Chapter 573: The Strongest American Team Beyond Dream 1

New York, Kobe Bryant's house.

Ding ding ding ding…

The phone in the bedroom rang for a long time, and a woman turned over in a daze and picked it up.

After asking, she climbed out of bed with the phone in hand. Only then did she hear the bang bang bang bang of basketball in the backyard. Then she looked at the sexy lingerie she was wearing, and then at the clock hanging on the wall.

11:36…

Vanessa had a helpless expression on her face.

I just bought the sexy underwear, originally I wanted to give that guy a surprise and give him a sleepless night, but I didn't expect that after washing it and going to bed for a long time, I waited until I fell asleep, but the guy was still practicing in the backyard.

Hate it...it's obviously the offseason!

Vanessa opened the window and shouted to the backyard: "Honey, your phone!"

Uh-huh!

There was a sound of a hollow hitting the net from beyond the backyard.

It turned out that not only Vanessa had to wait, but Mike Krzyzewski on the phone also had to wait. I don’t know if the guy made a few more shots or because his house was too big. After a full seven or eight minutes, , Old K on the phone heard the man's voice: "Hi, Coach K."

"Did you watch the Dragon Kingdom game?" Old K asked with a smile.

"It's lackluster." Kobe breathed heavily, wiping the sweat on his forehead with a white towel. He also kissed his complaining wife and said with a smile: "Their second-tier team is no different from the 2004 Olympics. , Lin Dong did not participate, and the overall level immediately dropped by at least three levels. "

"This is not the point." Old K said: "The Dragon National Basketball Association has always attached great importance to international competitions. This time, Lin Dong was not allowed to participate. Even the boy named 'Yi' from the World Youth Championship was not here. It felt like It’s like deliberately creating a second team..."

"Don't worry, I'm not going either." Kobe said nonchalantly, "They already have Olympic tickets."

"You don't know the Dragon Country Basketball Association, they won't care about this," Old K smiled, paused, and said, "In my opinion, this is Lin Dong playing a game of chess."

"What chess?"

"I have received the news that Lin Dong has signed a contract with La Liga and will join Mobis. The condition is that La Liga open a trading channel with the CBA and allow free trade and transfer of players from both sides." Old K said: " Lin Dong is cultivating the Longguo men’s basketball team, and his goal is the 2008 Olympics.”

"Using failure to cultivate?" Kobe was not surprised by this news. As early as before this year's finals, when he went to the SuperSonics to work as a sparring partner for Lin Dong, he had already seen that Lin Dong seemed to have plans to quit the NBA and join the European League. Yes, it's just that the guy is very strict and never expresses his conclusion directly in front of you.

"Failure can inspire a lot of things." Old K said with a smile: "Besides, don't you think that guy is also hiding it on purpose?"

"He doesn't want us to see more cooperation and chemical reactions between him and the Dragon Kingdom national team. He knows that the current Dragon Kingdom national team is not ready to defeat us, but two years later..."

"The opening of the channel between the European League and the CBA will definitely give Dragon Country basketball a huge improvement. Mobius is Lin Dong's team and also has many members of the Dragon Country national team. He wants to lead this team People, defeat us in the 2008 Olympics in front of the whole world.”

"To be able to single-handedly support the progress of a country's basketball, this guy has reached an incredible level both on and off the court. He doesn't even care about so-called personal honors, or... personal honors. It’s no longer enough for him.”

"Born for basketball and dedicating everything to basketball, this guy may really be the strongest basketball god in history..." Old K said and laughed again: "This is really interesting, to be able to do it in my lifetime." Encountering such an opponent makes the basketball empire face such a challenge."

"I will study Moebius. That guy will be the target of my attention no matter where he is, and..." Kobe smiled slightly: "In the 2004 Olympics, he relied on the strength of numbers to defeat him with a group of second-rate players. ”

"I have seen his state, which may be different from the state he has reached because of responsibility. Just because of my love and persistence for basketball, I will take advantage of his absence in the past two years to become the strongest version of myself! The only regret is that I am missing Without him, the NBA will be a bit boring in the past two years.”

"Hahaha!" Old K laughed: "That's not necessarily the case, because there are more than one person with your ideas and strength."

Kobe was stunned for a moment, then laughed. He knew who Old K was talking about.

In today's NBA league, including the players under Old K in this World Championship, there must be one person who has such an idea.

The guy who has been appearing next to Lin Dong as the second-in-command since the Nike Summit, has been shouldering the heavy responsibility of confronting Lin Dong.

Although he loses every time, even though he is always robbed of the limelight by another person when fighting against Lin Dong, so that his presence is never strong, but in fact he is the other person closest to Lin Dong besides Kobe.

Dwyane Wade!

"That guy is improving very fast, and more importantly, he has his own style, which is a sign of reaching the top." Old K said: "I have talked to Wade, and he will also study Lin Dong's performance and status in Mobis, and I will be responsible for studying that team and the cooperation and mode between Lin Dong and those Longguo players."

"Although domestic fans allow Lin Dong to win the NBA championship, they will never allow Longguo to beat us in the Olympics."

"The 2008 Olympics will be our biggest challenge. If we win, we will continue our glory, and if we lose, we will be doomed. Facing an opponent like Lin Dong, no one can take it lightly!" Old K said cautiously: "Come on, man, don't underestimate the enemy and relax just because Longguo is lagging behind this time. You know, our opponent is Lin Dong!"

"Don't worry." Kobe said with a smile: "I never underestimate my opponent. No matter what Longguo is like, I am always just a challenger in front of that man, but... I will also be the strongest challenger!"

Old K smiled with relief.

What he feared most was that the Americans would take it lightly after seeing the poor performance of the Dragon National Men's Basketball Team. Then, what awaited the United States in 2008 would be doomed.

Fortunately, although the United States no longer had the strongest player on the planet, it had the strongest overall team and the most resilient players on the planet, and there was more than one.

Under the stimulation of that guy, this group of people would definitely form the strongest American team in history that surpassed Dream One, and then, in front of the whole world, they would step on the basketball god who had started planning two years in advance again!

………………

After the World Championships, the Dragon National Men's Basketball Team ushered in a wave of earth-shaking changes.

Zhu Fangyu, Sun Yue, and Wang Shipeng got tickets to La Liga. Sun Yue and Wang Shipeng had been looking forward to this for a long time, but Aoshen and Hongyuan refused to let them go. However, after the World Youth Championship, Lin Dong found foreign players to replace Aoshen and Hongyuan.

The player who went to Aoshen was Adayima from the mid-level La Liga team Valencia. He was quite strong, a little stronger than Sun Yue, but he was squeezed out by the original main point guard in Valencia and did not get enough playing time. He jumped out of the contract this summer to test the free trade market, but did not get an ideal offer. So through the new cooperation between La Liga and CBA, he joined Aoshen under the recommendation of Lin Dong.

The salary in La Liga Basketball League is relatively low, and the price offered by Aoshen made the other party very satisfied. The players got the money and the team was strengthened, which was a happy ending.

As for Guangdong Hongyuan, with the help of Lin Dong, they got Brent Barry, who had worked with Lin Dong for a season in the Supersonics. This veteran who was ranked top in the NBA, if it were not for Lin Dong's matchmaking, the subsequent ending would most likely be wandering in the league with a minimum salary.

There is no more pursuit in his career. Now that the market has expanded, the salary offered by Guangdong Hongyuan, which is rich and powerful, is far better than the minimum salary he got in the NBA. For Guangdong Hongyuan, Brent Barry is obviously a match for Zhu Fangyu and Wang Shipeng, and everyone is happy.

Moreover, in this transaction, Mobis also sent another player to Guangdong Hongyuan in reverse - He Ning, who had tried out with Lin Dong in the Sharks.

The little guy played for a period of time with Sendoh Akira in the Xia Yatu Storm. He has been a rotation substitute in Mobis for the past two years. Perhaps due to his talent, his skills have improved slowly since he went to Mobis. Although he is still competent as a fixed-point shooter on the outside and is already at the national team level, his room for improvement is very limited.

Such players will only play less and less if they are placed in a higher-level league, but returning to the CBA can help them build confidence, and maybe they can improve after breaking through their psychological limits, which is a good thing. For Guangdong Hongyuan, He Ning's current hard power is no less than Wang Shipeng, and he is a Chinese and a 3D player, plug-and-play, very convenient.

So all parties hit it off.

Sun Yue and Wang Shipeng are both very excited, but Zhu Fangyu is not very interested.

This guy didn't want to go abroad before, not because he was afraid of challenges, but because he was not used to life, and the management of domestic clubs was relatively lax. He could still go out for a barbecue and drink some beer after training in the evening, but if he was abroad... Carrying the trust of Lao Lin, the expectations of the country, the attention of the fans, and the strictness of foreign training, Zhu Fangyu felt that he might never have the leisurely days he once had.

This time he was forced to do something. First, it was difficult to give face to Lao Lin. Second, they really lost too badly in this World Championship. The boasts he used to make became tools for slapping his face. It was painful for sure.

Fortunately, he was not the only one who went to Mobisit this time. There were also Lao Lin, Sun Yue, and Wang Shipeng, who were old friends. Since they were all together, it seemed that life in a foreign country was not so difficult to accept.

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At the end of August, Marbella, Spain.

As one of the top ten cities in Spain, it is not only a famous tourist destination, but also the birthplace of the famous painter Picasso, full of prosperity and bustle.

The presence of Mobisit in the city of Marbella was very low. Even though they almost made it to the playoffs last year, they did not cause any big waves in the city.

After all, most of the players in this team are Asians. Besides, they almost made it to the playoffs, but they didn't make it, right?

But since the news of Lin Dong joining the Mobis team has been released, everything has changed.

Mobis, a team that was not a big name in Marbella, has become the new favorite of the whole city.

Not only did it cause the locals to go crazy, but even the already booming tourism industry ushered in a significant wave of growth in August.

The basketball stadium rented by Mobis has become a must-visit place for many tourists, and overseas Chinese are even more eager to come here. The entrance of the once deserted stadium is now crowded with people every day, and the surrounding hotels have also increased their prices. This is just the news of Lin Dong's transfer. If he leads Mobis to win the La Liga championship here, it is probably unimaginable how popular it will be.

In the stadium...

Bang bang bang bang, squeak squeak...

The sound of the basketball hitting the ground, mixed with the friction of the shoes on the ground, makes this stadium look lively.

Lin Dong, Zhu Fangyu and others saw an acquaintance as soon as they opened the door.

"Lin Dong-kun!" Hanagata Toru, who was wearing glasses and sitting on the training bench next to the gate, stood up and greeted him with a laugh.

Since he had known that Lin Dong would come to participate in training today, he had already looked at the gate no less than 20 times.

Hanagata Toru... It's been several years since I last saw him. The scenes when he first arrived in Shoyo a few years ago suddenly emerged in Lin Dong's mind.

I heard that this guy went to Osaka with Fujima after the winter league. What he studied was not important. What was important was that he had played basketball with Lin Dong and had won two national championships. Hanagata Toru and Fujima had already become basketball players famous throughout Japan.

The two still played together in college, and represented Osaka University in several college leagues, and were on par with Fukasawa Daiichi, who was led by Tsuchiya Jun and Ogawada at the time.

Later, Fujima and Tsuchiya Jun both turned professional, but Hanagata Toru gave up the court because he could not keep up with the high-intensity confrontation. He went behind the scenes and went to Lloyd Training Base to study nutrition and became a trainer. With his academic concentration, he created the so-called "data training" model. Although it is not suitable for some players with strong personalities, it is extremely efficient for most players who need dogmatic norms. He has even become the exclusive trainer of the Japanese National Youth Team.

In Fujima's first season in the B League, Hanagata Toru trained him specially. The two of them were very compatible. So this time when the Japanese Basketball Association sent Fujima and Tsuchiya Jun to Mobisit, Hanagata Toru also followed. The salary was paid by the Japanese Basketball Association. Of course, Mitsui Shou would give some additional subsidies...

Now, there are still many old Japanese friends who rely on Mobisit and basketball to make a living.