Francis Leonardo is a rotation player on the Runners' current young roster.

Because he has the same name as his own boss, he is called "Little Boss" by his teammates, but this does not bring much special care to Francis, and he still has no chance to start.

However, compared to Francis's previous experience, he is now quite happy with the Runners.

Francis Leonardo was a mixed-race child, his mother was of Italian descent, and when he was young and frivolous, he fell in love with Francis's unreliable black father, and then when Francis's mother became pregnant, he disappeared completely, and may have been buried in some unknown cemetery in North America, or even worse, he has no bones and completely disappeared from this world.

Francis grew up in such a single-parent family, and since he was a child, he has suffered all kinds of discrimination because of his skin color, because compared to his peers, he is neither black nor white, but somewhat similar to yellow people.

Although Francis has the physical qualities comparable to that of a black player, his style of play is indeed purely technical, and influenced by the family environment of Italian origin, Francis has very good projection and passing ability, which allowed him to enter the prestigious school Duke.

However, since then, Francis's basketball career has been declining, not only failed in the NBA draft, but also did not even get a short contract, and finally had to go to the development league to find opportunities, and in the development league, he did not even have a more normal chance to play, and was ostracized by the team.

In the end, Francis unexpectedly won the favor of the Kings after the change of ownership, and signed a one-year non-guaranteed contract with the Kings, which is now the Runners.

However, it was only after arriving at the Runners that Francis found out that he was only a backup for the team's new head coach as a backup point guard for the team's new head coach, which had to make Francis worry every day, and he was afraid that his rare opportunity would be wasted.

However, for Turgon's strength, Francis is still very pure, although this Oriental who looks more like a Westerner has a very average physical fitness, but his projection ability has reached a terrifying level, and his passing ability is also very strong, and he is the only super point guard in Francis's life.

It's just that Francis is a little unwilling, he doesn't want to live a mediocre life, he doesn't want to be like his father, who has never been masked, and then disappear into the world.

However, Francis also knows that it is obviously unrealistic for him to challenge Turgon's position now, he knows how high Turgon's status is with the manager and even the boss, unlike many people, Francis knows the close relationship between Turgun and owner Francis Leonard, and he has seen the owner Francis and Turgun joke as friends.

So Francis decided to prove himself in a different direction, and he began to use his strong body to strengthen his defensive training, which had always been his most objectionable, but now he was willing to do it.

Now the opportunity has finally come, in the back-to-back games against the Milwaukee Bucks on the road, the head coach alone let Francis play the starting point guard, and put Turgun in the shooting guard position, Blair Bowman went to the small forward position, Salish became the power forward, and Elvin Butler was still the center, which is a large and four small lineup in an unconventional sense, and the height that is close to Erwin is really not too high.

Wang Lei's lineup is completely aimed at the Milwaukee Bucks, a second-rate team in the East that is not strong, but has a very feared point guard - Paul Johnson.

Paul Johnson, the active player with the most assists, is in his Chinese New Year's Eve, but he has already reached the top 10 of the league's all-time assists list, and he has a good chance of making new history.

The entire Milwaukee Bucks' offense and defense are controlled by Paul Johnson, and their head coach York Sammons is more like a puppet, and the team's tactical arrangement is basically Paul Johnson's final say.

All the teams in the league know that all they need to do to beat the Bucks is to limit Paul, but there are very few teams that can do that, and if it weren't for the lack of overall strength of the Bucks and the lack of enough top spot for Paul Johnson, maybe this team could really challenge the new order of the entire league.

Francis Leonardo's efforts Wang Lei sees in his eyes, this mixed-race change style to play defensive point guard is also Wang Lei's acquiescence, in Wang Lei's view, Francis's new style is an excellent addition to the team, so this can take the initiative to change his style of player Wang Lei decided to give him a chance.

So in this game with the Milwaukee Bucks, the Bucks' main player Paul Johnson enjoyed Francis's freshly baked "close protection" treatment.

However, in this game, Wang Lei and the experienced Blair Bowman also felt help from other aspects.

Francis is a little-known newcomer, while Paul is a famous player in the league, in the unspoken rules of the league, the referee will have some special protection for the famous player, but in today's game, Francis almost put on Paul like a dog skin plaster, but he was not whistled by the referee for a foul.

Compared to the last game against the Heat, Wang Lei and Blair both felt that they were playing more at home today.

Francis didn't care about the referee's blowing scale, he only knew that the coach gave him a chance, and he wanted to seize the opportunity, so Francis was desperate to defend Paul Johnson.

For this kind of "special" treatment, Paul Johnson originally felt nothing, but with the referee's acquiescence, Paul Johnson couldn't stand it, whose home stadium the hell is this, Paul can't help but have such thoughts in his heart.

After the change of mentality, Paul gradually fell into a solo game, which was a mistake that a veteran point guard should not make, but Francis Leonardo really annoyed Paul.

Without Paul Johnson in control, the Bucks were completely reduced to a third-rate team, but Turgun, who was at shooting guard, showed his scoring prowess, hitting a staggering nine three-pointers in this game.

In the end, the Runners defeated the Bucks in back-to-back games on the road after a defeat, but what attracted more attention from many NBA practitioners than the outcome of this game was actually the league's attitude towards the Runners.