swing striker

Chapter 24 Partner

"No, you go James, I want to work hard for Maserati."

"And Hollywood stars!"

As if hearing a funny joke, White spread his hands exaggeratedly, and added this sentence as if ironic.

"Yes."

Shi Lei nodded seriously, although he couldn't bear the sexual desire of European and American women, and the strong smell of perfume on his body.

"It's a great idea. I don't think you can do it, but as a friend, I decided to stay with you."

"Are you sure?" Shi Lei had given up persuading him, but was surprised to hear that White agreed to stay.

"Yes, brother, you heard me right, I decided to accompany you, maybe you can consider giving me a Maserati in the future."

"But no Hollywood stars."

This sentence made both of them laugh at the same time.

Fate is so wonderful. From this moment on, the two people who originally had different destinies became intertwined with each other. During this year, they became the ones who accompanied each other the most.

I have to say that God seems to prefer the word James. White may have inaccurate shooting, unstable dribbling, and not sharp enough to break through, but his physical fitness is exceptionally good.The one-on-one bullfight between two people seems to have become an exhibition game for him to slam dunk. He always seizes every opportunity to "fly" himself and make the basket whine.

"Hey man, see, you can't stop me."

When White came down from the basket again, he tilted his head and said to Shi Lei with a supercilious expression.

Shi Lei was naturally not to be outdone: "Why didn't you break through me, are you afraid?"

"But you can't stop my dunk, that's enough."

"Okay, I'll put one on your head."

"You always say that, but your dunks are not aesthetically pleasing, why don't you try adding something else?"

Time passed little by little, the sound of the slap of the basketball, and the sound of the conversation with the two people made the Spurs training hall shrouded in night seem more and more quiet.

"Stop, brother, I think we should go."

After another one-on-one practice, White held the basketball in his arms and told Shi Lei.

"Oh fine."

Wiping the sweat dripping from his forehead, Shi Lei nodded in approval of White's proposal.He was tired, very tired, but White seemed very relaxed.He actually asked Shi Lei: "Can you have a drink with me now?"

"Oh my God, aren't you tired?"

"No, it's nothing, I can do something else if I want to. I used to spend all day practicing a certain dunk, yes, all day."

White took off his wet clothes and said to Shi Lei with an indifferent expression.

"To be honest, James, I am very envious of your physical condition, it is really a masterpiece of God."

"Yeah, everybody said that. You know what? I almost became 'No. [-]."

"Number one?"

Shi Lei suspected that he misheard the words, or misunderstood what White wanted to express.

"Yes, at that time countless teams invited me to try out and said they wanted me to go there. But I said no."

As if talking about a trivial matter, White was very free and easy, and he didn't seem to mind the huge gap in his status from the "No. [-] pick" to the last round pick.

"and then?"

Shi Lei asked curiously, he thought White was in this situation due to injury or other reasons, but what he got was an answer that he couldn't understand.

"I chose to go to college."

The tone of White's words is still turbulent every day.

"the University?"

Shi Lei shrugged, expressing that he couldn't understand it at all.In his impression, the words that people say the most about the "parallel importer" Kwame Brown are "he should probably go to college for a few years" and "for him, it was a wrong decision to come to the NBA too early" .

"Yes, I can't understand it either, so everything is God's decision."

In the hazy mist, White's words reached Shi Lei's ears with a bit of mist.

God's decision, that's what White says about his own destiny.

Perhaps somewhere in the dark, there is really such a bit of providence that makes White always fail to get what he wants at some crucial junctures in his life.

In high school, White used his almost abnormal physical fitness and brilliant style of play to become a high-profile basketball star in the United States.Just when everyone thought he would participate in the 2001 NBA draft, he chose to study at the University of Florida because Kwame Brown participated in the draft that year.

在大学期间，2001年-2002年赛季帮助球队佛罗里达鳄鱼队打出22-9的记录，随后转学到NCAA最强联盟之一中的名校辛辛那提大学，大四那年场均16.3分5板2助攻1.1抢断0.盖帽。然而这一年的NCAA总冠军是弗罗里达大学的鳄鱼队！

In the just-concluded most watched slam dunk contest—the NCAA slam dunk contest, White, who was the best in the preliminaries, won the runner-up in the end, because people think that White's dunk lacks new tricks!
Well, this is the James White story, a story of lows followed by highs.And this is just the beginning. In Shi Lei's memory, he almost knows the trajectory and turning points of White's entire life before he came to CBA.

This year's NBA draft is generally considered to be the worst in the past decade.When the media interviewed the managers of those teams why they did not choose White, each of them cited several reasons, and most of them did not repeat.So in the media reports, there was such a sentence-"the NBA has [-] reasons for not drafting James White"!
"How about going to my house?"

Shi Lei said this when White proposed to go to some place for a "drink".He knew what White meant, but he didn't want to sleep with some woman with some purpose, at least not now.

"Okay, let's go to your house."

Putting the backpack on his back, White didn't seem to object to Shi Lei's proposal.

For the memory of this night, many years later, Shi Lei only remembered this sentence: "You know, brother, you always sit there quietly, that makes you look lonely, so I always try to talk to you Say something, I think that'll help you unlearn the damn thing."

At this night, after the wine was hot, White stuck out his tongue and said this to Shi Lei.

PS: I suddenly feel so stupid, I asked for votes for almost every one, and I also thank the friends who voted for me, especially the BB1346 friend who has been voting for me, and then I found out today that the contents of the column of the author’s words of the TMD Friends can't see it, I'm drunk, thank you friends who support me for seeing this belatedly, please forgive me!

I have recommendations this week. I hope my grades will be better. I hope that friends who feel that my writing is not bad can help and support me so that my grades will not be so bleak. Whether I can have recommendations next week depends entirely on my friends. , thank you here first!

Thanks to BB1346 who has always voted for me, thank you, thank you very much, and friends who voted for me, whose names I still don’t know, thank you too.There are also favorite friends, bow to thank you, thank you!

　PS: I have recommendations this week. I hope my grades will be better. I hope that friends who feel that my writing is not bad can help and support me so that my grades will not be so bleak. Whether I can have recommendations next week depends entirely on my friends. That's it, thank you here first!

　　Thanks to BB1346 who has always voted for me, thank you, thank you very much, and friends who voted for me, whose names I still don’t know, thank you too.There are also favorite friends, bow to thank you, thank you!

　　


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