Nina doesn't usually wake up early, and her work as a hypnotherapist often involves working at night, so it's not uncommon to sleep until three o'clock in the morning.

The two roommates at home, Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun, usually get up earlier than the other. Even on weekends, the two of them will respect her routine and wait for her to get up before starting to work.

But today...

Movement outside the house woke Nina. The tiredness of her body reminded her that she was far from getting enough sleep, and she fumbled for the number alarm clock at the bedside: 08:45, and as expected. She shook off the alarm clock and stuffed her head under the pillow, trying to fall back asleep. But the noise outside the door actually got louder and louder, from the crack in the door to the inside of the quilt, and finally forced her to give up the struggle, put on her pajamas, and went straight out to the living room to see what was going on.

1/

I saw that Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun were already sitting on the sofa in the living room, and when they got up early, one of them didn't go for a morning run, and the other didn't check the email and brush the basketball news, but they were all meditating cross-legged on the sofa, staring at an Apple computer, and she didn't attract their attention when she walked out of the room.

The source of the cacophony was the Apple laptop on the coffee table.

"Hey, what are you two looking at so early?"

Nina, who hadn't slept enough, shouted weakly, but it didn't attract the attention of the two roommates at all.

What the hell are you looking at, the two of them are behaving strangely today. Nina saw that she really couldn't tell the two of them, so she had to get to the computer herself. I saw that the computer was broadcasting the post-game pomp and circumstance of a basketball game, and almost all of the pictures were yellow-skinned like Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun, probably in China. A host in a black suit introduced the camera as the camera swept across the court. Most of the fans in the stands saw yellow jerseys, and there were some sky blue jerseys scattered around.

"What kind of event is this, so lively."

Nina, who was hiding behind the sofa, asked a second question, startling the two of them.

"Nina, you're scared me to death." Yu Xiaochun turned his head to complain, and immediately turned his gaze back to the computer screen.

"A basketball player retires, in China." Yang Yiming kindly responded.

"Oh? Is the Chinese, is he famous? Anyway, she couldn't sleep, so Nina squeezed a seat between the two of them and simply sat down.

"Famous in China, but not Chinese."

"Oh? Alien? American? ”

"Speaking of which, you're half a fellow."

"My former teammates..."Yu Xiaochun and Yang Yiming took turns to answer, but no one said who it was, probably guessing that Nina wouldn't know each other.

"Who the hell is that?" They all came to sell me a cigarette - Nina, who had not yet gotten out of breath, was about to shout.

"Don't worry, don't worry, don't you see this coming out."

A tsunami erupted on the screen, and a man with a bald head, neck and arms tattoos appeared wearing a yellow No. 3 jersey with the letters BEIJING written on his chest.

Stephen Marbury's retirement ceremony in Beijing began.

2/

"So you both know him, Stephon Marbury?"

Marbury's retirement ceremony on screen came to an end, and he was surrounded by a group of young players, took off his jersey, and was thrown into the air by the crowd on his shoulder.

The two people beside Nina looked solemn, as if they were full of worries, so she asked.

"Of course I know, almost everyone in China knows him."

"I mean, do you two know Marbury in private?"

"Yiming knows, his former teammate..."

"That's right," Yang Yiming still couldn't take his eyes off the bald man on the screen, and cleared his throat before saying, "Yes, I was going to play on the team Marbury is on now in the summer." A team that has just moved to Beijing, and it has been in Beijing for a much shorter time than Marbury. He likes Beijing and wants to make the playoffs, but the original team wants to rebuild, so he can't stay, so he comes to our team. I'm ashamed to say it, but I wonder if if I stayed there and didn't play in the NBA would help him fulfill his wish for his last season and make the playoffs... But the weeks of training with Marbury were really beneficial. He kept encouraging me that I had a chance to get into the NBA in the future, and that I had to stay aggressive, which I was skeptical at the time. He told me a lot about the NBA, his time with the Timberwolves, his travels between the Suns and the Knicks, the people he worked with, the pace of training and games in the NBA, how he got along with the club up and down. I really thought it was just a strange story, but I didn't expect..."

"I didn't expect it to come in handy!" Yu Xiaochun picked up the second half of the sentence, and also began to recite his own memories: "There are really too many things I didn't expect." I started playing basketball commentary more than a year ago, but I've always been talking about games, and I haven't had a chance to interview anyone. Stephen Marbury is the person I have always wanted to interview, I thought that this season as I gained experience there would be a chance, but I didn't expect to go to North Control, but instead caught him Yang Yiming and passed by Marbury. I've always heard that Marbury is a very kind and good person, so he is very loved by the people around him, and we all call him a political leader, a special image. Another Asian rookie I've been eyeing since '96 is Araki, who is now playing next to Marbury. I saw it on the screen just now, it's really embarrassing, with Marbury guiding him, it won't be too long before he comes to the NBA... Yiming, you know, I didn't know who you were back then, hahaha. ”

"It's normal not to know me, I was a nobody."

"But you're not anymore."

"Indeed, life is wonderful..."

"Why don't you send a Weibo message in a while, @一下马布里, congratulate him."

"Just like I thought!" Yang Yiming slapped his thigh, his body trapped in the sofa bounced up, grabbed the phone and pressed it: "I've thought about what to write: Stephen Marbury, your indescribable brilliance, my heart's career." ”

"Wow, that's a great title... I'll help you find some good pictures to go with. Yu Xiaochun unlocked his phone and got busy.

Seeing that the two were chatting happily, Nina, who had been sitting next to her, was also sleepy and clear-headed. The bald 40-year-old man on the screen is walking around the arena, and a group of people are in tears, and his bare upper body back finally disappears into the players' tunnel.

In the end, Nina didn't reveal to her two roommates who were busy pressing their phones, that she actually had a relationship with this man. He was still in New York at the time, and he was preparing to pack his bags for China, she was just a teenager, dropped out of high school, and was just starting to work as a masseuse.

At that time, he was rebellious and confused, like a veritable lone wolf. A bitten wolf, I don't know what the road ahead.

It is completely different from the almost amiable man who was cheered by thousands of people on the screen just now.

Between that time and this time, there must have been too much going on.

Nina thought about it, and a smile tugged at the corner of her mouth.