Chapter 162 Accidental Participants in the Slam Dunk Contest
As Lin Fei said, the end of the 33-game winning streak has helped the speedboat unload a huge burden. Although there are many veterans in the team who help young players relieve stress from time to time, the negative impact of the continuous winning streak is still obvious. While enjoying the honor of winning streak, they also suffer from inner pride. The test of pride, when the winning streak was ended by the Celtics, everyone's hearts seemed to have fallen a big stone.
The Clippers' next performance did not disappoint their supporters. Although they suffered two defeats in January, the Clippers still played at their own pace. As long as the opponent is dragged into the pace of the Clippers and waits for the opponent, it will be a failure, and the two games lost to Golden State, which is not very strong inside. The Warriors lost the other game to the Denver Nuggets, a strong western team, at the end of January.
The strength of the first game is entirely due to the fact that the Warriors are completely crazy. No matter how many people defend, they can send the ball into the basket. The Warriors shot 54 three-pointers in the game and reached half of the total number of shots. Such madness can be imagined, coupled with the god of luck lying in the Warriors on that night. The Warriors scored 28 three-pointers and broke the league's historical team's three-point record in a single game, and the Clippers unfortunately became the background.
The second defeat is almost the same as the first game, but the difference is that the Warriors rely on the overall madness and the Nuggets rely on the madness of Melon Anthony and flounder. Anthony scored the third highest score in his career 38 times, and Billups also contributed 32 points. The two joined hands to contribute a horrible 80 points, and Anthony completed a three-point anti-final kill in the last second before the end of the game, making Lin Fei's two-minute quasi-final kill in the first second turned useless.
For more than a month, Lin Fei has continued his stable performance, and his contribution from time to time has always been under James on the triple-double list.
He also steadily occupied the first place in the list of the most valuable players in the regular season. Although James has been staring at him, he has not been able to get Lin Fei off the media list and can only stay second for a month. Lin Fei also won the most valuable player of the month after getting the most valuable player of the month twice in a row in November and December. Valuable player has become the rare best player of the month for three consecutive championships. According to this momentum, Lin Fei is likely to win the first regular season most valuable player award. If Lin Fei wins the MVP of the season after the end of the season, Lin Fei, who was born on December 25, 1988, will be less than 21 years old. The age of the month broke the record for the youngest MVP in NBA history.
26.5 points (5th in the league), 6.5 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 2.3 steals (3rd in the league), 1.4 blocks (first guard), 1.8 errors, 60.8% shooting rate (3rd in the league, the first two are Lin Fei's own teammate Tyson. Chandler 68.8% and Shaquille. O'Neal 67.9%), with a three-point shooting rate of 56.6% (the first in the league, and behind Lin Fei is Steve, who played for the Clippers last season and joined the Suns in the new season. Novak's 48.7%), with a free throw rate of 97.5% (the second, the first is the former teammate Novak). This is the average game data handed over by Lin Fei with a total of 47 appearances at the beginning of February. Compared with Lin Fei's data in the first month, it has significantly improved, especially the rebounds and assist data, and the number of errors has increased. It is also caused by Lin Fei's excessive holding and passing the ball.
Such data is unexpected by most people. A rookie who can only shoot has grown to its current state in less than three years. Even Kobe, who is most familiar with Lin Fei, marveled at Lin Fei's progress.
In terms of scoring, although Lin Fei only ranks fifth in the league, averaging only 26.5 points per game, no one dares to deny Lin Fei's scoring ability. After all, the Clippers have many players who can score, so it is natural that Lin Fei's scoring data is not high. When people talk about the league's scorers, Lin Fei has never fallen ahead. Three.
People have also become accustomed to Lin Fei's headlines of magazines. Now they are talking more about Lin Fei's future. The American media look at Lin Fei's future more rationally, believing that maintaining Lin Fei in such a state will definitely improve his historical status to the top ten point guards in history. After all, Lin Fei now has There are too many powerful teammates, and although Lin Fei personally led the team, despite his excellent personal data, the team's best record is to stop in the Western Conference semi-finals, so such recognition has been recognized by many people.
On the contrary, the sports media of the Celestial Empire on the other side of the ocean are advocating that Lin Fei has approached the first person in history, and even cited the reason that Lin Fei's three-pointer is better than Jordan to illustrate Lin Fei's status.
Lin Fei naturally ignored these flattery and still took daily training seriously with a normal heart.
After the end of the fourth round of voting for the upcoming 2010 Dallas All-Star Game, Lin Fei has approached the new all-Star voting record he set last year. No one doubts that Lin Fei has once again broke the personal All-Star Game vote record, although many people will say that there are many Chinese people. But more people see the influence of Lin Fei.
While the influence has increased, Lin Fei's commercial value has soared all the way. Compared with last season, Lin Fei also instructed Bob. Perinka did not accept many sponsorships. This season, Lin Fei also relaxed this requirement. In addition to being able to better maintain a stable mentality under the publicity of the media, more importantly, the contracts given by merchants are getting bigger and bigger, and no one will refuse to send money.
The world's most expensive luxury car Bugatti. German Volkswagen, a company owned by Veyron, signed a super contract with Lin Fei that everyone envied. This contract will bring Lin Fei $100 million in revenue within five years, and Lin Fei will get a Bugatti for free from the time of signing the contract. Veyron customized sports car, and as long as Bugatti Veyron has a new Lin Fei, it will be given for free, but the contract also stipulates that once the gift is accepted, the last additional car will be taken back by Volkswagen.
The signing of this eye-catching big contract was held on February 13, the Spring Festival, the most traditional festival in China. On that day, Lin Fei was sitting on the latest Bugatti. The Veyron Ultimate AeroTT sports car came to the signing ceremony. Of course, this was all arranged by Volkswagen, and Lin Fei attracted the attention of all the media as soon as he got out of the car.
This car is also Lin Fei for Bugatti. The first sports car endorsed by Veyron.
The Ultimate AeroTT with a 6.35-liter V8 engine set a record of 256 mph, and Volkswagen's advertising slogan for the world's fastest sports car is Lin Speed.
At the time of signing the contract, the world's first 99 fastest and most luxurious Ultimate AeroTT sports car with a price of 108,800, 0 dollars was booked out in one day. This result made Volkswagen satisfied, and among the 99 reservations, there were 2 from China. There are 2 cars, and 18 are scheduled to come from Lin Fei's main battlefield, Los Angeles.
Such achievements made Volkswagen very satisfied. They have released the second batch of UltimateAeroTT worldwide after half a month of transportation. On the day of the signing ceremony, Lin Fei's advertisement for UltimateAeroTT was also shown for the first time. The world.
When Lin Fei passed one player after another at a fast speed on the court, Lin Fei suddenly became UltimateAeroTT and passed one obstacle after another at a lightning speed. Finally, when he drifted through the road on the cliff and reached the top of the mountain at the sprint. teAeroTT has become a picture of Lin Fei dunking the ball into the basket. The whole advertisement looks very rhythmic, so that the audience can't help but be brought into it and feel the ultimate sense of speed.
In addition to Volkswagen, Lin Fei has five contracts with an annual salary of 10 million yuan and nine contracts with an annual salary of more than five million yuan. The advertising endorsement fee alone has made Lin Fei's annual income reach 100 million yuan, becoming another player with advertising endorsement of more than 100 million after Tiger Woods. Lin Fei is even more on Forbes' most valuable list. It ranks first in the entertainment list, which shows the horror of Lin Fei's commercial value.
The performance of the Clippers in February was still stable, and Lin Fei was successfully shortlisted for the Western All-Star starting lineup and successfully broke the All-Star voting record he set last season.
Moreover, Lin Fei was shortlisted for the three-pointer competition for the third year in a row, but Lin Fei euphemistically refused the skill competition. He didn't want to be as busy as last year to spit blood and didn't even have time to rest.
However, many fans feel very sorry that it is not good for Lin Fei to participate in the lack of participation. In the ESPN, how many all-star activities you think Lin Fei should participate in, the all-star slam dunk competition has always been the most, with a proportion of 44.2%, but most people play this option. Although Lin Fei has also contributed some wonderful or unforgettable dunks in the game, Lin Fei gives the impression that it is still far from the slam dunk competition, but some people have this idea in their hearts, such as David. Stern.
"Nate, you think it's fragrant to arrange for Lin to replace the injured. How about Brown participating in the slam dunk contest? David. Stern tapped his fingers on the desk, the eyes behind his glasses were shining with money, and the computer screen in front of him was playing a collection of Lin Fei's dunk cut by league officials.
"Mr. President, I think Lin's influence can greatly improve the ratings of the slam dunk contest, but to be honest, I have the impression that Lin is not good at dunks." David. Stern's assistant Knight answered honestly.
"I also think he is not good at dunking, but it turns out that Lin is not bad at dunks. This is the dunk collection I just cut out. I'm going to push it to the official website to warm up first. After all, people's impression of Lin is similar to ours. If we directly launch those damn media, we will definitely say that we can as much as possible. The value of squeezing the forest. David. Stern said and connected the computer to the projector in the office.
Knight turned around and looked at the video on the projector, in which Lin Fei's slam dunk highlights were quickly played. From the beginning of the rookie season, he dunked the Timberwolves center Ratliffe, the Tomahawk dunk and Stephen from the free throw line of the Wacovia Center. Jackson, the first gliding buckle in Dallas, David's buckle in Staples. Li... To the recent dunk Anthony, every dunk shot brought a huge impact to Knight.
If you look at this collection alone, Knight will definitely think that Lin Fei is a strong slam dunk, but the fact is that Lin Fei is not like this in the game.
"How do you feel? In addition to this, I have also recently arranged the editing team to screen Lin Fei's top ten dunks and top ten violent dunks, and I'm going to launch them one after another. David. Stern's mouth was full of smiles.
"It's a good video. After watching it, I thought Lin was a buckle general." Knight said how he felt.
"What's wrong with that? What's more, Shannon's injury just gave us a chance, didn't it?
*** "Lin, I'll tell you a message." Bob came from the other end of the phone. Pelinka's voice.
Listening to Perinka's voice sounded very good, Lin Fei couldn't help laughing and said, "Is there another big contract?"
"Lin, have you fallen into the eyes of money? You have made a lot of money this year, not a contract but a piece of news, but it has not been determined yet. It is said that you may replace Shannon to participate in the dunk contest.
"Slam dunk contest? Am I sure my ears are all right? Lin Fei's suspicious tone penetrated into Pelinka's ears.
"Your ears are fine, but it hasn't been determined yet. It's just that the relevant person showed that it's David. Stern personally benefited, hehe." Pelinka's voice was very fraudulent because of David. Stern's care represents Lin Fei's future money.
"Well, it's also a joke for me to participate in the slam dunk contest." Lin Fei is not confident in his dunk.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Fei was used to click on the web page.
The first video bar on the homepage of the NBA official website is "Lin Fei's Fury Collection".
Lin Fei subconsciously clicked in, and soon after buffering, the video appeared in front of Lin Fei.
"Can I deduct so much?" Lin Fei himself was suspicious of himself.
The launch of this Lin Fei slam dunk video was quickly reprinted by netizens on demand.
"NBA's Squeezing" - Los Angeles Times column.
As a supporter of the Los Angeles Clippers, Mark. Libo drew this article from the video of the NBA's Lin Fei before the All-Stars approached. The article said frankly about David. Stern did everything possible to squeeze the value of Lin Fei.
Soon, relevant people revealed that Lin Fei would replace Xiangnong. News about Brown's participation in the slam dunk contest.
"Is he going to make a fool of himself?" Nate, who participated in the slam dunk contest for the fourth time. Robinson commented on Lin Fei's possible participation in the slam dunk contest in the media.
On February 10, three days before the Dallas All-Star weekend, the league officially announced that Lin Fei would replace Xiang Nong. Brown participated in the slam dunk contest.
The official announcement of this news completely pushed Lin Fei to the focus.
On this day, the Clippers beat the Minnesota Timberwolves by 22 points. Lin Fei staged six dunks in the game, which was the first time in nearly three years that he dunked more than three times, and three dunks were difficult, as if to prove to everyone that he could not dunk.
(To be continued)