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Chapter 7 Simple Conditions

In desperation, Johnny directly told Tianyang that joining the Sequoia team would lead to a lot of beauties. It sounded exaggerated and ridiculous, but it was true. It is normal for NCAA basketball teams to use beauties to lure players to join.

If we say that the plot of two beauties revealing a white rabbit to seduce Ray Allen in "Single Out" is an artistic creation, but Charles Barkley once said it himself:
"When Auburn University recruited me, it took me to a strip club, and when I saw the women, I knew Auburn was the academic fit for me."

Even if there are no strippers, as long as they can become the star of the school team and lead the school team to stand out in the "March Madness", the beauties will line up for dating.

Once, a classmate of 'Zhuangshen' Drummond broke the news on an online forum, and often saw beauties from the school waiting in line outside Zhuangshen's dormitory.

What he said was very clear, even a little vulgar, but Tianyang's eyes flickered, as if hesitating.

"Personally, I am very optimistic about you. As long as you come to the Sequoia team, you can also fight for scholarships. Although you will graduate soon, you can study for a doctorate or continue your studies. Do you understand?"

Seeing that Tianyang was not excited, Johnny threw out the second condition, that is, besides the temptation of beautiful women, they used another common method of recruiting players-money bribes.

As early as 1997, the "Detroit Free Press" disclosed that Ed Martin, the sponsor of the University of Michigan basketball team, had bribed and solicited famous high school players.

Among the players who have accepted bribes from Martin, the biggest player is Chris Webber, the No. 93 pick in 28. He has received $[-] from Martin.

Although scholarships and such are not considered bribes, they are still wasted money. With the addition of beautiful women, all the conditions are already on the table, and we are waiting for Tianyang to make a decision, but he said suddenly: "What do you like about me?"

"I think you have the potential to become an NBA player. Your three-pointers are good, and your off-ball movement, shot selection, and shooting posture are all at the NBA rookie level..."

Johnny was ready to brag, but Tianyang raised his hand to interrupt him, and asked as if confirming: "You mean, seeing that I have a good three-pointer, you invited me to join the school team?" ?"

"It can be said that you still have the same mentality as Kobe..."

"Stop talking, I'll join!"

The sudden agreement caught Johnny, who was about to brag, by surprise. He stopped and waited for Tianyang's next words.

"Two weeks ago, I was told that I couldn't join the varsity team by practicing too much shooting. Now that you've given me an opportunity, why don't I join the Sequoia to prove that's wrong?"

"That man is blind, don't worry about it, Blunt, we made it"

It was much easier than expected to finally confirm Tianyang's promise. Johnny excitedly embraced Blount to celebrate, and the sound of their high-fives attracted the attention of Tusk and others.

Tasker approached the three of them and asked, "What's happy about it? Say it and make us happy too?".

Tianyang turned around and said, "This is Mr. Johnny Dawkins, the head coach of the Stanford Sequoia team. He invited me to join the Sequoia team and represent Stanford in the NCAA basketball game..."

As soon as this remark came out, Barr and Cui Ren opened their mouths wide in surprise, Tusker roared with fists, Aaron shouted YES loudly, and Plum immediately hugged Tianyang and spun around.

The excitement of several people is completely understandable, because in the United States, basketball fans pay more attention to NCAA games than the NBA. The annual "March Madness" can be said to be the participation of the whole people.

Just in 15, excluding social media such as Twitter and INS, Facebook alone had 3.5 million statements about "March Madness", and 6000 million people participated in gambling.

And, the "stock god" Buffett and Cavaliers owner Gilbert held a "perfect prediction" competition, and they promised to reward those who predicted the correct results of all competitions with 10 billion US dollars.

The reason is that the match-up and single-elimination format of "March Madness" filled the game with suspense and allowed the strong sports culture of American universities to be fully released.

For example, after the University of Connecticut unexpectedly won Michigan State University and reached the Final Four in 14, all the students rushed out of the dormitory and gathered in the square in front of the stadium to celebrate, and the Empire State Building in New York lit up blue lights at night to show their support.

After the University of Connecticut men's basketball team won the championship, on the day of returning to school, the 40 kilometers from the airport to the school road were full of local residents who came to welcome them, forcing the school team bus to be cleared by police cars.

Plum didn’t go to college, Choi just graduated, and Tusk and Kareem went to college a long time ago, but they’re both from Palo Alto, where Stanford is located.

"March Madness, haha, I will definitely go to watch you play at that time!" Tusker was still very excited after a long commotion.

"Well, we have to enter the playoffs first, then stand out in the Pacific [-], and finally enter the March Madness competition," Johnny explained with a smile.

"With Tianyang here, will it be difficult to enter March Madness?" Tusk spread his hands and shrugged.

"All the schools in the Pac-3 conference are very strong this year. UC Berkeley has Jaylen Brown, Washington State University has Dejounte Murray and Marquese Chriss. The draft website predicts that they can enter the NBA. Among them, Jay Len-Brown is even considered to have the potential of the top [-], his position is the same as Tianyang, he is a shooting guard!"

When Johnny said this, the excitement of the King's Road plummeted. The top 3 in the NBA draft is not a joke. What if Tianyang was blown up?

Seeing that the air suddenly became quiet, Tianyang quickly smiled and said: "Haha, it's okay, I just want to play a few games in the school team, and be blown away by the top three rookies in the future, am I ashamed? I don't think it's ashamed!"

"It's good if you can think like this. I said this just to explain to him. Basketball is a team sport. Didn't Kansas, which had the No. [-] pick last year, be eliminated early? Let's work hard together."

"But I have one condition, I don't want what you just said." Tianyang changed the subject.

"Oh? What conditions do you have?" Johnny looked at the others warily, implying not to speak publicly.

"It's okay." Tianyang waved his hand, "I just need the school's website or other media to report on my joining the school team."

"It's that simple?" Johnny wondered.

"Yes, it's that simple, I want her to know that I'm on the school team!"

(End of this chapter)