The boy in the room looked sluggish as he touched the basketball, the light in the room changed from bright to dark, and the boy sat motionless like this, and it was the fifteenth day, and his father had never come back when he was awake.

"When...... When ...... "The old-fashioned clock at home has struck twelve." Be sure to see the father, the teenager and himself gambling with it. Since the death of his mother, his father often went out early and returned late, and the time he saw his father would not exceed an hour every day, and the boy knew that his father was by no means working, and every time he asked his father what he was doing, his father always said that he would go out and do something perfunctory. Recently, this situation has become more and more serious, and the teenager has not seen his father for half a month, and the teenager has begun to wonder if his father is still living in this house.

The teenager's family background is very ordinary, and even poorer than the average family. In addition to the very simple furniture, the only thing that accompanies the teenager is basketball, and it is pitiful to have no relatives to take care of it, and it is sad to have no communication with people. Sometimes teenagers talk to themselves about basketball.

"Which venue do you want to play tomorrow?"

"It's like Magic Johnson was like when he was a kid, sleeping with you, getting up with you, taking you to school, taking you after class, and taking you when he went shopping."

The teenager's name is Li Xin, 15 years old, and he has just been admitted to Siyuan Middle School as a high school student.

Five years ago, an illness caused the child to lose his mother's care early, and since then, the child has become withdrawn and unwilling to communicate with others, and the father's early departure and late return have contributed to the development of this character, so in the eyes of teachers and classmates, he is a withdrawn person, not to mention understanding him. The death of the mother and the coldness of the father make the child learn to take care of himself early. The child's hands-on ability and imitation ability are beyond the average child of the same age, so since he liked basketball, he has made rapid progress, and only at the age of graduating from junior high school, his playing action has been the same. At the same time, the height of children who are growing up in the process of playing basketball has also improved significantly, only 148cm in the preparatory class, 155cm in the first year of junior high school, and 167cm in the second year of junior high school because of basketball, and 175cm by the time of graduation in the third year of junior high school.

Two years ago, after watching a video of the NBA Finals many years ago, I fell in love with basketball uncontrollably. In contrast, there is a little little little interest in the current NBA games, and there is a sentence that always hangs on the lips of teenagers: "If the best team in the NBA played against the Bulls a few years ago, the result might have been decided at halftime." Although this statement is a bit extreme, it expresses the child's opinion on the current NBA. Unlike many other kids who play basketball, who are motivated by the pursuit of the coolest star ornaments and the imitation of dazzling moves, the love of the team a few years ago became the motivation for teenagers to play basketball, and this is the true meaning of basketball in the eyes of teenagers. And a few years ago the Bulls star Michael . Jordan is also the only star that the teenager admires.

In terms of playing basketball, Li Xin's height is not high, about 176cm, compared to many 14,5-year-old teenagers with nearly 190cm The innate advantage is much worse, and because of this, no one will pay attention to recruiting these ordinary teenagers with good qualifications into the junior sports school, just playing in the general high school with their own interests is the only action of these basketball teenagers. There are many more such examples.

When I was in junior high school, there weren't many peers around me who could actually play basketball. In the so-called basketball games held by the school, Li Xin often has a sense of being lonely and seeking defeat, so he simply plays with high school students and even some people in their early 20s on weekends, which opens up the level of junior high school students. Therefore, Li Xin hopes to go on to higher education as soon as possible, so as to compete with higher-level opponents.

After school on the first day of school, teenagers come to the school basketball "familiar" field, high school and junior high school are indeed different, students have some adult appearance, and basketball movements are much more standardized. Seeing this, Li Xin was very excited, but because of his personality, no one took the initiative to greet him, he would ignore others, and often the venue was occupied by others, and Li Xin was quietly slapping the ball on the side, but if someone invited him to play, his outstanding performance impressed everyone present.

Although I have met a lot of colleagues over time, there are very few people who can really talk about their playing experience together and become partners together. So even though sometimes she is already familiar with some people in the school, if there is still no one to take the initiative to invite, Li Xin would rather practice silently by herself on the side of the court, and these are not just personality relationships.

On this day, as usual, as soon as school ended, Li Xin went straight to the court. I thought I could grab the field by leaving class early, but there was already a group of people fighting there. These people's faces are still a little immature, it seems that they may be freshmen who have just entered the school, and they are also very rusty, judging from the performance on the court, they may not be the group that is keen on basketball, at most they are just outsiders who come to activities occasionally for fun. It's just that one of the many people has a distinctly different skill from the others. Li Xin watched from the side for a while, just to take a closer look at where the man came from.

"Although his dribbling movements are not very standardized, and there are many mistakes, his bounce, position awareness, timing of grabbing rebounds, etc., are among the best among high school players, even compared to the third grade." Li Xin was secretly impressed by that person in her heart.

The man stands out among the basketball rookies who have just entered the school, according to the visual inspection of about 185cm, shoulder-length hair, a hairband tied on his head, and a beautiful face is just one more evil, to put it bluntly, it is actually an arrogant character, whether it is competing for a rebound or covering someone else's hot pot, they all spit out hearty laughter, so that the rookies are brave but three points when they shoot in front of him next time, and the balls thrown are mostly three non-sticky.

He was wearing a basketball jersey and looked very "professional". What makes Li Xin envious the most is the "Jordan 12th Generation" on her feet, which looks like a rich child.

Although it is a non-scoring game, it is clear that the team with that person should be more than twice as good as the other team in terms of score. Most of the rookies don't know how to protect themselves in the game, no, just half an hour later, one person has accidentally twisted his foot and had to get off the court, which made the original team even worse, and the game was on the verge of ending.

"Damn, it's not going to work for a while, I'm not going to have fun yet!" The man was very dissatisfied with the scolding, but he inadvertently found Li Xin who was silent on the sidelines.

"Hey, boy! You don't know how to play! If you look like you're dressed and make up the numbers, you should be fine! ”

Although she was inadvertently satisfied with the man's arrogant words, Li Xin still took off her coat and nodded to replace the injured man.

"Seeing that you are dressed as an athlete, it shouldn't be bad, we will rely on you." The rookie legion came up to say hello.

Li Xin just nodded slightly.

After making a little preparation, Li Xin went on the field in good spirits.

"Look at you just came up, let you run in and run-in, you serve first!" As he spoke, the man threw the ball over, and Li Xin took it. Li Xin walked to the center circle with the ball, looked at the two rookies, and casually passed the ball to one of them. The rookie didn't dare to bring more, only to see someone forcing up outside the three-point circle and hurriedly passed the ball back to Li Xin's hand, at first it was not that person who defended Li Xin, but a person with a similar height to Li Xin. Li Xin only made a shooting feint and easily shook off the defenders. Seeing that his team members were easily shaken, the arrogant boy hurriedly rushed forward, although he jumped very high but was fooled again, and when he landed, Li Xin had already shot, and the ball was hollow into the net.

According to the general street three-on-three rule, the scorer serves, and the rookie A in Li Xin's team excitedly ran to the middle circle with the ball, and excitedly passed the ball to Li Xin, as if he had scored the ball just now.

This time, the other party's rookie learned to be smart, Li Xin's first feint did not shake him, only the second move, Xin pretended to take a step forward with his left foot as if he was ready to break through from the left, rookie C rushed to the left, he lost his center of gravity, he only saw Li Xin break through from his left side again, and encountered the blockade of the arrogant boy under the basket, this time Li Xin did not make any feints, jumped straight up, although the arrogant boy jumped much higher than Li Xin, but in the air Li Xin used his left hand to hold the opponent, Keep the opponent at a distance from himself, so that he can't cover the ball he shot, and the right hand cleverly turns the wrist to hit the ball on the board, thus avoiding the danger of the ball being blocked in the air, and the ball goes into the net again.

Two beautiful goals in a row infuriated the arrogant boy who couldn't bear his temperament.