"I just said, I want to be on a team with you, and I can win with you, Aix, you're too good......" Marbury turned on the chatter mode again, inadvertently, and offended a cautious 16-year-old high school student next to him.

"Although I am not your opponent yet, you have to be careful, I am 1 year younger than you, and I will catch up with you soon!" This is Hamilton.

"I want to try what it's like to play with you too......" this is Jamison.

"It's too bad you dunk me on the head while I'm not looking......"

Hearing other people's words, Zhang Hao was nothing, but hearing Odom's words, Zhang Hao was speechless.

That dunk, he even glanced at Odom before he rushed in and jumped, who knew that this guy was distracted in the next second, and he was ready to dunk and miss.

Zhang Hao conquered not only his teammates in this game, but also the opponents recognized his strength, and this time it recognized Zhang Hao's strength in the game!

In their opinion, Zhang Hao's strength is at the level of a professional player!

It is true that Zhang Hao has many flaws, which have nothing to do with all-around, but with such height, athleticism, and such shooting, just the combination of these three, he is already the strongest in the eyes of other players!

Of course, there are people who don't think so, and some people firmly believe that they are the strongest.

The Adidas training camp brought together this group of teenagers who can represent the pan-96 generation.

After the depression of losing, the 18 players of the two teams gathered together, hugged and took photos......

Perhaps, after today, many of them will never be seen again.

The older they get, the more they know how hard it is to become a professional footballer, and with the exception of a few, most of them don't have a clear plan for what the future will be like and what they want to do.

After a while, after the post-match exchange of players, the head of the Adidas Pacific region came to the stadium and it was time to present the awards.

There is no prize money, the winning team has a trophy for each person, and all of them have a certificate from the Adidas training camp, although it has no effect, but before Adidas has expanded the elite game, 18 people can get the certificate every year, it is still worth collecting for this group of high school students, if they don't play well in the NCAA and finally fail to enter the professional league, this certificate is one of the most precious memories of their basketball career.

In addition to these two, there is one more important prize tonight!

Kobe Bryant, who had 30 points, 11 boards, 8 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, had no chance to win this award, nor did Odom, who had 11 points, 13 boards and 3 assists, and Hamilton, who scored 18 points, did not......

That's the best player from the winning team who gets the chance to get their hands on a separate trophy – the Most Valuable Player of the Tournament!

said an opening remark...... In fact, after the soft advertisement, the person in charge of Adidas was ready to present the award: "...... Thank you for bringing us such a great game, and I hope this camp will help you in your basketball career.

OKOK, I know you guys can't wait, and I announce that the Most Valuable Player of this Adidas Training Camp Classic is ...... Aix Chang from Inglewood High School in Los Angeles! ”

Zhang Hao, who scored 31 points, 9 boards, 2 assists and 3 steals, beat Garnett, who had 14 points, 14 boards, 8 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks, and became the MVP of this Adidas training camp elite competition!

It's not a big suspense, Garnett is doing well, but anyone can see who their team can win the game on.

In this game itself, there is no so-called commercial reason, that is, it is given to the one with the best performance, and considering the commercial reasons, the training camp held in San Francisco, California, should be given to Zhang Hao, at least half of the fans on the scene buy shoes and equipment to get free tickets, it is because of Zhang Hao!

Garnett can't do anything about this, he has the heart, but in this situation, he is very powerless......

This time he really took it!

The 1995 Adidas Training Camp Classic, which lasted 1 hour and 12 minutes and 40 minutes of game time, came to an end with Zhang Hao enjoying the cheers of the fans......

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"Congratulations, Aix, you won the MVP, you also won the McDonald's event, which do you think is better for high school students Adidas or McDonald's?"

"I've only been to McDonald's dunk contests, I don't know much about other games, but I'm definitely very good, and I've been through the whole Adidas training camp, it's very professional, and I've learned a lot of things, and I think it will be an important help for my summer training."

"You've proven that you're the best high school student, but I've heard that no university is willing to offer you a basketball scholarship, is that true?"

"I think maybe it's L.A. so remote they haven't heard of me, and this time it should be able to get them to notice me."

"Got some news that those universities are reluctant to give you a scholarship because of your skin color?"

"It would be too bad if it was like you said, but they actually offered me a scholarship, but a scholarship for study."

"Study scholarship?"

"Yes, at the end of last season, I took the SAT early because I had nothing to do, and I remember that I scored almost 1400 points, and at that time my homeroom teacher wanted to recommend me to graduate early and go to college."

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After the game, Zhang Hao was taken alone for an interview, this time, Zhang Hao was much more relaxed, no more than when he was in the slam dunk contest, this time his answer was quite organized.

But when it's time to show faith, he still has to show his faith.

In terms of sensitive topics, he avoided them in a timely manner and changed the topic well, after all, the goal is to enter the NCAA Division I league university, and he can't offend the school.

It's just a high school student's competition, and he hasn't encountered that kind of extremely aggressive problem, Zhang Hao feels very lucky, but he is a little puzzled, why do these media seem to deliberately want to engage in those colleges? almost dragged him into the water, but he already had experience this time, and thought of avoiding the answers to those universities, otherwise he would really offend those universities.

After finishing the interview and returning to the hotel, Zhang Hao looked at the Adidas 1995 training camp MVP trophy thrown on the bed...... It's a bit surreal!

The final result of participating in the training camp this time was completely different from what I expected at the beginning!

For a while, Zhang Hao was a little dazed......

It's not that things are too bad, it's that good things come too quickly.

This feeling is similar to not knowing how to deal with the current situation after getting rich overnight, but fortunately, it doesn't involve money, it's not really a windfall, and you won't lose your normal thinking.

Seeing that there were still 405 days left to live, Zhang Hao quickly came back to his senses, he knew that everything had just begun!

Bibi, who was sitting on the other bed reading a book, had been paying attention to this magical roommate, and found Zhang Hao's dazedness just now, he was very strange, why did Zhang Hao look at a trophy at a loss......

Bibi, who has been known as a basketball genius since he was a child and had a smooth journey as a student, can't empathize with Zhang Hao, a roommate from China who has encountered so many ups and downs on the road to basketball.

After resting for a while, it was about 6 o'clock when there was a knock on the door.

Zhang Hao went to open the door, it was Marbury.

"Aix, eh, Mike, let's go, let's get together, Sheriff has a treat!"

Marbury said and walked straight into the room.

"I don't want to ......"

"No, you want to!"

Marbury directly pulled Bibby up and dealt with an awkward person like Bibby, Marbury, who came from the slums and wandered the streets, was very good at dealing with.

Zhang Hao will definitely not refuse......

Following Marbury to the door of the hotel, 15 other talented high school students came, and even another awkward monster Kobe Bryant was not absent.

Bootcamp is over! Tomorrow they will go back to their respective homes, and Rahim, who has the best family environment and the most local tyrant, has a treat, rents a few cars, and takes everyone to a high-end restaurant for a gathering.

Raheem's family environment is really good, the church family was born, several generations are patriarchs, everyone in a town of more than 50,000 people, from the church level, are following his father, a town of more than 50,000 people is not small in the United States, Inglewood City is about this size, and their family has a charitable foundation...... In his generation, his younger brother is expected to take over the position of imam.

His uncompetitive personality made him quite criticized in terms of media evaluation, but his gentle personality allowed him to look good with everyone...... Money ability is always useful.

Many of the 18 people in the room were from the slums and had never been in a fancy restaurant, but fortunately, the blacks said it was nice to be "informal" and ate to the highs, and Rahim didn't mind.

Although no alcohol was allowed, the whole process was enjoyable.

There will be a time when the song is over, and some people don't have much concept, but Marbury is a delicate person, and after eating and drinking, he leaned back in his chair and sighed: "Our group may only have this one chance to get together for dinner in this life, right?" ”

Some people didn't take Marbury's words seriously at all, but many people felt the same way.

Although it was not a long time, the friendship of training together, advancing together, and playing together at the highest level in today's high school world is rare and worth remembering.

"Not only that, but there may be many of us who won't even have the opportunity to meet in the future." Bibi faintly came out with such a sentence.

Zhang Hao heard what this roommate said and knew that Bibi was right, these days, the only way to communicate remotely is landline and letters, and the Internet is not convenient, but he heard another meaning in Bibi's words - this is why I don't want to have a good relationship with other people.

Yes, that's it, because many people may be in contact with this once in their lives, and they may not meet again for ten or eight years in the future, or even a second time in their lives, so for Bibi, there is no need to communicate too much with other people, people are emotional creatures, they have made a good friend, and then they haven't seen each other for many years, if they happen to have a really good relationship with this friend, it will produce negative emotions.

Zhang Hao thought for a while and said, "Not necessarily, maybe we will have a lot of opportunities to meet in the future." ”

There are 10 people here who are future NBA stars in his Zhang Hao's impression, and the situation is not the same concept as making friends in ordinary games!

Bibi looked at Zhang Hao, smiled rarely, and said, "If it were you, we might fight in college...... Now those universities won't be blind anymore, will they? ”

Bibi is really happy that Zhang Hao played well this time, but it is a pity that he is a teammate in this elite game, but with Zhang Hao's strength, Bibi believes that Zhang Hao will soon become a star of an NCAA team.

But Zhang Hao shook his head at this time: "NCAA? That's just a process...... In college, we don't necessarily have the opportunity to meet, and I think our goals should be the same as Kevin's. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes were focused on Zhang Hao.

What Zhang Hao just said, isn't it their dream?

If it's the same as Garnett, it's to enter the NBA, the highest stage of basketball!

People may think that they are too arrogant to say this, so many talented people enter the NCAA every year, so many basketball players enter the NCAA every year, but now, there are more than 50 people who can be selected in the draft every year.

After reaching the apex of high school, they realized how strong those stronger ones were, although they were all geniuses with strong self-confidence, but compared to Garnett, Kobe, and Odom, the three guys whose talent was exaggerated......

However, when Zhang Hao said this, everyone felt that it was normal.

In the training camp, they felt Zhang Hao's admirable self-confidence.

Everyone began to look forward to the picture of being called by name during the draft.

Garnett rarely didn't scold Zhang Hao, but smiled: "I'm waiting for you in the NBA." ”

Zhang Hao looked at Garnett, smiled, and responded: "NBA goodbye!" ”

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"Oh oh oh, Aix, your performance this time is fantastic, I wanted to be like you last year, but unfortunately it didn't work out, this year I should be able to do it if I go, but I gave you the opportunity, you have to thank me, tonight my mom made a lot of delicious food, for you to celebrate winning the MVP, you have to come on time to ......"

returned to Los Angeles, returned to the apartment, there are still familiar chatterbox, there are still familiar chubby dun, sure enough, this is the real thing, Marbury is just A goods.

Listening to Pierce's chattering voice, Zhang Hao acted as a good listener.

Although envious, but Pierce does not have any jealous thoughts, but the bull still has to be blown, Pierce vaguely felt that he seemed to be surpassed by Zhang Hao, and in the previous training, he felt Zhang Hao's rapid progress in the middle of the shot, of course, he was happy about it, Zhang Hao became more powerful to have the opportunity to continue to move forward on the road of basketball.

However, I didn't expect Zhang Hao to win the MVP of the Adidas training camp, which is one of the best honors in American high school basketball, and in a way, it can catch up with the best high school student in the United States evaluated by the Associated Press, and this year's best high school student in the United States is Kevin Garnett, the first round favorite in the NBA draft.

Pierce is also feeling the pressure, he feels like it's time to train hard, and losing weight is the number one priority......

Chattering, Pierce thought of something, changed the subject and said, "By the way, Aix, my mom said that the coach of the UCLA Bruins called, hoping that you can meet you when you come back, oh, no!" I've turned them down, I've lost the chance to be teammates in college and you to continue to be teammates......"

Zhang Hao already knew this, before he left the hotel in San Francisco this morning, the club manager of the Stanford University Sequoia team of the Pacific Twelve-School Alliance had already come to him once, but unfortunately the head coach of the Sequoia team was currently on vacation and was traveling in Europe, but he made an appointment to come to Los Angeles to meet with him for a while.

This Adidas training camp, there are many people who have benefited, it can be said that those who have entered the elite list have benefited, selected into the elite list, in the current era, in the NCAA school recognition is still the highest, unlike the future Adidas, McDonald's, Nike's training camp three opposing competition for talented high school students, but also at the same time to hold a training camp to fight in the ring, the level of each event has been lowered.

Like Kobe, although he lost, the picture of him fighting alone allowed his father to show his son on TV again.

Garnett's selfless style of play and strong strength have also been highly praised by NBA team scouts.

Odom was an instant hit, with the nickname of "left-handed magician", he only turned 16 in November, and his talent was simply explosive!

The one who gets the most benefits is naturally Zhang Hao.

These guys are good, but they are suppressed in the Elite!

10 Hit Shots! It's simply amazing!

UCLA is a local school, and if UCLA doesn't fight for it, the local media will definitely fry the pot.

In the next few days after Zhang Hao returned to Inglewood, coaches from many universities came to visit, and no one paid attention to him before, and he felt distressed, but now more than a dozen universities have come to find him, and he has fallen into a difficult choice......

Originally, the best choice must be UCLA, the first university he applied to was the local UCLA, and then USC, but at the beginning, these two universities were willing to give part of the scholarship to the latter, and the amount given was only equivalent to the general scholarship, and traditionally, if you got a sports scholarship, you can't get a general scholarship.

Now that these two universities are coming with full scholarships, Zhang Hao is very resistant......

On May 24th, finally, the NCAA Division I schools met to an end.

In the past four days, from the 20th to the 23rd, the basketball club managers and head coaches of 17 NCAA universities came to Pierce's apartment to meet with Zhang Hao.

Due to the large number of teams meeting, Zhang Hao did not make a decision immediately, and he really didn't know how to make a decision now.

Scholarships are all the same, and the consideration is not in this area, but in the city where the university is located, the faculty of the school, and the living environment of Chinese Americans......

Among them, the best options are the University of Kansas, the university that Pierce will attend next semester, and the Wildcats are a traditional NCAA powerhouse, and if Zhang Hao joins, the two of them will form the most potential frontcourt combination.

But Zhang Hao is also interested in Stanford University.

It was really tangled, so Zhang Hao came to the stadium to train, he hadn't trained for several days, and it was easier for him to calm down by training.

The main thing is that today's training is more special, there are red sleeves in the past, and now there are tennis girls feeding the ball......

Originally, when I first came back, I made an appointment to eat together, but Zhang Hao has been busy for the past 4 days, and now I finally have time, but after lunch, Zhang Hao didn't have the heart to go out to play, so he came to the stadium to train, and Aprile Clark came to work as a caddie to help serve.

Zhongtou is Zhang Hao's strongest basketball technique, he will not slack off in this area of training, he is currently entangled, and there is no extra mind to consider how to expand the technique, so he still continues to practice Zhongcai.

After another set of 50 shooting drills, April-Clark asked, "Aix, which college are you going to go to?" ”

"I haven't figured it out yet, what about you? SAT scores aren't bad, right? ”

"The day before yesterday, the transcript was sent to the school, and the exam was okay, but if you want to go to the University of Southern California, you have to pass their art exam...... The University of Southern California should have invited you to join as well, right? ”

"They came on the first day I started meeting with those colleges."

"I knew you could do it, and now those colleges don't know how much they regret not applying for your basketball scholarship......"

Zhang Hao was chatting with Aprily Clarke, and the club manager in the second year of high school asked Zhang Hao to go to the head coach's office, and Coach Scott Collins was looking for him.

Zhang Hao said sorry to Aprili Clark and came to the office.

"Coach, what's the matter?"

Scott Collins responded, "Have you figured out which college you're going to?" ”

Zhang Hao shook his head, and was about to consult the coach's opinion, when he saw Scott Collins take out a form from the drawer and hand it to him.

Zhang Hao was curious about the results form, and it was clearly written on his head - the application form for the 1995 NBA Draft.

On the 14th, the NBA1995 draft lottery had been held, and the Warriors won the top pick.

Next May 27 is the draft registration deadline, except for college graduates and overseas players who have reached the age of 22, as long as they do not send their draft applications before this day, they will not be able to participate in this year's draft, but the time calculated by the NBA is calculated according to the time when it was sent.

After May 29, teams can begin draft tryouts.

Zhang Hao looked at this application form and was a little confused - what does this mean?

"I'm going to New York tomorrow, and I can help you bring this to New York and hand it over to the NBA headquarters."

As soon as Scott Collins finished saying this, Zhang Hao's subtitle prompt came!

"Special Contracted Player: Zhang Hao, whose talent has been recognized by many basketball practitioners and has become the object of competition for many NCAA teams, task: talent attribution trigger."

"Talent attribution:

Optional Goal 1: Select an NCAA team to join.

Rewards: 1 Bronze Pack. (Select Target 1, Target 2 will not be triggered)

Option 2: Skip college basketball and enter the 1995 NBA Draft.

Rewards: If the host is selected in the second round of the 1995 Draft, 1 Bronze Pack; Selected in the first round will be rewarded with 1 Silver Pack; Selected in the top 10 will be rewarded with 1 Gold Pack. (If you do not accumulate it, select Target 2 and Target 1 will not be triggered.) ”

Suddenly it's a mission!

This task actually made him choose whether to skip college and participate in the draft!

Once he submits the application for the NBA draft, according to the current rules of the NCAA, he will lose the opportunity to participate in the NCAA basketball game, which is naturally equivalent to losing the opportunity to get a basketball scholarship!

Zhang Hao tried to calm himself down, and after calming down, he was silent for a while, and asked Coach Scott Collins, "Coach, do you think I can do it?" ”

Zhang Hao himself doesn't believe that he is capable of playing in the NBA now.

"I think this scared you, but you should have confidence in yourself, I can see your progress during this time, I went to watch the Adidas Training Camp Classic, I was surprised by your progress during this time, I can be sure of one thing - even in college, no one shoots better than you......"