Chapter 1 Top Achievers from Georgetown

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United States

Washington

Georgetown University

Office of the Department of Physics

Professor Sled was in a terrible mood, he had been irritable for a long time because of one of his students. In Slied www.biquge.info's view, a person who studies physics should be able to sit in a chair, endure loneliness, survive time, and of course, most importantly, talent, just like his student.

But all this is premised on him having to learn. As soon as he thought of this, Professor Slid felt a headache, and he had nothing to do but play professional basketball. Don't look at how tall you are, a halfway monk is a halfway monk, and those who only started playing in high school are strong enough for those who have started learning since childhood. The most important thing is that such a good talent stays with him to continue studying physics, maybe he can get gravitational waves out in the future, why do you have to do such a promising career.

Slim took off his glasses, pressed the corners of his forehead hard, and sighed heavily.

There was a knock on the door, the sound was very soft but very steady, and there was a pause for a second between the three knocks as if measured with a ruler.

Professor Slid sighed again and said, "Come in." ”

Walking in was a tall yellow man, with a long figure, a somewhat soft face, but also angular, but what caught his eye was his hands, ten fingers were slender and powerful, the palms were wide, very white, not the rough pale of Europeans and Americans, but a delicate white, as if the sun could penetrate his skin, it can be said that this is a pair of hands that can create magic. He held a thick pile of paper in his hand and said, "Professor, this is my final graduation thesis in quantum physics, please check it." ”

Slid took the paper, but had no intention of looking at it, put it aside, and said, "Mo, you know, there are times when people are endowed by God with unparalleled talent in one aspect, and other than that, he is so mediocre. You've proven your talent in physics, and I hope you'll consider it carefully. ”

The young student said without humility or arrogance: "Thank you for the compliment, Professor. But I have always thought that where my heart is at peace, I will ask for it. ”

Slid shook his head and smiled: "I almost forgot, you still practiced psychology under Old Joan for a year, it seems that you learned very well, why did you give up again?" ”

The student smiled and replied, "It's just that the ideas don't match." ”

Hearing this, Slid kept rubbing his palm on the paper on the side, and said, "I have always been very relieved about your paper. I believe that with your talent, you will not be unknown in any field, but you have to remember that you are not Libya, you are only David. But, congratulations, you've graduated, pity? Mr. Mo. With that, he pulled out a pair of messy papers from the table and handed it to Mo Xi.

Mo Xi borrowed it and glanced at it casually, turned around to leave the office, and just as he was about to walk out the door, he stopped and said, "Professor, what you said is not right, I am not Goliath, I am just David." With that, he left.

Slid was a little embarrassed, and said in his heart: It's just David... How dare I say it, then what is an old man like me? Maybe I'm really old, and the madness of youth is destined to leave me.

In the blink of an eye, Mo Xi came to the gate of Georgetown and got into a crimson Lecles. In the driver's seat sat an oriental woman, a woman with a hint of lion-like ferocity, she was not very old, but not small, about thirty-six or seven.

The woman said in a teasing tone, "My dear, what is it like to leave the ivory tower?" Well? Are you ready to face the darkness of society? Hehe, haha. ”

Mo Xi didn't know why, his face was flushed, and he said, "Oh, okay, Mom, you can't always taunt your son like this, you didn't tell me anything at the beginning, how could I have thought that this was the case." Chinese girl, unmarried pregnant, single mother, my God, do you need another description, everyone will have some strange associations. ”

Yes, this young woman is Mo Xi's mother. The sixteen-year-old girl ran away from home and became pregnant out of wedlock, but the father of the child ran away. Such stories are almost commonplace in the United States, especially among people of color.

The young Mo Xi has been dependent on his mother since he was a child, but he has never heard his mother talk about his family. As a result, the image of an old-minded, stubborn and irascible grandfather came into being, and maybe there were a few uncles and uncles or something. Although her mother was already a well-known screenwriter in Hollywood at this time, in Mo Xi's view, the hardships were very great. He always wanted to make his mother's life easier.

When he was in middle school, he was introduced to the world of basketball by one of his brothers, and although he was originally going to play football, it happened that the field was maintained that day, so he started his basketball career at a very old age.

Three years ago, his brother, who was also from a single-parent family, Allen Iverson, planned to participate in the NBA draft because his daughter was seriously ill. Although he is also at the top of the academic level, deep down, he vaguely feels as if there is a fierce beast hidden, and he is extremely eager to roar on that field, and he also hopes to give his mother a better life. Even though John Thompson's players usually don't go to the draft until they graduate from college, he chose to bless them with the family's situation. However, considering that his mother would never allow him to drop out of school halfway, he simply cut it first and then chose it.

However, the mother still knew, and the two broke out into the most violent quarrel in twenty years.

In Mo Xi's view, Hollywood is a place with a bright exterior and a dark interior, and his mother is absolutely not suitable to work in such a place. In his opinion, his mother is a typical seventeen-year-old with a super IQ and super emotional intelligence.

Then, to the sound of her mother's laughter, Mo Xi was violently beaten by her mother, who was nearly forty centimeters shorter than her, mocking him as a natural visionary, a science fiction writer, and a captive imp.

In the United States in the 90s, it was not easy for Chinese people to survive, so how did Mo Xi's mother get to where she is today?

Because her name is Mo Liyu, a native of New York, his father's name is Mo Yishan, and he has three older brothers and seven uncles. They are the Mo family in New York, that is, the Chinese Gang in New York in the eyes of others.

It took a long time for Mo Xi to react, and it turned out that he was the second generation of various campus legends.

Under the strong interference of Murray, Mo Xi was drafted by the New York Knicks, but strongly demanded that he be allowed to enter the NBA after completing his studies.

Starting the car, Murray asked, "So, where are you going next, my dear, to take you directly to New York?" ”

Mo Xi shook his head and said with a strange expression: "No, no, Aaron called me yesterday and said that he wanted to take me to Bai Pier. ”

"Bai Wharf, ah, that's supposed to take you to Los Angeles." Mo Liyu said softly.

Mo Xi asked suspiciously, "How do you know?" ”

Mo Liyu gave him a blank look and said, "I don't know if your mother will prophesy?" ”

Mo Xi shut up instantly, he didn't believe this, but he didn't miss it, in his opinion, a woman's intuition was too terrible.

Mo Liyu thought to himself: Am I going to tell you that your mother has traveled in time after twenty years, and your good friend will have hooked up with his other good friend Kobe Bryant?

A butterfly stirs up a storm, and the person who didn't exist on this plane brings another person who shouldn't be. Will history be rewritten?

Moli fish Nunu mouth, as a girl who loves to watch football, in her time and space, the center is dead.

In the 1998-1999 season, the NBA was suspended for several months due to labor contracts, during which countless talents fell, the most suffocating of which was undoubtedly Sean Kemp, who changed from "ruler" to "rain man".

meanwhile

New York Knicks Coaching Office

Jeff Van Gundy rubbed his few hairs with a sad face. After a smoky war of words, the new season is finally about to begin, but with this pitiful run-in period, intensive schedule, and the fact that the Knicks are not young, Van Gundy feels that he has another decade to live.

There is a lack of manpower on the inside, and in addition to Marcus Camby, there is only Herb who was born in 58 years left, and the low altitude of the power forward position is still a hard injury, although there are only three super interior lines in the East, and one is in his own hands, but the hidden injury is always in the throat.

A knock on the door interrupted Van Gundy's thoughts.

"Come in."

Maybe there's good news, but Van Gundy doesn't think there's any more bad news.

Coming in was the Knicks' assistant defensive coach, Tom Thibodeau. The two have similar opinions in various aspects, especially hair.

"I hope you bring good news." Van Gundy said.

Thibodeau shrugged noncommittally and said, "I don't know if this is good news, but I'm sure it will help you somewhat." It was a 2-round pick that the Knicks picked in '96, a Chinese-American center, when for some reason he chose to continue his education at Georgetown. ”

Van Gundy frowned and said, "96 years? Center? That's good, but I don't remember why we chose him at the time? ”

Thibodeau pursed his lips and said, "This is the problem, he was chosen because someone had said hello, and the other party seemed to be the Chinese gang in New York." ”

Hearing this, Van Gundy was a little unhappy and said, "What, is the Chinese young master going to come to the NBA to play tickets?" ”

"In fact," Thibodeau explained, "we were recommended by Coach John Thompson, he was Ewing's heir, and, like you, he was a graduate student in Georgetown. ”

Van Gundy raised his eyebrows and said with some smugness: "In this case, I'll take a look." ”

Fifteen minutes of silence followed. Scouting reports from '96, performances in the NCAA over the years, recent physical records, etc., Van Gundy has flipped them all over. Finally, he said: "Having a high basketball IQ, a wide field of vision, flexible footwork, excellent reach, solid fundamentals, and aggressiveness in defense, that is, all-rounding." Moreover, there is a lack of physical confrontation at the NBA level, there is no significant improvement throughout the NCAA, and there is a lack of fighting spirit in headwind situations. ”

There was silence in the office again.

"If it's just a bench player, he can try, but as for the background in the dark," Thibodeau said with a smile on his face, "The Knicks aren't a good boy. ”

Van Gundy thought for a while, after all, this is Ewing's junior brother, no matter how bad it is, so he said: "Okay, inform him to come to the team training camp when the time comes, don't let him drag him back, our goal is the championship." ”

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