This Forward 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 precious red wine.

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

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 complicated, but simplicity is actually very simple.

Add some goodwill and you will naturally get closer.

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

Moreover, there is an unexpected surprise.

Just when Lin Yingpai was finishing his drink, 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 matter of Hill's character, but that Hill is 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 dealing with them is actually relatively easy.

But Hill is particularly different. He was born into a famous family, behaves elegantly, and his hobby besides basketball is playing the piano. His image is extremely upright.

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

At that time, Stern was working hard to shape the image of the league in order to promote the NBA, and Hill was simply the perfect candidate.

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 felt a little stressed for no reason.

Because he found that the topics didn't come 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, Xiao Si said with some envy.

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

The All-Stars are not until February, but 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's relatively easy to get on this shortlist, because essentially it still depends on the number of fans' votes.

Sometimes in order to compete for the starting lineup, 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 start 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 the starters because they were on the same team as Lin Ying. In the second year, Anthony and Lin Ying had a conflict and were eliminated from the starting lineup.

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 are All-Star players, and Stoudemire was a starter last year.

The Suns' overall record this year is good, and there is still a good chance that the three starters will start.

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

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

…

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

As soon as he 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. It seemed like it was true.

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

This was Romelle Bearton's, and that was 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.

In 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.

For example, 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, and Lin Ying asked curiously after sitting down.

"Championship trophy, if there's 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.

Because of injuries, Hill couldn't even 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 expect.

A business card.

Lin Ying took the business card curiously and was stunned 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.

"there is a 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's of a charitable nature. My father, mother and I all have foundations. There are always people in this world who need help."

As Hill said these words, he also shared with him something he had seen that motivated him to do what he did.

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

Hill falls into the latter category.

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

And he also had an idea in his mind.

While talking about this, the text message reply came. Hill went out to make 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 want to train.

…

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 children with disabilities in the country.

Like Hill, thinking back to 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 this 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 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 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 called 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.

Is it just because Westbrook's talent was not realized in college?

It seems like we should 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 ranked 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, the Eastern and Western All-Star starters 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 as the starter in the end, it will 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 Stoudemire.

"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 was 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 boy 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, 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 of the "winner list" teams listed by Lin Ying.

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

It can be said that this is to beat the teams with the greatest hope 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 a real test for young players like Lin Ying.

Lin Ying even more energized himself. Whether the Suns will follow a three-year plan or make a splash this year, he will basically have an idea after this month's game!