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"What happened to the sawtooth hair, he must have succeeded in starting a business in Beijing, right? Now their band is famous and has released an album? After Stephen Marbury finished telling the story of his night in Beijing, Yu Xiaochun was more concerned about the supporting role of the story.

"Lao Ma told us such a story about chicken soup, and the result must be that the band is also popular, so you don't need to ask." Yang Yiming retorted to him, and then turned to Marbury: "Isn't that the case, political commissar?" ”

Marbury smiled implicitly, and he turned around after drinking the first beer of the night.

Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun thought that Marbury was going to add wine again, but they didn't expect him to turn around and wave vigorously in the direction of the stage. The lead singer of the band on the stage saw Marbury and also sang while gesturing excitedly in response.

Marbury turned his body back and said to Yang Yiming and the two, "Did you see the guy who said hello?" That's serrated hair. ”

"Him?!" The two said in unison.

The lead singer on the stage, who is what Marbury calls "sawtooth hair", is now a middle-aged uncle who has shaved off his colorful and non-mainstream hairstyle, leaving a board inch, and still unable to hide the receding hairline. He wears a black leather jacket with a white T-shirt under the leather jacket and a round beer belly. He wore shorts and martin boots underneath, as if he wanted to regain some of his youthful years that had passed.

Marbury saw the stunned expressions of Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun, and laughed proudly: "That's right, that one is the sawtooth hair." ”

"There's no rock 'n' roll youth at all."

Yang Yiming commented. The serrated hair on the stage puts the microphone in his mouth and sings an internet pop comedy called "Cool", perhaps suggesting that the restaurant's business hours are coming to an end.

"That's when God turns." Marbury triumphant.

"So it's still a bowl of poisonous chicken soup?"

"If it's poisonous chicken soup, what else do you want to tell us? Is it to warn us not to start a business in Beijing? ”

Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun were completely confused.

"Of course the chicken soup is not poisonous." Marbury said solemnly, "Never be bound by your past. Beijing is certainly a good place, and I'm glad I trusted my impulsive instinct that night and came here, and it was my chicken soup... But I just want to tell you this story here to explain to you a truth about entrepreneurship. ”

"What's the truth?" Yu Xiaochun asked vigilantly.

"Just never trust yourself too much. You can't start a business, you have to seek all the help you can seek. ”

Yu Xiaochun nodded after listening. Political Commissar Ma is right, isn't this exactly what they are practicing in the United States? Names and images of different people flashed through his mind, Nina, Caronsky II, Scott Jr., Carl Malone, Trevor Ariza who left the Rockets, James Harden who remained with the Rockets, and even Meritis and the driver Jose. To varying degrees, these people have all helped Yang Yiming in the first year to help him take off in the basketball world in the United States...

"So how can you help us?" Yang Yiming's words interrupted Yu Xiaochun's train of thought. That's right, sure enough, this guy has a bright brain, and his judgment is extremely accurate.

Dr. Yang got to the point. I really have a recommendation. ”

"Really? What is the recommendation, Commissar Ma, you can tell me about it and listen to it. ”

"He's my trainer in the U.S., and I come back to practice with him every summer at the end of the CBA season. You can look for him when you get back..."Marbury pushed his phone over and there was an electronic business card with a QR code to scann.

"But..."

"It doesn't matter. He just wants to train the next champion, even though you're already an NBA champion, Yiming. ”

"But..."

Although Yang Yiming didn't say "but" twice, the political commissar Ma, who had lived in Chinese favors for a long time, still understood Yang Yiming at once, and actually wanted to ask why he recommended his trainer to him for no reason: "It's okay." I will stay in China, and when you return to China one day, we will have the opportunity to work together again. Now you should go to the United States and build your basketball career! ”

It's better to be respectful than to obey!

Yang Yiming clasped his palms. Commissar Ma gave a return gift!

2/

Japan across the sea.

Kyoto.

In the basketball training hall of Kyoto University.

During the hot summer months in the Northern Hemisphere, there are not many people on campus during the holidays. Compared to the summer campuses in Europe and the United States, where a small number of students take summer credits, the pace is slow, and many people can spend the day drinking coffee or basking in the sun on the lawn, Kyoto University is completely idle, and most of the people who walk around are tourists.

The sound of basketball in the training hall continued.

Ben Simmons.

Andrew Bogut, a fellow Australian draft pick, was yelling at him and directing him to catch the ball from different shooting spots.

The hit rate is still a little out of hand.

Simmons missed another shot. The next ball, simply from the shooting point on the left side, flew directly over the hoop, and shot a hollow outside the basket.

"Take a break. Ten minutes. Bogut flung over a towel and a bottle of Pocari's energy drink.

The two Australians exchanged a set of glances.

"It's okay, the feel will come." It's the third day of this boring and unproductive shooting drill.

"Otherwise, take me to practice your basket skills. We can also do 1v1 bullfighting. ”

"Hahahaha." Like a savage in a game, Bogut laughed heartily, "You don't need to practice your basket skills to beat me." ”

"Then teach me how to walk under the basket, I want to learn that."

"That's not what we're going to do in this training."

Ben Simmons stopped talking. He put a towel over his head and poured half a bottle of drink.

Japanese special training was indeed his idea. Japan is not far from Australia, the "lonely continent" of the South Pacific, and model girlfriend Kendou Jenner happens to have a few fashion shows to go in Japan; LeBron James, who just joined the Lakers, and his agency are also doing Nike's Asian tour in Japan, and Kyoto University has a world-class sports recovery and injury treatment major...

The point is that Japan is strange and mysterious. It's full of Zen, and maybe it will help you find the feel.

But it seems that on the third day of Kyoto, I still don't know where to go in this Zen city, and I can't find the way.

Zen.

What is the shooting touch, after all?

Ben Simmons looked at his palm, feeling clueless. Shooting is much more difficult than passing and dunking. And the more you throw, the lower the hit rate and the more outrageous the ball you throw.

He grabbed the basketball, walked to the free throw line, and performed the familiar essentials:

Wrist stability.

The shooter is aimed at the basket.

The support hand is locked.

Relax your body and squat slightly, pushing your torso from the bottom to the top of your knees.

Shake your wrist out and keep following the action.

The arc of the basketball was soft, but the direction was a little off, and it hit the right edge of the hoop and bounced out.

Alas. Simmons was like a deflated ball, and the whole person collapsed.

"The wrist is not relaxed enough." The voices of both men rang out behind Simmons at the same time. One is Bogut, and who is the other?

Simmons turned.

A familiar, burly black figure as Bogut pushed open the door of the arena and entered.