NBA, and Lin Fei is an NBA player. The butterfly effect can't change the outcome of the Football World Cup finals, right?

If it were possible, Lin Fei would probably have to ask someone to give Zidane a message in advance, telling him not to be impulsive and not to knock over his opponent with his head...

But history is history after all. Football has its own historical trajectory. Lin Fei, a basketball player, does not want to interfere too much.

Don't say that he is not a fan of Zidane. Even if he is, he is not naive enough to think that his words can easily change the World Cup finals.

Even if Zidane was not sent off in the end and participated in the penalty shootout, France would still lose in the end.

This is the wheel of fate.

"Personally, I prefer Zidane. This is the last game of his career. I really hope he can have a perfect ending!"

"But I still have a bad feeling. In short, France and Italy are evenly matched. It may be overtime or even a penalty shootout!"

"Just guess, after all, there are so many different lines, so how can I do everything in front of a football star like you!"

Faced with Lin Fei's high-level pretentious remarks, Kaka nodded and said: "Lin, just because I am a professional football player, it is easier for me to guess wrong!"

"But I still admire Zidane very much. I hope he can have a perfect career finale, even if France eliminated us in the quarter-finals!"

As the champion of the 2002 Hanyu World Cup, the Brazilian team regained its momentum this year and aimed to defend the title. However, due to over-reliance on Ronaldo, who was no longer at his peak, he eventually stopped in the quarterfinals.

During the chat, Kaka suddenly waved his hand from a seat not far away: "Lin, look, it's Messi, he's coming to watch the game too!"

About twenty seats away, Lin Fei also saw little Messi, smiling and waving hello to him.

Lin Fei is now also Messi's idol in the NBA. Lin Fei's hard training and hard work also inspire him to strive in La Liga.

This year Messi also represented Argentina in the World Cup, but they also stopped in the quarterfinals.Like Kaka, Messi also scored a goal in this year's World Cup.

In the original world, Kaka had the only goal in 2006 in the history of the World Cup, and Messi's road to World Cup glory has just begun with twists and turns.

But in today's parallel world, Lin Fei hopes that both Kaka and Messi can find a more exciting path to becoming gods.

Lin Fei, who was wearing sunglasses, looked around and found that not far away more than ten meters away, two obviously tall white men were chatting and laughing, especially the blond curly hair, which was quite conspicuous.

That's right, these two people are Nowitzki and Ginobili.

Lin Fei didn't expect Nowitzki to bring Ginobili to his hometown to watch the World Cup finals. He couldn't get along too well with his new teammates.

Sure enough, the friendship between white people is more pure.

Nowitzki and Ginobili seemed to have noticed Lin Fei, and stood up and waved to Lin Fei. Lin Fei quickly took off his sunglasses and smiled and waved back.

Seeing the fierce battle between Nuo Tianwang and Yaodao, Lin Fei thought that the Mavericks' record in the new season might be even better than in the original world!

I wonder what Deng Daidai would think when he saw these two guys together?

It turns out that love will disappear!

Soon Lin Fei received a text message on his cell phone. He opened it and saw that it was from Ginobili:

"Lin, you should be staying in Berlin for a few more days, right? Have a meal together when you have time!"

Lin Fei quickly replied: "Of course you can, I must call Dirk when the time comes!"

Although Lin Fei completely tortured Ginobili in the Finals and even directly led to him being traded by the Spurs, the personal relationship between Ginobili and Lin Fei is still very good.

Taking a break from his busy schedule, he flew over 8000 kilometers from China to Germany. Before the World Cup finals even started, he found so many acquaintances, which made Lin Fei feel that the world was too small.

In the original world, Lin Fei had never even been to the Imperial Capital once. He dreamed of traveling around the world, but now that he has been to Asia, America, and Europe, he still doesn't feel how vast the world is.

Lin Fei just remembered that at the end of the month, Pepsi had specially sponsored his trip to the island province, and they would hold two fan meetings in Dongjing and Daban. Then he would have the opportunity to see the cherry blossoms and Mount Fuji in the island province.

According to the latest overseas reports, Lin Fei is very popular in the island province. After all, he is the first defender in Asia to play at a high level in the NBA.

In particular, many female fans from the island province regard Lin Fei as a combination of Kaede Rukawa and Hisashi Mitsui in the real world, and even call Lin Fei's girlfriend Qin Dongmei Haruko.

Teacher Cang, who has just become famous in the AV industry, also publicly stated in front of the media that he is a fan of Lin Fei.

Lin Fei couldn't laugh or cry about this, thinking that if he developed good rebounding ability in the future, would he become the "Liu Sanying" three-in-one in the eyes of female fans in his childhood?

However, Lin Fei was still very glad that he did not have a brother-in-law like Takenori Akagi.

Regarding Shima Province, the only one that Lin Fei had a favorable impression of was Slam Dunk. After all, it was also his childhood basketball enlightenment comic, and Kanagawa has always been the "holy land of basketball" that Lin Fei longed for.

But thinking about the recent discharge of sewage from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea in the original world, Lin Fei's only good impression of his small life disappeared. This kind of behavior of passing the harm to the people of the world is really quite hateful.

But in today's world, after all, the 2011 Fukushima nuclear leak has not happened yet, and sports have no borders, so this Pepsi-sponsored island provincial tour event is still going to happen.

After all, those childhood fans who simply like basketball and Lin Fei are not guilty.

Thinking of this, Lin Fei wondered if he should find a way to prevent the Fukushima nuclear leak in 2011?
After all, this is not only about the happiness of small life, but also the marine environment of human beings.

The Fukushima nuclear leak was a natural disaster as well as a man-made disaster. If we could prevent it in advance, it could still be avoided.

Of course, Lin Fei couldn't take the initiative to tell others that he was a great prophet, but it was still okay to send an anonymous letter.

The 2006 World Cup final ended tragically after a penalty shootout. It did not fluctuate much from the original script. Zidane's iron-headed skills have since become famous in the football world.

Although he retired with regret, and Kaká beside him almost cried, in Lin Fei's view, this kind of Zidane is the most real, and his career is perfect enough.

Real heroes always cherish each other. After the game, Lin Fei took a photo with Zidane under the advance arrangement of the public relations staff.

Zidane is 185cm tall, about the same height as Kaka, and not much shorter than Lin Fei.

"Lin, I watched this year's NBA Finals. Your 35 seconds and 13 minutes made me, a pseudo-fan who doesn't really like basketball, really feel the charm of basketball."

Lin Fei smiled and corrected him seriously: "Brother Qi, this is not easy to talk about. You are a big celebrity. It's not my 35 seconds and 13 minutes. It's the 35 seconds and 13 minutes of me, Dwayne and Shaquille." !”

Zidane smiled and said: "Lin, in short, you are the championship, but I only got the runner-up. In my opinion, the runner-up is the biggest loser!"

Lin Fei's damn high emotional intelligence showed again: "Brother Qi, I believe that life is always greater than sports, otherwise you wouldn't have knocked down Materazzi, right?"

Zidane's eyes flashed with light, and his affection for Lin Fei skyrocketed:

"Yes, of course I don't regret it. If you give me another chance, I will only hit harder!"

After finishing his trip to watch the World Cup finals, Lin Fei continued to return to China to participate in various activities.

News soon came out about Zhu Fangyu. The Mavericks officially signed Zhu Fangyu with a one-year basic salary contract of US$1.

This also makes Zhu Ba the fifth Chinese player to step into the NBA, and major domestic media have reported on it.

Lin Fei remembers that when he first joined the Timberwolves, his basic salary contract was only 35 US dollars, which was still unguaranteed. In just two years, his basic salary has increased to more than 50 US dollars, which is naturally due to the increase in the salary cap.

Zhu Fangyu's annual salary in CBA is 100 million Tianchao coins.

Under the current vigorous reforms of the Basketball Association and basketball management, the salary and commercial endorsements of Chinese players going to the NBA will no longer be levied at 50%, but will be reduced to 30%.

Zhu Fangyu's $52 with the Mavericks, after deducting federal taxes (Texas has no state tax), agent's commission and money given to the domestic basketball association and Guangdong Club, still leaves more than $20.

In this way, even if you are exploited at all levels, the money you get is still more than what you make playing CBA in China.

What's more, from the perspective of the coach, he will not be willing to keep receiving a basic salary. If he does not advance on the big stage of the NBA, he will retreat. Either return to the CBA and continue playing, or make a name for himself in the NBA.

Time soon came to March.

With the popularity of Dayao and Lin Fei in the NBA, the Chinese market has also received great attention from David Stern.

Now, with the efforts of many parties at home and abroad, the Tianchao Tournament will finally land on the Tianchao Mainland in early October this year.

The two NBA preseason games are also being prepared intensively in the Imperial Capital and the Magic Capital. Many domestic fans have begun to pay attention to the game information and prepare to grab tickets in advance...

After all, I have only watched NBA games on TV for so many years. Now I can go to watch a game in person and experience my own players playing with those black stars up close. It is naturally very attractive.

　I’m so stupid, my family. The 06 World Cup asked me to write it in the 05 offseason. This is very embarrassing. Let’s watch the fun. I’ll change it when I get up tomorrow...

　　
　
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