Chapter 142 The Biggest Scar
The team won and Alan Houston was very happy.

But it was a bit embarrassing, because with him, we lost two games in a row, and without him, we won.

Fortunately, there is the home field factor, which is the only reason he can comfort himself.

He pounded his left knee, hoping he could play tomorrow night, otherwise he would be embarrassed if he lost two games in a row.

He Zhongqiu was being interviewed live by TNT TV station. A large group of reporters surrounded him, wanting to take part in the interview.

At this time, Barkley ran over, pushed his colleague aside with his big butt, and took his seat.

"Hey, Charles, do you want to make me unemployed?" Interviewing reporter Kgruber immediately shouted in dissatisfaction.

"Together."

Buckley said with a grin.

"Okay then." Kgruber said helplessly.

"Hey, Wolverine, what do you think of your performance tonight?" After thanking his colleagues, Barkley asked happily.

"Self-evaluation?"

He Zhongqiu panted and used his brain, then said proudly: "What do you think of this explosive performance?"

"Explosion?"

Barkley laughed and said, "OK, this is a very ego-like, Wolverine-like answer, very good!"

"That's a stupid answer."

The madman sitting on the back bench suddenly shouted at the top of his voice.

"Ha ha……"

Everyone who heard it burst into laughter instantly.

It was Kogruber's turn to ask a question that had nothing to do with the game, but made Barkley look gloomy. He asked: "Wolverine, before the game, you and Barkley had a conflict. If he didn't apologize, would you really beat him up?"

"Ha ha……"

Everyone around looked at Barkley and laughed.

Buckley gave a dry laugh and secretly cursed Kgruber for being stingy.

He Zhongqiu raised his hand and patted Barkley's big bald head, and said with a smile: "Old Pig is still good, I was just joking with him, why would I beat him?

I hate violence the most and never attack others easily. Although I had a fight with the Pacers last time, they surrounded me and I fought back in self-defense and was forced to fight back.

I want to solemnly state here that no matter who it is, please do not force me to fight. I do not want to fight. I am a civilized person, a well-educated young man in society, OK?"

"Clap clap clap..."

Led by Barkley, everyone around applauded.

He Zhongqiu also wanted to explain to these Americans what the Five Behaviors, Four Beauties and Three Loves were, but after thinking about it, he decided not to do so. It would be better not to let these Americans get away with such good ideas.

After the interview, he came to Zhang Heli and the others. Zhou Biao, Lin Cheng, Yang Xue, Liu Yifei and others were also waiting for him there.

"Explosive performance." Zhang Heli gave a thumbs up.

"Explode?" He Zhongqiu asked with a smile.

"40 points, 15 rebounds, 3 steals and 6 blocks, it's really explosive." Xu Jicheng said with a smile.

"Ha ha……"

When several people talked about this, they all laughed happily.

After chatting for a while, He Zhongqiu asked, "Sister Xue, how are you going to get back?"

"I drove your car here. Yifei was picked up by her mother, who had been waiting outside." Yang Xue said.

"Old Liu, you don't consider me your friend anymore. The front row tickets are hard to get, but it's no problem for me to get a few more seats in the back," said He Zhongqiu.

"No, it's too noisy here and she can't stand it. I feel a little dizzy now." Liu Yifei shook his head quickly.

"Indeed, every time after watching a game, I feel dizzy." Yang Xue said with a smile.

"Everyone is the same." Zhang Heli said with a smile.

After seeing off a few people, He Zhongqiu returned to the locker room.

"Coach, who won between the Lakers and the Spurs?"

After winning the game, he was in a good mood and cared about the situation of the Lakers and Spurs.

Thibodeau said: "95:110, just like us, the Lakers won at home."

At this point, he added: "The Lakers are strong in their main players, the OK combination scored 60 points, and the other three main players all scored in double digits.

But only three of the six substitutes scored, adding up to just 10 points.

I think the Spurs will advance, the Lakers lack depth, and their bench is worse than ours."

He Zhongqiu asked curiously, "Did the Spurs' substitutes play well today?"

Thibodeau nodded and said, "The Spurs had seven substitutes on the court, only Steve Kerr didn't score, and six people scored, a total of 49 points."

Everyone, including He Zhongqiu, was stunned. They didn't expect the Spurs' bench lineup to be so strong.

Thibodeau said: "The Spurs lost today because of their main players. Only Duncan scored 28 points, and none of the other four scored in double digits.

托尼帕克更是8投1中只得2分，主力小前锋史蒂芬杰克逊12投3中只得9分。

Duncan's shooting percentage was 48%, he only made 6 of 4 free throws, and had only one block. Although he had 28 points and 11 rebounds, it was not very good. "

An hour later, the post-match press conference was held.

"Wolverine, the Knicks are still trailing the Pistons 1-2. Do you think there's a chance they can tie the game at 2-2 in tomorrow's back-to-back game?" the TNT reporter asked first.

"That's for sure. Hope is right before our eyes." He Zhongqiu said confidently.

"What if we lose?" the reporter asked.

He Zhongqiu was surprised and asked, "Are you jumping off the Empire State Building? No, don't do that. Although the game is very important, life is obviously more important."

As soon as he finished speaking, the press hall burst into laughter.

"hehe!"

The reporter also understood that He Zhongqiu was making fun of him, so he could only laugh along helplessly.

Then he asked, "Wolverine, your physical reserves are not as good as Old Bird's. Tomorrow is a back-to-back game. Do you think you can hold on?"

He Zhongqiu thought for a moment and said, "You're right. I'm a rookie, and my physical reserves are definitely not as good as those veterans. This is indeed a key issue."

He didn't say anything else. Ben Wallace's physical fitness was definitely better than his, because tomorrow night would be really troublesome.

Although I like to brag, I'd better be more restrained in this kind of things. It would be bad if I lose and get slapped in the face.

The next reporter asked: "Wolverine, when Alan Houston was injured, you led the team to save the team. Do you think your significance to the Knicks is greater than Alan Houston?"

"He, it's a reporter from Detroit, be careful when answering questions." Don Cheney whispered in his ear.

He Zhongqiu nodded slightly, and then replied: "Mr. Reporter, I know what you mean. You want to sow discord between me and Alan Houston so that we can have an internal conflict, right?"

"Oh!"

There was an uproar at the scene.

The reporter from the Detroit Worker's Daily also changed his expression. He didn't expect Wolverine to be so tough and put his words directly on the table.

The host, Ms. Orvis, the Knicks' public relations manager, immediately had her staff go up and confiscate the microphone, forcefully depriving the reporter of the right to ask questions.

The microphone was then handed over to the ESPN reporter, who asked, "Mr. Layden, will the Knicks have a new core and leader next season?"

Scott Layden hesitated for a moment, then immediately said: “New things will always appear, this is an inevitable process.

When will our team have a new core and leader? Everything depends on their performance.

The management hopes that the transition from the old to the new core will be natural. So far, everything is going very smoothly and we don’t have any problems internally. ” In the No. 2 Press Hall next to it, the Pistons’ press conference was in progress.

The reporter from ABC TV asked: "Ben, after the G2 game, you said that you would make Wolverine unable to do anything in his home court..."

After hearing the first half of the reporter's words, Ben Wallace's old face began to turn dark and purple.

The reporter continued, "But he scored 40 points, 15 rebounds, 3 steals, and 6 blocks, and led his team to defeat you in the absence of the top mid-range shooter. What do you say now?"
Ben Wallace was very upset and said, "I admit that we lost tonight. They were in better shape and more motivated than us tonight.

Especially Wolverine, he was pretty competitive tonight, and we failed to double-team him, and yeah, we have to do better in the next game."

……

"Kobe made 23 of 10 shots and 19 of 17 free throws, using his sharp breakthroughs to blow up the Spurs," the Los Angeles Times reported.

"With 40 points, 15 rebounds, 3 steals and 6 blocks, Wolverine blew away Big Ben on both offense and defense. Knicks chairman Scott Layden said that Wolverine will become the new core and leader of the Knicks next season." ESPN reported.

"Ben Wallace: I was wrong. It wasn't me who made Wolverine incapable of doing anything. It was him who made me incapable of doing anything." ABC reported.

"Wolverine, the strongest in East Asia," Tokyo Daily reported.

"Shocking news! It turns out that Wolverine He Zhongqiu is actually a Korean citizen who has been stranded in China," reported the Korea Daily.

From the end of the game last night to this morning, related news has emerged in an endless stream in major media, from newspapers to television, to the Internet, from the United States to the world.

He Zhongqiu woke up at around ten in the morning and was drinking milk in the living room. Mary cooked ten eggs for him as breakfast. He should eat that first as lunch time was approaching and he couldn't eat too much.

"Sanjin, Yifei said that she will return to China in a few days after her mother's divorce procedures are completed." Yang Xue said at this time.

"Oh."

He responded.

"She invited me to go back to China with her." Yang Xue said.

He hurriedly said, "Sister Xue, don't rush back home. Isn't it time for your movie to start shooting? I'll have some fun with you after the playoffs."

"Oh."

Yang Xue nodded.

"Wolverine……"

At this time, agent Mike Johnson came in.

"Mike, sit down, what's up?" he asked.

"Hello."

"Hello."

Mike Johnson looked a little strange. He greeted Yang Xue and sat down next to her. He pondered for a moment before saying:
"Wolverine, about your...your..." Here he stuttered again.

"Mike, my what?" He Zhongqiu urged.

Mike Johnson grunted, "I just contacted Mr. Xia, and he said he would call you."

He Zhongqiu was stunned. At this time, it was past one in the morning in Yanjing. Mike Johnson alarmed Xia Song. What happened?
He picked up his phone and saw that there was no missed call, so he urged, "If you have anything to say, tell me first."

"Well, then, Mr. Xia should be climbing over the wall to check the news."

Mike Johnson nodded and grunted, "That's right... Wolverine, take a look at the news first."

He opened the notebook he brought with him and placed it in front of He Zhongqiu.

He Zhongqiu looked and saw that it was the official website of ABC TV. There was a piece of news on it with the title...

"what is this?"

His eyes widened.

Yang Xue sat over to take a look out of curiosity and was also stunned.

Mike Johnson said: "The source of the news was Korea Daily in South Korea, and other media outlets just reprinted it or made wild guesses based on that news."

"Fuck you!"

He Zhongqiu was so angry that he stuffed an egg in his hand into his mouth and started chewing it hard.

"Wolverine, is it true?" Mike Johnson asked cautiously and curiously.

"What a piece of shit!"

He Zhongqiu glared at Mike Johnson, raised his hand and threw the notebook over to him. Mike Johnson didn't catch it and it fell to the ground with a thud.

Mike Johnson didn't dare say anything, he picked it up and put it aside.

At this time, the cell phone rang. It was Xia Song calling from China.

"Hey, Xia?"

"Mid-Autumn Festival, what do you think?" Xia Song said in a strange tone.

"I don't care!" He Zhongqiu said very unhappily.

Yang Xue gently poked He Zhongqiu and asked him to speak properly.

He Zhongqiu's tone could not get better, this was his biggest scar, but it was used by the Korean media for hype, and now he even wanted to kill someone.

Xia Song said, "Zhongqiu, this matter is not easy to handle. If we pay attention to them, the media will succeed and they will continue to hype it up. It's actually better to ignore it. It will die down after a few days."

"I can't let them off."

When He Zhongqiu said this, he suddenly thought of the Asian Championships and asked hurriedly, "By the way, when is the Asian Championships? Will South Korea participate?"

"Of course they will participate. The time is from September 9rd to October 23nd, in Harbin. What, Mid-Autumn Festival, what do you want to do?" Xia Song was stunned.

"I'm going to kill them. Brother Xia, notify the country and tell them that I want to participate in the game against South Korea." he said.

"Just that one game?" Xia Song asked.

"With Yao Ming, Dazhi and Daba, there is no need for me to participate in other games, right?" he said.

"But if you want to play, you have to take up a spot, and you only play one game, so it's not easy to arrange the men's basketball team. If you don't play in the two rounds of group matches, there will only be eleven people playing." Xia Song said in embarrassment.

"Fuck it, I'll beat you, and you can notify the country."

In order to defeat the Korean team, He Zhongqiu didn't care about anything else and made the decision immediately.

Xia Song thought for a few seconds and then said, “Now that the roster has been finalized, if you want to play, you have to send a center forward, otherwise Daba may not be able to play.

Let me discuss this with the team and see what to do."

"Brother Xia, I can play power forward." He Zhongqiu said.

Xia Song was stunned, but then he thought that although He Zhongqiu didn't shoot, when he was on the court, he could completely switch positions with Yao Ming. His speed could keep up with the small forward, so he could indeed play the power forward position.

He immediately said, "I'll talk to them about this first and see how they arrange it. They definitely want you to participate."

"Okay, you arrange it." He Zhongqiu said.

After hanging up the phone, he asked Mike Johnson to inform Frank Zhang, the manager of the American branch, that the company should not respond and should downplay the news.

Mike Johnson immediately notified the company. Frank Zhang asked He Zhongqiu to answer the phone and said, "Wolverine, Mr. Xia and I have discussed before and decided to hire a senior Hollywood agent to join our company. He will handle your affairs in Hollywood. This is more professional. Now we have this person."

"You handle it, I'll see him after the playoffs," he said.

"OK."

After ending the call, Mike Johnson said goodbye and left.

"Sanjin, you have to train and shoot a movie during the offseason, and now you have to play in the Asian Championships. Can you handle it?" Yang Xue asked.

He Zhongqiu thought for a moment and said, "It will only take one month to shoot the movie, so I can take some time to train.

The Asian Championships only last ten days, so this is more convenient. We still have to train, so we just have to play a few more games.”

(End of this chapter)