Chapter 5 Lost Traces Section 31 Stories of Football Stars
Paul also took off his jersey and signed it to Raisa, who was opposite him. Lucas's hungry eyes on the side almost ate the jersey.
"Everybody!" , Paul asked the assistant to bring a stack of jerseys and signed them one by one to give to the summer camp students. The students who got the jerseys stood beside the two superstars for a long time and were reluctant to leave. It wasn't until Mr. Jin motioned for everyone to take a group photo that they lined up neatly. A big family photo was completed, Li Xin was in the first row, and Zhuo Yifan was in the third row.
"How about this Avralo, how many points can you score if you go to 10 goals with him?" After taking the photo, Li Xin asked Zhuo how he felt on the field.
"Let's score 2 points!" Zhuo said confidently.
"So little? Where is your self-confidence? ”
"That's amazing! Better than any domestic high school power forward I've ever encountered. Can't keep up at all! Zhuo, who has always been arrogant, actually said so deflated at this time. Are there any better high school students in the camp than Avraro?
After the photo shoot and the final close contact with the NBA superstars, Paul and Durant began to chat with the students under the auspices of Mr. King and share their success experiences.
"CP3, can you talk about how you can become an NBA superstar like you? How did you get to this step by step as a child? Raissa, who had just lost in the match, asked first.
"It's not easy for every player to get into the NBA, it's inseparable from their hard work, and of course, the most important thing is the love of basketball and the spirit of continuous improvement. Tell me about when I was a kid. When I was 3 years old, my father bought me two basketballs and built a court in the basement. Since then, he has often walked into the basement with a ball. On the premise of completing their studies in school, play hard and train hard. My parents were very strict with me, it was important for a professional footballer to have discipline, but also to be confident and say to myself that I was the best. No matter how tall you are, there are at least a few things you need to do to become a professional. ”
There was a round of applause from the gymnasium.
"Is there another thing that has a big impact on me?" Paul continued, and everyone around him looked towards him.
"I was a big fan of Wake Forest when I was a kid, and my performances in high school led to the action of the college coaches. But in his freshman year of high school, he verbally agreed to Wake Forest, signed a letter of intent in 2002, and his grandfather happily put on a Wake Forest University cap for his grandson at the ceremony.
But it was my grandfather's last days. Twenty-four hours later, his 61-year-old grandfather was robbed by a group of young men and killed. I decided to dedicate my next game against Parkland High School to my grandfather. In that game, I went crazy and scored 32 points in the first half, and I had 59 points in the first three minutes. In the final moments I cut into the basket with the ball and sent the ball into the rim at the same time as I was fouled. Then, I deliberately missed the score and set the score at 61 points, which was exactly the age when my grandfather died. Then he left the scene and threw himself into his father's arms and cried loudly. After this incident, it touched me a lot, life is so fragile many times, one day it suddenly disappears, in order to make your life more valuable, you must live a meaningful life, so I said to myself that every day you have to be better than the previous day, this incident urges me to keep moving forward, every time I encounter difficulties, I will think of my grandfather, he has been encouraging me! ”
Paul shared his touching story, and the students present were so impressed. It turns out that every glamorous NBA star has a tortuous growth experience behind him, no one can succeed casually, and only they know how much sweat and tears it takes.
"Kevin, as a player under 28 years old, you've won four scoring titles, one MVP, eight All-Stars, how did you get there, or what motivates you to keep going?" Another student asked Durant, a white, slightly reddish complexion, who looked like a Nordic man.
"All thanks to my mom, he's a great guy and he's the real MVP. When I was 8 months old, my father abandoned us and my mother raised me and my brother Tony by himself, and he did everything he could to keep us from being a single parent and grow up in a happy and simple basketball world.
She would often look at every photo in the album, including mine, my brother's, and our group photo, and she would always smile with satisfaction. She only hopes that we can grow into strong men, whether we are great basketball players or not.
My mother didn't force us to do anything, but when it came to being human, she had her own creed and philosophy, "I often took them to some social activities to let us know where we came from. "She wants us to know that no matter what kind of person we will be in the future, we can never forget where we came from."
Speaking of this, Li Xin can't help but think of himself, he is also a single-parent family. My father never forced himself to do anything, and he gave himself a lot of pocket money every month, so that he could eat and dress well, and he could play basketball. But the money spent on himself has never worried Li Xin. Although I can't go to Nanyang, Guangming is a key school in the city, and a famous basketball school (my own grades are not enough to be the main reason). But at least I was admitted to a school with a better basketball atmosphere. And his previous questioning of his father was a bit too harsh? After all, it is not easy to pull a child to grow up alone.
"When I was 7 years old, I fell in love with basketball, so she did everything she could to keep me stuck to what I loved, and I felt it made me more focused, and I was a single mom for many years and didn't remarry. She sacrificed her life to let her children enjoy the sports they loved. Durant continued.
"What I'm doing now is inseparable from my mother's motivation, who always told us, 'If you're going to reap the rewards, you've got to give your all,' and when I was in the NBA my first year, I said to her, 'Mom, it's not that easy.'"
She told me, 'You have to train your body to be stronger so that you can have an advantage to show yourself.' 'My height and reach gave him a natural physical advantage, but when he first entered the NBA, he was too thin and suffered a lot in the muscle jungle, and then I gained 20 pounds, which finally allowed him to survive in a competitive environment.
In the 2007 draft, when we were walking down the road, it was really unbelievable for us to see me on the big screen on the street, everything we worked so, all the years of hard work that didn't go to waste, and now it's happening, it's really happening...... "That year, I was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics with the second overall pick and started my NBA career. Saying this, Durant's eyes couldn't help but moisten a little. The students present were also moved by the unremitting struggle of a child from a single-parent family.
In the end, when Durant and Paul left, they also gave the students their respective posters and T-shirts, of course, all autographed, which are treasures for basketball teenagers! Everyone was so happy that they couldn't stop laughing. The fourth day ended in a joyful atmosphere.
The activities of the fifth day of NBA Basketball Summer Camp are scheduled after the training camp in the previous days, and the camp members will be divided into four teams according to their location, namely the Asian team in Asia, the European team in Europe, the American team composed of American high school students, and the World team formed by other regions.
Over the next three days, the four teams will play a single round-robin tournament to determine the final result.
The basketball masters in the training camp are all 15~18 years old from all over the world, and their strength should not be underestimated. This kind of game is also very interesting, Zhuo Yifan and Li Xin are of course in the Asian team, and there are also players from South Korea, Japan, Taipei and Iran in the team.
For example, the 17-year-old scoring guard Takaichi Sato, who I met in the training camp in the past two days, is 188cm tall and weighs 81kg.
Mawson from Iran. Mohsen Jalali, 210cm tall, 118kg, although only 18 years old, has a beard on his chin, and looks 35 years old. Maybe the West Asian looks a little more mature, and he is undoubtedly the first height of the Asian team.
Zheng Haoyu, an inside player from Seoul, South Korea, is 208cm tall and weighs 115kg, which is a standard strong man, and it seems that the inside line should have considerable strength.
and Lin Xuemin, a scoring guard from Taipei, who sat next to Li Xin yesterday, plays a scoring guard, is 191cm tall, and is the main player of the Taiwan High School League championship team.
and the scoring guard of Jinan Yuying High School that Li Xin saw in the North China Division last year, Xia Hongsen, nicknamed "Blood Drop", is 185cm tall.
The team's interim head coach is the technical and tactical coach of the summer camp.
The first round will feature Asian United vs. World United, American United vs. European United.
After the discussion of the starting lineup of the Asian United team, Li Xin and Zhuo Yifan were all the starters, and this was the first time they played with teammates from other countries, Li Xin and Zhuo couldn't help but feel a wonderful sense of curiosity and excitement.
The players at each position are:
Center: Mawson. Jalali (Iran 210cm)
Power Forward: Zhuo Yifan (China 193.5cm)
Small forward: Lin Xuemin (Taipei 191cm)
Point guard: Kiichi Sato (Japan 188cm)
Point guard: Li Xin (China 183cm) (To be continued.) )