The summer league ended with Celtic winning all six of their games to win the championship. During their two-plus weeks in Orlando, the group of ordinary youngsters formed a good friendship, and although in the end, except for two rookies and Durham Porter, who stayed with the Celtics, everyone including Alexander and Bellman lost the opportunity to play for the Celtics, but this short training camp became a valuable asset in their basketball careers.

Haslem, who had previously been favored by Leon, soon received a trial call from the Heat, and the Miami native will dedicate his career to his hometown.

And Leon finally returned to Boston and returned to his home after nearly a month of busy work. It wasn't until today that his vacation officially began, and he could spend time with Ayatollah Khomeinith and do some of the things he wanted to do. Until August was at the height of his free agent signings, he had free time at his disposal, and he didn't have to go to business events or sweat in the gym like some NBA stars do.

In the past few years, he has chosen to go to Shellfield with Ayatollah to run a basketball camp for Auerbach, he will go to Olympus with Ayatollah with Ayatollah Khomelemis, he will go to the Grand Canyon with Ayatollah Khomeleno on a paragliding plane, and he will go fishing in the deep sea of Cuba with Ayatollah Ayatoll...... But this summer, when Ayatollah Khomeenez graduated, she was in Los Angeles because it was a summer free agent spot.

At this time, Khomeenez was already a basketball venture capitalist, and he funded the less famous scouts or agents to help them capture professional players. She started the business for Leon's sake, but now it seems that she enjoys the work, after all, she has Pagliuca's blood in her veins.

In the days without Khomeenez, Leon didn't even know how to rest, he didn't know how to organize his time, where to go on vacation, what hotel to book, what kind of transportation to take. In the past, Leon was not such a person, at least not in his previous life, he would have kept everything in order, but now, here, he has become accustomed to Khomeiniz taking care of it all and putting all his energy into basketball.

In the end, it was the Celtics' assistant coaches, Sigfried, Dave Cowens, Hess and others, who revisited the old place together and went on vacation to Catadine Hill in Maine. However, this time it was different from the last simple camping, this time they decided to play something more exciting, hunting.

And it's a bear hunt.

Summer and autumn are the time of year when North American black bears are active, when the sun is abundant and food is abundant in the mountain forests, and bears will wander out of the dense mountain forests in search of tasty food. On the one hand, Maine is one of the few states in the United States that retains the hunting tradition, and on the other hand, for the sake of controlling the ecological environment, Maine will distribute some bear hunting indicators every year to control the number of black bears in the Carding Mountain, after all, these guys have no natural predators except humans.

Leon is also idle, last year with his own teaching assistant group here to travel to enhance the relationship, a season has passed, each of them has given Leon a great help, but also with Leon formed a deep friendship.

This trip to the Karting Mountains for a safari was initiated by the physical trainer Hess, and he covered the cost and equipment of the whole process, because Hess himself is a hunting enthusiast. After the group arrived at the hunting ground in Karting Mountain, they spent half a day learning about hunting, gun rules, hunting regulations, and safety matters.

In the afternoon, they hop in the hunting supervisor's jeep and head to the hunting grounds of the Karting Mountains for a two-day safari.

Along the way, looking at the green forests and knife-like rocky cliffs of Karting Mountain, the fatigue and pain accumulated from last season and offseason were all left behind, and everyone didn't talk about basketball, last season, or next season. The old guys are talking about life and the past, and the younger ones are talking about how to hunt bears and how to kill black bears with a single blow with the special bear-hunting bullets.

An hour's drive took them to the southwest corner of Baxter National Park, a bear hunting ground that is most frequented by black bears, and Leon even felt the smell of dangerous beasts as soon as he stepped out of the car.

"Maybe next offseason, I should let my players come here and feel the oppression and suffocation of the beast that hides in the middle of nowhere. Two old men are okay, right? Don't worry, I'll let the bear eat mine first. Leon joked as he spoke, but his hand clenched at the thought that he might encounter a bear here at any moment.

Although bears can be hunted, the hunting association still has strict regulations on the hunting range of bears, generally only hunting adults, solitary black bears, juvenile bears, or female bears with cubs, can not be hunted in the absence of danger.

So the group walked a few miles in the forest, and several times they encountered black bears, but they were not yet adult bears, or the baby bears followed the mother bear, and all they could do was to be careful to hide and prevent head-on conflicts with these bears.

The summer days are very long, until four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the sky is still bright, but the sun is slowly setting, and the group of people who have found nothing are a little discouraged, Leon touched the shotgun in his hand, wondering if he can pull the trigger today. He is not a lover of guns, but he can't even shoot a shotgun when he comes out, and he only shoots a few shots at the training ground, which is a pity.

At this time, the supervisor reminded everyone that in the evening, some adult male bears may come out to move, the weather was too hot before, and now it is the time of dawn and gradually cooler, and the male bears are about to start foraging.

The hot weather and the continuous two or three hours of walking, coupled with the high tension of the nerves, made the two old men Sigfried and Hart a little overwhelmed, although they were very good in health, but after all, they were both over the age of sixties, and the high-risk activity of hunting was still very tiring.

At this time, the group came to a lake, where the water was so clean and transparent, that everyone stopped to drink some water, and Dick Hart sat on a large rock by the lake, and he took off his shoes and soaked his feet in the water to cool himself. At this time, the supervisor reminded Hart not to take off his shoes, as it would be too late to run in case of danger.

Hart had to shake his feet and get ready to put on his shoes and socks.

At this time, the grass behind the boulder was instigated, there had been several times before, it was one or two hares or pheasants, Hart didn't care, only the overseer and Leon felt it, such a movement could not be a rabbit or a pheasant!

"Run!" The overseer yells at Hart as a large black bear appears behind Hart, an adult black bear that is extremely aggressive.

It was visibly stunned when it saw Hart, but immediately opened its fangs with huge canine teeth, lifted its forelimbs off the ground, and pounced on Hart.

"Phew!" The gun rang out, and a huge bear-hunting bullet passed through the black bear's chest, and the huge bear fell directly to the ground, and the blood leaked out, and some of it flowed into the lake, scattering into red blood flowers.

Hart was still sitting on the big rock, and he only felt the bullet flying by his side, which was the touch of death, but it was also God's rescue.

Time froze for a full ten seconds, but the overseer reacted, stepped forward to soothe Hart, and then went over to look at the black bear that had fallen to the ground, and after a few seconds he confirmed that the huge North American black bear had been killed by a single shot.

And the person who shot was none other than Fox Leon.

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In the evening, at the campsite they had visited before, and the group gathered around the campfire, and old Hart looked like he had come out of the afternoon fright, talking about his youth.

Hart served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a young man, but at the end of the Korean War, he was fortunate not to be sent to the Far East to face the bitter cold of Korea and the attacks of Chinese volunteers. After retiring, although his favorite thing was basketball, he also liked to read the history of World War II and the American Civil War, and he was still a soldier at heart.

But today's events undoubtedly gave Hart a great feeling.

"For the first time, I felt so close to death, and when I felt a huge black bear coming at me behind me, I felt like I was dead. When the Marine Corps was training on the beach, and there were real bullets flying over my head, I didn't feel how scared I was. This time...... I don't know if it's because the years are unforgiving, or if I haven't really been up close to death...... Fawkes, your gun is so fast. Hart smiled and said to Leon, his smile was full of admiration and gratitude, he didn't feel that the bullet grazed him Leon didn't care about his own life, on the contrary, he knew that this was the limit of what Leon could do, for a novice in firearms.

For Leon, he had encountered something even more confusing and unbelievable than this, and in retrospect, killing a bear in a critical moment was really nothing.

"I've always been quick, you all know." Leon just said lightly, and everything seemed to be taken for granted.

"No-Fox, you're the most gifted gunslinger I've ever seen, you didn't even aim, you just threw a shot by feeling, a god-like shot." Hess couldn't help but sigh, he was a veteran of playing with guns, but he felt that in that situation, let alone pulling the trigger and shooting, he couldn't even raise the gun, after all, Hart was sitting there.

Everyone was unanimously impressed with Leon's calmness and marksmanship, at which point Hart suddenly said: "Fox, I think next season, I can't continue to be the team's assistant coach, you need a new assistant, I'm too old." ”

Hart's words made everyone wonder that the league-renowned defensive coach suddenly wanted to retire after the Celtics got the best defensive materials. (To be continued.) )