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Chapter 475 - 211. This is intentional revenge! (Happy Dragon Boat Festival)

Chapter 475: 211. This is intentional revenge! (Happy Dragon Boat Festival)

Zhang Yang returned home in grief and anger, opened a bottle of milk with chug chug chug.

After showing off his milk-drinking skills, he went to the study, turned on the computer, opened the forum... and felt much better.

The hottest topic — Bad Boy Jack became the youngest player ever to make the NBA All-Team.

Unbreakable record +1!

Zhang Yang saw a post questioning his performance, not as good as Arenas’, he was about to let loose on the keyboard, no reason needed for a three-pointer rebuttal, but then he saw a reply and stopped.

"James didn’t make the playoffs in the 04-05 season and was selected to the second team, while McGrady got a 50-win season and only made the third team."

Zhang Yang glanced at the IP, the poster’s IP was from Ohio, and the replier’s IP was from North Carolina.

He refreshed the post, and a bunch of new comments appeared, the most eye-catching one — "During the 03-04 season, James averaged 20.9 points and didn’t make the playoffs but got Rookie of the Year, Anthony averaged 21 points and made the playoffs but got no award."

If you can’t win the argument, open a new battlefield, our home team fans rock, hey!

Zhang Yang called a restaurant to order some food, and while eating dinner, he watched the live broadcast.

Tonight’s broadcast was the series between the Jazz Team and the Warriors, which started with great enthusiasm but then lost public interest, the game that could clinch the series.

The Jazz Team, leading 3 to 1 and back on their home court, easily defeated the Warriors 113 to 101 in an offensive battle, advancing to the Western Finals with a big score of 4 to 1.

Deron touched the Western Finals floor in his sophomore season!

In a small villa provided by the city hall in the suburbs of Oklahoma City, a certain No. 3 player who watched the Jazz and Warriors series felt so unwilling, as several of the talented perimeter players from his draft class made it to the conference finals!

And the slightly lesser Ellis made it to the second round, delivering a shocking Black Eight miracle to the world.

Yet he was still lingering outside of the playoffs...

The next day, Zhang Yang deliberately invited the boss to the arena to seek advice on how to better use his strength and speed advantages against a taller, weaker opponent in singles play.

He sincerely wanted to learn from the God of Basketball’s experience, to incorporate the wisdom of many into his play.

Although he didn’t learn much from Jordan, who was twisting with the ball with his belly sticking out, and saying "Just do it like this," Zhang Yang had an epiphany while watching his teammates, who performed horribly in training after a night of drinking, getting chewed out.

At lunchtime, Felton asked angrily, "Jack, bring Michael over here, you did this on purpose, didn’t you? Malicious revenge!"

Zhang Yang: "I did call him over on purpose, but not out of malicious revenge, boss, you guys are too unrestrained, how can you go bar-hopping during the playoffs? What if it affects the Eastern Finals? Look at your training state today, the boss is right to scold you!"

"..." Felton couldn’t rebut and turned to Okafor and Rondo, who were calmly eating, and asked, "Emeka, why aren’t you guys ganging up on Jack with me?"

Okafor: "I didn’t get scolded by the boss."

Felton: "Why not? Didn’t you also go drinking last night?"

Okafor: "I drank for a bit but felt I was getting drunk, so I went back early. My training performance just now was pretty good."

Rondo: "Same here."

Felton: "..."

Great, the Big Brother Group’s top four, and it’s the boss himself who got scolded!

Next time at dinner, I need to bring Millsap along, these three jerks just don’t fit in with him!

...

They’re all young athletes, and the impact of a hangover pretty much passed by the afternoon.

Jordan gathered the team at the end of the afternoon training and decreed they were not allowed to get drunk again before the playoffs ended, or they wouldn’t receive the playoff bonus, which would then be split among other eligible members.

There’s no salary in the playoffs, one fights for glory.

However, although there’s no salary, the league has set up a bonus pool, with the amount each season allocated based on the league’s total income from the previous season, which this season happened to reach $10 million.

The regular season’s Hornets took the first spot in the East, sharing over $250,000 from the total bonus pool of $10 million, and Jordan added a bit more than $40,000 within the allowed range, rounding it up to $300,000. The internal players, coaches, trainers, team doctors, and other staff, a total of 30 people, each received a bonus of $10,000.

Passing the first round of the playoffs accumulated an additional bonus of over $140,000, and after the second round, almost $290,000, even if they didn’t get past the Eastern Finals, at the end of the playoffs the 30 people eligible for the bonus would each have $15,000—a significant sum. And with Jordan’s extra contribution, it could be even more.

If they made it to the Finals, it would be huge—the runner-up would receive $1.2 million, and the champion $1.8 million; win or lose, everyone would get several thousand dollars.

But this bonus is especially important for the staff; for the players, it’s not really a significant threat. Yet Jordan’s words had a big impact on the team, awakening them to not dare to get wild like the night before.

Actually, the Hornets players didn’t plan to drink so much last night; they said they’d have just a few drinks to celebrate multiple people making the all-best teams.

They didn’t dare be careless now; their next opponent was most likely the Pistons, the same team that hammered them last year. They wanted a greater stage, they wanted revenge.

But when a bunch of grown men got to the restaurant’s bar and started drinking, aside from extremely disciplined individuals like Okafor and Rondo, who could still manage so much, almost all of them ended up plastered.

That evening, Zhang Yang stayed in front of the TV to watch the live broadcast of Game 5 between the Pistons and the Chicago Bulls.

Hinrich got 13 assists, firing up shooters like Luol Deng, Chris Duhon, and Nocioni, making 10 out of 16 three-pointers; Ben Gordon’s one-on-one situations immediately improved, scoring 28 points on 19 shots plus 8 out of 10 free throws.