McDonald's Pacific Los Angeles headquarters recently invited top high school students to participate in the high school All-Star Game at the end of the month. In fact, there is only one event that is the most important, that is, the dunk contest. Other competitions are not highly concerned, and there is no high attention to the competitions in Adidas training camp. The selling point of McDonald's high school students' All-Star Weekend is the dunk contest, and only this game is broadcast nationwide.

Some invited players responded, while others refused, nothing was wrong. The legendary "strongest dunk king for high school students" Vince Carter, whom they valued the most, agreed to participate in the dunk contest, which is enough!

This dunk contest does not require much cost. In addition to including food and accommodation, it only has some basic venue expenses, staff expenses, and the bonuses of players entering the finals are much smaller than those of other commercial activities.

The invitation has been sent for several months. If you want to agree to participate, you should have replied by phone, email, letter, etc. McDonald's feels that the work of inviting players is almost done, so you can start preparing for the game next.

There are 10 days left. The All-Star Weekend for McDonald's High School Students is about to begin. Today is the deadline for submitting the participation information. There have been two days since I received new letters. The staff members who were preparing to count the list of players and submitted them to the mailbox. When they saw that there were actually two letters today.

Open it and see that Zhang Hao and Paul Pierce of Inglewood High School, who performed well in California in the past two years, are the only Chinese high school students they invited. Pierce is the best player of high school students in California this season.

Pierce was invited to sell tickets locally, and to make money by selling advertisements on live TV. Of course, it is better to sell tickets. Nowadays, information and communication technology is still very backward. After leaving Florida, not many people knew that Carter was still a high school student.

Zhang Hao can also play such a role, but McDonald's did not intend to invite a Chinese high school student to participate in the competition. This is related to business issues. When their Asia-Pacific Market Development Department learned that the Pacific headquarters will hold a high school student dunk contest this year, they strongly recommended that Zhang Hao be invited.

Although the Pacific headquarters agreed, the invitation was not as active as the Asia-Pacific Market Development Department expected, and it was far worse than communicating with Carter's family.

However, Zhang Hao responded, and the staff also added him to the person in charge of the preparations for the event.

When Zhang Hao wants to participate in the dunk contest, McDonald's is naturally happy. Even if they are not so active, Zhang Hao can agree to participate, so he can take advantage of Zhang Hao's identity as a Chinese.

There is no need to sign Zhang Hao as the spokesperson, but taking advantage of the gimmick that Zhang Hao is now the top 30 high school student in the United States, McDonald's still wants to do it very much, and it doesn't cost much money. It provides a little bonus. Zhang Hao can get it if he can get it, but if he can't get it, he can take it. This can use Zhang Hao's identity as a Chinese and promote it in China.

The competitive pressure with KFC is too great. In China, a country with a population of more than 1 billion, and with a huge catering market, McDonald's does not want to miss the opportunity to open up the market.

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Time, April 16th, another 5 days passed, and Zhang Hao's life span was only 374 days left. Tonight passed, and only 373 days left.

This pressure of seeing his lifespan decrease day by day really made him a little crazy. Fortunately, he had the memory of the future, and the feeling of "it was so happy to live" allowed him to face all this calmly and work hard to find a way to survive.

What is the way to work hard?

It's training!

If you can personally feel your increasingly stable CPI and clearly feel the progress in CPI, you can have a better plan to "survive".

After sending the letter, Zhang Hao has been training for the past few days. Compared to the previous practice, he has been practicing for a long time before he can feel the progress. The progress these days have made Zhang Hao very excited every day.

In just 5 days, the CNY ability value has increased from 75 to 79! Zhang Hao regards it as good as 70 to 79. If 90-94 is the top, then 85-89 should be the first-class level, and 80-84 is the excellent level! The CNY level of the NBA level is close to you!

Not only is the evaluation improving, but he can also feel the improvement in his shooting accuracy. Compared with the previous speed of progress, it can now be described as changing with each passing day.

Zhang Hao got up and went to the small living room outside the bedroom. The apartment was a bit old, but it was quite large, with more than 40 square meters, with a small living room and a bathroom. Zhang Hao, who had just woken up, saw a fat man playing with computer in his living room.

Not only does this broken computer, the internet speed is amazing, and the configuration is also poor... This is viewed from Zhang Hao's future perspective.

For Pierce, this is a baby!

Pierce's mother was the dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Kansas, the head coach of the basketball team, and confirmed that Pierce would attend the University of Kansas, and she didn't care much about Pierce's study.

Since Pierce was admitted to college and was studying nursing majors that would be easy to find a job in the future, Pierce's mother was very satisfied with this. Her three sons were admitted to college and received full scholarships. As for whether Pierce could become a professional athlete like her second brother, Pierce's mother looked quite indifferent... mainly because of Pierce's fat little boy. She really didn't think Pierce could eventually become a professional player like her second son. Perhaps she would be as talented as her eldest son, but she would eventually lose the opportunity to become a professional player because of her lack of self-discipline in diet. So Pierce now plays games every day. Her mother said that she could just play games when she got into college...

The computer belongs to Zhang Hao. When he first came to study in the United States, his family still had money, so he helped him buy a lot of things, including computers, pagers, etc., and he was almost buying a big brother. The latest game software was basically bought by Pierce for his mother to clean the corridors, move things, and other labor. The two of them took turns playing.

In the past, Zhang Hao liked to play games, but now Zhang Hao is not interested in these games. The picture quality and screen mosaics are not enough to describe their inferiority... He is interested in Red Alert and CS, StarCraft, Warcraft 2, Diablo 2... and so on. Those games can be said to have completely changed the entire game era.

Zhang Hao watched Pierce play the second part of the interstellar universe exploration machine war game "Elite", and Pierce was just talking nonsense. Usually, this is the case. When Zhang Hao played, he rarely spoke. Pierce said on the side that Pierce had no feeling of something wrong at all, but he was confused about why he had been playing for so long today? In the past, if there was no training, the two of them would rush to play.

Today, there are competitions between juniors and Southern California high schools, which are held in their school and they need to use the training ground, and Zhang Hao is also preparing to take a day off.

But let alone, Zhang Hao also thinks it is interesting to watch Pierce play, mainly because the game is interesting. Although the current game is not as good as the future, it is better because of its high plot and playability... The most important thing is that it is the game. It is fun if someone plays it together, even if it is played alone and watched alone.

At noon, I felt hungry. Zhang Hao and Pierce said hello, went out to buy three pizzas and came back to eat together.

After coming to the United States, Zhang Hao found pizza, hamburgers, fried chicken nuggets, which mean the same as domestic Shaxian snacks.

But in the same way, he saw that there was a 5-US dollar bun in the United States... The taste was very strange. This was not important. The pizza in the United States was quite different from domestic pizza. However, some very cheap Chinese foods in China were so expensive that they were dying in the United States, and some of the shapes were very different. He and Pierce went to eat a big bun priced at $12, which needed to be cut with a knife and fork.

When he went to the next block to buy pizza, Zhang Hao's eyes lit up when he saw a letter in his email! Has there been a new school reply?

I took it out and saw it, and was a little disappointed, with a reply letter from Adidas and McDonald's.

However, Adidas' reply was one, while McDonald's reply was two!

"Is this fat guy really involved in the dunk contest?"

Zhang Hao thought of Pierce dunks in high school for a total of 3 times... He is loyal!

If Pierce dunks first and Zhang Hao dunks again, then in comparison, maybe he can really get a full-score dunk.

Just as Zhang Hao opened the reply to Adidas Training Camp, the subtitle prompt came again.

"Special signing player: Zhang Hao, has successfully signed up for Adidas 1995 summer high school students basketball training camp, congratulations on the increase in the lifespan of the host for 15 days.

Special signing player: Zhang Hao, has successfully signed up for the McDonald's High School Student All-Star Dunk Contest, congratulations to the host's remaining life span for 15 days.

The remaining life span is 404 days, and the available life span is 403 days."

Looking at the specific information on the letter, where, check-in at the hotel, etc., Zhang Hao was very excited - Sure enough! A special contracted player, that is, he who participated in an important event himself, may receive a reward!

The main purpose of his participation in these two events is to get rewards. He is actually not optimistic about the final result, but he can get rewards by participating. Why not?

However, I didn’t expect that the Adidas training camp that I took the initiative to participate in would also be rewarded, but this also made Zhang Hao’s alternative plan more feasible - if it really doesn’t work, play low-level leagues or organized street events.

Pierce participated in the ABCD training camp of Adidas last year. This is a similar promotional event competition for Adidas to compete with Nike in the basketball shoe market, but the competition level is the highest in the training camp of major sports brands.

Generally speaking, there are no high school players participating in this competition. Most of the talented high school players have been divided up by major universities at this time, so usually players who can be shortlisted for the top 100 high school students in the United States in the second and third year of high school. The last high school All-Star players will basically be able to enter the NCAA first-level league team in the future.

Zhang Hao is obviously an exception. He received this invitation this year, largely because there are many Chinese people in the venue.

Zhang Hao felt that he had to work hard and try to see if he could get the recognition of a college coach. Just like Coach Scott Collins of Inglewood High School, he took a fancy to his ability and talent and selected him.

The power of university coaches is very great. In terms of scholarship arrangements and player selection, the head coach has a high voice.

But when thinking about university... Zhang Hao still had a headache. He sent his competition videos and resumes to 22 first-level league universities, but so far, only 9 universities have responded.

Most of the universities that responded were attracted by his SAT scores. Zhang Hao estimated that if he did not apply for a university with the purpose of basketball scholarship, he would simply apply for a university with his grades, those schools would be much more enthusiastic.

After returning to the bedroom with three letters, Zhang Hao gave Pierce the letter to Pierce and opened his reply to the McDonald's high school student All-Star Dunk Contest.

Adidas Training Camp is held in San Francisco this year, and McDonald's High School All-Star Weekend is held in Los Angeles.

On the McDonald's All-Star Weekend, the 24th went to the designated hotel to report that the No. 25-26th were competition selections, and the preliminaries of the slam dunk contest were also included. McDonald's high school All-Stars were held in accordance with the NBA All-Star rules, but there were selections. The first two days ago, the 27th was the high school All-Star game, and the 28th was the three-point contest and the slam dunk contest.

The most important and the only one that has the national live broadcast is the Dunk Contest. The previous three-point competition also had the national live broadcast opportunity because of the slam dunk Contest, but I guess not many people are paying attention.

In terms of All-Star Games, Zhang Hao did not receive an invitation, but in the past few days, Zhang Hao learned about this All-Star Game and found that this high school student's All-Star Game is very weird. He is a state league champion team in the East and West. Experts select one player in the state championship high schools divided into the East or West. Sometimes the best players do not have the chance to participate.

Pierce also received the invitation, but refused because it was unnecessary.

Adidas training camp is different, and Zhang Hao is an exception. Most of the other players are senior high school students. First, they start a one-week training camp. During this period, some competition selections must be held in various ways, and finally the All-Star lineup will be decided. At the node between the NBA regular season playoffs, seize the time and play an event that imitates the NBA All-Star. The two teams are composed of high school students from the East and West.

After Zhang Hao followed this event, he saw the promotional poster of Adidas High School basketball training camp. The cover player used for promotion was Kevin Garnett, the best high school student in the United States at Farragu High School... After Zhang Hao deliberately paid attention to Garnett, he learned why this guy didn't go to college and went directly to the NBA. His grades were so bad. What kind of enthusiasm for learning can make a high school student only get more than 300 points in the SAT exam?

There was an ACT exam at the end of April and a Sat exam in early May. Garnett, a household with difficulties in the exam, didn't study hard and tried to get into college, and even came to participate in this competition. Perhaps he never thought about going to college... he didn't have the chance to enter.

Adidas training camp is not live, but it is more popular compared to McDonald's training camp and All-Star Game! The MVP of this event ended up almost all entered the NBA. The 18-man roster of the final game of this event, almost every session entered the NCAA Division I team.

The McDonald's high school senior all-star game is almost like a formality. The dunk contest only depends on physical fitness and dunk creativity. The final game of Adidas training camp is really about technology and basketball talent.

While Pierce was eating pizza, Zhang Hao used his computer to search for detailed information about the competition at Adidas Training Camp.

I have to be very patient in using computers these days...

"Oh!"

Zhang Hao looked at the contest list and quickly found the names of some familiar people. It was not that they were familiar with each other, but that he knew those people.

Garnett, Kobe, Hamilton, Bibby, Jermaine O'Neal... But most people still don't know each other, more than 100 people.

Zhang Hao thought of his improvement in mid-range shooting... He originally had no expectations for Adidas training camp, but now he has it. What he is good at is running and receiving and shooting. If there is a teammate who has better passes and makes the relationship better, he might be able to make it into the final 18-man roster?

The probability of joining the NCAA First-level League school team will increase greatly!

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Chapter completed!