There are 16 teams competing in this World Championship, and among the teams that León least want to see them train, Angola is in first place, then Canada is second. It's not that the Canadian team is too poor, but because there is not a single player in the Canadian team that Leon wants to investigate, after all, the two countries are too close, and all the Canadian basketball talents play in the United States, with the same upbringing experience as the American rookies.

Leon is as familiar with these Canadian players as he is with the U.S. team, because they are almost all NBA fringe players, basically in the development league gangsters, and the only people who can really play in the NBA for this Canadian national team are Margloyle of the Hornets, Marco Loach, who has just been traded to the 76ers, and Steve Nash from the Mavericks.

"What to do? Changing places? Morey asked Leon that their original plan was to look at players from European teams, especially some Eastern European teams, and it would be very good for Celtics, who have not had any draft results this season, if they can make some gains in the European player market.

"No, since we're here, let's stay here, we have time." When Leon saw Nash, he suddenly decided not to leave.

Nash, the player Leon, has an impression, starting in the Suns, being picked up by the Mavericks and starting to shine, his physical fitness feels average, but he is very the court. When he was a scout, Leon gave Nash a scouting report, believing that Nash had outstanding talent on the offensive end, but at the same time had great limitations. As for the defensive end, as one scout gave him at the draft, he basically didn't meet the NBA average.

This also led to Leon's interest in Nash not very much, and if a point guard with good offense and defense and experience could not be brought in, then the Celtics would choose to develop Arenas. It was a consensus between Leon and Angie, who had planned to try to reach out to Billups, the Timberwolves' point guard. However, the offer made by Celtic obviously cannot directly sign the Tanhua, who once played for Celtic. The Celtics don't have any leverage in a sign-and-trade, and emotionally Billups isn't willing to return to Boston, a place that breaks his heart.

However, Leon received news before the start of the World Championships that Nash will not participate in this tournament because he plays too the court and Nash has multiple injuries. Mavericks owner Cuban also doesn't want the player, who was just promoted to an All-Star in the 01-02 season, to be too much of a drain on the national team, which will affect his performance in the NBA next season.

However, Nash was still on the field at the World Championships and before all of his teammates arrived at the training gym. The first one came to the entrance of the venue. He was wearing headphones and seemed to be jogging all the way, and he recognized Leon at a glance, although the two did not have any friendship, but Leon was an assistant coach for a season with the Celtics, but any NBA player with a normal brain can at least recognize the assistant coach of a team.

"Good morning, Celtics' assistant coach, Fox ...... Fox...... What's going on? Nash took off his headphones and walked up to Leon to say hello, but he couldn't remember Leon's name.

"Leon. Fox Leon, now the head coach of the Celtics, it's nice to meet you, Steve...... Steve...... What's going on? Leon pretended not to know Nash either. Stretch out your hand and shake Nash's hand.

"Nash! Steve Nash, you don't even know the name of the All-Star. Nash said with a smile that the 01-02 season Nash finally ushered in the explosion of his career and was successfully selected as an All-Star. This also allowed Nash to finally step into the ranks of stars.

"Don't you know the name of the All-Star assistant coach either?" Leon was addicted to being an All-Star assistant coach in the All-Star Game in the '02 season, but he was the coach of the East and didn't have the opportunity to sit on the same bench as Nash.

The two were joking like that. Entering the training hall together, it is clear that Leon has no intention of leaving, but wants to visit Nash's training, which is also an opportunity to get to know the opponent, as the assistant coach who used to be in charge of player training, Leon will not give up any opportunity to learn.

But when Nash changed his clothes and came to the court, he didn't have a basketball in his hand, but he didn't know where to take out a pair of table tennis rackets, and he still held a small table tennis ball in his hand, and then said to Leon, Morey, and Cormier: "How about playing table tennis?" It's still early for the team to train, so I need to warm up a little bit and have fun. As he spoke, he threw a racket into Leon's hand.

Morey, who had always seemed to be in a low mood before, suddenly came to his senses, approached Leon, and said with a light in his eyes: "Let me try, let me try!" I'm a table tennis fan! ”

It turns out that although Morey is engaged in basketball and is very tall, he is a complete rookie on the basketball court and has never been selected for any level of basketball team. However, he has a unique talent in table tennis, although it is an unpopular sport in the United States, but in addition to basketball, Morey's favorite is table tennis, in high school and college, his table tennis level is invincible in the whole school - although there are few people in the whole school who can play table tennis.

Unexpectedly, Nash also likes to play table tennis, which made Morey's hand itch all of a sudden, and he almost snatched the racket from Leon's hand, and then ran to the second floor stand with Nash and started a battle on the table tennis table. Only Leon and Cormier were left staring at each other.

Nash is 6-foot-3 tall, while Morey is about 6-foot-4, and the two are not much different, both of them are long-handed guys. It's just that Nash is on the thin side, and Morey is already holding a big belly and a slap in the face. But the advantage of table tennis is that the fat man can be invincible, Morey is worthy of being an American table tennis master who has played invincible opponents all over the school, and after a few rounds, he used smashes to score points in a row, and the fat man was so unhappy that he beat the all-star players all over the ground looking for the ball.

However, Nash quickly became familiar with Morey's routine, and after a bit of serious thought, he decided to shoot the ball mainly at Morey's backhand. Now Morey lost the prestige just now, his backhand would only push and block instead of smashing, Nash's ball was getting faster and faster, Morey made several mistakes in a row, and the two sides quickly tied it.

Leon and Cormier also stood on the sidelines to watch the game, and Cormier was watching the excitement. Leon saw that after Nash changed his strategy, his shot landed extremely accurately, saying that it was a backhand or a backhand, no matter what kind of ball Morey hit. His strength and direction are very good, but his hitting skills are very mediocre, basically at the level of the second grade of Chinese primary school, while Morey is basically at the level of the fourth grade except for smashing.

For a while, the two of them were killed in a dark place, and Morey soon ran out of breath. And Nash is not hot yet, he has become more and more familiar with Morey's three-plate axe, and broke Morey's three-plate axe, as long as he doesn't make a mistake, then just wait for Morey to make a mistake.

"I think I need a little rest, so you might as well play for a while, Fox. Come to Fox, do you play table tennis? Remember this is the racket, which is used to hit that little ball. It's not for hitting. Morey threw the racket back to Leon and said jokingly.

Morey knew that Leon used to practice boxing, and he was good at fighting, but boxing and table tennis were 108,000 miles apart. Morey also wondered how many rounds Leon would be able to survive in front of Nash.

Leon picked up the racket, he tried to hold it straight, but after thinking about it, he changed it to a horizontal grip, and then picked up the ball from the table. Ready to serve, but after thinking about it again, he threw the ball to Nash and let Nash serve first.

Nash shook his head. Thinking that Leon would not be able to serve, after receiving the ball, he bounced it on the table decently, and then sent a light high ball, as if he was afraid that Leon would not be able to catch it.

Then Nash saw a white object bounce back to his tabletop and fly away with a "snap", and he didn't even have time to react.

Leon scored his first point with a powerful smash.

“1：0！” Leon said to Nash with a finger, then pointed behind him and motioned for him to pick up the ball.

“Shit!” Nash cursed, he knew that he had met a pig and a tiger, and it seemed that his ball skills would not be worse than Morey's. After picking up the ball, Nash thought about it and decided to repeat the old trick and hit Leon's backhand, maybe he, like Morey, is a guy who can't do it with a backhand.

So, Nash sent a diagonal ball in the direction of Leon's backhand, and then adjusted his pace to wait for Leon's return. I saw Leon take a stride in the direction of the backhand, and then slashed the flying ping pong ball with a backhand, the ball flew slowly over the net, Nash was ready, saw the flying ball, predicted the landing point of the ball, adjusted the time difference, and swung the racket to hit the ball back to Leon's backhand direction.

As a result, Nash hit the air! The racket didn't touch the ball at all!

“2：0！ It seems that you are right to serve, at least you can touch the ball. Leon held out two fingers to Nash. At this time, Morey on the side was going crazy, he didn't expect Leon to be a master of table tennis, so he could only make an incredible expression.

Nash was clearly unconvinced, and he threw the ball back to Leon to let him serve. Leon didn't do much preparation after receiving the ball, just a simple low flat serve, the ball was fast, the spin was strong, and after passing the net, it flew straight towards Nash. Nash spotted the ball and struck it with a bang, and it flew into the sky with a "pop", and when he fell, it was already three seconds later.

Leon shook his head and put the racket back on the table, not only did he feel in his heart that the level of table tennis of the American people was really worrying about him, but he just added a little spin to the ball, so that Nash had no ability to resist.

Of course, Nash and Morey don't know that although Leon's body is an American, his soul comes from the table tennis kingdom of China, and in Leon's memories of remembering, there are memories of his childhood love to play table tennis, from elementary school to high school, table tennis, a sport that does not require high physical fitness, is Leon's favorite sport. After playing table tennis for many years, although he is still a scum in the eyes of slightly more professional people, he is enough to walk sideways in front of more scum Americans.

"I'm the godfather of table tennis in Boston, and if you want to learn table tennis, welcome to Boston." Leon was talking nonsense to Nash in a serious manner. But it seems that Nash didn't take this sentence purely as a joke, but nodded and said that he would learn ping pong skills from Leon.

"My warm-up is over, if you are interested, you can watch my basketball practice, I promise it will not be as ugly as table tennis." After warming up with table tennis, Nash finally had to start his training.

I have to admit that one person's achievements are directly proportional to his efforts, as the best player in the Canadian team, everyone else is still sleeping in the hotel, but Nash is the first to come to the training gym to start training. Leon knows that this is a very hard worker, and maybe he will achieve even more in the future, even if he is 28 years old this year.

"Will it be higher?" Leon couldn't help but frown. (To be continued.) )