dognovel Chapter 171: He's playing basketball on the court, and his girlfriends are all over the sidelin
Chapter 171: He's playing basketball on the court, and his girlfriends are all over the sidelin
As the entire Nets roster boarded their chartered plane to China, the league updated the preseason schedule.
The Rockets, who were originally scheduled to play preseason games in China, were replaced by the Trail Blazers.
Furthermore, the original two teams have become three teams, with the Nuggets joining the China tour.
The Nets, Trail Blazers, and Nuggets have all traveled to China to begin their overseas preseason tour.
These three teams have one thing in common: they all have Chinese players.
The Trail Blazers have just signed Yu Jiahao to a ten-day contract.
This is believed to be the Trail Blazers looking for a backup for Nurkic.
Although backup center Eubanks performed reasonably well, the team still needs to develop more young talent in this position.
If this person is also Chinese, that would be wonderful.
Wang Xiucheng's case has shown many league owners that Chinese people are truly wealthy now, far richer than Yao Ming was back then.
The Nuggets originally signed Guo Haowen to a ten-day contract, but yesterday, when the Nuggets learned that they would be going to China with the Nets for a preseason game, they took the initiative to contact Ma Xiaoxuan and changed Guo Haowen's contract to a two-way contract.
This also means that Guo Haowen is eligible to play for the Nuggets in the new season.
Of course, many Chinese experts believe that Guo Haowen will likely spend most of his time playing in the Development League.
Then there's the Nets. In addition to the newly signed Wang Xiucheng, the Nets also signed Zeng Fanbo on a two-way agreement.
Not only will all the Chinese players participate in this trip to China, but the star players of each team have also been confirmed to travel with their teams.
For example, Jokic, Lillard, and Durant.
As for whether he will play, that's hard to say.
The three teams will play a total of three matches, in Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing respectively.
The game in Guangzhou was between the Trail Blazers and the Nuggets, with the Nets not involved.
It was initially thought that tickets for this match might not sell well.
However, the organizers still indicated on the ticket sales page that Wang Xiucheng would be present, which caused Guangzhou fans to go crazy for tickets.
In less than an hour, all 13,000 tickets were sold out.
As for tickets to Shanghai and Yanjing, the organizers were extremely reluctant to sell them, releasing only a few hundred tickets per hour, leaving countless fans hanging on with envy.
For fans who had previously purchased Rockets tickets, since the Rockets are not coming, in addition to getting a full refund, the organizers have also provided another solution.
That means exchanging tickets for Nets games, in the same section and seat.
This caused the value of rocket tickets, which had previously been boycotted and were almost impossible to sell, to suddenly double.
The online scalpers were offering these exchange tickets for five times the original price, and later the price even increased to ten times.
Fixed price, not a penny less.
Don't complain about the price. If you're so capable, go and grab the tickets yourself. See how easy it is to grab a game ticket than a train ticket?
As a result, these tickets were quickly snapped up by fans.
Compared to eagerly anticipating tickets that are hard to come by, spending a little more money to see Wang Xiucheng is definitely worth it!
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October 9th, Shanghai.
7:30 p.m., Shanghai Gymnasium.
All 10,000 seats were occupied.
Many people didn't even know how they got in and were standing in the various passageways.
As the Nets and Trail Blazers players entered the court, deafening cheers erupted from the crowd.
And gradually, the cheers turned into the regular chanting of "Wang Xiucheng's" name.
Wang Xiucheng, wearing the Nets' number 12 jersey, held the basketball in one hand and waved with the other, as if to greet the fans.
At the same time, Wang Xiucheng also looked around to see who was sitting in the front seats of the stadium.
Upon seeing this, Wang Xiucheng immediately lost his composure.
These three preseason games were all officially organized by the NBA, so both the on-site cameras and the referee team were directly appointed by the NBA.
The venue layout also reflects the NBA style.
The two teams' benches face the field directly without any obstruction.
This way, fans watching on TV can directly see the condition of each player during their rest period.
Next to the two substitute benches is a row of VIP seats.
This is what is known as the front row.
In the NBA, this position is usually reserved for people with status, such as big stars or social celebrities.
And today's game, the front row seats were naturally occupied by various celebrities.
The city of Shanghai is China's fashion capital, and it has far more celebrities living here than in other cities.
Even these celebrities, when they encounter Wang Xiucheng, a true national-level top star, have no choice but to try and ride his coattails.
Even if each seat costs tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.
Although it sounds expensive, compared to spending millions to buy a trending topic, this kind of image that will forever remain in history along with Wang Xiucheng is incredibly cheap.
The reason why Wang Xiucheng was unsettled was that most of the female celebrities sitting in the front row were his close friends.
Yang Ying, dressed in tight jeans and wearing a baseball cap, was talking to her younger brother, Yang Fan.
Liu Yifei, Yang Mi, Liu Shishi, and Tang Yan, the four beauties, actually came to watch today's competition together. They sat together, whispering to each other, and then burst into laughter.
A little further away, Dilraba, dressed in extremely loose clothing, sat with several other artists from the company, occasionally touching her stomach.
Deng Ziqi, wearing hot pants, was talking to her female friends while glancing at the venue from time to time.
Wang Xiucheng didn't dare to look anymore.
Looking around, all I see are my current girlfriends!
Wang Xiucheng only glanced at it briefly, and he was startled by his own reaction.
It's terrifying! These people have such fiery and passionate eyes; they practically want to devour Wang Xiucheng.
Fortunately, these people didn't sit together, but were interspersed among other celebrities.
Besides these beautiful female celebrities, male celebrities such as Li Chen, Deng Chao, and Huang Bo also sat in the front row.
Even Yao Ming was invited to the podium behind the technical table, where he was talking to Ma Yun, the biggest sponsor of the game.
Standing next to Wang Xiucheng, Durant looked at the people on the court and couldn't help but remark, "You're really famous here."
Wang Xiucheng smiled and pointed to some fans wearing Durant jerseys and holding his posters, saying, "This is my home court after all, but there are quite a few of your fans here too."
Durant unconsciously straightened his back and reached out to greet several fans nearby who were calling his name.
Soon, the brief warm-up ended.
The players from both sides stood on the field, ready to begin today's match.
Whether intentionally or not, one of the three referees appointed by the league today was a female referee, Ashley Moyle Gladsey, whom both Wang Xiucheng and Doncic had flirted with.
Today, the Nets, wearing their home jerseys, fielded a starting five of Wang Xiucheng, Durant, Claxton, Royce O'Neal, and Ben Simmons.
The Trail Blazers fielded Anfernee Simons, Lillard, Hart, Grant, and Nurkic.
With Nurkic and Claxton standing at the center line, the referee finally tossed the basketball high into the air.