132. Everyone is happy
"Wu is a very outstanding player! This season, it was under his leadership that we have become so outstanding!"
At the press conference, Kyrie Irving said to the microphone: "It is my honor to be a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and playing with Wu has never had a better experience than this! He is the best teammate I have ever cooperated with! His offense and defense are like these sneakers, which may be inconspicuous but are everywhere! Although its name is great, I am very happy that I am the first to wear it to compete in the game! I am very grateful to great and Adidas, and I hope that when I wear great sneakers, I can be as good as him!"
Kyrie Irving entered the league last summer and was won by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the No. 1 pick in the first round, and was also a hot player in the competition between Adidas and Nike. However, he finally chose Adidas. If it was said that Wu Dawei was not included, no one would believe it.
Because at that time, LeBron James invited Kyrie Irving to sign Nike.
Irving finally chose Adidas Company, which is the same as Wu Dawei. Naturally, as a player under a company, Kyrie Irving can wear Wu Dawei's sneakers. Since the All-Star Rookie Game was held earlier than the main game, Kyrie Irving naturally became the first player to wear these sneakers.
How could Wu Dawei have any objections to this? Having other players who are also league players wearing their own sneakers can be considered an inexplicable honor.
Although the sneaker press conference was quite grand, the time did not last long. After all, it was just a pair of sneakers. After all, after all, the All-Star Rookie Tournament will start soon after the press conference, so naturally people's attention will soon be transferred to the court.
After the press conference ended, Wu Dawei will go to the Amway Center Arena to watch this year's All-Star Rookie Game, and cheer for his teammate Kyrie Irving, while also observing how his first exclusive sneakers performed.
Since Wu Dawei is out of position, this sneaker focuses on cushioning and ankle protection. Of course, Wu Dawei has to wonder whether his sneakers perform well enough.
After all, before this sneaker was released, it was very popular.
Now the attention is enough to make Wu Dawei feel satisfied, but if the sneakers perform poorly on the court, it will be even more embarrassing. So even if you don’t cheer for Kyrie Irving, Wu Dawei will come to the scene to watch the game.
Dwight Howard was also going to the Case Center Stadium with Wu Dawei, and Wu Dawei also had questions to ask the latter. He was not very sure about the idea of coming to his sneaker press conference, whether it was Howard's own or arranged by Adidas.
After all, Howard is also a player under Adidas, and there is nothing strange if it is arranged by Adidas.
Howard told Wu Dawei that it was arranged by Adidas, not his intention. This shows that Dwight Howard should not know the current progress of his transaction.
However, Dwight Howard told Wu Dawei that the deal will basically be finalized before the transfer door is closed this year, and it can be seen from Dan Ferry's journey to Cleveland to Orlando. It is possible to start the countdown from Dwight Howard becoming his teammate.
This was undoubtedly a reassurance, which made Wu Dawei feel much more at once. If it were the thing that worries Wu Dawei the most in the first half of this season, it was undoubtedly the inside of the Cavaliers.
Chris has never played the same state as before the second round of the series last season this season. He has now gone from being the strong point of the Cavaliers beating the Heat last season, and has suddenly become a hindrance to dragging the Cavaliers into the top team in the league.
His performance of 9 points and 7 rebounds per game is not the data that a top-notch center team should have. After all, the Cavaliers are not the Heat. Having so many stars on the outside is enough to make up for their weakness in the inside. Their small ball tactics are now playing well, and the Heat's current record has also reached 18 wins and 5 losses, which is also extremely outstanding.
Although the Cavaliers have a player like Wu Dawei who can compete with James or even surpass him, they cannot compose the Miami people's tactics as usual. Because Billups is too old. He can't run wildly with you all the game.
So the Cavaliers must find a tactic that suits them, and positional combat and defensive counterattack are obviously the best tactics that suit them most.
Dwight Howard has almost all the qualities required by the Cavaliers, super strong personal single defense ability and auxiliary defense ability. In addition to his outstanding offensive ability, Dwight Howard has the strongest inside deterrent in the league in the paint area, and can also create many shooting opportunities for the Cavaliers' outside players!
His defense line between Wu Dawei and Wu will undoubtedly become a nightmare for other teams in the league!
With such a lineup on the defensive end, even LeBron James will feel trembling. Think about it, he must first try his best to shake Wu Dawei away, then break into the inside before facing Dwight Howard's defense...
Isn’t this the purgatory of the human world?
Wu Dawei and Kyrie Irving came to Amway Center in Dwight Howard's car. Since Kyrie Irving had to attend the press conference first, he did not follow the bus arranged by the league.
After arriving at the stadium, the three of them parted ways. Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard walked towards the stadium with tickets, while Kyrie Irving carried his bag and left in the direction of the locker room.
In last year's All-Star Rookie Tournament, the league's head coaches arranged for the two teams were Knicks' double stars Amare Stoudemire and Cameron Anthony, while this year's rookie tournament was led by Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal, who had just retired from the league.
If the All-Star Game is just a fan carnival and entertainment, then the All-Star Rookie Game is entertainment in entertainment. Even the players are selected by Barkley and O'Neal.
The tone of the atmosphere of this game was relaxation and carnival from the beginning. Young people just entered this world of luxury and wealth, and naturally they had a thrilling desire to show off. The unscrupulous All-Star Rookie Tournament is the stage for these young talents to revel in.
This is a carnival-oriented game, without fierce competition and cautious attitude, everything is to play more gorgeous basketball.
So before the game started, the atmosphere in the stadium was never tense. However, when Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard entered the stadium together and found their own seat to sit down, when the two appeared on the big screen of the stadium, there was a booing sound in the Amway Center stadium.
If it were in New York, Los Angeles or even Miami, Wu might not care about these boos, but now it is in the Case Center Arena in Orlando, and during the All-Star Game, this has to surprise Wu Dawei.
But when he turned his face and saw Dwight Howard smiling at him, he immediately understood what these sudden booing sounds were like.
In fact, it was not sent to himself. It was dedicated to Dwight Howard by Orlando fans...
The reason is very simple, and it is almost all well-known. Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic have had a big fight.
Fans of any team will not want their team's number one star to switch to another team. They will try their best to keep them at first, but when they find that the other party has decided to leave, these former loves will immediately turn into hatred, and then booing will naturally replace the cheers of the past.
Although Wu Dawei looked at Dwight Howard and seemed to have become accustomed to this, Wu Dawei could imagine that when Dwight Howard just heard the boo, he would never be as calm as he is now.
But this also shows that Dwight Howard is not just having a big fight with the team, but because he has decided to leave, even the relationship with the fans has become very corrupt.
However, this made Wu Dawei secretly happy. Because in this way, Dwight Howard has basically arrived to decide the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Los Angeles Lakers have no bargaining chips to compete with the Cavaliers now, because Andrew Bynum's accidental injury, and although the Orlando Magic were forced to take action against Dwight Howard under pressure, they would not be a sucker.
Howard was used to exchange for Bynum, a big man who had just recovered from injury and was injured again shortly after he recovered. And he was a very 2-year-old guy.
Although Orlando fans in the stadium are trying their best to boo at Dwight Howard, the boo is actually not very big. At least it is incomparable to what Wu Dawei encountered in New York a few days ago.
The reason is very simple. Because tonight, there were not many fans watching this All-Star rookie match. The stadium was full of fans sitting everywhere, and it was not full.
Obviously, this year's All-Star Rookie Tournament is not a star-studded lineup and cannot attract the attention of fans. Last season's All-Star Rookie Tournament was much more attractive than this one!
Kyrie Irving was selected by Shaquille O'Neal, so he played tonight's game as the starting point guard of Shaquille O'Neal.
The sneakers he wore were the "great generation" combat boots that were just made public by Adidas. When Kyrie Irving appeared, he became the focus. Not only Wu Dawei was paying attention to him, but even the camera on the scene was aimed at the sneakers on his feet.
Wu Dawei's first pair of signature boots has attracted a lot of attention due to his increasingly outstanding performance. Wu Dawei is so popular now that naturally, anyone can foresee that this sneaker can basically be sold!
Especially Wu Dawei is a Chinese player, the vast Chinese market behind him will become an important strategic center for Adidas.
Although there are many copycats in China, due to the increasing copyright awareness in China, more and more people are buying genuine pages. You should know that Chinese basketball fans claim to have 200 million. As long as 100 out of these 200 million fans buy sneakers, these shoes can be considered a big seller! Almost this pair of shoes can allow Adidas to earn back the 100 million US dollars he paid when he signed him!
This is also one of the reasons why Adidas dares to invest heavily in Wu Dawei. Although there are already examples of Reebok signing Yao Ming at a high price is not considered successful, Adidas is still "obsessed" because the center has never sold shoes.
It has long been a consensus that outside players sell shoes.
Not only fans, reporters, but also many sneaker magazine reviewers came to Amway Center tonight. These people basically only have one purpose, that is, to observe how the "grear generation" performs on the court.
They have the same purpose as Wu Dawei. Although this sneaker is tailor-made for Wu Dawei, he has tried it on countless times. Although his personal feeling is still very good, Wu Dawei is naturally very looking forward to the outside world's evaluation of this sneaker.
From the beginning of the game, Kyrie Irving was wearing these sneakers and was still quite comfortable to go. Kyrie Irving performed very well on the court tonight.
Perhaps it was because of the existence of Wu Dawei and Billups in the Cavaliers, so he suppressed Kyrie Irving's desire. In the game tonight, he completely released such pressure.
In the offensive end, Wu Dawei shouted loudly from time to time on the sidelines. However, no one knew whether Wu Dawei was cheering for his new sneakers or cheering for his team's younger brothers...
Chapter completed!