Chapter 281: Dwayne, We're Very Much Like Steve Nash and Amare
At the end of July, the London Olympics officially began. As the absolute core of this year's men's basketball team, Su Wan led the team to a record of 4 wins and 1 loss, entering the "knockout stage," with the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team emerging second in their group. They advanced successfully in the quarter-finals, but faced Spain in the semi-finals and lost. However, in the "bronze medal match," they defeated Lithuania and successfully claimed this year's bronze medal.
Su Wan averaged 32.4 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 3.4 assists per game, earning him a spot in the final "best lineup."
His performance and the final team results brought immense joy to his home country.
In fact, after Yao Ming once again faced a "season-ending" level injury, the domestic sentiment towards this Olympics was universally pessimistic.
After all, two years ago, without Su Wan and Yao Ming, the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team had performed tragically in the World Championship.
This time, without Yao Ming, only Su Wan leading the team, they thought "the odds are against us."
But the final result was:
Su Wan "single-handedly led" the team to carve out a path, forcibly snatching a bronze medal.
If the original Huaxia Men's Basketball Team relied solely on Yao Ming to become a world-level top-eight team, then now, with Su Wan leading alone, the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team is a top-four level team!
Successfully claiming the bronze medal, Su Wan's domestic reputation exploded.
It's evident from the fact that all season tickets for the Magic City Dreamers Team under his leadership were sold out.
Moreover, this topic also made it to the trending list on Weibo, with unanimous comments below:
"This is what Su God deserves!"
"Strongly suggest the Magic City Government build a new stadium for the Dreamers, tickets are too hard to get otherwise!"
"Sold out already? My God, I was planning to support Su Boss's team in the new season, didn't expect these people to be even crazier!"
"Dreamers' new season tickets, DM me if you have one!"
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Su Wan had already returned to New York at this time.
Now it was mid-August.
"This is Streetball" officially started filming.
As the world's top high-traffic basketball variety show, with the official announcement of Michael Jordan, Kobe, Marbury, and Alston joining, excitement exploded globally.
Of course, for netizens, an even more sensational piece of news was Scarlett joining the show as a cheerleader member.
The outside world was instantly abuzz.
No one expected Scarlett would star in this show.
And when photos of Scarlett in cheerleading attire were released, it directly set the internet ablaze.
The initial few episodes of filming were actually quite simple, consisting of various 1v1 matches, aimed at a comprehensive showcase by these street ballers, and for this reason, the first three episodes of "This is Streetball" were completed in just one week.
The fourth episode was about selecting players by each mentor, which also went smoothly and completed in one day.
At the end of August, ESPN took the finished four episodes for review, and on September 1st, the "This is Streetball" program went online and instantly ignited a viewing frenzy, with nonstop discussions about the show on Twitter.
Whether it's Michael Jordan, Kobe, Marbury, Alston, or Su Wan filming the same program as mentors, or Scarlett standing as a "vase" cheerleader, they were all rare scenes.
And let's talk about these streetballers talking trash before matches, and then showcasing various 1v1 skills, creating all sorts of thrilling "iconic scenes". Of course, this was certainly driven by the program team's editing.
However, from the discussions, it's also evident that several popular players in the streetball community have emerged.
The discussions are indeed very lively...
Su Wan also isn't afraid of these people walking off suddenly.
Before the program began, he had already signed contracts with all the players.
No choice, the behaviors of the Black community are too unpredictable!
Almost all negative traits are magnified in them, forcing Su Wan to take precautionary measures. — This lost him a few popular streetball players from the community. But it's fine, just look at the current hype, Su Wan can be sure, those who didn't sign will definitely regret it later!
During September 4th to September 8th, the program proceeded with the second round of filming, mainly focusing on team elimination matches.
The on-site cheerleading girl changed from Scarlett to Megan Fox, the heroine from "Transformers".
Although Megan Fox later went down the path of Kim Kardashian and never returned, right now Fox, at the peak of her beauty at age 26, looks stunningly sexy and enchanting.
Especially now, wearing the cheerleading support outfit, showcasing her perfect figure, even more...
leaving one dazzled.
Several street ballers had already started drooling.
Compared to Scarlett's height of 160, Megan Fox at 168 indeed has more striking body curves.
After filming two or three episodes of team battles, the next stage will be the voting resurrection for eliminated street ballers, attempting to kick the doors again.
Since the program hasn't aired until all "1v1" matches are complete, the filming temporarily halted.
However, the upcoming filming will be a bit challenging, as the new season is about to begin, making it not easy to gather Su Wan and others again. Marbury even needs to go to China to play in the CBA.
Su Wan had already devised a solution:
The mentor's significance is to boost the show's early heat. At the stage of "resurrected players" coming back to kick the doors, whether the mentors are present or not becomes unimportant. By then, directors just need to shoot some VCRs in the cities where the mentors are located, and piece together online interactions with players into videos.