This striker is not serious

"Promise to complete the mission, sir."

Lin Ying said with a smile, and extended his hand to make a symbolic gesture to Durant.

Durant usually looks very informal, but he knows exactly what he should do when.

Prevented from death by Allen?

Then drag Allen to train together!

If you want to sharpen your spear, practice it with a strong shield!

So again, why do you think Lin Ying asked Allen to mess with Durant? It was really for Durant's good!

After the game ended and he returned to the locker room, Lin Ying called everyone to stop and asked Su Feng to bring out the gifts he had prepared.

Those are several boxes of Maotai liquor.

Yao Ming also gave this thing back then, but that didn't stop him from doing the same.

The Suns and Rockets are completely different groups of people.

Moreover, wine and paintings are all valuable for collection.

To Americans, Moutai is similar to how Chinese people collect expensive red wine.

Moreover, it was not available abroad at this time, so Lin Ying asked Su Feng to buy it from China and have it shipped.

There are fifteen bottles in total, one for each person.

Corinth was the last to send.

"My memory includes myself, so I'll give you the extra bottle."

Lin Ying said, patting his head.

Collins smiled happily and looked at Lin Ying much better.

Human relationships are said to be complex, but simplicity is actually very simple.

If you increase your goodwill, you will naturally get closer.

Lin Ying's "plan" was carried out smoothly.

Moreover, there is an unexpected surprise.

Just when Lin Yingpai finished drinking, Hill actually invited him to his home!

Most of the Suns have a good relationship with Lin and Ying, but Hill has relatively little contact with him.

It's not a problem with Hill's personality, but that Hill is very unique.

Black players are generally "social". Because of the environment in which they grew up, they always like to stay in groups and swear a lot.

Like Richardson, his favorite music is southern dirty music.

So it is actually relatively easy to get started with dealing with them.

But Hill was particularly unusual. He was born into a well-known family, behaved elegantly, and his hobby besides playing basketball was playing the piano. His image was incomparably bright and majestic.

This is also the key reason why Stern couldn't wait to appoint Hill as his successor even before Jordan retired.

At that time, Stern was trying to shape the image of the league in order to promote the NBA, and Hill was the perfect choice.

But just because of this image, most people treat him with "respect" and it is difficult to have much interaction with him.

Lin Ying had tried to chat with him for a few days before, but she also felt a little stressed for no reason.

Because he found that the topic could not be brought together at all.

What you can talk about is games, women, art and paintings that people like!

Unexpectedly, Hill took the initiative to invite him to his home this time. This was a very good opportunity.

"Lin, you can do it. I've never been to Grant's house."

After sitting down, Xiaosi said with some envy.

The two chatted for a while and soon started talking about the All-Stars.

The All-Stars are not until February, but the voting will be divided into several rounds, starting in December, and the whole process will last one to two months.

For example, this year's first round of voting began in mid-December, and the first round results will be released by the end of the month.

Here we need to talk about the All-Star voting rules. Before the voting begins, each team will submit a list to the league, and the league will review and approve it.

For example, this year the Suns have five people who have passed the review, namely Lin Ying, Stoudemire, Nash, Hill and Barbosa.

It is relatively easy to get into this candidate list, because essentially it still depends on the number of fans' votes.

Sometimes, in order to compete, the team will flexibly adjust the registration position.

For example, there are currently three All-Star positions: guard, forward and center.

But now Yao Ming's center position in the Western Conference is basically locked, so for someone like Stoudemire, the Suns offer him the forward position.

"Did you say we would be together?"

Stoudemire is very ambitious.

But Lin Ying nodded.

This is not to say that the three of them are already the strongest at the same position in the Western Conference, but... the power of Chinese fans!

Look at the All-Star situation in the past two years. In the first year, Iverson and Anthony became friends because they were on the same team with Lin Ying. In the second year, Anthony and Lin Ying had a conflict and disappeared.

Unless Stern completely stops allowing Chinese fans to vote, with that fan base, not to mention a direct decision, it can also greatly affect the voting results.

Moreover, Nash and Stoudemire were All-Stars, and Stoudemire was even more so last year.

This year's Suns team currently has a good overall record, and the three of them still have a great chance.

And while chatting, Lin Ying also had some aspirations for All-Stars.

Although I have participated in the Rookie Challenge before, the main competition is obviously different.

…

The next day, Lin Ying went to Hill's home as a guest.

As soon as she entered the door, Lin Ying felt full of artistic atmosphere.

Various paintings and artwork in Hill's living room.

He remembered that he had seen a piece of news before that Hill had held a traveling exhibition of paintings, which seemed to be true.

After seeing Lin Ying looking at the paintings curiously, Hill enthusiastically introduced them to him.

This is Romelle Bearton's, and that's Elizabeth Cartwright's.

Lin Ying: No need!

However, I could feel that Hill's enthusiasm was deep inside, rather than a deliberate show-off, which made Lin Ying embarrassed to interrupt.

I instantly felt like I was back in a college elective class.

However, his eyes were quickly attracted by some group photos in the corner. There seemed to be former US President Clinton in them?

Absolutely amazing.

Lin Ying felt that if Hill retired from politics immediately, he would at least start as a governor.

Arriving at the study room, Lin Ying continued to be influenced by the artistic atmosphere.

There were not many books in the study, but the piano was very conspicuous, and Lin Ying also saw various trophies on the bookshelf.

Many of them have been seen by Lin Ying, but many of them have not been seen by Lin Ying.

Such as the Ethics and Fashion Awards.

Moreover, Lin Ying also discovered a strange thing. These trophies seemed to be arranged in layers in a regular manner, but the top one was empty.

At this time, the servant poured coffee for them. Lin Ying sat down and asked curiously.

"The championship trophy, if there is a chance."

When Hill said this, he looked there with hope in his eyes.

This was also the first time that Lin Ying felt that the distance between Hill and him had finally disappeared.

"Who doesn't want to get that trophy? It's just that sometimes fate likes to play tricks on people."

After saying this, Hill took a sip of coffee, but frowned unconsciously, as if the coffee was bitter.

Lin Ying also picked it up and took a sip.

Coffee, very sweet.

"We still have a chance."

Lin Ying said after putting down his coffee.

Due to injuries, Hill was not even able to reach his peak, so there is no such thing as the title of uncrowned king.

But for a person who was regarded as the next top player in the league when he debuted, let alone the championship, he is now a first-round virgin. This is so uncomfortable.

"By the way, I prepared a gift for you."

At this moment, Hill suddenly got up and went to the room.

After a while, he took out his gift.

That was something Lin Ying would never have imagined.

A business card.

Lin Ying took the business card curiously and was stunned for a moment when he saw the name on it.

Tim Grover.

"Is this Michael's trainer?"

Lin Ying must have heard of this name.

Not only because he was Jordan's personal trainer for 17 years, but when Duffy introduced him to the trainer before, he also mentioned it: the "grandfather" of NBA trainers.

But the information Duffy gave at that time was that the trainer was already retired.

Even James went to invite him but didn't invite him out.

This is also in line with what Ben said before, the top trainer who will never leave the mountain is Grover.

"I have a personal relationship with Tim. If you need it, I can ask you out to meet him. Of course, I can't guarantee that he will agree."

Hill then spoke.

"In need."

Lin Ying replied decisively.

Hill smiled and then sent a text message on his mobile phone.

It took some time to reply to the message. Driven by curiosity, Lin Ying also chatted with Hill about some trophies he had just seen without specific content.

"It is of a charitable nature. My father, mother and I all have foundations. There will always be people in this world who need help."

As Hill said these words, he also shared with him some things he had seen that motivated him to do these things.

There are actually two types of charity in the United States, one is done to avoid taxes, and the other is true charity.

Hill belongs to the latter.

Lin Ying was also touched when he recalled the things he saw during community care.

And he also had an idea in his mind.

When we were talking about this, the text message reply came. Hill went out and made a phone call, and then said that the time was set.

Grover is currently abroad, so it would be at least half a month before we meet.

Of course, Lin Ying was not in a hurry.

"Thank you Grant, you helped me a lot."

And he also expressed his gratitude to Hill, from the bottom of his heart.

Hill smiled and didn't answer, and then chatted with Lin Ying about the piano.

Lin Ying: Suddenly I feel like training.

…

After leaving Hill's house, the first thing Lin Ying did was to ask Duffy to arrange for someone to set up a domestic foundation for him.

The main role of the foundation is to help disabled children in China.

Like Hill, when he recalled the disabled children he saw, he felt that he should do something within his ability.

The reason why he didn't do it here in the United States is simple. He didn't do it to create a media image for himself.

And since there are more people in the country, there will definitely be more people in need of help.

He will invest a start-up fund and make a fixed investment every year, and then the foundation will also use its influence to raise donations.

Because of his past life experience, he also made a request to Duffy, that is, all expenses of the foundation must be disclosed.

He doesn't want his own money, or other people's money, to end up not in the hands of helpful people, but to become someone's sports car.

…

Two days later, Lin Ying received an email from Durant.

It was a file named westbrook.avi.

He opened it with interest, but after reading it, he felt a little uninterested.

Westbrook's training methods there don't seem to be much different from what he practices now, but the intensity is higher.

Could it be that Westbrook just didn't realize his talent in college?

It seems like we'll have to wait until Tim Grover meets over there to see.

And he also had to capture Grover.

…

At this moment, the results of the first round of NBA All-Star voting came out.

Kobe Bryant became the top vote-getter in the first round with 690,000 votes.

Lin Ying received 600,000 votes, ranking first among Western Conference forwards!

Anthony came in second with 450,000 votes.

Stoudemire ranked third with 370,000 votes.

Nash received 430,000 votes, ranking second only to Kobe among Western Conference guards.

Now after the first round comes out, the Eastern and Western All-Stars will be:

East: Iverson, Wade, James, Garnett, Howard

West: Nash, Kobe, Anthony, Lin Ying, Yao Ming

Lin Ying's first reaction after reading this result was that he should canvass votes for Xiao Sila.

Judging from previous exchanges, Stoudemire is quite looking forward to this All-Star Game.

If he is not selected in the end, it will probably be a blow to him.

Especially since Stoudemire is very active in defense now, this kind of blow will inevitably affect his defensive enthusiasm.

So the day after the voting results came out, he called Yang Yi and asked him to write an article called "The Enemy of Huashan: Stoudemire" and also asked him to be a microphone.

, help yourself canvass votes for Xiaosi.

"Don't you create a Weibo account?"

It was during this process that Yang Yi told him something that Lin Ying didn't notice.

In August this year, Moulang created an internal version of Weibo, which is actually the domestic Twitter, and it became very popular instantly.

Just this past November, it was officially available for use.

Now domestic celebrities are rushing to register for this.

"That must be done."

Yang Yi's reminder is very timely.

If he remembered correctly, 2010 was the spring of Weibo.

With that, it would be much easier for him to do some things.

By the way, just let that guy Su Feng take care of you.

It is convenient to have a trustworthy Chinese person around you.

…

In the blink of an eye, the last second of 2009 passed by, and 2010 officially arrived.

All in all, this is already the fourth year since Lin Ying traveled through time.

I mentioned before that the schedule in January is difficult. The specific difficulty is that this month the Suns will play against many teams that Lin Ying previously listed as a "winner list".

These include the Cavaliers, Magic, Rockets, Celtics and Lakers.

It can be said that this is to beat the teams with the greatest hopes of winning the championship one by one.

The Lakers are in average form recently, but several other teams are in good form.

The Suns are now adopting a "rest and recuperate" strategy. If they are not careful, they may suffer a losing streak and may even fall out of the first tier.

If the veterans were forced to increase their playing time at that time, it would be contrary to the original intention.

So the next month will be the real test for young players like Lin Ying.

Lin Ying even made himself more energetic. Whether the Suns will follow a three-year plan or they can make a splash this year. After this month, they will basically have an idea!