Chapter 030: The spirit of the king
March 30, 2006, Houston, USA, Toyota Sports Center, home of the Rockets.
In the 71st game of the regular season of the NBA05-06 season, at the scene of the Rockets' home game against the Thunder, Su Hongwen wore Yao Ming's No. 11 home jersey bought from the store, and was shouting loudly at Yao Ming's dunk just now in the shape of a trumpet.
Su Hongwen is not only a military fan, but also a basketball fan, he came into contact with basketball by chance when he was 13 years old, and he liked it, and often organized his peers to play together in the orphanage, dreaming of becoming a basketball star.
Unfortunately, in the end, because of various reasons such as height, technology, and the reality of life, I completely gave up my dream of pursuing a basketball career as an adult.
However, even though his later work took up most of his life, Su Hongwen still did not forget about basketball, and occasionally appeared on the court in the park.
And every time NAB broadcasts are broadcast, he will watch them when he has time, especially Yao Ming's Rockets, even if he doesn't have time, he will find the game video from the Internet later.
It's a pity that Yao Ming was riddled with injuries and retired early in July 2011, and Su Hongwen still remembers how sad he was when he learned the news.
A week ago, Su Hongwen happened to see a sports news report in New York that the Rockets only achieved a 30-40 record in the first 70 games of the regular season this season due to injuries and other reasons, ranking thirteenth in the West, less than ten percent away from the chance of entering the playoffs.
No matter which sports newspaper you open, you are not optimistic that the Rockets can accumulate and advance to the playoffs this season, thinking that Yao Ming, as the core of the team, did not stand up to lead the Rockets to victory when his teammates were injured, making the Rockets a second-rate team.
At that time, Su Hongwen wondered, in his memory, although the Rockets are not as top a strong team as the Lakers, they are not so weak, right? How can it be that you can't even make the playoffs? Could it be that the Yao Mai combination is an ornament?
The reason why Su Hongwen is puzzled is because Su Hongwen began to pay attention to the Rockets in the 06-07 season, and the Rockets entered the playoffs in the following seasons.
Regarding the previous record of the Rockets, Su Hongwen did not pay attention to it.
Puzzled, Su Hongwen immediately contacted Xingkong and asked Xingkong to send him the schedule and results of the NBA05-06 season.
Take a closer look, Su Hongwen frowned, the Rockets are really bad this season, 82 regular season games, only 34 wins and 48 losses, the twelfth place in the West.
Throughout the regular season, the Rockets spent the entire regular season under the successive injuries of the Yao Mai combination, Yao Ming missed 25 games, and Maddie missed 35 games, and the Rockets had to crawl forward under the leadership of a single core.
At this time, Team Rocket has basically become a soft persimmon that everyone is bullying and bullying.
After knowing that Yao Ming would return from injury in this game against the Thunder, Su Hongwen immediately ordered tickets without hesitation.
Recently, he has been very idle, and the patent matter has been handled by Xiaobai, and the mobile phone manufacturing plant that has just been acquired has all been suspended, and a drastic reform has begun, and there is robot supervision, and he is very relieved.
Today, Su Hongwen went to the scene to watch the football game not only to cheer for Yao Ming, but also to take a closer look at the pride of this yellow man, his former idol, Yao Ming.
The first quarter of the game had been played for 11 minutes, and at this time, Yao Ming raised his right arm high on the inside and signaled Hayes, who was holding the ball, to pass the ball.
Hayes hoisted the basketball into it, and Yao Ming received the ball in his hand steadily.
Then the other members of the Rocket team immediately pulled away, Yao Ming leaned on the Thunder's inside line with his back, after the tentative impact, Yao Ming suddenly shook to the left, the Thunder's inside player subconsciously moved his feet, but Yao Ming immediately changed direction and broke through from the right side, jumped up one step forward, and dunked the basketball into the basket.
"Good shot!" Su Hongwen, who was on the sidelines, instantly boiled with enthusiasm, stood up and shouted loudly at the court: "Handsome, Yao Ming, you are the best, the inside line is your world!" ”
Su Hongwen is not only a Chinese at the scene, every time Yao Ming performs, there will be a Chinese Mandarin shout on the field, and these Chinese and international students, like Su Hongwen, are all here to cheer for Yao Ming.
For the Chinese and international students in the country, Yao Ming is their pride, after all, a yellow race can gain a foothold and perform well in the professional basketball league of the country, which is really worthy of pride.
However, when Su Hongwen was about to sit down, he suddenly frowned, and in the noisy atmosphere of the scene, he vaguely heard an abusive word coming from beside him, and the object was Yao Ming, who had just been praised by Su Hongwen.
He turned his head to look and saw a white man about 24 or 5 years old pointing at Yao Ming on the court and shouting, "Hey, don't think that a dunk is a bull's cross, be careful of being blown up next." ”
Su Hongwen frowned, his eyes were sharp and staring at the clamor white man, his face gloomy.
To Su Hongwen's surprise, the other party didn't care about this, but glared at Su Hongwen provocatively, and continued to shout: "No. 11, you are not welcome in the NBA, let's go to the WNBA, the inside line there is your world." ”
Su Hongwen instantly understood, and the other party obviously heard him just say that the inside line of the BNA was Yao Ming's world, so he said such a sentence.
"Can you keep your mouth shut? Did you know that creatures within three meters of your mouth can be smoked to death by your bad breath? It's not your fault that you have a bad mouth, but it's your fault if you deliberately open your mouth to make your bad breath smoke others. Su Hongwen snorted coldly and said mockingly.
The white man was stunned for a moment, glanced slightly behind Su Hongwen, and then said with an ugly expression of disdain: "What? Can't I just give my opinion? Freedom of speech is a fundamental right granted to me by law. ”
Su Hongwen was a little stunned, what he said just now was an insult to the other party, ordinary people would definitely be angry and fight back when they encountered this situation, and it was possible to fight hard.
He had already clenched his fists and was ready to fight back with force after the opponent attacked him, and by the way, he tried to see how effective the fighting chip was.
As a result, I didn't expect the other party to be cowardly, does he now have the spirit of a king? Otherwise, why didn't the other party fight back like a normal Chinese person after being scolded?
The other party did not play cards according to the routine, which made Su Hongwen a little unsure of how to teach the other party a lesson for a while, after all, passive counterattack and active shooting are two concepts.
At this time, the whistle blew at the end of the first quarter, and the Rockets temporarily led 28-22, and the two teams on the court returned to the locker room.
"Now it's time for the KissShow that everyone loves and looks forward to! Rejoice! The voice of the host on the scene suddenly sounded, and the entire Toyota Center instantly boiled, and the cheers shook Su Hongwen's ears a little.