Chapter 1175: Chapter 483: Frenzied Finale (Part 3)
The next morning, Zhang Yang ate breakfast while browsing the news on the 3rd generation upgraded test phone just delivered by Guozi.
Since the end of 2006, he began investing most of his annual endorsent fees into Guozi’s stocks. Later, before the Beijing Olympics, he beca an endorser for Guozi, and the endorsent fees were again thrown into Guozi’s stocks… He didn’t pay much attention to how much the stock price had risen. After all, if it’s not sold, it’s just a pile of paper. This thing needs to be held long-term; it’s not yet ti to sell right now.
Becoming Guozi’s endorser had three benefits for him: one was the high endorsent fee, the second was the prestige of being a tech company endorser among his fans, and lastly, he could experience new phone models before most people… Although smartphones are just like so now, they are much more comfortable than when he first ca to this world six years ago and had to use dial-up to access the internet.
Seeing today’s trending hot topics, Zhang Yang felt sowhat speechless… He really didn’t expect the topic of the ‘Bobcats’ second-best in history’ to be revived.
After being stopped by the Chicago Bulls’ 7-ga winning streak, he hadn’t thought about the 70 wins anymore. The 10 remaining opponents included the second seed of the Eastern and Western conferences, the Cavaliers and the Lakers, the Miami Heat fighting for a playoff spot, the Brooklyn Nets, the 76ers, the Celtics who had tried their hardest to beat them in the previous two encounters, and the Bulls in the final ga… Beating all of these teams was too challenging!
Indeed, the Cavaliers, with another year of improvent from Jas, kept the score within 5 points. If it weren’t for the lack of players who could hit clutch shots in crucial monts, the Bobcats’ last 10 gas would have opened with a loss. Though they had ways to contain Jas, he switched to a role-player style that night, leading the team purely by defense… A team leading the league in defensive efficiency is no joke.
It turned out surprisingly easy against the Lakers, and Zhang San even completed his small goal of achieving a triple-double for three consecutive years, but nearly collapsed against the Celtics.
Because the Bobcats, after losing to the Chicago Bulls, decided to let go and play every ga to the best of their ability, firmly executing the coaching staff’s ga plans. The role players strived to consu ball and shot opportunities regardless of how tough it was, giving the Big Three so rest… and really got through those tough gas. And then…
9 straight wins! They were indeed on the brink of winning them all! Only two final ho-and-away gas remained!
Zhang Yang flipped through so previous news and found that after their last three-ga road trip against the Celtics, Bucks, and Thunder, the dia had already begun building hype about this topic, though it wasn’t quite as hot back then. After all, March Madness had just ended, and the competition for playoff spots and rankings among other teams was fierce, with hot topics erging daily.
The Bobcats had returned from a consecutive away stretch to face three gas in four days while being in the last phases of ‘deep adjustnt’, so he had no ti to pay attention to those topics.
But this ti it was so explosive; aside from the ’70 wins’ being crazy enough with strong topicality, the Bobcats’ active shout of ‘Are you ready for 70 wins?’ also played a part in propelling it.
This ti, Boss Qiao arranged for the broadcasting director to ‘announce’ the goal on the live big screen, not giving certain interested parties a chance to steal the spotlight.
Zhang Yang saw a piece of news: for their last ho ga of the season tomorrow night, ticket prices had skyrocketed, even more so through scalpers, with soone spending 95,000 US dollars on a ticket in the middle section opposite the technical table from a scalper’s website.
Presales for the Chicago Bulls’ final matchup on the 20th even stopped, just waiting for the Bobcats’ ga results tomorrow night, but even if the results aren’t out yet, scalpers have already started buying back those tickets at high prices.
This scene reminded Zhang Yang of future dia analyses of the differences between the NBA under Stern’s leadership and under Silver’s leadership—A competitive sports league isn’t afraid of super teams appearing; Magic Bird battles, the unification of the God, Shaq and Kobe clashes, Kobe and Lakers clashes, all significantly enhanced the NBA’s influence and inco, but a ‘super team’ forcefully pushed by the league’s rules and referees doesn’t work.
Zhang Yang swallowed the last bite of his fried egg and gulped down the remaining half glass of milk with a “ton ton ton” sound.
Since they’ve co this far, they definitely must strive to achieve 70 wins!
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One day later, on April 18th, it was the 41st ho ga day of the Bobcats’ regular season.
At 7:40 in the evening, at Tuhang Stadium, the players of both teams entered the court one after another.
After the Celtics took the lead, their promising new star Mayo stood with arms folded in front of the bench, watching the opposite team’s players at the entrance of the tunnel.
These past days, all dia outlets were discussing how extraordinary the Bobcats’ performance had been this season, how incredible it was, analyzing the probability of the Bobcats winning the last two gas, finishing the season with an 11-ga winning streak, and achieving 70 wins.
There were also derivative topics—could the Bobcats sweep both the Celtics and the Lakers, would ‘Super Jordan’ be the next ‘King’… and so on.
The Celtics players had varied reactions to these topics, with Mayo being the most unique. This morning, when he arrived at Tuhang Stadium, he received an interview invitation and said to the cara: “Tonight we will definitely win, stopping the appearance of another 70-win team, that’s my mission!”
And with those words, Mayo gained fa.
People are always friendly and forgiving towards rookies. Even though Mayo was mocked all sumr for being challenged by Zhang Yang in training camp and having his draft position drop drastically, he perford excellently in his rookie season, securing an average of 20 points per ga, turning his reputation around long ago, restoring the public’s forgiveness for him, and projecting expectations for his future onto him.
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