All-Star Weekend in the City of Angels is over.

The Rockets' first home game after that is scheduled for Friday, February 23, local time in the United States, and Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun can rest for a week before returning to Hughes to report.

Their vacation goal was to visit the city of New Orleans.

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Former French Concession, Gumbo Crayfish, Chinatown, American South Barbecue.

Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun went around New Orleans for a few days, probably except for the "New Orleans Roast Wings" that they didn't taste, they tried everything else.

New Orleans is indeed a magical and interesting city, and even after Hurricane Katrina, the whole city is still alive and well. The food and the innate optimism seem to soothe any form of pain.

I just don't know how the patient they are going to visit in New Orleans is in a mood at this time.

No. 0 for the Pelicans.

DeMarcus Cousins.

Cousins, who struggled with Yang Yiming for rebounds and lost his center of gravity, and finally ripped his left Achilles tendon.

In the last round of voting before the All-Star break, Cousins was squeezed out of the starting lineup in the West by Yang Yiming.

Cousins, who no one in the entire league can afford to mess with.

It's no wonder that Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun want to press Cousins' visit to the last day of the entire holiday. But the one who should come always can't escape, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, and they still need to go to the tiger mountains.

DeMarcus Cousins.

Here we go!

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"Yang! Poplar! ”

Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun had just registered the names of visitors through the front desk of the rehabilitation center where Cousins was staying, and before they could take a few steps to the rest area, they saw Cousins himself sitting in an oversized wheelchair, two thick arms like buffalo thighs rolling on the two wheels of the wheelchair, greeting them loudly while greeting them outside. His voice was like a bell, and if it weren't for the plaster cast bandage on his left foot, and the signs of injury could be seen by leaning on the support frame of the wheelchair, otherwise he would really be no different from an ordinary person. Cousins shouted Yang Yiming's surname twice in a row, and the entire corridor of the rehabilitation center seemed to tremble.

"Mr. Cousins."

"The Boogie Man!"

Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun greeted together. Although Cousins is still in a wheelchair, in Yu Xiaochun's opinion, the other party is still as majestic as Mount Tai and a boulder, he didn't dare to make a mistake, and obediently greeted the other party, only Yang Yiming shouted Cousins's nickname, which is probably the advantage of being quite large.

Cousins' handshake was as strong as it was about to crush all the bones of his hand.

Yu Xiaochun hurriedly shook his hand, trying to restore his palm to its original position, while secretly scolding his mother in his heart, why is this guy injured and his strength is still so big.

Cousins seemed to see his thoughts, and laughed: "This is an authentic American-style handshake, strong and powerful, don't think that I will let you go if my foot hurts my hand." ”

"What happened to your foot injury? The surgery is said to have been a success? Yang Yiming and Cousins' handshake looked like a wrist wrench, and the two did not distinguish between the winners and losers, and after letting go, Yang Yiming took the opportunity to inquire about the injury.

"It's said to be a success, but who knows..."Cousins was the least concerned of the three, and he slightly raised his left leg wrapped in plaster cast, and the two of them saw that his ankle was still fixed with steel nails, like a disabled person with a bulky prosthesis. Cousins shook his head and said, "Those guys are always trying to give you some good news, and they can't tell you, 'DeMarcus, the surgery is messed up, your athletic career is over, you might as well have a way out — hopefully you haven't spent all the money you've earned.'" They won't say that, and as for the real result, we can only wait for two or three months to see! ”

Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun looked at each other, not knowing how to answer Cousins.

"Will you be able to resume training in two or three months?" Yu Xiaochun reluctantly squeezed out a reply.

"Not really! In two or three months, I'm going to tear this damn thing down, and if those tendons and skins aren't crooked, then I guess I'll be able to try to take two steps down the ground! ”

"DeMarcus, I'm really sorry, you know at the time..." Although I have long known that Cousins will go through a long recovery period from this injury, but listening to him say it in person always feels more and more unbearable, Yang Yiming remembered the scene of fighting for rebounds with him at that time, and was immediately full of apologies.

"Don't talk nonsense about mother-in-law!" Cousins interrupted him, "It's not you, it's someone else." Those guys don't come out of their way to come and see me - didn't you say you brought me something delicious on the phone, bring it to me and try it! ”

Cousins turned the wheelchair around and pushed toward the rehab center's common lounge area. Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun saw this posture and hurriedly followed.

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"I'll go, your Chinese ravioli is so delicious!"

"Dumplings, this one is called jiaozi, dumpling is also fine. La Violina in Italian..."

"Uh-huh, it doesn't matter what it is, that's what it is." As he spoke, Cousins shoved three more dumplings into his mouth and munched on them. At first, Cousins was careful to eat with chopsticks, but at this time he didn't have that patience at all, so Yang Yiming specially borrowed a pair of forks for him to eat.

"So you usually eat this?" Cousins pointed with a fork to the last box of packed dumplings in the plastic bag that Yu Koharu had brought, his eyes lit up.

"Yes, but every Chinese New Year will eat more, and every family will do it. It's actually still in the Chinese New Year..."

"Uh-huh, I know, Year of the Dog!" Cousins snatched Yu Xiaochun's words, and said whimsically: "I just like dogs." Bulldogs, hunting dogs, nobodies (the weaker side is also called a dog in English), just like myself. No one else thinks highly of me, but I just want to prove it to them. This is the spirit of the 'dog'. ”

"So people say you're too badly injured, but I think you'll get better." Yang Yiming took the opportunity to comfort him.

"That's right, that's right, if I have more 'dumplings' to eat every day, I guess it will get better faster!" But Cousins was now completely deprived of attention, and he only replied to Yang Yiming perfunctorily, and then turned the subject back to the last box of dumplings: "Hurry up and open that box for me to taste." I just ate the one with ground beef and shrimp, what is the flavor of this? …”

"Pork and..."Yang Yiming didn't know what to say in English.

"Pork and a vegetable." Yu Xiaochun hurriedly rounded him up.

"Pork and a vegetable." Cousins laughed and said, "I just like you like this, a vegetable, anyway, whatever it is, it's delicious!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes."

"I can also give you the phone number of the dumpling seller in Chinatown and ask them to explain it to you the next time they deliver food to you."

"Yes, by the way, let them send you two heads of laba garlic..."Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun sang and harmonized.

"Laba garlic? What's that? Cousins, gobbling it up, didn't even lift his head.

"Green garlic, how about it, are you afraid."

"Afraid? I'm a boogie man, I've been afraid of something, hahahaha. ”

Cousins, who was well-fed, clutched his stomach and fell into his wheelchair in satisfaction, burping so loudly that the patients throughout the rest area looked back at him. But when he caught everyone's attention, he smiled even more like a child.