God of NBA point guards

Chapter 182 Shooting to Death
After dismissing the reporter, Zhou Quan saw Zhang Lili who was waving to him not far away, and went over with a little surprise: "Brother Zhang, you came to Detroit, why don't you sell beer in Los Angeles?

You don’t even say hello to me when you come over, what are you doing with your own money to buy tickets? This is my home stadium, and I still have the ability to prepare tickets for you. "

He looked at Liu Yumin, feeling a little familiar, his memory is 95, and he immediately remembered, the last time he was at the Capital Airport, just when the Olympic delegation was leaving, he met Liu Yumin, and the men's and women's basketball teams happened to pass by, so I have a little impression of Liu Yumin.

Zhang Lili quickly introduced: "Director Liu, I just came from China, I told you last time."

"Oh……"

Zhou Quan said: "So it's Director Liu, hello, hello."

"Hi Zhou Quan, I came in a hurry, so I'm sorry to bother you." Liu Yumin said politely, and extended his hand.

"Don't bother, you're welcome."

Zhou Quan smiled and asked: "Liu Chu, Brother Zhang, are you here today for something?"

Zhang Lili said: "I'll say hello to you today, go get busy, we'll find you tomorrow. By the way, are you going away tomorrow?"

Zhou Quan said: "It's an away game, but it will be on the 4th of next month. I'm free these few days."

"Okay, then I will look for you with Liu Chu tomorrow." Zhang Lili said.

"Row."

Zhou Quan nodded and asked again: "When did you arrive? Are you staying in a hotel?"

"Come from Los Angeles and arrive in Detroit at three o'clock in the afternoon. We live in the Welsh Motel in the eastern suburbs." Zhang Lili said.

"Why live there? It's not safe for you two Chinese to live there."

Zhou Quan didn't know what Welsh Hotel was, but the environment of the motel was definitely not good, so he hurriedly said, "Well, I'll arrange a hotel for you, wait for me, and I'll ask for leave."

After he finished speaking, he turned and walked towards Chuck Daly.

His family does have a place to live, several rooms, but he is used to living alone, and Liu Chu is a woman, so it is not convenient.

Liu Yumin said anxiously: "Old Zhang, I'm embarrassed to say, you asked Zhou Quan to find us a cheap hotel, but I didn't bring much money, and I have to buy a plane ticket for the return trip."

Of course Zhang Lili knew the domestic situation, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Liu Chu, the money for a few hotel stays is nothing to him, Xiao Zhou can't let us pay for it ourselves."

"How embarrassing is that?" Liu Yumin said awkwardly.

"It's okay. No matter what we say, he is a guest from afar. One day he will go to the capital. As a landlord, we can entertain him again." Zhang Lili said.

"That's fine." Liu Yumin nodded.

Zhou Quan came back soon and said, "Wait for me first, I'll take a shower, and then I'll leave."

Half an hour later, Zhou Quan drove his pickup truck to the eastern suburbs, and Zhang and Liu's luggage was still in the motel.

It took more than an hour and arrived at the Welsh motel in the eastern suburbs after midnight.

The hotel is next to the road. The area is not developed, and the surrounding area is very desolate. There is a large open space in front of the hotel. There is a dim lamp hanging on a wooden pole several meters high, and a few broken cars are parked below.

Zhou Quan sat in the car, Zhang Lili and Liu Yumin went to get the luggage, but after 1 minute, the two of them were kicked out by the boss.

"Get out! Get out of here immediately!" The boss yelled at the two of them with a rifle in hand.

"Calm down, we're leaving."

Zhang Lili was still experienced, so he pulled Liu Yumin back more than once.

Liu Yumin's face was grim and pale.

This was her first time in the United States, and she had seen it. Sure enough, it was reasonable for Zhou Quan not to let her live here with Lao Zhang.

This damn boss not only drove them away, but also swallowed her and Lao Zhang's luggage, and even drove them away just for the luggage.

Fortunately, she carried all the dollars she had with her, so if the boss swallowed them, it would be a big loss.

Zhou Quan found that something was wrong, but he didn't get out of the car. There was no gun in his car. In this case, there was no need to take the risk of arguing with that guy. Instead, he immediately opened the door of the passenger cab and urged: "First Get in the car, let's leave first."

After getting into the car, the three quickly left the hotel.

Zhang Lili smiled wryly and said: "The boss must have done it on purpose. He saw that we are Chinese, so he wanted our luggage. Liu Chu, do you have anything important?"

Liu Yumin said with an ugly expression, "Fortunately, it's just a change of clothes. I take the money with me. But my passport is in the suitcase."

"My passport is also inside. Xiao Zhou, please call the police. You can lose your clothes, but we have to get our passports back." Zhang Lili said.

"Wait a minute, I'll take care of it."

After driving for a kilometer, Zhou Quan parked the car on the side of the road, picked up his mobile phone and started calling Troy Weaver.

"Hey, Iron Fist, what's the matter?" Troy Weaver asked in a serious tone.

He had just returned home and was about to take a shower and go to bed. When he saw Zhou Quan's call, it was definitely not a good thing at such a late hour, so he raised his heart. It must not be bad news, such as a car accident or something.

"Troy, two friends and I are in the eastern suburbs. We were threatened with a gun by the boss at a motel called Wales. We were almost shot. Our luggage was also robbed. Now we need help," Zhou Quan said.

"Damn!"

Weaver's drowsiness flew away in an instant, and he quickly began to put on his clothes, while asking loudly: "Iron Fist, are you okay?"

"I'm fine. We left that hotel now and parked on the side of the road." Zhou Quan said.

Weaver breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly said: "OKOK, then you leave there immediately, and I will handle the next thing. You leave immediately and go home. Don't park on the side of the road, it's not safe there."

"Okay, I'll leave right away. But you have to get my friend's luggage back for me. There are their passports in it." Zhou Quan said.

"I promise nothing will be lost. In Detroit, no one can rob your friends, not even the police."

Weaver said in a very positive tone.

"OK."

Zhou Quan hung up the phone, and then said to the two: "Chu Liu, Brother Zhang, let's go to the hotel now, someone will get your luggage back."

"Okay." The two said in succession.

Zhou Quan drove the car to the southern suburb where he lived. This is a rich area with good law and order. There are police and security personnel patrolling at night.

He opened two rooms in a hotel in the community, and he went home to rest after settling the two of them.

At this time, the owner of Welsh Motel, Welsh, was picking up the luggage of Zhang Lili and Liu Yumin to see what he could gain.

The timid Chinese have money, and they dare not resist, and even dare not call the police when they suffer a loss. This is the reason for what he did just now.

But when he opened it expectantly, he couldn't help yelling, there was nothing, except for two passports, only a few rags, and he didn't get any benefits.

But at this moment, there were piercing sirens outside, and there were many of them. He opened the door with his rifle in his hand and saw police cars coming in one after another, and there were many more behind them, no less than twenty.

And after getting out of the car, many policemen hid behind the car or behind the door, took out pistols, and even long guns, and pointed their guns at him.

"Damn it, what happened? Could it be that serious criminals live in my store?" He was a little confused by such a big battle.

"We are the Detroit police. Someone reported a robbery with a gun here. I order you now, put down all weapons immediately, put down all weapons immediately, and then kneel with your hands on your head. Remind you again..."

A policeman shouted with a loudspeaker.

"I?"

Wales woke up with a start, and wanted to put his hands up his head, but forgot the rifle in his hand.

"Bah ah ah..."

Intensive gunfire sounded immediately.

I don’t know how many shots were fired. So many police officers fired at least 100 shots. Some of them moved quickly and changed their magazines. Intensively concentrated, the number is not clear at all.

Some people staying in the hotel also nestled in their beds and dared not say a word. They didn't know what happened, but the gunshots were so dense that they were afraid of being shot to death by random guns and trembling.

After a while, Zhou Quan received a call from Weaver at home, telling him that the matter had been resolved, and the police took back the luggage of his two friends, and the things would be delivered at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, so that he could rest at ease.

At eight o'clock in the morning on the 30th, the NBA announced the player of the month and the MVP rankings for November.

Michael Jordan won the best of the month in the first month, but he lost the first place in the MVP list and was taken away by Barkley.

The Pistons had 11 wins and 8 losses in November, with a winning percentage of 4%, ranking third in the Eastern Conference, followed by the Bulls and the Knicks, who performed very well this season.

With his record rebounding and his personal performance being excellent, Zhou Quan returned to the top five of the MVP rankings, ranking fifth.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Zhou Quan received Weaver and the chief of the East Detroit Police Department at home. In addition to luggage, he also had some cash, a total of 620 dollars.

Weaver said: "Iron Fist, I don't know how much money your friend lost. The boss was killed by the police, and only these cash were found at the scene. Look?"

"Done?"

The corners of his eyes twitched, and he said hastily, "Forget the cash, my two friends don't have any money in their luggage. Besides, Director Jackson, I want to express my gratitude to your police..."

After seeing off Weaver and the branch chief, he came to the hotel with his luggage and handed them over to Liu Yumin and Zhang Lili.

"The boss was killed by the police and shot at least dozens of times," he said casually.

"what?"

Liu Yumin was stunned.

Zhang Lili, on the other hand, was not surprised, and said: "In the United States, the police have great power. If they don't cooperate with law enforcement, they may shoot directly. But he was shot at dozens of shots. Did he shoot at the police?"

"I don't know, I'm too lazy to ask for details."

He shook his head and asked casually: "Brother Zhang, Chu Liu, have you had breakfast?"

"Eat, I just asked Liu Chu to go out to eat a burger, but Liu Chu rushed to pay the money, haha!" Zhang Lili laughed.

"It's almost ten o'clock, let me invite you to have a cup of coffee."

When they came to the hotel's coffee shop, they ordered three cups of coffee and some snacks, and the three chatted.

Zhang Lili really hoped that Zhou Quan would join the national team. After chatting for a few words about last night's game, he got to the point and said:
"Xiao Zhou, Liu Chu has two purposes for coming to the United States this time. One is to inspect American basketball, especially to see the situation in the NBA. We lost so badly in the last Olympic Games. The other is to come and see you. She wants you to join the national team."

Zhou Quan thought for a while and said, "Chu Liu, it's easy to talk about investigating the NBA. I can first introduce you to the management of the Pistons.

But in your capacity, I think you can contact NBA officials directly. Mr. David Stern has always wanted to develop our domestic market. I think he will welcome you very much. "

"I think it's okay." Zhang Lili nodded.

"That's fine too."

Nodding, Liu Yumin thought for a while and said, "For some reasons, the number of basketball players in China is shrinking day by day, and the total number of people in the whole country is only tens of thousands. Many provincial teams have been abolished. Now I hope to create a professional league in China and learn some NBA experience and system.”

"That's okay, I'll contact the management of the Pistons first, and then they will notify the league." Zhou Quan said.

"Xiao Zhou, put this aside for now, what about you joining the national team?" Zhang Lili asked.

Zhou Quan said: "Well, of course I want to join the national team, both public and private, who doesn't want to participate in the Olympics?

But there are some questions I want to know first, such as joining the national team, which competitions do I need to participate in?Will it affect the NBA?

I am different from domestic players. I am a professional and I should work when I get paid, so I don’t want to affect the game here. "

Liu Yumin has been thinking about this question, and then asked: "Xiao Zhou, the national team has the Olympic Games and World Championships every four years, and the Asian Championships every two years, etc., plus the warm-up match, there are different times a year." Little game. What do you mean?"

Zhou Quan took a sip of coffee, put down his cup and said, "The NBA has 82 games a year, including the playoffs, there may be hundreds of games, and the intensity is very high. If there are too many games in a year, the chance of my injury will be lower. Increase, so Liu Chu, can I only participate in the World Series?"

"Only play the Olympics and World Championships?"

Liu Yumin frowned at first, but she immediately realized that Zhou Quan was not from the system, so she didn't get angry.

Her personality is very open-minded, and what Zhou Quan said is the truth. There are indeed too many games in the NBA, and the intensity of confrontation is too great. Thinking of this, she nodded and said:
"Xiao Zhou, you are the first Chinese player we want to recruit from a foreign professional league. Not only our basketball, but also other sports. Now there is no second person engaged in professional sports abroad. There is no precedent. .

Moreover, you are not from the system, you are not an athlete trained by the country, and you do not enjoy the salary of a dime from the country economically. There is no precedent for this, and there is no problem of compensation.

In principle, I personally think there is no problem, but I have to report the details to the Secretary before I can answer you. "

"Okay." Zhou Quan nodded.

"Xiao Zhou, can you record your games? I want to record a few games and take them back for study. CCTV has some highlights, but there are no game videos." Liu Yumin asked.

"There's no problem with that. I'll ask the team to record a few boxes of previous games for you." He said.

"The best match is yours." Liu Yumin said.

"No problem, I will record the game video of this year's Eastern Conference Finals series for you. I played against Jordan, a total of six games." He said.

After drinking the coffee, Zhou Quan first called Troy Weaver and talked about the matter. Weaver said that there was no problem, and then he took Liu Yumin and Zhang Lili to the headquarters.

When we arrived at the headquarters, Weaver did not neglect, and had notified all the management to welcome Liu Yumin together, with a very enthusiastic attitude.

Zhang Lili took the opportunity to say to Liu Yumin: "Liu Chu, these Americans are actually very arrogant and very practical. You are not doing them any good, and they won't even look at you. It is all petty to have such a good attitude towards you now." Zhou's face, he is the boss of this team."

Liu Yumin nodded. She has experienced this for a long time. No matter when she was an athlete in the past or now when she leads a team to compete abroad, except for a few friendly countries, the hosts of other countries treat the Chinese team very poorly.

On the other side, David Stern has received a report from the Pistons management that the person directly in charge of Chinese basketball has come to the United States to inspect the NBA. He is very happy and immediately instructed the Pistons management to receive Liu Yumin well. Whatever requirements can be met as much as possible, and he also invited Liu Yumin to visit the NBA's New York headquarters.

However, Liu Yumin came here alone, even in a private capacity at her own expense, and there is no need to visit the NBA headquarters in an official capacity for the time being. She thanked Stern for his invitation and expressed her willingness to visit the headquarters when the time is right.

Zhang Lili was the interpreter. Accompanied by the Pistons management, she had a detailed understanding of the NBA and the team's operating model. She had achieved the purpose of this trip. She stayed in Detroit for three days and left on the morning of the 3rd. Detroit, via Los Angeles and then return home.

(End of this chapter)