055 Narrow road encounter
But instead of Yang Yiming chasing him out of the bathroom to confront each other, he and Blake Griffin met on a flight from Los Angeles to Shenzhen, China.
The 15 members of the U.S. Men's Basketball Dream Team who went to the Sino-US men's basketball match this time chartered the entire first class of the flight in one go. Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun chose a slightly more spacious business class than economy class, and when it was their turn to board the plane and walk through the aisle to their seats, all the members of the American team had already sat down in first class.
Kyle Lowry, Victor Oladipo. Yang Yiming heard them talking in the bathroom and knew that they were in the lineup for this competition. The two of them were still huddled together on the plane, sitting at the front of the first class cabin, and Yang Yiming was the first to greet them as soon as he got on the plane.
"Yiming! It's a coincidence, it turns out that you are also on this flight, and it looks like you are also flying back to Shenzhen, so you want to have a couple of tricks with us. Is there a better guy in the Chinese team than you? I guess not. Not bad, you sit in the back of the business class? No problem, it's not far away, come and play later-"
Lowry's nagging personality hasn't changed at all, and Oladipo with him is much more succinct: "A hit." How about it, see you in Shenzhen. β
Sitting behind them are two strikers, Tobias Harris and Kevin Love. Harris himself didn't like to talk, so he only glanced back at Yang Yiming. Love is very friendly, although the Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Houston Rockets in the finals last season, they still hugged Yang Yiming very graciously and exchanged a few words.
The next four are all from the East, Andre Drummond, Myles Turner, Kemba Walker, Bradley Beal. Yang Yiming has played against them all in the season, but they are not too familiar. Zhuang Shen fell asleep as soon as he got on the plane, Turner, who had dreadlocks and bright yellow headphones, was concentrating on reading comic books, and Walker and Bill had a chance to compete with Yang Yiming during All-Star Weekend, so they were more enthusiastic, and they were very hospitable to find a place for Yang Yiming in the first-class cabin and sit down with them. But after looking around, I really found that there were no empty seats for upgrades, so I had to give up.
The two behind the four East giants were obviously not so friendly, and CJ McCollum and Jimmy Butler basically didn't give much of a good look when they saw that it was Yang Yiming coming. McCollum's face darkened, and Butler's already swarthy face became even darker. The former Portland Trail Blazers not only lost to the Rockets many times this season, but also repeatedly lost to Yang Yiming in one-on-one confrontations, and although the latter's individual performance turned the tide in the playoffs, the team still lost to the Rockets and was eliminated in the first round.
This was followed by Mike Conley and Devin Booker. The two of them, one old and one young, although they are both stars that their respective teams rely on, but the bottom record is there, which may have weakened their confidence a little, and they both greeted Yang Yiming warmly and politely.
The last three seats in first class belong to Isaiah Thomas, Klay Thompson and Blake Griffin. Thomas and Thompson are both talkative people, and when they saw Yang Yiming on the plane, they stood up and waited with a smile, ready to give him a hug and high-five. But when Yang Yiming walked through the group and walked in front of them, he found that the person standing in the row of seats behind them, with a serious look and no head, was Blake Griffin, the same Griffin who vowed to dunk on top of his head in the bathroom. Naturally, Griffin, who fought him at Staples last season...
"Dr. Yang. Looks like you're going to lead our opponentsβ" Thomas Jr. is the smallest, like a passerby in a group of giant basketball players, but he still likes to wear an oversized baseball warm-up uniform like a cloth bag, with his entire upper body and half of his legs in it, and he also wears a baseball cap with a large pendant necklace - Thomas Jr. probably thought that since he couldn't stand out as a basketball player, he might as well pretend to be a rap star.
"All I care about is whether Yiming has received the video I sent. How about it, have you made up your mind to join the Anta camp, hahaha. Clay Thompson naturally refers to the Thompson 'handwritten' video attached to Yang Yiming when he received a truckload of Anta sneakers, but he didn't expect that after such a long time, the first thing he said when he met was the content of "persuasion to return".
"Clay, you said you should be a spokesperson and be so dutiful. Dr. Yang, do you know, not only did he win you over, but since he got on the plane, he has been pulling me to talk about this and that, and let me join them. Thomas Jr. elbowed Thompson and pretended to be dissatisfied, "Tell me seriously how much endorsement money they gave you to sell so hard." β
"Trade Secrets."
"Huh. Trade secrets..."Little Thomas turned his head disdainfully and said, "Sure enough, cunning, you shooters are like this." β
"What's wrong with our shooters, hahaha." Thompson didn't seem to take Thomas Jr.'s accusations to heart at all, and said, "Anta's shoes are just easy to wear." How about a couple of pairs, Isaiah? β
"No, no, no." Little Thomas waved his hand, "Dr. Yang, let's ignore him." Let's talk about how you're going to lose to us, hahaha..."
Yang Yiming listened to little Thomas and Clay tease poverty, and he couldn't interject, so he followed along. But although his attention was focused on the two people who were talking, his eyes still glanced at Griffin, who was sitting in the back row, from time to time. I saw Griffin put his feet on the empty seat next to him, and crossed his body to occupy the two seats. He was holding a sports magazine, but it seemed to be casually flipping from head to tail and back again. Griffin turned the pages faster and faster, as if his patience felt shorter and shorter...
"Don't think you're going to win against them, Isaiah. Based on my experience in China, some Chinese players are very good! β
"Can you be better than our Dr. Yang?" Thomas Jr. asked unconvinced.
"Don't be unconvinced, be careful to give you a big hat when you break through!"
"Just them? Dr. Yang is coming to defend me, and I'm going to surprise him with three or five. Isn't it, do you want to try it in Shenzhen-" Thomas Jr. took out his fist and pounded Yang Yiming's chest.
"You don't need the doctor to call him so kindly." Griffin, who had only heard the patience of the back row exhausted, finally broke out, and he coldly threw out the words: "Back in the national team, it is still unknown whether he can play the starter." β
"Huh?" The three of them turned to Griffin in unison.
I only saw Griffin raise his throw, looked at Yang Yiming from the corner of his eye, and said provocatively: "In the national team, you can't lie down and win." When you really hit the main force, our first-class people will be waiting for you on the field! β
Waiting to clean you up!
Griffin didn't say the word "clean up", but Yang Yiming and the people present, who could not understand it!
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