“Oh my God, how did they do it?”

“Damn it, even printing couldn't be this fast!”

“I can’t do this anymore, my hands are cramping up. Can someone replace me?”

“If you ask me, since we don’t even need to verify the counts, why don't we just use visual estimation?”

“Good idea! We just need to report a rounded number at the end!”

“But... the president emphasized that we need to conduct the count fairly, openly, and impartially, didn't he?”

“That’s easy. Look, this stack I’m holding has exactly 100 emails. We just estimate based on that ratio and report a few more at the end.”

“But...”

“No buts! Who the hell can count all these emails in two days?”

At NBA headquarters, looking at the staff wholeheartedly focused on counting emails…

Stern felt that his life as president was just so simple, unadorned, and boring at this moment.

“David, the media are already rushing here, we need to…”

Inside the president's office, Mark didn't know why, but when he saw Adam Silver also being sent to count emails...

Mark just felt, how could he be so happy?

Ah, no, as Stern's capable assistant, Mark was actually very “sympathetic” to Silver.

After all, they were colleagues, and Mark was not the type to suppress his colleagues.

“Don’t rush to tell the media what exactly happened here.” Stern waved his hand at Mark, looking a bit lonely.

“David, you mean…” When he didn't know how to handle things, Mark knew that a tool, only needed to obey Stern's orders.

“Hype. You have to throw it out little by little to arouse people's curiosity.” Stern said to Mark.

“I see!” Mark was immediately enlightened by Stern.

These emails that floated over from across the ocean were indeed news worthy of reporting.

The more mysterious the league acted, the more the media and people wanted to know what exactly happened at NBA headquarters on January 25th.

When people's curiosity reached its peak, and then the truth was revealed...

Not only could they happily harvest a wave of profits, but they could also help Su Feng solidify the fairness of these votes.

This was David Stern, the NBA’s king of hyping people, his plan.

Mark might not believe it if he were told...

Because regardless of whether he could ultimately count the result, Stern had already prepared a “reasonable” number of votes for Su Feng in his heart when he saw that miracle.

In the Eastern Conference forward position, Grant Hill's starting position was untouchable.

Even if Su Feng's "actual" votes really exceeded Hill's, Stern would not allow such a thing to happen.

Because that would be overhyping it, and would cause some American fans who originally had a good impression of Su Feng to turn against him.

Stern now hoped that Su Feng would not only become a Chinese star, but also convey the NBA's openness and "fairness" to the world through Su Feng.

Look, the battle between the cute rabbit and the silly hawk couldn't stop Su Feng from becoming a star in the NBA.

Our NBA is a competitive league, basketball is a sport, and what does sports have to do with politics?

Therefore...

Stern had already chosen a "sacrifice" for Su Feng.

Let Scottie Pippen give up his damn starting position.

Coincidentally, Pippen only got a few hundred thousand votes this year. In Stern's view, it was very reasonable for Su Feng to replace Pippen as an Eastern Conference All-Star starter.

Also worth mentioning is that because this year's All-Star Game was being held during the Chinese New Year, Stern felt it necessary to notify Cleveland, which was responsible for hosting the All-Star Game this year, to prepare in advance.

No need to be too extravagant.

But adding some decorations with Chinese elements to further gain Chinese fans' recognition of the NBA was still very necessary in Stern's view.

Sigh!

Why was this inter-sea bridge suddenly built?

It’s just not quite right...

It’s just a pity that Su Feng wasn't participating in the slam dunk contest this year, missing a bit of that flavor.

But it didn't matter. For Stern, he knew that one must know how to be content.

…

While the NBA staff were busy counting votes for Su Feng, in Detroit, Su Feng was engaging in a speed competition with Hill.

Too exaggerated…

Even Su Feng’s brother Tracy, in Su Feng’s opinion, was a bit slower than Hill.

Without decelerating to change direction, all kinds of accelerated drifting, Hill’s dribbling breakthrough was truly the NBA version of "gutter cornering."

Of course, just like every AE86 going up the mountain, there will be a Mercedes-Benz tree incident...

Bah, in Su Feng’s opinion, Hill's style of play was cool, but he was going to be in trouble sooner or later.

In Su Feng’s previous life, future Rose was also an old driver who played this style of not slowing down to change direction.

As a result, he rushed to...

Suffering was nothing to Su Feng.

Because in Su Feng’s opinion, if he wasn't even willing to endure this little bit of suffering, then he really wouldn't be able to endure any suffering in the future...

…

After Su Feng and Hill said goodbye, the 76ers returned to Philadelphia.

Next, they had two more games to play in the devilish January, and because those two games were at the end of the month, after returning to Philadelphia, Su Feng called Grover at the first opportunity.

As a legendary personal trainer, Grover had always been a very professional person.

In his opinion, Jordan gave him so much money, how could he be ungrateful?

“Hmm, is that so?

No problem at all, I’m very available. I can fly to Philadelphia tomorrow.”

After finishing the call with Su Feng, Grover suddenly remembered that Jordan had only asked that he not coach others in the summer, but he had never told him that he couldn’t coach others during the regular season.

See, this doesn’t count as Grover “breaching the contract”, right?

Who told Jordan not to say it explicitly back then?

Actually, to blame, one had to blame Su Feng for daring to do devilish training during the regular season.

Jordan wasn’t stupid. If he monopolized Grover’s training during the regular season as well, then wouldn’t he have to stop going to casinos to play and nightclubs to see girls?

One had to know that Grover’s worth wasn’t as cheap as Mancias and the others...

This guy’s worth was definitely worthy of being the Jordan of the trainer world.

Just like that, on the morning of the 27th, Su Feng met Grover.

Grover wasn’t tall and had a slightly receding hairline. After sizing up Su Feng for a while, he smiled and said, “If I didn’t look at the skin color and hairstyle, I would have thought I was coaching Michael.”

Because of the arrival of the legendary trainer, Mancias and the others hurriedly took out their notebooks.

Just like Su Feng looking up to Jordan, Mancias and the others were all fans of Grover.

When he saw Mancias and the others taking notes seriously, Su Feng realized that the money he spent was definitely worth it...

Look at these important subordinates, how good they were at saving him money?

Anyway, Grover didn’t care, because he was also a man with dreams.

In the 90s, the trainer profession wasn’t as popular as it would be in the future.

Grover hoped that the trainer profession could develop and grow. In this respect, he was a conscientious senior.

“Your speed is really surprising.” After testing Su Feng’s maximum sprint speed, Grover praised Su Feng.

“You want to improve your ball-handling speed, right?” Grover curiously looked up at Su Feng and asked.

Su Feng nodded.

“But are you sure your body can withstand... competing and training at the same time?” Grover asked worriedly.

At this time, Mancias gave Su Feng a timely assist, “Don’t worry, Tim, just train Su to death.”

After spending nearly a year together, Mancias knew Su Feng’s durability very well.

“Okay, then you have to be mentally prepared... you can accept appropriate ‘corporal punishment’, right?” Grover added.

Su Feng patted his chest, “No problem, Tim, don’t be polite! Please use the standards you would use for Michael, and then raise them tenfold to demand of me!”

Grover was amused, and then...

Su Feng “cried”.

Because after the training started, Grover seemed to have changed into a different person.

The so-called appropriate “corporal punishment” was that if an action didn’t meet the standard, one had to run around the court fifteen times, and Grover would kick one’s butt hard.

Grover’s training could only be described as “rough”. He kept squeezing Su Feng’s limits, pushing Su Feng little by little.

And he was also very good at giving pep talks.

Whenever Su Feng was half-dead from exhaustion, he would always use some inspiring words to make Su Feng instantly regain his strength even without drinking nutritional supplements.

In addition, he also told Su Feng a trick.

That was...

“Since your skills can’t keep up with your speed for the time being, why not let your speed chase after your skills?” Grover said, awakening the dreamer.

Grover’s trick for Su Feng was very simple. He told Su Feng to dribble with as much lead as possible, increase the force of the dribble, and find his own ultimate three-step layup position, launching the attack directly from the limit distance.

Use the roughest way to solve the battle.

In Su Feng’s previous life, Hill and McGrady had both shown this kind of big-stride breakthrough. Su Feng thought that it should be related to the fact that they had both hired Grover.

Mancias on the side was dumbfounded... because when Su Feng practiced dribbling with big strides, he did have a dashing, unstoppable feel when he charged.

“Protect your ball! Basketball is your life. Crush all those who try to take the basketball from you!”

Grover was very satisfied with his first day of coaching Su Feng.

Because for him, a trainer with dreams, coaching talented players and watching these talents grow rapidly under his training was the most enjoyable thing.

As for money...

Well... that was also very enjoyable!

After a day of training, Su Feng’s ball-handling speed had surprisingly increased by two points.

Of course, this degree of improvement was related to Grover correcting his dribbling breakthrough posture.

Although he couldn’t become the Philadelphia Irving yet, Su Feng believed that as long as he was willing to work hard, under Grover’s coaching, his ball-handling speed would definitely catch up with his maximum sprint speed before the playoffs.

At that time, even without fancy dribbling skills, he would be able to make a name for himself in this era!

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