"Karl, are you really unwilling to play for another year?"

"No, I'm tired. If possible, I want my statue to be erected with John. I don't want to do it again."

"Okay, I understand, and I respect your choice."

"I promised John that I will come to help you guide your rookies next season and be a trainer to get a championship ring. Although I don't have a name, it's not bad."

"That's great..."

"..."

"..."

After chatting for a while and hanging up the phone with Ma Long, Liu Mang sighed.

Ma Long may have problems in his private life, his personality is not very good, and his character is hard to say... Well... When Liu Mang thought about this, he seemed to think that apart from being a good player, Ma Long had nothing worthy of praise...

However, one of Ma Long's strengths is his emphasis on emotions.

Because Stockton won the championship, Jazz fans were ecstatic. When Stockton proposed to erect a statue with Malone, Jazz fans did not object. The Jazz management was originally prepared.

Well, after Malone retires, retire his jersey and erect a statue. What Malone hurt is the feelings of Jazz fans. There is no problem with Sloan and the Jazz management. The fans don't object. They went along with the flow and retired the statues of the two.

.

According to Malone, he is negotiating with the Hawks management to become part of the training staff to guide the Hawks players in pick-and-roll training, as well as work with Stockton to guide the Hawks players on how to maintain health and condition.

Malone chose to join forces with Stockton again, but retreated from the court to the sidelines.

Liu Mang sighed, the human situation is like this. If Malone came to the Hawks last season, the Hawks would not have received Rasheed Wallace, the Pistons would not have selected Bosh, and Milicic would not have

With such a good opportunity, Carter will continue to sink in the Raptors and will not be able to experience the taste and pain of the Eastern Conference Finals...

It will be more difficult for the Hawks to play against the Pistons. If they can reach the finals, they may not face the Lakers but the Spurs.

Of course, facing the Spurs, maybe because of Malone, it will be easy... Malone will not be without a championship, but will work with Stockton to win the championship and retire...

However, everything is already like this. After 18 years of cooperation between the two evil spirits, it is a pity that only one of them won the championship.

…

After sighing for a while, Liu Mang said to his agent: "Jeff, please inform the management. Carl is not coming. I can renew my contract. You can go and negotiate. The maximum is 4+1 player options."

"OK, I'm going to participate in the national team training tomorrow. Let's take a good rest today. I'm too tired from this period of activities." Schwarz didn't have any objections to signing for four years. After completing his seven-year career, Liu Mang

You can trigger the designated veteran clause and sign the largest contract. NBA revenue has been increasing year after year, and the starting salary will be higher and higher. Before the veteran clause is met, Liu Mang signed a short-term contract, which is the best choice.

This choice of Liu Mang is the same as the choice of the future generation 03, except that Liu Mang has only played three seasons now. The generation 03 signed a second contract after playing 4 seasons, so Liu Mang’s contract is the longest he is willing to

Signed for 5 years.

Schwartz reminded Liu Mang that he worked too hard. This year, Liu Mang will participate in the national team competition, which is an opportunity for Liu Mang to further accumulate popularity in the country. Schwartz did not even care about the rookies in the summer league. He was with Liu Mang throughout the whole process.

After being together with Mang, I realized why the Eagles coaching staff complained that Liu Mang trained too much.

He is simply a desperate Saburo!

Training resumed on the evening of July 1st, which is June 30th in China. On July 2nd, I left to return to China with my three girls at home. Due to the time difference, I happened to arrive home on July 2nd in China and stayed one night, Beijing time.

I left for Shanghai on the 3rd, met with James, and started promotional activities. There was a break between promotional activities, and I didn’t forget to train...

During his first trip to China, James came to enjoy the cheers.

After his rookie season, James' popularity in the United States was already extremely high. Because the league mainly promoted his confrontation with Liu Mang, while Kobe's popularity declined due to personal reasons, and Carter's popularity declined due to aesthetic fatigue and failure in the slam dunk contest, James,

Liu Mang, Iverson, and Tracy McGrady have become the four most popular players.

James, who was a bit arrogant, thought that he was also very popular in other countries. When Nike asked him to follow Liu Mang as a deputy coffee star, he was still dissatisfied. Wasn't it just a dollar short of endorsement fee?

As a result, when I arrived at Shanghai Station, I found that everyone was here to see Liu Mang. During an event, tens of thousands of people crowded in the streets outside the square. Fortunately, Nike and the Shanghai municipal department had been prepared early, so nothing happened...

…

And James sadly discovered that there were people who knew him but didn't pay much attention to his existence. They all came to see Liu Mang...

As a double MVP and a native of his own country, fans naturally focus on Liu Mang.

James is very strong, but he is just a rookie.

It's just Shanghai Station. James heard that this is near his hometown, and thought it was because of this. But when he went to Beijing, Chengdu, Wuhan... the further away from the coastal cities in the inland cities, the fewer people paid attention to him as a rookie...

The sad and angry James vowed that one day he would kill Liu Mang in the playoffs! Then he went to work as a sparring partner during Liu Mang's training...

After hearing Schwartz's suggestion, Liu Mang smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. The one thing I am better than everyone else is my physical fitness. This is the only advantage. By the way, Jeff, how did the voting for our group nickname go?

"

Before returning to China, Liu Mang asked Schwartz and Chaoting TV to jointly organize an event to give the Eagles' stars nicknames according to their combinations. The collection was collected online and through text messages from Chaoting Sports Channel, starting on July 1.

There are three days of collection time and seven days of voting time. Today is July 10th. It has ended at 12 noon. The announced time will be after Liu Mang joins the national training team, but the nicknames with the most votes will be announced.

Schwartz already knew the name, but Liu Mang would start on the 3rd with four stops in China, one in the island country, and one in Singapore for a total of six promotions. He also had to keep training and had no time to worry about this.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Here, Ace, please take your time and read. I'm going to contact the Eagles management first. Have a good rest today. Let's go to the Basketball Management Center together tomorrow."

"OK."

Liu Mang opened the folder left by Schwartz, and there was only a piece of paper inside.

Liu Mang saw the combination of himself and Jason Terry, the combination of himself and Tracy McGrady, the combination of Jason Terry and Tracy McGrady, himself and Rasheed Wallace... Various nicknames for the duo, some

Nicknames with discordant characters were directly kicked out of the candidate list. These nicknames were quite harmonious.

But, why is it a bit earthy?

The combination of Liu Mang and Jason Terry ranked first, a combination of six brothers.

Two people called six brothers?

The nickname of the combination of Jason Terry and McGrady was called the Fake Girl Group. It took Liu Mang a long time to realize that it was because McGrady's name was Tracy, which is a girl's name.

Fortunately, Liu Mang and McGrady’s combination, Maimang, is taken from Needlepoint to Maimang, which is also a combination of their names and their Chinese translations.

The combination of Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace is also good, called the Ice Emperor combination. Liu Mang's English name is Bing, and Tianzun means emperor in it.

But every time when it comes to Tracy McGrady, the style of painting begins to deviate. The number one nickname for the combination of Tracy McGrady and Rasheed Wallace is probably given by Sichuan people, called Spice Girls...

Liu Mang saw that his nickname was generally okay. Fortunately, it didn't deceive him, but it seemed to have deceived McGrady! When McGrady competed for the scoring title in the past two years, he had already accumulated a lot of popularity in China.

, that’s why it’s so popular.

Liu Mang hesitated for a moment, he couldn't let McGrady not know about this! They were all brothers and couldn't hide it from McGrady, so Liu Mang gave the English translations of these nicknames and the reasons Liu Mang guessed, and had the highest

The data of a single online vote with over 150,000 votes and the data of more than 70,000 paid votes of the Imperial Sports Channel were integrated into an Excel list. I sent an email to Tracy McGrady...

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On July 11, Liu Mang officially joined the national team!

Wei Yuanli, the director of the Basketball Management Center, brought Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming, Battelle, Guo Shiqiang and other veterans who would definitely be selected for the national team to support Liu Mang.

With Yao Ming taking the lead to support, Liu Mang has the title of double MVP of the NBA, and Schwartz, an agent who has been dealing with the problem of Wang Zhizhi with the Chinese Blues Association for a long time and has enough experience to get along with the Chinese Blues Association, joins the national team.

Liu Mang didn't worry about anything.

Liu Mang only needs to be responsible for playing basketball. This kind of performance of not causing trouble and not being a big name also made Wei Yuanli relieved. Unlike Cheng Lanxin who develops CBA to generate revenue, Wei Yuanli pays more attention to political achievements and takes office.

The original schedule of the CBA, which was originally increased by Cheng Lanxin, was cut in half, and the national team's record was put first, regardless of income. Anyway, the country is supporting...

With the core combination of Liu Mang and Yao Ming, high-quality role players like Wang Zhizhi who have established a foothold in the NBA, and Battelle, a player with NBA experience, the main lineup of the men's basketball team is still composed of the older generation of Bayi Dynasty and Yao Ming.

The composition of players from teams such as the Shanghai Sharks is very different from the group of guys who will make a lot of money and still drink beer and smoke cigarettes the night before the big game. When you know that you are going to play with such a core lineup,

I have been so excited for a long time that I don’t want to give up. When I make less money, there is an advantage of making less money, that is, everything is for honor!

The addition of Liu Mang will inevitably occupy a position in the 12-man roster, but the older generation will almost certainly be selected into the 12-man roster and the 3-man reserve list, as well as the national team veterans who have been squeezed from the 12-man roster to the reserve list.

No dissatisfaction, the Olympic waiting list is different from the NBA inactive list. This list is a list of people who can be substituted from the submitted 12-man roster before the deadline stipulated before the Olympics. After the deadline, the people on the waiting list will be replaced.

If you miss the Olympics, even if someone is injured, you can only play with the remaining people. In international competitions, you can really play one against five. As long as there are people on one side, you must finish the game...

Moreover, the training attitude of this older generation of players is completely different from what Liu Mang imagined. In the morning, the Basketball Association announced the 21-man training list. In the afternoon, Liu Mang was attracted by a group of seniors who were born before 1975 and wanted to see Liu Mang's strength.

Pulled to the training ground...

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"Ace, come on, let's have some fun." Li Nan hugged Liu Mangde's shoulder enthusiastically.

"Well, okay, what do you want to practice?" Liu Mang did not refuse.

"Let's compare one to three points! I may not be as good as you in other aspects, but I'm still a little confident with three points. Big pig, you can do it too." Li Nan said with a smile.

When Zhu Fangyu heard the nickname Big Pig, he expressed despair! He wanted to ask Liu Mang for his autograph but was too embarrassed to ask.

"Okay." Liu Mang didn't say much.

Originally, Li Nan was worried about Liu Mang playing a big name. After all, although Liu Mang is very popular, his reputation is very average. He is a lustful person, a shameless person, arrogant and domineering... these are all Liu Mang's labels.

But Liu Mang didn't have any airs, and he didn't steal the spotlight during the press conference. After the press conference in the morning, he had lunch, and when he asked Liu Mang to go to training with him, Liu Mang didn't refuse, and he didn't mean to act like a big star. Li Nan

His impression of Liu Mang suddenly improved.
To be continued...