The restructured Pelicans' championship was the most exciting event of the year, and despite the team boasting several thrilling names, including Li Feng, Rose, Arenas, Al Jefferson, and Elton Brand, the championship was still something no one expected before the season began.

When the dust settled, all the media almost unanimously reported this incident as the biggest news in the Bundesliga this season, or the earliest news in the Bundesliga.

The New York Times headline read, "Pelicans Complete Mission Impossible," said, "The Pelicans are a young team, but this is the team that won this year's championship with a roster that has undergone a major overhaul this year, and as their head coach Van Gundy said, they are making history every step of the way."

The city of New Orleans has never won a championship, but this year is different, they don't have Mourning, they don't have Mason, they don't have Boggs, they don't have Larry Johnson, but they have Tyrannosaurus Rex, they have Rose, they have returned to the general, they managed to break the doubt after seven Finals games against the star-studded Nets, and their championship journey is a living history. ”

The Washington Post sees the Pelicans winning the championship as a kind of team-run victory, with ambitious goals, solid progress, led by outstanding people, not purely stacked with superstars, the team is reasonable, and their success is not accidental, as Pelicans coach Van Gundy said last summer, the Pelicans have worked hard for every win this season, and now the Pelicans have told everyone that they did it.

The New York Post correspondent commented,

"The Nets have seven All-Stars, the Bulls are also superstars, the Warriors and other teams are similar, the Pelicans except for Li Feng, Rose has been looked down upon, and Arenas is not even considered to be able to play. And Elton Brand should have retired a long time ago, but the Pelicans relied on this lineup to win the O'Brien Cup, they are respectable, their success is inseparable from their efforts, and their efforts are thanks to this reasonable lineup, Arenas and Rose have had glorious years, they are willing to be subordinate to the championship, and Li Feng is not as possessive as Kobe Bryant at any time, this is a reasonable match. It's the real championship model, and their inside, Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap, won't be as passionate as Howard, won't be as fancy as Griffin, and won't be as flamboyant as Love, but they're using, and the Pelicans have proven with a championship that their Pelicans model is worth learning from any team."

Even the world's leading media have to talk about Pelican, let alone the Chinese media. Adhering to the principle that all the successes are Chinese players, and all the failures are teammates of Chinese players, Basketball Weekly, Basketball Herald, Basketball Weekly and other newspapers have reported on the Pelicans with great fanfare. The first sentence of each report is similar to "Li Feng led the Pelicans to win the championship", but the expression is changed, and the end of each report also puts forward a sharp nonsense, that is, can the Pelicans win the championship in a small city like New Orleans? Li Feng's strength is beyond doubt. Why can't the Chinese team, which has more than a billion people, break into the top four in the world?

After Li Feng won his fourth championship, another one was put on hold for a long time, but the problem that had been burning the hearts of fans was put on the agenda again. That is, when exactly Li Feng played the first international-level game for China, as long as the fans know, Li Feng does not play a first-level game for the Chinese team for a day, this young man known as the Tyrannosaurus Rex may be poached by other countries, but our basketball association leaders and teams Li Feng turned a blind eye in the NBA's legendary table, and took the way of ignoring and not looking and not wanting to ignore it, as if Li Feng was not a Chinese, and our great Chinese Basketball Association occasionally jumped out and shouted, Li Feng is the pride of Chinese basketball, Li Feng is the pride of the Chinese, the national team will always leave a place for him, and then continue to sleep, without any substantive action.

For the Chinese Basketball Association, the national team is a great achievement project, a successful national team is the biggest capital for all people to get promoted and rich, according to this concept to operate, then the best players composed of the best national team is the best choice for everyone, but in practice, not the best players are into the national team, this is because the Basketball Association officials have a completely different understanding of good players and normal people, Chinese officials' standards for talents are both ability and political integrity, the quality of talent, and the teacher of virtue. Among the talents, the Chinese first pay attention to virtue, virtue is not good, then no matter how talented it is, it is useless, and the talent is almost as long as the virtue is excellent, then it is also a superior talent. This thing is very good to quantify, and it is easy to see that players can pass the ball, can pass people and cooperate with teammates, even if they are talents, but virtue is a very subjective surname, the leader sees that you are obedient to the eye, you are a virtuous person, and if you are not pleasing to the eye and often work against the leader, you are a person without virtue.

Li Feng is a talented player in anyone's eyes, and the officials of the Basketball Association are also people, which does not need to be questioned, but in the eyes of the officials of the Basketball Association, Li Feng's morality is a loss, and finding a few more women is not a big problem, how many officials in China have only one woman, at most it is just a disorderly style of life, but Li Feng is disobedient, his surname is too strong, and his behavior is too casual, which is what the leaders of the Basketball Association are most afraid of.

In case this player reveals some inside stories of the national team or the Basketball Association before the game, it will not be a dead end, so the Basketball Association only vigorously supports Li Feng to join the national team, but in actual action, it does not put pressure on the national team coach Guo Shiqiang, otherwise he will not dare not recruit Li Feng if he gives Mr. Guo Shiqiang a few more dares.

The Chinese Basketball Association means to suppress Li Feng's personality, so that Li Feng understands that the name behind him is far less important than the jersey on his body, the collective is the most important, and he can't be too individualistic. The Chinese Basketball Association is also counting on Li Feng to give them face at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

But as the World Championships approached, Li Feng did not express any interest in the national team, and did not even express a word of complaint, which made the Chinese Basketball Association and Guo Shiqiang a little uneasy. No one knows what this player thinks in his heart, whether he will really change his nationality and join other national teams, which has never been done in the history of Chinese basketball. (In fact, the level is too bad, and other countries are unwilling to ask for it)

Originally, the Chinese Basketball Association was ready to delay it a little longer, after all, there are still more than two months before the World Championships, but with the Pelicans successfully winning the championship and Li Feng winning three MVPs in one season for four consecutive years, the Chinese Basketball Association and Guo Shiqiang were a little unable to sit still, the pressure was too great, and the media questioned it like a cannonball. Originally, they could still block the reporters' mouths with guò hush money, but now because Li Feng's appearance is too eye-catching, reporters don't dare to talk nonsense with their conscience. And the fans are even more unrelenting, playing the Chinese Super League, there are many fans shouting: "Li Feng is on duty, the Basketball Association is out of class!" It seems that Li Feng is going to join the Chinese Basketball Association, and many fans came to the national team head coach Guo Shiqiang to make trouble when he was training, which has affected the preparation of the national team. Now the people of the General Administration have expressed concern about this problem, and asked the Basketball Association to comply with the public opinion and quickly solve this problem, not to cause social problems, and to pay attention to harmony.

At the suggestion of the Chinese Basketball Association. Guo Shiqiang once again made concessions to Li Feng in the "Basketball Weekly", hinting that the national team has a place for Li Feng. Guo Shiqiang said:

"The World Championships are about to kick off soon, and the Chinese Basketball Association, after a glorious 2008, now needs an important victory to cheer up the fans. In order to lay the foundation for the 2016 Olympic Games, because there were no important events in the early stage, in order to take care of the players to play the league. We mainly bring together domestic players, and now that the foreign leagues are coming to an end soon, our World Championships will be dominated by overseas players, especially players from the NBA at the highest level. ”

If you let foreign players and fans come to see Guo Shiqiang's speech, it must be in the clouds and fog, but as long as it is Chinese, even if it is illiterate, they all understand what Guo Shiqiang means, to put it bluntly, we did not call Li Feng in the early stage because we took care of him to play the NBA, and now the NBA is over, of course, his national team must include Li Feng, and as we all know, Li Feng is the strongest player, Guo Shiqiang must gather players with strong offensive ability, and pay attention to side crosses, which is almost the name of Li Feng. But Guo Shiqiang just didn't break it, let Li Feng understand it, he believed that a smart person like Li Feng would never understand what he meant.

This is the subtlety and face of the Chinese, it seems that there is no face as soon as it is said, Guo Shiqiang does this a bit like a woman who has been forcibly annihilated, in China, ordinary women do not dare to speak out after encountering strong annihilation, for fear that they will not have a face to see people when they are spread, and outsiders do not know that she can live a very face-saving life.

But Li Feng was like an elm pimple, after reading Guo Shiqiang's speech, there was no reaction, and under the insinuations and even straight to the point inquiries of many Chinese reporters, Li Feng was still at a loss, like a little fool, neither said to participate in the national team, nor did he say that he would not participate in the national team, but only talked about the summer league later.

The reporter of Basketball Weekly commented,

"Last time, Guo Shiqiang called Li Feng's name to call him into the national team, but Li Feng pretended to be sick, but this time Li Feng had no excuses, he didn't pretend to be sick and began to pretend to be stupid. We believe that a player's real honor is not achieved in the professional arena, but in the national team, just like Michael Jordan, if he does not have the World Cup championship, he will never be able to become the basketball god, Li Feng should not be obsessed with the small contradictions with Guo Shiqiang's guidance, and should be broad-minded and magnified. One is to put the interests of the country first, and the other is to put the interests of the fans first. “

However, soon something that worried Chinese fans and basketball association officials even more happened, Zhao Xiaoze, a reporter from "Basketball World", known as a beautiful reporter who reported from zero distance to Li Feng, broke the heavy news that members of the U.S. national team secretly contacted Li Feng.

As soon as this news came out, the nerves of Chinese fans were tensed, in the face of a pig-like basketball association and a-like coach, Li Feng was almost the only spiritual opium for Chinese fans.

In fact, Zhao Xiaoze's report this time was selfish, she is a more patriotic girl, he hopes that Li Feng can play for the country, instead of changing his nationality to join the American team, so he poked this matter out and forced Li Feng to choose.

In this regard, Li Feng scolded Zhao Xiaoze without any emotion, because although the assistant coach of the US national team had contact with Li Feng, he did not talk about letting Li Feng join the US team, but through Li Feng's agent Tony, and Pelicans' head coach Van Gundy revealed this meaning, expressing Coach K's good impression of Li Feng, which means that as long as Li Feng is willing to join the US team, the nationality matter will be coordinated by the US Basketball Association.

It's normal for these people to sit together, drink tea and chat, as long as Zhao Xiaoze doesn't say it, no one doubts about it, but Zhao Xiaoze's poke out, and the pressure on Li Feng has also increased, and even Chinese fans from San Francisco and other places have come to the Pelicans to ask why Li Feng betrayed the motherland to join the American team, so that Li Feng could not train in peace.

Li Feng had no choice but to hold a press conference to state his position, at which Li Feng said,

"None of the U.S. team or NBA officials have ever talked to me about this, and I have never planned to join the U.S. team, and the matter of the family team has not been considered for the time being, and it is pure nonsense to say that I am in contact with the American Basketball Association now, and I reserve the right to appeal against such fake news. Regarding the national team, I want to say two words, I actually have a little different understanding of basketball from Guo Shiqiang, which is also the reason why there was a little friction in front of us. I have just finished a test of my life and I have achieved success, which is an honor not only for me but also for the Chinese fans, I hope to continue to be in shape, and I hope that those patriotic fans will not come to disturb my training. I have my own principles for everything I do, no one can change it, no matter how much pressure it is, unless some stubborn people change their official-oriented thinking, otherwise, I think it will be difficult for anyone to accept some harsh conditions! (To be continued......)