Chapter 1: Welcome to the NBA
"Who am I? Where am I? What am I going to do? "These questions came back to my mind repeatedly, and in a short time I realized that my mind had turned into a mush, and some strange images kept appearing in front of my eyes.
"Bryant, why are you still stunned, hurry up and pass the ball!" A voice pulled my mind back into the real world, and I felt that I had a much higher vision than I had remembered, and at this time I was on the basketball court, there were nine other black men staring at me, they kept shouting at me, gesturing in their hands.
"Mom!" At this time, three people on the opposite side accelerated and rushed towards me, and I reflexively made a backdribble to catch the forward turn, and passed through the gap before the opponent's bag could be completed.
"Hurry up and pass the ball, pass the ball, don't you understand?" I seem to be able to understand all these unfamiliar languages, this TMD is standard American English, and I used to like to watch American dramas, and I am quite familiar with these.
However, my body didn't seem to be under his control, he had his own muscle memory, and his hand stuck to the ball like a lot of all-purpose glue, and no matter how it was slapped, it would eventually come back into my hand again.
I directly ignored the few guys around me who raised their hands and scolded my mother for wanting me to pass the ball, lowered my center of gravity and glided on the ground and easily passed a guy, at this time I only had one target in my eyes, that is, the basket.
"Bang!" When I thought I had passed all the defenders, I made a move to pull out the onion tomahawk dunk with both feet and arms, but when my body was rising, a huge figure suddenly appeared in front of me, a terrible black and strong guy, with terrifying explosive power.
In the end, I still couldn't get the basketball into the basket smoothly, well, my hand was almost smashing the basketball into the damn basket, but I didn't want the guy in front of me, who was more than half a head taller than me, to come first at such an alarming speed, and his palm hit my wrist hard.
Then my body completely lost its balance, and I rolled several times after landing on the ground, looking a little confused at the black and hard man in front of me who opened his big mouth to reveal a neat row of white teeth.
"Damn! This is clearly Shaq when he was young, O'Neill. Those questions came back to my mind, "Who am I?" Where am I? What am I doing here? ”
"Welcome to the NBA, rookie, and let me tell you a secret, no one can dunk in front of me, let alone dunk me, rookie, and of course you can help me buy some donuts and coke, so you can consider being a little more merciful next time."
Looking at the fat man's arrogant expression, I suddenly had a nameless anger rushing up, but soon I felt a trace of coolness, well, I have made up my mind that sooner or later I will teach this flexible dead fat man a lesson, but first I have to figure out what my current situation is?
Everything is so strange here, before I was just an ordinary young man born in the 90s of the 20th century, a young man who grew up with the NBA on the road to growth, a guy who once longed to be able to stand on the real world-class arena like them, but the cruel reality is that I don't have that talent, not a single percent of the talent!
It is precisely because I have always loved and paid attention to the NBA and basketball that everything in front of me seems so strange and familiar, and if I look closely, this stadium is not the famous Staples Center, but it seems to be different from what I see on TV, I looked up and found that the championship flag hanging on the top of the arena seems to be missing five pieces!
That is, Kobe. The five championship flags that Bryant won for the Lakers are gone, and then think about the guys who just called me Bryant and a rookie? I didn't have to become Kobe Bryant, a rookie who had just entered the NBA in 1996. Bryant Bar!
Wait, it's not a dream! I got up from the ground and continued the training competition, but everything was real beyond the realm of dreams, there was pain, touch and clarity, it was unlikely to be a dream!
What is the last memory I have before I came here?
By the way, I seemed to close my eyes forever in the cries of my family, and it was like a damn black car that cost me my life, and when I crossed the crosswalk at a red light with everyone else, the yellow driver of this high-speed car took my young life forever.
So what the hell is the current situation? Like the protagonist in the novel, he got a chance to be reborn! Wait, let me adjust my mind a little, the point is that I was not only reborn, but even reborn as the famous world-class basketball superstar Kobe Bryant. Bryant!
It's really honorable and exciting to think about it, but when I think about it, it wasn't easy for Kobe Bryant when he first entered the NBA, there were already several All-Star-level gods in the Lakers, and Kobe Bryant could only play as a substitute for All-Star player Eddie House in his first season, and only averaged more than ten minutes of playing time per game.
Therefore, Kobe's performance in the first few seasons has always been a regret in his career, if he can play a famous role earlier, will he be able to win the NBA championship with O'Neal earlier?
O'Neal signed a huge seven-year contract with the Lakers, and in the end, his OK combination with Kobe Bryant brought the Lakers a total of three championships, do I have a chance to change history and win more consecutive championships with O'Neal? It's not three, it's not four, it's not five or six, we're going to challenge seven championships, seven championships in a row, and it's close to the eight consecutive championships created by the ancient gods Bill Russell and the Celtics.
Of course, these are all later words, to be honest, I am really a little uncomfortable with Kobe's body, although he has already shown amazing talent and potential from the beginning, but those are the instinctive reflexes of this body, and I have no way to fully control it.
This is evident in the shooting, although in the previous life I was also a person who could play in ordinary people, but under the higher confrontation and faster speed, my way of thinking and playing habits in my mind obviously could not be adjusted quickly, I must learn to use this body with superstar potential faster, otherwise it is likely that even Kobe Bryant. Brian's first season wasn't at a high level, and I didn't want to be relegated to some minor league like the Development League before I even played.
I gradually began to adjust to the level of play in the training game, and after three consecutive three-pointers from the outside, and after a series of laughs and ridicule, I decided to release the excess energy and anger in me with a breakaway and a dunk.
"Someday I'll keep you out!"
"Silly boy, don't dream, your thighs are not as thick as my forearms, go back to your MM's arms obediently, the NBA is not suitable for underage hairy children!"
My first encounter with Shaq quickly erupted with a certain smell of gunpowder, which seemed to come faster and more violently than the smell of gunpowder between them, and I can't remember how much trash talk was sprayed at each other.
"Kobe, you shot a total of 20 shots today, all the goals you scored were layups or counterattack dunks, and you lost all five three-point shots, such an outside crosshair doesn't look like you!"
The coach didn't seem to be there, and in the end it was the assistant coach who made some comments on my performance after the game, and the depression in my heart was naturally difficult to describe in words, so I decided to add another two hours to myself after the group training, and it shouldn't be three hours of shooting training, okay, I admit that it seems to be quite Kobe!