"Headmaster, please give him ...... An opportunity. He was too young...... Easily impulsive, later ...... It's going to get better. ”

Zhou Xuan's mother, Martha, stumbled and pleaded in English.

"Madam, you don't need to say it, this is not an ordinary brawl, what we need is a college student with temperament, not a hooligan who abuses violence." Lance, the president of Rutgers University's Kenton campus, said flatly.

"Please, if you ...... Expelled him, and in the future his ...... Future...... That's it. Getting excited, Martha knelt down in front of Lance.

"Mom, what are you doing?" Zhou Xuan's eyes were red, and he shouted in Chinese angrily.

"You're on your knees, don't you want to play basketball in the future?" Matha pulled her son and wanted him to kneel with him.

Zhou Xuan shook off her hand and shouted, "I don't kneel!" That coach hit me many times, many people know it, he also insulted the Chinese, I am not wrong! Mom, hurry up, let's go, I won't be able to learn this! ”

He was like a mad beast, and the headmaster was terrified when he saw it. Chinese students often give him the impression that they are chaotic, and it is the first time he has seen someone as violent as Zhou Xuan.

"What will you do when you stop going to school?"

"I'm not staying here anyway!"

Supporting his mother, whose legs were weak, left the teaching building, looking at the passing students, Zhou Xuan was very confused, what should he do next?

Ten days ago, Zhou Xuan did something that seemed crazy to Americans, when he beat Mike, the head coach of the varsity team, in training. Rice.

On the first day of entering the school team, Zhou Xuan found out that Rice was a bastard. He speaks rudely, yells at players during games, scolds them when he gets emotional, and even pulls them by the collar during a timeout. Usually training is even more excessive, he often smashes the player's head and back with the ball, sometimes kicks the player from behind, and scolds people to get out of the way when he makes a mistake.

The whole team of players has been bullied by Rice, and Zhou Xuan is the worst one. He plays as a defender, is 186cm tall and weighs only 80kg, and looks like a bully. Rice looked down on the Chinese, and often pointed at his nose and scolded, "You Chinese stupid donkey, the sick man of East Asia, your small body should not play basketball at all!" "What are you doing in the United States, go back to China to eat."

Compared with Rice, who is 198CM tall and has been a professional player, Zhou Xuan does seem weak, but after a training session, the embarrassed and angry Zhou Xuan strongly proved that "we Chinese are not the sick men of East Asia", and he punched Rice with a dazzling combination of bloodshed and fell unconscious on the spot.

Zhou Xuan was detained by the police for six days, and was not released on bail until his mother got the news and rushed to New Jersey from China. Unsurprisingly, he was expelled from school, and the local media also reported on the incident, and Zhou Xuan became notorious within a week.

"Chinese students make a big fuss about Rutgers".

"NCAA violence, players beating up head coaches."

"Horror of Chinese students, the quality of players is questioned."

In all the news, Zhou Xuan is a heinous villain and a hopeless team cancer. No one raised such a question: everyone on the school team was there at that time, why did a group of black hunk men who drank cold water and grew muscles unable to pull Zhou Xuan, a guard player who was only 186CM tall and thin? Could it be that he didn't go to high school in China, but Jingwumen?

In fact, everyone in the team hates Rice, but no one dares to do it when the coach is there. It's like Xiaoyaozi seeing the virtual bamboo beating Ding Chunqiu, what kind of mood is that? Both eyes are foggy......

Lance, president of Rutgers University, also knew what happened, but Mike. Rice is a white American, after all, and he doesn't want a scandal of coaches abusing players that would have a serious impact on the university's reputation. Zhou Xuan is just an international student, and if he doesn't go to school, his visa will soon expire and he will have to return to China unless he finds a job within three months and obtains a labor permit to stay in the United States. It is too cost-effective to sacrifice the interests of an international student and preserve the reputation of the school.

Lance bribed the local media through his connections and reported on the incident, all speaking to Coach Rice. Zhou Xuan, who was detained, had no way to argue with him, and when he was released on bail, people already believed that he was a thug who beat the coach because he had a conflict with the coach when he was on the court. It can be said that his basketball career is over, even if he has a lot of potential, who would dare to beat the coach's players with them? If he had known that this kind of thing would happen to Lu Dao, Zhou Xuan would have to endure whatever he said.

Zhou Xuan has been interested in basketball since he was a child, he admires Jordan and dreams of becoming an NBA player. He practiced his skills hard, and he often skipped class to play in junior high school, and no one could stop him. When he reached high school, became a star on the varsity team, and won the MVP of the city's Nongfu Spring Cup, his family began to believe that he had basketball talent. He's fast, he's good with the ball, and he's able to shoot. However, the domestic professional team does not want him, the reason is very simple, the height of 186CM is too short. They want big people, even if they have rough basics, and they love money more than basketball.

Since their son likes to play basketball, his parents finally decided to support him, and with the help of a distant relative, they applied for a visa for him to study in the United States. Zhou Xuan was very smooth at the beginning, learned English very well, went to high school in the United States for a year, played well in the varsity team, and was recruited to Rutgers University, which has the strength to play in the NCAA, but unfortunately now he is in big trouble.

Zhou Xuan was very depressed, and he didn't bother to say anything.

The family spent all their savings to send him to the United States, but he achieved nothing. His family conditions are not good, his father Zhou Gaozhuo is the chef of Lu Restaurant, and his mother Ma Sha is a junior high school teacher who teaches English. The family of three lives in the old house left by Zhou Xuan's grandfather, a small bungalow in the courtyard, and the neighbors are also poor. If it goes on like this, they can't afford it.

Ma Sha stepped forward to hold the hand of her son who was looking at the campus in a daze, and said with a sad face: "How long do you want to be bored here, pack up your things and return to China with me, it doesn't matter about your academic qualifications, you can register for the self-exam, you can speak English...... I'll be a translator or something. Or just do it with your dad, aren't you a good cook? It's good to be a chef in the future, don't you think? ”

After being detained for many days, Zhou Xuan was much haggard, his eyes were bloodshot, he was silent for a moment, and said lightly: "I don't want to go back, I want to continue playing basketball." ”

Martha sighed: "Why don't you kneel down and beg the president before you fight, or why don't we go and ask other universities?"

"Mom, it's impossible to go to college, it's not like you can spend money to get there." Zhou Xuan shook his head. This matter is so big, it is estimated that no team will accept him. Even if any school is willing to accept him, he will have to delay his first grade for a year, and the time to register for the NCAA is over.

There are two ways to get into the NBA in the United States, one is to sign up for the NBA draft. The second is to enter the NBA without a draft after the age of 19. The second path is much more difficult, and it is generally only possible by strong international players.

"Do you really want to play?" Martha pondered for a moment, and said with a straight face. She had already heard the whole story, and the coach was indeed too hateful, so she forgave her son.

"I want to fight...... Mom, didn't you whine a lot before? You said that you liked to draw when you were a child, and you did it very well, but your family didn't support you to study a major and asked you to find a stable job. You are obedient and become a junior high school teacher, and you will get that salary when you are tired. It turned out that people who were much worse than you went to study majors, and now they have become famous painters. You said that if you did it all over again, you would never give up drawing. Now I don't give up basketball because it's what I love the most, and doing what I love makes sense. ”

Martha often talked about this and said it countless times, which was deeply imprinted in Zhou Xuan's mind.

"And what are you going to do?"

"I want to go to a professional team to see that there is a development league in the United States, playing in the NBDL or ABA."

The NBDL is the talent pool of the NBA, and this league is mostly made up of players who have participated in the NBA draft or preseason. Any team in the NBA can select players from the Development League to enter the NBA, or they can send players from their own team to the Development League for training.

The level of players in this league is very high. In the NCAA, only the best can participate in the draft, not necessarily be drafted. More famous ones are such as the Rockets player Chuck. Hayes, who was so imposing in college, was still unsuccessful. Zhou Xuan is just a substitute for the college team, and it seems a little unrealistic to want to play in the NBDL. If the Chinese national men's basketball team and the NBDL team without Yao Ming are allowed to play seriously, eighty percent of the losses will be the Chinese team. As long as Zhou Xuan can gain a foothold in the NBDL, it means that he also has the strength to enter the national team.

The ABA is much easier and is one of the three major development alliances, created in 1967 and long gone. Sun Yue's Aoshen team joined the ABA after being banned. But if you want to stand out from that place and become an NBA player, it's hard to get to the top.

Seeing that he already had a plan, Marks & Spa smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll be here with you until you find a team." ”

"Mom, your visa...... No problem? ”

"As long as it's not discovered, it's okay." Marks and Spencer is here for tourism, and her visa will expire soon, and the U.S. police generally don't go out of their way to check these things, she can stay in the United States, and once she finds out, she will be sent back to China as a smuggler. Her plan was to wait until someone was found before leaving, at least to spend all the money she brought.

Zhou Gaozhuo is a simple person, he has no ambitions, and he likes to go against the grain when he encounters things. The person who makes decisions at home is generally also Martha. She is a strong woman who dares to fight hard, and she dares to stay in the United States to help her son if she can't speak English.

With the support of his mother, Zhou Xuan came to the spirit. If he gave up basketball, he would regret it in the future. In the United States, I worked hard, I tried all the methods, and if it didn't work, it was not too late to go back. At least he has one advantage, which is that he is young. Young, no failures!