"My dream was to get to the NBA, and I achieved my dream." Zebei said proudly. "Rukawa Kaede, can you persist for your dreams?" After Zebei finished speaking, he looked at Rukawa Kaede without blinking.

"Of course, my dream is to prove myself in the NBA, and I'm going to do it." Rukawa Kaede also looked at Zebei and replied very seriously.

"You have to remember this phrase of your own! Well, I'm here to ask you this question today, and I wish you good luck Rukawa Kaede. After Zebei finished speaking, he turned around and left, and Rukawa Kaede couldn't understand why Zebei asked himself like this.

Rukawa Kaede has participated in the trials of many teams, both good and bad~ But Rukawa Kaede is confident that he will be selected. The results of the draft were in line with the agent's expectations, and Kaede Rukawa was selected with the ninth pick in the second round. Rukawa Kaede is also very satisfied with this result, although it is the second round, but being able to choose himself in such a high position shows that the team has expectations for themselves.

Compared to the end of the second round in Zebei, Rukawa Kaede's starting point is much higher, which is a good start. The domestic media was jubilant and began to look forward to the future of Rukawa Kaede, just as Zebei did when he was selected. Xiandao congratulated Liuchuan Feng for the first time, and Xiangbei was even more proud of Liuchuan Feng. Sakuragi was even more jealous for a while, Mitsui ~ Miyagi and others were also embarrassed, the same teammates were still in college, and Rukawa Kaede was selected by the NBA after a year in the United States and began the development of professional basketball.

Rukawa Kaede was overjoyed, and as soon as the draft ended, he called Coach Anzai. The longer she stays in the United States, the stronger Kaede Rukawa's gratitude to Coach Anzai becomes. I can have today. It's all because of Coach Anthy. At the beginning, Coach Anzai did not agree to come to the United States, although Mrs. Anzai talked about Tanizawa's experience to herself, but Rukawa Kaede went over time. In the depths of my heart, I became more and more dismissive.

Will I definitely become another Gu Ze? Will he be willing to fall like Gu Ze? The answer in Rukawa Kaede's heart is no! During that time in Xiangbei, Rukawa Kaede was not thinking about the United States all the time. Now it seems that I was really too arrogant at the beginning. When Rukawa Kaede thinks of himself at the beginning, he always can't help but thank his famous friends. When he was in the second grade, it was the time when Rukawa Kaede wanted to come to the United States the most, and if he hadn't been defeated by a famous friend in Xiangbei, I'm afraid no one would have stopped him from coming to the United States early.

Coach Anzai seemed very calm, and repeatedly told Rukawa Kaede not to neglect training. Don't be too impatient, be patient. The master and apprentice chatted for a long time, and Rukawa Kaede repeatedly expressed his gratitude.

Another thing that makes Rukawa Kaede happy is. After being successfully chosen, Rukawa Kaede finally has the courage to confess and establish a lover relationship with the lover of his dreams. Rukawa Kaede felt that this time was the happiest time in his life. I am getting closer and closer to my dreams. also found the beloved other half. Everything seems to be going so well.

With a lot of enthusiasm, Rukawa Kaede began his NBA journey. For Zebei's return, Rukawa Kaede was not affected in any way. Rukawa Kaede believes that as long as he is given time to adapt, he will get better and better as he did in college. As a second-round rookie, Rukawa Kaede first has to participate in the summer league before the regular season, and use his performance to get the team to sign himself ~ give himself a rookie contract.

In eight games, Kaede Rukawa played an average of 23 minutes per game, contributing 12.8 points and 1.8 assists to the team. His performances eventually earned him a permanent contract. The team that Rukawa Kaede joined is an aristocratic team in the league. The team has a lot of changes in the offseason, and everyone on the team is looking forward to making their mark on a brand new team.

Although Rukawa Kaede didn't have much hope for his debut season, he was still full of expectations. But the reality is cruel, Rukawa Kaede played 17 games. In an average of 4.6 minutes per game, Kaede Rukawa shot just 15.8% from the field and averaged just 1.3 points and 0.5 rebounds per game. This deviated too much from his expectations, except for the game that lost suspense early, Rukawa Kaede didn't have a chance to play at all. And most of the players who play in garbage time are precarious~ players who want to work hard for jobs, which makes everyone want to show themselves, so that in the already poor playing time, Rukawa Kaede is even more unable to play.

The struggle on the field is not only the lack of playing time, but also the main impact from off the field. Before entering the league, Rukawa Kaede had heard that the old players in the team would bully the newcomers, so he was also mentally prepared. This aspect doesn't affect Rukawa Kaede too much, anyway, no matter how the other party plays tricks on himself, Rukawa Kaede does it one by one, and there are no special excessive requirements. It's nothing more than running errands~ helping to carry luggage, and being called out in the middle of the night to buy something and send it over. Rukawa Kaede, as a second-round show, is very open in this regard, unless it is a high-ranking rookie such as the champion show, and he is the newcomer of the team boss as soon as he arrives at the team, otherwise he will be more or less used by the old players to relieve his boredom~ teasing.

What makes Rukawa Kaede unbearable is more serious racial discrimination, Rukawa Kaede has been in the United States for a while, and with the improvement of English, racial discrimination has become more and more influential on him. Coupled with Rukawa Kaede's introverted personality, he once admitted to Xiandao that he didn't have any friends in the team.

Rukawa Kaede, who is too introverted and not good at talking, is regarded by his teammates as unsociable ~ self-righteous ~ not easy to get along with. This made Rukawa Kaede seem lonely in the team, but Rukawa Kaede practiced wholeheartedly and didn't think too much about it. Rukawa Kaede believes that as long as he works hard and slowly adapts to the rhythm of the NBA, he will definitely be able to prove himself.

The team gives the impression of unity and harmony to the outside world, because many things are not allowed to be made public, not allowed to be revealed to the media. In fact, the internal competition is quite fierce, and the competition between substitutes is especially greater than that of the main force. Many people have a short contract of one year, and even many people's contracts are not guaranteed, and they live a precarious life. This makes them pay extra attention to the time they play, and they can get more data when they play more, so that they can have a new job to support their family after ending this contract.

Rukawa Kaede has become the object of competition for those people, with a two-year rookie contract, Rukawa Kaede, who has no worries about food and clothing, as a rookie coach, will also give him some time to adapt to the game. This makes the already withdrawn Rukawa Kaede a thorn in the side of some people, and during a certain training, the players who are opposite Rukawa Kaede are very rough in their defense against Rukawa Kaede. Rukawa Kaede endured it again and again, and finally broke out and fought with the other party.

A teammate stepped forward to separate the two men, but the matter was not over. After returning to the locker room after training, the two men clashed again, this time with teammates and coaches opting to sit on the sidelines. I was training just now, and I pulled two people apart in order not to affect the training. In the NBA, if you choose to tolerate the provocation of others, then you will be perceived as soft by your teammates and coaching staff. A weak player is unlikely to help the team in a competitive or even dirty NBA arena, and will be even more unreused. Rukawa Kaede is not a person who is bullied, and he fights with his teammates on the spot, which is also an outburst of his forbearance in the past. It wasn't until the two of them were almost over that their teammates stepped forward to pull the two sides apart.

Rukawa Kaede's toughness made no one dare to provoke him after that. But it also made Rukawa Kaede more isolated in the team. Rukawa Kaede has a feeling of suffocation in the team, and this environment greatly affects his mood and makes him live like a year. At this time, he found out that Zebei didn't look happy for anything, and chose to return to China for development.

In those two years, Zebei was even more depressed than Rukawa Kaede. Zebei's character is not as tough as Rukawa Kaede, and in the face of his teammates' difficulties and bullying, Zebei began to cry and cry all the time, and even went to the team manager to complain. But instead of getting better, the situation has worsened, and his teammates are happy to make Zebei cry. In person, he did not shy away from calling Zebei a girl, Zebei did not go to college and entered the NBA prematurely, which made him very childish, completely unable to adapt ~ into the NBA league. It was not easy for Zebei to be able to persist in those two years, and it also made him mature a lot.

Rukawa Kaede didn't know how many times he had done it, and he had a retreat in his heart. Such an environment, such playing time, is simply a waste of life, and every day I go to the team to train Rukawa Kaede with the mood of going to the grave. The two factors that kept Rukawa Kaede going were his girlfriend's encouragement and understanding of him, and the other was what Sawabei once said to him. At this time, Rukawa Kaede understood why Zebei asked himself like that, and he answered so simply and resolutely. This has become a motivation for Rukawa Kaede to persevere, Zebei can persevere, and he can't do anything for himself. What are you here for? I said that I would prove myself, and I couldn't give up halfway.

In the torment, Rukawa Kaede spent the first year of NBA life, and this year was the happiest in Rukawa Kaede's life. Before the start of the second season, Rukawa Kaede was cut by the team. The team no longer has any expectations for Rukawa Kaede, and has lost patience with Rukawa Kaede's delay in integrating into the team. Under the arrangement of his agent, Rukawa Kaede entered the second tier of the NBDL.

Rukawa Kaede has a relaxed feeling about being unemployed, and Rukawa Kaede doesn't have the slightest emotion for this team that chose him, and it is a relief to be able to leave there. But this layoff has greatly damaged Rukawa Kaede's confidence. The NBDL is a group of players who are ready to enter the NBA, or who have been sent here from the NBA to exercise, and they are basically marginal people in the NBA. There is no media attention here, no applause from the audience, everyone is fighting for themselves. Hopefully, he can do well enough to attract the attention of NBA teams and eventually get a contract. (To be continued......)