This strange story starts with the second half of the game between the Rockets and NASA.

In the first half, the Rockets, a team of professional players, led all the way and played smoothly, taking a 30-point advantage without much effort. Even coach D'Antoni had the opportunity to play a role in the game, making cameo appearances as players, and having an addiction to "exhibition games".

At halftime, the Rockets teammates had a good conversation, and they didn't pay attention to the remaining 20 minutes of the game. Some staff of the space agency asked the Rocket team to sign autographs and take photos, and everyone was satisfied one by one, and while cooperating, they inquired about the interesting places in Johnson's Air Base, thinking that after the game was over, they could selfishly suggest that the tour guide adapt the itinerary and mix their respective points of interest.

All in all, a happy family scene. No one thought that such an entertaining game would cause any more waves.

Until...

1/

Yang Yiming had just finished signing an Indian scientist in the space agency and had a few conversations. The latter praised Yang Yiming's skills, but pulled out a photo of the Indian cricket team and asked him to sign it - according to him, the brilliance of Indian sports talent should not have been lost to China, but cricket is a small sport in the United States, so they did not shine on the American continent. Yang Yiming didn't defend either, but he looked forward to it alone, nodding politely while cooperating. The fifteen-minute break in the timer on the field was about to end, and he shook his arms and legs to warm up first.

NASA players have already returned to the basketball court one step ahead of schedule and started shooting practice. Looking over their bench, only their team's head coach was left, just as Coach Mike D'Antoni was chatting amicably.

"It's time for us to get on the pitch too." Chris Paul, who is also the captain of the trip, greeted everyone.

"Come on, boys, let me take a few more great pictures in the second half." Amy, a reporter for Rocket social media, also cheered everyone on.

"Rocket refueling!" The Indian-American scientist who had just taken a photo with Yang Yiming shouted.

"NASA wins!" The cheers of his defection were immediately drowned out by the voices of his colleagues in the stands behind him, but it was obviously a joke, after all, no one really expected the space agency team to defeat a bunch of professional players.

"Coach, are you still playing?" Anderson called out to D'Antoni, who was still chatting in the distance.

"If you play, you have to move more in advance." Bamot also joked at him.

Who knew that D'Antoni, who was shouted twice in a row, still didn't respond, just leaned out half of his body, didn't turn his head back, and waved his hand to indicate that he would wait. Seeing him sideways, Yang Yiming saw that there was a person standing behind D'Antoni and the space agency coach, who was short in stature, about 1.65 meters, and was blocked by the tall two, and he hadn't noticed it just now. Yang Yiming also noticed that the originally closed door of the arena behind them was now open, and there was no one to be seen outside the door, but there seemed to be a black figure covering the entrance.

Airplanes. The timer reminded that there were only 60 seconds left in the half-time break, and even the opposing players noticed the strange scene and stopped practicing to watch. Yang Yiming still couldn't see the face of the short man, only saw D'Antoni and the opponent's coach getting closer and closer, and the frequency of words also accelerated a lot, after a fierce conversation, the two sides seemed to finally reach an agreement, the dwarf turned around and walked to the open stadium door, and said hello to the dark shadow outside.

Well. There seemed to be a low response from outside the hall, but it could also be Yang Yiming's hallucination, but the black shadow did get closer and closer, and finally completely engulfed the dwarf who greeted him.

2/

"When that dark shadow appeared, we were all startled." Yang Yiming had a chance to talk about this incident the next day, and he met Kuzma who came to Nina for hypnotherapy in the mansion, just in time for Yu Xiaochun to go out, and the two chatted alone about his simple English for a while.

"Why was it shocked? Is the dark shadow scary?" It seems that Nina's treatment is working well, Kuzma is doing planks on the living room floor of the room at the moment, and the posture of a line has been fixed for more than ten minutes without showing fatigue, while chatting with Yang Yiming back.

"No, he's very... Normal. But he's taller than everybody, you know, even half a head taller than me! Yang Yiming said as he gestured with his palm on the top of his head.

"Taller than you? It got to be seven feet, right?"

"Maybe it's more than that, anyway, the Rockets may not be as tall as him on the team now." Yang Yiming thought for a while, and added, "It should be about the same height as the injured center on your team, what's his name?"

"Brooke Lopez? He's as tall as Lopez, that's a giant! ”

"Yes, I don't look much like Lopez, a bit like an Eastern European, and my face is a bit fierce."

"So he's here to play, too?"

"Yes, it's said that he also belongs to NASA, but I don't know why I didn't agree to let him play in the first place, as if Coach D'Antoni and their coach were discussing this as well."

"NASA's? That shouldn't be very powerful, after all, it's not a professional player. Kuzma finished the twenty-minute plank and began to let Yang Yiming hold his feet down and practice sit-ups.

"That's another oddity..."

"Oh, how do you say? He... It's amazing... Is it? "Every time Kuzma does a sit-up, a word pops up.

"He can't play basketball, he can't play at all, he can't shoot, he can't dribble, let alone understand tactics. But..."

"But?"

"But his physical fitness is the most powerful I've ever seen, it's incredible..."Yang Yiming seemed to be immersed in this memory, sitting on the floor with his ass and his hand loosening Kuzma's feet.

"Incredible? It's so powerful. ”

"Yes, he's a lot like the guy I've fought against, even better than that guy. Antetokounmpo, you've seen it. ”

"Yes, we played a game in November — this big guy is as good as Antetokounmpo?" Hearing this, Kuzma stopped exercising, and a carp sat up.

"Well, physically..."Yang Yiming couldn't help nodding, "It should be said that he is a collection of terrifying physical qualities." Antetokounmpo, LeBron James, the Warriors' Green... There's height, there's tonnage, it's dexterous, it's impactful, it's bounce amazingly, and that dark shadow is a monster! ”

"A combination of the seven-foot LeBron and Antetokounmpo? That's terrifying! ”

"Hmm... I just remember a ball, and the NASA team shot, and he grabbed the rebound under the basket. The ball hit the back edge of the basket, and Capela Anderson and I had already judged the landing point of the ball in advance and separated him from him, but I didn't expect him to force a jump, his hand was almost flush with the top edge of the rebound, and the rebound ball was grabbed directly with one hand above our encirclement, and then he didn't dribble, and immediately jumped again, hung the basket with his upper body obliquely, and dunked to score! ”

"It can't be!"

"Really! You have to know that when he dunked, there were two people on him, me and Capela, and we didn't hold him down! ”

"Oh my God..."

"Yes, that's the kind of person you are..."

"It's a good thing he didn't make it to the league, even if he just knows how to play a little bit of basketball..."

"Well, it's good he didn't..."

Incomprehension, amazement, fear.

I don't know if I was really glad that I didn't need to face such a strange thing in the NBA, the eyes of the two young people turned into empty thoughts, and after these words, they fell into a long silence.