Chapter 986 Feifei
At the end of August, Steve Nash announced his return and he will represent the Pacers in the next season.
It is not yet concluded whether his final dance will be next season. His contract will not expire until 2015. The first year of joining the Pacers has achieved its established goal (winning the championship), and the next two years are full of variables.
He may suddenly be discouraged, may be defeated by injuries, may be traded by the team, or he may play until 2015 and officially retire when the contract expires.
In the summer of 2013, the Clippers lost the final and lost to the Pacers for the second time. Stern was about to give up his position as president. The two future stars who joined the league in 1994, both Grant Hill and Jason Kidd, who are over 40 years old, both retired.
Kiddah was unwilling to accept that he failed to win a ring.
Hill is perfect. In the first two years of retirement, he won two rings, not many, but it is enough. I wonder if his brilliant NCAA career is "just" to win two national championships?
In mid-September, the preseason training camp will be launched.
The Pacers gathered their generals, and in a blink of an eye, Xie Hou, Yao, Garnett, Nash, Ray Allen, Ci Shiping, Kirilenko, Omi Casby, Jay Claude, Xiao Feng, Tim Hardaway II, Mason Plumley, and Grevis Vasquez returned to the team.
They still have seven veterans over 30 years old.
There are six strong young men at the same time. Moreover, as Ray Allen grows older, Sabo Seflosa is traded, and two positions are vacant for the starting lineup.
Young people have hope to make the starter list to boost the Pacers’ vitality.
The training camp should have been full of laughter. Half a month later, the day before, Yao Yu was injured and quit the training camp.
The laughter disappeared.
It was an injury without warning. Yao Yu ran and suddenly twisted himself.
Injuries without substantial contact are sometimes even more terrible. The next day, they came out and had a third-degree sprain in the ankle.
Moreover, his injured foot was the one he had broken when he was playing in the youth competition.
In ancient times, if there were crows in the military camps before the war started, it would be considered an ominous sign.
Yao Yu was injured before the battle. The Pacers' prospect of defending title was covered with a dark aura. More and more people didn't believe they could defend the championship.
It has been a day or two for being questioned. They have long been accustomed to outside doubts, as long as they believe in themselves.
On Media Day, many media came to interview.
The most they asked about Yao Yun. When will Yao Yun come back, will it disrupt their season plan?
Nonsense, like asking whether one of the two legs is broken will affect your walking?
The impact is inevitable. Even if the walker is on a crutch, he must move forward. It is impossible to have a life of injury.
They had a more difficult time than this, and unless Xie Hou was injured, no one would be too relieved.
The one-month preseason training camp allowed the Pacers to confirm a new start.
Yao will have to wait until mid-December to come back, and the Pacers will first play preseason.
Their new starters are: Sherhou, Grevis Vasquez, Omi Casby, Garnett, Mason Plumley.
Yao Yun was injured, which indirectly led to Plumley's starter.
He was gloriously the first non-loto center in Pacers history to start in his rookie season.
Five preseason games, one against the Jazz, one against the Magic, and the other three against the European powerhouses respectively.
The alliance spared no effort to market the Chinese derby and promote the NBA to Europeans. As long as they had the opportunity, they would encounter it.
In the preseason with the Jazz, Chinese player Qin Zilong got the starting position.
Moreover, the competition venue is still in China, so the popularity goes without saying.
In the first preseason game, Qin Zilong had highlights and black spots.
His highlight is that he has outstanding running awareness and is an excellent runner without a ball.
The black spot is that he has not yet stepped out of the comfort zone of the NCAA short three-point line.
As a shooter, three-pointers are unstable, and three-pointers made 1 of 5 shots in the game.
The deepest impression he left was a dunk on the frontcourt in a certain round.
That is definitely not the physical quality that Sagittarius should have.
In other words, people with explosive athletic abilities will not be willing to be a shooter.
Qin Zilong is a similar freak. He has extremely excellent physical talent, but he doesn't like to show off. He is keen on shooting basketballs and doesn't like to dunk.
In order to satisfy the fans, Xie Hou played for 27 minutes and easily won a triple-double.
When Xiao Feng appeared, the scene reached its climax.
Fans are so realistic.
After all, Xie Hou is about to be photographed to death on the beach. He belongs to young people in the future, and Xiao Feng and Qin Zilong are more popular.
"Arthur, why do the Chinese on the scene prefer Michael and Jazz No. 16?" asked Mr. Peace, Charity World, in confusion.
His question is like when Yao Yun was asked by Houston media why McGrady's jerseys were sold better in China than him.
Many times, picking up wisdom is not a bad thing.
Xie Hou used Yao Yun's response to the media's model to respond to Ci Shiping: "Because I am an old man, they have supported me for more than ten years, and young people feel more fresh."
As for the game, there is no suspense.
If you can't integrate, you can win easily.
Two days later, the results were the same.
What fans are most looking forward to is the showdown between Lin Shen and Xiao Feng. Xie Hou is very popular, but the audience does not have the passion of "see here for the other two people".
After the Chinese race, the Pacers rushed to Europe without staying for long.
In the European Championship, Xie Hou averaged 20 minutes per game, which not only met the official requirements but was not too tired.
At the end of October, the Pacers returned to the United States with a complete victory.
Five preseason games allowed them to start in a fixed starting lineup.
Before the opening match came, Xie Hou became a family man.
Xuewei is about to give birth, and her belly looks very big. She will definitely give birth to a healthy fat man.
They were discussing the child's name.
If it is a girl, it will be named by Xuewei.
If it is a boy, it will be named by Xie Hou.
For this reason, Xie Hou went to check the dictionary to make sure his child had a good name.
Because he had known that he was a boy, he secretly asked the doctor for a question without telling Xuewei.
What Xuewei wants is a surprise that she doesn’t know anything. Xie Hou doesn’t want any surprises. She will be happy if she knows it. Both men and women are fine, just confirm in advance.
Seeing Xuewei's face full of expectations, Xie Hou felt a little guilty.
He confessed for a few minutes and then went to think of his name.
At the beginning, he thought of many interesting names.
One day, his sister Xie Nini went home for dinner. When she heard him name the child, she said casually: "I think Xie Feifei's name is good!"
"What are you taking blindly!"
Xie Hou always felt that the women in his family had a very average naming level.
Look at his fucking name, Chen Mimi.
Her sister's name, Xie Nini... Why do you have to use the format of abb?
"Brother, you don't understand this, right? Names are very important..." She knew that names are very important.
Wait, even though you know that the name is important, you name her nephew "Feifei"? If this is in China, you will definitely be ridiculed by your classmates.
"Yes, it's very important that you are still so careless? Is there anyone who is like you as an aunt?"
"Don't call me aunt, you call me old..." Xie Nini said, explaining, "Look at the name our dad gave you, Xie Hou, what does the word "Xie Hou" mean? It means waiting, which makes you "waiting" in Indiana for so many years, and you will be in vain for great youth. When Fei Fei grows up, you won't be like you."
"What's your name? I didn't agree!"
Xie Hou disagreed, but what his sister said and the three words "Xie Feifei" floated in his mind from then on, and it was difficult to dissipate.
No matter what new name Xie Hou thought of, those three words are still here.
Xie Hou was deeply troubled and decided to ask Xuewei for her opinion.
When he said the three words "Xie Feifei", Xuewei was surprised: "Feifei? It sounds like a girl's name."
"'fei' means fly in Chinese. Nini hopes that the child will not be in Indiana like me in the future, and should follow his wishes and fly high." Xie Hou said hesitantly, "I think the meaning is very good, but it is a bit too simple..."
After hearing this, Xuewei said relievedly: "What's wrong with simplicity? This is a good name! If it is called 'Fei Fei', he doesn't even have to worry about his English name. The Chinese name is 'Fei Fei' and the English name is Fly, how good?"
Xie Hou said in surprise: "You really think it's good? Didn't you comfort me?"
"How could this be? This is the baby's name! It's really good, it's a top-notch, comparable to your four-pointer to beat the Clippers!"
Since Xuewei doesn't object, Xie Hou is relieved.
Just it.
"Since that's the case, just call Feifei." Xie Hou touched Xuewei's pregnant belly, "Little Prince, be good!"
"etc!"
Xuewei grabbed Xie Hou's hand that was placed on his stomach: "Little Prince? How do you know it is the Little Prince?"
"Well..."
Unexpectedly, Xie Hou still couldn't wait for the little secret of darkness until Xie Feifei was born.
In order to punish Xie Hou, Xuewei punished him to sleep in the living room for a week.
Xuewei was mainly angry that Xie Hou secretly went to the doctor to ask about his gender, but that he had been hiding it for so long.
Did he know that naming a name is a laborious task? If he had known that the child was taken care of, the couple would have been able to come up with a better name than "Fei Fei" and "Fry"!
Chapter completed!