Stevens' Debut

With the pre-season about to begin, every team was starting to get into game form.

Three days before the start of the pre-season, the Pelicans and Rockets flew to China together.

They would play two pre-season games in China, the China Games familiar to fans.

Three years earlier, when Tang Tian was still with the Spurs, he had also played in the China Games. Their opponents then had been the Mavericks.

Spurs versus Mavericks, Tang Tian against Yi Jianlian—the attention those two China Games received had been unprecedented.

But this time, it was even greater.

Thanks to the fanbase built during Yao Ming's era, the Rockets had always been quite popular in China. Now that they had just formed a super Big Three, they were undoubtedly second only to the Pelicans in popularity.

As for the Pelicans, there was no need to say more. The sellout of Sports Illustrated magazines showed just how popular they were in China now. Fans were all looking forward to Tang Tian winning a championship in the new season to prove himself.

A matchup between these two teams was unquestionably the most anticipated game in the country.

And with the game being held in China, tickets had already sold out the moment the NBA officially announced the two teams for the China Games.

Besides the two teams, another point of interest for fans was the battle between their Head Coaches.

Both powerful teams had new coaches at the helm, and everyone wanted to know what kind of teams they could turn them into.

The first stop of the series was Hangzhou's Yellow Dragon Sports Center.

Past China Games had mostly been held in places like Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou, mainly because those cities had sufficiently large basketball arenas.

Even with temporary seating added, the Yellow