Chapter 309 China Tournament (7/10, Twilight Star Leader Plus 2)

Chapter 309 China Tournament (710, Twilight Star leader plus 2)

"TNT, joke!"

Fans were discussing it hotly on social media, and Durant couldn't bear the loneliness. After the TNT show, he directly posted such a status on his personal Twitter account.

The literal translation of Joke is a joke, but in this tweet, it is clearly meant as a clown.

Fans were a little confused when they first saw this state. You must know that the Thunder is second only to the Heat and higher than the Spurs in ESPN's forecast list!

But soon some careful netizens found out the reason for Durant's status.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional. In the TNT program, many teams such as the Heat, Spurs, Lakers, Clippers, and Nuggets were mentioned, but the Thunder were the only ones left out.

It seems that Durant went through the playoffs last season, practiced dribbling hard in the summer, and his strength has improved significantly, but his sensitive personality has not changed at all.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is early October, and the NBA preseason has officially kicked off.

Two days before the official start of the preseason, the Spurs boarded a plane to China with the Mavericks next door.

Stern is committed to the global promotion of the NBA, and the China game is a very important part of it.

It's basically been a part of every year in the NBA since the unprecedented success of the Rockets-Kings game in 2004.

The Heat and Clippers were originally scheduled for the league's China game last year.

But as the Spurs won the championship and Yi Jianlian renewed his contract with the Mavericks, the opponents naturally changed.

China game, China Derby, these words alone are enough to drive Chinese fans into a frenzy.

You must know that even when Yao Ming was still playing for the Rockets, because of Yi Jianlian's temporary transfer, fans could not see the Chinese Derby in the China game.

This time, they can finally make up for their previous regrets.

When Tang Tian and the others arrived at the Capital International Airport, they received unprecedented enthusiasm from the fans.

"Godfather! Godfather!"

"Duncan! Duncan!"

"Ginobili! Ginobili!"

"Parker! Parker!"

...

"It's crazy, even in my country, I have never seen such crazy fans."

After finally getting out of the airport, Ginobili couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Come to China a few more times."

Tang Tian said with a smile.

People all over the world love houses and black houses, especially Chinese people.

Take McGrady as an example, his popularity in the United States is completely incomparable with Kobe, but in China, McGrady's popularity is not inferior to Kobe's at all, even higher than Kobe at the peak.

In fact, let alone McGrady, the players of the Rockets, "Boss" Francis, "Diamond" Scola, "Bird" Landry, etc., each have their own nicknames.

Even role players like Novak and Bob Sura are familiar to many fans.

Now that Yao Ming has retired and Yi Jianlian has just regained his foothold in the NBA, the home team with the largest Chinese fans is the Spurs.

And now that mobile phones and computers are popularized, the speed of information dissemination will only be faster than before.

Therefore, the popularity of these Spurs players may be even higher than those of the Rockets.

This can be seen when the Spurs arrive at the hotel where they are staying and the number of fans waiting for autographs and group photos at the door.

"Well, I can only stay in the hotel all night."

Leonard didn't like this noisy environment, so he spoke to Tang Tian after entering the hotel.

Leonard doesn't like to go out, but Dior and Ginobili are just the opposite. They enjoy this environment very much. They directly sign autographs and take photos with the fans queuing up in the hotel lobby, just like a signing party.

"You... have great potential to sell books."

Tang Tian couldn't help complaining after watching it.

But what he said is correct. Selling books is something that many NBA players will do after retiring.

According to Jordan, his book has brought him a very considerable income.

Kobe Bryant's "Mamba Mentality" is also a global bestseller.

There are two games in the China Tournament, the first one is at BJ's Wukesong Stadium, and the second one is at the Mercedes-Benz Cultural Center in Shanghai.

Both are domestic NBA-level arenas, which can accommodate up to 20,000 people watching the game on the spot.

There are many positions, but in fact, after the China game was confirmed during the offseason, the tickets for all positions were sold out.

There are even a lot of scalpers selling in private, and the attention of these two games is unprecedented.

That night at the Wukesong Arena, when the Spurs players took the bus to the entrance of the arena, they saw crowds of fans entering the arena holding various signs.

"go.spurs.go!", "We are the champions!" These are relatively normal.

"Don't be bald, Tang Tian" and "BMW (don't touch me)" are particularly clear and refined.

All of these are really talented!

"what does that mean?"

When the car drove by and saw those slogans, Ginobili kept asking the meaning of BMW's back door in Chinese.

Tang Tian could only pretend not to hear.

It seems that this Chinese game, for Chinese fans, is as carnival as the NBA All-Star Game.

"What happened? I'm even a little nervous!"

Into the locker room, Ginobili began to talk nonsense again.

"I have decided to come to China next year."

Dior also had an expression of enjoyment. He found that Chinese fans are really the most enthusiastic fans in the world.

"Guys, it's time to play."

Budenholzer pushed open the locker room door and yelled at them.

The players whistled and got up, and then they all left the locker room one after another.

"Don, this is your home court." Dio said as he walked out.

Tang Tian laughed out loud after hearing this.

Dior's so easy, Wade and James must want to beat him up.

As soon as he came out of the player tunnel, there were extremely warm cheers at the scene.

Both Joseph and Neil looked up unconsciously.

The atmosphere felt even warmer than in last year's finals.

Tang Tian glanced at the auditorium, there were many directors and entertainers sitting in the front row.

He even saw two big stars, Jackie Chan and Gong Li.

For them, this kind of competition is a big stage to show their faces, and they only need to spend one ticket, which is quite a bargain.

The warm-up before the game is over, and the starting lineups of both sides have also been released one after another.

The main force of the Mavericks is out, Darren Collison and OJ Mayo on the outside, Marion and Nowitzki on the striker, and Chris Kaman at the center.

The same goes for the Spurs, with Parker and Tang Tian on the outside, Leonard and Diaw on the front, and Duncan on the center.

When the starting lineups of both sides came out, there was a burst of cheers at the scene.

It is common to rest stars in the preseason, especially when the Spurs are still the repeat offenders.

But when the result came out, Popovich really gave enough face this time!

The shot was given to Popovich.

Feeling the cheers of the fans, Popovich reached out to say hello, but his expression was a little awkward.

In fact, he originally planned to rest Duncan and Ginobili in this game, but yesterday, Stern specially sent a message to the owners of their two teams.

You can fight less, but you must fight.

This is the scene where both sides played their best in the opening game.

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