Before Yu Xiaochun received a call from Tang Wen, his first love, who made him unforgettable, the original focus was actually on Yang Yiming and James Harden who were facing off.

According to James Harden, Yang Yiming has just been selected to start the 2018 Los Angeles All-Star Game, and he needs to use the one-on-one format to teach the team the most common form of play in the All-Star Game.

He even put up $300,000 as a bet.

Whether it was Yang Yiming's strength explosion, or a little luck to help him halfway, or the incentive of this huge bet played a role, anyway, he won this game that was estimated to be less than one tenth of the probability of winning before the game, and put 300,000 US dollars in his pocket.

All-star experience The Chinese teenager has saved some in advance, but the topic of all-stars is far from over...

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On January 24, Beijing time, the NBA Basketball League announced the list of substitutes for the 2018 Los Angeles All-Star Game.

The captain of the East is LeBron James, and the starting lineup is Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks, Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers, Kyrie Irving of the Boston Celtics and DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors. The list was announced, and the Eastern Conference All-Stars selected for the bench also included: Kevin Love, Porzingis, Kyle Lowry, John Wall, Bradley Beal, Al Horford, Victor Oladipo.

The captain of the West is Stephen Curry, in addition to the new generation of Internet darling Yang Yiming, who was lucky to squeeze into the starting lineup in the last round of fan voting, his Houston Rockets teammate James Harden, Anthony Davis of the New Orleans Pelicans and Kevin Durant of the Golden State Warriors. It won't be easy to squeeze into the bench in the competitive West, with Russell Westbrook, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Jimmy Butler, Towns, Damian Lillard, and DeMarcus Cousins. But would-be All-Stars like LaMarcus Aldridge and Paul George also unfortunately missed the last train to Los Angeles.

The biggest dark horse on the all-star list is, of course, our protagonist Yang Yiming. Although he was only a first-year rookie, he was selected to start in the West with his tough on-court performance, strong foundation of Chinese fans and clever social media canvassing.

And although this year's rookies are full of talent, and there have been five people (Yang Yiming, Jayson Tatum, Ben Simmons, Kyrie Kuzma, Lonzo Ball) hovering in the top 10 positions in the front and back courts of the East and West in the fan voting stage, but in the end, only Yang Yiming successfully broke through for the 17th session.

Want to ask Yang Yiming how he feels?

He was quite calm, after all, the canvassing two days before the closing of the fan voting channel was even more thrilling, and when the real list was released, according to Yiming's own words, it was the mentality of having come and being at ease.

Anyway, what I learned from the boss Harden, in the final analysis, the All-Star Game is just a big party for the stars to please the fans.

As a rookie who was drafted by the professional league only the day before the start of the game, he has the maturity to not lose to the senior players.

Until...

Until he suddenly received that call.

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It was half an hour after the Los Angeles All-Star Game roster was announced, on the night of January 23, US time.

The Rockets didn't play that day, and after the team's tactical training in the afternoon, Yang Yiming went to the gym to practice until late in the evening, and then had dinner before asking the driver, Jose Rodriguez, to drive him back to his residence.

The room he rented was a guest room in the depths of the mansion, and he didn't let José alarm the mansion's security system, and he got out of the car at the gate and walked back to his apartment. And it was at this time that his mobile phone, which he didn't have many contacts, suddenly rang.

The bell sounded an inexplicable sense of urgency on the empty manor lawn.

What about mobile phones?

Yang Yiming groped all over his pockets and found nothing. He listened carefully, and it turned out that when he went out from the gym to change clothes, he had left his phone in Nike's sports bag. He reached for it.

But the more he urged, the more Yang Yiming couldn't touch his mobile phone from the wet clothes in his sports bag, and he could only feel bursts of vibration. In the end, he couldn't find it, so he had to dump everything in his bag on the grass, only to see his phone lying on a pile of clothes, and the "swipe to answer" button flashed and flashed.

An incoming caller ID that cannot be displayed.

Who?

Yang Yiming stared at the screen for a long time before he opened his phone suspiciously:

"Hey, this is Yang Yiming, hello."

The other party did not speak, only the inaudible sound of a circuit being turned on.

"Hello? Who are you? Yang Yiming asked again.

"Are you Yang Yiming?" Although Yiming had already introduced himself when he picked up the phone, there was still a strange sentence on the other side.

"I am."

"Good. He's the one I'm looking for. Yang, one, Ming. "Not only is the Chinese word on the opposite side frustrated, but even the title of the person is very strange.

"Yes... I am him. ”

"Yang, one, Ming. I'm calling to congratulate you. Congratulations on your recent performance. This sentence was a little longer, but Yang Yiming still couldn't hear the other party's voice. More precisely, the other party's voice seems to have deliberately used some special treatment, just like the bad guys often seen in movies.

"Thank you." Yang Yiming tried his best to restrain the doubts in his heart, and still replied politely, "But I still don't know who you are." ”

"It doesn't matter who I am." The other side spoke a little faster this time, but there was still a strange voice changing effect, as if a robot was speaking, "The important thing is that I can get in touch with you, Mr. Yang Yiming." Dr. Yang, perhaps I should praise you for that. This nickname of yours is imposing, just like your pitch skills, just like the predecessors who have this name... Being selected as an NBA All-Star Starter in your first season is more difficult than I thought. ”

"Hmm... Thank you? Although the other party said so many flattering words, Yang Yiming always felt that he had other plans.

"Don't thank me. Being an All-Star is an honor you get, no matter how you get it. It's already seared on you like a seal. In the future, anyone who talks about you and evaluates your career will say, this is a player who can be selected as an All-Star in his rookie season, which is something that no one else can compare..."

Yang Yiming heard the faint smell of gunpowder in this passage, but he still couldn't guess the other party's intentions.

He simply sat down on the lawn. The tall palm trees around the lawn swayed in the evening breeze, and the trunks cast intertwined shadows on the grass. The wind seemed to blow from the open sky, blowing across the lake and the pool, and when it blew on him, it carried a hint of coolness. In the main building of the mansion in the distance, only one or two rooms in a huge building were dimly lit, but there were no people to be seen.

He sat quietly, waiting for the other end of the phone to speak.

Finally, the puppet-like voice of Chainsaw said, "So I want to congratulate you, I'm happy for you." I am glad that you have achieved so much that when anyone surpasses you, everyone will feel that the person who conquered the mountain is greater and more worthy of admiration. ”

"You don't know who I am. Most people don't know how to be grateful because everything is too easy to come by. But you won't, at least not from today onwards. ”

"Because I'm going to beat you – I'm going to be completely different from today. I will put my mark on the mountains. ”

Click, before Yang Yiming could ask, there was a sound of the circuit being cut off from the other end, and the phone stopped abruptly.

Imprint on the high mountains.

A hint of coolness climbed up Yang Yiming's back.