The Road to Stardom: Start as a Slam Dunk Master.

Chapter 124 An unattainable legend!
Sunday, the 12th, Xiangyang Basketball Stadium.

Lin Dong finally met Coach Kitano who should have come to Xiangyang to report long ago.

He is short and thin in stature. Although he is the same age as Coach Anxi, he has so many wrinkles on his face that he looks much older than Coach Anxi.

However, his eyes are bright and he walks briskly and vigorously. In this regard, he is much better than Coach Anxi.

The old man always has a vague smile on his face, giving people a feeling of being open-minded and playing with the world. He should be a cheerful person.

"I haven't come to Xiangyang to report before, mainly because the Basketball Association wants me to do something for them to naturalize you." Kitano Shoichi just spoke, and as expected, he was quick and cheerful, without any secrets: "But After reading your personal information, I thought you would not accept the Basketball Association’s conditions, but it turned out to be true.”

"However, the guys from the Japan Basketball Association probably won't give up. There are only 5 places in Asia for this Nike Basketball Summit. The guys from the Japan Basketball Association spent a lot of money to get 2. In fact, they were prepared for naturalization. , how about it? Do you feel tempted? If you want this spot, it’s just a matter of words, and by naturalizing in Japan, all the resources you can get are top-notch."

Lin Dong smiled and replied: "Didn't you just say you didn't want to be a lobbyist for the Basketball Association?"

"Hahaha!" Kitano Shoichi laughed and said: "I just don't want to be used by the Basketball Association. Their methods are a bit extreme, but I still have to mention it. What if you really want to? As a Japanese basketball person, who would Don’t you look forward to the rise of Japanese basketball? If you join, I think Japan may have a chance to dominate Asia in a few years.”

Lin Dong just smiled and did not continue what he said, but his eyes expressed everything.

"Okay, okay, I know what you're thinking, and the result is similar to what I had with Anxi before." Kitano Shoichi said with a smile: "Then let's talk about business."

"I heard Anzai talking about your special training at the Lloyd training base. Regardless of whether you have improved or not, I think you are still the most unique player in Japan, with the ability to single-handedly defeat any current Japanese team. The quality of the high school teams, but I think you still can’t take it lightly with this winter league.”

"Because your opponent will no longer be any individual university in Japan, but will be the entire Japan."

"Although I am not in the Basketball Association, I can still guess a thing or two about their style. As long as I can beat you in Japan, your appeal to the Dragon Country and the NBA will be much less. I think you are in a Japanese high school. The league can't ask for anything and achieve absolute dominance, and your talent is just that, so they won't offer you too high conditions. Then the Japan Basketball Association still has the possibility of recruiting you, so they will do it at all costs. of."

"Of course, you can rest assured that the Japanese Basketball Association's methods of defeating you will be made explicit, otherwise it will only be counterproductive in terms of weakening your personal influence." Kitano Shoichi said with a smile: "As for the team, , it can be seen that the Basketball Association is interested in Sanno Industries. Shigehiro Mori has officially announced that he will join Sanno, but this is only what has been reported. As far as I know, Jun Tsuchiya of Daiei Academy and Dai Morohoshi of Aichi Prefecture , have all joined the Mountain King, and there may be something I don’t know about..."

This news surprised Lin Dong.
"Shigehiro Mori is on the first team in the summer league, and Jun Tsuchiya is on the second team. According to the rules, they shouldn't be able to merge, right?"

"Those are the rules set by the Basketball Association themselves, and the rules can be changed." Kitano Shoichi said with a smile: "In order to snipe you, changing such a small rule is nothing to them."

"So the king of the mountain you are going to face in the winter league will be someone with the best point guard Fukatsu Kazunari, the best shooting guard Morohoshi, the best junior forward Jun Tsuchiya, and probably the best player in the entire history of Japanese high school basketball. Center Shigehiro Mori and the 230-pound Mikio Kawada form a twin tower inside."

"Of course, if that's all, I still don't think they are an absolute threat to you, but the Basketball Association's methods are far more than that."

"If you look at the paper data alone, this team is already stronger than the Summer League team. As early as the summer vacation, the Basketball Association had already sent these people to the United States to receive professional training at the NCAA level. Now Still haven't returned, it's just that the Basketball Association has been suppressing the news and not reporting it. It is foreseeable that when these people appear in the winter league, if you look at them at the level of the summer league, you may get a big blow. deficit."

"The draw is also a place where they can play tricks. This Sanno's division will definitely be easy all the way, and the division between you and Xiangyang..." Kitano Shoichi said with a smile: "Even if it is not the top eight or the top sixteen, etc. The team must be a team with a lot of small tricks and dirty tricks. They may not target you. After all, you are the focus and the target of both Dragon Kingdom and the NBA. But targeting Fujima and Hanagata will make you lose before the finals. It’s very likely that it will happen.” “So…” Kitano Shoichi concluded: “Don’t underestimate your opponents in this winter league. Every opponent, no matter how weak, may be used by the Basketball Association to snipe you. Part of it, don't think this is unfair. From the moment you choose not to accept naturalization, you are actually on the opposite side of the Japan Basketball Association, and your opponents are destined to no longer be just pure high school players."

"Your opponent is a brand new Sanno Industries, it will be all the teams in the winter league, it will be the Japan Basketball Association, and even under the control of public opinion, it will be the entire Japan..."

"Regardless of strength, physical strength, mentality, and emotional control, you will experience unprecedented challenges. I think..."

"Coach Kitano." Lin Dong had been listening attentively, until he suddenly interrupted him.

"Ok?"

Lin Dong asked: "Do you think it is possible for the Basketball Association to control the referee's decisions?"

Kitano Shoichi was startled for a moment, then shook his head after thinking carefully: "They can't control it."

"First, after all, the organizer of the Winter League is the Asahi Shimbun. In Japan, the Asahi Shimbun is an absolutely trustworthy organization and is known for its courage to disclose. At least in domestic reports, they have never been truthful. It is impossible to choose to join forces with Basketball."

"Secondly, and most importantly, if you win by manipulating penalties, it will not weaken your appeal to the Dragon Country and the NBA, and it will be meaningless even if you win in the end."

"Oh." Lin Dong said, "That'll be fine."

When Kitano Akira looked at his expression, he could roughly guess what the other person was thinking. Was he disapproving? Did you talk about co-writing it before in vain?
It is good for young people to have confidence, but...

"Coach Kitano." Lin Dong laughed: "Of course this team is no longer the King of the Mountain in the summer league, but I... am no longer the same person in the summer league."

Kitano Shoichi was slightly startled.

In the past three months at the Lloyd Training Base, only Lin Dong understood what changes and improvements he had experienced.

That is far more than just the 0.25 second increase in breakthrough speed, let alone the 0.8 centimeter in height.

Instead, all of his accumulation and training have been transformed into substance. It is a complete integration of two lives, just like when he finally called out "Dad"!
If the Summer League itself is a mountain, and they are all at the foot of the mountain, then now...

"No matter who they are." Lin Dong said with a smile: "Let them challenge, I will leave a legend in the Japanese high school basketball world in Kanagawa that will never be matched!"

(End of this chapter)