Columbia University stopped in the round of 16, but this team from the Ivy League has already surprised everyone who cares about the NCAA, and even the final exit is only a narrow defeat and can leave with their heads held high.

The Lions who returned to New York received a huge welcome, and many New Yorkers knew about such a team, a Chinese-American star named Bruce Lee. There is no doubt that the Lions have become one of the most famous teams in New York.

New York is the largest city in the United States, and naturally it is also an important vote base in previous US presidential elections, and every candidate will not let go of big cities such as New York and Los Angeles. Although at present, the Democratic Party is more popular in Los Angeles, Hollywood stars have long supported the Democratic Party, and the Republican Party has more advantages in New York, and the current New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a Republican, but neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party will give up the two major cities in the east and west of the United States.

Regarding the popularity of the Columbia Lions in New York, ***, as an alumnus of Columbia, came out again to rub the heat, claiming that Columbia is fully capable of reaching the final four, but it is just a little bit of luck.

Back in New York, Lee appeared in Columbia's basketball club the next day, and this year's NCAA basketball tournament at Columbia University has ended, and Lee Chenglong is about to graduate and leave, Columbia University is preparing to choose a home game in next season's NCAA tournament and retire the No. 36 jersey he wore with the Lions before the game.

Li Chenglong didn't expect that the NCAA would also have a jersey retirement ceremony, and when he inquired, he learned it from the NBA.

In the early years of the NBA, there was a tradition of hanging the jerseys of players who contributed to the team in the arena to commemorate the occasion, but at that time, it was not an important thing to 'hang the jersey', so it was just a matter of hanging it on a random day.

In the 60s, the Celtics, who dominated the league, began to pay attention to the retirement of jerseys, and they invited many celebrities and reporters to witness the retirement of jerseys, and the retirement of jerseys gradually became an important ritual.

In the '80s, colleges with a high level of basketball in the NCAA began to study the NBA, retiring the jerseys of college stars who had made important contributions to the team.

Columbia University's basketball has long been in decline, and since the 80s, Columbia University's basketball has not even reached the national championship, so naturally it has not retired its jersey, and now Lee Chenglong's No. 36 jersey will become the first Lions jersey to be retired.

Li Chenglong promised the basketball department that he would attend the jersey retirement ceremony at that time.

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"Bruce, you've got a little over a week to go, and in April, your training is about to begin."

"Okay, I got it."

"Your eating habits are pretty good, but remember to be in moderation, I know a lot of girls in New York have been interested in you lately."

"Okay, I've got good self-control, Tom, it's lunchtime now, and I think you should leave."

"Aren't you going to treat me to lunch?"

"Actually, I don't think so."

Li Chenglong met with his agent Tom Hammer in a restaurant in New York, Columbia was eliminated, and the excellent sports agency issued a statement that Li Chenglong had signed with them, and now Tom Hammer has become his rightful agent.

Just a few minutes after the agent Hammer left, Li Chenglong saw a girl walk in at the door of the restaurant, he stood up and waved to the door, and the girl soon saw him coming.

"What would you like to eat, Jenfni?"

The girl is the most beautiful Jenverie Moody in the symphony band, and today Li Chenglong fulfilled his promise to invite her to dinner, which is actually an official date, and meeting Hammer is just a passing.

Li Chenglong, who can't make money at present, chose this very ordinary Western restaurant, which is affordable and tastes good.

After looking at the menu for a while, Jeffany Moody said to the waiter, "I want a strawberry crepe, Bruce, what about you?" ”

"A five-ripe steak, an extra one."

Before the food was served, the two quickly chatted.

"You grew up in New York? I really envy you, I lived in the countryside of Ontario (a province in Canada) until I was 15 years old, and every day except for the barking of sheepdogs, it was the Disney TV animation that attracted me the most. ”

"Actually, it's not bad to live in the country, at least there won't be a bunch of black boys who always want to bully you."

"And then? I mean, what do you do if someone is going to bully you? Fight with them? ”

"At first I would fight with them, but then I found out that whether I won or lost, they would come to me next time and I came up with a solution. Most of the time I don't bother with them, for example, they get my bag dirty, I don't fight with them because of this, but when they provoke me, I will teach them a hard lesson, for example, once they tried to steal my pocket money, I beat them hard, and one of the boys almost bit off my ear. ”

Moody covered his mouth with his hand to make a surprised expression, Li Chenglong shrugged and said: "Actually, this is very effective, they won't easily provoke me after that time, but that time I was severely taught by my father......"

By the time Lee and Moody came out of the restaurant, it was already getting dark.

"How about we take a stroll down Fifth Avenue?" Li Chenglong proposed.

"Well, I don't have an opinion." Moody agreed to Lee's proposal, and then asked: "Bruce, I know that you are going to participate in this year's NBA draft, you can lead Columbia University to the Sweet Sixteen, I think you are better than Greg Oden, and you scored more than Oden in that game against Ohio University, we were just a little unlucky in the end, but why is your draft pick not high in the newspaper prediction, but Oden is the ironclad champion?" ”

"Let's put it this way, when the Wall Street office is going to recruit an intern, and there's a first place from Columbia University and a first place from St. John's University (a regular university in New York), Wall Street people will always trust the Columbia student more, thinking that he is smarter and has more potential. In the eyes of NBA teams, the gap between Columbia and Ohioda is as big as the academic gap between St. John's and Columbia......"

The two walked along Fifth Avenue for almost an hour before finally arriving in Times Square.

In fact, Times Square should be called New York Times Square, which was originally named after the headquarters of The New York Times (The New York Times) set up near here, but Times Square can also be understood as Times Square, which is better in artistic conception.

Known as the crossroads of the world, the square is filled with people day and night, and at night, the square is filled with all kinds of Batman Spider-Man, Disney cartoon characters, a black group that raps and dances, guitar players wearing cowboy hats but only a pair of underwear, and occasionally Chinese singing Peking Opera during the Spring Festival.

The two took a spin around the square and stopped near the 'Kiss of Victory' site.

On August 14, 1945 (August 15, Beijing time), Japan announced its unconditional surrender, the end of World War II, the news was transmitted back to the United States, and the people of New York took to the streets to celebrate.

At such a location, the two unconsciously began to kiss victoriously, until they couldn't breathe, and Li Chenglong pulled Moody and ran to a nearby hotel.

Entering the hotel room, the two hugged each other, collapsed on the bed, and tore each other, and there was only heavy gasping in the room.

(To be continued)