NBA: Starting with Jokic template

Chapter 197 Breaking the promise
At the last moment, Lin Chuan's full-strength jump was better than the old Duncan's second jump. He grabbed the basketball first and dunked it into the basket at the last moment.

The scoreboard changes for the last time.

111:112
The score could not change.

The light comes on when the ball goes in, and the game is over!

Lin Chuan scored the winning goal against the Spurs!

The next moment, the stadium suddenly became boiling.

"MVP! MVP!"

"It's so wonderful! Thank you Lin Chuan! You are so powerful!"

All the fans in the stadium couldn't control their emotions and vented them out at this moment.

No one expected that the outcome of this game would be so dramatic.

In the first half, he was like a god possessed, with an outrageous shooting percentage, and at one point led the Spurs by nearly 20 points. In the second half, he was caught up by Durant and Lin Chuan's offense and defense, and at one point he overtook the Spurs, but at the last moment he overtook them again with the rookie's free throws.

As a result, in the last attack, Durant, who was extremely efficient throughout the game, missed the damn buzzer-beater.

Just when everyone thought that the Spurs were finally going to break the Thunder's unbeaten streak after going through so much hardship, Lin Chuan, at the last moment, knocked away Duncan who was fighting for the rebound with him, and made a powerful two-handed dunk at the buzzer, completely killing the game and the Spurs' efforts throughout the game.

"what!!!!!"

This was a decisive goal, and even Lin Chuan, who had played many key shots, couldn't help but pump his fist and roar in celebration.

He had been suppressed for too long in this game.

Not only was the team always lagging behind, but they were also suppressed by the Spurs for almost the entire game.

Duncan also played very hard on both offense and defense in this game, guarding him all over the court, as if he wanted to block him from peeing in the urinal when he went to the toilet. It made him feel very uncomfortable.

It made him very depressed.

It was obvious that this game was Durant's hot hand, but he didn't think about double-teaming him and kept treating himself as a formidable enemy.

Fortunately, at the last moment, he completed the buzzer-beater, making Duncan's hard work in defense go to waste.

This also made him feel much better.

All the depression was gone.

"call……"

Looking at the audience who were shouting his name and calling him MVP two minutes ago, and now shouting MVP to Lin Chuan who had just made the buzzer beater and became a hero again, he couldn't help but feel a little helpless.

"Ah, after 47 minutes of good play, Lin Chuan still stole the limelight in the end."

He shook his head helplessly and smiled.

Never mind, at least we won the game.

Don't let the worst outcome happen.

It means that he scored 49 points but the team still lost.

If that happens, it will be the most painful thing for him.

"You played well. You defended very well in the last game. You scared me into a cold sweat at the end of this game."

After the game, Durant also found Leonard and talked to him for a few words.

Although he was extremely frustrated with Leonard's defense on the court, he still admired the rookie off the court.

In the second year of his debut, he was able to fight hard when facing him, and even dared to take key shots. It can be seen that this player has unlimited potential.

"Thank you. I will beat you in the next game."

Even though he was praised by this season's MVP and currently the hottest player, Durant, Leonard did not show any excitement.

Durant thought about it and felt that this was reasonable. After all, they had just lost the game. They could still laugh after suffering a reversal defeat. How big of a heart must one have to do to do such a thing.

He didn't say much and wanted to end the conversation in just a few words.

"It's not easy to break our unbeaten streak. We can't achieve such a high hit rate in every game."

But Durant did not let him go. He could not lose in art on the court or in words off the court.

Leonard stared at Durant for a few seconds, said nothing more, and turned around and walked towards the player tunnel.

Durant shrugged and prepared to leave.

But when he turned around, he saw the figure in the audience seats.

Scarlett with blond hair.

At this moment, she took off her sunglasses and smiled at him. She made a phone gesture with her other hand and put it to her ear, as if asking Durant to contact her later.

Nice!

The villain in Durant couldn't help but jump up with excitement, but on the surface he smiled and nodded, pretending to be calm.

At this moment, Durant suddenly felt someone patted his shoulder, which scared him.

"So calm? That's great, Kevin."

Hearing Lin Chuan's voice, Durant suppressed his anger.

"Of course I am. Who am I? Kevin Durant!"

Durant looked proud, but was ruthlessly exposed by Lin Chuan.

"I clearly couldn't lick her before, and I cried every day. I even want to drink her bath water!"

"Don't talk about it! That dark history is in the past! She and I have a different relationship now!!!!"

The two of them went back to the locker room, and as soon as they opened the door, they were splashed with wine by others who were already prepared.

"Celebrate your joint efforts in winning this game!"

Durant and Lin Chuan were still confused when they heard Brooks' words with a smile.

So that's it. In order to celebrate today's victory, these teammates gave them a surprise!
"I've booked a Mexican restaurant. Let's go eat together later."

Brooks extended an invitation to both men.

Lin Chuan nodded without hesitation.

The same is true for Durant.

Fifteen minutes later, a group of neatly dressed athletes arrived at the restaurant.

Brooks raised his glass high and said to everyone with a smile on his face,

"Let's celebrate our hard-earned victory! Cheers!!!"

"cheers!!!!!"

Everyone raised their glasses and drank the beer in their glasses.

As the glasses of wine were being toasted, Durant couldn't help but reveal an expression of having survived a disaster.
"Oh, I have to say this was a close call. We almost lost the game. The Spurs are really scary. They dragged us to the last minute for two consecutive games. I always feel that their intensity is no less than that of last year's finals."

"Yeah." Lin Chuan nodded in agreement.

More than half an hour after the game, he was still feeling scared.

All I can say is that he won in the end.

The group ate for a while. When Lin Chuan was full, he saw Durant's phone on the table vibrating from time to time, so he patted him on the shoulder.

"My phone is vibrating so hard that I'm about to spill my drink, bro."

"Who cares? It's more important to celebrate with our team mates."

As soon as he finished speaking, Durant hung up the phone and picked up a glass of beer. His face turned red unconsciously due to the effect of alcohol.

"You're right! Let's have another drink then!"

Durant touched his chin, feeling as if he had forgotten something.

Is there something important that you forgot to think of?

Seeing that Lin Chuan was almost raising the glass to his face, Durant smiled and raised his glass to clink with his.

What's more important than this glass of wine? Drink it!

At this time, people were still in the parking lot of the Chesapeake Energy Arena. Scarlett, sitting in the car, watched the phone in her hand fail to dial again. Her face turned a little blue, and her anger still couldn't help but surge up.

Seeing that the phone was not connected again, she rubbed her brows, suppressed her emotions, and said to herself,
"Don't be angry, Scarlett. Maybe they just celebrated in the locker room for a little too long and didn't notice the message on their phone."

Just then, she saw someone in the garage walking towards her.

She looked closely and saw that the man was a bald white man with a huge body. He looked like a parking lot security guard in the clothes he was wearing.

If he is a security guard, he should be able to know their situation.

Scarlett thought so and leaned out to ask the visitor,
"Hello, may I ask if the Thunder players are still in the locker room?"

The white security guard saw a woman in the car suddenly asking this question, and subconsciously thought it was a female fan who had been waiting for an autograph for a long time. He frowned and said in a hoarse voice,

"Who are you? Are you a fan of a certain star? Stop asking questions and leave! The game has already ended for half an hour. What are you still doing here?"

Hearing this, Scarlett didn't say anything more, but pulled down her sunglasses.

The security guard was still frowning, and walked forward and stretched out his hand to chase the man away, but when he suddenly saw the true face of the person in front of him, his face changed from dissatisfaction to surprise.

"Ah! You! You are Miss Scarlett!!!!"

His mouth formed an O shape, and then he immediately leaned over the car window and smiled awkwardly.
"Can you give me an autograph?"

Scarlett felt helpless, but for her own purpose, she still forced a smile and said,
"Of course, how do you sign it?"

The security guard took out a pen from his pocket, then opened his uniform jacket and pointed at the T-shirt on his chest.
“Just sign here!”

Scarlett quickly signed her signature and looked up at the security guard.

"Oh! Of course, Miss Scarlett. In fact, the Thunder players left together on the bus about 45 minutes ago?"

"Leaving together?!"

"correct."

The security guard ignored Scarlett's increasingly ugly expression and continued to speak to himself.
"I heard that they were going to have dinner together to celebrate their victory. As for which restaurant..."

He leaned close to Scarlett's ear and whispered,

"When they were leaving, I heard the news not far away. I heard it was the Mexican restaurant El Compadre. If you want to go there, don't tell them that I leaked the secret."

Scarlett silently turned her head away from the overly enthusiastic security guard.

After expressing his gratitude, he rolled up the car window and drove out of the parking lot at the speed of light.

The security guard behind her was still waving and saying something to her, but at this moment Scarlett just wanted to stay away from him.

Oh my God, only she knew that the hot air exhaled from the security guard's mouth just now sprayed on her face. If he came closer, he would probably kiss her.

Thinking of this, Scarlett couldn't help but shiver with a chill.

But at this time, this little episode did not make her forget her business.

On the contrary, she became even more annoyed.

It’s all Durant’s fault. This guy had an appointment with me, but he dared to stand me up!!!
It was because he stood me up and didn't reply to my message that I had to ask the security guard in the parking lot.

That’s why you encounter these disgusting things!
It’s not Scarlett’s fault at all, the cause and effect are very smooth.

Durant is really getting carried away. Has he forgotten how he treated himself before?!

Scarlett drove out of the parking lot, parked the car on the side of the road, gritted her teeth, took out her cell phone and started editing text messages again.

At the same moment, Durant saw his phone vibrate a few more times and finally put down the wine glass in his hand.

He was still wondering in his heart who was so persistent, constantly calling and texting him, it seemed like it was endless.

With a somewhat annoyed mood, he turned over the phone that was covering the table.

There was a text message and six or seven missed calls on the phone.

When Durant saw the content of the text message, his face suddenly changed.

On the phone, there was the text message that Scarlett had just edited.

"Kevin Durant, I'm really disappointed in you. After spending so much time together, my opinion of you has changed a lot. I now think you're a man I can get along with and have a good personality. I knew you'd be under a lot of pressure, so I came to the game to encourage you and exposed our relationship in front of everyone. But I didn't expect that today, the day I first invited you, you would just stand me up! I was wrong about you! Let's not contact each other anymore! That's it! Goodbye!"

"Fuck! My brain! Something's wrong!!!"

Durant immediately stood up and jumped off the chair, almost kicking Lin Chuan who was standing next to him, which scared him as well.

"Holy shit, what's wrong?"

"Scarlett!!!! We agreed to go on a date after the competition! I forgot!!!!"

Durant screamed in pain and ran out of the restaurant as if fleeing.

After hearing Durant's words, everyone in the restaurant looked at each other.

It wasn't until someone at the table burst into laughter that everyone at the table started laughing.

Lin Chuan laughed so mercilessly that tears were about to come out.

"Durant is such a humorous guy. He had been licking Scarlett for so long but she just couldn't get him. Now that she's finally willing to talk to him and is about to go on a date with him, he did this. I can't hold it in any longer."

Brooks also laughed out loud. To be honest, looking at Durant's fleeing back, no one could easily hold back their laughter.

"I can only hope that this will allow him to focus on basketball and stop thinking about love affairs, so that he can play the next game more seriously."

He knocked on the table, also as a reminder to the other players.

Lin Chuan touched his chin thoughtfully.

But he was not thinking about the key point of the second half of the sentence, but the first half.

He didn't believe that after suffering such a big blow, Durant could still play seriously. If he could, then he would not be Durant.

(End of this chapter)