The time is April 10, 1995.

The location is an international student apartment in Inglewood, Los Angeles, and he attends Inglewood High School, one of the top private high schools in California.

A little over a month ago, he and Pierce led the team to win the California High School League Championship, and Pierce was named California Basketball of the Year, and he was named to the All-California High School Team No. 1 team.

Now, just a few days after the end of NCAA March Madness, Eddie O'Banon led UCLA to win the NCAA Basketball Championship after 19 years.

Just two days ago, UCLA, which won the NCAA championship, rejected Zhang Hao's application for a basketball scholarship and recommended that he enter the school with test scores.

But this, Zhang Hao doesn't want to care about it for the time being.

"One year left?"

Zhang Hao was lying on the bed, looking at the "countdown" written on the subtitles, with mixed feelings.

The memory of the "future", which can be alive for a year, is simply a godsend happiness for him.

But the memory of this body at the moment has a great impact on him, and another thought in his heart is - it's so sad, a young high school student has only 1 year to live!

Two complex emotions are tangled together, and the last thought is - I really want to live!

Zhang Hao recalled the bits and pieces of his coming to the United States to study, and couldn't help but smile bitterly...... In these years, when the color discrimination in the United States was the most severe, it was a joke to come to the United States to study and think about bypassing the domestic system and entering the American sports industry?

Thinking that his father is also a sensible person in business, but when it comes to this kind of thing about his dreams when he was young and reflected on his son, it is still too naïve.

This is Zhang Hao's view of the current situation from the perspective of the memory of the "future", because the memory of the future, compared with the memory of the present, whether it is knowledge, vision, personality, or social ability...... is stronger than the current memory, so it naturally occupies the dominant, because both memories have become part of his memory, and it is naturally the one who knows more "more" to dominate.

It's 1995, in the second semester of the senior year of high school, the state high school league has long ended, and even the NCAA game has ended, and the basketball teams of major colleges and universities are chasing the talents of major high school students, and he is already applying for admission to major colleges and universities.

Last year, he had already passed various exams in his third year of high school and achieved excellent results in cultural courses, and he had no shortage of university studies, but the problem in front of him was not this.

Basketball Scholarship! That's what he wants.

Many years ago, before he went to elementary school, the father who came back from the army saw his "potential" and wanted to train him to play basketball.

As for his "potential"...... It's about growing tall, running fast, jumping high.

However, the recent situation of the family is not very good, if you want to study in a private school in the United States, the cost of studying abroad in the 90s is too high for Chinese people.

So a scholarship is needed!

The just-concluded NCAA 94-95 season of the Division I full scholarship is 13,772 US dollars, and with the exchange rate of about 8.4 US dollars against soft sister coins this year, you can save a lot of money for your family.

However, it's hard to get a full basketball scholarship in Division I League!

NCAA Division I Colleges Limited ...... Although there are quite a few, the proportion is very small compared to so many college students in the United States.

Although the basketball team of the NCAA Division I league has 15 full basketball scholarship places, however, the college team is not a professional league team, and a team cannot have only 15 people, the first-line players and alternate players from the freshman to the senior year, adding up to less than thirty or fifty people, and hundreds of people in the big school are possible, not every game is all played by first-line players, there are injuries, there are temporary leave, and the alternate players naturally have to be on top, so the scholarship cannot only be given to those dozen players, There may be several, if not a dozen, of full scholarship slots for everyone on the list designated by the college coach, and the players who can get a full scholarship alone are not rare, but each university is estimated to be two or three people.

These people are all the brightest stars in high school.

For example, Pierce, who was just talking to him, doesn't look like he's still a chubby kid, but his talent is too good, his skills are extremely comprehensive, and he feels like he can do anything before he goes to college.

However, Zhang Hao's biggest headache here is not whether he plays well in high school, he is also a little famous, and he is in the top 30 high school students in the United States...... But the point is that he is Chinese!

Zhang Hao stood up, came to the bathroom and washed his face with cold water, now his situation is not good, as April-April-Clark said, he can choose to go directly to college, his SAT score is very good, but the key is money!

After washing his face and drying the water on his face, Zhang Hao looked at himself in the mirror......

"With my body, I have to pay 500 yuan a day to move bricks...... No, it's the 90s, and it costs 50 yuan a day, tall, powerful and hard, and a little handsome......"

Just when Zhang Hao's thoughts began to diverge, Pierce's voice came from outside the room: "Aix, your dad called......

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"I know, Dad, I'll try to get a scholarship, I know don't have to worry about money, I know you'll find a way, but why not take it if you can......"

Zhang Hao hung up the phone, thinking of the experience of the past two years, and sighed, although there is a retreat for the family to pay money to study in a first-class league university, but if you go in like that, the status of the team will definitely not be good! The scholarship represents not only money, but also status in the team!

Seeing that Zhang Hao finished the call, although Paul Pierce couldn't understand what Zhang Hao said, he found that the forward partner, high school friend and most honest tenant was not in a good mood, Pierce patted Zhang Hao on the shoulder: "Let's go, go to school to practice?" ”

"You go first, Auntie said you won't go to UCLA?"

"That's right, I'm not going, the instructor at the University of Kansas invited me to go."

"Also a full scholarship?"

"That's right, they gave me a full basketball scholarship too."

Zhang Hao is really envious!

It's just a blow to the sky, UCLA, the Bruins! Basketball giants! If you don't go, you won't go.

And there's an invitation from another NCAA giant, the University of Kansas Jayhawks!

"Both UCLA and Kansas only offered me a scholarship to study." Zhang Hao was very resentful.

"It's terrible, but that's okay, I'm sure you'll find a college where you're doing so well and you're playing basketball......"

Pierce talked again before leaving satisfied, Zhang Hao thought of his current situation and felt a faint sadness.

Five years ago, when he was 13 years old, he was invited to join the youth team of the semi-professional team of the domestic semi-professional First Division basketball league, but his father told him that when he entered the system, he was locked and could not make his own decisions about anything about the profession.

Zhang Hao hoped to be in control of his future, so he did not go to the Beijing youth team, but studied hard while studying hard and practicing basketball skills.

Three years ago, due to the arrogance of the Blue League or other reasons, the United States Blue Association rejected the invitation of the United States Blue Association to play against the youth basketball competition, and the game became an unofficial non-governmental competition.

Zhang Hao, who was a sophomore in high school at the age of 15 in China, was recommended by the High School Affiliated to Imperial Normal University to participate in the Sino-US Youth Competition, and in the extremely miserable loss to a group of twelve or thirteen-year-old children, his performance was okay, relying on his height of 183 cm at the time, he grabbed 11 rebounds in 27 minutes, and had a good jump shot, scoring 14 points, and was favored by the coach of Inglewood High School.

His family was very rich at that time, and his father Zhang Weidong decisively threw away his iron job in the mid-80s, went to the sea to do business, and worked hard in the seafood industry.

Who knew that in 1993, the exchange rate of the US dollar against the RMB soared from about 1 to 5.7 in the second half of 93 years to close to 1 to 9, the price of imported seafood soared, and other import industries were even more so, and exports were smooth, but at that time, the domestic basic industry was not perfect enough, and the domestic prices of foreign materials soared, the domestic economic development fell into a bottleneck period, and the growth of national income slowed down, and Zhang Hao's father's assets also encountered great difficulties.

Fortunately, Zhang Hao's father is a decisive person, directly abandoned the import market, which was cheap before the import price more than doubled, entered the domestic seafood market and the river fresh market, and stopped losses in time, but the assets have also shrunk significantly, barely maintaining operations, although there is money in the country, but the tuition, living expenses, and other expenses of tens of thousands of dollars a year have also made the family stretched, and the income has become smaller, and the soft sister coins have also become less American knives, and the degree of difficulty has doubled.

Zhang Hao is very sensible and tries to reduce personal expenses as much as possible, but international students not only have more expensive tuition, accommodation and medical insurance, and other aspects, but also spend more money than local Americans, compared with local Californians, Zhang Hao has to pay almost three times as much tuition as Californians.

When he came to the United States, Zhang Hao learned that Americans like international students because they want to use international students to increase the financial income of the school and the local area, and provide high benefits for local students.

Inglewood was originally one of the best private high schools in the United States, ranking 5th in California and 41st in the United States, with expensive tuition, even if Zhang Hao won a high school basketball scholarship of 3,000 US dollars a year by virtue of his good performance in the California League, compared with the tuition fee of 1.3 US dollars a year, it is only a fraction.

However, the high school family can still afford it, and now two years have passed, and high school is about to graduate.

Zhang Hao has no problem taking the exam, he took the SAT exam in January last year, and he got a good score of 1316 points in his third year of high school, with an average score of 876 points in that exam.

In basketball, his performance in high school is not bad, but also very good, one of the best small forwards in the California high school league, and in the just-concluded senior season, he and Pierce helped Inglewood High School win the California championship, and many people in California have heard of his name.

But recently, Zhang Hao went to attend interviews with several universities, among which UCLA, a local university in California, was willing to provide study scholarships, but was unwilling to provide basketball scholarships, not unwilling to provide full bonuses, and directly treated him as an ordinary student to apply for college basketball clubs, and was not even eligible to fight for part of the scholarship; USC is willing to offer a partial basketball scholarship, but is not willing to provide a full scholarship, and this part of the scholarship depends on whether he can make the first team of the varsity team...... Universities in California and nearby Arizona are almost always willing to offer scholarships for study, with basketball scholarships offering at best.

If you have a basketball scholarship, you can use it without much money, and at least one year's living expenses are enough, which can reduce a lot of burden on your family.

If he wants to enter college by studying, even if it is a prestigious university, his high school teacher can help him write a letter of recommendation, he is quite good at studying, and compared with test scores, American colleges and universities pay more attention to recommendation letters, but basketball scholarships, teachers have little effect, because the two can be taken together, and basketball scholarships, the school team coach has help recommend, but people's alma mater, Illinois State University, is unwilling to give full basketball scholarships.

At present, the per capita annual income in China is only three or four thousand, compared with the tuition fees of international students in private universities in the United States, study scholarships are simply a drop in the bucket, and the living expenses are not enough, and like high school, American universities charge more expensive fees for foreign students than their own students.

As for loans...... As a Chinese, the American bank loaned him a loan, which was simply wishful thinking, and he wanted to earn money to repay it on his own after graduating from college, but the college tuition of international students is so large, and most American students take out loans...... Although his father will definitely give money, Zhang Hao wants to reduce some of the burden on the family.

Zhang Hao is in a very bad mood now, money, the root of all evil! He really doesn't know how to make quick money, what will he do here in the United States!

Thinking back then, as the best Chinese player in the Sino-US Youth Basketball Match, he was favored by an American high school coach, and when he came to the United States, everything he experienced was far from what he expected and dreamed of.

In addition to cruelty, it is still cruel...... Wait, Zhang Hao's mind moved, and the subtitles that only he could see popped up again.

"Remaining life: 365 days, usable life: 364 days."

“…… Dit!

I only have one year left to live...... I don't know if this really shows how long I can live, but the overlapping of two memories has happened...... If it's just a year, think about so many dry hammers?

What about getting into the NCAA? Is it possible to spend a year pursuing the basketball dream? Go to your X's basketball dreams! ”

Just when Zhang Hao was suddenly angry, the subtitles changed!

"Want to dominate basketball?"

The sudden change startled Zhang Hao!

looked around, no one, no one saw the big fool just now, Zhang Hao hurriedly ran back to his room and closed the door.

Looking at the subtitle "dominate basketball", although he still loves basketball, the idea of dreaming of becoming a superstar like Jordan has gradually dissipated after hitting a wall one after another for more than a month.

Although he was ranked 22nd among high school students in the United States by Sports Illustrated after the California High School League, the high school rankings at this time were disorganized, the high school student rankings of the major media were completely inconsistent, and Sports Illustrated was biased towards Los Angeles, and those college teams did not trust him or did not want to give him a chance.

Seeing basketball, Zhang Hao still loves basketball, but at this moment, he feels inexplicably irritable, and all the grievances of running into walls in the past two months have emerged.

Plus the time to live is only one year...... If the marked life countdown is true, that year will dominate the basketball of a fart!

All kinds of negative emotions were superimposed, and Zhang Hao couldn't help but shout: "your basketball dream, I don't want to!" ”

After the roar, it seemed that he was unwilling to vent his unwillingness, Zhang Hao felt that he was really stupid, and he was actually yelling at a broken subtitle, fortunately, Pierce went to school, it was now the afternoon, except for students like him who had passed the cultural class exam to enter the university, everyone else was in school, and no one seemed to be alarmed by his ghost roar...... I don't understand it!

But when Zhang Hao came back to his senses and looked at the subtitles, he seemed to have a faint feeling that the words in it were closer to him.

Moreover, it seemed that it was getting closer and closer, Zhang Hao had the illusion that the words were about to stick to his eyes...... It's really posted!

Zhang Hao was so frightened that he stepped back again and again, leaning against the wall, but the subtitles got closer and closer...... For some reason, he seemed to feel that the word in front of him was making a final inquiry, and once he refused again, he would lose this opportunity.

He didn't know why he thought of this strange scene as an 'opportunity', but that's what he thought in his heart.

At this moment, the dream of coming to the United States with pride and ambition to become a person who changed Chinese basketball in the future seems to have returned.

And he suddenly remembered that this subtitle was counting down the remaining time of his life before, and it was probably the only way to break the game! This may be his golden finger!

The key is that in the memory of this era, he has been working hard to become a real basketball player for more than ten years, even if he integrates the memories of the future, he can't erase that love for basketball.

He had an impulse in his heart, and he wanted to take it!

Moreover, he wants to live! It's not just a year! Although it is already a blessing for him to be able to move freely for a year for the memory of the future, it is really a nightmare for the memory of this era.

At this moment, Zhang Hao was firm: "I want to!" I guess it's okay! ”

After Zhang Hao's words came out, the subtitles in front of him changed again, and the prompt came, and an indifferent electronic voice like a robot came out of his mind......

"Ding...... Basketball Domination System Opens ......"

"The Basketball Domination System has been launched, and the goal of the host is to be the Basketball Dominator and lead his players to conquer the world of basketball."

"What does that mean?" Zhang Hao didn't react at once.

The main reason is that he didn't expect this golden finger to be about this aspect at all, to become the master of the basketball world, in his opinion, Jordan, Magic Bird, Russell, but he didn't expect him to be the head coach!

"Lead your players to conquer the world of basketball? Lead your players? Isn't that what a coach is supposed to do? Is this for me to become a coach? How can I become a coach when I'm only 19 years old? Is this what made me go to a sports university and become the best coach in the world? That's a way out...... But I've got only a year to live! How can I have a chance to finish 4 years of college and become a head coach? ”

Zhang Hao thought that those universities were unwilling to give him a chance, and after he ran into walls everywhere, he had the idea of giving up basketball, returning to China to go to college, and being an office worker or selling fish.

But now he is different, he has memories of the future, and he is dominated by the vision of the future, and the most important thing is that he only has one year to live...... Then you have to do something to make yourself live longer.

If there is no help, then don't care, live happily for a year with the mentality of future memory, lie on the hospital bed and wait for death for two years, and live alive for a year, it won't be good.

At this time, the subtitles quietly changed.

"The host's basketball career is about to begin, and the mission begins: become the head coach of a team or form a team yourself and sign a player."

"Do you really want me to be a coach? But how do I become a coach now? No one wants to hire me as an elementary school coach! At my age and ability, where can I become a coach? Building a team? Where do I get the money? ”

Zhang Hao couldn't help but complain wildly, he was about to turn into Pierce, because he really didn't hang up for him! Just do the task, the task is completed, and it is estimated that there will be a reward, but he doesn't have the conditions to complete it!

If you want to become a basketball coach by going to college, the sports academy of the United States, the strongest country in basketball in the world, must be the best choice, but he will not live to graduate from college!

The dead end has arisen again!

Suddenly, Zhang Hao had a flash of inspiration and a magical idea came up, and after this idea came out, his heart was pounding!

Not knowing how to communicate, Zhang Hao tentatively asked in his heart: "I want to sign me, is it okay?" I build my own team, and it's called ...... Well, let's call it the Ritian Gang! Sign Myself! ”

After this question was asked, it was originally just a faint subtitle, but it suddenly began to distort, and then it continued to tremble, and finally it actually ...... It's a screen! Scared Zhang Hao!

I don't think I'll break this golden finger!

Wait, isn't that just a year to live?

As soon as this idea came up, Zhang Hao saw the "remaining life" in the upper right corner of the subtitles, even if the screen is blurred, it still hasn't changed, this is the rhythm of dragging him to hell with him if he dies!

After a while, the subtitles finally returned to normal and new words appeared.

"The host established the team: Ritian Gang, is about to sign Zhang Hao as the first signed player to become its personal coach, are you sure?"

You really can!

Zhang Hao didn't know what the use of signing a contract was, but after signing it first, he immediately responded: "Sure." ”

"Ding...... The host has successfully signed a player: Zhang Hao, because the host helped the system find a loophole, and received a special reward: Growth Card: Mid-range Jump Shot Training Improvement Card (Top). ”