On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yang Lei followed his parents to pay New Year's greetings to his grandmother.

Qian Zheng was spending money at his mother's house, and he joined forces with the third Qian Zhengde to pretend to be forced again, this Spring Festival was really happy, and Lao Yang felt ten years younger.

Since the second year of junior high school, Yang Lei gave up visiting relatives and went to the factory to do processing by himself to prepare in advance.

Center shoes require high tops, high strength, good support and strong protection.

Especially Yao Ming, a sprained foot ruined his entire career, and Yang Lei attaches great importance to this.

Injuries to athletes are inevitable.

Yao Ming is too tall and has been forced to gain weight in order to adapt to the high-intensity confrontation of the NBA, which has brought huge weight pressure to the body.

He also has to play fast break at the behest of head coach Adelman, and the pressure is even greater, and with or without the 2009 sprain, he will soon give up his basketball career completely because of a broken bone.

Yang Lei can't change the NBA, he can only do his best to protect Yao Ming and try to delay his injury a little.

In the 2008-2009 season, the Rockets were called the strongest rockets by experts and qualified for the championship.

If Yao Ming misses this opportunity to reach the top, it will not be a year to wait, but an endless wait, a lifetime of regret.

Yang Lei spared no cost and purchased various raw materials before the Chinese New Year.

A little more difficult is the carbon fiber midsole, as well as the perverted wrap of the ball and upper, which is very difficult in the design of professional center basketball shoes.

It's not enough to have a GEL III damping system.

Therefore, Yang Lei also needs a regular army helper.

On the morning of the eighth day of the first lunar month, Yang Lei called Tony: "Have you gone to work?"

"I'm at work, I'm receiving red envelopes, and this year Reebok is rare to have a big time, and the vice president of Asia came to have a meeting. ”

"I'll fly to Shanghai this afternoon to bring you the semi-finished product of the foot mold outsole, and see if you can lend me the machine in the factory at night, and you and I will make the center shoes overnight. ”

"You wait, I'll call you in five minutes. ”

The stakes were so high that Tony didn't dare to answer the phone in the office, and after the foreigner's boss left, he sneaked to the playground of the sports institute and called Yang Lei back against the cold wind.

"You said center shoes, are they going to be made for Yao Ming?"

"It's not Yao Ming, it's Uncle Mu. ”

Mutombo, 43 years old this year, a defensive backup center for the Rockets, partnered with Yao Ming for four years, and taught Yao Ming many different knowledge, such as NBA center skills, as well as things off the court, such as public welfare, he led by example, became Yao Ming's brother, senior, and made a very good example.

Yao Ming needed someone to help him try it on, he said, Uncle Mu listened to his request, and immediately nodded without hesitation, saying OK, Fine, Let's DoIt. ”

"Wow...... Uncle Mu is really good, he is sincerely helping Yao Ming, a respectable player. ”

"yes, so for him, let's work together once?"

"Come on, today is the first day of work, and no one should work overtime. ”

Yang Lei didn't say a word, picked up the raw materials of a travel bag, and flew to Shanghai with a few semi-finished sneaker midsoles.

After meeting in the evening, the two waited until 9 o'clock and quietly opened the door of the factory at the Reebok training base.

Because it was customized for Mutombo, Yang Lei chose Reebok's classic Attaq series, a high-top hard-soled center basketball shoe endorsed by super center shark O'Neal.

The exterior adopts the Reebok Attaq upper design scheme, and the inside hides the GELIII. generation, a black technology shock absorption scheme ten years later.

This is the Reebok base, so Attaq's plan is not a problem, and Tony, a traitor, quickly got it right.

The two debugged many times and finally integrated it.

It was already 1 a.m., and Tony yawned and rubbed his eyes.

Yang Lei took out another pair of midsole semi-finished products: "This pair should also be made." ”

Tony took the midsole and flipped it over and over again, "What's this?"

Yang Lei said casually: "A friend asked for it, oh, this is the foot surface design." ”

"You're not kidding, are you?"

Tony almost fainted when he saw the logo and shape of Pike on the drawings, as well as Yang Lei's pre-made large surrounds and shoe bread soles: "Where can I not buy Pike basketball shoes, and we still need to customize them at high end?"

Hehehe, from Wang's contempt, the world's third-largest sports company, and the third-largest sports company in China, is simply justified.

Yang Lei smiled: "Don't care, other users have a lot of personality, they just like to wear horses, which is the same as the local tyrant who dismantled the shell of the BMW M3 and put a broken Jetta body outside, specifically to run the night road in the mountains, and the light of Wuling, the king of the mountain road." ”

Tony was speechless: "I don't understand the gameplay of you local tyrants." ”

Having said that, he still helped to put the shell of the picker in order.

At first glance, it is still low-top, giving these positions to guards and small forwards, Tony thought to himself, is it another pair of custom made by Liu Wei?

The next day, Yang Lei sent two pairs of finished shoes to the International Post EMS Express and sent them to Houston, USA.

Even if you depart from Shanghai and go through the fastest expedited procedures, it will take four days to send EMS to Houston.

In the past few days, Yang Lei has not been in a hurry to return to Hongfeng, anyway, there is still a week before the start of school, and it is too late to go back on the last day.

He simply stayed and ran all over the chemical raw material wholesale market in Shanghai, looking for the shock-absorbing sole materials he knew.

By the way, I went to Suzhou and Hangzhou, visited the shoe factory to recruit workers, and exchanged famous brands with several familiar shoe factory owners in the previous life, and the harvest was quite big.

On February 4, 2009, two pairs of shoes were sent to Houston, and Liu Xiang helped sign for them.

That night, after training, Yao called his teammates Mutombo and Alston to stop him and drive to his Yao restaurant together.

Mutombo is old, 43 years old, ready to retire with the Rockets, and diligently plays Yao Ming as a substitute.

Alston is also a 33-year-old veteran, playing at back, ranking fifth on the team in scoring, high or low, especially embarrassing.

In order to save salaries and reserve rookies for the coming year, the Rockets decided to trade Alstom.

The timing of the transaction is agreed at the end of February.

Therefore, Alstom's days of staying with the Rockets are getting fewer and fewer, and whether he can sell it for a good price is actually closely related to Alston's performance.

When they came to Yao Restaurant, the three of them greeted a few enthusiastic customers, went to a private room, and closed the door.

Yao Ming placed two pairs of shoes on the table, one for Uncle Mu and the other in front of Alstom.

"This is the sneaker endorsed by Pike Artest?"

Alston was puzzled, teammate Artest had just endorsed the Chinese brand sneakers, and his teammates on the Rockets didn't know how many times he had laughed at him behind his back.

Yao Ming only said one sentence: "Put it on." ”

When they tied their shoelaces and stood up, their faces changed.

Mutombo jumped straight on the spot, trying to touch the decorative chandelier on the ceiling.

Alstom sprinted sharply, braked sharply, and tested the pressure feedback on the front and rear soles, and the surprises continued to applaud.

"Wow! Picker from Huaxia!"

"It's nice and comfortable!"

"Artest is out of shit luck, how did he endorse such a good shoe! The comfort of these shoes is not inferior to Nike's AirJordan!"

"Yo ho~~~"

Alston was having a good time, pretending to dribble in front of him with both hands, and dangling in front of Mutombo: "Hey old man, I'm going to get past you!"

Turns, spins, low-rise acceleration sprints, jump shots.

Duang~~~

Mutombo jumped up and slapped Alston on the head.

Boom!

Mutombo landed heavily on the ground, bent on his knees, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the shock absorption under his feet was really good.

He wore both Nike and Adidas, but he couldn't enjoy the top treatment of Nike Adi, and he couldn't get super sneakers customized just for him.

And this pair of shoes made Mutombo feel full of sincerity, and it is definitely a pair of top shoes!

Uncle Mu's heart was ecstatic!

Wearing this pair of center shoes, his two aging thighs can be scrapped a few years later, and he can mix in the NBA for a few more years, at least $2 million a year.

Yao Ming stopped the two of them and said, "Is it okay?"

The two nodded ecstatically.

Yao Ming beckoned: "Take it off, I'll give you shoes in the locker room tomorrow." We're going to play the Mavericks the day after tomorrow, it's the biggest game of the season and it's our biggest game. Raff, do you see what I mean?"

Ralph Alston became serious: "I understand that as long as I am put on the court, I will fight for Team Rocket until the last moment!"

It's fighting for Team Rocket, but it's also fighting for yourself.

Who doesn't want to be worth more?

The wonderful performance on the field is the best embodiment of personal value!

On the second day of training, Alston was extremely serious, he suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, stepped on the X-Sports guard shoes customized for him by Yang Lei, ran on the field, and performed very well.

Yao Ming noticed all this, Liu Wei proved for the first time, and Alstom proved for the second time that Yang Lei's sneaker technology is very mature.

Mutombo also felt the protective power of the shoes, and recorded the improvement suggestions to Yao Ming: "This is a great pair of good shoes, I think you can really try it." ”

Yao nodded, but he didn't have the energy to be distracted, because the Rockets had finally come to the 2008-2009 regular season, the most important key game.

Their opponent is the Dallas Mavericks, and the two teams are currently tied for third place in the West.

The NBA playoffs start in April, and now it's the end of February, and there aren't many regular season games left.

Before the Houston Rockets prepared to head to the American Airlines Center in Dallas, coach Adelman was making a pre-war mobilization.

"The Mavericks are our most important opponents, and if we win against the Mavericks, we could end up second in the West and avoid the mighty Lakers in the first two rounds of the playoffs!"

"If we lose, there's an 80 percent chance we'll play the Lakers in the first game, and who of you wants to play against Kobe?"

"So in this game, we can't afford to lose!"

The Rockets were murderous and rushed to Dallas.

This game also touched the hearts of countless Chinese fans.

CCTV Sports broadcast the game live, narrated by Sun Zhengpin and Yang Jian.

Yang Lei was also in Shanghai, meeting with Liu Wei, the captain of the Shanghai men's basketball team, and Xie Wenjun, Liu Xiang's younger brother who had just returned from Houston, and watching TV games together in the hotel.