"Ace, let's have dinner at my house tonight." McGrady didn't give an answer right away.

McGrady wanted to calm down his head, but he didn't want Liu Mang to leave. He wanted to go back to the room to clear his head and think about something.

It is not an easy task to increase the average scoring by one point. If it is 26 to 27, it is easy, but everyone's scoring has an upper limit. Up to this season, Liu is still relying on Liu.

Mang has scored 40 points in 10 games, including 3 50 points, and the 3 50 points also included 61 points. He only averaged 36.1 points per game. It is too difficult to continue to improve!

If it were really that easy, there would already be a lot of 30-point scorers per game. But in fact, the only players who can average more than 30 points per game in a single season since the new century are Kobe, Iverson, McGrady, and Liu.

Of the four men who were the scoring champions in the 1990s, only Jordan averaged more than 30 points per game.

Better than O'Neal, he won two scoring titles. The season with the highest scoring title was 29.7 points. In the last dozen games, he worked hard to score points. In the first 65 games, he still shot 60% from the field.

By the end of the season, it was only 57%, and it only improved from 29.4 points to 29.7 points.

Liu Mang's score has been hovering between 35.9 and 36.1 points recently. Normally, this is the limit.

If we want to make a difference again, the only way is for the team to be as weak as Jordan's 37.1 points.

But the Eagles are now No. 1 in the league...

Liu Mang did not refuse and called Levia and asked her to pick up Dinah and Alexia from school and have dinner at Maddie's house tonight.

Liu Mang followed Maddie into the villa.

"Ace, you're here. Sorry, I'm taking care of the child. Tracy, go and make tea for Ace." McGrady's wife, Lelenda McGrady, was changing the child's diaper when she saw Liu Mang coming.

Said hello.

"Ace goes to the kitchen and makes whatever he wants to drink. Ace is having dinner at our house tonight. Lelenda, please call a chef to cook. I'll go back to the room." McGrady didn't greet Liu Mang, they were all so familiar.

Already.

Liu Mang didn't think anything was wrong, nor did Lelenda. The two families visited each other not once or twice, but always. When they took their children to Liu Mang's house, Liu Mang also let them take care of themselves. Of course, Levi

It’s just that Ya and Alexia are much more enthusiastic than Liu Mang.

When he came to Tracy McGrady's house, since Lelenda had to take care of the children, Liu Mang said, "I'm in charge of myself." He took a bag of black tea, boiled it for a while, put some milk and half a sugar cube, and went to the home theater to watch the Kings.

Game video.

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After McGrady returned to the room, he sat on the toilet in the bathroom. He heard that this is the place where artists get the best inspiration, so he came here to think about it.

Maddie was shocked by Liu Mang's "arrogance".

The last time McGrady was shocked was in February 1996, when a senior and a senior were participating in a high school basketball event. Kobe said he was better than Jordan...

Now, McGrady meets such a guy again.

This allowed McGrady, who has now become somewhat "secular", to rekindle the purest feelings for basketball that he had as a child.

McGrady leaned on the toilet seat, thinking about what he was playing for now.

more money?

McGrady feels that he cannot be short of money. As long as he is willing, he will get the maximum salary wherever he goes. With endorsement fees, he can earn more money than he can spend in his lifetime. He himself is not an extravagant person.

More honors?

I have won it for a while, and I have won the scoring title. As for things like MVP, apart from the individual, luck is the most important. There is a good team, and the team can achieve a good record without too many injuries. The second is the individual.

Given McGrady's character, he is not obsessed with this either.

More championships?

McGrady is on the road now. As long as he plays well, with a lineup like theirs, they will be the favorites to win the championship in the next two to three years. The championship is within reach.

McGrady was brought back memories by Liu Mang's arrogance and became a little confused. What is he pursuing now when he plays basketball?

McGrady sat like that for an hour, always recalling what happened in high school before he entered the NBA, recalling the purest love for basketball...

In the end, McGrady felt that he loved basketball in order to constantly surpass himself!

Continuously surpassing oneself? That is all for others to listen to. Beyond oneself, how can there be a sense of accomplishment by surpassing the strongest person? Of course, if the strongest person is oneself, then it is a different matter.

But there is only one strongest person - the god of basketball, Michael Jordan.

McGrady himself has also tried to lead the team by himself. He has talent that may not be weaker than Jordan, but he was born with scoliosis, which caused an upper limit to his physical fitness. This upper limit also caused him to have to

There is physical restraint.

Although McGrady did not suffer a back injury because of Liu Mang, scoliosis is natural and cannot be cured by surgery on the spine. It is another aspect of the human body that modern medicine cannot make major changes to except the brain.

In a restricted area of ​​life, there are many people with spinal problems and partial paralysis.

McGrady wants to fulfill his dream of surpassing Jordan alone. Otherwise, like the Magic, the defense will be weak. Unless the team has a powerful inside player and a powerful outside defender, it is best to have

There are people to help share the pressure of organizing the offense, and there are also pitchers and blue-collar workers...

During his four years with the Magic, he felt despair again and again and understood that it was almost impossible to have teammates like that to help him. Not everyone has the "luck" like Liu Mang.

When McGrady came to the Hawks, he basically gave up waiting.

This time Liu Mang's arrogance made Maddie see something in Liu Mang that he didn't have and wouldn't have if he tried hard.

He has an arrogant character, the ability to execute what he dares to say, and he is mainly shameless! This is what McGrady thinks is the most critical. He actually has the nerve to ask a player who can win the scoring title to help him score more points than Jordan!

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But this is what McGrady admires most about Liu Mang. Except for one thing in common between him and Liu Mang, most of them have no similarities at all.

When people make friends, the real friends they make are friends with very different personalities, because they need something they don't have.

McGrady saw something from Liu Mang that he could never learn...

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By six-thirty in the evening, it was almost dark in Atlanta in the winter. The chef hired by Lerenda had already prepared the meal. After setting the table, Lerenda called Maddie: "Tracy, it's time to eat.

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"I'm here, thank you."

After Maddie responded, he washed up and came to the restaurant. When he saw that Liu Mang was not waiting anxiously as he expected, but was teasing his son, Maddie felt a group of crows above his head: Really, you are not afraid that I will disagree.

? So confident? But even if I disagree, this guy won't stop. He has already scored 36.1 points... O'Neal dreamed of averaging 30 points per game when he scored 29.4 points.

"Ace, how much do you think it would be for me to renew my contract?" Tracy McGrady did not answer Liu Mang's question, but said this.

When Liu Mang heard this, a smile appeared on his face, done!

"Of course you can ask for as much as you can! The team is not short of money." Liu Mang responded casually while eating steak. He had to get back the money for the barrel of oil tonight.

"Ace, you don't need me to cut my salary? Rasheed took a cut of 10 million to complete the contract extension." McGrady was surprised.

"The maximum salary I get now, if you renew the contract with the maximum salary, I will still get the maximum salary. If you reduce the salary, you can at least help the team save some money. We are already paying the luxury tax and there will be no room for signing more people." Liu Mang

I don't mind if McGrady's salary is higher than him. This season McGrady's salary is two million more than him.

"I understand. I'll call my agent and ask him to talk to the team." McGrady did not continue to ask and made a decision quickly.

"Tracy, are we going to settle here? It's great!" Lelenda cheered excitedly after hearing what Maddie said: "This is much better than Orlando, and I don't want to move."

"Of course, your husband is going to earn another 100 million!" McGrady said and his wife stood up in front of Liu Mang, and kissed across the table.

Liu Mang said "Huh..." in disgust, making the two of them laugh uncontrollably.

"By the way," Liu Mang thought of something and asked casually: "Who is your agent? I haven't seen it yet."

"Charles Banks, you should have heard that Duncan and Hill are both players signed by him. We almost can work together." McGrady responded.

So, Liu Mang probably knows why the Magic almost gathered the Big Three in 2000. If the three stars were affiliated with the same agent, they would most likely be manipulated together.

Wait, Charles, Banks, this name... Liu Mang looks so familiar!

Isn't he the guy who defrauded Duncan of 30 million?

Liu Mang looked at McGrady, thought for a moment and then spoke: "Tracy, I've heard of this guy, I think you should pay attention to your account, he is helping you manage your finances!"

Liu Mang said it very euphemistically, but the meaning was very clear. Maddie stared at Liu Mang: "Ace, you mean..."

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"Tracy, just think of it as a waste of money and avoid disaster!" Liu Mang comforted.

When Liu Mang came to the arena in the morning to prepare for the game against the Bobcats in the evening, Liu Mang saw McGrady's expression of "don't let strangers in". It was rare. His stingy cousin had lost so much money.

"Breaking wealth avoids disaster? Is that your Chinese proverb? It's quite interesting." McGrady smiled, what else could he do.

"We call it idioms. Say it after me, eat encheng, idiom...forget it, just think of it as a dialect or a proverb." Liu Mang thought it was troublesome, so he gave up after teaching him.

After receiving a reminder from Liu Mang last night, McGrady hired a financial lawyer to investigate his account and found out that his account had lost more than 3 million US dollars in more than seven years, which was almost as much as McGrady's rookie contract.

Of course, all the money I earned was a loss every year for seven years. As the amount of financial management funds increased, the losses increased.

The reason given by Banks was financial management mistakes, but he did not give the details of the investment. At first, he lost hundreds of thousands a year, and then he signed a big contract with the Magic and lost hundreds of thousands a year. Tracy McGrady didn't pay much attention to it, but now the lawyer sees it

After looking at the existing investment channels, almost all of them are treasury bonds and funds, and they are all value-preserving financial products. This shortfall is unjustifiable. The lawyer bluntly said that McGrady was deceived.

McGrady was about to sue Banks at that time, but the lawyer's opinion was that there was no way to complete the lawsuit quickly. This kind of lawsuit usually takes one or two years, and in the end it will definitely not be possible to get all the money back.
To be continued...