From South China Tiger to NBA King

The opponents I faced in the 6 preseason games were not strong. They were the New York Knicks, Dallas Mavericks, the Adelaide 36ers of the Australian NBL League, the Phoenix Suns, and the Toronto Raptors. The only one I faced was slightly competitive. The ability is that of the Toronto Raptors.

6 games, two of which were not played on American soil.

The games against the Raptors and the Knicks are scheduled to be played in Shanghai and BJ, China.

This is also an old tradition in the NBA. Whichever teams are more popular in China, let them come to China to play preseason games.

In the era of Yao Ming and Kobe Bryant, the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers were regular visitors to the China Games.

With Jianghu's influence in China and Xiao Hua's strong desire to make money, it is impossible for him not to arrange it. If he doesn't arrange it, it won't be him.

Jiang Hu's influence in the country is absolutely unprecedented. As the only domestic player with strong influence in the world, it is difficult to count the number of Jiang Hu's fans.

It is conceivable that it must be a quite huge number, easily exceeding the population of some small countries.

After learning about the NBA schedule in September, many fans planned to pick them up at the airport.

On October 10, the Boston Celtics' special plane landed at Pudong Airport, shocking all Celtics players.

In order to welcome Jiang Hu's first official return to China, about 30 fans poured into Pudong Airport and nearby areas to pick him up.

When Jiang Hu and others got off the plane, the airport had deployed half of the city's armed police force, about 1900 people, to maintain law and order.

Seeing so many armed police units in military uniforms at the airport, the Celtics players were dumbfounded. They could not imagine that Jianghu's fan base in China was so huge and that so many people were needed to maintain law and order.

As the plane stopped, Jiang Hu and others walked out of the airport and onto the team bus, which immediately aroused wild cheers from the scene. Countless people wearing Celtics jerseys crowded on both sides of the road. Compared with two months ago, Boston's championship parade was not much different.

After a wild commotion, the crowd quickly calmed down. After all, the quality of fans now is higher than before, and there was no stampede caused by crowding.

As people calmed down a little, someone in the crowd immediately shouted: "Jianghu, MVP!!"

"Jianghu, MVP!!"

The voice responded quickly and quickly spread to everyone. In the end, almost everyone roared together: "Jianghu, MVP!!"

People's emotions were very enthusiastic. It was definitely not the kind of perfunctory shouting, but the kind of shouting from the heart. Many people roared with red faces and thick necks, and their emotions were extremely intense.

"thank you all!!"

“Thank you for your enthusiasm!!”

"I will continue to work hard!!"

Seeing everyone's enthusiasm, Jiang Hu couldn't help but stretch out his hand and wave to everyone.

The bus finally got out of the airport and arrived at the hotel where we were staying. We were surrounded by fans again. If it weren't for someone to maintain order, Jianghu estimated that if he was surrounded, it would be difficult for him to get out in less than 4-5 hours.

The enthusiasm of the Chinese people is so high. Compared with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Yao Ming, Liu Xiang, and other Chinese international superstars in the past, Jianghu has received the least criticism, and at the same time, he feels the most enthusiasm.

How could he achieve such a great reputation in a foreign country at such a young age?

Before Jiang Hu suffers a major career failure, it is estimated that this enthusiastic and terrifying pursuit will continue for some time.

After the game started, the fans who came to the scene were still very enthusiastic.

Although most of the fans watching Jianghu are not ordinary people, those sitting in the front row are all well-known figures in politics and business, including some high-ranking officials, as well as the bosses of Huawei and Alibaba that people are familiar with. Tencent boss.

In addition, many well-known Chinese singers and movie stars also came. Zhang Ziyi, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, and Jay Chou were all seated in the second row.

Even though there were many great people at the scene, the fans were still very enthusiastic. Almost every time Jianghu touched the ball, every shot, or even got a rebound, it would cause huge cheers on the scene, which was terrifying.

In the two games back in China, even if it was just a meaningless preseason game, Jianghu's playing time reached more than 38 minutes.

There is no way, it is too luxurious for domestic fans to watch Jianghu performances live.

In order to let everyone enjoy watching, Jianghu will try its best to perform some explosive goals for everyone in the limited time.

After two games, fast break windmill dunks, free throw line dunks, one-over-three dunks, super long three-pointers, consecutive three-pointers, picturesque fadeaways, Jianghu almost performed everything he knew, and the entire game Many times it became his personal show.

Even so, the fans still felt that they had not seen enough. After the game was over, they were even reluctant to leave the field for a long time.

In the end, NBA China Headquarters decided to hold a charity meeting for the Celtics in the largest square in Shanghai. Donations will be held on-site, and all proceeds will eventually be used for domestic charities.

Although it is said to be a charity meeting, everyone knows very well that this is actually a fan meeting held for Jiang Hu personally, in order to allow Chinese fans to have close contact with Jiang Hu.

This charity meeting once again received an enthusiastic response from fans. At 10:13 pm on October 7, about 45 people gathered in People's Square to participate in this meeting.

This meeting was led by NBA officials and the SH city government, and many celebrities were invited. The host was the well-known Shanghai actor-Hu Ge.

Many singers took to the stage to sing and speak out for charity.

During the meeting, Jiang Hu and Jay Chou sang a classic song "Chrysanthemum Terrace" together.

Although Jiang Hu's singing is obviously average, that is, at an amateur level, the fans still give him a high level of tolerance and enthusiasm.

After all, watching players sing is always quite refreshing.

Jianghu invited about 80 fans to the stage to interact, presented them with their own autographed shoes and autographed jerseys, and took photos with them.

The entire event lasted for an hour and a half, and Jianghu answered many questions from fans.

For example, “Who was your favorite player growing up?”

For example, "What inspiration does my success have to other domestic athletes?"

For example, "Will you participate in next year's World Cup?"

Jianghu gave definite answers to all the questions. He did not answer them perfunctorily, but answered them one by one very seriously.

Of course, although it is essentially a fan meeting, it is also called a charity meeting, so Jianghu still needs to encourage everyone to be more charitable and help those in need.

At the end of the meeting, everyone raised a total of more than 7000 million yuan in charity funds, which were left to domestic charitable organizations.

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On October 10, the Celtics took off from Pudong International Airport and returned to Boston.

On October 10, all NBA preseason games ended, and on October 16, the regular season officially opened.

On the first day, the NBA arranged two games. One was the Boston Celtics against the Warriors, their opponents in last season's finals, and the other was the Los Angeles Lakers against the Houston Rockets.

The former is a grudge showdown in the Finals, the latter is a battle between the top powers in the Western Conference, and there is also a showdown between the former brothers Durant and Harden, both of which are interesting to watch.

The Celtics game is slightly earlier, at 7 p.m., while the Lakers game is scheduled for 9:[-] prime time.

Both games were broadcast live across the United States and attracted considerable attention.

Before the game started, the Celtics held a grand commemorative event at the North Shore Garden Arena.The event includes three parts: championship ring awarding, championship flag display, and new season launching ceremony.Fans who bought tickets showed up to watch the opening game, which will kick off an hour after the event ends.

Everyone was excited when they won the championship and spent several months of vacation. Now they are generally very calm when they receive the ring.The newly joined players are very envious and hope that they will have such a day.

However, Jianghu also noticed the faces of the players on the opposite side. Green looked disdainful, while Curry and Thompson had expressionless faces and seemed to have a very indifferent attitude.

However, Jianghu knew in his heart that it was absolutely impossible for them to be completely indifferent. After all, they were the team that was considered to have no doubts about winning the championship before the start of last season.

The Celtics were not even on the list of their opponents from the beginning. In the end, the Celtics suddenly emerged. They still believed that the Houston Rockets were the most worthy opponents for them. A bunch of young people from the Celtics?Not enough to be afraid of.

When presenting the rings, owner Vic Grosbeck thanked each Celtics player for their dedication to the team.

When it was Jiang Hu's turn to make a speech, Jiang Hu casually nodded at the Warriors after thanking the management and fans for their support.

"I have to thank our opponents, they are incredibly strong!!"

"It is their strength that makes our whole team unite and work hard to defeat them. It is also their strength that makes this past season's finals series an extremely classic round. An extremely memorable series!!”

"Let us give applause to our opponent - the Golden State Warriors."

"Bah bang bang~" The fans at the North Shore Garden also clapped very cooperatively, and there were a lot of screams and cheers. Those who didn't know it thought this was the Oracle Arena, the home of the Warriors.

However, the applause and screams sounded strange and uncomfortable to the ears of the Warriors players.

But seeing the forced smiles on their faces, Jianghu felt quite comfortable.

"Cherish it. With your strength, this is basically the last time you will enjoy this kind of applause."

"next time………"

"It's Durant and James' turn..."

After the event, the players returned to the locker room to rest for a while and came out on time.Jianghu's appearance has become the team's finale, winning the warmest applause from the home fans.

CCTV5 broadcast the game live. Yu Jia said: "After Jianghu played a great season, his status in the team has been completely different. You can see that all the players respect him very much."

Zhang Weiping smiled and said: "It's great. Next year is the World Cup. Jianghu will participate in the competition then. Next year we can see what it is like for the world's top stars to play in our team."

Yu Jia said: "It may be a little difficult for the team as a whole, but it shouldn't be much different for him personally. No one can limit him one-on-one. The Warriors probably won't be able to guard against it today. Jianghu's current position is For the No. [-] position, if it’s a regular matchup, judging from last year’s finals, it would be too easy to beat Curry.”

What the commentators can see, the Warriors coaching staff naturally knows too.Cole has no good way to adjust, after all, there are only so many cards in his hand.

Letting Curry directly take the No. [-] position will definitely not work for Jianghu. This is an act of giving away points.

They can only choose Iguodala, who is still physically strong, but his legs and feet are already not very flexible.

Except for Iguodala, the only person who can face Jianghu is Randall, except Thompson. They each have their own advantages, but at the same time, they also have their own disadvantages.

After Durant left the Warriors, the Warriors' lineup is still not bad, but it can no longer put a lot of pressure on the world.

The Warriors' current advantage is not in the forward line, but in the offense on the outside. The inside line, which was previously a disadvantage, is now much better.

The price for such a good inside line is that they lost the league's top forward, and this person once put a lot of pressure on Jianghu in the finals.

Now that this person is gone, the pressure on the entire Celtics has been greatly reduced.

In the past, when Curry and Durant were together, it was difficult to defend both of them, and neither one of them would work.

It's different now. The goal on the defensive end is much clearer, which is to target Curry.

After the players warm up, the game is about to begin.

Stevens emphasized the offensive tactics and asked the players to open up at the beginning to create one-on-one opportunities for Jianghu. It's that simple.

He believes that it is most efficient to leave the ball to Jianghu. Facing the Warriors, one-on-one is a good opportunity.

Celtics starting lineup: Jiang Hu, Danny Green, Kawhi Leonard, Gordon Hayward, Al Horford.

Unfortunately, Jaylen Brown, who is considered the future second-in-command of the Celtics, went on the bench in the first game of the season.

However, Jianghu has no objection to Stevens' decision. After all, from the perspective of fitness, Danny Green is the more suitable starter. Whether it is defense or catching and shooting, he is better than Jaylen Brown. that person.

As for ball-handling ability, sorry, this Green has none.

But having Jiang Hu and Leonard holding the ball is enough, and Hayward also needs a certain proportion of holding the ball. If he puts in four balls, it won't be enough.

And to be honest, Jaylen Brown's ball-handling ability is still not good...

Warriors starting lineup: Curry, Thompson, Iguodala, Green, Zubac.

The newcomer Zubac was entrusted with an important task by Cole and placed in the starting position.

The inside players from both sides stood together. Zubac looked extremely tall, but Horford easily won the jump ball.

Zubac, who is younger and lighter and looks fat and fair, can't jump at all.

Jianghu dribbled to the three-point line and passed the ball to Leonard, who was running from the right baseline to the upper line.Danny Green blocked Draymond Green, causing a moment of pause.

As long as he blocks the defender for half a second, it is an opportunity for the superstar. Leonard did not feint after receiving the ball, and immediately changed direction and walked to the middle, using his speed to get past Thompson who was chasing him.

He only glanced at Thompson and concluded that the opponent's distance could seriously interfere with shooting, but it was difficult to "stop the car" and move laterally to prevent breakthroughs.

Thompson's center of gravity moved forward due to inertia. Leonard immediately swayed half of his body as soon as he started. Taking another step forward to pull the ball attracted Green's attention, and he blocked the breakthrough route.

Generally speaking, players who have just returned from injury will be a little afraid of confrontation and not adapt to the intensity of the game.

Green felt that Leonard, who had not played for a season, most likely felt the same mentality, so he stood up firmly with his hands straightened.

He was betting that Leonard had the same mentality, that Leonard would not dare to confront him.

But he bet wrong.

Not only was Leonard not afraid of confrontation, on the contrary, he also took the initiative to stick to Green. While resisting the blue shot, he let his hand stick to Green's hand.

"Brush~" The basketball entered the basket.

"Beep~" the referee's sharp whistle came to mind.

"Ah..." Leonard roared in a rare voice after scoring the goal.

He told the world with his actions.

He will return like lightning.

(End of this chapter)