Madison!

The games at Madison Square Garden these days are not yet future star performance evenings. Madison Square Garden, which still retains the residual power of reaching the finals in the 1990s, is still the holy land of basketball back then. It serves as the face of New York, not the basketball that will be ridiculed in the future.

Holy place.

Seeing that his teammates seemed to have little reaction to losing a game, and sadly received a task, Liu Mang felt that losing was not that difficult to accept, right...

What a big deal!

"Brother System, sir, I don't want it anymore. Can that task be cancelled?"

"The host requested to cancel the task. The task cancellation was automatically judged as failure. Is the host sure?"

"..."

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December 16th is a very important day for both cities.

On the afternoon of the 15th, after playing two consecutive home games, Liu Mang was about to leave Atlanta with the team and come to the location of a team that Liu Mang is currently considered to be his biggest opponent - Memphis, Tennessee!

The latest rookie rankings in December, this ranking about rookies, mvp, team strength, etc. is a new thing that the NBA official website has just launched this season, and it has attracted much attention from fans.

Strong teams have competition among strong teams, and the competition between strong teams is about who is the mvp and who is number one in the strength rankings.

The Eagles' current record ranks eighth in the league, and their strength rankings only rank 12th, which is above the middle of the pack. They are not qualified to talk about the strength rankings.

But the weak team has its own concerns.

Just like the Hawks and Grizzlies, the thing that fans of these two teams are most concerned about this season is who will win the Rookie of the Year award!

Originally, the Eagles didn't care about this matter. The draft of their own team in the past few years has been a disaster, with one parallel import after another. They have become accustomed to forgetting this problem. In addition, they made the playoffs last season. Since they are a

In a small draft year, the 17th pick in the first round had no use and was traded away. They didn't care about it at first, but who knew that the rookie selected in the second round actually broke out! He has been ranked in the top five in the rookie list since the beginning of the new season, and now he has

He climbed to second place, averaging 15.5 points, 1.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game, second only to the Grizzlies' Pau Gasol.

It seems that there is a gap between Liu Mang's strength and Pau Gasol, but fans still hold on to hope, because the Hawks' record is much better than the Grizzlies! One is the top four in the conference, and the other is at the bottom of the Western Conference.

Judging from the current strength and data, Pau Gasol is definitely the number one rookie, but when the time comes to vote, the record will definitely become a big influencing factor!

Liu Mang packed up his things, nothing special, just a pair of sneakers, a thin jacket, a mobile wallet and so on.

The team bus hasn't arrived yet, and Liu Mang is watching TV in the living room, waiting for the bus.

The team bus driver expressed despair. Other players, coaches, and management staff all drove to the airport by themselves. He could have legitimately taken a "vacation." Who knew there would be a weird rookie this year? In the news

Even though he has a Lamborghini, he still wants to ride on the team bus! This is so stingy!

"Uncle, your bag is so beautiful! Huh? Why can't you open it?" Little Loli Dinah was tinkering with Liu Mang's backpack that was selected by the system.

"Huh? Isn't it? It's broken?" Liu Mang was very surprised. The system was so deceitful that it broke even after the first use?

Liu Mang took the bag and pulled it open.

"..."

"Why can't Dinah pull it open? This bag doesn't like Dinah?" Dinah asked strangely.

Dinah tried to pull the chain on, but then it wouldn't open.

"..." This backpack is fire-proof and waterproof. Is it also anti-theft?

"The host's guess is correct. Only the host can unzip the backpack."

What a great feeling! I’m not afraid of things being stolen!

No, what if the backpack is stolen directly?

It's okay, the locks on this kind of backpacks and suitcases are all "gentleman locks". They can't protect gentlemen from villains. If someone really wants to steal, just steal the bag together. It doesn't matter whether you lock it or not. The main thing is

It is to prevent privacy from prying eyes.

Little Loli Dinah tinkered with this strange backpack for a while, but soon lost interest and began to discuss the competition with Liu Mang.

"Uncle, you must beat that European!" Little Lolita Dinah seemed to attach more importance to Liu Mang's defeat of Pau Gasol than Liu Mang.

"Eh? Dinah, don't you like handsome guys the most?"

"Europeans are not handsome guys, they are too soft, uncles are the handsome guys!" Little Lolita Dinah looked on with admiration.

"Just tell me what your purpose is!" Liu Mang rolled his eyes at the little lolita.

Having seen through her thoughts, Dinah said coquettishly: "Dina has a classmate whose hometown is Memphis. She has a scarab totem, so beautiful..."

"Ahem, the weather is so nice today!" Liu Mang looked at the dark clouds outside the window and changed the subject.

Are you kidding! That thing looks like hundreds of dollars a piece!

"Uncle is a cheapskate!"

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After an hour's flight, Liu Mang followed the team to Memphis for the first time.

It's a bit ridiculous to say that Memphis is a Western Conference team. If it is classified into the Southwest Division, it is estimated that the league really cannot make up the number of teams in the Southwest Division. We can't let the Southwest Division continue to have only the top three Texas teams, so the Memphis Grizzlies in the southeastern United States

It was assigned to the Southwest Division.

The football market here in Memphis is really good, and the atmosphere among the fans is very good, because this city has never had a decent professional team since its establishment in the 19th century!

Before the Grizzlies moved here in July this year, the only place people remembered about Memphis was that Elvis Presley's first album "Heartbreak Hotel" was released here and became popular in Europe and the United States.

, there is nothing else that people can remember.

When there was a professional team in the four major leagues, Memphis people immediately became die-hard fans of the Grizzlies. The big difference between Europe and the United States and China is that most of their fans are urban fans, with a strong sense of belonging.

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It's just that there are only more than 500,000 people in a place as big as Memphis, so it will be difficult for the Grizzlies to make money.

After getting off the plane, Liu Mang felt that this place seemed pretty good and the environment was very good. The bus drove from the airport to the city and it was difficult to see high-rise buildings.

As we approached the city, we saw very few high-rise buildings.

But just outside the city, Liu Mang saw a "bizarrely" tall building. Of course, it was taller than the other buildings he saw, with about fifty or sixty floors.

"Nazir, what is that building for? It is built outside the city? Can the shops be rented out?" Liu Mang asked curiously.

"Oh, that's the prison in Memphis, the tallest building here."

"..."

The tallest building is a prison! What does the mayor here think?

When he was still a fan, Liu Mang often saw on the Internet that players did not want to go to places like Memphis to play, saying that this was an urban-rural area. When he got here, he found that it was indeed the case. The buildings here were probably similar to the urban-rural integration of Shanghai and BJ.

They are almost the same. There are very few high-rise buildings with more than 20 floors. The largest buildings in the city are banks and the FedEx headquarters...

However, the basketball atmosphere is much stronger than that of Atlanta. Atlanta also has strong teams in the NFL. The Hawks can barely compete with the NFL's Falcons by relying on the popularity that Wilkins accumulated for the Hawks. Over the years, they have begun to gradually

They lost to the Falcons. If Liu Mang hadn't been so popular in Atlanta this year, he would have been left behind by the Falcons.

As for the sports fans here in Memphis, when Liu Mang came out of the hotel, he saw posters, advertisements on bus stops, and promotions on the big screens outside the supermarket. They were all about the Grizzlies and Grizzlies star Paul.

-Gasol!

Liu Mang came to the supermarket to buy the totem toy passed down by the indigenous people here for Dinah, but he saw the Grizzlies' promotion for tomorrow's game outside the supermarket.

"Best rookie?"

My family loves their own children more. A rookie is like a child to a team. Memphis people's love for Pau Gasol can be seen from the advertisements that can be seen everywhere.

He is handsome, has a beautiful playing style, and has an elegant personality. It is not unreasonable for fans to love Gasol.
Chapter completed!