The Way of the Center

An Jie sat on the sand and flipped through the newspaper. After his injury, he had rarely paid attention to basketball news outside of the Thunder. E『』Ω novel www. 1XIAOSHUO. COM But before his comeback, Anjie decided to understand what happened during his absence this season.

"Derek Rose has become the youngest mVp in history!" The first headline greatly stimulated Anjie's heart.

He hasn't forgotten how the Thunder defeated the Bulls in the opening game of the 1o-11 season. In that game, Rose also played very embarrassed under Anjie's defense. However, it is this guy of his own age, this guy who has been defeated more than once by his own hands, has actually won the regular season mVp award.

In the previous confrontation with Rose, Anjie can be said that he has never fallen behind. It's good now, taking advantage of Anjie's injury, others took Ross mVp, but Anjie's third season was completely blank.

"Kevin Durant continues to lead the scoring!" The second title not only made An Jie happy for Durant, but also made An Jie worry about his future. Durant is now a veritable superstar. In the Thunder, Westbrook's control of the ball is already the biggest compromise Durant can make. An Jie couldn't imagine what his tactical status would become after returning to the Thunder.

"Westbrook was selected to the All-NBA Second Team, and Andrew Morris was selected to the Best Defensive Second Team..." After that, Angel saw that Westbrook and Morris were equally rewarding. Now that the Thunder team is very strong, does he still have his place? An Jie knows that basketball is not a simple game that the more stars the team will play, the better the team is. Now the lineup of the Thunder is very mature and stable. Suddenly inserting himself is not necessarily a good thing.

Your position in the Thunder is one thing, and the official suspension of the nBa league is the second thing that bothers Anjie.

When Meslav warned that Anjie's alliance was likely to be suspended, Anjie didn't take it seriously. He believes that in this era, the suspension is just a means for players to intimidate the league, and the league can't make this kind of thing really happen.

However, this matter really happened. Now the player union and the league are still actively discussing. As for when the nBa will resume in the new season, there is no conclusion at all. The so-called "indefinite suspension" is not bluffing. If the league and the player union can't talk about it for a day, the new season will not start.

This is not the most serious problem. The most serious problem is that all team training facilities are not available to players during the lockout period, and the team must also close all training camps. The league’s transfer market and free agent market will all be closed.

Therefore, Anjie can still only train with the trainers now. He cannot reconcile with the Thunder, and it is even less possible to participate in the team's joint training.

During the time when nBa was temporarily "closed", most nBa players chose to play in other leagues. Among them, China's cBa League has become the stage of choice for most players.

Under this general trend, domestic calls for An Jie to play cBa are very high. Meslav did have contact with several cBa teams on this matter, but in the end they all stopped.

For most players who go to netBa, they just go to China to "gold out". They will not have any ambitious goals, nor will they really fight for their team. Money is the sole purpose of these guys playing in cBa.

An Jie is a professional player, he also depends on playing to make money. But just to play for the money, An Jie found that he couldn't do it.

Although he was injured for a season, Anjie still got his salary, and the Thunder won't miss him a single point. In other words, although Anjie hasn't worked for a season, his financial situation has not been affected.

If An Jie, who is not short of money, wants to play a game, he has only one purpose, and that is to restore his state and physical strength. If he is asked to join a team, and the contract indicates that he can jump out of the contract and return to nBa at any time, this is too commercial in Anjie's view. Either do your best for a team, or you just don't join. An Jie doesn't like things like wandering.

Regarding a team that sincerely invites you to join as a money printing machine, Anjie has never been able to agree with this approach. Either to win or not to join. Anjie admitted that now it is impossible for him to devote his heart to a cBa league team. So he simply rejected all cBa teams, including the invitation of the European League, and worked hard for the new nBa season and for the Thunder's second championship rush.

And the Drew League is undoubtedly the best stage to help Anjie find the game without being disturbed by too many factors of interest. However, An Jie's move was understood by the outside world as an escape.

"This guy was afraid of his bad state, so he didn't dare to appear in the professional league."

"Maybe the current Anjie can't even play cBa, so he simply waited at home for the Thunder to renew his contract. After the bad state is exposed, the Thunder will choose not to implement the team options for the next year."

"He just can't do it, An Jie is very self-aware, so he dare not accept the contract, dare not come to the table to play."

Countless doubts hit An Jie, and countless insults rushed into An Jie's ears. Even though Wu Hua wrote a lot of articles about Anjie's overcoming injuries, the fans just couldn't listen. Now, there are only a handful of diehard fans who are still silently supporting An Jie.

Days passed, and soon, Anjie didn't even have to play in the Drew League. As an amateur league, the schedule of the Drew League is very short. In just one month, Anjie played a whole season of Drew League.

Although we have to face the situation where there is no ball to play again, but the good news came out at this time, that is, the nBa labor negotiation finally has a result.

On November 26, after the new season of nBa was postponed for a full month, both parties finally reached an agreement. And it is determined that the 11-12 season nBa season will kick off on December 25, and the free agent market and training camp will also officially start on December 9.

Everything was finally back on track, and after a full year, Anjie finally had the opportunity to stand on the professional league.

Sure enough, the day after the labor-management negotiations reached an agreement, Presti made a phone call to Anjie and Moslav, telling them that the team would implement the team option against Anjie and execute the last year. Contract.

In the last year, Anjie's salary finally broke through the 2oo mark, reaching an annual salary of 31o US dollars. But it doesn't matter to An Jie, he just wants to come on stage quickly and show his fist.

An Jie is full of energy now, very happy. But Meslav has some doubts about the Thunder's approach. An Jie's contract is already the last year, but Presti didn't mention the renewal. Last year's Durant and this year's Westbrook, Prestige renewed their contract in advance, for fear that they would be poached by other teams.

But now, Presti only tells Angel to execute the final year of the contract, but does not say that Angel's future will not belong to Oklahoma after a year. There is only one reason for this, and that is that Presti did not, or it is still uncertain whether Anjie is part of the Thunder's future plans.

Durant and Westbrook are now the cornerstones of the Thunder, but Angel, who has suffered serious injuries and has not played an official game for a whole year, has not won the trust of Presti.

But seeing An Jie's eagerness to try now, Meslav didn't talk about it with An Jie, lest An Jie's enthusiasm would be extinguished.

Finally, on December 9th, the Thunder opened the training camp, and Anjie reunited with his teammates who had been away for a year.

Everyone is still enthusiastic about Anjie. With an excellent center, Van Gundy can finally make a big splash in the new season. But during the confrontation training that day, everyone was stunned by An Jie's performance.

Neither Morris nor Ibaka could effectively contain their offense. An Jie knew that he needed a process of adapting. He didn't play a game for a year and suddenly asked you to play against a player at the nBa level. That must be an adaptation. An Jie still feels that his legs are not moving enough, and the rhythm is a little too slow. But he knew that this was not a big problem for him. This process is just something that must be experienced.

But in the eyes of others, especially the businessman Presti, Anjie's problems have begun to be exposed.

After that, the preseason also came as scheduled. An Jie now has a really low position in the tactical system of the Thunder. Now Durant, Westbrook and Bledsoe occupy a lot of the ball. An Jie is on the court and can only do some blue-collar work. jobs. And even the intensity of the confrontation training An Jie has not fully adapted, let alone the official competition.

After three preseason games, Anjie scored 4 points and 4 rebounds, 6 points and 7 rebounds, and 3 points and 4 rebounds. Desire is not enough, Anjie and Van Gundy are both going through this process, and Anjie's tactical status has become lower. This is not to blame Van Gundy. Van Gundy also made changes to make the team better. The current Anjie is not enough to take on the big responsibility. An Jie is not in a hurry, now he can only regain his position by crawling the Internet step by step. He knows Van Gundy's style, he knows Van Gundy never forgets himself.

An Jie and Van Gundy are both for the team's consideration, but in the eyes of outsiders, An Jie's poor performance is not a compromise and adaptation. To adapt, it is time to adapt. The same season is reimbursed and returned from injury. The really powerful guys can show their performance right away. Even Presti began to determine Anjie's future problems in his heart.

Presti did not directly choose An Jie in the draft at the time. One of the biggest concerns was that An Jie would continue to be injured like Yao Ming. It now appears that Anjie really has a tendency to develop in that direction.

These days, Presti has not received less offers from other teams. Among them were several proposals for trading Angel, which made Presti a little excited, but at the time he still thought it would be better to make a decision after watching a few games. Now that Anjie's preseason is like this, Presti has brought out the proposals that were about to be thrown out again. It's not that he is unkind, but nBa is such a place where interests are paramount...

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After a day of training, Anjie returned home with Morris after taking a shower. Today is December 21st. Although the new season will start four days later, Van Gundy decided to let the players relax for the night and celebrate Christmas in advance. So tonight, the Thunder did not train.

Anjie and the Morris family gathered in their little villa, and Catherine took time out of her busy schedule and rushed to Oklahoma with her father.

On Christmas before the start of the new season, everyone hopes to send their blessings to An Jie and wish him, who has just returned from injury, all the best in the new season. This is why Anjie and Morris are doing such a big deal this Christmas.

"Uncles and aunts, don't worry! With me, no one can bully An Jie again!" Morris patted An Jie's parents at the dinner table.

"You got a big bull, you don't want to cause trouble for me, even thank God." An Jie patted Morris on the shoulder. Although it was just a joke, An Jie knew in his heart that if there was anything, Morris would definitely be the first. One stand out.

Just as Anjie's mother was about to cut the turkey, and when everyone was taking up their wine glasses to celebrate the arrival of Christmas, Anjie's cell phone suddenly rang.

"It's Mr. Meslav, he must have called us to wish us a Merry Christmas." In order to let everyone hear the blessings from Meslav, Anjie also set the phone to be hands-free.

"Hello, Mr. Moslav, Merry Christmas." Anjie smiled, everyone gathered together, and the new season is about to begin~www.NovelMTL.com~ My physical condition is getting better day by day. Everything went well too well.

"Merry Christmas, did Presti call you?" But on the other end of the phone, Meslav's voice was a little anxious.

"No? What's the matter?" An Jie is very strange. There are not many private contacts between the players and the general manager. Why does his manager suddenly ask this question.

"That means you don’t know yet? Then let me tell you. Ann, the **** of Prestige just told me that he has put you on the transfer list and tells you to be ready for the transfer anytime !" Meslav's words were passed into the ears of everyone present through the speaker of the hands-free telephone.

The original lively and cheerful atmosphere suddenly solidified. On Christmas Eve, this kind of news is a bit outdated.

"Transfer!?" An Jie said to himself in surprise, the word was so unfamiliar to him, so out of reach. But today, just a second ago, he had a major relationship with this word.

An Jie's mind was blank. Looking at the Oklahoma City covered with snow outside the window, An Jie suddenly felt a chill rise in his heart. It's time to come, it's coming.