"Are you sure this is the right place?"
"That's right. Last year, I came to interview Jordan for his first game after his comeback.”
"Take it away!"
From the front hall of the MCi Center, the interview team took the elevator to the top floor, where the headquarters of the Wizards Club was located.
The leader was Zhang Weiping, Instructor Zhang.
Since Jordan had been to the first match of the Wizards after his comeback last year, he was now leading the way in front of them.
However, this time, their target was not Jordan, but Duke, a talented rookie who suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
When they were tracking the general performance of the summer league, they were shocked by Duke's sudden emergence through local news reports.
In the news reports of the Southern California Summer League, the limelight was completely overshadowed by a rookie who was not from the league. Every time the media mentioned the general situation, there was only a short sentence and a line of data.
On the contrary, the local media kept comparing Duke, who played in the Eastern Boston Summer League, to all the rookies in the Southern California Summer League.
As long as a certain game, or even a certain rookie of the Laker team performed well, Duke would be compared.
It could be said that Duke, who was far away in the East, was the rookie who was mentioned the most by the local media.
There was no other reason. Comparing a second-round rookie to a rookie with a higher draft was just too much of a gimmick and too much of a buzz.
Even though this year wasn't a big year for talent shows, it was still hyped up by the major media as if it was a big year.
In every report, there were all kinds of ridicule and mockery.
"The number thirty-nine Xiudukes have performed so well. Now the pressure is on you, Mike Dunleavy.”
"Nene Hilario (traded to the Nuggets immediately after being selected by the Knicks) performed very well on the seventh round. His 33-minute statistics were only twice as much as Duke's in the second round!”
Duke was like the first round of this year's show, or even the rookie testing machine for the past three years. If a rookie performed worse than him, he would be labeled as a fake.
Duke became popular for a while with these comparisons, and many fans in the United States got to know this second-rounder.
What was even more interesting was that Duke was Jordan's handpicked rookie.
The last person Jordan had handpicked was Kuo Mei Brown, the top scorer.
Last year, when the Wizards took down Brown, there were many media people and fans waiting for him to fall and then watch Jordan make a fool of himself.
After an imperfect and even failed season, they thought that he was on the verge of falling.
Now, Duke was here. Although he was only signed in the second round, it did not stop them from laughing at Jordan.
However, he didn't expect that before Kuame Brown could make his debut, Duke would make it big in the summer league.
These people who were watching the joke were also excited and began to hype up Duke.
The better Duke performed, the more they compared him to the other rookies.
On the one hand, he wanted to step on this year's rookie hype and increase the attention. On the other hand, he wanted to praise Duke up high. During the regular season, when he did not perform well on the official field, he would be able to watch Jordan make a fool of himself.
Look, although you were extremely brilliant and accomplished great things during your time as a player, you don't have a good eye for people.
Under such circumstances, Duke naturally entered the line of sight of Mother Yang and the others. At the same time, Duke's name also appeared in the domestic media reports.
However, Instructor Zhang and the others only knew that Duke was a general of the Celestial Dynasty. They didn't know anything else.
That was how this trip to Washington came about.
They had originally flown to the United States with the national team's plane to follow the national team's trip to the World Championship.
Now, they were divided into two teams. One team continued to head to Indiana, and the other team came here.
They needed to go to the Wizards 'headquarters to understand Duke's situation.
Duke!
Duke!
At this moment, in the general manager's office, Wes Unseld, the team's champion in the 77/78 season, was sitting in the middle of the room.
Winner of both the FFVP and MVP awards;
A five-time All-Star and a rebounding king;
In 1988, he was the former center of the team who had been selected into the Hall of Fame. He was a famous player and the current general manager of the team.
The higher-ups, who were regarded as confidants by their boss Abbe Boleyn, were holding Duke's excellent data sheet in the summer league and constantly looking at it.
His expression was extremely complicated.
At first, he had only wanted to trip Jordan, but he did not expect that this might cause the team to lose a center with great potential and unlimited prospects in the future.
The more outstanding the other party's performance was, the more he regretted the little trick he had done on the contract.
The more he regretted it, the more upset he felt and the more guilty he felt.
What if…
Duke really played well, and the new season was the same as the summer league. He was definitely the team's sinner.
At that time, he would be the one laughing at Jordan, and others would be laughing at him.
Perhaps the team owner would fire him in anger.
then...
Jordan took the opportunity to completely control the entire team.
The thought of Jordan completely turning the Wizards into his own possession and taking complete control of the team due to his own mistakes in the future, achieving his goal of proving himself, and then successfully gaining Abbe Boleyn's absolute trust and even transferring the ownership of the team…
Anseld didn't even dare to think about it.
Wasn't the other party joining the geniuses for this purpose?
He would become the owner of the team, the absolute boss.
At that time, he would really become a joke.
Just as he was scratching his head in frustration, his assistant knocked on the door and walked in.
"Boss, there are a few people outside who want to ask you about Duke.”
Duke again!
Anseld was even more furious!
O(> Kou>)O!
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