I sat on the bench for most of the second half and watched my teammates play, and in fact the main players didn't get much playing time in the second half, and I was substituted with four minutes left in the third quarter, when the margin was 33 points.

And by the end of the third quarter, the difference had been widened to 45 points, and I felt like I was a little too cruel, but there was no way to do it, but it didn't win me more playing time, but I couldn't get a chance to play in garbage time.

The final quarter belonged to the Lakers' bench benches, who lost to the Suns by as many as 20 points in the fourth quarter, so that the difference between the two sides was finally 25 points at the end of the game, which may not seem particularly large, but anyone who has actually watched the game will understand that this difference really does not explain anything.

As the game entered the second half, the home fans began to leave the stadium one after another, and at first their boos would inject some energy into the boring game, but as time went on, as the number of people who left the stadium increased, even the boos began to become weaker.

The whole fourth quarter felt like an afternoon long, which made me sit on the bench and doze off, for a while I really felt like I was falling asleep, but I was soon woken up by Shaq sitting next to me, his energy was so abundant, and today's game did not allow him to completely release his excess energy, so he began to use his natural talent for funny to tell bad jokes on the bench.

Anyway, I think his bad jokes are too cold, I don't know what those teammates think, maybe they just deliberately acted very funny to take care of Shaq's self-esteem.

I was able to change my clothes quickly after the game, and the post-game question-and-answer session was even more boring, after all, such a non-NBA game was really uncomfortable.

And some reporters like to get caught up in some off-topic conversations, such as when they can't find enough nutritious topics in the game, they will involuntarily lead the topic to places outside the game, such as the private gossip of players or coaches, and of course I wonder why these reporters with a keen sense of smell didn't ask Shaq about his party.

I think if these reporters really asked, with Shaq's character, maybe they would really answer them seriously, of course, God knows what kind of seriousness Shaq saw in his eyes.

And when the reporter asked me about my personal love life, I became a little alert, and I seemed to detect some clues from the reporter's question, could there be a paparazzi secretly observing my private life?

I don't think I'm a big star now, why don't they care more about Shaq when they have extra energy.

It's just that I don't seem to have a very good talent for things like lying and acting on the spot, so much so that many times when a reporter asks me some personal questions that I don't feel easy to answer, I really don't know how to deal with it except to choose to be silent and spread my hands.

Of course, these reporters are not entertainment reporters at all, so they will eventually focus on issues such as the relationship between the players in the team.

One reporter asked me what it was like to work with Shaq as a super insider, and I thought about it a little bit and told them that Shaq is a superstar at an all-time level, and I'm just a rookie, so I can learn a lot from him, and I'm happy that in my first year of NBA career, I was able to fight for a championship with a great team and a group of great teammates.

In general, I still speak some official clichés, which is also the method he taught me to deal with reporters' questions when I met my unreliable agent before.

Last time I asked him to get me another phone so I could give it to Jessica so I could keep in touch with Jessica at all times.

Shortly after the reporter's questioning, my agent appeared in front of me, holding the same style of mobile phone as mine, and I was about to take the phone out of his hand, but he suddenly withdrew his hand.

"I have good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

I scratched my head a little speechlessly, reached out again and finally took the phone.

"Let's talk about the bad news first, I don't think you're likely to have any serious good news anyway."

"As you might expect, the bad news is that the last time the car brand that wanted to endorse you temporarily reversed itself, they decided to choose another football star as their new spokesperson, because they felt that football has a greater influence in the world, and the NBA's influence is mainly aimed at the United States, so they think that choosing a football star can better help them promote their car brand to the world."

"It's not bad news, at least I don't have the slightest fluctuation in my heart when I hear this, okay now you can say that good news."

"The good news is that I helped you find a bigger car brand endorsement opportunity than that car brand, and in their opinion, the current overseas market is not so easy to develop, their brand positioning is mainly focused on the American market, so they are more willing to choose the rising basketball star, they are extremely satisfied with your recent performance, very important to your development potential, so they are willing to pay a price higher than the previous car brand to sign with you."

I was a little confused after listening to it, and thought to myself that although this agent sometimes makes people feel unreliable, it seems to be quite good at the level of business, but I am not very happy about the new endorsement opportunity, probably because I really can't understand what a huge amount of money it is now.

Anyway, in my previous life, I had no concept of money, and now I am about to become a billionaire, but the concept of money is even more vague, I am not specifically dealing with money, in my life, only basketball is the most important, and the status of money has to be ranked after many things.

Anyway, I verbally praised the agent's excellent performance and told him that he would consider giving him a raise, but the guy said that he would like a little more commission.

I didn't say yes right away, but told him that I would give due consideration to his offer, and that I wasn't the kind of stingy boss if he could do it further.

I didn't feel any sleepiness on the plane back to Los Angeles, looking at the darkness outside the window, I didn't know what I was thinking, I was used to life without a smartphone since I was reborn as Kobe.

If I had been away from my computer or smartphone for so long in my previous life, it would have made me feel painful, but now that I have lost my computer and smartphone, I realize that there are many other more important things in my life that are worth my energy.

It is precisely because I have experienced such a change that I feel more and more that in the information age, mobile phones and smartphones bring convenience to people, but also seem to deprive us of some very important things for human beings.

I didn't feel sleepy at all, so I asked for some magazines from the beautiful flight crew, including a basketball magazine about the NBA, which I opened with some curiosity.

When I read a column about our Lakers, I couldn't help but smile wryly, in fact, when you read the analysis of you and your life by those columnists in a magazine, you will understand how amazing and incredible everything that seems ordinary and simple to you seems to outsiders.

Playing in the NBA may be a job, a hobby, a life for us, and for those teenagers who chase stars, it's like a mysterious existence, people will always give us some characteristics that we may not know about, of course, this is part of the entertainment, no matter what they say about Kobe Bryant in the magazine, how they describe the conflict between me and Shaq, and the tacit air relay between us, in short, this is their job, and it is also a part of our lives.

It's just that I think it's really interesting to have the opportunity to look at us from their point of view.

I felt a little hungry when I looked at it, but I couldn't eat and drink with my belly open, so not long ago, my agent hired a nutrition consultant for me, and he set me a very strict dietary guideline, I only had one meal a week to indulge, and the rest of the time I had to strictly follow the amount of food restricted by this dietary guideline.

Strictly speaking, I am a relatively self-disciplined person, so I am not very resistant to such a dietary guide that is conducive to maintaining good habits of self-discipline, and of course it does not mean that I completely agree with this recipe formulated for me by the so-called nutrition consultant.

There are still some subtle differences between the nutritional understanding of this era and the mainstream nutritional understanding many years later, but I am not very good at saying which kind of theory about nutrition is more scientific, in fact, when you are superstitious about science, there is not too much essential difference from superstitious theology, because most of the science is in the process of continuous improvement and progress, so don't be easily deceived by those who use the banner of science, you must learn to distinguish what kind of science is really reasonable.

When I got back home in Los Angeles, it was already past 3 o'clock in the morning, but I still didn't feel much sleepy, and I don't know why I felt like I was overflowing with energy since this afternoon's training, which also caused me to feel a little excited for no reason.

To alleviate this state I decided to take a cold shower, I have a huge exclusive bathtub, in fact it is custom-made for anyone under 2.1 meters tall.

The cold liquid took away the excess energy from my body, but it made my body even hotter inside, as if the cold water stimulated my internal energy supply system, so that I didn't freeze to death, so my metabolism became faster.

After taking a cold shower, I felt a pang of relief all over my body, and finally collapsed on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

I woke up the next morning at about 10 a.m., and although I hadn't slept very long, I felt like I had fully regained all my energy and my brain seemed unusually awake, at least more awake than any other day in this time.

This state really makes people feel very comfortable, when the brain is blank, it is the fastest to react and the strongest learning ability, but I don't plan to stay at home and continue to watch Jordan's tapes, nor do I plan to do some strength and stretching exercises in the gym at home, I just want to go to Jessica's house earlier, just haven't seen me for more than a day and miss her a little.

As if she knew I was going to her, Jessica was very considerate and cooked a delicious meal for me, although I have to say that her cooking skills actually have a lot of room for improvement, but the smile on my face was definitely sincere.

Jessica looked different this time, first of all, I felt that her mental state was much better than before, as if she had forgotten all the troubles she had encountered before, and I was very happy to see her bright smile like sunshine.

We both drank a little too much in this happy atmosphere, and even told each other a lot of meat jokes through the wine, and my head was close to Jessica's lips, and then I couldn't help but kiss deeply.

After eating, Jesse Kara told me to go to the cinema to watch a movie, but I asked her why she didn't use it to show some nice movies when she had a projector that was quite advanced at the time.

Jessica's expression stiffened slightly at first, but after a few moments it returned to its normal state.

When I turned on Jessica's projector, the image projected on the screen told me why Jessica's face changed suddenly.

It turns out that there are a lot of realistic black and white photos placed in this projector, and the content of the photos covers almost a lot of aspects, but one thing is very clear, these photos should be taken quite a long time.

By age, we mean at least half a century ago.

There are many people in the photos wearing clothes belonging to the bygone era, perhaps because the resolution of the photos is not enough, or because the photos are not particularly well preserved, and many of the details in the photos appear blurry after being magnified by the projector, like a black mass pasted together.

"Can you tell me a little bit about what the people in these pictures are doing?"

I asked in a whisper.

"If you really want to know, these pictures are going to be shown to you sooner or later, but I was going to postpone that a little later. But now that you've seen it anyway, it doesn't hurt to tell you everything. ”

"Well, just say it, I've seen a lot of interesting things with you during this time, even if you say something very weird and bizarre, I'm mentally prepared."

"Haha, it's not as strange as you think, but it's really not something that ordinary people can access, and you may also see that these photos are old things, but I can guarantee their authenticity."

"Black-and-white photographs of this texture are at least half a century old, and that era is exactly that."

There was a slight pause in my words, and I couldn't help but feel a little emotionally at the thought of what something from that era might have experienced.

"As you should expect, these photos must also come from my family, and many of my ancestors have a habit of recording what they have experienced with their cameras in the last generations, and in the photos they take there are some hidden secrets, which even the descendants of the family do not know very well."

"In their time, cameras must have been quite rare, so it was not easy to preserve so many precious photos, and the secrets you said they hid in the photos were not your own care, and if there were really those secrets, why didn't your parents find out before? I guess these photos were left by your parents as a memento before they left. ”

"Of course they have discovered the secret, but they can't tell me in person, I have to find out for myself."

"Why? It's not logical at all, okay! ”

"There aren't so many whys, everything in this world can be understood with normal logical thinking, I just hope you can continue to believe in me like you did a few times before."

"Well, of course I believe you, but maybe you don't understand what you should believe."

"Maybe, let's go find out the truth behind all this, okay?"

"Is the truth really that important? If we really solve these so-called secrets, how much can it help our lives, I will soon be able to become a superstar in the NBA, and I can have a lot of money, and I am willing to buy you whatever you want. ”

"What you don't understand, some things can't be measured by money, I just want you to be by my side, as for money and wealth are not so important to me, if I want money, I only need to take out a few cultural relics hidden in my house and put them up for auction to become a millionaire at once, but that's not what I want."