When pride still matters

2 - Second Life

Although he is a time traveler, he knows nothing about the world in 2000. This cannot be blamed on him. Even if he is a post-00s generation who controls the world with his mobile phone, he cannot change his life by making a casual investment at this juncture.

Moreover, if he wants to embark on the path of professional basketball, his knowledge base cannot help him much in this era, because he is born after 00 and did not start paying attention to the NBA until 2016. Moreover, what he is ashamed to admit is that it inspired him The star who loves basketball is Kyrie Irving.

Stephen A. Smith once did a wave of AOE harm to Irving fans on the show: "Everyone who likes Irving is sick."

Yu Fei agreed.

What Yu Fei likes is the one who knocked down Brandon Knight in the Rookie Challenge, and the one Irving who selected Curry for a three-pointer in the last minute of the fourth quarter of Game 2016 of the 1 Finals. Not the otherworldly team destroyer he was after 2016.

This feeling is actually easy to understand, and Yu Fei believes that Zeng Fanbo must understand him.

When Zeng Fanbo went to the United States, he also chose his English name as "Kevin" because he liked Durant. Then Durant decided to make a decision that went against his ancestors - or in other words, it was something that his predecessors had already done. On the basis of this, he did things more absolutely and thoroughly, so that there was no room for transcendence - he joined the Warriors.

Zeng Fanbo is also deeply ashamed. He not only refuses to admit that he is a Durant fan, but also refuses to call his classmates/teammates in the United States Kevin. Even if they call him by his real name, he does not want to hear the two words "Kevin". word.

After washing up in the morning, Yu Fenglin had already prepared breakfast for his son.

Yu Fei ate the sandwich and drank a glass of milk. "Mom, I quit the volleyball team."

Yu Fenglin said nonchalantly: "Oh, really, it's okay, you're not playing well anyway."

"Aren't you angry?"

"Choosing volleyball or giving up volleyball is your own business. Why should I be angry?"

"What if I want to join the basketball team?"

Yu Fenglin watched the TV and did not show too much concern for his son's important choice, "As long as you are happy."

After Yu Fei left, he found that this mother was a counter-stereotype.

She doesn't care about Yu Fei's grades, only that he eats and drinks well.

It didn't even matter that Yu Fei's academic performance was only in the middle of the pack in school.

Maybe she had prepared a way out for Yu Fei early. If he couldn't understand what he was studying, he could just go to work in the store.

Maybe this is Yu Fei Benfei's fate.

But this Yu Fei is already that Yu Fei, everything will change.

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Kent Meridian High School boys basketball coach Hank Sylvan heard an interesting story from the volleyball team yesterday.

The most physically gifted boy in KM (school name abbreviation) in the past 20 years has quit the school volleyball team.

Miraculously, the volleyball team's coach Levine McConaughey wasn't upset at all.

Selvan knew that child. In fact, when the child entered school, he was already nearly two meters tall.

It's not like Selvan has never thought about letting him join the basketball team, but this kid has no interest in basketball at all. If he insists on joining the volleyball team, he can only watch helplessly as Kent City's rare top talent wastes his youth on the volleyball team.

Several years have passed, and Selvan has long since let go. After hearing that the child quit the volleyball team yesterday, Selvan sighed a few times, but he did not expect that today, the child he had been dreaming about a few years ago would take the initiative to come. Go to the basketball court.

It's early February, and it stands to reason that this stage is the most critical moment of the American high school basketball team's season.

All major state leagues have entered the quarterfinals.

But this game has nothing to do with the Royals.

Because the mediocre Royal team ranked fourth in the preliminaries of the "Kent School District", they did not even enter the regular season and were eliminated early.

Therefore, in addition to providing daily training for the basketball team, the school's basketball gym also allows students to come and have activities.

Selwan once admired Yu Fei, but now, a few years later, Yu Fei doesn't look like he can play basketball.

No matter how talented a person is, if he has never played amateur basketball before the age of 18, he will lose the value of training.

Although geniuses such as Olajuwon claim to have only started playing basketball at the age of 15, they must have been exposed to amateur basketball before, and Yu Fei is already 17 years old.

Even if he was KM's most physically talented student in the past 20 years, he would not be able to make any achievements in basketball.

Selwan looked at Yu Fei, and the more he looked at it, the more pity he felt.

He has a small head, broad shoulders, and a very long wingspan. Although his body is slightly thin, there are few players of this age who are strong. No matter how you look at it, he is a good prospect for playing basketball.

"What a pity." Selvan sighed.

Yu Fei and Lin Kaiwen came to the stadium.

The school's basketball court only has a standard size and two baskets.

Currently, the half of the court where Yu Fei and the others are located is occupied by two white girls. They are playing badminton around the court and are enjoying themselves.

On the other side, a bunch of dark-skinned little black men were playing a 3V3 half-court basketball game.

In a city like Kent City, where 90% of the population is white and Asian, the fact that KM has so many black students is inseparable from the school's reputation, ranking, and tuition fees.

However, sewage also wants to flow higher.

No matter how many black people there are, if they don’t have talent, they won’t be able to play basketball.

Talented black people will choose traditional high school basketball schools from the beginning, and there is no way to waste time in a place like KM.

Those little black guys were playing very lively, and Lin Kaiwen was a little timid, "A Fei, let's forget it for today? Don't you want to join the basketball team? Can't you just go to the coach?"

Yu Fei ignored Lin Kaiwen's advice, walked straight to the field, and said to the tallest black man who was dominating that half, "Can we form a team?"

It was extremely quiet.

Lin Kaiwen hid behind Yu Fei, feeling lucky for his petite figure for the first time in his life.

The tallest black man is the next captain of the school basketball team, Anthony Lawson C, who is in grade 11 like Yu Fei.

There are almost no people in KM who don’t know Yu Fei.

Some people may not know his name, but they all know that he is the "tallest guy in school."

When Lawson turned his head, Yu Fei almost laughed.

He looks like an elongated version of Speed, the black Internet celebrity with hyperthyroidism, with bigger nostrils, thicker lips, and more sinister eyes.

"What did you say?" Lawson didn't look very friendly.

Yu Fei remained calm and raised his voice a little: "Can my friends and I form a team and join you?"

"Fu Lai, forget it, didn't you choose volleyball because you were afraid of collisions on the basketball court? Big Tony will kill you!"

This is the first time that Yu Fei feels that he has become the protagonist in the story.

That's it, being looked down upon by others, and then there are clowns who make provocations.

Yu Fei knew that man. He was his former teammate on the volleyball team, a short black man named Downey.

However, Yu Fei wants to prove today that there can only be one Tony in this world, and that is Teacher Tony Ohmu, who has just started his career at this time.

Unless Anthony Lawson can do something as outrageous as Mr. Ohgi, who manipulated thousands of women but still couldn't help but rape the senior who led him into the industry, he shouldn't be called Big Tony.

"Yes, I spent a few years introspecting, and now I think clearly, I want to play basketball." Yu Fei's next words scared the courage of Lin Kaiwen behind him, "If I beat you, I would consider joining the basketball team.”

Lawson's boys were starting to get angry.

"Big Tony is not something a weakling like you can challenge!"

"Big Tony will smash your chopstick legs into pieces!"

"Tony, you don't need to take action, I'll help you teach him a lesson!"

Just when Lin Kaiwen was about to pull Yu Fei away, Lawson waved his hand, "You can ask anyone to join your team, and then we will start." "But don't blame me for not reminding you, basketball is not like volleyball. Non-confrontation sissy sports.”

Yu Fei asked Lin Kaiwen to choose a teammate, and then said to Lawson: "Can I warm up?"

Lawson threw the ball directly to Yu Fei.

Lin Kaiwen did not choose any black person on the scene. He went outside the stadium, while Yu Fei took the ball and started dribbling on his own.

Even if he is just showing off dribbling on the spot, many people will look at him differently.

This is definitely not something that a person without a basketball foundation can do.

Seeing Yu Fei constantly moving forward, crotch, behind, crossing, and changing in a small area, Selvan in the distance couldn't help but move closer.

What surprised Selvan was Yu Fei's coordination. Even if a big man had good basic skills, he would still feel stuck when doing this kind of movement.

This feeling did not appear in Fei Fei.

Selvan couldn't help but think about who was the last big man to do this.

Kevin Garnett?It seems almost.

Larry Johnson?Too short.

Magic Johnson?Not like that.

The edge of memory finally led the owner to find the answer - Lamar Odom!
Selvan will not compare Yu Fei and Odom with a dribbling display.

After all, Yu Fei has never appeared in the school basketball hall before. How could he suddenly have such superb skills?It would still make sense if he could only dribble.

After all, the basic of basics, dribbling, can be practiced anywhere.

In fact, Yu Fei himself was far more surprised than others on the sidelines.

It's not like he's never seen a big man before.

When I was playing in my previous life, I often encountered big men in amateur matches, but those guys were either slow, had rough skills, or had poor coordination.

In the history of Chinese basketball for more than half a century, only two players have left legends in their youth because of their flexibility, coordination and skills that were not consistent with their physical conditions.

One of these two people is Wang Zhizhi and the other is Zhou Qi.

However, Yu Fei also met a terrifying giant in Naigao who left a shadow on him - Yang Hansen in ZB Eleven.

Of course, compared to Wang and Zhou, Yang Hansen's flexibility tends to be more traditional inside, but Yu Fei believes that his future is limitless.Unfortunately, he couldn't see it.

Returning to himself, Yu Fei discovered that his skills and sense of the ball in his previous life had not disappeared, and could be fully displayed in this body. Even because of his height and long arms, he could make a big body like Durant. Change direction.

After a while, Lin Kaiwen led a nerdy-looking white boy with glasses in.

Seeing that Lin Kaiwen had found such a companion, the little black people at the scene laughed loudly.

"Everyone is here, let's get started."

Lawson looks eager to defend his authority as the Royals' next captain.

Lin Kaiwen said to Fei: "A Fei, are we playing too much?"

"You and your friends don't have to do anything." Yu Fei said confidently, "I can do it myself."

Lin Kaiwen let out a surprised sound: "Ah???"

Lawson was also a very particular person. He felt that there was no need for any helpers to deal with Yu Fei and the other three, so he randomly selected two followers and went on stage.

Seeing this, the former teammate who was so angry with Fei Yin and Yang started to ridicule again: "Big Tony, you choose two reserve players because you think too highly of Fulai. Regardless of his height, in fact, he can't play basketball at all. Even if you choose I can still kick his ass!"

There was another round of booing at the scene. Lawson did not really let the man come up, but handed the ball to Yu Fei: "Play eleven goals, and the team that scores the goal can continue to attack. You go first."

"I'm so sorry, I don't like taking advantage the most." Yu Fei took the initiative to walk in and left the ball outside, "You are the defending team. According to my understanding, you should hit the first ball. .”

Yu Fei's actions had nothing to do with the reasons he mentioned. He just wanted to take the opportunity to stretch his muscles. After all, he only had two days to travel through time, and he didn't want to leave behind the famous scene of early human beings taming their limbs.

Lawson handed the ball to his younger brother and went inside to get close to Yu Fei.

Yu Fei's height advantage is immediately obvious.

Kevin Lin and the white man with glasses stared at their opponents nervously. Neither of them knew how to play basketball.

"Just guard against shots, and if they want to come in, let them in."

Yu Fei said to Lin Kaiwen in Chinese, and then the white man with glasses lost his place.

There was no need for Yu Fei to proactively remind them that they would be broken through. Because they didn't even have the awareness to lower their center of gravity, it was very easy to break through them.

"The first point is mine!"

The little black man with big sausage-like lips who broke through the white man with glasses was particularly excited when he went for a layup. However, before he could get happy, Yu Fei's block fell from the sky.

Perhaps in just an instant, Yu Fei threw away Lawson, suddenly burst into flames, and raised his long arm to cover the ball.

The moment he completed the block, Yu Fei adjusted his posture in the air, directly caught up with the ball after landing, and carried it to the outside.

Excellent mobility, excellent explosive power, and developed motor nerves were fully reflected in this round.

While dribbling the ball, Yu Fei looked at his former teammates in the crowd. He smiled and asked, "Donny, when will you come up and try?"

After saying that, Yu Fei lowered his center of gravity, changed the direction of his crotch and shook the sausage-mouthed black man away, directly entered the free throw line, collected the ball in two long strides, and released the basket to score.

Lawson was right under the basket, but he was completely unable to stop Yu Fei, and the talent gap was like a chasm.

"We can continue the attack, right?"

Yu Fei asked Lawson after grabbing the ball from the ground with one hand.

Lawson entered Kevin Lin's state: "Huh?"

And Yu Fei threw the ball to Lin Kaiwen from the inside and said loudly: "Pass it to me!"

Kevin Lin does not believe in genetic mutations that only appear in superhero comics such as laboratory accidents, radiation leaks, alien bloodlines, mysterious experiments, and genetic inheritance.

However, his good friend Yu Fei has indeed become different since yesterday.

Basically, except for his appearance, he is like a different person.

Kevin Lin awkwardly lobbed the ball away.

Then, Yu Fei turned around and took away the force exerted on him by Lawson. At the same time, he threw the opponent to the ground. He stared at the basket with his eyes wide open. The ambition in his heart began to skyrocket, so he dribbled the ball and rushed over. .Lawson's two teammates returned to the basket and tried to stop Yu Fei.

In vain!

The soles of their feet were just 10 centimeters off the ground. Yu Fei had already jumped to the highest point. This was a place he had never reached in the previous 18 years. The ball in his hand smashed into the basket like a sledgehammer, crushing not only his opponents. confidence, and previous lives.

Everything that once belonged to him died the morning before yesterday, but at that same moment, he was reborn. In this unexpected second life, he was sure that he would do something great and achieve great things. Achieve eternal meaning.

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"Juwan Howard: MJ doesn't know what I'm facing." - "Washington Post"

"Kwame Brown, the phenom from Georgia, has become a big name in the basketball world." - "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"

"The Kings should enjoy every day they have C-Webb." - ESPN Express

"To tell you all the sad news, the next captain of the basketball team, 'Big Tony', was completely defeated by amateurs in the school gymnasium. The Royals have no future." - Kent Meridian High School Radio.

⑴ "Because the mediocre Royal team ranked fourth in the preliminaries of the "Kent School District"."Kent Meridian High School belongs to the 4A level in the school district. There are 4 4A high schools in the Kent school district.So fourth place is equivalent to last place.

(End of this chapter)